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Top Houthi leader killed in Sanaa by unknown individuals
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
'Obstruction of Justice' – Special Agent Strzok Text Message Highlights FBI Investigative Intent…
[The Last Refuge] Since Thursday night we’ve been combing the FBI files to figure out exactly what FBI Agent Peter Strzok was referencing in one of the most recently released text messages. We have discovered the context and the text is now damning.

House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte read this specific text message on Thursday night during an interview with Sean Hannity:

At first, the context behind the September 10th, 2016, message was elusive, however it is now clear.


Posted by: Besoeker || 01/28/2018 03:22 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Tar, feathers, rope, tree, some assembly required.
Posted by: AlanC || 01/28/2018 8:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Treason and seditions charges and a grand jury are in order for these Deep Staters who illegally snooped on and plotted against a duly elected POTUS to take him down. Even Strzok said "there's no there there." So, if one of the main conspirators admits there's nothing there in the ginned-up fake dossier and Russian collusion fiction, why is this B.S. Mueller witch hunt still on-going?
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/28/2018 10:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Toss in destruction of public records and obstruction of justice as well.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/28/2018 10:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Strzok, like countless others, a victim of 'small brain' thinking.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/28/2018 12:41 Comments || Top||


Fox Exposes the Clintons in 'Scandalous' Teevee Series
[American Thinker] The excellent 7-part Fox News documentary series Scandalous, covering the scandals of the Clintons through the 42nd president’s impeachment trial in 1999, continues tonight with the premiere of part 2, "A Woman Called Paula." The hour-long program airs at 8 P.M. E.T./P.T. At 7 P.M., part 1, "Up Crooked Creek" about the Whitewater scandal, which originally aired last Sunday, will be reprised.

Fox hopes that Scandalous will be an ongoing series devoted to various political scandals in American history. The first 7 parts, devoted to the Clintons, total 280 minutes of content and go a long way towards helping to correct the largely sanitized and whitewashed record of Bill Clinton’s scandal-ridden career and presidency.

Since he left office on January 20, 2001, the mainstream media, to my knowledge, has never attempted any serious appraisals of the underside of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s eight years in the White House and their earlier careers in Arkansas. The only exception was the PBS American Experience 2-part, 4-hour presidents’ series episode about Clinton which aired most recently in 2012.

It covered Bill and Hillary’s entire career with only a minor focus on the scandals. Like most MSM appraisals of the Clintons, it reinforced the gauzy, airbrushed history of the 1990s, which witnessed the pumped up Internet dot com surge that helped to propel the temporary economic boomlet before the bubble started to burst in 2000, Bill Clinton’s last full year in office.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/28/2018 03:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A 6-part series on the Waco siege is being released. This is the siege where 76 Seventh Day Adventist Branch Davidians were killed during the 51 day stand-off. Twenty-five children were killed during the fire that engulfed the compound. This occurred during the Clinton administration. Janet Reno was the AG. I don't know whether these deaths are included in the Clinton death tally. Nonetheless, they had to kill the children to save them. April 19th WACO siege.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/28/2018 10:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Michael Corleone: 'Only don't tell me that you're innocent. Because it insults my intelligence and it makes me very angry.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/28/2018 12:56 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Home Depot's Bernie Marcus speaks truth about Dems
[Right Scoop] This is great ‐ the co-founder of Home Depot rips apart Pelosi and Schumer for downplaying the tax cut that will put money in nearly every American’s pocket.
.@HomeDepot co-founder Bernie Marcus: "Democrats, use your stupid brains. You don't have any brains." #Cavuto pic.twitter.com/HKkCx4FmCZ

‐ Fox News (@FoxNews) January 27, 2018

He’s exactly right about Dems just not understanding what normal people go through and how any money is a help when you’re living paycheck to paycheck.

I’m not sure about his prediction that they’ll lose the next election however ‐ there are a LOT of angry leftists animated by Trump’s rhetoric. But if the economy improves even more, then they’re in trouble...
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/28/2018 02:52 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Leftists want it both ways: They want the producers to carry the welfare state on their backs and the left also wants to flog and belittle the producers while they carry the load. Never occurs to the left that the producers can choose to stop producing. The economic resurgence occurring under Trump is partially explained by producers sitting out the obutthole years.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/28/2018 8:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Not very original, but what's good for Home Depot appears to be good for America.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/28/2018 12:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Every time I go to Home Depot it's so crowded I have a tough time finding a place to park. When I get inside the aisles are filled with customers and the cash registers are ringing. I think the man knows a thing or two about what he's doing.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/28/2018 14:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Chuckie "Wesley Mouch" Schumer knows everything about the market economy. At least he thinks he knows, as people like Bernie Marcus who really produce something pass him by.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 01/28/2018 18:31 Comments || Top||


If The Classified Memo Is Released, Here's What It Might Show (video)
[Daily Caller] When the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence votes to release the classified intelligence memo, according to one journalist, it will be because the committee found such disconcerting practices by intelligence officials that the public has a right to know.

Mollie Ziegler Hemingway ‐ a senior editor at The Federalist and Fox News contributor who spoke with The Daily Caller New Foundation ‐ discussed how the media narrative is collapsing with new facts showing the misbehavior of certain FBI officials. Besides not showing any collusion, we can now look back to see "inappropriate" briefings by intelligence officials of the Congress using this discredited information.

Hemingway calls the use of the dossier to obtain surveillance on Trump administration officials a "scandal of epic proportions." In addition, America is also learning of the post-election whisper campaign to delegitimize President Donald Trump.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/28/2018 02:39 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Most likely, the memo will show far more corruption and criminality on the part of former government officials and others than many who only watch the MSM knew. Violations of basic rights, charity fraud, money laundering, pay-for-play, treason, sedition, large-scale theft as in Haiti, campaign and voter fraud, election rigging, weaponizing government agencies against citizens, destruction of public records, sell-out of the country to foreign enemies, espionage, abetting human and drug-trafficking, perjury and a general disregard of our laws. I doubt the memo included all this so releasing the memo could result in an Al Capone's vault response on the part of many informed people.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/28/2018 15:05 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Conservatives are more attractive than liberals, study finds
[Independent] Hot people are more likely to support right-wing parties because they are stronger and more successful than their more liberal peers, apparently.

That's according to a study carried out by Rolfe Daus Peterson, a political scholar from Susquehanna University and Carl Palmar, assistant professor in politics at Illinois State University.

The researchers claim that never before has the effects of physical attractiveness on politics been examined on this level and that there is "good reason to believe that individuals’ physical attractiveness may alter their political values and worldviews".

They said that their findings prove attractive people tend to lean towards the right because they have better social skills and are more popular, competent and intelligent due to the "halo effect" - an idea that bias and stereotypes influence the way people judge others.

Writing about their findings in the Politics and Life Sciences journal published in December 2017, the pair said that on average, hotter people have an easier life so don't see the need for more welfare, aid and government support, unlike their left-wing counterparts.

How did the researchers come to this conclusion?
How can you not?
Using figures from two earlier surveys, the pair said they soothed concerns around the bias of attractiveness because obviously different people find different things attractive, right?

First, the scholars took figures from the 1972, 1974 and 1976 American National Studies surveys that asked those taking part to evaluate the appearance of others.

The survey also explored participants political beliefs, income, race, gender, and education. They then compared those results with the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) that examined the characteristics of over 10,000 high school graduates who were rated by others on their level of attractiveness.

Bringing everything together, Peterson and Palmer argue a connection between an individual's physical attractiveness and political beliefs could be revealed.

They went on to argue that although what people view as attractive may vary, criteria for attractiveness appears to be consistent within cultural groups, pointing to earlier evidence of what beauty is and means.

Attractive people tend to be conservative because of a 'blind spot'

The scholars said hot people lean towards the right because they grow to develop a blind spot that leads them to not see the need for more government support or aid in society - a core liberal value.

They add that attractive people don’t face the same hurdles as others as their attractiveness gains them more attention and they are more successful in social situations. Their lives are generally "easier," the pair claim.

They add:

"Even though this blind spot may not be universally held and physically attractive individuals do not always have easier lives, on average, physically attractive individuals face fewer hurdles navigating the social world."

They conclude that because of this, they expect attractive people to be more likely to support right-wing conservative parties and point to another study that concluded that conservatives are more attractive.
Hopefully TW will not pop my happy bubble.
All right, gorb dear. But I did move it to Science&Technology.
Posted by: gorb || 01/28/2018 00:59 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  More confirmation than news./sarc
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 01/28/2018 1:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Huh. I guess I must be a libertarian... and I never knew....
Posted by: Mercutio || 01/28/2018 8:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Seen in the article’s comments, a link to this, published in 2010:

Beautiful People Really Are More Intelligent: Intelligence is just as strongly correlated with beauty as with education.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/28/2018 9:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Voters prefer sane over crazier-than-a-$hithouse rat?
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/28/2018 10:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Yeah. We smell just like $100 bills.
Posted by: Iblis || 01/28/2018 12:54 Comments || Top||

#6  People that escape areas infested with welfarism are MUCH MORE right wing than average.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/28/2018 19:16 Comments || Top||

#7  Unfortunately the children of rich parents often are not.

It seems to be a correlation between emoluments and effort turns you right wing, the opposite left wing.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/28/2018 19:17 Comments || Top||

#8  What? So on average, people like me are raving Marxists? Who knew?
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 01/28/2018 19:37 Comments || Top||

#9  Seems unfair that the left is represented by Hildebeast and Mad Maxine.
Posted by: V. E. Grong6401 || 01/28/2018 21:23 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Turkey’s Syrian mercenaries: Fighting Ankara’s war in Afrin
[RUDAW.NET] In December 2016, Ankara betrayed the Syrian rebels it initially supported, forcing them to leave Aleppo to the Assad regime. Ankara kept training and paying the hapless Sunni Arab and Turkmen rebels, however, planning to use them for its own designs. Having reconciled itself, at least for the time being, with Assad remaining in power, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
preferred to deploy the "Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
" (FSA) remnants against Syrian Kurds. It first did so in places like Jarablus and al Bab, invading in August 2016 in order to prevent the Syrian Kurdish canton of Afrin from being linked up with Kobane and Jazira.
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Posted by: Fred || 01/28/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Female YPG fighters are destroying tanks by managing to get close enough to blow themselves up, destroying the tank.
Posted by: Bill Cleretle2363 || 01/28/2018 18:24 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
Army Major Exposes The "ISIS Defeat" Myth That No One Is Talking About
[Zero Hedge] Under President Obama’s watch, the Islamic State conquered a so-called caliphate the size of Ohio in Syria and Iraq. Luckily a new, "tough" president - Donald Trump - stepped in, loosed restrictions on his military, and, defeated the bad guys. At least that’s the popular story and the party line.

Of course, the ground-level truth is much messier.

If ISIS is so decisively and irreversibly defeated, how then to explain last week’s gruesome double-suicide bombing in Baghdad and expert warnings that up to 10,000 ISIS loyalists remain in Iraq and Syria?

The problem is that, even after 17 years of hard lessons to the contrary, most Americans - and administration spokespeople - insist on viewing ISIS as a linear, conventional threat. A quick look at color-coded Syria maps gives the obvious impression that ISIS as a conventional military force indeed has receded. Plentiful U.S. airstrikes, ample American advisory teams, and local Kurdish ground troops combined to devastate Islamic State’s fighters - which is a positive development.

Unfortunately, that may have been the easy part. Conventional destruction does not equate to total, ideological defeat. ISIS is as much idea as army, and such groups have proved remarkably resilient and capable of morphing into new, menacing manifestations.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/28/2018 06:14 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If I wasn't thoroughly grounded in the mental disciplines of transnational progressivism/progressive liberalism, I would begin to wonder if - maybe, just maybe - ISIS/Al Qaeda etc... are not a small group of extremists trying to hijack a great religion.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/28/2018 6:43 Comments || Top||

#2  You've always leaned a bit to the conspiratorial. You'll no doubt soon be suggesting a villainous plot is underway to extend 'Automatic Plate Number Recognition (APNR)' to humans via wrist tats or something.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/28/2018 7:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Remember, you don't have to completely defeat an enemy, but to weaken it so much that other predators in the environment ascend to dominate the territory.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/28/2018 8:27 Comments || Top||

#4  the tats will be on the foreheads, not the wrists. Gotta keep the details straight!
Posted by: Nguard || 01/28/2018 8:49 Comments || Top||

#5  NOOOO!!!! No tats on my forehead, it will clash with my bangs!
Posted by: Roth LaDoad || 01/28/2018 10:14 Comments || Top||

#6  You've always leaned a bit to the conspiratorial.

And the whole Syria thing is about Israel and SA channeling them north to Turkey.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/28/2018 12:08 Comments || Top||

#7  And the whole Syria thing is about Israel and SA channeling them north to Turkey.
Posted by Skidmark


I thought everyone knew that !
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/28/2018 12:39 Comments || Top||

#8  No tats required, check the RFID label in your shirt.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/28/2018 12:48 Comments || Top||

#9  Trump supporters, most political conservatives and many military officers point to Obama’s supposedly hasty withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq in 2011 as the impetus for the rise of ISIS. That explanation was simplistic — and, in the case of candidate Trump claiming that Obama literally "founded ISIS,” bordered on the absurd.

Army Major using the title Army Major exposed as a political hack. This guy missed the whole point that our political and military withdrawl allowed the Shia govt. to declare war on the Sunnis...and the Sunni population provided the perfect host for ISIS...an armed, pissed population willing to make a deal with the devil to fight with the Shia... Obama the enabler may not have been the founder of ISIS...but the Caliphate surely would not have been founded if not for Obama's stupidity.
Posted by: Tennessee || 01/28/2018 15:01 Comments || Top||

#10  #2 You've always leaned a bit to the conspiratorial. You'll no doubt soon be suggesting a villainous plot is underway to extend 'Automatic Plate Number Recognition (APNR)' to humans via wrist tats or something. Posted by Besoeker

It already exists...your cellphone is sitting right beside you with your own unique identification number attached...
Posted by: Tennessee || 01/28/2018 15:04 Comments || Top||

#11  I keep mine in a Faraday cage. The WiFi receptions sucks, though...
Posted by: Frank G || 01/28/2018 15:19 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
This Civil War
[SultanKnish] This is a civil war.

There aren’t any soldiers marching on Charleston... or Myrtle Beach. Nobody’s getting shot in the streets. Except in Chicago... and Baltimore, Detroit and Washington D.C.

But that’s not a civil war. It’s just what happens when Democrats run a city into the ground.

...But it’s not guns that make a civil war. It’s politics.

Guns are how a civil war ends. Politics is how it begins.

...The shadow government is an ideological network. These days it calls itself by a hashtag #Resistance. Under any name, it runs the country. Most of the time we don’t realize that. When things are normal, when there’s a Democrat in the White House or a bunch of Democrats in Congress, it’s business as usual.

Even with most Republican presidents, you didn’t notice anything too out of the ordinary. Sure, the Democrats got their way most of the time. But that’s how the game is usually played.

It’s only when someone came on the scene who didn’t play the game by the same rules, that the network exposed itself. The shadow government emerged out of hiding and came for Trump.

...This is a war over who runs the country. Do the people who vote run the country or does this network that can lose an election, but still get its agenda through, run the country?

We’ve been having this fight for a while. But this century things have escalated.

They escalated a whole lot after Trump’s win because the network isn’t pretending anymore. It sees the opportunity to delegitimize the whole idea of elections.

...America was founded on getting away from professional government. The British monarchy was a professional government. Like all professional governments, it was hereditary. Professional classes eventually decide to pass down their privileges to their kids.

America was different. We had a volunteer government. That’s what the Founding Fathers built.

This is a civil war between volunteer governments elected by the people and professional governments elected by... well... uh... themselves.

Of the establishment, by the establishment and for the establishment.

You know, the people who always say they know better, no matter how many times they screw up, because they’re the professionals. They’ve been in Washington D.C. politics since they were in diapers.

...We’re in a civil war between conservative volunteer government and leftist professional government.

The pros have made it clear that they’re not going to accept election results anymore. They’re just going to make us do whatever they want. They’re in charge and we better do what they say.

That’s the war we’re in. And it’s important that we understand that.

Because this isn’t a shooting war yet. And I don’t want to see it become one.

...What we have in America is a representative government. A representative government makes freedom possible because it actually represents people, instead of representing ideas.

The left’s identity politics only represents ideas. Nobody gets to vote on them.
Except with a gun
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/28/2018 01:42 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If you rather Listen to him, here is a link.

The crowd reacts rather well, no?
This guy is exceptional. Please listen to him.
Posted by: newc || 01/28/2018 3:37 Comments || Top||

#2  More on this war -
Jordan Peterson: “Justin Trudeau is pathetic”

More Sunday sermon I guess.
Posted by: newc || 01/28/2018 3:46 Comments || Top||


Science
All sensitive sites in the world discovered by fitbit.
By newc

Strava, an Israeli based company has released all their fitbit data from across the globe.

Including the most sensitive areas of every country posing security risks that could identify who works where.

We even see runners on the newly created Islands China made and also in Langley.

This is a problem.

Maybe they could ask Google for an overlay of protected sites but I imagine the cat is well out of the bag now.

If they like to capture data anywhere close to the way I like to, everybody knows where everybody is on this global game of chess.
Posted by: newc || 01/28/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ha ha! They'll never catch me!
Posted by: gorb || 01/28/2018 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Thanks for the cleanup.
Posted by: newc || 01/28/2018 0:23 Comments || Top||

#3  DNI

Worse

Posted by: newc || 01/28/2018 0:34 Comments || Top||

#4  You are welcome, newc. Please mark your original work in the way I did above, ok? I put the Strava link in the source box, as you’d left that blank. Finally, I put it in Science&Technology because newish technology is involved.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/28/2018 0:45 Comments || Top||

#5  Yes TW. I do not file things right and thats a problem.

I had no media source but the twitter accounts and what I looked up. Weirded out on sending everyone there.
I probably should have never said a thing but it was like Pokemon on the ranges so it is not anything new, really. Just "Harmless" IOT making the world.... really I do not know. Dangerous?
Posted by: newc || 01/28/2018 1:31 Comments || Top||

#6  My takeaway: They have traffic round-abouts in London also.

It's a plague, I tell you, a plague..!
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 01/28/2018 1:39 Comments || Top||

#7  Here is today's real challenge for DARPA and others.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/28/2018 2:36 Comments || Top||

#8  "#7 Here is today's real challenge for DARPA and others."

Something like http://www.globalgeophysical.com/ is what you seek.
Good Company but others may be more on top of it so to speak.
Posted by: newc || 01/28/2018 3:09 Comments || Top||

#9  I had no media source but the twitter accounts and what I looked up.

You did original reporting, which is fine, newc — that’s why I gave you the byline, like badanov gets for his own work. And like him, you provided a key information source. We’ll get you trained. As soon as our new moderators — Frank G, 3dc, and Glenmore, to be followed shortly by Alaska Paul and Skidmore — climb a little higher on the learning curve, we’ll write up a post on how to categorize things, ok?
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/28/2018 5:15 Comments || Top||

#10  Workflows and decision trees, I like it!
-Skidmark-
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/28/2018 12:13 Comments || Top||

#11  Oh my goodness, you've got to be kidding.

They ban iPhones from sensitive sites but let troops and officers wear their Fitbit which is essentially an iPhone on your wrist.

This is probably one of the most stupid things I've ever heard of...well maybe not the most stupid, after all these are the same geniuses who bought computers for sensitive programs from China and virus protection software from a Russian company with known ties to the KGB (what the hell do they call themselves these days?).

Yep our Cyberwarfare guys are the best in the world...gives me a nose bleed thinking about this.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 01/28/2018 13:08 Comments || Top||

#12  Congratulations, new mods and newc too.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/28/2018 14:36 Comments || Top||

#13  The Guardian
Fitness tracking app Strava gives away location of secret US army bases
Posted by: newc || 01/28/2018 18:00 Comments || Top||

#14  the first fitbit flexes don't have GPS, just accelerometers in the chip
Posted by: Frank G || 01/28/2018 18:04 Comments || Top||

#15  I guess the moral of the story is: If you are going to get kidnapped in a third world shithole, make sure you wear your fitbit?
Posted by: newc || 01/28/2018 22:19 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Sun 2018-01-28
  Top Houthi leader killed in Sanaa by unknown individuals
Sat 2018-01-27
  Taliban kill 40 63 90 95 with ambulance bomb in Afghan capital Kabul
Fri 2018-01-26
  Mosul clean up continues: 21 turbans permanently unwound, 9 more jugged
Thu 2018-01-25
  Double car bombing kills 33 in Benghazi
Wed 2018-01-24
  Two suicide attackers, Islamic State member killed as troops repel attack in Baghdad
Tue 2018-01-23
  1.5K al-Nusra troops surrounded in Idlib
Mon 2018-01-22
  Tunisian forces kill top aide of Al Qaeda leader in Maghreb
Sun 2018-01-21
  Seven Niger troops killed in Boko Haram attack
Sun 2018-01-21
  Seven Niger troops killed in Boko Haram attack
Sat 2018-01-20
  Lebanon foils ISIS plans to attack places of worship, government buildings
Fri 2018-01-19
  Deso Dogg -- Dead Again
Thu 2018-01-18
  US drone strike leaves 6 militants dead, wounded in East of Afghanistan
Wed 2018-01-17
  Wanted terrorist Abdullah Al-Qalaf killed in eastern Saudi Arabia
Tue 2018-01-16
  Deadly clashes in Libyan capital force airport to close
Mon 2018-01-15
  Israel Says It Destroys Hamas Tunnel Under Key Gaza Crossing
Sun 2018-01-14
  Islamic State affiliate claims Mali attack that injured 3 French soldiers

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