American Blackhawk Helicopter Already Repurposed for Grizzly Taliban Job

Mark Clouse August 31, 2021

After US Exit From Afghanistan, Video Of Taliban Flying US Chopper With Dangling Body

From www.ndtv.com
2021-08-31 12:24:22

Excerpt:

A body dangled from a US military chopper being flown by the Taliban, reportedly over Kandahar in Afghanistan, in a chilling video shared on Tuesday by several journalists and what the Taliban claims is their official handle.

The tweets surfaced hours after the US wrapped up a messy exit from Afghanistan around midnight, with the last of its troops flying out in military aircraft. NDTV cannot confirm the authenticity of this video.

The “Talib Times” – its Twitter bio calls it “the English language official account of Islamic Emirate Afghanistan” – claimed that the chopper was “patrolling the city”, without once mentioning the body hanging on a rope from the US Black Hawk.

“Our Air Force! At this time, the Islamic Emirate’s air force helicopters are flying over Kandahar city and patrolling the city,” said the tweet.

Our Air Force!
At this time, the Islamic Emirate’s air force helicopters are flying over Kandahar city and patrolling the city. pic.twitter.com/rlE6nUldZf

— Talib Times (@TalibTimes) August 30, 2021

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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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If You Don’t Eat It, You Can Use It as Fuel for Your Home

Parker Davis August 31, 2021

We Could Power Our Homes With Food Scraps. Here’s What’s Stopping Us

From singularityhub.com
2021-08-26 14:00:15
Dr. Ananya Mukherjee
Excerpt:

Imagine if you could power your kettle using the energy generated from the vegetable cuttings quietly breaking down in your kitchen’s compost bin. That reality might not be so far off with the growth of biogas technology.

Biogas is a green alternative to fossil fuels that not only helps to reduce toxic emissions but also provides cheap, clean energy. It’s made up of a mixture of methane, carbon dioxide and a little hydrogen sulfide and water vapor, all of which is produced by microbes that live on organic raw material within a airtight digester container….

People we spoke to were concerned that local digesters would produce a nasty smell, or that their industrial appearance would blight the landscape. In fact, many digesters are fairly small, and would only produce smells if the system broke down.

Other stumbling blocks include a lack of technical expertise in building or maintaining digesters, a lack of incentives to attract local businesses, and the high cost of the digester, which, depending on its size, can cost between £12,000 and £158,000.

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Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller Sacrifices Career to Send Afghan Indictment to Marine Brass

Mark Clouse August 31, 2021

Marine Commander Relieved Of Duty For Demanding Accountability From Military Leadership

From legalinsurrection.com
2021-08-28 23:30:03
Fuzzy Slippers
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Marine commander Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller made the decision to post a video in which he, in uniform, demands military leadership accountability for the absolute disgrace, dishonor, and all-around cluster in Afghanistan.

With a shockingly sophomoric, greedy, gleaming and highly politicized eye on a glorious twentieth anniversary of 9/11 photo-op followed (they imagined) by slathering adulation from the legacy media, the bungling Biden administration, including its cowardly ‘woke’ military top brass, have made abysmal, catastrophic decisions that have (so far) cost the lives of 13 members of our military and at least 100 Afghans.

Colonel Scheller was justifiably furious about and grieving the completely foreseeable and entirely preventable deaths of a dozen of his Marine brothers and that of a Navy corpsman.

He notes that military leadership had an honor-bound duty to “throw their rank on the table” and defend America and our troops on the ground against bad…

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Chinese Waters Get New Regs for Foreign Ships

Freedomist Editor August 30, 2021

China notifies new rules to regulate foreign ships in its waters

From www.businesstoday.in
2021-08-29 22:32:16

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In a bid to regulate foreign ships, China on Sunday notified new maritime rules warranting vessels carrying radioactive materials, bulk oil, chemicals and a host of other supplies to report the details of the cargos upon their entry into Chinese waters.

The new rules are expected to increase tensions if China strictly enforces them in the disputed South China Sea and the Taiwan straits where the US and its allies have been conducting naval expeditions, challenging Beijing’s claims to assert the freedom of navigation.

Beijing claims almost all of the 1.3 million square-mile South China Sea as its sovereign territory. China has been building military bases on artificial islands in the region also claimed by Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam.

According to a notice from China’s maritime safety authorities issued over the weekend, operators of submersibles, nuclear vessels, ships carrying radioactive materials and ships carrying bulk oil, chemicals, liquefied gas…

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