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Scores of Islamic State militants surrender to security forces in Mosul
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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Joel Hirst: The Arriving Ordeal
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 12/12/2017 02:46 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Remember Joel "Whatever happens, we have got the maxim gun, and they have not"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/12/2017 8:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Anyone paying attention would know that.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 12/12/2017 9:54 Comments || Top||

#3  I appreciate the link. Interesting fellow, well worth reading.
Posted by: KBK || 12/12/2017 21:40 Comments || Top||


Arabia
What is in store for Yemen after Ali Abdullah Saleh
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
, the former Yemeni president, was assassinated by the hands of Iran’s arm in Yemen.

He was assassinated by the Houthis just as former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated by the hands of Iran’s terrorist wing, Hezbollah, in Leb.

This is a barbaric model that has been unleashed by Iran in the region under an abhorrent sectarian umbrella.

Confrontation or conflict with Iran is not a sectarian conflict nor is it a political conflict as it is always described, but a conflict between the humanitarian and civil project and co-existence in return for the brutal mission that Iran is carrying out to the region.

History bears witness to the fact that wherever Iran interfered, blood flowed like waterfalls. Iran is on a "non-human" mission.

The project of exporting its revolution calls for the capitulation of its opponents, stirring up sectarian strife, sowing ideological division and the liquidation of all leading personalities who enjoy a great deal of goodwill among their people and are quite popular in the political arena.

What is happening in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
today, and in other capitals of the Arab world, is neither just interference in the internal affairs of the Arab states, nor an occupation but an aggression, no less dangerous than the Israeli occupation of Paleostine.

Inhuman project
We are facing a non-civilized and inhumane project, an aggressive and privileged one to be allowed to remain, expand and maintain. Today, there is a dividing line and it is not permissible to compliment it.

The countries that support the Iranian project with economic, political, media and banking relations in all forms must take a very clear position because the "compliments" continue in the double message that reaches them. Countries such as Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, Leb, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
and others, all of which have influential relations with the Iranian mission, for which the whole region pays in one way or another.

The killing of Ali Abdullah Saleh does not end the conflict in Yemen. On the contrary, Yemen is a tribal society that believes in vengeance and retaliation, and it is expected that the death of the man will unite the parties in front of the common enemy, that is, the malicious Iranian mission and its mercenaries.

The coming days will witness the movement of teams to rescue their country from the occupation of Houthis and the initial reaction confirms that there is anguish and bitterness and oppression and a desire for Dire Revenge because the self-disgrace and disgrace of the Iranian media and its generosity for Yemen and its people will not be accepted by the people of Yemen.
Posted by: Fred || 12/12/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1  The same things they've been doing for the last 5000 years - only with kalashnikovs.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/12/2017 3:43 Comments || Top||


Economy
Tax-cut plan will more than pay for itself, add $300 billion in revenue: Treasury report
[Wash Times] The Treasury Department said Monday that the Senate-approved tax reform plan would pay for itself and more, actually boosting revenue by $300 billion over 10 years.

The one-page analysis by Treasury counters a congressional forecast that the tax cuts would add about $1 trillion in deficits over the next decade.

Treasury said the legislation, which cuts corporate and individual taxes, would result in $1.8 trillion in additional tax revenue over a decade by spurring stronger economic growth. Subtracting tax cuts of $1.5 trillion from the measure under current law, the administration said, adds up to a gain.

"The administration has been focused on tax reform and broader economic policies to stimulate growth, which will generate significant long-term revenue for the government," said Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin.

Treasury’s analysis forecasts annual economic growth of at least 2.9 percent, higher than the 2.2 percent estimates used by the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation.

"Treasury expects approximately half of this 0.7 percent increase in growth to come from changes to corporate taxation," the report said. "We expect the other half to come from changes to pass-through taxation and individual tax reform, as well as from a combination of regulatory reform, infrastructure development, and welfare reform as proposed in the administration’s fiscal year 2018 budget."
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/12/2017 07:56 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This will never make the news...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/12/2017 9:53 Comments || Top||

#2  No, the media is swamped (pardon the term) with news about a Bangladeshi turd who cannot make a proper homemade explosives igniter.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/12/2017 9:55 Comments || Top||

#3  So it's revenue-neutral - like The Affordable Care Act?
Posted by: Bobby || 12/12/2017 12:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Someone did some dynamic scoring on this bill? About freaking time.
Posted by: Raj || 12/12/2017 14:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Turbo-Tax hasn't seen it yet.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/12/2017 14:46 Comments || Top||

#6  More magic accounting from the gov't? Even if it is truce they will figure out how to spend 2 dollars for every dollar saved.
Posted by: magpie || 12/12/2017 17:06 Comments || Top||


Europe
Europe's war against the Jewish state
[Jpost] Europe is the epicenter of the political war against Israel. Europe fights Israel on the streets of Europe. Europe fights Israel in the corridors of power in Brussels, other Western European capitals and the UN. Europe fights Israel in Israel itself.

Europe’s war against Israel is a passive-aggressive campaign fought and denied simultaneously. But in recent years, the mask has fallen over and over again.

In the days that have passed since US President Donald Trump’s dramatic announcement that the US recognizes that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital and is beginning to take concrete steps to move its embassy to the city, Europe’s war against Israel has again become impossible to deny or ignore. Europe’s response to Trump’s announcement has been extreme, violent and more outspoken than the response of the Arab world.

...But while the Arab street was indifferent to Trump’s declaration, the European street went berserk. Thousands of protesters assembled in London and Paris, in Berlin and Stockholm. They burned Israeli flags and called for the annihilation of Israel and the murder of Jews.

Physical attacks on Jews have been an integral component of the anti-Trump riots in Europe. Saturday night a group of 20 rioters firebombed a synagogue in Gothenburg, Sweden where Jewish children were holding a party. Friday a man clad in a keffiyeh attacked a Jewish restaurant in Amsterdam with a club while screaming Allahu Akbar.

European officials have refused to call these attacks hate crimes. As they see it, attacks against Jews in the name of hatred for Israel are totally justified.

For instance, as The Jerusalem Post’s Benjamin Weinthal reported in January, a German regional court found that perpetrators of a 2014 firebombing of a synagogue in Wuppertal had not committed a hate crime. Instead, the court ruled the Arab German perpetrators firebombed the synagogue as a result of their legitimate concern over Israel’s military operations against Hamas terrorists in Operation Protective Edge.
And most of the slogans Muslims chant when marching against Israel originated in Europe.
...The EU has invested tens of millions of dollars radicalizing the Israeli Arab community in recent years. Organizations including Adalah, Baldana, Massowa, Zohrot and the Negev Coexistence Forum have indoctrinated, urged and paid Israeli Arabs to abandon their Israeli identity, view themselves as Palestinians and reject Israel’s right to exist.
And one day you Americans will discover just who funded Obama's election.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/12/2017 04:32 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
The Swamp against the People
[American Thinker] Anybody who still believes that there is no Deep State in America might recall three major Deep State rebellions against constitutionally elected administrations in recent history.

1. The Stalin period, when communists, both overt and covert, had deeply infiltrated the State Department; the White House; and, most dangerously, the Manhattan Project of DOD, which built the first two nuclear bombs. At that time, the Communist Party of the USA was directly controlled by Stalin's Comintern in Moscow, the international center for worldwide infiltration, sabotage, espionage, and agitation-propaganda aiming to destroy the United States and its allies. Stalin's Comintern was especially powerful in Hollywood, in universities and the media.

2. The Watergate period, when historically anti-communist President Richard Nixon was destroyed by a revenge campaign, combining the NYT-WaPo media axis with the FBI's Mark Felt and the Democrats (among them Hillary Clinton) to bring down the duly elected president of the U.S. by unconstitutional means.

The extra-constitutional office of the special prosecutor was made up at that time, with no constitutional warrant or standing, and indeed in direct violation of the U.S. Constitution (USC Amendments I-IV).

3. Today, we are seeing a third example of an attempted coup d'état by the Deep State and the left-controlled media, both monsters that were never imagined by the Founders. In 2016, Hillary Clinton was openly endorsed by the Communist Party USA, and Hillary never rejected that endorsement. That fact speaks for itself.

In the meantime, the corrupt media keep aiming for conservative scalps. If Roy Moore is elected to the Senate, he will be harassed and scapegoated next. That is 100 percent predictable, because for the left, the swamp, and the corrupt media, there are no credible punishments.

Today, we see another politically motivated special counsel in close cahoots with the Democratic Party and three Deep State chiefs who were recently fired by Donald J. Trump: James Comey, George Brennan, and Jim Clapper. These individuals, as well as Mr. Mueller, were appointed by Barack H. Obama, who has repeatedly expressed his open contempt for the clearly delimited powers of the U.S. Constitution.

During their years as high officials of U.S. national security and justice administration, reliable military sources reported deep infiltration of the U.S. government by Jihad War powers.

In the months after the 9/11/01 surprise terror attack by Wahhabi jihadis, which murdered more than 3,000 people in Manhattan, Pennsylvania, and the Pentagon, a CIA official expressed open support for Osama bin Laden in published books. See Michael Scheuer.

During the run-up to 9/11/01, Mr. Scheuer served as the official chief of the bin Laden desk of the CIA ‐ throughout the Bill Clinton years and into the early months of the George W. Bush administration. To public knowledge, no one has ever been fired or even punished for blatant failures to "defend and protect the Constitution of the United States" during the Jihad War.

The idea of an unaccountable Deep State in open rebellion against the Constitution of the United States and its officers and elected officials is therefore beyond any reasonable doubt.
More follows at the link.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/12/2017 05:33 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Repeal the Civil Service Act. Hire and fire at will has a remarkable ability to get people's attention.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/12/2017 6:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Swamp related.
U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras suddenly recused himself from the FBI/Michael Flynn case
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/12/2017 14:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Interesting indeed, Woodrow. I thought that looked familiar, so dropped the judge’s name in Rantburg’s search function, which revealed this. Note the honourable judge’s replacement.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/12/2017 18:46 Comments || Top||


Dear Politicially Undecided: Where is America's Political Insanity Coming From?
Posted by: newc || 12/12/2017 03:09 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sure enough this would bring Cappy's Cary-Grant-level romantic advances to a screeching halt as the object of his affection would then start to interrogate him instead of waiver between going home with him.

Dumbass.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/12/2017 5:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Dumbass.

What specifically in his article do you disagree with, and why? Is it the style or the substance?
Posted by: Phaviter Grumble1727 || 12/12/2017 8:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Telling lefty chicks he's a republican.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/12/2017 8:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Pretty well written dissection of the current state of affairs. You only have to supervise one or two recent college graduates to get a clear view of what is coming out of our universities, even in engineering and science.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 12/12/2017 9:44 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Woke Conservatives And The Awesome Power Of Not Caring
h/t Instapundit
[Townhall] Have you noticed that if you fail to do, think, and vote exactly the way that the liberals and their Fredocon minions demand, you’re a racist, sexist, homophobic, child molesting, greedy, NRA terrorist determined to murder kids? Yeah, you probably have. And you’ve probably also realized that if you do everything that the liberals and their Never Trump minions demand, you’re still a racist, sexist, homophobic, child molesting, greedy, NRA terrorist determined to murder kids.

When you understand that, you’re on your way to being conservative woke.

And when you’re conservative woke, you’re ready to deploy the most powerful non-bullet firing weapon in your liberty-loving arsenal ‐ your devastating capability not to give a damn what the liberals and their Conservative, Inc., cruise-shilling Benedict Arnold buddies say.

When you don’t care anymore, they got nothing.

What are these whiny weasels going to do to you anyway? Not like you? Think bad things about you? Taunt you a second time?

Look. Learn. Accept the harsh truth.

They hate you.

They hate you.

They hate you.

No matter how you try to please them, regardless of whether or not you comply with their every command, that will never change.

They hate you. Govern yourself accordingly.
I could change a few words and it'll be a Zionist Credo.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/12/2017 04:21 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As we would say back home:

"F**k 'em, f**k their dog, and f**k the horse they rode in on."
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 12/12/2017 10:02 Comments || Top||

#2  The left is clearly all hat and no ranch because the only hat or ranch they will ever have is given to them or taken away from those of us who have a ranch.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 12/12/2017 10:02 Comments || Top||

#3  They hate.

Everybody especially themselves.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/12/2017 11:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Fredocon = Classic
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/12/2017 14:13 Comments || Top||

#5  What the heck is a fredocon? I've looked on the search engines but haven't found a clear answer.
Posted by: Phaviter Grumble1727 || 12/12/2017 14:25 Comments || Top||

#6  What the heck is a fredocon?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYabrQrXt4A
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/12/2017 15:03 Comments || Top||



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Tue 2017-12-12
  Scores of Islamic State militants surrender to security forces in Mosul
Mon 2017-12-11
  Several injured after device explodes at New York City’s Port Authority, one arrest
Sun 2017-12-10
  Coptic pope cancels Pence meeting over Jerusalem
Sat 2017-12-09
  Ahrar al-Sham commander eliminated in Idlib
Fri 2017-12-08
  Egyptian grand mufti affirms death sentences for 13 Ajnad Misr terrorists
Thu 2017-12-07
  Houthis execute ‘thousands’ in two days: UN’s Yemen envoy
Wed 2017-12-06
  Islamist suicide plot to assassinate Prime Minister Theresa May foiled
Tue 2017-12-05
  Iranian Embassy In Sana’a Has Been Attacked
Mon 2017-12-04
  Rebels kill Yemen's ex-president Saleh
Sun 2017-12-03
  Yemen’s Saleh says ‘citizens have revolted against Houthi aggression’
Sat 2017-12-02
  Deadly Rebel Infighting Rocks Yemen Capital for Second Night
Fri 2017-12-01
  Drone strike kills at least 3 militants near Pak-Afghan border
Thu 2017-11-30
  U.S. raid kills top ISIL commander in Somalia, says Minister
Wed 2017-11-29
  200+ schools in Herat controlled by Taliban
Tue 2017-11-28
  After ISIS mass beheading, Taliban militants execute own leader in Nangarhar


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