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Photos Allegedly Show Taliban Riding Swan Pedal Boats

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Photos allegedly depicting Taliban terrorists on swan-shaped pedal boats in the middle of a deep blue lake in eastern Afghanistan’s Band-e Amir National Park circulated on social media over the weekend, the New York Post reported Sunday.

“More than two dozen Taliban fighters, armed with rocket launchers and assault rifles, were seen riding in colorful, swan-themed pedal boats at Band-e Amir National Park in the eastern Bamiyan province of Afghanistan Saturday,” according to the Post.

“In one of the photos shared to Twitter by reporter Jake Hanrahan, a Taliban fighter appears to be aiming a rocket-propelled grenade,” the newspaper observed.

Yahoo News Australia identified Hanrahan as a “journalist and filmmaker” on Sunday while reporting on the images posted to his official Twitter account on September 18. Breitbart News has not been able to independently verify the authenticity of the photos in question.

Murad Gazdiev, a correspondent for the Russian state-owned news site RT also shared the lake images to his official Twitter account on September 19. He described the Taliban members depicted in the photos as “relaxing” at Band-e-Amir National Park, which was once a popular tourist destination within Bamiyan province.

“Not sure why one would bring a rocket launcher with him onto a pedal boat, but here are a bunch of Taliban fighters relaxing at Band-e-Amir national park,” Gazdiev wrote in an accompanying caption.

ETV Andhra Pradesh, a local TV station in southeastern India’s Andhra Pradesh state, published the same photos of Taliban fighters allegedly enjoying a day on the lake during a live news segment on September 19.

CNN Travel dubbed Band-e Amir National Park an “oasis of peace” in a print and digital piece promoting the site in June 2019.

“In the heart of a country ravaged by war, visitors can rent paddle boats on one of six lakes,” the travel outlet wrote in a caption of a video showing off the park’s natural wonders. The boats in the 2019 CNN Travel video — painted blue, yellow, and white, and numbered in green — appear nearly identical to the ones seen in the unverified Taliban photos that emerged over the weekend.

“Spanning some 600 square kilometres, the oasis is located in country’s mountainous Bamiyan province,” the travel outlet wrote at the time.

“The area came to international attention after the Taliban destroyed its famous sixth-century Buddha statues in 2001,” according to CNN.

In this photo taken Tuesday, June 16, 2009, pedal boats are seen anchored at a lake in Band-e-Amir, in the central Afghanistan's province of Bamiyan. The six azure lakes in Band-e-Amir are Afghanistan's first national park. In an attempt to return one small part of the country to normalcy government officials and international donors are promoting tourism to attract visitors to the Bamiyan area. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

In this photo taken Tuesday, June 16, 2009, pedal boats are seen anchored at a lake in Band-e-Amir, in the central Afghanistan’s province of Bamiyan. The six azure lakes in Band-e-Amir are Afghanistan’s first national park. In an attempt to return one small part of the country to normalcy government officials and international donors are promoting tourism to attract visitors to the Bamiyan area. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

“It was named a national park in 2009 in the hope that it would offer citizens a respite from conflict in the country,” the U.S.-based news outlet added.

The Taliban terror group regained full control over Afghanistan last month after previously ruling the country from 1996-2001. Taliban fighters invaded Kabul, Afghanistan’s national capital, on August 15 and quickly deposed the city’s U.S.-backed government. The jihadist terror group, based on Sunni Islam, has since reestablished Islamic law, or sharia, as Afghanistan’s ruling apparatus, as it did in the late 90s.

Despite Domestic Chaos Biden Vows to Lower Global Methane Emissions by 2030

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Ahead of President Joe Biden’s first address to the United Nations on Tuesday and just six weeks ahead of the U.N.’s COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, the U.S. and the European Union agreed try to cut methane emissions by a third compared with 2020 levels by the end of the decade. The plan targets mostly fossil fuels.

“This will not only rapidly reduce the rate of global warming, but it will also produce a very valuable side benefit, like improving public health and agricultural output,” Biden said.

Biden made the remark before meeting virtually with world leaders behind closed doors during the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, according to E&E News:

If successful, the initiative could go a long way toward blunting the impact of the planet-warming gas and curbing the worst effects of climate change. But the U.S.- and E.U.-led effort faces a long list of challenges, both on the international stage and back home.

Those include buy-in from some of the world’s biggest emitters, the lack of a detailed plan and long-running concerns that methane emissions are notoriously underreported. The new methane pledge also is missing an enforcement mechanism, as well as sector-specific goals or national targets, experts said.

That said, Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen still see the methane campaign as a critical step toward rallying the world on climate ahead of global warming talks that begin Oct. 31.

“On the road to @COP26 we will reach out to global partners to bring as many as possible on board for tackling methane emissions,” von der Leyen wrote last week in a Twitter post.

The White House has said Argentina, Ghana, Indonesia, Iraq, Italy, Mexico, and the U.K. all have indicated their support for the methane pledge.

The White House also embraces the claim that 60 percent of methane emissions is caused by human activity, with most coming from agriculture, fossil fuels, and waste. And that fracking for natural gas has increased methane emissions.

But even these goals are good enough for environmentalists.

“While it is encouraging to see governments pledge to take serious action, the emissions target should be much stronger,” Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter said in a statement. “We know that more aggressive cuts in methane are well within reach over the next decade, and are necessary in order to deal with the climate crisis.”

“Drew Shindell, professor of climate science at Duke University and chair of the Global Methane Assessment for the Climate and Clean Air Coalition, said the pledge appears to be intentionally ambiguous,” E&E News reported.

The overall target is fossil fuels.

“Places where there is a big oil and gas sector, such as the United States, Canada or the Middle East, will likely put their efforts there, while in India the focus would be more on agriculture,” E&E News reported.

The outlet reported that the EPA submitted two proposals to the White House last week that would tighten requirements for oil and gas operators to find and fix leaks and to prevent natural gas from escaping into the atmosphere during production, processing, transmission and storage.

And the Clean Air Task Force released a white paper in June that explained ways the EPA could cut oil and gas methane by 65 percent by 2025 through rules for new and existing oil and gas infrastructure. 

Meanwhile, a recently released U.N. report claims even if all countries followed through on their current climate pledges, the world would still hit 2.7 degrees Celsius of additional warming by 2100. The Paris climate agreement target is 1.5 degrees.

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Black Lab Beauty Rescues Duck Friends from Hungry Alligator

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A brave black lab named Beauty saved her helpless duck friends from an alligator that was looking for its next meal.

The ordeal occurred at Lake Powell on the western side of Panama City Beach, Florida, when beauty followed the three ducks, Cress, Downey, and Dot into the water WHJG reports. Owner Misti Roberts explained that Beauty “is just super sweet to them, it’s not like you would think with a duck and dog.”

As beauty neared the shore of the lake, Roberts saw an eight to ten foot alligator. “I saw an alligator right at the edge of the sand, not on the sand but right on the edge,” she recalled. Beauty became concerned about her dear duck pals and tried to scare off the alligator when she was attacked. 

A wild alligator is seen in the waters along the side of the Anhinga Trail in Everglades National Park, Florida. (BlueBarronPhoto/Getty Images)

A wild alligator is seen in the waters along the side of the Anhinga Trail in Everglades National Park, Florida. (BlueBarronPhoto/Getty Images)

Roberts noticed something was wrong with Beauty right after the attack. “And then I realized she couldn’t get up the stairs, so I ran down and then obviously there was just blood everywhere and I realized she had been hurt,” she explained. 

The black lab was rushed to Vets Pets where her injuries were assessed by Dr. Gerrie Barr. According to Barr, “when we first got Beauty here.. she was unstable and in shock, she had multiple soft tissue wounds and an obvious leg issue.” Dr. Barr diagnosed Beauty with a broken femur, which was addressed with surgery on Saturday. Barr expects the pup to make a full recovery within six to eight weeks. “They are her buddies, there is no question about that. Give her credit for saving their lives,” Barr explained. 

Owner Misti Roberts provided an update on Beauty’s status via her Facebook page on September 19. “Update on Beauty! She made it through surgery! Difficult, long surgery, but it went well. We get to see her tomorrow and she should be able to come home later this week,” Roberts wrote. 

Update on Beauty! She made it through surgery! Difficult, long surgery, but it went well! We get to see her tomorrow and she should be able To Come home later this week.

Posted by Misti Ricks Roberts on Sunday, September 19, 2021

Labrador retrievers are great companions that are versatile, good-natured, and loyal. “Today’s Lab is as good-natured and hardworking as their ancestors, and they’re also America’s most popular breed,” according to Dog Time. “Modern Labs work as retrievers for hunters, assistance dogs, show competitors, and search and rescue dogs, among other canine jobs.”

Delingpole: BoJo Plays Green Fiddle to Biden While Free World Economy Burns

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‘PM to press Biden for bold climate deal,’ says a headline in the Mail. It describes how Prime Minister Boris Johnson has flown to the U.S. in the hope of galvanising President Biden into reaching an ‘historic’ agreement at the UN’s COP26 climate summit which the United Kingdom is hosting in Glasgow this November.

But a more accurate headline would be ‘Moron begs moron to help the free world commit economic suicide.’

That will be the inevitable effect of whatever desperate fudge the various member nations come up with at the COP26 summit. China (by far the world’s biggest emitter of industrial CO2) won’t sign up to anything that affects its economic growth; nor will its rival India. (Neither country’s leader attended Biden’s Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate at the White House last week. That’s how seriously they take it…)

Nor will President Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil commit to green lunacy. Nor, of course, would Trump’s United States have done, had it still been Trump’s United States. But unfortunately, it’s not, it’s Biden’s United States now – and Biden (or whoever is running him) is fully on board with the green agenda, and with the economic suicide that inevitably entails.

To see what that economic suicide looks like, here’s a snapshot from Europe:

Britain’s looming energy crisis

It is only September, and already the supply of gas and electricity over the winter looks perilous. Just take a selection of headlines from the last week alone. Ireland has frozen power exports to Britain after unpredictable weather sparked a squeeze on supply.

We have had to ask the French to send less power across the Channel after technical problems with a trading platform threatened a surge in supplies. Two energy suppliers, PfP Energy and MoneyPlus Energy, stopped trading after struggling to cope with rising power prices, and a whole string of smaller suppliers may collapse before the autumn is over. Two coal power plants were taken off standby amid soaring prices, while nuclear power, long dismissed as a relic of the 1960s and 1970s, was given a boost as its green credentials were re-evaluated. The list goes on and on.

Britain faces food shortages as energy crisis shuts down factories

Acute food shortages were feared last night after high gas prices forced most of Britain’s commercial production of carbon dioxide to shut down… The closure of two fertiliser plants in northern England and others in Europe has left the food and drink industry facing a shortage of carbon dioxide, which is a byproduct of fertiliser manufacturing. The gas is critical to the production and transport of a range of products, from meat to bread, beer and fizzy drinks.

The meat industry estimates that businesses can carry on for less than two weeks before carbon dioxide stocks run out….

And the rest of Europe is facing similar problems…

Europe is bracing for a tough winter as an energy crisis that’s been years in the making leaves the continent relying on the vagaries of the weather.

Faced with surging gas and electricity prices, countries from the U.K. to Germany will need to count on mild temperatures to get through the heating season. Europe is short of gas and coal and if the wind doesn’t blow, the worst-case scenario could play out: widespread blackouts that force businesses and factories to shut.

The unprecedented energy crunch has been brewing for years, with Europe growing increasingly dependent on intermittent sources of energy such as wind and solar while investments in fossil fuels declined… “It could get very ugly unless we act quickly to try to fill every inch of storage,” said Marco Alvera, chief executive officer of Italian energy infrastructure company Snam SpA. “You can survive a week without electricity, but you can’t survive without gas.”

It cannot be stressed often enough that this crisis is man-made, unnecessary and entirely driven by green ideology. We needed fracking and cheap nuclear. What we got were more expensive, unreliable, destructive bat-chomping, bird-slicing eco-crucifixes.

When the great Christopher Booker was still alive and chronicling the ever spiralling lunacies of the Climate Industrial Complex, he used to argue that this could not go on for ever: sooner or later political and economic reality would hit home.

But Booker did not live long enough to witness the globalist coup conducted during the 2020/21 Covid pandemic. Had he done so, he would have realised that our ruling elites simply do not care about the consequences of trying to impose their pie-in-the-sky, green fantasies on their hapless electorates, because they no longer care what ordinary people think.

Everything the establishment media tells you about the environment is packed with lies.

Everything politicians tell you about the importance of their environmental policies is packed with lies. (Especially if the politician’s name is Boris Johnson)

Our ruling elites have set the controls for the heart of the sun. We’re doomed. And it’s not as though some of us didn’t warn you…

Delingpole: 'Too Hot to Train' Because Climate Change, Whines Army General

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A British army general has warned that climate change could soon make it “too hot to train” at certain times of year.

Lieutenant General Richard Nugee, the Ministry of Defence’s Green Tsar, said in a speech to Defence and Security Equipment International:

 On land, a warm year in the 2000s will broadly become an average year in the 2040s, affecting our ability to train, as we lose more days to being ‘too hot to train’.  A recent study by the UK Met Office identified that in temperate climates the number of days lost to training due to increases in temperatures is likely to rise by between 75 and 150 per cent by 2040.  In Cyprus, the projection is that all training will be lost in August to heat.

But it’s not all bad news, Nugee went on to argue. First, going green might make the Army more attractive to recruits who are into that sort of thing:

There are significant opportunities for us not only to improve operational effectiveness, and our attractiveness to recruits…

And secondly, magical unicorns will fly from the sky, with Gaia’s warriors astride their mighty, rainbow-coloured backs, and confound Britain’s enemies wherever they may be. Or something.

There are many opportunities where adopting a green approach, understanding the effects of climate change and the technology being developed to adapt to and mitigate its effects, can result in a more capable force – either directly through adoption of new technologies or indirectly through opportunities to become more self-sufficient and resilient, thereby saving money that can be spent on enhancing further our operational capability.

Judging by the comments in the Telegraph‘s report on this story, British taxpayers are not best pleased at this misuse of the nation’s military budget:

Well — that’s quite handy. I spent many hours / days / weeks on patrol in glamour spots such as Basra and Helmand where it is 50 degrees in the shade during summer, strapped into helmet, body armour and 15kg of kit and don’t remember the chain of command being too fussed. Oh — and by the way Nugee; if the world is getting hotter, you need to train in hotter places to be at readiness — duh.

Who dares….. Stops because it’s a bit hot. Please.

I bet Nugee is very much in favour of a sustainable, inclusive, diverse, non-patriarchal army that is free from micro-agressions (and provides a safe space for all).

Perhaps Lt Nugee should go and get a proper job so we don’t have to pay for him.

is this Nugee related to Lady Nugee?

The answer to the last question is: yes. Richard Nugee is the brother-in-law of the similarly dismal Labour MP Emily Thornberry, aka Lady Nugee, currently Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade.

Lt Gen Nugee, you could argue, is only obeying orders. Someone had to become the Army’s Green Tsar and he drew the short straw. At the same time, though, going green and taking time off from training when it’s too hot or cold do not sound like war-winning strategies.

As Paul Homewood notes:

How on earth does this idiot think the Eighth Army managed to fight in North Africa in 1942?

Temperatures around the world range from 80C below to 50C above freezing, so why should a half a degree of warming make the slightest difference to soldiers? They have to be prepared and equipped for every eventuality.

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Two soldiers belonging to the Commonwealth and Allied forces lead their donkeys as they walk in the Egyptian desert in October 1942 near the battlefield of El Alamein, about 60 miles (100 kilometres) west of Alexandria. The decisive World War II battle of El Alamein, which began 23 October 1942 and ended 12 days later, a culmination of two years of fighting in North Africa between 100,000 German and Italian troops, led by German Field Marshal Rommel and 150,000 Commonwealth and allied forces under the command of British Field Marshal Montgomery, proved a decisive Allied victory, helping to establish control in the Mediterranean and securing the Suez Canal. (-/AFP via Getty Images)

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