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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Letters threaten racial violence, citing Dylann Roof
Threats made against synagogues. Via Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership Facebook page
Synagogues are accustomed to hiring off duty police for security -- it's been standard for Friday and Saturday services and during Hebrew school since 9/11.
[CharlestonCityPaper] As many as eight anonymous letters have been reported to the Charleston Police Department over the past week threatening violent attacks, with one letter specifically referencing Dylann Roof and the mass shooting that occurred at Emanuel AME Church last year.

“Every one of the 9 lives sacrificed by his greatness, Mr. Dylann S. Roof, is one less I will need to sacrifice,” read one handwritten note delivered to a downtown hotel last week, according to a report filed by the Charleston Police Department. Below the message, a pistol was drawn.

With jury selection for Roof’s federal trial set to begin Monday, occurring just across the street from the trial of former North Charleston officer Michael Slager, local law enforcement agencies have maintained an obvious police presence in the area surrounding the two downtown courthouses. While no specific threats have been announced to the public, law enforcement officials have asked citizens to remain vigilant and report any suspicious or threatening activity they might see during the two high-profile trials.

Last week, one anonymous letter received by another downtown hotel read, “Now here’s my plan: Travel to Charleston. Stay in a hotel. Order weapon to send to hotel. Do what needs to be done.”

A majority of the letters reported were received by hotels in downtown Charleston, and several specifically mention threats toward Muslim and Jewish people. According to reports filed by Charleston police, the messages are all handwritten and some appear to have been sent from outside the country, sharing similar postage stamps bearing an image of Queen Elizabeth and a blue background.
From abroad about African Methodists, Muslims and Jews? Curious.
“Just a quick note to self,” begins one message. “Get Milk and bread. Drop off Kids. Break into synagogue, slaughter all Filth. Have a whisky. Enjoy a good movie.”

Another letter addressed to a downtown hotel threatened that “Bloodshed is coming,” and added that “Hitler never went far enough. When I kill Jews, there are no exceptions.”
Hitler allied with Muslims in Europe and the Middle East. The writer seems interestingly ignorant.
The author of the threatening messages cites the belief that he or she is doing “God’s work” in a separate letter reported within days of the others. Below that message, there was an image of an upside down cross.

While almost all of the letters sent to hotels within Charleston, James Island County Park also received a threatening handwritten letter, stating, “Who will I pay a large sum of money to carry out a massacre this time? Certainly a great investment if only for the entertainment purpose.”
Posted by: badanov || 11/10/2016 00:09 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just the kind of (assumed a) guy I'd like to spend an afternoon watching - assuming he was the "guest of honor" at the gallows.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 11/10/2016 16:05 Comments || Top||


5 shot near Seattle anti-Trump protests
How are those universal background checks working out for ya?
[DailyMail] A gunman opened fire in downtown Seattle on Wednesday night following an argument and wounded five people, one man critically, not far from protests over the surprise victory of Republican Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election.

The shooting did not appear to be related to the anti-Trump demonstrations but instead stemmed from 'some type of personal argument', Robert Merner, assistant chief of the Seattle Police Department, told reporters.

'It appears that some type of argument took place. This individual began to walk away from the crowd, then turned and fired into the crowd,' Merner said.

He said the suspect then fled from the area on foot and remained at large.
More at the link
Update at 4:30 a.m. ET:
Police were still searching for a male gunman.
Posted by: badanov || 11/10/2016 23:57 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
The shooting did not appear to be related to the anti-Trump demonstrations

So, why was it even mentioned? Just like sending the thugs to the Trump rallies and then blaming Trump for inciting the subsequent violence.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/10/2016 7:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Ignore, if you please, criminality,
Though biblical, in the locality
Of recent upwellings
Of rage at police killings,
Or unexplained infant mortality.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 11/10/2016 10:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Did Any Lives Matter, IYKWIMAITYD?
Posted by: Frank G || 11/10/2016 16:19 Comments || Top||


FAKE: FBI Agent Suspected In Hillary Email Leaks Found Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide
Snip. Determined by various Rantburgers to be from a fake news site.

-- trailing wife at 4:10 p.m. ET
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 11/10/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  People who commit suicide don't usually set the house on fire to hide evidence.
Posted by: phil_b || 11/10/2016 2:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Put this in the file next to the Seth Rich file for further investigation before it goes too cold.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/10/2016 8:24 Comments || Top||

#3  This is fake news...not true.
Posted by: Tennessee || 11/10/2016 9:20 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm expecting more 'unfortunate' incidents like this in the weeks/months to come.

Somebody around here had an actual link to the body count running total, but can't seem to find anything other than WND or InfoWar related crap. on google
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/10/2016 9:21 Comments || Top||

#5  Fake but accurate, Tennessee?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/10/2016 9:23 Comments || Top||

#6  Mullah - an aspiring "Lurid Crime Stories" fiction writer is on the loose I guess.
Posted by: Tennessee || 11/10/2016 9:29 Comments || Top||

#7  Linked article links back to the Denver Guardian.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 11/10/2016 9:30 Comments || Top||

#8  Denver Grauniad is a fake webshite
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/10/2016 10:21 Comments || Top||

#9  If it's fake, delete the whole post.
Posted by: KBK || 11/10/2016 11:23 Comments || Top||

#10  You mean fake as in not true? I don't get it.
Posted by: jpal || 11/10/2016 11:44 Comments || Top||

#11  Snipped. We don't delete after there are comments, and the link is still there for anyone who wants to be amused.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/10/2016 16:15 Comments || Top||

#12  Oh crap. Now I have this to live down.........
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 11/10/2016 19:36 Comments || Top||

#13  Rantburg is a team project. This is one of the things this team is very good at, dear Blossom Unains5562. You aren't the first to get caught this way, and you assuredly won't be the last, to include those of the moderators who didn't catch it before publishing. You'll be more careful next time.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/10/2016 23:04 Comments || Top||

#14  Rantburg is a team project. This is one of the things this team is very good at, dear Blossom Unains5562. You aren't the first to get caught this way, and you assuredly won't be the last, to include those of the moderators who didn't catch it before publishing. You'll be more careful next time.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/10/2016 23:04 Comments || Top||

#15  What she said - twice.
Posted by: Pappy || 11/10/2016 23:08 Comments || Top||

#16  the clinton cronies are gonna start looking like an episode from the sopranos
Posted by: 746 || 11/10/2016 23:53 Comments || Top||

#17  Let s/he who has never been fooled before throw the first stone. ;-)
Posted by: gorb || 11/10/2016 23:53 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Miley Cyrus Cries Over Trump Win
If you enjoyed The Political Insider's picture mashup of liberals in a complete and utter tear-filled mess over Hillary Clinton losing was a blast, then we've got a treat for you.

The best of both worlds, so to speak.

Another video of a liberal crying ‐ except this time it's obnoxious celebrity, Miley Cyrus.

Cyrus, of Hannah Montana fame, previously said she would "move out da country" if Trump, whom she called a "f*cking nightmare," were to win the election.

The combined thoughts of Hillary losing her bid, Trump serving as President, and having to pack and drive all the way to Canada proved to be too much for the sensitive Cyrus.

Miley Cyrus took to Twitter on Wednesday, November 9, to share an emotional video of herself breaking down in tears as she addressed Hillary Clinton's loss to Donald Trump in this year's presidential election.

"So, probably like most people -- well, maybe not, because given the result -- maybe I really am different and maybe a lot of people that I'm surrounded by think with open minds and open hearts like I do," Cyrus -- a proponent of both Clinton, 70, and Bernie Sanders -- shared with her followers, as seen in the clip below. "And I do want to say that I've been very vocal for my support for everyone besides Donald Trump. Heavily supported Bernie. Heavily supported Hillary. And I still think that in her lifetime she deserves to be the first female president, and that's what makes me so sad."
Posted by: Elmonter Angeash9821 || 11/10/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Poor little slut.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/10/2016 6:32 Comments || Top||

#2  So, Miley, when are you moving to Canada?

(The truth is - they never move - it's all bullshit.)
Posted by: Raj || 11/10/2016 9:55 Comments || Top||

#3  If you going to have her pics, you should have a warning in the title.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/10/2016 10:30 Comments || Top||

#4  WARNING: There are Miley Cyrus pics in this post.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2016 10:32 Comments || Top||

#5  She's an interesting case. Technically beautiful by most standards but she actively tries to make herself unappealing with clothes/hair/tongue/and what she says.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/10/2016 11:04 Comments || Top||

#6  Every time I see her, I keep having the feeling she has a constant low grade fever.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/10/2016 11:35 Comments || Top||

#7  Cry more, you slag.
Posted by: charger || 11/10/2016 18:58 Comments || Top||

#8  Yeah, she's a real winner. Mom and Dad must be so proud.:

Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 11/10/2016 19:42 Comments || Top||

#9  Her Dad has a couple things to say about her.

Kind of feel sorry for him, but he let her go on way past the point of no return, so just 'kind of'.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/10/2016 21:27 Comments || Top||

#10  If Websters ever needs a picture to go beside the word 'slut' in the dictionary...

Why does anyone care what she thinks?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/10/2016 23:53 Comments || Top||


Military Jets Collide Mid-Air Over Ocean Off San Diego
Two Marine Lawn Darts F/A-18's on a training mission. Both pilots safe.
Posted by: Steve White || 11/10/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Trump did it
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/10/2016 6:54 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/10/2016 10:38 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
RT: Abandon ship: Global immigration websites report post-election surge in US traffic
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/10/2016 11:41 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oh good! Won't be the celebrities... but good trucking riddance anyway.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/10/2016 15:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Aw, don't worry about it snowflakes. Just show up at their doorstep. They'll take you in, no questions.

Just for practice, give it a shot at, say, a Central American country of your choice. Drop in at a hospital with no papers - claim you are a Citizen of the World (TM) - they'll understand.

Don't forget to "document" it on your smartphone!
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 11/10/2016 16:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Most of these people have no idea just how difficult immigration, that is legal immigration, can be.
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 11/10/2016 20:21 Comments || Top||


Happy Birthday Marines! What makes the Corps great ‐ in 10 awesome images
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/10/2016 11:07 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Almost time for one on the chair and the other on the table.
Posted by: Shipman || 11/10/2016 16:34 Comments || Top||


"People have to die" - Post-election protests
Thousands of protesters took to the streets several major urban centers in America Wednesday night to protest the results of the presidential election.

Chants of "Not My President" echoed off skyscrapers in New York, Los Angeles, Oakland, Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington DC – all cities easily carried by Democrat Hillary Clinton on Tuesday.

CNN cameras caught one protester named Lily in Los Angeles who proclaimed:

"If we don't fight, who is going to fight for us? People had to die for your freedom where we're at today. We can't just do rallies, we have to fight back. There will be casualties on both sides. There will be, because people have to die to make a change in this world. Trump, enough with your racism. Stop splitting families. Don't split my family."


These kind of vitriolic and violent protests in the streets over the result of a presidential election are rather unprecedented in America, but given the over-the-top rhetoric drummed up y Hillary Clinton and her allies over the past several months, it's somewhat understandable, isn't it?

Think about it for a minute. The Clinton campaign had an assembly of this country's elites from every possible institution lined up on her side. We have been inundated with out political elites, financial elites, academic elites, entertainment elites and media elites telling us that Donald Trump is basically Hitler. And millions of people believed them.

If you woke up Wednesday morning and you learned that a "basket of deplorables" just elected a racist, fascist dictator to lead your country, you'd probably be pretty upset about it.

For all of the commentary over the past several months about the Trump campaign's "violent, dangerous and un-American" rhetoric, there was barely any thought given to the dangerous outcome related to the Democrats' dire warnings about a Trump victory.

Yet another failure of the mainstream media during this historic campaign season.

Predictions I made after the primaries were, "If Hillary wins, we'll have civil war. If Trump wins, we will have massive domestic disturbances and violence."

The left and the MSM have created these brownshirts and have shown that laws are not to be followed. These folks WILL strike out in their little 3yo rages and unfortunately, innocent people will be hurt and killed.

Just one warning to these snowflakes. Just remember the rest of the US is sick of your shit. We have the guns, we have the combat vets and we have the organization. Don't fuck with us. A heated debate is welcome. Violence will be met with violence. And you will lose.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/10/2016 08:46 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fists banging on the table, piss down leg. Time to move on, get busy.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2016 8:59 Comments || Top||

#2  "People have to die" - just not me.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 11/10/2016 9:29 Comments || Top||

#3  America on Edge: MoveOn Organizes Anti-Trump Protests Around Country

How does one declare Mr. Soros, etal, as an Enemy of the State?
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 11/10/2016 9:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Dont get too excited. The grant money /scholarship /parental patience dries up, most of these special snowflakes will have to leave school and get a life. Sic transit gloria mundi.

If there is reform of the student loan programs, this will be sped up considerably.
Posted by: Nguard || 11/10/2016 9:36 Comments || Top||

#5  Adults In Name Only - what a bunch of soft, crybaby sore losers. Like Procopius2k said yesterday, to them it's only 'consent of the governed' if they get their way. Our side had to deal wit it twice in recent years; now it's your turn (to grow the fuck up).
Posted by: Raj || 11/10/2016 9:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Guess the Secret Service is going to be busy chasing threats. Oh wait,... these aren't working middleclass Americans.

Never mind.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/10/2016 10:29 Comments || Top||

#7  I thought people have to die (all of them) to save Gaia?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/10/2016 10:48 Comments || Top||

#8  Many of the protestors are college students. Universities are no longer about higher education, they are now socialist indoctrination centers that turn kids into socialist brown shirts.
Posted by: Butch Shusonter1176 || 11/10/2016 10:55 Comments || Top||

#9  "People have to die"

Well volunteered.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/10/2016 11:06 Comments || Top||

#10  The thing about Trump/Pence is most of the left would be terrified of Pence even more than Trump.

A typical Republican trick to limit attempts upon the President (see Quale/Cheney).
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/10/2016 11:07 Comments || Top||

#11  rj, Democrats also use that trick. See Joe "Whiz kid" Biden.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 11/10/2016 11:54 Comments || Top||

#12  RJschwarz: I think you're right, I've seen some fear-mongering about how Pence supports "Reprogramming" LGBQT to "Fix them". Don't really know validity of claims, never heard them before the election. But I already know somebody took his words out of context.
Posted by: Charles || 11/10/2016 16:56 Comments || Top||

#13  I keep reading how LGB community is afraid and I think "Gay Billionaire gave a speach at the convention to introduce Trump, what are they talking about". Of course I ignored the VP and that is the only thing that makes sense, that at simple paranoia of the big bad conservatives.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/10/2016 18:01 Comments || Top||


Trump Win Sparks Riots Across US As Crowds Burn American Flag And Chant 'Not Our President'

Tell me again about how we should "reach out" to these people.
And from AP:
Thousands join anti-Trump "mostly peaceful" protests around country
Didn't take MoveOn.org but one day to get cranked up...


Bloomberg provides more; chants, professionally printed posters, feckless, unemployed, basement dwellers, etc.
Posted by: charger || 11/10/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Venezuela is rioting FOR the ability to vote and these clowns are protesting and trying to overthrow it in the US.

Not your president? I had to put up with 8 years of Obama and you telling me "You Lost". Get the F out. Trump won, if you don't like it, then LEAVE. There are borders to the North and South.

Anything else is massively disrespectful of our government system and the Constitution.

Posted by: Grunter Johnson6679 || 11/10/2016 3:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Didn't take MoveOn.org but one day to get cranked up...

...Given the Politico article from yesterday (which tries to suggest that Malificent knew from the beginning that she was going to get b!tchslapped on Election Day) you might even think that the nice folks at MoveOn never really believed in a Democratic victory at all and planned accordingly...

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 11/10/2016 5:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Same riots would have happened if he'd lost. It's their culture. We need to learn to respect it and marvel at it's beauty.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 11/10/2016 5:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Million dollar sources of MoveOn founding include financier George Soros and his wife, Susan Weber Soros, Peter B. Lewis, chief executive of the Progressive Corp., and Linda Pritzker, of the Hyatt hotel family, and her Sustainable World Corp.
Posted by: Craique the Kid6652 || 11/10/2016 6:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Protesters, For Crying-Out-Loud, Get over yourselves. Trump will soon be creating an opportunity for you to get out of your parents basement and get a job. But maybe that doesn't pay as well as being a Soros-funded protester. In the meantime, you might do a little research and find out who the puppeteers are who are pulling your strings.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/10/2016 6:42 Comments || Top||

#6  WTF happened in Idaho and Utah? look at vote change

Is that where the dems got away with cheating?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/10/2016 7:31 Comments || Top||

#7  Yeah, I remember all the protests and riots I participated in after obooboo was elected - twice. Good times, good times... /sarc
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/10/2016 7:57 Comments || Top||

#8  From Besoeker's Bloomberg link, this bit of amusement:

Chicago resident Michael Burke said he believes the president-elect will "divide the country and stir up hatred." He added there was a constitutional duty not to accept that outcome.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/10/2016 8:17 Comments || Top||

#9  Chicago resident Michael Burke said he believes the president-elect will "divide the country and stir up hatred.

Who knows more about 'stirring up hatred' and 'divisiveness' than a Chicago resident ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2016 8:22 Comments || Top||

#10  WTF happened in Idaho and Utah? look at vote change

I don't know about Idaho (I don't know anything about Idaho except potatoes, sorry), but in Utah that might have been offended Mormon anti-Trump votes choosing Hillary Clinton instead of that Mormon CIA man, Evan McMullin, who had stepped up at the last minute because he couldn't abide Trump and wanted to provide a nucleus for the Republican party to form around after he lost.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/10/2016 8:25 Comments || Top||

#11  He added there was a constitutional duty not to accept that outcome.

You know some Southerners said similar things 150 years ago when another Republican candidate was elected.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/10/2016 8:34 Comments || Top||

#12  These snowflakes (and their "professors") need to be taught the importance of and how they can contribute to the general well-being of the nation. Enough of this "It didn't go my way, so my voice must otherwise be heard" bull-hockey.

Anarchy is more dramatic than persuasion, but, sans social media, it can be a quick fizzler. OTOT, it does help you pick up chicks.

Punishment for damage or assault?: 2 months on the US/Mexican border learning wall assembly.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 11/10/2016 8:48 Comments || Top||

#13  Tell me again about how we should "reach out" to these people.

Posted by: Skidmark || 11/10/2016 10:34 Comments || Top||

#14  How about: "Your college is not eligible for federal funds", Skid?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/10/2016 10:44 Comments || Top||

#15  Agree with BrerRabbit except it was supposed to be a mandate victory parade. Guess they only printed victory signs.

Read a quick today. Guy convinced me he is no Trump fan, but these protests:
-Are you not doing exactly what you accused Trump supporters of maybe doing?

-Why not protest the DNC for selecting such an awful candidate?

-Are you protesting the election process; protesting elections?

-Blocking traffic and acting the crybaby fool is exactly why Trump won.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/10/2016 11:04 Comments || Top||

#16  Rent-a-mobs are so Obama era.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/10/2016 11:06 Comments || Top||

#17  Make Milo education secretary and if universities don't get back to free speech as the norm they lose Federal funds.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/10/2016 12:47 Comments || Top||

#18  Burning an American Flag, says it all.

Practically knee-jerk.
Posted by: Sheating Elmolutch8412 || 11/10/2016 13:31 Comments || Top||


#20  Frank G: That link was gold.
Posted by: Charles || 11/10/2016 17:00 Comments || Top||

#21  I suspect that four years from now liberals will be happier with Trump than conservatives will be.
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 11/10/2016 20:27 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Ghani met Sharbat Gula, handed over apartment key to welcome her home
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
met with the iconic Afghan woman Sharbat Gula and her family members after they returned to Afghanistan after more than 30 years.

The Office of the President, ARG Palace, said President Ghani handed over the key of an apartment to Gula as he called her a symbol of pain, oppression, and the hopes of Afghanistan and portraying the war-torn Afghanistan and refugees as she spent many years in refuge during the war times.

President Ghani further added that the presence of the Afghan nation is incomplete since some of the Afghans are still residing in refuge outside the country and the government is committed to pave the way for return of the Afghan refugees to fill the gap.

An individual representing Sharbat Gula and her family urged the government to assist her with providing education opportunities to the children of Gula.

In his turn, President Ghani promised that the government will take care of the living conditions of Gula’s family, including education and healthcare.

Posted by: Fred || 11/10/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Africa North
Egypt Pres Adbel al-Sisi is first head of State to congrat the Don
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi spoke to Donald Trump on the telephone on Wednesday [9 Nov], congratulating him on his victory in the U.S. presidential election and seeking to foster closer diplomatic ties, an Egyptian presidency statement said.

"The U.S. President-elect Donald Trump expressed his utmost appreciation to the president, pointing out that his was the first international call he had received to congratulate him on winning the election," the statement said.
"President Trump said he looked forward to meeting the president (again) soon."
Tell your MSNBC friends about this ASAP
The Egyptians are quite proud of this.
Posted by: lord garth || 11/10/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Don,
Excellent Garth
Posted by: Shipman || 11/10/2016 16:36 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Kenya withdraws soldiers from war-torn South Sudan
[AA.TR] Kenya started withdrawing its soldiers from a South Sudan UN-backed peacekeeping mission on Wednesday.

The first batch of 100 troops attached to the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) touched down at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

Earlier this month Kenya revealed it would withdraw its forces from UNMISS following the unceremonial dismissal of its Kenyan commander, Lt. Gen. Johnson Mogoa Kimani Ondieki.

The move by UN Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon came after an independent report found UNMISS had failed to respond to an attack on civilians by South Sudanese government troops in the capital Juba in July.

Speaking to news hounds at the airport, Maj. Gen. Benjamin Biwott said the withdrawal process would continue until all soldiers returned to Kenya.

"Today we are very lucky to have our soldiers back, and the total number of soldiers who have come today is 100, and we are going to continue implementing the directive given by the commander-in-chief until all our soldiers have been withdrawn from South Sudan," Biwott said.

"We are pulling out the whole contingent in South Sudan; that is over 1,000 soldiers," he added.
Posted by: Fred || 11/10/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Bangladesh
Lawsuit against minister withdrawn after assault
[Dhaka Tribune] The person who lodged a complaint against the fisheries minister withdrew his case after he was assaulted by pro-Awami League lawyers.

A defamation lawsuit was filed against Fisheries and Livestock Minister Sayedul Hoque for uttering derogatory remarks about Hindus on Tuesday morning.

The plaintiff Bidhan Ghosh had gone to Khulna Court on Wednesday morning for the case. He was set upon by a mob on the courtyard. Bidhan had to be admitted to Khulna General Hospital for treatment.

Touhidur Rahman Tushar, advocate for Bidhan, claimed the pro-Awami League lawyers beat up his client before the lawsuit could reach the court. Terrified, his client withdrew the complaint.

"The plaintiff withdrew the complaint himself," Tapan Kumar Saha, acting administrative officer of Khulna CMM Court told the Dhaka Tribune.

Anisur Rahman Poplu, spokesperson for the Awami League-affiliated lawyers claimed the allegations to be false, rumours spread by his opponents.
Posted by: Fred || 11/10/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Britain
Aberdeenshire business owner wins presidential election
Hoot, mon!
[BuchanObserver] Donald Trump, owner of Trump International Golf Links at Balmedie, has been elected as the next President of the USA.

Sound track.
Posted by: Classer || 11/10/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good one!
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 11/10/2016 8:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Mr Trump is half Scottish - his mother Mary MacLeod being from Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis. She grew up in a simple croft until she landed in Manhattan at the age of 20 and her first language was Gaelic.

Hmm. We gott'm MacLeods in the extended fablee. Wouldn't it be funny...
Posted by: JHH || 11/10/2016 14:32 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Mexico reaches out to Trump, but won’t pay for wall
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said Wednesday he was ready to work with Donald Trump but the country’s foreign minister reiterated the government’s refusal to pay for his planned border wall.

Trump’s victory shocked Mexicans, who were angered by the Republican billionaire’s description of migrants colonists as rapists and drug pushers.

His defeat of Democrat Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Dean Acheson ...
in Tuesday’s election caused the peso and the Mexican stock market to plunge due to fears that Trump would upend economic ties with the country.

"I congratulate the US on its electoral process and reiterate to @realDonaldTrump my willingness to work together in favor of bilateral relations," Pena Nieto said on Twitter.

"Mexico and the US are friends, partners and allies who must continue collaborating for the competitiveness and development of North America," he said.

Pena Nieto had angered Mexicans by inviting Trump to his official residence in Mexico City in August and not forcefully condemning the Republican candidate’s comments against migrants colonists.

Trump has vowed to make Mexico pay for a massive border wall -- which is estimated to cost several billions of dollars -- and to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

He also pledged to deport millions of undocumented immigrants colonists and threatened to freeze billions in remittances that migrants colonists send to their families back home.

"Paying for a wall is not part of our vision," Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu of Mexico told the Televisa network.

But she said the government has had a "daily fluid dialogue" with the Trump campaign and that the two countries were "not starting from zero."
Golly -- like he was a serious contender all along. Smart!
"It’s an opportunity. The terms of the relationship change," she said.

The national currency fell 7.81 percent to 20.22 pesos per dollar before day trade opened, while the Mexican stock market plunged 3.18 percent at the opening bell.

Posted by: Fred || 11/10/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I wonder if the payment might not arrive as increased import tariffs. I'm planting avocados and agave cactus.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/10/2016 2:36 Comments || Top||

#2  ... yet.
Posted by: Clunter Grumble6332 || 11/10/2016 3:10 Comments || Top||

#3  A 15 to 20 percent tax on all remunerations sent back to Mexico. That ought to get a nice wall built.
Posted by: Omomort Cheager7040 || 11/10/2016 5:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Smallish fee los transferenado ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2016 6:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Millions of dollars would be collected if a ten dollar tax were required to enter the USA from Mexico.
Posted by: Craique the Kid6652 || 11/10/2016 6:54 Comments || Top||

#6  ...not a tax, but a 'regulatory fee'. The Executive doesn't have to ask Congress for such fees as demonstrated by Mr. Gore and phone charges to fund his little 'wire the schools' program back in the 90s.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/10/2016 7:25 Comments || Top||

#7  The above suggestions (and possibly more to come) might indicate funding for the wall has now been located.

Shovel Ready ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2016 7:40 Comments || Top||

#8  I think their stated "refusal to pay for his planned border wall" is their opening position. A way will be found. No real need to rub their noses in this, we just want to modify their behavior. That means hitting them in their pocketbook whenever necessary. It will result in nice revenue streams and a reduced stream of illegals, especially if they are 'taxed' by the head for all the illegals in the country. And taxed again, and again, say every 4 months. Their behavior will change. At the moment, the Mex govt. is using the US as their population dump and views the US govt. with contempt. This will change.

Major upside: the UN will have a cow.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 11/10/2016 8:05 Comments || Top||

#9  Major upside: the UN will have a cow.
Posted by Whiskey Mike


Stillbirth hopefully.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2016 8:07 Comments || Top||

#10  Major upside: the UN will have a cow.

An elephant cow or a blue whale cow?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/10/2016 8:27 Comments || Top||

#11  A cow of momentous proportion at least.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 11/10/2016 8:31 Comments || Top||

#12  I believe our Southern neighbor will soon recognize the fallacy of this challenge to one of Mr. Trumps central positions. Or DJT will sell out (doubtful).
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 11/10/2016 8:37 Comments || Top||

#13  A 15 to 20 percent tax on all remunerations sent back to Mexico. That ought to get a nice wall built.

That level of tax is about right - high enough to raise serious $ but not enough to cause the remitters to send it in other forms.
Posted by: Raj || 11/10/2016 10:11 Comments || Top||

#14  #13 Such a charge would lead Latinos to use Somali Hawaldars to move their money through un-jofficial means. This is how the Somalis, Paks, and India muslims in the USA move money to their homeland. An "impuesto" of ten bucks each time someone enters the USA would be faster and easier to collect. If you want an education, some day go to a border crossing into the USA and see the hundreds of people lined up waiting to cross.
Posted by: Craique the Kid6652 || 11/10/2016 11:54 Comments || Top||

#15  Trump is an experienced real estate developer, so he knows how to handle this: contract Mexico to build the wall, and when they finish, we declare bankruptcy, and stiff them. Easy peasy.
Posted by: regular joe || 11/10/2016 13:08 Comments || Top||

#16  Trump should institute a Work Visa program.
(1) So we can keep track of who is in the US
(2) So we can ensure that these aren't somehow forced to do things that our own environmental and safety laws have deemed to be unsafe
(3) To ensure these workers are paid minimum wage which we have determined is the minimum required in the each state.
(4) Harsh penalties for anyone hiring undocumented workers without a visa because we can only assume their intentions are to abuse labor in a way that we all find unacceptable.
(5) Give the the work visas out like candy but insist the people contact an agency every month or so to verify employment and arrest for x weeks, deportation, and refusal to ever get a work visa again for anyone caught without one. Anyone who commits a crime while on a work visa will (a) suffer in jail for that crime, then be deported, and if they return it will be considered a felony.

This would be hard for the left to argue against since it exploits the safety laws and minimum wage laws they are always pushing for.

Don't even discuss citizenship except perhaps as phase 2 of the plan depending upon how phase 1 works out.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/10/2016 14:33 Comments || Top||

#17  Major upside: the UN will have a cow.

Mmmm, rib-eye.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/10/2016 17:47 Comments || Top||

#18  A cow of momentous proportion at least.

It'll be UUUuuuuuge!
Posted by: Crusader || 11/10/2016 18:06 Comments || Top||

#19  RJ, my guess is a work visa somewhat like that already exists, at least 1 - 3.
Posted by: KBK || 11/10/2016 23:09 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Boarding Call - Have your passport and tickets ready please
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2016 09:24 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Can't wait for them to leave.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/10/2016 10:26 Comments || Top||

#2  I've heard an incredible rumor:
I'll never be rid of this Schumer.
Don't worry, no hurry --
I'll laugh at your fury,
You indolent, humorless tumor.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 11/10/2016 10:52 Comments || Top||

#3  WTF! They don't need no stinking passports. Just jump the border!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 11/10/2016 11:02 Comments || Top||

#4  I hope half of them don't end up in Israel - we can grow our own, thank you very much.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/10/2016 11:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Lena Dunham and Al Sharpton are leaving? Boy, is this a great country or what.
Posted by: Matt || 11/10/2016 12:39 Comments || Top||

#6  To paraphrase Walter White's son: "Just fvcking go already."
Posted by: JHH || 11/10/2016 14:45 Comments || Top||

#7  PHOTOS: L.A. street artist ‘moving sale’ posters for anti-Trump celebrities
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 11/10/2016 19:46 Comments || Top||


Just a typical Republican: Former Navy SEAL becomes first Jewish governor of Missouri
[IsraelTimes] Eric Greitens, a Republican, defeats Democrat Chris Koster with 51% of the vote.

Eric Greitens, a former Navy SEAL whose military awards include the Bronze Star, has become the first Jewish governor of Missouri.

Greitens, a Republican, defeated Democrat Chris Koster with 51 percent of the vote on Tuesday to 45% for the state’s attorney general.

"Tonight, we did more than win an election; we restored power to the people and we took our state back!" Greitens told supporters at a hotel in Chesterfield, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

Greitens, 42, grew up in the Maryland Heights suburb of St. Louis and attended the town’s Reform synagogue. He attended Duke University, where he become a Rhodes scholar.

After earning a degree at the University of Oxford, he joined the Navy SEALS and won seven military awards, including the Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. He later launched The Mission Continues, a nonprofit that offers veterans volunteer opportunities.

The Post-Dispatch reported that Greitens is likely to make Missouri a "right-to-work" state by decreasing the power of its unions. A key tenet of his campaign was promising to "clean up" corruption and "bad ethics" in Jefferson City, the state’s capital.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/10/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Watch out for this guy (in a good way):
--Young
--Decorated SOF Vet
--Gov of mid-size solid red state

A couple of good terms as Gov and he could have national appeal.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 11/10/2016 10:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Great to see things like this.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/10/2016 11:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Brisket Sonny.

Not so sure that MO is a solid red state, Nixon as gov. McCaskill as Senator. Lots of Dems there in the recent past and some in the present.
Posted by: AlanC || 11/10/2016 12:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Agreed with BB, keep an eye on this guy.
Posted by: Shipman || 11/10/2016 16:39 Comments || Top||

#5  Hmmm, he does a good job, in 8 years we might see him in a more...national light.
Posted by: Charles || 11/10/2016 17:12 Comments || Top||

#6  "Not so sure that MO is a solid red state"

Just running the numbers;
DJT 57 % HRC 38%
8 Congressional seats R - 6 D - 2
State House R - 115 D - 45 out of 163
Gov - R
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 11/10/2016 21:16 Comments || Top||


Dr. Ben Carson Says He'll Help Trump Replace Obamacare
Ben Carson said he would help President-elect Donald Trump construct a replacement to Obamacare.

"I think the replacement must obviously come first and it must be something that is very appealing and easy to understand," he told Politico Wednesday. "And then, only then, would you dismantle what's in place."

Carson declined to say whether he was being considered for a Cabinet position, but Politico reports that his name is being floated as a possible candidate for positions such as secretary of health and human services or secretary of education.

Trump campaigned on replacing Obamacare with a simpler, cheaper alternative that has less government regulation.

A GOP-led Congress means that a Trump administration would have the best chance of coming up with an alternative to Obamacare since 2010 passage of the law.

Carson entered the spotlight at the 2013 National Prayer Breakfast when he criticized President Obama over his signature healthcare law.

Carson ran against Trump in the primary only to drop out and endorse him in March.

Carson said Wednesday that Trump would win over his critics with his leadership on issues like Obamacare.

"I think actually a lot of people who have tried to demonize him will be quite shocked when they see who he really is," he said. "He'll be a very easy person to work with as long as you're reasonable, as long as you're fair."

In 2015, Ben Carson announced his support for health savings accounts as a possible replacement for Obamacare.
I seem to recall Donald Trump speaking about HSAs as part of the replacement for Obamacare, too, oddly enough.
Posted by: Elmonter Angeash9821 || 11/10/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I don't like this talk of 'replace', as if another government law or program will succeed when the previous one failed in predictable, spectacular fashion. Just repeal this monstrosity, implement some market-based reforms, and completely lock the fucking Democrats out of the process while you're doing it. See how they like it.
Posted by: Raj || 11/10/2016 9:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Yeah, that "replace" thingy makes me nervous. Let's hope it doesn't involve any taxes or government spending.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/10/2016 14:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Replace as in....automotive tire tube.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2016 14:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Pretty sure we won't be getting rid of Obamacare - too many people are 'addicted' to the concept. The best we can hope for is an actual, economic health care system, with 'methadone' for the addicts.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/10/2016 17:51 Comments || Top||

#5  fuck replace, its non constitutional to force people to pay an insurance company.... eliminate period.... period, not constitutional!
Posted by: 746 || 11/10/2016 23:51 Comments || Top||



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