“Your question: The Afghan army, do they stay together and remain a cohesive fighting force or do they fall apart? I think there’s a range of scenarios here, a range of outcomes, a range of possibilities,” Milley said in the AP story. “On the one hand you get some really dramatic, bad possible outcomes. On the other hand, you get a military that stays together and a government that stays together.”
The smart money is on “fall apart”
Jill lives within steps of Alexandra Park and says last weekend was the worst she has seen so far from the park’s ever-growing tent city.
She says she has noticed a big influx of “very violent and very loud” people to the encampment recently — and she feels some tent dwellers are “deliberately destroying property.”
The Chinese Embassy in Japan last Thursday tweeted an antisemitic cartoon and then deleted it at the behest of Israel’s Foreign Ministry.
The cartoon featured an image of the Grim Reaper wearing an American flag and carrying a scythe with the Israeli flag as he goes door to door and leaves a bloody trail behind him. The doors are labeled Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Egypt.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—The United States on May 2 immediately denied a report by Iranian state-run television that deals had been reached for the Islamic Republic to release U.S. and British prisoners in exchange for Tehran receiving billions of dollars.
Even after an initial American denial, an anchorwoman on Iranian state TV still repeated the announcement.
India has recorded its highest daily coronavirus death toll since the pandemic began – a day after it became the first country to register more than 400,000 new cases in a 24-hour period.
Its health ministry said 3,689 people had died within the past 24 hours.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met the health minister on Sunday morning to review the crisis.
Hospitals are battling to treat patients amid a chronic shortage of beds and medical oxygen.
Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan refused to say whether he was aware of the sexual nature of the misconduct allegation against Gen. Jonathan Vance that was brought to his attention in 2018.
Despite being asked five separate times whether he was aware of the sexual nature of the allegation, Sajjan refused to give a clear “yes” or “no.”
Nomadland took best picture but #Vanlife has been around for years, get past the opportunistic Instant Instagram Influencers and you can find the people who are serious about their choices.
This Toronto couple lives in one year round.
I have become very curious about Van Life, going so far as to read about building an off-grid electrical system capable of powering induction cooktops, a refrigerator and even a microwave if desired, and incidentals like your laptop, phone etc. Also been wondering about heating and busted water pipes in our winters because I would want a full on board shower set up with hot and cold running water. And there do seem to be solutions.
This guy “Humble Roads” does higher end conversions, you can see a good overview of one of his completed vans below, his channel is very good with excellent instructionals, the New Jersey Outdoor Adventures Channel has a ton of conversion walk through video tours from high end to low.
There is a ton of info on the web. From installation instructionals to vehicle selection. At the High End is the Mercedes Sprinter (pic below, older model), followed by the Ford Transit models and the Dodge Promaster and everyone else. The interiors can be impressive if you want to spend the money. I think weight, durability and performance would be my primary concerns.
When Mike Beck developed a rare form of Parkinson’s US intelligence concluded he was the victim of a hi-tech weapon
When the first reports surfaced of a mysterious disorder that was afflicting dozens of US diplomats in Cuba, Mike Beck’s reaction was one of recognition and relief.
Beck, a retired National Security Agency counterintelligence officer, was at his home in Maryland, scrolling through the day’s news on his computer when he spotted the story, and remembers shouting out to his wife.
The biggest papers of record in the U.S. — The New York Times and The Washington Post — have been forced to retract a report about the FBI’s communication with former President Trump’s longtime lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
The Post on Thursday was the first to report that Giuliani was explicitly warned by the FBI that he was the target of a Russian effort to influence the 2020 presidential election. Citing unnamed sources — identified only as people familiar with the matter — also said the conservative news network One America News (OAN) was also warned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Former Olympic champion and California gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner, who is herself transgender, believes “we have to protect girls’ sports in our schools.”
Confronted by a TMZ reporter during her Saturday morning “coffee run,” Jenner said that allowing trans girls who were born as boys to compete in all-female sports is “unfair.”
Understand one thing: If the Liberals are able to pass Bill C-10 – an update of the Broadcasting Act – Canada will have the most-regulated Internet in the free world.
“The plan is not for us to regulate all of the Internet,” Toronto Liberal MP Julie Dabrusin, told the Commons Heritage committee this week. Dabrusin is parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Heritage, Montreal Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault.
“You don’t have to be a white supremacist, you can be better.”
Powerful message to the race-baiting Left who engage in the bigotry of low expectations. pic.twitter.com/usyoXu1oIi
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) May 1, 2021
But her type is immune to reason.
Lots of May Day Mayhem
Brussels, Turkey, Paris, Berlin, milder in London but of course Portland
Après la charge du cordon policier, les forces de l’ordre lance les autopompes. #laboum2 #boisdelacambre #bruxelles pic.twitter.com/EoMXKzHBYj
— France TV Bruxelles (@F2Bruxelles) May 1, 2021
The Canadian government is talking to international partners about the development of COVID-19 vaccination certificate systems that might one day help facilitate travel across international borders but bureaucrats in Ottawa, as well as some politicians, wonder if such a system is the best way to proceed.
“We are working on it on a scientific basis and we will have more to announce when we have it to announce,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters on Tuesday. “Right now we’re focussed on getting through this pandemic and being prepared to come roaring back once we’re through it.”
Ontario reports 3,700+ new COVID-19 cases; P.1 variant cases have doubled in a week
Ontario reported 3,732 new COVID-19 cases and 23 additional deaths on Sunday, as the province’s active caseload continued its slow, trickling decline and the burden on hospital ICUs stayed flat.
The vast majority of new cases detected are screening positive as the B.1.1.7 variant first discovered in the United Kingdom last year, but the number of cases found to be the P.1 variant from Brazil has more than doubled in the past week.
On April 26, 351 examples of the P.1 variant had been detected in the province. By Sunday, that number had grown to 875.
WARMINGTON: Good luck sinking baskets off this Mississauga hoop’s backBOARD
It’s a perfect day to shoot some hoops.
But at this park in Mississauga, not only is there a sign saying the court is closed, there are also two pieces of wood blocking the basketball nets.
