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VisegradPost, “Poland sends new contingent to protect Hungary’s border”, 14 July 2014:

   

Poland, Warsaw – “Poland will be sending another contingent to support Hungary’s border protection system”, Polish Minister of Interior Mariusz Błaszczak announced following a meeting of Visegrád Group (V4) Interior Ministers in Warsaw.

In addition to the hosting Polish Minister, the meeting was also attended by Hungarian Interior Minister Sándor Pintér, Slovakian Minister of Interior Robert Kalinák and Czech Deputy Interior Minister Jiri Novácek.

At the press conference following the meeting, Mr. Pintér said: Hungary turned to its Visegrád partners for assistance “in the interests of the implementation and international enforcement” of its new border protection system, which came into force in the beginning of July. Hungary will not only be receiving support from the V4; it is hoped that Thursday’s visits by the Austrian Minister of Defence and Minister of Interior will also have a similar result, he pointed out. Thanking his Visegrád colleagues for the assistance they have provided to Hungary so far to protect its Schengen borders, Mr. Pintér said “This has helped us allow significantly fewer illegal immigrants to reach the Schengen Area”.

VisigradPost, “For Poland, the NATO summit of July 8 and 9 has been highly positive,” 13 July 2016:

Poland, satisfied with the decisions taken regarding the eastern flank of the Alliance, announced a few weeks before the summit in Warsaw her intention to participate to the defense of the southern flank and in particular the fight against the Islamic Stateby sending in Iraq and in Kuwait 200 men and four F-16 aircraft for observation missions and training of Iraqi units. Warsaw also wants to intensify its military effort to not have to rely on its allies by setting a target to get its investment in the defense from currently less than 2% of GDP to 2% in the short term and to 3 % in the long term. For comparison, Russia, which has an economy worth about four times that of Poland, spends nearly 4.5% of its GDP on its military machine

VisigradPost, “Slovakia will direct NATO efforts in demining in Ukraine” 14 July 2016:

The summit held in Warsaw early July brings the first results: Slovakia will be in charge of a NATO trust fund to be used for the removal of explosives, ammunition and for demining.

According to the Slovak President, over 600 people were killed and 2,000 were wounded in Ukraine since the current conflict erupted as a result of explosions of various obsolete explosives. Slovakia has provided training to dozens of Ukrainian specialists between 2014 and 2015.

DT, “Turkey coup: military attempt to seize power from Erdogan as low flying jets and gunfire heard in Ankara and bridges across Bosphorus in Istanbul closed”, 15 July 2016:

Coup attempt by parts of Turkish military against Erdogan
PM Yildirim: Nothing will harm Turkish democracy
Low flying jets and gunfire heard in Turkish capital
Both of Istanbul’s bridges across the Bosphorus closed

        There is a chance the good guys are at work for a change. We’ll keep you posted.

  Some people know what time it is in Czech. Others do not.

Daily Caller, “A 2,500-member citizen militia has formed in the Czech Republic in response to the ‘massive influx of Muslim immigrants,” 12 July 2016:

Czech daily newspaper Lidove Noviny claims the militia, called the National Home Guard (NHG), grew rapidly in recent months. The vigilante group now has around 90 branches throughout the country, and arms its members with guns and sharp weapons.

On its website, the group says the “colored world” should go to Asia and Africa, and stay away from the Czech Republic.

“Opponents of migration also want to have a colorful world, but not here” the group explains. “This is the Czech Republic, and it must stay that way.”

 

Visegradpost, “Poland signs a space partnership agreement with China,” 6 July 2016:

       

Poland, Warsaw – The Polish POLSA space agency recently signed an agreement with the China National Space Administration (CNSA). The two agencies should jointly cooperate on research, monitoring and development of new telecommunication solutions. Polish President Andrzej Duda and Chinese President Xi Jinping signed an agreement together during his last official visit to Warsaw last June.

Professor Marek Banaszkiewicz, president of POLSA confided to SpaceNews that “the cooperation between the Polish Space Agency and the Chinese National Space Administration will be segmented into three areas: space research, exchange and use of satellite data to develop scientific understanding of the Earth, including the observation and monitoring of climate change and the environment, and development of space technology, including telecommunications”. The purpose of business is to stimulate the development of small businesses in Poland space sector through the creation of a national space company thanks to the Sino-Polish cooperation.

“Polish entrepreneurs will be more interested in the field related to the development of technologies and telecommunications,” said Banaszkiewicz following the signing of the latest agreement between Warsaw and Beijing. Asked about the possibility of new partnerships between space companies from Poland and China, the president of the agency said that “China is a very active player in the space industry. She has many contacts, launches many actions and builds strong business relationships.”

POLSA was created in 2014 with the aim of coordinating the company’s efforts in Poland and the scientific community to increase the spatial sector presence in the country. In addition, POLSA is to assist in the acquisition of the European Space Agency funds, promotion of satellite technology, and strengthen the Polish defense capabilities.

What a surprise: accused of sexual harassment while on duty

Good Morning America, “Dallas Suspect Micah Xavier Johnson Accused of Sexual Harassment in Army Reserve”, 10 July 2016:

Suspected gunman in the attack on Dallas law enforcement was accused of sexual harassment during his military deployment in Afghanistan, military lawyer said.

Micah Xavier Johnson was a private first class in the U.S. Army Reserve serving in Afghanistan when he was accused of sexually harassing a higher-ranking female soldier in May 2014, military lawyer Bradford Glendening told ABC News. Glendening, who represented Johnson in the case, said the woman requested a military protective order against his client.

Johnson had been sent to Afghanistan in November 2013 but was sent back to the U.S. six months after deployment because of the alleged harassment, Glendening said. The lawyer added that Johnson’s chain of command recommended he be removed from the Army with an “other than honorable” discharge, the most severe administrative discharge. But, ultimately, Johnson was not discharged in this way, Glendening said.

According to the Associated Press, Johnson instead received an honorable discharge in April 2015, for reasons Glendening doesn’t understand.

Glendening told ABC News he got the sense Johnson was generally disliked by his unit and was viewed as not exhibiting respect for his commanders.

       
        This is the robot that was used against the Dallas gunman

NY Times, “‘Bomb Robot’ Takes Down Dallas Gunman, but Raises Enforcement Questions”, 8 July 2016:

The Dallas police ended a standoff with the gunman suspected of killing five officers with a tactic that by all accounts appears to be unprecedented: It blew him up using a robot.

In doing so, it sought to protect police who had negotiated with the man for several hours and had exchanged gunfire with him. But the decision ignited a debate about the increasing militarization of police and the remote-controlled use of force, and raised the specter of a new era of policing.

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. Increasing military equipment

. Israeli military training.

. Skirting Posse Comitatus Act

TNO, “MI6: Iraq War “Inextricably Tied” to Israel, 6 July 2016:

The decision to wage war against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was “inextricably tied” up with the “problems” created by Israel, a now-declassified but formerly top secret letter from the UK’s foreign intelligence unit, MI6, stated back in 2001.

The document, sent by the private secretary of MI6 head Richard Dearlove, to Sir David Manning, former UK Ambassador to the United States, was revealed as part of the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War.

The Chilcot Inquiry—which, to no one’s surprise, found that former UK prime minister Tony Blair had misled the country, parliament, and the world about the true nature of Iraq’s nonexistent “weapons of mass destruction”—deferred from making any direct reference to the Jewish lobby’s proven role in fomenting the Iraq War, although Israel is mentioned hundreds of times in its supporting documents.

In the memo, dated December 3, 2001, titled “Letter from Richard Dearlove’s Private Secretary to Sir David Manning,” and stamped as “TOP SECRET, Declassified April 2011,” under the section “Attachment 1 to [letter] of 3 December 2001,” the following conclusion appears:

  THE STRATEGIC VIEW

  Iraq policy is inextricably tied up with the problem of Israel.

TNO, “Istanbul Airport: Russia’s Muslim Terrorists” 30 June 2016:

News that the three ISIS suicide bombers who killed 44 people in a gun and bomb attack at Istanbul Atatürk Airport are from Dagestan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan, has highlighted the fact that Russia has a massive—and growing—radical Islam problem.

The Turkish police have also arrested three further “Russian nationals” suspected of links with ISIS following the attack.

The Dagestan national was named as Osman Vadinov, who had entered Turkey from Syria as a “refugee” after serving with ISIS, it has been revealed.

Dagestan borders Chechnya, where Russia has waged two wars against Islamists since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. The Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan nationals were not named.

Dagestan is a federal subject of Russia, with a population of 2,910,249—of whom only 3.6 percent are ethnic Russians. It has been the scene of an ongoing Islamic insurgency since the 1990s, with the main militant Islamist organization known as Shariat Jamaat being responsible for much of the violence.