Warning...potential satire.
[The Onion] NEW YORK‐As part of its effort to provide the most comprehensive reporting possible on the freshman congresswoman, Fox News announced Wednesday the debut of a new premium television channel that will offer continuous, around-the-clock updates on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). "For an extra $8.99 per month, you’ll have an all-access pass to the AOC Zone, which features wall-to-wall coverage of every word Ocasio-Cortez utters, as well as in-depth analysis of her wardrobe and any videos we’re able to dig up from her college days," said Fox spokesperson Avery Mattison, adding that the new channel will include uninterrupted live footage of the 29-year-old representative every time she appears in public, along with nonstop commentary from a 12-person panel of experts. "We know our viewers will come to depend on this outlet for 24-hour coverage of AOC, which is why her tweets, Instagram posts, and her latest wacky policy proposals will appear in a ticker at the bottom of the screen. We’re particularly excited for the premiere of the channel’s flagship program, AOC Tonight With Tucker Carlson." Minutes after AOC Zone began broadcasting, sources confirmed its ratings had already surpassed those of Fox News.
[WashingtonPost] One of the most severe cold air outbreaks in years is possible from the Upper Midwest to the Northeast next week as the jet stream crashes south and a large lobe of the polar vortex plunges toward the Great Lakes.
Computer models forecast the brutal cold to crash into the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest starting Tuesday. The core of the frigid blast would grip the region from the Dakotas to the eastern Great Lakes on Wednesday and Thursday, sending cities such as Minneapolis, Des Moines, Green Bay, Milwaukee, Chicago and Detroit into a teeth-chattering [with some maximum temps below 0F]
freeze. much of the east has a high water table from the rainy summer and fall. Water expands when it turns to ice (and even continues to expand a bit until it hits about -40F) and all kinds of problems result.
Posted by: lord garth ||
01/24/2019
12:48 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[10 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Don't like to pay for the WaPo? Your tax dollars have already paid for The Weather Channel
Posted by: Bobby ||
01/24/2019 17:55
Comments ||
Top||
#2
The Weather Channel is not a govt agency. It is one part of a privately held corporation called The Weather Group
They use govt provided data as well as privately acquired data and produce various forecast products, some of which are broadcast..
Posted by: lord garth ||
01/24/2019 18:15
Comments ||
Top||
[AppleNews] The United States is on track to produce more crude oil and liquids than Russia and Saudi Arabia put together by 2025, consultancy Rystad Energy said on Thursday.
U.S. liquids output is expected to surpass 24 million barrels per day over the next six years, Rystad said, assuming average U.S. crude prices of $58 a barrel during the period.
[CNBC] U.S. President Donald Trump has found support from an unlikely source in Europe - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte - who told CNBC that the controversial president could be a catalyst for reform.
“The U.S. has voted and Trump is the president and maybe he will be re-elected ... so we have to work with him, and I think he is an opportunity,” Rutte told CNBC’s Geoff Cutmore at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
“He is an opportunity to make changes to some of those multilateral institutions that we hold dearly, like the World Trade Organization (WTO) which is not functioning very well. Or take the United Nations or European Union -- there are many issues to solve,” he added.
Something I noticed about #Venezuela this morning: Maduro ordered US diplomats out, but Trump refused - putting Maduro in the weird spot of perhaps forcibly ejecting them. Violating international norms to spark a reaction in order to justify intervention is a very Russian move.
#1
Trump has recognized Guaido as Venezuela President, thus not acknowledging Maduro's authority to order diplomats out. The US is not the only country to have recognized the coup - so have Canada, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia.
Back when Bernie was barnstorming thru Michigan to great effect during the campaign for Prez, people were giddy for socialism. I happened to be at a tech meetup where most of the guests were 20-30 somethings. The topics of PHP and socialism came up. (tl;dr: PHP bad. Socialism good) When I mentioned Venezuela, not one of them knew what I was talking about.
If you get your news from NPR drive-time, it just never shows up on your radar.
#5
Another reason to make orbital microwave beam weapons. We can explode people while they are giving speeches. No need to put our people at risk, just a tunable, focused emitter, some large solar panels for power and ZAP!, another one bites the dust.
[Mail] More than 100 migrants have been taken into custody after being caught on camera scaling a border wall in Arizona - one week after 376 others had dug their way in near the same location.
'On Monday #CBP #YumaSector Border Patrol agents apprehended a group of 110+ Central Americans who illegally scaled the wall with the assistance of a smuggler with a ladder,' read a tweet from the agency's verified Twitter account, posted on Wednesday afternoon.
Video shows person after person hopping down to US soil after coming over the the top of the wall from the Mexico side.
On January 14, officials said 376 Central Americans migrants entered the US illegally through holes below the structure at the Arizona border.
[CH] While Switzerland isn't the place to go if you want tropical beaches, wide-open spaces or intense political drama, it has enough more than enough going for it to be named the 'best country' in the world, according to a new survey.
For the third year running, Switzerland has come out top in the annual Best Countries rankings which looks at people's perceptions of 80 countries around the world.
The rankings are a joint project by digital news service US News & World Report, marketing company Y&R and the Wharton School, a business school at the University of Pennsylvania.
The 2019 rankings were based on a survey of just over 20,000 people comprising business leaders, ’informed elites' and the general public in 36 countries.
According to the makers of the survey, the Best Countries project is designed to help citizens, business leaders and policymakers better understand how their nations are perceived on a world scale.
Japan came in second place in the 2019 edition (up three places from last year), while Canada came third. The top ten in the 2019 rankings was rounded out by Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia, the United States, Norway and France.
Switzerland scored particularly well on metrics related to ease of doing business, quality of life and leadership in innovation.
It achieved a perfect ten out of ten for both economic stability and political stability while the public health system scored 9.7 out of ten points ‐ despite ongoing public debate over the soaring costs of compulsory health insurance premiums.
The education system was also marked highly by survey respondents, while the country got a score of 8.1 in terms of family friendliness.
In addition, Switzerland notched up full marks for access to capital and for its legal framework.
[Fortune] It’s just after 6, on a pitch-dark morning in December, and Brendan Kennedy is standing over the stove, wearing shorts and a vest, meditatively melting butter in a pancake pan. It will be nearly two hours before the sun cracks the Seattle sky, and Kennedy, toddler son in tow, already has the pensive look of a man trying hard to keep the creep of the workday ahead from encroaching on a family ritual.
See, morning is a sacred time for the 46-year-old CEO, who has two rules for starting the day: Always eat breakfast. Don’t eat with anybody but your kids. Though abiding by rule No. 2 means eating alone, if he’s on the road‐which is a lot these days, particularly since Kennedy’s company, Tilray, went public in July. In a couple of hours he’ll board his 135th flight of the year‐a stat he can tell you because his assistant, knowing how he relishes data, sends him monthly analytics on his own travel (in 2018, he flew 23% more miles than he did the year before). At the moment, though, his 4-year-old daughter, in a pink tutu, is stirring the batter skeptically from her perch atop the kitchen island. "Papa, I think you forgot the flour," she chides. Kennedy’s family moved into the new house a few weeks after Tilray went public, and he still struggles to find things in his own kitchen. He shrugs as he begins scrambling eggs and frying bacon in another pan: "My kids say pancakes are the only thing I’m good at."
[Air Cargo News] Amazon Air is expanding its network with the lease of a further 10 Boeing 767-300 freighters from lessor ATSG, with options for even more.
The move will bring the e-commerce giant’s fleet of aircraft to 50 ‐ it leases a further 20 from ATSG and 20 from Atlas Air ‐ when all the aircraft are delivered in two years.
The ten aircraft will be leased from ATSG subsidiary Cargo Aircraft Management (CAM) and operated by one of the company's airlines.
CAM will deliver five of the B767s in 2019 and the remainder in 2020. All of the leases will be for 10 years, with the possibility to extend them for up to three more years.
Amazon will also have the option to lease a further 17 cargo aircraft by January 2026 if it increases its shareholding (see details below) in ATSG.
The deal will also see ATSG extend its five-year leases of twelve B767-200F aircraft by two years into 2023, with an option to extend for up to three additional years, and its existing seven-year leases of eight B767-300F aircraft by three years until 2026 and 2027, with an option to extend for up to three additional years.
#1
Saw my first Amazon ground delivery truck the other day. I guess they figure they can reduce the big delivery cost center by moving it in house and squeezing out UPS, FedEx and the USPS. They will control the whole process of retailing using the old John D Rockefeller Standard Oil business model.
BEIJING (AP) ‐ China on Thursday said it has detained a Chinese-Australian writer for allegedly "endangering China’s national security," a vague charge frequently leveled at critics of the ruling Communist Party.
Foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying offered no details about the charge against Yang Hengjun, a novelist and online commentator, in response to a question at a daily news briefing.
"According to our understanding, the Australian national Yang Hengjun was suspected of engaging in criminal activities endangering China’s national security," Hua said.
"At present, the case is being handled according to law, and Yang Hengjun’s legitimate rights and interests have been fully guaranteed," she said.
Hua said Yang’s case was in the hands of the Beijing city branch of the national intelligence bureau, potentially raising it to a higher level of scrutiny by state authorities. She said Australia’s embassy in China had been informed of the measures taken against him.
Friends said Yang, 53, had been living in New York as a visiting scholar at Columbia University with his wife and her child and had returned to China last week. Australia raised the issue of his disappearance on Wednesday.
MILAN (AP) ‐ Europe’s human rights court on Thursday ordered Italy to pay Amanda Knox financial damages for police failure to provide legal assistance and a translator during a long night of questioning following the Nov. 1, 2007 murder of her British roommate. But the court said there was insufficient evidence to support claims of psychological and physical mistreatment at the hands of police.
The European Human Rights Court in Strasbourg, France, said in its ruling that Italy hadn’t succeeded in proving that "the restriction of Ms. Knox’s access to a lawyer ... had not irreparably undermined the fairness of the proceedings as a whole." It ordered damages that Italy must pay Knox 18,400 euros ($20,000) in damages, costs and expenses.
"Ms. Knox had been particularly vulnerable, being a foreign young woman, 20 at the time, not having been in Italy for very long and not being fluent in Italian," the court noted.
After more than seven years of legal battles and flip-flop decisions, Knox, now 31, was definitively acquitted of Meredith Kercher’s murder by Italy’s highest court in March 2015, but a damaging conviction for falsely accusing a Congolese bar owner of the murder was confirmed, leaving a cloud over her acquittal.
Satire warning
[Babylon Bee] TALLAHASSEE, FL‐Local mother Tiffany Johnson confirmed Wednesday that she immediately regretted asking for parenting advice on Facebook after her newborn baby developed a cough.
The woman requesting advice for treating a sick infant was immediately inundated with MLM sales pitches, passive-aggressive comments, and rants about "big pharma."
"What was I thinking?" she muttered to herself as a friend from church posted a lengthy rant on "gut toxicity." "I've made a huge mistake."
Johnson scrolled through the 57 comments that had been posted so far, wondering why she had ever assumed that the internet would be a good place to seek out information. From judgmental comments suggesting she wasn't a good mother for not using the exact same method that someone else said worked for them to off-topic diatribes about pesticides in our food supply, every comment confirmed that Johnson had done the exact wrong thing by going to Facebook for advice.
"You know what? Next time I'm just gonna call the doctor," she muttered, shaking her head.
At publishing time, the mother had posted that she didn't need any more input, prompting her friends and family to suggest seventeen more surefire remedies to help her daughter.
#1
Not really satire. I have read many real FB posts along these very lines. FB is the incarnation of the old joke about a billion monkeys using a billion typewriters to somehow duplicate the works of Shakespeare.
#2
I was afraid that this was going to be a real story about a woman who asked for parenting help and then had her child seized by CPS because she "couldn't cope".
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
01/24/2019 12:49
Comments ||
Top||
[People's Cube] As a Troskyite, the only way my DЭMOCЯAT Paяty fяiэиds love me is if they stand behind me with a pick axe. Nevertheless, my fяiэиds hate Vlad Pootin even more than all the Truskyites on Earth, because he knows where they live and work, and because he hates Socialism as much as that Enemy of the Peoples, Ronald Reagan, used to (after all, Socialists cannot afford Pootin's oil).
So, it is very illuminating that Pootin stated, without reading from a teleprompter, that the Amэяikaи Intэlligэиce Kommuиity channeled $400 million dollars to the Komяadэ Hillaяy election campaign. That only points to one man (Obama is not a man), Johи 'Ivaи' Bяэииaи. Could it be that Bяэииaи is a closet bourgeois (that is 'rich man', for our komrades in San Francisco)?????
What and how do you think Bяэииaи funded $400 million to Komяadэ Hillaяy?
[SpaceNews] A partial government shutdown now nearly five weeks old is affecting a growing number of space companies and organizations as well as the agencies themselves shuttered by the lapse in funding.
Much of the federal government has been shut down since a continuing resolution, or stopgap appropriations bill, funding them lapsed Dec. 22. The shutdown, now the longest on record, affects NASA, the Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Communications Commission and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, among other agencies, furloughing most of their workforce and limiting them to essential operations only.
The shutdown is hindering activities of a number of companies and organizations that work with, need information or require approvals from affected agencies. In one case, Exos Aerospace, a Texas company that has already delayed a suborbital launch from New Mexico’s Spaceport America once because of the shutdown, said it’s pushing back that launch again because of effects of the shutdown.
Continued on Page 49
A human 'heartbeat' really isn't proof of life after all ?
[Breitbart] A state judge struck down an Iowa law that banned all abortions from the time a fetal heartbeat could be detected ‐ at about six weeks of pregnancy.
Polk County District Court Judge Michael Huppert said the law was unconstitutional and would not be compliant with the Iowa Supreme Court’s earlier decisions that affirm a woman’s right to abortion.
In his opinion released Tuesday, Huppert wrote the heartbeat law’s "narrow amount of time afforded [to] women" to have an abortion was not consistent with a "fundamental right," as the state Supreme Court had ruled.
[Live Science] Our bones may be filled with previously undiscovered networks of microscopic tunnels, a new study finds.
These tiny tunnels ‐ spotted in lab mice and traces of it in one inquisitive researcher ‐ may be vital for transporting immune cells out of bones, where they are made.
In the study, researchers found hundreds of previously unknown capillaries ‐ the tiniest blood vessels in the body ‐ in the leg bones of mice. The discovery of something in mice, however, doesn't necessarily mean it exists in humans, and there can often be a long period between an animal discovery and confirmation of the findings in humans.
Not so in this case: One of the (human) researchers decided to jump-start the human studies, so he stuck his leg in an MRI machine and spotted evidence that the tiny bone tunnels might also exist in humans.
#2
Not so long ago peptic ulcer disease was thought to be due only to excess acid production in the upper gut. Now it is treated as an infectious disease.
[Rutherford Institute] "As more and more data flows from your body and brain to the smart machines via the biometric sensors, it will become easy for corporations and government agencies to know you, manipulate you, and make decisions on your behalf. Even more importantly, they could decipher the deep mechanisms of all bodies and brains, and thereby gain the power to engineer life. If we want to prevent a small elite from monopolising such godlike powers, and if we want to prevent humankind from splitting into biological castes, the key question is: who owns the data? Does the data about my DNA, my brain and my life belong to me, to the government, to a corporation, or to the human collective?"―Professor Yuval Noah Harari
Uncle Sam wants you.
Correction: Uncle Sam wants your DNA.
Actually, if the government gets its hands on your DNA, they as good as have you in their clutches.
Get ready, folks, because the government‐ helped along by Congress (which adopted legislation allowing police to collect and test DNA immediately following arrests), President Trump (who signed the Rapid DNA Act into law), the courts (which have ruled that police can routinely take DNA samples from people who are arrested but not yet convicted of a crime), and local police agencies (which are chomping at the bit to acquire this new crime-fighting gadget)‐is embarking on a diabolical campaign to create a nation of suspects predicated on a massive national DNA database.
As the New York Times reports:
"The science-fiction future, in which police can swiftly identify robbers and murderers from discarded soda cans and cigarette butts, has arrived. In 2017, President Trump signed into law the Rapid DNA Act, which, starting this year, will enable approved police booking stations in several states to connect their Rapid DNA machines to Codis, the national DNA database. Genetic fingerprinting is set to become as routine as the old-fashioned kind."
Referred to as "magic boxes," these Rapid DNA machines‐portable, about the size of a desktop printer, highly unregulated, far from fool-proof, and so fast that they can produce DNA profiles in less than two hours‐allow police to go on fishing expeditions for any hint of possible misconduct using DNA samples.
Journalist Heather Murphy explains: "As police agencies build out their local DNA databases, they are collecting DNA not only from people who have been charged with major crimes but also, increasingly, from people who are merely deemed suspicious, permanently linking their genetic identities to criminal databases."
Suspect Society, meet the American police state.
Every dystopian sci-fi film we’ve ever seen is suddenly converging into this present moment in a dangerous trifecta between science, technology and a government that wants to be all-seeing, all-knowing and all-powerful.
#1
Personally, I believe that birth certificates shouldn't be classified as legal documents till there's a verification of the DNA for anyone listed as father.
#2
Personally, I consider the short tandem repeat test they use in legal DNA definition to be a farce, but then there's always somebody willing to testify that they're an expert, so there.
The FBI once had a guy testify that he was an expert in evaluating laundry lines that show up in jeans, and could identify a masked suspect on that basis. Got a conviction.
Posted by: ed in texas ||
01/24/2019 8:36
Comments ||
Top||
#4
Thought-provoking. It could be argued that a DNA is similar to a BAC test; it is just collecting evidence. On the other hand it could be argued both are invasions of privacy.
Some years ago, as an accident reconstructionist, I was asked to obtain a DNA test in a double-fatality where both driver and passenger were "blind drunk." There was a question as to who was driving the car. They wanted me to try to establish that through concentrations of blood splatter using DNA. The attorney was trying to determine who to sue. I declined and said this was not in my wheelhouse and I didn't have the expertise. At the time, I didn't think too much about the ramifications beyond the capability of doing or not doing.
I worry that we might be heading towards living the reality of the Tom Cruise movie "Minority Report." That is, where probable cause, due process, rights to privacy and the right to not self-incriminate get tossed.
#7
TL;DR. Did they mention that we all leave samples of our DNA on our stool specimens, discarded paper cups, cigarette butts, used chewing gum, etc. etc. I sure wish someone would get one of Obama's old drinking cups for analysis. Might answer some questions.
Law enforcement and the judiciary being what they have become, we are all unindicted felons anyway. We are already a nation of suspects, regardless of the evidence or the "rule of law".
The argument that the ability to more easily I.D. "bad guys" (and "gals") with a (very) high level of confidence is compelling. But Scientia potentia est, and I don't believe that the government is here to help me.
Definitions have become subject to flexibility and "context" as re-Tweeted and "liked" on FB. This is much more than annoying.
#10
Imagine if Obama/Hillary had access to Trump's DNA and just decided to quietly make him sick and die before the election. It's quiet believable after what we have currently seen with deep state and the FBI.
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Hundreds of Irish police officers could be deployed to guard the border with British-run Northern Ireland if Britain leaves the European Union without a withdrawal pact in March, the Irish Independent newspaper said on Thursday.
The future of the border between EU-member Ireland and Northern Ireland, which will be Britain’s only land frontier with the bloc after its departure, is proving a major hurdle in the ratification of the Brexit divorce deal in London.
Citing a meeting of Police Commissioner Drew Harris with senior staff on Wednesday, the newspaper said the emergency plans were being drafted as part of discussions on a "worst case scenario".
About 600 officers could be required to man the estimated 300 border crossings along the 500-km (311-mile) frontier, it said, quoting sources.
A notice is expected to be issued next week seeking volunteers for secondments of six to 12 months, it added.
Reuters could not immediately reach a police spokesman to seek comment.
Nothing subtle about that bit of econ blackmail.
[Bus Insider] PARIS (Reuters) - Airbus warned on Thursday it could shift future wing-building out of Britain in the absence of a smooth exit from the European Union, predicting "potentially very harmful decisions" for its British operations in the event of a 'no-deal' Brexit.
In a direct appeal to Britain's divided parliament to avoid such an outcome, Chief Executive Tom Enders acknowledged there would be no immediate change in its industrial presence, but issued his sharpest warning yet that future jobs are at risk.
"The UK's aerospace sector now stands at the precipice," Enders said in a video released on Airbus' website.
"If there is a no-deal Brexit, we at Airbus will have to make potentially very harmful decisions for the UK."
The world's second-largest aerospace group employs 14,000 people in Britain, including 6,000 at its main wings factory at Broughton, Wales, and 3,000 in Filton, western England, where wings are designed and supported.
Critics of previous warnings by Airbus have cast doubt on whether the France-based group would move significant operations out of Britain, arguing Broughton is an efficient factory and that the case for staying is buoyed by a weak sterling.
German-born Enders insisted Airbus was not bluffing, adopting a more partisan tone than in previous statements.
[Bloomberg] BuzzFeed is eliminating 15 percent of its headcount across the company, the latest pullback for digital-media sites dealing with a challenging advertising market.
As it trims staff, BuzzFeed has been examining the “the evolving economics of digital platforms,” Chief Executive Officer Jonah Peretti said in a memo to employees. “We’ve developed a good understanding of where we can consolidate our teams, focus in on the content that is working, and achieve the right cost structure.”
The cutbacks are part of a wave of media layoffs. Verizon Communications Inc. said earlier Wednesday that it would be cutting about 7 percent of its digital-media operations, a business that includes AOL, Yahoo and the Huffington Post. Gannett Inc. also has been laying off journalists from its collection of newspapers.
BuzzFeed, a pioneering site that spans hard news, personality quizzes and listicle-style features and bullshit, was long seen as a way for journalism to prosper in a post-print era. But growth alone hasn’t been enough to ensure success, Peretti said in his memo.
[Complete Colorado] Denver ‐On a day created to honor the man who spoke about not judging others by the color of their skin but rather by the content of their character, Rep. Perry Buck, R-Windsor, was denied the opportunity to introduce and sponsor her own resolution honoring the late Martin Luther King, Jr. because she is white.
Buck sponsored and introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives last year while Sen. Vicki Marble, R-Fort Collins introduced it and sponsored it in the Senate.
However, this year, both women were told they would not be allowed to because they were not black, Buck said.
"This is not about you," Buck said she was told by a member of the black caucus, whom she did not want to identify. "This is about our heritage."
Buck questioned whether King would want to make this about race or unity.
"It’s just very, very sad that we can’t come together," Buck said. "It’s sad that we can’t rise together over this angry hate."
Marble was unable to be reached for comment and Rep. Leslie Herod, D-Denver, who is the Chairwoman of the Black Democratic Legislative Caucus, did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment. Complete Colorado will update if more information becomes available.
Rep. Lori Saine, R-Mead, supported both King and Buck during floor speeches on King, calling King a radical truth teller, who spoke of love.
#2
The answer is simple, any one identifying as something other than 'human' will immediately lose their citizenship and be deported to some nice rock out in the north atlantic. All their possessions will be confiscated and sold to pay any debts they owe.
#4
As the old saying goes, "Now that cancer is cured and crime and poverty are eliminated, our politicians can finally move on to the important stuff..."
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
01/24/2019 12:23
Comments ||
Top||
#5
'I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/martin_luther_king_jr_115056'
[National Review] The New York State Senate passed the Reproductive Health Act (RHA) this evening by a vote of 38-24, on the 46th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, which found that a woman has a constitutional right to abortion. The bill already passed the state assembly by a 92-47 vote.
Once signed by Democratic governor Andrew Cuomo, who has long pushed for expansive abortion-rights legislation, the bill will expand the state’s already liberal abortion regime to allow late-term abortions when "the patient is within twenty-four weeks from the commencement of pregnancy, or there is an absence of fetal viability, or the abortion is necessary to protect the patient’s life or health."
The legislation provides a further exception to permit abortion at any point during pregnancy if a health-care practitioner deems it necessary for the mother’s life or health ‐ the exception that was defined in Roe companion case Doe v. Bolton as "all factors ‐ physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman’s age ‐ relevant to the wellbeing of the patient." In other words, abortion will be available to women essentially on demand up to the point of birth. The RHA will also decriminalize abortion, moving it from the state’s criminal code to the public-health code.
Earlier this month, Cuomo said he hopes to put abortion rights on the ballot next year and have expansive protections for abortion, similar to the RHA, written into the state constitution. Here’s more from Katie Yoder’s reporting on the bill at NRO earlier this month:
[Babylon Bee] ALBANY, NY—As the New York State Senate voted to legalize abortion until the moment of birth, remove legal protections for late-term unborn babies, and allow anyone with a pulse to perform abortion procedures, witnesses claim a demon lord was clearly visible in the gallery cheering on the decision.
"This dude in a dark cloak appeared in a flash of fire and started cackling and stuff," said one woman who also applauded the decision. "We thought maybe we should call security, but then we saw he was cheering right along with us, so we decided that he can't be all that bad."
The demon lord solemnly applauded as legislators passed the historic legislation, in which a human being can be murdered even though he or she has fully formed organs and can feel pain.
"We've been pushing for this legislation for a long time," the evil overlord told reporters after the session. "It just goes to show when you believe in your cause, scream loudly about it, ignore basic biological facts, and pray to Satan, you too can get people to cheer on the senseless slaughter of babies."
The demon lord then departed as he had pressing business to attend to at Planned Parenthood's headquarters.
#5
Evil Incarnate. How about this.. In order for this to take place, the baby will be delivered 24 hours prior to birth. The mother will then be required to perform the "procedure". You want the blood of innocents on your hands? So be it.
#7
Murder is now permitted in New York! Some smart lawyer needs to ask if you short the woman going in for a 9th month abortion if it would be charged as one homicide or two.
#11
Texas should pass a law that for every abortion in the state, the state must execute 10 criminals. If we run out of criminals, then we can use Antifa.
[PJ] Since taking over the House, Democrats have promised to open the investigation floodgates. If Donald Trump or anyone in his administration ever so much as misplaced a paper clip, you can be sure there would be hearings. When the Mueller probe reveals that there is no evidence of Russian collusion, they will start their own investigation, no doubt. Their main objective is to make sure Trump is not reelected, and in the meantime, they will do everything they can to make it impossible for him to govern. To them, that is called transparency and accountability.
But when the tables are turned, and the real crimes and abuses of power by Democrats are suddenly in the crosshairs of Republicans with a thirst for accountability... well, there’s outrage:
New tensions are flaring on the Senate Judiciary Committee over plans by newly minted Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to dig into Obama-era scandals.
Graham, a close ally of President Trump’s, has outlined several areas he wants to probe now that he has the Judiciary Committee gavel.
They include the FBI’s handling of its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant applications targeting former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), asked about Graham’s plans, started laughing and compared them to the "thrilling days of yesteryear."
"This is going to be like the History Channel it turns out. Instead of taking a look at the current issues, Lindsey Graham wants to go back and answer important questions about the Bermuda Triangle and Hillary Clinton," Durbin told The Hill.
Durbin said he was "concerned" about Graham’s plans but quipped that "you know there is that question about Jimmy Carter which he probably wants to ask."
Democrats may dismiss Graham’s plans as pointless, but deep down don’t believe for a second they’re laughing. We all remember Graham’s epic smackdown of the Democrats’ actions during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings. I’m sure Graham is legitimately miffed that Obama and Hillary have managed to avoid accountability for their illegal actions, so there are really only two possible motives here. The first is that he really wants to see Obama and Hillary get what they deserve. The second possible motive is that Graham wants to hold these investigations over Democrats' heads as a bargaining chip and keep them from abusing their investigative powers as a means to tie Trump’s hands for the next 2-6 years and make it impossible for him to govern.
The big difference between congressional Democrats and Senator Graham is that Graham wants to investigate legitimate scandals. Consider the facts: Even though the BuzzFeed story about Trump directing Michael Cohen to lie to Congress has been proven to be fake news, Democrats still want to investigate it!
#3
Former NSA Chief, Admiral Michael Rogers. Yes, this is the fellow (along with Former Congressman Mike Rogers) we never hear from. They never write, they never call.
Unless Graham's proposed investigation is another Trey Gowdy bridge to nowhere, I suggest he start with these fellows.
#4
It's not about misplaced paperclips or holding investigations over Democrats' heads as a bargaining chip. It's about abuse of power, illegal spying on citizens and candidates for political advantage, election-rigging and trying to frame a duly elected president and sedition and treason. It's about a 2-tier system of justice; one for Washington elites and one for the "deplorables."
Congress, start doing your damned job and quit being silly asses.
[NYP] US officials say they will not withdraw diplomats from Venezuela in three days ‐ despite President Nicolas Maduro ordering them to do so after the Trump administration recognized an opposition leader as president of the country.
"The United States does not recognize the Maduro regime as the government of Venezuela," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement Wednesday night. "Accordingly the United States does not consider former president Nicolas Maduro to have the legal authority to break diplomatic relations with the United States or to declare our diplomats persona non grata."
The announcement comes after the Latin American country descended into chaos on Wednesday, with a sea of protesters taking to the streets of Caracas to call for Maduro to step down.
Opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself the interim president amidst the demonstrations ‐ and the Trump administration recognized him as the leader of the country.
Maduro responded on Wednesday by saying Venezuela is severing ties with the United States and ordering all US diplomats out of the country in the next 72 hours.
"The United States will take appropriate actions to hold accountable anyone who endangers the safety and security of our mission and its personnel," Pompeo warned in his statement.
#1
We're asking for trouble on this one. Let them sit it out at the US Mission in Bogota, Colombia. The US recognizing (non-elected) opposition leader Juan Guaidó as interim president ?
[NYP] As the number of extremely wealthy people worldwide has grown, so too has the market for private flights.
Despite global warming being one of the major issues discussed at Davos every year, some 1,500 private jets are expected this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, according to an estimate from Air Charter Service, up from 1,300 last year. "We have had bookings from as far as our operations in Hong Kong, India and the US," Andy Christie, private jets director at ACS, said in a statement. "No other event has the same global appeal."
"There appears to be a trend towards larger aircraft, with expensive heavy jets the aircraft of choice," Christie said. "This is at least in part due to some of the long distances traveled, but also possibly due to business rivals not wanting to be seen to be outdone by one another." Over the past five years, most private jets have come from or are going to Germany, France, the UK, the US, Russia and the United Arab Emirates, he added.
PrivateFly.com, a private jet service, expects between 1,200 and 1,500 private jets in and out of local airports around Davos, double the average daily volume of flight traffic to the area. "The primary airport used by private jet customers flying to Davos is Zurich Airport. This is 91 miles away, or 1 hour 45 minutes by road. So some visitors will also charter a helicopter for a faster transfer time," the company said.
Air travel comes with a hefty carbon footprint, generating greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change. Davos attendees will have an opportunity to discuss that issue in depth, with "Safeguarding Our Planet" the title of one of the panel sessions scheduled for Tuesday. "The World Economic Forum Climate Initiative provides a global platform to help raise ambition and accelerate climate action," according to the WEF. "Public- and private-sector collaboration is essential to create a marketplace that will enable dramatic reductions in emissions and build resilience."
[St. Louis Post Dispatch] ST. LOUIS • As a French diplomat pinned his country’s most distinguished medal to Alfred C. Villagran’s chest, the World War II veteran thought of the five men in his B-17 bomber crew who were killed in combat.
"I think they would be very proud of me," said Villagran, who was 19 when he served in the Army Air Forces as a B-17 radio operator and gunner. "But I like to think that I accepted this not only for myself but for all the guys that fought for France and Western Europe. There are a lot of deserving guys who didn’t make it back."
At 95, Villagran, of Chesterfield, was the youngest of three men and World War II veterans France awarded the Legion of Honor on Wednesday at Soldiers Memorial.
The French also gave Eugene J. Harmack, of Kirkwood, and Glenn A. Harrison, of O’Fallon, Mo., the honor, which was started in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte. Both men are 98.
[St. Louis Post Dispatch] France has been giving the award to veterans in America’s "Greatest Generation" for their aid in liberating the country from Nazi occupation. Past recipients include President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gen. Douglas MacArthur and hometown aviator Charles Lindbergh.
"Without these three gentleman here today, the French flag ‐ that was flying in St. Louis in the early 19th century ‐ would not be flying here today," Guillaume Lacroix, consul general of France for the Midwest, told an audience of more than 200 people, including dozens of the veterans’ family and friends.
#1
I have a distant ancestor who migrated from Burgundy in 1737 to help start an iron works in Quebec. In 1944 one of his descendants parachuted over St. Mere-Eglise with the 82nd Airborne, returning to liberate the old country with steel from the new country.
[Townhall] Police departments across the nation have been struggling to convince communities they protect that deadly use of force is not unduly influenced by race through the Trayvon Martin "stand your ground" shooting, the days of protests in Ferguson, MO., and possibly even as far back as the LA riots that followed the arrest of Rodney King in 1991.
The latest push to scale back the ability of officers to employ deadly force comes from New Hampshire where a new bill is expected to be voted on this month that could revoke officers’ right to use deadly force during arrests.
In Washington state, Community Police Commissions have been set up for some time to police the police, as it were. They have stirred controversy by attempting to change the legal definition of "deadly use of force" to make it easier to prosecute officers who find themselves faced with circumstances where they had to use it.
Police departments have pushed back on these efforts, saying they will make it much harder for officers to do their jobs effectively and may unnecessarily put them in harm’s way. In a 2018 Pew Study of 8,000 officers, 86 percent said they believe the public "does not understand the risks and challenges of their jobs, even though 83 percent of U.S. adults rated officers’ jobs as very risky."
It’s these misunderstandings that Bryan Patterson and Bruce Thayer of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund (LELDF)in Virginia hope to address with a use of force simulator program they offer to journalists and community members interested in knowing the kind of pressure and intense decision-making officers face when put into potentially life-threatening situations.
The mission of LELDF, according to their website, is to "support and defend the law enforcement profession and those law enforcement officers who have devoted their lives to upholding the Constitution and serving the United States and its citizens while enforcing its laws. We also seek to educate the public about the many risks and threats to law enforcement personnel in order to build a more informed, respectful, and appreciative society."
#2
Make every weasel politician go through 10 live simmuntion deadly force scenarios that include physical violence. Oh...you have to get all 10 right before yo can vote on this.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy ||
01/24/2019 8:36
Comments ||
Top||
#3
It's all about 'entitlement class' exemption from the blue eyed devil's rule of law. Western culture must adapt to tribal culture. Why can we not get with the program ?
[American Thinker] Real women know how to handle toxic masculinity without feminist and radical lawyers organizing silly marches wearing pink pussy hats. Real women were laughing at these so-called well-educated females who marched with disdain against the newly elected president whom many real women voted for. Under the banner of women’s rights many young women are marching in ignorance of history. Women’s rights were secured by real women in the 20th century. The rights that today’s feminists are fighting for are sheer evil; the rights to kill innocent full term unborn babies.
Looking over the vulgar signs at the women’s marches across the nation and comparing them with the life affirming uplifting signs at the right to life march was not only illuminating but downright depressing. The women’s march had a young pre-teen girl holding a sign that read, "Pussy grabs back" while grinning as if she knew what that sign meant. At the RTL march, a young girl around the same age held a sign that read, "My cousin has Down’s syndrome. He is perfect in God’s eyes and mine."
I asked my millennial daughter what she thought of the women’s marches and she answered, "They are so dumb. You can’t call them ’the women’s march’ if they don’t allow all women to march." Everything about the women’s marches, the signs, the speeches are all fake. They espouse the pro-choice mandate but they only accept the choices that meet their agenda. God forbid a woman chooses to stay at home and raise her children, to oppose abortion or regard marriage as a sacrament between a man and woman. If a woman chooses to be Jewish and support Israel, she will not be welcomed at these left wing events.
[The Hill] Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) in a new interview with Bloomberg News opened up about her past experiences with assault, alleging she experienced attacks at the hands of her ex-husband and a boyfriend in college.
Ernst during the interview addressed the allegations, publicized this week in court documents, that her husband physically assaulted her during an argument years ago.
The Iowa Republican, a prominent ally of President Trump, also during the interview said that she was raped by an abusive ex-boyfriend in college at Iowa state University.
Ernst told the outlet that her unnamed boyfriend in college was "physically and sexually abusive." She said that he raped her at his home one night, and then later threatened to kill himself if she broke up with him.
[Free Beacon] The Trump administration is locked in a diplomatic push to convince European allies to ban a major Iranian state-controlled airline known to be engaged in illicit transport and espionage operations, according to U.S. officials who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon.
Germany's decision to ban Iran's Mahan Air‐a state-controlled entity known to carry out clandestine military operations on the Islamic Republic's behalf‐is being viewed as a diplomatic coup by the top U.S. official in Berlin and is said to be generating support for expanding this ban across the European Union, a move that would deal a severe blow to Tehran's international reach, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
The ban on Mahan has been in the works for months, according to senior U.S. officials, who told the Free Beacon the airline is complicit in the Iranian regime's spying and military operations. Efforts to crackdown on Mahan follow a similar pressure campaign by the Trump administration to prevent Iran from airlifting out of Germany millions of dollars.
U.S. officials familiar with the ongoing diplomatic matter described Iran as trying to airlift several planeloads of cash out of Germany, a major cash influx that could have aided Iran's expansionist foreign policy goals, including its operations in Syria, Yemen, and other regional hotspots.
The amount was so large that Iran attempted to use multiple planes to airlift the cash, an effort that was recently stopped in no small part by top U.S. officials stationed in Germany, sources said.
The next leg of the administration's diplomatic push will focus on convincing France and other leading European countries to also enact a ban on Mahan as part of a wide-ranging national security readjustment aimed at collapsing Iran's illicit financial and military channels, officials said.
The United States pursued and cracked down on Iran's efforts to fly the cash out of Germany immediately, officials confirmed.
Posted by: Besoeker ||
01/24/2019
02:34 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[6 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Iran
[Private Papers] Victor Davis Hanson // National Review
Since the media would doubtless answer that loaded question, "It depends on the president," let us imagine the following scenario.
Return to 2008, when candidate Barack Obama had served only about three years in the U.S. Senate, his sum total of foreign policy experience. And he was running against the overseas old-hand, decorated veteran, and national icon John McCain‐a bipartisan favorite in Washington, D.C.
During the campaign, unfounded rumors had swirled about the rookie Obama that he might ease sanctions on Iran, distance the United States from Israel, and alienate the moderate Arab regimes, such as the Gulf monarchies and Egypt.
Stories also abounded that the Los Angeles Times had suppressed the release of a supposedly explosive "Khalidi tape," in which Obama purportedly thanked the radical Rashid Khalidi for schooling him on the Middle East and correcting his earlier biases and blind spots, while praising the Palestinian activist for his support for armed resistance against Israel.
#2
FBI run the country? That did not go so well when they tried. Absolutely not--unless you want a police state such as the former East German Stasi. Moreover, unelected members of bureaucratic agencies should not be allowed to abuse their power by weaponizing their agency Americans (e.g. IRS, BLM, EPA, DOJ and others).
[National Review] Special Counsel Robert Mueller recently indicted yet another peripheral character in his Trump probe, Russian attorney Natalia V. Veselnitskaya, for alleged money laundering in a matter quite separate from Trump.
Like almost all of Mueller’s indictments of the past 20 months, the charges against Veselnitskaya had nothing to do with his original mandate of finding any possible Trump‐Russia collusion. No matter; within minutes, Veselnitskaya’s name was injected into the media cycle as if the fact that she was Russian and connected to the name Mueller were de facto proof that Trump was guilty of something ‐ if not collusion, something worse.
If Mueller was not a special counsel, and if he was not looking for anyone deemed useful to flip to find dirt on Donald Trump, then Veselnitskaya would have been just another daily Washington foreign influence-peddler being courted with impunity by her American influence-peddling and often equally suspect counterparts.
To date, in almost every one of his indictments of Americans, Mueller has gone after Trump staffers, often quite minor, for alleged crimes that either were committed well before Mueller began his investigations, or came as a result of plea bargaining in exchange for providing expected dirt on Trump, or were the result of government surveillance or the use of government informants, or all of that and more. And all that sensationalism, through leaks and insinuations, was packaged by the media as "bombshells" and "watersheds" and "turning points" ad nauseam for 20 months.
When Mueller indicted and obtained a confession from Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national-security adviser, it followed from an elaborate perjury ambush set up by the now fired, ethically conflicted, disgraced, and perhaps soon to be indicted deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe. McCabe sent the now fired, ethically conflicted, and disgraced agent Peter Strzok to interview Flynn ‐ a process overseen by the now fired, ethically conflicted, and disgraced James Comey. And even then, Mueller seemed to be the beneficiary of leaks from someone in the Department of Justice who sent to the media elements of surveillance transcripts of Flynn’s conversations.
#1
VDH Conclusion: In America, there is still an idea of equality under the law. But Mueller has taught us that whether you go to jail for perjury, illegal leaking, lying to federal investigators, destroying key evidence, obstructing a federal court, or trying, as a foreign citizen, to warp the outcome of a U.S. presidential election, all depend entirely on the particular agendas of a particular prosecutor, not the law per se.
[Fox News] President Trump announced on Twitter late Wednesday that he will deliver a "great" State of the Union address after the partial government shutdown is over, ending a tense day in Washington where Republicans criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for blocking the president from giving the speech.
Pelosi told Trump that the House won't approve a resolution allowing him to come to Capitol Hill until the government reopens.
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a close Trump ally, said Pelosi's action "sets a new low for American politics." He called Pelosi's decision "absurd, petty and shameful," adding: "The judgment of history will not be kind."
Trump said he is not going to look for an alternative venue due to the long tradition of the speech being delivered in the chamber of the House of Representatives.
Pelosi told Trump in a letter Wednesday that the Democratic-controlled House would turn down a measure for him to deliver the speech. Trump slammed Pelosi and called the decision a "great blotch on the country that we all love."
White House officials told Fox News they were preparing for two tracks for next week's speech. The preferred track is an address at the Capitol. The second track is a backup plan for a speech outside of Washington, D.C. More at link
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance ||
01/24/2019
00:26 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[4 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
So the Trumper Thumper rolled over? Or has he something clever in mind?
Posted by: Bobby ||
01/24/2019 0:49
Comments ||
Top||
#2
I suspect that Trump is picking his battle!
IMO, Pelosi is a person who's bat sh*t crazy to begin with so not really worth fighting with. By giving in now, it takes the wind out of Pelosi 'fight' and leave her with a hallow victory.
I would never bet against the Don, he's a master at this game.
#3
The passive Right lost the ability to project righteousness even when defending core American principles, and indeed the pillars of Western civilization, like the presumption of innocence. The Left openly demands we sacrifice those things for their crusades.
#6
Probably a calculated move. Let the market and economy pick up a bit more. Bring home a few more troops and leave room for a limited declaration of national emergency. Conduct a NORK summit in Vietnam. Move the State of the Union a bit closer to the upcoming election.
I can almost see Darth Bolton, Mark Meadows, Kushner, Conway, and Pence nodding in approval.
#9
Agree with #2. Gives up nothing and again shows he is willing to bargain. The Demorrhoid base is beginning to crack and wants to negotiate,
this will help it along.
I'm all for sticking to a course of action but it makes you predictable. Keep them on their heels and look for the opportunity to deliver the haymaker.
#10
US Constitution Article II, Section 3: (The President) "shall from time to time give to the Congress Information on the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient;"
It doesn't specify when, how often, where or how; historically it was by letter sometime in the first part of the year. As mass communications developed it effectively became a media campaign event.
Trump said he is not going to look for an alternative venue due to the long tradition of the speech being delivered in the chamber of the House of Representatives.
Traditions and norms have been trashed for some time now, and that process has sped up and ramped up in recent years.
Respecting traditions and norms is a fine thing if both sides do so; otherwise you're playing a mug's game where the rules are a shackle for one side and a cudgel for the other.
[PULSE.NG] Heavy losses for jihadist and militant groups in Syria and Iraq fuelled a 33-percent drop in global terror attacks in 2018, with fatalities falling to a 10-year low, defence analyst Jane's said Wednesday.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[5 views]
Top|| File under:
[PULSE.NG] German prosecutors Wednesday announced child rape and murder charges against a rejected Iraqi asylum-seeker in a case that fuelled a heated debate about immigrant crime.
The accused in the "Susanna case", 21-year-old Ali Bashar, had fled Germany after the crime for northern Iraq but was extradited in a mission joined personally by federal police chief Dieter Romann.
Bashar is accused of beating, raping and then strangling to death schoolgirl Susanna Maria Feldman, 14, in a wooded area near his refugee shelter in the city of Wiesbaden last May 23.
Earlier he had also allegedly twice raped an 11-year-old girl -- once in April 2018 after locking her in his room, and again near a supermarket carpark the following month.
Prosecutors also laid charges against an Afghan youth who was living in the same refugee shelter, Mansoor Q., who was believed to be aged at least 14 at the time, for also raping the 11-year-old girl.
Prosecutors said Ali Bashar's younger brother -- who is believed to be in Iraq, according to media reports -- had also taken part in a violent sexual assault against the younger girl.
Following a public outcry over Susanna's death, German federal police hauled Bashar back from Arbil, northern Iraq, where he had been locked away Book 'im, Mahmoud! by local Kurdish security forces.
Despite the absence of a formal extradition treaty between Iraq and Germany, Bashar was put on a flight to Germany, with pictures of him disembarking under heavy police guard making front pages.
Bashar had first arrived in Germany in 2015 along with his parents and five siblings.
This article starring:
Ali Bashar
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists
Being a product of my age, the word "nurse" looks odd to me. The perp is in fact male.
[FOXNEWS] A licensed practical nurse who was supposed to care for a woman in a vegetative state at a long-term Arizona nursing facility was arrested and charged with raping her after she gave birth to a baby last month, officials announced Wednesday.
Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams said at a news conference that 36-year-old Nathan Sutherland was arrested and will be charged with one count of sexual assault and one count of vulnerable adult abuse for the incident at the Hacienda Healthcare facility in Phoenix.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[4 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Shades of ‘Kill Bill’.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike ||
01/24/2019 0:20
Comments ||
Top||
#2
Being a product of my age, the word "nurse" looks odd to me
The headline definitely looks odd, and should have read, "Male nurse arrested &c"
#4
Thank goodness it is the end of the Stupidity Subsidy.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
01/24/2019 9:38
Comments ||
Top||
#5
Soon, the Palestinians will have no money at all for food, medicine, fuel, electricity, schools and other necessities. The only money that they have left will barely cover weapons and ammunition.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
01/24/2019 12:39
Comments ||
Top||
#6
Because paying them to NOT be murderous assholes has worked so well
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 ||
01/24/2019 14:11
Comments ||
Top||
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) recently killed a high-ranking foreign jihadist commander in the southern countryside of the Idlib Governorate.
According to Sputnik Arabic, the Syrian Arab Army killed the leader of the terrorist group "Ajnad al-Kavkaz" (Soldiers of the Caucasus) during a fierce battle in southern Idlib.
The commander of Ajnad al-Kavkaz, Abu al-Bara al-Kavkazi, was said to have been killed when his forces stormed the Syrian Arab Army’s positions near the Abu Dhuhour Miilitary Airport in southern Idlib.
Local sources said that Abu al-Bara al-Kavkazi was first transferred to a medical center in Khan Sheikhoun after sustaining critical wounds.
He would later be pronounced dead after the doctors failed to revive him.
The jihadist ringleader had participated in several previous battles against the Syrian Arab Army, including the Jaish al-Fateh ...Army of Conquest coalition includes Ahrar al-Sham, Jabhat al-Nusra, Fath al-Sham, Ihyaa al-Jihad Brigade, Mujhedi Nawa, Asoud al-Tahid Brigade, Ansar al-Haqa Brigade and the Islamic brigade of al-Omarein, of which three are affialiated with al-Qaeda. It is or has been supported by Saudi Arabia and Turkey... offensive in the Idlib Governorate in the Spring of 2015.
Ajnad al-Kavkaz is a Chechen-led rebel group that is currently active in northern Syria, primarily in the mountainous, forested areas of the Latakia Governorate.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[9 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Syria
[PULSE.NG] Her train journey from Sweden took 32 hours, but Greta Thunberg is not tired. The teenager is dead-set in her mission to persuade the global elite in Davos to take climate action.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[4 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
"Sure lady, just step right into this booth right here and make the selection of your choice. I recommend slow and painful. Enjoy your sacrifice for the planet!"
I mean, if they are serious, why aren't they offing themselves?
#8
I seem to recall that air travel is actually pretty fuel efficient. Corrections welcome.
For real virtue signaling, Creepy Kid should have traveled by ox cart.
#10
Environmentalists that want to actually change things should make a very good case for that change and provide a reasonable solution, and folks will change. They want to do good.
Examples: Save the dolphins eat albacore instead.
McDonald's Styrofoam packaging. Stopping the pull-top pollution. Heck litter in general.
Yeah you actually have to have a good case, and a solution, the top down force the peasants to change isn't gonna cut it.
[10News recycles AyPee] Don't patronize/visit/spend any money at all in Bezerkeley
Patrons of restaurants and coffee shops in Berkeley, California, who don't bring a reusable cup for their beverage will have to pay a 25-cent fee for a disposable cup as part of an ordinance approved by city officials to eliminate restaurant waste.
Berkeley's City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to approve the fee on single-use cups, which will take effect January 2020
"The goal is to transition Berkeley from throwaway to reusable food ware, to incentivize people to bring their own cup," said Councilwoman Sophie Hahn, who proposed the ordinance with Mayor Jesse Arreguin.
Restaurants would keep all proceeds, and it would be up to them to decide what to do with the extra money, Hahn said. She said it could be invested on more environmentally friendly food ware.
The ordinance also requires restaurants to provide takeout containers that are compostable by mid-2020 and to provide only reusable plates and utensils for those eating in. It also says other disposable items, like lids and stirrers, can only be offered when requested.
The single-use cup fee is the latest effort in the socially forward city to reduce waste. Bans on plastic bags received support in the city of 100,000 long before California imposed its own ban in 2014.
This article starring:
Jesse Arreguin
Sophie Hahn
Posted by: Frank G ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[3 views]
Top|| File under: Commies
#1
I can't wait for the lawsuits over who is at fault when someone gets food poisoning.
#4
At our Texas place we have no garbage service and generally pack it back to Louisiana when we return every few weeks. So we compost what we can, burn what we can of the rest, take aluminum to the Church recycling bin (it's the only recycled product in the area) and pack out about one contractor bag of bottles & steel cans etc.
#5
In the future everyone will carry around their own drinking receptacle, plate, knives & forks and such. Restaurants will adapt but won't drop the prices. Environmentalists will still not be happy of course.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday morning that the current situation in the Idlib province is cause for concern, as its instability is a threat to Russia’s Hmeimim Airbase in neighboring Latakia.
"The current situation around Idlib is of serious concern. The situation in this de-escalation zone is rapidly deteriorating. The territory has actually been taken under the full control of bandidosLions of Islam from the al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... alliance Hayat Tahrir al-Sham ", Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday, adding that the provocations posed a serious danger to civilians and Syrian troops in the area, as well as to the Russian Hmeymim Airbase, Sputnik News reported.
Earlier this month, the jihadist rebels of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham seized most of the province from the Ottoman Turkish-backed National Liberation Front ...the Turkic paramilitaries intended to replace with their native jihadi ferocity all the highly trained Turkish soldiers Sultan Erdogan I the much beloved has jailed in the last few years for not worshipping the ground he walks upon. The Uighurs and so forth who did not join Al Nusra or ISIS seem to have ended up here... .
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[9 views]
Top|| File under: al-Nusra
[PULSE.NG] Basuki Tjahaja Purnama -- the Indonesian capital's first non-Moslem governor in half a century and its first ethnic Chinese leader -- had been a popular politician who won praise for trying to clean up the traffic-clogged megacity and clamp down on corruption.
But his downfall came quickly after comments he made on the campaign trail during a re-election bid saw him accused of insulting Islam.
His filmed remarks which went viral online sparked mass protests in Jakarta, spearheaded by radical groups opposed to a non-Moslem leader and encouraged by his political rivals.
He lost the election to a Moslem challenger and was then sentenced to two years' jail in May 2017.
It was an unusually harsh sentence -- prosecutors had only recommended probation for the now 52-year-old, best known by his nickname Ahok.
His case drew international headlines and a wave of criticism including from the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... which urged the country of 260 million to revise its decades-old blasphemy law.
The charge against Purnama centred on a remark he made to voters about his Moslem rivals using a Koranic verse to trick people into voting against him, which judges ruled amounted to blasphemy against Islam.
The huge demonstrations calling for Ahok's jailing fuelled concerns about the growing influence of religious hardliners and that the Southeast country's much-vaunted tolerant brand of Islam was under threat.
Indonesia's blasphemy law states that anyone found guilty of "expressing feelings of hostility" towards religion can be enjugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! for up to five years.
It applies to any of six officially recognised religions, including Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism, but most prosecutions are brought against people accused of blaspheming Islam, which is followed by nearly 90 percent of the population.
Among them was an ethnic Chinese Buddhist woman found guilty in August of insulting Islam for asking her neighbourhood mosque to lower its sound system. She was sentenced to 18 months in jail.
The woman's comments about the mosque noise triggered riots in 2016 that saw angry Moslem mobs ransack Buddhist temples.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[6 views]
Top|| File under:
[DAWN] The Supreme Court on Wednesday accepted the appeal of Khadija Siddiqui ─ a law student who was stabbed 23 times in Lahore in 2016 ─ and overturned the Lahore High Court's 2018 acquittal of Shah Hussain, ordering his immediate arrest.
Siddiqui had accused Shah Hussain of attacking her on May 3, 2016, near Lahore's Shimla Hill where she, along with her driver, had gone to pick up her younger sister from school.
A judicial magistrate on July 29, 2017 had sentenced Hussain to seven-year imprisonment; however, Hussain was acquitted by the LHC the following year.
A three-member bench of the SC headed by Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, after hearing arguments from both sides on Wednesday, accepted Siddiqui's appeal to overturn the acquittal and declared the LHC's verdict null and void.
On the court's orders, Shah Hussain was taken into custody from outside the courtroom.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[14 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan
[DAWN] A man from Rawalpindi was tossed in the clink Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! on Wednesday after his daughter accused him of having raped and impregnated her, said police.
The 16-year-old girl alleged that her father had been sexually abusing her over the past year and she had finally decided to approach the police after learning that she has become pregnant.
Police have started the paperwork but haven't done much else against the man on the complaint of his daughter under Section 376 of the Pakistain Penal Code.
According to the first information report (FIR), a copy of which is available with DawnNewsTV, the teenage victim is the second eldest child among three sisters and three brothers. The family lives on Rawalpindi's Girja road and her father works at a nearby brick kiln.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[5 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Progress... of a sort. In the past they would have arrested her.
[PULSE.NG] Zim-bob-we Congress of Trade Unions Secretary General Japhet Moyo was jugged Please don't kill me! on Monday as he flew into the country at Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case. Dumped in November 2017 when the Missus decided she wanted to be president, and opposed heer might against Crocodile Mnangawa Important safety tip: If your opponent goes by the name Crocodile andf your title is Shopper in Chief let him win.... International. He denies the charges against him.
"He is facing charges of attempting to overthrow a constitutionally elected government... (and) incitement to public violence," his lawyer Alec Muchadehama told AFP at the courthouse in Harare.
"He totally denies these scandalous charges," the lawyer told the magistrates court during an early evening hearing.
Moyo is one of a number of high-profile activists arrested after the strike turned into nationwide protests with some rioting and looting.
At least 12 people died after a brutal crackdown by the military and the police, while hundreds more were arrested.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[0 views]
Top|| File under:
[PULSE.NG] The sons of former drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman killed Mexican journalist Javier Valdez because he insisted on publishing an interview with a drug trafficker, who told of the murder in court Wednesday.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: Narcos
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Russian Army and U.S.-backed Manbij Military Council conducted their third round of patrols in the Manbij countryside this month.
According to local reports, the Russian Army and Manbij Military Council patrolled much of the western countryside of Manbij, with most of their focus on the nearby town of al-Arima.
Al-Arima is where the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has been stationed at since they made an agreement with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to protect Manbij from the Ottoman Turkish-backed rebels.
Despite the agreement, the Syrian Arab Army is still outside the city and will not enter until further notice.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[5 views]
Top|| File under: Sublime Porte
[ALMASDARNEWS] Tehran is planning to carry out a new satellite launch in the near future, IRNA reported on Wednesday, citing Iranian Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Amir Hatami, just one week after the country failed to launch its Payam satellite into orbit.
Following a cabinet session, Hatami confirmed to news hounds that the launch, which Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced last week, would take place soon, according to the IRNA news agency.
Hatami specified that the satellite would be launched by the Safir expendable launch vehicle, which is capable of putting satellites into 260-kilometer (16-mile) orbits.
The minister emphasized that Iran was constantly improving its capacities in satellite launches.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[7 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Iran
[ALMASDARNEWS] A Libyan Army general told the Saudi Okaz newspaper on Tuesday that his nation demands an apology from Leb after supporters of the Amal Movement replaced the Libyan flag at its embassy with their own last week.
According to the publication, Libyan army front man General Ahmed al-Mesmari criticized the attack on his country’s flag, stating that his country is still recovering from former President Muammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later... ’s rule.
"Genuinely, we are very upset about what happened in Beirut. Our brothers in Leb, mainly those concerned about the cause of Sadr’s death, should know that the issue is also of concern to the Libyans who were suffering in the past from Muammar Qadaffy," the general told the publication.
"They turned the issue into a state issue and tried to exploit it one way or another. We are very upset about that, especially the tearing down of the flag," he continued.
"This flag represents the entire Libyan people. It doesn’t represent Qadaffy, nor does it represent a specific era," he would add.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[12 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies
[DAWN] The leaders of France and Germany signed a new treaty on Tuesday to update their 1963 post-war reconciliation accord, aiming to reinvigorate the European Union’s main axis as growing euro-sceptic nationalism tests the bloc’s cohesion.
At a ceremony in the German border city of Aachen, a historic symbol of The leaders of France and Germany signed a new treaty on Tuesday to update their 1963 post-war reconciliation accord, aiming to reinvigorate the European Union’s main axis as growing euro-sceptic nationalism tests the bloc’s cohesion.
At a ceremony in the German border city of Aachen, a historic symbol of European concord, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron sought to show they can provide fresh leadership for the troubled EU project.
But some analysts doubt that France and Germany can still lead an EU that has grown to 28 members with diverse and often conflicting interests and priorities.
The two leaders want the 16-page Aachen Treaty, negotiated over the past year to update the 1963 Elysee Treaty, to give an impulse to European unity that has been strained by Brexit, immigration and the euro zone crisis.European concord, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron sought to show they can provide fresh leadership for the troubled EU project.
But some analysts doubt that France and Germany can still lead an EU that has grown to 28 members with diverse and often conflicting interests and priorities.
The two leaders want the 16-page Aachen Treaty, negotiated over the past year to update the 1963 Elysee Treaty, to give an impulse to European unity that has been strained by Brexit, immigration and the euro zone crisis.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[6 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Seen this one before. So who are they planning to invade?
#2
Treaty of .... Aachen?
"I will take 'What Was The capitol of the Carolingian Empire?' for 500$, Alex." Last time Germany and France, or large parts of them, were one kingdom.
#7
'Friendship treaty' sounds like a school-girl tea party. Let's call it the German-Franco Co-Prosperity Sphere - something with some steel to it! We'll show those Eastern Euro upstarts who is boss.
Fregattenkapitän Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock (11 December 1911 – 18 April 1986) was a submarine commander in the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was sixth among the top ten successful U-boat commanders during the Battle of the Atlantic against the Allies, in terms of tonnage of merchant ships sunk. He commanded four U-boats, and his most successful tour was commanding the U-96 a Type VIIC U-boat, which gained widespread recognition when one of its patrols was documented and publicized by an accompanying member of a propaganda company Lothar-Günther Buchheim. Lehmann-Willenbrock was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. The story of the U-96 was eventually made into a mini-series and film called Das Boot, in which the captain was portrayed by Jürgen Prochnow.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Two holy warrior groups of the terrorist organization Jabhat al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... (outlawed in Russia) with a total number of up to 400 people attacked Syria’s forces in the Idlib de-escalation zone, head of the Russian Reconciliation Center for the Opposing Sides in Syria (part of the Defense Ministry) Lieutenant General Sergei Solomatin told journalists on Wednesday.
"Jabhat al-Nusra holy warrior groups simultaneously attacked positions of the government forces in the areas of the communities of Abu al-Duhur and Abu Sharja. Criminal groups of 150-200 gunnies in 15-20 pick-up trucks with machine guns carried out attacks in each of the areas," he said, adding that the attack was launched in the evening of January 22.
Solomatin noted that in the Abu al-Duhur area the gunnies used a suicide kaboomer in a car who was eliminated by an anti-tank guided missile near the front line of the government forces.
"The turbans managed to break as far as 1.5 km deep into the position of the Syrian army, after which they were stopped by fire and driven outside the contact line by the reserve forces that had approached," the general added. The holy warriors’ attack was derailed in the Abu Sharja area by the fire unleashed by the Syrian forces. The gunnies suffered losses and returned to their start line positions, Solomatin reported.
He noted that the Reconciliation Center for the Opposing Sides is cooperating with the Ottoman Turkish side, which immediately receives information on the situation in the Abu al-Duhur and Abu Sharja areas.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[5 views]
Top|| File under: al-Nusra
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... Bashar al-Ja’afari said in a statement on Tuesday that it was time that the United Nations Security Council "took action to stop constant Israeli attacks on Syrian territories."
According to al-Ja’afari, Israel had repeatedly violated international law without any consequences.
Al-Ja’afari said that Syria may exercise its right for self-defense and respond to the Israeli attack on Damascus Airport with "symmetric" strike on Tel-Aviv airport.
Damascus has rarely launched any missiles into israel in the past; however, with the war winding down inside Syria, the government may be emboldened to respond to any Israeli aggression.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[13 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Syria
#1
It seems like that was a more reactionary threat than thoughtful.
[PULSE.NG] Chronic overcrowding in cities like Venice and Barcelona is sparking an angry backlash from locals, who complain that a surge in visitors is making life intolerable. "Oh, please, please! Let us come back and spend money here!"
Locals complain that home-sharing sites like Airbnb are driving up rents in picturesque city centres, forcing locals out, and they voice concerns over the environmental impact of cruise liners.
"If there are too many people, if people don't want to come, if those who live here are upset and spend their days protesting, that affects us all. It is not sustainable," the head of Barcelona-based tourist firm Advanced Leisure Services, Angel Diaz, told AFP.
The issue is a central focus at the Fitur international tourism fair, which got under way Wednesday in Madrid with 10,000 exhibitors and an expected 250,000 visitors.
On the programme at the five-day event are several conferences dedicated to combatting overtourism and developing responsible, sustainable alternatives.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[2 views]
Top|| File under:
#2
One cure for overtourism is vastly higher prices. Charge $1000 per capita for a single day's visit to Venice, that should take care of their problems. If that isn't high enough, $10,000, or beyond!
I tell my own tribe to sell citizenship in the tribe to any interested parties for $50 million or so. Lots of wannabes out there with that kind of money to burn.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Fierce festivities broke out between members of the Abu Khamis tribe and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) this afternoon following the death of a 40-year-old resident of al-Mansoura.
According to local reports, members of the Syrian Democratic Forces opened fire on Hamdan al-Zein after he refused conscription into their group.
Al-Zein reportedly succumbed to the wounds he sustained as a result of the gunshots; this sparked outrage amongst the Abu Khamis tribe and several residents of al-Mansoura.
Following the death of al-Zein, the enraged residents of al-Mansoura began burning the SDF’s checkpoints and attacking installations.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[5 views]
Top|| File under:
[DAWN] The National Assembly on Tuesday continued debate on the Sahiwal tragedy for a second consecutive day as opposition members reiterated their demand for a parliamentary committee to oversee the investigations, alleging that the Punjab government was trying to cover up the “cold-blooded murder” of three members of a family by personnel of the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD).
Responding to the opposition’s demand that the report of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) constituted by the Punjab government to probe the incident should be presented before parliament, federal Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari told the house that the interior minister would receive the report at 6.30pm and would lay it before the house soon after receiving it. However, when the session was adjourned by the chair at 8.05pm, neither Ms Mazari nor any minister was present in the assembly.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[9 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan
[ALMASDARNEWS] Clashes broke in Caracas, on Wednesday, as opposition supporters rallied against the government administration of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro Venezuela's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy... Earlier in the day, Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself "Interim-President of Venezuela" during an opposition rally.
Juan Guaido, who is the leader of the opposition and the head of the National Assembly, declared the inauguration of Nicolas Maduro, on January 10, and swore himself in as Interim President of Venezuela.
US 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... was among the first world leaders to recognise Guaido as acting president. Other governments including Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia followed suit.
Thousands of supporters of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro rallied in Caracas in protest against the announcement.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: Commies
[DAWN] Three women accused of murdering a 15-year-old domestic worker in Lahore were handed over to police custody on a two-day physical remand on Wednesday. The case proceedings were held in a district and sessions court, where Judicial Magistrate Mohammad Zia Khan pronounced the court's decision.
On Sunday, the body of a teenage domestic worker was recovered by police from a stormwater drain in Lahore's Iqbal Town area.
Later on Tuesday, Superintendent Police (SP) Investigation Shazia Sarwar announced the arrest of three suspects in connection with the alleged murder of the domestic worker.
Subsequently, a case was registered against the three women ‐ owner of the house where the victim worked, the owner's daughter and her sister-in-law ‐ on the complaint of the victim's father under Sections 302 (punishment for qatl-e-amd), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon), and 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object) of the Pakistain Penal Code.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[5 views]
Top|| File under:
[DAWN] The house of a big shot of the Awami National Party founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism.... (ANP) came under attack in the Nawagai area of Bajaur in the early hours of Tuesday, residents and officials said.
They said a rocket was fired on the house of Sheikh Jan Zada near the Nawagai bazaar, some 32km west of Khar, the headquarters of Bajaur tribal district.
The incident took place when the ANP leader was present in his home.
They said the rocket fired from an unknown location hit a boundary wall of the house which was partially damaged.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[11 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan
[ALMASDARNEWS] According to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... ’s Defence Ministry, Ottoman Turkish troops have shot up the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) for the second time since 18 January, in response to the latter’s fire from the city of Tell Rifaat.
The members of the Ottoman Turkish Armed Forces, deployed in the Euphrates Shield Operation, have shot 5 howitzers in the districts of Tell Rifaat to the southeast of Afrin, according to CNN Turk.
The YPG/PKK reportedly organised two attacks targeting civilians on Afrin’s city centre on 20 January. As a result of the attacks, 10 civilians bit the dust, 18 people were maimed.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[12 views]
Top|| File under: Sublime Porte
[BREITBART] Judge Richard Gergel, U.S. District Court in South Carolina, has halted the Trump administration’s effort to continue processing permits to allow seismic testing off the Atlantic coast during the partial government shutdown.
Gergel, appointed by President Barack Obama, ruled last week in a case left-wing environmental groups, some coastal cities, and businesses brought against the Department of Interior “opposed to the administration’s efforts to expand U.S. offshore drilling,” Offshore Engineer Digital reported.
Gergel made the ruling in conjunction with granting a stay to the Department of Justice, which argued it could not process the case during a government shutdown.
This article starring:
Richard Gergel
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[4 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Not that big a deal; the Atlantic is not a producing area and exploration would be very long term and high risk - the real impact these days is from fracking, which is an onshore activity.
[REDSTATE] "Recon Ranger" was actully a refrigerator repairman, never left CONUS, got a general discharge (Discharged, not Honorably Discharged).
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[8 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
They never are.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike ||
01/24/2019 0:16
Comments ||
Top||
#2
And in further news, Phillips led a noisy protest at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in DC during the 7 pm Mass on Sat. The group was kept out by security. The doors were locked and for a time the congregation was locked inside. These people are not going to quit. Catholic News Agency
#7
Ask, and the internet provides. Omaha, but the tribe doesn’t like what he’s been doing, though they won’t say so on the record about a man working through problems caused by bouncing around foster homes since the age of five and subsequent alcoholism. See here.
#11
I respect the tribal leadership's hands off, "let him find his way" approach in that old news story. Unfortunately, refusing to acknowledge the damage he is doing now is no help to anyone.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
01/24/2019 8:08
Comments ||
Top||
#12
I believe he's Pawnee. The term Elder doesn't mean a tribal leader per se, but one who is older than 55.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
01/24/2019 8:35
Comments ||
Top||
#14
"It's just this war and that lying son of a bitch, Johnson! "
Posted by: Frank G ||
01/24/2019 9:33
Comments ||
Top||
#15
@#6 Besoeker---
HAHAHAHAHAA!!!! Freon Ranger. That is great. Really enjoyed it. Great work.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
01/24/2019 9:50
Comments ||
Top||
#16
a man working through problems caused by bouncing around foster homes since the age of five and subsequent alcoholism I have many relatives with a very similar story.
[DAWN] A pilot of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) was martyred in an air crash near Balochistan's Mastung area on Wednesday.
The accident occurred during a training mission being carried out in a multi-role aircraft, said a statement issued by the Directorate of Media Affairs of PAF.
"The PAF reports with regret that an F-7PG aircraft, while on a routine operational training mission, crashed near Mastung," it said.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[10 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan
#1
The accident occurred during a training mission being carried out in a multi-role aircraft
"It's a fighter, bomber, brick, and dessert topping in one"
Posted by: Frank G ||
01/24/2019 11:04
Comments ||
Top||
#2
F-7 appears to be an export version of the Chinese J-7 which is a copy of the old Soviet MiG-21.
[PULSE.NG] A South African businessman held in Mozambique on suspicion of being a jihadist leader has died in hospital under mysterious circumstances, his wife and a medical source told AFP on Wednesday.
Andre Mayer Hanekom, 61, was admitted to a hospital in the northern town of Palma on Saturday after having convulsions and bleeding under the skin, his wife Francis said.
His wife saw him on Sunday but said he was unable to speak. She said prison staff told her he had suffered a fall.
She said she had been informed of his death early on Wednesday.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a medical source confirmed Hanekom had died late on Tuesday, saying he had "been in a coma since the weekend".
But he did not specify the cause of death, and there was no immediate word from South Africa's foreign ministry.
Hanekom, who ran a maritime business in Palma, was incarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... in August alongside two locals and two Tanzanians, with prosecutors accusing them of being part of a jihadist group.
All five were faced with a string of charges, including murder, crimes against the state and inciting civil disobedience.
His wife saw him on Sunday but said he was unable to speak. She said prison staff told her he had suffered a fall. "He fell down the stairs, repeatedly"
"But this is a single story building?"
"You heard me"
On the same day, the South African foreign ministry confirmed it had received word from Mozambique's high commissioner that Hanekom was "well".
Visiting him again on Tuesday, Francis Hanekom said he had shown signs of improvement.
"He was actually better, he was awake. He was able to move in his bed -- and this morning he is dead," she told AFP, saying she suspected foul play.
Hanekom was named by prosecutors as one of the leaders of a jihadist group operating in Mozambique's gas-rich north, alongside two Tanzanian nationals and two locals.
They accused him of managing the group's logistics among other charges rubbished by his wife as "nonsense".
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)
[PULSE.NG] Qatar's ruler said Wednesday the Gulf emirate backs the "unity and stability" of Sudan as he met the country's President Omar al-Bashir in Doha, but there was no announcement of a financial rescue package.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Qatar (MB)
[PULSE.NG] A group of French "yellow vest" protesters announced plans Wednesday to field candidates in this year's European Parliament elections, with a 31-year-old health worker to lead a list that a poll suggests could win up to 13 percent of the vote.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[2 views]
Top|| File under:
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian military will begin using the Russian-made S-300 air defense system in March, the Russia-based Kommersant publication reported on Monday.
According to Kommersant, the Syrian military is completing their training exercises with the S-300 and are not ready to use them in combat.
A member of the Russian Federation Council’s defence and security committee, Franz Klintsevich, said the Syrian crews are currently undergoing training, adding that "the Israeli warplanes are now striking Syria because they are still outside the Syrian air defense range, but after the deployment of the S-300, no one will be able to escape them".
Kommersant said that it would be possible for one air defense battalion in Damascus to use the S-300, which is important for the Syrian military because the Israeli Air Force often targets the capital and its surroundings.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[10 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Syria
#1
Nice excuse for the bloody things not working as advertised.
[DAWN] A sessions court in Peshawar on Wednesday sentenced a man to eight years imprisonment and imposed Rs50,000 fine after declaring him guilty of harassing and blackmailing a woman and her family, DawnNewsTV reported.
The convict, Ahsan Sheraz, No relation to the wine...
had created a Facebook ID and uploaded pictures of a woman and her family and then blackmailed them.
A complaint was registered with the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in 2017 against the convict by Syed Mehboob, the victim's father. Following an investigation carried out by the FIA's cybercrime wing, Sheraz was taken in custody and his laptop and smartphones were also confiscated.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[10 views]
Top|| File under:
Bryan Jay Singer (born September 17, 1965)[1] is an American director, producer, and writer of film and television. He is the founder of Bad Hat Harry Productions and has produced or co-produced almost all of the films he has directed.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) carried out a new assault against the Ottoman Turkish-backed rebels that are currently active inside the designated demilitarized zone in the northern countryside of the Hama Governorate today.
According to a military communique from Hama, the Syrian Arab Army unleashed a large barrage of artillery shells and surface-to-surface missiles towards the defenses of Jaish al-Izza near the key town of Morek.
The communique said the Syrian Arab Army scored several direct hits on Jaish al-Izza’s defenses, killing and wounding several Salafist tough guys in the process.
Furthermore, the Syrian Arab Army carried out concentrated strikes on the Jaish al-Izza’s positions inside their northern Hama strongholds of Kafr Zita and al-Latamnah.
The Syrian military claimed their forces managed to kill a number of Jaish al-Izza’s field commanders that were positioned inside of Kafr Zita and al-Latamnah.
These attacks by the Syrian Arab Army on Wednesday were launched in retaliation for the overnight strikes by the Salafist tough guys in northern Hama.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: Sublime Porte
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Iraqi-led Hashd al-Sha’abi forces foiled a border infiltration attempt by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) terror organization this morning, the Iraqi News online publication reported.
Citing the commander of Hashd al-Sha’abi in western Anbar, Qassem Mosleh, Iraqi News reported that at least 43 members of the Islamic State were killed or maimed during their failed attempt Curses! Foiled again! to infiltrate into Iraq from the Syrian border.
"Iraqi artillery targeted a hotbed grouping IS turbans in the village of Baghuz on the Iraqi-Syrian border after receiving intelligence reports about a plot by those bandidosmurderous Moslems to attack security forces," Iraqi News reported, citing the Almaalomah news website which quoted Mosleh as saying.
"The artillery shelling left 43 IS turbans dead and maimed, and destroyed a significant amount of weapons and armored vehicles that were planned to be used in the attack on the security forces," he added.
Hashd al-Sha’abi has recently stepped up their border operations against the Islamic State in a bid to secure the region and put an end to the terrorist group’s presence in the area.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[Legal Insurrection] A former staffer claimed Jackson Lee fired her after she said a former employee of the CBC Foundation raped her. "Just lay back and enjoy it 'for the cause'" A truly loathsome pig-ignorant POS, repeatedly voted "Worst Boss in Congress" by staffers
Last week, reports came out that Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) faces a lawsuit from a former staffer who claimed the congresswoman fired her after she said a former employee of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) raped her in 2015.
Jackson Lee has now resigned as CBC Foundation chairwoman and stepped down temporarily from a House Judiciary subcommittee chairmanship. RTWT
This article starring:
Sheila Jackson Lee
Posted by: Frank G ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[2 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
"Her weave, however, remains a member in good standing"
Posted by: Frank G ||
01/24/2019 6:52
Comments ||
Top||
[REDSTATE] Over the weekend, Disney producer Jack Morrissey tweeted his wish for the Covington High School students to be fed into a woodchipper.
After a hefty public backlash, the psych– I mean, Morrissey — issued an apology. He claimed it was just a funny joke, and he didn’t wish any violence on the students in any way.
This article starring:
Jack Morrissey
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[3 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Maybe he could get a job at National Review or Hot Air.
#2
Should be a wake up call about who they believe are the real bad guys. Look in the mirror. However, since they've made themselves their own gods, they're grant themselves forgiveness, and carry on as usual.
He claimed it was just a funny joke, and he didn’t wish any violence on the students in any way.
Said by many in the community the next day after the lynching. Victims get buried.
#7
It wasn't even a newsworthy event. Any respectable news organization would have listened politely to this whack job who calls himself a Native American, wished him a nice day and then quickly forgotten him. But WAPO, not a respectable news organization, has turned it into the kind of incident that could spark a civil war. To all the hot heads on both sides I say, Be careful what you wish for. When the shit hits the fan it tends to go all over the place.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
01/24/2019 10:56
Comments ||
Top||
#8
And yes, DV, I've been boycotting Disney since I watched Diane Sawyer's slanted coverage of Fast and Furious on ABC News. Now I've added anything owned by Jeff Bezos and that includes Amazon. I got along quite well before Amazon and I think I'll do OK without them now. I hope those Covington kids sue his ass off.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
01/24/2019 11:01
Comments ||
Top||
#9
Walt would have had his head on a pike for the bad PR generated and for saying something to the general public that was not 'approved'.
But mostly for the bad PR. 'Corporate Image' was everything to Uncle Walt.
Posted by: Mullah Richard ||
01/24/2019 11:52
Comments ||
Top||
#10
Apocryphal epitaph from Boothill in Tombstone, AZ:
Here lies George Johnson,
hanged by mistake 1882.
He was right we were wrong.
But we strung him up and now he's gone.
#15
When DisneyCorp started pushing for instating the Eternal Copyright™ was when I started getting tired of them. Also when they started busting Mom n' Pop daycare centers for daring, The Audacity!, to paint Disney™ characters™ in their establishments without licensing™.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro ...Venezuela's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy...
said Caracas is breaking off diplomatic relations with the US, giving American diplomats 72 hours to leave the country, after 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... recognized the opposition leader as interim head.
Maduro announced the move to a large crowd of cheering supporters from a balcony of the presidential Miraflores Palace in Caracas, shortly after the US, and then several Latin American countries decided to recognize the opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s interim president.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[3 views]
Top|| File under: Commies
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Lebanese Army said in a communique on Tuesday that their forces had nabbed Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! a suspected Mossad agent over the attempted liquidation of a Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, official, Mohammad Hamdan, in the port city of Saida (var. Sidon).
According to the Lebanese Army, "one of the main perpetrators of the crime, who confessed to being tasked by Israeli intelligence."
On Tuesday the army said in a statement a second male suspect "who carried out surveillance" before last year’s bombing had also been arrested.
The second suspect "has admitted to being a Mossad agent since 2014," it said, without specifying his nationality.
On January 14th, a boom-mobile targeted Mohammad Hamdan in Saida city; this attack resulted in the wounding of the Hamas official’s leg.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/24/2019
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[7 views]
Top|| File under: Hamas
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.
[Mail] More than 100 migrants have been taken into custody after being caught on camera scaling a border wall in Arizona - one week after 376 others had dug their way in near the same location.
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Hundreds of Irish police officers could be deployed to guard the border with British-run Northern Ireland if Britain leaves the European Union without a withdrawal pact in March, the Irish Independent newspaper said on Thursday.
[National Review] The New York State Senate passed the Reproductive Health Act (RHA) this evening by a vote of 38-24, on the 46th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, which found that a woman has a constitutional right to abortion. The bill already passed the state assembly by a 92-47 vote.
[PJ] Since taking over the House, Democrats have promised to open the investigation floodgates. If Donald Trump or anyone in his administration ever so much as misplaced a paper clip, you can be sure there would be hearings. When the Mueller probe reveals that there is no evidence of Russian collusion, they will start their own investigation, no doubt. Their main objective is to make sure Trump is not reelected, and in the meantime, they will do everything they can to make it impossible for him to govern. To them, that is called transparency and accountability.
[The Hill] Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) in a new interview with Bloomberg News opened up about her past experiences with assault, alleging she experienced attacks at the hands of her ex-husband and a boyfriend in college.
A licensed practical nurse who was supposed to care for a woman in a vegetative state at a long-term Arizona nursing facility was arrested and charged with raping her after she gave birth to a baby last month, officials announced Wednesday.
...Army of Conquest coalition includes Ahrar al-Sham, Jabhat al-Nusra, Fath al-Sham, Ihyaa al-Jihad Brigade, Mujhedi Nawa, Asoud al-Tahid Brigade, Ansar al-Haqa Brigade and the Islamic brigade of al-Omarein, of which three are affialiated with al-Qaeda. It is or has been supported by Saudi Arabia and Turkey...
[PULSE.NG] Her train journey from Sweden took 32 hours, but Greta Thunberg is not tired. The teenager is dead-set in her mission to persuade the global elite in Davos to take climate action.
[10News recycles AyPee] 
[ALMASDARNEWS] Two
[PULSE.NG] Chronic overcrowding in cities like Venice and Barcelona is sparking an angry backlash from locals, who complain that a surge in visitors is making life intolerable.
Venezuela's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy...
[BREITBART] Judge 
[REDSTATE] 
[DAWN] A pilot of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) was martyred in an air crash near Balochistan's Mastung area on Wednesday.
[PULSE.NG] A South African businessman held in Mozambique on suspicion of being a jihadist leader has died in hospital under mysterious circumstances, his wife and a medical source told AFP on Wednesday.
[DAWN] A sessions court in Peshawar on Wednesday sentenced a man to eight years imprisonment and imposed Rs50,000 fine after declaring him guilty of harassing and blackmailing a woman and her family, DawnNewsTV reported.
[Legal Insurrection] A former staffer claimed Jackson Lee fired her after she said a former employee of the CBC Foundation raped her. 
Over the weekend, Disney producer 
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Lebanese Army said in a communique on Tuesday that their forces had 
