Washington, D.C. ‐ The March for Life announced today that Kellyanne Conway, President of the polling company, inc./WomanTrend, and highest-ranking woman in President-elect Trump’s administration, will speak at the 44th annual March for Life, the world’s largest annual pro-life demonstration, in Washington, D.C. on January 27th, 2017.
Conway will join other notable speakers including Archbishop of New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, former Planned Parenthood Director and founder of ’And Then There Were None’ Abby Johnson, Mexican Telenovela star Karyme Lozano, author and radio host Eric Metaxas, Bishop Vincent Matthews of the Church of God in Christ, who advocates for adoption in the African-American community, and more at the March for Life rally on the National Mall on January 27th, 2017.
"We are thrilled to have Kellyanne Conway speak at this year’s March for Life. As the first female to run a successful presidential campaign and as a steadfast advocate for life and family issues, Kellyanne beautifully embodies the 2017 March for Life’s theme, ’The Power of One’," says Jeanne Mancini, President of March for Life.
"Our other speakers also personify ’The Power of One’ theme and show how one person has the power to change the world and saves lives," Mancini concluded. "It is our hope that this year’s March for Life will encourage each of us to seek and fulfill our unique mission to the best of our ability because only in doing so we will collectively build a culture of life in the U.S. -- a culture where abortion is unthinkable."
Tens of thousands of Americans are set to travel from across the nation to D.C. for this year’s March for Life, which seeks to promote the dignity of every human life and to stand against the greatest human rights violation of our time ‐ abortion-on-demand. More speakers and guests to be announced soon.
Cuomo is of course intellectually dishonest (and probably otherwise), using the term "immigrant" when the question is about illegal aliens.
Not to mention that Andrew Cuomo is no immigrant. He is the rich pampered son of the former N.Y. Governor Mario Cuomo, who assumed he was entitled to the position as if by birthrate.
People who have sworn to uphold the laws of our land, like Gov. Cuomo, should also be upholding the immigration laws otherwise they are violating their oaths.
[BBC] President Donald Trump will seek a 20% tax on goods imported from Mexico and use the revenue to build a border wall, the White House spokesman has said.
The plan was announced just after the Mexican president cancelled a visit to Washington, amid a row sparked by the question of who will pay for the wall.
Mr Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order to create a wall on the US southern border with Mexico.
Making Mexico pay for it was one of his key election campaign pledges.
White House spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters that the president had discussed the plan with lawmakers, and that they are considering making it part of a tax reform package the US Congress is planning.
He said that such a tax could generate approximately $10bn (£8bn) in tax revenue per year.
Mr Pena Nieto announced earlier on Thursday he had called off next week's trip.
h/t Instapundit
During a memorial service for a victim of criminal gun violence on the South Side of Chicago, six people were shot including a 12-year-old girl.
These days you can’t boycott every business that caters to moonbattery, or you would end up eating out of dumpsters like a freegan. But there are a few I would just as soon avoid -- Chili’s, for instance:
Chili’s restaurants in two states are coming under fire from pro-life advocates for giving 15% of patron’s meal purchases to the Planned Parenthood abortion business.
Earlier this week the Planned Parenthood abortion business affiliate in Indiana and Kentucky posted a promotional code its supporters could use to request that Chili’s donate 15% of the pre-tax meal purchase to benefit the abortion corporation. ...
This is not the first time that Chili’s has been involved in potential donations to the Planned Parenthood abortion business. A Chili’s restaurant in California initially set up a fundraiser for a local Planned Parenthood abortion clinic but eventually cancelled it after pro-life advocates complained.
Sometimes complaining works -- and fortunately Chili’s makes it easy to do.
The order says the United States should screen visa applicants to block access to those "who would place violent religious edicts over American law" and those who "engage in acts of bigotry or hatred" including "honor" killings, violence against women, and persecution on the basis of religion, race, gender and sexual orientation, a description that human rights groups say also appears to be geared toward Muslims, without naming Islam explicitly.
[many islamic types are going nuts on this -- but the 'protecting women' theme of the order (give Trump's team credit for doing this) is going to make the feminist supporters of letting in moslem immigrants squirm a bit]
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♪ Aaaalleluiah ... Alleluiah ♫
The entire senior management team of the US State Department resigned on Thursday. Hey! A self-draining swamp!
It was not immediately clear whether their departure was part of the normal transition process when a new administration starts or whether it was a coordinated walkout by diplomats who had served in Democrat Barack Obama's administration.
A week ago, Republican President Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of State, former Exxon Mobil Corp chairman Rex Tillerson, was confirmed by the Senate foreign relations committee. He has yet to be confirmed by the full Senate. The departures will put more pressure on Tillerson to fill these senior posts.
Some reports suggest that only three have resigned and name them as Gregory Starr, Assistant Secretary for State for Diplomatic Security, Michele Bond, Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs and Tom Countryman, the acting undersecretary for arms control and international security. Hit the road Jack
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Created ISIS, gave billions to the Mad Mullahs, under Hillary refused to help our Benghazi heros who battled AQ for 8 hours. You should be prosecuted on the way out.
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These people have done the nation a great service ... by resigning.
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I doubt their motivation had much if anything to do with the 'nation' Iblis, but an encouraging outcome nonetheless. 'Thank God and Greyhound they're gone' ...as was once said.
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Now he does not have to fire them and pay severance....
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U. S. Border Patrol chief Mark Morgan has also left. He was asked to leave by the Trump administration. The border patrol union was critical of him for supporting Obama's plans to safeguard certain "undocumented immigrants" from deportation.This will probably improve morale at the Border Patrol.
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Fleeing any Congressional and/or DOJ probes into obstruction of FOIA? Gross Incompetence (see Benghazi)? Corruption other than "normal" corruption, featherbedding and nepotism (see Clinton's CGI)?
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Way overblown. One division head of seven and three of his direct reports out of about 10. Should be easy to redistribute duties and leave their openings on the org chart.
WASHINGTON (Ay-Pee) President Donald Trump signed immigration orders Wednesday jump-starting construction of a border wall and stripping funding from sanctuary cities, which don't arrest or detain immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. This from a Waco TV station, so the link is mostly positive. Since most Americans oppose using US tax dollars to pay for the wall, I suppose we'll just have to tax remittances...
The president signed the two executive orders Wednesday during a ceremony at the Department of Homeland Security. Mr. Trump also plans to increase the number of border patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
Mr. Trump told ABC work could begin on the wall within a matter of months.
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The American Society of Civil Engineers newsletter that pointed me to this, and other links, was much less positive:
Many challenges accompany President Donald Trump's plan to build a wall between the US and Mexico, including its vast length, open desert that would necessitate new roads be built and, of course, paying for it. A solid wall 35 feet tall and 10 inches thick, for example, would need up to 14.3 million tons of concrete, says the Portland Cement Association.
But I learned at Rantburg, you don't need a continuous wall, just some walls to focus the traffic so you can control it. You don't have to starve six-year old children, just control where they come in.
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Why in the crap would someone build a 35' tall x 10" thick concrete only wall?
Seriously, how many ways is this wrong, both structurally and practically?
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They're building sound walls along large stretches of interstate. Maybe we could just start with a sound wall along the border because of all the mariachi music?
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The Israelis have spent a fair bit on their walls. Those are "mid-tech" -- you have a tall concrete wall with concertina wire at the top, foot paths on either side, a good road on your side (for construction and then patrol) along with some sensors and lighting. Yup, it's going to cost money.
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If you are really committed to stopping illegal immigration you could string a pair of barbed-wire fences 10 yards apart with free-fire zone between them. Not very compassionate though.
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It cannot be just a stinkin' wall. It needs to be a whole system of blocking, detection, and countermeasures to insurgents. Best thing is to talk to the Israelis and learn from them.
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Spot on AP. It must include an 'wide array' of tactics. As an example, I would not discount the notion of seeding the Mexican side with acoustic sensors.
[National Review] Its popularity keeps spreading inexorably across the country.
And so the train keeps rolling on. For years, advocates of the Second Amendment have fought tooth and nail to ensure that no American was left without the right to obtain a carry permit. Now an even more salutary standard has become fashionable: The abolition of the permitting system in its entirety.
In 2015, three states added their names to the growing list of those that have adopted "constitutional carry" -- states, that is, in which Americans do not need to obtain permits before legally carrying guns. Last year, another three joined their ranks. This year, the number joining could be as high as five. And after that? Le déluge.
Over at the Crime Research Prevention Center, John Lott Jr. notes that the number of "constitutional carry" states will reach 16 or 17 by the end of this year. Given that 15 years ago there was only one (two if you count Montana, which I’d classify as a "mostly constitutional carry" state) -- and that 30 years ago most states had extremely restrictive permitting processes to boot -- this is nothing short of remarkable. Elections, as it is said, have consequences.
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is "deeply disturbed" by President Donald Trump's executive orders on immigration. Just a wild guess, but I suspect Trump's order is intended to apply to illegal immigrants.
Walsh held a press conference Wednesday following Trump's executive orders that will jumpstart the construction of a wall at the U.S.-Mexican border as well as crackdown on sanctuary cities.
Flanked by immigrants and first generation citizens who work for Boston, Walsh said the Trump administration is advancing the most destructive and un-American threats made during Trump's campaign for president. 28 percent of Boston residents are immigrants. How many of those are legal immigrants, Marty?
"We will not back down from our values that make us who we are as a city," Walsh said. "We will fight for our residents, whether immigrant or not, and provide the best quality of life for all Bostonians. I will use all my power within lawful means to protect all Boston residents, even if that means using City Hall itself as a last resort." Do everything legal to break the law. Why stop with legal, when you're breaking the law?
In regards to City Hall, Walsh went as far to say he will use City Hall as a place to shelter and protect those who don't feel safe. And my very own home, too. C'mon in!
"I will never turn my back on those who are seeking a better life," Walsh said. "We will not be intimidated by the threat to federal funding. We have each other's backs, and we have the Constitution of the United States of America on our side." Apparently, the Constitution applies to all Mexicans, as well.
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How many of those are legal immigrants, Marty?
That is one of the key questions but don't expect Hizzonor to answer it. I have a real problem with people who either cannot or will not distinguish between legal and illegal. The more the illegals protest the more I want them deported. Who the hell do they think they are entering our country illegally and trying to tell us what to do? You should hear them squeal in San Diego.
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What gets me is that the 'illegal aliens' have nothing to do with 'immigration'. Its a border security problem and should only be handled by either the border patrol or criminal justice system. They are not immigrants and should never be extended immigration rights or access to any immigration processes while they are in violation.
No 'immigration' hearing. No application for asylum accepted (sorry - you forfeited that when you violated our borders). Simple appearance before a judge (and not an immigration judge) and, if found guilty, deportation.
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excerpt from The Mexican Constitution ...
Here is a snippet of the Mexican Constitution ...
Chapter III
Foreigners
Article 33
Foreigners are those who do not possess the qualifications set forth in
Article 30
They are entitled to the guarantees granted by
Chapter I, Title I of the present Constitution; but the Federal Executive
shall have the exclusive power to compel any foreigner whose remaining he may
deem inexpedient to abandon the national territory immediately and without the
necessity of previous legal action.
Foreigners may not in any way participate in the political affairs of the country.
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excerpt from The Mexican Constitution ...
Here is a snippet of the Mexican Constitution ...
Chapter III
Foreigners
Article 33
Foreigners are those who do not possess the qualifications set forth in
Article 30
They are entitled to the guarantees granted by
Chapter I, Title I of the present Constitution; but the Federal Executive
shall have the exclusive power to compel any foreigner whose remaining he may
deem inexpedient to abandon the national territory immediately and without the
necessity of previous legal action.
Foreigners may not in any way participate in the political affairs of the country.
[NYT] WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration is preparing a sweeping executive order that would clear the way for the C.I.A. to reopen overseas "black site" prisons, like those where it detained and tortured terrorism suspects before former President Barack Obama shut them down. Precautionary 'salt' added.
President Trump’s three-page draft order, titled "Detention and Interrogation of Enemy Combatants" and obtained by The New York Times, would also undo many of the other restrictions on handling detainees that Mr. Obama put in place in response to policies of the George W. Bush administration.
If Mr. Trump signs the draft order, he would also revoke Mr. Obama’s directive to give the International Committee of the Red Cross access to all detainees in American custody. That would be another step toward reopening secret prisons outside of the normal wartime rules established by the Geneva Conventions, although statutory obstacles would remain.
Mr. Obama tried to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and refused to send new detainees there, but the draft order directs the Pentagon to continue using the site "for the detention and trial of newly captured" detainees -- including not just more people suspected of being members of Al Qaeda or the Taliban, like the 41 remaining detainees, but also Islamic State detainees. It does not address legal problems that might raise.
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Trump's mouthpiece said the document in question did not originate from the WH. Perhaps a difference without a distinction but the media jackels at the presser sure looked befuddled.
[Daily Caller] Feds have launched an investigation into why the Department of Homeland Security hacked into the Georgia state governmental network, including its election system, The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group has learned.
John Roth, inspector general for DHS, wants to know why the agency broke protocol on its way to 10 unprecedented attacks on the system overseen by Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp -- who is also one of the most vocal critics about the Obama administration’s attempt to designate local and state election machinery as part of federal "critical infrastructure."
A Jan. 17 letter from Roth notified Kemp his office was officially "investigating a series of ten alleged scanning events of the Georgia Secretary of State’s network that may have originated from DHS-affiliated IP addresses." A firewall in Georgia’s system thwarted each attempt.
Former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson and Kemp have clashed over a federal government designation of election systems as "critical infrastructure." Kemp called it "political power play to federalize elections."
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Nothing wrong with a security scan as long as they let you know who they are, when they're gonna do it, from which IP address they're gonna do it and they share the results. Other wise, treat them just like you would any other hacker and block them with your firewall.
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[FOX] Club For Growth founder Stephen Moore reacted to reporting that since President Trump was elected, the stock market gained $2 trillion in wealth.
"This could be the start of a big bull market rally," Moore said on Risk & Reward, noting the market today crossed 20,000 point threshold.
Elizabeth MacDonald recounted how former President Barack Obama told a crowd in 2016 that Trump would need a "magic wand" to bring lost jobs and manufacturing back to America.
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"For years I thought what was good for the country was good for General Motors, and vice versa."
~ Charles Wilson
Charles Erwin Wilson (July 18, 1890 – September 26, 1961) was an American engineer and businessman who served as United States Secretary of Defense from 1953 to 1957 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Known as "Engine Charlie", he previously worked as CEO for General Motors.
[RT] Even those terrorist suspects who have not committed a crime should be tagged, and UK-style total CCTV surveillance needs to be put in place, says Austrian Defense Minister Hans Peter Doskozil, as the country considers a radical overhaul of security legislation.
"There are several possibilities on the table. Electronic ankle tags for people posing a potential threat are definitely something to be considered," the center-left politician told the O1 state radio station on Tuesday. "I definitely think that it would be appropriate that they are monitored, that the authorities know what they are doing, whom they are meeting."
According to the leading Krone newspaper, there are currently just under 300 potential terror suspects in the country, with around a third of them returnees from Syria and Iraq, where they may have fought alongside jihadist militias, such as Islamic State.
Security tags can only currently be used as a part of the sentencing system, and Sobotka admitted on Tuesday that new legislation is necessary for a broader mandate. Previously, leading judicial figures said that it would be extremely difficult to prove that someone is a "threat" with no evidence of wrongdoing, and suggested that electronic monitoring contravened fundamental freedoms enshrined in human rights legislation, and could be challenged in a European court.
Doskozil has also called for widespread use of video surveillance, another Sobotka idea. There are approximately 1 million operational CCTV cameras in Austria, compared to over 6 million in the UK, according to police statistics.
BLUF found, not in the story but in the first comment as follows:
[STAT] The science is overwhelming, for nearly 40 years now, that physicians should not treat with opiates for more than a few weeks, maybe a month, then refer to an Integrated Multidisciplinary Pain Clinic. This isn’t done for multiple reasons. So people like you end up chronically in pain and then should receive opiates because there are no other options left.
The problem remains political with patients screaming for more narcotics, physicians unconscionably hanging onto patients, government trying to make everyone happy, and science saying that all of you are wrong and are driving the current iatrogenic addiction epidemics. Government and 'politics' have certainly succeeded in making Big Pharma 'happy.' Meanwhile, the necessary components of the urban drug trade flourish. Urban peace depends upon the feeding as well as the mental and physical sedation of the Democratic voter.
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In my experience those who speak loudest about the regulation of 'pain killers' have never been forced to select a personal pain management strategy.
[Breitbart] The Trump administration will publish a list of crimes committed by illegal aliens in sanctuary cities weekly, according to an executive order released Wednesday. Progs will emphatically deny the correlation.
"To better inform the public regarding the public safety threats associated with sanctuary jurisdictions, the Secretary shall utilize the Declined Detainer Outcome Report or its equivalent and, on a weekly basis, make public a comprehensive list of criminal actions committed by aliens and any jurisdiction that ignored or otherwise failed to honor any detainers with respect to such aliens," the order reads.
The move will apply pressure to sanctuary cities: Local residents may be outraged when they learn that the gang member, drug trafficker, or the drunk driver that ruined lives is an illegal alien. It lets resistance movements to entrenched political establishments bloom across the country and will force politicians to be responsive. Conway and Bannan are such fun to watch.
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Loyal Chief Craig has asked the victim's foster dad/ guardian to visit the precinct every week with a report of where he's been and what he's been doing. This is is response to his mistake of telling the county provided shrink, that he felt like taking a 9 iron to the next 'effugee' he saw. Or something like that.
Efficient policing as always.
[Breitbart] Restaurants are rapidly going out of business in the Bay Area, after San Francisco passed a $15 minimum wage law in 2014 and the State of California followed suit in 2016. Yet the media are struggling to make the connection between high minimum wages and restaurant closures.
The East Bay Times, for example, asked Tuesday: "What’s behind the spate of recent Bay Area restaurant closures?" It barely mentioned new minimum wage laws, brushing them aside as if they were largely insignificant.
It is true, of course, that merely because one thing follows another does not prove that the second was caused by the first. The "post hoc, ergo propter hoc" fallacy that is familiar to first-year economics students would apply to this case as well. Yet that does not mean the prior factor should be excluded as a cause. But that is largely what the Times seems to have done, even though the closure of businesses and the loss of restaurant jobs is exactly what critics of the minimum wage hikes predicted.
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new minimum wage laws, brushing them aside as if they were largely insignificant
Well, of course wages are insignificant. Businesses just have to take a tiny, little cut in their enormous, obscene profits. The science is settled.
Besides, it could've been the new regulations.
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Yet the media are struggling to make the connection between high minimum wages and restaurant closures.
Cause they live in an alternate universe in which cause and effect are unknown. Hey, they can't even figure out why newspapers and magazines are going out of business.
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As far as I am concerned, food/beverage service is among the toughest businesses out there. So many variables, so many expiration dates, so little profit margin.
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...and so many fickle employees. First blue-collar job was dishwasher in high school. Three scheduled to work Sat and Sun; I was the only to show up. Except one time this dumbass showed up in berkinstocks and wool socks. He lasted 15 minutes and a cig, then walked, where I was actually relieved to be working alone.
So picture this very popular Italian restaurant in competitive downtown market if this once a future man (still consider myself a boy at that place in time, this job changed that) with a work ethic did not show.
WASHINGTON -- US President Donald Trump is preparing an executive order that would halt all US funding to UN agencies that recognize the Palestinian Authority or Palestine Liberation Organization as a full member.
The move, first reported in the New York Times, would create a committee tasked with reviewing US aid to the international bodies and programs. The order specifically calls for a review of aid to UN peacekeeping efforts.
But the terms of this executive order have already been codified in US law, according to former Obama administration officials, who were compelled to cut funding to UNESCO after the body accepted Palestine as a full member in 2011.
At the time, Victoria Nuland, then spokesman for the State Department, said the US was following longstanding congressional restrictions that required an immediate halt to its aid.
One 1990 appropriations law reads: "No funds authorized to be appropriated by this act or any other act shall be available for the United Nations or any specialized agency thereof which accords the Palestine Liberation Organization the same standing as member states." You don't have to invent new laws - just apply the ones on the books. Enforcing the law? We can't have that!
As I was growing up, antisemitism resided in the far-right. An ideological swamp that offered no protection. Society rejected both the hatred and the breeding ground. But in the last decade, as antisemitism morphs once more, it has found new cover within a different part of the political spectrum.
Today it emerges as offspring through the absurd marriage of the hard-left and Islamic thought. In a perverse twist, it is protected by the very groups that should despise it. The anti-racists, the humanitarians and the academics. They denounce antisemitism whilst simultaneously denying its existence and protecting the very cells that produce it.
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As I was growing up, antisemitism resided in the far-right.
That's in the alternate universe in which you placed members of the National Socialist Workers Party as extreme right rather than the true lefty socialist they were.
[The Beeb] US President Donald Trump has invited India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit the United States after a phone call between the two leaders.
Washington said Mr Trump saw India as a "true friend and partner in addressing challenges around the world".
"The two discussed opportunities to strengthen the partnership between the US and India in broad areas such as the economy and defence," it said.
Mr Modi said he had "also invited President Trump to visit India".
The White House said it looked forward to welcoming Mr Modi later this year. The US statement added that Mr Trump and Mr Modi resolved to "stand shoulder to shoulder in the global fight against terrorism".
Mr Modi had congratulated Mr Trump after his election win in November, saying he appreciated his "friendship" with India.
During the US election campaign, Mr Trump wooed Indian-American voters and was largely positive about India. He praised Mr Modi for championing bureaucratic reform and economic growth.
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...Very good news- if any nations should be natural allies, it should be us and India. I am at a loss to understand why the Obama administration treated them the way they did.
Mike
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I am at a loss to understand why the Obama administration treated them the way they did.
*cough* Islam *cough*
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Modi is a corrupt asshole. This is Donalds first misstep.
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"Very good news- if any nations should be natural allies, it should be us and India. I am at a loss to understand why the Obama administration treated them the way they did."
Yes, I have been thinking about this for some time, to include Russia in a Three Brothers Alliance: http://theological-geography.net/?s=three+brothers+strateg
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 36 loyalists of 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed and around 20 others were maimed during the operations in southern Zabul province of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the snuffies were killed or maimed during the operations in Khak-e-Afghan and Shelamzoi districts.
MoD further added that 37 snuffies were killed overall during the operations jointly conducted by the Afghan forces and at least two others were jugged Please don't kill me! .
According to MoD, at least one myrmidon was killed during a separate operation conducted in Arghandab district of Zabul.
The two snuffies were arrested during the operations conducted in Shindand district of Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... , MoD added.
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[GEO.TV] A young man lost his life after succumbing to his burn injuries on Thursday, in what Sherlocks have described as a case of honour killing.
According to police, Shafi was in a relationship with Shumaila - her brothers set him on fire in the name of honour in Zaman town, Korangi, a few days ago. The dear departed was immediately shifted to a hospital, however he breathed his last on Thursday. Authorities claim that two suspects, Fayyaz and Nasir Lamba are wanted in this case and raids are being conducted to apprehend the suspects. It was also informed that the suspects are known to have a criminal background.
In last October, Parliament approved bills aimed at the prevention of honour killings in the country, removing a loophole allowing killers to walk free after being pardoned by family members.
The bill was moved by Law Minister Zahid Hamid and Senator Farhatullah Babar which were duly approved by the parliamentarians, in the joint session.
The amendments passed mandate judges to sentence someone who kills in the name of "honour" to life imprisonment, even if they have been forgiven, said senior opposition politician Farhatullah Babar.
"Even if the close family members pardon the murderer, the court is bound to send him to jail for 25 years," Babar said.
It said the identity of the victim must be kept secret and verdict be announced within 90 days.
The bill for the prevention of honour killings stated an honour killing convict would at least be handed life in prison.
In the case of pardon by the heirs of an honour killing victim, the minimum punishment - life in prison - will remain in place and could not be reduced.
Law Minister Zahid Hamid, on the occasion, said the government will end the menace of honour killings from the country. He said a detailed consultation was held with parliamentarians from all the parties and a consensus was developed.
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A Libyan National Army commander has announced victory in the Benghazi’s Ganfouda district though it appears that some terrorists are still holding out in small group of high-rise apartments.
The victory proclamation from a senior officer in the Zawia Martyrs’ Brigade has not yet been confirmed by LNA sources.
In the last 24 hours there appears to have been a steady collapse of resistance by t militants, abandoning a succession of building. From within them 63 prisoners freed. In addition, some 60 families have fled across LNA lines in scenes reminiscent of the flight of women and children in the last days of the Bunyan Marsous operation against terrorists in Sirte.
The majority of the freed prisoners appears to have been former Qaddafi soldiers originally held in the Budhima military prison who were evacuated by the terorrists before they lost the area. Among them is Colonel Mohammed Ati who was released today reportedly not yet knowing that two of his sons had been killed last year fighting with the LNA in Leithi.
Six LNA soldiers died in battle yesterday. Casualties today are not yet clear.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The ranking of Afghanistan shows a considerable improvement in the corruptions perceptions index 2016.
The latest index was recently released by the Transparency International as the organization says over two-thirds of the 176 countries and territories in this year’s index fall below the midpoint of our scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).
According to Transparency International, the global average score is a paltry 43, indicating endemic corruption in a country’s public sector.
Afghanistan has secured four more points in the index in 2016 and is placed in 169th position in the rankings table.
The latest ranking shows a considerable improvement as compared to the previous year where Afghanistan secured 11 points and was placed among the most corrupt countries with Somalia and North Korea.
The countries placed below Afghanistan are Libya, Sudan, Yemen, Syria, North Korea, and South Sudan.
Somalia is once again place in the bottom of the ranking table by having 10 points and securing the 176th position.
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The countries placed below Afghanistan are Libya, Sudan, Yemen, Syria, North Korea, and South Sudan.
I wonder if any of those countries have anything in common?
At least 14 people were killed, and dozens wounded in a twin car bombs at a hotel frequented by lawmakers and government officials in Mogadishu on Wednesday.
The outgoing Somalia’s internal security minister Abdirisack Omar Mohamed has held a press conference in Mogadishu after police ended a deadly siege at Dayah hotel in the capital. The minister said four gunmen who were involved in the attack on the Dayah hotel near the parliament building were shot dead by the security forces.
The lethal attack began with a suicide truck bomb explosion at the hotel’s gate, followed by another car bomb blast before four gunmen stormed the building, according to witnesses.
Al shabaab has claimed responsibility for the hotel attack.
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[Bangla Daily Star] The Netherlands on Tuesday called for an international fund to support health centres offering abortion services in developing countries, after 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... ordered a halt to US government financing. America: Paying for the world's abortions.
Trump on Monday signed a decree barring federal funding for foreign NGOs that support abortion, on the eve of the 44th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that legalised the practice in the United States.
The restrictions prohibit foreign non-governmental organizations that receive US family planning assistance from using non-US funding to provide abortion services, information, counselling or referrals.
They are also barred from engaging in advocacy to promote abortion.
Lilianne Ploumen, the Dutch minister for foreign trade and development cooperation, said the Netherlands must do everything in its power to offset the ban, in order for "women can remain in control of their own bodies".
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Someone here mentioned the other day that white South Africans should 'return to their native Holland.' This article provides a glimpse of why they may have left Holland and Europe in the first place.
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Probably true g(r)om. Anarchy and de-civilization tend to greatly impact the carrying capacity. One of the key indicators is a declining life expectancy.
Feral pigs thrive in weapons impact areas on Fort Benning where humans are prohibited from entering. Appears the lowly feral pig has broken the code on survival.
Maybe. Maybe not -- it remains to be seen. And then there's the elephant of President Trump casting shade over the landscape.
[AlAhram] Palestinian Hamas leader Mahmoud El-Zahar said on Tuesday that the movement's relations with Cairo have improved, evidenced by the reaching of an agreement this week on border control between the Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula, state news agency MENA reported.
The Islamic resistance movement's leader said the parties did not agree on certain terms, however, without giving further details.
El-Zahar said in statements published by El-Ra'i news website, reportedly affiliated with the group, that a delegation of representatives from the group met with Egyptian officials in Cairo this week.
According to El-Ra'i, the group's delegation to Cairo included leaders Ismail Haniyeh, Moussa Abu Marzouk and Rouhi Moshtahi.
Previous news reports said that the deputy head of Hamas' political bureau Ismail Haniyeh arrived in Cairo on Monday, on his return from a trip to Doha, to hold meetings with Egyptian officials.
The last official visit of Hamas representatives to Cairo was in March 2016.
[Dhaka Tribune] A man has been placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! at the Dhaka airport with 1kg gold worth Tk50 lakh hidden in his rectum. I think they publish this same story once a week or so. You'd think the guy would learn.
Customs House Preventive Team Assistant Commissioner Ahsanul Kabir confirmed to the Dhaka Tribune on Wednesday.
The detainee, air-conditioning mechanic Fazlul Haq, returned from Singapore on Tuesday night. The Preventive Team was waiting for him at the green channel after a tip off.
Fazlul denied possessing gold when the team challenged him. The officials then frisked him but the search yielded nothing.
Later, x-ray tests revealed the presence of 10 gold bars hidden in his rectum.
The passenger told the team that he had hidden the gold in his bum about half an hour before landing, Assistant Commissioner Kabir said.
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[ARA News] Manbij – A leading member of the Islamic State (ISIS) militant group surrendered to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Wednesday, military sources reported.
Abu Abdullah al-Bahreni, a Bahraini jihadist and chief of the ISIS-led Hisba Police in the Kifsa town in northern Syria, has surrendered to the SDF near Manbij city.
“After the SDF forces foiled an attempt by ISIS to infiltrate into Manbij, a number of ISIS militants, headed by al-Bahreni, surrendered themselves to the SDF,” Kurdish officer Habun Osman told ARA News.
ISIS militants tried to infiltrate into the Mestariha district in southwestern Manbij on Wednesday. However, the SDF troops foiled the attempt after clashes with the militants.
“At least seven ISIS militants were killed in the clashes, while the rest surrendered themselves and their weapons to the Syrian Democratic Forces,” SDF officer Osman said.
The Kurdish officer told ARA News that the militants could have escaped, “but they’ve chosen to surrender”.
“Having a prominent ISIS official like Abu Abdullah al-Bahreni surrendering to the SDF indicates the helplessness of the terrorist group in continuing the fight against our forces in northern Syria,” an SDF spokesman said.
The city of Manbij has served for over two years as a main ISIS jihadi pocket on the Syrian-Turkish border. Supported by the US-led coalition, the SDF liberated the city and its countryside in mid-August, 2016.
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[Idaho Statesman] Sally Boynton Brown, the Idaho’s Democratic Party’s executive director and one of seven candidates to chair the Democratic National Committee, is taking heat for comments she made at a candidates’ forum last week on how the party should talk about the Black Lives Matter movement.
Brown, responding to a question from moderator Joy-Ann Reid of MSNBC, said Democrats have failed minorities and people of color and need to “accept there is prejudice” within the party. Speaking as a “white woman” who doesn’t “get it,” she said her job was to was to “shut other white people down when they want to say, oh, no, I’m not prejudiced; I’m a Democrat.”
Right-leaning media outlets seized on the “shut other white people down” part of her comment to attack her and the party.
“Obviously they’re being taken out of context,” Boynton Brown said of the reporting on her comments Tuesday. “What I was answering to was an internal party conversation around being in alignment with our values and words.”
She added: “I think that this is the issue we see with fake news. These media outlets take something completely out of context and sensationalize it, and now people across the country are sending me hate mail and thinking I’m saying something that’s not true.”
Boynton Brown, traveling in New York on Tuesday, said that her comments were aimed at racism as “the oldest power structure that we have in this country.”
“We absolutely need to check our own filter,” she said. “And the DNC needs to be making sure that we’re training people on how to listen to our brothers and sisters of color who are sharing their life experience with us.”
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“Obviously they’re being taken out of context,” Boynton Brown said of the reporting on her comments Tuesday. “What I was answering to was an internal party conversation around being in alignment with our values and words.”
Obviously the folks standing right behind you when you said it took you out of context, too.
She added: “I think that this is the issue we see with fake news. These media outlets take something completely out of context and sensationalize it, and now people across the country are sending me hate mail and thinking I’m saying something that’s not true.”
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“And the DNC needs to be making sure that we’re training people on how to listen to our brothers and sisters of color who are sharing their life experience with us.”
Please keep doing that.
Meanwhile, President Trump will continue to listen to our brothers and sisters of ALL colors who are sharing their life experiences with him.
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Sally Boynton Brown's egregious rant was 4 min. long.
The video and the "quote" cited in the article cut off and omitted the last minute of the rant.
Her dramatic and radically racist spiel concluded with:
We pull people in and they are volunteers. They don’t know anything and then we send them out to have conversations with people, hard conversations. We promote them to chair of a party where they have power and they have no clue what they are doing. We have to, at the DNC, provide training. We have to teach them how to communicate, how to be sensitive and how to shut their mouths if they are white. So I think I made my point.
I think the only point you made Sally, is that any future political aspirations you may have envisioned for yourself, are now laughably nonexistent.
Once upon a time, there was an old farmer who had worked his crops for many years.
One day his horse ran away. Upon hearing the news, his neighbors came to visit. “Such bad luck,” they said sympathetically, “you must be so sad.”
“We’ll see,” the farmer replied.
The next morning the horse returned, bringing with it two other wild horses.
“How wonderful,” the neighbors exclaimed! “Not only did your horse return, but you received two more. What great fortune you have!”
“We’ll see,” answered the farmer.
The following day, his son tried to ride one of the untamed horses, was thrown, and broke his leg. The neighbors again came to offer their sympathy on his misfortune. “Now your son cannot help you with your farming,” they said. “What terrible luck you have!”
“We’ll see,” replied the old farmer.
The following week, military officials came to the village to conscript young men into the army. Seeing that the son’s leg was broken, they passed him by. The neighbors congratulated the farmer on how well things had turned out. “Such great news. You must be so happy!”
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi army fighter jets killed 20 Islamic State fighters on Wednesday before they carried out an attack on army forces in Anbar’s city of Haditha, a military official has said.
L. Gen. Qassem al-Mohammadi, commander of the army’s al-Jazeeera Operations, said the militants were detected and targeted by the air force while approaching an army deployment west of Um al-Wez region, southwest of Haditha.
The Iraqi army command in Anbar declared on the 5th of January the start of operations to retake western Anbar regions, close to the borders with Syria, from militants who occupied them since the emergence of the Islamic State in 2014. The operations lasted for a few days, recapturing a few villages, before halting again. Observes see confusion regarding readiness to launch operations in the province, pointing out to the fact that the start of the security offensive was not officially declared by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi as was the case with Mosul, where government forces have recaptured a half of the city.
Security sources said a week earlier that the government had decided to halt battles in Anbar until the end of security operations to retake Mosul, Islamic State’s biggest bastion in Iraq.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) A police source in Anbar Province revealed that a booby-trapped vehicle exploded in central Ramadi City, Alsumaria News reported on Wednesday.
The source said, “This morning, a booby-trapped vehicle, parked on the roadside near street 17 in central Ramadi, exploded, after the arrival of the military engineering teams to dismantle it, without causing any casualties.”
“Security forces cordoned off the area of incident, and imposed strict procedures in anticipation of the presence of any other threats,” the source added on condition of anonymity.
Noteworthy, security forces and tribal fighters are controlling the city of Ramadi, after being liberated in 2015 from the Islamic State group.
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[TheZMan] O’Sullivan’s First Law states that any organization or enterprise that is not expressly right wing will become left wing over time. The law is named after British journalist and former National Review editor John O’Sullivan. This is especially ironic as O’Sullivan was forced to abandon most of his right wing positions in order to avoid being purged from National Review. Diseases are often named after a famous victim, but this is the first time the victim named his disease before he contracted it.
Red State is a website that was originally started as sort of a “conservative” alternative to the left-wing blogosphere. I put quotes there because Red State’s brand of conservatism has always been the housebroken type of stuff popular on the Bush wing of the GOP. Like a lot of so-called conservatives in the Bush years, Red State was basically just a cheering section for the Republicans. Whatever Team Bush proposed, Red State branded as “Reaganesque” and “principled conservatism”, especially if it meant killing Muslims.
That probably sounds harsh, but I’m just getting started. Serial plagiarist Ben Domenech, pen for hire Joshua Trevino and the portly proselytizer Erick Erickson saw an opportunity to promote themselves, and maybe lever their popularity with conservative voters, into the careers they thought they deserved. The whole point of Red State was to ball-gargle the establishment, hoping to turn their obsequious rumpswabbery into a Jonah Goldberg lifestyle. The three of them are emblematic of what went wrong with conservatism.
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[LibyaHerald] The leader of the Misrata-led forces in the south, Jamal Treiki, has accused Libyan National Army forces of fabricating reports suggesting his Third Force militias were preventing aid being delivered to the region.
Treiki told Tanasah TV channel that elders from the south were making concerted efforts to convince the commander of the LNA forces in the south, Mohamed Ben Nayel, to open the roads connecting the south to the northwest to allow fuel and goods to be delivered. Treiki appeared to blame the LNA for the blockages.
However, the mayor of Brak Al-Shatti, Nassir Saeed Salim, recently told the Libya Herald that it was the Third Force who was responsible for stopping the delivery of fuel to the south.
Treiki accused media outlets of dishonesty and fabricating reports.
“While our forces work hard to secure the delivery of petrol and aid to the area, the media related to the authorities in the east are continuing to broadcast false news and they lay the blame on us over the deteriorating living conditions in the south,” he said.
The two rival forces have been competing for control of southern regions for some time now.
Recently, the LNA made significant gains in the region and replaced the Third Force from Brak Al-Shatti airbase. Some in the south, including elders, activists and residents of Sebha and its neighbouring towns, have demanded the Third Force leave the south.
At the beginning of last December, the Third Force claimed they would leave the Fezzan region. However, only a few weeks later, they appeared to change their minds when they alerted their troops to stay ready and prepared to fight.
In related news, residents of Sebha held protests today demanding Obari power station finally be completed to help ease the electricity problems that have shattered the south in recent weeks. Last week the mayor of Sebha, Hamed Rafeh, told the Libya Herald that the Presidency Council’s Government of National Accord lacked the power to solve the power problems in the south.
[GEO.TV] KARACHI: At least two alleged murderous Moslems were bumped off by the paramilitary personnel in the wee hours of Thursday in Gadap Town.
According to Rangers spokesperson, during the intelligence-based operation conducted on a tip-off, the bad boyz were potted in retaliatory firing, further adding that the suspects were affiliated with a proscribed organization.
A heavy cache of weapons and ammunitions were recovered from them, claimed authorities.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Kinnison began his slow infiltration of the sewer system... as many as eight suspects were taken into custody in overnight raids conducted at Darakshan, Gizri, Baldia 7 number, Orangi town Iqbal Market.
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[IsraelTimes] After holding hearings and consulting security officials, Aryeh Deri says he has decided to take ’practical action’ to deter assailants.
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri has ordered his office to revoke the residency of 10 relatives of the Paleostinian terrorist who earlier this month killed four soldiers in a truck-ramming attack in Jerusalem.
Deri said in a statement Wednesday that, after holding hearings for the relatives and consulting with security officials, he had decided that the family members of Fadi al-Qunbar, most of which reside in East Jerusalem, would lose their special status as Israeli residents.
"Only immediate and practical actions will deter assailants," Deri said.
There was no immediate word as to whether Qunbar’s mother, whose residency was among those considered for annulment, was among the 10.
The Haaretz newspaper has noted that previous attempts to revoke the Israeli residency of East Jerusalem residents as a punitive measure have been shot down by the High Court of Justice.
Qunbar, a resident of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, plowed a truck into a group of soldiers in Jerusalem on January 8. The attacked killed Lt. Yael Yekutiel, 20, of Givatayim; Lt. Shir Hajaj, 22, of Ma’ale Adumim; 2nd Lt. Erez Orbach, 20, of Alon Shvut; and 2nd Lt. Shira Tzur, 20, of Haifa.
"We must fight with all our strength and by any deterrent means in order to prevent the next terror attack," Deri said when he launched the annulment process. "From now on gunnies considering an attack will know that their families will pay a price for their actions."
The Shas party leader and interior minister told Army Radio in an interview on January 10 that Qunbar, "an Israeli resident with an Israeli ID card, got into the truck and saw soldiers and decided to run them over and imitate what happened in Berlin and Nice -- this is a phenomenon that we need to deal with."
[AlAhram] Egypt’s army said it has killed three bully boyz during a raid on two terrorist hideouts in central Sinai, a statement by the armed forces read late Tuesday.
Army front man Tamer El-Refaie said that Egypt’s third field army in central Sinai, in cooperation with air forces,
...does that include Israeli drones? We don't actually want to know -- the Egyptian populace is not ready to hear about partnership with the Zionist entity, if Al Ahram is anything to go by...
was able to destroy two "extremely dangerous terrorist hideouts."
Three bully boyz were killed and two others injured in the offensive. Eleven other bully boyz were incarcerated Please don't kill me! The army said it was able to destroy a storehouse containing kabooms, three four-wheel-drive vans, and three cycle of violences believed to be used by the bully boyz in their operations.
How many of the kabooms were labelled, "Made in Gaza -- Hamas approved"?
The offensive came one day after the army announced the deaths of five personnel late Sunday in a terrorist attack in Sinai.
No further details were given on the terrorist attack or its location.
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How long before Sisi gets fed up and says: "F' it. Bomb Gazoo into the stone age"?
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He offered to go in and clean it out shortly after he took over, Frank G, but Bibi didn't trust him for some reason. Something to readress once President Trump is settled in, perhaps.
[AnNahar] Two Lebanese, 2 Nepalese And 1 Paleostinian held for spying for Israel.
The General Directorate of General Security announced Wednesday that it has incarcerated Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! two Lebanese men, two Nepalese women and a Paleostinian man on charges of "spying for Israeli embassies abroad."
"During interrogation, the detainees confessed to the charges, admitting that they had called phone numbers belonging to the Israeli enemy's embassies in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , Jordan, Britannia and Nepal with the aim of spying and passing on information," a General Security statement said.
The investigations revealed that the two aforementioned Nepalese women were actively recruiting Nepalese domestic workers in Leb with the aim of spying for Israel.
"They gave them the phone number of the Israeli embassy in Nepal so that they pass on information about their employers to the Mossad Israeli intelligence agency," the statement added.
"Following interrogation, they were referred to the relevant judicial authorities on charges of collaborating with the Israeli enemy and efforts are underway to arrest the rest of the culprits," General Security said.
[CA.NEWS.YAHOO] U.S. President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... is expected to sign executive orders starting on Wednesday that include a temporary ban on most refugees and a suspension of visas for citizens of Syria and six other Middle Eastern and African countries, say congressional aides and immigration experts briefed on the matter.
Trump, who tweeted that a "big day" was planned on national security on Wednesday, is expected to ban for several months the entry of refugees into the United States, except for religious minorities escaping persecution, until more aggressive vetting is in place.
Another order will block visas being issued to anyone from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, said the aides and experts, who asked not to be identified.
In his tweet late on Tuesday, Trump said: "Big day planned on NATIONAL SECURITY tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall!"
The border security measures probably include directing the construction of a border wall with Mexico and other actions to cut the number of illegal immigrants colonists living in the United States.
The sources say the first of the orders will be signed on Wednesday. With Trump considering measures to tighten border security, he could turn his attention to the refugee issue later this week.
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3 days so far. By the 6th day, the Dims will be relegated to heavy drinking to squash their misery.
You're confusing him with the previous occupant of WH - who did have delusions of divinity: that's why I never believed the rumors that he's a secret Muslim.
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Proving that when you're not sleeping 10-14 hrs per day, celebrating with NBA stars, golfing, attending fund raisers, walking the hond, or on Hawaiian or Martha's Vinyard holiday, you can actually get quite a lot accomplished.
[ABCNEWS.GO] In his first one-on-one television interview since being sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, 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... told ABC News anchor David Muir that Mexico would be paying for the proposed border wall and that negotiations between the two nations would begin "relatively soon."
"Ultimately, it will come out of what's happening with Mexico ... and we will be in a form reimbursed by Mexico, which I've always said," Trump said.
During the interview, which took place at the White House this morning, Trump said that Mexico would pay the U.S. back "100 percent."
He confirmed that U.S. taxpayer dollars would be used to start the construction but said reimbursement would follow.
"All it is, is we'll be reimbursed at a later date from whatever transaction we make from Mexico," he said. "I'm just telling you there will be a payment. It will be in a form, perhaps a complicated form. What I'm doing is good for the United States. It's also going to be good for Mexico. We want to have a very stable, very solid Mexico."
When asked about the start of construction, Trump said it would happen in "months."
"As soon as we can, as soon as we can physically do it," he said. "I would say in months, yeah. I would say in months -- certainly planning is starting immediately."
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Already have it in San Diego County and it really cut down Illegal Immigration. Next up? Nationwide E-Verify crackdown
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[THEHILL] Activists with Greenpeace on Wednesday brought a massive "resist" banner to a construction site in Washington, D.C., to protest President Trump’s actions promoting oil pipelines. It's yellow, just like Hezbollah's, and it's got a red sun rising behind the word. Very artsy.
Protesters started scaling a 270-foot tower crane at a downtown construction site Wednesday morning and unfurled the banner once they reached the top.
Greenpeace’s intent is for the 70-foot-by-35-foot banner to be visible from the White House, a few blocks south of the building site, said spokeswoman Cassady Craighill.
The group is protesting Trump’s order yesterday to revive the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, after former President B.O. rejected Keystone and delayed final federal approval for Dakota Access.
"People in this country are ready to resist and rise up in ways they have never done before," Karen Topakian, chairwoman of Greenpeace’s board, said in a statement.
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Something between 'criminal trespass', 'wanton endangerment' and 'hazarding navigation' seem suitable charges.
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[i]Protesters started scaling a 270-foot tower crane at a downtown construction site Wednesday morning and unfurled the banner once they reached the top.[/i]
Doesn't *anyone* take security seriously these days? Good Lord, I've managed rental houses with more attention than this.
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Just remember, Greenpeace, Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and Humane Society International (HSI) are one in the same.
There will always be a funding stream from innocent folks thinking that they're donating to the 'American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' (ASPCA) just because the Greenpeace/Sea Shepherd storefront calls itself the 'Humane Society'. My mom used to send money to them before I explained that it wasn't the ASPCA.
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[DAILYCALLER] The Trump administration told the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take down its global warming webpage, an anonymous EPA staffer said.
"If the website goes dark, years of work we have done on climate change will disappear," the staffer told Rooters Tuesday. The staffer was not authorized to speak to the media and claimed EPA employees were scrambling to save data on the website. If they give me a few dollars, barely a smidgen of their annual budget, I'd be happy to show them how to archive webpages and data from their databases. Something in the low seven digits should cover it nicely.
The EPA’s global warming webpage is currently still up as of Wednesday morning. The page contains some links to EPA’s data on carbon dioxide (CO2) as well as other greenhouse gas emissions and lists the effects the agency says global warming will have. The site doesn’t host much of the data, however, and only aggregates links to it. So... The data they're scrambling to "save" is still there, just not on their website? So the benefit is either zero or near zero?
EPA was ordered Tuesday to stop handing out grants for projects and research on global warming, air quality monitoring and education, and the agency instructed employees not to discuss the spending freeze outside the agency, according to anonymous leaks to multiple media outlets.
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"If the website goes dark, years of work we have done on climate change will disappear."
Considering most of it is fraudulent, I would consider that a benefit to humanity.
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Absolute idiots. Did they forget Trump claim about figuring out who leaked information? Did it not occur to them this is a God-damned sting to clean out the EPA?
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The EPA is not the climate department. Smog reports maybe, but not your job.
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Sell all the EPA owned aircraft and any vehicles larger than a bicycle.
Forbid any EPA officials from flying or going by train or bus to any job-related functions. Walking and the beforementioned bicycle are ok.
Cut the HVAC related budget of all EPA occupied buildings to zero.
In short - make them eat their own dogfood.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Sen. Tom Cotton on Wednesday chided Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer for a delay on a confirmation vote for CIA Director Mike Pompeo and suggested Mr. Schumer’s tenure as the top-ranking Democrat in the Senate might improve with "a little more seasoning and experience."
Mr. Cotton, Arkansas Republican, said he has worked with Mr. Schumer on legislation before and found him to be "forthright" and "transactional."
"On this particular instance, though, we all thought he had made a commitment to us that we would vote on Mike Pompeo’s nomination on Friday," Mr. Cotton told radio host Hugh Hewitt.
"I guess he hadn’t taken the temperature of the Democratic caucus, though, so that was unfortunate," he said.
"Senator Schumer is still in his first month of leadership, so maybe as he gets a little more seasoning and experience, this won’t happen again," Mr. Cotton said.
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Since when is putting lipstick on a pig called "seasoning"?
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Always ask a Schumer supporter why they are in favor of someone who wants a religious test (in total violation of the First Amendment) for federal judges, as Schumer has publicly called for in the past.
Then watch their heads explode.
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Mr. Cotton using the line between sage and sarcasm as a jump rope.
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Southern Gentleman's version of DiploSpeak offering the face-saving notion that Schumer is (A) incompetent instead of (B) a low-down, lying penny-ante scoundrel.
So they're using private devices and accounts to keep the communications out of the government archive? Tut tut.
[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] The Badlands National Park, located in South Dakota, has tweeted and deleted posts on climate change. The account is the latest from the National Parks Service (NPS) social media presence to post on topics off-message from the White House.
The tweets discussed information about how levels of carbon dioxide are at their highest in history, citing the Organic Act of 1916, a federal statute that calls for the preservation of lands for the "enjoyment of future generations."
Tuesday morning President Trump signed a series of executive orders giving the green light on the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines as well as expediting environmental reviews and approvals. Opponents argue that the pipelines will increase carbon emissions and contribute to the disastrous effects of climate change on the environment.
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pipelines will increase carbon emissions and contribute to the disastrous effects of climate change on the environment.
So do all the vehicle miles driven by the NPS. So I assume they will walk everywhere from now on.
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And looking at ice cores and such, the average ppm of CO2 throughout the history of the planet is really more like 1200 to 1800ppm. We're in CO2 starvation according to an actual scientific paper I got off a government website. Dunno how they managed to get it on there considering it really doesn't help the warmers much.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Talibs group earn around $4.8 million annually from Kajaki dam located in the restive southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province of Afghanistan.
The provincial council officials have said the group earns almost 90 per cent of the income of the dam on yearly basis.
Majid Akhunda, deputy provincial council chief, told RFE/RL that the group has formed a special unit to collect the income generated from the dam.
He said the 90 per cent income of the dam is almost equal to 500 million Pak Rupees which is equivalent to $4.77 million. 'Restive Helmond province' indeed. I always wondered why the Taliban never blew it up. I'd would hate to have to calculate the American and coalition lives lost in 'restive Helmond' over the years. I suppose no one ever thought to... follow the foking money ?
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I suppose no one ever thought to... follow the foking money ?
The US hasn't been in the business of "Winning" for a very long time. The pussification of this nation began a very long time before Obama took office.
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Problem with following the money is that the follower might not like the path.
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Spot on! The corrupt regimes of Africa are not kept in power by their huge Toyota and Microsoft manufacturing facilities, it's their natural resources. Always has been.
If the spoor leads back to Kabul, our man in power might be at risk.
[Ynet] Police and witnesses say at least four people have been killed in three attacks by jacket wallahs in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri.
Borno state police commissioner Damian Chukwu says the first attack late Tuesday involved a male bomber who was rubbed out by a military sniper after he was seen moving toward a security checkpoint.
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Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) An official source in Salahuddin Province revealed that a policeman was killed by a mortar shell near Alas oil fields, east of the province, Alsumaria News Reported on Wednesday.
The source said, “A mortar shell fell, this morning, near Alas oil fields, east of Salahuddin Province, killing a Federal Policeman.”
“The shell was fired from Islamic State-held areas in the province,” the source added on condition of anonymity.
According to al-Hashd al-Shaabi’s leader, Udai al-Khedran, Alas is one of the largest oil fields located east of Salahuddin, and the Islamic state group is still controlling large parts of it.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) A local source in Diyala province revealed that the Islamic State group attacked a government company near Naft Khana, east of Baqubah, and abducted five workers, Alsumaria reported on Wednesday.
The source said, “Islamic State’s militants attacked, before noon today, the headquarters of Hamorabi Company, near Naft Khana, as well as abducting five workers and burning some machines.”
“Security forces cordoned off the area of incident, and opened an investigation into it,” the source added.
Hamorabi Company is carrying out a project to rehabilitate a road to Naft Khana, backed by the International Monetary Fund.
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) Four members of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units) were killed and wounded on Wednesday in an attack by Islamic State militants east and south of Tikrit, a security source has said.
The source told AlMada Press that the attack targeted PMU deployments in Tal Kasiba and Mutaibija, east and south of Tikrit. The attacks relied on heavy and light guns as well as motorbikes, killing two Hashd members and wounding two others.
According to the source, IS fighters have made a significant advance in al-Haddadiya crossroad, a network of highways linking the city with Kirkuk and Diyala.
Army fighter jets have started to bombard the group’s supply routes at those regions, and later strikes are expected in northern and eastern Tikrit, the source added.
Al-Hashd al-Shaabi troops launched on Tuesday a military operation to secure the roads linking Baghdad and Salahuddin with Mosul, Islamic State’s largest stronghold in Iraq, the half of which was retaken by security forces on the same day.
The extremist group has stepped up bloody attacks in Salahuddin and Baghdad in recent weeks, killing several security and PMU members, a development which observers believe is aimed at making up for losses in Mosul and to distract security forces.
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This is slightly amusing, in an ironic sort of way. Of course, it's all 'orrible, but what does one expect in an an oil field called 'Alas' ?
Syrian Army and Armed Forces units on Wednesday thwarted an attack by ISIL on Deir Ezzor Airport, killed ten ISIL terrorists and destroyed their vehicles in the far northeastern part of Damascus Countryside, and made a new advancement in the T4 area in Homs province’s eastern countryside.
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) A landmine left over from the Iraqi-Iranian war in the 1980s exploded in Wednesday in a herd of sheep in Diyala, killing most of the animals, according to a local official.
The landmine, which dates back to the 1980-1988 war between Iraq and Iran, went off and killed most of a sheep herd in Qazania, 1200 Km of Baqubah, near the borders with Iran, according to the town’s mayor, Mazen al-Kazai.
“Regions on the borders between Iraq and Iran at Qazania are riddled with landmines which kill several shepherds and their animals every year,” Khazai was quoted as saying by Alsumaria News.
Dozens of landmines drift with seasonal floods towards farmlands, adding to the citizens’ suffering over the past years, he said, urging the defense ministry to erect warning signs to avoid human losses.
Qazania municipality said Sunday it had formed a panel of environment officials to tackle the landmines issue to draw a map of their locations.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) A local source in Diyala province revealed that the Islamic State group attacked a government company near Naft Khana, east of Baqubah, and abducted five workers, Alsumaria reported on Wednesday.
The source said, “Islamic State’s militants attacked, before noon today, the headquarters of Hamorabi Company, near Naft Khana, as well as abducting five workers and burning some machines.”
“Security forces cordoned off the area of incident, and opened an investigation into it,” the source added.
Hamorabi Company is carrying out a project to rehabilitate a road to Naft Khana, backed by the International Monetary Fund.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Diyala Police Chief, Major General Jassim al-Saadi announced on Wednesday discovering a cache of rockets, and arresting four persons on criminal and terrorism charges in the province.
Saadi said in a press statement, “Security forces, based on intelligence information, carried out a search operation in the orchards located on the banks of Diyala River in Raka Haji Suhail area, and managed to discover a cache containing nine SPG-9 rockets and six 106 rockets.”
“Security forces from the police also raided the areas of al-Khalis, Bani Saad and Mukdadiyah, and arrested four persons wanted on criminal and terrorism charges,” Saadi added.
Security forces in Diyala Province discovered many caches of weapons and arrested dozens of criminals and terrorists in the last months.
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This is just another example of where we're at globally, at what happens when we allow anything and everything to take place under the guise of "education".
This kind of crap wouldn't take place if history and ethics/philosophy/law were tethered to something akin to truth and the basics of morality.
At least four insurgents were killed in clashes with police forces in central Uruzgan province, local police officials said in a statement on Wednesday.
In addition, seven other insurgents were injured.
The clashes took place in Chaharcheno district of the province after insurgents attacked police check posts, according to the statement.
However, the statement did not provide further details nor information about casualties among security forces.
The Taliban has not yet commented about the clash.
(Reuters) Islamic State fighters have taken up sniper positions in buildings on the west bank of the Tigris river ahead of an expected government offensive into that side the city, locals said on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday his forces had taken complete control of eastern Mosul, and the commander of the campaign to retake Islamic State’s last major stronghold in Iraq has said preparations to cross the Tigris are under way.
IS fighters have moved in recent days into Mosul’s main medical complex made up of a dozen buildings located between two of the city’s five bridges – positions that can be used for observation and sniper fire, local residents told Reuters.
The tallest is seven storeys, one resident said, asking not to be identified as the militants execute those caught speaking with the outside world.
Some 750,000 people live in western Mosul, according to the United Nations which has voiced grave concerns for civilians in an area beyond the reach of aid organisations.
It took 100,000 Iraqi troops, members of regional Kurdish security forces and Shi’ite Muslim paramilitaries, backed by air and ground support from a U.S.-led coalition, almost 100 days to retake eastern Mosul in what has become the biggest battle in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion of 2003.
Taking the west side – the location of Mosul’s Grand Mosque where Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a “caliphate” in 2014 – could prove even tougher as it is crisscrossed by streets too narrow for armoured vehicles.
The Sunni Muslim jihadists are expected to put up a fierce fight as they are cornered in a shrinking area but the narrow streets could also deprive them of one of their most effective weapons: suicide-car bombs.
The group released drone footage on Wednesday of cars driving at high speed into clusters of army Humvees and armoured vehicles before blowing up.
In some cases, Iraqi soldiers can be seen running away as the car bombs speed towards them. The recordings also show munitions dropped from the drones.
Iraqi forces estimated the number of militants inside Mosul at 5,000-6,000 at the start of the battle, and have said 3,300 have been killed in the fighting.
More than 160,000 civilians have been displaced since the start of the offensive in Mosul, which had a pre-war population of about 2 million, U.N. officials say. Aid agencies estimate the dead and wounded – both civilian and military – at several thousand.
“The reports from inside western Mosul are distressing,” U.N. humanitarian coordinator Lise Grande said on Tuesday.
“Prices of basic food and supplies are soaring … Many families without income are eating only once a day. Others are being forced to burn furniture to stay warm.”
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[Ynet] Weapons, munitions and explosives found as some 200 German police raid a dozen homes in six states as part of investigation into a far-right ’Reichsbuerger’ group suspected of planning armed attacks against Jews , police and asylum seekers.
About 200 German police searched a dozen homes in six states on Wednesday as part of an investigation into a far-right extremist group suspected of planning armed attacks against Jews, police and asylum seekers, stated the chief federal prosecutor's office.
Two of seven suspects were detained and weapons, munitions and explosives were found during the raids, said Frauke Koehler, a spokeswoman for the office.
A front man for the German Justice Ministry said the raids underscored the government's determination to crack down on ultra-right extremists, whose numbers are rising across Germany.
"This is an important signal against the far-right extremist scene in Germany, which shows that our investigative agencies are vigilant and will proceed with great resolve against extremists," he said at a government news conference.
The prosecutor's office said the early morning raids included searches of the homes of six people believed to have founded the new group, and that of a seventh person who is suspected of helping the group obtain supplies.
"The goal of today's search measures was to obtain further evidence of the actual creation of a formal group, as well as the alleged planned criminal acts and any potential tools," it said in a statement.
It said the suspects were largely connected via social media and were believed to have begun planning armed attacks in the spring of 2016.
German officials said the raids were directed against people associated with the "Reichsbuerger," or Citizens of the Reich movement, which rejects the modern German state as an illegitimate successor to Nazi-era Germany.
Koehler said a certain ideological closeness to the Reichsbuerger was perceptible, but that it was necessary to check whether there were actually such connections and how close they were.
Germany's BfV domestic intelligence agency put the group under observation in November, weeks after one of its members rubbed out a policeman during a raid at his home.
The agency warned last year, following the arrival in Germany of more than a million migrants colonists, that ultra-right extremists--many with links to groups in Europe and the United States--were increasingly ready to commit acts of violence.
The BfV also called for action to halt the emergence of what it called "right-wing terrorist structures."
The number of far-right extremist seen at risk of committing violent acts jumped to 12,100 in 2016 from 11,800 in 2015, according to a spokeswoman for the Interior Ministry.
German authorities broke up a suspected ultra-right extremist group known as "Oldschool Society" last year.
What have they been telling themselves in Ramallah?
[IsraelTimes] No Israelis injured in West Bank shooting; maimed gunman said to be receiving medical treatment in incident hours after car-ramming.
A Paleostinian man shot up Israeli troops from a moving car in the central West Bank on Wednesday night, the army said. The soldiers fired back, and injured him. No soldiers were maimed in the attack, which took place outside the village of Aboud, northwest of Ramallah.
The Paleostinian gunman received medical treatment on the scene, the army said.
Inside the vehicle, the soldiers found a Carlo-style submachine gun, a makeshift weapon that is prevalent in the West Bank and in the Israeli underworld.
The shooting attack came hours after IDF troops rubbed out a Paleostinian man who rammed his car into a West Bank bus stop north of Jerusalem on Wednesday evening in an apparent terror attack. According to the army, the driver crashed his truck into the metal bollards surrounding a bus stop near the Kochav Yaakov settlement in the central West Bank, southeast of Ramallah. Israeli troops who were stationed nearby opened fire, killing the Paleostinian man.
The Israeli civilians and soldiers who were standing at the bus stop were uninjured.
Upon searching the car, the soldiers found the driver to be holding a knife, the military said.
The driver was later identified by the Paleostinian health ministry as Hussein Salem Abu Ghosh, 24, from Qalandiya.
In other minor events throughout the day, Ynet adds:
Earlier in the day, a number of Molotov Cocktails were hurled at Kibbutz Migdal Oz in the Gush Etzion region. Three firefighting service teams were called to the scene to extinguish the flames. No one was injured in the attack.
In the morning, police units scoured the Jerusalem area in pursuit of a driver who smashed his vehicle through Hizma checkpoint in the city as security forces were carrying out security checks. According to security forces, the security personnel stationed at the checkpoint began the process of engagement and attempted to stop the suspect, who managed to flee the scene. ... as though they had never been...
A Paleostinian man reportedly crossed the border fence separating Israel and the Gazoo Strip this morning. The suspect was nabbed Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! by Israeli security forces and taken in for questioning, Army Radio reports.
Once is coincidence, twice is [something], three times is a trend.
"Once is an incidence, twice a coincidence, three times... Tri-incidence sounds dumb. Go with trend." If it hadn’t grasped it before, the Washington press corps is now on notice that President Donald Trump’s press briefing room is not going to be run the same way Obama’s was, and no one had a worse reaction than the Associated Press when it found another media outlet being picked first in this week’s pressers.
In the past, the 170-year-old news wire service was the first to be called at every press conference in the White House briefing room. But during his January 23 press conference, Trump Press Secretary Sean Spicer called on a reporter from The New York Post instead.
If that didn’t spin the AP up, the January 24 presser did when Spicer gave his first question to conservative website LifeZette.com, a site founded by conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham.
The AP was so upset that after the press conference, it posted a story about LifeZette.com that contained several errors.
For instance, in its rush to attack LifeZette, the AP incorrectly spelled the name of the LifeZette reporter who attended the presser. Initially the AP spelled reporter Jim Stinson’s name as "Stenson." It later changed the spelling without notice.
The AP also took out of context some of the things LifeZette has posted in the past. For instance, the wire service reported as "news" that the site posted a "conspiracy theory" about the Clintons.
"Last year, LifeZette released a video, ’Clinton Body Count,’ that promoted a conspiracy theory that Hillary and Bill Clinton had ties to the deaths of several colleagues and Democrats," the story read.
"The video was made in jest, and merely noted that the theories existed," the site insisted in reply to the AP.
Still, the Clinton video has been scrubbed from the LifeZette site, and its August 21 tweet on the video now leads to a 404 page.
The AP also failed to reveal in its story that it had traditionally been afforded the press secretary’s first question to give readers perspective on why it was writing a story attacking LifeZette.
Finally, LifeZette noted that the AP never contacted them for a comment on their story after the January 24 presser.
In its own story on the AP’s attack, LifeZette noted that the wire service said only that it "stands by its reporting," even as it made unrevealed edits to its story.
That was a mantra my best friend and I repeated to each other a couple of decades ago when playing video games. Why does the left have such a problem understanding this principle?
[Sputnik] Relations between Germany and Turkey have hit a new low after the German authorities withdrew legal cooperation when it emerged that a group of imams had been spying on teachers and passing on names of alleged supporters of exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen to Turkish officials.
The latest allegations concern reports that the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution in North Rhine-Westphalia found that imams at the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB) had passed on the names of some 28 alleged supporters of exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen to Turkish officials at their consulates in Cologne, Düsseldorf and Munich. These included a group of teachers in German state schools, which provide Islamic religious education.
Federal officials, January 24, announced the ending of an agreement brokered in 1974 between Germany and Turkey to mutual assistance on criminal matters. It followed allegations that Erdogan's government was using the pact to pursue Gulen followers in Germany.
The latest deterioration in relations between Ankara and Berlin will put further strain on the controversial EU-Turkey migrant deal Merkel brokered in an effort to stem the flow of migrants entering into Europe via Turkey.
[AnNahar] The German government voted Wednesday to scrap a "lese majeste" law that Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... had sought to employ against a popular German television satirist. Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom... 's cabinet decided to abolish by January 1, 2018 the rarely enforced section of the criminal code that prohibits insulting organs or representatives of foreign states.
"The idea of 'lese majeste' dates back to a long-gone era, it no longer belongs in our criminal law," said Justice Minister Heiko Maas. "The regulation is obsolete and unnecessary."
Maas said heads of state and government would still be able to defend themselves against slander and defamation "but no more or less so than any other person."
Erdogan had launched a criminal complaint under the law -- which carries up to three years' jail -- against German TV comic Jan Boehmermann, who had insulted him in a so-called "defamatory poem". In the poem, broadcast in March last year, Boehmermann had accused Erdogan of bestiality and watching child porn, while gleefully admitting that he was flouting legal limits to free speech as a deliberate provocation.
The row badly soured Berlin-Ankara relations at a time when The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... was vital to European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... plans to stop the mass flow of migrants colonists from the Middle East and Africa into the bloc, especially to Germany.
Merkel then authorized criminal proceedings against Boehmermann, in a decision that appalled rights groups. At the same time she said the article should be removed from Germany's legal code, a move that still requires parliamentary approval.
Prosecutors had launched an investigation against Boehmermann but dropped the case last October.
[Asharq Al-Awsat] Taiz- The Yemeni National Army, backed by the Saudi-led Arab Coalition air power, continued its push against coup militias overrunning governorates. Renewed clashes erupted with massive losses being registered on behalf of coup militants composed of loyalists fighting by the side of ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh and Iran-aligned Houthis.
Army forces in Taiz, located in northern Yemen, announced sweeping advances towards the full liberation of the area from coup militias.
National army units made the announcement after liberating the key port city of Mokha, in Taiz. The whopping advance was a chief target accomplished in keep with the military coalition-backed operation ‘Golden Spear.’ Yemeni forces backed by the Saudi-led Arab Coalition freed the strategic Red Sea port city from Iran-aligned Houthis Monday afternoon.
Houthi forces had controlled Mokha since they overran the capital Sana’a in September 2014 and advanced on other regions aided by troops loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.
“The battle taking place at the west coast means that the power balance has shifted to its final position in Yemen—the artillery pipeline supplying coup militants has been completely cut off, scattering their factions across mountains terrain and leaving them besieged,” political analyst Bassim al Hakimi says.
Forces supporting President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, backed by a Saudi-led coalition, launched a vast offensive on January 7 to retake the coastline overlooking the Bab Al Mandab strait.
The strait is a strategically vital maritime route connecting the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.
“The victory has torn apart the coup militias’ symbolic sovereignty embodied in their control over key ports and vital institutes,” he added.
“Taiz’s liberation now is a matter of resolution alone, freeing the key port city, Mokha will open up the road before pro-government forces to go in with full-blown force to the eastern side of the country,” Hakimi said.
“Outbreak of civilian revolt supporting legitimacy forces would fire up crowds, burning down militias at once,” he explained.
Many militants had surrendered to army units, while others fled the site, field sources told Asharq Al-Awsat. More so, Houthi combatants would leave behind all those killed and injured, as well as artillery, while escaping the battlefield.
“The liberation of Mokha will push forward more advances—most important being the lifting Taiz’ militia-imposed siege,” said another political analyst, Rashad Ali al-Sharbaai.
“Liberating the rest of Taiz is a plus, not to mention that the main supply pipeline arming coup factions would be cut off,” Sharbaai added.
Other analysts said that freeing Mokha has facilitated moving to the operation’s next target, Hodeidah, the largest port in territory controlled by Iran-backed militants.
President Hadi congratulated pro-government forces and the people of Yemen on the victory in Mokha, and urged the forces to push forth across the country’s many front lines – which until now have mostly fallen into stalemate – until they liberate the whole country from the rebels, Yemen’s official Saba news agency as reported.
[NYPOST] The nation’s foremost culture warrior is President Trump.
He wouldn’t, at first blush, seem well-suited to the part. Trump once appeared on the cover of Playboy. He has been married three times. He ran beauty pageants and was a frequent guest on the Howard Stern radio show. His "locker-room talk" captured on the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape didn’t, shall we say, demonstrate a well-honed sense of propriety.
There is no way Trump could be a credible combatant in the culture war as it existed for the last 40 years. But he has reoriented the main lines of battle away from issues related to religion and sexual morality and onto the ground of populism and nationalism. Trump’s culture war is fundamentally the people versus the elite, national illusory sovereignty versus cosmopolitanism and patriotism versus multiculturalism.
It’s the difference, in a nutshell, between fighting over gay rights or immigration, over the breakdown in marriage or Black Lives Matter.
The new war is just as emotionally charged as the old one. It, too, involves fundamental questions about who we are as a people, which are always more fraught than the debate over the appropriate tax rate or whether we should have a defense-budget sequester.
The participants are, by and large, the same as well. The old culture war featured Middle America on one side, and coastal elites, academia and Hollywood on the other. So does the new war. And while Trump has no interest in fighting over gay marriage or engaging in the bathroom wars, his staunch pro-life position is a notable holdover from the old war.
Yet any of his detractors who is warning, out of reflex more than anything else, of an attempt to control women’s bodies or establish a theocracy is badly out of date. 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... has many ambitions, but imposing his morality on anyone clearly isn’t one of them.
Instead, he wants to topple a corrupt establishment that he believes has put both its selfish interests and a misbegotten, fuzzy-headed altruism above the well-being of the American people.
This isn’t just a governing program, but a culture crusade that includes a significant regional and class element. It channels the concerns of the Jacksonian America that is Trump’s base and, as Walter Russell Mead writes in an essay in Foreign Affairs, "felt itself to be under siege, with its values under attack and its future under threat."
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Because same sex marriage etc. were just the red rag vile progs used to distract public attention from the real issues?
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We can probably rule out a plane crash. He hates air travel. He owns one of the only trains in he country, a derailment is possible but unlikely. If it actually happens, I'll probably go with something he ate.
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bookend of Obama's Education initiatives because back in Chicago in the 90s, Obama chaired a multiple $100M program funded by a major Pew Foundation Grant to improve education. This ultimately produced the same zero impact that the $7B program did in the 2000s.
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Money to education ---> teachers (and ever growing population of educational bureaucrats) salaries ---> dues to teachers' unions ---> contributions to DNC. Did I miss something?
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Now we need a study comparing student outcomes in USA & in other countries, to the per student expenditures in USA & other countries. It would be sickening to read those details.
[LA Times] With President Trump in the Oval Office, California officials are bracing for the possibility that the new administration will undermine the state’s landmark policies on climate change. But the more immediate threat isn’t coming from Washington; it lies in a lawsuit that has been slowly winding its way through state courts.
The 4-year-old legal challenge pursued by the California Chamber of Commerce and a collection of business interests argues that the cap-and-trade program represents an unconstitutional tax. The system, intended to create a financial incentive to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, requires companies to purchase permits to pollute.
For Gov. Jerry Brown and the environmental community, the lawsuit has been a ticking time bomb that could eliminate a key source of revenue and undermine a program touted as an international model for fighting global warming.
[ITV] Five men have been found guilty of sexually exploiting two young girls from Rotherham.
Basharat Dad, 32, of Eldon Road, Eastwood, Rotherham was found guilty of six counts of rape, five counts of indecent assault and one count of false imprisonment.
Appearing alongside him was his 36-year-old brother Nasar Dad, of Cranworth Road, Eastwood, Rotherham. A jury found him guilty of rape, inciting indecency with a child and false imprisonment. He was found not guilty of one count of rape and one count of sexual intercourse with a girl under 13.
Their brother Tayab Dad, 34, of St Lawrence Road, Tinsley, Sheffield, was found guilty of one count of rape.
Mohammed Sadiq, 40, of Oxley Grove, Rotherham and Matloob Hussain, 42, of The Yews, Doncaster Road, Rotherham, were each found guilty of one count of sexual intercourse with a girl under 13.
A jury took just over six hours to reach their verdicts, which were unanimous.
During the three-week long trial at Sheffield Crown Court, the jury heard evidence from both victims that detailed sexual abuse and exploitation in the Eastwood area of Rotherham between 1999 and 2001.
Temporary Detective Chief Inspector Martin Tate, who oversaw the inquiry, said: “The court heard harrowing evidence from two very brave women whose childhoods were robbed by these men.
“They were targeted, systematically groomed and subjected to horrific sexual abuse while they were young vulnerable girls, on the cusp of their teenage years.
“No child should ever have to experience what these women have had to endure and I hope that today’s result offers them both some resolution after so many years of anguish.
“On behalf of the investigative team and the partnership agencies who have worked alongside us, I offer my thanks to those women for their support and courage over the last two years.
“I also extend our thanks and recognition to the victims’ families and the witnesses who have played their own vital roles in bringing this case before the court and obtaining these convictions.
“I want to thank the team of officers and police staff, Rotherham Council, the Crown Prosecution Service, GROW and other voluntary sector agencies who have all worked tirelessly supporting our victims, gathering evidence and preparing this prosecution case.
“As ever, we will not rest on our laurels and this case is yet a further example of our commitment to tackling child sexual exploitation and bringing these criminals before the courts.”
In a hearing at Sheffield Crown Court in February last year, 36-year-old Amjad Ali of Broad Lane, Hodthorpe, Worksop, pleaded guilty to one count of sexual intercourse with a girl under 13. He will be sentenced alongside the others convicted at Sheffield Crown Court on Thursday 2 February.
The five men convicted today have been remanded in custody.
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So the statute of limitations is much longer.
That's a good thing.
Given their respective ages(-16) the rapists were 14-26 y/o at the time. I imagine that will have a leniency effect in sentencing given the current atmosphere.
[DAWN] The counsel for Maryam Nawaz resumed his arguments on Wednesday before the five-member bench of the Supreme Court hearing the Panamagate case.
The counsel, Shahid Hamid, read out parts of a written statement submitted by Maryam Nawaz to the court, in which she claimed to not own any properties outside Pakistain, that the London flats belonged to her brother, Hussain Nawaz, and that he admits to owning them.
Hamid, in apparent reference to remarks made in an earlier hearing by one of the justices, also tried to argue that the case did not, in fact, hold special significance as a 'public interest' case as Maryam Nawaz was an ordinary citizen.
He argued that even if the court is to assume that the flats do indeed belong to Maryam Nawaz, there is nothing special to it as Maryam Nawaz is not dependent upon her father.
"The case is only in the scope of public interest if it is about Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... ," the counsel argued, stating that Maryam Nawaz is being accused of being dependent on her father so that the prime minister can be dragged into it.
At this, Justice Gulzar Ahmed pointed out that the Supreme Court has not been asked to rule against Maryam Nawaz, and Justice Asif Saeed Khosa reminded the counsel that the allegation is that Maryam Nawaz has allegedly acted as her father's front man.
Hamid countered that this allegation needs to be proven by the petitioner and not the defendant.
There was also discussion in court on the authenticity of Maryam Nawaz's signature on documents linking her to Minerva Financial Services Limited, which were recently made public by [German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung].
Justice Azmat Saeed directed Hamid to a 2004 email from Maryam Nawaz in which she purportedly admitted to being a beneficiary owner of the Nielsen and Nescol companies. He also asked the counsel why, if Minerva holdings was hired in 2006, the court had been provided documents from 2011.
Hamid argued that signatures on the documents in question are fake and that the court can arrive at the same conclusion if it compares the signature on the documents with her original signature.
To this, Justice Ejaz Afzal remarked that only an expert would be able to compare the two signatures and that the judges lacked the capacity to make that judgement on their own.
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[AlAhram] Belgian police on Wednesday raided eight homes in the Brussels region as part of a counter-terrorism operation that is ongoing, prosecutors said. The raids are not related to either the Islamic State attacks in Paris in November 2015 or the bombings in Brussels in March last year, a spokesman for the federal prosecutor's office told AFP.
The website of the newspaper La Derniere Heure first reported the raids, saying special forces backed up counter-terror police who raided homes in Molenbeek, Schaerbeek, Anderlecht and Laeken. It said several people were detained for questioning on suspicion that they had either travelled to Syria or returned from the war zone.
[DailyMail] o Laptop was found two hours after suicide bombers targeted Brussels in March
o Revealed contact with top ISIS operatives in Syria and plans for further attacks
o Separate investigations revealed terrorists were targeting Jewish passengers
o Retrieved files also reveals chilling instructions for November 13 Paris slaughter
This sounds like a colonist act, yet Sweden's police are not saying so.
[Ynet] Police in Sweden say three men have been arrested on suspicion of being part a group rape that was streamed live on a closed Facebook group. Police spokeswoman Lisa Sannervik says the investigation into "a serious sexual offense" was in "a preliminary phase" and she could not provide further details. No charges have been pressed.
Sannervik said Tuesday a teenager and two men in their 20s were arrested Sunday in the city of Uppsala, north of Stockholm, after police received tips about the ongoing streaming and rape from users. Deputy Chief Prosecutor Magnus Berggren told Sweden's TV4 channel Monday investigators don't have "the footage showing the alleged assault," and urged anyone "with "access to this footage" to turn it over.
Update from The Sun at 8:40 a.m. ET: Two armed Afghan men aged 18 and 20 were among the arrestees. The third is a 24 year old "from Sweden", which suggests he was naturalized. Photo of the revolver-looking thing at the link.
[DeutscheWelle] Despite millions of euros available for relief efforts, refugees in Greece continue to live in terrible conditions as the government and NGOs trade accusations of mismanagement.
EU Hikes Support for Libya Coast Guard to Stop Migrants
25 Jan 2017
The EU unveiled plans Wednesday to increase training for the Libyan coast guard as part of new measures to stop African migrants leaving for Europe in a feared spring surge.
Firearms Freedom Advocate Sentenced to Jail for Claiming Islam ‘At War’ with the West
25 Jan 2017
Dr. Georg Zakrajsek, a firearms enthusiast and supporter of the liberalisation of firearms laws in Austria, has been sentenced to five months in prison for claiming that Islam had declared war on the Western world.
Police Warn Of Future Islamic State Chemical Weapon Attacks
25 Jan 2017
The German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) has warned that Islamic State may deploy chemical weapons in future terror attacks in Europe.
Danish Lawmakers to Migrants: ‘Send Your Children to Language Classes or Lose Benefits’
24 Jan 2017
Denmark has expanded integration laws by mandating language standards for migrant children and will stop benefits to parents who refuse to send their children to language classes.
Austria: Detained Islamic Radical Built ‘Test Bomb’ In Preparation for Attack
24 Jan 2017
VIENNA (AP) — Austria’s interior minister says suspected Islamic radical detained last week and suspected of planning a possible attack has told interrogators that he built a test bomb. State broadcaster ORF quoted Wolfgang Sobotka as saying the 17-year old
Junior Jihad: Suspected Terror Cell Member Just 12 Years Old
24 Jan 2017
Following the arrest of a 17-year-old plotting a terror attack in Vienna, authorities have also arrested a boy they say is under 14 years old and is alleged to be a member of a terrorist cell.
Populist Party Set to Make Big Snap Election Gains as Austria Coalition Looks Uncertain
24 Jan 2017
Increasing tensions between the left and right wing parties that make up Austria’s grand coalition could potentially open a door to early power for the soaring anti-mass migration Freedom Party (FPÖ) as a snap election could bring a vote 18 months early.
Vienna Symphony Orchestra Musician’s Career in Jeopardy After Alleged Migrant Attack
24 Jan 2017
The musical career of a Vienna Symphony Orchestra musician may be over after several men he described as asylum seekers broke his finger after attacking him on the subway.
Poll: 40 Per Cent of Migrants Think Citizens of Host Country Have Too Much Freedom
24 Jan 2017
A newly released study of migrants in Austria has revealed that whilst the vast majority are pro-democratic, many think Austrians live too liberally and have too much freedom.
Number of migrants caught trying to sneak into Britain in trucks from Holland has more than DOUBLED in a year
25/01/17
Dutch and British authorities caught 430 migrants in the last three months, almost twice as many as the previous quarter. The total for 2016 was 1,280 - more than double the previous year
African migrant DROWNS in Venice's Grand Canal in an apparent suicide attempt as hundreds of people watch and refuse to jump in to save him
26/01/17
The young migrant, named as Pateh Sabally, a 22-year-old Gambian, was seen jumping into the water from a pier and swimming to the middle of the Venice canal where he refused buoyancy aids.
Pamela Anderson makes surprise visit to a refugee camp in northern France to hand out children's books and food
25/01/17
The pin-up girl turned activist went to the La Liniere camp outside Dunkirk. Writing about the experience she said: 'I'll never forget today'. The former Baywatch star said more people should visit
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I wonder why I am bemused by this, but so enraged with BLM. Both loud, demanding special interest groups claiming oppression and agitated by speakers that gained fame through their own choices.
[CNSNEWS] On Monday, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said President Trump had "made it very clear that he's a pro-life president," and "the reinstatement of this policy is not just something that echoes that value but respects taxpayer funding as well."
"This may be news for Sean Spicer, but access to safe, legal abortion is an American value," Laguens said in a statement. "The world’s most vulnerable women will suffer as a direct result of this policy, which threatens to undermine years of efforts to improve women’s health worldwide." Yes! Remember: "Mom, Apple Pie, Baseball, and Abortifacients"...
A Marist poll conducted in December found that 83 percent of Americans "oppose using tax dollars to fund abortions" both abroad (83%) and in the U.S. (61%).
Laguens also claimed that "women will die because of this action," in an interview with Democracy Now.
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Owning a gun is a constitutional right yet taxpayers do not fund weapons to low income Americans (even though they may need them the most). And in some cases not owning a weapon will lead to their death. See I can make the same argument.
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"The world’s most vulnerable women will suffer as a direct result of this policy,
And who would that be? The sex slaves of Rottherham, the laundry bags of KSA, the young girls of Nigeria or the poor blacks in the inner city?
Let's be honest here Abortion is the Progs weapon of choice in their racist war with blacks. Been that way since Margaret Sanger spelled it out and it still is.
Carla Robinson said she grew up with Thomas and remained in contact with him throughout his imprisonment. Robinson took issue with media depictions of Thomas as a former gang member.
"He's not the person that the media is painting a picture of," she said. "He's not a hardcore gangbanger criminal. He was a caring person. He can't help the environment he was raised in. That wasn't his choice."
Thomas in August 2008 pleaded guilty to distribution of 5 grams or more of cocaine base. In his plea agreement, Thomas stipulated that on June 19, 2007, he knowingly distributed 7.2 grams of crack cocaine to a confidential informant in or around Saginaw. Thomas did not testify against his codefendants.
[FoxNews] Under Secretary of State for Management Patrick Kennedy's last day will be Friday, according to a State Department official.
Things are definitely looking up at Foggy Bottom. Patrick was one of Hillary's tools at State -- like a pry-bar, he could be used to do anything that required crude, blunt force...
Mark Toner, acting spokesman, told Fox News Wednesday that Kennedy "will resign as Under Secretary for Management on January 27, and retire from the Department of State on January 31."
Kennedy first joined the State Department in 1973, according to Toner.
Republicans have criticized Kennedy for his conduct related to classified email status, Libya, Benghazi and internal State investigations. Trump administration officials have wanted to replace him.
Apparently he spent the last couple of months during the transition pandering to keep his position, or to get another one of equal stature. Didn't work, so he's gone.
In October, Fox News reported that Kennedy proposed a “quid pro quo” to convince the FBI to strip the classification on an email from Hillary Clinton’s server – and repeatedly tried to “influence” the bureau’s decision when his offer was denied, even taking his plea up the chain of command, according to FBI documents.
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This fellow had a gov't career which included 16 key assignments spanning over 40 years and he needed assistance "understanding the FBI (US Gov't) classification process?"
No, what Kennedy really "needed" was to be GONE! Unfortunately there are dozens, possibly hundreds just like him still at Foggy Bottom. Additional shortcomings and examples of tawdry performance are found at his wiki bio link.
On October 17, 2016, the FBI released interviews related to the Hillary Clinton email investigation. One of the interviews alleges that Patrick F. Kennedy "pressured" the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to declassify an email from Hillary Clinton's private server in exchange for a "quid pro quo" of placing more agents in certain countries.[13][14] The FBI stated that the email's classification status was re-reviewed and remained unchanged and denied quid pro quo accusations. The State Department called the allegations "inaccurate" and maintained that Kennedy was trying to "understand" the FBI's classification process. [13] Emphasis provided Wiki link to bio.
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Someone should determine who was involved in the slow discovery of State Department emails that were subpoena by congress.
Also I'd like to know when/what these fellows knew about the Clinton toilet server and perhaps put them up on charges or withhold some of their retirement pay because of the illegalities involved.
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Patrick Kennedy leaving can only be a good thing for State. Obama's Border Chief fired? Draining the Swamp begins. There's a lot of house cleaning that needs to be done.
[Libya Herald] In what is thought to be a car bomb, a vehicle exploded this evening in Benghazi’s Shara Jamal, not far from the sports city. There are few details about it so far although a number of casualties are reported.
“It was like an earthquake,” said one resident in the street. It had been now closed off and was swarming with police and security officials, he added.
Earlier during the day, the Libyan National Army announced that it had finally crushed militants in the city’s Ganfouda district. However, fears had already been voiced that cells of militants still in the city would continue their fight with assassinations and car bombs.
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As I've read it this is a case of 4 or 6 people in one group of 12 resigning. The one group is one of 5 groups at that level so it is at most 10% of the bureaucrats. Doesn't sound too "mass" to me. I think they're all in Kennedy's organization so I'm not concerned at all.
(IraqiNews.com) Two civilians were killed and nine others were wounded on Wednesday when bomb blasts hit areas in central, northern and southeastern Baghdad, according to security sources.
Shafaaq News quoted security sources as saying that a booby-trapped car exploded in al-Rusafa, near al-Shawraja, the biggest commercial center in the Iraqi capital. The sources said one was killed and four others were wounded in an initial casualty count.
One person was killed and three others injured when a roadside bomb went off at al-Nahrawan district, southeast of Baghdad, a security source said in a press statement.
Another explosive device planted on the side of a road also exploded in al-Taji region, north of the capital.
Violence surged in Iraq with the emergence of Islamic State militants who took over large areas of the country in 2014. Baghdad has been witnessing almost daily bombings targeting civilians and security personnel. Nobody has claimed responsibility yet for the Tuesday bombings, but IS militants have said they were responsible for several bloody explosions that hit the capital in the past weeks, bringing the province’s municipal and security officials under critics’ fire.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) said violence in the country left 19000 casualties in nine months of 2016.
Observers believe Islamic State have begun to escalate attacks outside the city of Mosul, where the group has been losing ground and personnel since October, so as to relieve pressure by government forces on that front and to divert attention from group losses.
While losing Mosul could be the severest blow to the group’s existence in Iraq, some observers believe attacks outside the province prove that the extremist group can still pose a security threat.
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It's not even a week since they got back from that supervised reconciliation meeting in Moscow. Who won the pool?
[IsraelTimes] 8 security officials from rival group’s security service given sentences ranging from 7 years to life for collecting ’security information.
A court in the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-run Gazoo Strip on Wednesday sentenced eight members of the rival Fatah faction to lengthy jail terms for undermining "revolutionary unity," the interior ministry said.
Fatah, which is headed by Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... , was largely ejected from Gazoo in 2007, when Hamas seized power in a bloody coup. Fatah controls the West Bank, where Abbas is based.
The convicted men were found to have collected "security information" against Hamas, including on the "structure and movements" of its myrmidons, in cases dating back to 2014, the ministry said in a statement.
Three were tossed in the clink I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! for life by the military court, while the rest received sentences ranging from seven to 15 years.
They were members of the Fatah-led security services.
Fayez Abu Eita, a front man for Fatah in the Gazoo Strip, called the sentences "political and unjust."
A number of attempts at reconciliation between the two sides have failed.
The Paleostinian Authority security forces in the West Bank, run by Fatah, regularly arrest Hamas members.
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Washington, D.C. ‐ The March for Life announced today that Kellyanne Conway, President of the polling company, inc./WomanTrend, and highest-ranking woman in President-elect Trump’s administration, will speak at the 44th annual March for Life, the world’s largest annual pro-life demonstration, in Washington, D.C. on January 27th, 2017.
[Weasel Zippers] I’m down with that...
The entire senior management team of the US State Department resigned on Thursday. 
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is "deeply disturbed" by President Donald Trump's executive orders on immigration.
[NYT] WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration is preparing a sweeping executive order that would clear the way for the C.I.A. to reopen overseas "black site" prisons, like those where it detained and tortured terrorism suspects before former President Barack Obama shut them down.
BREAKING: Mike Lindell wins new GITMO contract. 
[Breitbart] Restaurants are rapidly going out of business in the Bay Area, after San Francisco passed a $15 minimum wage law in 2014 and the State of California followed suit in 2016. Yet the media are struggling to make the connection between high minimum wages and restaurant closures.
[GEO.TV] A young man lost his life after succumbing to his burn injuries on Thursday, in what 
[Dhaka Tribune] A man has been 
[GEO.TV] KARACHI: At least two alleged 
[THEHILL] Activists with Greenpeace on Wednesday brought a massive "resist" banner to a construction site in Washington, D.C., to protest President Trump’s actions promoting oil pipelines.
[DAILYCALLER] The Trump administration told the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take down its global warming webpage, an anonymous EPA staffer said.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Sen. Tom Cotton on Wednesday chided Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer for a delay on a confirmation vote for CIA Director Mike Pompeo and suggested Mr. Schumer’s tenure as the top-ranking Democrat in the Senate might improve with "a little more seasoning and experience."
[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] The Badlands National Park, located in South Dakota, has tweeted and deleted posts on climate change. The account is the latest from the National Parks Service (NPS) social media presence to post on topics off-message from the White House. 
At least four insurgents were killed in clashes with police forces in central Uruzgan province, local police officials said in a statement on Wednesday.
If it hadn’t grasped it before, the Washington press corps is now on notice that President Donald Trump’s press briefing room is not going to be run the same way Obama’s was, and no one had a worse reaction than the Associated Press when it found another media outlet being picked first in this week’s pressers. 
[NYPOST] The nation’s foremost culture warrior is President Trump.
[LA Times] With President Trump in the Oval Office, California officials are bracing for the possibility that the new administration will undermine the state’s landmark policies on climate change. But the more immediate threat isn’t coming from Washington; it lies in a lawsuit that has been slowly winding its way through state courts.
[CNSNEWS] On Monday, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said President Trump had "made it very clear that he's a pro-life president," and "the reinstatement of this policy is not just something that echoes that value but respects taxpayer funding as well."
