[DAWN] Prosecutors showed a Malaysian court airport security videos on Thursday that detail the movements of four North Korean suspects who allegedly planned and helped two women now facing possible death sentences kill Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... ’s estranged half brother.
Police chief investigating officer Wan Azirul Nizam Che Wan Aziz told the court that one of the suspects, known only as "Hanamori," was believed to be the criminal mastermind of Kim Jong Nam’s death. He said security footage from the Kuala Lumpur airport showed the four men before and after the Feb 13 attack.
Vietnamese suspect Doan Thi Huong and Indonesian defendant Siti Aisyah are the only two people in jug. They pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to murder charges when their trial began Oct 2.
Wan Azirul testified earlier that the four male suspects on the lam were known only by pseudonyms. Prosecutors have said outside court that the four are believe to be North Koreans.
"My investigation howed that Hanamori played the role as the criminal mastermind of this incident," he said. Hanamori was also known as "Grandpa" or "Uncle." Wan Azirul said Hanamori arrived at the airport in the same vehicle with two others known as "Mr Chang" and "Mr Y" about 90 minutes before the attack. Security videos then showed Hanamori meeting separately with each of the men as well as a third person known only as "James" at an airport cafe before the attack on Kim.
Chang later met up with Aisyah at the same cafe, while Mr Y was seen walking around the airport with Huong near the area where Kim was attacked. The two men wore baseball caps and had backpacks. Mr Y was seen holding a water bottle, while Chang was also carrying a white plastic bag.
After the two women rubbed Kim’s face with a liquid later identified as VX nerve agent, video footage showed that Chang and Mr Y had changed their shirts and ditched their caps and backpacks. Wan Azirul said Chang had also shaved off his goatee. He said the two men then left the budget terminal in the same vehicle with Hanamori heading to the main airport terminal.
Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the congregants were being herded into the paddy wagon... James was seen heading to the Sama-Sama airport hotel after the attack. The police official said security videos showed James entering the hotel room before checking out and he later was seen at the departure hall of the main airport terminal together with the other three men.
Wan Azirul previously testified Mr Y and Chang were believed to have put liquid on the women’s hands before they smeared it on Kim’s face, and that James was the recruiter of Aisyah. Defence attorneys have said the women believed they were participating in a prank for a TV show but prosecutors have said the women knew they were handling poison.
The trial was cut short after the judge said he wanted to review the videos and will resume on Nov 6.
Aisyah’s lawyer, Gooi Soon Seng, told news hounds before the trial that she was recruited in early January by a North Korean man known to her only as James to star in what he said were video prank shows. The lawyer said James and Aisyah went to malls, hotels and airports, where she would rub oil or pepper sauce on strangers’ faces. James recorded the encounters on his phone and paid Aisyah between $100 and $200 for each prank.
James later introduced Aisyah to a man he allegedly called Chang, who introduced himself as a producer of Chinese video prank shows, Gooi said. On the day of Kim’s death, Chang had pointed Kim out to Aisyah as the next target and put the substance in her hand, Gooi said.
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[PRESSTV] Former US President John F. Kennedy was murdered in a coup d'etat by a hard-line faction of the American military and intelligence agencies with the support of Israel’s Mossad and some organized crime networks, according to an American scholar and researcher.
On Thursday, President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... allowed the release of thousands of documents related to the liquidation of Kennedy in November 1963, but delayed the publication of some "sensitive" files at the request of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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I hear the Indians are trying to send a spacecraft to the moon next year. Just sayin'.
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.....we had the hidden hand of the Israeli Mossad by the way of the CIA's Counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton, who was in fact an Israeli mole in the CIA.
Obviously John Brennan's tenure proves those Mossad trade craft skills have atrophied.
[DAWN] 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 poised to invest $1 billion in entrepreneur Richard Branson’s space-tourism and satellite-launching venture, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
The joint announcement had scarce details and described a nonbinding agreement, according to the publication, adding that the deal was announced at a three-day event organized by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund to showcase Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s vision for a tech-driven economy.
"I’m pleased to announce the intention of the Public Investment Fund (PIF) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, pending approval by the US government, to invest approximately $1 billion into our US-based space companies, Virgin Galactic, The Spaceship Company and Virgin Orbit," said Branson in a statement on the Virgin Group website.
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Muezzins and crescents and genies.
Chic shrieks of abused Lamborghinis.
On a beach with two suns,
Muslims show off their guns
And sneak peeks at wahine's burkinis.
[DAWN] French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy had his "full support" in enforcing the law in Catalonia as Madrid readies to take direct control of the rebellious province.
Catalan politicians voted on Friday to declare independence from Spain but Madrid moved swiftly to quash the breakaway bid in a sharp escalation of a crisis causing jitters in secession-wary Europe.
As thousands of pro-independence activists cheered outside, the regional parliament in Barcelona passed a resolution declaring Catalonia "a republic in the form of an independent and sovereign state".
"I have one partner in Spain, that's Prime Minister Rajoy... the rule of law prevails in Spain, with constitutional rules. He wants to ensure they are respected and he has my full support," Macron told news hounds on the sidelines of a visit to the overseas territory of French Guiana.
His Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian made it clear that La Belle France "does not recognise the declaration of independence".
Spain's constitution "must be respected," he added. "La Belle France wants a strong and unified Spain."
Earlier this week French backers of Catalonian independence offered "hospitality" to Catalan President Carles Puidgemont to lead a government-in-exile in Perpignan, a southern French city with deep Catalan roots.
La Belle France's Pyrenees-Orientales area was for centuries a part of Catalonia, only becoming French in the latter half of the 17th century.
[PRESSTV] Catalonia's regional parliament has declared independence from Spain, while Madrid immediately imposed direct rule over the region.
The independence motion was approved in the 135-seat chamber on Friday as 70 Catalan lawmakers voted in favor, 10 against. Two ballot papers were blank. The ballot was boycotted by the opposition parties: the Socialist Party, the People's Party (PP) and Ciudadanos.
Commenting on the news, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy called for calm.
"I ask for calm from all Spaniards. The rule of law will restore legality in Catalonia," Rajoy said in a tweet minutes after Catalonia’s declaration of independence.
[PRESSTV] Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has dismissed Catalonia’s president and parliament hours after the region declared independence from Spain.
Speaking in a televised speech on Friday, Rajoy said a new regional election will be held in Catalonia on December 21.
Apart from removing Catalan President Carles Puigdemont, the Spanish premier also dismissed the region’s police chief and ordered central government ministries to take over the Catalan administration.
"Spain is living through a sad day," Rajoy said, noting, "We believe it is urgent to listen to Catalan citizens, to all of them, so that they can decide their future and nobody can act outside the law on their behalf."
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in other news, generalissimo franco is still dead
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The Only movement that has a reason for separation on the radar right now is Kurdistan.
And I guess the world decided to piss me off and destroy the only chance to separate the tribes by destroying the only one that May be decent.
Well FUCK THE WORLD.
Fuck you Baghdad, and fuck you Tehran. I will always remember this in the future even if there are no Kurds left.
I will remember you thousands of years forward and thousands past and right now, I shall curse you always.
This was your one chance to show GOD you could just let people be.
Now, you have opened your showcase of fuckery to the lever that would never be needed but be that as it may - Curse you all.
I do not give a fuck if the plague sweeps you, I do not care if your wells burn. I do not care, I do not care, I do not care.
You, as of this day are on your own as Nation States with your scumbag friend Russia.
So be it.
I never asked for much but I did ask for this. A Free Kurdistan.
Actually, I demanded it.
I HATE THE ENTIRE MOSLEM WORLD AS YOUR LORD YOUR GOD. I HATE FALSE DOCTRINE AND GOAT FUCKERS.
You defied me, and I will pay you back in time for just this very act. I promise.
Not with the US or bombs, but spiritual depravity which you have just accentuated.
Your turn has cost you both Babylon and Tehran and your Children will see how you destroyed MY good works by living in the shit world you deserve.
Curse your Children. They will always be parasites just like you.
BTW
No one in Catalonia has presented a compelling case to leave the Nation of Spain.
Those idiots vote for leftists so fuck them too.
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I like the way the Brits did it with Scotland. Let them have a vote and if they want independence let them have it. But also let them know who has been paying for the dole all these years and if they go independent they will have to start paying their own way.
Spain is not important enough for me to be concerned about whether or not it is "strong and unified". As far as I'm concerned, Spain is irrelevant.
And yes, grom, if it's bad for the EU it must be good.
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I like the way the Brits did it with Scotland Let them have a vote and if they want independence let them have it. But also let them know who has been paying for the dole all these years and if they go independent they will have to start paying their own way..
According to Spengler that's the reason Catalans want to cut out - they're the ones who been paying the bills.
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Spain wants to retain Catalonia because Spain needs the money to survive. No more German checkbook bailouts. I also think that President Trump needs to stay out of Spain's internal issues. We have enough of our own.
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I also think that President Trump needs to stay out of Spain's internal issues. We have enough of our own. Posted by Alaska Paul
Just a snip, much more at the link.
[WarOnTheRocks] France’s new Strategic Review has just been published. Yes, it is a Strategic Review and not a White Paper, and the change of name is more than just an exercise in rebranding. It is shorter, more concentrated, and more concise than a White Paper ‐ the 2013 version had 136 pages developed over seven different chapters. The new Review (only available in French for the moment, but an English version is due in November) sets out France’s priorities for the next ten years, and as stated by President Emmanuel Macron in the foreword, aims at "coming up with solutions to today’s great crises, promoting [France’s] values, and protecting its interests."
Unsurprisingly, the Review starts with a description of the world we live in, depicting a volatile strategic environment and identifying current and future threats and risks. Is that anything really new? Well, yes and no: The threats are more or less the same as those featured in the 2008 and 2013White Papers ‐ terrorism, cyber-warfare, nuclear proliferation, pandemics, etc. ‐ yet they have become more pressing than ever. The context has also evolved: In the interim, Russia has invaded Ukraine, France has led two demanding interventions in Mali and the Central African Republic, and the country has been badly shaken by an unprecedented wave of terrorist attacks.
Against this backdrop, the Review cites terrorism, especially jihadist terrorism, as the most pressing threat ‐ which Macron clearly emphasized in his first speech to French ambassadors last August. This threat will not fade away in the coming years ‐ even after the defeat of ISIL ‐ and will likely reconfigure itself, extending into new regions whilst thriving "on chaos, civil war and the fragility of states." Terrorism will continue to strike against French and European populations, but this is sadly a fact of life that resilient societies will have to learn to live with.
Moreover, the Review notes that Europe and France are at this moment facing the "greatest concentration of challenges." The document adopts a 360-degree view, highlighting a series of issues. It starts with a destabilized Middle East and the conflict in Syria, continues with the resumption of war on Europe’s doorstep, and through a resurgent and aggressive Russia which endangers the European security architecture. In addition, it clearly states that other state actors such as China and Iran openly challenge the current world order, further contributing to chaos. And the Review goes on by pointing out other imminent issues: the migration crisis, persistent vulnerabilities in the Sahel region, the effects of climate change, pandemic risks, trafficking, and organized crime.
Among the worst-case scenarios, cyber has become the new asymmetric battlefield. Cyberattacks with catastrophic effects ‐ including attacks on critical infrastructure, like he attack against the French TV network TV5 Monde in 2015 ‐ are a reality, even while governments and militaries are depending on cyber for their daily business. This has led NATO (and France seems to endorse this point) to consider a cyberattack as an armed attack requiring an armed retaliatory response. This could have dire consequences, especially because of the ambiguity with which these wars are waged. More than an assessment of what is happening in the cyber domain, it underlines two key issues: first, that the basic principles of deterrence have been forgotten. Second, that there’s a missing ability to carefully assess the threshold at which a country or adversary can respond. This makes escalation, up to a nuclear strike, more likely, something that recent research has underscored. The whole "hacking requires us to bomb you in response" was the casus belli that Hillary was going to use to drag us into a big shooting war with Russia. She could have even taken us up to Defcon 1. Thank God for Trump.
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Terrorism will continue to strike against French and European populations, but this is sadly a fact of life that resilient societies will have to learn to live with.
Bullshit. Get rid of the terrorists and you get rid of terrorism. You know what I mean.
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Tell some guy who just lost his daughter because he let her go to a pop concert that he has to learn to live with it, you sniveling weasel.
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Your job is to keep us safe and you have failed in the name of some globalist ideal which has failed. May you rot in hell.
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Terrorism will continue to strike against French and European populations, but this is sadly a fact of life that resilient societies will have to learn to live with.
Or, you could go and beat the shit out of them.
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[PRESSTV] A former US Republican senator, who is also a medical doctor, has said that President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... is suffering from a serious "personality disorder."
Tom Coburn, who served the US state of Oklahoma in the House of Representatives and then the Senate from 1995 to 2015, made the comment in an interview with the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... published on Thursday.
"We have a leader who has a personality disorder," Coburn said, without elaborating on his medical opinion.
The former Republican senator, however, said that the party is not going to stop supporting the billionaire businessman, because "[Trump's] done what he actually told the people he was going to do, and they're not going to abandon him."
Coburn’s remarks came fresh after a number of senior Republicans rebuked the US president, with Senator Jeff Flake ...Republican junior senator from Arizona, elected in 2012. Prior to that he was a U.S. Representative for twelve years... launching a blistering attack on Trump, saying that his behavior was "dangerous to democracy."
"Reckless, outrageous and undignified behavior has become excused and countenanced as telling it like it is when it is actually just reckless, outrageous and undignified," Flake said. "And when such behavior emanates from the top of our government, it is something else. It is dangerous to a democracy."
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"We have a leader who has a personality disorder," Coburn said, without elaborating on his medical opinion.
This so-called "personality disorder" is called "being honest." Bad for politics, I know.
Either way, we prefer him to you. Think about that.
"It is dangerous to a democracy."
What is? Being honest, or doing what the majority wants?
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Just about anyone who runs for public office could be diagnosed as having a personality disorder. Why would a rational person go through the hassle?
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Seems to me the same can be said that all the US presidents and former candidates are suffering from a serious "personality disorder".
Really, kind of a requirement to survive the presidential selection process.
[Free Beacon] Since its launch in February of 2012, the Washington Free Beacon has retained third party firms to conduct research on many individuals and institutions of interest to us and our readers. In that capacity, during the 2016 election cycle we retained Fusion GPS to provide research on multiple candidates in the Republican presidential primary, just as we retained other firms to assist in our research into Hillary Clinton.
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Hey, when your doing research, you go to researchers.
On the other hand, I was told that Michael Jackson used to go to Chuck E Cheese's because they had great pizza.
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The entire two paragraphs are worth reading. I like this bit, too:
Representatives of the Free Beacon approached the House Intelligence Committee today and offered to answer what questions we can in their ongoing probe of Fusion GPS and the Steele dossier.
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Sounds reasonable: IF you want dirt on Republicans then ask a Democrat to muckrake for you. after you get the muck then you can decide your next action.
[Town&Country] How Spy Agencies Use American Universities To Secretly Recruit Students: Daniel Golden's new book contends that America's elite universities are a fertile breeding ground for international espionage.
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[DAWN] Police recovered a child from a religious seminary in Tando Mohammad Khan where he had been kept bound in chains, officials said on Friday.
According to initial reports, 10-year-old Abdul Ghaffar Memon, son of Mohammad Rafiq Memon, was kept by force at the Madrassah Qasmiya in Anwar Colony, Tando Mohammad Khan. The child is a resident of the same locality.
The father claimed that he had sent his child to the seminary "because he was naughty and kept running away", Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Nasim Ara Panhwar said.
SSP Panhwar said police had locked away Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! the father of the child and the head of the seminary, Maulana Sher Mohammad Rind, as they investigated the incident.
The child had been kept there for a week, she said, adding that a case has been registered at the city cop shoppe against Rind, Memon and his elder son, Abdul Jabbar.
The news surfaced after a section of media flagged reports that a child had been kept chained at a local seminary. Sindh's Inspector General of Police A.D. Khawaja had subsequently taken notice and ordered action. Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah also took notice of the reports.
It emerged later, that the boy had raised a hue and cry in the seminary, which was located adjacent to a local FM radio station. Hearing the cries, the station's staffers rushed to the seminary and freed the boy, police officials and local journalists said.
In the meantime, Tando Mohammad Khan police had also received information of the incident. They rushed to the spot and brought the boy to the cop shoppe.
The boy told local journalists that he had been kept at the seminary for several days. He said that he was kept bound in chains round the clock and would only be allowed to go to the lavatory.
Around 180 students are currently residing in the seminary for religious education, of which 30 are from areas other than Tando Mohammad Khan.
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For 17 years, the Israeli NGO IsraAID has been performing search and rescue, purifying water, providing emergency medical assistance and walking victims of trauma back to psychological health in dozens of disaster-hit countries.
But no season has been busier than this past summer and fall, its co-CEO Yotam Polizer said in an interview ‐ and nowhere more than in the United States.
Apparently, people are not spending their cash to be told by Hollywood elites (who were close associates and partners with Harvey Weinstein) that they're racist white privileged trash unsympathetic to their diverse neighbors. Go figure
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Out here they hardly advertised this movie, and when they did it was short with quick cuts and long views on only a couple kitschy scenes. Had to be quick to even notice one of the actors is Clooney, and the ad didn't mention him or anyone else.
[DailyMail] That which was created by a presidential executive order can be destroyed by another one, as President Trump's list of such things gets ever longer.
Utah Senator Orrin Hatch said that Trump called him Friday to approve shrinking two national monuments protected by Democratic presidents
Trump will follow Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's recommendation to reduce the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments
Conservation groups and tribes have vowed to file lawsuits if Trump attempts to rescind or reduce the monument designations
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Land that long ago should have reverted to a sovereign state. Strange isn't it how land east of the Mississippi didn't remain in federal hands to the amount that remains west of the Mississippi.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
North Korea
[DAWN] French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy had his "full support" in enforcing the law in Catalonia as Madrid readies to take direct control of the rebellious province.
[PRESSTV] Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has dismissed Catalonia’s president and parliament hours after the region declared independence from Spain.
[PRESSTV] A former US Republican senator, who is also a medical doctor, has said that President 
