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Nice move - after five years, one's usefulness / connections to the Federal hackerama are largely gone. Guess you'll have to get real jobs in the Dreaded Private Sector - good luck with that, lol...
...Here is an example of journalistic fraud, more egregious than usual, but not by much. The CNN television network juxtaposed two aerial photographs from the same angle, one showing the National Mall full of people, the other showing most of it empty. They explained that Picture A showed the crowd for Obama’s first inauguration, Picture B for Trump’s. They didn’t mention that Picture A was taken while Obama was being sworn in, Picture B three hours before Trump was. It was the "proof" that Obama had outdrawn Trump, picked up and enthusiastically hustled by all other liberal media -- and a knowing misrepresentation. Not one in a hundred who saw it will ever learn that they were had.
Tuition and Fees, listed in the 1868 Course Catalogue:
In-state - $15 per annum (that's a year to the unsophisticated)
Out of state - $20 per annum
Room Rent - $4 per term
Board in Hall - $108 to $126.50
"Many young men reduce the expense to within $100 a year, and pay this by their labor during the year. It ought to be known that any young man can pay his way through college who is willing, for the sake of an education, to practice steadily the virtues of industry and economy." The University's motto is still (I think) "Learning and Labor"
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You'd think a college graduate could spell "University", wouldn't ya?
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I must be as old as dirt as I can recall tuition being 90 bucks/term. College costs are rising faster than inflation. A large part of the problem is that in large public universities, they are being saddled with too many federal mandates. Data from 2012 as well as trend data beginning in 1985. .
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I think part of the cause of increasing costs of higher education is the same phenomenon we saw with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. You loan ridiculous amounts of money at usurious interest rates to kids who probably don't belong at a university anyway and it increases the demand. Increase the demand and you increase the cost. Then you get a whole bunch of unemployed and under employed college graduates. Better to send them to trade schools. Better to eliminate high school and send them to trade schools instead. Then let them work for what they're worth instead of what the union demands. Sorry, but a college education should not be for commoners or to make somebody's Affirmative Action quota. College should be for young people who really are gifted enough to go on to a professional career.
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The major accelerator of costs is the Yuuuuge increase in educrats aka administrators.
There are far more admins now than faculty due to the Yuuuuge increase in Federal regs.
You'd think it was part of some loan scam or something.
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The fact that a student was basically unlimited money with their federal student loans to a collage, resulted in the skyrocketing expenses you see today.
[ABC] Surrounded by more than 100 fellow Holocaust survivors and young volunteers, a blind Ernest Weiner sat in his wheelchair with a puffy crown on his head as the crowd sang happy birthday and showered him with hugs and greetings.
The widowed and childless 92-year-old Weiner lives on his own and the cheerful gathering offered him one of life's most valuable commodities -- company.
As home to the world's largest survivor community, Israel is grappling to serve the needs of thousands of people like Weiner who are living out their final days alone. Various government bodies and private organizations chip in to offer material, psychological and medical support to the survivors, still scarred by the horrors they experienced 70 years ago. But all agree that the greatest burden late in their lives is loneliness.
"It's not pleasant to be alone," Weiner said in his apartment just outside Tel Aviv. "It gives a good feeling" to have people visit, he said.
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FTA: alienating even the people closest to them due to their trauma. Only in their final years are many finally ready to open up, and often then there is no one around.
Many other survivors of severe trauma have done the same thing.
Thousands of abortion opponents gathered in cold, blustery weather near the Washington Monument Friday and heard Vice President Mike Pence tell the annual March for Life that the Trump administration is determined to advance the fight against abortion. Tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands? Thousands of thousands? Nearly as many thousands or more thousands than the Anti-Trump wimyns marchers? The massive crowd, bearing flags, banners and placards, then flowed down Constitution Avenue, filling the street, and rallied at the Supreme Court building across from the Capitol. How many thousands make up a "massive crowd"?
Many marchers were in school and church groups, carrying flags, banners, posters -- and a life-size cutout of Pope Francis. They sang, chanted and prayed. The vast majority was white. Well! So they're not as authentic as the Anti-Trump Wimyns march.
"Remember, we are guests in this city and we're going to be respectful," called Adam, has he and other youth leaders handed out 200 boxes Subway sandwiches. "We are pilgrims; we do not litter." Well, maybe not authentic, but they can't expect their betters to clean up after them.
"I'm all about women's rights, except when it comes to the baby. I believe - it's my opinion - but I believe a baby is a gift from God, and once the baby is a gift from God, it's no longer your body, but there's another body within. And that body has a right also." How quaint. Clearly not a Progressive!
The first March for Life was held one year after the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 that recognized a right to abortion nationwide. Subsequent marches have been held on or near the Jan. 22 anniversary every year since. Did the Supremes call it a "right"?
On Friday, the marchers chanted, "Hey, hey, ho ho, Roe v Wade has got to go!"
Nationwide, 59 percent of Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, the highest percentage since 1996, according to facts cherry picked from a 2016 Pew Research Center . So is that 9% 'in all cases' and 50% in 'most cases'? How many in 'some cases'? Why do they have to be selective in what they report?
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Why do they have to be selective in what they report?
Fake news, from the oldest providers of the genre.
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Twitchy has a time-lapse video of the marchers going by. I don't know how many people that is, but it's certainly more people than subscribe to the WAPO. And ten times as many on an IQ-adjusted basis. Here
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2013: 650,000+ march for life. Allegedly this one was even larger. No numbers? Press doesn't want to show up the leftwing protest last week.
[Express] NEARLY half of all voter fraud reported in London in the past five years took place in Tower Hamlets, it has been revealed.
The stark figures from the City Hall’s police and crime committee, showed that out of the 455 allegations of electoral fraud that were reported to Scotland Yard, 224 came from the borough.
A spokesperson for the Crown Prosecution Service said that it could not confirm how many of the reports had led to prosecutions or charges.
However, Peter Golds, a Conservative councillor for Tower Hamlets, slammed the lack of prosecutions saying that police had clearly “ignored evidence of fraud”.
He also accused police of “malpractice" and doing "a tick-box exercise without taking any action".
Tower Hamlets is an extremely ethnically diverse borough. In 2011, 32 per cent of the population were Bangladeshi, 31 per cent white British, 12 per cent other white, four per cent black African and two per cent black Caribbean.
That adds up to 81%. What about the remaining 19%?
Scotland Yard passed at least 13 files on to the Crown Prosecution Service in relation to last year’s EU referendum and London mayor election. However, since 2014, just three people have been convicted, two received cautions, and one a court conviction. A further 23 people were interviewed under caution, eight got “warning letters,” and 25 were given “words of advice".
It means just one percent of the complaints led to convictions.
[Breitbart] Breitbart Senior editor MILO appeared at the University of New Mexico today to deliver his immigration policy speech entitled, "Americans Deserve Borders", where the Dangerous Faggot ripped into illegal immigrants, the hijab and the threat of Islam.
MILO spoke about the effect of illegal immigrants on America saying, "Going back to George Borjas, from Harvard, he gives us several things to worry about. Firstly, no one has a real clue how many illegals there are in this country. The government likes to say 11 million, but that is not based in fact, just a bit of math. Someone at some point estimated 10% of immigrants were illegal, and they stuck with it. Your tax dollars at work."
President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order that will limit immigration and refugees from some Muslim-majority countries and he separately said he wanted the United States to give priority to Syrian Christians fleeing the civil war there.
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GREAT news. The countries are: Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, Yemen, Iran, and Iraq
The new vetting would ban anyone who engages “in bigotry, honour killings, violence against women, or who persecute other religions, or who oppress members of one race, one gender, or sexual orientation,” according to a summary of the plan.
so that cuts out Islamofascists nicely while still allowing secular Muslims. But most importantly we should be giving priority to the non-Muslim victims of Islamist violence. GO TRUMP
important: it's not a #MuslimBan despite the twitter outrage
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good point alan c, and actually morocco moved to ban hijabs so they might be on the turn also.
Yes indeed chaos outbreak, hollywwird in meltdown, #muslimban trending on twitter even though it isn't...it's a reductio ad absurdum claim to demonise trump and promote civil unrest
if this is how hard it is to control the borders now, obviously Trump was voted in not a minute too soon. we nearly lost America, folks
[Daily Caller] Portland police responded quickly and decisively to a group of protesters blocking traffic in the city Wednesday, running one of them right into the ground in dramatic footage posted online.
About a dozen police in riot gear approach the scene of the protest in the video posted to Facebook by a local outlet, where agitated bystanders had gathered around the protesters as they blocked traffic. One man had climbed onto the front of the bus. "Here they come," one onlooker says excitedly. I somehow missed this on CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC.
[Wash Times] FedEx drivers in Iowa can deliver packages in hurry — or stop the American flag from going up in flames.
Reminiscent of Chicago Cubs outfielder Rick Monday famously grabbing Old Glory from flag-burning protesters at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles in 1976, a FedEx driver in Iowa City was captured on video snatching away a flag at Dakota Access Pipeline protest.
A reporter for the Iowa Press-Citizen uploaded video Thursday of the protest, which got heated when a group of individuals voicing fears of the “Illuminati” and “fascism” were confronted by the driver as they attempted to set the flag ablaze.
“All you guys back off! Back off!” the man said after grabbing one of the flags and trying to secure another.
“I don’t agree with Trump, but this s– is not how you unite a country,” added a passerby.
Nearby officers arrested two of the protesters because the group failed to obtain a permit from the local fire department, an ABC affiliate reported Thursday.
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#5 - glad to hear, but that wasn't what they were saying at 5AM PST when I was leaving the casita for work
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Free expression was not quashed but Iowa law upheld :D
Laws against littering or being a public nuisance can be used with great flexibility and discretion.
[Barely a Blog] RELOCATING the American Embassy to Jerusalem, as President Donald Trump has pledged to do, is more than symbolic. It’s what Christians should be praying for if they value celebrating future Easter Holy Weeks, in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, located in Jerusalem’s Old City. With such a forceful gesture, the Trump Administration will be affirming, for once and for all, the undivided Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish State.
There’s a reason Muslims living in Israel proper--1.5 million of them--don’t migrate to the adjacent Palestinian Authority. They’re better off in Israel. Should Jerusalem, East and West, be recognized formally as the capital of Israel only, under Jewish control alone; Christianity’s holiest sites will be better off. Judaism’s holy sites will be safer. And so will Islam’s.
Jerusalem is no settlement to be haggled over; it’s the capital of the Jewish State. King David conquered it 1000 years Before Christ. The city’s "Muslim Period" began only in the year 638 of the Common Era. "Yerushalaim," and not Al Quds, is the name of the city that was sacred to Jews for nearly two thousand years before Muhammad. Not once is Jerusalem mentioned in the Quran. And while Muhammad was said to have departed to the heavens from the Al Aksa Mosque, there was no mosque in Jerusalem. The Dome of the Rock and the Al Aksa Mosque were built upon the Jewish Temple Mount. Muslim theologians subsequently justified this usurpation by superimposing their own chronology--and relatively recent fondness for Jerusalem--upon the existing, ancient sanctity of the place to Jews.
Essentially, this amounts to historical identity theft. It’s bad enough that Bethlehem--the burial site of the matriarch Rachel, birthplace to King David and Jesus and site of the Church of the Nativity--is controlled by the Palestinians. But, as one wag wondered, "How would Christians react if the Muslim theologians aforementioned had chosen to appropriate the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, rename it and declare it Muslim property?"
[FREEBEACON] Mike Jerrick, a Philadelphia-based television anchor, has been suspended after he used a curse word on air Monday to describe Kellyanne Conway, counselor to 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... "Good Day Philadelphia," a morning show that Jerrick co-hosts, was holding a panel discussion about Trump’s inauguration and the crowd size comparison that occurred after White House front man Sean Spicer adamantly argued that it was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration.
During the morning show, a clip was played of Conway appearing Sunday on NBC’s "Meet the Press," where she said that Spicer was using "alternative facts" to describe the size of Trump’s inauguration crowd.
"Alternative facts, is that going to be a new one in fake news?" Jerrick asked after the clip was played. Another guest on the panel defended Conway, saying that she is good at communicating Trump’s message to the media.
"She’s good at bullshit!" Jerrick interjected. The panel erupted in laughter as Jerrick quickly realized that he had just sworn on live television and apologized right after his statement.
For his outburst, Jerrick will be suspended for a period of time, according to the Daily Mail.
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"She’s good at bullshit!" Jerrick interjected.
Another Democratic party *operative* outed by his own actions.
(ANTIMEDIA) -- President Donald Trump’s decision to move forward with the Keystone XL pipeline may ultimately backfire, as the State Department has estimated the pipeline will only create 35 permanent jobs after the one or two years’ worth of construction work has been completed.
According to Census.gov, the current population of the United States is over 316 million. Congratulations ‐ Donald Trump has successfully created jobs for 0.000011 percent of the American population." Leftist screed. Know thy enemy. Buffet not happy that his RR may be cut out of the action.
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We shouldn't allow the narrative to focus on the wrong things. There is no such thing as a "permanent job". There are only jobs that need to be done. Once they no longer need to be done, the position needs to be terminated.
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Just like ANWR Circular Logic: Since we won't let you drill there is no reason to drill because no oil is being produced because we don't let you drill.
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@#4: Government (taxpayer funded pay & benefits) don't count as jobs in my mind. Sure, the employed are getting paid however their compensation packages being taxpayer funded are a drain on the overall economy.
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I'd say a lot of 'lifetime' jobs in weapons and munition fabrication and utilization in Gaza and the West Bank. Of course, those were short lifetimes. Posted by Procopius2k
You must be referring to the tools of 'regime change.' How in Gawd's name can we establish the Zhonaswalinkooswazilandaphedi desk, the country team, USAID assistance, MIL adivsors, weapons contracts, trade pacts........ without a spin off?
Are you telling me you are AGAINST nation building spin off's ?
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35 permanent FULL TIME jobs, for the pipeline company? And how many full-time jobs outside the company? And how many parts of full-time jobs for the company and everyone else? (And how many government inspection & permit jobs?)
[Hurriyet Daily News] The co-owner of the Reina nightclub, which was attacked by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) on Jan. 1, has said he no longer wishes to provide entertainment in a place in which a total of 39 people died and 65 people were maimed.
"Because of the villains, we sent bodies all over the world. I don’t want to sell entertainment in a place in which many people died. There are also many maimed people," Ali Ünal told daily Haberturk, noting that he could not host people and play music at the location again.
Dubbing Reina one of the biggest brands in the world, Ünal said the brand needed to live on.
"Yes, this brand needs to live, but no one told us to make it live," he said, criticizing authorities for not calling him.
"I don’t know if anyone called [the other co-owner] Mehmet Kocarslan, but no one called me. No one even called me from the Tourism Ministry," he said.
Ünal said he was at the door of the nightclub when the attack began.
"When I fell to the ground, [confessed attacker Abdulkadir Masharipov] thought I was dead. I lost my friends and customers there. I can’t do business [there]. I don’t know if Kocarslan can or can’t," he said.
During the interview, Ünal said he would not quit the entertainment business, but would not manage Reina in that area.
"I need to do my job. I’m doing this job and I understand it. I earn money from it. I do everything in the food and beverage sector. I do weddings and receptions. I can also run a buffet. However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... I don’t want to run Reina in that area," he also said.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] Police have locked away Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! 11 suspected 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.... Iraq and Levant (ISIS) members in connection with a deadly attack on an Istanbul nightclub in the early hours of the new year, a police official said Jan. 26.
The suspects are women of foreign nationality, the official said on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to the media.
Police said the women possessed fake passports, false Syrian identities and were planning terror attacks at tourist locations in Izmir.
The women are among 21 suspects who were detained Jan. 4 by counter-terrorism officers at four addresses in the Bornova and Buca districts of Izmir.
Investigations are underway on the remaining 10 male suspects.
All 21 suspects are believed to have lived in the Central Anatolian province of Konya with the suspected attacker of the Istanbul club, Abdulkadir Masharipov, according to officials.
Police seized 41 foreign passports, considered fake, and 15 false identity documents issued to foreign nationals in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , during the Jan. 4 operation.
Police said they found a GPS device at one address that was used in conflict areas, adding that ISIS members determined meeting points by positioning each other with the device.
The suspects were in contact with ISIS in conflict areas, according to police. They also gave the impression that they had rented a house with their families and were living a normal life in Izmir, police added.
Night vision equipment, a sniper scope, an ammunition belt and other military equipment were also found during the raids, according to police.
At least 39 people, including a police officer, were killed when Masharipov allegedly shot up the Reina nightclub in the Ortaköy neighborhood at about 1:15 a.m. on Jan. 1.
Masharipov was captured last week on the outskirts of Istanbul late on Jan. 16.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] Turkish jets have hit terrorist targets separately in Syria and Iraq as part of its policy of fighting against terrorism outside its borders.
A total of 57 Lions of Islam from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were killed in an air strike by Turkish warplanes in northern Iraq on Jan. 13 and 14, the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) said in a statement on Jan. 27.
It added that many Lions of Islam were also maimed in the air strikes.
Turkish armed forces have been engaged in armed festivities with the PKK since the mid-1980s.
Separately, 22 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 the Levant (ISIS) Lions of Islam were "neutralized" in northern Syria over the last 24 hours as part of the The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... -backed Euphrates Shield operation, the Turkish military said on Jan. 27.
Turkish authorities use the word "neutralized" in their statements to imply the Lions of Islam in question were either killed, captured or incapacitated.
The Turkish Armed Forces also hit 272 ISIS targets including command and control facilities, defense points, shelters, vehicles and weapons used by ISISLions of Islam in northern Syria, a Turkish General Staff statement said on the 157th day of the operation.
Turkish jets also hit 21 buildings used as shelters, two headquarters, one weapons depot and four bomb-laden vehicles. Some 73 handmade explosives were neutralized.
Since the beginning of the operation, 3,282 handmade explosives and 55 mines were neutralized under controlled conditions.
The Euphrates Shield operation began late August 2016 to tighten border security, eliminate the terror threat along Turkey’s southern borders and support opposition forces in Syria. Turkey backs the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... with artillery and jets as part of the operation.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, a little lightbulb figuratively appeared over Bossy's head... the Russian army said on Jan. 26 that Russian and Turkish warplanes carried out new air strikes in Syria on the same day, targeting positions of ISISLions of Islam in the town of al-Bab in the northern Syria.
"On Jan. 26, the Russian and Turkish air forces conducted another joint air operation against the Islamic State group in the town of al-Bab," the army said in a statement, AFP reported.
The operation involved Russia’s Su-24M bombers and Su-35S fighter planes along with Turkey’s F-16 and F-4 fighter jets, the army statement said.
The Russian planes "destroyed three command and communication centers and several fortified positions," it added.
Moscow and Ankara had already carried out air strikes against ISIS in al-Bab on Jan. 18 and 21, after signing an accord earlier this month to coordinate their air campaign against "terrorist targets" in Syria.
In all, 58 ISIS targets had been destroyed in the joint air raids, the Russian army said.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Afghan and Pak security forces exchanged fire in Spin Boldak district located close to Durand Line, the local officials said.
The incident took place late on Thursday after the Afghan border guards opened fire on a number of turbans who were trying to enter the district from the other side of the line.
Provincial police front man Zia Durani confirmed that a border policeman lost his life and two others were maimed during the clash.
He said the Pak border guards opened fire on the Afghan police forces after the turbans came under fire.
According to Durani, the turbans and Pak militia forces have likely suffered casualties during the clash but there are no reports regarding the number.
The bad boy groups and Pak authorities have not commented regarding the incident to so far.
Incidents involving cross-border attacks mainly by the turbans are not rare as the porous areas along the Durand Line are normally frequented by the Afghan turbans as well as the foreign Lions of Islam including the Pak Taliban myrmidons.
The Afghan and Pak forces have also clashed for numerous times along the Durand Line last year, mainly in eastern and southern provinces.
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Paks: "Hey! Them are OUR turbans they're shootin' at! Return fire!"
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[HERALD.DAWN] The news from Pakistain the world now sees is of a country run by corrupt politicians and military opportunists who are powerless to stop intolerant priests from indoctrinating children to blow themselves up as jacket wallahs. Though created to guarantee freedom to Moslems, Pakistain has become a country where Moslem Sunnis kill Moslem Shias or attack Moslem Sufi shrines and where Ahmadis are declared to be non-Moslem.
Where religion should remain each individual’s private concern, Pakistain has had the misfortune to be periodically governed by unscrupulous dictators who exploited the majority, which they kept uneducated, by championing religious dogma to command their unquestioning support. Blasphemy laws are nothing more than institutional bullying by the state to maintain that unquestioning support.
The country was piously renamed the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Pakistain, a contradiction in terms, for the defining exclusiveness of ’Islamic’ makes the Republic a nation for only a part of its people and fails to protect such minorities as Christians or Hindus, should any believer bring charges of blasphemy against them, and therefore it is a plain lie to call it a Republic.
One of the worst newscasts I have had the sadness to see of my native land showed lawyers showering rose petals on an assassin (executed on court orders on February 29, 2016). They were celebrating his 2011 killing of Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Governor Salman Taseer for harbouring the ’un-Islamic’ notion of repealing the country’s blasphemy laws. (Aasia Bibi, the Christian woman whose trial on blasphemy charges had directed Taseer’s attention towards these laws, remains on death row, awaiting the hearing of her appeal.)
They must feel very insecure about the correctness or validity of their ideas who need to protect themselves against any reasonable criticism from another human being by having the state enact laws that suppress the expression of criticism while sanctioning the glorification of primitive prejudice. Should it be thought that these remarks on blasphemy are themselves an expression of blasphemy, my position as an observer of human folly is no different from that of the highway patrol who, spotting a car go speeding past, must himself break the legal speed limit in order to fulfil his duty to arrest the lawbreaker.
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The Iraqi Joint Operations Command, headed by General Abdul Ameer Rasheed Yarallah, on Friday confirmed that the Shia-majority Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) will march on the ethnic Turkmen town of Tal Afar, despite previous opposition from Turkey, while the Iraqi army and police will take Mosul city.
Iraqi Shia paramilitary groups launched an operation on 20 October, 2016, to retake the town of Tal Afar from ISIS and to cut off ISIS supply lines from Mosul to Syria.
However, early on in the campaign, it was decided that PMU would only isolate Tal Afar while the Iraqi army would take the town, due to objections by Turkey that the PMU would commit sectarian abuses against the Sunni Turkmen population in the town–that used to be inhabited by both Shia and Sunni Turkmen until ISIS evicted all Shia Turkmen.
Currently, there are just 50,000 Sunni Turkmen left in the town.
Turkey has also opposed any involvement by Shia paramilitary groups or the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the Mosul operation.
“Tal Afar is a very sensitive issue for us. We definitely do not regard it [the militia’s involvement] positively in Tal Afar and Sinjar. I already told this to officials clearly,” Turkish president President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on 29 October, 2016.
Many Shia Turkmen later joined the PMU forces to take the town back from ISIS.
However, on 7 January, 2017, the Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim visited Baghdad and met with the Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi, which signaled an improvement in Turkish-Iraqi ties.
Now the Iraqi National Security Advisor Falah Fayad says the PMU forces could enter Tal Afar.
“Turkey is preoccupied with the PKK in northern Iraq and mostly dropped its agenda of pushing Baghdad away from Mosul and Tal Afar,” Ali Özkök, a Eurasia-Analyst told ARA News.
“Baghdad reportedly signed a deal with Turkey to keep Hashd [PMU] out of Mosul and have army and police take it,” Joel Wing, an Iraq expert who runs the Musings on Iraq blog, told ARA News.
“Now that’s apparently changed and the PMU will liberate the town of Tal Afar probably because they don’t have enough ISF forces with the attack on west Mosul coming up and Turkey hasn’t said anything yet,” Wing said.
The new agreement would most likely be a victory for Iran that backs the Shia military groups to create a corridor from Tal Afar to Syria.
“The PMU have talked about protecting the Shiite Turkmen population there for a long time,” Wing told ARA News.
“Iranian-backed groups also want to control it because it is a route to the Syrian border and would allow Tehran to ship men and material from Iran through Iraq to Syria [in support of Assad regime],” he concluded.
After the US removed Saddam Hussein from power in 2003, Tal Afar became a smuggling hub for Al-Qaeda militants in Iraq, and the Assad regime ferried in foreign fighters into Iraq to destabilize the country. “Now Iran wants to use it to prop up the Syrian regime,” Wing.
Reporting by: Wladimir van Wilgenburg | Source: ARA News
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The Shia paramilitary groups are not good guys, they activily carry out massacres against sunnis and less extreme Shias and ethnic cleaning of sunnis
[DAILYCALLER] President Trump’s political opponents may use existing federal laws designed to protect endangered species to stop him from building a border wall to stem the flow of illegal immigrants colonists coming from Mexico.
Environmentalists say Trump’s proposed border wall would hinder the movement of endangered species migrating through their natural, cross-border habitats, and activists aren’t above filing suit under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to stop the wall.
"We’ll of course closely review Trump’s proposal," Margie Kelly, a spokeswoman for the National Resources Defense Council, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
"Litigation is just one tool in our advocacy work, and we take nothing off the table," she said.
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The Endangered Species Act has destroyed entire Industries (like the NW logging Industry). Besides some species *need* to go extinct - its entirely natural for them to do so.
But also killed off DDT, which enables malaria and Zika.
Somebody's gotta report the second part.
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Back in the early 60's if two critters could mate and create a viable offspring, that was a specie. Today some coloring or altered bone structure makes it a unique species. So, I guess we don't have human 'races' but rather different species by the newer biological definition.
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All this talk about walls and borders, apartheid, separation of peoples, etc. What is the reasoning, the common denominator? Protection against VIOLENCE and MAYHEM, that is wat!
A common myth amongst many is that they think that before the white man came to Afrika, non-whites lived in peace and harmony with nature and with each other in some sort of tribal, hunter-gatherer utopia.
Of course if you believe the common myth, you will also accept the resultant legacy and never ending scourge of colonialism as the reason for failure and poverty. Both myths center on blame and feed one another.
My apologies. Appears you've heard the song before.
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Well the lefties and the greenies wrap them themselves in Darwin. Now I ask you, if survival of the fittest and selective adaptation are settled science, then some species will naturally die out because they are at an evolutionary dead end and will no matter what.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan nation will never forget the aid and cooperation delivered by the Indian people and government, Afghan National Security Adviser (NSA) Mohammad Hanif Atmar said Thursday.
In his statement released on the occasion of the Republic Day in India, Atmar said "On this auspicious occasion and important day, let me convey my best wishes and happiest moments for the government and people of India."
Atmar further added "This day reminds us our strong commitment for an evergreen friendship, cooperation, countering terrorism and getting rid of extremism."
"It makes us remember the hardships and sorrows the Great Mahatma Gandhi has tolerated for the illusory sovereignty of this great nation," he said, adding that "We all have to follow him, for peace, for prosperity, for the welfare of our people and for the harmony of whole mankind."
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[Breitbart] In a controversial interview, Pope Francis has publicly defended Liberation Theology, calling it a "positive thing" in Latin America.
In his lengthy interview last week with the leftist Spanish daily El País, the Pope said that "Liberation Theology was a good thing for Latin America," but also recognized that it had "deviations" that needed to be corrected.
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In a striking revelation in 2015, the highest ranking Cold War defector asserted that the KGB had created Liberation Theology, exporting it to Latin America as a means of introducing Marxism into the continent.
Ion Mihai Pacepa, a 3-star general and former head of Communist Romania’s secret police who defected to the United States in 1978, has been called "the Cold War’s most important defector." During the more than ten years that Pacepa worked with the CIA, he made what the agency described as "an important and unique contribution to the United States."
He is reported in fact to have given the CIA "the best intelligence ever obtained on communist intelligence networks and internal security services."
"Liberation theology has been generally understood to be a marriage of Marxism and Christianity. What has not been understood is that it was not the product of Christians who pursued Communism, but of Communists who pursued Christians," Pacepa said.
In his role as doctrinal watchdog, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger referred to Liberation Theology as a "singular heresy" and a "fundamental threat" to the Church.
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I remember when the Catholic church was rock solid in its defense of what it considered theological purity. And I'm not Catholic. I (openly) admired their unwillingness to bend to whatever direction the wind was blowing at the moment.
That all went out the window when this HERETIC of a Pope took office.
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it had "deviations" that needed to be corrected.
Boy Howdy! They sure got all the right buzzwords incorporated. Does that Commie a**hole know what happens to deviationists and is he going to pull that trigger?
[ALMASDARNEWS] The situation in northern Hama has turned very worrisome over the last 24 hours, as the jihadsit rebels of Jabhat Fateh al-Sham ...formerly al-Nusra, the current false nose and mustache of al-Qaeda in the Levant... (formerly al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front) have taken control of several sites from their opposition allies.
According to reports from local rebel activists, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham entered the strategic town of Helfaya in northern Hama today, forcing the remaining holy warriors to flee the area.
With Jabhat Fateh al-Sham in full control of Helfaya, the largest Christian town in Syria now faces a serious threat from the sectarian rebel forces that are not part of the nationwide ceasefire.
Jabhat Fateh al-Sham launched a massive offensive in northern Hama in 2014 that threatened Mhardeh and its civilians after Abu Mohammad al-Jolani (Nusra leader at the time) declared his jihadist rebels would take the town from the Syrian Armed Forces - they ultimately failed to do so.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] A court in Istanbul sentenced a bus driver to 25 years in jail for raping a 16-year-old Ukranian model visiting The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... in 2015.
The man, identified only as Erdem K., was convicted of "child abuse" and "deprivation of liberty" after the court found him guilty of raping the model after diverting his bus to a deserted plot after noticing that she was the only passenger left on the bus.
The victim said she took the bus from the Levent area of Istanbul’s Besiktas district and when the assailant noticed that she was the only passenger left, he took the bus to a plot adjacent to the Turk Telekom Arena Stadium of Galatasaray Football Club in the Sariyer district.
The victim said she noticed that she was alone on the bus after it stopped, and she told the driver that she wanted to get off but he refused, saying he wanted to have sex with her.
She said Erdem K. raped her on the bus after approaching with a knife in his hand and threatening her.
"He told me he wouldn’t kill me if I didn’t tell anyone about it. I couldn’t talk because I was scared. Then I started to cry. When the incident happened I was 16 years old," said the victim. He added that the assailant later dropped her off at the place where she was staying and said "forgive me and take care."
In his testimony, Erdem K. claimed that the victim gave her consent as they first pulled the bus over and then started chatting and smoking cigarettes.
"Later I dropped her off to where she stayed. She waved at me as she left," he added.
The court found him guilty and ordered 20 years in jail on charges of sexual abuse and an additional five years on charges of deprivation of liberty.
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[Guardian] Witnesses have confirmed claims that Islamic militants killed dozens of Kenyan troops in an attack on a remote military base in Somalia.
A spokesman for al-Shabaab, which has been fighting an insurgency in Somalia for more than a decade, said on Friday morning that its fighters had killed at least 57 Kenyans deployed with a regional peacekeeping mission at the base in Kulbiyow, near the Kenyan border.
Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab told the Reuters news agency that the group was still pursuing "the Kenyan soldiers who ran away into the woods" after the attack.
He described how two fighters had driven suicide car bombs into the Kulbiyow base before others stormed it, killing the soldiers and seizing vehicles and weapons. "We have taken over the base," he said.
Kenyan military officials dismissed the claims as "completely false".
Kenya’s defence ministry said militants had attacked the base using two car bombs, but it added: "[Kenyan] soldiers repulsed the terrorists, killing scores ... Currently an intensive pacification operation is under way reinforced by our air and land forces."
[WASHINGTONTIMES] NBC’s Chuck Todd confessed that he and others in the mainstream news media played down just how despised Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as a crook... was in the heartland due to the fear of appearing "sexist."
What’s more, he admitted, the mainstream media failed to "tell the stories of all Americans."
"Where I think political correctness got in the way of what we all knew as news hounds and didn’t fully deliver was how hated the Clintons were in the heartland," the "Meet the Press" host admitted Thursday to former Bush White House press secretary Ari Fleischer in a interview for the "1947" podcast.
"And I think it was a fear of, ’Oh, is it going to look like it’s sexist, anti-woman if we say that?’" he added, pointing out that on the hustings he saw numerous "Hillary for Prison" signs adorning the front yards of rural America.
"I think we underplayed it a little bit out of political correctness fears," Mr. Todd said. "No member of the press corps wants to look like they’re singling out a group and making a group feel bad, right, whatever that [group] is. Unless it's Rethuglicans...
"If we sort of were straight-up honest and blunt about hey do we understand the level of hatred that’s out there and you know, all the Hillary for Prison signs that are out there, we certainly would have at least made the viewer know, hey, you know, she’s not well-liked in some places in this country in ways that’s times 10 when it comes to Trump," he said
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Its not "news" that those pretending to provide "news" have no stomach for actually providing "news" to those who tune expecting to watch "news".
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It was not political correctness that prevented the media from telling the real story of how Heartland Americans felt about Hillary. They really feared the liberal coastal sheeple watching the news and beginning to wonder if they should join the group think.
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Your cowardice, Chuck, aggravated the split in America.
But I haven't watched MSM news on TV since the invasion of Iraq 'quagmire' remark.
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"We told the stories of coastal Americans"
...in addition we told alot urban stories. And come to think of it we told alot of minority, climate change, and LBGT stories as well. So you can see why I reject the Liberal bias allegation
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I'm a "Coastal American", as is Ebbang and Abu. They didn't tell our stories
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Never announced this yet but Ebbang and Abu are the same guy with two separate computers. But I got rid of the Ebbang computer so now it's just Abu. But you're right, Chuck Todd never interviewed me and he certainly never told my story. Hillary and Soros wouldn't have liked it.
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Somebody ought to tell Mr. Todd that there's a difference between 'hated' and 'despised'.
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I would have told him about Richard Nixon, Sam Hayakawa, Ronald Reagan and Pete Wilson and how Hillary's husband let all the illegal aliens into my state so guys like that can never get elected again.
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Nice that he didn't bring this up right after the election when the Dems were trying to sell the myth the Russians stole it.
The Yemeni Minister of Endowments Dr Ahmed Attiya said this during a meeting that he held with the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia who is also the head of the Permanent Committee for Islamic Research and Issuing Fatwas Abdul Aziz Al Sheikh yesterday in Riyadh.
The government news agency SABA quoted Dr Attiya as saying that “Houthi militias and those loyal to the ousted president Saleh” bombed more than 299 mosques, badly damaged 24 mosques and that 146 mosques were turned into military barracks for murder, destruction and the storage of weapons.
According to the agency, the Yemeni minister and the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia discussed strengthening the relationship between the two countries in the fields of religious guidance and advocacy, thereby contributing to a culture of tolerance, peace and moderation.
In other matters, Ethiopia confirmed its support for the efforts of the Yemeni government to end the coup carried out by Houthi militias and those loyal to the ousted president Saleh, and the establishment of peace in the country.
The Ethiopian Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr Workneh Gebeyehu said during a meeting yesterday in Addis Ababa with the Acting Yemeni Ambassador in Addis Ababa Yahya Al-Iryani that he hoped stability and peace would return to Yemen.
[Libya Observer] Misrata-led forces have conducted a combing operation in the two ISIS camps that were hit by US Arclight airstrikes in southwestern Sirte last week.
In the first camp, the forces clashed with 4 ISIS Death Eaters and killed them after they refused to surrender. 2 others were incarcerated Book 'im, Mahmoud! 70 bodies for ISIS Death Eaters were found there, Bunyan Marsous ...(al-Bunyan al-Marsous, Solid Base) An operation carried out by Misratan forces loyal to the Libyan Goverenment of National Accord to dislodge ISIS forces from Sirte. 2,500 turbans were reported killed in the operation, which lasted from May through December.GNA's Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj officially announced the end of military operations on 18 December 2016... Operation confirmed.
Later, the forces moved to the second camp where they found 20 bodies.
Military sources indicated that both camps were set up by ISIS for training and that those who were killed in the US Arclight airstrikes were not escapees from Sirte.
"They are believed to be those who beat feet from Benghazi," the sources claimed.
Earlier this month, ISIS Death Eaters beat feet from Benghazi leaving the door wide open for speculation on how they managed to flee without being intercepted.
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[FOXNEWS] Two Florida teenagers were placed in durance vile Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! Thursday for allegedly planning an orchestrated mass shooting at their Orlando-area middle school.
Local news reports said that one of the the two planned to drop a pencil during gym class to signal to the other to begin shooting.
Students who reportedly knew about the plot were told to wear white and shout "Eugene" to avoid being a target. Some students were told not to come to school altogether.
The two teens, ages 13 and 14, were arrested when deputies executed search warrants. Weapons were found at both suspects’ homes. The teens were charged with conspiracy to commit murder and were placed in the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice.
According to Fox 35 Orlando, the teens are students at The Villages Charter Middle School. Officials at the school became aware of the alleged plot when they heard other students talking about it.
According to My News 13, Lake County Sheriff’s deputies questioned the 13-year-old who was allegedly planning the attack. The student told the police of the plot and referenced the Columbine shooting.
Deputies learned of the second teen involved in the planning. The 14-year-old also referenced the Columbine shooting when speaking with authorities, according to My News 13.
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[Al Jazeera] A Czech court has rejected a discrimination suit filed by a Somali refugee, who was banned from wearing her headscarf in a nursing school, the first case of its kind in the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... state.
"The suit which the plaintiff lodged seeking an apology and 60,000 crowns ($2,350) in compensation was rejected," said Justice Daniela Cejkova, handing down the verdict in a Prague court on Friday.
Ayan Nuur filed a lawsuit against the school after she was not allowed to attend while wearing a headscarf.
The school argued that the young woman had never formally enrolled in the establishment. Ivanka Kohoutova, the school's principal, also argued that wearing a scarf covering the hair, ears and neck, and revealing only the face contravened its safety and hygiene standards.
Nuur, who was granted asylum in the Czech Republic in 2011, did not attend the trial, but was represented by her lawyer.
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Ivanka Kohoutova, the school's principal, also argued that wearing a scarf covering the hair, ears and neck, and revealing only the face contravened its safety and hygiene standards.
I've been going out of my way to draw attention to these walking *bags* when they appear in our public places. Such attire is a threat to public safety. I'm not making scenes, but I am calling them out to the employees of stores that allow them inside.
[Hurriyet Daily News] 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 the Levant (ISIS) jihadists have started to leave their positions and withdraw from the northwestern Syrian town of al-Bab following an intense military campaign conducted by the Turkish army and Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) elements, military sources said on Jan. 27.
Sources, citing intelligence from the region, stated that ISIS had relocated its headquarters and all other centers to the Tadif region south of al-Bab.
"In light of recent information from the region, it can be said that ISIS is preparing to withdraw from al-Bab as a result of the military operation of the Turkish Armed Forces," sources said.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... launched its Euphrates Shield Operation with the FSA on Aug. 24, 2016, clearing a 2,000-square kilometer area of ISIS jihadists. The TSK and the FSA have besieged al-Bab since late November but come up against stiff ISIS resistance.
A majority of local people in al-Bab have fled the town despite ISIS’s measures and the city currently has only 15,000 to 18,000 residents, according to sources, who say the jihadists are using civilians as "human shields."
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[Hurriyet Daily News] Prime Minister Binali Yildirim slammed the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) for "acting with the [Kurdish issue-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party] HDP" in criticizing government-supported constitutional changes ahead of a key referendum this spring.
"They are exaggerating the constitutional amendment, saying ’it will lead to regime change,’ ’the apocalypse is coming,’ ’the country is slipping away.’ Who says so? The HDP takes a step and the CHP puts its foot in the same place," Yildirim said on Jan. 27.
"They did the same thing at parliament. Apparently they will join the ’no’ choir at rallies in squares," he added.
"What happened to Ataturk’s party? Is it right for Ataturk’s party to be arm-in-arm with those who want to divide the country?" Yildirim said. "," he said.
"I don’t understand why the CHP is opposing the change ... There is no issue of regime [change], nor is The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... at risk of division. On the contrary, in the presidential system the country will be embraced more and more, together with all its different sects and marches. It will make the national will become more dominant," he added.
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[Libya Observer] The head of the investigation bureau at the Libyan Attorney General’s Office. Sediq al-Soor, has revealed that the Emirati officer, who has been tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! on charges of spying in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , was killed by a member of the Libyan Intelligence Department inside his detention location.
Speaking in a presser Wednesday, al-Soor said the intelligence member, who killed the UAE’s spy, was also killed in a clash with the security personnel when he resisted them as he stormed into the detention location of the Emirati officer.
"We’ve contacted the Libyan Foreign Ministry and asked it to inform the UAE’s authorities about the incident and to prepare for receiving the body of the officer." al-Soor explained.
Tripoli security personnel arrested the Emirati officer on November 11, 2015 after he was a potential suspect while he was traveling from Mitiga airport in Tripoli to Tunisia.
The Emirati officer - a sergeant in Dubai Police Station For International Operations, Yousif Saqr Ahmed Mubarak - came from Tobruk to Tripoli on an internal flight then he stayed in a hotel for days, the investigations showed, adding that he had videos of foreign embassies in Tripoli, including the Turkish one.
Social media circulated days ago photos claiming to be for the intelligence member who killed the Emirati sergeant, saying he killed him after he discovered that some of his colleagues and members of a brigade were meaning to smuggle him out of Libya in exchange of millions of dollars.
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[DAWN] LAHORE: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) on Thursday placed in durance vile Please don't kill me! an additional deputy commissioner, a former brigadier and six other people who are alleged to have fraudulently transferred 1,250-kanal state land in Kasur.
"ADC Aamir Aqiq, who also remained personal staff officer to the chief minister, transferred 1,250-kanal state land to his relatives in connivance with a former brigadier (Ibrahim Khalid), a tehsildar and patwaris on low rates," Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Law Minister Rana Sanaullah told a news conference here.
Flanked by the ACE chief, retired Brig Muzaffar Ali Ranjha, Sanaullah said another suspect Salman Munawar was a relative of politician Munawar Manj.
"Laying hand on a bureaucrat shows Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... ’s zero-tolerance policy on corruption. Currently, many projects worth Rs1,000 billion are under way in the province and there is no corruption at the government level," he said.
The ADC committed the fraud during his tenure (2012-13) in Kasur.
Mr Ranjha said the government had retrieved the land and would submit the challan ... list of charges ... of the case in court in a couple of weeks.
Initially, the accused had got bail but it was cancelled after which they were arrested.
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[DAWN] LAHORE: Three suspected forces of Evil belonging to a banned outfit were jugged Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! from Gujranwala, claimed a front man for the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) here on Thursday.
He claimed that the suspected forces of Evil who pledged allegiance to the murderous MoslemIslamic 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.... group were arrested from DC Colony in Gujranwala.
He said the suspects were planning to attack a sensitive installation in the city when a police team raided a house and arrested them.
The front man identified the arrested as Muhammad Rizwan, Wajid Ali and Muhammad Armughan.
He said the police team also recovered 1,370 grams of kaboom, three detonators and 7.25 feet prima cord from their custody.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army's Rocket Battalion carried out a powerful series of missile strikes against the so-called "Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... " (ISIS) in east Sweida on Friday, killing scores of murderous Moslems along a rural road to the Deir Ezzor Governorate.
According to a report from local activists, the Syrian Arab Army scored direct hits on several Islamic State military vehicles, stopping the convoy from reaching its intended destination.
The local activists claimed this attack took place outside the village of al-Rashidah, which is located in the eastern countryside of the al-Sweida Governorate.
With the Islamic State's inability to successfully transport oil from Iraq to Syria (vice versa) via the Abukamal, the Syrian Arab Army has shifted their attention to the Sweida border in order to halt the terrorist group's movements.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A coup by the so-called 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.... or Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) to infiltrate fighters from western to eastern Qalamoun turned very ugly tonight when Syrian Arab Army units operating in the area uncovered and engaged them.
The firefight took place between the areas of Qarah and al-Buraij near the Homs-to-Damascus Highway and resulted in the death of 5 ISIS bully boys. Another 3 holy warriors are believed to have fled from the engagement zone.
The SAA troops who took part in this small clash later uploaded video evidence of their victory.
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[Reuters] New Jersey prosecutors on Friday said they would not pursue criminal misconduct charges against Governor Chris Christie in connection with the "Bridgegate" scandal.
The Office of the Bergen County Prosecutor said in a letter to a local judge it did not have sufficient evidence to prove allegations that Christie knew about a plot to close lanes at the George Washington Bridge in 2013 in order to punish a local mayor for failing to endorse Christie's re-election bid.
"The reason is simple, but compelling - that charge cannot be proven beyond a reasonable doubt," the letter said.
Bill Brennan, a retired firefighter and activist who announced he would run for governor this year, filed the citizen complaint against Christie last September.
Two former Christie allies were convicted last year of orchestrating the lane closure plot, and U.S. prosecutors introduced evidence at trial suggesting the governor was at least aware of the scheme. Christie has steadfastly denied that he knew about the closures at the time.
Roy McGeady, a municipal judge in Fort Lee, had found probable cause to allow the case against Christie to proceed after a hearing at which Brennan testified. Christie's lawyer was not permitted to argue or cross-examine, McGeady said, because the governor was not a defendant until probable cause was established.
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Christie's lawyer was not permitted to argue or cross-examine, McGeady said, because the governor was not a defendant until probable cause was established.
I'm not a Christie fan at all, but do we all feel good about the above?
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AH, yes, but if Christie - obviously a big threat to Hillary at the time - had not been frozen and attacked - we might not have President Trump today.
Ain't karma a witch?
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That's a good point, but I think the thing that nuked Christie for sure was the bro-hug of Obama when Christie was looking for Federal $ after Hurricane Sandy.
Idlib – Clashes broke out on Friday between Syrian rebel groups and al-Qaeda-splinter group of Fateh al-Sham in Syria’s northwestern Idlib Governorate.
Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, previously known as Nusra Front, clashed with foreign-backed rebel factions in the countryside of Idlib –where they both used to share power after the expulsion of Syrian regime’s forces nearly two years ago.
“Rebel fighters of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) attacked headquarters of Jabhat Fateh al-Sham in southern Idlib, killing and wounding scores of extremists. The attack was followed by heavy clashes between the FSA and Fateh al-Sham,” local media activist Samer al-Sayyed told ARA News.
Idlib is considered one of the main Syrian governorates out of the regime’s control.
Both Fateh al-Sham and FSA rebels had formed a coalition to jointly run the regime-free Idlib Governorate. However, rifts erupted between both sides after the Jabhat Fateh al-Sham was listed by the West as a terrorist organization.
The US-led coalition and Russia have repeatedly targeted Fateh al-Sham’s positions in Idlib and western Aleppo, killing leading members of the group.
“Jabhat Fateh al-Sham has been trying to monopolise power in Idlib, excluding moderate rebel factions that have been supported by foreign countries to combat Assad regime,” rebel spokesman Salih al-Zein told ARA News.
“This radical group has been accusing the moderate anti-Assad rebels of being puppets in the hands of foreign powers, which is unacceptable,” the official said.
“Despite cutting ties with al-Qaeda, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham remains an extremist group that should be eliminated,” al-Zein said.
Also on Friday, Islamists of Fateh al-Sham shelled rebel-held districts in Idlib with mortar fire. The bombardment has reportedly resulted in civilian casualties.
On Friday, the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and the Syriac Military Council (SMC) confirmed in a statement the death of a 5th foreign volunteer as part of the anti-ISIS Raqqa operation–launched in November 2016.
On Thursday, the group Assisting Volunteers of Rojava suggested a US volunteer died in the operation, but this was not confirmed by the YPG forces.
“With great sadness we announce the passing away of our good friend Albert Avery Harrington, an American Volunteer who was injured in a bomb explosion a few days ago in Syria and passed away early this morning from his injuries,” the Assisting Volunteers of Rojava said. “Rest in peace brother Cekdar Rojava [Kurdish nickname of Harrington], you are loved and missed. Our condolences to Harrington family.”
On Friday, the YPG and the SMC released a statement to the family of Albert Avery Harrington (Cekdar Rojava) confirming the death of the US volunteer. The statement was also published on the official website of the YPG in Kurdish.
On 15 March, 2015, Harrington joined the YPG with the nickname Cekdar Rojava or Neshro Hiro.
“We have been honored by Albert’s participation in our forces: it has built on our own essential desire for freedom. Despite the geographical distance between us, we found common values in the interest of humanity,” the YPG told the Harrington family.
“Albert joined actively in our offensive against the terror threat that ISIS has caused upon Northern Syria. During the last two months Albert took active part with the YPG and with the Syriac Military Council in the Euphrates Wrath Operation to liberate Raqqa city,” the YPG said.
“Here, on the morning of 18th January, 2017, one group of SMC was attacked by two VBIEDS [car bombs] in Suwaydiya-Saghirah village – Raqqa,” the YPG said. “In this ISIS-led attack three fighters were killed and three were injured, including Harrington who died from his injuries later on the 25th of January.”
Last week on 22 January, the YPG confirmed the death of another US volunteer named Paolo Todd from Los Angeles, California who was also killed in the same village of Suwaydiya, where Harrington was injured.
On 16 January, the Kurds also announced that three Western volunteers (one British, one Canadian and one American) were killed as part of the Raqqa campaign.
In total, five Western volunteers have lost their lives so far in the Euphrates Wrath Campaign, that was launched on 6 November with support of the US-led coalition to take Raqqa, the de-facto capital of ISIS in Syria.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan government assures that practical steps will be taken to arrest nine security guards of the Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... over alleged kidnapping and sexual abuse of rival Ahmad Khan Ishchi.
President Ghani’s front man Haroon Chakhansuri told news hounds on Wednesday that the Afghan Attorney General and the judicial institutions continue to their work with transparency.
He said arrest warrants have been issued and the Ministry of Interior is obliged to take practical steps as per the warrants.
Chakhansuri further added that the Attorney General has more authorities to take further steps if the nine security guards of General Dostum were not tossed in the calaboose Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! Without providing further information, Chakhansuri said the media will be updated when further steps are taken.
The arrest warrants were issued on Monday after the men refused to appear before the Attorney General to respond regarding the alleged accusations.
The Vice President and his security guards have been summoned for at least three times by the Attorney General but neither of them has responded to the summonses.
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The United Air Corporation (UAC) gave a group of VIPs and reporters a look at the new MiG-35 multirole fighter jet.
The MiG-35 is a multipurpose generation 4++ fighter and an advanced derivative of the original MiG-29 fighter. The new aircraft is equipped with the newest airborne avionics as well as a wide range of guided air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles.
The MiG-35 has a maximum speed of 2,700 kilometers an hour (1,620 MPH)
an effective range of 1,000 kilometers (600 miles, IOW short legs)
and a service ceiling of 17,5000 meters.
Serial purchases of the MiG-35 multirole fighter under the state arms procurement program will begin in 2019, President of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) Yury Slyusar said Thursday. He added that a presentation of the MiG-35 for potential foreign buyers will be held on January 27. Video at the link
[ALMASDARNEWS] Security forces in Bahrain shot and injured one person and allegedly tortured another, who later died, during a raid against supporters of Bahrain's Shia holy man Ayatollah Isa Quassim, in Diraz on Thursday, according to reports.
Police officers reportedly shot at Quassim’s supporters, who have been staging sit-in protests since June, when the holy man’s citizenship was revoked on the grounds that he had allegedly provoked violence and fostered ties with foreign powers.
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"Remember the ginned up fake hysteria from the media when an armed black man showed up at a tea party rally some years ago, which NBC edited to to support their anti-Obama racism angle? The media quickly rushed to call it racist when it clearly wasn’t.
So with that in mind, let’s see how they portray a band of armed Black Panthers demonstrating without a permit. We surmise they won’t have a problem with this, at all.
The Revolutionary Black Panther Party of Wilmington raised concerns among local officials this week when it announced its plans to host an "armed human rights march and armed freedom ride" Sunday in Wilmington.
Mayor Bill Saffo is concerned about attendees possibly being armed, but is confident Sunday’s march will pass without incident.
"I don’t think there’s a reason to come armed to an event. ... If there’s an altercation with somebody, in the heat of the moment a tragedy could happen," Saffo said, adding, "If you want to picket or you want to demonstrate in the City of Wilmington, it’s your right to do that, but you’re not allowed to bring a gun."
According to North Carolina general statue, it is unlawful for any person participating in, affiliated with, or present as a spectator at a parade, funeral procession, picket line or demonstration to "willfully or intentionally possess or have immediate access to any dangerous weapon." Jim Varrone, the Wilmington Police Department’s assistant chief, explained those laws to organizers, according to a police spokeswoman.
City Councilman Earl Sheridan said the march is an example of a group demonstrating its First Amendment-protected rights to freedom of assembly and will likely take place without any problems.
"I think a lot of times when people hear that name, they have a knee jerk reaction, whatever it is," Sheridan said. "I don’t have that knee jerk reaction. I don’t think it’s necessarily going to leave any problems for Wilmington."
We have no problem with anyone demonstrating. But we suspect these clowns are agitating for a confrontation and the left with gleefully go along with them."
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[GEO.TV] 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... is reportedly all set to suspend the US refugee program for four months and halt visas for travellers from seven Moslem countries; Libya, Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
In a recent interview by ABC News, David Muir asked newly-elected President Donald Trump about the countries who were not on the list, namely, Pakistain, Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and Afghanistan--asking why the natives from these countries will be allowed.
To which Trump said that some countries will face a close watch and extreme vetting.
"We're going to have extreme vetting in all cases. And I mean extreme. And we're not letting people in if we think there's even a little chance of some problem," he said in the interview.
Trump further said that some countries will be excluded, however, it will be very hard for the citizens to come in as right now the procedure is very easy.
In an earlier interview on ABC News, Trump denied that it was a ban on Moslems.
"No it's not the Moslem ban, but it's countries that have tremendous terror," Trump said.
"And it's countries that people are going to come in and cause us tremendous problems. Our country has enough problems without allowing people to come in, who in many cases or in some cases, are looking to do tremendous destruction."
President Donald Trump signed two executive orders Wednesday aimed at launching the construction of a wall on the Mexican border and restricting illegal immigration, moving aggressively in his first week in office to fulfill major campaign promises.
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[GEO.TV] ISLAMABAD: The session of the National Assembly on Thursday became a battlefield as a scuffle broke out between the opposition and government politicians.
The NA session under Speaker Ayaz Sadiq turned quite chaotic as both the sides started slapping and pushing one another.
Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... ’s Shehryar Afridi earlier went up to the government’s benches and started a scuffle with Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, who is the current Minister of Petroleum and Natural Resources.
During the session, PTI politicians led by Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi started chanting ’thief, thief’ slogans in the house and stood up on their benches in protest.
The PML-N and PTI politicians started exchange of slogans, while the Speaker requested them to respect the prayer call.
Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Sheikh Aftab tried to defuse the tension but to no avail.
Qureshi during his speech said that it is not a monarchy where a PM says one thing in the House and another in the apex court.
"The missing pages of an open book are filled up with Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... i prince’s letters," remarked Qureshi.
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[GEO.TV] LAHORE: A video of lawyers turning a court room into a battle field emerged on Friday, where two lawyers thrashed each other during the hearing of a murder case.
In the Additional Sessions judge’s court, the two lawyers were representing opposite sides during the proceedings of the murder trial.
Things took an ugly turn, when one of the lawyers accused the other, who got violent and slapped his opponent.
Afterwards, the supporters of the lawyer who were present during the proceedings also got violent and a scuffle broke out.
The supporters of both the sides were quite enraged and resorted to physical assaults on one another, which was caught on camera too.
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"The Pentagon’s plan to pit its $400 billion F-35B Joint Strike Fighter against the tried-and-true A-10 Thunderbolt II may happen as early as next year.
The latest update to the National Defense Authorization Act includes a stipulation that while Air Force officials cannot yet retire the iconic "Warthog," they will be expected to set up a battery of tests to gauge each aircraft’s ability to perform close-air-support (CAS) missions.
The director of the Pentagon’s F-35 Integration Office was interviewed by Military.com on Wednesday to elaborate on the battle for CAS supremacy."
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They each have a role the other can't fill very well. Why have only one?
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...Interesting that this is still going to happen, even more interesting that it's going to happen when the -35 is still pretty wonky. (Realistically, the USAF's -35 will not be a truly combat-capable aircraft for at least two more years.) And the -35, ready or not, will face two problems: in a fair test, the Hog will kick its a$$, and even in a test where the circumstances are set up so the -35 can do it...the Hog will still win.
Place your bets, Ladies and Gentlemen.
Mike
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Bobby, they did a 'ground fire tolerance test' on the A-10 during desert Storm using what are now 25 year old Soviet missiles and it failed badly enough that they went back to using fast movers for CAS. The whole A-10 CAS superiority fantasy is based on the idea that we'll never fight another modern army again. Which will be great until suddenly it isn't.
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Bobby, they did a 'ground fire tolerance test' on the A-10 during desert Storm using what are now 25 year old Soviet missiles and it failed badly enough that they went back to using fast movers for CAS. The whole A-10 CAS superiority fantasy is based on the idea that we'll never fight another modern army again. Which will be great until suddenly it isn't.
New US Ambassador Nikki Haley strutted into the UN on Friday with a blunt message to American allies: “For those who don’t have our backs, we’re taking names.”
The former South Carolina governor made the remark to reporters as she arrived at the world body’s headquarters in Manhattan to present her credentials to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
“Our goal with the administration is to show value at the UN and the way that we’ll show value is to show our strength, show our voice, have the backs of our allies and make sure that our allies have our back as well,” she said.
“For those that don’t have our back, we’re taking names, we will make points to respond to that accordingly,” President Trump’s envoy said.
Haley, who has little foreign policy and no US federal government experience, said that at the US Mission to the organization, “You are gonna see a change in the way we do business. It’s no longer about working harder, it’s about working smarter.”
She said Trump wants her to put “fresh eyes” on the UN.
“Everything that’s working, we’re going to make it better,” she said. “Everything that’s not working we’re going to try to fix, and anything that seems to be obsolete and not necessary we’re going to do away with.”
She then hopped on an elevator and went to the 38th floor to meet Guterres, who became UN chief on Jan. 1. They then went into his office for a private sit-down.
The rising GOP star sailed through Senate confirmation hearings with wide bipartisan support, on a vote of 96-4.
The Trump administration’s approach to the 193-member world organization has been a topic of frenzied diplomatic talks, speculation and concern. There have been reports that the White House is poised to demand major cutbacks in UN agencies and personnel in slashing Washington’s financial contributions to the organization.
And we can ask the rest of the developed world to contribute more to the upkeep of the saintly UN bureaucracy...
France’s envoy to the UN, François Delattre, said he had “only good things to say” about Haley, CNN reported.
But in response to reports that the administration may push for funding cuts for crucial UN programs, Delattre gave an analysis of the US role at the UN that demonstrated how dramatically the country has pivoted since Trump’s election.
“As France’s ambassador to Washington in the early 2000s, my key message to the White House was basically, ‘Let us breathe. Don’t micromanage the world,’ ” he told reporters, CNN reported.
“A few years later, our main message to the American administration is, ‘Please stay committed to world affairs, because we need America,’” he said.
Damned if we do, damned if we don't...
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Good for her. And good for those nations that are paying attention.
For those nations that aren't paying attention (properly), go ahead, make our day.
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They're as dense in Mexico City as they are in American newsrooms. You need the wall to stem the flow of illegals. If you shut the flow down on your side, there's no need for a wall. Guess there's too much graft and political pressure release to end it on their side.
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It'd be the height of irony to let the illegals vote the state out of the union so they could 'stop sending all their money to D.C. to fight wars that build terrorism.'
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Procop: Cartels run Mexico: it's a narco state. Cartels don't want any barriers. Jack from Tucson
[WAPO] For the first time, scientists have grown an embryo that is part-pig, part-human.
The experiment, described Thursday in the journal Cell, involves injecting human stem cells into the embryo of a pig, then implanting the embryo in the uterus of a sow and allowing it to grow. After four weeks, the stem cells had developed into the precursors of various tissue types, including heart, liver and neurons, and a small fraction of the developing pig was made up of human cells.
The human-pig hybrid -- dubbed a "chimera" for the mythical creature with a lion's head, a goat's body and a serpent's tail -- was "highly inefficient," the researchers cautioned. But it's the most successful human-animal chimera and a significant step toward the development of animal embryos with functioning human organs.
In a study published a day earlier, an international team of researchers demonstrated that organs for transplant can be grown in chimera embryos that are part-mouse, part-rat. Writing in Nature, the researchers reported Wednesday that they were able to grow a mouse pancreas inside a rat embryo, then transfer insulin-secreting tissue from that organ into diabetic mice, alleviating their illness without triggering an immune response.
It was the first demonstration that such an interspecies organ transplant is possible. Researchers hope that one day doctors may be able to grow human tissue using chimera embryos in farm animals, making organs available for sick humans who might otherwise wait years for a transplant.
'If you are not concerned about this development, you should be.'
~ Charles Krauthammer
$1,199,280,431.74. Shoot, they could have a good time in Vegas with all that wampum...
I suspect that current officials just made off with some of that money, and are in a position to put the blame on the Houthis.
[Asharq Al-Awsat] Yemeni Prime Minister Dr. Ahmed Obaid bin Dagher expressed his direct and deep regret on coup militias having unwarrantedly taken over YR 300 billion in customs, taxes and excesses. Profits of telecommunications, tobacco, cigarettes and cement factories were exploited as well.
Militants fighting in a Houthi-led coup aligned with ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh loyalists, have extorted the money out of institutional officials and directors by means of terror and enforce them to hand over revenues worth billions.
In a statement reported by the official Yemeni news agency, PM Dagher accused rebels of terrorizing the private industrial and service sectors, forcing fees. Most of the funds, once acquired, are directed to coup military efforts covering war expenses and prolonging the war.
Dagher stressed that it is time the government dispenses the payment of staff salaries, in all parts of the republic, and that these funds are placed under the legitimate government authority or allocated to the payment of the salaries of some government facilities, in the areas controlled by the coup leaders.
However, he highlighted that leaving these funds under the militias control, will further damage people’s lives, as such situation allows for them to procure even more arms.
PM Dagher called on putschists to put an end to the illegal and illegitimate seizure of the central bank branch, in Sana’a and allow it to operate properly, under the leadership of the new bank governor Munassar Al-Qu’aiti and its new board of directors.
[DAWN] LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court on Thursday convicted the sixth and last person involved in an attack on a vigil held by civil society activists to mark the fifth death anniversary of Punjab’s governor Salmaan Taseer in 2015.
The presiding judge, Muhammad Azam, sentenced Mumtaz Sindhi a collective imprisonment of sixteen-and-a-half years under five provisions of laws.
The court handed down five-year jail term to Sindhi under section 7 of Anti-Terrorism Act, three-and-half-year imprisonment under section 365 of PPC, two years under section 149 of PPC and three years each under 153-A and 148 of PPC.
Previously, the court had awarded the same punishment to five accused in July 2015. They were: Adeel, Furqan, Kashif, Iftikhar and Wazir Ali.
Mumtaz Sindhi was declared proclaimed offender and police tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! him at a later stage.
The Lahore High Court had already dismissed appeals of the five convicts against their sentence. Civil Society Network President Abdullah Malik, the complainant of the case, said the conviction of all accused was a victory of rule of law.
More than a dozen baton-wielding men had attacked the participants in the vigil held at Liberty Chowk to mark the death anniversary of Salmaan Taseer on Jan 4, 2015. The attackers tore the banners, pictures and posters displayed at the venue and also thrashed the activists besides chanting slogans in favour of Mumtaz Qadri, a former police guard who had rubbed out the governor in Islamabad.
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[DAWN] I have often wondered why successive governments have been so slack in cracking down on the jihadi militias that have been rampaging on our soil for decades now. I know one reason is the support many of them receive from our intelligence agencies. But why have civilian leaders not acted against the hard-line madressahs, or stopped hate speech in mosques and TV chat shows, or, indeed, cleaned our school and college curricula of their murderous Moslem content?
It’s true that our politicians are not known for decisive action, just as our bureaucracy has not set any records for rapid implementation. But had a majority of the 60,000 or so of the victims of terrorism been members of the upper echelons of society, I’m sure the state’s response would have been very different.
As an example, look at what happened in the aftermath of the two attempts on Musharraf’s life in December 2003: the suspects were rapidly tried, found guilty and executed. And it took a major Taliban attack on a Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. army school to get a consensus on military action, and the approval of the National Action Plan. Had the over 140 victims been from a Peshawar slum, I doubt very much that such a determined response would have been crafted by our leadership.
This attitude merely reflects other aspects of life in Pakistain. Our state hospitals and schools are in a shambles because our elites use private facilities. Quacks and madressahs thrive in the vacuum created by the state’s abdication of its responsibilities. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that an educated and healthy population is essential for any nation’s progress.
Yet we continue to ignore these basic needs because our children don’t have to go to schools where little education is imparted. Or, if they are sick, don’t have to go to hospitals where they would have to wait endlessly to receive third-rate care.
It’s the same depressing story for clean drinking water and sanitation. Again, these problems don’t exist for our entitled ruling classes. Bottled water and tankers for the lawns and swimming pools of the rich are the order of the day. And yet, waterborne diseases and poor sanitation account for the vast majority of diseases afflicting millions of Paks.
Everybody is aware of these issues, and yet government after government has refused to tackle them. Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... has done a bit better than the other provinces, but the Sharif family’s preoccupation with their ’mega projects’ has diverted attention and resources from more pressing needs.
One excuse is that the security forces have siphoned off a large chunk of the funds available, leaving little for the citizenry. While this may be true, it is not the whole truth: year after year, millions of rupees allocated to education and health in the budget are surrendered because our bureaucracy was unable to spend them within the financial year.
The reality is that the military, the bureaucracy, the political class, feudals and businessmen all grab the state’s resources and deprive the poor of their share. As long as this loot continues, expect to see Pakistain at the bottom of the table for human development.
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It is Russia Today. Possibly this is a good deal more fringe than it appears.
But if it's serious, as opposed to a bunch of blowhards confusing no-fault divorce with civil war, this could become a very interesting teachable moment. Point out they can have an orderly separation upon full payment of their share of the national debt -- what is it now, $9 trillion? -- based on the state's total population including non-citizens, and of course there will be a complete cessation of federal transfer payments of all sorts from the moment we start these discussions. Also, we're keeping all designated federal lands and facilities -- the result will look a good deal like Swiss cheese, I imagine, or the state can purchase them at current market value.
The U.S. might even turn a profit on the deal, while getting rid of a major expense.
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It would be interesting to see a Pakistan/India deal where the liberals flow into the New California nation and the conservatives flow out of California. I'm sure California would set up reeducation camps before long to deal with whomever remained ideologically impure.
This past week in national politics has been amazing so far with President Donald Trump churning out Executive Orders, reversing many orders signed by his predecessor.
Missing in all the paperwork is guns. There's a reason for that, and I suspect it is because the government is such a mess it will take a while to straighten out. For my part, reversing the ban on 7N6 ammunition (5.45x39mm for AK-74) would be a good step in the right direction. As I mentioned on this site before, the ban was easy for Obama since it is his right as president to ban imports into the US under certain conditions. Not that I would start using the 7N6, but it seems inconsistent to ban one class of ammunition because it is considered to be armor piercing and not ban another class of 5.56x45mm ammunition for the same reason because it is much more popular.
On a related note, a photo of the contraband seized in recent bust by a Pacolo (Oklahoma) Police unit showed a curious selection of ammunition for the weapon that was seized (see the link).
A commenter said: "Note the ammo selection for the gun. I read an article a while back about the guns and ammo criminals typically use. A police officer did his own study on the subject going over firearms confiscated by his department. As I recall many had missmatched ammo. Some had the wrong ammo. Several had the wrong magazines in semi autos. As I recall out of the hundred or so guns sampled (granted it's a small sample but the only data I've seen) roughly 25% wouldn't have fired 2 shots if they managed to fire the first shot."
Prices for pistol ammunition were mostly steady. Prices for rifle ammunition were mostly steady.
Prices for used pistols were lower across the board. Prices for used rifles were mixed.
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None.
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.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4Q, 2016)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .24 per round
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.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Own brand, Brass Casing, Reloads, .21 per round (From Last Week: +.02 Each
9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (9 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .15 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: FedArm, Own Brand, TPMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads, .15 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (4Q, 2016)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel casing, .24 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (4Q, 2016))
.38 Special, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Own brand, LRN, Aluminum Casing, .26 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 500 rounds: FedArm, Own Brand, TMJ, Brass casing, Reloads, .20 per round (From Last Week -.04 Each)
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.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .21 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .21 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: -.03 After Unchanged (8 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Alamo Ammo, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .31 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .32 per round (From Last Week: -.02 Each After Unchanged (7 Weeks)
7.62x39mm AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: -.04 Each
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.30-06 Springfield 145 Grain. From Last Week Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: SG Ammo, Wolf WPA, Steel Case, FMJ, .65 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammo Liquidator, Wolf WPA, Steel Case, FMJ, .56 per round (From Last week: -.03 Each)
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[DAWN] IT ought to be self-evident: parliamentary debate is necessary and important, and coming to parliamentary fisticuffs is embarrassing and damaging to democracy. What transpired in the National Assembly on Thursday is shameful and squarely the responsibility of the speaker, the PTI and the PML-N. The unseemly brawl on the floor of the house should never have happened. Worryingly, none of the parties involved seems contrite nor concerned about avoiding a repeat incident. The imperatives of democracy appear to have been relegated behind a boisterous and disturbingly familiar type of politics. Start with the role of National Assembly speaker Ayaz Sadiq. While there was nothing wrong per se in his oversight of the house in the events leading up to the brawl on Thursday, Mr Sadiq has become a lightning rod for opposition criticism, particularly for the PTI. Contrast the non-partisan and sensible management of the National Assembly by speaker Fehmida Mirza in the previous parliament with Mr Sadiq’s contentious role. Following his return to the speaker’s chair after a charged by-election victory against a PTI candidate, Mr Sadiq appears to have lost sight of his principal role as a neutral steward of the house. Even where his rulings are fair and sensible, Mr Sadiq often appears exasperated and is curt in his dealings with the opposition. He ought to reconsider his approach while chairing the house.
Certainly, the PTI must bear a great deal of the blame too. The party appears to be suffering from at least three problems: a party leadership that is contemptuous of parliamentary norms; several first-time MNAs who are neither guided nor restrained by senior party colleagues; and a determination to create as much controversy whenever possible to highlight the PTI’s anti-government politics. While the political dividends of such a strategy can be disputed, what is clear is that the PTI will get nowhere in its avowed goal of strengthening the anti-corruption regime if democratic processes are constantly stalled or disregarded. The PTI itself had demanded a parliamentary debate recently, so why not use the platform of a new session to press its political and legislative case? Sadly, the PTI’s interest in positively contributing to the functioning of democratic institutions appears limited at best.
Finally, though by no means of least consequence, is the PML-N’s own tawdry role in the parliamentary brawl of Thursday. Whatever justification the PML-N believes it may have, two factors override that entirely. First, the PML-N is the governing party and as such the chief custodian of the democratic project in the country. It must always rise above petty provocation rather than descend into the muck of slander and brawling. Second, the big shotship of the PML-N knows well what unseemly parliamentary fights and squabbles led to in the 1990s. The government may not want to turn the other cheek, but it must rise above petty provocations.
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She's daintily testing the waters
With one of her pale, porcine trotters.
She swims! On her belly,
Some stuff from the deli.
O Canada, lock up your daughters!
[AccordingToHoyt] Sixteen years ago, when I was first on the blogs (under deep cover, with mustache and sunglasses) there was a lot of talk about the cold civil war.
It is only now that I understand the name wasn’t EXACTLY right. Sure, there were two camps sharply divided, and the fact that we were geographically enmeshed meant that it couldn’t go hot in the traditional way. But there were other factors too.
In the cold war, what prevented it going hot was Mutual Assured Destruction. Sure, the Soviets were fanatics, but they weren’t the sort of fanatics who want to make sure they die TOO. They wanted to win. They wanted for various and complicated reasons, among them that the only way a communist society can be prosperous is through theft, to own the Earth. We weren’t about to allow that and we had the nukes to enforce it. IMO, this wasn't (isn't) socialism but Russian national character: for Russians, through their entire history, border is that invaders come across - so safety = no abroad.
Oh, they grabbed what they could, mostly because the left here were very susceptible to Soviet propaganda, and the idea MAD was wrong, and we should disarm first. (Honestly, sometimes I think they’re aliens. That’s not how the world works, that’s not how humans work. That’s not how any of this works. The one who disarms first is known as "victim" or perhaps "dead.")
But in the Civil War we fought, they commanded all the positions of power. It wasn’t just the arts, or publishing, just the press or universities. If you were fairly wealthy, even back in the eighties, you made "left noises" because being leftist was aspirational and a positional good. Their control of the rest of the culture had a hard lock on the idea that leftist ideas were not just right and good but "Smart". Opening your mouth in public and revealing right-wing (and right wing was anything non-left, like supporting Ronald Reagan) opinions was the equivalent of committing social suicide. And, in my experience, by 90es just keeping your mouth shut i.e., not expressing strong leftist sentiments loudly at every possible occasion, became social (and professional in the academia) suicide.
This is not a Cold Civil War. We were occupied. The Vichy had full control of society, and we were the plucky resistance. We didn’t even have a flight helmet, or an egg beater, but we were doing what we could, in the shadows. Those of us in the arts ported seemingly incongruous bits into our stuff, at great risk of discovery or at least suspicion. Local journalists sometimes broke with the narrative. But none of this had a great deal of effect. We were mostly sidelined, and when someone managed to break through, he or she was immediately demonized. Even a hero of the gonzo right like P. J. O’Rourke had to refer to Reagan as "his dumbness" to prove he was cool and hip enough. (No one referred to Carter as his dumbness, and having heard the man, this is a miracle of the controlled press.)
It is no longer like that. Things have changed. Now we are in a cold civil war with occasional flare ups.
...What I’m saying is that if they could demonize a squishy left and frankly morally impeccable man like Romney as an uber-fascist, they could demonize anyone and anything. Which meant for a long time, when the right got pressured, they buckled. They had to. It wasn’t a cold civil war. It was a guerilla war.
...I don’t know what happened with this election cycle. Perhaps it was that the economy is really, stupendously, bad. We don’t know for sure, because the press would rather die than report on it until a year from now, when they can blame it all on Trump, and also because Obama played tiddly winks with our number gathering, making things mean not what they say they mean. But the signs on the ground, they suck. IMO, the economy is really bad - but that's not the reason. The reason is, republicans got (enforced on them) a candidate who does not believes the Left hold the high moral ground. One who, being a bit of a con man himself, sees them as what they are - a bunch of slogan mouthing thieves and murderers.
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David Shoup at Tarawa: "Casualties: many. Percentage dead: unknown. Combat efficiency: We are winning."
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The economy was part of it, but let's not forget the triumphal malevolence of "Whitey is gonna die out and that's a good thing", and "We will take things away from you for your own good" and the attempted normalization of p*dophilia, and so many other things.
They didn't think that we were listening, or that we could do anything about if we were.
Simply put, they let the mask slip a little too soon.
They'll be more careful next time. (not the hysterics in the streets, but the true powers of the left)
As long as there's ammunition for the artillery, Ukrainians and Russian backed rebels will be fighting.
[al-Manar] Two Ukrainian soldiers were on Friday reported killed in an upsurge of fighting in the country’s rebel east, as international monitors said “little has changed” to halt violence despite a supposed truce.
Ukrainian military spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said the two servicemen were killed over the past day as Russian-backed insurgents stepped up attacks along the volatile frontline.
The deaths are the first Ukrainian losses for almost two weeks and come despite the warring sides announcing an “indefinite” ceasefire in December that has failed to stop the violence entirely.
[Hurriyet Daily News] Ankara will take "necessary steps" against Athens after a Greek court ruled not to extradite Turkish soldiers accused of involvement in last year’s July 15 coup attempt, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Jan. 27.
"There is a migration deal we signed, including a readmission deal with Greece, and we are evaluating what we can do, including the cancellation of the readmission deal with Greece," he said in an interview with TRT Haber.
Cavusoglu’s remarks came after the Supreme Court of Greece refused on Jan. 26 to extradite eight Turkish soldiers who sought political asylum after the failed coup.
"We gave Greece all the necessary documents, evidence and everything. We demanded that the eight soldiers be tried again. This is a political decision. Now Greece is in a position protecting and hosting coup plotters and terrorists. It also possessed forces of Evil like the DHKP-C and the PKK. It is also known that there are some DHKP-C camps in Greece." the minister said," in reference to two outlawed groups, the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
The soldiers, including two majors, flew helicopters to Alexandroupolis on July 16, 2016, prompting the Greek authorities to begin legal and diplomatic proceedings on charges of illegal entry into the country. "Greece condemned the coup attempt in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... on the very first day and the perpetrators are not welcome in the country," said the Greek Prime Ministry in a written statement. "However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... the Greek judiciary is independent. The rulings are respected and binding," it said. The two countries play an important role in the handling of Europe’s worst migration crisis in decades, and the EU depends on Ankara to enforce a deal to stem mass migration to Europe.
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"Cyprus"
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[FOX] A proposal for California to secede from the United States was submitted to the Secretary of State’s Office Thursday.
The proposed "Calexit" initiative - its name borrowed from the UK's "Brexit" departure from the EU - would ask voters to repeal part of the state constitution that declares California an inseparable part of the U.S.
A recent poll found that one in three California residents would support a possible secession from the U.S. due to their opposition to President Trump. No mention has been made of the president in the proposal.
If the proposal qualifies for the ballot and is approved by voters, it could be a step to a future vote on whether the state would break away from the rest of the nation.
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Easier and faster to renegotiate the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. They get 'rich' Calimexico to loot and they put the wall up. Only requires approval of the Senate as its an established treaty.
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California would be so broke they wouldn't be able to function in 5 years. They depend on federal funds and the money from other states buying shit to just stay afloat (and they are still billions in debt).
Go ahead idiots. Cut off most of your revenue and still pay your corrupt politicians and social groups.
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Only because they are appointed by the right paymasters, Pappy. The citizens of the State of Jefferson wouldn't take to kindly to being forced out of the US.
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Please note that the proposed State of Jefferson does not include and certainly does not want the canker sore that is the Bay Area. Like a beautiful but diseased Demi-monde doxy, it cannot be saved.
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As with their crappy celebrities, socialists always believe the last, most drastic action is separating themselves; they're all simply going to run away from home Seriously? Have none of them ever once noticed the alternating howls of laughter and shouts of encouragement? Leave already, what the Hell? we'll throw in Lena Dunham.
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Great. So then instead of being the governor Moonbeam becomes the president and with the loonies in the legislature going along with anything he wants it will indeed become Zimbabwe. Let the Bay Area secede. OK, Hollywood can go too. The rest of us want to remain Americans. Better yet, start arresting these people for treason. Also, deport the illegal aliens because they'll go along with it. Nip this thing in the bud before before they start to believe they can actually do it.
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Anyway, never gonna happen. If they try a Fort Sumter at Camp Pendleton they'll wish they hadn't.
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Wait, before ya go we need to move Congress to San Jose first!
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Only because they are appointed by the right paymasters, Pappy
Most of them are well-off on their own. Do a search on Jerry Brown's financial and land holdings. Same for Feinstein (okay, she's retiring,) and Pelosi and their families.
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Let them, then declare war, conquer them and force them all into a reservation in death valley. Declare it theirs forever and allow no travel in or out. In two weeks, they are all gone and we can repopulate California with humans.
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Let them, then declare war, conquer them and force them all into a reservation in death valley.
I'll be the one with my hands up. Please don't shoot me. I'm on your side.
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The Poll the said 1/3 of California want Calexit was a poll of 500 people, statistically insignificant.
California has a serious budget problem that will have to be dealt with, going independent would add all sorts of additional costs ontop of that. It would also more or less mean a Republican majority in the remaining USA for decades to come.
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Funny that the national media doesn't say jack shit about Calexit, but if it was Texas saying the same thing a few years ago, they'd portray the proponents as loony tunes.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
"Many young men reduce the expense to within $100 a year, and pay this by their labor during the year. It ought to be known that any young man can pay his way through college who is willing, for the sake of an education, to practice steadily the virtues of industry and economy."
The massive crowd, bearing flags, banners and placards, then flowed down Constitution Avenue, filling the street, and rallied at the Supreme Court building across from the Capitol. 
(ANTIMEDIA) -- President Donald Trump’s decision to move forward with the Keystone XL pipeline may ultimately backfire, as the State Department has estimated the pipeline will only create 35 permanent jobs after the one or two years’ worth of construction work has been completed.
Hillary Clinton
...(al-Bunyan al-Marsous, 
[FOXNEWS] Two Florida teenagers were 
...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier...
[GEO.TV] US President 
[GEO.TV] ISLAMABAD: The session of the National Assembly on Thursday became a battlefield as a scuffle broke out between the opposition and government 
Mehmood 
[GEO.TV] LAHORE: A video of lawyers turning a court room into a battle field emerged on Friday, where two lawyers thrashed each other during the hearing of a murder case.
"The Pentagon’s plan to pit its $400 billion F-35B Joint Strike Fighter against the tried-and-true A-10 Thunderbolt II may happen as early as next year.
I still don't know what role the F-35 was meant to fill beyond the rather vague "everything"
New US Ambassador Nikki Haley strutted into the UN on Friday with a blunt message to American allies: “For those who don’t have our backs, we’re taking names.”
[Hurriyet Daily News] Ankara will take "necessary steps" against Athens after a Greek court ruled not to extradite Turkish soldiers accused of involvement in last year’s July 15 coup attempt, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Jan. 27.
