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Belarus Wants Maria Kolesnikova Locked Up for 12 Years for Opposing Alexander Lukashenko

Mark Clouse August 31, 2021

Belarus opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova faces 12 years in prison

From www.euronews.com
2021-08-31 15:57:57

Excerpt:

Belarus” public prosecutor’s office requested 12 years in prison for Maria Kolesnikova, one of the main leaders of the opposition movement.

She is accused of wanting to overthrow the authoritarian regime of President Alexander Lukashenko.

The trial of 39-year-old Kolesnikova, which began in early August, comes after months of crackdowns in Belarus.

Thousands of opponents of the regime have been arrested or forced into exile since the disputed election of Lukashenko last year.

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MA Police Union Angry DA Not Charging George Floyd Rioters

Freedomist Editor August 31, 2021

Police Union Upset Charges are Dropped Against Protesters

From spectrumnews1.com
2021-03-23 07:00:00

Excerpt:

In a strongly worded letter to Worcester County District Attorney Joseph Early Jr., the president of Worcester’s Patrolmen’s Union said they’ll never endorse him again after charges were dropped against protesters.

More than a dozen people were arrested hours after a George Floyd protest last June.

The District Attorney’s Office announced, after reviewing the cases, there was insufficient evidence to move forward with the prosecution.

Worcester Patrolmen Union President Daniel Gilbert said he is ashamed and disappointed the district attorney turned his back on police officers.

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Taliban Celebrate As Last American Leaves Kabul Airport

Parker Davis August 31, 2021

Videos show Taliban taking over Kabul airport and celebrating with gunfire after US withdrawal

From www.businessinsider.co.za
2021-08-31 15:36:36

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The US has officially withdrawn from Afghanistan, with its last jet taking off from the country on Monday night.

Videos showed Taliban fighters celebrating the US exit with gunfire, and seizing Kabul’s airport, where thousands of Afghans had desperately tried to flee after they took over the country.

BBC News broadcast footage of the gunfire, with Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet saying she could hear celebratory tracer fire and guns going off. She said it was…

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Flooding From Ida Casues MS Highway to Collapse, Killing 2

Freedomist Curator August 31, 2021

Mississippi highway collapses in Ida’s wake, killing 2 people | Climate News

From www.aljazeera.com
2021-08-31 15:04:20

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Hurricane Ida caused widespread power outages across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

Two people have been killed and 10 injured in a road collapse on a Mississippi highway, likely triggered by heavy rains unleashed by Hurricane Ida, officials said.

Three people among those injured were in critical condition, the Mississippi Highway Patrol said on Tuesday.

“We’ve had a lot of rain with Ida, torrential,” Mississippi Highway Patrol officer Calvin Robertson said. “Part of the highway just washed out.”

Seven vehicles plunged into a deep ditch that resulted from the highway collapse, local media reported.

Ida, one of the most powerful hurricanes ever to hit the US Gulf Coast, had weakened to a…

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Lyft Driver Killer, Police Department Attacker Had Ties to Islamo-Fascist Terror Groups

Freedomist Curator August 31, 2021

Suspected Gunman in Lyft, Plano PD Shootings Dies, Possibly Inspired by Foreign Terrorists: FBI – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

From www.nbcdfw.com
2021-08-30 23:04:00

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The suspected gunman in two separate shootings that killed a Lyft driver in Garland and targeted people inside the Plano Police Department on Sunday has died, police said Monday.

Imran Ali Rasheed, 32, “may have been inspired by a foreign terrorist organization to commit these crimes,” an FBI official said during a joint press conference with the Garland and Plano police departments.

Police investigators and the FBI are working to determine if Sunday’s attack should be classified as an “act of terrorism.”

Dallas FBI Special Agent in Charge Matthew De Sarno made clear that “inspired by” an organization does not mean Rasheed was directed by an outside group.

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Andrew Cuomo’s Groping Accuser Meets with Investigators

Ivo Fysic August 31, 2021

Aide who accused Andrew Cuomo of ‘groping her’ in governor’s mansion meets with investigators

From texasnewstoday.com
2021-08-31 10:17:47

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State Trooper #1

Cuomo is accused of sexually harassed a state trooper, referred to in the report as Trooper #1, who he hired onto his protective detail in 2017 – bending the three-year experience requirement.

Although she had only completed two years on the force, the governor reportedly wanted the unnamed trooper in his inner circle.

He is said to have asked a senior member of his security detail to add her to the team even though she did not meet the standard requirement.

‘Ha ha, they changed the minimum from 3 years to 2 just for you,’ the senior security member told the trooper in an email, which was included in the AG’s report.

Once she was on his team, he allegedly harassed her on a number of occasions, including one where he ran his hand across her stomach from her belly button to her right hip while she was holding the door open for him at an event.

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Hospitals, Medical Care Collapsing in Afghanistan

Parker Davis August 31, 2021

Afghanistan’s healthcare system near collapse, aid agencies warn

From www.channelnewsasia.com
2021-08-30 19:08:55

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Afghanistan’s healthcare system is at risk of collapse, two major aid agencies told Reuters, after foreign donors stopped providing aid following the Taliban takeover.

After the United States withdraw the bulk of its remaining troops last month, the Taliban accelerated its military campaign, taking control of the capital Kabul on Aug 15.

International donors including the World Bank and European Union froze funding to Afghanistan shortly afterwards.

“One of the great risks for the health system here is basically to collapse because of lack of support,” said Filipe Ribeiro, Afghanistan representative for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), one of the largest medical aid agencies in the country.

“The overall health system in Afghanistan is understaffed, under-equipped and underfunded, for years. And the great risk is that this underfunding will continue over time.”

Necephor Mghendi, Afghanistan head of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC), said…

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US Withdrawal from Afghanistan Officially Complete

Freedomist Curator August 31, 2021

US completes military withdrawal from Afghanistan

From www.army-technology.com
2021-08-31 14:21:07
Aninda Chakraborty
Excerpt:

The US has completed the withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan marking the end of a two-decade-long conflict that began after the terror attacks of 9/11.

The completion also marks the conclusion of a massive but chaotic evacuation of US and allied staff, vulnerable Afghans and other personnel from the war-torn country.

US President Joe Biden thanked commanders and other personnel for completing the retrograde within the scheduled deadline.

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Now That They have It, What Can the Taliban Do For It?

Mark Clouse August 31, 2021

Rebels with a new cause: The challenges the Taliban face in governing Afghanistan

From www.cbc.ca
2021-08-31 08:00:00
Murray Brewster
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The Taliban finally have what they always wanted: Afghanistan all to themselves.

Two decades of butchery and warfare — almost three decades if you count their initial rise to power in the early 1990s — came to an ignominious end with the departure of the last U.S. troops and transport planes from Kabul on Monday.

Since the hardline Islamist movement is known to frown on dancing — when not outright banning it — you can probably expect little in the way of public celebration, at least nothing that western nations would recognize, or consider a party.

Whatever victory celebration the Taliban might have in mind, it will surely be tempered by the reality that they have inherited a country they helped to utterly ruin and are now overlords to a fractious, recalcitrant people who do not bow easily, even when bloodied.

Much has been written about the policy failures, the incoherence and the hubris of western nations, led by the United States, since the democratically-elected…

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China Youth Only Get 3 Hours a Week for Gaming, CCP Uncle Tells Them

Freedomist Editor August 31, 2021

The CCP is going to attempt to make sure its kids don’t fall prey to the evils of excessive video gaming by making sure its youth cannot play video games more than 3 hours a week, and even then, only on fridays, saturdays, and sundays.

The CCP can enforce this because their big tech walks closely beside them in censoring, filtering, controlling, monitoring the users on their social media platforms. As a matter of fact, you can’t even get on the internet without a face scan, and that face scan better be attached to a good social credit score or no video game time for you. Who knows, maybe Uncle will visit you in the middle of the night and question your choice of using a darker red to color the communist flag the other day at school. Who knows?

There is another significant tradeoff the Chinese have made here that could be very telling. The Chinese are throwing away a massively huge potential low-invest high-reward mobile game market not just for its own developer but for foreign ones as well, and that removes a LOT of incentive for a LOT of American companies to suddenly be less intersted in buidling within the CCP-correctness code of video gaming in pursuit of the massive youth gaming market that is still mostly untapped.

China video game ban for children raises questions

From fortune.com
2021-08-30 22:53:26

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Chinese children will soon be restricted from playing video games more than three hours weekly, the country’s regulators said Monday. National playtime, the Communist Party kids you not, is scheduled for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. local time.

Weekday gaming? Banned, for youths, starting Wednesday.

China is framing its heavy-handed nannying as being for its people’s own good—an antidote to “spiritual opium,” the since-stricken label a state media outlet used to criticize video games some weeks ago. In an article announcing and justifying the government’s rationale, the Chinese state-sponsored media outlet Xinhua, cited by Reuters, quoted a spokesperson as saying that “protecting the physical and mental health of minors is related to the people’s vital interests, and relates to the cultivation of the younger generation in the era of national rejuvenation.”

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