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ANP is a component of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF), which the U.S. government has spent more than $80 billion to develop since the war in Afghanistan began in October 2001.
Known as bacha bazi, or "boy play," U.N. investigators found that the act by Afghan forces persists.
In February 2018, Afghanistan implemented revisions to its penal code that criminalized the cruel practice. However, the U.N. reported this past March, "Though bacha bazi is criminalized, prosecutions of cases involving the practice are rare and the practice remains common."
In its latest annual report on children and armed conflict issued on Tuesday, the U.N. declared, "the United Nations verified four cases of sexual violence [in 2018], affecting two boys and two girls, perpetrated by the Afghan National Police (3) and the Afghan local police (1). The two boys were used as bacha bazi."
U.N. officials noted in the March report that the ANP, a component of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF), was behind the sexual abuse of the two boys.
Loosely:
"Intimacy with someone besides our partner that's emotional, not physical."It happens to many people, and in a world of hyper-communication and connectivity, it's becoming an increasingly big topic. So, what do we do?
Let's take this in two parts...
- Part I: Attraction
- Part II: What To Do With It

Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., does a television interview in the Capitol on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017.
"Antifa employs violence to coerce Americans into silence," Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind, said in a supplementary statement. "As a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, I am intimately familiar with the tactics of terrorist groups and how they employ fear/violence to silence political enemies. To my great surprise, we are witnessing similar style tactics right here in our country. The FBI must take this threat seriously."
Republican calls to deal with Antifa have increased recently after journalist Andy Ngo was assaulted at an Antifa rally in Portland in June. Last month, a 69-year-old man firebombed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center before being shot by police. He declared "I am Antifa" in his manifesto, while Banks notes that a Seattle "antifascist" group called him a martyr.
Yes, really.
During last night's debate, Gabbard took Harris to task for her role in "putting over 1500 people in jail for marijuana violations" then laughing about it when asked if she ever smoked marijuana.
Comment: Idiots indeed.
See also:
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- There is only one real challenger to Trump: Tulsi Gabbard dominates online ratings after Democratic debates (before Big Tech censors her) - UPDATE
- Tulsi's right: Kamala Harris is a drug warrior and dirty prosecutor - UPDATES
- Tulsi Gabbard is suing Google for post-debate ad suspension
- Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey maxed out his donation to Tulsi Gabbard after the first debate
- Pathetic: NBC accused of putting a fake pimple on Rep. Tulsi Gabbard during Dem debate
- The Tulsi Effect in 2020 Primary Debates: Forcing War onto the Democratic Agenda
Saikat Chakrabarti, was the chief of staff and also managed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's upstart 2018 campaign. He is leaving office after a series of controversies, and high profile fights with other democrats in the house of representatives.
Comment: AOC's brain? Not exactly what you would want to be known for.
- Hypocrisy from the Radical Left: AOC's Chief of Staff may have funneled money to her boyfriend through PAC
- AOC chief of staff funneled $1M from PAC to his own companies
- AOC and her chief of staff quietly removed from control of Justice Democrats PAC
The shakeup comes as the congresswoman's office has been engulfed in controversy since Chakrabarti attacked more moderate members of the House majority.Saikat Chakrabarti, and the organization Justice Democrats has some interesting history:
In June, Chakrabarti took to social media to air his frustration with moderate Democrats for forcing Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to abandon a $4.6 billion emergency border appropriation bill favored by progressives. In a series of tweets, Chakrabarti likened the moderates to old Southern Democrats, many of whom were avowed segregationists.
He stood by the comparison even when a progressive activist noted Rep. Sharice Davids (D-KS), the first openly LGBT Native American woman elected to Congress, was one of the moderates that wavered on the bill.
"I think the point still stands. I don't think people have to be personally racist to enable a racist system. And the same could even be said of the Southern Democrats," Chakrabarti said in a now deleted follow-up tweet. "I don't believe Sharice is a racist person, but her votes are showing her to enable a racist system."
Although Breitbart News reported on the controversial comments at the time, neither Ocasio-Cortez nor House leadership acknowledged that Chakrabarti may have crossed a line. The situation, though, changed sharply in July when Ocasio-Cortez accused Pelosi of "singling out newly elected women of color."
After the rebuke, Pelosi's allies within the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) moved simultaneously to defend the Speaker and attack the freshman congresswoman. A number of the CBC's members, including Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-MO), directed their anger at both Ocasio-Cortez and her chief of staff.
"It shows you how ignorant and little history [Chakrabarti] knows, how ignorant he is to American history. How dare he," Clay toldThe Hill.
The Missouri Democrat extended his criticism to Justice Democrats, the group started by Chakrabart to support left-leaning primary challenges to establishment Democrats.
"I find it juvenile, their tactics, I find their ignorance to be beyond belief about American history and about who are really segregationists," Clay said. "And so how dare they try to play the race card at this point, it shows you the weakness of their arguments."
Other moderates appeared to echo the sentiment, with some even anonymously calling for Chakrabarti's ouster.

In this Thursday photo provided by Naomi Hayes, a fire burns after an explosion near Junction City, Ky. A regional gas pipeline ruptured early Thursday in Kentucky, causing a massive explosion.
Some structures were completely consumed by the blaze, and five to seven people were unaccounted for when firefighters extinguished the flames hours later, Lincoln County Emergency Management Director Don Gilliam said.
"The part of the area that has been compromised, there's just nothing left," Gilliam said when asked whether residents might return to their trailer homes. "The residences that are still standing or damaged will be accessible. There doesn't really look like there's any in-between back there. They're either destroyed or they're still standing."
Kentucky State Police spokesman Robert Purdy said at least five homes were completely destroyed and structures within 450 metres had damage. He said a handful of people who were missing after the blast have now been accounted for.
The lawsuit seeks damages for alleged defamatory comments by 12 individuals — lawmakers, journalists and social media personalities, Law & Crime reported Friday.
The individuals include presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman.
The field trip drew international headlines after Covington High student Nicholas Sandmann, wearing a MAGA hat, was filmed directly facing a Native American activist near the Lincoln Memorial.
Just days ago, a lawsuit Sandmann and his family brought against The Washington Post over its coverage was dismissed by a Kentucky federal judge.
Most of the robots coming off the assembly line are white, and this is problematic, according to a team of researchers from the Human Interface Technology lab in New Zealand. While there are legitimate reasons for this color choice - white shows dirt and foreign objects more readily and is less likely to retain heat than other colors - the self-styled sentinels of sensitivity jumped right to announcing that humanity's inherent racism has been reproduced in the bots we've built. And CNN, for one, is extremely concerned.
On Aug. 14, the Child Victims Act takes effect, giving people one year to sue over allegations of sexual abuse, regardless of when they said it occurred.
Under the law signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo in February, New York has gone from one of the toughest states to bring a case because of its strict statute of limitations to one of the easiest, potentially unleashing decades of unresolved claims.
"It's going to be a tidal wave of litigation," said lawyer Mitchell Garabedian, best known for representing victims of child abuse by Roman Catholic priests in the Archdiocese of Boston.
Cases will cut across society, illustrating the systemic nature of the abuse, victims' lawyers said, although they expect many of the lawsuits to be against Catholic organizations and the Boy Scouts of America. Both the scouts and the church said they were cooperative with people making allegations of abuse against their organizations.













Comment: Antifa are not 'anti-fascists' - they are amateur totalitarians: