Another hearing was held today in the criminal case pending against Missouri’s Governor, Eric Greitens. As detailed previously here and here, Governor Greitens is charged with Felony Invasion of Privacy for allegedly photographing his mistress in a state of undress and threatening to publish it if she told anyone about their affair. While the Governor has acknowledged the affair (which occurred prior to his election), he has steadfastly denied any threat or attempt to blackmail the woman.
Last week, Greitens’ defense counsel filed a Motion to Compel and for Sanctions in the criminal matter upon the revelation that the prosecution’s investigator had failed to disclose he had taken notes when he interviewed the woman at the center of the allegations. The defense contended that the prosecution withheld that evidence, as well as other evidence, including a video of that interview.
...Judge Rex Burlison has given the parties until 12:00 Noon on Wednesday to file any supplemental pleadings on the pending Motion, which includes the request that the case be dismissed altogether, in light of the alleged misconduct on the part of the prosecution. He is expected to rule Thursday.
Scooter Libby, VP Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, was thrown to the jaws of the Washington Swamp by the George W. Bush administration for allegedly lying to federal investigators about the unmasking of Valerie Plame. As Arthur Herman wrote in Commentary, an overzealous special prosecutor framed Libby, a dedicated public servant (and a friend of this writer). Now President Donald J. Trump has given him a long-overdue pardon--something that President George W. Bush refused to do, despite Cheney's heartfelt pleas.
...Why didn't Bush pardon Libby? Joseph Bottum said it back in 2007: "The case was a political trial from the beginning--and the opponents lined up in a properly political way. One side wanted to use Scooter Libby as a step ladder to reach up and pull down someone higher. The other side wanted to make sure that the case ended with Libby."
W. washed his hands and turned his back on Libby because he feared that a pardon might make him look complicit in some way. Bush was at no legal risk, to be sure. He just worried about the optics. The psychiatric term for such behavior according to DSM-IV is "chickenshit."
Donald J. Trump doesn't care about the optics. He does whatever he thinks best, and he doesn't care who tells him not to (unless, of course, it is Defense Secretary Mattis telling him about the limitations and risks to military action).
To the Never-Trumpers who think that our president is a lout and a ruffian who cares nothing for decent standards of behavior, I say: What you call "decent standards of behavior" have become so perverse, so cowardly, so hypocritical and so self-serving that only an outsider, a "lout," a "ruffian" with contempt for your standards will have the courage to do the right thing.
[Zacks] The markets closed modestly lower on Friday, but up solidly for the week, with the Dow and the S&P up nearly 2%, while the Nasdaq gained close to 3%.
As trade tensions eased, stocks enjoyed an impressive week of gains.
And with Q1 earnings season set to officially begin this week, stocks are poised for even more gains. (Stocks typically rise during earnings season. And since this bull market began in 2009, the average increase for stocks during earnings season is more than 2%, with gains seen more than 70% of the time.)
But given how the market has diligently held support and has staged a promising rally, the gains should be even bigger as Q1 earnings should be just a catalyst that ultimately propels stocks back up to their all-time highs.
And with a robust economy, historical tax cuts, and surging corporate profits, the market should then begin a whole new leg higher.
[Huffpoo] One of Donald Trump’s first obsessions in office was the size of his inauguration crowd.
Trump famously sent then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer into the press briefing room to slam media reports that he had drawn fewer spectators than President Barack Obama during his first inauguration in 2009.
In an interview with George Stephanopolous on Sunday night, former FBI director James Comey said the topic even came up at a private dinner he had with Trump that the president said not even then-chief-of-staff Reince Priebus knew about.
"It was him talking almost the entire time, which I’ve discovered is something he frequently does. And so it would be monologue in this direction, monologue in that direction, monologue in a different direction. And a constant series of assertions that ― about the inauguration crowd, about how great my inauguration speech was, about all the free media," Comey said. "...On and on and on and on. Everyone agrees, everyone agrees, I did this, the ― I never assaulted these women, I never made fun of a reporter. And ― I’m sure you’re wondering what question did I ask that would prompt those? None, zero. I didn’t ask any questions that I recall."
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Trump famously sent then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer into the press briefing room to slam media reports that he had drawn fewer spectators than President Barack Obama during his first inauguration in 2009.
The concept is called 'fake news' and Trump's the first President since Reagan to actively fight it.
Also - seems Comey can't shut up, either. Can't wait to see his book at the dollar store in a few weeks.
[DailyMail] Jeremy Corbyn was slammed by his own MPs today after demanding Vladimir Putin is given the final say on British military action in Syria.
The Labour leader insisted he would never countenance deploying UK forces without a UN resolution - even though Russia has the power to veto them.
Mr Corbyn also made clear he does not accept that the strikes on Bashar Assad's chemical weapons capability by the US, UK and France were legally justified on humanitarian grounds.
And he demanded a 'war powers' law to ban the Prime Minister from taking military action without a Commons vote.
The comments immediately reignited the deep splits within Labour, amid a huge political row over Theresa May's decision to join reprisals over Assad's atrocity in Douma last Saturday.
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Jeremy has these occasional Kim Philby moments.
[Malkin] While congresscritters expressed outrage at Facebook’s intrusive data grabs during Capitol Hill hearings with Mark Zuckerberg this week, not a peep was heard about the Silicon Valley-Beltway theft ring purloining the personal information and browsing habits of millions of American schoolchildren.
It doesn’t take undercover investigative journalists to unmask the massive privacy invasion enabled by educational technology and federal mandates. The kiddie data heist is happening out in the open ‐ with Washington politicians and bureaucrats as brazen co-conspirators.
Facebook is just one of the tech giants partnering with the U.S. Department of Education and schools nationwide in pursuit of student data for meddling and profit. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Pearson, Knewton, and many more are cashing in on the Big Data boondoggle. State and federal educational databases provide countless opportunities for private companies exploiting public schoolchildren subjected to annual assessments, which exploded after adoption of the tech industry-supported Common Core "standards," tests, and aligned texts and curricula.
The recently passed Every Student Succeeds Act further enshrined government collection of personally identifiable information ‐ including data collected on attitudes, values, beliefs and dispositions ‐ and allows release of the data to third-party contractors thanks to Obama-era loopholes carved into the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act.
[AP] COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ‐ A South Carolina prisons spokesman says seven inmates are dead and 17 others required outside medical attention after hours of fighting inside a maximum security prison.
Prisons spokesman Jeff Taillon announced the grim outcome after State Law Enforcement Division agents helped secure Lee Correctional Institution around 3 a.m. Monday.
Taillon said no officers were wounded after multiple inmate fights broke out at 7:15 p.m. Sunday.
Lee County Fire/Rescue said ambulances from at least seven jurisdictions lined up outside the prison to tend to the wounded. The local coroner’s office also responded.
The maximum-security facility in Bishopville houses about 1,500 inmates, some of South Carolina’s most violent and longest-serving offenders. Two officers were stabbed in a 2015 fight. One inmate killed another in February.
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They'd be more peaceful 6 feet under. They'll be there eventually anyway. Only a rich society can afford to warehouse so many imminent threats to the lives and security of its productive citizenry. Meanwhile, how many of those productive citizens are executed without due process in their homes, their neighborhoods, their businesses, their communities? /rhet question
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Allowing this is stupid. They should have sent the guards in with orders to shoot anyone fighting. Anyone who doesn't immediately lay on the floor and put hands on head gets an immediate summary justice application.
What they really should do is set the prison up to flooded with N2 so that any riot cleans out the prison and you have a now empty prison to fill. No more prison riots after the first hits the news.
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..stay with N2, otherwise the environmental impact study will be a cluster. Remember all the obstructions to lethal injections. Madame Guillotine is quicker, no environmental or FDA approval required.
[MedicalNews] Correcting the faulty gene
Next, Dr. Huang and team wanted to see whether it was the loss of APOE3 or the accumulation of APOE4 that caused the disease.
So, they compared neurons that did not produce either the E3 or the E4 variant of the protein with cells that had APOE4 added to them.
The former continued to behave normally, while adding APOE4 led to Alzheimer's-like pathologies. This confirmed the fact that it is the presence of the APOE4 that causes the disease.
As a final step, Dr. Huang and his team looked for ways in which to fix the faulty gene. To this end, they applied a previously developed APOE4 "structure corrector."
The so-called structure corrector has been shown in previous research, led by the same Dr. Huang, to change the structure of APOE4 so that it looks and behaves more like the inoffensive APOE3.
Applying this compound to human APOE4 neurons corrected the defects, thereby eliminating signs of the disease, restoring normal cell function, and helping the cells to live longer.
The researchers conclude:
"Treatment of APOE4-expressing neurons with a small-molecule structure corrector ameliorated the detrimental effects, thus showing that correcting the pathogenic conformation of APOE4 is a viable therapeutic approach for APOE4-related [Alzheimer's disease]." Faster please.
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The so-called structure corrector has been shown in previous research, led by the same Dr. Huang, to change the structure of APOE4 so that it looks and behaves more like the inoffensive APOE3.
[DailyMail] A drug-resistant strain of typhoid is spreading through Pakistan and has infected at least 850 people since 2016. The strain which is resistant to five types of antibiotics is predicted to spread across the globe, according to the National Institute of Health Islamabad.
It is expected to replace the weaker strains in areas where they are common as experts recognise just one remaining working antibiotic. Azithromycin is the only remaining method of combating the disease however just one more genetic mutation could void the use of the drug.
Campaigners are predicting that if modern sanitation systems don't tackle the pathogen then we could be faced with a return to the pre-antibiotic era. Emphasis added. Perhaps if the Land Of The Pure spent more on sewage treatment and less on Madrassahs, Jihadis, Nukes, and proxy war on their neighbors I might even be sympathetic
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Been there, done that.
We were lucky though, there was heavy freighter traffic nearby and we escaped in the noise. Being pinged on and caught between ASW ships is an uncomfortable feeling.
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Tel Megiddo is an ancient city whose remains form a tell, situated in northern Israel near Kibbutz Megiddo, about 30 km south-east of Haifa. Wikipedia
Location: Near Kibbutz Megiddo, Israel
Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch fired back at former James Comey over allegations the former FBI director made in his new book, saying he never raised any concerns with her over the Clinton email investigation:
"I have known James Comey almost 30 years. Throughout his time as Director we spoke regularly about some of the most sensitive issue[s] in law enforcement and national security. If he had any concerns regarding the email investigation, classified or not, he had ample opportunities to raise them with me both privately and in meetings. He never did."
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Why would she say that when Comey did look at the e-mail situation? I'd say she's piling on but I'm betting she had a bigger part in this than we know about and since Comey's reputation is in the shitter, she's preemptively absolving herself of that something.
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Poor guy. Even the donks are throwing him under the bus.
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Loretta Lynch aka by her email nym “Elizabeth Carlisle” drops the hammer on James Comey aka as Reinhold Niebuh in his Twitter account are throwing stones at each other? Both paragons of trust (sarc). McCabe is throwing stones at Comey and vice versa. There are no G. Gordon Liddys amongst any on them. I doubt this crowd will protect HRC much longer--her days are numbered. It is getting interesting.
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I think what we are looking at is that these people are all crooks and there really isn't anybody they ever talk to who might say "that might not work out the way you are thinking..."
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Hillary was to be POTUS
Lynch was to be SC Justice
Comey was to be AG
McCabe was to be FBI Director.
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I doubt this crowd will protect HRC much longer--her days are numbered.
It's been long enough the statutes of limitation have probably run out on most potential charges against Her Highness.
[RT] Russian lawmakers have drafted a bill suspending cooperation with US companies in the nuclear, missile and aircraft-building spheres, as well as introducing restrictions on imports of alcohol and tobacco produced in the US.
“The bill is about alcohol and tobacco products and about ceasing or suspending international cooperation in the nuclear sphere, rocket engine building and aircraft building between Russian companies and organizations under US jurisdiction,” one of the bill’s sponsors, MP Ivan Melnikov (Communist Party), was quoted as saying in the State Duma’s Twitter message.
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Does this mean we need to hitchhike home from the International Space Station? I know there have been some unmanned America resupply missions, but I thought the humans were carried by the Russians.
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Going to guess that the suits at ULA also expected swillary to win and also outlive McStain, thus ensuring RD-180s for as long as needed. I'm not a Musk fan, but Falcon sure seems to havr come along at the right time...
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Pretty sure the average Russian drinks Russian vodka. I wonder if they have ramped up production enough to keep everyone supplied. Couple years ago they had some kind of shortage...
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Atlas will be a huge hit.
Lockheed is supposed to have a bunch of engines stashed away but they need Vulcan with the BE-4 yesterday not in 2029-21.
ULA is screwed unless they can cook up something yesterday with the ATK engine for Atlas - It cough .. is supposed to be ... cough a drop in replacement... cough... I am betting maybe %10 it is.
The could back fill with F9/FH and certify quickly F9/FH for all USAF/NRO missions allowing reflight so they don't screw up SpaceX's switch to BFS/BFR Mars rocket.
[Wirepoints] You’d be mistaken to think Harvey, Illinois has a unique pension crisis. It may be the first, and its problems may be the most severe, but the reality is the mess is everywhere, from East St. Louis to Rockford and from Quincy to Danville. A review of Illinois Department of Insurance pension data shows that Harvey could be just the start of a flood of garnishments across the state (click here to see the list).
Harvey made the news last year when an Illinois court ordered the municipality to hike its property taxes to properly fund the Harvey firefighter pension fund, which is just 22 percent funded.
Now, the state has stepped in on behalf of Harvey’s police pension fund. The state comptroller has begun garnishing the city’s tax revenues to make up what the municipality failed to contribute. In response, the city has announced that 40 public safety employees will be laid off.
Under state law, pensions that don’t receive required funding may demand the Illinois Comptroller intercept their municipality’s tax revenues. More than 400 police and fire pension funds, or 63 percent of Illinois’ 651 total downstate public safety funds, received less funding than what was required from their cities in 2016 ‐ the most recent year for which statewide data is available.
Two-thirds of Illinois’ 355 police pension funds failed to receive their full required contribution in 2016. And 60 percent of Illinois’ 296 firefighter pension funds suffered the same fate.
If those same numbers continue to hold true, all those cities face the risk of having their revenues intercepted by the comptroller.
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More and more urban areas are going to try to adopt the "regional asset district" model. Sure, you live 75 miles from downtown, but look at all the "benefits" you receive from being a "neighbor." It's working out so well in Pissburgh...
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When Pensions fail in California, and they will, and they dismantle Prop 13 to increase the property taxes, and they will, it's going to get ugly very fast.
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When courts nationwide start imposing / spiking taxes to satisfy the many local government contractually bound (yet impossible to satisfy) promises to pay pensions to their retirees, THAT'S when it will get ugly.
Recall the states are forbidden from passing any "Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts" - but this doesn't apply to courts or to the federal legislature.
Coming soon to a country near you. It is already predictable using simple math.
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Whomever a politician signs a contract to pay someone money beyond their ability to pay, that politician should have their pension taken to help pay for it.
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Re: #9: that has already been floated out here in the hinterlands surrounding Seattlestan, but as it impacts homeless ( aka bums) ; we peasants should take our fair share so the amaoznians and microsofties don't have to step over them and dodge their sidewalk doo-doo.....
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Obviously its time for an 'Affordable Retirement Act' where they take everyone's pension, IRA, and 401K and split them up equally (1).
Why should Jim who blew all his earnings on a wasteful lifestyle have to suffer while John, who scrapped and saved for his retirement has it easy? Its not fair! Its RACIST I tell you!!! (with exclamation points and everything...)
(1) of course some people are more equal than others.
[Washington Examiner] Famed lawyer Alan Dershowitz on Sunday wouldn't say whether he had been asked to join President Trump's legal team, adding as a Democrat his only concern was whether Trump's civil liberties and due process rights were being infringed by special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.
"I do not want to be his lawyer, I don't want to give him legal advice," Dershowitz said during an interview on CNN's "Reliable Sources."
Dershowitz, who dined at the White House on Tuesday as part of a prearranged meeting to discuss Middle East politics, described Trump as "pretty upbeat" during their conversation.
"At the dinner they basically threw me out when they wanted to talk about confidences," he continued. "I am not a supporter, I am not a defender of Donald Trump the person, I'm a defender of civil liberties and basic due process."
But Dershowitz recommended Trump's legal counsel focus on the state case against Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen in New York rather than Mueller's federal investigation.
"He's much more vulnerable on what he did before he was president than what he's done as president because what he's done as president has constitutional protection, the other does not," Dershowitz said.
[LI] On Monday, April 16, 2018, the court in the Southern District of New York will continue its hearing on the motion by Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen for return of records seized from his law office and home. In the alternative, Cohen seeks severe restrictions on the government’s ability to review the records, even if the government follows its procedures to have a so-called "taint team" do so. This has 'pending Supreme Court' appeal written all over it.
[American Thinker] The day that James Comey cashed the multi-million dollar advance check from MacMillan Publishers will turn out to mark the date that we can call "Peak Comey." It was all downhill from the instant the ink started drying on his signature on the back of the check. He and his ghost writer suddenly faced the unenviable task of making him look like the righteous warrior he had always portended to be, but with the need to fill 300 pages with something. Self-serving rationalizations can’t sustain reader interest over that many words, so apparently they decided that prose about physical appearances drawn from the bodice-ripper school of novels grafted onto Trump-hatred would do the trick.
The result was so awful that even the Washington Post, owned by arch-enemy of Trump Jeff Bezos, felt the need for a satire. The result, written Alexandra Petri, a Post writer whose "Compost" blog is described as "offering a lighter take on the news and opinions of the day," is downright hilarious. Purporting to offer "further excerpts" from his forthcoming book, her satire takes on the purple prose and wrestles it to the mat.
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It is a little embarrassing to describe myself: I stand, as mentioned, about 6-foot-8, like an oak with a firm sense of right and wrong and large, capacious hands.
And he thinks Trump is an ego maniac?
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[Real Clear Politics] We’re supposed to be reassured that the FBI agents who raided the offices and home of Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael A. Cohen, were, in Cohen’s words, "courteous" and "respectful."
The president’s attorney was understandably grateful that the agents didn’t replicate the FBI’s tactics at the home of Paul Manafort, Trump’s onetime campaign manager. Busting in before dawn, guns drawn, with a "no knock" warrant while Manafort and his wife were in bed, the agents frisked Mrs. Manafort while she was still in her nightclothes.
Perhaps Cohen thinks if he sounds reasonable, he can appease Robert Mueller, the special prosecutor who ordered Manafort’s arrest, or his other federal prosecutors behind this raid. Or maybe Cohen simply developed the quickest case of Stockholm syndrome in history. Whatever his reasons, a line has been violated. The government is going after lawyers now, as part of an investigation that feels as though policy differences and partisan politics have been criminalized.
Since the day Trump entered political life, liberals, Democratic activists, and media pundits have issued ominous warnings about the coming authoritarianism. When Trump shocked his critics by winning the presidency, this alarm became a crescendo. The "f" word was bandied about: Fascism, we were admonished, was in our future if we didn’t "resist" this presidency.
[The Hill] Former CIA Director John Brennan confirmed on Sunday that he has not met with special counsel Robert Mueller as part of the probe into alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
"No, I have not," Brennan told Chuck Todd on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Brennan added that he was not surprised that Mueller has not yet reached out to him.
"I think Mr. Mueller would have had access to CIA files that he needed. And, again, CIA's role is not to look at the activities of individual Americans by any means. But I think there's a full record there and there are individuals at the agency who can provide the insight to Bob Mueller's team that they need," Brennan said.
[Free Beacon] Former FBI Director James Comey said "it sucked" to be him the final 10 days of the 2016 presidential campaign and he felt "everybody hated me" after his late October letter to Congress about the reopening of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
"What did it feel like to be James Comey in the last 10 days of that campaign after you sent the letter?" ABC host George Stephanopoulos asked in an interview airing Sunday night.
"It sucked," Comey said. "I walked around vaguely sick to my stomach, feeling beaten down, felt like I was totally alone, that everybody hated me, and that there wasn't a way out, because it really was the right thing to do."
Comey's Oct. 28, 2016, letter to Congress announcing newly discovered emails related to Clinton's private email server is still viewed by Clinton and her allies as one of the key reasons for her loss. Clinton has even remarked that if the election had been held Oct. 27, she would have been the 45th president.
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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest--
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men--
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
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Well, Jimmy, if you think that stretch sucked, I got news for you about the near future. Pretty much everybody hates you now, ans I just hope you have something good to shop to the DOJ.
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Hated? Why the past tense, Jimmy?
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[AlAhram] Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said on Sunday that Arab countries are facing unprecedented threats, while criticising regional states that aim to increase their influence in Arab countries.
Speaking at the Arab Summit held in 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... , El-Sisi said that Arab countries are facing the "most serious crisis since their independence" from occupation, citing attempts to interfere in Arab countries as well as setbacks in efforts to resolve the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict.
"There are regional states that are not respecting the principles of neighbourliness and are working hard to establish spheres of influence within the Arab states," El-Sisi told leaders of countries in the 22-member 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... "The army of one of the regional countries is present on the land of two Arab countries, in a state of explicit occupation," he said during a speech broadcast live on TV, without elaborating further.
Oooo, ooooo, I know! It’s Iran, right?
El-Sisi added that "another regional party" exploited instability in the region in recent years to "built up areas of influence in more than one Arab country."
Or maybe that is Iran?
On Paleostine, El-Sisi warned that non-activated international decisions on the conflict with Israel as well as division between Paleostinian factions threaten Paleostinians' longstanding hope for a state with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Uh oh.
Saudi Arabia currently holds the rotating chair of the Arab summit. King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians.... has said that the ongoing Arab summit would be named the ’Jerusalem Summit.’
El-Sisi said the "Arab right to Paleostine is a fixed and legitimate right that cannot be rewritten or appropriated,"
No it isn’t, actually, no matter how much Muslim countries and other Jew-hating types might pretend otherwise. But it is interesting that they keep telling themselves so.
referring to an Egyptian-drafted UN General Assembly resolution calling for the United States to reverse its December decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The UN resolution was backed by a majority of UN-member countries in December.
Y’all keep saying that as if the General Assembly mattered...
El-Sisi also called for a comprehensive strategy to preserve national security in Arab countries to protect against any attack or foreign interference.
El-Sisi also referred to a ballistic missile launched across the Yemeni border in Saudi Arabia, which targeted Riyadh and was intercepted by Saudi air defences last week.
"Egypt will not accept Yemeni elements bombing Saudi territory with ballistic missiles, as this constitutes a threat to Arab national security," he told the gathering.
That’s nice, dear. But as you don’t want to send large numbers of troops, there is no practical difference between accepting and not accepting.
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since the street signs in Israel are in arabic as well as hebrew and english, it seems to me that this 'arab right' to palestine already exists under Israeli jurisdiction
there are even streets and towns named for famous sheiks
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since the street signs in Israel are in arabic as well as hebrew and english
Pretty much describes much of southern Mexifornia.
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Funny thing in California is a lot of the signage (housing developments mostly) are in a pseudo Spanish. Not real words but they look Spanish. OF course who's gonna say boo when Spanish speaking people tend to be priced out of those areas anyway.
[Libya Herald] House of Representatives (HoR) head, Ageela Salah, says he has been in contact with Libyan National Army (LNA) leader, Khalifa Hafter and discussed with him the latest developments. The comments came through the official HoR spokesperson Abdulla Belheeg yesterday.
Belheeg reported that Saleh, who is also the Supreme Commander of the mainly eastern-based Armed Forces, warned against the rumours and incitement that some are trying to spread. He did not specify which specific rumours were being referred to.
The official HoR spokesperson also reported Saleh as saying that work is continuing normally in all armed forces units and in all (military and security) operating rooms. Saleh was also reported as saying that he and Hafter were following up with the Chiefs of Staff and the Commanders of the operations rooms on a continuous basis. Furthermore, he assured all the Libyan people that the military institutions will remain the safety valve for the nation.
It will be recalled that on Wednesday, the official spokesperson for the Hafter-led Libyan National Army (LNA), Ahmed Mesmari, denied reports about the illness of Khalifa Hafter. He claimed on the LNA’s twitter account that ’’All the news about General commander’s health are false, Marshal Hiftar is in excellent health".
However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... the statements have failed to provide adequate information or proof about the status or whereabouts of Khalifa Hafter, and failed to address directly the numerous growing domestic and international reports and rumours that have been circulating about Hafter’s state of health since Tuesday.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Air Force (SyAAF) moved back their air assets back to the bases they were previously deployed at before the US-led strikes on Saturday morning.
According to a military source in Damascus, the Syrian Air Force resumed their Arclight airstrikes across the country after many of their jets returned their home airbases.
No aircraft were harmed in the US’ attack on Saturday.
The source added that many Syrian jets were moved to Russian bases in the Latakia, Tartous, and Aleppo governorates last week after US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... threatened to attack Syria.
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Very... nuanced. The SAA didn't lose any 'normal' warfighting capability and the message was sent that 'The We are Not amused." Trump still seems to be trying to avoid escalating our involvement in the civil war.
[APNEWS] Montenegro’s ruling party leader Milo Djukanovic swept a presidential election on Sunday, preliminary results showed, and he pledged to keep the small Balkan country firmly on a European path after it joined NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... last year in defiance of Russia.
Djukanovic won 54 percent of the ballots, securing a victory in the first round and avoiding a runoff, according to results released by the independent Center for Monitoring and Research. His main opponent, Mladen Bojanic, won 33 percent.
If confirmed in the official vote count, the result will present a major boost for Djukanovic and his ruling Democratic Party of Socialists.
Sunday’s vote, the first since Montenegro joined the Western military alliance in December, was seen as a test for Djukanovic, who favors European integration over closer ties to traditional ally Moscow.
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[DAWN] Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Kuldeep Singh Sengar, who is the main accused in the rape of a 17-year-old girl in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao, has been sent to seven-day CBI custody.
The central investigating agency locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! Shashi Singh, who is named in the CBI FIR as an accomplice of Sengar in the rape case. According to the FIR, Singh had allegedly taken the girl to the MLA’s residence.
"We support fair investigation. He has been sent to 7-day CBI custody," said Sengar’s lawyer.
On Friday, Sengar was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) after a day-long interrogation.
Sengar, an MLA from Bangarmau in Unnao district, was picked up by a team of the CBI in the wee hours of Friday from his residence in Indiranagar from where he was driven to the zonal office of the CBI and interrogated for several hours.
Earlier, the Allahabad high court had directed the CBI to arrest Sengar saying the law and order machinery and officials were directly under his influence.
The victim has alleged that she was raped by the MLA at his residence on June 4, 2017, where she had gone with a relative seeking a job.
In February, the girl’s family moved court seeking to include the MLA’s name in the rape case. After this move, the victim’s father was booked by the police under the arms act on April 3 this year and put in jail on April 5.
Alleging inaction and coercion from powerful people, the victim attempted self-immolation in front of the CM’s house on April 8 and the next day, her father died in jail with post-mortem report suggesting serious injuries on his body.
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[DAWN] At least two members of the Christian community were killed and five others injured in a firing incident near a church in Quetta, DawnNewsTV reported.
DIG Quetta Abdur Razzaq Cheema said the incident occurred when worshippers were leaving after attending the Sunday service at a church in Essa Nagri area of the quiet provincial capital.
Person or persons unknown riding a cycle of violence opened fire on the members of the Christian community and managed to flee the scene. ... as though they had never been... soon after the incident, the DIG said.
The injured were rushed to Bolan Medical Complex, Quetta, where two injured worshippers succumbed to their, the hospital officials said.
Earlier this month, four members of a Christian family travelling in a rickshaw were killed in a firing incident on Quetta's Shah Zaman road. The Christian family belonged to Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... and had come to Quetta to see relatives.
In December last year, nine people were killed and 30 injured in a suicide kaboom on the Bethel Memorial Methodist Church on Quetta's Zarghoon Road.
At least two suicide attackers had struck the Bethel Memorial Church while Sunday service was ongoing. There were 400 worshipers inside the church when the assault started.
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a firing incident ... Person or persons unknown riding a cycle of violence opened fire on the members of the Christian community and managed to flee the scene
[The Hill] They were among the most powerful men of the last decade. They commanded armies of armed agents, had the ability to bug and wiretap almost anyone, and had virtually unlimited budgets. They were the leadership of the FBI, the CIA and the director of national intelligence under President Obama. Each day, it becomes clearer that they are the real abusers of power in this drama.
The book by former FBI Director James Comey and the daily hyperbolic John Brennan sound bites are perhaps the final reveal of just how much hubris and vitriol they had. Comey’s book, according to reports, contains nothing new of legal consequence to Trump (while suggesting that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch has something to worry about), but it unmasks the hatred that Comey had for Donald Trump from the beginning. It impeaches Comey’s fitness to have ever held high, nonpartisan office. Read the whole thing. Note the author: Mark Penn served as pollster and adviser to President Clinton from 1995 to 2000, including during his impeachment. He is chairman of the Harris Poll and author of the recently released book, "Microtrends Squared."
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Thought a pic of Custar's last stand might also be appropriate.
[IsraelTimes] US Ambassador to the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... Nikki Haley ...Trump administration's ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems... says the US will be imposing more economic sanctions on Russia for its support of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... and his apparent use of chemical weapons.
Haley says Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will be making the announcement by Monday and it will affect companies that are "dealing with equipment related to Assad and any chemical weapons use."
She tells CBS’s "Face the Nation" that Russia needs to feel the consequences for protecting the Assad regime. Haley notes that Russia has vetoed six resolutions in the United Nations Security Council regarding chemical weapons.
Haley says the fact that Assad was making the use of chemical weapons "more normal and that Russia was covering this up, all that has got to stop."
Syrian opposition activists and first responders say a chemical attack on the town of Douma, near the Syrian capital, killed more than 40 people on April 7.
[KhaamaPress] The Talibs have blown up the laboratory of a school 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 which resulted into the destruction of the laboratory as well as some documents stored in the compound.
The provincial government media office in a statement said the laboratory was set on fire in the vicinity of Momandara district.
The statement further added that all the equipment and documents available in the laboratory were totally destroyed in the kaboom.
According to the governor’s office, the gunnies initially stormed into the school, tied the hands of the unarmed guards of the school, and then detonated the compound with explosives.
[Ynet] For the second time in two days, Paleostinians from the Gazoo Strip sent a Molotov cocktail attached to a kite over the fence into the Eshkol Regional Council area. It caused a fire in the Kisufim wooded area; firefighters are at the scene and no injuries were reported.
[Ynet] During a routine checkpoint stop in the West Bank, IDF forces placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! two Israeli Arabs who were found to be armed with pistols.
[Al Jazeera] The arrest of a former top FARC commander last week has put an already fragile peace deal under further strain, but could help bolster the grinding of the peace processor in the long run, depending on how the charges are carried out, according to analysts.
The deal between the left-wing rebel groups Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC or FARC-EP, is either a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization or a drug cartel based in Colombia. It claims to represent the rural poor in a struggle against Colombia's wealthier classes, and opposes United States influence in Colombia, neo-imperialism, monopolization of natural resources by multinational corporations, and the usual raft of complaints. It funds itself principally through ransom kidnappings, taxation of the drug trade, extortion, shakedowns, and donations. It has lately begun calling itself Bolivarian and is greatly admired by Venezuela's President-for-Life Chavez, who seemingly fantasizes about living in the woods and kidnapping people himself. He provides FARC with safe areas along the border. (FARC) and the state, signed in late 2016, formally ended 52 years of conflict that had left an estimated 222,000 people dead and more than seven million displaced.
Despite having received near-universal praise on the international stage, domestically, Colombia's landmark peace accord has never received the same level of popularity.
Following delays in its implementation and corruption scandals, the process encountered another setback this week when Seuxis Hernandez, better known as Jesus Santrich, was charged by US courts and the Colombian general prosecutor with conspiracy to ship 10,000kg of cocaine - with a street value of $320m - to the United States.
According to analysts, the charges pose some serious issues for the peace accord by further damaging trust with the FARC, potentially frightening ex-rebels into joining dissident rebels and potentially swelling support for reversing an already unpopular agreement.
"This is a serious blow for the political standing of the FARC," said Jorge Restrepo, director of the Conflict Analysis Institute, CERAC.
"They did not get more than 50,000 votes in the elections - [the arrest] shows there was reason in the majority of Colombians who did not trust them to abandon organised crime," he added, referring to last month's elections that saw the FARC participate as a political party for the first time.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army scored a new advance in the southeastern countryside of the Hama Governorate, seizing another town from the jihadist rebels in the area.
Led by their 4th and 11th divisions, the Syrian Arab Army advanced from the recently captured town of Salim to nearby Hamrat.
According to a military source in Hama, the Syrian Arab Army was able to quickly sweep through the town of Hamrat after a brief firefight with the jihadist rebels.
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[DAWN] At least two Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... (FC) personnel deployed on the Pak-Afghan border were martyred, while five were maimed in an attack from across the border, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Sunday.
The attack was carried out from the 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... of Afghanistan on a border post in Laka Tika area of Lower Kurram Agency ...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora... , officials of the political administration in Kurram Agency said.
ISPR, the Army's media wing, said FC troops were fired upon from Afghanistan while they were busy in "routine surveillance along Pak-Afghan border for plugging of gaps and making necessary preparations for starting fencing in that area."
"Pak troops are exercising maximum restraint so as to avoid any Afghan civilian casualties," the statement said, adding: "Military engagement is underway to defuse [the] situation."
According to government officials, scores of armed rustics from Bangash and other tribes have started assembling to support the security personnel.
Tribal elders reportedly made announcements at several mosques in the nearby areas, appealing rustics to join the security personnel on the border. Following the announcements, several armed rustics, belonging to Toori Bangish and other tribes started approaching the border posts.
[DAWN] Nigeria on Saturday marked four years since Boko Haram abducted more than 200 schoolgirls from the remote town of Chibok, with renewed calls for their release and that of thousands of others seized in the bloody conflict.
A total of 219 girls were taken from the Government Girls Secondary School in the remote town in Borno state on the evening of April 14, 2014, and have become an enduring symbol of the Islamist insurgency.
Four years on, 112 are still being held.
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I bet Boko Haram is still laughing at that picture.
[APNEWS] An American pastor imprisoned in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... is going on trial for alleged terror ties and spying in a case that has increased tensions between Washington and Ankara.
Andrew Craig Brunson, a 50-year-old evangelical pastor from North Carolina, is facing up to 35 years in prison on charges of "committing crimes on behalf of terror groups without being a member" and "espionage." The trial begins Monday in western Izmir province.
Brunson was enjugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! in December 2016 for alleged links to both an outlawed Kurdish holy warrior group and the network of the U.S.-based Moslemholy man who Turkey blames for a criminal masterminding a failed military coup that year. The holy man, Fethullah Gülen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... , denies the claim.
Brunson, who has lived in Turkey for 23 years, has denied all allegations, saying that he solely worked as a pastor.
The Ottoman Turkish government has clearly linked Brunson’s case with its determination to force the U.S. to extradite Gulen ‐ and some see the pastor as a diplomatic pawn.
The American Center for Law and Justice, a conservative Christian group in the U.S., has called Brunson a "hostage of the Ottoman Turkish government." A petition has garnered more than half a million signatures, claiming that the case was putting Christianity on trial.
Brunson’s lawyer, Ismail Cem Halavurt, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Sunday he expects the pastor’s acquittal, arguing that the "weak" indictment lacked sufficient evidence to make the case hold up in court.
American officials have repeatedly requested that Brunson be released ‐ 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... himself asked 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... to have his government "expeditiously" return the pastor to the U.S.
But Erdogan fired back at Washington, demanding that the U.S. first return Gulen.
"You give him to us and we’ll give you this one," he said, referring to Brunson.
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[IsraelTimes] Regime forces expected to target area that was the cradle of uprising and a stronghold for Western-backed non-jihadist rebels.
The capture of Eastern Ghouta is a significant milestone for Syria’s regime and paves the way for government troops to shift south to where the seven-year uprising first began: Daraa, the province that touches Israel’s border.
After securing the capital from deadly rockets that once rained in from its suburbs, Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
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The SAA will have to fight the FSA under US and Jordanian protection. Last several times Syria/Iran tried this, they beat feet when the US Air Force objected.
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Assad's SAA will have to eventually fight the FSA/Kurds in the North. Emphasis on the word eventually. Before then there are the pockets of resistance around Damascus and the Daraa corner. The Turks and their proxies will continue to pressure the Kurds in North in the mean time occupying both.
So hopefully there will be nothing to report from the area for a few days.
[IsraelTimes] The army announces it will impose a closure on the West Bank during Israel’s Memorial Day and Independence Day this week.
The IDF says the closure will begin at midnight on Monday and be lifted on Thursday at midnight "in accordance with a situational assessment."
Border crossings with the Gazoo Strip will also be shuttered during this time, the army says.
"During the closure, passage will be allowed in humanitarian, medical and exceptional cases only and subject to the approval of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories," the IDF says in a statement.
The West Bank and Gazoo border crossings are typically closed during Israeli and Jewish holidays, when the risk of terror attacks is assessed to be higher.
[Business Insider] A Russian journalist who wrote about Russian mercenaries in Syria has died from injuries he sustained after falling from a balcony.
Maxim Borodin, 32, died at a hospital on Sunday after falling from his fifth-floor balcony in Yekaterinburg on Thursday, according to the Associated Press and RFERL.
The Associated Press reported that it was unclear how Borodin fell, but RFERL reported that officials are considering his death to be a suicide.
Borodin wrote for a news website called Novy Den where he covered crime and corruption, RFERL reported. He recently helped break the story about the deaths of Russian Wagner Group mercenaries from Asbest who were killed in Syria during a fight with the US militar y in February.
Borodin's editor at Novy Den, Polina Rumyantseva, said on Sunday that she doesn't believe he committed suicide, RFERL reported. Nor does anyone else.
Reporters Without Borders tweeted on Sunday that the circumstances of Borodin's death were "suspicious," and that they want "a thorough, impartial investigation."
The Wagner Group has about 2,500 mercenaries in Syria, according to the BBC.
[Townhall] Kassem Eid survived the 2013 Syrian chemical attack and for nearly two years lived in a constant state of war and violence. As a refugee in America, his heart longs for peace in his home land. After years of President Obama's reluctance to intervene in Syria, Eid is thrilled that President Trump is finally helping the Syrian people. Specifically on CNN yesterday, Eid said he would love to buy Trump a beer and sit down with him to explain just how badly the situation is in Syria.
[DAWN] Unknown button menshot up the residence of Justice Ijazul Ahsan in Lahore's Model Town in two separate incidents only hours apart, DawnNewsTV reported on Sunday.
No casualties were reported in the attacks, one of which took place around 10:45pm on Saturday and the other at 9:10am on Sunday.
Chief Justice of Pakistain Mian Saqib Nisar visited the residence of Justice Ahsan and called the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... inspector general to probe the incidents. The chief justice is said to be overseeing the situation himself.
Justice Ahsan was part of the five-member bench that delivered the verdict in the high-profile Panamagate case last year, which led to the disqualification of 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... , the then prime minister.
He has been appointed as the monitoring judge to supervise and monitor the implementation of the Panamagate case verdict and is currently overseeing the ongoing proceedings by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and accountability courts against the Sharif family members and Ishaq Dar.
He was also part of the three-member bench hearing 17 petitions against the controversial Elections Act 2017. The bench had ruled that an individual disqualified under Articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution cannot serve as head of a political party, leading to Nawaz Sharif losing his position as the chief of PML-N.
CM orders 'immediate arrests'
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... took notice of the incident as well and ordered immediate arrests of the attackers. He also asked the Punjab inspector general (IG) to submit a report on the incident.
The personal secretary to Sharif, however, was refused a meeting with the Supreme Court judge by the SC administration.
Security personnel, including Rangers, have been deployed outside the residence of the judge.
"This is a highly condemnable incident. We are trying our best to arrest the attackers and a thorough investigation is underway," Punjab government front man Malik Ahmad Khan told DawnNewsTV. He said that additional security has been provided to the Supreme Court judge.
According to reports by security forces, spent bullet casing of a 9mm pistol was found near the main gate of Justice Ahsan's residence last night while another was found near kitchen window in the morning.
Forensic experts visited the residence twice and gathered evidence, including CCTV footage of the security camera.
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[CDP] High profile spin doctor and "longtime Clinton family ally," Lanny Davis, predicts big trouble ahead for former FBI Director James Comey.
Davis is popping up on talk shows all over Washington, D.C. to tell anyone who will listen that Comey, along with his deputy, Andrew McCabe, are destined to become political speed bumps. He threw Comey under the bus himself.
Davis sat down with former Fox newscaster Bill O’Reilly this week, who now broadcasts from his own web page. In the interview, he covered the same ground he has been tromping since word broke of James Comey’s impending book.
When Michael Horowitz releases his awaited report, the Inspector General will "come down very hard" on Director Comey, Davis declares.
Lanny Davis isn’t just any attorney. He handles very touchy cases. Penn State University retained him for the Joe Paterno scandal.
According to Justin Elliot, a columnist for Salon magazine, Davis specializes in "lobbying for controversial corporate and foreign clients," especially those with Democratic-leaning needs in Washington.
[PUNCHNG] The Nigerian Army, on Saturday, said its troops killed seven 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... Death Eaters in the ongoing clearance operation in separate ambushes in Borno State.
The Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, Operation LAFIYA DOLE, Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, made the disclosure in a statement in Maiduguri, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
Nwachukwu disclosed that the troops also tossed in the calaboose Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! a suspected Boko Haram murderous Moslems’ spy, Modu Chari, and recovered arms in multiple encounters with the fleeing bully boyz on April 13.
He said the troops killed two Death Eaters fleeing from military onslaught in Sambisa Forest at Kusheri-Ardodam, along Magumeri in Borno, adding that the troops recovered two AK 47 rifles, three magazines and 18 rounds of 7.62 mm NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... type ammunition.
Nwachukwu revealed that the troops also neutralised two Death Eaters in an ambush along a remote track in Mafa, recovering one AK 47 rifle, two magazines and a bicycle in the process.
In another ambush, he said three fleeing Death Eaters were killed by troops at Multe-Lawanti, South of Furfur in Damboa, Borno, and recovered one AK 47 rifle, three cycle of violences, two bicycles, spanners and dresses.
The army front man explained further that the troops arrested Chari while transiting along Cross Kauwa in the northern region of Borno.
He explained that the suspect was on an espionage mission when he was nabbed by troops, adding that investigations indicated that Chari was an active member of the Al Barnawi faction of the terrorist group.
"The ferocity of the ongoing Counter Terrorism and Counter Insurgency Operations to rid the North-East of Boko Haram hideouts and enclaves has further suffocated the terrorist group hence they resorted to suicide kabooms on innocent civilians," he said.
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What did President Macron trade to get that agreement?
[Rooters] French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday said he had convinced U.S. President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... to keep troops in Syria for the long term and limit joint strikes to chemical weapons facilities.
Early on Saturday, the United States, La Belle France and Britannia launched 105 missiles targeting what they said were three chemical weapons facilities in Syria in retaliation for a suspected poison gas attack in Douma on April 7.
"Ten days ago, President Trump was saying 'the United States should withdraw from Syria'. We convinced him it was necessary to stay," Macron said in an interview broadcast by BFM TV, RMC radio and Mediapart online news.
"We convinced him it was necessary to stay for the long term."
The United States, Britannia and La Belle France said they only hit Syria's chemical weapons capabilities and the strikes were not aimed at toppling Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... or intervening in the civil war.
Limiting the strikes to these specific targets was not necessarily Trump's initial plan, Macron said.
"We also persuaded him that we needed to limit the strikes to chemical weapons (sites), after things got a little carried away over tweets," he said.
While it is unusual for a French president to present himself as driving U.S. policy in military matters in the Middle East, Macron and Trump have developed a friendly relationship over the past year.
Macron invited Trump to assist to Bastille day celebrations last year and will travel to Washington on a state visit later this month.
Saturday's strikes on Syria were the first major military operation since Macron's election in May last year.
He reaffirmed that there was proof of chemical attacks, adding: "We had reached a point where these strikes were necessary to give back the (international) community some credibility."
Macron said that failing so far to get the red lines respected had led Russian authorities to think of Western powers that "these people from the international community - they are nice, they are weak".
"He (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... ) has understood it's not the case anymore."
Macron had warmer words for The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... . "With those strikes we have separated the Russians and the Turks on this. The Turks condemned the chemical weapons."
Macron, criticised by the far-left and far-right and part of the conservatives over the attacks, said La Belle France, Britannia and the United States had "complete international legitimacy to act."
[Washington Examiner] CBS News accidentally published an obituary Sunday prematurely celebrating the life of former first lady Barbara Bush after a spokesman revealed she was in "failing health," according to multiple reports.
The article, titled "DO NOT PUBLISH ‐ Former first lady Barbara Bush d*es at age 92 DO NOT PUBLISH," went live on the cbsnews.com website before shortly being taken down, per the Sacramento Bee.
Bush announced Sunday that she was choosing to focus on comfort care rather than seek additional medical treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and congestive heart failure.
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Layers and layers of fact checkers and editors.
Maybe they were tricked by the "DO NOT PUBLISH" heading. Kind of like that big red button on the control panel marked "DO NOT PRESS". You just can't help it.
[KhaamaPress] The Taliban insurgents have killed at least eleven members of the public uprising forces in northern Sari Pul province of Afghanistan.
According to the local officials, the Taliban militants launched a coordinated attack on a security post belonging to the public uprising forces in Sang Charak district late on Saturday night.
A member of the provincial council Mohammad Noor Rahmani confirmed the attack and said at least eleven public uprising personnel have lost their lives in the attack.
The anti-government armed militant groups including Taliban insurgents have not commented regarding the report so far.
[Dallas News] The feds maintain that the 70 million-year-old skull that belonged to a relative of Tyrannosaurus rex was among a horde of dinosaur fossils stolen from Mongolia years ago. Interesting we have Feds worried about 70-million year old hordes.
The government says a U.S. fossil dealer traveled to Mongolia to obtain fossils and then shipped them to China to avoid a U.S. Customs inspection. From there, the fossils were shipped to the United Kingdom and then into the U.S., the forfeiture lawsuit says. Illegal immigrants, all!
The stolen property act was used to recover Nazi-looted art as well as antiquities stolen from the Middle East, Turkey and Greece and "has a richer body of precedent that a prosecutor can draw on." However, the attorney said he and his client will fight on. So far, he appears to be the only person putting up a fight over a Mongolian dinosaur fossil.
Since federal authorities began a crackdown in 2012 on the little-known black market in dinosaur bones, more than 18 specimens have been returned to Mongolia. Two men were convicted in federal court of smuggling fossils into the U.S. Lessee, who was POTUS in 2012? Who ran the DOJ?
Actor Nicolas Cage was among buyers who agreed to part with their bataar skulls. After having paid six figures for it. Will the Feds help recover the losses of U.S. citizens?
The stolen property act is one of the key federal laws that address antiquities trafficking, a New York lawyer wrote in an article last year. An expert in that area, said in the article that the art and antiquities trade is the world's third largest black market, behind only drugs and arms, with an annual estimated value of up to $8 billion. How we doin' on the drugs and weapons black market? What's the value of human trafficking/illegal immigration, I wonder?
The law professor, said fossil smuggling may seem at first like a victimless crime. The harm, however, is in the fact that scientists are unable to study the items and give them historical context due to the handiwork of "unskilled looters," he said. Does the skull in question have a home waiting for it in Mongolia, or is it destined for the Obama Presidential Library?
There's no indication that the government is seeking criminal charges against (the Texas former owner of the artifact). How about the stuff in the Smithsonian? British Museum?
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That would be James Comey on the right in the graphic, correct ?
[DAWN] Indian police have made another arrest after the alleged rape of a teenager by a ruling party politician sparked protests across the country, federal Sherlocks said Sunday.
The case, along with the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl, has brought Indians onto the streets for mass demonstrations not seen since the rape and murder of a Delhi student in 2012.
The outrage has put pressure on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is accused of trying to shield its state politician in one case and of defending the accused in the other.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has incarcerated Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! Kuldeep Singh Sengar, a politician from Uttar Pradesh state which is ruled by the Hindu nationalist BJP, for allegedly raping the 17-year-old last year.
Police only brought a case against the powerful politician last week after the young victim attempted to burn herself alive outside the state leader's residence.
The next day, her father, who had been in police custody, died from injuries he sustained in an alleged beating.
"We arrested the second person, a woman named Shashi Singh, in our ongoing investigations of the case on Saturday," R.K. Gaur, a CBI front man, told AFP on Sunday.
Sengar appeared in court the same day and was ordered detained for seven days.
The girl's family ‐ who fought unsuccessfully for nearly a year to get the police to register their case ‐ said Singh had taken their daughter to the state politician on the pretext of a job.
Singh then allegedly stood guard at the door while Sengar raped the girl, the family's initial complaint to police stated.
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Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ An Iraqi civilian was maimed Sunday as a locally-made bomb went kaboom! in southern capital Baghdad, a security source was quoted as saying.
Speaking to Alghad Press, the source said, "A locally-made bomb went off near a market in Hor Rajab area in southern Baghdad."
"The kaboom left a civilian maimed," the source said.
He added that an ambulance carried the injured to a nearby hospital for treatment.
[MAIL] Passengers aboard a flight bound for New Orleans were screaming, crying, vomiting, and texting loved ones farewell as the pilot struggled to land the plane in the midst of stormy weather.
The scary incident took place aboard Southwest Airlines Flight 3461 from Fort Lauderdale to New Orleans on Saturday.
The New Orleans area was experiencing tornado watches and heavy rainfall on Saturday.
Weather reports also said that New Orleans was due to experience wind gusts of up to 70 miles per hour and hail. "Takeoffs are optional, landings are mandatory."
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Weather here was quite rough at times yesterday, though the worst didn't last an hour. Either several other flights had similar experiences or everyone else diverted or delayed and SW should have.
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Having landed in a storm and looked out the right side window and seen the center stripe of the runway we were landing on crossing diagonally under the plane, with a sudden right turn when the gear touched down, I can sympathize.
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Reminds me of a KAL stretch 757 flight from Seoul to Narita. I sat on the aisle in the back (last to hit the ground you know!). When we skirted a typhoon the tube flexed so much I could no longer see first class.
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Scariest landing I've ever had was in Hong Kong back in the 90s. Perfect weather but that airport with the hard right right just before landing, right after passing a line of buildings on that side, was crazy scary.
[Al Jazeera] Representatives of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) have arrived in Damascus, where they will conduct a so-called 'fact-finding mission' into the chemical attack in Douma on April 7.
The OPCW will try "to establish facts surrounding allegations of the use of toxic chemicals, reportedly chlorine, for hostile purposes in the Syrian Arab Republic" in the Damascus suburb of Douma.
According to the organization, its mission will continue despite Saturday night's air strikes by the United States, French and British forces, aimed at destroying Syrian chemical weapons facilities.
That mission was announced on April 10, three days after the chemical attack in which at least 85 people were killed and hundreds were maimed.
The countries that conducted last night's air strikes on at least three targets in the war-torn country have all claimed they have proof of the Syrian regime being behind the attack on Douma, raising the question how much the OPCW will actually accomplish.
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[Washington Examiner] President Trump repeatedly called for former FBI Director James Comey to be jailed for his handling of classified information and potentially lying to Congress in a string of tweets Sunday.
Excerpts from Comey’s upcoming book, A Higher Loyalty, which will be released on Tuesday, sparked the tweets. Comey is giving his first interview to ABC on Sunday at 10 p.m. ET.
"The big questions in Comey’s badly reviewed book aren’t answered like, how come he gave up Classified Information (jail), why did he lie to Congress (jail), why did the DNC refuse to give Server to the FBI (why didn’t they TAKE it), why the phony memos, McCabe’s $700,000 & more?" Trump tweeted.
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Already reserving shelf space at 'Half Price Books'.
Does it matter? I'll betcha his honorarium will not depend on sales - the nomenklatura takes care of its own. He'll never have to survey supermarket shelves looking for bargains.
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To vindicate his self-absorbed self he will begin hinting about his colleagues as he has done with P.Trump, ala Lynch. I don't expect him to be around much longer.
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Does it matter? I'll betcha his honorarium will not depend on sales
I remember a book by former MA governor and racialist Deval Patrick - he'd (and other democrats, actually) get massive 'advances' against the sales of the book, which are pretty much like a signing bonus in football. They don't worry about the actual sales of the book because they already got paid.
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Typically the DNC would buy up a ton of the books and then give them out as freebies. I'm not sure the DNC would do that in this case because a lot of folks on the left are pissed at Comey as well and the DNC fundraising has not been up to snuff for some time.
[AnNahar] Missiles fired by the U.S., the UK and La Belle France during Saturday dawn's strike on Syria did not cross Leb's airspace, Lebanese military sources said.
"The army's radars and the radars at Beirut's airport did not detect any violation of the Lebanese airspace at dawn yesterday," the sources told al-Hayat newspaper in remarks published Sunday.
The narrowly targeted strike took aim at three alleged chemical weapons facilities in Syria's Damascus and Homs provinces and the sounds of kabooms were heard in Lebanese border regions.
Kirkuk (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Ten Iraqi people were killed and injured Sunday in a boom-mobile blast in oil-rich Kirkuk province, a security source was quoted as saying.
Speaking to Alghad Press, the source said, "A booby-trapped vehicle went off in al-Khadraa district in central Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... leaving a civilian dead and nine others injured."
"The injured civilians were moved to a nearby hospital for treatment, while the dead body was carried to the forensic medicine department," the source pointed out.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Air Force carried out a series of Arclight airstrikes targeting of a group of Taliban ...Arabic for students... Death Eaters involved in the destruction of a electricity pylon in northern Baghlan province of Afghanistan.
The Afghan Air Force carried out a series of airstrikes targeting of a group of Taliban Death Eaters involved in the destruction of a electricity pylon in northern Baghlan province of Afghanistan.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North said the Afghan Air Force targeted the Taliban Death Eaters using MD-530F helicopters.
The source further added that the airstrike was carried out in the vicinity of Dahan-e-Larkhab area of Doshi district as the Lions of Islam were preventing the reconstruction of pylon to restore supply of power to Kabul.
According to the Shaheen Corps, at least one Taliban bad boy was killed during the airstrike and three others were maimed.
[AlAhram] 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 King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians.... Bin Abdel-Aziz announced on Sunday that the kingdom will be donating $150 million to the Jerusalem Religious Endowments fund, as well as $50 million to the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... Relief and Works Agency for Paleostine Refugees (UNRWA).
King Salman also announced that the ongoing Arab summit which is hosted in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, will be named the ’Jerusalem Summit.’
[ALMASDARNEWS] The rebels in the eastern Qalamoun region of Damascus have agreed to turn in their heavy weapons and to leave this area after a successful round of talks with the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and Russian Reconciliation Centre.
According to the agreement, the rebel forces in the key town of Dumayr will begin leaving for northern Syria in the 48 hours.
The remaining rebels in the nearby towns of al-Nassiriyah, Rahebah, and Jayroud are negotiating with the government currenty, but they are expected to accept the agreement as well.
The rebel factions currently present in this part of the Qalamoun Mountains are the following: Ahmad al-’Abdo Brigade and and Jaish Thuwar al-Sham of the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA).
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[IsraelTimes] Egypt’s highest appeals court upholds death sentences for four people for allegedly forming a terrorist cell to plot attacks on security forces and other institutions.
The court of cassation on Sunday also rejects an appeal by 14 other defendants against sentences of 15 years imprisonment in February over similar charges including joining an outlawed group, a reference to the Moslem Brüderbund. The verdict is final.
Whew! One quails at the thought of how many intermediate steps there are before arriving at the final determination.
Six defendants in the case are sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia. They remain on the lam and will be re-tried once they are apprehended.
Egypt has cracked down on suspected Islamists since the military ousted president Mohammed Morsi of the Brotherhood in 2013.
Since then, hundreds of Islamists, including Brotherhood members, have been sentenced to death. The authorities have carried out dozens of executions.
Egypt's Court of Cassation upheld on Sunday death sentences against four defendants convicted of terror-related charges, including two in absentia, in the 2015 "Ousim terrorist cell case."
The defendants were referred to trial in November 2015 on charges of forming and operating a terrorist cell with the aim of undermining the constitution, targeting public and private property, threatening law enforcement officers, as well as a failed liquidation attempt on a judge in March 2015.
The defendants were also accused of orchestrating and carrying out a number of terrorist attacks in Giza governorate.
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[IsraelTimes] After it destroys longest, deepest tunnel dug by terror group under border into Israel, army showcases its new tech 'laboratory' systematically neutralizing the subterranean threat.
Hours after announcing the destruction of the longest and deepest Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, attack tunnel reaching into Israel from Gazoo, the Israeli army released a video on Sunday, showcasing the new, special "laboratory" it established for locating cross-border tunnels dug from the Hamas-run coastal enclave into Israel.
The laboratory, which located five tunnels in recent months, was established two years ago as part of the IDF’s Gazoo Division and is headed by Captain B, who was trained in electrical engineering and chemistry, the army said.
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So now it need only be rubber stamped by the entire parliament to pass into law. How pleased President El-Sisi will be.
[AlAhram] Two committees of the Egyptian parliament approved on Sunday a government-drafted law aimed at regulating the procedures for sequestering, managing, and disposing of the assets of the banned Moslem Brüderbund group.
The draft law also covers all Islamist groups and movements that are found guilty of mounting terrorist attacks or being affiliated with the Brotherhood in any way.
The Legislative and Constitutional Affairs Committee and the National Security and Defence Committee both gave their approval to the bill, which is expected to be approved by parliament in a plenary session on Sunday or Monday.
The 20-article draft states that an ad hoc committee will be formed with responsibility for managing the assets of the group and of all other groups and movements related with the mother organization and listed as "terrorist entities".
"The assets include all kinds of property, in-kind possessions, bonds, national or foreign cash, and financial securities," the draft states.
The law states that all state institutions ‐ including banks, whether public or private ‐ will be obliged to cooperate with the ad hoc committee, giving all necessary assistance and implementing its resolutions.
Egypt’s Moslem Brüderbund was designated a terrorist organization following a number of terrorist attacks targeting buildings belonging to security forces in Cairo and Nile-delta cities in December 2013.
Many of the group’s leading figures were incarcerated Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! , while many of its assets were sequestrated.
The government also designated two movements ‐ Hasm and Liwaa El-Thawra ‐ are terrorist organizations led by Moslem Brüderbund figures. The two movements were listed as "terrorist" entities by the United Kingdom and the United States.
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This one could really hurt. The Muslim Brotherhood as an institution includes some very wealthy individuals. Islam holds no prohibition to the accumulation of wealth. Just pay the annual tithe demanded of Muslims and everything is OK. Realistically, however, the membership has been moving funds from Asia and Africa to Europe since 2012. What the Brotherhood now stands to lose is real estate and such things as pharmacies, book stores, and retail outlets, which will reduce its presence throughout Egypt.
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the membership has been moving funds from Asia and Africa to Europe since 2012.
I didn’t realize they have been moving monies to Europe, Clurong Peacock9529. The timing is interesting, too. But in Egyot the Sisi government has been confiscating Moslem Brotherhood assets for over a year. There are reports in the archives, but I’m not sure what key words would limit the result to just stories about asset seizures.
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The Muslim Brotherhood survives in the USA because it is supported by the Democrat Party. (Obama's half-brother is a bigwig in the International Islamic Dawaa organization dominated by Brothers.) It has been prorogued in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and the fact that the ruling al-Thani family of Qatar still supports it lies at the heart of the effort to isolate Qatar from other Arab states.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) The number of families 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.... members has been growing as hundreds of displaced families returned to their regions, a security source from Anbar police said on Sunday.
Speaking to Almaalomah website on Sunday, the source said "number of IS families in Hit city and surrounding regions reached 150 families, which indicate terrorist operations that could target security troops and civilians, given that those families provide the gunnies with information about security personnel in order to target them."
"The presence of those families in Hit threaten safety and stability of the region. Displacing them could be hard due to pressures by rights groups," the source added.
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[DAWN] An assistant sub-inspector has been enjugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! along with some other police personnel for allegedly sexually abusing a woman at a police post in Dera Murad Jamali.
Deputy Inspector General of Police, Nasirabad Range, Nazeer Ahmed Kurd told news hounds here on Saturday that a medical examination report had confirmed the victim had been abused.
He said that ASI Ghulam Sarwar Gola, his guard Muhammad Din and driver Nazeer Ahmed had been suspended and taken into custody.
He said they had been booked under 376/200 of the PPC. A five-member team of senior police officials headed by police officer Khawind Bakhsh has been formed to investigate the case.
He said a constable posted at the Uch Power Plant police post was also arrested for interrogation.
The DIG said the investigation team had recorded the statement of the woman who had been shifted to Darul Aman in Quetta.
He said the woman, a resident of Bhag tehsil of Bolan district, came to the Rabi Canal area of Nasirabad district to see her relatives. She forgot the address of her relatives and went to the Uch Power Plant police post for help. The coppers informed their in-charge, ASI Gola, about the matter and he came to the post and took her with him.
He said ASI Gola allegedly raped her and forcibly kept her at the police post for the night.
The next day the woman was left near the district hospital in an unconscious condition. She later found her relatives and reported the matter to the Dera Murad Jamali cop shoppe.
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[DAWN] A new UN report puts Myanmar’s armed forces on a UN blacklist of government and rebel groups "credibly suspected" of carrying out rapes and other acts of sexual violence in conflict for the first time.
An advance copy of Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ report to the Security Council, obtained by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, says international medical staff and others in Bangladesh have documented that many of the almost 700,000 Rohingya Moslems who fled from Myanmar "bear the physical and psychological scars of brutal sexual assault."
The UN chief said the assaults were allegedly perpetrated by the Myanmar Armed Forces, known as the Tatmadaw, "at times acting in concert with local militias, in the course of military ’clearance’ operations in October 2016 and August 2017".
"The widespread threat and use of sexual violence was integral to this strategy, serving to humiliate, terrorise and collectively punish the Rohingya community, as a calculated tool to force them to flee their homelands and prevent their return," Guterres said.
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[FOX] R. Lee Ermey, a former Marine Corps drill instructor known to millions of moviegoers as the sadistic Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket," died Sunday morning, according to his longtime manager. He was 74.
In a statement posted on Twitter, Bill Rogin said Ermey had died due to complications from pneumonia.
"He will be greatly missed by all of us," Rogin wrote. "Semper Fi, Gunny. Godspeed."
A Kansas native, Ermey enlisted in the Marine Corps and age 17 and spent 14 months in Vietnam before he was discharged in 1972. He served as a technical adviser in Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War epic, "Apocalypse Now," in which he also had a small role as a helicopter pilot.
But Ermey didn't get his big break until eight years later, in Kubrick's own take on Vietnam. He was originally supposed to be a technical adviser, but Kubrick offered him the role of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman after seeing a demo tape of Emery railing at extras.
In his role as a drill instructor breaking in new Marines at boot camp on Parris Island, S.C., Ermey roared his way into film history by berating his unfortunate charges.
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Very good man. Among his many films he made a very good USMC training video on Improvised Explosive Devices (IED). Never took a penny for it as I recall. Bound to have saved lives or gave a few people an increased awareness. Perhaps that's why he was sent to us.
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.
[DailyMail] Jeremy Corbyn was slammed by his own MPs today after demanding Vladimir Putin is given the final say on British military action in Syria.
Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch fired back at former James Comey over allegations the former FBI director made in his new book, saying he never raised any concerns with her over the Clinton email investigation:
...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians....
The book by former FBI Director James Comey and the daily hyperbolic John Brennan sound bites are perhaps the final reveal of just how much hubris and vitriol they had. Comey’s book, according to reports, contains nothing new of legal consequence to Trump (while suggesting that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch has something to worry about), but it unmasks the hatred that Comey had for Donald Trump from the beginning. It impeaches Comey’s fitness to have ever held high, nonpartisan office.
...Trump administration's ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems...
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
Kurram Agency
[DAWN] Nigeria on Saturday marked four years since Boko Haram abducted more than 200 schoolgirls from the remote town of Chibok, with renewed calls for their release and that of thousands of others seized in the bloody conflict.
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world...
... 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...
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[Business Insider] A Russian journalist who wrote about Russian mercenaries in Syria has died from injuries he sustained after falling from a balcony.
... 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...
...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab...
... 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...
...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...
[Washington Examiner] CBS News accidentally published an obituary Sunday prematurely celebrating the life of former first lady Barbara Bush after a spokesman revealed she was in "failing health," according to multiple reports.
[Dallas News] The feds maintain that the 70 million-year-old skull that belonged to a relative of Tyrannosaurus rex was among a horde of dinosaur fossils stolen from Mongolia years ago.
Kirkuk (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Ten Iraqi people were killed and injured Sunday in a 
[IsraelTimes] After it destroys longest, deepest tunnel dug by terror group under border into Israel, army showcases its new tech 'laboratory' systematically neutralizing the subterranean threat.
[DAWN] A new UN report puts Myanmar’s armed forces on a UN blacklist of government and rebel groups "credibly suspected" of carrying out rapes and other acts of sexual violence in conflict for the first time.
