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Watch The X22 Report On Video No videos found (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:17532056201798502,size:[0, 0],id:"ld-9437-3289"});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src="https://cdn2.decide.dev/_js/ajs.js";j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,"script","ld-ajs");pt> Click On Picture To See Larger PictureTrump is bringing the country out of the Biden/Obama recession. The [CB] is trapped because they never expected Trump’s parallel economic system to be building at lightning speed. Trump is putting everything into place to transition the people from the [CB] which means we will not need the income tax. [DS] has now used one of it’s soldiers to begin the color revolution. The [DS] wants a civil war in the end and they are pushing it. Trump knows the playbook and this is why he took the path of waking the people up and building the counterinsurgency. The people must see who the true enemy is, only when the people see the enemy can we fight the enemy. Trump put all this into place for this moment. Economy https://twitter.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1994238315730473327?s=20   Challenger Gray spiked +99,010, to 153,074, the highest since March. This also marks the highest monthly number for any October in 22 years. All while employees notified of mass layoffs via WARN notices tracked by Revelio rose +11,912 last month to 43,626, the 2nd-highest in at least 2 years. US layoffs are accelerating. https://twitter.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1994222461252980749?s=20  percentage has persisted above 90% for 12 months. Such an elevated reading has been seen only a few times over the last 35 years. Over the last 2 years, global central banks have cuts rates 316 times, the highest reading in at least 25 years. To put this into perspective, there were 313 cumulative cuts in 2008-2010 in response to the financial crisis. Global monetary policy is easing. Amazing How Central Bank Money-Printing Reversed around the World after the Inflation Shock  Balance sheets of the Fed, ECB, BOJ, BOE, and central banks of China, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, and India as % of GDP.  The major central banks around the world have been unwinding their balance sheets for the past few years, even the Bank of Japan, which got a late start in 2024. Their balance sheets had swollen to grotesque proportions during the global QE frenzy that started in 2008, and QE-mania during and after the pandemic. But that has been getting unwound. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), an umbrella organization owned by its member central banks, released its latest quarterly data on central bank balance sheets today. We'll look at the decline of the balance sheets of nine major central banks: Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of Japan, People's Bank of China, Bank of England, Central Bank of India, Bank of Canada, Reserve Bank of Australia, and the Swiss National Bank. In normal times, central-bank balance sheets, including the Fed's balance sheet, grew with the economy, as measured by GDP; and the ratio of total assets as a percentage of GDP back then was low and roughly stable over the years. Years of QE then caused the ratios to explode. And years of QT have now caused the ratios to shrink dramatically.   They're all seeing the same thing: A continued threat of inflation and massive distortions and risks in asset prices, including dangerous housing bubbles that are now deflating in some markets. So they've been removing some of the fuel, to walk back from those risks. Source: wolfstreet.com (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:18510697282300316,size:[0, 0],id:"ld-8599-9832"});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src="https://cdn2.decide.dev/_js/ajs.js";j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,"script","ld-ajs"); https://twitter.com/WatcherGuru/status/1994194115467071830?s=20 Yes, President Trump did make that statement in a recent address (likely his Thanksgiving message to U.S. troops on November 27, 2025). Based on the video clip in the X post you linked, here’s the relevant excerpt from his remarks:“The next couple of years, I think we’ll substantially be cutting and maybe cutting out completely, but we’ll be cutting income tax—could be almost completely cutting it—because the money we’re taking in is going to be so large.”This aligns closely with the claim in the WatcherGuru post. Multiple news outlets have reported on the comments, confirming they are authentic and recent. For context, Trump has floated similar ideas about offsetting or replacing income taxes with tariff revenue multiple times during his campaign and presidency, though experts have questioned the feasibility due to the massive revenue gap (tariffs currently generate far less than income taxes). DOGE Geopolitical Globalist Germany's Firewall Against the AfD Collapses as Half the Country Now Open to Voting for Them For the first time since the party entered parliament about nine years ago, the anti-democratic cordon sanitaire around the right-wing, anti-globalist Alternative für Deutschland appears to have cracked wide open. According to the latest INSA/Bild poll, fewer than half of all German voters (just 49%) now say they would “never” vote AfD—down from a staggering 75% only a few years ago, This is nothing short of a historic breakthrough. Despite years of state-funded smear campaigns, constant domestic intelligence surveillance (Verfassungsschutz), court cases, job dismissals, bank account closures, repeated violence against party members by left-globalist extremists, and even serious discussions about banning the party outright, ordinary Germans are finally seeing through the propaganda and recognizing the AfD as the only serious opposition to a failing system. Source: thegatewaypundit.com    all the Liars and Pretenders of the Radical Left Media are going out of business! At the conclusion of the G20, South Africa refused to hand off the G20 Presidency to a Senior Representative from our U.S. Embassy, who attended the Closing Ceremony. Therefore, at my direction, South Africa will NOT be receiving an invitation to the 2026 G20, which will be hosted in the Great City of Miami, Florida next year. South Africa has demonstrated to the World they are not a country worthy of Membership anywhere, and we are going to stop all payments and subsidies to them, effective immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter! War/Peace Zelensky sent aide to US talks to ‘protect’ him from corruption probe – media Zelensky appointed his chief of staff, Andrey Yermak, to head Kiev’s negotiating delegation in Geneva last weekend after learning that anti-corruption investigators were preparing a suspicion notice against the aide,The report comes amid fallout from a massive $100 million graft scheme involving the Ukrainian leader’s inner circle, including long-time associate Timur Mindich, who has been charged with running a kickback scheme in the energy sector and fled before the authorities could detain him.Surveillance of the Mindich case by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) reportedly captured conversations involving Zelensky and Yermak, potentially implicating both. Source: sott.net https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1994307774860189739?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1994307774860189739%7Ctwgr%5Ee8d979a9c10fbfc326b32333d206fa988e9c3418%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2025%2F11%2Fnew-ukraines-anti-corruption-bureau-raids-home-andriy%2F   Zelensky's chief of staff. The latest raid comes days after a $100M bribery scandal rocked Ukraine's energy sector – but no official word yet if this is linked. Neither agency has commented on the raid yet.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      NATO states considering ‘cyber offensive' against Russia – Politico NATO's European members are reportedly considering joint offensive cyber operations against Russia, Politico reported on Thursday, citing two senior EU government officials and three diplomats. Western governments are assessing cyber and other options in response to alleged “hybrid attacks” by Moscow, according to the publication. Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braze told Politico that NATO must “be more proactive on the cyber offensive” and better coordinate their intelligence services. “And it's not talking that sends a signal – it's doing,” she said. In late 2024, NATO unveiled plans to establish a new integrated cyber defense center at its headquarters in Belgium, which is expected to go online by 2028. Stefano Piermarocchi, the head of cyber risk management within NATO's chief information office, told Breaking Defense that the new hub would enhance Source: rt.com Russian President Vladimir Putin Gives Remarkably Detailed Explanation of Current Peace Negotiation Status – Either Ukraine Concedes Diplomatically, or We Will Win Militarily Source: theconservativetreehouse.com Medical/False Flags [DS] Agenda https://twitter.com/RogerJStoneJr/status/1993883057414353293?s=20 https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1994206037998538849?s=20 https://twitter.com/AGPamBondi/status/1994194638421340290?s=20 https://twitter.com/VickieforNYC/status/1993899026651951335?s=20   foreign warzone. Yet almost every major lefty account is parroting this narrative. It’s bizarre. Like “of COURSE people are going to try and murder the National Guard, what did you expect to happen in Washington” Is this the narrative here? That Washington is Fallujah? Or is it that the left has declared a de facto state of war, and casualties are now just to be expected? It’s extremely bad either way. https://twitter.com/TheStormRedux/status/1994054785163522357?s=20  that the President said it's times to bring in more law enforcement to make sure that a city that had the 4th highest homicide rate in the country, that that violence was quelled. I'm not even gonna go there!” Liberals have been spending the last 12 hours trying to place the blame on Trump for bringing the NG to the city. Truly unbelievable how ungrateful these people are https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1993876798866653577?s=20 https://twitter.com/thevivafrei/status/1994116243154973175?s=20   intentions, everything takes on a whole new meaning. https://twitter.com/ZannSuz/status/1993859778414580217?s=20 https://twitter.com/JLRINVESTIGATES/status/1994214556671889810?s=20 https://twitter.com/DataRepublican/status/1994118842239610989?s=20   dive here. As always, patience as I pull together the thread: https://twitter.com/TPASarah/status/1994015487135514931 Sarah Adams@TPASarah Lakanwal, from Khost Province, Afghanistan, was a member of two CIA-supported units that operated under the National Directorate of Security (NDS) of the former Afghan Republic. Although these units belonged to the NDS on paper, their support and direction came directly from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He served in Unit 01, a special military-intelligence unit responsible for the central zone provinces (Kabul, Parwan, Wardak, and Logar). His agency training in 2007 took place at CIA's Eagle Base near the Deh Sabz district of Kabul province, a few miles from Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA). Eagle Camp, originally built on an old brick factory site, became one of the CIA's most important counterterrorism training centers in the early 2000s. It trained the CIA-backed NDS units including NDS-01, NDS-02, NDS-03, NDS-04, NDS-KPF, and NDS-KSF, and also housed an ammunition depot and multiple facilities for sensitive operations. When U.S. forces left Afghanistan in 2021, Eagle Camp was among the final sites to be evacuated and demolished. It was later handed over to the Haqqani Network's suicide bomber brigade, the Badri 313. Badri 313 moved the suicide bombers through the gate areas of HKIA for the Abbey Gate attack that killed 13 of our servicemembers and approximately 170 Afghans on August 26, 2021. After completing training at Eagle Base, Lakanwal was transferred to the team supporting CIA's Kandahar Base. The site had a long militant history: it housed Mullah Mohammad Omar from 1994–2001, Osama bin Laden from 1998–2001, and later Camp Gecko from 2002–2021, which was used by the CIA and NDS-03. It served as the headquarters of the Kandahar Strike Force, which led CIA-backed counterterrorism operations in Kandahar, Uruzgan, and Zabul provinces against the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and ISIS. Lakanwal took part in counterterrorism missions alongside U.S. forces in Kandahar. After the attack yesterday on our National Guardsmen in Washington, DC, ISIS channels were the first to praise the incident largely because Lakanwal's half-brother (the son of his father's second wife, pictured left) had been a recruiter for the Islamic State–Khorasan Province (ISKP). His brother, Muawiyah Khurasani aka Hayatullah (pictured below), previously worked with Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Orakzai Agency, Pakistan, before formally joining ISKP. He was killed in a targeted operation in July 2022 in Achin district, Nangarhar province. Some ISIS members claimed he was killed by Pakistan's Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD), though that remains unconfirmed. After the fall of Kabul in 2021, Lakanwal's unit the Kandahar Protection Force and the Khost Protection Force (KPF) became prime targets for both the Haqqani Network and ISKP, which sought either to blackmail or recruit former KPF members. Recruitment involved persuading them to join voluntarily; blackmail involved coercing them through threats to their families (many were left behind), exposure of past work with the U.S., or financial pressure. Both groups targeted these units specifically because of their close relationships on U.S. soil, particularly with former CIA officers. In addition, both groups, along with al-Qaeda, saw value in impersonating these units. A couple thousand fake documents and ID cards were produced so terrorists could claim affiliation with KPF/01/02 and other special units. This allowed some individuals to fraudulently move through the U.S. evacuation process by exploiting unsuspecting volunteers and taking advantage of weak vetting procedures. We have confirmed that Lakanwal's ID (pictured right) and employment were legitimate, but a full review is recommended, as terrorists have explicitly claimed using this route as a pipeline into the U.S. We cannot keep waiting for Americans to be killed again and again before we act against the Islamist terrorists who have arrived on our soil since 2021. This can no longer fall on the shoulders of a small handful of people sounding the alarm. Every American needs to be engaged: protecting their families, their communities, and our homeland. Please prepare today! https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1993925420329390316?s=20  action force of the AFN who fought directly alongside U.S. Special Forces against the Taliban. In addition, Fox News is reporting that Lakanwal worked with various other government entities from the United States in Afghanistan, including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), specifically as part of the CIA-backed Kandahar Strike Force (KSF), known in most intelligence circles as NDS-03, which operated outside of U.S. and Afghan military chain-of-commands directly under the CIA, carrying out covert, clandestine, counterterrorism operations, including night raids and assassinations against the Taliban and al-Qaeda. https://twitter.com/DataRepublican/status/1993878815349854361?s=20 CIA Director John Ratcliffe confirmed that to Fox. “In the wake of the disastrous Biden withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Biden administration justified bringing the alleged shooter to the United States in September 2021 due to his prior work with the U.S. government, including CIA, as a member of a partner force in Kandahar, which ended shortly following the chaotic evacuation,” CIA Director John Ratcliffe told Fox News Digital. “The individual—and so many others—should have never been allowed to come here,” Ratcliffe continued. “Our citizens and service members deserve far better than to endure the ongoing fallout from the Biden administration's catastrophic failures.” Ratcliffe added: “God bless our brave troops.” https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1994201842750837067?s=20 https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1993882348069552531?s=20 https://twitter.com/CannConActual/status/1993693224196604379?s=20  at a colour revolution. @ColonelTowner and@xAlphaWarriorx have done a good job documenting several. We have been overwhelmingly resistant to these efforts on our homeland through the use of NGOs funding widespread protests and subsequent riots. And as President Trump cut the head off their private sector funding apparatuses (USAID, NED, etc), they are becoming desperate. So they politicized the military, subverted the Constitutional authority of the Commander in Chief, and injected themselves in a chain of command they are NOT a part of. The desperate attempt to execute their plan. This is life or death for the Deep State. https://twitter.com/CynicalPublius/status/1993886979738460646?s=20 There are three phases to a Color Revolution. It’s important to understand this so you can see how the actions of the Sedition 6 fit into this pattern. PHASE ONE: -Form underground opposition networks. -Create strong slogans and powerful information operations as recruitment tools. -Upon a certain well-coordinated signal, well-funded, well-organized mass protests “spontaneously” appear. -The armed wing of the movement conducts carefully coordinated, precision attacks on certain government infrastructure. PHASE TWO:  -Discredit military, security, and law enforcement forces through information operations, coordination with friendly media (Jimmy Kimmel? Talkin’ to you, Komrade Kelly), strikes, civil disobedience, rioting, and sabotage. yOU ARE HER -Occupy civic facilities and refuse to leave until your demands are met. -Strengthen and grow a highly organized logistics support network. -Issue ultimatums to the government, threatening violent uprisings if demands are unmet. The goal is to either have the government acquiesce or engage in violent repression, in each case thereby delegitimizing itself. PHASE THREE:  -Overthrow the government in a “non-violent” manner that is actually quite violent. -Open attacks on authorities, seizure of government buildings, destruction of government symbols. -Coordinate media messaging. If the government attacks, media will accuse the government of attacking “peaceful protestors.” If the government makes concessions, it will appear impotent because protestors will not compromise. -Widespread delegitimization of the government is effective in the minds of the populace; the government either willingly cedes power or is violently removed. -The once underground opposition forces’ leadership now seizes control of the government.   prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels. They and their children are supported through massive payments from Patriotic American Citizens who, because of their beautiful hearts, do not want to openly complain or cause trouble in any way, shape, or form. They put up with what has happened to our Country, but it's eating them alive to do so! A migrant earning $30,000 with a green card will get roughly $50,000 in yearly benefits for their family. The real migrant population is much higher. This refugee burden is the leading cause of social dysfunction in America, something that did not exist after World War II (Failed schools, high crime, urban decay, overcrowded hospitals, housing shortages, and large deficits, etc.). As an example, hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia are completely taking over the once great State of Minnesota. Somalian gangs are roving the streets looking for “prey” as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone. The seriously retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both, while the worst “Congressman/woman” in our Country, Ilhan Omar, always wrapped in her swaddling hijab, and who probably came into the U.S.A. illegally in that you are not allowed to marry your brother, does nothing but hatefully complain about our Country, its Constitution, and how “badly” she is treated, when her place of origin is a decadent, backward, and crime ridden nation, which is essentially not even a country for lack of Government, Military, Police, schools, etc…    denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization. These goals will be pursued with the aim of achieving a major reduction in illegal and disruptive populations, including those admitted through an unauthorized and illegal Autopen approval process. Only REVERSE MIGRATION can fully cure this situation. Other than that, HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL, except those that hate, steal, murder, and destroy everything that America stands for — You won't be here for long! Trump Orders Green Card Review in the Wake of Shooting by Afghan on Overstay President Trump's Plan (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:13499335648425062,size:[0, 0],id:"ld-7164-1323"});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src="//cdn2.customads.co/_js/ajs.js";j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,"script","ld-ajs");

Episode: Bernard Joyce and Pat Stokes from the Irish Traveller MovementBernard and Pat share their experiences growing up as proud Travellers, the discrimination they faced, how things are changing but still have a long way to go. They discuss opportunities for Travellers, including the apprenticeship programme and the importance of education in realising your full potential, but also how employers can do more to engage with Travellers in the workplace. For more information about ITM, visit https://itmtrav.ie/ phone 01 679 6577 or email director@itmtrav.ieOpen Mic is a new podcast presented by the Open Doors Initiative which explores the challenges and opportunities of the working world from the perspectives of marginalised communities. The podcast takes the form of short interview segments with individuals who will share their lived experiences and insights.Guest HostIntroducing Hogai asefi Wardak. Born in Kabul Afghanistan in 2001, the youngest of her family, with 4 sisters and 2 brothers. A family where she could see her older sisters not getting what they wanted in their lives, not reaching their wishes and goals, because her father had never allowed or permitted, and never had an open mind for women to engage, work and participate in community, at that time in their country. In 2016, she graduated from high school and was enrolled in Kabul University. She started working with Zan TV, which is a specialized tv network for women. She started to host programmes dealing with Women's empowerment, Women and sports and various social programmes. She also established an educational community for children, to help women and youngsters to get jobs, by joining POOHA NGO and worked with NATO. She's still working with Zan TV on screen.Open Doors InitiativeODI's key mission is to enable equitable access to employment for marginalised peopleWe create pathways to work through training, education, employment and entrepreneurship.Collaborative network of over 125 partner organisationsTogether we carry out training, work experience, mentoring, research and reduce barriers for people who are marginalised We helped nearly 74,000 people on pathways to work in five yearsVisit https://opendoorsinitiative.ie for more information and follow us on social media including Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube

Episode: Brian Pennie, Specialist in resilience, keynote speaker, neuroscientist and authorBrian chats with Hogai about his personal journey and what it has taught him about personal awareness of your hopes and motivations. They discuss the importance of education along with emotional regulation and communication to navigate the stresses in life, as well as how technology can be both a challenge and an opportunity. Visit Brian's website for more information and follow him on Instagram and LinkedInOpen Mic is a new podcast presented by the Open Doors Initiative which explores the challenges and opportunities of the working world from the perspectives of marginalised communities. The podcast takes the form of short interview segments with individuals who will share their lived experiences and insights.Guest HostIntroducing Hogai asefi Wardak. Born in Kabul Afghanistan in 2001, the youngest of her family, with 4 sisters and 2 brothers. A family where she could see her older sisters not getting what they wanted in their lives, not reaching their wishes and goals, because her father had never allowed or permitted, and never had an open mind for women to engage, work and participate in community, at that time in their country. In 2016, she graduated from high school and was enrolled in Kabul University. She started working with Zan TV, which is a specialized tv network for women. She started to host programmes dealing with Women's empowerment, Women and sports and various social programmes. She also established an educational community for children, to help women and youngsters to get jobs, by joining POOHA NGO and worked with NATO. She's still working with Zan TV on screen.Open Doors InitiativeODI's key mission is to enable equitable access to employment for marginalised peopleWe create pathways to work through training, education, employment and entrepreneurship.Collaborative network of over 125 partner organisationsTogether we carry out training, work experience, mentoring, research and reduce barriers for people who are marginalisedWe helped nearly 74,000 people on pathways to work in five yearsVisit https://opendoorsinitiative.ie for more information and follow us on social media including Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube    

 Episode: Joy-Tendai Kangere, Barrister, advocate and lecturerJoy-Tendai speaks with Hogai about her childhood in Zimbabwe and the impact of education and justice that led to a lifelong ambition to become a barrister. They discuss the challenges of racism in school and workplace settings, as a woman and migrant in Ireland, as well as the importance of finding community in a new home. Visit Joy-Tendai on LinkedInOpen Mic is a new podcast presented by the Open Doors Initiative which explores the challenges and opportunities of the working world from the perspectives of marginalised communities. The podcast takes the form of short interview segments with individuals who will share their lived experiences and insights.Guest HostIntroducing Hogai asefi Wardak. Born in Kabul Afghanistan in 2001, the youngest of her family, with 4 sisters and 2 brothers. A family where she could see her older sisters not getting what they wanted in their lives, not reaching their wishes and goals, because her father had never allowed or permitted, and never had an open mind for women to engage, work and participate in community, at that time in their country. In 2016, she graduated from high school and was enrolled in Kabul University. She started working with Zan TV, which is a specialized tv network for women. She started to host programmes dealing with Women's empowerment, Women and sports and various social programmes. She also established an educational community for children, to help women and youngsters to get jobs, by joining POOHA NGO and worked with NATO. She's still working with Zan TV on screen.Open Doors InitiativeODI's key mission is to enable equitable access to employment for marginalised peopleWe create pathways to work through training, education, employment and entrepreneurship.Collaborative network of over 125 partner organisationsTogether we carry out training, work experience, mentoring, research and reduce barriers for people who are marginalisedWe helped nearly 74,000 people on pathways to work in five yearsVisit https://opendoorsinitiative.ie for more information and follow us on social media including Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube    

Episode: Melissa Bosch, Head of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, EY IrelandMelissa speaks with Hogai about growing up in South Africa, her formative experiences and how she found herself in Ireland, forging a new path. They discuss challenges faced in the workplace and the importance of embedding diversity, equity and inclusion at the core of business, rather than an afterthought that can be discarded in challenging times. Visit EY Ireland and Melissa on LinkedInOpen Mic is a new podcast presented by the Open Doors Initiative which explores the challenges and opportunities of the working world from the perspectives of marginalised communities. The podcast takes the form of short interview segments with individuals who will share their lived experiences and insights.Guest HostIntroducing Hogai asefi Wardak. Born in Kabul Afghanistan in 2001, the youngest of her family, with 4 sisters and 2 brothers. A family where she could see her older sisters not getting what they wanted in their lives, not reaching their wishes and goals, because her father had never allowed or permitted, and never had an open mind for women to engage, work and participate in community, at that time in their country. In 2016, she graduated from high school and was enrolled in Kabul University. She started working with Zan TV, which is a specialized tv network for women. She started to host programmes dealing with Women's empowerment, Women and sports and various social programmes. She also established an educational community for children, to help women and youngsters to get jobs, by joining POOHA NGO and worked with NATO. She's still working with Zan TV on screen.Open Doors InitiativeODI's key mission is to enable equitable access to employment for marginalised peopleWe create pathways to work through training, education, employment and entrepreneurship.Collaborative network of over 125 partner organisationsTogether we carry out training, work experience, mentoring, research and reduce barriers for people who are marginalisedWe helped nearly 74,000 people on pathways to work in five yearsVisit https://opendoorsinitiative.ie for more information and follow us on social media including Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube

Episode: Minister Neale Richmond TDHogai speaks with Neale Richmond, Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment with special responsibility for Employment Affairs and Retail Business, and the Department of Social Protection. They discuss the challenges facing migrants and refugees in Ireland, including work permits, housing and accreditation, as well as available government supports. Visit the Oireachteas website for the Minister's contact details.  Open Mic is a new podcast presented by the Open Doors Initiative which explores the challenges and opportunities of the working world from the perspectives of marginalised communities. The podcast takes the form of short interview segments with individuals who will share their lived experiences and insights.Guest HostIntroducing Hogai asefi Wardak. Born in Kabul Afghanistan in 2001, the youngest of her family, with 4 sisters and 2 brothers. A family where she could see her older sisters not getting what they wanted in their lives, not reaching their wishes and goals, because her father had never allowed or permitted, and never had an open mind for women to engage, work and participate in community, at that time in their country. In 2016, she graduated from high school and was enrolled in Kabul University. She started working with Zan TV, which is a specialized tv network for women. She started to host programmes dealing with Women's empowerment, Women and sports and various social programmes. She also established an educational community for children, to help women and youngsters to get jobs, by joining POOHA NGO and worked with NATO. She's still working with Zan TV on screen.Open Doors InitiativeODI's key mission is to enable equitable access to employment for marginalised peopleWe create pathways to work through training, education, employment and entrepreneurship.Collaborative network of over 125 partner organisationsTogether we carry out training, work experience, mentoring, research and reduce barriers for people who are marginalisedWe helped nearly 74,000 people on pathways to work in five yearsVisit https://opendoorsinitiative.ie for more information and follow us on social media including Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube    

Episode: Siobhán Cafferty, Social Enterprise Project Manager for the Irish criminal justice sectorSiobhán speaks with Hogai about her path to becoming involved in advocating for those with a criminal past, the stigmas faced and the lack of self confidence many feel when attempting to find employment, as well as major logistical barriers when attempting to start their own business. She discusses how employers could take a more open-minded hiring approach, to see people for their potential and not just their past. Open Mic is a new podcast presented by the Open Doors Initiative which explores the challenges and opportunities of the working world from the perspectives of marginalised communities. The podcast takes the form of short interview segments with individuals who will share their lived experiences and insights.Guest HostIntroducing Hogai asefi Wardak. Born in Kabul Afghanistan in 2001, the youngest of her family, with 4 sisters and 2 brothers. A family where she could see her older sisters not getting what they wanted in their lives, not reaching their wishes and goals, because her father had never allowed or permitted, and never had an open mind for women to engage, work and participate in community, at that time in their country. In 2016, she graduated from high school and was enrolled in Kabul University. She started working with Zan TV, which is a specialized tv network for women. She started to host programmes dealing with Women's empowerment, Women and sports and various social programmes. She also established an educational community for children, to help women and youngsters to get jobs, by joining POOHA NGO and worked with NATO. She's still working with Zan TV on screen.Open Doors InitiativeODI's key mission is to enable equitable access to employment for marginalised peopleWe create pathways to work through training, education, employment and entrepreneurship.Collaborative network of over 125 partner organisationsTogether we carry out training, work experience, mentoring, research and reduce barriers for people who are marginalisedWe helped nearly 74,000 people on pathways to work in five yearsVisit https://opendoorsinitiative.ie for more information and follow us on social media including Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube    

Episode: Toluwani Akaehomen, Entrepreneur, Executive Coach, Leadership & People Development ConsultantToluwani shares her background and the challenges she faced in the hiring process, which led her to starting her own business and becoming a successful entrepreneur. She and Hogai discuss the mindset and opportunities involved in striking out on your own, the importance of finding networks and connections to build your business. Visit her website Vantage Dymensions and her LinkedIn profileOpen Mic is a new podcast presented by the Open Doors Initiative which explores the challenges and opportunities of the working world from the perspectives of marginalised communities. The podcast takes the form of short interview segments with individuals who will share their lived experiences and insights.Guest HostIntroducing Hogai asefi Wardak. Born in Kabul Afghanistan in 2001, the youngest of her family, with 4 sisters and 2 brothers. A family where she could see her older sisters not getting what they wanted in their lives, not reaching their wishes and goals, because her father had never allowed or permitted, and never had an open mind for women to engage, work and participate in community, at that time in their country. In 2016, she graduated from high school and was enrolled in Kabul University. She started working with Zan TV, which is a specialized tv network for women. She started to host programmes dealing with Women's empowerment, Women and sports and various social programmes. She also established an educational community for children, to help women and youngsters to get jobs, by joining POOHA NGO and worked with NATO. She's still working with Zan TV on screen.Open Doors InitiativeODI's key mission is to enable equitable access to employment for marginalised peopleWe create pathways to work through training, education, employment and entrepreneurship.Collaborative network of over 125 partner organisationsTogether we carry out training, work experience, mentoring, research and reduce barriers for people who are marginalisedWe helped nearly 74,000 people on pathways to work in five yearsVisit https://opendoorsinitiative.ie for more information and follow us on social media including Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube    

Rozmowa Piotra Szczepańskiego z Tomaszem Wardakiem w ramach cyklu #rozmowyWszechnicy [7 listopada 2023 r.] Zapraszam na drugą rozmowę z Tomaszem Wardakiem na temat centralnego portu komunikacyjnego. Jak wiadomo projekt składa się z „piasty” – lotniska i „szprych” czyli linii kolejowych łączących Polskę z tym lotniskiem. W rozmowach padają liczby pasażerów, godziny dojazdu, pociągi mają przejeżdżać przez CPK… Czy te wizje są racjonalne? Spełnią się? Skąd to wiemy? A co z wykluczeniem komunikacyjnym? Jak zmienią się i czy się zmienią warunki codziennego dojazdu do pracy tysięcy Polaków… Poprzednia rozmowa do obejrzenia tu: https://youtube.com/live/_kQI2i1k384 Jeśli chcesz wspierać Wszechnicę w dalszym tworzeniu treści, organizowaniu kolejnych #rozmówWszechnicy, możesz: 1. Zostać Patronem Wszechnicy FWW w serwisie https://patronite.pl/wszechnicafww Przez portal Patronite możesz wesprzeć tworzenie cyklu #rozmowyWszechnicy nie tylko dobrym słowem, ale i finansowo. Będąc Patronką/Patronem wpłacasz regularne, comiesięczne kwoty na konto Wszechnicy, a my dzięki Twojemu wsparciu możemy dalej rozwijać naszą działalność. W ramach podziękowania mamy dla Was drobne nagrody. 2. Możesz wspierać nas, robiąc zakupy za pomocą serwisu Fanimani.pl - https://tiny.pl/wkwpk Jeżeli robisz zakupy w internecie, możesz nas bezpłatnie wspierać. Z każdego Twojego zakupu średnio 2,5% jego wartości trafi do Wszechnicy, jeśli zaczniesz korzystać z serwisu FaniMani.pl Ty nic nie dopłacasz! Znajdź nas: https://www.youtube.com/c/WszechnicaFWW/ https://www.facebook.com/WszechnicaFWW1/ https://anchor.fm/wszechnicaorgpl---historia https://anchor.fm/wszechnica-fww-nauka https://wszechnica.org.pl/ #rozmowywszechnicy #cpk #centralnyportkomunikacyjny #logistyka #komunikacja #transport #lotnisko #kolej

Package made from the B-roll "Turkish Police Training" about a Turkish Provincial Reconstruction Team providing Afghan police officers from Wardak province with additional training in weapons handling and riot control. Produced by William Bonnett.

The Turkish have one of the only civilian lead Provincial Reconstruction Teams in the country. The formula of civilians working with civilians has seen great success in all of the key areas of construction, development, education and security. The Turkish contribution is highly regarded and welcomed by the Wardak provincial governor, who has seen efforts from the Turkish take place in every district of the province. Produced by William Bonnett.

This edition features a story on combined U.S. and Afghan forces successfully completing multiple missions in which insurgents were found and detained and a story on Soldiers helping Afghan officials after floods raged through Wardak province, Afghanistan, stripping away villagers' means to provide for their families. Hosted by Petty Officer Dustin Diaz. Includes soundbites from 2nd Lt. Evan Mace - Task Force Brawler S-2.

This edition features stories on how the Insurgents continue to kill civilians and the body count is getting disturbingly high and security in Wardak Province has improved over the past year. Karl W. Eikenberry, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, speaks to a crowd of Afghan civilians and coalition forces, Aug. 12, 2010 during a shura in Wardak Province with Gen. David Petraeus and the governor of Wardak. The Taliban fires an RPG at the meeting to try to disrupt it. The shura continued. Sound bite includes Gen. David Petraeus. Hosted by Petty Officer 1st Class Dustin Diaz.

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.04.06.535936v1?rss=1 Authors: Olszynski, K. H., Polowy, R., Wardak, A. D., Laska, I. A., Grymanowska, A. W., Pulawski, W., Gawrys, O., Kolinski, M., Filipkowski, R. K. Abstract: Rats are believed to communicate their emotional state by emitting two distinct types of ultrasonic vocalizations. The first is long "22-kHz" vocalizations ( greater than 300 ms, less than 32 kHz) with constant frequency, signaling aversive states and the second, is short "50-kHz" calls ( less than 100 ms, greater than 32 kHz), often frequency-modulated, in appetitive situations. Here we are first to describe a new-type of aversive vocalizations emitted at a higher pitch by Wistar and spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) in an intensified aversive state, i.e. prolonged fear conditioning. These calls, which we named "44-kHz vocalizations", are long ( greater than 150 ms), generally at a constant frequency (usually within 35-50 kHz range) and have an overall spectrographic image similar to 22-kHz calls. Some 44-kHz vocalizations are comprised of both 22-kHz-like and 44-kHz-like elements. Furthermore, two separate clustering methods confirmed that these 44-kHz calls are distinct from other vocalizations. We also show that some of rats' responses to the playback of 44-kHz calls were more akin to that of aversive calls, e.g. heart rate changes, whereas other responses were at an intermediate level between aversive and appetitive calls. Our results suggest that rats have a wider vocal repertoire than previously believed, and current definitions of major call types may require reevaluation. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

W tym odcinku rozmawiam z Pauliną Wardak, founderką oraz CEO Osnova Wear - firmy produkującej ekologiczną odzież. Podczas rozmowy poruszyliśmy kwestie dotyczące budowania startupów podczas pracy w korporacji, przejścia z branży alkoholowej do branży odzieżowej premium, z czym wiąże się budowanie biznesu eko w Polsce, trudnościach związanych z rozwijaniem biznesu w kryzysie i tego, że trzeba zawsze umieć wejść w każdą rolę, aby pchnąć tematy do przodu.

Zapraszamy do wysłuchania rozmowy Piotra Szczepańskiego z Tomaszem Wardakiem, 29 kwietnia 2022 r. "Centralny Port Komunikacyjny to ma być potężny projekt infrastrukturalny łączący z jednej strony nowe centralne lotnisko dla całej Polski położone między Warszawą a Łodzią, a z drugiej strony nowy system transportu kolejowego, kilkunastu nowych linii kolejowych, które mają się zbiegać właśnie w tym punkcie, w okolicach miejscowości Baranów. Tam ma powstać olbrzymi, największy w Polsce, węzeł kolejowy. To z jednej strony bardzo silna integracja transportu lotniczego z transportem kolejowym. Z drugiej strony łatwe przesiadki - ludzie mogliby jechać z jednej części Polski na drugi, przesiadając się w Baranowie. Nowe lotnisko to ogromny potencjał rozwojowy dla LOTu. Do tego w tle zmiana cywilizacyjna - zwiększenie mobilności społeczeństwa, otwarcie na świat, konkurencja z naszymi zachodnimi sąsiadami. Gigantyczny, transformacyjny projekt mający zmienić całą Polskę" - opowiada Tomasz Wardak. Centralny Port Komunikacyjny jest przedstawiany jako najważniejsza inwestycja ostatnich dziesięcioleci. Ma zmienić miejsce Polski w Europie, uczynić ją najważniejszym "portem" przeładunkowymi, centralnym portem komunikacyjnym ruchu pasażerskiego. Ma kosztować ponad 100 mld dolarów. Setki rodzin zostanie wysiedlonych. Tymczasem czytając dokumenty rządowe uzasadniające tę inwestycję, trudno oprzeć się wrażeniu, że te założenia to zbiór pobożnych życzeń. Podobnego zdania są eksperci zajmujący się ruchem lotniczym, czy eksperci zajmujący się infrastrukturą kolejową. Czy nie lepiej byłoby te ogromne pieniądze zainwestować w inny sposób? Czy bezkrytyczne parcie do realizacji tej inwestycji w obecnej sytuacji (wojna na Ukrainie, wzrost cen paliw) ma sens? Czy nie jest to "chciejstwo", które zakończy się klapą podobną do inwestycji w elektrociepłowni w Ostrołęce, tylko o wiele kosztowniejszą? O tym wszystkim będziemy rozmawiać z Tomaszem Wardakiem, autorem książki "Piasta i szprychy. Lotnictwo, kolej i nasza przyszłość" opisującej tę inwestycję. Tomasz Wardak – manager finansowy, zarządzał finansami w spółkach takich jak PGNiG czy Polkomtel, pracował w doradztwie i funduszach inwestycyjnych. Absolwent SGH, wieloletni pasjonat infrastruktury i transportu. Wydał pierwszą książkę o Centralnym Porcie Komunikacyjnym „Piasta i szprychy” Znajdź nas: https://www.facebook.com/WszechnicaFWW1/ https://anchor.fm/wszechnicaorgpl---historia wszechnica.org.pl

Depuis que les Taliban ont pris le pouvoir en août, ils s'efforcent de fonder un émirat islamique en Afghanistan. Après 20 ans de guerre, les armes se sont tues mais l'économie s'effondre et des millions d'Afghans vivent encore dans la peur. Nombre d'entre eux cherchent à fuir le pays par tous les moyens. Immersion au pays des Taliban, de Kaboul, la capitale, à Kandahar, en passant par les vallées du Wardak. Un reportage signé Catherine Norris Trent et Roméo Langlois.

It's been four months since the Taliban swept to power in Afghanistan, something they did faster than anyone anticipated. Since August, they have had to make a rapid transition to running the day-to-day business of a struggling state. From Kabul to the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar and the mountainous Wardak province, our team have witnessed the grim reality of Taliban rule. FRANCE 24's senior reporters Catherine Norris Trent and Roméo Langlois bring us this exclusive full-length documentary.

The US government spent $85 billion on the Afghan military, only to see it surrender to the Taliban without a fight. Now the son of a former defense minister is spending millions to buy a luxury mansion with a view of Los Angeles. A man by the name of Daoud Wardak recently bought the Trousdale Estates property in Beverly Hills for $20.9 million, Yahoo News reported, citing real estate records. He was described as an “ethnic Pashtun refugee” born in 1977, with public records showing him as president of AD Capital Group, based in Miami, Florida. Wardak already owns a $5.2 million at the St. Regis Bal Harbor resort in Miami Beach, according to the same sources. His new Beverly Hills mansion, known as the Carla Ridge Residence, was recently redesigned in a “contemporary minimalism” style and offers views of the Los Angeles skyline through its glass walls. Daoud is the younger son of Abdul Rahim Wardak, who served as defense minister in the US-backed government in Kabul between 2004 and 2012. The former mujahideen fighter was a key player in setting up the Afghan National Army (ANA) – the same force that collapsed without a fight in August, leaving the Taliban in control of the country even before US troops had a chance to leave. http://globalreportage.org/2021/10/09/son-of-former-afghan-defense-minister-buys-20-million-beverly-hills-mansion-media-reveals/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/global-reportage/support

Andrew Quilty is a photographer and reporter who has lived in Kabul, Afghanistan, since 2013. In “When the Raids Came,” his article for the September issue of Harper's Magazine, Quilty follows the story of one family in rural Wardak province over nearly twenty years of war, offering a holistic view of the U.S. military's impact. Quilty joins Harper's web editor Violet Lucca to survey Afghanistan's transition to Taliban control; its media ecosystem; the cultural factors that are often ignored by outside analysts; and the role that the international community—not just the U.S. military—has played in reshaping the country and fostering rampant corruption. Read Quilty's story: https://harpers.org/archive/2021/09/when-the-raids-came-afghanistan-war-toll-on-one-afghan-family/ This episode was produced by Violet Lucca and Andrew Blevins.

White feminism is built on centering Euro-American so-called progressive views as the pinnacle of women's liberation. It rejects intersectionality and complexity, instead manifesting in the form of white saviorism, fueled by the very system it claims to challenge: misogyny. Over the past week, much of the conversation around Afghanistan has been focused on the “liberation of Afghan women.” These calls for “liberation” are a manifestation of Euro American imperialism under the guise of white feminism. The same narratives of “women's liberation” that were used to justify war 20 years ago continue to dominate headlines without acknowledging the ways in which war, forgein occupation, and imperialism only further exasperate harm.When it comes to Afghan women, we have equated what they wear to degrees of oppression. By doing so, we have made “freedom” synonymous with western fashion standards instead of centering what “freedom” means to Afghan women themselves which includes their self-defined priorities around access to economic, education, and political agency. By centering Euro American standards around what liberation looks like, we are sidelining the voices that we should be listening to: the voices of Afghan women who are on the grounds challenging the systems they live in. Madina Wardak is a displaced Afghan settled on Tongva Land (Los Angeles, CA). Madina studied Political Science with an emphasis on the Middle East, and Social Work. She is the founder of Burqas & Beer, a social media platform Madina that explores identity, mental health, SWANA current events, and truth-telling. She currently serves as a Youth Advocate for a transitional living program and is on track to become a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.Art of Citizenry is a community supported podcast dedicated to decolonizing storytelling. Please consider supporting by visiting:  patreon.com/manpreetkalraTake ActionMake space to listen, learn from, and amplify Afghan voicesCheck out the show notes for resources on ways you can take action and help Afghan refugees who are having to rebuild their lives. Reach out to your local Congressional representative, ask them to increase refugee quotas and accept All Afghan asylum seekers. You can do this also by texting Crisis to 52886And finally, avoid using oversimplified language and tropes rooted in imperialist ideologies about Afghan people.

To say Mariam Wardak has an unusual life story is a bit of an understatement. Born to a family with a prominent legacy in Afghanistan. Raised as a boy by her father until the age of 3. School in America. And a short trip back to Kabul that ended up changing the course of her life. She's since played a major role in her country — from the National Security Council to founding Her Afghanistan, supporting Afghan women in everything from tech to peacebuilding. She tells us about the life lessons learned as a 15 year-old at tribal elder meetings in Afghanistan, her 'own brand' of feminism, finding the courage to walk away from things that look great on paper, and learning to communicate with the Taliban — and her husband.

Wardak, an Afghan wartime ally, joins the podcast live from an undisclosed location in Afghanistan - the barn in which he's hiding with livestock. He shares how the Taliban is 5 min away from him at every moment - always hunting him. He's desperate to try and escape, but he's pinned down with no where to run. Kristen Babicki from the Association of Wartime Allies also joins to share the latest in the advocacy to save our Afghan allies. Matt and Janis discuss the Operation Allies Refuge and the failure of the Biden administration to thus far save our wartime allies. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

 Habib Wardak is a political analyst who graduated with an MA in Defence and Strategic Studies from the Department of Defence and Strategic Studies in the University of Pune. He worked as a lecturer at Kardan University's Department of International Relations and has extensive experience working with the international community in Afghanistan. Most recently, he worked as a senior official at the Afghan Ministry of Defence; a job he left for ethical reasons. In this episode, Ahmed-Waleed and Sangar host Habib. They quiz him on his family's political background, their association with figures like Professor Burhan ud-Din Rabbani, Pir Sayyid Ahmad Gilani, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Mawlawi Jalal ud-Din Haqqani and Mullah Omar. Habib dissects his experience working with the international community and the Afghan Ministry of Defence, whilst retelling the harrowing details of his family being the target of a night raid by US forces, as well as being interrogated by the notorious NDS: Afghanistan's intelligence agency.Habib Wardak on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HabibWardak Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/Afgeye)

durée : 00:42:24 - Par les temps qui courent - par : Céline du Chéné, Jeanne Aléos, Romain de Becdelievre - L'architecte et constructeur Feda Wardak nous plonge dans son installation en bois visible à la forêt de Bondy à Clichy Sous-Bois / Montfermeil et intitulée "En dessous, la forêt". - réalisation : Jean-Christophe Francis, Lise-Marie Barré, Félicie Faugère - invités : Feda Wardak Architecte

durée : 00:42:24 - Par les temps qui courent - par : Céline du Chéné, Jeanne Aléos, Romain de Becdelievre - L'architecte et constructeur Feda Wardak nous plonge dans son installation en bois visible à la forêt de Bondy à Clichy Sous-Bois / Montfermeil et intitulée "En dessous, la forêt". - réalisation : Jean-Christophe Francis, Lise-Marie Barré, Félicie Faugère - invités : Feda Wardak Architecte

Today I would like to introduce to you: Zarifa Ghafari, an Afghan advocate, activist, politician, and entrepreneur. She’s known for her efforts to empower women in Afghanistan, and is currently one of the few female Afghan mayors and the youngest to be appointed when she was only 26. Zarifa is from the remote, ultra Conservative, Taliban supporting province Wardak. She was the only female applicant to be mayor out of over 130 hopefuls, and though she did not have any political experience, she was selected! On her first day in office, local men from her town were so outraged by her role that they harassed her and attacked her office. She was forced to flee that day, and her ability to actually take on her position was delayed by almost a year, but she was determined to return and stand up for herself. When she did take on her position, the men in the office staged a walkout, and even after that they continue to mock and ignore her. Gender roles are deeply engrained in this part of Afghanistan. But Zarifa is determined to make a difference and pave the way for other girls and women. Zarifa says she anticipates her own assassination… she’s been threatened by the Taliban, ISIL, and - even scarier - the land mafia, local criminal syndicates involved in the highly corrupt and lucrative land trade. She’s not yet even 30 years old. In her capacity as a trail-blazer and door-opener for a new generation of young women, she has helped to empower the women of Afghanistan. Zarifa may not be able to change the culture of toxic masculinity in her region overnight, but she continues to make a difference. She pushes through every obstacle in front of her - facing discrimination, bias, and threats to her life.  Zarifa has experienced more threats, violence, and hate than most of us can ever imagine. But no matter who we are or what our life experience is, bullies and haters will often try to stand in our way. We should all look to Zarifa as a role model in standing strong and never giving up. Who we are, and what we do, matters. And we might just be able to inspire others along the way! -------------- Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iconicwomenpodcast & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarahkheeter/ Shop Merchandise!: https://www.etsy.com/shop/CupcakesandApplejax

To mark the anniversary of the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890, I draw a straight line from this criminal act through My Lai, Nisour Square, and Trump's 2017 Yemen Raid to recent raids in Wardak Province, Afghanistan. More: Intercept Story on Wardak Raids --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/strangesound/message

On this episode of Global Voices, we chat with Mariam Wardak, an Afghan human rights activist and former Senior Advisor in the Office of the National Security Council in Kabul. Ms. Wardak is the founder of Her Afghanistan, an organization dedicated to the advancement of Afghan women. We discuss her fight to support Afghan women in fields of security, peace, foreign policy, and tech. (Credits: hosted by Alex Polk; produced by Priya Mehta; In Passage by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)).

06AUG2011: Late on the evening of 05AUG2011, two US CH-47 Chinook helicopters transported members from the US Army's 75th Ranger Regiment to a target location in Wardak Province, Afghanistan. After a successful insertion, both aircraft returned to base. As Rangers approached the compound, several possible enemy fighters fled, potentially including the main target of the attack. Helicopters and UAVs moved between supporting the Rangers on the target compound and the group of fleeing enemy fighters. Considering the target of the raid may have been in the group fleeing, the call was made to interdict with a second group of US forces. A group comprising members of the Naval Special Warfare Developmental Group and their supporting attachments, on standby at a nearby base, were selected to reinforce. Loaded up with 30 US service members, 7 Afghan commados, and a service Dog the CH-47, call sign Extortion 17 took off at 0223 on the 6th of August to reinforce the Rangers. Approaching the landing zone from the northwest, Extortion 17 descended to 100-150 ft off the ground and slowed to 50 mph. As they were doing so, a group of Taliban fighters stepped out from the cover of a compound and fired 2-3 RPGs at the approaching aircraft. One of the shots found its target and tore off the aft rotor assembly causing the helicopter to crash, killing all aboard. The event marks the United States' greatest single-incident loss of life in Operation Enduring Freedom.

06AUG11 - Extortion 17 - 31 Heroes - Never Forget ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ New episode up about what we're doing over in 31 Days for 31 Heroes -> Join the month long memorial event on Facebook!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Check out the link in bio for the episode and more info about how to learn more about these men and the event.  ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ On August 6, 2011, the men of Extortion 17 lost their lives on a mission in Wardak province, west of Kabul. A U.S. Boeing CH-47 Chinook military helicopter was shot down while transporting a quick reaction force attempting to reinforce an engaged unit of Army Rangers. The crash killed all 38 people on board – 25 American special operations personnel, five United States Army National Guard and Army Reserve crewmen, seven Afghan commandos, and one Afghan interpreter – as well as a U.S. military working dog. It is considered the worst loss of American lives in a single incident in the Afghanistan campaign. Please take a moment to read the names of these heroes. We will be reading one biography a day after each one mile ruck:  SGT Alexander J. Bennett SPC Spencer Duncan CWO Bryan J. Nichols CWO David R. Carter SSG Patrick D. Hamburger TSgt John W. Brown SSgt Andrew W. Harvell TSgt Daniel L. Zerbe PO1 (SEAL) Darrick C. Benson CPO (SEAL) Brian R. Bill PO1 (SEAL) Christopher G. Campbell PO1 Jared W. Day PO1 John Douangdara & Navy SEAL Dog “Bart” CPO (SEAL) John W. Faas CPO (SEAL) Kevin A. Houston Lt. Cmdr. (SEAL) Jonas B. Kelsall MCPO (SEAL) Louis J. Langlais CPO (SEAL) Matthew D. Mason CPO (SEAL) Stephen M. Mills CPO Nicholas H. Null PO1 (SEAL) Jesse D. Pittman SCPO (SEAL) Thomas A. Ratzlaff CPO (SEAL) Robert J. Reeves CPO (SEAL) Heath M. Robinson PO2 (SEAL) Nicholas P. Spehar PO1 Michael J. Strange PO1 (SEAL) Jon T. Tumilson PO1 (SEAL) Aaron C. Vaughn SCPO Kraig M. Vickers PO1 (SEAL) Jason R. Workman     Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVhyvoUc5vdFsHP9WQrZdqw   Contemplation #124 is live on your favorite podcast app, YouTube, and www.kristoflewis.com/podcast

Cette mini-série du podcast de The Funambulist — pour une fois en français — est une tentative de mise en valeur des récits de diasporas en France, ou bien de groupes sous domination coloniale française, dont les récits ne nous semblent pas assez relayés en France, y compris parfois dans le milieu militant. Notre espoir pour cette mini-série est de contribuer a notre petite échelle à l'expansion de nos imaginaires politiques, ainsi qu'au développement de solidarités entre groupes qui, d'une manière ou d'une autre, luttent contre les structures racistes et colonialistes françaises. Feda Wardak est architecte-constructeur ainsi que chercheur indépendant. Il est le directeur de la plateforme Aman Iwan, une plateforme transdisciplinaire et collaborative, s'intéressant aux problématiques de territoires et de populations souvent délaissés par les pouvoirs publics, et qui oriente son travail vers l'édition, l'architecture et la construction. https://thefunambulist.net/podcast/diasporas-imaginaire-des-luttes-une-mini-serie-en-francais

Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme, interviews Mayor Zarifa Ghafari, first female mayor of Maidan Shahr, capital city of a province in Afghanistan and voted as one of the BBC 100 Women of 2019. Andrea Macdonald comments: The current war in Afghanistan began with the United States invasion on the 7th October 2001. It has cost the USA1 trillion dollars and the world, including Afghanistan, over 150,000 lives. The Washington Post’s ‘Afghanistan Papers’ is the latest contribution to a growing argument over whether the conflict, or any of the ‘forever wars’, was worth the cost. Mayor Zarifa Ghafari: Here, we talk to Mayor Zarifa Ghafari, a brave woman who argues for continued international presence in "Afghanistan's international war" and states how at both a local and international level we can all make a difference. Only 26 years old, Mayor Zarifa Ghafari has an MA in Economics from the University of Punjab and has had to fight for everything that she has achieved. As well as carrying out her role as the first female mayor of Maidan Shahr, capital city of a province in Afghanistan, she is the founder of Peghla radio stationand of NGO "APAW" Assistance and Promotion of Afghan Women. In this ideaXme interview we talk of the daily challenges that both she and her country face. Awaiting her assassination: Mayor Zarifa Ghafari told the New York Times in October 2019 that she awaits her assassination.Threats to her security are centred on the work she carries out as a female mayor in a war-zone. She remains adamant: "I am in love with my job!". Ghafari took up her position as first female mayor of Maidan Shahr, capital of Maidan Wardak province Afghanistan, 10 months ago. She explains to ideaXme why the Afghanistan war is an international war that requires a continued international presence in Afghanistan. She talks of her work to promote women's rights and education, the numerous projects for which she has been responsible in her 10 months so far as mayor. Ghafari also talks of her journey to becoming mayor and the hurdles she faced in taking up the position. Moreover, she explains why she urgently needs security assistance to continue the work she does. Below, read part of interview transcript. The full transcript www.radioideaxme.com includes details of who Mayor Zafari would like to meet as well as who has helped her the most to carry out her work and further her career. Moving the human story forward in Afghanistan and the world. Andrea Macdonald, founder ideaXme: Hello. Who are you? Zarifa Ghafari, Mayor of Maidan Shahr, Afghanistan: This is Zarifa Ghafari from Afghanistan, mayor of the Wardak Province. Working in a war zone: Andrea Macdonald, founder ideaXme: Your job is extremely dangerous. It is necessary as a woman, as anyone, to be very brave to do what you do. Could you talk about your job? Zarifa Ghafari, Mayor of Maidan Shahr, Afghanistan: My job is full of problems for me but it's interesting, amazing and I love it because I am the first female mayor for my province of Wardak. It is still not safe. It is a war zone province. I am a female mayor of a province where women don’t have rights. Most women are still deprived of education rights and humanitarian rights. Even walking outside is difficult. Zarifa Ghafari, Mayor of Maidan Shahr, Afghanistan: I am the mayor of a province where people still don't believe women should take part in society. So, I’m really proud of my job but it’s not safe. It is really dangerous and full of problems - social, political, cultural and security problems. But I’m really proud of my job. I roam around the city and get involved with a big group of men who are not so pleased to have a female mayor. I'm in love with my job. Andrea Macdonald, founder ideaXme: You were appointed in 2018, but you weren't allowed to take up the role immediately. Can you talk about that? The right to do my job as Mayor of Wardak: Zarifa Ghafari, Mayor of Maidan Shahr, Afghanistan: Yes, for nine months I wasn't allowed to join my office. It was really tough and full of problems. I went through a competitive process; I have a degree. But some groups of men, the land mafia and two people involved with the government were making problems for me because they didn’t want to accept a female mayor. I never lost my hope. I just kept fighting for it and went through a long process of waiting. Finally, after nine months it was over, and I became a part of my office. It was great. For the full transcript please visit www.radioideaxme.com. ideaXme is a global podcast also on 10 audio platforms. You can also find this interview in video format on our YouTube channel. Follow ideaXme on Twitter @ideaxm and on Instagram @ideaxme. ideaXme is a global movement to inspire universal curiosity and participation in the ideas that shape our world. Mission: Move the human story forward!™

Allyship + Healing in the wake of New Zealand (ft. Madinah Wardak) by Café con Chisme

Miłość i szacunek. W jaki sposób rozwijać w sobie te dwie wartości by stawać się lepszym ojcem?Na to pytanie próbowali znaleźć odoowiedź mężczyźni zgromadzeni na X Międzynarodowym Forum Tato.Net, które odbyło się 17 listopada 2018 roku w Warszawie. Biorąc udział w tym licznym (ponad 550 uczestników) wydarzeniu, postanowiłem spytać prelegentów o ich podejście do miłości i szacunku w ojcostwie i dordze do stawania się coraz lepszy tatą.Wszystkie linki do miejsc wymienionych w nagraniu oraz prezent do pobrania znajdziesz na https://www.ojcowskastronamocy.pl/0211:32 Dariusz Cupiał5:01 Kazimierz Korab10:31 Krzysztof Filarski14:37 Grzegorz Grochowski17:48 Paweł Sopkowski27:10 Shane Barkley - po angielsku29:16 Shane Barkley - polskie tłumaczenie31:42 Janusz Wardak35:35 Joaquin Molina - po hiszpańsku38:49 Joaquin Molina - polskie tłumaczenieZobacz pozostałe odsłony Ojcowskiej Strony MocyFB: https://www.facebook.com/OjcowskaStronaMocyBlog: https://www.ojcowskastronamocy.plMinuTaty: https://www.ojcowskastronamocy.pl/minutatyŻyczę Ci, byś każdego dnia stawał sie lepszym ojcem i lepszym człowiekiem oraz byś zawsze powodował uśmiech na twarzach swoich dzieci.ZapraszamJarek Kania

Miłość i szacunek. W jaki sposób rozwijać w sobie te dwie wartości by stawać się lepszym ojcem?Na to pytanie próbowali znaleźć odoowiedź mężczyźni zgromadzeni na X Międzynarodowym Forum Tato.Net, które odbyło się 17 listopada 2018 roku w Warszawie. Biorąc udział w tym licznym (ponad 550 uczestników) wydarzeniu, postanowiłem spytać prelegentów o ich podejście do miłości i szacunku w ojcostwie i dordze do stawania się coraz lepszy tatą.Wszystkie linki do miejsc wymienionych w nagraniu oraz prezent do pobrania znajdziesz na https://www.ojcowskastronamocy.pl/0211:32 Dariusz Cupiał5:01 Kazimierz Korab10:31 Krzysztof Filarski14:37 Grzegorz Grochowski17:48 Paweł Sopkowski27:10 Shane Barkley - po angielsku29:16 Shane Barkley - polskie tłumaczenie31:42 Janusz Wardak35:35 Joaquin Molina - po hiszpańsku38:49 Joaquin Molina - polskie tłumaczenieZobacz pozostałe odsłony Ojcowskiej Strony MocyFB: https://www.facebook.com/OjcowskaStronaMocyBlog: https://www.ojcowskastronamocy.plMinuTaty: https://www.ojcowskastronamocy.pl/minutatyŻyczę Ci, byś każdego dnia stawał sie lepszym ojcem i lepszym człowiekiem oraz byś zawsze powodował uśmiech na twarzach swoich dzieci.ZapraszamJarek Kania

Captain Bobbie Ragsdale is an armor officer in the US Army and served in the 10th Mountain Division, deploying to Baghdad, Iraq as a Scout Platoon Leader. At the deployment’s completion in 2009, he returned to Ft. Polk where he served as a Troop Executive Officer and Assistant Operations Officer before deploying again to Wardak, Afghanistan in 2010. While in Afghanistan, he served simultaneously as TF Slugger’s Information Operations Officer, Civil-Military Operations Officer, and lead non-lethal planner. He led Regional Command (East)’s Afghan Peace and Reintegration Program in Wardak Province. CPT Ragsdale was then assigned to the Joint Readiness Training Center as a Platoon Observer Coach Trainer and Troop Commander. He completed his Master in Public Administration degree at Harvard’s Kennedy School in May, 2016. He is currently assigned to Camp Shelby, Mississippi as a company senior observer, coach, trainer with First Army.

Captain Bobbie Ragsdale is an armor officer in the US Army and served in the 10th Mountain Division, deploying to Baghdad, Iraq as a Scout Platoon Leader. At the deployment’s completion in 2009, he returned to Ft. Polk where he served as a Troop Executive Officer and Assistant Operations Officer before deploying again to Wardak, Afghanistan in 2010. While in Afghanistan, he served simultaneously as TF Slugger’s Information Operations Officer, Civil-Military Operations Officer, and lead non-lethal planner. He led Regional Command (East)’s Afghan Peace and Reintegration Program in Wardak Province. CPT Ragsdale was then assigned to the Joint Readiness Training Center as a Platoon Observer Coach Trainer and Troop Commander. He completed his Master in Public Administration degree at Harvard’s Kennedy School in May, 2016. He is currently assigned to Camp Shelby, Mississippi as a company senior observer, coach, trainer with First Army.

Kimberly Jung, CEO and Co-Founder of Rumi Spice, shares her inspiring story of seizing a business opportunity in Afghanistan that also addressed social issues. She realized her military training and her business school knowledge could be used to help Afghan farmers find economic success, and to provide opportunities for Afghan women to excel economically while retaining their culture. Kimberly exemplifies the dedication required, and rare feat, to create a market.     Key Takeaways [2:29] Kimberly describes her experience entering West Point. Her immigrant parents had wanted her to go to an Ivy League school but Kimberly’s West Point perspective changed their hearts. [5:13] Kimberly was deployed as a Platoon Leader in Afghanistan when she met Emily Miller. When they ended their tours, they observed that the future of Afghanistan would not be reached through force but through the economic empowerment of business. [6:21] Kimberly and Emily both went to business schools. Another veteran told them about an Afghan farmer with no market for his saffron. Kimberly decided to start a business partnership with Afghan farmers to import saffron. She invited a business advisor to Afghanistan and met with 12 Pashto farmers. Instead of body armor and weapons, she wore a scarf. [8:11] The farmers were growing some of the best saffron in the world but they had no resources for food safety, packaging, marketing, selling, or distributing the crop. 80% of Afghans are farmers. [10:10] Afghan women are vital to the saffron industry. They traditionally prepared the flowers at home. Kimberly explains how renting appropriate facilities with the right equipment improved food safety and how providing a safe workplace with direct wages improved women’s economic standing. [13:43] Most problems are economic until one has met basic needs. Kimberly describes how The Plant, in the Southside of Chicago, is becoming a self-sustaining, beautiful community, bringing together the Southside and the Northside over food. Rumi’s warehouse is in The Plant.[17:23] Trust is earned in Afghanistan by building a reputation over time. The reputation of Kimberly’s Afghan partners allowed Rumi to become the largest private employer of Afghan women, assuring them a safe place to work and allowing them to carry on in their culture and customs, and it also preserves the women’s reputations. Afghan women want economic opportunities, sewing machines, and medical supplies to care for their families.[24:18] A partnership like Rumi can’t be run as a side business. Either you’re all in, or you’re not in at all. Entrepreneurism is not for people with other priorities. Strategy is all about setting priorities. You can have it all, just not all at once. Kimberly credits West Point and her Army leadership experience with giving her the resilience and ability to make choices that prepared her to run Rumi as an entrepreneur. [28:52] Kimberly and Emily faced catastrophic failure when their loan got pulled back. They had no way to pay the farmers. They worked through it. Kimberly is learning how to listen to the people who work for Rumi, accept their input, and check her ego.   Website: RumiSpice.com Saffron: RumiSpice.com/saffron-products Twitter: @Rumi_Spice Facebook: RumiSpiceCo   Quotable Quotes   We felt the way to a sustainable future for Afghanistan was not through force but through economic empowerment.   What will you do with your one wild and precious life?   Drop by drop a river is made. — Dari saying   You cannot say you’re dedicated to the future of Afghanistan and these farmers if you’re going to have another job.   “This is not Americans managing things in Afghanistan. This is an American partnership with our Afghan partners.”   Bio Kimberly Jung is CEO and co-founder of Rumi. Since leaving the military, Kim and her co-founders feel there is unfinished business to support Afghanistan and its people, so they founded Rumi to work directly with Afghan farmers to import exceptionally high-quality saffron in a for-profit enterprise in partnership with the farmers. In Afghanistan, Rumi has hired 384 Afghan women, organized three processing facilities, and has over 90 farmers in their network. Rumi saffron now graces the tables and kitchens of Michelin and Relais & Chateaux establishments across the world.   Prior to her civilian ventures, Kim was an Engineer Officer who led a route clearance platoon in the Wardak and Ghazni provinces of Afghanistan in 2010-2011. She also served with provincial reconstruction teams as a female engagement team member to help empower Afghan village women.   She holds a Professional Engineering license in Mechanical Engineering from the State of California, and she graduated with her MBA from Harvard in 2015. She earned her Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from the U.S. Military Academy in 2008.

It's a short but risky journey from Kabul to the centre of neighbouring Wardak province - much of which is under Taliban control. BBC Afghan's Auliya Atrafi looked beyond conflict on his recent reporting trip - to the university local people built for themselves, and new power from an old hydro station. Image: Landscape in Chak Valley, Wardak Province, Afghanistan Credit: BBC

My first guest on the Tami Jackson Show* tonight be Captain Roger Hill. Captain Roger Hill is a West Point graduate, combat veteran and Bronze Star recipient who had dreamed of being a soldier since he was six years old. In 2007, Hill takes command of Dog Company, an 89-man unit of the famed 101st Airborne. The unit is full of rough-and-tumble men who are brilliant in combat but undisciplined at home. Through tough love, Hill and his First Sergeant, an old-school former drill instructor named Tommy Scott, turn the company into the top performers in the battalion. In 2008, Hill and Scott lead Dog Company into combat in Wardak, the most violent province in eastern Afghanistan. For six months, the unit faces off against the Taliban. They survive ambushes, rocket fire and IEDs almost daily, and the number of wounded cuts into Hill's unit by a third. Meanwhile, Hill himself battles his own battalion commander, a charismatic but archly political man who threatens to relieve Hill at every turn. After two Dog Company soldiers die in combat, Hill, Scott and a counterintelligence team learn the reason for the mounting casualties: A dozen Taliban spies posing as local national workers have infiltrated their base. After he captures the spies, Hill is abandoned by his higher command, setting off a ticking clock: he has just 96 hours to either release the spies and expose Dog Company to further casualties — or defy the Army's rules on prisoner treatment. In a true story that weaves the combat action of Band of Brothers with the military courtroom drama of A Few Good Men, Hill and Scott must ultimately choose: Sacrifice their careers or sacrifice their men. Capt. Hill and Lynn Vincent detail the true story in a new book, sure to be a best seller, Dog Company: A True Story of American Soldiers Abandoned by Their High Command. Listen as Capt. Hill and I discuss how current Rules of Engagement (ROE) are politically motivated and represent a grave danger to troops on the ground. This segment is guaranteed to make every patriot steaming mad! ******************* In the second 1/2 hour I will be joined by Christiana Holcomb. Christiana Holcomb, Esq., serves as legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, where she is an invaluable member of the Center for Christian Ministries. Since joining ADF in 2012, Holcomb has worked to protect the freedom of churches, Christian schools, and Christian ministries to freely exercise their faith without government interference. She also advocates for these issues as an Alliance Defending Freedom Regional Legal Academy faculty member and as a conference speaker throughout the country. Holcomb earned her J.D. at Oak Brook College, graduating summa cum laude in 2010. She also completed the Alliance Defending Freedom leadership development program to become a Blackstone Fellow in 2010. She is admitted to the bar in California and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. Christiana will be Erik Stanley's Deputy on the “The Playground Case,” the biggest case left on the SCOTUS docket, which will be heard on Wednesday, April 19. Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Pauley, dubbed “The Playground Case.” ABC called it “the most anticipated case in the April sitting.” Fox further described it as “arguably the biggest church-state case in recent memory.” Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Pauley involves a Lutheran preschool in Columbia, Missouri that was denied state funds to improve its public playground due to a law prohibiting government aid to religious schools. This case needs to be watched particularly closely because it will be the barometer for years worth of rulings striking at the heart of America's culture and political war. In fact, on Monday, April 17, just two days before "The Playground Case," the Supreme Court "DISTRIBUTED for Conference" the extremely controversial Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission for possible hearing later this fall. Behind the case representing Trinity Lutheran (and Masterpiece Cakeshop) is Erik Stanley of Alliance Defending Freedom. This will be such a timely discussion: Eric Stanley, Christiana Holcomb, and the rest of the ADF legal team have been working tirelessly on this case, scheduled on the SCOTUS docket for tomorrow morning, Wednesday, April 19. And now that the High Court is at full complement with newly sworn in Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Americans will eagerly await the court's opinion. Follow Capt. Roger Hill on Twitter at @CPTRogerHill, Dog Company Book at @DogCompanyBook, Christiana Holcomb at @ChristianaADF, and me at @tamij AND tweet your questions/comments during the show using hashtag #tjrs. *Sponsored by Rentacomputer, your premier source for Server Rentals , by ROBAR® Guns, a True Custom firearms and firearms finishing shop located in Phoenix, AZ, and found online at RobarGuns.com, and by Dispatches, your site for the BEST conservative resources to fight and win the information war.

Russ Fine, host of Sons of Lincoln Live had the priviledge to sit down with Captain Roger Hill. Captain Hill is author of the book "Dog Company: A True Story of American Soldiers Abandoned by Their High Command" This very system ambushed Captain Roger Hill and his men.Hill, a West Point grad and decorated combat veteran, was a rising young officer who had always followed the letter of the military law. In 2007, Hill got his dream job: infantry commander in the storied 101st Airborne. His new unit, Dog Company, 1-506th, had just returned stateside from the hell of Ramadi. The men were brilliant in combat but unpolished at home, where paperwork and inspections filled their days.With tough love, Hill and his First Sergeant, an old-school former drill instructor named Tommy Scott, turned the company into the top performers in the battalion.Hill and Scott then led Dog Company into combat in Afghanistan, where a third of their men became battlefield casualties after just six months. Meanwhile, Hill found himself at war with his own battalion commander, a charismatic but difficult man who threatened to relieve Hill at every turn.After two of his men died on a routine patrol, Hill and a counterintelligence team busted a dozen enemy infiltrators on their base in the violent province of Wardak. Abandoned by his high command, Hill suddenly faced an excruciating choice: follow Army rules the way he always had, or damn the rules to his own destruction and protect the men he'd grown to love.Purchase his book here: https://www.amazon.com/Dog-Company-American-Soldiers-Abandoned/dp/1455516244

This show is dedicated to EXTORTION 17:  On 6 August 2011, a U.S. Boeing CH-47 Chinook military helicopter, call sign Extortion 17, was shot down while transporting a quick reaction force attempting to reinforce an engaged unit of Army Rangers in Wardak province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan. The resulting crash killed all 38 people on board—25 American special operations personnel, five United States Army National Guard and Army Reserve crewmen, seven Afghan commandos, and one Afghan interpreter—as well as a U.S. military working dog. CW4 David R. Carter, CW2 Bryan J. Nichols, SPC Alexander J. Bennett, SGT Patrick D. Hamburger, SPC Spencer C. Duncan USN ST6: PO1 Darrik C. Benson, CPO Brian R. Bill, PO1 Christopher G. Campbell, MA1 John Douangdara, ST6 K-9 killed, CPO John W. Faas, PO1 Kevin A. Houston, LCDR Jonas B. Kelsall, MCPO Louis J. Langlais, CPO Matthew D. Mason, CPO Stephen M. Mills, PO1 Jesse D. Pittman, SCPO Thomas A. Ratzlaff, CPO Robert J. Reeves, CPO Heath M. Robinson, PO2 Nicholas P. Spehar, PO1 Jon T. Tumilson, PO1 Aaron C. Vaughn, PO1 Jason R. Workman USN: PO1 Jared W. Day, CPO Nicholas H. Null, PO1 Michael J. Strange, SCPO Kraig M. Vickers USAF: TSGT John W. Brown, SSGT Andrew W. Harvell, TSGT Daniel L. Zerbe Defending the Republic with Annie "The Radio Chick" and "Cool" Mike is an ongoing discussion of recent events, issues and the upcoming elections. Special Guest: L. Todd Wood, Special Operations Helicopter Pilot, Air Force Captain, investment banker and best selling author, joins us to discuss issues of the day. It's a battle of Conservative values and principles in defense of our Republic! You never know what we'll talk about: conservative, constitution, freedom, liberty, obama, tea party, gun control, republican, libertarian, stop white guilt, word

This show is dedicated to EXTORTION 17:  On 6 August 2011, a U.S. Boeing CH-47 Chinook military helicopter, call sign Extortion 17, was shot down while transporting a quick reaction force attempting to reinforce an engaged unit of Army Rangers in Wardak province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan. The resulting crash killed all 38 people on board—25 American special operations personnel, five United States Army National Guard and Army Reserve crewmen, seven Afghan commandos, and one Afghan interpreter—as well as a U.S. military working dog.CW4 David R. Carter, CW2 Bryan J. Nichols, SPC Alexander J. Bennett, SGT Patrick D. Hamburger, SPC Spencer C. DuncanUSN ST6: PO1 Darrik C. Benson, CPO Brian R. Bill, PO1 Christopher G. Campbell, MA1 John Douangdara, ST6 K-9 killed, CPO John W. Faas, PO1 Kevin A. Houston, LCDR Jonas B. Kelsall, MCPO Louis J. Langlais, CPO Matthew D. Mason, CPO Stephen M. Mills, PO1 Jesse D. Pittman, SCPO Thomas A. Ratzlaff, CPO Robert J. Reeves, CPO Heath M. Robinson, PO2 Nicholas P. Spehar, PO1 Jon T. Tumilson, PO1 Aaron C. Vaughn, PO1 Jason R. WorkmanUSN: PO1 Jared W. Day, CPO Nicholas H. Null, PO1 Michael J. Strange, SCPO Kraig M. VickersUSAF: TSGT John W. Brown, SSGT Andrew W. Harvell, TSGT Daniel L. ZerbeDefending the Republic with Annie "The Radio Chick" and "Cool" Mike is an ongoing discussion of recent events, issues and the upcoming elections.Special Guest: L. Todd Wood, Special Operations Helicopter Pilot, Air Force Captain, investment banker and best selling author, joins us to discuss issues of the day.It's a battle of Conservative values and principles in defense of our Republic!You never know what we'll talk about: conservative, constitution, freedom, liberty, obama, tea party, gun control, republican, libertarian, stop white guilt, word

This show is dedicated to: Chief Warrant Officer 2 Michael S. Duskin, 42, of Orange Park, Fla., died Tuesday, October 23, 2012,  from wounds suffered in Wardak province.   Defending the Republic with Annie "The Radio Chick" and "Cool" Mike is an ongoing discussion of recent events, issues and the upcoming elections. Special Guest: Elizabeth Letchworth.  Letchworth worked in the U.S. Senate for 26 years, serving as Secretary of the Senate from 1995-2001. Fueled by her passion for politics, she founded Gradegov.com, a site that empowers citizens to voice their opinions on elected officials. On her BTR show, Elizabeth provides updated reviews of members of Congress, as well as her inside scoop on Congress in general and other political issues. It's a battle of Conservative values and principles in defense of our Republic! You never know what we'll talk about: conservative, constitution, freedom, liberty, obama, tea party, gun control, republican, libertarian, stop white guilt, word

Afghan Crisis Response Unit (CRU) teams accompanied by ISAF Special Operations Forces (SOF) Mentors board Chinook helicopters for a night operation in Wardak province to clear compounds and detain 9 suspects in kidnapping and murder of Afghan interpreter. Teaser: Afghan Commandos with ISAF mentors successfully pick up suspects in remote part of Wardak Province. Produced by Jeff Holden.

Today's show is dedicated to: Army PFC. Adam C. Ross, 19, of Lyman, SC was killed in Afghanistan, July 24, 2012.  The Department of Defense issued a statement Wednesday saying Ross was killed Tuesday in Wardak province, “of wounds suffered when he encountered small arms fire.” HOT GUEST! Matthew Boyle of the Daily Caller Matthew Boyle is a reporter at The Daily Caller. He studied journalism at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida, where he worked as an editor at the school's newspaper, The Gargoyle. Read more: http://dailycaller.com/author/mattboyle/#ixzz228ldxUYB   Can You Hear Us NOW? Listen in on YouTube to this song! We NEVER know what will happen or who will call in. Lets have FUN! Obamacare, Health Care, Military, Veterans, Tea Party, Budget, 2012, Elections, Conservative, Guns, NRA, Obama, Taxes, Illegal Immigration

On this episode, Gen. David Petraeus visits the Wardak province as he travels throughout Afghanistan, the U.S. military responds to the crisis in Pakistan, fourteen countries work together to ensure stability throughout the Pacific, U.S. Third Army takes on the challenge of moving equipment from Iraq to Afghanistan, and Marines incorporate renewable energy into their operations. Presented in anamorphic 16:9 format.

Package about how how security in Wardak Province has improved over the past year. Karl W. Eikenberry, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, speaks to a crowd of Afghan civilians and coalition forces, Aug. 12, 2010 during a shura in Wardak Province with Gen. David Petraeus and the governor of Wardak. The Taliban fires an RPG at the meeting to try to disrupt it. The shura continued. Sound bite includes Gen. David Petraeus. Hosted by Staff Sgt. Jeremy Vought. Also available in High Definition