[St. Louis Post Dispatch] What a classy looking rig ‐ "dressed to the nines" as they would have said back in the day! I bet the owner turned plenty of heads as he carefully backed that 16-foot, Lone Star runabout down the launch ramp at the river or lake!
That red hue was named Signal Red, one of 19 hues on the generous Mercury palette for 1960. And what better color to accent a bright red than a snow white. Mercury marketers didn’t give a thought to creatively naming the white for 1960, calling it simply "white" as is often done with car color names.
The Monterey, being the entry-level model in 1960, had a standard overhead valve V-8 of 312 cubic-inch displacement and producing 205 horsepower fed by a Holley 2300, 2-barrel carburetor. Adequate, but if the buyer was so inclined, he or she could have chosen one of two larger V-8 engines.
It would be hard to argue that the 1960 Mercury was not a handsome car with pleasing lines. A page out of the 1960 sales brochure stated, “You’ll be glad you bought a Mercury every time you look at it”, which I’m sure was on this owner’s mind as he aimed his Kodak Brownie Starmite at his rig for this photo.
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As much as we enjoy the memories of how much pleasure we may have had driving these boats if we drove one today our reaction would be "what is POS,"
[ABC] An attempted robbery at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas ended in a gunfight between police and the suspect late Friday.
An armed man walked into the casino and approached a popular poker cage, where he demanded money, before quickly fleeing out the north entrance, Las Vegas police said in an overnight press conference.
The suspect attempted to carjack someone at the valet but was confronted immediately by four uniformed officers. A second officer returned fire, striking the suspect.
"The officer had his bulletproof vest on, which probably saved his life," Las Vegas Police Department Capt. Nichole Splinter said. He was treated and released, police said.
The suspect was also struck in the chest. The man, who was not identified, died a few hours later, police said.
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A dude did something like this a few years ago. Robbed a teller cage, went out and jumped on motorcycle, and got away clean.
They caught him when he tried to use a chip to pay at a strip club; they had changed the color of all the chips overnight.
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...And this goon was lucky that it was the LVPD that got him. The...um...Guys Back East who still control a LOT of things there (no matter what the city fathers and the State of Nevada tell you) would have gotten him eventually, and then he'd have taken a day or two to get to the same point before being left in a shallow grave outside of town.
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Mike if the boys back home had come up with him it would have served as a better outcome for Vegas.
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NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The sparring between India and Pakistan last month threatened to spiral out of control and only interventions by U.S. officials, including National Security Advisor John Bolton, headed off a bigger conflict, five sources familiar with the events said.
At one stage, India threatened to fire at least six missiles at Pakistan, and Islamabad said it would respond with its own missile strikes "three times over", according to Western diplomats and government sources in New Delhi, Islamabad and Washington.
The way in which tensions suddenly worsened and threatened to trigger a war between the nuclear-armed nations shows how the Kashmir region, which both claim and is at the core of their enmity, remains one of the world’s most dangerous flashpoints.
The exchanges did not get beyond threats, and there was no suggestion that the missiles involved were anything more than conventional weapons, but they created consternation in official circles in Washington, Beijing and London.
Reuters has pieced together the events that led to the most serious military crisis in South Asia since 2008, as well as the concerted diplomatic efforts to get both sides to back down.
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) ‐ Australia’s prime minister on Sunday suggested an anti-Muslim senator should be charged after he slapped a teen who cracked a raw egg over the legislator’s head.
Sen. Fraser Anning has been widely condemned for blaming Muslim immigration for racist attacks on two New Zealand mosques that claimed at least 50 lives.
Will Connolly, the 17-year-old boy who egged Anning, has become an online hero for the incident, which was captured on video.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Sunday took Connolly’s side, telling reporters: "The full force of the law should be applied to Sen. Anning."
Police allege Connolly, who calls himself "Egg Boy" online, assaulted the senator with the egg.
Anning "retaliated and struck the teen twice" before Connolly was dragged to the ground by Anning supporters, a police statement said.
"The incident is being actively investigated by Victoria Police in its entirety," the statement said, including Anning’s actions.
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No, martyrdom is for muzzist idiots. Go with the bacon bit shower from a drone when mosque lets out. Just because they don't know they are now haram does not mean they still are haram...
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[Dawn] WHILE once controlling a vast swathe of land in Iraq and Syria, today the bully boy ’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 is left with a mere sliver of territory in Syria near the Iraqi border. That, too, is under bombardment by the US and its Syrian Kurdish allies, as family members of the faceless myrmidons have left the area in the thousands over the past few weeks. Soon after its rise in 2014, the self-styled caliphate sowed terror in the region under the watch of its ’caliph’ His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart... , throwing an arrogant challenge to governments in the Middle East and sending the international community scrambling for a response. At one point, it seemed as if many other regional states could be vulnerable too, as IS ’provinces’ sprang up in ungoverned spaces in and around the Middle East. And while the US-led coalition, including Arab allies, played a key role in pushing IS back, it cannot be denied that Iran’s support to the Syrian and Iraqi dispensations was instrumental in dislodging the ’caliphate’.
Today, as the end of IS looms, some lessons should be learnt. Firstly, it should be acknowledged that Western adventurism in the Middle East ‐ regime change in Iraq and attempted regime change in Syria ‐ played a major role in creating the ungoverned spaces where the IS thrived. While Iraq under Saddam Hussein and Syria under the Assad clan were by no means model democracies, America’s removal of the Iraqi strongman, and its efforts to get rid of Bashir al-Assad created power vacuums which were filled by the IS and their like ‐ a reminder that nation-building exercises in the Arab/ Moslem world should not be indulged in by the West, as what emerges from such experiments can be much worse than the status quo ante. In fact, it is Middle Eastern governments that must lead efforts for organic change by being inclusive of all sects, religions and political orientations. For example, observers have noted that the alleged discriminatory policies of former Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki helped create support for the IS in disenfranchised communities. And while the IS may be on the verge of defeat, it should be remembered that its ideology lives on and must be countered not just on the battlefield, but intellectually too. The sectarian, atavistic and anti-modern mindset championed by the IS must be challenged by Learned Elders of Islam, Moslem governments and thinkers to ensure that such a movement does not re-emerge and attract disillusioned souls with its promises of an bully boy utopia.
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[Dawn] KARACHI: "Shutting down madressahs in the aftermath of Pulwama is wrong timing. We should have done it anyway but our doing it now has India pointing fingers at us, saying that ’see Pakistain has had to take measures’ to prevent a repeat of the incident," said a retired general on Saturday.
Retired Lt Gen Tariq Waseem Ghazi, who also served as the defence secretary after his retirement from the army, was speaking at a programme on the future of the current stand-off between Pakistain and India at the Pakistain Institute of International Affairs.
"The trigger for the recent escalation between Pakistain and India is Pulwama, and Pulwama had nothing to do with us. It was nurtured and home-grown in India," he said.
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[Dawn] MUZAFFARABAD: The Pakistain Army has shot down an Indian spy drone close to the restive Line of Control (LoC) in Azad Jammu and Kashmire (AJK).
"Pakistain Army troops shot down an Indian spying quadcopter in Rakh Chikri Sector along Line of Control," tweeted Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor, director-general of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the military’s media affairs wing, on Saturday.
"The quadcopter had come 150 metres inside Pakistain," added the ISPR chief in his post that included two pictures of the fallen drone.
Rakh Chikri sector is located in AJK’s Poonch division.
There were no further details in the ISPR chief’s tweet.
However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... military sources told Dawn that the drone had been shot down on Friday evening.
"It was brought down with small arm fire from our first post along the LoC," they said.
Earlier, only on Sunday last, a similar spy drone was shot down in Khuiratta sector of AJK’s Kotli district.
Kotli-based official sources had confirmed the downing of the drone in Kot Kotehra village at about 4:30pm, but no blurb was issued by any authority in this regard.
In January this year, Pakistain Army shooters had downed two reconnaissance drones on two consecutive days in two different sectors of Poonch division.
The Indian military uses these drones for aerial photography of Pak posts along the LoC as part of its intelligence gathering operations and target selection before resorting to shelling from across the divide.
[Dawn] BEIJING: China said on Friday it was willing to have more discussions with all parties concerned, including India, on blacklisting the head of Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... (JeM), which grabbed credit for the attack on an Indian paramilitary convoy in held Kashmire in February.
China prevented a UN Security Council committee on Wednesday from blacklisting JeM founder Masood Azhar.
India said it was disappointed at the block, while the United States said it was counter to a goal it shared with China of achieving regional peace and stability.
In a statement faxed to Rooters late on Friday, China’s Foreign Ministry reiterated that the "technical hold" on the blacklisting was to give more time for the committee to have further consultations on the issue.
China hoped the committee’s actions could "benefit reducing the tense situation and protect regional stability", the ministry said, responding to a question about calls for boycott of Chinese products in India.
"China is willing to strengthen communication with all parties, including India, to appropriately handle this issue," it added, without elaborating.
The US, Britannia and La Belle France had asked the Security Council’s 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.... and Al Qaeda sanctions committee to subject Azhar to an arms embargo, travel ban and asset freeze. The 15-member committee operates by consensus. China had previously prevented the sanctions committee from sanctioning Azhar in 2016 and 2017.
Western powers could also blacklist Azhar by adopting a Security Council resolution, which needs nine votes in favour and no vetoes by Russia, China, the United States, Britannia or La Belle France. Already blacklisted by the UN Security Council in 2001, JeM is a primarily anti-India group.
[AlMasdar] Russia started its military operation in Syria on September 30, 2015, upon request of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... On December 6, 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... said that 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.... had been totally defeated on both banks of the Euphrates in Syria and on December 11, he issued an order to withdraw Russian troops from Syria.
On December 22, 2017, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to the head of state that Russian troops had been withdrawn from Syria, with only three military police battalions, the Center for Reconciliation of the Warring Parties and two bases, in Hmeymim and Tartus, remaining in Syria.
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About a friend of a friend who was a law school classmate of his, Barry Obama didn’t understand how to win negotiations, so he avoided the opportunity to compete in that area.
[AlMasdar] 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) carried out a new ambush behind the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) lines on Saturday, killing four people in the process.
According to a military source in Damascus, an Islamic State sleeper cell snuck into the Sawannah area in eastern Homs this morning, where they would later attack the civilians inside this region.
The source said the Islamic State killed four civilians and then fled back into the desert in order to evade capture by the Syrian Arab Army.
The Islamic State has been carrying out these attacks for several months now, with a recent surge in these ambushes since they lost the al-Safa region in northeast al-Sweida.
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[AlMasdar] The U.S. administration, at the direction of President Donald Trump, will be providing an addition $5 million to the White Helmets
...also known as Syrian Civil Defense, last summer 422 members and their families slipped over the the Israeli border in the Golan Heights, and from thence to Jordan and asylum in the West ahead of the Russian/Syrian army reconquest of Quneitra and Daraa; a similar number remained behind, refusing to be polluted by association with those dreadful Joooooos...
in Syria, the State Department announced on Friday.
“At the direction of the President, subject to congressional approval, the United States intends to provide $5 million for the continuation of the vital, life-saving operations of the White Helmets in Syria and in support of the UN’s International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM) which is charged with assisting the investigation and prosecution of persons responsible for the most serious crimes under International Law committed in Syria since March 2011.
Today, at the third Brussels Conference on Supporting the Future of Syria and the Region, Special Representative for Syria Engagement and Special Envoy to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS Ambassador James Jeffrey publicly announced these contributions. In addition to those made last year, these contributions to the White Helmets and IIIM demonstrate the United States’ commitment and ongoing support for justice and accountability in Syria.
The United States Government strongly supports the work of the White Helmets. They have saved more than 114,000 lives since the conflict began, including victims of Assad’s vicious chemical weapons attacks. With over 2,800 volunteers, they continue to provide search and rescue, emergency response, and early recovery operations helping civilians in areas outside of the control of the regime.
These heroic first responders have the most dangerous job in the world. In addition to operating in an active war zone and in dire humanitarian circumstances, the Syrian regime and Russia deliberately target White Helmets’ centers and volunteers; since 2013 more than 250 White Helmets have been killed—many in so called “double-tap strikes”—and 60 White Helmets’ centers have been damaged or destroyed by Russian and regime airstrikes and the regime. Despite these dangers, the White Helmets provide these services based on strict humanitarian principles and have become a symbol in Syria and world-wide for these courageous values,”
[AlMasdar] A Russian soldier was killed this week when a group 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.... (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) forces of Evil ambushed the Syrian military in eastern Deir Ezzor.
According to a report from Deir Ezzor, the Syrian military was ambushed by the Islamic State group while they were moving through the al-Mayadeen Desert on February 23rd.
As a result of this ambush by the Islamic State, a 35-year-old Russian soldier, Sakhroub Kremov, was killed alongside several other Syrian Arab Army (SAA) personnel in this pasrt of the Deir Ezzor Governorate.
The name of the Russian soldier was released this week after the incident was thoroughly investigated by both the Russian Armed Forces and the Syrian Arab Army.
With the death of Sakhroub Kremov, the total number of Russian soldiers killed in Syria has risen to 108 as of March 16th.
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[Jpost] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... ’s continued role in Afrin, a year after military occupation began in March 2018, is under spotlight as US State Department and UN highlight abuses
Military occupation. Stolen olives. Checkpoints. Accusations of theft of property, land confiscation, demographic change and settlers. These are claims usually leveled at Israel’s role in the West Bank, but in the last year Turkey and Syrian groups it backs have been accused of similar violations in northwestern Syria. The area of Afrin, once a mostly Kurdish and peaceful region during many years of Syrian civil war, was plunged into conflict in January 2018 by a Ottoman Turkish military operation and attacks by Syrian rebel groups.
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[Jpost] The organization, which proclaims to be "a women-led grassroots organization working to end US wars and militarism [and] support peace and human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... initiatives," has just returned from Iran.
Move over Stockholm Syndrome; make way for the Tehran Effect. If there isn’t yet a name for the phenomenon in which liberal, left-leaning Westerners are captivated by the charms of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran, there should be.
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If there isn’t yet a name for the phenomenon in which liberal, left-leaning Westerners are captivated by $(ROTTEN_OPPRESSIVE_DICTATORSHIP) there should be.
We saw this during the Cold War when lefties fawned over the fUSSR. Hey, maybe Tom Friedman could help you out with the naming.
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[The Independent] Numerous polls suggest Mr Trump's decision was popular among his Republican base. But his decision to use executive authority to fund a wall along the southern border is opposed by a clear majority of the public.
That is reflected in seven polls taken from early January to early March. By roughly a 2-to-1 margin, Americans oppose Mr Trump's decision to use emergency powers to build a border wall. That is a wider margin than the Senate resolution to overturn Mr Trump's declaration of national emergency, which was passed by a 59-to-41 vote margin.
The most recent poll on the issue comes from Monmouth University and was in the field between 1-4 March.
Monmouth found 65 per cent of Americans disapproved of Mr Trump "declaring a national emergency in order to use funding designated for the US military to build a wall along the Mexican border."
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Polling is hard to start with, but now it's become Yet Another Partisan Tool.
One of my favorite tricks is asking "In regard to Subject X, do you think the country is on the right track?"
Results:
1/3 Too much X. Stop it!
1/3 We're cool!
1/3 We need more X!
This gets reported as 2/3 of the country says were are on the wrong track. Fake but Accurate.
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Regarding #5 I think it is even more fundamental than that. I never accept polling calls or questionnaires. What percentage of the public is non responsive and what do you think their political views are. Ever meet a silent, reticent lefty who doesn’t share opinion when asked?
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Well, if you overdose on heroin and/or fentanyl from Mexico you are likely to end up either in the morgue or the emergency room. If you go to the emergency room, that's an emergency. Multiply that by several thousand a year. Further, if you are killed and/or wounded by a violent illegal alien you are likely to end up either in the morgue or the emergency room. Multiply that by several thousand a year. Finally, if your two-party democracy is turned into a one-party socialist hell-hole by illegal aliens who illegally vote, that's an emergency. If your Democrat/RINO representative in Congress doesn't understand these facts or is bribed to deny them, it's an emergency.
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Those polls worked so well in the last presidential election
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A Pollster once admitted to keep in business they had too find out what the people paying them for the poll really wanted to hear. If you told them the truth of the situation they would hire someone else. The best tactic was to weasel word the poll so it could be interpreted many ways.
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The polls said Hildabeest was going to win in 2016 with near certainty. Many people on the left were butt-hurt election night. It still goes on. Little honesty in the MSM and their polls.
[IsraelTimes] BDS event in German capital called off after authorities cancel visa for speaker Rasmea Odeh, who spent 10 years in jail for deadly Jerusalem supermarket bombing.
Berlin has blocked an appearance by convicted Paleostinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh, who had been scheduled to speak at a conference on "Paleostinian Women Fighting for Liberation."
Following protests, the city’s department for interior affairs announced late Friday afternoon that they had barred Odeh from speaking in the city and cancelled her visa, on the grounds that the political activities of a non-citizen can be limited or prohibited if these activities break German law or endanger the peace.
The venue also has cancelled its rental for the event that was organized by the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Odeh, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine, was found guilty in 1970 of participating in the 1969 murder of two Jewish students, Leon Kanner and Eddie Joffe in an attack on a Jerusalem supermarket.
The co-organizers of the Berlin event were the Samidoun network of activists, affiliated with the PFLP and Hirak ‐ the Paleostinian Youth Movement, also tied to the PFLP.
The PFLP is designated by Israel, the US, the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and others as a terrorist organization.
Israel placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! Odeh for life for her role in the bombing, but she was released in a prisoner exchange with the PFLP in 1980 and immigrated to the United States. She has said her confession to the bombing was the result of severe torture by Israeli security forces.
Odeh obtained her US immigrant visa in 1994 and her citizenship in 2004. In both applications, she failed to disclose her arrest and convictions in the bombings. She pleaded guilty to falsifying her immigration applications and was deported to Jordan in September of last year.
Odeh served as the longtime associate director at the Arab American Action Network in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... before her deportation.
A planned protest against her appearance was to be held in Berlin despite the event’s cancellation, its organizer told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Odeh’s planned appearance had triggered a storm of protest among Jewish and politicians. The Central Council of Jews in Germany had issued a statement condemning the invitation to Odeh.
Council president Josef Schuster told the Taz newspaper in Berlin that he was "appalled that a convicted Paleostinian terrorist who killed and injured Israelis is permitted to appear in Berlin."The public appearance of someone sentenced for murder, terrorism and immigration fraud "legitimizes anti-Semitism at a time when we should be condemning it," US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell said in an interview with Fox News.
Also weighing in against Odeh’s appearance were Berlin’s mayor, Michael Muller, and Hellmut Königshaus, head of the German-Israel Society.
[Jpost] The German government canceled an event on Friday with a convicted Paleostinian terrorist who murdered two Israeli students, following a strongly worded statement from US Ambassador Richard Grenell that was prominently featured in the nation’s daily newspapers.
Berlin’s department for interior announced in a statement on Friday that they barred Rasmea Odeh from speaking in the capital and revoked her visa. The German authorities said Odeh must immediately leave the Schengen Area that is comprised of 26 European nations.
The Washington Free Beacon’s Adam Kredo reported on Thursday that Grenell “petitioned German leaders on behalf of the Trump administration to ban Odeh from entering the country.” Kredo noted: “Odeh was reportedly invited to speak in Berlin on Friday by the ‘pro-BDS group Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East, which is a supporter of the alliance of BDS groups.’”
Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East defended Odeh on its Facebook page against the alleged defamation campaign she experienced in Germany.
[IsraelTimes] Ramallah asks Egypt to intervene; Fatah official: ’This is not the occupation, it’s Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, gangs terrorizing Gazoo’; conflicting reports on alleged self-immolation by one man.
A senior Paleostinian official said Saturday that the Ramallah-based leadership has asked Egypt to pressure Hamas over the violent suppression of protests during a third day of demonstrations in Gazoo against the terror group and the dire economic conditions in the enclave.
PLO Executive Committee member Wasel Abu-Youssef told the Times of Israel that the Paleostinian representative to Egypt and the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... , Diab al-Louh, has called for an emergency high-level meeting of the regional organization to discuss the situation in Gazoo. When asked if the meeting would discuss the violent suppression of protests, Abu Yusef said that it would.
According to Paleostinian media reports, 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... has also been asked to intervene in the escalating violence.
Paleostinians in the Gazoo Strip erupted into the streets on Saturday for the third successive day.
Unverified footage appeared to show a protester setting himself alight. According to Channel 12 news, Ahmed Abu Tahn self-immolated after he was unable to pay his rent and was evicted from his home. But after looking into the matter, the Al Mezan rights group in Gazoo told the Haaretz newspaper the film was not a new one, and that no such incident had occurred on Saturday. The veracity of the video could not be independently confirmed.
In response to a video of Hamas forces suppressing demonstrations, a close confidant of Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... tweeted his outrage.
"This is not the Israeli occupation forces!!"Fatah Central Committee member Hussein al-Sheikh said. "It is the Hamas gangs that are terrorizing and suppressing the hungry in the Gazoo Strip."
The Ynet news site reported that at least 80 demonstrators affiliated with the Fatah movement had been nabbed Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! over the past 24 hours.
Paleostinian rights groups said Hamas briefly detained four of their researchers as it dispersed protests.
On Friday, reports from the coastal enclave said Hamas used live fire to put down demonstrations.
The center of Friday’s demonstrations was in Deir el-Balah, where Hebrew media reports said protesters burned tires and blocked one of the central Gazoo city’s main roads. Similar protests also took place in Khan Younis in the south of the Strip. In video from the demonstrations, protesters could be seen throwing rocks as the sound of apparent gunfire is heard in the background.
Quoting the demonstrators, Ynet said they were beaten by security forces loyal to Hamas. There were no immediate reports on the number of injured.
[Ynet] Paleostinian rights groups say Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", briefly detained four of their researchers as it dispersed protests in Gazoo against recent tax hikes.
Two researchers from the al-Mezan rights group, one from the Paleostinian Center for Human Rights and one from al-Dameer were held for a few hours before being released. Online videos show Hamas forces raiding homes, attacking protesters with clubs and firing into the air. "It's OK when WE do it"
[Washington Examiner] Former British spy Christopher Steele admitted that he relied on an unverified report on a CNN website for part of the "Trump dossier," which was used as a basis for the FBI's investigation into Trump.
According to deposition transcripts released this week, Steele said last year he used a 2009 report he found on CNN's iReport website and said he wasn't aware that submissions to that site are posted by members of the public and are not checked for accuracy.
A web archive from July 29, 2009 shows that CNN described the site in this manner: "iReport.com is a user-generated site. That means the stories submitted by users are not edited, fact-checked, or screened before they post."
In the dossier, Steele, a Cambridge-educated former MI6 officer, wrote about extensive allegations against Donald Trump, associates of his campaign, various Russians and other foreign nationals, and a variety of companies ‐ including one called Webzilla. Those allegations would become part of an FBI investigation and would be used to apply for warrants under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
During his deposition, Steele was pressed on the methods he used to verify allegations made about Webzilla, which was thought to be used by Russia to hack into Democratic emails.
When asked if he discovered "anything of relevance concerning Webzilla" during the verification process, Steele replied: "We did. It was an article I have got here which was posted on July 28, 2009, on something called CNN iReport."
Cambridge-educated former MI6 officer and successful British intelligence community entrepreneur...."wasn't aware that submissions to that site are posted by members of the public and are not checked for accuracy."
How about.... that's where I was told the required anonymous input would be posted and on what day.
I believe what Christopher may be referring to is a cut-out.
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Christopher Steele has sex with transvestite unicorns and is thus a security risk!
If we were to use the same "standard" for the quality checking of allegations then they could add my "accusation" to a dossier and start surveillance of all his comms.
Although my accusation has a greater degree of checkability as this site is not as anonymous as where he got the shitposts/sorry made up crap he put in the dossier.
That the American taxpayer funded this is a total travesty.
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Cambridge-educated former MI6 officer and successful British intelligence community entrepreneur...."wasn't aware that submissions to that site are posted by members of the public and are not checked for accuracy."
Steele knows better, of course. His audience, however . . . .
[Aljazeera] The state of California has been declared drought-free for the first time in more than seven years.
Generous winter rains have filled the state's reservoirs and the Sierra Nevada snowpack is now 50 percent higher than average.
This is the first time since mid-December of 2011 that the entire state has been classified as being free of drought, and the moisture deficit is not severe enough to cause social, environmental or economic hardship.
The current picture marks a major improvement from just one year ago, when nearly 70 percent of California was still classified as suffering from moderate to severe drought. And only three years before that, the Sierra snowpack had dwindled to virtually zero.
Meteorologists say extremes of weather, swinging from drought to deluge, will become increasingly common as the climate continues to change.
Although California is now drought-free, many other parts of the United States are not as lucky. Currently, the worst conditions are in New Mexico, where the drought is in its severest category: exceptional. In a drought of this magnitude, widespread crop losses and shortages of water in reservoirs and streams are expected.
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Fortunately, most of the excess water will flow freely to the sea, rather than being wasted in new reservoirs. /sarcasm
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Yep that’s why we’re always rationing water
Just another ploy to tax the populous for a basic need
I expect the dems to try to track breathing so they can tax our CO2 output
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Ima playing my bs card. I spent some time in the high desert in the early 70's. The snow pack was way better than 8 to 10 feet and the snowplow road markers were 12 feet high or better. Just what are they using as "average "?
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Only in CA an you find government this obscenely bad. We passed an 8 billion bond measure with 3.8 billion for above ground storage construction three years ago, during the worst of the drought. They announced this past week that construction would e underway in 2024. Nine years after they got the money. They also said they would not be actual dams, rather catchmen basins. They haven’t built an actual damn in 40 years. I’ll be another refugee in Nevada next month!
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california's own environmental laws make any State funded construction project time consuming and expensive (one of the problems w their HSRail)
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Cue stories of horrendous mudslides in 5, 4, 3, ...
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In college in the 80s I had a project about California drought. It’s cyclical with years of El Niño flooding and years of La Niña drought (or the reverse).
Environmentalists played on the ignorance to score points.
State politicians gave away that they didn’t buy the drought but as they never curbed the constant new construction in CA.
[American Thinker] With the press largely focused on the college cheating scandal and cooking up new ways to Blame Trump for the mosque massacre in New Zealand, some real news is going largely unnoticed: "US Job Opening[s] Soar To All Time High: 1.3 Million More Than Unemployed Workers."
Imagine a jobs report like that coming out during the Obama years. Imagine such a report coming out during a hypothetical Hillary Clinton administration...
Imagine it coming under the administration of one of the 15 lockstep socialists running for president on the Democratic Party ticket.
It just wouldn't happen if, God forbid, one of them should win.
The job creation is so high under President Trump's tax cut and deregulatory regimen that there are more jobs than workers to fill them. The quitting rate is higher, too, and that means workers are finding higher-paid jobs, not just the one they have now, which means it's a worker's market now. President Trump took some flak for advising would-be illegal migrants to come here legally on the grounds that Americans should get first dibs on jobs, but given this labor shortage, it was obvious this was the reality out there. And yes, illegal immigration is surging. Many are coming here for jobs.
When was the last time workers can ever remember having not just a job, but their choice of jobs?
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Got a friend who runs a bar/restaurant says he has never had so much trouble hiring in the entire 19 years he has owned his place. Has people turning down $20 / hr to pour drinks.
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See, that's what's wrong with Trump - he's taking away peoples' excuses for not working; that's the same thing as slavery!
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Wages rises can only last as long as migration is countered or jobs are moved abroad to places with lower land values...
Some jobs are not exportable so they will see the most benefit from stopping the subsidisation of migration.
[IsraelTimes] Targets in Gazoo include headquarters where terror group directed operations in West Bank as well as a compound used by its special naval force.
The Israeli military said a massive sortie carried out in Gazoo last week in response to rocket fire on Tel Aviv flattened a "terror headquarters" of the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, group and naval posts belonging to the group, among other sites.
Pictures released by the military early Sunday showed extensive damage to several of the sites hit during the round of Arclight airstrikes early Friday, which came after two rockets were fired at Tel Aviv in what Israeli authorities now apparently believe to have been an accident.
Among the sites hit were a headquarters in the Rimal neighborhood of Gazoo City used by the terror group to coordinate its operations in the West Bank. The army said such operations included "directing terror attacks, building terror infrastructure, transferring money and providing logistical assistance in attacks against Israeli citizens."
Another two sites targeted during the IDF air raid early Friday morning were military outposts belonging to Hamas’s special naval force The sites were also used to produce and store weapons used by the reconnaissance unit, the army said.
Before and after aerial photos of both released by the army appeared to show the buildings reduced to rubble.
On Friday, the army said it had carried out some 100 airstrikes in Gazoo, in one of the heaviest bombardments in years.
The army said at the time that it hit an underground manufacturing site of standard-grade rockets in the Gazoo Strip, as well as a military training site that the IDF said served as Hamas’s drone center in the south of the enclave.
A position belonging to Hamas’s military wing, near its leader Ismail Haniya’s family home on the outskirts of Gazoo City, was damaged, with rubble strewn across the road, an AFP journalist said after the strikes.
Four Paleostinians were maimed in the Gazoo strikes, the enclave’s Hamas-run health ministry said.
Local Paleostinian media in Gazoo said that Israeli naval vessels also took part in the strikes off the coast of Rafah. According to the IDF, The naval power infrastructures are held in these compounds and are used to create weapons for the benefit of the force.
[Breitbart] Presidential candidate Robert "Beto’:O’Rourke has confirmed he participated in the controversial hacker group "Cult of the Dead Cow," at least while he was a teen.
"His background in hacking circles has repeatedly informed his strategy as he explored and subverted established procedures in technology, the media and government," according to Joseph Menn, who interviewed the 2020 hopeful while O’Rourke was still running for U.S. Senate. O’Rourke may not have participated in breaking into computers, as no evidence has surfaced to that effect, according to Menn’s Friday article in Reuters.
Menn wrote that at least 12 members of the "Cult of the Dead Cow" hacker group have come forward about O’Rourke’s membership, "Members of the group have protected O’Rourke’s secret for decades, reluctant to compromise his political viability." Menn held the info back until AFTER the Senate loss
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Why are they still talking about this guy? Criminal B&E he dodges out on, drunk driving and totals out a vehicle then evades police, writes about murdering children, family involved and CONVICTED of money laundering, sells out the locals to big money in his homw town, zero legislative accomplishments, and now this - part of an illegal hacker group.
How the hell did the press not do its job? Instead they are hiding it and writing hagiographies.
Can you imagine a conservative or Republican who did all this, the press would burn him at the stake.
This deliberate disinformation campaign is as bad as anything ever done by Goebbels or Stalin.
Cult:
NOUN
A relatively small group of people having religious beliefs or practices regarded by others as strange or sinister.
A misplaced or excessive admiration for a particular person or thing.
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Why are they still talking about this guy?
His Kennedyesque horse face is the whole story. The left is completely immersed in cultic charisma worship. As words are a bit much for the younger members of the cult to manage, the back-room manipulators have figured faces that push the right buttons are the way to go.
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He's an empty suit the handlers think they can use to soften the rent-seeking regulations they can push while saying they're progressive.
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I'm all for the cult of the dead cow. They're delicious over a open pit fire.
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I'm all for the cult of the dead cow. They're delicious over a open pit fire.
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Doubly delicious! Pass the BBQ sauce, please.
I watched a Scott Adams podcast today where he argued that the reason someone like Beto with such a thin resume thinks he can become Prez is due to youthful consumption of hallucinogens. Apparently, not being constrained by normal considerations of reality makes one overly optimistic.
[Ynet] La Belle France has repatriated several young children from camps in Northern Syria, its foreign ministry said on Friday, reiterating that faceless myrmidons who joined 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.... should be tried where they committed crimes abroad.
The ministry said the children were either orphans or separated from their parents in the camp.
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[Babylon Bee] BURLINGTON, VT‐In an attempt to get into the spirit of St. Patrick's Day, senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders camped out in the woods near one of his homes to try to catch a leprechaun.
Espying a greedy little fellow hoarding a pot of gold near the end of a rainbow late in the morning, Sanders leaped out of a tree and grabbed the frightened mythological man by the collar, immediately beginning to rant about how the leprechaun is harming society by keeping the gold to himself. The leprechaun quickly teleported a few feet away and began cackling at the elderly senator, who shook his fist and waved his cane in the little guy's direction.
"You give that pot of gold to ol' Bernie here for redistribution right away, you little weasel!" Sanders was heard shouting as he pursued the small man clothed in green across a field. "And I don't want any of your tricks---every last gold coin must be surrendered to me for the greater good!"
Finally, the leprechaun grew tired of hearing Sanders rant about the means of production and the plight of the proletariat, and so handed over the pot of gold just to shut him up.
At publishing time, sources had confirmed that Sanders would, of course, be skimming a little off the top for himself as compensation for his selfless redistribution services.
[IsraelTimes] Protesters also raise national flag over the Gate of Mercy amid soaring tensions over access to shuttered mosque.
Paleostinian worshipers on Friday ripped the doors off a building on the Temple Mount complex at the heart of recent tensions between Israeli security forces and the Islamic Waqf, which acts as the custodian of the volatile holy site on behalf of Jordan and the Paleostinian Authority.
The Paleostinian protesters removed the doors of the Gate of Mercy, or Bab al-Rahma, after Friday prayers, despite instructions from the Waqf, the Temple Mount custodian and the head sheikh, all of whom had urged calm.
A group of protesters also raised the Paleostinian flag on the roof of the building, and it was then removed by police, according to the Haaretz daily.
The Gate of Mercy was sealed by Israeli authorities in 2003 because the group managing the area had ties to Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",, and it has been kept closed to stop illegal construction work there by the Waqf.
Israeli officials believe the work carried out by the Waqf, which refused to allow any Israeli observers, has led to the destruction of antiquities from periods of Jewish presence in the area.
The Waqf has repeatedly challenged the closure, convening and staging prayer-protests in the area that often erupted into festivities with police.
Last month, the Waqf reopened the site and Paleostinian worshipers have begun to use it as a mosque, despite Israeli attempts to keep the area sealed.
Since then, several low-level festivities have broken out between Paleostinian worshipers and Israeli security forces. On Thursday, police sealed off the entire Temple Mount after a Molotov cocktail was thrown at an officer.
High-level Israeli and Jordanian officials have been holding talks in the hope of defusing the situation. Last week, Israeli officials traveled to Jordan for meetings, and Jordanian officials have also visited Jerusalem, according to Israeli reports.
The talks were ongoing and the sides have yet to come to an agreement, the Haaretz daily reported this week.
Jordan has suggested that the site be closed for long-term renovations. While the Israelis agree, they insist it must first be closed without renovations taking place, as a statement of Israeli authority. This disagreement has reportedly stood in the way of a deal.
[The Hill] The New Mexico state Senate voted to approve legislation to abolish Columbus Day and replace the national holiday with Indigenous Peoples Day.
The state Senate passed the legislation, also known as House Bill 100, in a 22-15 vote on Friday, the Albuquerque Journal reports.
The bill, which has already been approved by the state House, now heads to the desk of New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) for consideration.
Proponents of the measure argue that the passage of the bill, which was sponsored by Democratic state Reps. Derrick Lente and Andrea Romero, would better reflect the state’s culture.
According to 2017 U.S. Census data, more than 12 percent of the state’s population is comprised of Native Americans.
The report comes months after San Francisco’s primary legislative body voted to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day in an effort to recognize the "historic discrimination and violence" against Native Americans in the U.S.
Lawmakers in Kansas are also considering abolishing Columbus Day and replacing the holiday with Indigenous Peoples Day.
If passed, House Bill 100 would make New Mexico the fourth state in the country to enact the such legislation.
[IsraelTimes] So-called ’zero-click’ technology allows hackers to access victims’ data without any action by the target; newspaper says it was used to hack Gantz’s phone.
Russia recently supplied Iran with advanced technology that allows remote hacking of cellphones without the victim taking any action, Channel 12 news reported Saturday.
Currently, most phone hacking relies on Trojan horse malware that downloads itself and infects the device after the user is baited to click a link or open a file.
The report, citing cyber experts, said the so-called zero-click technology allows hostile hackers to quietly access sensitive systems, without any interaction by the user.
The report came three days after news broke that Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz’s cellphone was hacked by Iran.
Yaniv Balmas, head of cyber research at Check Point Software Technologies, told the Globes newspaper on Saturday that it seemed Gantz’s phone was hacked "with a zero-click type attack."
In such attacks, he said, "it’s enough for the attacker to know the target’s phone number. If, for instance, the attacker knows the target uses an iPhone, and he knows of a vulnerability in a specific component of the iPhone’s cellular modem... it’s enough to send a text to the phone in order to gain control of it."
Channel 12 news first reported Thursday that Gantz, a former military chief, was approached five weeks ago by officials from the Shin Bet security service who informed him that his personal phone had been hacked by Iran following his formal entry into politics in December.
The Shin Bet agents reportedly told Gantz that hackers in Tehran got hold of his personal details and text messages and that he should assume that any sensitive information in the phone could be used against him in the future. They told him to proceed as he saw fit.
Blue and White, and Gantz himself, have stressed no sensitive information was on the phone and noted it was hacked four years after he retired as army chief of staff.
In January, Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman warned that a foreign state "intends to intervene" in Israel’s upcoming elections on April 9.
Though the comments were made in a public forum, the military censor placed a gag order on much of what Argaman said.
Days later, Russia said it was not planning to interfere in the polling, with a Kremlin front man saying Moscow "has never interfered in elections in any country."
[IsraelTimes] Attorney for Michael White, convicted of insulting Iran’s supreme leader and posting private information online, says regime using client as leverage against Washington.
A US Navy veteran from Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in Iran, his lawyer said Saturday, becoming the first American known to be imprisoned there since US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... took office.
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[Radio Shabelle] A remote-controlled landmine struck a military convoy carrying African Union troops in southern Somalia on Saturday, witnesses said.
The attack took place on the outskirts of Balad town in Middle Shabelle region after an improvised explosive device ripped through the armoured vehicles ferrying the peacemakers.
The were no immediate reports of the casualties from the IED attack on the Burundian soldiers of AMISOM contingent.
The Al-Qaeda-linked militant group, Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the bombing through a statement, saying one vehicle was destroyed in the attack.
[AMN] Protesters clashed with police in Berlin on Saturday, after a demonstration against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned chaotic.
Police detained several protesters who broke through a police cordon that was guarding counter-demonstrators near the Russian embassy.
Around 250 people joined the march in the German capital, marking the eighth anniversary of the Syrian uprising under the pouring rain, waving banners and shouting slogans like ’Assad must go,’ and ’Out with Putin,’ among others.
Cities such as Damascus and Homs experienced major civil unrest, starting on 15 March 2011 and coming to an end by late July.
[Radio Shabelle] Somali special forces killed eight al-Shabaab militants overnight in the country’s Lower Shabelle region, state media said Tuesday.
"Somali security forces conducted an overnight operation in Daru Salam village in Lower Shabelle and killed eight members of the Al-Shabaab terrorist group," the Somali National News Agency reported.
Adow Mohamed, a Somali National Army captain in Lower Shabelle, confirmed the operation to Anadolu Agency by phone.
"Our special forces alongside our international partners conducted an operation against al-Shabaab in Daru Salam in the Lower Shabelle region after we received intelligence and killed eight al-Shabaab fighters," Mohamed said.
Meanwhile, al-Shabaab claimed it had killed one U.S. serviceman and wounded two others.
U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), which is targeting al-Shabaab in Somalia, has not commented on the incident so far.
[AMN] BEIRUT, LEBANON (1:45 A.M.) ‐ The UAE-backed troops launched a massive offensive against the Houthi forces in western Yemen on Saturday.
According to reports from western Yemen, the UAE-backed Giants Brigade, stormed the Wadi Maqsab area of western Ta’iz on Saturday, seizing several points from the Houthi troops in the area.
Backed by Saudi Coalition airstrikes, the Giants Brigade managed to seize all of the Wadi Maqsab area after the Houthi forces made the decision to withdraw in order to avoid any more casualties. "Run awayyyyy"
The Houthi forces will likely launch a counter-attack in the coming hours as they look to reclaim the territory they lost in the Ta’iz Governorate this weekend.
[PJ] he attack on the mosques, like Anders Breivik's murderous rampage in idyllic Norway, happened in New Zealand, ironically rated in 2017 the safest country in the world after Iceland. It's a sad reminder that no place is exempt from ethnic conflict. Et in Arcadia ego sum, whether Arcadia is Africa, Burma, or Western China. Wherever populations mix under pressure there's the potential for volatility. As a New York Times article reminded its readers in 2014, the Rwandan massacre had its roots in the population policies of European governments.
In 1884, 130 years ago, European powers gathered in Berlin for a conference under Chancellor Otto von Bismarck that historians depict as setting the rules for the scramble for Africa among outside powers that soon fractured it into a jigsaw of new nations.
... the impact of this colonial cartography lingers in profound sensitivities at the legacy of the outsiders’ incursions into a continent that did not invite them to define its frontiers or impose their definitions of nationhood.
If tribal patchworks were the legacy of 19th-century European imperialism, then multicultural populations are the consequence of the global world. Economic advantage demands them but there are dangers lurking in those arrangements.
For example, the inclusion of the Muslim parts of Mindanao into the predominantly Christian Philippines under the Treaty of Paris caused mischief beginning with the U.S. vs Moro Wars that continues to this day. After the Muslim insurrection in the early 1970s, the mayhem became chronic, with gangs shooting up mosques, rebels kidnapping school children, and warlords killing journalists en masse. The latest chapter, the Battle of Marawi, had hardly ended before the NYT was warning that Mindanao may be the next stronghold of ISIS. It's now a conflict whose end no one knows.
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After a massacre of Muslims committed by non-Muslims:
Politicians publicly declare their solidarity with Islam and Muslims. This solidarity is also extended to Muslim organizations who are promoting totalitarian theocracy.
Mosques get police protection.
Political and social concessions to Muslims are made. Critics of Islam are pressured to shut up.
If guns were involved there are calls for increased gun control.
After a massacre of non-Muslims committed by Muslims:
Politicians publicly declare their solidarity with Islam and Muslims. This solidarity is also extended to Muslim organizations who are promoting totalitarian theocracy.
Mosques get police protection.
Political and social concessions to Muslims are made. Critics of Islam are pressured to shut up.
If guns were involved there are calls for increased gun control.
[CNN] "We are doing more stringent inspections so we feel confident before we accept any plane from Boeing," Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek told CNN.
While the discovery of trash and tools in the planes is not a result of design flaw, or a specific safety concern, Air Force officials privately told CNN they were aware that the timing of the problem is exceptionally sensitive for Boeing after the grounding of its 737 Max jet.
Roper emphasized to reporters that while the issue of the material and objects -- known as Foreign Object Debris, or FOD -- being left inside an aircraft as it comes off the production line is not a design or safety risk, it is a matter of great concern to the military.
"FOD is really about every person, everyone in the workforce, following those procedures and bringing a culture of discipline for safety," Roper said.
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It is deliberate contempt for the company by the workers. They are doubtlessly being abused. Union workers in the 70s used to do the same in Detroit, leave tools and trash in door cavities.
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it isn’t necessarily the workers being abused — unions have been known to get greedy, too. Or so it sounded to me, listening to stories about the steelworkers at Bethleham Steel in the 1970s, before the company was driven out of business. The unions won all their demands for wages and benefits for decades, until they priced their product out of the changing marketplace.
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The plane was built in Everett, WA, also known for the Everett Massacre in 1916. The folks there were pretty PO'd recently when Boeing built a new plant in South Carolina. The South Carolinians wisely rejected a machinists' union organizing attempt. Pretty nice plant you got there in Everett. Too bad if anything happened to it.
Boeing figured it out and moved HQ to Chicago in 2001. Some how, just not comfy in Seattle. Wanted to be closer to DC and NY. Sounds like another Seattle company. Seattle is lucky Gary Kildall's wife didn't know want an NDA is. The rest of the world has had to suffer with DOS and Windows for far too long.
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Management has plenty of time for meetings. Too much time in the office behind a desk. No 'walk abouts'.
Now their commercial aircraft are dropping out of the skies.
Sounds like the classical rot of empire building, paper pushing bureaucracy, who forgot why they exist. See - GM
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Slightly off topic. Okay, galactically off topic. I read Mrs. Davis's cogent post and my brain fixed on why a guitar playing cat loving cross dresser was posting at the Burg. After another sip or two of coffee, my brain slipped back into this reality and I remembered the guitar player is Mrs. Smith. Coffee fixes a lot of things.
https://www.worldofsmith.com/
Carry on.
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The second largest shareholder of News Corp, parent of Fox News, is Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal. Notorious for a $10 million check and an explanation of why Americans deserved the 9/11 attacks.
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All great theories.
Occam says: "Onsite maintenance crews are cheaper than assembly plant crews. Faster delivery, cheaper if we clean them after receipt."
Especially if you dun the manufacturer for leaving a mess to clean up.
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A friend owned a 1976 Chrysler convertible and for years he noticed every time he made a hard left turn there was a clunking sound from the front fender well or door. Finally in the early 80s he had the power window repaired on the drivers side when they took the door panel off they found a Coke bottle in a recess of the door with a note inside. the note said “drives ya crazy don’t it”. UAW humor at it’s finest
[AlAhram] The Australian holy warrior suspected of carrying out the New Zealand mosque massacre visited Croatia just over two years ago, police told the Hina news agency on Saturday.
Brenton Tarrant was charged in court on Saturday, with Sherlocks now trying to piece together how his holy warrior views managed to go undetected by the intelligence services.
"The police have information about the movements of this person in December 2016 and January 2017," a spokeswoman for Croatia police said.
Earlier on Saturday, local media said Tarrant had visited Zagreb during that period as well as several other towns on Croatia's Adriatic coast, including Zadar, Sibenik and Dubrovnik. Croatian Sherlocks are looking into the reasons for his visit, Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic told HRT national television.
On Friday, Bulgaria also began investigating a recent visit by Tarrant between November 9-15 last year, claiming he wanted "to visit historical sites and study the history of the Balkan country," chief prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov said. He had also made a short visit to the Balkans from December 28-30, 2016, travelling by bus across Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, they said.
Media reports said the gunman had listened to a Serbian song about convicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic en route to the massacre, and also had the names of two historical Serbian and Montenegro leaders written in Cyrillic on his gun.
Ethnic hatreds fuelled the bloody dissolution of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, sparking wars that left 130,000 dead and displaced millions as borders were redrawn.
Tarrant, handcuffed and wearing a white prison suit, stood silently in the Christchurch District Court where he was remanded without a plea. He is due back in court on April 5 and police said he was likely to face further charges.
Prosecutors in Bulgaria on Friday launched a probe into a recent visit to the country by an Australian man alleged to be the gunman who killed 49 people in attacks on two New Zealand mosques.
The suspected assailant visited Bulgaria from November 9-15 last year claiming he wanted "to visit historical sites and study the history of the Balkan country", Bulgaria's public prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov said, adding that the inquiry would establish if this was "correct or if he had other objectives."
Australia has banned right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos from touring the nation over his social media response to the Christchurch mosque shootings. Australian Immigration Minister David Coleman said in a statement that Yiannopoulos' social media comments are "appalling and foment hatred and division."
Coleman didn't specify the comments he was referring to.
Yiannopoulos said on Facebook that attacks like Christchurch happen because "the establishment panders to and mollycoddles extremist leftism and barbaric, alien religious cultures."
Lawmakers within Australia's conservative government had been quarreling in recent weeks on whether the firebrand commentator should be allowed to tour Australia this year.
Brenton Tarrant had decorated his rifles with names of other far-right Lions of Islam and those that it appears he considers heroes of history who fought Moslems.
A TRT investigation shows that he included the name of Alexandre Bissonnette on his rifle. In 2017, Bissonnette murdered six people at a mosque in Canada. He also added Anton Lundlin Pettersson ‐ a student who murdered two migrant children in Sweden ‐ onto the stock of the gun. According to Italia’s The Local, he also added the name Luca Traini onto one of his clips of ammunition. In 2018, Traini injured six people in a racially motivated attack on black people in Macerata.
[IsraelTimes] Two other suspects arrested not connected to Brenton Tarrant’s assault on Christchurch mosques, police say, amid outpouring of grief in shaken nation
The death toll from horrifying shootings at two mosques in New Zealand rose to 50, police said Sunday, as Christchurch residents flocked to memorial sites and churches across the city Sunday to lay flowers and mourn the victims.
The additional death was discovered as bodies were being removed from the mosques in the southern city, police said, with forensic officers from across New Zealand flying into the city to assist with the identification process.
Another man arrested on Friday will appear in court on Monday on charges that are “tangential” to the attacks, though he was not believed to be involved in the shootings, Police Commissioner Mike Bush told reporters Sunday.
Two other suspects arrested at a police cordon during the attacks when a firearm was found in their car were not directly involved in Tarrant’s assault, he added. One of the two, a woman, has been released, and a man remains in custody on firearms charges, Bush said.
“At this moment, only one person has been charged in relation to these attacks,” he said.
Fifty people were wounded in the carnage, and doctors have worked around the clock to treat the 36 people still hospitalized for gunshot wounds and other injuries sustained in the attacks.
Muslims make up just one percent of New Zealand’s population.
[AnNahar] Moroccan authorities said Friday the navy had rescued 21 people after a boat carrying migrants colonists sunk in the Mediterranean, with a rights group saying 45 others had drowned in the incident.
Tangiers-based association Caminando Fronteras said survivors and relatives reported "45 people bit the dust" Thursday after the vessel hit trouble as it headed towards Spain.
The group's director Helena Maleno wrote on Twitter that there were a total of 67 people onboard the boat and that seven women were among the survivors.
"Only one body has been recovered," she said.
A senior Moroccan official refused to confirm the corpse count given by Caminando Fronteras, but said the navy had rescued 21 people.
A second human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... organization, AMDH-Nador, confirmed to AFP that one body had been taken to a local hospital after the navy rescue operation.
In the wake of the incident the Spanish coastguard said they had offered to help Morocco and sent a helicopter to assist.
The issue of migrants colonists making illegal crossings to Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... is highly sensitive in Morocco and the authorities are often cagey about giving details.
In January Caminando Fronteras reported that 50 migrants colonists from Mauritania drowned off the Moroccan coast, but the authorities never confirmed the deaths.
The NGO alerts naval authorities to migrant boats in distress at sea as they attempt the crossing to Europe.
Activist Maleno said this month that a Moroccan court has dropped human trafficking charges against her, saying it sets a precedent for her struggle to save lives at sea.
Last year saw a "substantial increase" in arrivals to Europe along the western route from Morocco, with over 65,000 people making it across the Mediterranean there, the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... has said.
The International Organization for Migration says over 2,200 people died trying to make the perilous sea journey to Europe in 2018.
Moroccan authorities say they stopped 89,000 people from sub-Saharan Africa and Morocco from making the journey during the year and rescued 29,715.
[Big League Politics] Although the tea party is far past its apex, the fights they started are still ongoing and driving the national conversation. A revolutionary Tenth Amendment lawsuit in Tennessee that has the potential to restore the rights of states to reject dangerous migrants from third-world countries is ready to be heard in the court of appeals.
"This case seeks to protect and vindicate the fundamental constitutional status of the State of Tennessee as a sovereign entity not subject to unconstitutional coercion and commandeering by the federal government," the lawsuit reads.
"This suit is not intended to inflict harm on immigrants or refugees from any nation. Rather, this is a suit that seeks to preserve the constitutional relationship between the federal government and the states as mandated by our nation’s founders," another excerpt from the lawsuit reads.
Attorney John Bursch of the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) will be representing the state of Tennessee and its General Assembly next week on behalf of state sovereignty and national security. He will be facing a 3-judge panel of the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. They aim to reverse coercive federal mandates forcing states to fund the refugee resettlement program, which they believe disregards the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution.
Forty-five minute video interview in English can be watched at the link.
[Rudaw] Hassan Hassa, the director of Nonstate Actors Program at the Center for Global Policy, speaks with Rudaw news hound Roj Eli Zalla during The Washington Perspective on March 15, 2019.
As Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) supported by the US-led international coalition continue to squeeze 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) fighters into their last stronghold in Syria of al-Baghouz, the group has effectively lost its "caliphate" but will return to insurgency tactics.
"Nobody expected this many people to stay until the end in that piece of land between Iraq and Syria," said Hassan Hassan.
He also contributed underestimations of remaining ISIS fighters to a "lack of visibility" among the coalition.
"They thought ISIS is already finished after Raqqa," Hassan said, referring to the international coalition.
He argued even ISIS was unsure whether Baghouz would be the spot of their final battle against the SDF and coalition.
Hassan mentions that ISIS was active on multiple fronts in southern Hasaka and there were even talks of an Iraqi Security Forces offensive across the border.
"I don't think ISIS knew Baghouz would be the last stand, but they prepared for this kind of scenario in different areas. So if wouldn't have been Baghouz, it would have been probably either Hajin or Sousa or Shafa..." he surmised.
Hassan predicts the next phase for ISIS is "insurgency" similar to conditions in 2014.
Shift in Sunni extremism
Hassan argues that jihadism by Sunnis has become more localized, offering examples in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan and Libya.
"What happened from 2011 until now is we started to see the jihadis and jihadists groups across the region ‐ Sunni groups ‐ being submerged in local struggles, in local conflicts," he said.
"It changed their priorities. Their enemies are local."
He offers the example of the difference in the late Osama bin Laden ... who doesn't live anywhere anymore... and Abu Bakir al-Baghdadi's forms of jihadism.
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[Rudaw] 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) forces of Evil entered the village of Kocho, 25 km southeast of Sinjar city, on August 3, 2014. For several days after their arrival, nothing happened. Then, on August 15, the jihadists launched their genocide of the Yezidis.
They took 1,250 men, women and kiddies into Kocho High School. Four-hundred men were then taken to the outskirts of the village where they were killed. Just 19 survived to bear witness.
Finding no use for them, ISIS also slaughtered 77 older women. Children were indoctrinated, radicalized, and taught how to fight. At least 850 women and girls were taken as slaves.
"Our neighbors betrayed us and killed all our brothers," said Shada Salih, a survivor of Kocho.
"They were held captive for 14 days and no one tried to rescue them. Our brothers were just shepherds and young boys. Neighbors turned to ’faith’ and became our enemies and killed our brothers in groups," she wept.
Almost four-and-a-half years later, the Iraqi government, United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... , and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) are supporting an experienced international team, which began exhuming the suspected mass gravesites of Kocho on Friday.
"This is a site of killing, of mass graves," said Khan Karim, a British QC who is heading the UNITAD-Iraq investigation.
"It is one of 11 mass graves in Kocho, one of 70 mass graves in Sinjar, and one of hundreds of mass graves in Iraq that are the result of ISIS crimes," he said, using an Arabic acronym for ISIS.
"So of course what we have to do is to uncover them, see what the evidence is, look at the rounds, look at the bullets, look at other information or evidence that may feed into a criminal trial in accordance with international standards," he added.
This start of the exhumation process in Shingal is the first under the auspices of the UN since the genocidal campaign by ISIS.
Today, nobody lives in Kocho. Most buildings have collapsed and are unsuitable to use. Political tensions exist between the Iraqi federal government, KRG, federal police, the army, Peshmerga, gangs, and Hashd al-Shaabi paramilitias.
Locals say just 630 of the village’s original inhabitance are living. They will not return any time soon, and most live in IDP camps in the Kurdistan Region.
"Much of my family was lost, and with the loss of Kocho’s villagers, almost all were killed," said Shreen Ibrahim, a survivor of Kocho.
"Few survived ‐ from my whole family, only my sister and me. The rest all were killed in the massacres."
"We have lost a lot."
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) ‐ The Iraqi Defense Ministry denied on Saturday media reports that its warplanes targeted an 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.... position in the oil-rich province of Kirkuk.
In a press statement, a copy of which was obtained by Alghad Press, the ministry denied that its F16 jet fighters raided a hideout of nine Islamic State turbans in Wadi Abul Khanager area between al-Riyad and al-Rashad districts in Kirkuk.
"All reports circulated in this regard are baseless," the statement read.
Kirkuk officials previously urged reinforcing military troops in the south and west of the province, as the region still has Islamic State members who escaped during the liberation of Hawija to remote areas.
NEW YORK (AP) ‐ A 24-year-old man was arrested Saturday in the shooting death of the reputed boss of the Gambino crime family, New York City police said.
Anthony Comello was arrested in New Jersey in the death of Francesco Cali on Wednesday in front of his Staten Island home, said Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea, who stressed that the investigation is in its early stages.
[AlAhram] Turkey’s Erdogan is busy attacking former allies. But will rhetoric alone save him at the polls
Once again, Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... dug into his rhetorical quiver, pulled out the word "traitor," and fired it, not at adversaries this time but at former companions with whom he had parted ways. In a recent campaign rally in Tokat, he lashed out against fellow founders and members of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) whom he had cast aside, one after the other, in the course of his quest for autocratic power.
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[AnNahar] Leb’s mostly non-existent border with Syria raises concerns amid recent reports claiming that Syrian nationals fleeing military service and others belonging 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.... terror group have been smuggled illegally into Leb, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Saturday.
Unnamed sources told the daily on condition of anonymity that "smuggling of Syrian nationals through legal border crossings from Syria into Leb has increased lately."
They pointed out that the operations are carried out through smugglers active in both the Lebanese and Syrian sides, and not only include those fleeing military service or facing criminal acts in Syria, but also includes individuals linked to the terrorist groups of the Islamic State and al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front.
"These are brought from Idlib into Leb, and some of them have arrived in Wadi Khaled," said the source.
Although Leb’s security services "managed to arrest some of them, but the smuggling operations are taking place on a daily basis," said the source.
"Lebanese authorities involved in the Lebanese-Syrian border file have raised concern, and fear that the smuggling would be preceded by serious preparations by the murderous Moslems for Leb," concluded the source.
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One hopes that in response the government of Iraq will exert itself to at least send a stiff diplomatic note, though one is not sanguine on the subject.
[IraqiNews.com] ‐ Two Ottoman Turkish soldiers were killed and eight others were maimed Saturday in festivities with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Death Eaters in northern Iraq, Arab News quoted the Ottoman Turkish defense ministry as said.
Six bully boys, including a woman, were "neutralized" during the operations, the ministry said in a statement. The Ottoman Turkish army uses the term "neutralize" when it kills, captures or wounds combatants.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... regularly carries out air strikes on PKK bases in northern Iraq, as President Tayyip Erdogan pursues his aim of ending the bully boy group’s presence near Turkey’s borders.
The PKK, considered a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and Turkey, has waged a three-decade insurgency in Turkey’s largely Kurdish southeast that has killed about 40,000 people.
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Ottoman Turkish military skirmished in the northern mountains of the Kurdistan Region on Saturday, resulting in fatalities to Ottoman Turkish soldiers.
"During fighting in the operation in northern Iraq on 16 March 2019 two of our brave soldiers were martyred and eight of theirs injured in the same operation," read a statement from the Ottoman Turkish Ministry of Defense released by state-media Anadolu Agency.
Ankara added in the operation six members of the PKK were killed including one female.
Locals told Rudaw that two Ottoman Turkish military planes were flying over Bradost area on Saturday morning.
At 6 a.m., PKK fighters attacked a Ottoman Turkish base on Mount Chyadel from Barmiza village, a source told Rudaw English who requested anonymity citing security concerns.
The source added that fighting continued until 8:30 a.m., but Ottoman Turkish helicopters arrived, apparently to retrieve their casualties, which the source claimed to be at least two dozen.
According to media close to the PKK, the fighting took place in the areas between Chyadel and Bradost. Roj News added the Ottoman Turkish Army was retrieving their maimed via helicopter.
The PKK did not immediately publish a statement on the fighting. The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has been in full control of Barmeza village, where Saturday's fighting took place.
In late January, protesters stormed a Ottoman Turkish base in Shiladze in Duhok province after a deadly attack by the army.
Its mountainous borders with Kurdistan Region have been hotspots for festivities. The PKK’s headquarters is in the Qandil district near the borders with Iran and Turkey. Their festivities sometimes result in civilian casualties.
The outlawed PKK is an armed political group that has clashed with Ottoman Turkish state for decades. It claims to be fighting for greater political, minority and cultural rights in Turkey.
Turkey has military presence in Kurdistan Region since the early 1990s, especially in those areas which are not under the direct control of the KRG.
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[KhaamaPress] At least eleven Taliban militants were killed or wounded after attacking an army outpost in Kandahar province which sparked clash with the Afghan armed forces.
According to 205th Atal Corps officials, the Taliban militants launched the attack early on Thursday morning in Mya Neshin district with an aim to capture the outpost and kill its occupants.
“The 1st Brigade, 205th Corps Soldiers engaged in a fire-fight with the Taliban to attempt to deter them from moving any closer to the checkpoint. The checkpoint commander called his mortar team to fire their mortars at the Taliban which caused them to retreat from the checkpoint. The 205th Corps then moved to the position where the Taliban had engaged them from and discovered they had killed 7 Taliban and wounded an additional 4 insurgents during the course of the fight,” the officials said.
“Our training proved critical during this clash with the Taliban,” said the 205th Corps checkpoint commander. “We have had a very busy winter with operations against the Taliban so we feel we have gotten a lot better at defending ourselves.”
The 205th Corps has spent time over the last few weeks training on accuracy and precision with their mortar teams as the spring fighting season approaches.
“We would love a ceasefire and see peace soon, but until then, we still have to be prepared to defend ourselves and our citizens so they do not have to be afraid,” said the 205th Corps spokesperson.
[ToloNews] At least four people were killed in an explosion in Arghandab district in Kandahar province on Saturday evening, local officials confirmed.
Initial reports indicate that the explosion was as a result of an embedded IED.
Kandahar Police Chief Gen. Tadin Khan said Haji Zemarai, Commander of Public Protection Forces Unit in Kandahar was among the victims of the attack.
Sources, however, told TOLOnews that only two of the victims were civilians and the two others were security commanders.
According to the sources, in addition to Zemarai, another police commander Mullah Gul was killed in the explosion.
In another explosion in southern Helmand province on Saturday evening, one security force member was killed and three others wounded, local officials said.
The incident happened in Lashkargah city when an IEC embedded in a security forces vehicle detonated.
[KhaamaPress] An operational center of Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... was destroyed in multiple precision Arclight airstrikes which were carried out in Tarinkot city, the quiet provincial capital of Uruzgan province.
“Nine Taliban fighters were killed and one militant operations center destroyed by airstrikes in Tarin Kot district, Uruzgan province, March 15, 2019,” informed military sources said Saturday.
The sources further added “After multiple hours of monitoring and tracking Taliban fighters entering a building known for staging and planning future attacks against Afghan civilians, the building was destroyed by multiple precision airstrikes.”
The anti-government armed militants including Taliban have not commented regarding the airstrikes so far.
Uruzgan is among the relatively volatile provinces in South of Afghanistan. The anti-government armed militants are active in some of its districts and often attempt to carry out attacks against the government and security institutions.
The Special Forces of Afghan Intelligence or National Directorate of Security (NDS) stormed a hideout of a commander of the Red Unit of Taliban ...Arabic for students... in Uruzgan killing at least 22 militants and confiscating large amount of weapons, munitions, and explosives.
According to a statement released by NDS, the raid was conducted in the vicinity of Tarinkot city, the provincial capital of Uruzgan province.
The statement further added that the hideout belonged to a commander of the Red Unit of Taliban identified as Mullah Aminullah.
The National Directorate of Security also added that 22 militants were killed during the raid and another suspect identified as Abdul Hadi son of Dost Mohammad was arrested.
In addition to this, the NDS Special Forces confiscated 50 kilograms of explosives, a Dshk heavy machine gun, a PKM machine gun, 4 improvised explosive devices, 6 hand grenades, a radio set, 2 military uniforms, a Fielder type vehicle, a motorcycle, and hundreds of rounds of munitions.
...and a partridge in a pear tree.
The anti-government armed militants including Taliban have not commented regarding the operation so far.
[AlAhram] A fire killed at least eight people and left 15,000 others without shelter after raging through a northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... n camp for people displaced by a war against Islamist murderous Moslems, aid group Norwegian Refugee Council said on Saturday.
Northeast Nigeria is ground zero for one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, sparked by a now decade-long conflict with Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... and its splinter group 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.... West Africa Province.
Roughly 2 million people have been displaced by the war, often living in squalid camps with little food, shelter or medicine.
"The source of the fire was a spark from a cooking stove, used by a child preparing her food," Norwegian Refugee Council said on Twitter, describing the disaster in the town of Gajiram in Borno, the state worst hit by the conflict.
"Immediately, the family shelter, made of dry vegetation, was ablaze...The survivors of the fire are now left without shelters & clean water to drink & cook. They are dispersed, desperately seeking shelters under trees or under the direct sunlight."
Some 6,000 children and more than 4,000 pregnant and nursing women were among those affected, it added.
In recent weeks, Nigerian and Chadian forces have launched an offensive against Islamic State's Lake Chad stronghold after being on the back for much of 2018 and early 2019.
The Nigerian military has said it has killed dozens of murderous Moslem fighters. Rooters has been unable to verify the figures.
Many aid groups expect the humanitarian crisis to last years.
[AnNahar] An online propaganda magazine 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.... group has confirmed the death of two French brothers who were members in air strikes by the U.S.-led coalition.
In its issue published Thursday, al-Naba wrote about Fabien Clain and his brother Jean-Michel in a section called "the life of a martyr."
"A Crusader airplane targeted him and he was killed," it said, referring to the coalition.
"A few days later, his brother Abu Othman (Jean-Michel) was killed in the same way," it said.
IS fighters are defending the last shreds of their "caliphate" against Kurdish-led forces backed by the coalition in the eastern Syrian village of Baghouz.
Fabien's "eldest daughter... was killed in Baghouz, and he did not survive her for long", the IS publication said.
During most of his time, Fabien worked at al-Bayan Radio, it said.
His brother Jean-Michel worked at Ajnad, an IS media production group.
"They produced a lot of chants, as well as propaganda and inciting audio tracks," the propaganda outlet added.
Fabien "waged a lot of attacks, in defense of the homes of Moslems," it added.
The US-led coalition, of which La Belle France is also a member, confirmed Fabien's death last month.
Fabien, 41, gained notoriety after voicing an audio recording claiming responsibility for the November 2015 attacks in Gay Paree, when IS jihadists slaughtered 129 people.
After fleeing Baghouz, Jean-Marc's wife Dorothee Maquere told AFP earlier this month that her husband had been killed after her brother-in-law.
Fabien was killed by a drone, and then Jean-Michel was killed by a mortar round, she said.
On its Telegram channels on Friday, IS released an infographic titled, "So you think we're going to go away?"
Below, it listed a series of attacks it claimed to have carried out including in Nigeria, Syria and Iraq.
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"A Crusader airplane"
I like that
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Huh... filter no like Tootsietoy Crusader. Oh, well. Wuz cute.
[CBC] French firefighters are working to extinguish a blaze in a Paris restaurant seen as a powerful symbol of France's elite that was torched amid yellow vest protest violence.
The flames pouring out of the posh eatery Fouquet's on the Champs-Elysées marked one of the most powerful images on a day of unusual unrest in the French capital.
The restaurant was vandalized Saturday morning and later set ablaze. Several luxury boutiques along the elegant avenue were also ransacked, and kiosks set on fire.
Fouquet's is popular among celebrities and powerbrokers.
Critics see the place as an offensive example of bourgeois decadence that is inaccessible to most French people, who are struggling to pay their bills.
It's also associated with former conservative president Nicolas Sarkozy, who celebrated his 2007 election victory in Fouquet's ‐ drawing criticism for his choice of such a flashy locale.
[AlAhram] Around 45,000 climate campaigners marched in Gay Paree Saturday to condemn what they called the French government's "inaction" on climate change, according to an estimate by several media.
The organisers of the march through the centre of the city, which coincided with "yellow vests" riots in the west, estimated that 107,000 people took part while the police put the figure at 36,000.
[KhaamaPress] More than 30 turbans affiliated with the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... and ISIS Khurasan groups were killed or maimed during the latest operations and Arclight airstrikes which were conducted in the past 24 hours in various provinces of the country.
According to informed military sources, "The Afghan Special Forces conducted a multi-day raid in Chahar district of Kunduz province. During infil, the Afghan Special Forces were engaged from a Taliban fighting position and two air strikes were conducted in self-defense killing 8 Taliban fighters."
The sources further added that similar airstrikes were carried out in Tarinkot city of Uruzgan, Bermal and Gomal districts of Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... , and Khugyani district of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
At least 24 Taliban and ISIS-K turbans were killed during the same airstrikes and another ISIS-K Death Eater was maimed, the sources added.
The anti-government armed Death Eater groups have not commented regarding the report so far.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan armed forces have thwarted a plot by Talibs to launch coordinated attack against security outposts in northern Faryab province.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North in a statement said a clash broke out between Talibs and armed forces in Arklik area of Qaisar district at around 7:30 pm local time on Friday, leaving at least 4 bandidosholy warriors dead and 3 others maimed.
The statement further added that the clash broke out while Talibs were busy planning a coordinated attack on security outposts.
According to 209th Shaheen Corps, the security personnel and local residents did not suffer casualties during the festivities.
The anti-government armed bandidosholy warriors including Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... have not commented regarding the clash so far.
This comes as the security situation in some districts of Faryab province has tanked during the recent years amid growing attempts by anti-government armed elements to expand their foothold in this province.
[ToloNews] A local journalist in Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... lost his life after he was severely maimed in an attack by unknown gunnies in the west of Khost city on Friday morning.
Sultan Mahmoud Khairkhwah was working for Zan TV network in Khost province. His relatives confirmed on Friday evening that he died due to the wounds he sustained in the gunnies’s attack.
Khairkhwah was the fourth journalist killed in Afghanistan so far this year.
Last week, Nisar Ahmadi, a local TV journalist in Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , was maimed in an IED blast in Lashkargah city.
Shafiq Aria and Rahimullah Rahmani, local journalists in Takhar province in the north of Afghanistan, were killed in an attack by unknown gunnies on their office in Taluqan city in February.
Another journalist, Jawed Noori, was killed in gunnies’s attack in Farah province in January.
This comes after a report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) placed Afghanistan among deadliest countries for journalists in 2018.
[KhaamaPress] At least two group 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.... of Iraq and Syria Khurasan (ISIS-K) were killed in an Arclight airstrike which was conducted in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East in a statement said the airstrike was carried out late on Friday afternoon in the vicinity of Khogyani district.
The anti-government armed bad boy groups including ISIS Khurasan sympathizers have not commented regarding the airstrike so far.
Nangarhar is among the relatively calm provinces in the East but the anti-government armed elements including Taliban ...Arabic for students... and ISIS Khurasan murderous Moslems are active in some of its remote districts.
Militants affiliated with both groups often attempt to carry out attacks against the government and security institutions in this province and other parts of the country.
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[Rudaw] US-backed forces battled 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 fighters Saturday as the holdout jihadists clung to the last dregs of their crumbling "caliphate" in eastern Syria.
The SDF and coalition warplanes have rained fire on the enclave since last Sunday, blitzing more than 4,000 IS fighters and family members into surrender.
US-backed forces have reduced daytime Arclight airstrikes and shelling to allow for more exits from the last jihadist bastion.
But AFP journalists at an SDF post inside Baghouz heard sporadic rounds of mortar fire Saturday, and an SDF front man said fighting was ongoing.
"Clashes broke out again last night and have continued since," SDF front man Adnan Afrin said.
"There have so far been no surrenders (today) and there’s no sign they are giving up," he told AFP.
An SDF statement said the latest fighting broke out after the Kurd-led force attacked IS positions inside Baghouz.
Around 32 jihadists, including at least four senior IS figures, were killed in the battle, it said.
Around 32 jihadists, including at least four senior IS figures, were killed in the battle, an SDF statement said.
SUICIDE ATTACKS
On Friday, IS launched three suicide kabooms outside Baghouz, killing six people as they fled the village near the Iraqi border.
They were the latest casualties in Syria’s devastating civil war as it entered its ninth year with 370,000 dead.
The US-led coalition said the bombers were dressed in women's clothing and had mixed with others who were surrendering.
"ISIS has proven to demonstrate a reckless disregard for human life and continues to be a global threat," it said late Friday, using an Arabic acronym for IS.
"We stand by our SDF partners as they fight to liberate that last ISIS-held territory," it said on Twitter.
Analyst Mutlu Civiroglu said the attacks were designed to keep "moral high" among jihadists.
"From their perspective they are resisting, they are not giving up quickly," he said.
Die-hard IS fighters have unleased a wave of suicide kabooms over the past week to impede the SDF advance.
It remains unclear how many fighters and civilians remain inside Baghouz.
More than 61,000 people have streamed out of IS-held territory since December, a tenth of them suspected jihadists, according to the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
DISTRESS, FATIGUE, MALNUTRITION
Around 3,000 people arrived at al-Hol camp from Baghouz over the past two days, pushing the camp’s population to over 69,000, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) said Saturday.
According to the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... children’s fund, UNICEF, the camp was designed with capacity for just 20,000 people.
The UN said most of the new arrivals "show clear signs of distress, fatigue, malnutrition and require some form of medical care or attention".
According to the IRC and UN, since December around 122 people have died en route to the camp or shortly after arriving, mostly small children, two of them on Thursday.
According to a new report from eastern Syria, the Syrian Democratic Forces scored a huge advance in the last 24 hours, seizing at least half of the Baghouz Camp from the Islamic State terrorists.
Furthermore, the Syrian Democratic Forces also managed to eliminate a large number of Islamic State fighters that were holed up at the northern end of the Baghouz Camp.
The Syrian Democratic Forces reportedly killed more than 150 Islamic State bully boyz that were holding the northeastern part of the Baghouz Camp.
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[Big League Politics] A recently-uncovered court document from the divorce proceedings of a prominent Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) figure alleges horrific conduct on behalf of one of the most influential lawyers in America.
Maureene Dees, ex-wife of SPLC co-founder Morris Dees filed for divorce on March 8, 1979 after a decade-long marriage marred by difficulties, according to an appellant brief obtained by Big League Politics. The brief was filed by Maury Smith, Julia S. Waters and Charles M. Crook, attorneys for Maureene, in the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals:
According to court testimony, among other perverted sexual behavior, Dees attempted to molest his 18-year-old step-daughter with a sex toy. Holly Buck was Maureene Dees’ daughter from a previous marriage.
"Holly testified that, in the summer of 1977, Morris attempted to molest her in the following incident: One night Maureene and Morris were sitting drinking wine and discussing a case Morris was trying," the brief says. "[Holly] was with them. Around eleven or twelve o’clock, Maureene went to bed and Holly stayed up with Morris discussing the case. Morris kept offering Holly wine, some of which she accepted."
Holly testified that she declined, choosing to go to bed instead.
"She went to her room and then went into the bathroom," the document says. "Looking out the window, she saw Morris in the bushes beside the bathroom window looking in. She said ’Morris, is that you’, but he said nothing and ran away."
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BTW many planes are exiting the flooding Offutt AFB and Nuke reactor at Brownsville is in flood danger.
My local news reports the flooding is affecting 10 million people and much of the upper Midwest, with Nebraska hardest hit. Our thoughts and prayers are with them all as they fight the rising waters.
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Terrible, terrible, terrible.
Is this the result of more upstream failed dams and poor flow control? More global warming I assume as the ACE engineers responsible for design and build are long gone by now.
“It’s like the Wild East out there, effendi.”
“Just do your best, Sergeant Alhamdalullah. That’s all anyone can do during these troubled times.”
[KhaamaPress] At least two people were killed or maimed in an kaboom triggered by a magnetic bomb in Kabul city earlier this morning, the security officials said.
Basir Mujahid, a front man for Kabul Police Commandment, said the incident took place in the vicinity of Kote Sangi area located in 5th police district of the city.
Mujahid further added that the magnetic bomb was planted in a private Toyota Corolla type vehicle which went off at around 8:20am local time today.
He said the blast left the driver of the vehicle dead while another individual was maimed in the kaboom.
No individual or group has so far grabbed credit for the kaboom.
The anti-government armed elements have stepped up magnetic kabooms in Kabul city and other large cities and provinces of the country during the recent years.
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.
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) ‐ Australia’s prime minister on Sunday suggested an anti-Muslim senator should be charged after he slapped a teen who cracked a raw egg over the legislator’s head.
...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart...
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
[Jpost] The organization, which proclaims to be "a women-led grassroots organization working to end US wars and militarism [and] support peace and 
[The Independent] Numerous polls suggest Mr Trump's decision was popular among his Republican base. But his decision to use executive authority to fund a wall along the southern border is opposed by a clear majority of the public.
...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...
[Washington Examiner] Former British spy Christopher Steele admitted that he relied on an unverified report on a CNN website for part of the "Trump dossier," which was used as a basis for the FBI's investigation into Trump.
[Babylon Bee] BURLINGTON, VT‐In an attempt to get into the spirit of St. Patrick's Day, senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders camped out in the woods near one of his homes to try to catch a leprechaun.
[Radio Shabelle] Somali special forces killed eight al-Shabaab militants overnight in the country’s Lower Shabelle region, state media said Tuesday.
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[Big League Politics] Although the tea party is far past its apex, the fights they started are still ongoing and driving the national conversation. A revolutionary Tenth Amendment lawsuit in Tennessee that has the potential to restore the rights of states to reject dangerous migrants from third-world countries is ready to be heard in the court of appeals.
NEW YORK (AP) ‐ A 24-year-old man was arrested Saturday in the shooting death of the reputed boss of the Gambino crime family, New York City police said.
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
[CBC] French firefighters are working to extinguish a blaze in a Paris restaurant seen as a powerful symbol of France's elite that was torched amid yellow vest protest violence.
[Rudaw] US-backed forces battled 
