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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Obama's Criminal Enterprise Collapsing
[American Thinker] As former FBI Director James Comey’s best friend, Robert Mueller, stocks his Seinfeld investigation-about-nothing with every Democratic lawyer and Hillary and/or Obama donor he can find, we are treated to the delicious irony of collusion with Russia being confirmed -- and the colluder-in-chief being Ex-president Barack Hussein Obama.

Even Obama’s Democrat supporters are now acknowledging he knew about Russia’s hacking of the DNC and Podesta emails. They are acknowledging that he did nothing but are not acknowledging the reason why ‐ that he thought Hillary Clinton was going to succeed him and he wanted to do nothing to offend the Russians to whom he had once famously promised more "flexibility."
Somewhat lengthy, but succulent.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/28/2017 11:20 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Meanwhile, Obama travels the world on the taxpayer's dime looking for cushy countries without extradition treaties with the U.S.

I thought Trump could obtain these records on unmasking, etc. that have been squirreled away in the Obama library if he needs them. Thought Congress could also subpoena these records. Also thought a Special Counsel has access to such records.

How does Trump get rid of Mueller's "stacked deck" Special Counsel that is on a witch hunt?
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/28/2017 11:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Create a second special counsel to investigate Mueller.
Posted by: Elmiting Angemble5896 || 06/28/2017 14:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Indonesia is a good place for Baraq.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/28/2017 14:45 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Who targeted the Holy Kaaba?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The question itself is chilling. How could anyone, whatever his religion, target the Holy Kaaba? How could he target the masses of believers in the most peaceful and spiritual moments?

The question is magnified and mystified when the doer is carrying the banner of Islam, citing the holy book, and claims to follow the Sunnah of the Prophet (peace be upon him). How could a state, group, or an individual who embraces the peaceful religion of Islam target Moslems during the holy month of Ramadan, on the night of the Holy Qur’an, in the House of God, the Haram al-Sharif?

The inevitable answer is that they have no relation to Islam or any religion -- whatsoever. The executor is merely a tool, a person who has lost his mind, soul and humanity to the point of conviction that he is entering Paradise with Moslems by killing Moslems; that he would drink from Al Kawthar spring with the Prophet (peace be upon him), by killing and frightening his visitors and his mosque worshipers (as they did the same time, last year).

As for those who motivated, guided and supported the terrorists, I have no doubt that they know exactly what they are doing. They sit in their safe houses with their children and families, and pay the fools to carry out their dirty worldly political agendas. They do not care how many innocent victims fall, and how much Islam’s image is distorted, for their goals have nothing to do with religion or humanity.

Important objective
One of the most important objectives, I believe, is to prove that Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
is unable to provide protection for the holy mosques and their visitors. Therefore, the management of Haj and Umrah must be internationalized, as Iran has, forever, been calling for.

They also aim to fail the new Crown Prince, Muhammad Bin Salman, who has declared war on their terrorism and achieved measurable successes.

Recent wins against terrorist organizations in Arab and Moslem countries must have provoked their sponsors’ anger and resentment. In response they pursued high-impact strikes against us. What would be more appropriate, in their twisted minds, to carry out the horrendous crime, than the night of "khatma" (the reading of the last chapter of Qur’an), when 4 millions pilgrims and worshipers gather in one place behind one imam, watched live by 1.6 billion Moslems, plus billions more around the globe?

What is easier and more effective than a suicide kaboom that results in a stampede in the most crowded place on earth, leaving huge losses and uncontrollable chaos? What is a better platform than to do it under the eyes and ears of the Saudi leadership and their guests, the Arab and Moslem leaders, praying in Safa Palace, overlooking the Sacred House?

These people forgot that the House is protected by the Lord; that the State of Saudi Arabia has used all its resources to secure the guests of the Beneficent; and that every Saudi citizen is their adversary. We must always remind them that they are the targets, the persuaded. And that the Sword of Firmness will reach them wherever they may be -- Iran included.

The Islamic Nation and the international community should intensify their efforts to fight terrorism, abort terrorist schemes, and target all terror sponsors.

Finally, a special tribute must be extended to the security forces who have proved, once again, that they are our watchful eyes and solid shields. Their performance is appreciated in the service of the guests of Allah and the security of the two holy mosques.

They deserved the special tribute of Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman during his visit to the group that faced the snuffies and thwarted their malicious plans. God bless them all!

Posted by: Fred || 06/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia

#1  ISIS considers the various actions involving the Kaaba stone to be idolatry.

Their theory is not without some substance.

the Kaaba stone is not mentioned in the Koran, it is based on Islamic tradition and probably pre Islamic tradition and the veneration of the stone comes close to being an act of stone worship which would be idolatry. From this point of view, the destruction of the Kaaba stone would save many moslems from the fiery torment of hell since it would prevent this act of idolatry.
Posted by: lord garth || 06/28/2017 0:22 Comments || Top||

#2  21.422487 N, 39.826206 E, in case you were doing a little targeting yourself.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/28/2017 0:29 Comments || Top||

#3  I think we have a new target for one of those car-sized meteors...
Posted by: Haliburton Meteor Tossing Division || 06/28/2017 0:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Who targeted the Holy Kaaba?

I don't know - but lets blame it on the French.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/28/2017 5:47 Comments || Top||

#5  How could a state, group, or an individual who embraces the peaceful religion of Islam target Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan, on the night of the Holy Qur’an, in the House of God, the Haram Al-Sharif? Several thoughts came to mind upon reading this:

1. First, was that Ramadan would be the best time for targeting.
2. Second, was that you reap as you sow.
3. Third, that maybe some Muslims might be waking up to the problems within their religion.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/28/2017 11:43 Comments || Top||

#6  FO is a pretty recent podcast but the information covered is outstanding.

Listen to this guy tell a short story on Mohammed.

And put his sites on your thingy. He is damn sharp.
Posted by: newc || 06/28/2017 14:49 Comments || Top||

#7  "various actions involving the Kaaba stone to be idolatry."

Not to mention walking around that Wooden rubix cube.
Posted by: newc || 06/28/2017 20:43 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Obama choked on Putin long before the election
By Eli Lake

[Bloomberg] It's no wonder Putin thought he could meddle in the U.S. He had gotten away with everything else he tried.
Posted by: ryuge || 06/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Obama must have liked it since he always came back for more.
Posted by: Chesney Prince of the Visigoths3595 || 06/28/2017 1:57 Comments || Top||

#2  one is the product of affirmative action, the other of KGB school.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/28/2017 6:12 Comments || Top||

#3  What? The Commander n' Sheep blew it?
Posted by: Jack Salami || 06/28/2017 9:30 Comments || Top||

#4  I recall the collusion (could read as treason) with Medvedev, Putin and Russia which was captured on an open mike in 2012. This is my last election ... After my election I have more flexibility

When he said he choked, what did he mean? Does he mean he didn't accomplish the flexibility that he promised Russia in 2012 or that he choked and didn't do anything for the U.S. when he knew about Russia's attempted forays into election meddling?

When did the Obama-Putin Bromance go south? Did Hillary screw Russia during the Uranium One deal, or during the Russian re-set or in some other way? Or did Hillary get screwed in her dealings? Did the check to the Clinton Foundation not clear the bank?
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/28/2017 10:13 Comments || Top||

#5  What? The Commander n' Sheep blew it?

Giggled when I read the headline, then had to put my coffee down.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/28/2017 12:44 Comments || Top||

#6  Didn't know his gag reflex was that strong?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/28/2017 14:46 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Acting FBI Director McCabe disparaged Flynn to agents before Russian probe
[World Tribune] The FBI may have launched its investigation of former national security adviser Mike Flynn as retribution for Flynn’s intervention in a counterterror agent’s gender discrimination case against top FBI officials, including current acting Director Andrew McCabe, a report said.

The investigation of Flynn began two years after the retired Army general "roiled the bureau’s leadership" by intervening on behalf of Supervisory Special Agent Robyn Gritz, Circa reported on June 27, citing documents and interviews.

Flynn’s intervention, seen as highly unusual, included a letter in 2014 on his official Pentagon stationary, a public interview in 2015 supporting Gritz’s case and an offer to testify on her behalf, the report said.

"His offer put him as a hostile witness in a case against McCabe, who was soaring through the bureau’s leadership ranks."

Memos obtained by Circa show that the FBI sought to block Flynn’s support for Gritz, asking a federal administrative law judge in May 2014 to keep Flynn and others from becoming a witness in her Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) case. Two years later, the FBI opened its inquiry of Flynn.
A similar story ran yesterday, but it may be something to monitor as the digging continues, and I certainly hope it continues.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/28/2017 08:07 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  More on the Acting FBI Director:

The FBI's boss is under investigation for possible Hatch Act violations
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/28/2017 8:11 Comments || Top||

#2  I trust McCabe about as much as Comey.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/28/2017 11:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Man, it surely takes a special/unique personality to want to be in Washington (and at those lofty levels).
Posted by: Cleanter Cheth4468 || 06/28/2017 14:43 Comments || Top||


Senate Democrat Compares Supreme Court Justices to 'Horsemen of the Apocalypse'
[PJ] On Monday, Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) compared Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito, and Clarence Thomas to "the three horsemen of the apocalypse" for their decision to partially grant the Trump administration's request to lift a stay and implement his travel ban, which Hirono called a "Muslim ban."

"Neil Gorsuch, who I did not support as a Supreme Court justice, he's joined two of the most conservative justices, Clarence Thomas, and Alito on the Court to take the position that the entire injunction should have been lifted," Hinoro said on MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports."

"This is like the three horsemen of the apocalypse, and they're waiting for the fourth one to come along so that they can go on their trend toward what I call extremism," Hirono added. "I'm not surprised at all that Neil Gorsuch is right in there with Thomas and Alito, wanting to pretty much tell the president, 'You just go right ahead, impose a Muslim ban.'"
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/28/2017 04:19 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Dear Senator Hirono -

I should like to cordially invite you to procure a sense of proportion, then shut up.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 06/28/2017 4:57 Comments || Top||

#2  You ain't seen nothing yet, Oba-san.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/28/2017 6:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Wasn't it a unanimous decision?
Posted by: chris || 06/28/2017 6:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Wasn't it a unanimous decision?

Yeah, but saying "nine horsemen of the Apocalypse" sounds even stupider than saying three.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/28/2017 6:51 Comments || Top||

#5  "Muslim ban."

Except it doesn't effect all Muslim countries and travelers. Truth has never been in the foundation of the Left. And not to be confused with the prior administrations 'de facto' ban on Syrian Christians.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/28/2017 7:49 Comments || Top||

#6  When everything is a crisis and will bring about the end of the world... you lose the shock factor.

The demoncrats lost the shock factor sometime around 1983 and it has only gotten sillier.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/28/2017 8:20 Comments || Top||

#7  On Monday, Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) compared Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito, and Clarence Thomas to "the three horsemen of the apocalypse" Soon to be Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Senator, I like to think of them that way too--just think of them as the bullshit knife--a return to justice.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/28/2017 10:17 Comments || Top||

#8  Dems are working for the Acrapalypse.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/28/2017 11:11 Comments || Top||

#9  On a tiny island like Oahu it wouldn't take long for Moslem colonists to outnumber the natives.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/28/2017 11:12 Comments || Top||

#10  Abu, pretty sure the whites came to outnumber the Polynesians in Hawaii a long time ago, and suspect the East Asians now outnumber the whites.
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/28/2017 11:48 Comments || Top||

#11  There are more Philippino's, and there are more Chinese, and there are more Japanese, let alone the whites.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 06/28/2017 15:04 Comments || Top||

#12  You know Senator if you pols did your job in the House of the People instead of shifting over the power and authority its suppose to exercise to the unelected and unaccountable judiciary, you wouldn't have this view. Maybe time for a Constitutional amendment for Term Limits?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/28/2017 16:19 Comments || Top||

#13  Senator, being a legislator and having to involve in politics is so-o-o-o tiresome that most of your fellow congresscritters delegated the job to the unelected bureaucrats. Having your faction in control of the judicial system was supposed to supply the oversight you are too lazy/corrupt to provide.
TL/DR: Suck it up, you jackass, and do the job you were elected to.
Posted by: magie || 06/28/2017 17:16 Comments || Top||

#14  It's okay. Given the fact the Demonrats are Nazi's and wannabe Slavemasters rolled into one, their pants wetting fear of constitutionalists is quite understandable.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 06/28/2017 21:15 Comments || Top||

#15  I'll hold out for 'Angel of Death' myself.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/28/2017 21:19 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Christianity is ‘white supremacy disguised as religion'
[The Blaze] New York Daily News columnist and Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King said that some Christians’ faith is not really faith at all, but "white supremacy disguised as religion."

King made the comments on Twitter Monday shortly after the Supreme Court decided to take up in October President Donald Trump’s travel ban case.

The nine justices allowed parts of the travel ban to go into effect until October, and asked the parties in the case to determine whether the case would be moot by October, since the ban on individuals traveling from six Muslim-majority Middle Eastern countries would last only 90 days, and the ban on refugees coming to the U.S. would end after 120 days -- roughly the same amount of time between now and late October.

About an hour or so after the ruling, King took to Twitter to mock Christians, but more specifically, white Christians."

"To support a ban on immigrants & refugees, while calling yourself a Christian, is not faith, it’s white supremacy disguised as religion," King tweeted. In a separate tweet, King called Christians’ faith "fake as a $3 bill."

Posted by: Besoeker || 06/28/2017 07:57 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  OK, now explain Jeremiah Wright.
(Friendly fire incident in 5, 4, 3, ...)
Posted by: ed in texas || 06/28/2017 8:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Shut up, honky!
Posted by: Raj || 06/28/2017 9:14 Comments || Top||

#3  I do love it when Atheists attempt to tell people what is and what is not proper Christianity or Islam and suggest the followers of those faiths don't know or are lying.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/28/2017 9:45 Comments || Top||

#4  I love how the "open borders" people crawl home at night and lock their doors once inside. "Open borders for thee, but not for me!".
Posted by: Crusader || 06/28/2017 10:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Maybe King didn't notice that Justice Thomas is black. Justice Ginsburg is Jewish. We had a black president who said he was Christian. Susan Rice is tooting this same horn. She was discriminated against because she is a woman and she is black. Did she happen to consider that she reached the highest levels of education and government? If she was discriminated against it was because she was a liar.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/28/2017 11:34 Comments || Top||

#6  Wait. I thought Jesus was black.

Fake as a three dollar bill..lame lame lame. And to be fair, I don't think Sham King has the conviction to be an Atheist.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/28/2017 12:43 Comments || Top||

#7  Thumbing through my Bible here and I don't see anything about white folk. Looks like Jesus mother was Jewish and pop was the Holy Spirit. Those that carried out the crucifiction were Jewish and Romans (Gentiles). Sounds like another Fake News alert from the heathen.
Posted by: Threatch Jeamp8135 || 06/28/2017 14:51 Comments || Top||

#8  Shaun who?
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 06/28/2017 19:27 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Wed 2017-06-28
  Ottoman Turkish artillery opens fire on Kurdish forces across entire frontier in northern Aleppo
Tue 2017-06-27
  IS suicide bomber’s belt explodes, kills 12 well-wishing comrades in Diyala
Mon 2017-06-26
  High Court reinstates Trump travel ban, will hear arguments
Sun 2017-06-25
  Evolution theory to be scrapped from Turkish schoolbooks
Sat 2017-06-24
  Jihadist who threw grenade in French kosher shop gets 28 years
Fri 2017-06-23
  Philippine military: Omar Maute likely dead
Thu 2017-06-22
  BIFF Bravely Takes Hostages at Philippine School
Wed 2017-06-21
  ISIS Lord High Holy Man, al-Baghdadi confidant, killed by US-led coalition forces
Tue 2017-06-20
  Afghan forces clear strategic Tora Bora of ISIS militants: Gen. Waziri
Mon 2017-06-19
  IRGC completely dismantles terrorist group in southeast Iran: Commander
Sun 2017-06-18
  Afghan forces recapture Tora Bora in Nangarhar
Sat 2017-06-17
  Taliban rejects report on Kandahar bombing that killed UAE ambassador, diplomats
Fri 2017-06-16
  Army takes over Mosul’s Old City entrance, IS trapped
Thu 2017-06-15
  SDF capture former IS member known as Jihadi Jack
Wed 2017-06-14
  Senior Republican politician and several aides shot at baseball practice near Washington


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