[Washington Examiner] There are new revelations about what took place in Washington during the extraordinary period from May 9, 2017, when President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, to May 17, 2017 when Trump-Russia special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed.
The short version is: The reports were true. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein really did discuss wearing a wire to secretly record the president. Rosenstein and others did discuss invoking the 25th Amendment to remove the president from office. And the FBI did adopt an aggressive new investigation strategy, targeting the president himself, almost instantly after the Comey firing. It's all true, that is, if revelations in an upcoming book by former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe are accurate. Could his words be more accurate than Comey's?
To promote his book, McCabe has done an interview with CBS's "60 Minutes." Correspondent Scott Pelley appeared on CBS Thursday morning with a preview. "There were meetings at the Justice Department at which it was discussed whether the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet could be brought together to remove the president of the United States under the 25th Amendment," Pelley said. "These were the eight days from Comey's firing to the point that Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel. And the highest levels of American law enforcement were trying to figure out what to do with the president." Deep State? Don't be silly! And then there were the talks about secretly recording the president and using the 25th Amendment to remove him from office. According to CBS, top law enforcement officials were discussing which Cabinet members might be persuaded to go along with an effort to remove Trump. "They were counting noses," Pelley said on CBS Thursday morning. "They were not asking Cabinet members whether they would vote for or against removing the president, but they were speculating." CBS is/will report this? What's their angle?
Much, if not all, of what McCabe reports has been reported before. But an eyewitness, insider account lends new weight to the idea that the highest levels of the national security apparatus experienced a collective freakout in the days after the Comey firing.
In particular, it intensifies questions about Rosenstein's behavior in those eight days. Remember that Rosenstein played a key role in the removal of Comey. A few days later, he was talking about removing the president for having removed Comey.
"The guy who wrote the memo providing the justification for firing Comey is then upset that the swamp is mad at him for helping fire Comey and then comes up with a plan to wear a wire and invoke the 25th Amendment," said the House Republican. The Swamp, as opposed to The Deep State. I got it now!
After the CBS report, the Justice Department, on Rosenstein's behalf, issued a statement saying McCabe's account was "inaccurate and factually incorrect." Rosenstein, the Department said, "never authorized any recording that Mc. McCabe references." That was not exactly a denial of the basic story that Rosenstein discussed wearing a wire. No, never 'authorized' it, he just tried to find somebody who would do it.
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I thought I clicked "tomorrow', but I was hoping it'd go today.
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My brother, who sent this to me, commented,
"Incessant, widespread and uncontrolled hate speech among higher ups in the Obama Administration and Clinton Campaign led to actual thoughts -- genuine beliefs (paranoia) -- that President Trump was unfit and must be removed from office."
A nice summary, donja think?
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If now confirmed Attorney General Barr decides to connect these "thoughts" to illegal actions, that is the key.
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Rosenstein running to joint the circular firing squad. He knows his kak is very, very weak. Perhaps VDH was right after all when he said (paraphrasing)... "these people and their mischief will be revealed."
h/t Instapundit
Crude oil production in Texas has beaten a previous record set in the 1970s, a new report from the Texas Independent Producers Royalty Owners Association stated.
Texas oil wells produced more than 1.54 billion barrels of crude in 2018, beating the previous record of 1.28 billion barrels set in 1973, TIPRO reported in its annual "State of Energy Report" early Monday morning.
Natural gas production also grew, reaching 8.8 trillion cubic feet in 2018, the report stated. Howl in pain oil ticks! Howl!!!
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US petroleum resurgence to global prominence is transient. Each big advance (offshore, deep water, fracking) starts here, gets fully developed, and moves elsewhere. Right now we are king of fracking, but in a few years it will be Russia or China or KSA etc. As long as it's somewhere the global economy will tick along (more or less): the sh*t will only really hit the fan when we run out of advances and places to use them. It will happen, though we may still have another cycle or two, by which time we had better have come up with serious alternative energy sources.
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We have serious alternative energy sources - nuclear. However, the Luddites would we rather freeze and starve. BTW, that big thermonuclear generator in the sky has been going for a long time, and is responsible for skin cancer (thus not the 'safe' alternative the usual suspects claim it is).
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday said Congress would oppose U.S. military intervention in Venezuela and challenged the credibility of President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Elliott Abrams, over his past embrace of American covert action.
The Democratic chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, Eliot Engel, expressed concern about Trump’s hints that military action was an option in Venezuela, where President Nicolas Maduro is under intense international pressure to step aside and the country’s economy is in chaos.
"I do worry about the president’s saber rattling, his hints that U.S. military intervention remains an option. I want to make clear to our witnesses and to anyone else watching: U.S. military intervention is not an option," Engel told a hearing on the OPEC nation.
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Trump doesn't need to do it, just keep that option on the table. Worst thing we could do would be making the legitimate overthrow of these Commie totalitarians an "Uncle Same" issue. Leave it to the domestics, but always on the table. CIC Engel should stick his d*ck in his mouth, he's used to it by now
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or "Uncle Sam, even"
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[CNN] Iran is in possession of improved and dangerous weapons systems that give Tehran the ability to threaten some of the world's most important waterways, according to the top American admiral in the Middle East.
"They have a growing capability in cruise missiles, they have a growing capability in ballistic missiles, they have a growing capability in unmanned surfaced systems, all these things that we watch that are offensive, and destabilizing in nature," Vice Adm. James Malloy, the commander of US Naval Forces Central Command, told a small group of reporters in Bahrain on Wednesday.
Unmanned surface systems, which can include explosive boats designed to target enemy vessels, have concerned US officials for some time, particularly after Iranian-backed Houthi rebels based in Yemen used such a boat to attack a vessel that belonged to Saudi Arabia.
The US has accused Tehran of supplying the Houthis with these boats.
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Jesus Christ shut the fuck up you piece of shit warmonger. Stop fucking meddling in places you have no business.
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[Breitbart] Late Wednesday, shortly before the text of a Senate and House conference committee bill was released that if passed would prevent another government shutdown on Friday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) offered advice for President Donald Trump regarding construction of a border wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Graham urged the president to use fund allocated by the last Congress for potential border wall construction, in addition to the $1.375 billion offered in the conference committee proposal.
"Take this as a down payment," Graham said. "Go into the defense bill and move money around like Congress allowed you to do last year, and build this damn wall. $5.7 billion is what he wants. The difference between $1.375 [billion], find on your own, declare a national emergency because it is and move the money around and secure this border."
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Sen Graham is right - And President Trump is going to do exactly that - move the money around and build the wall as he promised.
Ebbavirt Clunk4147, you shouldn't talk about yourself that way. Even if it is true that you are a mealy-mouthed loser. Or did you mean to say you were "looser", as in poor muscle tone in your posterior, or sexually promiscuous?
[Richmond Times-Dispatch] NORFOLK, Va. (AP) ‐ A recently unsealed court document says a former contestant on both "American Idol" and "Fear Factor" worked as a courier for a drug ring and was trying to deliver nearly 2 pounds (830 grams) of fentanyl when she was arrested last year.
The Virginian-Pilot reports 32-year-old Antonella Barba was back in custody Monday, following a federal indictment charging her with conspiracy to distribute cocaine, heroin and fentanyl. Barba was originally arrested last October in Norfolk Virginia.
She was previously charged with shoplifting in New York and has a felony marijuana case pending in Kansas.
Barba, of New Jersey, reached the top 16 on "American Idol" in 2007, the year Jordin Sparks won. She competed on "Fear Factor" in 2012.
Her public defender didn't immediately respond to the newspaper's request for comment.
[Breitbart] Guatemalan head of intelligence Mario Duarte said during a visit to Washington Tuesday that the migrant caravans heading to the U.S. southern border are "well-planned" and "well-organized" by those wanting to "weaponize those in need." Doing the politically incorrect work our own IC has no intention of doing, and we know why. Thank you Mario.
"This was not a spontaneous event. It was well-planned. It was well-organized," Duarte, head of the Secretariat of Strategic Intelligence of Guatemala, said at an event hosted by the Center for a Free Secure Society at the National Press Club.
He said different intelligence, law enforcement, and military agencies found evidence that the October caravan from Honduras to the U.S. ‐ which at one point contained about 40,000 migrants ‐ was organized in advance.
There was a call on October 5 in Honduras for citizens to join a "massive migration walk to the United States," he said. "We detected logistical preparation throughout Guatemala and Mexico, to be able to bring all these people to the U.S. southern border."
He said the main organization behind the caravans was a non-governmental organization based out of Chicago, called Pueblos Sin Fronteras, led by organizer and pastor Emma Lozano. "Hope and Change" people? Could there be a connection ?
"They started working with Honduran, Guatemalan, and Mexico counterparts," he said. "The organization was impressive to say the least. They used mainly [social media apps] WhatsApp and Facebook." Any chance we could possibly learn who is funding these people ?
He said Bartolo Fuentes, a Honduran activist, was the main leader of the caravan on the ground, and that he came into Guatemala beforehand to scout and send money to places migrants could stay as they moved through Guatemala towards Mexico. Duarte said the group also connected with international NGOs like Oxfam.
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Emma Lozano is a left-wing activist, founder and president of the illegal immigration advocacy group Centro Sin Fronteras (“Center Without Borders”), executive director of migrant caravan organizing group Pueblo Sin Fronteras, and a pastor at the Lincoln United Methodist Church in Chicago, Illinois. Along with her husband, co-pastor Walter “Slim” Coleman, Lozano is involved in two other advocacy organizations closely connected with caravans of migrants in Central America seeking to enter the U.S. illegally.
Lozano is the sister of the late Rudy Lozano, a left-wing activist and community organizer in Chicago noted as a “fighter for immigrant [and] worker rights.”[1] She has called for “a moratorium to stop deportations” of illegal immigrants in the United States, saying that “We need to change America, we are all America.”
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Curious about the late Rudy Lazano? Here's the link, bet you knew or suspected all of this already:
Like President Obama, Rudy Lozano, the other namesake of the award, was also a community organizer in Chicago. He was credited with bringing Latino voters to support the former mayor of Chicago, Harold Washington. Lozano was later shot to death in his home by Gregory Escobar for allegedly failing to pay off a $7,000 drug debt.
According to the Chicago Tribune, at a tribute event held at the University of Chicago for Lozano, “Richard Barnett, an aide on Washington’s mayoral campaign, said it was people like Lozano who built the foundation for Barack Obama’s historic run for the presidency.
It seems the groundwork of Lozano and Davis that Barnett spoke of did indeed play a role in advancing Barack Obama’s political career. And in 1996, New Party News lists both Obama and Davis as members of the far left-wing branch of the Democrat Party, the “New Party.” After working within the New Party, Davis had won his Democratic primary for U.S. Congress in the Illinois 7th District and Barack Obama had won his primary for Illinois State Senate.
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BTW, Chicago falls in the old French colonial boundaries, there is no 'reconquesta' claim there. This is just an invasion in slow motion. See - Romans, Goths, Rhine
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Excellent find, Besoeker. As soon as I saw 'Chicago' in the title, I was thinking 'how is that traitorous prick Obama involved'? Thanks for connecting the dots.
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You may have also noticed how quiet Obama has been regarding the caravans. Of course his silence could simply be the result of lingering methadone or buprenorphine side effects.
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Organizing bodies of foreigners to enter the US without permission is raising a private militia to commit war against the US. She should be hanged.
Yes, it is war. These people should be punished for their treasonous activities and if the American military can't be used to defend our border we're gonna lose.
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The American Military is not allowed to operate in the USA.
Ah, contraire. The Army and the Air Force (its spinoff) can not act in police capacity IAW Posse Comitatus Act*. It can be used in suppressing rebellion and insurrection. See - LA riots. The usual procedure is to detain till a federal or local law enforcement agents takes possession of any miscreants. We won't go into martial law (New Orleans 1814, the Hawaiian Islands December 1942) .
* they sort of skipped the Navy and its men's department, the Marines. Back then there were few Marines, mainly on ship duty. Now they're nearly an entire small army in and of themselves.
[News & Obserber) A man believed to be one of the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives was shot and killed by an FBI agent at an Apex hotel Wednesday.
An Apex police officer spotted a "suspicious vehicle" with South Carolina plates at the Woodsprings Suites at 901 Lufkin Road in Apex, according to the FBI. The officer linked the car to Greg Carlson, who was wanted in connection with multiple armed sexual assaults in California.
The FBI was notified, leading to the deadly altercation early Wednesday morning. An FBI agent fired one shot inside Carlson’s hotel room, FBI Special Agent John Strong said during a Wednesday afternoon press conference.
"What happened here today is not what we want to happen," Strong said. "We want to capture the individual, give them their day court and bring them to justice. What happened today is unfortunate. ... We feel fortunate that no one else was injured."
Carlson was charged with burglary, assault with intent to commit rape and assault with a deadly weapon on Sept. 3, 2017, in Los Angeles, but fled after posting bond. He was spotted in areas across the South, including Dayton Beach and Jacksonville, Florida, and Hoover, Alabama, throughout 2017, according to the FBI.
It’s unclear why Carlson was in North Carolina, but the FBI is "not aware" of any crimes he may have committed in the state, Strong said.
[AmericanThinker] Has Robert Mueller been secretly working for the Kremlin this whole time? Probably not, or at least not in this scenario of his Russian collusion case. Though he was an integral part of the sketchy deal that delivered a considerable amount of uranium to Russia, and as I'm forever the silver-lining kind of girl, it would be charming if Democrats came full circle and investigated Mueller for his own involvement with Russia.
Anyway, top Democrats are already throwing their own gladiator to the lions as they prepare for the results of Robert Mueller's almost two-year probe to reveal nothing provocative against President Trump. Early Tuesday, media began preparing viewers by reporting the nothingburger with "breaking news" segments and headlines like "Senate has uncovered no direct evidence of conspiracy between Trump campaign and Russia." With Congress's own investigation wrapping, House Intel Committee chair Adam Schiff took to Meet The Press on Sunday for some pre-emptive damage control, stating that Mueller's extremely extensive inquisition just hasn't been adequate.
It should be noted that according to Adam Schiff, he may be obstructing the investigation...himself. Back in mid-January, he issued this statement after Trump commented on the Mueller witch hunt:
Integrity of our process to serve as an independent check on the Executive Branch must be respected by everyone[.] ... The President should make no statement or take any action to obstruct Congress' independent oversight and investigative efforts.
How sanctimonious. Early February's Adam Schiff attacked Mueller, having no proof that the accusations leveled against the president are true could mean only that independent overseers didn't do their job right. The California Democrat really wants us to believe that it couldn't be possible that Trump actually didn't collude with Russia; he is guilty, no matter what, because who cares about the Fifth Amendment right to due process?
Even though the investigation is supposed to be sealed, Schiff has found some ability to gather secret intel regarding the Mueller probe before, even justifying his own leaks to the press. So the despot's panic is probably justified even, if he knows we know he shouldn't know whatever he knows yet.
Democrats are on the edge of losing the altar that has been unifying devotion from their base. Instead of realizing that the pro-American candidate, who has held and continues to hold rallies that draw massive crowds, won because of democracy, they have chosen to worship a golden calf that has falsely promised secret backdoor ties to the boogeyman Russia and inevitable impeachment.
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Mueller is simply buying memory hole time or 'cover' for the Clintons, Obama, Brennan, Clapper, his pal James Comey and the rest of these Deep State creatures and their mischief.
Anything he or his lieutenants dig up on Donald Trump or his associates is simply an added dividend.
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Make them live up to their own rules the saying goes. He may be a leftist but the self proclaimed arbiters of right thinking tell me being anti gay marriage and anti abortion is the same as being a Nazi and a racist.
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Ruben has a number of strikes:
1. While a person of color (PR) he is not the right color.
2. He served in the military
3. He is a Christian - an ordained Minister of the Church of God.
He's doomed. Bio
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[Townhall] The only way the last couple weeks could have been better is if one or more of the Democrats announcing for president had moonwalked out onto the stage in blackface ‐ oh wait, screechy scold Liz Warren actually did worse than that.
...These libs always side against you. Always. Let the criminals in, but disarm you, because too few illegal aliens and your ability to defend yourself are America’s biggest problems. Remember back when Democrats were the party of the workin’ man? Now the Democrats are the party of the non-gender specific being with a job in Silicon Valley or Manhattan, and the unwilling-to-be-workin’ man, woman or other.
...And then there’s Kamala Harris, who turned an affair with Willie Brown into an entire political career. She was a big fan of Tupac and Snoop in college, which she attended before Tupac and Snoop were whatever the hell they were. Oh, she smoked pot too, because she’s cool and the kids love their hemp and isn’t she relatable? Leave it to the Democrats to go all in on the one drug that makes you lazier, dumber and less interesting.
...And then there is Cory Booker, who is a vegan, as if you need to know more. His state of the union would be 25% on how we need to raise taxes, 25% on how the weather in a couple centuries will kill us all, and 50% on how tofu is just as tasty as a rib-eye if you cook it right. The only way he could be worse is if he was also into CrossFit. It's all very well, but we live in an age when "The best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are full of passionate intensity."
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They found out stuffing the ballot box in Cali didn't work. Now they're undermining the Electoral College as we watch in a desperate move to fix the election. It won't be 'honest'.
[Willamette Week] Portland city council voted to withdraw from the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force.
The move makes Portland the second city to cut ties with an FBI task force, after San Francisco left its JTTF in 2017. Portland had rejoined the JTTF in 2015.
Commissioner Chloe Eudaly voted with Commissioners Jo Ann Hardesty and Amanda Fritz to pull Portland police officers out of the JTTF, which investigates potential extremist threats.
Commissioner Nick Fish opposed Hardesty's resolution to pull out of the task force. They had proposed making changes to the memorandum that guided the partnership between local police and federal law enforcement agencies.
Eudaly had not publicly indicated her vote before Wednesday's City Council meeting.
"I believe we all want the same thing, we want to keep our communities safe," Eudaly said. "We want to direct our resources toward actual threats."
Before voting in favor of withdraw, Eudaly said she did not trust the federal administration or feel safer now than five years ago.
Hardesty had led the push to withdraw from the JTTF since winning election in November.
"When we talk about one Portland, a Portland where everyone is respected, we cannot in good conscious continue our participation with the JTTF," Hardesty said.
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Those who refuse to protect and defend a state have no right to protection by that state.
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If several million people in a blue city like Portland or SF die in a terrorist attack, the immediate calls for a "weighted" election to offset the loss of blue voters will be hilarious.
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[Babylon Bee] UGANDA‐Well, this isn't good. After students at Bungee Xtreme Youth Group spent the past six months pestering their friends and family to help fund their missions trip to Africa, they arrived this morning to discover that the tribesmen had been converted to Christianity in the fall.
"Ugh. Back to the drawing board," youth pastor Vince "Code Red" Montana said. "I thought for sure no one had gotten to these guys yet. I guess I was looking at the map wrong."
According to a spokesperson for the tribe, a competing youth group at the Methodist church across town had beaten Bungee Xtreme Youth Group to the punch, arriving several months ago and converting all the tribespeople to Christ as well as building them 17 separate shoddy buildings they don't actually need.
"Friggin' Methodists," Montana muttered under his breath.
The missions trip wasn't a total waste, however, as students are still going to spend the next three weeks sightseeing and playing fun games as originally planned.
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...probably would have been better to have gone to Albany or Richmond to convert natives to Christianity. No more effective, but would have been cheaper.
BLUF:
[The Federalist] “It’s outrageous that the FEC has sat around and done nothing – especially with such a detailed, comprehensive paper trail handed to them,” Backer told The Federalist. “It smacks of the same Deep State culture that shielded April Sand,” he said, in reference to the former FEC attorney “who played politics on the job,” by among other things “participat[ing] in a Huffington Post Live internet broadcast via webcam from an FEC facility, criticizing the Republican Party and then-presidential candidate Mitt Romney.” But Sand escaped criminal prosecution for violating the Hatch Act when the “Federal Election Commission recycled her hard drive before evidence could be recovered.”
Now for more than a year the FEC has ignored its statutory duty to address the CDP’s administrative complaint that laid out solid evidence that during the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton, the DNC, and the state Democratic parties illegally laundered nearly $84 million in campaign contributions. “But they also don’t want anyone doing the job they refuse to do,” Backer said in reference to the FEC’s motion to dismiss the CPF’s lawsuit.
Further, the FEC’s inaction holds significance far beyond the old news of Clinton’s failed 2016 presidential run: “The 2020 cycle has already started, and top-tier national Democratic contenders are already lining up,” Backer notes, adding that “Mark Elias of Perkins Coie, who represented both Clinton and the DNC during the 2016 campaign, is signed up with Kamala Harris.”
Soetoro and now Harris are Deep State puppets. Clinton was a Deep State puppet who simply failed to get across the finish line.
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“But they (FEC) also don’t want anyone doing the job they refuse to do,”
Of course not!
Are John Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Mueller, Bruce & Nellie Ohr, Christopher Steele, Obama photos required in this article? Are discussions about clandestine 'home brew' communications systems really necessary? Is the unauthorized disclosure of thousands of classified documents really important ?
[New York Times] The progressives' Green New Deal centralizes power.
Over the past generation, global capitalism has produced the greatest reduction in human poverty in history. Over the past 10 years, American capitalism has produced 20 million new jobs. The productive dynamism of capitalism is truly a wonder to behold.
But economic growth alone is not enough. Growth alone does not translate into economic security for the middle class and the less skilled. Growth alone does nothing to reverse the social decay afflicting communities across America.
This reality is transforming the political debate ‐ and shifting everything leftward. Among conservatives there are now a bevy of thinkers who are trying to find ways to use government to reduce inequality, promote work and restore community.
For example, in the lead essay of the conservative journal National Affairs, Abby M. McCloskey notes that the family you are born into and the neighborhood you live in have a much stronger influence on your socioeconomic outcome than any other factors. Her essay is an outstanding compendium of proposals designed to strengthen family and neighborhood.
Pell grants could be used to pay for vocational and apprenticeship training and not just for college. The federal government could support a voluntary national service program by paying people, once in their lifetime, to work for a year at a local nonprofit. The tax code could be tweaked so that people with no income tax liability could receive a cash credit for making charitable donations.
These proposals are activist but humble. It’s not the federal government centrally deciding how to remake your community. It’s giving communities and people the resources to take responsibility and assume power for themselves.
As many conservatives have shifted leftward, so have progressives. From Bill Clinton through Barack Obama, Democrats respected market forces but tried to use tax credits and regulations to steer them in more humane ways. Obamacare was an effort to expand and reform private health insurance markets.
The economy is not Capitalist, it's currently more neo-feudalist. Designed to funnel money to the establishment, even stealthily via benefits for the poor that in reality accrue to the rich.
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It wasn't a free market that did this to us. It was a deliberately slanted market, one designed from the outset to harm us. They knew what they were doing. If they could lift China up and create a middle class there by ruining our own people, they were all for it. And they naively believed democracy - a form of government with no precedent in thousands of years - would suddenly break out. Morons.
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The Greek/Roman historians believed that it's the passion for "free stuff" that makes democracy a transient form of government.
[Jerusalem Post] Somewhere in Southern Israel, a first-of-its-kind venture trains dogs to locate early signs of cancer.
The name of the laboratory is "Dog Prognose". It allows a person to send a saliva sample (in a small plastic container), and receive an immediate answer as to whether they have cancer. The cost of the test is NIS 399, just a little over $100.
Uri Bakeman, professional dog trainer and owner of the laboratory, told Army Radio that "the most important issue is that this test detects the disease at its earliest stage, since the dogs can identify the characteristic signs of the smell of the disease. If the dog sits down after sniffing the sample, it means it is suspicious."
In a recent study conducted by Prof. Pesach Schwartzman of Ben-Gurion University, it was determined that various types of cancer share an odor that dogs are capable of identifying.
A famous case involved Daisy, a dog who managed to correctly identify 500 cases of cancer, and smell a total of 6,500 samples. Daisy, who worked for "Medical Detection Dogs"- a foundation in the UK - passed away last year.
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How long can a dog work before it gets distracted? I've read that the drug-sniffing dogs get bored after too long on the job--but I don't remember if that was half an hour or more than that.
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[Jerusalem Post] With Iran continuing to entrench itself throughout the Middle East, Israel might have to consider expanding it’s covert war against the Islamic republic over the next year in order to prevent harm to the Jewish State.
Israel has repeatedly warned that it would not allow Iran to establish a presence in Syria and has claimed responsibility for hundreds of air strikes in the country aimed at preventing the transfer of weapons ‐ such as surface-to-air missile kits ‐ to Hezbollah in Lebanon, as well as the entrenchment of Iranian forces on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights.
Due to recent Israeli strikes, the defense establishment has noticed a reduction in Iranian weapon shipments through Syria; a decrease of funds available to Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Qud’s Force Commander Qassem Soleimani for his project in Syria; and a decline in militia fighters in the war-torn country.
Iran has also begun moving its assets from areas repeatedly struck by Israel to locations closer to the border with Iraq, specifically the T4 Airbase located between Homs and Palmyra.
It is believed that Iran will attempt to entrench itself in Iraq, a mainly Shia Muslim country, as it did in Syria where they have managed to establish, shape and consolidate a solid parallel security structure.
Israel has until recently refrained from commenting on military activities beyond its borders, believing that by neither confirming nor denying the strikes, Iran would be less likely to retaliate. But in recent months, officials have begun openly discussing the attacks. Before taking off for an international conference in Warsaw on Tuesday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel was "operating every day, including yesterday, against Iran and its attempts to establish its presence in the area." His comment referred to a strike the day before against Iranian positions in Syria’s Quinetra, right along the border with Israel.
With the help of the Russians, Iranians and Hezbollah, Assad has regained control over the majority of Syria and is rebuilding his army. It is assumed to be focusing first on intelligence and air defense divisions which could pose a threat to Israeli aircraft.
According to Israeli intelligence assessments, the Syrian military might take part in a war against Israel if one were to break out along the northern border.
While there are no reports of strikes in Iraq attributed to Israel, the Jewish state is reported to have been behind an air strike on the Syrian-Iraqi border last year near the town of Al-Bukamal which killed 22 members of a Shi’ite militia.
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Corporations do NOT pay taxes, consumers pay taxes.
[Daily Caller] Amazon will pay $0 in federal income taxes for the second year in a row after its total profits doubled from $5.6 billion in 2018 to $11.2 billion in 2019.
Amazon’s corporate tax filings reveal a federal income tax rebate of $129 million, or negative one percent because of unspecified tax credits and a tax break, according to a report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
"From 2011 to 2016," Politifact explains, "Amazon reported a total $8.2 billion of pre-tax income and $944 million in federal income taxes, which amounts to a tax rate of 11.4 percent in the last five years."
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The burden of taxation is build into the cost of the product just like the corporate electric bill or insurance costs. The costs are passed along to the consumer.
Consequently the consumer gets taxed twice. He pays a sales tax when he purchases the product and he pays a second time in a hidden, built-in corporate tax. If the product requires some sort of licensing fee, the consumer pays once again. If the licensing fee is 'annual' the taxing of the consumer never ends.
The consumer pays on both ends. Where else can the dollars come from ?
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The only problem is that Amazon's competitors will not have this perfect federal extortion level.
Amazon should pay the government for the land title it uses and the value of protecting it's brand in the U.S. not for doing something useful to consumers.
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Corporations do NOT pay taxes, consumers pay taxes.
Shareholders pay taxes on dividends and capital gains.
However, given the propensity of corporations to own and operate congresscritters with serious consequences of corporate welfare and *&%#!! bailouts, corporations should be stuck with something similar to the FDIC charges that banks pay for 'insurance'.
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some of this is tax deferral which is allowed for many legitimate reasons
some is the result of accelerated depreciation of business equipment
some is the result of moving funds from overseas to the USA
in many ways it would be more efficient to abolish the corporate income tax and instead have a VAT but of course that would be dangerous as the govt could slide the VAT up over time and then reintroduce the corporate tax again
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because of unspecified tax credits
I'll specify it for everyone - it's a net operating loss from prior year(s) where taxable income in a current year is offset by a loss / losses from a prior year. It's the same thing that was mentioned repeatedly about Trump's tax return from the mid 1990's, so don't go hyperventilating about the 'pay their fair share' bullshit - you're then just playing the left's game.
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And thus the problem with the system. The big near monopolies get the tax benefits and secure their monopoly status. If they don't get the tax benefits they move to another state/country where they will and those jobs will be lost. Eventually they get so big they have to be busted up.
After much thought and deliberation, we’ve decided not to move forward with our plans to build a headquarters for Amazon in Long Island City, Queens. For Amazon, the commitment to build a new headquarters requires positive, collaborative relationships with state and local elected officials who will be supportive over the long-term. While polls show that 70% of New Yorkers support our plans and investment, a number of state and local politicians have made it clear that they oppose our presence and will not work with us to build the type of relationships that are required to go forward with the project we and many others envisioned in Long Island City.
We are disappointed to have reached this conclusion—we love New York, its incomparable dynamism, people, and culture—and particularly the community of Long Island City, where we have gotten to know so many optimistic, forward-leaning community leaders, small business owners, and residents. There are currently over 5,000 Amazon employees in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Staten Island, and we plan to continue growing these teams.
We are deeply grateful to Governor Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio, and their staffs, who so enthusiastically and graciously invited us to build in New York City and supported us during the process. Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio have worked tirelessly on behalf of New Yorkers to encourage local investment and job creation, and we can’t speak positively enough about all their efforts. The steadfast commitment and dedication that these leaders have demonstrated to the communities they represent inspired us from the very beginning and is one of the big reasons our decision was so difficult.
We do not intend to reopen the HQ2 search at this time. We will proceed as planned in Northern Virginia and Nashville, and we will continue to hire and grow across our 17 corporate offices and tech hubs in the U.S. and Canada.
Thank you again to Governor Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio, and the many other community leaders and residents who welcomed our plans and supported us along the way. We hope to have future chances to collaborate as we continue to build our presence in New York over time.
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AOC got her wish. No Amazon in NYC. Say goodbye to those jobs. Destroying jobs using mobs, AOC is a real socialist now.
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Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez praised citizen activists for helping to thwart Amazon's plans to build a headquarters in New York City, declaring victory after the company announced it was scrapping its plans Thursday.CBS
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..any surprise. The commies do not have the workers best interest at heart. Though the way they've been talking, they seem to look favorably upon reviving an old Aztec practice with the 'deploreables'. They'd rather rule in hell than serve in heaven.
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A VAT would make raising taxes extraordinarily easy. And the "bribes/favors" to move a product from one tax category to another would be out of sight, since the dirty work would be done by bureaucrats.
Actually, now that I think of it, unless the House managed the minutia of a VAT, you could argue that it would be unconstitutional.
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[PJ] President Trump's former lead attorney says the special counsel investigation has been "a terrible waste of time" that will probably end with no report. What's more, he said Special Counsel Robert Mueller told him the president was not a target almost a year ago (which is something the country should have been told well before the midterm elections).
Meanwhile, both Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday revealed that after two years and 200 interviews they have uncovered precisely zero evidence of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia.
"I don't think there'll be a report," John Dowd said during an interview on ABC News' "The Investigation."
"I will be shocked if anything regarding the president is made public, other than ’We're done,’" he added.
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If Mueller does not produce a report of some kind he should be arrested for scamming the government for whatever the investigation cost.
He should also be forced to provide a timeline of what he knew and when to justify how long the thing has gone on so the Congress can determine if he milked the government for money.
Do that and you can be sure the next investigation will be sorted out promptly.
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Not holding my breath, but why wouldn't Trump release some 'classified' documents to discredit .... oh, wait. I think I just answered my own question.
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[Powerline] Ilhan Omar questioned Special Envoy for Venezuela Elliott Abrams at a House Foreign Relations Committee hearing. As Max Boot observes elsewhere on Twitter, she doesn’t seem to realize that Abrams is a leading advocate of human rights and democracy‐not a promoter of genocide. She does seem to know, however, that Abrams is a supporter of Israel and the member of a suspect "faith tradition." Related: The Spectator USA’s Dominic Green channels a day in Omar’s life. Note: The staffers who wrote the questions that Omar can barely read must be something like Communist relics of the Cold War era. Congratulations Minnesota voters, they're now... 'inside the wire'.
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Rep Omar is currently scheduled to speak at a Los Angeles CAIR fundraiser in late March.
I'm thinking of contributing to her campaign fund and encouraging her to do this. Everyday she is in the news is another day the Democrats can't get their messaging out the door because Omar gets the spotlight
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Here is the flyer for CAIR's March event featuring Omar- you can get a table for 10 for only $500
also ThinkProgress has a pro Omar opinion piece (by an 'IfNotNow' mushbrain)
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And who are these dudes, asks Yehudi,
Whose downfall is ass-kicking's every Jew's duty?
Amalekites: real,
A "my Amalek" spiel,
Or the fruit of Sennacherib's booty?
[Townhall] One pillar of dogma among leftist activists is that voter ID laws, under which citizens are required to present a valid form of identification in order to cast ballots in elections, amount to insidious and racist forms of "voter suppression." That term deserves to be placed in scare quotes because it's often employed as a catch-all phrase to describe any policy or idea that liberals believe would reduce their chances of winning. Voter ID laws have been upheld by the Supreme Court as constitutional, and enjoy overwhelming public support -- including approval from large majorities of racial minorities, who evidently don't share the professional Left's racialized hysteria. We've written previously about how, if reducing turnout among certain populations truly were the goal of such laws, they've failed miserably. This example out of Georgia comes to mind:
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Shame on Townhall for being another news outlet that doesn't make the distinction between LEGAL and ILLEGAL crystal clear, especially in the headline. It should have read " . . . Study Concludes Voter ID Laws Do Not Suppress LEGAL Voter Turnout." Its the same problem with immigration stories that lump legal and illegal into the same category.
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Shame on Townhall for being another news outlet that doesn't make the distinction between LEGAL and ILLEGAL crystal clear, especially in the headline.
They have no use for the law.
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"Voter suppression"--another phony narrative the Dems created. Why not just declare the Dem Party a crime organization and investigate them under RICO?
[Breitbart] President Donald Trump demanded Wednesday evening that the State of California return $3.5 billion in federal funds after Gov. Gavin Newsom canceled most of the state’s high-speed rail project, saying it was too expensive.
"California has been forced to cancel the massive bullet train project after having spent and wasted many billions of dollars," the president tweeted. "They owe the Federal Government three and a half billion dollars. We want that money back now. Whole project is a "green" disaster!"
Newsom devoted the opening portion of his first "State of the State" address Tuesday to attacking Trump and his policies on the border. Yet he then bowed to conservative criticism ‐ and, arguably, to fiscal reality ‐ by canceling the high-speed rail project championed by his predecessors.
The governor added that while the bullet train would no longer connect San Francisco and Los Angeles, as first envisioned, the state would still continue "phase one" of the project between the rural towns of Bakersfield and Merced. "I know that some critics will say this is a ’train to nowhere,'" he said. "But that’s wrong and offensive."
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he said the almighty word "offensive". I believe they really think if they say something is offensive they automatically get their way.
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@ grom: i will volunteer for kneecap duty
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The project may be a disaster but California has met the requirements that were part of the grant of $3.5B as long as they eventually have a usable section operating.
However, in a sense the $3.5B was a good investment because it resulted in a demo of the problems with this technology.
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Cut out 3.5 billion for this year's federal money for CA.
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Money is fungible, next time the Feds send money to California they send a paid as part of the bullet train bill note instead.
I don't think California has the money to give back. Hopefully this is the start of tightening their belt and addressing the problem, even if they blame Trump every step of the way.
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Money's already been given to Brown's cronies. It pains me to think how that much money could have been used to repair Interstate 5 and other bits of crumbling California infrastructure.
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Meanwhile, Meanwhile, private railroad Florida East Coast Railway and investment money is getting started on Brightline and construction is due to start soon on the privately-financed Dallas-Houston Texas Central railroad using Japanese technology and some foreign investments (I think). I was offered a chance to come out of retirement to work on the Texas Central, but passed.
The California boondoggle had no real plan to get to population centers without massive Federal money from Barry and Hilly.
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Why did they get Federal money for that stupid choo choo train anyway?
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Why did they get Federal money for that stupid choo choo train anyway?
Probably they got that money while Obama was still in office.
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High speed rail is actually a wonderful thing - I love it and it's a great way to travel here (China). So, every time I read about California's ongoing screw ups, I always wonder why all the geniuses there can't do a few hundred miles but the Chinese have done thousands and thousands of miles. High speed rail is not the problem. It's an ID10T problem in California.
[AnNahar] Officials in Tunisia have been "dragging their feet" on efforts to repatriate Tunisian children of 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.... group members from camps in Syria, Iraq and Libya, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.
The rights group, quoting Tunisia's ministry of women and kiddies, said about 200 children and 100 women claiming Tunisian nationality were being held in "squalid" camps abroad.
Many of the children are six-year-olds or younger, the rights groups said, adding that most were being held with their mothers while at least six were orphans.
Around 2,000 children and 1,000 women from 46 nationalities are being detained in prisons in Iraq and Libya and three camps in northeast Syria for ties to IS, HRW said, and Tunisia has "one of the largest contingents".
"Tunisian officials are dragging their feet on helping bring (them) home."
Hundreds of civilians, including IS-linked family members, have been fleeing a U.S.-backed offensive against the jihadist group's last holdout in eastern Syria.
HRW said it has interviewed family members of women and kiddies detained in Libya and Syria, as well as government officials, human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. activists, lawyers, U.N. representatives and Western diplomats for its report.
The watchdog had also visited three camps in northeast Syria controlled by U.S.-backed Kurdish forces and cited what is said were "rare calls and letters" to family members by mothers of some children.
"Legitimate security concerns are no license for governments to abandon young children and other nationals held without charge in squalid camps and prisons abroad," said Letta Tayler, senior terrorism and counterterrorism researcher at HRW.
"Tunisian children are stuck in these camps with no education, no future, and no way out while their governments seems to barely lift a finger to help them," Tayler said
In response Tunisia's foreign ministry said it was "strongly attached to the values of human rights" and that authorities would not turn back Tunisians seeking to return home.
According to authorities in Tunis, 3,000 Tunisians have gone abroad to join jihadist organizations, while the U.N. puts the figure as high as 5,000.
Their return has been a cause of concern in Tunisia, which has been under a state of emergency following a string of IS-claimed jihadist attacks in 2015 and 2016.
In 2017, hundreds of Tunisians erupted into the streets to protest against the repatriation of IS-linked citizens.
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Voting with one's feet has consequences
"To hear the lamentations of their women and children"
(Reuters) - A man accused of pulling the trigger in the 2010 killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Arizona was convicted of murder on Tuesday in a case tied to an ill-fated U.S. government gun-running sting known as "Fast and Furious".
A U.S. federal jury found Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes guilty of murdering agent Brian Terry, 40, during a firefight on Dec. 14, 2010, the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement.
Osorio-Arellanes was the sixth of seven defendants convicted in connection with the killing in a rural area north of Nogales.
He was part of a "rip crew" looking to rob smugglers transporting drugs from Mexico into the United States. The group confronted Terry and three other Border Patrol agents in a shootout.
Osorio-Arellanes was convicted of nine counts, including first degree murder and attempted robbery. He will be sentenced on April 29.
Terry was shot to death and one gang member was wounded in the gun battle. The rip crew were carrying four loaded AK-47 assault weapons, an AR-15 semiautomatic assault weapon and 180 rounds of ammunition, according to the Justice Department.
Two AK-47 rifles found at the scene were later traced back to the bungled gun-running investigation of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) that embarrassed the administration of former President Barack Obama and strained relations with Mexico.
In that investigation, the ATF aimed to trace weapons bought legally in the United States by "straw" buyers and then resold into the black market, but federal agents lost track of some weapons, many of which ended up in the hands of drug traffickers.
[Bangkok Post] Two villagers were killed in two separate gun attacks in Pattani province on Sunday morning.
The first incident happened early in the morning in Nong Chik district when Arong Wamata-u was riding home on a motorcycle with his nephew riding pillion. They were followed by two men on another motorcycle and at one point the pillion-riding gunman opened fire, hitting Arong twice in the body, seriously injurng him. He was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
In Sai Buri district, a villager was found lying dead on a rural road. He was identified as Paosee Lateh, a construction worker. A police investigation revealed that Paosee was leaving his home on a motorcycle, heading for the village, when he was fired at by two men on another motorcycle. He was hit twice.
[IsraelTimes] But Intel report says Tehran not giving up on plans to threaten Israel; army assesses Tehran abiding by 2015 nuclear deal, but could create atomic bomb within 2 years.
Israel’s campaign of Arclight airstrikes in Syria has driven Iran to change tack in the country, moving the bulk of its troops and bases away from the Israeli border and toward what it sees as a safer location closer to Iraq, according to Military Intelligence assessments released Wednesday.
At the same time, the report said Iran appears to be adopting a more aggressive stance toward Israel, as evident by its launch of a missile into the northern Golan Heights last month, in response to a reported strike by the Israel Defense Forces. While most troops are being moved away, some pro-Iranian forces remain on the border with Israel and have established observation posts from which they can monitor Israeli military activities.
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[AlAhram] Three Frenchies have been tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! in the Moroccan city of Sale close to the capital Rabat on suspicion of financing terrorism and having connections with holy warrior groups, police said on Tuesday.
Investigations showed that the suspects had connections with 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.... (IS) fighters in the Middle East, a statement carried by state news agency MAP said.
The suspects, who were arrested on Monday, were not identified but the police statement said one of them is of Algerian origin.
Compared with other countries in North Africa, Morocco has been largely insulated from holy warrior attacks.
The four main suspects arrested in connection with the killing in December of two Scandinavian women near the tourist hub of Marrakech had pledged allegiance to IS in a video.
In April 2011, 17 people were killed in the bombing of a restaurant in Marrakech.
In 2017 and 2018, Morocco said it dismantled 20 holy warrior cells planning attacks in the country.
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Al Masdar of course takes a jaundiced view, and therefore does not inform us whether the fishermen were smuggling for Houthis, or the Saudi pilot was indulging in a bit of unjustified target practice.
[AlMasdar] The Saudi Coalition carried out a new bombing in western Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... on Wednesday, striking a fishing boat off the coast of Hodeidah city.
According to local observers, the Saudi Coalition bombed the fishing boat on Wednesday morning, resulting in the death of over ten fishermen.
Another five were maimed and at least eight others were reported missing by the local rescue crews.
The attack by the Saudi Coalition comes just a month after a ceasefire was established by the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... to end the hostilities plaguing this coastal city.
[AlMasdar] For the first time this month, the Syrian Arab Air Force (SyAAF) launched a series of Arclight airstrikes across a region of Syria.
According to a military source in Sweida, the Syrian Air Force heavily bombarded 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.... ’s (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) positions inside the Badiya al-Sham region.
The source said that the Syrian Air Force specifically targeted the Khirbat Hosn area at the provincial border of Sweida and Homs; this attack hit an Islamic State sleeper cell that was active in this part of the Badiya al-Sham region.
He would add that many of the Islamic State snuffies that were holed up in the al-Safa region in al-Sweida had managed to escape to this area of the Badiya al-Sham.
Another source in Damascus told al-Masdar that the Syrian Army is having a difficult time patrolling this desert region because of the large number of caves in the region.
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[AlMasdar] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) is pushing to launch a new operation to clear the 20-kilometer-deep demilitarized zone that stretches from northeast Latakia to western Aleppo.
According to a government source in Damascus, the Russian and Iranian delegations in Sochi this Thursday will present the case to their Turkish partners.
The source said that due to the jihadist refusal to leave the buffer zone, the Syrian Arab Army wants to clear the area itself and then allow Russian military personnel to deploy to the DMZ.
He added that while the Syrian Army wants to clear the Idlib Governorate of the militant groups, they are willing to negotiate a settlement in which they would just launch an operation to expel all the militants from the buffer zone.
In the past, Russia and Iran have met much opposition from their Turkish partners over a potential military operation inside the Idlib Governorate.
However, the demilitarized zone agreement has ultimately failed and the hostilities are still a daily occurrence in this area.
The only other scenario that could come about is a joint Turkish-Russian-Iranian operation in which they could all clear the demilitarized zone together.
This scenario would most likely be accepted by Turkey because it would allow them to be active in the operation, while also not including the Syrian government forces.
[AlMasdar] The jihadist rebels in southwest Aleppo launched a new attack on the provincial capital, hitting a densely populated district.
According to a military report from Aleppo city, the jihadist rebels of Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham launched a number of missiles into the New Aleppo District on Wednesday evening.
No casualties were reported as a result of the attack.
A source from the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) said the attack was unprovoked as their forces had avoided hostilities with the jihadist rebels for much of the week.
The United States expressed their dismay over Armenia’s recent military deployment to Syria, despite the fact they were invited by the Syrian government.
“We recognize the desire of other nations to respond to the humanitarian situation in Syria, and we share the concerns about protecting religious minorities in the Middle East,” the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday.
“However, we do not support any engagement with Syrian military forces, whether that engagement is to provide assistance to civilians or is military in nature,” they added.
“Nor do we support any cooperation between Armenia and Russia for this mission. Russia has partnered with the Assad regime to slaughter civilians and trigger a humanitarian catastrophe. Russia continues to protect the Assad regime and its atrocities on a global stage,” it added in a statement to Armenian media circulated by the U.S. Embassy in Yerevan.
The Armenian military’s deployment was part of a humanitarian mission that sought to assist the war-torn city of Aleppo.
[Dawn] Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at hundreds of religious hardliners who attacked Ahmadis in northern Bangladesh on Tuesday, leaving 25 people injured.
The festivities erupted after days of tensions over a planned convention of the Ahmadi community in the town of Ahmadnagar. The hardliners demanded the event be cancelled.
There are an estimated 100,000 Ahmadis in Bangladesh.
Police said several groups have been holding protests against the Ahmadis’ convention, scheduled to start in just over a week.
"Some 700-800 men wielding sticks and batons marched towards Ahmadnagar and clashed with the Ahmadis," a police official said.
Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to "maintain law and order", he said, adding that 20 police and five Ahmadis were maimed.
The front man for Ahmadi community said seven of its members were maimed, three critically.
The last few decades have seen a number of attacks targeting Ahmadis in Bangladesh.
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.... group grabbed credit for the attack, but the authorities blamed a homegrown Death Eater group, Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh, which is accused of killing scores of Hindus, Christians, Sufis and Shias.
[Rudaw] Kurdish-dominated areas of northern Syria are at the forefront of Ankara’s neo-Ottoman, imperialist designs for the Near East. To prevent another disastrous war in the region, the international community must support the Kurds’ right to self-defense and self-determination.
As the United States prepares to withdraw militarily from Syria, one of the biggest questions is that of the Kurdish presence in the north ‐ known as Rojava. When the Syrian Civil War began, the Kurds focused on two main things.
First, they developed a system of autonomy ‐ given their history of persecution under the Assad regime. Second, they turned their guns (with Western support) on ISIS and other Sunni jihadi groups. After aligning themselves with moderate Arabs in liberated regions, much of the territory held by jihadists has been clawed back and is under the rule of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
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[KhaamaPress] A large-scale operation launched by the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces has concluded in Arghistan district of Kandahar province.
According to the local military and security officials "Soldiers and police spent a week in both rain and snow clearing known Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... locations in Arghistan district of Kandahar."
The officials further added "During this operation, strikes against faceless myrmidons heavily damaged Taliban strongholds. One of these was a strike against a large IED factory and the Taliban Headquarters facility which resulted in 20 enemy killed."
"As the security forces moved through local areas throughout Arghistan, they received contact with faceless myrmidons which resulted in an additional 5 enemy killed," the officials added.
The Commander of the 205th Atal Corps of the Afghan Military Gen. Iman Nazar said "Although there has been a large Taliban presence in the past, the citizens of Arghistan remain supportive of the police and security forces that protect this area."
"The biggest impact of this operation is that local bazaars were able to reopen to local residents and allow them more freedom of movement in the area," said Arghistan village leader.
"The people of Arghistan support us [the police] and we would not be able to do this operation without the support of the people. We will continue to defend and serve our country." Arghistan District Police Commander
[Bangkok Post] Thai security forces killed two militants and injured several more in a gun battle with a rebel group believed to have been behind the murder of two monks in Narathiwat province last month.
The clash broke out Monday afternoon near Ailakho, a village in Chanae district, as troops were searching in forested areas for the group's hideouts. At least two rebels were shot dead and blood trails at the scene suggested "several more were probably injured."
Military spokesman Pramote Prom-in said the militants were located on Monday thanks to a tip-off by villagers. People, including those from Muslim communities, have cooperated with the authorities, forcing the insurgents to flee into the forest and mountainous areas, he said.
Investigators believe they are the same people involved in the murder of two monks at Wat Rattananuparb in Sungai Padi district on Janurary 18. Phra Kru Prachote Rattananurak, the district's chief monk and abbot of the temple, and his assistant, Phra Samu Attapon Khun-ampai, were gunned down there.
[AlMasdar] The Kurdish-led Wrath Of Olives Operation Room took responsibility for yesterday’s attack on a border checkpoint in northern Aleppo.
According to the group, their attack resulted in the death of at least 12 commandos from the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... ’s Special Forces division.
No further details were released, nor has the Ottoman Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army command released any statement confirming these losses.
Recently, the Kurdish sleeper cells loyal to the People’s Protection Units (YPG) have been wreaking havoc on the Ottoman Turkish-backed rebels, killing several of their personnel around the Afrin and ’Azaz regions of Aleppo.
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good, the kurds seem too be the closest thing too the good guys to me in the wholemess
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[AlMasdar] The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) continued their large-scale operation in the eastern region of the Euphrates River Valley, today, targeting the last areas controlled by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS).
Backed by heavy Arclight airstrikes and artillery, the Syrian Democratic Forces were able to crack the Islamic State’s lines at the town of Baghouz Fouqani and force tens of Death Eaters to surrender.
The Syrian Democratic Forces then asserted full control over Baghouz Fouqani as the remaining Islamic State Death Eaters slipped back to the nearby town of Safafneh.
The remaining Islamic State Death Eaters are now expected to make their last stand against the Syrian Democratic Forces at Safafneh.
With their recent string of losses, it appears ISIS is in desperation mode as some reports indicated on Wednesday that the terrorist group executed several of their foreign members for trying to surrender to the Syrian Democratic Forces.
According to the reports, the Islamic State executed more than 15 members that were planning to surrender themselves to the Syrian Democratic Forces, including 7 French fighters.
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[AlMasdar] Iraq will be repatriating any Iraqi national that has been captured in Syria, Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi said during a presser on Wednesday.
According to Abdul-Mahdi, all captured Iraqi nationals will be repatriated and brought to justice for their crimes committed.
Abdul-Mahdi made these comments during a presser with U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.
According to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named, a senior Iraqi intelligence official said there are up to 20,000 Iraqis, including members of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... , which Baghdad will bring back home by April.
“Awright, all you Mohammeds, lissen up! Anyone of you not guilty of being an Allah-damned jihadi who fought for ISIS in Syria? No? *BANG* Ok, bailiff, take ‘em out by tens and and hang ‘em.
Awright, all you Abdullahs, lissen up! Anyone of you not guilty of being an Allah-damned jihadi who fought for Al Nusra in Syria? No? *BANG* Ok, bailiff, take ‘em out by tens and hang ‘em.
Awright, all you Fahouds, lissen up!...”
Earlier this year, La Belle France said they would make an effort to repatriate their captured nationals in Syria; however, Gay Paree has yet to take any of their nationals.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces on Wednesday freed 30 civilians, who had been besieged by 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.... holy warriors in a mountainous area in Salahuddin.
Islamic State holy warriors shot up the civilians while hunting in Makhoul Mountain in Salahuddin, Baghdad Today website quoted the PMF media service as saying in a statement.
According to the statement, a PMF force rushed to the scene and clashed with the IS attackers.
Two IS holy warriors were maimed in the festivities, the statement added.
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[AnNahar] Israeli troops on Wednesday resumed the installation of a controversial concrete barrier wall on the border between Leb and occupied Paleostine opposite the village of Kfarkila, LBCI television reported.
Israel is building a massive wall along its northern border, saying the barrier is needed to protect civilians from Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... attacks.
New threats emerged between Leb and Israel over several issues, including the wall the Jewish state is building that Beirut says may jut into Lebanese territories, as well as plans for oil and gas exploration in the Mediterranean.
[IsraelTimes] Speaking to Israel’s Channel 13 news, Saudi Prince Turki al Faisal, a former ambassador to Washington, pushes back against claims by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Riyadh wants to work with Israel regardless of a peace deal with the Paleostinians.
"It’s not going to happen," he says.
Asked if Netanyahu is deceiving the Israeli public by saying the Gulf wants to work with Israel before a peace deal with the Paleostinians, he responds "absolutely."
"From the Saudi point of view its the other way around," he says.
Faisal tells the channel that the Saudis want to push forward, but Jerusalem has refused to respond to the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative or propose a plan of their of their own.
"With Israeli money and Saudi brains we can go far," he says.
"Jerusalem is something I want to see before I die, and unfortunately I’m not too optimistic I will see that," Faisal says.
[IsraelTimes] Security service says Gazoo terror group tried to recruit Paleostinians in West Bank, Jerusalem who have Israeli ID cards to conduct attacks, including a planned suicide bus bombing
The Shin Bet security service on Wednesday accused the Paleostinian al-Aqsa broadcaster and Gazoo-based journalists of acting as agents of the Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, terror group’s military wing in an effort to recruit young Paleostinians with Israeli ID cards to carry out terror attacks inside Israel.
According to the security service, the al-Aqsa television station was used to pass clandestine messages to Hamas operatives in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, using quotes from the Koran or subtle gestures by the presenters. The Shin Bet named two presenters who it said conveyed messages from Gazoo via signals on air, and cited an instance in which a presenter did so by placing a cup of tea on a desk and reciting a line from a poem.
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Not surprising. It is a standard bit of tradecraft to use a classified ad in a newspaper to send a signal. This is just a more modern version. With the additional advantage that your people don't need to know how to read.
(I'm assuming Paleo schools are no better than ours)
[WBIR] A bystander is being called a hero for shooting a man who investigators say had just gunned down his wife in a Kingsport dental office Wednesday morning.
It happened this morning at the offices of dentist David A. Guy, DDS in the Colonial Heights community of Kingsport.
"It was a husband and wife. He just came in the front door with the intention of harming his wife," Sullivan Co. Sheriff Jeff Cassidy told WCYB. So sorry for the wife's family. This is in East Tennessee. Not much about it in the news yet.
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Turns out I know the lady's brother. Worked with him for many years. The x-husband died in the hospital.
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[DW] German serious crimes police tossed in the slammer Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! two alleged former Syrian secret service agents on charges of crimes against humanity committed in Syria. Both men are accused of torture, and one is also accused of murder.
Germany's investigative police force (Bundeskriminalamt) has arrested two alleged former employees of the Syrian secret service in Germany for suspected crimes against humanity while working for the intelligence service in Syria.
Federal prosecutors said the two men, 56-year-old Anwar R. and 42-year-old Eyad A., were arrested by federal police in Berlin and Rhineland-Palatinate state respectively. The arrest of the two men came after French authorities apprehended a third Syrian man near Gay Paree.
Prosecutors said that Anwar R., a high-ranking member of Syria's General Intelligence Service, is accused of participating in the abuse of detainees at a prison he oversaw in Damascus.
As lead investigator, the man allegedly ordered the use of systematic and brutal torture on anti-government activists between the end of April 2011 and the beginning of September 2012.
Eyad A., prosecutors said, was part of a unit that arrested hundreds of activists and brought them to the prison run by the other suspect.
Between the beginning of July 2011 and mid-January 2012, Eyad A. is suspected of helping to kill two people and torture and physically abuse at least 2,000 people.
Both Anwar R. and Eyad A. left Syria in 2012, prosecutors said. Anwar R. has been in Germany since mid-2014 and Eyad A. since mid-2018. Both suspects applied for asylum in Germany.
Baqubah (IraqiNews.com) An Iraqi officer was killed and another was maimed while confronting an attempted terrorist attack in Diyala province, media said on Wednesday.
Iraqi Alforatnews website quoted a security source saying that a special forces officer was killed while another one was maimed when they held off terrorist attackers in Maqdadiah, without giving further details.
No official confirmation was made from Iraqi security media.
[Rudaw] An international court Wednesday ruled Iran can proceed with a bid to unfreeze assets in the United States, rejecting Washington's claims the case must be halted because of Tehran's alleged support for international terrorism.
Washington had argued that Iran's "unclean hands" - a reference to Tehran's suspected backing of terror groups - should disqualify its lawsuit to recover $2 billion in assets frozen by the US Supreme Court in 2016.
But the International Court of Justice in The Hague threw out the US challenges, and said that it had the right to hold full hearings at a later date as to whether Tehran will get the money back.
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[AnNahar] The United States is ready to help countries repatriate 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.... jihadists detained in Syria but time is of the essence and Washington insists that ultimately it is up to their home governments to come up with solutions.
The window to organize the fighters' return with U.S. support "is quickly closing," a U.S. State Department official told AFP, on condition of anonymity.
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[Ynet] When Israeli jail is your best option: More than a dozen Gazooks have breached the border fence since the start of the year, the army says, primarily in an effort to escape the grim living conditions in the Strip.
More than 15 Paleostinians infiltrated into Israel from Gazoo since the beginning of 2019, seeking to escape the socioeconomic distress in the coastal enclave, according to the Israel Defense Forces Southern Command.
Only a small proportion of those attempting to cross into Israel have been identified as Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, members. The IDF said their main motive for breaching the fence was to escape their "misery" in the Strip. In order to prevent Israeli prisons from becoming too packed, some of the Paleostinians were returned to the enclave after being questioned by the Shin Bet domestic security service.
Several of the detainees‐most of whom are teens aged 14-17‐were carrying knives and bolt cutters to ensure they end up in an Israeli prison and therefore remain in the country rather than to carry out a terror attack. The would-be infiltrators have also recently come up with a new method‐gathering along the security fence in groups and waiting for Israeli soldiers to arrest them.
The latest attempts to breach the fence came with the resumption of nighttime festivities along the Gazoo border, which Hamas resumed on Sunday night, months after stopping them.
For the past two months, Israel and Hamas have been sticking to an agreement to restore calm to the border. Jerusalem has allowed fuel shipments and 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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i money to enter Gazoo and has increased the Strip's fishing zone. In return, Hamas has stopped firing rockets at Israel's Gazoo border communities and showed restraint during the weekly "March of Return" protests.
If relative calm remains along the Gazoo border, the next and main stage of the arrangement between Israel and Hamas might be implemented: establishing a seaport in Cyprus through which goods will be transferred to Gazoo.
Nevertheless, the IDF's Gazoo Division does not see a clear link between the humanitarian relief Israel provides Gazoo and the relative quiet on the border. The unstable relationship between Hamas and the Fatah-led Paleostinian Authority, along with renewed activity by the Iranian-backed Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... , also influence security developments on the ground.
The IDF maintains that Hamas does have control over the Gazoo border protests and the level of violence used by demonstrators, which it raises or loweres in line with its daily status evaluations.
[IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has released a video of a meeting with Omani Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi.
Netanyahu tells bin Alawi that the recent rapprochement between the two countries is "changing the world."
"I have to tell you that the courageous decision of Sultan Qaboos to invite me to Oman is changing the world," he says, referring to his October 2018 visit to Muscat.
"It’s pointing the way for many others to do what you said, not to be stuck in the past but to seize the future."
The Omani foreign agrees that the countries’ newfound friendship is "an important, new vision for the future."
[KhaamaPress] More than twenty Talibs have been killed during the operations of the Afghan armed forces in northern Faryab and northeastern Takhar provinces, the Afghan Military said Wednesday.
According to a statement released by 209th Shaheen Corps, a clash broke out between the Afghan armed forces and Talibs in Dawlatabad district of Faryab province.
The statement further added that 4 Talibs were killed and 3 others were maimed during the clash.
A separate clash also broke out between the hard boyz and security forces at around 10:20pm in Arkalik Village of Qaisar district in Faryab which left 3 hard boyz dead and another one maimed, the 209th Shaheen Corps said adding that an army soldier was also maimed in Dawlatabad clash.
In the meantime, the security forces carried out artillery and airsrikes as part of Toofan-24 operations and festivities also took place in Khamdan Village of Dasht-e-Qala dsitrict of Takhar, leaving 10 hard boyz dead and 4 others maimed.
Tragedies all over the place, even those that come home
[Ay Peee] A suicide car bomber claimed by an al-Qaida-linked group attacked a bus carrying members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard paramilitary force Wednesday, killing at least 27 people and wounding 13 others, state media reported.
Tehran immediately linked the attack in Iran's restive southeastern Sistan and Baluchistan province to an ongoing U.S.-led conference in Warsaw largely focused on Iran, just two days after the nation marked the 40th anniversary of its 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The bombing also raised the specter of possible Iranian retaliation targeting a Sunni militant group called Jaish al-Adl that claimed the attack, which largely operates across the border in nuclear-armed Pakistan. Recent militant assaults inside Iran have sparked retaliatory ballistic missile strikes in Iraq and Syria. Could be Baloch Lib Army, could be any number of Islamo-Nutters, or just Mennonites who hate the Ayatollahs and their brutal tools
The bombing Wednesday night struck the bus traveling on a road between the cities of Khash and Zahedan, a mountainous region along the Pakistani border that is also near Afghanistan. Images after the blast published by semi-official news agencies showed the explosion tore the bus apart, as passers-by used the light of their cellphones to illuminate the debris.
The state-run IRNA news agency, citing what it described as an "informed source," offered initial casualty figures of 20 dead and 20 wounded. The Revolutionary Guard later reported on its website that 27 were killed and 13 wounded. Martyrs all, sucks to be you
Jaish al-Adl, or "Army of Justice", formed in 2012 and drew some murderous Moslems from Jundallah ..."Soldiers of God," a name used by two separate terror outfits, one active in Iran and the other in Pakistain. Both are Sunni organizations that target Shiites. The Pak version has close relations with al-Qaeda and the Pak Talibs and is probably a false nose and mustache for Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... , experts believe. Iran long has suspected 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... of supporting the Death Eaters, something Riyadh denies. It’s also unclear how the murderous Moslems have been able to operate freely from Pakistain for years.
According to Ynet, Jaish al Adl is fighting for greater rights and better living conditions for the ethnic minority Baluchis.
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[AnNahar] Tajikistan's foreign minister said on Tuesday he hoped Iraq will return at least 75 children after their mothers, tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! over links to 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.... group, agreed to their repatriation.
Sirodjidin Mukhriddin said that of 92 children from Tajikistan stranded in Iraq, 75 should be eligible for repatriation, 31 of whom are aged under three.
Mukhriddin said that in most cases, the children had lost their fathers, who died fighting for the IS and other bad boy groups.
Iraqi legislation demands that parents consent to their children leaving the country, he said.
Tajikistan will have to pay $400 to repatriate each child, he said, a fee determined after diplomatic negotiations with Iraq.
But Mukhriddin said repatriating the 43 women serving time in Iraqi jails would be an uphill battle.
"Iraqi judges sentenced a number of female citizens of Tajikistan to long sentences, some even to life sentences," he said. The repatriation process "will be long and hard."
Tajik diplomats will be heading to Iraq's neighbor Syria "in the near future" to discuss the issue with government officials including prison authorities, he said.
Russia said Sunday that it had repatriated 27 children whose mothers were held in Iraq for belonging to the Islamic State group. Thirty had already been repatriated in December.
IS seized large swathes of Iraq in a lightning 2014 offensive, before the Iraqi government dislodged the jihadists from urban centers and eventually declared victory in December 2017.
Tajik authorities have said over 1,000 citizens left the country to fight on the side of bad boy groups in Iraq and Syria after 2011, some after stints working abroad in Russia.
The most famous IS recruit from Tajikistan was Gulmurod Halimov, who headed the interior ministry's special forces unit before sensationally announcing his defection to IS in a video attributed to the group in 2015.
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[IsraelTimes] Under Pompeo, Washington has intensified efforts to introduce faulty parts into Tehran’s supply chain, New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reports.
Alternate headline: Once Again NYT Leaks Key War Secret. They do love their frissons at the New York Times.
The US has escalated a clandestine program to sabotage Iranian missiles and rockets as part of an attempt to weaken the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s military and cause economic damage, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
Current and former administration officials told the newspaper that it was difficult to quantify the success of the program. However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... in the past two months Iran has on two occasions attempted to launch satellites in failed tests.
The US says that Iran’s plans for sending satellites into orbit demonstrate the country’s defiance of a UN Security Council resolution that calls on Iran to undertake no activity related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons.
According to the Times, the American program started under the George W. Bush administration, when the US began to integrate faulty parts into Iran’s aerospace supply chains. The program continued under the B.O. regime but gradually tailed off in 2017 when it was revived under then-head of the CIA, Mike Pompeo.
Under Obama, the program was widened to target not only missiles but also space launchers.
Tehran says it has reined in most of its nuclear program under a landmark 2015 deal with major powers, but it has kept up development of its ballistic missile technology.
Experts told the newspaper that not all of Iran’s aerospace failings could be blamed on US sabotage efforts as missiles are prone to malfunction during tests.
However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... the US was able to see the success of the program in one instance when an Iranian-manufactured rocket landed in Baghdad’s Green Zone and failed to detonate. A former bigwig said that when the projectile was dismantled, sappers found a malfunctioning part which had been fed into the supply chain by the Americans.
The CIA declined to comment on the program. The government asked the Times to withhold some details on the operation so as not to endanger it.
The US last Thursday vowed to remain "relentless" in pressuring Iran to deter its missile program after the Islamic Theocratic Republic unveiled a new ballistic weapon days after testing a cruise missile.
Tehran, which calls for the destruction of Israel, insists that it sees the missile program as crucial to its defensive posture, and says its existence is non-negotiable. It has also maintained that it never intended to develop nuclear weapons and therefore its missile development does not violate the agreement.
However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has presented evidence which he says details Iranian efforts and research programs specifically aimed at producing atomic weapons. In a Mossad operation, Israel last year spirited out a trove of Iranian documentation from Tehran’s pre-deal nuclear weapons archive, which Netanyahu said proved conclusively that Iran is lying when it says it never worked towards a nuclear weapons arsenal.
The Times report comes as Pompeo and Netanyahu were due to meet on Iran at the so-called Ministerial to Promote a Future of Peace and Security in the Middle East. The United States and Poland are sponsoring the conference in Warsaw, which they say is aimed at promoting peace and security in the region but appears to be mainly focused on isolating Iran.
Before departing for Poland on Tuesday, Netanyahu told news hounds that the focus of the conference will be Iran, an issue he said "unites Israel, the United States, many countries in the world."
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"The enemy of the people" - they keep trying to prove it more and more correct
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NME - National Media of the Elites
(pronounced ENEMY)
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"The United States and Poland are sponsoring the conference in Warsaw, which they say is aimed at promoting peace and security in the region but appears to be mainly focused on isolating Iran."
except that isolating Iran does promote peace and security (although bombing it would do that even better)
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"The enemy of the people"
Given that the NYT is a major player in the treason space, as the marketing guys say, seems like we could make use of that.
Putting on my Wild Bill Donovan hat:
Suppose we have a low-level file clerk at "the agency" leak to his reporter bar buddy that Under Pompeo, Washington has intensified efforts to introduce faulty parts into Tehran’s supply chain. It certainly sounds plausible. And after all, a little low-level sabotage never hurts, right?
But even if we're not, now every time a power-supply fails, a program crashes, a machine breaks, a tire goes flat, or a dog farts, people are going to wonder "The Americans again?". And why did this happen *twice* on Mahmood's shift at the lab? Suspicion is a terrible thing.
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.
And then there were the talks about secretly recording the president and using the 25th Amendment to remove him from office. According to CBS, top law enforcement officials were discussing which Cabinet members might be persuaded to go along with an effort to remove Trump. "They were counting noses," Pelley said on CBS Thursday morning. "They were not asking Cabinet members whether they would vote for or against removing the president, but they were speculating."
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday said Congress would oppose U.S. military intervention in Venezuela and challenged the credibility of President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Elliott Abrams, over his past embrace of American covert action.
Emma Lozano is a left-wing activist, founder and president of the illegal immigration advocacy group Centro Sin Fronteras (“Center Without Borders”), executive director of migrant caravan organizing group Pueblo Sin Fronteras, and a pastor at the Lincoln United Methodist Church in Chicago, Illinois. Along with her husband, co-pastor Walter “Slim” Coleman, Lozano is involved in two other advocacy organizations closely connected with caravans of migrants in Central America seeking to enter the U.S. illegally.
[Babylon Bee] UGANDA‐Well, this isn't good. After students at Bungee Xtreme Youth Group spent the past six months pestering their friends and family to help fund their missions trip to Africa, they arrived this morning to discover that the tribesmen had been converted to Christianity in the fall.
[New York Times] The progressives' Green New Deal centralizes power.
[Jerusalem Post] Somewhere in Southern Israel, a first-of-its-kind venture trains dogs to locate early signs of cancer.
[Powerline] Ilhan Omar questioned Special Envoy for Venezuela Elliott Abrams at a House Foreign Relations Committee hearing. As Max Boot observes elsewhere on Twitter, she doesn’t seem to realize that Abrams is a leading advocate of human rights and democracy‐not a promoter of genocide. She does seem to know, however, that Abrams is a supporter of Israel and the member of a suspect "faith tradition." Related: The Spectator USA’s Dominic Green channels a day in Omar’s life. Note: The staffers who wrote the questions that Omar can barely read must be something like Communist relics of the Cold War era.
(Reuters) - A man accused of pulling the trigger in the 2010 killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Arizona was convicted of murder on Tuesday in a case tied to an ill-fated U.S. government gun-running sting known as "Fast and Furious".
[AlAhram] Three 
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
[IsraelTimes] Speaking to Israel’s Channel 13 news, Saudi Prince Turki al Faisal, a former ambassador to Washington, pushes back against claims by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Riyadh wants to work with Israel regardless of a peace deal with the Paleostinians.
Baqubah (IraqiNews.com) An Iraqi officer was killed and another was 
[Rudaw] An international court Wednesday ruled Iran can proceed with a bid to unfreeze assets in the United States, rejecting Washington's claims the case must be halted because of Tehran's alleged support for international terrorism.
...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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
[KhaamaPress] More than twenty Talibs have been killed during the operations of the Afghan armed forces in northern Faryab and northeastern Takhar provinces, the Afghan Military said Wednesday.
