That Seattle City Council vote to tax the hell out of large corporations has consequences; this is one of them.
[Boston Herald] - Amazon unveiled a new office in Boston’s Fort Point for nearly 1,000 employees, the latest step in the tech giant’s ongoing expansion in the city.
"What we’re really looking at is where can we hire the people we want to hire?" said Mike Touloumtzis, the head of Amazon’s offices in Cambridge and Boston. "They’re here."
The new office takes up six floors at 27 Melcher St., more than 150,000 square feet. Each floor includes a transportation-related theme, and is centered on ways Amazon packages make their way to customers. Living room style chairs and tables are tucked into little nooks throughout the office.
Only about 350 employees work at the new office right now, but Touloumtzis said the remaining 550 will be moved from Seattle hired soon. The office will largely work on Amazon Web Service, a storage and cloud computing business, along with transportation and logistics technology. Amazon also has a big-honkin' warehouse in the West Roxbury / Dedham area, so this won't be their last move in this area. Bye-bye, Seattle!
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I just checked the maps - it's in a very nice area 5 minutes from South Station. They'll have no problems finding willing employees for this place. I'm actually walking by the place tomorrow. Well, more like hobbling, but that's another story...
[TheCollegeFix] Students at the embattled Evergreen State College, which made national headlines last year after it hosted an event that asked white people not to come on campus for a “Day of Absence,” have organized a new iteration of the controversial event despite administrators’ efforts to shift gears.
Students at the Olympia, Washington-based public school have organized a three-day “Day of Absence” observance that includes a mix of events on and off campus. Some gatherings are advertised as open to all skin colors and others ask that only POC, or People of Color, attend.
A poster hung at the school obtained by The College Fix declares that the no-whites-allowed self-segregation events will be held off campus. It asks people to RSVP at a website that spells out “No Nazis Allowed” in its URL.
The events launch today and run through Friday, according to organizers, who are not interested in media coverage of their event, according to a Facebook screenshot obtained by The College Fix.
A spokesman for Evergreen State College did not respond to a phone call and email from The College Fix on Tuesday seeking comment.
The theme of this year’s observance is “Deinstitutionalize/Decolonize.”
“The mission of this event is to bring POC together in order to create a reclamation of space and move forward into the future. In reaction to institution’s consistent disregard for our safety, we are operating independently of the college. This is a day for us, by us,” the RSVP page states.
“In addition to POC centered events there will be antiracist workshops for white folks and people who do not identify as POC. Please bring a dish or your own packed lunch and dishes! Potluck-style. No one who’s
[sic] The possessive form is whose, dudes; who’s is a contraction of who is/has. There — now you’ll have got your money’s worth for your college education...
intentions are to cause harm are allowed.”
The college’s annual “Day of Absence/Day of Presence” program has been observed for years, during which minority students would voluntarily stay off campus for a day and meet for specialized workshops. But for the first time last spring, the “Day of Absence” event reversed the usual pattern by asking whites to stay off campus for a day while racial minorities stayed on.
Following objections by a white biology professor, Bret Weinstein, students confronted him and campus police told Weinstein they couldn’t protect him on campus. After that, his class met at a nearby park. The situation prompted national headlines and criticism.
Earlier this year, officials announced they would revamp the controversial “Day of Absence” observance, instead offering an “equity symposium.”
For his part, Weinstein has weighed in on this year’s Day of Absence: “This is fascinating on many levels. The college canceled Day of Absence, so the students are going to do it.”
Last week, The Olympian reported that Evergreen State “will look to cut more than 10 percent from its operating budget for 2018-19 and raise student fees because of declining enrollment.”
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Powerline:
"Item 2 comes from our pals at crazy Evergreen State College in Washington:
Evergreen State College has announced that it is planning to cut $5.9 million from its budget in an effort to offset a rapidly declining enrollment rate.
The cuts were outlined by President George Bridges in a May 8 memo to the Board of Trustees, and are accompanied by plans to raise various student fees by hundreds of dollars, The Olympian reported last week. . .
According to a report released by an “Independent External Review Panel” in April, the college is expecting a decline in applications for the Fall 2018 semester of up to 20 percent, compounding the 4.5 percent decrease in Fall 2017, compared to Fall 2016.
“Further declines in applications (possibly by as much as 20%) and enrollments are expected for the Fall of 2018 based on current year-to-year data,” the report noted. “This condition, and the revenue shortfall it will create, will present Evergreen with significant financial challenges that will not be short-lived.”
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of idiots."
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[FoxNews] A Florida Circuit judge ruled Friday that that the state’s second-most populous county violated state and federal laws by destroying ballots from a 2016 Democratic primary race which Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz won.
Circuit Judge Raag Singhal decided that the records were wrongly destroyed because the laws require elections offices to keep the ballots in federal elections for 22 months. Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes destroyed the ballots just after 12 months, the Sun-Sentinel reported.
The judge also noted that because the ballots were subject to a lawsuit, only a court order should have allowed their destruction.
Snipes "has not presented any evidence refuting that the public records sought were destroyed while this case was pending before this court," Singhal said. More at link
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So is anybody going to jail?
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SO was Snipes an idiot or was she destroying evidence to protect Wasserman Schultz's victory?
[Hot Air] Real Clear Investigations has a story up today which sheds some light on Former CIA Director John Brennan and the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) which he helped produce. Specifically, it reveals that Brennan’s claims that the dossier was not used in the creation of the ICA appear to be false. Also, Brennan hand-selected the authors of the assessment including anti-Trump partisan Peter Strzok. In case you’ve forgotten some of the details, the January 2017 ICA reached this conclusion about the goals of Russian interference in the 2016 election:
There’s no way Brennan could have missed an appendix to the ICA, so why did he tell the House Intelligence Community the dossier was, "not in any way used as the basis for the intelligence community’s assessment?" The fact that he has become an outspoken anti-Trump presence on Twitter certainly doesn’t help his case that he was always acting as a non-partisan professional.
The story goes on to point out that when it came to the writing of the ICA, DNI James Clapper "limited input to a couple dozen chosen analysts from just three agencies ‐ the CIA, NSA and FBI." Why would he do that instead of letting all 17 intel agencies weigh in on it? Fred Fleitz a former CIA analyst who worked for the agency for 19 years believes Clapper wanted to skew the results:
[Red State] Yesterday, The Hill correspondent, John Solomon, posted an extensive story on the long-standing ties between special counsel Robert Mueller and a man who should be a target in his probe, Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
Deripaska appears over and over in this saga. Deripaska was a business partner of Paul Manafort. Deripaska, or his organization, are suspected of being some of the sources for the Trump dossier compiled by Christopher Steele. Deripaska is the guy Democrat Senator Mark Warner tried to meet with in Russia. And, unlike Manafort, Deripaska was not indicted by Robert Mueller at the time when Manafort was indicted for all manner of fraudulent business practices. How, one might wonder, has Deripaska managed to be near the center of the entire Russia probe and not be touched, especially when Mueller seems more than willing to indict random Russian businesses and, I think, persons, for "meddling" in the 2016 election.
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This looks, smells and tastes as though Mueller required Deripaska to pay $25 million in order to get occasional visas to travel to the US in contravention of sanctions.
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If you give us Anna Chapman and her ten sleeper agents we'll give you Sergei Skripal and see what we can do about finding your.... "tobacco investigator" Mr. Robert Levinson.
Be advised, the Iranians are quite fond of US Dollars and the Swiss Franc.
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Tribal power structure and kleptocratic attitude about everything and everyone outside the tribe. Importing these thieves is always a mistake, just ask the communities they occupy, not the politicians, the regular folks, not for attribution, and get what they really think. These are gypsies with more melanin...
h/t Red State
[RedState] Looks like Kim is getting cold feet about what he might have to give up.
Dan Spencer posted on North Korea threatening to cancel the summit with Trump. Now North Korea has canceled a high-level meeting that was scheduled for tomorrow with South Korea. Kim can't stay in power if there's peace.
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Naw. Just Negotiating 101 - Let your opponent think it's a done deal, hopefully taking a victory lap - then throw out one last deal-breaker demand. Dunno if Kimmy the Pudge has been reading the SEIU handbook or "The Art of the Deal".
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Gee, who didn't see this usual "sea of fire, running dog imperialist" drivel coming? The Chinese hand puppet went to see XI, got told to play nice to show how the CHiComs could help, then, Trump plays a little trade war, Kimmie goes to Xi-see again, and poof, the pitbull behavior is back. Translation, the door to NorKland goes through Beijing! Silly roundeyes in the MSM gobsmacked but lots of attention, Xi smiles, Trump get it.....decades old playbook
Major media outlets on both sides of America’s political divide ran denunciations of Russian President Vladimir Putin last weekend. These include a lengthy extract in the Wall Street Journal from the memoirs of Sen. John McCain, calling Putin "an evil man ... intent on evil deeds" who "means to defeat the West." Meanwhile, Washington Post foreign policy pundit Jackson Diehl praised a delegation of Putin’s opponents, asserting that Russia "is a place where discontent is growing, the desire for civil rights is tangible and the prospect of democratic change is, in the longer term, real." The Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies linked Diehl’s column in its May 14 blast email. The Wall Street Journal devoted its weekend interview to Putin foe Bill Browder, who qualified the Putin government as a "criminal enterprise."
This sort of unanimity in the American Establishment is rare, and when it appears, it is invariably wrong.
...In this case there is one dissenting voice in the policy arena, and it belongs to President Donald J. Trump. He intervened to block additional sanctions on Russia, as American media reported. Inundated by charges of "collusion" with Moscow in the 2016 elections, the president has been at pains to show that "there's been nobody tougher on Russia than President Donald Trump," as he said April 18. Liberal CNN averred: "Trump's reversal once again raises questions about his affinity for Russia despite Moscow's meddling in the 2016 US election, its alleged use of chemical weapons on foreign soil to target a former spy and its backing for the Syrian regime as it conducts possible war crimes against its own people."
Underneath the cloud of dust thrown up by Washington’s gutter brawls, though, the president continues to pursue what I characterized as the "Trump Doctrine." This doctrine "reserves the use of American military power for vital American security interests, while seeking compromise with competing powers -- namely Russia and China -- where such compromise is possible." It is visible in America’s coordination with China over the North Korea problem. It is less visible in the case of the Middle East, where the Administration’s tough stance towards Iran requires some degree of acquiescence from Moscow.
...It is now generally acknowledged that Russia’s alliance with Iran was a matter of convenience in Syria, and that Moscow now finds Tehran’s imperial ambitions a burden; Raja Abdulrahim and Thomas Grove offer a fair sampling of Russian views on the subject in a survey for the May 14 Wall Street Journal. Former Russian diplomat Nikolay Kozhanov told the newspaper, "Russia would like to see Iran’s influence reduced in Syria, especially since they have radically different views on what post-conflict Syria should look like."
...The American foreign policy Establishment has seven years of investment in the efforts of Sunni rebels to overthrow the Assad regime, and its reflex reaction is to denounce Russia as the source of all evil in Syria. Last month’s reported poison gas attack on Syrian civilians prompted the Trump Administration to impose new sanctions on Russia. Since then no additional proof has emerged that the Assad government (which has already killed half a million of its citizens with such devices as barrel bombs) was responsible for the attack, and the issue has vanished from the news cycle. This reinforces my initial skepticism about the first reports.
More broadly, the utopian narcissism of Mainline Protestant missionaries still informs Establishment thinking about Russia. Like Mr. Diehl of the Washington Post, the Establishment believes that Russia’s democratic evolution is predestined, and that Putin’s authoritarian regime represents a temporary aberration in the inevitable course of Progress. Most of the allegations concerning Putin’s brutal repression of political dissidents as well as commercial competitors probably are true in whole or in part, but that is beside the point. Regime change in Russia is a delusion within any possible horizon of strategic calculation, and the Putin regime is simply a fact of life.
...American and Russian interests do not converge in the Middle East, to be sure, but they overlap in some respects. Russia will not help the United States bring down the Iranian theocracy, but it may not stand in the way of American efforts to do so, either. There is room for negotiation. Russia’s position well may make the difference between success and disaster for the Trump Administration’s initiative against Iran. That is why a Russian-American rapprochement is possible, despite the dudgeon of the foreign policy Establishment. For the past ten years I have argued that the most important trade-off would be American legitimization of Russia's takeover of Crimea in return for Russian help with America's policy objective in the Middle East.
[Breitbart] A suspended Pennsylvania school teacher was shot dead while standing in her mother’s driveway on the evening of Mother’s Day, police said.
Rachael DelTondo, 32, came back from a trip to the ice cream shop Sunday evening on Mother’s Day when several bullets struck her outside her family’s home in Aliquippa, KDKA reported.
"I counted six shots that I heard," neighbor Fred Poor said of the shooting. Other neighbors said they heard as many as 12 gunshots.
A medical examiner confirmed that DelTondo died from several gunshot wounds to her torso. Police are still searching for the suspect and are actively investigating the incident as a homicide, WPXI reported.
Officials have not yet released a description of the suspect as of Tuesday but are retrieving information from a cellphone containing information of interest to authorities.
DelTondo had worked as an elementary school teacher at Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School for ten years until her October 2017 suspension.
School officials suspended her after receiving an anonymous tip about a past police report involving DelTondo and an underage boy who did not attend Pennsylvania Cyber, the school’s CEO Brian Hayden told Fox News. The report stated that no charges had been filed against DelTondo in the incident.
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School officials suspended her after receiving an anonymous tip about a past police report involving DelTondo and an underage boy who did not attend Pennsylvania Cyber... no charges had been filed against DelTondo in the incident.
[SABANEWS.NET] Three women were maimed in Saudi-led coalition warplanes waged seven strikes on Saada province, an official told Saba on Wednesday.
The strikes hit a citizen's house in Sharawi and al-Zamah areas in Baqim district, wounding three women.
Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising. And then he smelled the smoke... the Saudi artillery and rockets fired at various areas in the same district.
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[38 North] After initial reporting of plans to allow experts and media personnel to observe the closing of North Korea’s Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site,[1] now scheduled for next week,[2] commercial satellite imagery from May 7 provided the first definitive evidence that dismantlement of the test site was already well underway.[3] Several key operational support buildings, located just outside the North, West and South Portals, have been razed since our last analysis. Some of the rails for the mining carts, which had led from the tunnels to their respective spoil piles, have apparently been removed. Additionally, some carts seem to have been tipped over and/or disassembled, and several small sheds/outbuildings around the site had been removed.
Other more substantial buildings around the facility remain intact, including the two largest buildings at the Command Center, and the Main Administrative Support Area. Moreover, no tunnel entrances appear to have yet been permanently closed. This may be because on May 12, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) announced that the final dismantlement of the Punggye-ri nuclear test ground would be witnessed by foreign journalists and would involve the "collapsing all of its tunnels with explosions, blocking its entrances, and removing all observation facilities, research buildings and security posts."
[IsraelTimes] The Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror groups acknowledged Tuesday that 13 operatives from the organizations were among the 60 reported killed by IDF fire at the Gazoo fence protests a day prior. Israel said at least 24 of the dead were members of terror groups.
Hamas said ten of those killed were members of its interior ministry, which is responsible for the security agencies in Gazoo.
Islamic Jihad said that three members of its Saraya al-Quds military wing were bumped off by Israeli forces in Khan Younis.
The IDF said Tuesday that a total of 24 members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad were killed in the day-long festivities Monday.
It said the number was based on a joint investigation with the Shin Bet security service.
"Most of the people [from terror groups] killed belonged to the Hamas terror group, and some to the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad," an IDF spokesperson said.
Among the dead, the IDF said, were all eight members of a cell of armed Hamas operatives, who were killed in a shootout as they sought to breach the fence in the northern Gazoo Strip.
Gazoo’s Hamas-run health ministry said 60 people were killed in Monday’s demonstrations, most by gunfire, and more than 2,700 were maimed. The ministry claimed a baby was among those killed, by tear gas, but a Gazoo doctor, who said the baby had a pre-existing medical condition, and her family, cast doubt on this.
June 12 Singapore summit between Trump and Kim is suddenly in jeopardy
North Korean government blames joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises
Pyongyang sees the drills as a rehearsal for a full-scale invasion
Kim also canceled meeting with South Korea's president on a few hours' notice
Same old annual bait-switch by the Norks. Perhaps... Maybe... Golly, they're being reasonable. Then time for regularly scheduled, previously announced, routine joint exercises rolls around and it's back to the old Juche-Songun Army First-Sea of Fire.
Since it's the smart thing to do, Trump should postpone the exercises as a gesture of good will. If the talks don't go well, hold the exercises and fly in 82nd Airborne to participate. If they're really typical Nork, invite Japanese participation.
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If the Trump administration blinks now there will be more and more substantial demands before the summit.
American hostages are free, the sanctions are in place, why allow North Korea to unilaterally alter the preconditions for the summit?
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I'd increase the activity. Got to remember what prompted this to begin with. Show them the response they'll get going back to the old game plan. Keep the new playbook, its shown to work.
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Since it's the smart thing to do, Trump should postpone the exercises as a gesture of good will.
My first impulse is to say "*bleep* 'em!, but since everyone is trying to make nice maybe a little consideration wouldn't hurt. Perhaps move the exercises over towards Japan. Or even better, invite the Norks to participate.
(no, not as targets, as partners. We're all gonna be friends, right?)
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Kim is most likely dealing with a hard line military internal command structure loathing his recent concessions. He needs this concession to settle down the internal noise on his end.
[AAWSAT] Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi announced that he was ready to cooperate in forming the “strongest government” for the country as Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr was tipped on Tuesday to win the weekend’s parliamentary elections.
His shock victory will deal a blow to Iranian and American influence in Iraq.
Triumph for the veteran nationalist's Marching Towards Reform alliance with Iraq's communists -- pitched an anti-corruption outsider force -- would be a slap in the face for Iraq's ruling establishment.
Sadr -- who has ruled himself out of becoming prime minister -- looks likely to be the key powerbroker and has already mooted a technocrat government of some dozen parties that bridge sectarian divides.
Counting was still ongoing three days after the first parliamentary poll since the defeat of the ISIS organization, but Sadr’s grouping was in the lead with 16 of 18 provinces tallied.
But with his group set to be far from a majority in parliament, wrangling over any potential coalition should take months -- and there remain major obstacles ahead that could thwart Sadr's ambitions.
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[aol.com] Michael Avenatti defended his threats to sue reporters at the Daily Caller Monday, telling CNN’s Don Lemon that it was a justified course of action when dealing with reporters who were "not ethical"
"All journalists are not ethical, just because they’re a journalist. There’s good journalists and there’s bad journalists. There’s ethical journalists and unethical journalists," said Avenatti on the Monday evening show.
"If we encounter journalists that don’t get their facts straight by design, don’t follow the basic rules of journalism, purposely skew stories to fit their own political dialogue of what they want the message to be, we’re going to continue to call them out on that. And there’s nothing wrong with that."Lemon didn’t back down, challenging the media-loving attorney to explain how his conduct was different than Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen ‐ who is also known for issuing colorful threats to reporters.
"I think you’re talking apples and oranges," said Avenatti. "My email is no different than a cease and desist or retraction type email or letter that is received by numerous media organizations on a consistent basis and there’s nothing wrong with that."
Despite being a cable news darling, Avenatti made what was widely taken as a major misstep on Monday after threatening to sue Daily Caller reporters Peter Hasson and Joe Simonson over this piece probing into some legal matters in his past.
In an email marked "off the record," Avenatti warned that he would take on the Caller and reporters personally and exact "significant" financial damages if the stories continues."Let me be clear. If you and your colleagues do not stop with the hit pieces that are full of lies and defamatory statements, I will have no choice but to sue each of you and your publication for defamation," said Avenatti. "If you think I'm kidding, you really don't know anything about me. This is the last warning,"
Hasson promptly leaked the email on Twitter, where it swiftly drew bipartisan condemnation from journalists.
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"Just because I represent a whore doesn't mean I'm a deadbeat attention whore paid by Democrat wallets. I am but..."
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"I can threaten you with a lawsuit, but its a secret!" And this is a leak[sic] according to some 'journalists'?
Bizarro World Graph for this article, please!
[ALMASDARNEWS] US security experts warning about the serious consequences of carrying out regime change in Iran and the Middle East, at the New Horizon international conference in Tehran on Tuesday.
Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Military Intelligence officer Philip Giraldi did not think that the United States’ exit from the Iran nuclear deal could be the catalyst for war. However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... Israeli manoeuvres in the region combined with what he perceives as, US Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s diplomatic impulsiveness, could be the trigger for a wider conflict.
Dr. Scott Bennett, ex-serviceman from the U.S. Army 11th Psychological Operations Battalion feared that European politicians were not alive to the dangers of conflict in the Middle East.
"If Syria and Iran have regime change, we’ll have a massive human tragedy and catastrophe of forced migration and it would cause severe problems for Europe," explained Bennett.
Another senior US security policy analyst Michael Maloof, this time from the Department of Defense, believed the world was looking at a "repeat of 2003", only a wider scale drawing in other regional and world powers.
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Darth Bolton is itching to start Gulf War III. Take out Iran. Then, invade Russia in Operation Barbarossa Part 2: We Make It To Moscow This Time. Make the world safe for the military-industrial complex.
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Oh Puhleeez, Herb.
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Yes, that was the phone Herb. Your prescription is ready.
The article, by Philip Giraldi, included statements saying that anyone who touches on the subject of the US-Israeli relationship and American Jews runs the risk of a “quick trip to obscurity” because “Jewish groups and deep pocket individual donors not only control the politicians, they own and run the media and entertainment industries.”
Focused on a potential impending war with Iran, it asserts that “what makes the war engine run is provided by American Jews who have taken upon themselves the onerous task of starting a war with a country that does not conceivably threaten the United States.” Giraldi went on to assert, “the issue that nearly all the Iran haters are Jewish has somehow fallen out of sight, as if it does not matter. But it should matter.”
Giraldi cites a list of Jews as “conduits for the false information that led to a war [with Iraq] that has spread and effectively destroyed much of the Middle East.”
His column concludes: “We don’t need a war with Iran because Israel wants one and some rich and powerful American Jews are happy to deliver. Seriously, we don’t need it.”
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“Our goal should be regime change in Iran,” said Darth Bolton in the final moments of the interview.
But all the actions he called for before that final statement had to do with getting out of President Obama’s deal and assisting and supporting the protesters, Herb. He most definitely did not call for invading the country as we did Iraq —twice.
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Herb prefers Iran stay a religious dictatorship, that the regime that's been at war with the US for 40 years be left in place.
Herb supports the enemies of the United States.
What does that make Herb?
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No offense meant, Herb. Just playing w words.
In greenhouses, weed knows no season;
No freeze or diseases can breeze in.
It grows tall and regal,
And, perfectly legal,
It prospers beyond any reason.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Clashes broke out between two Ottoman Turkish-backed rebel groups in the Syrian northern city of Afrin as corpse count from both warring parties rises.
Militants from Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... and Shamiyah Front engaged in heavy firefight using light and medium weapons. This resulted in scores of forces of Evil killed and maimed, in addition to casualties among civilians.
The reasons behind the infighting is yet to be revealed.
Ottoman Turkish military vehicles were seen heading al-Sarayah area ‐ where the festivities first erupted ‐ in order to contain the situation.
Last March, Ottoman Turkish-backed rebel groups took over Afrin region after months-long battles against the Kurdish militia. The city has been shamefully looted ever since.
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[IsraelTimes] Some 1,300 Paleostinians are taking part in violent demonstrations across the West Bank, the army says, as part of "Nakba Day," which commemorates what they call the "catastrophe" of Paleostinians’ displacement from their homes during the war that followed the creation of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948.
According to the IDF, the protests are taking place at 18 locations in the West Bank.
Rioters are setting tires on fire and throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at Israeli troops, the army says. The soldiers are responding with riot dispersal methods such as tear gas and rubber bullets.
[IsraelTimes] Israel opens the Kerem Shalom crossing and is working to help humanitarian aid pass into Gazoo, the IDF says.
Eight trucks filled with medical supplies, four sent by the Paleostinian Authority, two by the UN children’s agency UNICEF, and two more by the IDF, pass into the Strip.
The supplies in the IDF’s two trucks include 14,000 saline packets, 20 examination beds, 25 IV hangers, 12,500 bandages, pediatric kits, and other basic medical supplies.
The supplies come as the Strip’s hospitals are overwhelmed by thousands of Paleostinians maimed in festivities with IDF troops along the Gazoo border on Monday.
Israel is also set to transfer large quantities of gasoline through the crossing, the army says.
"The aid that is being sent in by the [army’s] Technology and Logistics Directorate is part of a policy that distinguishes between the perpetrators of terrorism and the innocent population in the Gazoo Strip," the army says.
[IsraelTimes] Ottoman Turkish media is reporting that the country’s foreign ministry has asked the Israeli ambassador to Ankara, Eitan Na’eh, to leave The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... indefinitely amid rising tensions over the Gazoo crisis.
[IsraelTimes] In another round of the current tit-for-tat between Israel and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... , Israel expels the Ottoman Turkish consul in Jerusalem, the Israeli Foreign Ministry says.
The consul in Jerusalem, Husnu Gurcan Turkoglu, who represents Ankara to the Paleostinians, was summoned to the Foreign Ministry this afternoon, where the head of protocol Meron Ruben asked him to leave the country, ministry spokesperson Emmanuel Nahshon says.
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"and don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!"
[AA.TR] Tunisian judicial officials on Tuesday sentenced former President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali -- in absentia -- to life behind bars for his involvement in the death of unarmed protesters during Tunisia’s 2011 popular uprising.
"Tunisia’s Military Court of Appeals sentenced the former president to life in prison in cases related to the deaders and injured of the [2011] revolution," read a statement released by Tunisia’s prosecutor-general and carried by the official TAP news agency.
"Forty other defendants in the same case received sentences of between two and eight years behind bars, while a number of others were acquitted," the statement added.
Ben Ali and his wife, both of whom now reside in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , were both earlier slapped with jail terms for corruption. The former president was also sentenced earlier to life in prison for killing demonstrators.
According to a 2012 report by an independent Commission of Inquiry, 338 demonstrators were killed -- and more than 2,000 injured -- during the 2011 uprising.
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[DAWN] Complaints have been lodged with the police against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts... seeking the registration of a sedition case against him for comments he made about the Mumbai attacks in an interview.
Mohammad Ramzan, ameer Tehrik-e-Labaik Ya Rasool Allah and four other individuals lodged a complaint with the Gujar Khan police which says that the former prime minister’s comment, given to a newspaper, was an act of treason.
A resident Chak Baili Khan, Raja Zafar Iqbal filed a similar complaint with the Civil Lines police in which he said that the former premier’s statement has harmed Pakistain and has negatively impacted Pakistain’s war against terrorism and the sacrifices made by the army.
A senior police official said that the complaints have been sent to legal experts for opinion.
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Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) The Criminal Court in Nineveh has sentenced an Islamic State member to death in Mosul over joining the militant group after it controlled the city in 2014.
According to the court, the convict joined the group, once it controlled Mosul. He fought along with other members in Shirqat.
Many IS members were detained during liberation battles that freed cities, which were recaptured by the militant group in 2014.
In April, the Central Criminal Court in Baghdad has sentenced five female militants, two of whom are Azeri and three others are from Kyrgyzstan, to death over involvement with Islamic State. Life sentences were issued against five female convicts, two of whom are Russian, an Azeri one and a French one.
Moreover, the Iraqi Justice Ministry has announced carrying out death sentences against 13 convicts, most of whom are involved in terrorism. Six Turkish females were sentenced to death over affiliation to Islamic State.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi military has denied news on an attack by Islamic State members against a checkpoint in Nineveh.
A statement by the Security Media Center said on Tuesday “What was tackled by media channels on an attack against a security checkpoint in al-Tayaran and al-Okaidat regions in Nineveh by Islamic State is untrue.”
The center, according to the statement, reiterated calls on media channels to “rely on official sources when publishing news on security issues.”
Nineveh (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi security forces announced on Thursday the capture of three militants of Islamic State in the group’s last bastion of Mosul, a police chief was quoted as saying.
“Nineveh police arrested the three militants upon accurate intelligence data in Mosul city,” Baghdad Today website quoted Nineveh Police Chief Brig. Gen. Hamad Nems al-Jabouri as saying in a statement.
“The arrest was made pursuant to article 4/1 of the anti-terrorism law,” the statement read.
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[AAWSAT] Saudi air defenses intercepted on Tuesday a ballistic missile fired by the Iranian-backed Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... towards the southern city of Jizan.
Arab coalition front man Colonel Turki al-Maliki said that the missile was fired from the region of Saada towards populated areas in Jizan.
The Saudi air defenses intercepted the rocket and its shrapnel landed in residential areas without leading to any injuries.
Maliki condemned the hostile Houthi attack, which demonstrates Tehran’s ongoing involvement of supporting the militia with weapons.
This is a clear and blatant violation of International Humanitarian Law and United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Security Council resolutions 2216 and 2231, he added.
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[AlAhram] Egypt's Cassation Court on Tuesday placed 135 defendants on the country's terror list for a three-year term in the trial known in the media as the "Helwan Brigades"
...they first appeared in a video in August 2014, vowing to target all police facilities in Helwan, a southern suburb of Cairo. Their attacks have been linked to both ISIS and the Muslim Brotherhood...
case.
The court rejected the defendants' appeals to an earlier 2016 ruling placing them on the list.
The Helwan Brigades is an Egyptian terror group that first appeared in a video published and circulated on social media networks in 2014, in which self-declared members called for attacks on police facilities in south Cairo.
Egypt's terror list contains over 1,500 names, including top leaders of the 2013 banned and terrorist-designated Moslem Brüderbund organization.
Under the country’s anti-terrorism law, any person placed on the terror list is subject to a travel ban and having their assets frozen.
[Davao Today] A New People’s Army leader being treated in a hospital at Don Carlos town in Bukidnon was arrested on Saturday, the Philippine military reported. Military spokesman Ezra Balagtey identified the NPA leader as Elizalde Cañete alias Ka Jinggoy.
Cañete was arrested on May 12 while he was recovering after being injured in a clash with soldiers in Kitaotao, Bukidnon on May 10.
Balagtey said military and police forces served an arrest warrant against Cañete, who is facing charges of multiple murder and arson.
Balagtey said Cañete was first arrested in 2010 in a clash in Montevista, Compostela Valley and was later released on bail in 2013.
The military reported that Cañete replaced the late Leoncio Pitao also known as Comannder Parago as leader of the Pulang Bagani Command 1 of the NPA that operates in the region between Bukidnon, Davao del Norte and the mountainous parts of Davao City.
Photo of the militant in his hospital bed from the Philippines Defense Forces Forum Facebook page at the link. Looks like he's seen better days.
He looks dreadfully uncomfortable. Let us pray for sepsis.
[FOX] REYHANLI, Turkey ‐ U.S. military equipment and ammunition, sent to Syria as part of a failed Obama administration plan to find and arm moderate forces to defeat ISIS, were instead simply handed over to an Al Qaeda group, according to the man who said he himself brokered the deal.
"I communicated with Al Qaeda’s branch, Al Nusra, to protect and safely escort me and my soldiers for two hours from North Aleppo to West Aleppo," Maj. Anas Ibrahim Obaid, better known on the battlefield as Abu Zayd, told Fox News from his home in the western Aleppo area. "In exchange, I gave them five pickup trucks and ammunition."
Those trucks and ammo were issued to him by the United States in 2015, part of a $500 million Department of Defense effort to "train and equip" a new "ideologically moderate" force to battle ISIS. The program, one of at least two designed to funnel arms to so-called moderate Syrian rebels, proved to be a spectacular failure for the Obama administration.
Zayd, who said he defected from the Syrian Army to the opposition in 2012, described a program that was rife with inconsistencies and incompetencies.
[VANGUARDNGR] At least five members of a militia force fighting Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... jihadists were killed on Tuesday when a jacket wallah detonated his explosives in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , an emergency official and force member told AFP.
A man carried out the bombing at a checkpoint manned by the militia, known as the Civilian Joint Task Force, on the outskirts of Konduga, 35 kilometres southeast from the Borno state capital of Maiduguri.
"Five members of the Civilian Joint Task Force were killed in a suicide kaboom in Mandarari outskirts of Konduga town... at a checkpoint," said Abdukadir Ibrahim, front man for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in Borno state.
"Five people were also injured in the incident which occurred when the suicide bomber detonated the concealed IED (improvised bomb) as he was being searched at the checkpoint," said Ibrahim.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Israeli intelligence is in contact with the representatives of the Syrian al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... terrorist group, Paleostinian Ambassador to Russia Abdel Hafiz Nofal said at a presser in Moscow.
"There is a certain communication between the Israeli intelligence service and some representatives of the al-Nusra* group, for the assistance and treatment of the maimed," the ambassador said.
The Paleostinian National Council has instructed Paleostinian leader the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... to recall recognition of Israel within two days, the Paleostinian Authority’s Ambassador to Russia Abdel Hafiz Nofal said Tuesday.
"The Paleostinian National Council has yet again re-elected Mahmoud Abbas as a member of the new executive committee, and he was instructed yesterday to withdraw recognition of Israel within two days... And I think that this is a message by Paleostinian leadership not only to the Paleostinian people, but to the leaders of Arab states," Nofal told a presser.
Protests took place in the Gazoo Strip on Monday amid the 70th anniversary of the formation of Israel which coincided with the anniversary of the transfer of the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The number of Paleostinians killed in festivities with Israeli troops has reached 61 people.
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[PRESSTV] Members of the Iraqi federal police have carried out a counter-terrorism operation in the oil-rich northern province of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... killing four high-profile commanders of the ISISTakfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group in the process.
The security forces, following a tip-off from pro-government fighters from Popular Mobilization Units ‐ better known by the Arabic word Hashd al-Sha’abi, staged an ambush on a Death Eater hideout in the village of Karhakazan late on Monday, and killed the terrorists.
The slain Takfiris were later identified as Adnan Ahmed Hassan al-Sour, better known by the nom de guerre Abu Rizwan, who was a senior Death Eater commander in the Riyadh district, southwest of Kirkuk, Shaker Shallal Ousebi, commonly known as Abu Haifa, who was responsible for ISIS medical affairs, Abu Talha, Abu Haitham and Hassan Ali Thalaj, better known by the alias Abu Dhar.
Abu Rizwan was apparently one of the main organizers of ISIS surprise attack on Hashd al-Sha’abi forces in Saadounia village, western Hawija, on February 18, when 21 voluntary fighters were killed.
Separately, security forces have uncovered a huge cache of munitions belonging to ISISLions of Islam in the oil-rich city of Baiji, located some 130 miles north of Baghdad.
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[DAWN] A man lost his life in Azad Jammu and Kashmire's (AJK) Poonch district on Tuesday as Indian snipers resumed assassinations from across the Line of Control (LoC), police officials told Dawn.
The casualty occurred in Dara Sher Khan village of Battal sector in Hajira subdivision at 12:15pm, when the victim was trimming a tree in the courtyard of his house, local police official Muhammad Aziz told Dawn.
"It was a single shot that hit the 55-year-old victim in the head, and he fell off the tree and went titzup," Aziz added.
The victim’s family rushed him to a health facility in Tatta Pani ‐ located 7 kilometres ahead of Dara Sher Khan ‐ where the doctors pronounced him dead He's dead, Jim! on arrival.
The dear departed was identified as Muzaffar Chaudhry alias Mangu.
Relatives and other residents staged a demonstration in Tatta Pani to condemn unprovoked ceasefire violations across the LoC and express support for anti-India struggle.
The heavily militarised LoC has been frequently witnessing ceasefire violations particularly after September 2016, in a serious breach of a truce agreement signed by two armies in November 2003.
Apart from heavy mortar shelling, Indian troops have resorted to deliberate targeting of civilians with small arms while they are doing daily chores in vulnerable areas along the LoC in AJK.
However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... for more than two weeks, the LoC was silent as the last casualties in the region were reported on April 26, when two non-combatants were killed and as many maimed in heavy mortar shelling by Indian troops in Chamb sector of Bhimber district.
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Muzaffar Chaudhry alias Mangu.
WTF?
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Crazy place to ask, but what the hell... Rastaburg has been useless and Rantburg knows pretty much everything. I've been plagued for decades by the vivid memory of a few seconds of dub heard on radio or cassette, that I've never been able to identify. No idea why it originally made an impression, but its present potential tantalises, as does the "eternal mystery" aspect. Words: "I'm a victim... a victim..." Anyone? Ben Stein?
[DAWN] GUJRAT: Police have booked the mother of Sana Cheema, the Italian national of Pak origin who was killed for honour allegedly by her father and brother, on charges of concealing the alleged murder of her daughter.
Saddar DSP Irfanul Haq Sulehria told Dawn that a case against Nargis Tahira had been registered under Section 201 of the Pakistain Penal Code in already registered case of murder against Sana’s father Ghulam Mustafa Cheema and brother Adnan Cheema under Section 302 as well as 311 of the PPC in Kunjah cop shoppe.
He claimed that Tahira was involved in the murder plot. "But when she learnt about her daughter’s murder by her husband and son, she quarrelled with her husband saying Sana should have been sent back to Italia to get rid of her."
The DSP said Tahira, currently on bail, was booked since she did not let the police know about the murder. He said the police had recovered the piece of cloth allegedly used to strangulate Sana Cheema.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, the pilot and the copilot had both hit the silk.
Jack! Cynthia exclaimed. Do you know how to drive one of these things?
Jack wiped some of the blood from his knuckles.
No, he said. Do you?... the police produced both the suspects in the Sana case in the court of area magistrate on Monday after completion of their two-day physical remand. The court sent them to the district jail on judicial remand.
An Italian police team which arrived here two days ago to probe the Sana’s murder, is yet to launch its work in collaboration with the Gujrat police.
Sana was killed on April 18 last and was buried in her native Kot Fatehdin village.
The Gujrat police took an action when the news of her murder was published by Italian media. Her grave was exhumed on April 25 for an appointment with Dr. Quincy and forensic analysis which confirmed the murder last week.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] An effigy of US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... was ripped to shreds at a pro-Paleostine demonstration in Diyarbakir, south-eastern The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... , on Tuesday.
The protest was called to denounce the relocation of the US embassy to Israel.
International condemnation followed recent bloodshed at the border fence, when Israeli fire killed 60 Paleostinians, according to the Gazoo health ministry.
The Ottoman Turkish government asked the Israeli ambassador to temporarily leave the country in protest.
Israel does not release figures and denies suggestions it uses excessive force.
The six-week long ’Great March of Return’ rallies culminate tomorrow, the 70th anniversary of Israel’s declaration of independence.
Paleostinians call it the ’Nakba’ ‐ meaning ’Catastrophe’ in Arabic ‐ referring to the 1948 Paleostinian exodus, where an estimated 700,000 Paleostinians were expelled to make way for the newly created state of Israel.
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Anbar (IraqiNews.com) A security source from Anbar province has revealed presence of Islamic State members gathering at some regions, west of the province.
Speaking to Almaalomah website, the source from the pro-government al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) said, “intelligence sources indicated infiltration of some IS militants into west of Ramadi city to launch attacks against security troops.”
Security troops, according to the source, “took strict measures and started wide-scale campaigns targeting regions that are near from where the militants are hiding.”
Anbar provincial council had previously indicated infiltration by militants from Syria toward western Anbar regions without being targeted by U.S. jets.
Last week, the Joint Operations Command said the group’s supreme leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is at Eastern Euphrates region, where U.S. troops are deployed.
Anbar (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi security forces seized on Tuesday an arms depot hidden inside an uninhibited house in Anbar governorate, a security council was quoted as saying.
“Seven locally-made bombs and 12 mortar shells were found inside the house, located in Al-Qa’im district in Anbar,” Alghad Press quoted Spokesman for the Iraqi Security Media Council Brig. Gen. Yehia Rasool as saying.
“All explosive materials were remotely detonated at the site,” Rasool pointed out.
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troops find turban bombs cache
Are these actual turban bombs like in the cartoon? I thought that was just a joke
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Two terrorists, one of whom was the financial official of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... ’s so-called Diyala State, have been enjugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! , the Iraqi Interior Ministry said on Tuesday.
In a statement, the ministry said, "the ministry’s intelligence as well as the counter-terrorism troops managed to arrest two murderous Moslems in al-Katoun region. One of them was the financial chief of the so-called Diyala State."
The two members, according to the statement, "committed many terrorist crimes in the province."
Last week, Col. Ghaleb al-Attiyah, spokesperson for Diyala police, was quoted saying that security troops managed to arrest two terrorists, one of whom was the main funder of IS cells.
He used to provide them with logistics and money at the northeastern region in Diyala. Earlier this month, Brig. Gen. Yahia Rasool, spokesperson of the Security Media Center, said the intelligence troops, in collaboration with the army, arrested the administrative official of one of the regions within Islamic State’s so-called Diyala State.
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[AAWSAT] The trial of a suspected female ISIS supporter kicked off in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... on Monday before the Saudi Specialized Criminal Court.
The woman is accused of supporting ISIS, communicating with a supporter of the organization, marrying him without her father’s consent and allowing him to use her mobile phone to communicate with the terrorist organization.
Charges against her include attending meetings with families of suspects detained in security cases and downloading audio that glorifies ISIS and calls for fighting coppers.
A video clip in her possession showed al-Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden ... who has left the building... The Saudi attorney general demanded that she be charged with the maximum sentence based on Royal Order 4444, which was issued in 2014.
The order calls for the imprisonment of anyone who participates in hostilities outside the Kingdom, belongs to krazed killer religious or ideological movements or groups that are classified as terrorist organizations internally, regionally or internationally and supports or adopts their ideology in any form.
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[IsraelTimes] Some 4,000 Paleostinians are taking part in rioting along the Gazoo border, the Israeli army says, up from 400 who were demonstrating there earlier in the day, but far less than the 40,000 who clashed with Israeli troops a day earlier.
The Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,-run Gazoo health ministry says that two Paleostinians have been killed and over 160 are injured to varying degrees.
The rioters are throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at soldiers on the other side of the fence and rolling burning tires at the border "with the intention of starting fires in Israel and harming Israeli forces," the army says.
IDF soldiers are responding with riot dispersal means and, in some cases, live fire. "They are operating in accordance with the rules of engagement," the army says.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli soldiers arrest "a number" of Paleostinians who tried to cross into Israeli territory during a violent protest along the security fence in the northern Gazoo Strip this evening, the army says.
"The suspects were tracked by troops the entire time they moved [toward the border] and they were tossed in the clink Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! next to the security fence," the army says.
An army spokesperson says she is not yet sure exactly how many people were arrested.
The suspects have been handed over to the Shin Bet security service for questioning.
Due to the overcrowding in Gazoo's hospitals, Egypt has allowed the transfer of some of the maimed from the strip to its territory for treatment. The Paleostinians began the bureaucratic process of listing the maimed that need medical treatment outside the Gazoo Strip. It is yet unclear how many will be allowed through the Rafah crossing.
On the Israeli side of the Gazoo border, several incendiary kites caused fires in open areas.
[AAWSAT] Bahrain stripped on Tuesday 115 citizens of their nationality on charges of forming the terrorist "Zulfiqar Battalions".
According to the verdict, 53 defendants will be locked away ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... for life, three for 15 years, one for 10 years, 15 for seven years, 37 for five years and six for three years, reported the Bahrain News Agency (BNA).
The court also acquitted 23 suspects.
The defendants were found guilty of forming the "Zulfiqar Battalions", which the court said had received training in Iran and Iraq from Iran's Revolutionary Guard with "the intent to commit hostile acts" against Bahrain.
According to a statement by the public prosecutor, the group had hidden weapons, tracked targets and planted homemade bombs "with the intent of killing security personnel", though no casualties had resulted.
Charges also included placing fake explosives in public areas, exchanging intelligence information with a foreign country and its aides in order to carry out hostile acts against the Kingdom, holding illegal gatherings, rioting, possessing flammable material and damaging property.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] Clashes between Military forces of Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... state and the breakaway Somaliland erupted on Tuesday morning in Sool region.
The fighting which is reported to be ongoing flared up in a disputed town, Tukaraq about 90 km from Garowe which is an administrative capital of Puntland.
Puntland Minister for Information, Abdi Ali Hirsi Qarjab accused Somaliland of "aggression" saying Somaliland forces raided bases manned by Puntland troops.
"Early hours of Tuesday, Somaliland forces invaded our troop near Tukaraq town. Our forces are wording off the attackers," said Qarjab.
He said the fighting is ongoing in and around the town with hundreds of residents in the area started fleeing their homes.
"The fighting is continuing in and around town. The aggressors have already displaced almost the entire population of the town as they using heavy artillery weapons against the civilians in the town," he noted.
Somaliland chief of armed forces, Nuh Ismail Tani has dismissed the blames by Puntland minister, saying Somaliland forces who were in full control of Tukaraq town (in the recent month) came under attack.
"Puntland attacked our forces in Tukaraq town today, the battle is going on," said Tani.
The two warring sides at the border town did not report any casualties and the fighting is reportedly escalating.
Somaliland and Puntland both claim ownership of Sool and Sanaag regions that lie between them.
The fighting comes as the UN envoy to Somalia, Michael Keating is carrying out efforts to ease the tension between the two regional states.
Keating held talks with Garowe and Hargeisa local authorities on the intensifying tensions in Tukaraq town.
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[DAWN] A judicial magistrate on Tuesday remanded a man in police custody a day after he was jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! for allegedly sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl in Soma Gondola village in the suburbs of Azad Jammu and Kashmire (AJK).
On Monday afternoon, the victim's parents brought her to the Nasirabad police post in Patikka, where she narrated her ordeal before sub-inspector Syed Wajahat Kazmi. Kazmi recorded it in shape of an application which was later converted into a First Information Report (FIR) in Kahori cop shoppe.
Kahori is 10 kilometres northeast of Muzaffarabad along the Neelum Valley Road and Nasirabad is further eight kilometres ahead.
The victim said that on Monday morning, her parents left the house to cut firewood in a nearby jungle and she was alone in her house when the accused entered, locked the door, and proceeded to assault her.
According to the victim, he then tried to flee the scene and she rushed after him. Her parents also arrived back at the same time and noticed the accused running away.
Kazmi said he sent the victim to Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahayan Hospital Muzaffarabad for medical examination and himself left for Soma Gondola village to apprehend the accused.
Though the high-altitude Soma Gondola village is hardly 15km west of Nasirabad, it took him around one-and-a-half hour to reach there, due to absence of a road link beyond 10 kilometres.
The accused was hiding in a nullah when police caught him. Kazmi claims that he also confiscated the victim’s bloodstained torn clothes from the accused.
SI Kazmi said the accused was an illiterate person in his early twenties who had spent some time 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... doing odd jobs.
"Had we not taken him into custody he was planning to flee to Karachi the same evening," he said.
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[AAWSAT] Iran’s Minister of Industries and Mines Mohammad Shariatmadari stressed on Monday that his country’s ties with Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... are "moving on the right course."
Economic ties between them are progressing on the right path, he said upon his arrival in Doha, reported the Fars news agency.
Efforts should be exerted to continue along this course, he added.
The minister hoped that the joint Iranian-Qatari economic committee would be able to implement the agreements signed between the two countries.
The committee had on Sunday kicked off the its sixth meeting after a 13-year pause.
A delegation of some 70 Iranian experts and businessmen from private and government sectors had arrived in Doha early on Monday to attend the proceedings of the committee meetings.
Iranian and Qatari experts held later on Monday a series of meetings related to customs, oil, mines, petrochemicals and banking affairs. They are set to sign a number of agreements.
Iranian-Qatari ties witnessed a marked improvement in 2017 in wake of the diplomatic and economic boycott imposed by Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt over Doha’s support for terrorism.
Trade exchange between Doha and Tehran reached 250 million dollars in 2017.
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[AAWSAT] Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. ordered on Monday a government reshuffle that saw the replacement of his oil, interior, agriculture, youth and sports and justice ministers.
He also announced a new foreign minister replacing Ibrahim Ghandour, the country’s SUNA new agency reported.
Bashir's ruling National Congress Party introduced a number of ministerial amendments in its share in the cabinet.
The party relieved 13 ministers of their duties, in what observers and opposition figures dismissed as a rotation of power between the ruling political class.
The reshuffle saw al-Dierdiry al-Dhikheri named as the new foreign minister, Ibrahim Hamid as interior minister and Azhari Abdallah as oil minister.
Dhikeri, former Sudanese ambassador to Uganda, had been a member of Khartoum's team that negotiated the separation of south from the north in 2011.
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*Shrug* Both the political party of Sultan Erdogan I “the much beloved” and Hamas are their local branches of the Muslim Brotherhood, so of course he says so.
[IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismisses criticism of Israel by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... "Erdogan is among Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,’s biggest supporters, so there’s no doubt he knows all about terror and massacres," Netanyahu says.
"I suggest he not preach morality to us."
Erdogan and his government accused Israel of committing a massacre in Gazoo and engaging in terror and genocide.
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[AA.TR] Ali al-Qaradaghi, secretary-general of the Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... -based International Union of Moslem Scholars (IUMS), has decried Israeli violence against Paleostinian protesters in Gazoo and the relocation of Washington’s Israel embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
"We closely followed the Zionist occupation army’s violence against Paleostinian demonstrators," al-Qaradaghi told Anadolu Agency on Tuesday.
"We are deeply concerned by this aggression, which accompanied the relocation of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem," he added.
On Monday, thousands of Paleostinians converged on the Gazoo Strip’s eastern border to mark the passage of 70 years since "The Catastrophe" -- referring to the creation of Israel in 1948.
They were also protesting the relocation of Washington’s Israel embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which occurred the same day.
Israeli forces deployed along the border responded to the peaceful protests with live ammunition, leaving scores of protesters dead and hundreds more injured.
Describing the U.S. and Israel as "partners in crime", al-Qaradaghi said: "The entire world, including many Arab leaders, is responsible for the crimes being committed against the Paleostinians.
"Most Arab leaders remain silent, while some even stand by the Zionists and support U.S. and Israeli policies," he asserted.
Al-Qaradaghi added: "The Moslem, Arab and international community must act in coordination against the Zionist regime; the criminals must be brought to justice."
The leading Moslem scholar went on to urge the international community to take concrete steps against what he called "ongoing crimes against humanity".
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Moslem Scholar.....now there's an oxymoron for you. Or maybe just a regular moron.
Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has phoned prominent Shiite holy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr ... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah... to congratulate him on winning the parliamentary elections.
The Iraqi premier congratulated Sadr after his bloc came in the first position place among the electoral lists, Sputnik quoted Sadr’s office as saying in a statement on Tuesday.
In the phone call, Abadi praised the holding of the electoral process in a secure and democratic atmosphere.
According to preliminary results announced by the Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission, Sadr’s Sairoon bloc took the lead after votes were counted in 16 out of Iraq’s 18 provinces.
Saturday’s elections were the first in Iraq since the defeat of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... last year by Iraqi forces and a U.S.-led coalition.
The elections will decide the 329 members of the Council of Representatives who will in turn elect the Iraqi president and prime minister.
Even with more than 10 million Iraqis voting, the election saw a record low turnout, with 44 percent of eligible voters casting ballots.
The elections were originally scheduled for September 2017, but were delayed due to the country’s fight against Islamic State, which ended in December 2017 with the recapture of their remaining territories.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraq’s electoral commission has announced preliminary results of votes for parliamentary elections in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... ending disputes over earlier results that prompted calls for manual recounts.
The electoral commission said the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan came first in the mixed Arab, Kurdish and Turkmen province. Second came the Arab Alliance, and the Turkmen Front came third.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said earlier today that the only solution for the dispute over anticipated results in Kirkuk was to conduct a recount.
Iraqi parliament elections, the first after victory over Islamic State holy warriors in December, were held on Saturday. On election day, Kirkuk’s governor, Rakan al-Jubouri, said the adopted electronic counting system produced controversial results, urging a manual recount to avert sectarian or ethnic clash.
Sulaimaniya, another Iraqi province falling inside Kurdistan Region, had seen festivities on election day driven by objections by Arab and Turkmen groups to results showing PUK won most votes.
The commission declared vote results for the rest of provinces on Monday, saying Shia holy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr’s Saeroon list coming first, al-Fatah list coming second and PM Abadi’s al-Nasr coming third.
[KCNAWATCH.CO] Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- KCNA made public the following report on May 16:
The south Korean authorities, together with the U.S., has been staging the largest-ever "2018 Max Thunder" joint air drill throughout south Korea since May 11 in a bid to make a preemptive air strike at the DPRK and win the air.
Involved in the drill are over 100 fighters of various missions including B-52 strategic nuclear bombers and F-22 Raptor stealth fighters under the supervision of the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces in south Korea and the south Korean air force. It is to last till May 25.
Public opinions at home and abroad comment that the maneuver is the largest-ever and a reflection of the invariable stand of the U.S. and south Korea to persist in the "maximum pressure and sanctions" against the DPRK.
The DPRK-targeted drill across south Korea is an undisguised challenge to the Panmunjom Declaration and a deliberate military provocation to the trend of the favorably developing situation on the Korean Peninsula.
The north and the south solemnly declared in the declaration that a new peace era was ushered in and reached an agreement on making joint efforts to defuse the acute military tensions on the peninsula and substantially ease the danger of war and the U.S. also fully supported it.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... even before the ink of the historic April 27 Declaration got dry, the south Korean authorities and the U.S. started such a drill against the DPRK, reacting to all the peace-loving efforts and good intentions which the DPRK has shown with rude and wicked provocation and arousing serious concern and disappointment among all the fellow countrymen and the international community wanting the declaration to be implemented.
If the U.S. and the south Korean authorities regard the phase of improving inter-Korean ties and the DPRK-U.S. dialogue provided by the proactive and broadminded efforts and measures of the DPRK as something allowed any time and any hour, then they are sadly mistaken.
The south Korean authorities, in particular, resorted to such improper acts quite contrary to the promise to make efforts for the peace, prosperity and reunification on the peninsula together with the north and are allowing even human scum to brazenly hurl mud at the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK and its system and play down the Panmunjom Declaration in front of the building of the "National Assembly".
There is a limit in showing goodwill and offering opportunity.
The historic Panmunjom Declaration cannot be implemented by the unilateral efforts of a single party but can result in a good fruition only when the two parties create favorable conditions and climate by pooling their efforts.
We cannot but take a step of suspending the north-south high-level talks scheduled on May 16 under the prevailing seriously awful situation that a mad-cap north-targeted war and confrontation racket are being kicked up in south Korea.
The south Korean authorities, lost to all senses, should be held wholly accountable for the scuttled north-south high-level talks and the difficulties and obstacles in the way of the north-south relations.
The U.S. will have to think twice about the fate of the DPRK-U.S. summit now on high agenda before a provocative military racket against the DPRK in league with the south Korean authorities.
We will closely watch the ensuing behavior of the U.S. and the south Korean authorities. -
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Why are we still provoking them when they're trying to make peace? This is Darth Bolton trying to start a war, isn't it?
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No, they're jerking our chain again. It's the old Roman adage. Si vis pacem, para bellum
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Until Pudgy realizes he has already lost, he will not negotiate seriously. Whether he is capable of negotiating seriously at that point is a separate question, but until he is serious, anything we do or do not do will be seized as the excuse for what he was going -- or not going -- to do anyway. The abuser must be viciously unpredictable in order to groom the victim into learnt helplessness.
Pudgy does not yet want peace, but he definitely wants us to surrender: leave him his nukes and the ballistic missiles to which they will be attached, give him rice for his people, ignore his heroin trade and his shiploads of forged $100 bills.
{PhilStar] Eleven Abu Sayyaf militants and three soldiers were killed in encounters in Patikul, Sulu in the past two days as the Philippine military continued its operations to rescue hostages. At least 17 soldiers and two rebels were also injured in the clashes.
Four of the ten militants killed in the encounter on Sunday were identified as Amah Talah; Taha Sawdjaan, a brother of Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan, the second in command of the Abu Sayyaf in Sulu; two men known as Red and Long Abraham.
Military spokesman Cirilito Sobejana said the clashes with the group of Abu Sayyaf sub-leaders Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan, Idang Susukan, Injam Yadah and Ben Tottoh occurred in Sitio Kan Alas, Barangay Tanum and Bud Kaha, Maligay.
The remains of three rebels, one of them of foreign appearance, were recovered yesterday.
General Carlito Galvez told a press briefing, "There is an ongoing encounter... We believe one of (the fatalities) is the son of Sawdjaan. There is also a suspicious-looking foreign terrorist."
A Dutch man, a Vietnamese, three Indonesians and seven Filipinos, including two policewomen, remain in the hands of the Abu Sayyaf.
Sobejana said search and rescue operations for the remaining captives would continue. He said, “We will sustain our efforts until the last kidnap victim is rescued and the Abu Sayyaf is neutralized."
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The remains of three rebels, one of them of foreign appearance,
The country was divided between the Ottoman and British empires in the early twentieth century. The Zaydi Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen was established after World War I in North Yemen before the creation of the Yemen Arab Republic in 1962. South Yemen remained a British protectorate known as the Aden Protectorate until 1967 when it became an independent state and later, a Marxist state. The two Yemeni states united to form the modern republic of Yemen in 1990.
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Might be wise to hire a few local girls to pretend to be "high end fembots not currently for sale" so the robo-bordello will have a happy customer or two.
[AAWSAT] Fighting erupted in the western Afghan city of Farah on Tuesday after the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... attempted to capture the placid provincial capital.
Afghan aircraft bombed Taliban positions as residents sought shelter from the kabooms and gunfire.
The attack marks the first major assault targeting a city since the Taliban launched their annual spring offensive.
The assault began around midnight, with the Lions of Islam capturing one urban district and parts of another, said local provincial council member Jamila Amini.
"Heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual name-calling or slapsy... continues inside the city and aircraft have just started bombarding Taliban positions," she told AFP Tuesday from inside Farah.
Afghan officials said police special forces from Kandahar and commandos from 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... had also been deployed.
"(The Taliban) will fail," vowed interior ministry front man Najib Danish, who said both Afghan and foreign air forces were taking part in the fighting.
Fared Bakhtawer, head of the provincial council, offered a different picture, however, saying that several security checkpoints in Farah were overrun by the Taliban.
Bakhtawer said casualties were high among security forces, but could not provide a precise number.
Mohammad Sarwar Osmani, a politician from Farah province, said strategic security checkpoints around the city were overrun by Taliban and the bully boyz were near police headquarters and the governor's offices.
Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban front man, grabbed credit. He said fighters launched attacks form multiple directions, after which they overran several checkpoints in the city. Farah borders Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province, where the Taliban controls several districts.
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Correlation with the Anti-Vaxxer Campaigns? If you are medically illiterate and are addicted to self-destructive behavior isn't this a double whammy?
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Correlation with the Anti-Vaxxer Campaigns? If you are medically illiterate and are addicted to self-destructive behavior isn't this a double whammy?
After all that fussing when President Trump wanted to close the Palestinian office, now they are closing it themselves. I’m not sure how much more winning I can handle in a single week.
[AAWSAT] Amid growing global outrage over Israel’s killing of Paleostinians protesting at the Gazoo border and the relocation of the US embassy to Jerusalem, Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... recalled on Tuesday his envoy to Washington.
Husam Zumlot confirmed to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Tuesday that he is returning home.
He said: "When they (the US) opened their embassy in Jerusalem there was a need for a decision from our side and this was our decision."
The US relocated its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on Monday, a move that has sparked international condemnation and Paleostinian rage.
The Paleostinians claim east Jerusalem for their future capital. They are outraged by the move and say it invalidates Washington's role as an impartial peace broke.
Demonstrations held at the Gazoo border on Monday and Tuesday in protest against the move turned violent when Israeli troops shot up the Paleostinians, killing 60 and injuring over 2,000.
The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... Human Rights Council will hold a special session on Friday to discuss "the deteriorating human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... situation" in the Paleostinian Territories.
"The special session is being convened per an official request submitted this evening by Paleostine and the United Arab Emirates," on behalf of the rights council's Arab Group and has so far received support from 26 states, the Geneva-based body said in a statement Tuesday.
[IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Charles Michel says the violence and killings would be moved onto the calendar of the European Union summit in Sofia on Wednesday and Thursday.
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The EU can move them to Europe at any time. They could repopulate the former East Germany.
[AAWSAT] Police in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... nabbed Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! dozens of suspected ISIS members in a raid in the city of Istanbul, the private Dogan news agency reported on Tuesday.
Counter-terror police raided 19 addresses in over a dozen districts late on Monday, detaining 54 suspects who were taken for interrogation at the city's police headquarters, it said.
All the detainees are foreign nationals, revealed the police without offering more details.
Police suspect that they were planning to travel to neighboring Syria.
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[VANGUARDNGR] The Nigerian Army says on Tuesday it has lunched a new operation to totally flush out remnants of Boko Haram insurhents in the Lake Chad region.
Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai Lt. Gen. Tukur Burutai, disclosed at a press conference in Maiduguri that Operation Last Hold began on May 1, and has a target of August 31, to accomplish it’s mission. Represented by Maj. - Gen. Abba Dikko, the Commander of Operation LAST HOLD explained that it was intended to facilitate the clearance of the Lake Chad waterways of sea weeds and other obstacles obstructing the movement of boats and people across the water channels.
“It will also ensure the destruction of Boko Haram Terrorist camps and strong points in the Lake Chad Basin general area. The operation will also facilitate the rescue of hostages,”he said.
Buratai said that the Army was determined to consolidate on its recent gains in the ongoing push especially in the Northern most part of Borno.
“Operation LAST HOLD is expected to last for 4 months and it will entail deployment of additional manoeuvre brigades and other critical assets in Borno State.
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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.
[FoxNews] A Florida Circuit judge ruled Friday that that the state’s second-most populous county violated state and federal laws by destroying ballots from a 2016 Democratic primary race which Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz won.
[Red State] Yesterday, The Hill correspondent, John Solomon, posted an extensive story on the long-standing ties between special counsel Robert Mueller and a man who should be a target in his probe, Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
[Breitbart] A suspended Pennsylvania school teacher was shot dead while standing in her mother’s driveway on the evening of Mother’s Day, police said.
[ALMASDARNEWS] US security experts warning about the serious consequences of carrying out regime change in Iran and the Middle East, at the New Horizon international conference in Tehran on Tuesday.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Clashes broke out between two 
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
[Davao Today] A New People’s Army leader being treated in a hospital at Don Carlos town in Bukidnon was arrested on Saturday, the Philippine military reported. Military spokesman Ezra Balagtey identified the NPA leader as Elizalde Cañete alias Ka Jinggoy.
[FOX] REYHANLI, Turkey ‐ U.S. military equipment and ammunition, sent to Syria as part of a failed Obama administration plan to find and arm moderate forces to defeat ISIS, were instead simply handed over to an Al Qaeda group, according to the man who said he himself brokered the deal.
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
[DAWN] GUJRAT: Police have booked the mother of Sana Cheema, the Italian national of Pak origin who was killed for honour allegedly by her father and brother, on charges of concealing the alleged murder of her daughter.
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
{PhilStar] Eleven Abu Sayyaf militants and three soldiers were killed in encounters in Patikul, Sulu in the past two days as the Philippine military continued its operations to rescue hostages. At least 17 soldiers and two rebels were also injured in the clashes.
