[LA Times] Gov. Jerry Brown agreed Wednesday to take money but not marching orders from President Trump in deploying 400 National Guard troops to various locations around the state, insisting any service members near the border would not enforce federal immigration law.
"Your funding for new staffing will allow the Guard to do what it does best: support operations targeting transnational criminal gangs, human traffickers and illegal firearm and drug smugglers along the border, the coast and throughout the state," Brown wrote in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Defense Secretary James N. Mattis.
Brown was the last of the nation's border governors to respond to Trump's request for a beefed-up presence. In his letter, he said that he wanted to be "crystal clear" in what he was agreeing to provide.
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At the VERY first sign of difficulty, Federalize the entire bunch under an active duty General officer. Anyone who defies orders, off to Leavenworth Kansas immediately, pending UCMJ action.
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Gimme money! But I will defy any federal laws I don't like.
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There is precedent for Besoeker's suggestion in 1957 when Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard.
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Give Jer a cape and let him demand "no night time raids..."
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From 1991 - 1995 I was the Counterdrug Coordinator and Commander of the California National Guard Counter-Drug Task Force, approximately 450 active duty, Title 10, Soldiers and Airmen supporting 75 law enforcement agencies throughout the state. We did extensive work with the US Customs and US Border Patrol (now CBP) at the Port of Entry inspection cargo, constructing and improving a huge part of the cross compartment road network, especially in the San Diego Sector, built the first wall using PSP and steel landing plates, (Pierced Steel Plating was a terrible idea, like a ladder) and conducting clandestine observation post missions with reporting and coordination for the Border Patrol. Ever soldier was armed with a sidearm and there was never a shooting confrontation in 4.5 years of my tour. We had ROE and arming orders, and extensive coordination and cooperation with the BP. The Cal Guard has a long history of working on the border, knows it well and can play a vital role. The tragedy is what Brown might do as he grandstands in his special, demented way...
[E21] President Trump’s new executive order aims to reduce poverty by encouraging able-bodied adult welfare recipients to move into the labor force. A similar initiative in the United Kingdom over the past five years has been successful in raising labor force participation.
The new executive order, signed on April 10, directs federal agencies to review and adjust their public assistance programs. The Trump administration wants the federal agencies to reduce the waivers, exemptions, and exceptions for public assistance programs as well as encourage work requirements for these programs. Additionally, the executive order aims to promote flexibility for state and local governments to meet the needs of their residents.
Previously, Seema Verma, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, had approved waivers permitting three states ‐ Arkansas, Kentucky, and Indiana‐to put in place work requirements for Medicaid, and more states have expressed interest. However, President Trump’s executive order is the first of its kind to encourage nationwide change.
During the recession, the labor force participation rate decreased while the unemployment rate skyrocketed. But nine years after recovery from the recession, the United States has seen minimal increases in the labor force participation rate despite the unemployment rate remaining steady at 4.1 percent in March and 6.3 million job vacancies reported at the end of January.
Unfortunately, the entitlement system does not support upward mobility of enrollees by assisting them and encouraging them to find work. The new executive order would make federal agencies more accountable for their ability to move people into the workforce. This, along with the addition of work requirements, should lead to fewer Americans being reliant on government support and greater participation in the labor force.
Between 2009 and 2016, the latest year comparable data are available from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, both the labor participation rates for prime-age men and women in the United States have declined by over one percentage point. In comparison, the labor force participation rate in the UK for men has increased by almost one percentage point and for women by almost two percentage points.
[PJ] In a startling revelation, it's just been discovered that Facebook still employs one of the two researchers responsible for the harvesting of data from tens of millions of users and selling it to Cambridge Analytica, according to reports. The researcher, Joseph Chancellor, is now working at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., as an in-house psychologist.
Prior to his Facebook employment, Chancellor was a co-director of Global Science Research (GSR) with Aleksandr Kogan. GSR is the same company that created a personality app that was purported to be academic research, but in fact, was designed to elicit personal information that was then shared with Cambridge Analytica. He began working at Facebook in late 2015, shortly after leaving GSR. By the time he left GSR, the company had acquired personal data on millions of Facebook users.
According to The Guardian, "Chancellor is working as a researcher at Facebook’s headquarters in California, where psychologists frequently conduct research and experiments using the company’s vast trove of data on more than 2 billion users."
"It is not known how much Chancellor knew of the operation to harvest the data of more than 50 million Facebook users and pass their information on to the company that went on to run data analytics for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign," The Guardian reported.
Facebook recently announced it had suspended both Kogan and Cambridge Analytica from using the platform, pending an investigation, but made no mention of Chancellor.
[Telegraph] Boris Johnson has said the the Kremlin "must give answers" after an international watchdog confirmed that Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with a "high purity" strain of Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury.
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said that it had been able to "confirm" the findings of British scientists about the nerve agent.
It represents a significant boost to Theresa May, who has said that Russia was directly responsible for the attack. Mr Johnson said that only Russia has the "means, motive and record" to have carried out the attack.
He said: "We will now work tirelessly with our partners to help stamp out the grotesque use of weapons is this kind. The Kremlin must give answers. We must, as a world community, stand up for the rules based order which keeps us all safe. The use of weapons of this kind can never be justified, and must be ended."
The OPCW conducted tests on blood samples from the Skripals and also an analysis on samples of the agent found in Salisbury.
The team also took samples from Detective Sergeant Nicholas Bailey, who was poisoned after coming into contact with the agent while assisting the Skripals.
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"must give answers", huh? When Boris Johnson compared the Soccer/Football World Cup in Russia to Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics (where some UK athletes gave the famous salute, if I recall correctly), that cemented the fact that he is a clown and a puke that needs to go away from the [international] stage.
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They are alive because they got to a hospital that could put them in a machine that would do their breathing for them...for the few weeks it takes to clear this stuff out of nerve synapses.
I am not familiar with this agent, but my understanding from reading interviews with people who are is that unlike sarin and VX that are easily absorbed and quickly build up a high-enough concentration, this stuff is a solid that is more slowly absorbed but also hard to excrete; so it also eventually gets to a high-enough concentration to stop up the works. That is why it has little military utility and most people have never heard of it.
That difference in the timeline of symptoms gave Skripals the chance to get to a hospital and survive, whereas the Nork's brother hit with VX did not have enough time, so he died.
The fact that this was "high-purity" shows that it was produced by a sophisticated agency. The fact that they are not dead is because that sophisticated agency did not really intend to kill them. There are hundreds of better ways to really get people dead if that was what they wanted to accomplish.
[Kansas City Star] JEFFERSON CITY - Concerned about the plight of black people in her Missouri district, a Democratic state senator on Tuesday called for reparations for former slaves and criticized her own party for taking African-American votes for granted.
Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal, D-University City, criticized white Democrats, such as U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, saying there's "no difference" between them and Republicans. Both parties, she said, have failed black people.
"Neither one of them give a heck about the black community, only the votes," Chappelle-Nadal said.
Speaking on the Senate floor during a debate on a tax bill, Chappelle-Nadal said she was motivated by the calls and emails she receives about her constituents' needs.
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"Neither one of them give a heck about the black community, only the votes," Chappelle-Nadal said.
Well she got that right.
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So the reparations should be a first class one way ticket to repatriate them. Give them some cash, change their citizenship, and all is good. That will fix the wrong committed to them.
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Bill of Rights specifically prohibits Ex Post Facto laws.
Going after slave owners for a practice that was legal at the time is ex post facto.
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If they can find someone who was a slave in the US they should absolutely give that person reparations of some kind. Possibly out of the assets of the slave-holder.
[CNBC] J.P. Morgan Chase announced plans to spend $20 billion over five years to raise hourly pay for a portion of its workforce, add jobs and open 400 branches in new U.S. locations.
The bank says tax breaks, reduced regulation and an improved business climate have made it possible to make these changes, which also include adding 4,000 jobs and increasing its charitable giving.
Earlier this month, the bank reported fourth-quarter profit that beat expectations despite a $2.4 billion charge related to the tax cuts and a difficult trading environment for its investment bank.
"Having a healthy, strong company allows us to make these long-term, sustainable investments," said J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon in a statement Tuesday. "We are excited about further investing in our outstanding workforce and expanding into new U.S. markets."
Several large U.S. companies have announced one-time bonuses, investments in jobs and facilities, and growth plans since the tax overhaul enacted in Washington late last year.
J.P. Morgan has more than 252,000 employees, about half of whom work in its consumer and community banking group. It has a little more than 5,100 branches in 23 states.
Hourly wages for some 22,000 workers will rise to between $15 and $18 in more than 100 cities, the bank said. In New York, San Francisco, Boston and Jersey City, New Jersey, the increase will be at the highest end of that range. Employees are also each getting a $750 bonus later this month.
I thought brick&mortar was dead.
Must be a revenue sheltering tax strategy in play.
More to gain in spending, depreciation and loss when they're sold than solid shareholder earnings.
[The Federalist] "When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another..." ‐ The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
Divorce is hard, but it’s easier than cutting the brake lines on your wife’s car. It is long past time for an amicable divorce of the United States of America. There is simply no common ground with the Left anymore. We are now the couple screaming at each other all night, every night as the kids hide in their room.
We cannot come together, but we do not have to live like this. The history of the world is nations breaking up and redrawing their borders. If we want to avoid this political divide turning into a deadly one, we should do likewise.
Stop clinging to the past and acknowledge where we are as a country, not where you want us to be, not where things were when your grandpa was storming the beaches of Normandy. Where we truly are.
We are a nation hopelessly divided. We are more divided now than we have ever been in our history. And before you start screaming at me about the Civil War, keep in mind that bloody conflict was fought over one major issue. In those days, take ten families from New York and ten families from Alabama, put them all in a room, and you’d find they mostly had the same values (and bad accents).
Now, fast-forward to today and do that same thing. Those families have virtually nothing in common. We as a nation have polarized and separated from each other.
Anyone who thinks this is a radical idea has an extremely narrow view of history. If you don’t believe me, go try to book a plane ticket to Czechoslovakia, or look at a map of Europe from the year 1600, then look at one today. See any differences? Borders move. Countries split and change hands. They do this for a myriad of reasons. Ours would be a major cultural shift toward the left and half the country refusing to go along with tyranny.
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Generally speaking, the blue states are on the east and west coasts. So, if we divided the country as this article suggests, the red states would be deprived of deep water ports. This is not acceptable. OTOH, if they want a war we have a pretty good idea who wins and who loses. The writer's claim that divorce is easier than cutting the brake lines on your wife's car is not necessarily true and she needs to know that. With the lawyers and the judges on her side, divorce is not necessarily the best option. I don't usually consider myself a war monger but I am not willing to let them have California.
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Countries split and change hands. They do this for a myriad of reasons. And nearly always accompanied by mass murder and destruction.
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And then Eastern Washington state, California, upstate New York, and so forth and so on all seceded from the secessionists... Followed by Austin, TX going Blue and seceding... Madness.
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Good luck with the area around northern Idaho being part of Blue, or New Mexico being part of Red.
We're divided because we've been deliberately divided by the media and the long march through the schools over the past several decades.
Part of the solution would be to get ideology out of the schools and get back to teaching the basics, including civics and the history of western civilization. I have no idea how to accomplish that, given the current state of education, except to start over. Alternatively, get the Federal government, the teacher's union, and the textbook monopoly out of education and let the states work things out.
To raise awareness enough to accomplish that politically, something has to be done about more balance in the MSM. You'll never get an individual outlet to be balanced. That's too much to expect and has not been the case historically. The MSM was simply turned over to the left without any resistance.
What's needed is a balanced industry. The right needs to buy or start new news and media organizations which deliberately exclude leftists.
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I don't have any problem with us in Texas seceding. We already have one of the top 10 economies in the world. We are outta here, screw it all.
My family has been here since 1812 with original Travis Colony. Ive got papers of being a new Texan. My Mom is a member of DAR; Daughter of the American Republic, And Daughter of the Daughter of the Texas Republic.
[Freebeacon] A new website aims to add "Steyerville" to the political lexicon as a term for once thriving communities that had their livelihoods stripped away thanks to efforts of environmentalist groups backed by liberal billionaire Tom Steyer.
The website, Steyerville.com, was launched on Thursday by Power the Future, a nonprofit dedicated to giving a voice to men and women working in the energy industry who it says are often drowned out by loud activist voices backed by Steyer's billions.
It labels places such as Boone County in West Virginia, where unemployment has doubled and 10 percent of the population moved away in just six years, as the home of Steyervilles.
The story laid out by the group is that Boone County was thriving because of the coal industry, which in 2010 employed 3,894 of its residents. Then came the Sierra Club, an environmentalist group backed by Steyer's millions, which targeted the county's coalmines with environmental lawsuits and pushed them toward bankruptcy.
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I like how the armored Humvee at the link is referred to as a "tank". Seriously Journalists, when you fail at basic terminology of ANYTHING, nobody is going to listen to you anymore.
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Silentbrick, you see the 'Hummer is an Assault Vehicle with icky military features. Like a rifle having a pistol grip and a detachable magazine -- this makes it just the same as a tank™.
[NPR] Days after being released from a hospital, the daughter of a former Russian spy who was poisoned in southern England last month said she didn't need help from the Russian embassy, which has accused the U.K. of holding her against her will.
"I have access to friends and family, and I have been made aware of my specific contacts at the Russian Embassy who have kindly offered me their assistance in any way they can," she said in a statement issued through police. "At the moment I do not wish to avail myself of their services, but, if I change my mind I know how to contact them."
She said she was not strong enough to give a full interview yet, but added that until she is ready, "no-one speaks for me, or for my father."
Yulia Skripal, 33, was found slumped on a bench in Salisbury on March 4 along with her father, Sergei Skripal, a former Russian intelligence officer who was convicted in Russia on charges of spying for the West and came to Britain as part of a prisoner swap in 2010.
The two were later found to have been poisoned by a type of military-grade nerve agent first developed in the Soviet Union in the 1970s. London has accused the Kremlin of trying to assassinate Sergei Skripal as an example to other potential defectors, a charge Moscow has strongly denied.
The case has sparked international outcry and set off a diplomatic row resulting in the expulsion of dozens of Russian diplomats from the U.S. and NATO member countries, and a reciprocal response from Moscow.
[Newsweek] Saudi Arabia is planning to escalate its isolation of regional rival Qatar by using nuclear waste and a 650-foot wide canal to turn its neighbor into an island.
According to reports in the state-linked al-Riyadh and Sabq newspapers, the project—which would establish a military zone, nuclear waste dump and canal—would separate the two countries along the entire length of the 37.5-mile border.
The two nations have been locked in a crisis since the imposition of a Saudi-led diplomatic blockade on Qatar in June 2017. Saudi Arabia and its allies—including Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Egypt—accuse Qatar of supporting terrorism in the Middle East, a charge Doha denies.
Apparently, Riyadh is not content with traditional isolation. The so-called “Salwa Marine Canal Project” would establish a military base in one area of the border and a nuclear waste site in another. The waste would come from the nuclear reactors that Saudi Arabia is planning to build. The border would then be clearly demarcated by a wide canal. The UAE would also build a nuclear waste site at its border’s closest point to Qatar.
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We can easily do the same thing with Mexico.Take about 10 miles south of the border as a buffer, start dumping nuke waste and put up signs saying "If you go past this sign, you will die."
[Daily Caller] Conservative commentator Ann Coulter had a take on whether special counsel Robert Mueller should be fired or not‐and every Trump supporter should read it.
Coulter was also a fan of Fox News’ Tucker Carlson’s take on possible military intervention in Syria.
Last night, The Daily Caller co-founder, "Overthrowing Assad’s regime in Syria would cause chaos."
"Many thousands would die and, in fact, we might likely see the genocide of one of the last remaining Christian communities in the Middle East. And we ought to care about that. Some of the dead, of course, would be American serviceman. A new war would cost us tens of billions of dollars."
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AH, yes. Doesn't this man have a deadline of any sort at all? And how long do we have to pay him and his crew to produce nothing?
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Trump should simply pardon anyone he indicts. When they scream about it, simply respond, "Democrats can have their political witch hunter, and I'll rescue the accused witches until they tire of this game."
[Daily Caller] Nick Saban and the Alabama football team proved how special it is having the opportunity to visit the White House on Tuesday in more ways than one.
Donald Trump welcomed the Crimson Tide to the White House yesterday to recognize the team for their national championship victory. Of course, it was a special moment for the team, but what happened after the ceremony was truly amazing.
After Trump finished praising Alabama for their incredible comeback victory over Georgia in the national championship, punter J.K. Scott pulled the president aside and asked if he could pray for Trump and his staff. A handful of Scott’s teammates then circled around Trump and bowed their heads in prayer together.
[Townhall] Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel in May 2017 in reaction to a media still gripped by near hysteria over the inexplicable defeat of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
For nearly a year before Mueller's appointment, leaks had spread about collusion between Russia and the Donald Trump campaign that supposedly cost Clinton a sure victory.
Most of these collusion stories, as we now know, originated with Christopher Steele and his now-discredited anti-Trump opposition file.
After almost a year, Mueller has offered no evidence that Trump colluded with the Russians. Aside from former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, a few minor and transitory campaign officials have been indicted or have pleaded guilty to a variety of transgressions other than collusion.
Ironically, the United States has often interfered in foreign elections to massage the result. Recently, Bill Clinton joked about his own efforts as president to collude in the 1996 Israeli election to ensure the defeat of Benjamin Netanyahu. "I tried to do it in a way that didn't overtly involve me," Clinton said.
The Obama administration did the same in 2015, when it used State Department funds to support an anti-Netanyahu political action group.
Since Mueller's investigation began, a number of top FBI and Department of Justice officials have either retired, or were reassigned or fired.
With the exception of former FBI Director James Comey, all left their jobs due to investigations of improper conduct that took place during the 2016 election cycle. Most were under a cloud of suspicion for lying, having conflicts of interest or misleading investigators.
[Townhall] On Wednesday, Defense Secretary James Mattis confirmed to reporters that the United States and its allies are "still assessing the intelligence" about the alleged chemical weapons attack on Syrian civilians this weekend.
In response to a question about whether U.S. military forces are "ready right now to conduct a retaliatory strike if ordered," Mattis added: "We stand ready to provide military options if they are appropriate as the President determines."
Mattis’s comments followed President Trump’s tweet this morning promising that missiles "will be coming" to Syria soon:
In spite of Trump’s above certainty about Assad’s culpability in the chemical attack, on Monday, the president said that American intelligence had not been able to confirm who had carried out the attack. He also expressed frustration that the area was not immediately made open to international investigators [emphasis mine]:
[TC] The fact that Facebook probably has a profile of you whether you’re a Facebook user or not might come as a surprise to some users, though today even the company’s chief executive denied knowledge of the practice ‐ or at least the term used to describe it.
In this morning’s hearing with the House Energy and Commerce Committee, New Mexico Representative Ben Lujan cornered Mark Zuckerberg with a question about so-called "shadow profiles" ‐ the term often used to refer to the data that Facebook collects on non-users and other hidden data that Facebook holds but does not offer openly on the site for users to see.
In one of the handful of slightly candid moments of the past few days, Rep. Lujan pressed Zuckerberg on the practice today:
[Townhall] Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was curious as to whether disgraced FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page still had security clearances and the ability to search anyone they please. So he asked the agency and received their "non-answer" on Wednesday. Yet, that non-answer told him quite a lot. In the letter, the FBI noted that all agents have security clearances, indirectly confirming the duo did too.
Paul had the letter to prove it.
Reports revealed last year that Strzok and Page sent each other several texts trashing President Trump. Strzok, who was on special counsel Robert Mueller's team in the Russia investigation, had been reassigned once the politically biased texts were discovered. Strzok had also worked on the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails.
Still, the FBI's correspondence with Sen. Paul suggests the two compromised agents still have access to an "enormous" amount of information.
"They can search almost anybody," Paul said. "They do not require judicial warrant."
[American Thinker] If there was any doubt that Robert Mueller's Ahab-like goal is the unseating of President Trump at all costs and by any means, it was erased by the thuggish FBI raid he orchestrated on the home and office of Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen.
Can't find any collusion between Trump and Russia? Hey, why not look for collusion between Cohen and professional whore and porn star Stormy Daniels? Was she paid to go away with campaign funds? Even so, that's an FEC violation punishable by a fine and something that does not require a SWAT team.
It certainly does not compare with money funneled by Team Hillary and the DNC though a law firm to Fusion GPS and British foreign agent Christopher Steele to put together a fake dossier on Trump using Russian sources. But where were the raids on the offices of the DNC, the Hillary Clinton campaign, and Fusion GPS?
This is the FBI of Andrew McCabe, Lisa Page, and Peter Strzok, whose mission was to keep Hillary Clinton out of prison and Donald Trump out of the White House. They never raided the home and office of Cheryl Mills, did they? They never raided Hillary's house or seized the acid-washed server, did they? But Michael Cohen is a threat to our democracy warranting brute force? Why wasn't Michel Cohen offered the immunity deal given to Cheryl Mills and other Clinton cronies?
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Why wasn't Michel Cohen offered the immunity deal given to Cheryl Mills and other Clinton cronies?
Cheryl Mills was also named the personal attorney for Hillary Clinton and then attorney-clint privilege was claimed to hide behind. It is no surprise Donald Trump is thoroughly pissed.
[Debka] Tehran’s resolve to make Israel pay for its airborne missile attack on the T-4 air base was conveyed on April 11 by outing the 7 Rev Guardsmen killed in the attack. Iran has never, in all seven years of its intervention in the Syria war, released its military casualties. But on Wednesday, April 11, for the first time, the Iranian Guards mouthpiece, the Tasnim News Agency, ran the names and photos of the seven members of its aerospace unit, who died in the airborne missile strike on the Iranian compound of the big T-4 bases it shares with the Russian and Syrian air forces. The agency also ran pictures of heavily damaged equipment.
By coming clean about its painful setback, the Tehran regime implicitly assured the public that it was not in vain and it was committed to a reckoning with the enemy for the deaths and damage on display. The supreme leader’s senior adviser, Ali Akbar Velayati, said so bluntly when he arrived in Damascus on Tuesday: “Israel’s air strike on the Syrian air base will not go unanswered,” he said, As he spoke, Tehran gained support from its ally in Moscow with the visit of Alexander Lavrentiev, the special Russian emissary on Syria. In a long meeting with Iran’s national security adviser Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani, the Russian said Iran’s decision for a military response to the T-4 attack was understandble. He then proposed combining Iran’s action against Israel with Russia’s plans for countering the forthcoming US-British-France operation in Syria.
The Iranian and Russian officials were of one mind that Israel’s T-4 strike was the opening shot for that operation, and the next round of attacks would target Iranian and possibly also Russian targets in Syria. On this point, they cited President Donald Trump who said on Monday, April 9, in response to the chemical attack in Douma: “We can’t allow atrocities like that… If it’s the Russians, if it’s Syria, if it’s Iran, if it’s all of them together, we’ll figure it out.”
Equally out of sync was the theory put about in the last 24 hours by some sources in Jerusalem, that Israel has no part to play in the US-British-French punitive operation against the Assad regime in Syria, since its only interest lies in preventing Iran from establishing a military presence in that country.
That theory is no longer relevant, because whatever Israel does now, it is not off the hook. For Moscow, Tehran and Damascus, Israel is an integral part of the US-led alliance and is seen to have fired the first shot for the main operation against Syria. Therefore, while Israel geared up initially for a limited Iranian strike from its northern border, it is now feared that a military location deep inside the country may be targeted. During Wednesday, prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu conducted back-to-back consultations with his top security advisers: Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gady Eisenklot, Air Force Commander, Maj. Gen. Amikam Nurkin, Military Intelligence Director Maj. Gen. Tamir Heiman and head of the National Security Council Meir Ben-Shabbat.
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[DAWN] The Sindh government on Wednesday dismissed from service a former Senior Superintendent Police of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... Central Prison and six other officials after an inquiry committee found evidence of their involvement in the escape of two high-profile Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... (LJ) Lions of Islam last year, Dawn reported.
Sheikh Mumtaz alias Firaun and Mohammad Ahmed alias Munna, two Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ) Death Eaters, who were incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! by the CTD in 2013 for their alleged involvement in the killing of over 60 people, had beat feet from the Central Jail on June 13, 2017.
A team of Sherlocks led by DIG Prisons retired Capt Pervez Ahmed Chandio conducted a detailed investigation into their escape and concluded that over a dozen jail officials "abetted and facilitated" the jailbreak.
"The accused Senior Superintendent of Prison Ghulam Murtaza Sheikh and his accused subordinates behaved carelessly, negligently and dishonestly throughout their tenure in maintaining discipline and order at the Central Prison Karachi," according to the findings of DIG Prisons.
DIG Chandio opined that at the time of the jailbreak the prison was being influenced by some "powerful" prisoners instead of the jail administration.
"The accused officers miserably failed to enforce Sindh Prisons Rules, 1978, and the departmental SOPs during the period in question, which ultimately created a loose environment for hardcore prisoners namely Mohammad Ahmed alias Munna and Sheikh Mumtaz to escape easily," he stated.
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[AP] As for the federal Russia probe that has occupied much of Washington’s attention for months, he said he had not been interviewed by special counsel Mueller’s team, but “I know we’re working with them.” He offered no details, citing a concern about confidentiality rules of the investigation. Earlier this year Mueller charged 13 Russian individuals and three Russian companies in a plot to interfere in the 2016 presidential election through a social media propaganda effort that included online ad purchases using U.S. aliases and politicking on U.S. soil. A number of the Russian ads were on Facebook.
Perhaps the IRS should be asked whom Zuck's firm has been working for. Going back 5 years should be good enough.
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Facebook, a "we didn't know" web platform for Russian election interference? That didn't work, now they must directly influence the mid terms themselves.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan National Police (ANP) forces have rescued a group of deminers who were kidnapped by the Talibs from Sarobi district.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officials the four deminers were rescued during an operation of the police forces.
The officials further added that the deminers were kidnapped few days earlier by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... Lions of Islam from the Sarobi district of Kabul.
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[DAWN] The US diplomat, who reportedly rammed into a cycle of violence, killing one and injuring another on Saturday, will have to face trial, either in Pakistain or his home country.
In case the US embassy confirms that the accused has diplomatic immunity against trial here, he could be tried in US courts.
Talking to Dawn, a police brass hat said a case was registered for the crime and that there is therefore no doubt that a trial will be conducted. The diplomat has immunity regarding arrest and detention, but not against trial. He said it was up to the US embassy to decide if the trial will be conducted by the local courts or those in his native country.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s former foreign minister late prince Saud Al Faisal has been accused of failure to pay for the porn movies he commissioned in La Belle France. He died in 2015, age 75.
According to reports, the late prince had porn films made in Gay Paree for his private consumption and owes around 90 thousand Euros to a private company based in La Belle France.
Never trust in the payment plans of princes, especially for things their king would disapprove of.
The firm which commissioned the movies for the late Saudi prince, SARL Atyla, has reportedly filed a lawsuit with an aim to recover the debts.
The officials of the company have said that the heirs of the late prince are refusing to pay the debt of 90,000 Euros for the movies and other services allegedly ordered by Faisal’s representative.
One of the films allegedly shows a Moroccan woman ‐ described in the lawsuit as having "privileged relations" with the prince ‐ frolicking with a porn star, according to The Local Newspaper.
In the meantime, the officials of the firm have warned that may have to present the films as evidence to the court if its demands are not satisfied.
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Um, is it too late for me to volunteer for jury duty?
At that scale why didn't they go Old School and just buy an old mine shaft. No water bill with water naturally in the lower levels of a mine. Put a solar array or windmill above ground for a future power system to power it and use the same lights they did in their houses. That way it's all underground with no LED light frequency signature for the satellites to pickup, no electric bill and no water bill. Amateurs! Oh, and if they really want it stealthy, choose a mine with a spring above and divert some of the water for watering and to power instead of visible power above ground. It's what smarter players did in the ‘70s. That leaves their hole being maintance, transport and sales.
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Globalists. Interesting how US globalists seem to love international crime, such as fast a furious operation with Sinaloa cartel by the now a days extremely nervous anti Trump, Obama uniparty.
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:Heh: In Eastern Oklahoma on the extensive lumber company lands, Welcome to the
Weyerhaeuser Fiefdom!, had many small patches or marijuana up in the hills and valleys. As a friend told me that he always went deer hunting with a local and several times he had to backtrack carefully when things got 'iffy'.
LONDON (AP) ‐ The British hospital treating poisoned spy Sergei Skripal on Wednesday accused a Russian TV crew of "appalling behavior" for sneaking into the facility overnight.
Footage posted online by British newspapers showed a reporter from the REN TV network walking along corridors at Salisbury District Hospital early Wednesday and commenting on the apparent lack of security.
The hospital said in a statement that "this footage shows appalling behavior on the part of these Russian journalists ‐ approaching staff in the middle of the night with no warning and without asking for any permission."
It said "any attempt to harass, intimidate or cause distress to any of our staff or patients is absolutely unacceptable and will not be tolerated."
The Wiltshire Police force said officers "attended and spoke to two men in the reception area, who were believed to be news reporters. They were asked to leave the hospital and did so. No arrests were made."
The video was unavailable when the Weasel Zippers site posted it. So I guess the news it that the warships were filmed leaving, and the film is not for popular consumption.
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The bear may respond as they said they would to a US strike against pencil neck. Any potential navy collateral damage must be moved out of the kitchen.
Where there are year round fireworks, eco-terrorism, home to exotic military excursions from armies from just about every country around the world.
Visit the ancient ruins of Palmyra, resently ruined a second time non other than modern barbarians known the world over as ISIS.
Into wild life? Don't miss areas occupied by Turkey. Home to nature trails such as Olive Branch, currently a destination of jihadi's from around the world, complete with real action filled battles between the indigenous people known as the Kurds fighting for survival against ... well just about everyone else (Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria).
Syrian Safaris a re-enactment soon to occur similar to the one sided battle ground where several hundred Russian mercenaries, tanks and artillery were "hunted down like dogs" according to a now hard drinking Russian survivor, by US Apache Helicopters, C130, B52s, artillery, mortars and many other unexpected weapons for over 4 hours.
After all worn out by the action, a short Cobra hop over to the bright and peaceful beaches of Tel Aviv, miles away from the noise and smoke of burning tires courtesy of the Palestinians still smoldering from Easter Holiday celebrations.
Please check back in soon to find out about the surprise Tomahawk fireworks display that is going to be a sure crowd pleaser for everyone except anyone living around Damascus.
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Anyone else remember how "Alas, Babylon" started?
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"Alas, Babylon" sigh... palm heart salad made by a old maid is what that novel reminds me of. Oh and the racial slur against the blacks with the "why little rock" bit and lest one forget radioactive diamond rings from Miami.
As to actual action... people don't seem to really look at Trump's SOP. Nothing happens until after markets close on a Friday. Closing window for something to happen is market opening + 4 hours on a Monday.
[DAWN] The family of a girl who married a man of her choice gave a sound thrashing to the couple on Tuesday outside the Lahore High Court and also took the bride with them.
Humaira, a resident of Pattoki, contracted marriage with Imran Ali last month and the family of the girl had a kidnap case registered with local police against the groom.
The couple filed a petition before the high court requesting that the case be quashed for being fabricated.
On Tuesday, Humaira was supposed to appear in court to record her statement in favour of Ali. However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... her family members stopped the couple outside the high court and started beating them.
Some lawyers and passersby rescued the couple and tried to calm down the situation.
However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... the infuriated family of Humaira managed to take her with them dragging her with hair.
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[BBC] All 500 teachers of Millcreek School District near Erie got a 16in (41cm) bat in the wake of the Parkland, Florida high school attack in February. Though the bats are largely symbolic, Superintendent William Hall said, they are there as a "last resort".
"Unfortunately, we're in a day and age where one might need to use them to protect ourselves and our kids."
The superintendent said the aim was to have a "consistent tool" for every teacher in every classroom.
Teachers received the bats after a training day on how to respond to shooters. They will be locked up in classrooms.
Mr Hall said this was part of the district's shooting response plan, known by the acronym Trojan. This stands for Threat assessment, Run, Obstruct and barricade, Join forces, Attack, and Never give up.
An online survey also asked whether teachers in the district should be armed if the state passed laws allowing it.
"It was about 70% to 30% that people would favour that," Mr Hall said, "but we're not really actively planning that right now."
Millcreek Education Association president Jon Cacchione said this was a tool if teachers had "nothing else".
"Part of the formula now is to fight back, and so I think the bats that were provided for the staff were symbolic of that."
The baseball bats reportedly cost the school district $1,800 (£1,270).
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My father graduated from Millcreek High School in 1938. He and his buddy used to take their guns to school and put them in the classroom closet for the day. Then they would go hunting after school.
Today, they would lock down the entire school district. So sad how times have changed.
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The Mirage 2000-5 crashed approximately 9 miles northeast of #Skyros island returning to its base after a dog fight with turkish fighter jets thta violated #Greece´s airspace @BILDhttps://t.co/3xa0GqW2c4
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A Greek air force plane has crashed into the eastern Aegean Sea after returning from a mission to intercept Turkish aircraft, killing its pilot.
Officials said the Mirage 2000-5 crashed Thursday north of the island of Skyros but gave information about the possible cause of the crash.
The Hellenic Air Force said in a statement that authorities lost contact with the jet some 9 miles northeast of the island at 12.15 p.m.
Patrolling has intensified in recent weeks amid a spike in tensions between Greece and Turkey and near-daily mock dogfights in disputed airspace.
Greek navy ships and army helicopters are searching for the missing pilot.
Greek soldiers fired warning shots at a Turkish helicopter after it approached a tiny Greek island of Ro in the eastern Aegean on Monday.
The Turkish coastguard helicopteer, flew along the outer limit of the air control identification zone between the two countries, both members of Nato.
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I think Turkey could end up more dangerous than Iran. Perhaps our prez should cancel the Syria attack, arm the Kurds to the hilt including with heavy weapons and drones, then exit stage left. Between Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria, Hezbollah, and all sorts of factions with the Kurds to rile them all up, they could be well occupied killing each other for the next 50 years.
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Between Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria, Hezbollah, and all sorts of factions with the Kurds to rile them all up, they could be well occupied killing each other for the next 50 years.
I honestly see no downside. What must be done to encourage the Kurds and begin the process ?
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Russian military has reportedly secured the area where the alleged chemical weapons attack took place inside the East Ghouta town of Douma, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported this afternoon.
Russian military personnel have begun investigating the site in order to take samples of the alleged substances used in Douma.
No further details have been released.
The Russian military secured the site of the alleged chemical weapons attack in order to create a safe corridor for the OPCW personnel that are coming to investigate the area.
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[DAWN] Iran on Wednesday hit back at Saudi accusations that Tehran provides "support for terrorism", pointing at alleged links between Riyadh and Death Eater groups such as al-Qaeda and Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS).
Countries in the region "will never forget the role played by Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... in conspiring for, supporting and arming violent snuffies and bully boyz such as al-Qaeda and ISIS (IS) and other similar groups," Iran's foreign ministry said.
It also singled out Saudi support for Iraq's fallen dictator Saddam Hussein in his 1980-1988 war against Iran, its military intervention in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... since 2015 and its apparent rapprochement with Israel.
Iran, a bitter regional rival of Saudi Arabia with which diplomatic ties were cut in 2016, was responding to the kingdom's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016.... who on Tuesday referred to Tehran's "support for terrorism" during a visit to Gay Paree.
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[DAWN] 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... said on Wednesday that "missiles will be coming" in response to an alleged chemical attack in Syria, defying Russian warnings against a strike.
Upping the stakes in an escalating confrontation with Moscow, Trump took to Twitter in the strongest assertion yet that he plans to take military action in Syria.
"Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria. Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and 'smart!' You shouldn't be partners with a Gas Killing Animal who kills his people and enjoys it!" Trump wrote.
Trump and other Western leaders have vowed a quick and forceful response to Saturday's alleged gas attack, which rescue workers say killed more than 40 people in the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Douma.
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Converting the Iranian installations into smoking ruins would be nice, doing the same to the Russians not so much. In the final analysis the Russians play the long game and will throw in the cards at some point (as we bailed on Vietnam they bailed on Afghanistan -- a place we are still mired in).
[DAWN] At least seven Kashmiri people were killed in fighting in India-held Kashmire on Wednesday that sparked angry retaliatory protests and violent street festivities across the restive Himalayan region.
Kashmire ‐ divided between India and Pakistain but claimed in its entirety by both ‐ has witnessed a surge in violence with more than 100 people killed since the start of the year.
In the latest shootout, Indian forces killed four Kashmiris in Kulgam district in southern Kashmire, police said.
Hundreds of civilians marched on the village, chanting anti-India slogans and throwing stones at government forces who responded with live rounds, pellets and tear gas.
"Two civilians died when they came close to the encounter site," local police chief Shesh Paul Vaid told AFP. A soldier who was maimed during the fighting died later in a military hospital, Vaid said.
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[DAWN] Heavy Indian shelling from across the Line of Control (LoC) left at least 19 persons, including women and kiddies, maimed in different parts of Azad Jammu and Kashmire (AJK) on Wednesday, officials said.
The shelling started in Khuiratta sector of Kotli district at about 2:30pm and was the "heaviest" in many months, according to Khuiratta Assistant Commissioner (AC) Ali Asghar.
"The Indian troops indiscriminately targeted houses and educational institutions without an iota of shame," he said, as he spoke to Dawn from Seri village, amid the thunder of falling shells.
According to AC Asghar, seven persons, including three women, were maimed in Seri village, while a teenager was injured in Janjot Bahadur village.
He identified the victims in Seri as Munir Begum, 50, Somia Zubair, 28, Moeen Riaz, 22, Sheharyar Jabir, 22, and his cousin Aamer SLearned Elders of Islamn, 21, Anwar Begum, 80, and Abdul Qadeer, 25. The victim in Janjot Bahadur village was identified as Danish Rauf, 16.
District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital Kotli superintendent Dr Tariq Mehmood told Dawn that most of the injured persons had been brought to his facility. "Some of them are at death's door," he said.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] U.S military carried out an Arclight airstrike against pro-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.... krazed killer in Bari region of Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... , security officials said.
A Puntland security officer, who requested anonymity, told Radio Shabelle that the airstrike occurred near Qandala coastal town on Monday.
The officer added that he could not confirm whether there are casualties.
The attack is the second U.S. airstrike against the ISIS-linked group in Puntland.
In November 2017, U.S military carried out its first airstrike on a base-held by the ISIS faction, killing at least one fighter.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A commander of the ISIS group who joined grinding of the peace processor 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 of Afghanistan says he regrets for the acts of terror he has committed while was serving in the ranks of the terror group.
According to the local officials, a group of fifteen forces of Evil belonging to Taliban ...Arabic for students... and ISIS group joined grinding of the peace processor due to the efforts of the Afghan Intelligence Agency in Nangarhar.
The provincial government media office in a statement confirmed that two commanders of the ISIS group are also among those renounced violence.
A member of the provincial peace council Haji Jan Mohammad said at least five ISIS forces of Evil and ten Taliban Lions of Islam have joined grinding of the peace processor and handed over their weapons to the local authorities.
A commander of the ISIS group Sar Mohammad admitted that he was trained in Pakistain regarding the military tactics and was deployed to Nangarhar to conduct acts of terror.
Mohammad also admitted that he has carried out various types of terrorist related activities while serving as ISIS commander including destruction of bridges, roads, religious schools and government schools as well as attacks on civilians and government officials and security personnel.
A commander of the Taliban group Sahaullah also admitted that he has conducted insurgency for a long period of time in Rodat district and was receiving money from Pakistain through brokers as well as the plans regarding the attacks.
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[DAWN] A major fire that erupted in the mal khana [warehouse] of the City Courts in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... also engulfed the record house, destroying case properties, valuable records and ammunition, DawnNewsTV reported on Wednesday.
The fire broke out late on Tuesday night. Firefighters, rescuers and law enforcers rushed to the scene but were unable to effectively run a firefighting operation due to blasts in the warehouse. The kaboom also caused panic among residents of surrounding areas.
The fire was subsequently overcome in the morning after a struggle of six hours.
Sindh Inspector General A.D. Khowaja and other officials also visited the site. The IGP, while talking to media, said that a short circuit seems to be what caused the inferno in the warehouse which was constructed in the British era.
"However, a woman is only as old as she admits... final conclusions will be reached after a thorough investigation," he said.
Chief Fire Officer Tehseen Siddique told the media that bullets and explosives present in the warehouse caused the blasts.
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[DAWN] A local singer was rubbed out during a festive ceremony in Kanga village near Larkana on Tuesday, Dawn reported.
Twenty-four-year-old Samina Samoon, also known as Samina Sindhu, was allegedly rubbed out by Tarique Ahmed Jatoi while she was serenading the gathering.
She had reportedly refused to oblige his 'request' that she stand up while she sang.
The accused, who was allegedly intoxicated, had badgered the victim to comply before he shot her dead.
Samina was rushed to the Chandka Hospital, but could not survive her injuries and was pronounced dead.
The slain singer's husband told journalists that she had been six months pregnant with their child.
He has demanded that the first information report should mention that the man who shot her and two of his accomplices are accused of double murder: that of the woman and her unborn child.
Police have tossed in the slammer Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! the main accused.
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The accused, who was allegedly intoxicated
Intoxicated (implies) Alcohol. Correct?
Isn't drinking one of those Crimes against Mohammad things? Right there in Sharia Law as one of those unforgivable sins with maximal bad result for the sinner?
So why isn't the perp tied in the square getting the prescribed in the Koran penalties applied to him?
[YouTube] Former UK ambassador to Syria, Peter Ford tells a BBC journalist and Western audiences to use their brains and think critically before falling into the propaganda of the Islamist jihadists. This piece was posted as a comment by our own 'Vast Right Wing Conspiracy' late yesterday.
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The photos taken of garden hose wash downs and a child being given an asthma inhaler...might lead one to believe additional investigation should be conducted.
[All Africa] According to a report from City Press, King Mswati III's eighth wife, Senteni Masango, died after she allegedly overdosed on medication used to treat rheumatic conditions, depression and related disorders. According to The Citizen, Masongo suffered abuse after she was denied permission to attend her late sister's memorial service and funeral, and lived alone in a mansion without a visit from her husband. King Mswati III is opposed to divorce, having said in 2017: "In our culture, once you marry someone, you're stuck with her there is no turning back".
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In our culture, once you marry someone, you're stuck with her there is no turning back".
[AFRICANEWS] Police in Togo have dispersed an opposition protest in the capital Lome. Reports indicate that teargas was fired to disperse protesters in Lome and in other towns across the country.
The 14-member opposition coalition calling for the resignation of the president since August last year called a two-day protest beginning today.
Reports indicate that the violent clampdown by the police led to injuries to a number of protesters. Photos shared on social media showed how a vehicle belonging to opposition chief Jean Pierre Fabre was smashed.
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[PRESSTV] 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... and British Prime Minister Theresa May have not been invited to the wedding of Prince Harry and US actress Meghan Markle, British media have reported.
Prince Harry is neither the sovereign nor heir to the throne, so his wedding, like Prince William’s a few years ago, is not a state occasion. President Obama was not invited to Prince William’s, so it isn’t a special snub that President Trump will not be invited to Prince Harry’s, however much those who dislike President Trump would be happy to think it is.
Contacted by AFP, a front man for Kensington Palace, the prince's official residence, said: "It has been decided that an official list of politicians -- both UK and international -- is not required for Prince Harry and Markle's wedding".
Former prime minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... was invited to the 2011 wedding of Harry's brother, Prince William, who is second in line to the throne after their father, Prince Charles.
Perhaps it is a snub of Prime Minister May, then. But more likely Prince Harry is even farther down the line of succession now that his big brother has several heirs of his own, and therefore, like Prince Andrew, Harry is no longer at all important. Being the spare is worse than being vice president.
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Dissed? Good luck getting a good tee-time at a Trump golf course.
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Kensington Palace. Located in a third world location called Londonistan where crime is very high, the mayor one Sadiq Khan and many young people die from being run over by large vehicles driven by jihadis, have acid thrown into their faces, or are stabbed to death outside local bars.
Thanks for the favor Prince and Princess. It would not be an honor to be there.
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Yes, the redacted "foreign government" in the newly released DoJ/FBI documents ?
DOJ official says the Department
provided Chairman Nunes, Ranking Member Schiff, and all members of HPSCI with access to the requested document. (EC) “Remaining redactions are narrowly tailored to protect the name of a foreign country and the name of a foreign agent...”@FoxNews 3:18 PM - 11 Apr 2018 Link
According to a Justice Department official, the remaining redactions in the document are "narrowly tailored to protect the name of a foreign country and the name of a foreign agent." Specifics have been replaced with identifiers like "foreign official" and "foreign government," the official said.
"These words must remain redacted after determining that revealing the words could harm the national security of the American people by undermining the trust we have with this foreign nation," the official continued, adding that they appear "only a limited number of times, and do not obstruct the underlying meaning of the document."
Mr. Steele, Mr. Christopher Steele to the white courtesy phone please. Mr. Christopher Steele.
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Our media is grooming this couple to be the new media darlings of the world. Trump women are already the darlings of China and Japan. So much classier. To our media no favorable comments. Blind and so full of hatred our media is.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A large gathering of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... group came under heavy artillery and Arclight airstrikes in western Farah province of Afghanistan, the Afghan Military said Wednesday.
According to the 207th Zafar Corps of the Afghan Military in the West, the Afghan Air Force and Artillery Units with the support of the foreign forces carried out a coordinated operation on a large gathering of Taliban in Bala Bolok district.
The source further added that the Talibs had gathered in Shiwan and Ganjabad villages to lay out plans for their future attacks when they came under air and artillery strikes.
The Zafar Corps also added that the preliminary reports received by the armed forces indicate that 35 murderous Moslems were killed and at least 29 others were maimed during the operation.
A vehicle belonging to the murderous Moslems was also damaged and at least three of them were tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! alive following the operation, the Zafar Corps added.
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[PRESSTV] The recent alleged chemical attack near Damascus was a "false flag" operation by the US and its allies to launch an attack against the Syrian government and prolong the wars in the Middle East, a geo-political expert in London says.
"Anyone with a brain knows that the so-called chemical weapons attack was a total false flag," said Adam Garrie, the Director at Eurasia Future, a news and analysis website.
Syria and its main allies Iran and Russia must coordinate their efforts to prevent the American regime from launching attacks against the sovereign Syrian state," Garrie told Press TV on Tuesday.
"The United States...is being run by a neocon (neoconservative) faction that is identical to the kind of ideology which ran the [former US President George] Bush regime," he added.
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...Pull the other one.
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If Russia threatened the US with nuclear war, even the intellectually comatose US Congress would realise that the stakes are too high for a mentally deficient savage like Donald Trump to be in charge of anything other than an ageing hotel lobby.
[Spectator] Special Report: Defending Borders Except Our Own
The same pols who say that America can’t afford Trump’s proposed wall have spent lavishly on the protection of borders outside the country. Every year they give billions of dollars to governments across Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. That American largesse, combined with the astronomical costs of U.S. military protection, allow those countries to seal off their borders. Meanwhile, America’s southern border remains largely unprotected and pols pretend they lack the funds to address the crisis. As President Trump put it in his inaugural address, “We’ve defended other nations’ borders while refusing to defend our own.”
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Congress is cutting medicaire, money you invested by withholdings through the years, by 30%, and a lot of retirees are talkin bout it. No worries, Congress just gave themselves a raise, paid for by the deplorable tax paying suckers, and their children and their grand children.
[AFRICANEWS] A nine-week-old baby boy has died at a local hospital in the Central Region of Ghana because his parents could not afford the cost of aiding his breathing with an oxygen machine.
According to a local media, Joy fm, the baby died at the St Gregory Hospital at Kasoa.Little Prosper’s parents told Joy News that a medical doctor on duty pulled the plug from the oxygen machine because they could not pay GHS 533 about $ 122 to keep their son alive.
Hospital authorities are tight-lipped on the issue explaining they are investigating the circumstances leading to the baby’s death.
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"Little Prosper" is an unlikely name. Ancient Hawaiians would sometimes give their infants really foul names to ward off evil spirits that might harm them. Later in life the kids would be renamed with something better.
[DAWN] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... 's air defences on Wednesday "intercepted" a ballistic missile fired from rebel-held Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... at Riyadh, a military front man said, adding two others were shot down in southern Saudi Arabia.
The announcement came after an AFP journalist witnessed kabooms and heard three blasts over the capital, which has previously been targeted by Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen.
"An Iranian ballistic missile launched from Sadaa towards Riyadh was successfully intercepted by Saudi Air Defence earlier today," Colonel Turki al-Malki, front man for the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Huthis, said.
He said Saudi forces also intercepted two missiles in the southern Jizan and Najran ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen. It is the capital of Najran Province and a favored target of Houthirocket forces.... provinces close to the border with Yemen.
The attacks were claimed by the rebels via their news outlet al-Masirah.
"The missile force carried out a large-scale ballistic missile attack on various parts of Saudi Arabia," al-Masirah said.
As the announcement on the missile interceptions emerged, Malki also said in a separate statement that Saudi air defences had shot down two unmanned Yemeni drones on Wednesday in southern Saudi Arabia.
One of the drones was targeting the Abha international airport in Asir province, which led to a temporary suspension of air traffic, and a second was approaching a "civilian object" in Jizan province, he said.
The Huthis claimed attacks on Abha airport and Saudi Aramco, located in Jizan, via al-Masirah, publishing an infographic of the "Qasef 1" drone.
Aramco in a statement on Wednesday said, "Saudi Aramco operations and facilities, including our facilities in Jizan, are operating normally and safely".
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[PRESSTV] Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami says the country is boosting its deterrent power and is prepared to give a devastating response to any wrong move or miscalculation by the enemies.
Addressing a ceremony in the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz on Tuesday, Hatami added that enemies of the Islamic Theocratic Republic are well-advised not to test the country's power because they would receive a "crushing response" if they commit any misjudgment or miscalculation.
He emphasized that the Iranian armed forces are ready to strongly counter the enemies and make them regret any wrong move.
Hatami said Iran is a strong defense power in the region, adding, "We can currently pursue our goals and defend our interests well and with full force."
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No 'Seas of Fire'? Rates about a 3.5 on the Juche-o-Meter. Needs to add more spittle.
[Al Jazeera] Somalia has disbanded a United Arab Emirates programme to train some of its troops in a new sign of rising tensions in bilateral relations.
The Somali government announced on Wednesday that it will take over paying and training the soldiers in the programme, Defence Minister Mohammed Mursal Abdirahman told Somalia's state news agency Sonna.
"Somalia will fully take over [its troops] trained by the UAE... Those forces will be added to the various battalions of the Somalia National Army," Abdirahman said, adding the soldiers would be integrated into other units on Thursday.
The UAE has trained hundreds of troops since 2014 as part of an effort boosted by an African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... military mission to defeat an al-Shabaab ... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia... insurgency and secure the country for the government, which is backed by Western nations, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... and the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... .
There was no immediate comment from the UAE government.
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Those forces will be added to the various battalions of the Somalia National Army
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan says at least eight bully boyz including a French national apparently fighting in ISIS ranks have been killed in northern Jawzjan province of Afghanistan.
The source further added that the bad boyz were potted in Darab district of Jawzjan during a clearance operation.
No further details have been regarding the identity of the bully boyz killed during the operation but foreign nationals from Central Asian States and other countries are actively operating in ISIS ranks in this province.
This comes as the Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS), said late in March at least five ISIS suspects including a French woman have been jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! during a Special Forces operation in the North.
The local security officials in Jawzjan had also confirmed the report and had said that the woman was arrested from the vicinity of Darzab district.
The district police chief Faqir Mohammad Jawzjani said the French woman was arrested during a joint operation of the Afghan Special Forces and the foreign forces based in Afghanistan.
Earlier, Darzab district administrative chief Mohammad Dawar has told the AFP that "A number" of Algerian and Frenchies entered the largely IS-controlled district of Darzab in northern Jowzjan province in November.
He said at least two women were among the arrivals, who were travelling with a translator from Tajikistan as well as Chechens and Uzbeks, Dawar added.
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[DAWN] Ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts... on Wednesday alleged once again that three members of the joint investigation team (JIT) formed to probe his family's business dealings abroad were "are our worst political opponents", and expressed fears that Adiala Jail was already being prepared for him.
Sharif, along with his daughter Maryam, made the remarks after appearing before an accountability court in Islamabad in a reference concerning his family's Avenfield properties.
"Bit by bit, the reality of the JIT's investigative report is being revealed," he said in his customary talk with the media after the court's proceedings.
"You know that the facts that went in our favour were [deliberately] hidden by the JIT," he alleged. "You already know what has come out of Wajid Zia's mouth and, in a way, he has given us a certificate [of innocence]," he further claimed.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The provincial governor of northern Parwan province Fazaluddin Ayar has warned regarding the ongoing attempts by the ISIS terrorist group to expand foothold in this province.
Ayar warned regarding the threats the province is facing as he was speaking during a gathering on Tuesday.
He said certain circles are attempting to pave the way for the expansion of the foothold of ISIS loyalists in Parwan province but he did not provide further details in this regard.
The loyalists of the terror group are currently active in some parts of Jawzjan province as well as Faryba in the North.
This comes as reports emerged few months earlier suggesting that some signs of the ISIS activities have also been seen in northern Balkh province.
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[Al Jazeera] Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... , a veteran military commander in Libya, has reportedly been admitted to a hospital in La Belle France after suffering a stroke and slipping into a coma. His front man denied the reports, however.
Touted as a possible future leader of Libya, Haftar was hospitalised in Jordan on Tuesday after suffering breathing difficulties and a possible heart attack, sources told Al Jazeera on Wednesday.
According to French journalist Huguex Vincent, Hatar was then sent to Gay Paree and admitted on Wednesday to Val-de-Grace, a military hospital in the French capital, and his health condition is "serious", he said on Twitter.
But associates of the former military commander disputed the reports. The front man for Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) in eastern Libya, Ahmed al-Mismari, told al-Nabaa TV the general was well and news of his deteriorating health was untrue.
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Paris sources say he had a heart attack.
He is about 74 yrs old so its not that surprising.
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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.
[TC] The fact that Facebook probably has a profile of you whether you’re a Facebook user or not might come as a surprise to some users, though today even the company’s chief executive denied knowledge of the practice ‐ or at least the term used to describe it.
[Townhall] Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was curious as to whether disgraced FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page still had security clearances and the ability to search anyone they please. So he asked the agency and received their "non-answer" on Wednesday. Yet, that non-answer told him quite a lot. In the letter, the FBI noted that all agents have security clearances, indirectly confirming the duo did too.
[Debka] Tehran’s resolve to make Israel pay for its airborne missile attack on the T-4 air base was conveyed on April 11 by outing the 7 Rev Guardsmen killed in the attack. Iran has never, in all seven years of its intervention in the Syria war, released its military casualties. But on Wednesday, April 11, for the first time, the 
... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016....
handed over their weapons
David Cameron
[PRESSTV] The recent alleged chemical attack near Damascus was a "false flag" operation by the US and its allies to launch an attack against the Syrian government and prolong the wars in the Middle East, a geo-political expert in London says.
[AFRICANEWS] A nine-week-old baby boy has died at a local hospital in the Central Region of Ghana because his parents could not afford the cost of aiding his breathing with an oxygen machine.
an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia...
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
