Afghanistan: Taliban road construction projects stall without foreign funding

One day after the last US forces left Afghanistan in August, Taliban official Inamullah Samangani said in a speech that the war was over and that the Taliban would now have to focus on rebuilding Afghanistan’s economy. It looks like road construction is where the group has decided to begin.

Since then, the Taliban have announced several road construction projects. These include the route from Kabul to Maidan Shahr, the capital of nearby Wardak Province, in Gardez, the capital of Paktia to the east, and projects in the provinces of Kunar and Logar.

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‘Normal people boycott Israel’: London bus stop ads in support of pro-‘BDS’ author criticized for promoting anti-Semitism

Guerilla bus stop advertisements reading “Normal people boycott Israel” went on display in London on Saturday, in solidarity with writer Sally Rooney for what its creators called her “principled stand” against Tel Aviv.

Prolific “subvertising agency” Protest Stencil unveiled its latest mainstream discourse-disrupting advert at the weekend. The posters, flyposted on London bus stops, read, “Normal people boycott Israel” and featured an image of a sardine tin, mirroring the cover of Rooney’s best-selling 2018 novel ‘Normal People’. The book was adapted for television in 2020, garnering popular and critical acclaim

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAnti-Semitism and the Left, Anti-Zionist, Israeli - Islam Conflict

San Francisco mayor London Breed claims Walgreens is only shutting five stores to cut costs – but chain says it spends nearly FIFTY TIMES as much on security at SF stores compared to anywhere else

San Francisco mayor London Breed has disputed Walgreen’s claims it needs to shutter five stores in the city because its soft laws on shoplifting have led to rampant theft, claiming that the big chain was simply trying to slash costs and increase profits – and that retail theft was an easy scapegoat.

Mayor London Breed told reporters last week that she thinks ‘there are other factors that come into play’ and San Francisco District 5 Supervisor Dean Preston tweeted that the pharmacy chain has ‘long-planned to close hundreds of locations.’

The national chain has closed 17 of its 70 San Francisco locations in the past two years and cited the shelf raiders, who have swiped every kind of product not behind lock and key.

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Haiti gang seeks $17 mln for release of kidnapped missionaries

Oct 19 (Reuters) – A Haitian gang that kidnapped a group of American and Canadian missionaries is asking for $17 million to release them, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing a Haitian official.

Justice Minister Liszt Quitel said the FBI and Haitian police are in contact with the kidnappers and seeking the release of the missionaries abducted over the weekend outside the capital Port-au-Prince by a gang called 400 Mawozo, the Journal reported.

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Chinese effort to gather ‘micro clues’ on Uyghurs laid bare in report

Authorities using predictive policing and human surveillance on Muslims in Xinjiang, thinktank says

Authorities in the Chinese region of Xinjiang are using predictive policing and human surveillance to gather “micro clues” about Uyghurs and empower neighbourhood informants to ensure compliance at every level of society, according to a report.

The research by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) thinktank detailed Xinjiang authorities’ expansive use of grassroots committees, integrated with China’s extensive surveillance technology, to police their Uyghur neighbours’ movements – and emotions.

The findings shed further light on the extraordinary scope of the Chinese Communist party’s (CCP) of the largely Muslim and purportedly autonomous region, going beyond police crackdowns and mass arrests to ensure total control.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State"

‘Lawless’ Portland sets new homicide record with over 66 killings, 1,000 shootings: Cops blame Defund the Police

The city of Portland, Oregon has set a new record for the number of homicides in a year, having already registered 67 homicides so far this year.

Portland’s record for total homicides in a year previously stood at 66, which was set in 1987.

Oregon’s largest city has seen more than 1,000 shootings in 2021 with 314 bystanders injured by bullets. Firearms have accounted for three-quarters of homicides.

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Biden secretly flying underage migrants into NY in dead of night

Planeloads of underage migrants are being flown secretly into suburban New York in an effort by President Biden’s administration to quietly resettle them across the region, The Post has learned.

The charter flights originate in Texas, where the ongoing border crisis has overwhelmed local immigration officials, and have been underway since at least August, according to sources familiar with the matter.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Joe Sleazebag Biden", Camp Of The Saints, USA

Lack of charges against Admiral McDonald did not mean allegation was ‘unfounded,’ military police say

Military police say that the lack of charges against Admiral Art McDonald does not mean the allegation of sexual misconduct made against the former top military commander was unfounded.

In a media statement issued today, the Canadian Forces provost marshal stated that the “allegation of sexual misconduct against Admiral McDonald” did not lead to charges because of “insufficient evidence.”

“This does not mean that the allegation was unfounded, which is defined by Statistics Canada as, ‘After a police investigation it is concluded that no violation of the law took place nor was attempted,'” the statement continued.

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Scandal-plagued Liberals under fire for not cracking down on malfeasance

A soon-to-be-released book written by corruption expert Frank Vogl, the founder of Transparency International and a former World Bank official, excoriates Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government over the 2018 SNC-Lavalin scandal.

In “ The Enablers : How the West Supports Kleptocrats and Corruption — Endangering Our Democracy,” Vogl argues that western politicians must take greater responsibility. “For example, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lost the shine on his public image when in 2018 he intervened in the prosecution by the Justice Department into alleged bribery by one of Canada’s largest engineering companies, SNC-Lavalin. Trudeau got off too lightly,” Vogl writes.

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Biden’s climate czar & private jet lover John Kerry says US pivot from fossil fuel will create ‘many good-paying jobs in Mexico’

John Kerry – Lunatic

Touting the benefits of the US transition from gas-powered cars to electric vehicles at a meeting with the Mexican president, US climate envoy John Kerry said the move would boost the Latin American country’s auto industry.

Kerry, US President Joe Biden’s special climate envoy, has argued that Mexico would profit if Biden accomplishes his far-reaching goal to phase out gasoline-powered vehicles.

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Ontario reports 328 new Covid cases … and just in time for Halloween … A scary new Delta Variant

Ontario reports 328 new Covid cases … and just in time for Halloween … A scary new Delta Variant

Ontario reports 328 new COVID-19 cases, 4 more deaths

Ontario reported fewer than 400 new COVID-19 cases for a second day in a row and four more deaths on Tuesday.

The province logged 328 new coronavirus infections today, down from 373 on Monday and from 390 a week ago.

SUB MUTANT New Delta subvariant that’s ‘spiking in UK’ could be 10% more infectious – as cases hit three-month high

A NEW subvariant of the Delta strain is on the rise in the UK – that could be up to ten per cent more infectious.

The spike in cases of AY.4.2 has been picked up in Britain, with a slice of the country’s growing infections due to the subvariant.

The former US Commissioner of Food and Drugs Scott Gottlieb called for an urgent investigation into the rise.

He called it “Delta plus”, which was a name given to an earlier separate strain, but tweeted: “UK reported its biggest one-day Covid case increase in three months just as the new delta variant AY.4 with the S:Y145H mutation in the spike reaches 8% of UK sequenced cases.

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16K COVID-19 Positive Migrants Released into U.S. by ICE, Says Whistleblower

More than 16,000 migrants who tested positive for COVID-19 while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody were released into the United States, according to an agency law enforcement source. The Biden administration did not mandate any of the migrants to be vaccinated before their release. The source informs Breitbart Texas that the figures only include those migrants who were tested by ICE.

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