[RT] The CIA is also overjoyed because its black-ops budget - which is tied to the exponential growth of opium production in Afghanistan - is now secured possibly for another 20-50 years, claims Mike Raddie, co-editor of online site BSNews.
The announcement on US strategy in Afghanistan comes as Donald Trump shakes up his inner circle: chief strategist, Steve Bannon, has become the latest to head for the exit.
The US military said that in a matter of days additional US troops could be deployed to Afghanistan, following President Trump’s speech on a new strategy for the region.
The first new deployments of American military personnel will happen "pretty quickly," Gen. Joseph Votel told reporters on Tuesday, as quoted by AP.
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RT propaganda with grain of salt; Afghan wheat, corn, and soy bean futures are in something of a slump. Complicating the economic woes, there really is little hope that the Afghan tech, heavy industrial, or rug making sectors will provide any relief.
Appears a 'single crop economy' will continue to be the trend, a business development reality which should be missed by no one, not even a Klingon geo-political analyst.
On the bright side, narcotics induced pacification works. Trade is stimulated and the violence is tribal and localized. Our own inner-cities might provide some supporting evidence.
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Just because the Russians say so doesn't mean it isn't true. The evidence is all those poppy fields that Tony Blaire said would be eradicated. We should have known better.
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On most ops opium or its base was found...along with stolen or capture US and Coalition materiel. The stuff is prolific...tons...and I mean tons of are destroyed on ops. I am not a fan of the CIA, and I call this article pure BS and propaganda.
The real money is made when this stuff hits the Stans...kinda seems like the good ole Russian or Chinese intel is the likely agency that stands to make the money...this is a diversion ploy.
[Stone Zone] Sen. John McCain is #2 in the eyes of former Trump adviser Roger Stone -- and no, he doesn't mean second place.
Stone was at Politicon Saturday in Pasadena when we asked if he thought President Trumpwould be able to get past McCain's skinny repeal 'no' vote. He says no way, and even further ... makes it clear he doesn't think the Prez should let it go.
Truth is ... Stone's been blasting Sen. McCain everywhere since the vote, but this time he's amping up the rhetoric. It's uncommon to see a senior senator/war hero spoken of this way.
Then again ... these are uncommon times, to say the least.
[Real Clear Politics] Roger Stone, a former Trump campaign advisor and personal friend of the president, says if Congress votes to impeach President Donald Trump, there will be all-out Civil War in the U.S.
"The people who are calling for impeachment are the people who didn't vote for him. They need to get over it," Stone said to TMZ in an airport baggage claim on Wednesday this week.
"They lost. Their candidate had every advantage: They spent two billion dollars, we spent $275 million. Sorry, we whipped their ass. It is over. You lost," he said.
He added, warning: "Try to impeach him. Just try it. You will have a spasm of violence --an insurrection-- in this country like you have never seen before... Both sides are heavily armed, my friend."
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Things become iffy during a Civil War. It won't be your great grandfather's civil war, but something much more uncivil, much more like the insurgency in Iraq without an Anbar Awakening.
Somehow, I doubt this. I don't envision the residents of the towns of Brookline, Cambridge, Amherst or Newton heavily armed, except with recyclable grocery bags from Whole Foods.
[American Thinker] George Orwell’s dictum, "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past," is often quoted, and for good reason. But it is usually quoted out of context. The passage begins:
"And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -- if all records told the same tale -- then the lie passed into history and became truth. "
Then comes the aphorism, and Orwell continues:
"And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory."
"Reality control" they called it; in Newspeak, "doublethink." Taken in its entirety, Orwell’s 1984, published in 1949, presciently described the scenario we now see unfolding in the Democratic Party, the party of the American Left. They intend to erase their own racist past by removing statues and maligning anyone, especially President Trump, who voices an objection. As Dennis Prager has often asserted, "Truth is not a leftist value." It most certainly is not a value of the mainstream media, print or electronic. Our media are part and parcel of the leftist apparatus that seeks to control how our history is remembered. They mean to rewrite it, start to finish, and impose their revisionist version on the rest of us.
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Revisionist History is nothing new. Pharoahs erasing the names of past rulers and replacing it with their own. If a decision is made to remove the statue of a truely vicous racist SOB I don't have much problem with that. Just don't throw the baby out with the bath water. We need to remember the past. All of it, good and bad.
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I don't think they have a plan, as much as desperately grabbing for the next lever they can pull, no matter what it does.
When the betting's between malice and stupid, put your money on stupid every time. Malice is just a side benefit.
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Stupid is when they draw their plans for world's betterment. Malice comes in when these plans fails to work.
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All along, I thought they were just being a huge pain in the arse wrecking crew
Actually you were right the first time. This is a tactic started by Lenin. He intentionally recruited the people most alienated from society and saying they were fighting capitalism. Stalin was recruited in this way.
The article is overthinking it since these people are just out to hurt people and destroy things.
As for the statues, they memorialize the honor and courage of a major subculture of the US. That subculture is a major enemy of the Progressives and therefore it is the SUBCULTURE, not the statues that must be destroyed.
Al
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End game is forsaking the Constitution. Start with blatant slave owners in the Civil War and then go back demonizing slave owners until you get rid of Jefferson and the rest of the founding fathers.
Can't abide by writings of evil men..let's just ignore the Constitution and let the state take care of us. We already have Zuckerberg and Bezos on board for universal wage for no work.
#3
Well, Obama does seem to lack a Legacy. That is True. I mean, what did his eight years accomplish. It ALL gone. The Flagship of Obamacare sank and nothing he advocated has endured.
What has Obama got to show for his 8 years? Anything.
His Legacy doesn't exist. He was a nothing President.
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Last night Hannity had a discussion of the left's Trump Derangement Syndrome and a partial list of Trump's accomplishments since taking office. One hears nothing of this in the MSM. Short vid.
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All the images show up on my iPad using whatever browser it came with, Seeking cure -- yours, Besoeker's, Bright Pebble's, and the one posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.
[DAWN] MUSLIM women in India have reason to rejoice, for they have won the battle against the regressive practice of the ’triple talaq’ which the country’s Supreme Court has ruled as being ’unconstitutional’. According to this custom, a man could divorce his wife by merely repeating the word ’talaq’ (divorce) three times. In a digital age, even text messages and Whatsapp have been used to effect such an ’instant’ divorce. This licence to capriciousness has been the cause of untold misery and financial hardship for women, a sword of Damocles hanging over their heads in the marital relationship. Women divorced in this way have often had to contend with straitened circumstances overnight, sometimes even with the loss of their children’s custody. It was a particularly cruel way of allowing men to control women and keep them constantly in fear of losing the security that marriage provides in a conservative society.
Not surprisingly, the practice of triple talaq -- which many Islamic scholars say is not mentioned in the Holy Koran and is banned in most Moslem countries, including Pakistain --has many champions among Moslem men in India. While maintaining that the practice is ’evil’, they nonetheless want to retain it based on spurious arguments about the fundamental right to practise religion. Curiously, such men have no qualms in embracing modern technology like smartphones -- whereby they sometimes pronounce instant divorce -- even as they cling to outmoded traditions where it suits them. The Moslem religious lobby in India has responded with fury to the court’s ruling, declaring that as far as they are concerned the status quo remains. To counter this defiance, there must be an extensive awareness campaign to spread the word that the triple talaq stands outlawed. We in Pakistain could also do with a similar campaign, for in some backward areas here, this mode of divorce continues to be seen as valid. In fact, women in this country generally have little awareness of the fine print in their nikahnama. It is about time that changed.
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[DAWN] AN uncharacteristically stern response by the National Security Committee to US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s so-called South Asia strategy is a worrying indication of the strategic chasm between Pakistain and the US. With words and phrases such as "outrightly rejected", "scapegoat", "grave challenge", "Afghan war cannot be fought in Pakistain" and "India cannot be a net provider of security" sprinkled across the statement, the NSC has conveyed its unhappiness, perhaps even alarm, at the Trump strategy. Nominally headed by the prime minister, the overwhelming military presence at yesterday’s meeting suggests that the statement is a true reflection of the national security apparatus’s grave concerns. Pakistain’s concerns over the Trump strategy are unsurprising; the strategy has almost universally been declared to be unrealistic and flawed.
From the NSC response, two key concerns of Pakistain can be gleaned. First, the Trump strategy appears to be an endorsement of perpetual war in Afghanistan, when it has long been clear that only "a politically negotiated outcome", in the NSC’s words, can work. Second, the so-called South Asia strategy puts the onus on Pakistain to act without offering to address any of this country’s regional security concerns. Specifically, the Trump administration’s silence on anti-Pakistain Lion of Islam sanctuaries in eastern Afghanistan and its encouragement of India to play a greater role in Afghanistan amount to a puzzling disregard of Pakistain’s concerns. Why is Pakistain expected to act first to advance other powers’ interests and only then its own? Merely labelling something a South Asia strategy does not automatically make it so. Indeed, it is Pakistain that appears to be seeking a true regional solution with its articulation of specific concerns, while the US approach amounts to something akin to a minus-Pakistain formula for peace. Because the US approach is wildly unrealistic, it is also dangerous.
Nevertheless, Pakistain must strive to avoid a strategic collision with the world’s only superpower. The US president’s obvious discomfort with a U-turn from his campaign pledge to extricate the US from Afghanistan presents an opportunity. A true regional approach to the Afghan question necessarily includes Iran, China and Russia, countries that Mr Trump all but ignored in his strategy. For Pakistain, the challenge will be to pull together the diplomatic heft of those countries to cobble together a reasonable alternative to America’s latest approach. Regional ought to mean regional -- a path to peace that allows Afghanistan peace and stability and balances the interests of outside powers in the immediate vicinity. Surely, helping develop a regional consensus and encouraging the US to reconsider its own flawed approach is a better alternative than the dismal possibility of endless war in Afghanistan and the severing of even a transactional relationship between Pakistain and the US.
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Or we could just say "Fuck it all" and burn Pakiwakiland down to bedrock!
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Regional my foot! We do bilateral now, not multi-lateral. Pak has been made to own what in fact is their own: Taliban. We do bilateral with countries who are not taking our money and killing our people through proxies, i.e., India.
Not complex at all. Very simple, common sense. Educated!
[The Hill] Top CIA officials are reportedly wary of CIA Director Mike Pompeo's interest in the Counterintelligence Mission Center -- an agency closely tied to the ongoing probe of possible ties between President Trump's campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential election.
According to a report by The Washington Post, Pompeo issued a directive to the agency, which has worked closely with the FBI on its Russia investigation, requiring that it report directly to him.
Officials at the Counterintelligence Mission Center have in turn kept an eye on Pompeo, according to the Post. The report says there is currently no evidence to suggest Pompeo has hindered the ongoing investigation.
[Daily Wire] In a new video, Ami Horowitz hits the streets to find out what’s rattling around in the younger generation’s collective mind on the hot button millennial topics of income inequality and socialism -- particularly, the socialist utopia Venezuela, which is experiencing economic collapse, prompting crisis-level food shortages and the eruption of violence on the streets.
Horowitz ended up finding what anyone paying any attention to the Democratic presidential primary last year will not be surprised to learn: the generation which adores "Democratic socialist" Bernie Sanders hates income inequality so much that they’d be glad to stand in Venezuelan-style food lines so others could have as little as them.
Horowitz begins with the general question of "how important is income equality for you?"
"It’s extremely important," says one girl.
"Pretty important -- I work for the working families," says a guy with a beard and a bandana.
"100%. I think that it’s really important and something that has to be taken care of," says another young lady.
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Horowitz's work simply proves what we've known for some time. Government public education and the liberal media continue to have a profound impact on young minds. Further confirmation may be found in eight years of the Soetoro regime.
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They claim that Venezuela is fairer because everybody has to wait in line. Yeah, right. Like Maduro and his cronies have to wait in line.
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There is plenty of open land in this country and getting 10-20 continuous sections or more is no great feat. They could easily do that and be as equal as they damned please.
But the thing about socialists is their first, their main priority is ALWAYS forcing other people to live as they say, and so infrequently do.
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We should deport them there. They can live in their paradise! Oh and revoke their citizenship. When they whine, tell them "Stupid is as Stupid does."
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The folks that have never been hungry or gone without electricity to keep their phone charged have a distorted view of things.
Conservatives really should be pushing the Peace Corps for anyone that kind find a job, it's a lefty institution but spending time in third world nations would be a nice eye opener.
[Free Beacon] The average transgender soldier will spend 238 days recovering from sex change surgeries and unavailable to deploy, according to an Obama administration study.
The Trump administration's transgender ban places deployability as a determining factor into whether to admit transgender individuals into the military. The White House outlined guidelines to implement the ban within six months in a memo to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
The ability to be deployed to war zones or bases around the world is an issue for transgender soldiers who undergo taxpayer-funded sex change operations, according to a study by the RAND Corporation. Sorry First Sergeant, my... 'you know what' hurts !
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They have no business getting cosmetic surgery on taxpayer's dime. Heck, unless it's reconstruction after an injury, NO ONE should get cosmetic surgery while they're in the military.
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They have no business getting cosmetic surgery on taxpayer's dime.
If they're not sure about their gender, can one count on them to be sure about more complicated things like duty & honor?
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And if you are transgendered you should be put in non-deployable status anyway.
They require lots of medical attention and meds after. Hard enough to get supplies to a war zone anyway without taking up room for hormone replacement therapy.
Alinsky the heck out of the idiots -- make them live up to their own standards.
[JammieWearingFool] After a full day of the left beclowning themselves over pulling Robert Lee off a University of Virginia game so as not to offend anyone, how is it an original host who shares a name with an actual Nazi has survived 38 years at ESPN?
ESPN refused to acknowledge whether or not it had plans to pull pundit Robert Ley off of the air, despite the fact that he has the same name as an infamous Nazi official.
In an e-mail to ESPN, The Daily Caller asked if the sports broadcasting giant had a plan for dealing with Ley, considering the network had already pulled ESPN college football commentator Robert Lee from broadcasting a Virginia football game because he shares a name with a Confederate general.
Robert Ley was a Nazi official who "was made head of the German workers’ front after Hitler’s accession to power."
He "supervised the mobilization of foreign as well as German labour for war work" during World War II and committed suicide during the Nuremberg Trials.
We just hope there weren’t any Nazis named Smith or Jones, otherwise a lot of Americans face increased scrutiny.
Here’s a look at the Nazi Ley:
Robert Ley, (born Feb. 15, 1890, Niederbreidenbach, Ger.--died Oct. 25, 1945, Nurnberg), Nazi politician and head of German labour, who helped supervise the recruitment of slave labour during World War II.
The son of a small landowner, Ley studied at the universities of Jena and Bonn, received a Ph.D. in chemistry, and worked for IG Farbenindustrie, before he was discharged in 1928 for "political activity." He was elected as Nazi member to the Prussian Diet in 1929 and to the Reichstag in 1932.
Ley was made head of the German workers’ front after Hitler’s accession to power. To weld German labour into a solid organization backing Hitler, Ley abolished the democratic trade unions and built up a powerful labour organization designed to facilitate German militarization and war preparations. He was also head of the Bund der Auslanddeutsche (Union of Germans Living Abroad).
With that record, he’s almost worse than Trump!
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[American Thinker] George Orwell’s dictum, "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past," is often quoted, and for good reason. But it is usually quoted out of context. The passage begins: 
[DAWN] MUSLIM women in India have reason to rejoice, for they have won the battle against the regressive practice of the ’triple talaq’ which the country’s Supreme Court has ruled as being ’unconstitutional’. According to this custom, a man could divorce his wife by merely repeating the word ’talaq’ (divorce) three times. In a digital age, even text messages and Whatsapp have been used to effect such an ’instant’ divorce. This licence to capriciousness has been the cause of untold misery and financial hardship for women, a sword of Damocles hanging over their heads in the marital relationship. Women divorced in this way have often had to contend with straitened circumstances overnight, sometimes even with the loss of their children’s custody. It was a particularly cruel way of allowing men to control women and keep them constantly in fear of losing the security that marriage provides in a conservative society.
[DAWN] AN uncharacteristically stern response by the National Security Committee to US President 
[The Hill] Top CIA officials are reportedly wary of CIA Director Mike Pompeo's interest in the Counterintelligence Mission Center -- an agency closely tied to the ongoing probe of possible ties between President Trump's campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential election. 
[Daily Wire] In a new video, Ami Horowitz hits the streets to find out what’s rattling around in the younger generation’s collective mind on the hot button millennial topics of income inequality and socialism -- particularly, the socialist utopia Venezuela, which is experiencing economic collapse, prompting crisis-level food shortages and the eruption of violence on the streets.
[Free Beacon] The average transgender soldier will spend 238 days recovering from sex change surgeries and unavailable to deploy, according to an Obama administration study.
