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For any GenZ reading the Burg, that is a phone receiver she has next to her ear and the cord from it attaches to dialing device which, in turn, is attached to another wire that leads to the wall.
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I love the video where teenagers are asked to make a call. One kid is pushing his finger into the number holes as hard as he can and his jaw unhinges when the older guy moves his hand away and starts dialing.
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Had to explain what "copper to the home" and POTS were to a neighbor the other day.
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"We're calling about your car's extended warranty"
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For any GenZ reading the Burg, that is a phone receiver she has next to her ear and the cord from it attaches to dialing device which, in turn, is attached to another wire that leads to the wall.
Yes and the wire in the wall goes outside to a telephone pole with a whole lot of other wires going all over the world. Don't forget the telephone poles.
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Ah, yes. Infrastructure. Whenever I meet a self-described anarchist, I ask, "DO you use the toilet?" That always gets a confused look, so I repeat, "Do you use the toilet?" "Well, um, yeah..." "Do you flush it?" "Yeah." "How do you suppose that works?"
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How many people do you think have no idea at all what goes on when they use their cell phone for anything?
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..about as many as understand what actually goes on when they flip the light switch.
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M. Murcek, which is why we don't need farms and ranches, which just generate too much CO2. People will do just fine, because they can always go to a store to get food./sarcasm
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When the SHTF, "store" will be any collection of usable goods the current owner can't hold onto when better armed foragers arrive.
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She was very busy for many decades.
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I loved the strange woman she played in the original Manchurian Candidate.
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[Times of San Diego] Authorities seized nearly 3,000 pounds of fentanyl in San Diego County between March and May, marking a 300% increase from the same time last year in an "unprecedented two-month fentanyl-enforcement surge" along the southwest border, officials announced last month.
That means San Diego County, called an "epicenter" for fentanyl trafficking, could be dealing with more of the drug in local communities than ever before.
Nearly half of all fentanyl seized by authorities along the U.S.-Mexico border so far this year was seized in the San Diego area.
The effects of the national fentanyl crisis in San Diego have been acute. More than 2,300 people have died from accidental fentanyl overdoses since 2019 , according to data from the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office.
The drug has ravaged unhoused communities in particular , though the total number of fatal overdoses involving fentanyl in the county was lower in 2022 than the previous year, and 2023 appears to show a similar trend.
Since October, authorities in the San Diego area have seized more than 8,800 pounds of fentanyl , surpassing the amount seized in the previous fiscal year with still four months remaining, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, or CBP.
That increase follows years of fentanyl seizures steadily rising in the San Diego area — since at least 2019. Over five years, the amount of fentanyl seized by authorities has jumped more than fivefold.
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IRANIAN BORDER GUARDS KILL SEVERAL AFGHANS TRYING TO CROSS BORDER IN NIMROZ – Reports vary but at least four Afghans were killed when Iranian border guards opened fire on a group of youth who were attempting to cross illegally into Iran in Southwestern Nimroz on Saturday night. Taliban officials have yet to comment on the incident.
TTP RESETTLEMENT IN THE NORTH PRESENTS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SITUATION – Residents of Takhar and other Northern Provinces continue to express concerns about the flood of TTP militants that continue to arrive from the Eastern border and are settling in their communities. The resettlement plan that was proposed (and financed) by Pakistan was a move to cut off the base of support for the TTP in Northern Waziristan. It has proven to be unpopular with just about everyone involved and many believe it has lit a fuze that has the most potential to ignite true widespread violence in the country that could last for decades. By most accounts, the Taliban allowed the TTP to move into these Provinces with their weapons and it is not clear what lodging/support arrangements have been made for them over the long term. As ‘fellow mujahadeen’, it is entirely possible that they will receive housing concessions from the Taliban, likely at the expense of the locals. As has been seen with the Kochi resettlement initiative, violence often results when different ethnicities are forced into cohabitation and real estate is taken from one group and given to another. Analysts are wondering what could happen in the North when Paksitan’s financial support dries up and the newcomers begin to compete for scarce jobs and/or resources. The project has been going on for over 30 days now and it is not known how many TTP have been relocated or, where they are situated. Most estimates indicate that around 5,000 TTP fighters are in Afghanistan and the number swells to approximately 40,000 when their families are taken into account. By acceding to Islamabad’s demands, the Taliban may have laid the groundwork for a generational conflict in the North. Our analysis indicates that this project has the greatest potential to result in widespread conflict and violence than any other undertaken by the Taliban to date.
LETTER PURPORTEDLY FROM THE MINISTRY OF VIRTUE AND VICE COULD SEE WOMEN’S BEAUTY PARLORS CLOSED AT END OF JULY – An unverified letter was leaked on social media and claims to have been issued by the Ministry of Vice/Virtue that pertains to women’s beauty salons across the country. In the letter, the Ministry says that by order of the Supreme Leader, all salons are to be closed by 25 July. Several of these official-looking letters have turned out to be hoaxes and until verification is provided by a reputable news organization, we view this letter with suspicion.
TTP IN PAKISTAN EXECUTES ONE OF ITS OWN – A rumored informant who had been a member of the TTP for several years was reputedly executed by the group in Bannu for spying. The man, Awrangzib (aka Amiri), was reportedly killed sometime over the last three days for reporting information to the Pakistan military and was also accused of killing another unidentified TTP member. Sources in Islamabad said that the TTP was growing concerned by the recent successes the Pakistani Army was having in its operations in Punjab and Balochistan and has been quietly purging its ranks of possible informers.
LOW AND MID-LEVEL TALIBAN TURN TO BRIBES TO SUPPLEMENT THEIR INCOME – An open secret in Afghanistan and among groups that continue to work on evacuation efforts is that junior and mid-level members of the Taliban began a scheme to arrest Afghans on the barest of charges in order to collect bribes from family and friends. The scheme began very early in 2022 and has since spread to most Provinces and has become a lucrative way for the average Talib to make extra money. While the senior leadership of the Taliban continues to espouse a vague moral code of conduct for the rank and file, little has been done to police the nefarious activity, and some Ministers are even thought to be profiting from the scheme. Those who worked or served under the previous regime are particularly vulnerable and many of these ‘Muja-Entrepreneurs’ have learned through experience that they can keep the victims locked up for extended periods without any concern of admonition from superiors. Bribe amounts can vary but the range that has been commonly reported averages between $600 to $1,200 dollars.
CONFLICT TRACKER Balkh: The Front of the Unknown Soldiers claims ro have ambushed a Taliban fighter in the Dawlatabad district Saturday night. The group said the man was named Mullah FaIl Ahmad Zakaria.
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MONSOON RAINS EXPECTED TO BEGIN TODAY ACROSS PAKISTAN – Meteorologists issued warnings on Sunday that rain and wind (possibly hail) should be expected over the coming 5 days as currents from the Arabian Sea moved North through the country. Urban flooding is expected in the low-lying areas of Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Gujranwala, and Lahore. There are also concerns the rains will trigger landslides in some of the hill country. Strong winds could cause gusts up to 70 kmh. At-risk Afghans are advised to keep their communications devices charged and be prepared for power outages. Travel could be dangerous and individuals should attempt to find out the conditions on the roads before embarking on any trip.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] The Combating Violence Against Women Unit (CVAW) of Sudan has reported an alarming increase in the number of sexual violence cases by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), with the tally reaching 88 since the outbreak of the country’s ongoing war.
As violence escalated in Khartoum and the Darfur region, initial reports emerged regarding sexual assaults perpetrated by RSF elements in conflict zones. However, you can observe a lot just by watching... political groups dismissed these reports as attempts to manipulate public opinion against one of the warring parties.
In its latest update on sexual violence, the CVAW disclosed new cases of sexual assault in Khartoum and El Geneina, while the number of abuses reported in Nyala remained unchanged.
"A total of 42 cases of sexual assault were documented in Khartoum, 25 in Nyala, and 21 cases of conflict-related sexual violence in El Geneina," stated the unit.
Most complaints in Khartoum implicated the RSF, while survivors in Nyala and El Geneina specifically attributed the attacks to the paramilitary forces.
Since the outbreak of the war in Sudan over two months ago, the RSF has faced accusations of human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... violations that, besides sexual violence, included kidnappings, looting of homes, occupation of health facilities for military purposes, and assaults against medical personnel.
After initially denying these allegations for two months, the RSF leader Mohammed Hamdan Daglo "Hemetti" acknowledged on June 26 that his forces had committed violations against civilians. He further announced the establishment of field courts to prosecute the perpetrators.
The unit highlighted the rising cases of enforced disappearances of women and girls and an increase in conflict-related sexual violence. It emphasized that the number of unreported cases surpasses the documented incidents.
"The unit expresses deep concern regarding the growing phenomenon of ethnic targeting of women and girls," stated the official statement, emphasizing that this ethnic character exacerbates the severity of these criminal acts.
The CVAW called on the paramilitary forces to cease sexual violations and protect civilians’ right to life and human dignity.
The independent public body also urged international organizations focusing on women and kiddies and international institutions to condemn the war crimes committed by RSF elements and ensure that all those involved are held accountable.
During a briefing to the UN Human Rights Council on June 19, Volker Turk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, described the conflict between the Sudanese army and the RSF as chaotic. Turk stated that there were credible reports of 18 incidents of sexual violence against at least 53 women and girls, calling on Hemetti to halt these abhorrent acts immediately.
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[SUDANTRIBUNE] A military force of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) assaulted a hospital in Khartoum North on Friday, resulting in the liquidation of a laboratory specialist, according to the steering committee of the Medical Syndicate.
The situation in Khartoum state conflict-affected areas has become dire, with a staggering 66% of hospitals out of service due to various factors such as shelling, forced evacuations, lack of medical personnel and aid, and power outages.
In a statement extended to Sudan Tribune, the steering committee revealed that "a military force affiliated with the Rapid Support attacked the Martyrs Hospital in Aldroshab, north of Khartoum North."
The medical group reported that the heavily armed force assassinated laboratory specialist Musab Abdallah Ibrahim and set fire to the entire laboratory. Additionally, they physically assaulted health workers and patients present at the hospital.
Eyewitnesses at the scene stated that the paramilitary force brought one of its commanders, who had been maimed to the hospital. However, ars longa, vita brevis... upon the commander’s death, the RSF elements turned against the medical staff and patients, resulting in tragic events.
In a joint statement, the Resistance® Committees, Emergency Room group, and Change and Services Committees in Khartoum North condemned the RSF’s assault on medical personnel, which caused severe injuries and forced the city’s only operating hospital to be closed.
The paramilitary forces recently launched a media campaign to improve its image in Khartoum, including videos showing civilians receiving humanitarian aid and the return of looted vehicles and belongings; the civilian population remains sceptical of the paramilitary forces.
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Trying to get honest news out of the Sudan Tribune is like expecting same from the Washington Post.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A young man was killed on Sunday and others were maimed in renewed confrontations that have broken out in the city of Ma’rib, northeastern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... .
Local sources said that the festivities erupted between the tribes of Al Fajeh and the coalition’s recruits in the city.
The sources confirmed that the tribes of Al Fajeh were able to reach the area of the historical throne of Belqis before tribal mediation led by "Sheikh Nasser Ali Aushan" intervened to stop the festivities between the two parties.
On June 23, the city of Ma’rib witnessed battles between members of the Moslem Brüderbund-affiliated Islah Party and members of Al Fajeh tribe in Wadi Obeida, which resulted in the killing and wounding of more than 30 people, including Mubarak Talib Ibn Aqar, one of the tribal sheikhs in Ma’rib.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The UAE has assigned an murderous Moslem figure to carry out extensive secret missions in the occupied Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i island of Socotra under humanitarian pretexts.
Informed political sources confirmed that the UAE granted Mukhtar al-Hankasi, who heads the "Socotra Archipelago Association," supervisory tasks over security with its mercenaries in Socotra, indicating that all security and military movements have become within the tasks managed by the al-Hankasi Foundation in the island.
Al-Hankasi has received large sums of money from the Emirates, and he was able to distribute its mercenaries in all the local security facilities suspected of loyalty to the Saudi "duty 808" forces in Hadiboh, so that he would receive information first-hand.
The sources explained that al-Hankasi assumed various tasks for the association he runs like transferring information and reports to the Emirati intelligence by monitoring the movements against its presence, after the visit of the Saudi "Support forces" leader, Sultan al-Baqami and the government’s defense minister, Mohsen al-Daari, to Socotra in early April.
The sources stated that the UAE is engaged in an intelligence conflict with Saudi interests in the island, suggesting that it will carry out terrorist operations to serve the interests of Abu Dhabi.
The sources pointed out that Abu Dhabi has achieved major breakthroughs through al-Hinkasi’s network and the reports he submits about daily life in Socotra on local officials loyal to the coalition government on the island.
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[AlAhram] Six teenagers were arrested following unrest in the Swiss city of Lausanne inspired by the riots in La Belle France, Swiss police said Sunday, after more than a hundred youths damaged shops in the city centre.
Although nowhere near the scale of the violence in La Belle France, stones were thrown and show windows were smashed in Lausanne on Saturday evening, with a sneaker store particularly affected.
Besides the six youths, an adult was also arrested in the French-speaking Swiss city.
La Belle France saw a fifth night of rioting overnight -- in which more than 700 were arrested -- sparked by the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old during a traffic stop.
"Echoing the events and riots raging in La Belle France, more than a hundred youths gathered in central Lausanne and damaged businesses," the Lausanne police said in a statement.
The violence began "following several calls on social media", police said, and "several shop windows were smashed".
"On multiple occasions, coppers had to disperse aggressive, hooded youths throwing cobblestones and a Molotov cocktail at them."
Around 50 coppers were deployed, and none were maimed.
The arrested were three girls, aged 15 or 16 -- a Bosnian, a Portuguese and a Somali national; three boys aged 15 to 17 -- a Swiss, a Georgian and a Serbian national; and a Swiss man aged 24.
A police investigation has been launched.
"Quite clearly, what emerges from what we have seen is that these young people during the night were inspired by the situation in La Belle France," a Lausanne police front man told AFP.
Pierre-Antoine Hildbrand, the Lausanne councillor holding the security brief, told Swiss public broadcaster RTS that "Nothing justifies these organised attempts to loot shops".
"We did not have the start of a demonstration... We are facing people who organise themselves to break windows and seize goods," he said.
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Given that most Swiss military age males keep their machine-gun automatic rifles and 200 rounds of basic ammo in their homes, this won't work as well as where they disarm the populous. Pass me the popcorn.
[An Nahar] Young rioters clashed with police late Saturday and early Sunday and targeted a mayor's home with a burning car as La Belle France faced a fifth night of unrest sparked by the police killing of a teenager, but overall violence appeared to lessen compared to previous nights.
Police made 719 arrests nationwide by early Sunday after a mass security deployment aimed at quelling La Belle France's worst social upheaval in years.
The fast-spreading crisis is posing a new challenge to President Emmanuel Macron's leadership and exposing deep-seated discontent in low-income neighborhoods over discrimination and lack of opportunity.
The 17-year-old whose death Tuesday spawned the anger, identified by his first name Nahel, was laid to rest Saturday in a Moslem ceremony in his hometown of Nanterre, a Gay Paree suburb where emotion over his loss remains raw.
As night fell over the French capital, a small crowd gathered on the Champs-Elysees for a protest over Nahel's death and police violence but met hundreds of officers with batons and shields guarding the iconic avenue and its Cartier and Dior boutiques. In a less-chic neighborhood of northern Gay Paree, protesters set off volleys of firecrackers and lit barricades on fire as police shot back with tear gas and stun grenades.
A burning car hit the home of the mayor of the Gay Paree suburb of l'Hay-les-Roses overnight. Several schools, cop shoppes, town halls and stores have been targeted by fires or vandalism in recent days but such a personal attack on a mayor's home is unusual.
Skirmishes erupted in the Mediterranean city of Marseille but appeared less intense than the night before, according to the Interior Ministry. A beefed-up police contingent arrested 55 people there.
Nationwide arrests were somewhat lower than the night before, which Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin attributed to "the resolute action of security forces."
Some 2,800 people have been detained overall since Nahel's death on Tuesday. The mass police deployment has been welcomed by some frightened residents of targeted neighborhoods and shopowners whose stores have been ransacked — but it has further frustrated those who see police behavior as the core of La Belle France's current crisis.
The unrest took a toll on Macron's diplomatic standing. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier's office said Macron phoned Saturday to request a postponement of what would have been the first state visit by a French president to Germany in 23 years. Macron had been scheduled to fly to Germany on Sunday.
Hundreds of French police and firefighters have been injured in the violence that erupted after the killing, though authorities haven't released injury tallies of protesters. In French Guiana, an overseas territory, a 54-year-old died after being hit by a stray bullet.
On Saturday, La Belle France's justice minister, Dupond-Moretti, warned that young people who share calls for violence on Snapchat or other apps could face legal prosecution. Macron has blamed social media for fueling violence.
The violence comes just over a year before Gay Paree and other French cities are due to host Olympic athletes and millions of visitors for the summer Olympics, whose organizers were closely monitoring the situation as preparations for the competition continue.
At a hilltop cemetery in Nanterre, hundreds stood along the road Saturday to pay tribute to Nahel as mourners carried his white casket from a mosque to the burial site. His mother, dressed in white, walked inside the cemetery amid applause and headed toward the grave. Many of the men were young and Arab or Black, coming to mourn a boy who could have been them.
This week, Nahel's mother told La Belle France 5 television that she was angry at the officer who shot her son at a traffic stop, but not at the police in general.
"He saw a little Arab-looking kid. He wanted to take his life," she said. Nahel's family has roots in Algeria.
Video of the killing showed two officers at the window of the car, one with his gun pointed at the driver. As the teenager pulled forward, the officer fired once through the windshield. The officer accused of killing Nahel was given a preliminary charge of voluntary homicide.
Thirteen people who didn't comply with traffic stops were fatally shot by French police last year, and three this year, prompting demands for more accountability. La Belle France also saw protests against police violence and racial injustice after Saint George Floyd ...The patron saint of Minneapolis... 's killing by police in Minnesota.
The reaction to the killing was a potent reminder of the persistent poverty, discrimination and limited job prospects in neighborhoods around La Belle France where many residents trace their roots to former French colonies — like where Nahel grew up.
"Nahel's story is the lighter that ignited the gas. Hopeless young people were waiting for it. We lack housing and jobs, and when we have (jobs), our wages are too low," said Samba Seck, a 39-year-old transportation worker in the Gay Paree suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois.
Clichy was the birthplace of weeks of riots in 2005 that shook La Belle France, prompted by the death of two teenagers electrocuted in a power substation while fleeing from police. One of the boys lived in the same housing project as Seck.
New violence targeted his town this week. As he spoke, the remains of a burned car stood beneath his apartment building, and the town hall entrance was set alight in rioting Friday.
"Young people break everything, but we are already poor, we have nothing," he said. Still, he said he understood the rioters' anger, adding that "young people are afraid to die at the hands of police." You should be
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I'm a bit surprised they haven't sent the Legion in to end the riots. I seem to recall them doing that in the past.
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From American Thinker article, perfect description of the core of the problem"
" deracinated youth from the French underclass, Muslim migrants and the children of Muslim migrants who live in the bleak, ugly banlieue suburbs of Paris where a generous welfare system ensures they don't need and don't want jobs, which for many leaves them without purpose, too. Hatred for France, resistance to assimilation, and their own criminal activity pretty well keeps them in the underclass. They've rioted before in 2005 over claims of racial discrimination, and they will probably riot again. France has no idea what to do about them except coddle them more. France's president is no longer mentioning that they even are migrants, let alone Muslims."
[HUMANEVENTS] On Saturday morning, rioters in La Belle France drove a car into the home of L’Haÿ-les-Roses Mayor Vincent Jeanrun and set the house on fire in what is being investigated as attempted murder. His wife broke her leg and one of his two children was injured in the attack.
The Gay Paree suburban mayor was at his office during the attack monitoring riots happening across La Belle France. He said in a statement, "At 1:30 a.m., while I was at the city hall like the past three nights, individuals rammed their car upon my residence before setting fire to it to burn my house, inside which my wife and my two young children slept."
"While trying to protect the children and escape the attackers, my wife and one of my children were maimed," he said.
He called the event, "A murder attempt of unspeakable cowardice." Jeanrun added, "If my priority today is to take care of my family, my determination to protect and serve the Republic is greater than before."
Prosecutor Stéphane Hardouin told news hounds that they are investigating the incident as "attempted murder." He said it appears that the car was set on fire and "launched to burn down the pavilion."
The car hit "a low wall, the vehicle stopped... before it could reach the veranda of the house. Only the front gate was hit, along with the family’s vehicle," he said.
Hardouin noted that police found an accelerant in a bottle but did not classify what kind.
The attempted murder comes on the fifth night of riots across La Belle France, which started in response to 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk being shot and killed by police during a June 27 traffic stop. According to the BBC, around 45,000 police have been deployed to restore order.
On Saturday night alone, over 700 people were arrested, 45 copperswere maimed, 74 buildings were damaged, and 577 vehicles were set on fire, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. The average age of those arrested in connection with the violence is 17 years old.
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Protesting is one thing. But Mayhem, Stealing / Damaging others property and savagery is another.
Back on April 7, 1968 – Mayor Richard J. Daley had the right idea. Issuing a “Shoot To Kill” order, of any arsonists and looters during the ‘1968 riots.
It quickly put the Fear of Lethal enforcement for such vicious and heinous crimes in their mind and quickly halted the rioting and looters by the next day.
[10 News] " OK, playtime's over."
Rioters in France attacked a mayor's home in the Paris suburb of L’Hay-les-Roses, injuring his wife and child.
Mayor Vincent Jeanbrun said a group of people rammed a burning car into his home around 1:30 a.m. while his wife and child were asleep. He was not home at the time, as he was monitoring the violence at the town hall.
The mayor's wife suffered a broken leg, according to BBC News.
The regional prosecutor has opened an investigation into what he's deeming an attempted murder. He told local media outlets that the car was meant to ram the house and set it on fire. He also said that flame accelerant was found in the car.
This happened as France saw a fifth night of protests sparked by the police killing of a teenager. Police arrested more than 700 people accused of setting fires, overturning cars, and damaging buildings. Despite all this, the protests were less intense than on previous nights. The interior minister says several areas were reinforced with extra security to discourage more violence.
French President Emmanuel Macron is set to address the country about the unrest later in the day.
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[GreaterKashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... ] Army and police on Sunday launched a joint search operation near the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district, officials said.
GNS reported that the operation was launched after some suspicious movement was noticed in Dabi Dharti area in Balakote sector of the district. When last reports came in, the search operation was going on in the area, they added.
[Dawn] An army major and a soldier were martyred in an exchange of fire with murderous Moslems in Kech district of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... on Sunday night, the ISPR said.
The incident occurred hours after the martyrdom of four security personnel in simultaneous attacks on three checkpoints in Sherani district.
ISPR, the military’s media wing, said in a statement that security forces on credible intelligence about the movement of a gang of murderous Moslems launched an operation in the Hoshab area of Kech district. While establishment of blocking positions to cut the escape routes was under way, a party of murderous Moslems opened fire on the security forces.
"As a result of heavy exchange of fire, Major Saqib Hussain and Naik Baqir Ali embraced Shahadat, while another soldier got injured," the ISPR said.
"Security forces, in step with the nation, remain determined to thwart such attempts at sabotaging peace, stability and progress of Balochistan. Resultantly, the follow-up operation to nab the perpetrators of attack continues in the area."
ATTACKS ON CHECKPOINTS
Earlier in the day, four security personnel, including two officers, were martyred and a suspected terrorist was killed in attacks on three checkpoints on Zhob-D.I. Khan Highway in Sherani district.
"The armed attacks were launched simultaneously on three security check posts of police, Levies and Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... , which are close to each other in Danasar area," Zhob Division Commissioner Saeed Ahmed Umrani said, adding that a combing operation is under way for the arrest of attackers.
The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain grabbed credit for the attacks on the posts in a statement issued by its front man.
Officials said armed snuffies lobbed grenades and rockets which went kaboom! at the police checkpoint, resulting in the martyrdom of three personnel.
The gunnies also attacked the FC post and hurled grenades and opened fire with automatic weapons. The FC personnel deployed returned the fire. Police and Levies forces also retaliated.
"Three police personnel and an FC officer bit the dust in the attacks," Sherani Deputy Commissioner Bilal Shabbir confirmed to Dawn. He said that during the heavy exchange of fire, which continued for more than two hours, one suspected attacker was killed and two others were maimed.
The officials said the Levies post also came under attack, but no one was injured. They said personnel of the Counter-Terrorism Department reached the site and collected evidence.
Further investigation was in progress while security forces were conducting a search operation in the area to trace the attackers, they added.
The body of the suspected attacker was shifted to Zhob district hospital. "We also received four bodies of security personnel and an injured person," officials at the hospital said.
The martyred personnel were identified as Sub-Inspector Bahadur Khan Babar, Sepoys Baz Khan and Mohammad Afzal and FC Captain Saeed.
HIGHWAY BLOCKED
A large number of people from Sherani district, including relatives of the martyred security personnel, gathered in the Danasar area and blocked the Zhob-D.I. Khan Highway in protest against the attacks on the checkpoints.
The protesters put barricades on the road, suspending all kinds of traffic between Zhob and D.I. Khan for two hours. However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... the road was opened after the administration assured the protesters that an operation had been launched and the attackers would be arrested.
[GEO.TV] The security forces bumped off three holy warriors in an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in the general area of Kulachi, Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Sunday, weapons and ammunition were recovered from the slain holy warriors who were killed in an intense fire exchange during the operation.
"The killed holy warriors remained actively involved in various terrorist activities against security forces, police and innocent civilians," the military's media wing added.
The communique also said that the armed assailants were also highly wanted for conducting a raid on a police checkpost in Kulachi on April 11 2022, which resulted in the martyrdom of five brave police constables.
"Sanitisation of the area is being carried out to eliminate any holy warriors found in the area," the ISPR said, adding that the security forces are determined to eliminate the menace of terrorism.
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[GEO.TV] In the latest attack on security personnel, four law enforcers were martyred Sunday when unidentified button men attacked a checkpost in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's Sherani District.
Police officials confirmed that the assailants opened fire on the checkpost, leading to the martyrdom of four personnel.
They further added that one attacker was killed in the retaliatory firing and that a search operation had started in the area following the incident.
Balochistan Chief Minister Abdul Qudus Bizenjo condemned the attack.
"Terrorists cannot demoralise security forces with cowardly acts," the CM said, adding, "the sacrifices of the security forces are a torch for the nation".
Security forces are ensuring the security of the country and the nation with firm determination and courage, he said.
This is the latest of several attacks made on the law enforcement agency in the country over the past several months.
At least one police officer was injured in an attack on Smart Police Station Civil Lines Quetta yesterday after an attacker threw a grenade into the station and beat feet from the scene.
For the past few months, Pakistain has been gripped by a spate of terror attacks, with even the country's major urban centres, such as Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... , under the radar of bandidosturbans targeting security forces to deteriorate peace.
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[DM] Israel launches major military operation in West Bank
Israel launched what appeared to be a major military operation in the West bank early Monday, deploying hundreds of troops into Palestinian territory and conducting drone strikes on what it said were militant strongholds in and around Jenin.
At least seven Palestinians were killed in the strikes with dozens more injured, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
'There is bombing from the air and an invasion from the ground,' Mahmoud al-Saadi, director of the Palestinian Red Crescent in Jenin, told AFP.
'Several houses and sites have been bombed... smoke is rising from everywhere.'
The Israeli incursion, which resembles the wide-scale deployments carried out during the second Palestinian uprising two decades ago, was described as an 'extensive counterterrorism effort' by the hard-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The operation saw reinfornced bulldozers, armoured vehicles and unmanned aerial vehicles scythe into Jenin backed up by hundreds of Israeli soldiers.
Palestinian gunmen wearing balaclavas fired back at the troops as sirens wailed.
It comes at a time of growing domestic pressure in Israel for a tough response to a series of attacks on Israeli settlers - including a shooting attack last week that killed four people.
Israel has occupied the West Bank since the Six-Day War of 1967.
Excluding annexed east Jerusalem, the territory is now home to around 490,000 Israelis who live in settlements considered illegal under international law.
The Palestinians, who seek their own independent state, want Israel to withdraw from all land it occupied in the Six-Day War and to dismantle all Jewish settlements.
The tensions regularly spill over into localised conflicts, but the scale of operation launched by the Israeli army this morning has not been seen in years.
The army this morning said its forces had struck a 'joint operations centre', which served as a command post for the 'Jenin Brigade', a local militant group.
The area is nominally under the control of president Mahmud Abbas's Palestinian Authority, which has partial administrative control in the West Bank.
Lt. Col. Richard Hecht, an Israeli army spokesman, said the operation began just after 1 a.m. with an airstrike on a building used by militants for planning attacks. He said the goal of the operation was to destroy and confiscate weapons.
'We're not planning to hold ground,' he said. 'We're acting against specific targets.'
'People were aware that we were probably going in, but the method of striking from the air basically caught them by surprise.'
He said troops remained inside the camp but were after 'specific targets' and 'not trying to hold ground.'
'We are still seizing weapons and ammunitions' and 'infrastructure', Hecht said, adding the focus was on Jenin camp and that there was no specific timeline for ending the operation.
He added that a brigade-size force - roughly 2,000 soldiers - was taking part in the operation, and that military drones had carried out a series of strikes to clear the way for the ground forces.
Although Israel has carried out isolated airstrikes in the West Bank in recent weeks, Hecht said Monday's series of strikes marked an escalation unseen since 2006 - the end of the Palestinian uprising.
While Israel described the attack as a pinpoint operation, videos on Palestinian social media showed a large tuft of white smoke billowing from a crowded area, with a mosque minaret nearby. Other videos showed a wounded man was brought into a hospital on a stretcher, while another was carried in by a group of men.
According to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, the military blocked roads within the camp, took over houses and buildings and set up snipers on rooftops. The agency also said the military cut off electricity in large areas of the camp and that army bulldozers caused damage to property.
Jenin has been a flashpoint as Israeli-Palestinian violence escalated since the spring of 2022. Monday's raid came two weeks after another violent confrontation in Jenin.
'There has been a dynamic here around Jenin for the last year,' Hecht said, defending Monday's tactics. 'It's been intensifying all the time.'
But there also may have been political considerations at play. Leading members of Israel's far-right government, which is dominated by West Bank settlers and their supporters, have been calling for a broader military response to the ongoing violence in the area.
[An Nahar] Israel carried out air strikes in Syria near the government-held city of Homs, Syrian state media reported on Sunday, and the Israeli army later said it had responded to rocket fire.
During more than a decade of war in Syria, Israel has launched hundreds of air strikes on Syrian territory, primarily targeting Iran-backed forces and Lebanese Hezbollah fighters as well as Syrian army positions.
"The Israeli enemy carried out air strikes coming from the northeast of Beirut, targeting some points in the vicinity of the city of Homs," which is about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , Syrian state-run news agency ...and if you can't trust the state-run news agency who can you believe?... SANA said, quoting a military source.
In a statement several hours later on Sunday morning, the Israeli military confirmed it had conducted strikes. It said they targeted "an anti-aircraft battery in Syria, as a response to the launch of an anti-aircraft rocket from Syria into Israeli territory."
It added that Israeli jets had also "struck additional targets in the area," and that the Syrian anti-aircraft rocket had "went kaboom! in the air" and no injuries were reported.
SANA had reported that Syrian air defenses intercepted some missiles, and that there had been some "material" losses.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said the targeted area in the northeastern Homs countryside was a Hezbollah stronghold housing arms depots belonging to the Iran-backed group.
Israel rarely comments on the strikes it carries out on Syria, but it has repeatedly said it will not allow its arch foe Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... to expand its footprint there.
On June 14, Israel carried out air strikes near Damascus wounding a soldier, according to SANA.
The Observatory, based in Britannia, said at the time that the strikes had targeted arms depots belonging to pro-Iran fighters.
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Six F-15 and F-16 tactical fighters of the Israeli Air Force (Air Force) launched airstrikes on targets in Syrian territory, Rear Admiral Oleg Gurinov, deputy head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties in Syria (CPVS), told reporters.
So, four F-15 aircraft attacked targets with eight guided missiles in the vicinity of Homs province, and two F-16s hit infrastructure facilities in the province of Hama with two guided missiles. This happened on the night of July 2.
Gurinov specified that the F-15s were moving from the Mediterranean through the northern part of Lebanon. F-16s were also fired from northern Lebanon.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Times of San Diego] Authorities seized nearly 3,000 pounds of fentanyl in San Diego County between March and May, marking a 300% increase from the same time last year in an "unprecedented two-month fentanyl-enforcement surge" along the southwest border, officials announced last month. 
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...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
[DM] Israel launches major military operation in West Bank
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
