[BIZPACREVIEW] ’Fox & Friends" news hound Lawrence Jones described what is going on at the U.S. border involving the danger the cartels pose to the National Guard while bluntly telling the Biden administration (aka the Wilmington comorra) ...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed experts affiliated with the Biden Crime Family. Entrusted with an entire nation as the result of a suspicious election, they set about happily implementing stuff they absorbed in college, all of which blew up and splattered the rest of us... to "get down here and do your job."The Texas Department of Public Safety is reporting that suspected cartel members were taunting Texas National Guard troops and firing shots across the border at them in Roma, Texas this week, according to Fox News. Lawrence Jones was on the ground with Texas officials getting a firsthand look at what was transpiring there.
"It was rough out there when it comes to what these National Guardsmen are dealing with as well the troopers on the ground," Jones stated. "We can’t confirm they are part of the cartel, we just know the cartel works with these people."
"They were taunting... this was about a week ago when they were taunting the National Guardsmen. Yesterday, around noon, they fired off two shots at the National Guard. So, the governor has the Texas Rangers investigating the situation," he reported.
"When I talk to my sources, they put it very simply. During the Trump administration, they were going on the offense. Really going after the cartel. They made some headway. Of course, the drugs were still pouring in, but the cartels were in a defensive posture. Since Biden has been in office, they’ve gotten a little bold. They’re firing shots," Jones noted.
"Now, technically you would think that America, the United States would go on the offense when that happens. They’re not. And so Texas is left to investigate," Jones remarked while stating that the investigation stops at the border and does not continue into Mexico where the shots were fired from.
"We got our guys being shot at now and Biden and Kamala are nowhere to be found on this issue," he asserted.
Jones pointed out the cartels own the border currently because it’s not just drugs they are smuggling, it’s human trafficking as well. He claims the cartels are winning this fight.
After asking where the money is going to keep coming from to continue this fight and pointing out that Texas is footing the entire bill, Jones turned directly to the Biden administration over the issue.
He contended that Biden doesn’t want Texas to succeed at stopping illegal aliens from coming over the border.
"They don’t want Texas to be able to conduct these arrests at the border. They say this is a federal issue. You’re right, it is a federal issue. So, get down here and do your job," Jones angrily stated.
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The Texas Department of Public Safety is reporting that suspected cartel members were taunting Texas National Guard troops and firing shots across the border at them in Roma, Texas this week
A fooking third world country, we are. Not even the Mexicans respect this asshole.
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Let me guess, they don't issue the guardsmen ammo to protect themselves.
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/\ I doubt they are issued ammo. If they are, the Rules of Engagment (ROE) might be quite interesting. If the National Guard were to return fire, the Pentagon would likely intervene and establish a Federal border zone or Federalize the Guard.
Texas continues to push the envelope. The cartels are pushing back.
This kak would be SO EASY to put a stop to, it sickens me.
Promising is easy. Getting takfiri turbans whose education at best consists of memorizing the Koran to treat those who believe slightly differently than they were taught as if they’re humans deserving of respect is something else altogether.
[KhaamaPress] A day after ISIS-K killed and maimed over a hundred Shi’ite worshipers in Kandahar province, a Taliban ...Arabic for students... official has said that they themselves will man securities of these mosques.
In the meantime, the commander of police (Taliban fighters) of Kandahar province Abdul Ghafar Muhammadi has said that he will deploy more forces to protect Shi’ite mosques in the province.
Abdul Ghafar Muhammadi said that his forces will be working alongside the local volunteers to ensure the security of the mosques.
Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... on Saturday, October 16 in a statement warned that they will continue targeting Shi’ite Moslems in Afghanistan and accused them of supporting 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... and other countries against the fighters.
[KhaamaPress] Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or ISIS in a statement said that Shi’ite Moslems are perilous and they will be targeted by them everywhere.
The group’s al-Naba weekly has published the warning and furthers reads that the Shi’ite will be targeted in their homes and centers.
The alert comes a day after the bully boy group targeted a mosque of the Moslems and killed over 60 worshipers while wounding more than 80 more in Kandahar province.
The writing has especially threatened Shi’ite Moslems living in Afghanistan and added that they cooperate and support Iran and other countries against the ISIS-K.
Thy group has said that Shi’ite Moslems will be target everywhere from Baghdad to Khorasan.
ISIS Khorasan branch is now the biggest threat that threatens the Taliban government after they took over Afghanistan.
In the meantime, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has purportedly said that their fighters will be deployed to man the security of mosques, especially of the Shi’ite Moslems’ ones.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... had warned of entering ISIS fighters to Afghanistan from Iraq and Syrian and added that there are presently up to 2,000 ISIS affiliates in the north of Afghanistan.
[Garowe] An al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... commander surrendered to the Somali National Army (SNA) on Sunday in Wajid town in Bakool region, Southwest Somalia.
Mohammed Nur, SNA army officer told news hounds that Mohammed Kulow Ali who was in charge of the terror group's operations in the southern region surrendered to the Somali army based in Wajid town armed with AK47 rifle and ammunition.
"We are now displaying to the media al-Shabaab commander who was popular in areas under southwest State here in Wajid town, he was armed with AK47 rifle and ammunition after he made successful contact with the army about his surrender to the army," Nur said.
He added that the army will welcome any terrorist who is willing to surrender in line with the government's amnesty offer.
There was no immediate comment from the terror group which has been fighting to overthrow the internationally recognized government.
Here’s hoping the Russians can clear the infection.
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[INOSMI] France began to gradually withdraw its contingent from military bases in northern Mali. This withdrawal decision spoiled France's relations with its former colony and opened doors for Russian mercenaries.
While Paris will continue to provide air support for the Malian military in their fight against insurgent forces in western Africa, it will close three of its bases and cut its 5,100 troops by almost half. Now the European allies will support the Malian military in battles.
“The idea is not to create a vacuum. The idea is to shift responsibility for these areas to the Malian state, ”said General Etienne du Peyroux, one of the commanders of the French forces in Operation Barchan. "To avoid the risk of being stuck in this conflict, we need to respond in more than just a military manner."
Operation Barkhan began in 2013 after the Islamists seized control of northern Mali. But the French contingent, as well as the UN peacekeeping mission of 13,000 troops, failed to achieve significant success, and the intensity of conflicts in Mali increased. As a result, large swaths of territory fell into the hands of militants, and instability spilled over the border into neighboring Burkina Faso and Niger.
The Sahel, a large arid region south of the Sahara, has emerged as a new arena for the fight against Islamic fundamentalism since the collapse of the Gaddafi regime a decade ago. A number of jihadist groups have settled in Mali, where instability has become a key driver of population migration to Europe. France suspended military engagement with the Malian military in June after the country suffered a second coup d'état in less than a year.
Hamidou Cissé of the Mali patriotic movement was delighted to hear of the French dwindling contingent. “After their arrival, we thought we would have peace. If they leave today, in six months or a year, we will suffer. But it is better to suffer than to remain in their hands forever, ”he said.
After President Macron announced the withdrawal in July, tensions between Paris and his former colony began to grow. Reports have surfaced that the military leadership in Bamako will use a Kremlin-affiliated private military company to fill the vacuum French troops are leaving behind.
France and Germany, whose military are involved in the anti-terrorist operation of the UN and the European Union, warned that any agreement in the Wagner Group would call into question their continued participation in this operation. Russia has no hesitation in capitalizing on instability in the more fragile African states, reviving its Soviet-style influence there. Fighters from Wagner's private military company are present in dozens of countries on this continent.
[REGNUM] In Mali, at least one soldier was killed in an attack on an army camp by militants, the country's defense ministry said on October 17.
"A group of unknown persons attacked the Acharana camp near Timbuktu town. According to preliminary data, one government serviceman was killed and three more wounded," the ministry said.
It is noted that four militants were eliminated by return fire.
As reported by IA REGNUM , on October 2, unidentified persons attacked the MINUSMA convoy near the Malian city of Tesalit. As a result of the incident, the peacekeeper was killed and four more were injured.
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Oh, no! Peace is breaking out! Gentlemen, we must protect our phoney-baloney jobs! Harrumph! Harrumph!
These countries have insurgencies because their corrupt elites steal their people's money. If they weren't thieves, there would be no grievance and jihadist groups would die on the vine. Military isn't the solution to this problem.
[ToloNews] German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists... said that the international community should ensure humanitarian aid to Afghanistan to decrease the migration of Afghans into neighboring countries and to Europe.
Talking alongside her Ottoman Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyib Erdogan on Saturday in Istanbul, Merkel said Afghans should not become victims of human traffickers and smugglers.
"We also talked about the issue of Afghanistan. So that people from Afghanistan do not become victims of smugglers and traffickers, we must ensure that humanitarian aid is provided in Afghanistan," Merkel said.
Merkel and Erdogan also talked about bilateral relations and an EU-The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... agreement addressing illegal migration in Europe.
Merkel’s visit to Turkey follows a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report that accused Ottoman Turkish authorities of violating international law by mistreating Afghan refugees who try to cross from the Iranian border into Turkey.
HRW, quoting Afghan refugees who returned from the border, reported that Ottoman Turkish authorities mistreat the refugees who try to seek safety in Turkey. According to the report, Ottoman Turkish forces collectively expel Afghans in groups of 50 to 300 back into Iran.
"Ottoman Turkish authorities are denying Afghans trying to flee to safety the right to seek asylum. Ottoman Turkish soldiers are also brutally mistreating the Afghans while unlawfully pushing them back," said Belkis Wille, a senior crisis and conflict researcher at HRW.
As I recall, refugees are supposed to apply for asylum from the first country they encounter after fleeing home. In this case it would be Iran, not Turkey.
HRW said it hopes Merkel would push the Ottoman Turkish government to end the expulsion of Afghans and investigate allegations of collective expulsions.
Following the collapse of the former government in August 15 and the economic downturn in the country, many Afghans are trying to migrate into neighboring countries as well as into Europe.
[AlAhram] Paleostine late on Saturday welcomed the efforts to prevent the immediate accession of Israel as an observer state in the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... (AU).
The AU Executive Council, which concluded its 39th ordinary session held in Addis Ababa for two days, decided on Friday to postpone taking a final position regarding granting Israel observer status in the union until the AU summit scheduled for February 2022.
In a press statement, the Paleostinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the move "would allow for developing an integrated plan of action starting from this moment until the convening of the summit to prevent Israel's accession a success."
Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... will participate in the summit and will make an extra effort with the leaders of those countries to prevent Israel from being accepted as an observer member in the union, it added.
"More than 24 member states were able to announce officially and in writing their opposition to the decision to accept Israel's accession, including Algeria, South Africa, Nigeria, Namibia, Gambia ... The Gambia is actually surrounded by The Senegal on all sides but its west coast. It has a population of about 1.7 million. The difference between the two is that in colonial days Senegal was ruled by La Belle France and The Gambia (so-called because there's only one of it, unlike Guinea, of which there are the Republic of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, New Guinea, the English coin in circulation between 1663 and 1813, and Guyana, which sounds like it should be another one) was ruled by Britain... , and many other countries," the statement said.
"These countries, which back the Paleostinian position and support the Paleostinian rights, insist on preventing Israel's accession," it added.
Israel announced on July 22 that it had joined the AU as an observer state after being kept out for two decades, according to Israeli media.
Israel previously held observer status at the predecessor Organization of African Unity until 2002, when the organization was dissolved and became the AU.
[Rudaw] Shiite holy man and leader of the Sadrist Movement Moqtada Tater al-Sadr ...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival, al-Khoei, assassinated only a few hours after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry... set conditions for the U.S. to follow should his party assume the Iraqi premiership in the new government in an English statement on Saturday, calling on the U.S. to respect Iraq’s illusory sovereignty and not interfere with the country’s internal matters.
Sadr tweeted a seven point statement saying that one of the most important matters to people when they assume premiership is their stance with the U.S., and he set out the expectations they hold for the Americans.
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Sairoon Alliance (per Wiki) = "The main components are the Shi’a Islamist Sadrist Integrity Party, the leftist Iraqi Communist Party, the Youth Movement for Change Party, the Party of Progress and Reform, the Iraqi Republican Group and the State of Justice Party"
An interesting mix, made more so when they start infighting....with AK-47's and explosives.
[IsraelTimes] Home Front Command chief Uri Gordin says the 2006 war with Leb ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch... was a ’wake-up call’ for the civil defense division.
Israel does not want war with Hezbollah, but is prepared to face about 2,000 rockets a day from the terror group if conflict breaks out, a senior Israeli military official told AFP.
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[Rudaw] 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... announced on Sunday that exports to Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... have resumed, its state media reported.
According to the Islamic Theocratic Republic News Agency (IRNA), the country’s Customs Administration's front man Roohollah Latifi said that Saudi Arabia has "rejoined" the list of countries to which Iran exports. He added that in the first half of the Iranian calendar year, which starts March 21, they have exported a total of $22.5 billion worth of goods to 15 countries, IRNA reported.
Iran last week expressed readiness to resume exports to Saudi Arabia provided that bilateral tensions wane, the state-run Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) reported, adding that exports between Tehran and Riyadh "stopped" as tensions had escalated in recent years.
An Iranian official said in October of last year that exports to Saudi Arabia had reached "zero" in 2020.
Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Theocratic Republic have endured rocky relations since 1979 when Shia revolutionaries came to power in Iran and pledged to export their revolution to the world, including to the Gulf countries. Iran’s support for the Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels in the 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 civil war since late 2014 has caused concerns for the Saudi establishment.
Their relations took a notable dive in 2016, when Iranian protesters attacked Saudi diplomatic missions after the Kingdom executed Shiite holy man Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr. They also criticize each other’s nuclear activities.
Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister on Friday said the government is serious about talks with Iran as part of their agenda to stabilize the region.
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Say what you will about the Saudis, their sense of which way the wind is blowing is excellent.
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Iran has been exporting a lot of drones to Saudi, via the Houthis.
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Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister on Friday said the government is serious about talks with Iran as part of their agenda to stabilize the region.
Their agenda to stabilize the region lol! Last time that happened the Romans were running things.
[An Nahar] Social media users have heavily circulated CCTV footage showing an army soldier firing at the Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... -Amal protesters in the Tayyouneh-Ain al-Remmaneh area from a close distance during Thursday’s deadly incidents.
In an official statement issued overnight, the army acknowledged that the footage shows "a soldier opening fire at protesters during the confrontations that erupted two days ago in the Tayyouneh area," noting that he is being "interrogated under the supervision of the competent judicial authorities."
Al-Jadeed TV meanwhile quoted "sources close to the Lebanese Army" as saying that "the army started responding to gunfire after three people were killed by gunfire in the armed clash."
"This is what appeared in the circulated videos that show an army soldier opening fire," the sources added.
Al-Rahi Rejects Violence between 'Brothers', 'Fabrication of Files, Scapegoating'
[An Nahar] Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday expressed sorrow over Thursday’s deadly incidents in the Tayyouneh-Ain al-Remmaneh area, expressing "warm condolences to the families of the victims" and wishing recovery for the maimed."At the same time we strongly condemn these incidents and the armed appearances that were used between brothers in the same country," al-Rahi added, in his Sunday Mass sermon.
"The democratic system provides us with peaceful means of expression, in acceptance or rejection, support or opposition, and therefore no party is allowed to resort to intimidation, violence and the setting up of partisan or clan checkpoints on public roads to obtain what they want by force," the patriarch said.
He warned that "harming national peace and good and brotherly neighborliness is rejected wherever it may come from."
"We reject to return to arbitrary accusations, sectarian polarization and seditious media. We reject to return to readily available slogans and isolation attempts... We reject to return to the fabrication of files against this or that group or to the selection of certain people as scapegoats," al-Rahi added.
Raad Says 'LF Treachery' Will Have a Price, Asks State to Investigate
[An Nahar] Head of the Loyalty to Resistance® bloc MP Mohammed Raad warned Sunday that there will be a price for "the Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... ’ treachery that committed a massacre on Thursday," referring to the deadly Tayyouneh festivities."We will not rush to a civil war and we will not threaten civil peace, but we also will not accept that this blood go in vain," Raad said.
"The state must investigate and reach the culprits to hold them accountable, seeing as this is its job," the Hizbullah politician added, noting that Hizbullah will wait to see what the state will do but "will not forget the blood of the innocents from our people."
"Their entire history is full of massacres and attacks on civil peace," Raad went on to say, referring to the LF.
Apparently lashing out at LF leader Samir Geagea ...Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005... , the MP accused him of "planting snipers on rooftops to tell his handlers that he is the horse that they can bet on to ruin civil peace and the country."
He warned: "Our problem with the group of snipers will have a separate price, seeing as the blood of our people is not ink. The blood of our people remains blood and we know its value, seeing as had it not been for it, no Lebanese would have possessed dignity and the Israeli’s boot would have been ruling this country."
Turning to the port blast investigation, Raad asked: "What are you afraid of?"
"Those who want the truth must unveil it without cheating, falsification and lying to people and without turning the probe into something that can be exploited to incite people against each other. This is all what we are asking for regarding this matter and we will follow it up," he added.
Five Hizbullah and Amal Movement members and two non-combatants were killed and dozens of people were maimed in Thursday’s fierce festivities in the Tayyouneh area.
Hizbullah and Amal have accused the LF of deploying snipers on rooftops and opening fire on peaceful protesters. The Lebanese Forces has meanwhile denied using snipers while noting that it was Ain al-Remmaneh’s residents who "defended themselves" in the face of an "invasion" by the supporters of the two groups.
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...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
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...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
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