I'm waiting to hear Kenya's response when Obama tut-tuts this smart decision
Kenya announced plans to close all refugee camps -- a move that will displace more than 600,000 people -- citing "very heavy" economic, security and environmental issues.
The closures, which were lambasted by human rights groups,
...none of whom are actually helping with the refugee situation...
mean Somali asylum seekers would be forced to return to the situation they fled.
The government plans include closing Dadaab, the largest refugee camp in the world with 300,00 people along the Kenya-Somalia border.
Karanja Kibicho, Kenya's secretary for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, said Friday his country's leaders are concerned about the influence of the terrorist group Al-Shabaab. because, reality bites
"Kenya, having taken into consideration its national security interests, has decided that hosting of refugees has come to an end," he said.
It's not clear when the camps will close.
Human rights groups angrily responded to the decision. Of course, in a press release from a Paris or London five-star restaurant "Eeek! Me meal ticket!"
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Ain't it just a wonderful thing.
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No worries. I'm sure Obama will be more than willing to bring them over here and register them as Democrats.
I've deleted the "California in the red by $127.2 billion, state auditors say" story: comes from 2013 and isn't relevant to us now. After all, California is clearly much more in hock today.
Please check sources, dates, etc, when posting. Thanks.
AoS
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I'm still in 2012 and now I won't know how things will turn out! [pout]
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I get my Rantburg daily via pneumatique whilst I terry waiting to go home, can I get a copy wirelessed to me on TITANIC westbound? Condensed okay, MNO.
[LA Times] When the Internet’s legions of Hillary hecklers steal away to chat rooms and Facebook pages to vent grievances about Clinton, express revulsion toward Clinton and launch attacks on Clinton, they now may find themselves in a surprising place ‐ confronted by a multimillion dollar super PAC working with Clinton.
Hillary Clinton's well-heeled backers have opened a new frontier in digital campaigning, one that seems to have been inspired by some of the Internet's worst instincts. Correct the Record, a super PAC coordinating with Clinton's campaign, is spending some $1 million to find and confront social media users who post unflattering messages about the Democratic front-runner.
In effect, the effort aims to spend a large sum of money to increase the amount of trolling that already exists online.
The plan comes as Clinton operatives grapple with the reality that her supporters just aren’t as engaged and aggressive online as are her detractors inside and outside the Democratic Party.
The lack of engagement is one of Clinton’s bigger tactical vulnerabilities, particularly when compared with rivals like Donald Trump, whose viral social media attacks are legion, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is backed by a passionate army of media-savvy millennials.
Some experts on digital campaigns think the idea of launching a paid army of "former reporters, bloggers, public affairs specialists, designers" and others to produce online counterattacks is unlikely to prove successful. Others, however, say Clinton has little choice but to try, given the ubiquity of online assaults and the difficulty of squelching even provably untrue narratives once they have taken hold.
Such as the unemployment figures, You Can Keep Your Doctor, Nukes for Iran, It Was The Movie Not Terrorists, No Chemical Weapons Will be Allowed in Syria, et al.
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[Fox] Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Monday she could not make any "prediction" about the timing of a final resolution to the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
Asked at a news conference if the clock had run out against taking action against Clinton in light of the advanced election schedule, Lynch replied, "We do all our reviews, investigations of any matter carefully, thoroughly, and efficiently. And when the matter is ready for resolution, a recommendation will be made and we'll come to a decision at that time and I'm not able to give you a prediction. Sorry."
Lynch had called the press briefing to discuss a DOJ suit against North Carolina ‐ which the department brought quickly, in less than two months - over its transgender bathroom law. The state is also suing the DOJ over the issue.
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First Comey and the investigators will determine when the investigation is over and second as much as I despise Hillary and dislike the AG, it would be inappropriate for her to say when she thinks the investigation will end.
[IsraelTimes] Under heavy security, a trial in Belgium of a suspected extremist cell linked to the now-dead ringleader of last year’s lethal attacks in Paris has begun.
Sixteen defendants, including nine who are still at large, are accused of involvement in what Belgian authorities say was a terrorist plot being mounted in the eastern city of Verviers. Lawyers for some of the accused contend their clients did nothing illegal.
Marouane El Bali, the trial’s star defendant, was “bringing one or two pair of sneakers to his friend” when arrested, attorney Didier De Quevy says. “He’s is not at all a radical.”
Belgian police stormed the suspected plotters’ hideout Jan. 15, 2015, killing two men and arresting El Bali, 26, who surrendered. Police were fired on at least 40 times, and reported finding three Kalashnikov-style assault rifles, four handguns, chemicals to make explosives and 23 items of police uniforms inside the Verviers residence.
According to Belgian authorities, the suspects were being directed from afar by Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who was hunted down by French police and killed days after the November 13 attacks that killed 130 victims in Paris. Like El Bali and the two men killed in the Verviers raid, Soufiane Amghar and Khalid Ben Larbi, Abaaoud was from the multiethnic Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussels.
In a summary of the Verviers investigation read by presiding judge Pierre Hendrickx, Belgian officials say they linked Abaaoud to the plot by tracing a Greek cellphone being used by someone calling himself “Omar.”
[AnNahar] A German court on Monday sentenced Soufiane K. ,a 29-year-old German-Moroccan man to five years in jail over his membership in the al-Qaida-linked al-Nusra Front. He had traveled in 2013 with his wife and four children to Syria where he underwent weapons training with al-Nusra Front, the court in Frankfurt said in a statement. He also helped distribute humanitarian supplies for the jihadist group, added the court.
Soufiane K. was arrested in October 2014, several months after his return to Germany, and has since been in police custody.
The court said it based its ruling on testimony by Andrea B., who had traveled with her two children to Syria in January 2014 to become the second wife of the defendant. The witness came into contact with Soufiane K.'s wife through Facebook in December 2013, and was convinced that "she should travel to Syria to live alongside mujahideens fighting Syrian government troops," the court said. But she returned to Germany along with her children in May 2014, because "it was too dangerous there for her and her children," the court said.
Germany's domestic spy agency estimates that around 750 Islamists have left the country to join jihadists in Syria and Iraq, and that one in three has returned, fueling fears about the threat they pose on German soil.
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[Daily Caller] A recently released Pentagon report shows Special Forces operators in Afghanistan often felt there was no clear strategy or clarity behind their orders.
The 700+ page report is the result of an investigation into last year's accidental attack on a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz. Included in the hundreds of pages are several interviews with U.S. Army Special Forces personnel who expressed serious concerns over a lack of direction in the fight against the Taliban and al-Qaida in Afghanistan.
"How far do you want to go?" is not a proper response to "How far do you want us to go?'" said one operator in the report.
The report shows that many Special Forces operators were not clear on the rules of engagement or how far they were allowed to go when accompanying their local Afghan National Army (ANA) trainees. One of the primary missions of the Special Forces is to embed with local partners and train them in various aspects of warfare, ranging from small unit tactics to fire support requests. Special Forces operators have been working with the ANA as part of Operation Resolute Support, the NATO mission to "train, advise assist" in Afghanistan, as opposed to engage in a direct combat role.
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In Naylor's 'Relentless Strike' he talks about SOF frustrations in Iraq toward the end of the Obama involvement. The effort was seen as futile by those brave lads going out on door-kicking or snatch missions each day. Stay-behind assignments never were very popular.
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Obama's strategy in Afghanistan ended in 2009...it was worst case - a political strategy focused only on a number and the optics that he was perceived to act like he cared about the war that mattered... Even now I am unsure what we accomplished in 09...although I am very clear about the consequences of the buildup and the fact that we pay the Taliban for the privilege of fighting them.
[Daily Caller] To counter the Obama Department of Justice suit regarding transgender bathrooms in North Carolina, Rush Limbaugh suggested that the state should no longer identify as North Carolina for the duration of the suit.
Monday on "The Rush Limbaugh Show," Limbaugh, noting that the DOJ gave the state of North Carolina three days to "throw that bill out," said that "If the DOJ gets their way, every business 15 employees or more, is gonna have to have unisex bathrooms and anybody can go into whatever bathroom they want depending how they want to identify or want to present that day."
"The solution here might be that the North Carolina governor could say that we don’t identify as North Carolina anymore, and therefore your lawsuit against us is irrelevant," Limbaugh suggested. "’We’re not North Carolina. We don’t identify that way, as long as your lawsuit [is in effect].'"
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Silly diversionary topic intended to distract the incensed masses from real issues. 'Who you pee next to' is apparently more important to the WH and DoJ than the collapsing economy and world order in an election year.
[Breitbart] A range of British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) television departments, programmes, and radio stations are currently offering highly desirable, paid internships, but white people are prohibited from applying.
Creative Access - an organisation, registered as a charity, which offers placements at "many of the UK's top media organisations" - has listed a number of BBC placements on its website, demanding applicants are only from "Black, Asian and non-white minority ethnic backgrounds".
The website's list of opportunities shows that all but four of the positions currently available are for jobs at the publicly-funded BBC, and Creative Access is funded by the British tax payer despite its charity status.
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Well at least they appear to be open about it, not wishing to waste applicant's time. Creds I suppose, for minimizing the usual gov't 'Affirmative Action' subterfuge.
[Jerusalem Post] Hamza Bin Laden, son of former al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, is calling for the targeting of Jewish and Western interests and the building of an army to "liberate Jerusalem."
According to a new al-Qaida video discovered by the Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor of MEMRI (the Middle East Media Research Institute) and shared with The Jerusalem Post, Hamza praised the stabbing attacks by Palestinians against Israelis and called on Muslims from around the world to join the fight to defend Jerusalem, urging them to "participate in the intifada" of their Palestinian brethren by "killing the Jews and attacking their interests everywhere." Also see Badanov's Hamza bin Laden article found here.
No comments are anticipated from Saddam's sons Uday and Qusay.
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Islamistic background is not confirmed. The perp is a native German (no migration history), has no Islamic background whatsoever, is a drug addict and a mentally deranged person.
He may have shouted Allahu akbar (not confirmed yet), but that could have been a meaningless provocation. But we'll certainly watch this case in order to prevent authorities from manipulating facts.
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The picture is still very confusing, but he might have been a convert.
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[POLITICO.EU] A convicted terrorist who was caught on tape admitting he beheaded "a heretic" is still on the streets, according to Belgian newspaper reports on Monday.
Iliass Khayari, 25, was convicted for being part of a terrorist group in Brussels last week. He was given a five-year prison sentence -- half of it suspended -- but the judge said Khayari did not have to go to jail immediately and could go free until the appeals process is completed, according to Het Laatste Nieuws. That process could take months.
After his conviction, the newspaper revealed details of a bugged phone call in which Khayari said he beheaded a man for being "a heretic" while fighting for 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.... in Syria.
"He is an enemy of Allah. That’s why I beheaded him," Khayari is alleged to have said.
Despite being urged by the federal prosecutor to arrest Khayari over the confession in the call, the judge refused.
An investigation into the alleged beheading has been opened.
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"Iliass Khayari, 25, was convicted for being part of a terrorist group in Brussels last week... the judge said Khayari did not have to go to jail immediately and could go free until the appeals process is completed...."
Makes you wonder if the judge is sane or just a leftist symp
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The Judge should serve out this guy's sentence in the graybar hotel and for any future crimes he commits
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[AnNahar] Saudi security forces on Monday rubbed out a suspected jihadist in the western province of Taif a day after a policeman was killed in a shootout, the interior ministry said.
The gunman was killed after refusing to surrender to security forces hunting him over his suspected involvement in an attempt to infiltrate a cop shoppe parking area in the province on Sunday, a ministry statement said.
It identified him as Mohammed al-Maliki, adding that he had threatened in a video message to attack police and had been involved in a previous attack in which a policeman was killed.
The past week has seen a rise in such incidents in the kingdom, where the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group (IS) has previously claimed bombings and other attacks targeting security forces.
A Copenhagen art exhibit planning to portray two of the Brussels suicide bombers and one of the Paris Bataclan attackers as "martyrs" has been reported to police for encouraging terrorism.
A Danish group of artists plans to include brothers Ibrahim and Khalid el-Bakraoui, who detonated bombs in the deadly Brussels attacks on 22 March, and Foued Mohamed-Aggad, who blew himself up at Paris music venue Bataclan on 14 November. Images of the "martyrs", replicas of their belongings and plaques to explain who they are will adorn the artistic exhibition, which will be on display from May 26 until June 10 in a former abattoir in Copenhagen's trendy Meatpacking District. An interesting choice of venue
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Can anyone enter the art exhibit, for example can i make a statue of Mohammad made out of lacquered poo, where he is mounting a tiny laquered turd statue of 9-year-old aisha
mounted on a desecrated koran that an arse has been wiped on with poo.
I would like to enter that - can I enter that in the exhibition?
[IsraelTimes] Highly accurate ballistic missile has a range of 2,000 kilometers, was launched two weeks ago, Tehran general says
A senior Iranian general on Monday announced that the country’s armed forces successfully tested a precision-guided, medium-range ballistic missile two weeks ago, the state-run Tasnim agency reported.
"We test-fired a missile with a range of 2,000 kilometers and a margin of error of eight meters," Brigadier General Ali Abdollahi was quoted as saying at a Tehran science conference.
The eight-meter margin means the "missile enjoys zero error," he told conference participants.
The general went on to say that 10 percent of Iran’s defense budget has been allocated to "research projects aimed at strengthening defense power," the report said.
Under a nuclear deal signed last year between world powers and Iran, ballistic missile tests are not forbidden outright, but are "not consistent" with a United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Security Council resolution from July 2015, US officials say.
According to the UN decision, "Iran is called upon not to undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons, including launches using such ballistic missile technology," until October 2023.
That has not stopped Iran from carrying out a number of tests of ballistic missile technology since the nuclear deal was adopted on October 18, 2015.
In November, Iran launched a missile with a range of 1,930 kilometers (1,200 miles) from a site near the Gulf of Oman, US officials said at the time.
In March, Iran test-fired two more ballistic missiles, which an Iranian news agency said had the phrase "Israel must be wiped out" written on them in Hebrew. An Iranian commander said the test was designed to demonstrate to Israel that it is within Iranian missile range.
That launch sparked international fury as it appeared to flout the agreements made in the Iranian nuclear deal.
The US, La Belle France, Britannia and Germany decried the launch as "destabilizing and provocative" and called for United Nations action. A UN committee later determined Iran’s ballistic tests were in violation of a Security Council resolution prohibiting Tehran from launching ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons.
Last month, American and Russian officials said Iran test-fired an advanced rocket system in the Dasht-e Kavir desert, in what some considered a cover for intercontinental ballistic missile research.
Israel has pointed to ballistic missile tests as proof Tehran plans to continue pursuing an atomic weapon, despite the landmark agreement aimed at curbing its nuclear program.
In response to the missile tests, Washington imposed fresh sanctions over Iran’s missile program in January, almost immediately after lifting separate sanctions related to Iran’s nuclear program under the nuclear deal.
Iran maintains that because it cannot develop nuclear weapons under the deal, none of its missiles is capable of carrying a nuclear weapon.
Is President Obama wielding his phone and his pen again without reference to the expressed will of Congress?
[IsraelTimes] Five-year plan aims to provide basic humanitarian assistance and create jobs in enclave where unemployment is 40%
The United States has announced a $50 million aid program for the Gazoo Strip.
US officials said Monday that the money will be used over five years to provide basic humanitarian assistance and create jobs. The money will be distributed by the US Agency for International Development in partnership with Catholic Relief Services.
The US Consul General in Jerusalem, Donald A. Blume, said the effort is meant to address "the dire needs that are obvious in Gazoo."
Gazoo’s economy has sharply declined since the Islamist Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, organization took over the coastal territory nearly a decade ago. Unemployment there is estimated to be over 40 percent.
The US, like Israel, views Hamas as a terrorist organization, and has no official relations with the group.
[Ynet] The United States and its allies conducted 25 strikes against 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.... in Iraq and Syria on Sunday, according to the coalition leading the daily operations against the murderous Moslem group.
In a statement released on Monday, the Combined Joint Task Force said 16 strikes near nine Iraqi cities were concentrated near Falluja and djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , where they hit six units of Islamic State fighters as well as two dozen rockets and a dozen rocket rails, among other weapons.
The strikes also hit a bunker, weapons caches and four tactical units near other cities, including Al Baghdadi, Albu Hayat, Bayji, Habbaniyah, Hit, Kisik and Sultan Abdallah, the task force said.
In Syria, nine strikes near Al Shadaddi, Manbij, Mar'a and Palmyra hit six units of murderous Moslem fighters as well as six Islamic State fighting positions, four vehicles, an improvised bomb, and other targets, according to the statement.
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[Ynet] An indictment has been filed against Husam Ashab, 19, from Qalandia, for arms trafficking. There has been at least one instance in which arms the suspect sold were used in a terror attack.
One of the weapons he allegedly sold was used in a shooting attack against passangers on a bus in Ramot Junction, and then in another shooting attack against police at a light rail stop.
Ashab himself shot at security forces as they were demolishing the house of a known terrorist in Qalandia Refugee Camp.
[AlArab] Egypt's Prosecutor General Nabil Sadek referred Sunday 67 people to the criminal court over the liquidation of top prosecutor Hisham Barakat in June 2015.
Barakat, 64, was killed when a boom-mobile struck his convoy in the upscale east Cairo district of Heliopolis last year.
In a statement issued on Sunday, the Prosecutor General's office said the defendants were members of the outlawed Moslem Brüderbund who "conspired" with Death Eaters of the Gazoo-based Islamist Paleostinian group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, to target a number of leading Egyptian officials in order to "sow chaos in the country."
In March, the Egyptian ministry of interior said14 members of the Moslem Brüderbund participated directly in the plan to murder Barakat.
Hamas denied any involvement in the liquidation.
The Moslem Brüderbund is designated as a terrorist organization in Egypt by the government.
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[CHICAGO.SUNTIMES] Eight people -- including a 16-year-old boy -- were killed and at least 39 other people were maimed in shootings across reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... over Mother’s Day weekend.
The boy died in the latest homicide Sunday afternoon in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side.
Nathan Hicks, 16, was found in the street about 3:20 p.m. in the 3400 block of West Arthington with multiple gunshot wounds, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
He was taken to Stroger Hospital where he was pronounced dead. He's dead, Jim! at 4 p.m., authorities said. He lived in the 4700 block of West Gladys.
A couple hours earlier, another West Side shooting left one man dead and a woman injured in the West Garfield Park neighborhood.
Deshawn Thompson, 20, and a 19-year-old woman were sitting on a porch just before 1 p.m. in the 200 block of South Karlov when someone walked up and opened fire, authorities aid.
Thompson was shot multiple times and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He's dead, Jim! at 5:45 p.m., authorities said. He lived in the same block as the shooting.
The woman suffered a graze wound to the back and was also taken to Mount Sinai, where she was listed in good condition Sunday, police said.
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[SPECTATOR.ORG] President Obama’s foreign policy has always been an indecipherable concatenation of unrestrained urges. He’s shunned our closest allies, Britannia and Israel, embraced our adversaries and enemies such as Russia, Iran, and China, and acted out of fits of pique when challenged at home or abroad.
When North Korea tests a missile or a nuclear weapon, when Russia begins reconquering former Soviet states, and when Russia and Iran combine to ensure the survival of Syria’s terrorist regime, there’s no effort to brace our allies to strengthen them. It’s only when we have no national security interest in acting will Obama join, as he did when he, with La Belle France and Britannia, made an ad hoc NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... -like coalition to remove a dictator, using American air power to take out Libya’s Muammar Qadaffy
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The snark on Quadaffy should mention that it's proof that all dictators should keep their WMD for their own protection because that is the lesson the world learned from the Libya fiasco.
[FOXNEWS] A U.S. Arclight airstrike on Friday killed four 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.... fighters in western Iraq, including a leader who appeared in ISIS execution videos and was considered an heir apparent to terror criminal mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Pentagon announced Monday.
The terror leader, Abu Wahib, was known as the "Emir of Anbar Province." The strike unfolded near al-Rutba, not far from the Syrian border, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook told news hounds.
Wahib left an Anbar university, where he was studying computer science, to fight U.S. forces entering Iraq, The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported. He beat feet from an Iraq-run prison in Tikrit in 2012.
Cook said Wahib's death marks another serious blow to ISIS leadership and would "further degrade its ability to operate, especially in Anbar Province."
Iraq had falsely reported Wahib's death in the past, but Cook said, "we're confident that this was a successful strike and I'll leave it at that."
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"We found a forehead with an ugly unibrow, confirming his death"
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[TOWNHALL] Unlike the fictional gentleman in the beer commercials who has people hanging on his every word and reveling in his exploits, with Hillary Clinton, the Democrat front runner for the party’s nomination for president in 2016, Americans are simply just bored to death. Worn out by the drama and the scandals that have followed her throughout her entire private and public life.
As the old saying goes, “where there’s smoke there’s always fire”, and in the case of Hillary Clinton it is more true now than it ever has been, seemingly with new revelations about her e-mails and corruption in the Clinton Foundation coming out almost every day.
But also like the Everyready Bunny that just keeps “going and going”, Hillary Clinton is determined to continue her life-long quest for the White House amidst what seems to be more and more scandal. And while any ‘normal’ person might devote their efforts towards clearing their name and restoring their reputation, apparently there’s no shame in Hillary. Just the ultra-ambition of winning the White House at all costs.
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(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – On Monday, a security source revealed, that the security forces launched an attack on a village near al-Qayyarah south of Mosul.
The source reported for IraqiNews.com, “At dawn today the security forces launched an attack on Kabrouk village near al-Qayyarah vicinity south of Mosul, in order to liberate it from the ISIS control.”
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, added, “The security forces are slowly advancing due to the presence of improvised explosive devices.”
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Nineveh Liberation Operation Command announced on Monday killing 40 ISIS fighters during the liberation operation of a village in Qayyarah south of Mosul (405 km north of Baghdad).
The commander of Nineveh liberation Operation Maj. Gen. Najm al-Jubouri said in a press statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “The security forces from the Iraqi army and al-Hashed al-Shaabi backed by the international coalition aircraft managed to kill 40 ISIS fighters during the liberation of Kabrouk village in Qayyarah south Mosul.”
Jubouri added, “The liberation operation of the village took less than two hours and didn’t cause any casualties among the security forces.”
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Jamiat-e-Islami party of Afghanistan has said Hamidullah was keeping more secrets regarding the assassination of the former Afghan President and high peace council chief Burhanuddin Rabbani.
Hamidullah was among the six terrorists executed by the Afghan government for terror offences on Sunday.
However, Jamiat-e-Islami has said Hamidullah was executed without informing the family and party before executing him, emphasizing that he had a key role in assassinating the former president.
According to a statement by Jamiat-e-Islami, Hamidullah brought the suicide bomber from Kandahar to Kabul where he was kept in a government guesthouse before he was sent to the residence of Rabbani to execute the attack.
The statement further added that the horrific attack on Rabbani required and still requires step by step and thorough investigation.
The party called on the government of national unity to launch a thorough investigation to find out regarding the ‘known and hidden’ perpetrators of the attack.
The statement also added that the government should launch an investigation regarding the target killings of Jamiat-e-Islami leaders who were assassinated in the past 15 years.
The government sources unveiled the details of the executed terrorists late on Sunday, hours after they were hanged for terror offences.
Hamidullah was identified as a Taliban group member who was involved in plotting an attack on former president and high peace council chief Burhanuddin Rabbani.
Rabbani was assassinated by a suicide bomber who had disguised himself as a peace messenger, representing the Taliban group.
The attack was carried out inside his residence in capital Kabul on the evening of 20th September 2011.
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A spokesman for the Ministry of Defense (MoD), Dawlat Waziri, said on Monday that 19 military operations are currently ongoing in 15 provinces in the country.
Speaking at a press conference, Waziri said that the military operations are being conducted in provinces including Wardak, Helmand, Kunduz, Kandahar and Kunar.
"In the past two months, after we launched Shafaq military operation, hundreds [of insurgents] were killed and security forces seized a large amount of weapons, vehicles and other equipment belonging to insurgents.
Dozens of insurgents' commanders are among the dead and we are carrying out night raids to clear the insurgents," Waziri said.
He called on the people to support security forces, especially regarding their night raids, which are proving highly effective. He added that military operations have not yet launched in some parts of the north and also in Helmand.
He said however that the air force and intelligence agencies have improved substantially this past year and that between 150 and 180 air operations are carried out on a daily basis.
In the meantime, Sediq Sediqqi, a spokesman for the Ministry of Interior (MoI), on Monday acknowledged the security threats in Helmand are higher than in other provinces.
In response to a question by reporters over the increasing of US troops' combat role against insurgents, he said that Afghanistan needs the cooperation of foreign troops in combat against al-Qaeda, Haqqani, Taliban and other insurgent groups.
This comes as the Taliban's insurgency in Helmand is on the rise – but military leadership still appears reluctant to implement an important order issued by President Ashraf Ghani two weeks ago giving a free hand to security forces to fight militants from a harsher standpoint.
Two weeks ago, Ghani said during an address in parliament, that the military leadership must carry out large scale offensives against militants raging war in the province.
However, the order has still not been implemented. The reasons are unclear but this is putting a burden on the shoulders of overstretched Afghan forces, said critics.
Critics also believe the delay in implementing the order is enabling the Taliban to expand its attacks on embattled Afghan security forces who are fighting the Taliban on multiple fronts and in some key districts in the province. This in turn is threatening the security of the provincial capital, Lashkargah city.
DAMASCUS – Taking advantage of the ongoing internal rifts among rebel groups, pro-regime forces were able to control several locations in the town of Zibdeen in the Eastern Ghouta near Syria’s capital Damascus, local sources reported on Monday.
Speaking to ARA News in Damascus, media activist Abdul Ghani al-Amer said that the pro-regime forces launched a major offensive on positions of the Syrian rebel groups on the outskirts of the town of Zibdeen.
Fierce clashes erupted between the two sides and lasted for several hours, before the regime forces took over key areas near Zabdeen.
“A number of rebel fighters have been killed in the regime-led operations in the Eastern Ghouta,” the source reported.
The clashes were coupled with artillery shelling by the regime’s army forces on the rebels’ headquarters in the region.
“Pro-Assad forces try to exploit the ongoing fighting between the rebel factions of the Jaish al-Islam on the one hand and the al-Rahman Corps and Jaish al-Fustat on the other hand,” a spokesman for the Jaish al-Islam told ARA News, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Syrian opposition activists blamed the Jaish al-Islam and al-Rahman Corps for the fall of some locations to the regime’s army, warning if the internal conflict continued among Syrian rebels, the regime’s forces will most likely seize control of the remaining areas in the Eastern Ghouta within days.
In the meantime, the pro-regime warplanes conducted several raids on the town of Beit Jann in Damascus suburbs, and threw scrap of papers over the towns of Abbasid and Khan al-Sheeh in the western Ghouta in a bid to incite opposition fighters to surrender.
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[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] The Clinton campaign hosted a call with reporters criticizing what, on face value, looked like more middle class-friendly policies from Donald Trump
Clinton aide Jake Sullivan warned that what Trump really wants to do on the minimum wage is get rid of the federal floor
On Sunday, Trump said he didn't know how people lived on $7.25 an hour, but said he would want the states to make decisions on the minimum wage
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Well... for $15/h in Iowa you would be living pretty well. In California... you would be on food stamps and homeless.
So yeah, letting states set their own minimum wage sounds pretty fucking smart.
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Jerry Pournelle once made a point that USA success was, largely, based on letting each state experiment on it's own, and letting the people vote with their feet.
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@#4: If anything a customer or client receives is manufactured, grown, transported from, etc. a state other than domicile, the Feds assume force majeure, 10th Amendment be damned.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 36 bandidosLions of Islam were killed in the latest counter terrorism operations conducted the Afghan National Security Forces, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said Monday.
"In the last 24 hours, as a result of the joint clearance operations of the Afghan security and defense forces aimed to topple down the Lions of Islam and protect the lives and property of people , 36 armed krazed killers, including two of their commanders and were killed , tens were maimed," according to a statement by MoD.
The statement further added that the operations were conducted in a number of the districts of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. , Paktia, Maidan Wardak, Kandahar, Uruzgan, Ghazni, Sar-e Pul, Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... , Jowzjan, Baghlan, Kunduz, Takhar and Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... provinces.
"In these joint operations of defense and security forces which were supported by heavy artillery and Air forces, 22 bandidosLions of Islam including a commander called Zurgay, were killed and seven maimed in the vicinities of Maiwand and Sha Wali Kot district of Kunar . Two armed bandidosLions of Islam including one of their group leaders named Abdullah was killed in Takhar as well as tow bad boyz were potted, 7 maimed in central area of Sar-e-Pul and an armed myrmidon was killed in Dand-e-Ghori district of Baghlan," the statement added.
5 armed bandidosLions of Islam including a one of the commanders named Alef were killed, 3 others maimed and in the vicinity of Dehrawood District of Uruzgan, one armed myrmidon was bumped off, MoD said.
Additionally as a result of the clearance operation of ANA, six armed bandidosLions of Islam were killed in Andar district of Ghazni and Zurmat of Paktia, four others were maimed, the statement said, adding that Afghan National Army as National Defense Forces for the protection of people’s lives and properties and for defeating and eradicating terror groups, will fight the enemies vigorously and are ready to give sacrifices for bringing lasting peace and stability to people.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: At least 12 people, including two alleged gangsters, were maimed in a grenade kaboom near the residence of placed in durance vile You have the right to remain silent... leader of the banned Peoples Amn Committee ... Peoples' Peace Committee is a group of brown turbans tied to the Pakn People's Party and based in Blood-soaked Karachi. It was founded by an infamous gangster, Rehman Dakait in 2008. It is accused of being involved in organized crime and gang wars. After Rehman departed this vale of tears in 2009, leadership of the group was taken over by Uzair Baloch, who is probably associated with the Tataglias or the Barzini clan. The Amn Committee was banned in Pakistain in 2011, which means precisely squat.... Uzair Jan Baloch in Chakiwara on Sunday evening, officials said.
City SSP Fida Hussain said that one suspected gangster identified as Kamran was carrying a hand grenade in Singulane-5 when it fell from his hand on the road and went kaboom!.
Around a dozen people standing near an internet café, including two passing by girls, sustained injuries. They were taken to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... for treatment. None of them sustained life-threatening injuries, the SSP said. He added that Kamran and his accomplice Zohaib Hasan, who had also been injured in the kaboom, were taken into custody. They belonged to the gang led by Uzair Baloch, he said.
The police said it was the second such incident in the same vicinity.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 35 murderous Moslems were killed and 15 others were maimed in the latest clearance operations led by Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... The Office of the First Vice President in a statement said the main highway connecting Sherbarghan with Sar-e-Pul province was opened during the operations.
The statement further added that 40 villages were cleared as a result of the operations which are lying along the highway.
The operations were launched early on Monday morning with the Afghan Air Force providing close-air support to the Afghan cops.
The highway was considered as one of the volatile highways in the north ahead of the operations, the statement said, adding that the murderous Moslem groups and criminal gangs were involved in destructive activities, robberies and kidnappings on the highway.
Vice President Dostum said security posts will be established in the highway similar as the other regions cleared of the murderous Moslems in a bid to prevent the return of bully boyz in the area.
He said the Taliban group has suffered heavy loss and has been defeated in the battle ground as the Afghan forces continue to chase the remaining murderous Moslems hiding in their safe havens.
The statement by the office of the Vice President said the local residents did not suffer any casualties during the operations.
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Slovak customs officers injured a Syrian woman on May 9 when they shot at a car carrying migrants from Hungary into Slovakia, authorities said. This may be the first reported incident inside the continent's passport-free Schengen zone where migrants have been shot at.
I'm not sure I know the Slovak words for "Stop or I'll shoot"...
The officers stopped four passenger cars entering Slovakia from Hungary in the early hours of May 9, the Financial Administration that runs the customs service said in a press release. Three cars complied with an order to stop but the fourth tried to escape and endangered three officers, it said.
"The officers fired warning shots and when the car did not stop they fired at the car, injuring one person," it said, without further details.
So the person caught a bullet for being stupid...
A hospital in Dunajska Streda, southern Slovakia, said the injured person was a Syrian woman aged about 26 and that she was in a stable condition after undergoing surgery to remove a bullet from her back.
The cars and the passengers were handed over to the border police, the Financial Administration said.
Slovakia has so far seen only a trickle of migrants trying to cross its territory to reach Germany, the favoured destination for people fleeing conflicts and poverty in the Middle East and beyond. But the government fears tighter border controls by neighbouring Austria could prompt more migrants to use Slovakia as a stepping stone from Hungary as they head west.
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DUHOK – Extremists of the Islamic State (ISIS) executed a number of civilians in the city of Mosul in Iraq’s northwestern Nineveh province on charges of spying for anti-ISIS forces, local sources reported on Monday.
ISIS has brutally killed eight civilians in the camp of Ghazlani in Mosul on charges of collaborating with the Kurdish Peshmerga forces, according to local sources.
Speaking to ARA News in Mosul, media activist Dirar al-Omar said that the ISIS Sharia Court in the northern city of Mosul sentenced to death eight civilians who have been arrested a few days earlier on charges of spying for the Kurdish Peshmerga forces.
An ISIS Sharia member read the verdict against the victims, arguing they were cooperating with ‘enemies of Allah and the Caliphate’ [in reference to Peshmerga] against ‘Muslims’, according to eyewitnesses, who spoke to ARA News on condition of anonymity.
Several ISIS masked militants then shot the eight men dead and threw their corpses in the ditch west of the city [Mosul], as confirmed by several witnesses.
Al-Omar pointed out that the eight victims were from Mosul’s residents; “they were civilians who were neither members of ISIS nor of Iraqi security forces in the past.”
On Sunday, the radical group arrested and executed its own member Junaid Yassin Ali Aiwaz on charges of ‘high treason’ for trying to escape the ISIS-held city of Mosul. Aiwaz was arrested by the ISIS-led Hisba police last week. he was then referred to the Sharia Court which convicted him of apostasy and ordered his execution, according to local activists.
ISIS has been recently cracking down on Mosul’s people, arresting dozens of civilians and executing many on various charges, including spying for the US-led coalition forces, Peshmerga and Iraqi army.
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In line with a March deal with the European Union, almost 400 illegal immigrants have been readmitted to Turkey so far, the spokesperson for the Turkish Foreign Ministry has announced, noting that 125 Syrians have been resettled in five EU countries under the same deal.
“Within the framework of the agreement with the EU, 386 irregular migrants have been readmitted to Turkey from five Greek islands. Of those, 14 of them were Syrians and a vast majority was other countries’ citizens,” Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Tanju Bilgiç told reporters at a press conference on May 9.
“Simultaneously with the readmission, the resettlement of Syrians has also started. Within this framework, 125 Syrians have been sent to Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden and Lithuania,” Bilgiç added.
Under the controversial pact between the EU and Turkey to stop refugees crossing by boat to Greece, Turkey agreed to take back migrants who arrived in Greece after March 20. In return, Europe pledged that for every Syrian deported, it would accept one refugee from Turkey’s vast camps, a move it hopes will discourage people from taking the highly risky journey across the Aegean Sea.
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[BALTIMORESUN] Prosecutors are expected to test a novel legal theory this week in the trial of a police officer charged in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray -- that the officer didn't have the authority to detain him and therefore committed an assault by putting him in handcuffs.
The allegation could have widespread implications for policing in Baltimore and Maryland. Hundreds of detainees in the city are released every year after being tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! without being charged.
Officer Edward M. Nero's defense team argues that police shouldn't be second-guessed -- and face criminal charges -- when they carry out their duties in good faith, while prosecutors say officers should face consequences when their actions turn out to be wrong, and the consequences are so catastrophic.
By taking a chance with this kind of case, legal experts said, Baltimore's State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby must believe she is correctly interpreting the law and has the political will.
"Is it a gutsy theory? Yes. Do I think most prosecutors would have brought charges on this theory? Probably not," said Paul Butler, a former federal prosecutor who is now a Georgetown University law professor. "But these are extraordinary times, and Baltimore is a city where a lot of the usual political dynamics don't apply."
Andrew Branca at Legal Insurrection has been covering this case extensively and with superb attention to legal details and theory. As this trial comes up it's well worth it to head over to LI.
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By taking a chance with this kind of case, legal experts said, Baltimore's State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby must believe she is correctly interpreting the law and has the political will.
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Mosby has had some legal setbacks (well deserved IMO) in this case and is looking to try another tactic.
Her persecution of police officers is despicable and deserves contempt.
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Yon Mosby has a lean and hungry look.
It's a bold move. If she can pull it off, she has made her name. But win or lose, she burns down any trust between the cops and the City. A high price to pay for one woman's ambition.
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She's going to look pretty stupid and grasping when the cops are acquitted, the BLM riot and burn the inner City, and the Cops refuse to intervene for fear of being second-guessed and prosecuted. Maybe she'll even get a punch to that pouty mug
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That pic: Resting Bitch Face
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Can we apply this theory to the actions of the IRS, EPA, BLM, etc.?
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Then "who has the authority to arrest" under this theory? They should require her to authorize *all* arrests *personally* if she feels that this authority can't be delegated to the individual "Gang In Blue" police officers.
[BLOOMBERG] Making sense of the rolling political and economic disaster in Venezuela isn't easy. But the bigger mystery may be why the whole country isn't flooding into the streets to demand the end of the social revolution that's left one of Latin America's most resource-rich nations in a shambles.
Start with the riddle of why the country with the world's largest crude oil reserves has suffered constant power outages. (Spoiler: instead of using oil to generate electricity, the government has relied on hydropower while failing to plan for this year's punishing drought; it neglected to build new power plants or invest in its crumbling infrastructure.)
And how has President Nicolas Maduro responded to the energy crisis? He cut the work week for public servants to two days. Along with the furlough, Maduro -- who also is presiding over the world's worst recession -- ordered a 30 percent hike in the national minimum wage. Just how much the crowd-pleasing bonus will matter in a country with high triple-digit inflation, where consumers queueing for hours can't find eight out of 10 staple goods at grocery stores, is debatable. Not to mention that Venezuela is literally running out of bank notes.
The fact is, the Maduro government may have lost its way, but it's still got an iron grip on this nation of 30 million people. And that residual clout, coupled with disarray among the president's political foes, has given the regime the benefit of public doubt even in desperate times.
Yes, barely five months ago, a voter rebellion handed Maduro's long-underperforming political opposition control of the legislature, where the United Socialist Party had ruled since the late Hugo Chavez rose to power in 1999, ushering in his version of "21st Century Socialism."
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[NEWS.NATIONALPOST] Trump: 'someone who expresses mass exasperation over 20 years of misgovernment, failed fiscal and foreign policies, crumbling infrastructure, state education, a retrograde health-care reform, hemorrhaging public debt, the invasion of the country by 12 million illegals, and a self-satisfied political class incanting soporific lullabies about the “greatest nation in human history.”' I've been looking for those two words ever since the Publican primaries began. They've been right on the edge of my consciousness.
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US. leads a desultory alliance that is allied with Iran and Russia in what is left of Iraq and opposes Iran and Russia (ineffectively) in the remnants of Syria..
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Trump has taken all sides of all issues at one point or another.
The fear is that
a) he hasn't a clue what he really wants;
b) he knows what he wants but won't say cause that just gives enemies a clear target;
c) he knows and it would scare off any supporters.
In other words he is the same type of blank slate that Commander Zero was.
All we can do is pray. Is the devil you don't know, Trump, a safer pick than the devil you do know, Hillary?
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If you are wondering if swillary is a "safe pick," you are already lost...
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The only advantage to Trump is that the press won't cover for him.
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My first choice was scott walker, due to him having Union blood on his "political" knuckles. Then Carson, then Cruz. My thinking is that Hillary is a slower version of Sanders, and sanders is faster version of Hillary. Voting democrat means voting for sure poison. Given the situation, voting for Trump is certainly an act of desperation, but the odds are somewhat better in favor of the country going where I want it to than voting Democrat, or not voting at all.
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If you don't get immigration under control you won't have any nation left to worry about. The Republican party is powerless in California because the demographics have been so radically and quickly changed. It will happen in other states. It is coming to a state near you. So if Trump says he will build a wall that's what I want to hear. If he gets elected and then doesn't build it I will vote against him the next time around. Sure, that might be too late. But with Hillary we are most certainly screwed.
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If he gets elected and then doesn't build it I will vote against him next time around.
EU6305, unless Trump is willing to fund construction costs out of his personal account there is zero chance a wall will be built on the US southern border. Congress has been reluctant to even appropriate funds for border enhancement without major immigration concessions. And as far as Mexico "paying for it"...well it makes for a good comic book anyway.
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And as far as Mexico "paying for it"...well it makes for a good comic book anyway.
That's why Vicente Fox is so unconcerned, right?
Seems to me like the people who say Trump can't build the wall are the ones who have a vested interest in leaving the border wide open. Take, for instance John Kerry, who just last weekend told graduates at some college commencement to get ready for a borderless world. He didn't say who's gonna be running this borderless world. Maybe he thinks he will but I'd bet on Xi Jinping.
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Congress has been reluctant to even appropriate funds for border enhancement without major immigration concessions.
Eric Cantor could not be reached for comment. Next up: Paul Ryno
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As the fiscal situation of the federal govt gets worse, I see more states trying for a federal bailout, including Puerto Rico. The federal govt cannot do this because it is broke. If it tries, then responsible states will refuse to stand by and be fiscally raped for the irresponsible states. As this standoff gets worse, I see the gradual, or even rapid disintegration of this country.
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There are walls and then there are walls. Upon the Persian invasion, the Delphi Oracle said a wooden wall would protect Athens. Athens itself was occupied and burned. However, the wooden wall, the Athenian fleet would destroy the Persian fleet, isolating the Persian army in Greece, resulting in its destruction.
Declare all lands and incorporated areas of less than 2000 within one mile of the border to be restricted military areas and subject to controls as per existing governing laws, to repel the invasions. Recall what you need from overseas to defend the homeland, to include practicing the (Bill) Clinton doctrine of invading countries that dump their citizens on us, ie Haiti.
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Take, for instance John Kerry, who just last weekend told graduates at some college commencement to get ready for a borderless world. He didn't say who's gonna be running this borderless world. Maybe he thinks he will but I'd bet on Xi Jinping.
I'm sure Xi will let him have the bottled water concession while the rest of us find out what it's like to be Tibetan.
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Recall what you need from overseas to defend the homeland
Oh, I like that idea because the real war on terror is here not there. No more fantastically expensive nation building in nations where the people hate us and you will save enough money to build the wall.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 18 Talibs were killed in the latest infighting among the Taliban factions in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province of Afghanistan, local officials said Monday.
A local security official speaking on the condition of anonymity said the festivities between the supporters of Mullah Akhtar Mansoor and Mullah Mohammad Rasool broke out in Marjah district on Sunday.
The official further added that the shootout still continue between the two sides as nearly 18 Death Eaters have bit the dust.
The festivities reportedly broke out among the Taliban factions after the supporters of Mullah Akhtar Mansoor started fight against the supporters of Mullah Rasool.
The 205th Corps of the Afghan National Army also confirmed the infighting the and said clahes still continue in various parts of Marjah which followed after Mullah Mansoor’s Death Eaters attempted to disarm the Death Eaters of Mullah Rasool.
Mullah Rasool is an arch rival to the self-declared Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mansoor who oppose with the leadership of Mansoor as successor of Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... The latest infighting among the Taliban factions comes almost two months after the supporters of the two factions clashed in Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province, leaving nearly 200 Death Eaters dead.
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London- For the second day in a row, Iranian surging reactions continued after an Iranian official confirmation that over 34 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) members were killed in the Syrian village of Khan Touman located south of Aleppo.
Other Iranian sources estimate that losses exceed all those that officials have announced.
Sources also circulated battlefield information on clashes in south Aleppo, saying the IRGC and Syrian regime forces are making preparations for a comeback campaign in Khan Touman, after they had lost the village to al-Nusra Front.
Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs in Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian previously criticized the Khan Touman operation, considering it a violation to the implemented ceasefire.
The Tehran administration, on the other hand, made no comments regarding the incessant pounding Aleppo was subjected to over the past days. Abdollahian called on the international community to condemn the Khan Touman operation, in hopes of preserving political solutions.
The IRGC had published a statement urging Iranian people to remain calm and wait for reports, soon to be published on the Khan Touman operation.
Discretion on operation details was to keep them out of opponents’ reach, the IRGC further explained.
Broadcasting the statement took place while Ali Akbar Velayati, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s advisor, was delivering confidential notes sent by Khamenei to the head of the Syrian regime, Bashar Assad, in Damascus.
Iranian media outlets, contradictory to previous claims, confirmed a score of Iranian captives being taken in Syria. “Entekhab,” a reform inclined Iranian website, was the sole outlet confirming the death of 80 Iranian and Afghani soldiers.
Meanwhile, other media networks, relying on the IRGC statement, acknowledged only 34 Iranian soldiers either being dead or injured.
Quds Force commander Soleimani and the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, Ali Shamkhani, were expected to give a speech on Iran’s defense strategy against current regional developments.
However, Soleimani made no public appearance in Tehran on Sunday, in light of rumors of his presence in Aleppo to run the Khan Touman battles.
ISNA, Iranian Students News Agency, mentioned that Shamkhani did in fact give his speech; however, behind closed doors. Iranian authorities kept the details to the speech confidential and refrained from making any comments on whether Soleimani was in Iran or not.
Shamkhani, on the death of Iranian soldiers in Aleppo, said that “what had happened in Khan Touman confirmed Iranian fears.” He reiterated previous official stances on the ceasefire giving the Syrian opposition the chance to rearrange their forces in the field.
When meeting with new parliamentary members, Shamkhani defended the notion on sending more Iranian military forces to Syria. His argument was pivoted on alleged regional security threats directed against Iran and how they should be confronted using all means, ISNA reported.
Iranian sources, two days ago, cited Soleimani heading for Aleppo, after a mass loss striking Iranian soldiers in Khan Touman on Thursday and Friday.
Same sources clarified that Soleimani is expected to oversee battlefield progress from operation rooms which bring together Russian forces, Syrian regime forces and Quds Force members. Tactics are being devoted as to eventually break through to Khan Touman
Up to half-a-dozen Iranian soldiers deployed in Syria have been captured by rebel forces, a senior Iranian lawmaker said on Monday, two days after the Iranian Revolutionary Guards confirmed losses in a battle near Aleppo.
Rebels seized the village of Khan Touman on Friday, some 15 km (9 miles) southwest of Aleppo, and killed several Iranian soldiers, dealing one of Tehran's biggest losses in Syria.
"According to the latest numbers, 13 defenders of the shrine were killed, 18 were wounded and five to six were captured," Esmail Kosari, chairman of the Iranian parliament's defence committee, was quoted as saying by the Mizan Online news agency.
It was the first time Iran had confirmed that any of its combatants had been taken prisoner in Syria. In December, Islamist rebels in Khan Touman said they had seized two Iranians but that was never confirmed by Tehran.
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So when will the Iranian prisoners be tortured and murdered for video display? Will the mad Mullahs be able to block those viral vids?
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There is a lot going on in Khan Touman. I hope we can get some good info.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi Ministry of Interior announced on Monday, that nine people had been either killed or wounded in a bomb blast near a restaurant in northern Baghdad.
The source said in a statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “This morning, an explosive device exploded near a popular restaurant in Sabaa al-Bour area in northern Baghdad, killing two people and wounding seven others,”
The source, who asked anonymity, added, “Ambulances rushed to the area and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment and the dead bodies to the forensic medicine department, while the security forces imposed a security cordon on the area of the incident and barred approaching it.”
3 Iraqi militia die in bomb attack in Latifiya
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi Ministry of Interior revealed on Monday, that 14 members of al-Hashed al-Shaabi had been either killed or wounded in a double bombing targeted their convoy in southern Baghdad.
The source said in a statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “Two bombs exploded targeting a convoy of al-Hashed al-Shaabi members in Latifiya vicinity in southern Baghdad, killing three members and wounding 11 others, as well as causing material damage to a number of vehicles in the convoy.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added, “A security force rushed to the area and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment and the dead bodies to the forensic medicine department, while a raid was carried out to search for the perpetrators of the bombing.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Ministry of Interior announced on Monday, that eight people had been either killed or wounded in a bomb blast in southern Baghdad.
The source said in a press statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “A bomb exploded near a number of shops in Dawra area in southern Baghdad, killing one person and wounding seven others.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added, “A security force rushed to the area and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment and the dead body to the forensic medicine department, while imposed a security cordon on the area of the incident.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – On Monday, a police source revealed, that an employee in the Ministry of Industry had been killed in an armed attack in eastern Baghdad.
The source reported for IraqiNews.com, “Unidentified gunmen shot an employee in the Ministry of Industry, at noon today, while passing in al-Kamaliya area in eastern Baghdad, killing him on the spot.”
The source, who requested to be anonymous, added, “A security forces rushed to the area and transferred the dead body to the forensic medicine department, while opened an investigation into the circumstances of the incident.”
[REUTERS] Syrian government forces and their allies fought forces of Evil near Aleppo on Monday and jets conducted raids around a nearby town seized by Salafist tough guys, a monitoring group said, as Syria's military said a ceasefire in Aleppo would be extended by 48 hours starting on Tuesday.
A recent surge in bloodshed in Aleppo, Syria's largest city before the war, wrecked the 10-week-old, partial truce sponsored by Washington and Moscow that had allowed U.N.-brokered peace talks to convene in Geneva.
The United States and Russia, which support rival sides in the civil war, said they would work to revive the February "cessation of hostilities" agreement that reduced fighting in parts of the country for several weeks.
U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... said all parties had to press the sides they back to turn "words on a piece of paper" into actions to reinstate the truce.
Syria's military high command was quoted by state news agency SANA as saying the Aleppo ceasefire would be extended by 48 hours in the northern city beginning at 1 a.m. local time on Tuesday (6 p.m. ET on Monday).
A number of short-term local truces have been in place since April 29, first around Damascus and northern Latakia and then in Aleppo, but there has still been fighting between rebels and government forces.
The cessation of hostilities and local truces do not include Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... or al Qaeda's Syrian branch, the Nusra Front.
Asaad al-Zoubi, the chief negotiator for the main Syrian opposition at the Geneva talks, criticized the extended Aleppo truce, telling Al Jazeera television that such measures served only to allow thousands of reinforcing troops to be sent from Iran, which is supporting Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... Warplanes struck the town of Khan Touman, southwest of Aleppo, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Rebels also fought government forces east of Damascus, and jets hit the rebel-held towns of Maarat al-Numan and Idlib.
Russia and the United States said in a joint statement they would step up efforts to persuade the warring parties to abide by the ceasefire agreement.
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[DAWN] The recent arrest of Raheem Swati, the prime suspect in the murder case of prominent social activist Perween Rahman, would lead to many other high-profile actors involved in land-grabbing across the city, said Anwar Rashid, the current director of the Orangi Pilot Project.
Swati, a former councillor belonging to the Awami National Party founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism.... who has ties with the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain, was nabbed You have the right to remain silent... in Manghopir on Saturday for allegedly criminal masterminding the 2013 murder of Ms Rahman.
Speaking to Dawn on Sunday, Mr Rashid said: "Swati was just one of the pawns or mediators who brokered deals, in his own way, for the big names behind real estate business in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... . It seems that his confession would lead to many other real estate actors in the city."
Ms Rahman’s sister, Aquila Ismail, was unavailable for a comment on the recent development in the case. She had, however, expressed her suspicion about the earlier arrests made by the police. One of those apprehensions was related to the killing of a suspected assassin in a police encounter the very next day of her murder on March 13, 2013. At various forums held between 2014 and 2015, Ms Ismail, with counsel in the case, Advocate Faisal Siddiqi, said that "it seems the case is being intentionally weakened".
The case was eventually closed until a petition was filed in the Supreme Court in July 2013 by Human Rights Commission of Pakistain chairperson Zohra Yusuf. The petition was admitted in January 2014 and a joint investigation team (JIT) was formed on a directive of the apex court by the Sindh home department. The JIT met the police team investigating the murder as well as members of the OPP.
In 2015, two suspects -- Imran Swati and Pappu Kashmiri -- were arrested. "They gave us the name of Raheem Swati, who is the prime suspect in the case and affiliated with the Awami National Party in Karachi," said SSP-West Azfar Mahesar, who has been associated with the case for the past one and a half years.
He added that two more suspects -- Mohammad Ayaz and Amjad Afridi -- were yet to be arrested. They also belonged to the same political party, he said. He said a JIT would interrogate suspect Swati in the coming days.
In the meantime, another incident which garnered less attention was the passing away of Ms Rahman’s mother. Advocate Siddiqi said that her mother passed away two weeks back at her home.
Since the murder of Ms Rahman, who worked on mapping land and water supplies and low-cost housing plans in Orangi Town, her family and friends keep a low profile until they gather for a programme or an event in the city in her honour or to ask questions from the authorities.
Anwar Rashid is one such person who is holding on despite receiving various threats to stay "off the radar".
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(IraqiNews.com) Erbil – A security source announced on Monday, that the Iraqi army managed to retake one of the villages from the ISIS grip southwest of Makhmur, while pointed out to the killing of many ISIS members.
The source said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “Today the Iraqi army forces launches an attack on Kabrouk village southwest of Makhmur,” pointing out that, “The Peshmerga forces and coalition aircraft backed the Iraqi army.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added, “The army forces entered the village, while ISIS militants escaped toward al-Khalidiyah village.”
The airport has reopened at the Yemeni coastal city of Mukalla which was recaptured by government and Emirati soldiers in April after a year-long occupation by al Qaeda, local officials said.
The first flight in on Sunday was a plane carrying relief supplies from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the officials said. The UAE claimed the consignment was carrying 20 tons of medicines and medical accessories from the UAE Red Moon Shaped Thingy Crescent.
The southeastern town's Riyan airport halted regular services a year ago after al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) took over the town and made it the center of a rich mini-state along the Arabian Sea coastline.
Around 2,000 Yemeni and Emirati troops advanced into Mukalla in the last week of April, taking control of its maritime port and airport. Al Qaeda alleged it withdrew to save the city from destruction. Al-Qaeda claim came to evade announcing its defeat.
So how long do Emirati troops stay, and what happens when they leave?
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[DAWN] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) chairman Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five... on Monday criticised Federal Minister for Housing Akram Khan Durrani, asking him as to how he would topple the PTI-led Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... (KP) government.
"Even if a Jew becomes the prime minister of Pakistain, Fazlur Rehman would not only accept a ministry from him but will also issue a religious decree allowing him to lead an Islamic country," said the PTI chief.
Speaking to his party workers and supporters at the rally in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , the PTI chief came down hard upon the JUI-F affiliated federal minister, who on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... 's visit to the province earlier this month criticised PTI for not doing enough to provide relief to the people, and accused Durrani of trying to bribe PTI politicians.
Imran recalled Durrani's claims where he said that he can topple the KP government.
He did not spare the JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman, who often labels him a 'Jewish agent', and said that "Jews do not need agents when people like Fazlur Rehman are there to damage the country".
"Even if a Jew becomes the prime minister of Pakistain, Fazlur Rehman would not only accept a ministry from him but will also issue a religious decree allowing him to lead an Islamic country," said the PTI chief.
Turning his guns finally towards the premier, he reminded the crowd that people in the past had advised him to leave Nawaz Sharif alone and focus on the PPP chief Zardari who is more corrupt but then came Panama Leaks and everyone got to know that Nawaz Sharif's children own offshore firms.
He accused the prime minister of downplaying the issue through visits across the country and doing useless speeches instead of replying to the allegations in parliament and presenting himself for accountability.
"How can the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) bring other corrupt leaders to book when the man leading the country is corrupt himself," said Imran.
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(IraqiNews.com) Diyali – The Iraqi Interior Ministry announced on Monday, that 10 people had been killed and 27 others were wounded in a bomb blast that took place east of Baqubah.
The spokesperson for the ministry, Maj. Gen. Saad Moen, said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “An explosive device went off at a popular restaurant in the area of Shafta (east of Baqubah),” adding that, “The number of victims amounted to 10 dead and 27 wounded.”
For his part, an informed source in Diyali told IraqiNews.com, that the security forces had rushed into the area and blockaded the area of the explosion, while ambulances transferred the injured to a nearby hospital and the dead bodies to the forensic medicine authority.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – The commander of Anbar Operations Major General Ismail al-Mahalawi announced on Monday, that an air strike carried out by the international coalition aircraft killed 20 ISIS members and destroyed a booby-trapped vehicle belonging to ISIS south of Fallujah.
Mahalawi said in a press statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “Today the international coalition aviation backed by Anbar Operations managed to bombard ISIS members and a booby-trapped vehicle driven by a suicide bomber in Albu Shihab area south of Fallujah,”
Mahalawi added, “The bombardment resulted in the killing of 20 ISIS militants, in addition to destructing the booby-trapped vehicle, two weapons caches, 6 rockets and mortar launchers and a hell cannon belonging to ISIS.”
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – On Sunday, Deputy Governor of Anbar Mujahid Aifan al-Eissawi announced, that the so-called ISIS lost 140 fighters during the cleansing battles of Amiriyah City, while pointed out that the security forces will storm the city in the coming few days.
Eissawi said in a press statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “The security forces are continuing the cleansing battles of Amiriyah areas (18 km south of Fallujah),” pointing out that, “Only four kilometers remained to reach new Fallujah bridge and the southwest axis of the city.”
Eissawi added, “ISIS lost 140 militants in the cleansing battles of the southern and western sectors during the past five days,” indicating that, “Nine booby-trapped vehicles and three rocket launchers belonging to ISIS were also destructed during the battles.”
(IraqiNews.com) al-Anbar – On Monday, Iraqi Ministry of Interior announced destroying 60 rocket launchers during an aerial bombing by the Air Force near Ameriyat Fallujah in Anbar Province.
The commander of Anbar Operations Command, Maj. Gen. Ismail al-Mahalawi, said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “The Air Force bombarded two buildings for ISIS, two caches of weapons and 60 rocket launchers in the area of Albu Shehab and Ameriyat Fallujah.”
Earlier today, Mahalawi announced the killing of 20 ISIS militants during an aerial bombardment by the Army Aviation south of Fallujah
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Body counts are said to be meaningless. Still, reports like this do brighten one's day.
[NYPOST] The FBI raided the homes of two men close to Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo as part of the widening federal probe into Albany corruption,The Post has learned.
Agents carted off evidence from the Westchester home of former top Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco and the Washington, DC-area home of lobbyist Todd Howe, who was fired last week after Cuomo’s office barred state officials from any contact with him, sources said.
A Manhattan federal judge approved search warrants for at least three locations, and the raids were carried out two weeks ago, a law enforcement source said.
The feds were able to secure the warrant for Howe’s out-of-state home by arguing that he conducted business within the Southern District of New York, which covers Manhattan, The Bronx and the northern suburbs, the source said.
Howe and Percoco, who in January began working as a top exec at Madison Square Garden, are at the center of a probe that Cuomo’s office has said involves "questions of improper lobbying and undisclosed conflicts of interest by some individuals which may have deceived state employees involved in the respective programs and may have defrauded the state."
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New York should just be renamed Appalachin and converted into the National Museum of Corruption, with branch location in Chicago...
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Apalachin. Got to spell it correctly...
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The son of Al-Qaeda’s late founder Osama bin Laden has urged militants in Syria to unite, claiming that the fight in the war-torn country paves the way to “liberating Palestine”.
“The Islamic umma (nation) should focus on jihad in Al-Sham (Syria) … and unite the ranks of mujahedeen there,” said 23-year-old Hamza in an audio message posted online.
“There is no longer an excuse for those who insist on division and disputes now that the whole world has mobilised against Muslims,” he said.
His undated message comes after Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri also urged militants in Syria to unite, despite his continued rejection of the rival ISIS and its proclaimed caliphate.
“The matter of unity today is one of life and death,” Zawahiri said in an audio message posted online on Saturday.
“Either you unite to live as Muslims with dignity, or you bicker and separate and so are eaten one by one,” he added, according to SITE Intelligence monitoring group.
Al-Qaeda’s Syria affiliate Al-Nusra Front is a rival of ISIS, which is an Al-Qaeda offshoot whose leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2014 declared an Islamic caliphate across territory seized in Iraq and Syria.
Bin Laden’s son said Syria is the “best battlefield” leading to “liberating Al-Quds”, the Arabic name for Jerusalem.
“The road to liberating Palestine is today much shorter compared to before the blessed Syrian revolution,” he said.
[NPR.ORG] Two days after drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán was transferred to a prison near Juárez, a Mexican city near the U.S. border, a federal judge in Mexico said the extradition process can move forward.
An unnamed judge said the "legal requirements laid out in the extradition treaty" between the U.S. and Mexico had been met, The News Agency that Dare Not be Named reports, adding that Mexico's foreign ministry has 20 days to approve the extradition.
NPR's Carrie Kahn reported in January that Guzmán had been "indicted on drug and arms trafficking, money laundering and murder charges in at least six U.S. states." In July 2015, Guzmán he beat feet from Mexico's supermax Altiplano prison through a mile-long tunnel. He was recaptured in January.
But the judge's go-ahead for extradition is one step in what could still be a lengthy process. Lawyers for Guzman can still try to block or delay any attempts to extradite the infamous leader of the Sinaloa cartel.
As the Two-Way has reported, the head of Mexico's extradition office, Miguel Merino, warned in January that Guzmán's legal team could pursue various appeals that could delay the drug kingpin's extradition for four to six years.
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0 needs another "win," and The Chapster, once in US custody, will have little audience for what he knows (i.e. Fast and Furious, etc.).
[FOXNEWS] Islamic State militants reportedly shot and killed a 7-year-old Syrian boy reportedly in front of his sobbing parents, all because he let a few curse words slip out of his mouth.
The execution took place Thursday in the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa, ARA News reported, citing rights activists and witnesses.
An activist told the news agency that the boy was arrested “after they heard him ‘cursing divinity’ while playing in the street with his friends.”
The activist quoted an ISIS member of Islamic court as saying “the act was considered an insult to the Caliphate, regardless of the age of the boy.”
The ISIS-led Shariah Court sentenced the boy to death, and he was killed in a public square in front of a crowd of hundreds, including his parents, who collapsed after authorities shot him, witnesses told ARA News.
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i have no words. the poor child was only 7 years old
when we crush the caliphate
we need to re-educate the next generation by banning religion from schools and the public square.
no more religion for them for 20 years. Put a soldier on every corner and enforce it. Burn all the korans.
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Its like that scene in A Jihadi Story, when Ralphie got caught saying 'fudge', then blamed it on Swartz, and the religious police executed both families.
[CBSNEWS] Officials in North Carolina filed a lawsuit Monday against the Department of Justice over the feds' demand that the state not implement its controversial LGBT law or risk losing federal funds.
Fred: can we find a pic of Madison, Jefferson and Franklin doing face palms?
The Justice Department had set a deadline of Monday for Gov. Pat McCrory to report whether he would refuse to enforce the last that took effect in March. McCrory's defiance could lead to a protracted legal battle.
McCrory's lawsuit, filed in federal court in North Carolina, asks a judge to block Justice Department action that could threaten billions of dollars in federal money flowing to the state.
"I do not agree with their interpretation of federal law. That is why this morning I have asked a federal court to clarify what the law actually is," McCrory said at a news conference.
He said he hopes other states will join North Carolina in court as it fights the Justice Department's position that the Civil Rights Act requires that transgender people be allowed to access facilities matching their gender identities.
"This is not a North Carolina issue. It is now a national issue," McCrory said.
The lawsuit called the law a "common sense privacy policy" and said the Justice Department's position was a "baseless and blatant overreach."
In his filing, McCrory cited the fact that he has directed state agencies to make a reasonable accommodation of a single occupancy restroom. The state also allows private companies to set their own policies for bathrooms, locker rooms and shower facilities.
"I'm taking this initiative to ensure that North Carolina continues to receive federal funding until the courts resolve this issue," McCrory said in an earlier blurb.
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Officials in North Carolina filed a lawsuit Monday against the Department of Justice over the feds' demand that the state not implement its controversial LGBT law or risk losing federal funds.
I wonder if it's possible for McCrory to order payroll companies in NC to not remit Federal tax payments to the Treasury in response? You know, 'pen and a phone' kind of thing?
The Justice Department had set a deadline of Monday for Gov. Pat McCrory to report whether he would refuse to enforce the last that took effect in March. McCrory's defiance could lead to a protracted legal battle.
They gave him three fucking days to respond. If it were the other way around, it would be three months.
"This is not a North Carolina issue. It is now a national issue," McCrory said.
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He is correct. If you have a problem with penises not being allowed in Ladies bathrooms - even in grade school, you need to be ejected off of THIS Planet. You are mentally fucked in the head.
What is between your legs determines where you go. For the ,07% of you who are not sure, ask the staff to show you to the faculty's latrine.
99% of the people should not change because .07% want to look at your Daughters ass.
Or don't know what their sex should be.
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If Obama does not have a problem with men in the same restroom as his two daughters, child protective services need to remove his daughters from this President.
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"If Obama does not have a problem with men in the same restroom as his two daughters, child protective services need to remove his daughters from this President."
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The argument that I hear on this issue from my koolaid drinking friends is that the sick, cross dressing men will quietly go into a stall and do their thing and nobody will notice. I guess I should be happy that I'm not familiar enough with these types of situations to know. But it does seem wrong. What seems really, really wrong is that these types of issues just pop up out of nowhere and suddenly you have the Bruce Springsteen types refusing to perform in North Carolina to protest the purported injustice. It all seems so...orchestrated.
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Seems to also be a reduction in the media coverage of Planned Parenthood and the Champ's Iran deal. Someone, please prod those klueless 24 year old reporters.
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If you are what you self-identify as for legal purposes.. then .. your pet who self identifies as a human is a definite unquestionable tax deduction.
[DAWN] KARACHI: A protest sit-in outside Chief Minister House was peacefully ended and the slain civil rights campaigner Khurram Zaki was laid to rest after police booked outlawed Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat ...which is the false nose and plastic mustache of the murderous banned extremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain, whatcha might call the political wing of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... leader Aurangzeb Farooqi and Maulana Abdul Aziz ...nutball holy man who runs the Lal Masjid in the heart of Pakistain's capital. After instigating a rebellion against the state in 2007, he was caught trying to sneak away dressed in a burka. He rejects democracy as un-Islamic, which it probably is... of Lal Masjid
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Why hasn't Maulana Abdul Aziz been wasted yet? Official protection?
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] Vanity Fair has weighed in on the blockbuster movie "Captain America: Civil War" to lament the hero’s "heterosexual virility."
Is the objection to heterosexuality or virility?
Perhaps we need the pic of the fainting couch...
Marvel Studios and Disney’s latest installment wowed audiences in North America to the tune of $181 million last weekend, but Vanity Fair writer Joanna Robinson
You could search Ms. Robinson on Google, and her resume is every bit what you'd expect...
left the theater disappointed. Her reason: Chris Evans’ character, super soldier Captain America, got nostalgic for his "skirt-chasing" days with best friend "Bucky" Barnes.
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"When [writers] alter an existing character with decades of history to make the PC crowd happy, then it’s complete garbage because it’s blatant pandering," a reader identified as Joe said.
Not to mention the drop in box office revenue that would result from such a stunt. Joanna's just pissed because it's not her skirt getting chased. Then again, it's a whole lotta skirt!
[ABCNEWS.GO] The State Department said today it can’t find any of Bryan Pagliano’s emails from the time he served as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Charles Evans Hughes ... ’s senior information technology staffer during her tenure there.
And since Pagliano is an IT guy, I'm going to guess that he deleted each and every one of those emails properly...
Pagliano would have been required to turn over any official communications from his work account before he left the government. State Department officials say he had an official email account, but that they can't find any of those records and continue to search for them.
"The Department has searched for Mr. Pagliano’s email pst file and has not located one that covers the time period of Secretary Clinton’s tenure," State Department front man Elizabeth Trudeau said today, referencing a file format that holds email.
"To be clear, the Department does have records related to Mr. Pagliano and we are working with Congress and [Freedom of Information Act] requesters to provide relevant material. The Department has located a pst from Mr. Pagliano’s recent work at the Department as a contractor, but the files are from after Secretary Clinton left the Department," Trudeau added.
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Uber driver was in a fistfight with another customer, missed picking up Mr. Pagliano for ride to Ft. Marcy Park. That's how history gets made, ya know...
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] The White House showed "bad faith" in how it handled an open-records request for global warming data, a federal court ruled Monday, issuing yet another stinging rebuke to the administration for showing a lack of transparency.
For President B.O., who vowed to run the most transparent government in U.S. history, Judge Amit P. Mehta’s ruling granting legal "discovery" in an open-records case -- the third time this year a judge has ordered discovery -- is an embarrassing black eye.
In this most recent case, the Competitive Enterprise Institute was trying to force the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to release documents backing up Director John C. Holdren’s finding that global warming was making winters colder -- a claim disputed by climate scientists. Mr. Holdren’s staffers first claimed they couldn’t find many documents, then tried to hide their release, saying they were all internal or were similar to what was already public.
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Kidnappers dumped the body of a young boy outside a Warshefana mosque yesterday after his family failed to raise the demanded LD 200,000 ransom.
The victim, Eham Mahdani, thought to be nine or ten, was seized outside his Warshfana home eight days ago. It is reported that forensic tests found that the boy had probably not been given anything to eat since his abduction. The cause of death has not been released. A photo of Eham’s body shows signs of bruising to the neck and forehead.
“Once again this crime demonstrates the loss of all humanity in the country” said Taher Al-Badawi, the former spokesman of Supreme Council of Elders of Libya in a social media post today.
Badawi quit his post in February in protest at a similar kidnapping, also in Warshfana. The gang that seized 12 year-old Abdullah Daghnush said they would kill him unless they were paid LD 2 million, which was later reduced to LD 500,000. The family were unable to raise the money.
After Abdullah’s father received a call from the criminals, he found his son’s body between Janzur and Siyad. The rope with which he had been hanged was still around his neck and it was clear that he had been tortured.
Kidnappings appear to have increased significantly in recent months. By no means all these crimes are reported to any authority or given any publicity. The abductors have sometimes made this one of their conditions.
(IraqiNews.com) Salahaddin – A security source in Salahuddin Province announced on Monday, that three power transmission towers collapsed after being detonated by homemade improvised explosive devices east of Tikrit (170 km north of Baghdad), while emphasized that the detonation caused an interruption in the electric power supply in al-Alam area east of the city.
The source said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “Unidentified gunmen detonate three power transmission towers in Albu Khaddo area between Samarra and Dour (25 km east of Tikrit), using homemade improvised explosive devices, destroying the towers completely.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added, “The bombing of the towers caused an interruption in the supply of electrical power in al-Alam area east of Tikrit.”
The acting speaker of the lower house of Brazil's Congress annulled the impeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff on May 9 and called for a new vote in the chamber.
The fix is in...
Waldir Maranhao, who took over as acting speaker last week, said there were procedural flaws in the April 17 vote in the chamber that accepted impeachment charges against Rousseff.
"What was the flaw?"
"They succeeded in impeaching her!"
After last month's lower house vote, the impeachment process was passed to the Senate, where a Senate committee recommended on May 6 that the leftist president be put on trial by the full chamber for breaking budget laws.
In a news release, Maranhao said the impeachment process should be returned by the Senate so that the lower house can vote again. It remained unclear whether his decision could be overruled by the Supreme Court, the Senate or a majority in the house.
The Senate could ignore her and just carry on...
Brazilian markets fell sharply after the surprising decision was announced.
The full Senate had been expected to vote to put Rousseff on trial on May 11, which would immediately suspend her for the duration of a trial that could last six months. During that period, Vice President Michel Temer would replace her as acting president.
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The same people who are for killing unborn babies in the womb are not the least bit concerned about your childrens safety in the restrooms.
These are deranged beasts. They should be dealt with as deranged beasts. This nation is now governed by beasts. And they are in control of your schools too.
The UN special envoy to Yemen on Monday urged the country's warring parties to make concessions to save peace talks aimed at ending a devastating 13-month war. The appeal by Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed came after face-to-face talks broke off with the government delegation complaining of a lack of progress and the Iran-backed Huthi rebels protesting about air raids by the Saudi-led Arab coalition.
After holding several separate meetings with each delegation, Ould Cheikh Ahmed called on the two sides to "make concessions in order to strike a comprehensive peaceful solution" to end Yemen's deadly conflict.
"The participants in the Kuwait negotiations must reflect the aspirations of the Yemeni people. I am confident that Yemenis want an end to the conflict," he said in a statement.
Ahmed has to say this: if the peace talks collapse so does his expense account...
All direct meetings scheduled for Sunday were called off, but the UN envoy said new talks are scheduled for Monday and appealed for cooperation.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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