[The Intercept] WENDY ABRAMS HAS used her wealth to help protect the environment and public health. She’s the founder of a public art exhibit meant to raise awareness on climate change, and she serves on the boards of NRDC Action Fund and the Waterkeeper Alliance, and has been on the Environmental Defense Fund’s National Council. She helped found the Abrams Environmental Law Clinic at the University of Chicago, which trains students to address environmental injustices. Abrams was a major donor to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Rahm Emanuel, and she has railed against the Keystone Pipeline and air-polluting coal plants.
Abrams’s wealth comes from Medline, a company her great-grandfather founded in 1910. Today Medline is the largest privately held manufacturer and supplier of medical supplies in the United States, with over $10 billion in sales in 2018. Abrams is a principal shareholder in Medline and formerly served as the company’s director of corporate communications; her brothers and husband are now, respectively, Medline’s CEO, president, and chief operating officer.
But now, in an uncomfortable turn of events, Abrams finds herself on the other side of an environmental crisis ‐ affiliated with the polluter, rather than fighting on behalf of the polluted.
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Abrams is a principal shareholder in Medline and formerly served as the company’s director of corporate communications; her brothers and husband are now, respectively, Medline’s CEO, president, and chief operating officer.
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Ethylene oxide is a colorless, sweet-smelling gas used in production of ethylene glycol (antifreeze), used as a pesticide, and as a sterylizing agent on medical supplies.
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[James Howard Kunstler] After two years of gaslighting the public while it blew smoke up America’s ass, the Jacobin news media enjoyed its final feeding frenzy with the release of the 400-page Mueller report. They expected 1000 pounds of raw filet mignon, but it turned out to be tofu fried in olestra. The ensuing fugue of hyperventilating hysteria was also duly expected and William Barr stoically endured their hebephrenic peevings at the release ceremony ‐ a press conference which itself offended the media.
The threats and raving continued all the livelong day and far into the peeper-filled night with CNN’s Chris Cuomo blustering "It’s time to rumble," and the lugubrious hack David Gergen muttering soulfully, "This was not fake news," and The Times’ Maggie Haberman fuming that the White House had played the "Nazi anthem" Edelweiss ‐ very fake news, it turned out, since the tune was written for Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s 1959 Broadway show, The Sound of Music (and sung by the anti-Nazi hero Baron von Trapp). Meanwhile Rachel Maddow had the balls to confab in prime time with disgraced former FBI mandarin Andy McCabe, officially identified as a liar by his own colleagues at the agency. What a circus of perfidious freakery! Read on, it gets better.
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No surprise that there is so much pushback by HRC backers who thought she had the election rigged and in the bag.
At this point I wouldn't be all that surprised if someone discovered that Obean was a fraud with phony credentials who was placed in the WH by Brennan.
[AP] Less than 24 hours after police say a Mississippi man gunned down a uniformed officer in police station parking lot, the now-arrested suspect was marched on Monday night back into the same Biloxi police station.
Biloxi Police Chief John Miller said one of his department’s officers was driving home through Wiggins, 40 miles (65 kilometers) north of the Gulf Coast city when the officer spotted a man at the side of the road who looked like the target of an intense manhunt.
That officer’s suspicions were on the money. He called Wiggins police who in turn arrested 19-year-old Darian Tawan Atkinson, wanted for capital murder in the slaying of Biloxi Patrolman Robert McKeithen.
Atkinson, tall and lanky in a blue and black baseball jersey, gave something close to a grin as officers yanked him from the back of a police cruiser and paraded him past watching reporters and cheering police officers back in Biloxi, only feet away from where McKeithen was gunned down after 10 p.m. Sunday night. The 23-year-veteran of the Biloxi force had been planning to retire this year.
"It’s been a long couple of days," said Miller, who told reporters he was going to bed as he got news of the capture. "We feel vindicated. He’s been treated properly and fairly. And now we will grieve for the family."
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Why don't they just shoot them ? Now the lawyers will get to work. Say it's the hundreds of years of slavery that offended him and he cracked. That the socialist schooling system wasn't socialist enough. Or Trump had something to do with it. Anything but black delinquency.
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We don’t want police going out of their way to shoot bad people, because sometimes they turn out to have been good people... or at least innocent of that particular charge. And because sometimes bad people really do learn to choose goodness in prison.
[Right Scoop] I had to double take at this headline.
The New York Times has endorsed giving Trump the $4.5B he requested in funds for the border. Not just a single writer either, it’s the whole editorial board.
The New York Times editorial board urged Congress to give President Trump the administration’s requested $4.5 billion in emergency funding for the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.
"President Trump is right: There is a crisis at the southern border," the editorial board wrote Sunday in a piece titled, "Congress, Give Trump his Border Money."
Crisis is the santizied word liberals like to use about the border because they are loathe to say "emergency" and possibly give Trump any credit. We all know what it is though. Over 100,000 people crossed illegally last month. The CPB don’t have the manpower or resources to handle the situation. Our asylum laws are being abused at a ridiculous level and Congress refuses to act.
If what’s going on at the border isn’t an emergency, then the word has lost all meaning.
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Yeah, a crisis, just not the one the wacko Trump says it is. Hell didn't freeze over, it's been renamed.
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For the left, an emergency would be that Trump has cut off the flow of illegal potential Dem voters or that he cut off the flow of cartel drugs into the U.S.
[DonSurber] Then the Mueller Report arrived. Now the walls are closing in on the spies and others who broke the law on behalf of Obama.
Kimberley A. Strassel of the Wall Street Journal wrote, "Barr gets attacked because his probe endangers powerful people."
(As I read that headline, I could have sworn I heard someone singing, "He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.")
Strassel wrote, "Mr. Barr made real news in that Senate hearing, and while the press didn’t notice, Democrats did. The attorney general said he’d already assigned people at the Justice Department to assist his investigation of the origins of the Trump-Russia probe. He said his review would be far-reaching ‐ that he was obtaining details from congressional investigations, from the ongoing probe by the department’s inspector general, Michael Horowitz, and even from Mr. Mueller’s work. Mr. Barr said the investigation wouldn’t focus only on the fall 2016 justifications for secret surveillance warrants against Trump team members but would go back months earlier.
"He also said he’d focus on the infamous dossier concocted by opposition-research firm Fusion GPS and British former spy Christopher Steele, on which the FBI relied so heavily in its probe. Mr. Barr acknowledged his concern that the dossier itself could be Russian disinformation, a possibility he described as not "entirely speculative." He also revealed that the department has "multiple criminal leak investigations under way" into the disclosure of classified details about the Trump-Russia investigation.
"Do not underestimate how many powerful people in Washington have something to lose from Mr. Barr’s probe. Among them: Former and current leaders of the law-enforcement and intelligence communities. The Democratic Party pooh-bahs who paid a foreign national (Mr. Steele) to collect information from Russians and deliver it to the FBI. The government officials who misused their positions to target a presidential campaign. The leakers. The media. More than reputations are at risk. Revelations could lead to lawsuits, formal disciplinary actions, lost jobs, even criminal prosecution."
She has been one of the few voices of reason in a media filled with hysterical people who have a foaming-mouth hatred of Donald John Trump and now, every single one of his supporters. Witness the censoring of us on social media.
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It's the same "arrests are coming for Deep State scumbags" that we've been hearing for the past two years. None of them ever get the cuffs slapped on them. It's a joke.
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(As I read that headline, I could have sworn I heard someone singing, "He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.")
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None of them ever get the cuffs slapped on them. It's a joke.
Yeah, I'll believe it after it happens. We keep hearing how the rank and file at the FBI are stand-up guys, but in a large organization, the guys at the top set the tone and the culture flows downhill. You may say 'to-may-to', but if your boss says 'to-mah-to', then 'to-mah-to' it is.
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The Australian article makes it clear we need to recognize the risks to the 5way program as well as their willingness to support the deep state here.
[357] Google is about the same as F*c*book. They want everyone to think the same thoughts. Algorithms of Suppression.
The Claremont Institute has launched a campaign to engage our fellow citizens in discussion and debate about what it means to be an American. As part of that effort, we have begun to point out the increasingly existential danger of identity politics and political correctness to our republic. As if to prove our point, Google has judged our argument as wrongthink that should be forbidden. They are now punishing us for our political thought by refusing to let us advertise to our own readers.
Soon anyone espousing anything like "conservative values" will be blocked from Google, F*c*book and Twitter. Because you dare to disagree with your masters in Tech, so you will be silenced.
Hat tip to The Other McCain, who notes
Google, like the mainstream media establishment, has decided that President Trump’s election proves that freedom of speech is dangerous, and so anything that might conceivably prevent the election of a Democrat in 2020 must be suppressed as some form of "hate speech."
And also to Instapundit, who notes that Google dropped "Don’t Be Evil" and went to Full Evil.
And you can Live Without Google. Or mostly, anyway.
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Paleos must be following the broken window economic theory--that is that broken windows are somehow good for their economy. And Qatar goes along with it to keep the ME stirred up.
[Think Americana] Wow, I am proud to say that I am from the great Peach State! Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has all but told Hollywood to shove their liberal opinions where the sun don’t shine.
On Tuesday, he is set to sign the "heartbeat" bill, or the H.B. 481 bill, which means a woman cannot legally get an abortion after a heartbeat is detected. This will save THOUSANDS, if not millions, of lives since the heartbeat is detectable between five to six weeks of life.
Hollywood has signed petitions and threatened to boycott filming in Georgia if the Governor signs the bill. However, he said that he is not worried about that in the slightest.
"I can’t govern because I’m worried about what someone in Hollywood thinks about me. I ran the last two years on these issues, and I got elected with the largest number of votes in the history of the state of Georgia," Kemp said.
He added, "I’m doing what I told people I would do ... Our business environment’s good. We cannot change our values of who we are for money. And we’re not going to do that. That’s what makes our state great."
"I do not think it will hurt the film industry in Georgia or any other business whatsoever," Kemp continued, "Us sticking up for our Georgia values and protecting life is not going to protect a bad business environment in Georgia, I can promise you."
Planned Parenthood’s Staci Fox retorted that they are "coming for" Kemp for this. She threatened, "We warned them ‐ we will see you in court, Governor Kemp. And we are coming for their seats."
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I'm hoping for some production company to film in Georgia for the tax breaks only to get into a big brew-ha-ha with an actor over filming there:
It was in the contract and you signed
I wasn't woke then!
[Breitbart] Former Vice President Joe Biden leaned heavily on the legacy of his old running mate, President Barack Obama, during a campaign appearance on Saturday.
Prior to the rally, the campaign aired a video of Obama praising Biden in 2017 and awarding his own vice president a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
"I heard you playing the tape of my buddy," Biden said, speaking to the audience in Columbia, South Carolina, and apologized, "My buddy... I shouldn’t be so casual ‐ President of the United States Barack Obama!"
During his campaign speech, Biden recalled the 2015 racist church shooting in South Carolina, when Obama attended the funeral and sang "Amazing Grace" to the congregation.
"I watched my buddy Barack stand up there, I watched him talk, and he talked about we have to find that Amazing Grace," Biden said,
Biden also referred to Obama’s Charleston eulogy for the slain, as he spoke about employment discrimination.
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Could Joe be.....“Hebephrenic”? (resulting from) chronic schizophrenia involving disordered thought, inappropriate emotions, hallucinations, and bizarre behavior. Hillary and Nancy also display similar symptoms.
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Sadly, the love is unrequited. His buddy has refused to endorse him. No doubt one of his X (where X is an unknown number greater than 20) Democratic competitors will take note at some point.
[WashingtonExaminer] The news came after what alleged brain donor & goldfish swallowing champion CNN chief media correspondent Brian Stelter said was a "rumor" about layoffs.
"There's a rumor making the rounds today about big impending layoffs at CNN," Stelter tweeted Monday evening. "A CNN spokeswoman is knocking it down on the record: 'No layoffs.' There WERE voluntary buyouts throughout the organization, and about 100 people opted for it." Attention fellow rats, the ship IS sinking
The buyouts also coincide with the first official broadcast of Pravda CNN from their new home base at 30 Hudson Yards in New York. CNN's move to the new location consolidates almost all of Warner Media together in a single building.
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Is this news report as accurate as their other reports?
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They could save a lot more money by ditching a talking head or two who have huge salaries and who's crusade has driven the station right into the ground.
Return to impartial news readers for awhile and only let the crazy folks on after 11:00 at night. See if ratings don't return.
[WashingtonExaminer] A woman was arrested this week after trying four separate times to sneak into the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in northern Virginia to speak to "Agent Penis."
The criminal complaint described the May 3 incident involving Jennifer G. Hernandez, 58, from North Carolina: "Upon arrival, the defendant provided her Iowa identification card, requested to recover her North Carolina identification card, and requested to speak to Agent Penis."
After a review of records, Officer Mirko Peña who was not "Agent Penis" determined that "CIA police officers had encountered the defendant on several recent occasions, and had cited her for trespassing on the prior evening." Her last three appearances had been on consecutive days.
Hernandez was charged with criminal trespassing in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. She is currently being held in Alexandria city jail.
The CIA has not revealed the true identity of "Agent Penis."
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The Agency will have to pick up the child support.
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Sounds like some kind of initiation:
"Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to sneak into CIA headquarters and locate Agent Penis. If you are successful, you will be given your ID badge and a decoder ring."
[Jpost] The United States received information from Israel concerning an alleged Iranian plot to attack American interests in the Gulf, Axios reported on Monday.
National Security advisor John Bolton publicly warned on Sunday that Iran will face "unrelenting force" if it attempts to harm the US, in an unusual statement.
In the same statement the US announced that it would deploy the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln to the region.
According to the report, intelligence provided by Israel's Mossad agency was at least part of the reason for the warning and the move to deploy the aircraft carrier. The information was allegedly passed to a U.S. team headed by Bolton two weeks ago by an Israeli delegation led by national security adviser Meir Ben Shabbat.
It wasn't clear what Iran's plans would have been, but it might have attempted to hit a US target in the Gulf, or one of its allies in the region such as 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... or UAE.
Mark Dubowitz, chief executive of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, which advocates a hard line on Iran, said he had heard of a "spike" in intelligence in recent days about planned attacks.
He believed Iran had given the green-light to the missiles out of Gazoo by Hamas and allied movement 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... The strikes sought "to tie down Israeli forces and create a crisis to distract the US and Israel from IRGC plans elsewhere," he said, referring to Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards.
Doesn't make any sense.
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...Seems to me their only real option would have been to scream as loudly as they could that they didn't do it, nobody saw them do it and we can't prove they did it, and get the Usual Suspects to tut-tut in advance about any possible retaliation.
They seem to think that Obama fella is still in charge, or that DJT is so hamstrung by those idiots in the House that he won't be able to do anything about it.
They may be wrong.
Mike
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Saudi refineries? Oil field? US bound oil tankers?
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My suspicion -- to stir up anti-Trump nuts in the US, to weaken him, and set the stage to a new president who will go back to bribing Iran.
Valerie Jerret is still alive, after all.
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Map depicts Iranian S-300 anti-aircraft missile sites and range fans. The S-300 are protecting other missiles aimed at potential targets in the Gulf.
[Jpost] Two days after Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, 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... (PIJ) pummeled Israel with some 700 rockets, and Israel responded with a show of force not seen since Operation Protective Edge in 2014, an undeclared ceasefire held in the South on Monday.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, made clear that this would not be the last round of fighting in the coastal enclave.
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It's called hudna. When you're losing big time agree to a truce. You got nothing to lose and it worked for the Prophet many times in his battles against the infidels.
[IsraelTimes] According to the understandings that led to the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,, Jerusalem will allow a transfer of $30 million from 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... to the Gazoo Strip very soon, the Kan public broadcaster reports.
The cash shipment will be delivered "very soon," the report says, adding that, until now, the periodical transfer was only $20 million. Israel is also expected to open the border crossings.
Also according to the truce agreement, the Hamas terror group that rules Gazoo has committed to reigning in
...the writer meant reining in, but never mind...
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... , which initiated the recent two-day flareup.
Additionally, the weekly border protests and riots will be scaled down and held farther away from the border fence with Israel, the report says. Terror groups will also stop the launching of balloon-borne arson devices into Israel.
[IsraelTimes] A balloon-borne arson device launched from the Gazoo Strip sparked a fire today in a wheat field in the Eshkol region of southern Israel, Fire and Rescue Services says.
Firefighters extinguished the blaze earlier in the day. Afterward, Sherlocks were able to determine that the cause of the fire was an "arson balloon," a fire department front man says.
He adds that there was another blaze in the area today that was not caused by an arson attack from Gazoo.
The apparent attack comes despite an unofficial ceasefire since this morning that has seen no rockets fired from the Strip or Israeli Arclight airstrikes after a two-day flareup.
[IsraelTimes] After admitting that the threat of anti-tank missiles to roads near the Gazoo Strip was underestimated, leading to the attack yesterday that killed 68-year-old Moshe Feder, security authorities have decided to build a wall to protect the road that was targeted, Channel 13 reports.
The wall is planned to be two meters (6.56 feet) high and 600 meters long, blocking off the currently exposed area.
Plans for the wall’s construction have already begun, the report says.
Salahuddin (IraqiNews) Security Media Cell announced, on Sunday, that Iraqi security forces carried out an operation to cleanse an Island, located in eastern Tikrit, in Salahuddin Province, from the remnants of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
The Cell pointed out in a press statement that troops of Salahuddin Operations Command, backed by al-Hashd al-Shaabi, conducted an operation to cleanse an island, in eastern Tikrit, from the remnants of the Islamic State group. It also added that the main goal of the operation is to impose stability and security in the area.
Furthermore, the statement revealed that the security operation was launched from three axes, while indicated that its results will be announced soon.
According to Wikipedia, during the Northern Iraq offensive, the Islamic State group took control of the city of Tikrit. Later, the Iraqi Army made an attempt to recapture the city, which resulted in heavy fighting.
On June 12, ISIS executed more than 1500 Iraqi Air Force cadets from Camp Speicher at Tikrit. The Iraqi government blamed the massacre on both ISIS and members of the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party ‐ Iraq Region. By July 2014, government forces had withdrawn from Tikrit.
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[IsraelTimes] Obada Alami accused of being in contact with terror operatives in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... , filming strategic sites, and collecting money.
Prosecutors on Monday filed an indictment against East Jerusalem resident Obada Alami, 39, accusing him of espionage, contact with a foreign agent, and terror activities, the Justice Ministry said in a statement.
According to the charge sheet, lodged at the Jerusalem District Court, Alami had been in contact since October 2018 with two Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, terror group operatives who were in Turkey.
At their request, he filmed and gathered information about strategic security sites in Israel, including military bases and airports, with full knowledge that his activities were designed to help Hamas military operations, the indictment said.
Additionally, Alami is accused of collecting money from 2017 to 2018 and transferring it to Hamas to fund its operations.
The Hamas members also asked Alami to give them names of people suspected of selling land to Jews or of cooperating with Israeli security forces, according to the charge sheet.
The Shin Bet security service has in the past accused Turkey of helping Hamas raise and launder funds for its terrorist activities against Israel.
[Daily Caller] Peter Strzok suspected CIA employees were behind inaccurate leaks to the press regarding possible Trump campaign contacts with Russia, according to an email the former FBI counterintelligence official sent to colleagues in April 2017.
"I’m beginning to think the agency got info a lot earlier than we thought and hasn’t shared it completely with us. Might explain all these weird/seemingly incorrect leads all these media folks have. Would also highlight agency as source of some of the leaks," Strzok wrote in an email to FBI colleagues on April 13, 2017.
The email is highlighted in a letter that two Republican senators sent Monday to Michael K. Atkinson, the inspector general of the intelligence community.
In the letter, Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin asked Atkinson if he has investigated whether the CIA or other intelligence community agencies leaked information to the press.
They pointed to a Dec. 15, 2016 text message that Strzok, the lead investigator on the Trump-Russia probe, sent to then-FBI attorney Lisa Page.
"Think our sisters have begun leaking like mad. Scorned and worried and political, they’re kicking in to overdrive," Strzok wrote Page.
[TIMESOFISRAEL] At least 11 of the Paleostinians killed in Israeli strikes on the Gazoo Strip since Friday were members of terror groups, according to 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... and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,. Eight of the eleven members of terror groups belonged to the al-Quds Brigades, Islamic Jihad’s military wing.
The al-Quds Brigades confirmed on its website the identities of eight of its members killed in Isaeli strikes.
The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, verified in statements that three others killed during the fighting belonged to its ranks.
[IsraelTimes] The Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Paleostinian terror group Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",, officially declares that Hamed Hamdan al-Khodari, killed yesterday in his car in Gazoo in an Israeli Arclight airstrike, is its field commander.
The Israeli military said yesterday that Khodari was responsible for bringing Iranian money into Gazoo for its terrorist rulers.
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[JPOST] The rationing of food and essential goods might be coming back to Iran, for the first time since the Iran-Iraq war of (1980-1988), due to the sanctions being imposed on the Islamic republic - which may cause the government to have a larger role in the rationing of such products.
The war left nearly two-million people dead and maimed on both sides of the fight, and it took years afterwards for the government to end this type of rationing.
Many are worried, including economic experts, that issuing the vouchers would bring more government interference into the already highly controlled country markets.
People in Iran used to refer to the 1980's as the "coupon era," where long lines formed just to procure simple things such as eggs or butter.
"Some goods might be rationed and distributed through vouchers or coupons," said Islamic Theocratic Republic Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri without much elaboration according to a Radio Farda report. "We might be forced to ration some goods and reintroduce vouchers for distributing them."
The state usually subsidizes many of these good through their annual oil sales and out of country exports, normally bringing in $60 billion a year for the Islamic Theocratic Republic - as well the government issues cash handouts from the government to purchase these goods.
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Cutting off their nose to spite their face. Craziness.
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Jihad Barbie dolls are already in short supply in most of Iran. This will not work out well for the mad mullahs or the brave citizens of Persia as a whole.
[Rudaw] The grandparents of two children stranded with their French jihadist mother at a camp in Kurdish-held Syria are to file a lawsuit Monday at Europe's top rights court over La Belle France's refusal to allow them home, lawyers said.
It is the latest challenge to the French government's opposition to returning the children of suspected jihadists in Syria or Iraq.
The four-year-old girl and three-year-old boy are among the estimated 500 children of French citizens who joined the Islamic State
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Cyprus’ president is calling The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... ’s bid to drill for natural gas in waters off the island a "second invasion" and a violation of international law.
President Nicos Anastasiades says Turkey’s behavior creates "insurmountable problems" in efforts to restart talks aimed at reunifying ethnically divided Cyprus. He said Monday there can be no talks while the island remains under threat.
Cyprus was split in 1974 when Turkey invaded after a coup by supporters of union with Greece.
Turkey doesn’t recognize Cyprus as a state, and it says the Cypriot government’s own offshore gas search infringes on its rights and those of breakaway Ottoman Turkish Cypriots to the island’s hydrocarbons reserves.
Cyprus says all potential gas proceeds will be shared equitably after a reunification acco
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[YNETNEWS] Benny Gantz warns agreement gave terror groups what they wanted and will only lead to further violence, while Likud challenger Gideon Sa'ar says deal gives Israel nothing.
[IsraelTimes] A security source says the army’s assessment, which has been presented to the government and is supported by intelligence officials, is that without increasing diplomatic efforts to improve the humanitarian situation in the Gazoo Strip, the current ceasefire will only hold for several days or weeks.
See article about a fire balloon launched from Gaza today.
The security establishment cannot promise that the 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 group will not try to disrupt daily life in Israel ahead of the Eurovision contest next week, the source adds, according to Hebrew-language media.
The government demanded that the flareup reach its end as quickly as possible and "with the most achievements possible," the source says.
The source says the prevailing assessment in Israel is that one of the reasons Islamic Jihad agreed to the ceasefire was that for the first time since 2014, its targets were struck as well as Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,’s sites.
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Israel has to develop a means to destroy the Hamas interior tunnels.
I'm sure they are working on a number of ways to do this but until they do, there is no good way of really disabling Hamas's rocket capability.
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Netanyahu is not the kind of person to let 900 missiles go from Gaza into Israel without a response. I think that he is looking at Iran. So is President Trump. Iran is smarting from the sanctions and is getting aggressive. There will be some big actions coming, IMHO.
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[ToloNews] Local officials from Baghlan said the corpse count from the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... ’s complex attack on the police headquarters in Pul-e-Khumri city has risen to 20, with 18 of the victims members of the Afghan National Police (ANP).
On Sunday, the police headquarters of Pul-e-Khumri city in the northern Baghlan province faced a complex attack by a group of eight button men at around 12pm on Sunday, the Ministry of Interior said in a statement.
Provincial health officials said that at least 60 people among them women and kiddies were maimed in the attack.
The attack started with a boom-mobilekaboom outside the police headquarters and was followed by at least six hours of gunbattle between the attackers and the holy warriors.
The Ministry of Interior said the attackers were equipped with boom jackets and that all of them were killed by the Special Unit of Police.
"First, they carried out a suicide kaboom with a Humvee full of explosives from the northern gate of the police headquarters," said Abbas Tawakoli, the commander of 3rd Brigade of 217 Pamir Army Corps.
"Most of them fled, but some others got bullets while escaping the scene and some others were stuck inside the rooms and were martyred," said an Afghan solider speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... "Fear from Allah and the prophet and the Ramadhan. Why are you doing this?" asked a Pul-e-Khumri resident, referring to the Taliban.
Taliban claimed the responsibility for the attack and claimed that a jacket wallah detonated a Humvee full of explosives at the beginning of the attack.
[WSJ] Ruling AKP says balloting was marred by fraud and irregularities, but outraged mayor's party calls situation a matter of wanting to preserve control.
Turkey's national election board canceled results of the Istanbul mayoral race that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party lost five weeks ago and ordered a rerun, sparking outrage in opposition ranks and fueling investor concerns over heightened economic volatility.
Ruling on complaints filed by Mr. Erdogan's Justice and Development Party, or AKP, the election board said a new vote was necessary because fraud and irregularities had material influence on the March 31 results in Istanbul. The ruling is final and can't be challenged in court.
Mr. Erdogan had thrown his weight behind the AKP's fraud claims, calling for a rerun.
Ekrem Imamoglu was handed the mandate to govern last month, lifting the spirits of Erdogan’s opponents, despite vague accusations of cheating and election fraud by the AKP and its loyalists.
Mr Imamoglu’s victory marked the first time in 25 years that Istanbul, a city of 16 million, fell out of the hands of Mr Erdogan’s political party. The AKP also lost control of the capital, Ankara, for the first time in 25 years but with a much larger margin.
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[Libya Observer] Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... has ordered his forces to continue fighting during Ramadan, saying this holy month is a month of jihad and Islamic conquests.
"When we were fighting in Benghazi and Derna, we did not stop the battle in Ramadan at the time." Haftar said in a statement read by his forces' front man Ahmed al-Mismari on Sunday.
Haftar said terrorism is still persistent in Libya and is destroying its economy using mercenaries who are supported by money and weapons by many countries.
"The fighters should target the enemy and attack them quickly and in surprise. They should maintain their ammunition to pursue the retreating enemy." Haftar added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the hanging, Butch continued with his last words, trying not to repeat himself too often...... sources close to Presidential Council's Volcano of Rage Operation said the forces managed to cut off supply lines of Haftar's forces in different frontlines, saying Haftar's forces have acute shortages of foods and low morale because they thought the battle would be fast, yet it entered the second month.
The UNSMIL called on Sunday on all parties to commit to an extendable one-week humanitarian truce ..The purposes of a truce are twofold: 1.) bring up more arms, ammunition, and reinforcements; and 2.) get the enemy to relax his vigilance. A truce is not the same thing as a ceasefire, and a ceasefire doesn't mean you have to stop shooting... starting Ramadan 01, but Haftar's statement came as a clear rejection to such a call.
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[Daily Caller] President Donald Trump issued a full pardon Monday to former Army First Lieutenant Michael Behenna, who served five years in prison after being convicted of murdering a suspected Al-Qaeda terrorist.
In May 2008, Behenna was questioning Ali Mansur Mohamed, a suspected terrorist who had allegedly been involved in an IED attack that killed two U.S. soldiers. The interrogation ended when Behenna fired two rounds into the terrorist ‐ which the 1st Lt. claimed was in self-defense after Mansur lunged for his pistol.
A military court convicted Behenna of unpremeditated murder in a combat zone in 2009. The prosecution said Behenna was not acting in self-defense, but in retaliation for the deaths of his fellow soldiers, and killed Mansur while returning him to his hometown.
In a statement released Monday announcing the pardon, the White House noted that Behenna’s 25-year sentence was greatly reduced following certain concerns about the case. Behenna was released from prison on parole in 2014.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A US judge on Monday sentenced a 25-year-old who was incarcerated Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! as a teenager for an attempted boom-mobileing in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... to 16 years in prison.
Adel Daoud was 18 years old when he was arrested in 2012 for attempting to engage in "violent jihad" by blowing up a bar in the Midwestern city’s downtown.
Daoud thought he had a boom-mobile, but undercover agents had in fact given him a dummy device and arrested him after he attempted to detonate it.
Daoud, a US citizen who lived in the Chicago suburb of Hillside, entered a guilty plea in November, in an unusual arrangement where he did not admit wrongdoing.
A federal judge’s sentence Monday, which included 45 years of supervised release, was less than the 40 years imprisonment prosecutors were seeking.
Daoud was to be credited the seven years he has already spent behind bars.
According to an affidavit in the case, two undercover FBI agents contacted Daoud in response to the material he posted online and began exchanging messages with him.
"During these communications, Daoud expressed an interest in engaging in violent jihad, either in the United States or overseas, referred to his ongoing efforts to recruit other individuals to engage in violent jihad and mentioned that he had discussed plans for an attack with ’trusted brothers,’" read the affidavit.
Daoud sought guidance on carrying out a terrorist attack, was eventually given a phony bomb in a Jeep by an undercover agent and attempted to detonate it in front of a bar.
It really could be taken as a proof of God's benevolence that so many of these jihadis are seriously lacking in the brain department.
Daoud’s lawyers had raised questions about his mental health over apparent delusions such as claiming the government, judge, and attorneys were all part of a vast conspiracy and members of the Illuminati.
If they weren’t telling him to commit jihad, they don’t count.
In a separate case, Daoud had also pleaded guilty to trying to solicit the murder of an FBI undercover agent and attacking another inmate while in jail.
Golly. I imagine they through the book at him for that one.
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So basically this mad son of a bitch is going to be out in another nine years. The prosecutors had rightly sought a 40 year sentence.
[Libya Observer] Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... 's Dignity Operation command has issued a statement threatening to punish all journalists, media figures, activists and political analysts who oppose its offensive against Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , describing them as "inciting hate and crime against the army forces and supporting terrorism."
The statement on Sunday said the command is following closely those who appear on the media of the Moslem Brüderbund Group or those who go on social media for their incitement of crimes and terrorism against the army forces who are fighting "the remnants of gunnies in Tripoli."
It says those people will be punished by law after the criminal gangs and gunnies are defeated.
"Our forces are legitimate and are appointed by the Libyan House of Representatives to eliminate terrorism and anyone who provokes violence against those forces is liable to punishment by the Libyan law." It further added.
Haftar and his forces describe all their opponents as gunnies and say they are against the building of the army and security institutions.
Many activists and journalists who oppose Haftar's military operations in Tripoli were targeted by random arrest campaigns in areas under his forces' control, including federalist Osama al-Arebi and head of oil workers' syndicate Saad al-Fakhiri.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Clashes between Syrian regime forces and turbans Monday killed more than 26 fighters in the country’s northwest, which has seen an escalation in shelling and air strikes, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Eleven pro-government fighters were among those killed in fierce fighting in the northern countryside of Hama province, the war monitor said.
Fifteen bully boys, including members of al-Qaeda’s former Syrian branch, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), and its ally the Turkistan Islamic Party, were also killed, the monitor said.
The fighting came as regime forces advanced on two villages and a strategic hilltop in the region, it said.
State news agency SANA said Syrian troops launched "intensive operations," targeting supply lines and areas where gangs operate in northern Hama and neighboring Idlib.
The region held by HTS has faced intensifying bombardment in the past month, prompting a new wave of displacement.
On Monday, four non-combatants were killed in shelling and air strikes on Idlib and neighboring areas by the Syrian government and its ally Russia said the Observatory. An AFP photographer in Idlib saw several houses completely destroyed by recent attacks.
One man who lost his wife, his daughter-in-law, and his two grandchildren during shelling overnight prepared a pickup truck to relocate surviving members of his family. "I don’t know where I’m going," he told AFP.
More than 140,000 civilians have been forced to flee attacks since February, Refugees International said on Monday.
"It is difficult to overstate the urgency of this looming humanitarian disaster if nothing is done to protect these people," the non-governmental organization said in a statement.
Escalated attacks have hit schools and medical facilities, according to the UN.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The United Arab Emirates said it released on Monday a 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... i military ship that had violated UAE territorial waters last week.
"The UAE released a Qatari naval vessel with four people on board," the foreign ministry said in a statement.
It said the Qatari-flagged ship entered UAE waters on April 30 and was carrying four military men ‐ two Qataris, one Paleostinian and an Indian.
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The weekend’s excitements are over, so it’s time to get back to work.
[AnNahar] The Israeli forces have resumed the construction and expansion of the military road leading to Hunin military site by lifting earth mounds with bulldozers, the state-run National News Agency reported on Monday.
NNA added that two trucks worked on transporting earth to the opposite side of the town of Merkaba - Marjayoun.
Earlier on Monday, Israel conducted intensive overflights above the southern area of Nabatieh, Iqlim al-Toufah, and Sidon, said the agency.
[Libya Observer] An gang from Zintan under the command of Idris Madi, a military officer loyal to warlord Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... , has robbed millions of dinars from a cash-in-transit van, sent by the Central Bank of Libya in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... to the banks in the mountain town of Jadu as Ramadan allocation.
The gang intercepted the van on Sunday near Shakshuk village, north of Jadu, and kidnapped the security personnel accompanying it, all from Jadu.
The robbery sparked anger in Jadu where local residents were waiting for the cash to buy Ramadan goods. The city’s military council moved troops to Shakshuk to take military action against the gang.
Later, military leaders from Zintan under the command of Tripoli-based Libyan Army intervened and promised to settle the incident peacefully and send the cash delivery to Jadu.
Jadu Military Council accused warlord Khalifa Haftar of attempting to drag the mountain region into a large-scale war to ease pressure on his gangs in south Tripoli.
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A lot of money (1M Libyan Dinars = ~3/4 million US) for a small town of around 6,500 folks just to buy holiday stuff.
Ramadan goods must be expensive.
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They should save up for this, maybe take out a 'Ramadama Club' account at the local bank.
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Inside job or Jihad robbing crew? Not that it matters a whit.
[Ynet] Prison Services reported that a security prisoner associated with the Fatah organization being held at Ketziot Prison used his six-year-old son to smuggle cellphones and sim cards into prison. The prisoner was transferred to solitary confinement following the discovery.
[Ynet] The IDF will impose a general curfew on the West Bank beginning Monday night ahead of the national holidays of Memorial and Independence Day this week. The closure also applies to the Gaza crossings. Only medical and humanitarian cases will be allowed through checkpoints. The curfew is set to end at midnight on Thursday.
[IsraelTimes] The Nazareth Magistrate’s Court convicts Sheikh Nazem Abu Salim, an imam at the Shihab A-Din Mosque in Nazareth, of incitement to violence and terrorism and supporting a terror group.
According to a statement by the Justice Ministry, the court ruled that Abu Salim used his position as spiritual leader to propagate incitement and “an ideology that has guided terror group Al-Qaeda.”
The indictment was filed in 2010 and the court originally sentenced him in 2012 to three years in jail and an 18-month suspended sentence. However, the following year the local district court ordered parts of the trial repeated due to failures in Abu Salim’s representation in court.
[Jpost] The IDF and Shin Bet forces, Border Police and the Israel Police arrested 14 Palestinians overnight suspected of involvement in terror activities and violent disturbances against civilians and soldiers in the West Bank, the army said in a statement on Monday morning.
The suspects were transferred for questioning by security forces.
Meanwhile, during several arrests and searches in Hebron, IDF soldiers also confiscated illegal Carl Gustav weapons.
[AlAhram] Iran will restart part of its halted nuclear programme in response to the US withdrawal from a landmark 2015 nuclear deal but does not itself plan to pull out of the agreement, the state-run IRIB news agency reported on Monday.
Citing a source close to an official commission which oversees the nuclear deal, IRIB reported that President Hassan Rouhani would announce that Iran would reduce some of its "minor and general" commitments under the deal on May 8- exactly one year after US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... announced the US pullout.
Trump subsequently reimposed tough sanctions on Iran, including on its lifeblood oil exports with the stated intent of reducing them to zero and starving Iran's economy.
"The Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran in reaction to the exit of America from the nuclear deal and the bad promises of European countries in carrying out their obligations will restart a part of the nuclear activities which were stopped under the framework of the nuclear deal," the source said, according to IRIB.
Similarly, the semi-official Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA) reported that Iran on Wednesday will announce "reciprocal actions" to the US withdrawal from the nuclear deal, quoting "knowledgeable sources".
Some European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... leaders had been unofficially told of Iran's decision, the report said.
The United States acted on Friday to force Iran to stop producing low-enriched uranium and expanding its only nuclear power plant.
Trump, who was not in office when the nuclear deal was negotiated, said it was flawed in Iran's favour for doing nothing to curb its ballistic missile programme or its support of proxy forces in several Middle East wars.
Iran has said its development of ballistic missiles has nothing to do with its nuclear activity and is wholly defensive in nature, and that its support for allies around the Middle East is not Washington's business.
US DEPLOYMENT OF MIDDLE EAST
Under the 2015 deal, Iran restricted the capacity of its uranium enrichment programme - widely seen as a route to developing a nuclear weapon - in exchange for a lifting of most international sanctions. UN nuclear inspectors have repeatedly verified Iranian compliance with the accord.
Iran has denied ever pursuing a nuclear weapons program.
The other signatories to the deal - European powers Germany, La Belle France and Britannia - and Russia and China remain committed to it. The EU has been looking into ways of preserving its economic benefits that Iran says must stay or it could abandon the deal.
The Trump administration is now deploying a carrier strike group and bombers to the Middle East in response to troubling "indications and warnings" from Iran and to show the United States will retaliate with "unrelenting force" to any attack, US national security adviser John Bolton said on Sunday.
Bolton - who has spearheaded an increasingly hawkish US policy on Iran - said the decision, which could exacerbate tensions between the two countries, was meant to send a "clear and unmistakable message" of US resolve to Tehran.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also issued a warning to the Islamic Theocratic Republic on Sunday.
"It is absolutely the case that we have seen escalatory actions from the Iranians and it is equally the case that we will hold the Iranians accountable for attacks on American interests," Pompeo told news hounds aboard a flight en route to an Arctic Council meeting in Finland.
If these actions take place, if they do by some third-party proxy, a militia group, Hezbollah, we will hold the Iranian leadership directly accountable for that."
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian Authority to receive $300 million for health and education initiatives, remainder to finance humanitarian and UN programs.
Mahmoud Abbas’s Go Limp strategy is blocked without costing Israel a penny... and it remains to be seen how much of the Qatari pledge will actually be paid out.
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... pledged to send $480 million in aid to Paleostinians in Gazoo and the West Bank, Qatar’s foreign ministry said overnight Monday.
The Paleostinian Authority would receive $300 million for health and education and $180 million would finance humanitarian initiatives, electricity and United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... programs, Rooters reported.
The announcement comes after two days of intense fighting between Israel and Gazoo-based murderous Moslems that saw nearly 700 rockets fired at Israel and four Israeli civilians killed.
Six months ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to allow the monthly transfer of $15 million in cash from Qatar to cash-strapped Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,, a decision which apparently led to the most recent flareup in violence.
This week’s exchange of fire followed several weeks of relative calm between Israel and Gazoo amid an unofficial armistice, which appeared to be breaking down as murderous Moslems in the Strip stepped up their violent activities along the border in the days preceding the outbreak of fighting. Gazoo terror groups said their actions were retaliation for Israel not abiding by the ceasefire agreement by halting the transfer of Qatari money into Gazoo ‐ a charge Jerusalem denied, blaming the delay on Qatar and the United Nations.
It wasn’t immediately clear how much of the $480 million announced on Monday would go to Gazoo, or how the transfer would be carried out.
Gazoo suffers from abject poverty and unemployment in the coastal enclave stands at 51 percent. Hamas, a Jihadist terrorist group which aims to destroy Israel, pours its funding into military infrastructure rather than improving the overall situation in Gazoo.
[AlAhram] Suspected Islamists have killed seven people in northern Mozambique in weekend attacks, threatening aid to victims of Cyclone Kenneth and paralysing ongoing voter registration for October elections, local sources said on Monday.
That is probably the group referred to variously as al-Shabaab, Ansar al-Sunnah, or Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jamo, but mostly by the generic descriptor “suspected Islamists”..
Islamist fighters have terrorised remote communities in Mozambique's gas-rich, Moslem-majority Cabo Delgado region since October 2017, killing around 200 people and forcing thousands from their homes.
Between Friday and Sunday at least four separate villages were attacked in northern Cabo Delgado, local sources said.
"Armed men invaded the district of Meluco, specifically the village of Minhanha, killed three people, and burned about 100 houses on Sunday night," a local source, who did not want to be identified fearing retaliation, told AFP.
Sunday's attack followed another on Saturday that killed a teacher riding a cycle of violence and three other people who were burned to death in Macomia district.
The attacks were the first since Cyclone Kenneth smashed into the country's northern region on April 25, leaving at least 41 dead and more than 240,000 affected.
The delivery of aid to cyclone-hit areas has been underway, but the attacks put aid distribution at risk while they "paralysed" voter registration.
"Insurgents invaded the villages of Iba and Ipho, in the district of Macomia," Magda Mendonca from the Public Integrity Center, an anti-corruption NGO that is also an election observer, told AFP.
Mendonca said the attackers "plundered property without causing human casualties," but added they "paralysed an ongoing voter registration."
"The successive attacks are disturbing the voter registration process in the region," Mendonca said.
General elections are scheduled for October 15.
On Friday, suspected Islamists also attacked another registration centre in the city of Nacate, also in the Macomia district.
According to local sources, "the button men vandalised equipment without causing human casualties."
Macomia was hit by the second cyclone to strike Mozambique in six weeks, after Cyclone Idai which killed more than 600 in the central parts of the country.
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As Japan, South Korea and Taiwan tighten customs controls at their borders, and as pig farmers elsewhere, especially in Brazil and the United States, see increases in pork exports (up 23 and 5 percent respectively this year), it is becoming clear that China’s ASF problem will have global ramifications
[ChickOnTheRight] Feminists in Pennsylvania must be really proud of this guy.
There’s a video out of Pennsylvania state Rep. Brian Sims (D-LGBT, also Philadelphia) harassing an older pro-life woman. The worst part? He posted the video. As in, he’s proud of his display.
WHOA. Isn’t this the pinnacle of patriarchy? A man screaming at a woman because she doesn’t think or believe what he WANTS her to think and believe?
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The article is a masterpiece of the passive voice.
Apparently the Easter Bomb just arrived on its own for no apparent reason and with no connection to nothin'. I would say that the Charlie Hebdo attacks intimidated all media, but I really think they are all cowards anyway.
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"On this holy week for many faiths, we must stand united against hatred and violence. I'm praying for everyone affected by today's horrific attacks on Moon worshipers in Sri Lanka."
[FoxNews] Former FBI linguist charged with lying to authorities about contact with terrorist.
A former FBI linguist allegedly obstructed a bureau investigation after he lied to officials when he heard a suspect in a terrorism investigation leave a message on his own voicemail.
Abdirizak Jaji Raghe Wehelie, 66, of Burke, Virginia, was arrested Saturday night when he arrived on a flight at Dulles International Airport just outside Washington, D.C. and is set to appear in a Virginia courtroom Monday.
Wehelie was charged with obstructing an investigation and making false statements to the FBI.
Prosecutors allege that in 2016, Wehelie was translating messages captured by court-ordered surveillance of a suspect's cell phone when he discovered one call was a message that the suspect left on Wehelie's voicemail. According to court records, Wehelie wrote the person on the call was an unidentified male, failing to note he was the actual recipient of the message.
When investigators pressed Wehelie about his connection, he initially denied it. However, investigators were able to connect the two men with each other as early as 2010. Wehelie eventually admitted he had known the suspect for years.
Law enforcement officials said the FBI was monitoring the calls as part of an investigation into a former Virginia cab driver who left the United States to join a terror group in Somalia. Liban Haji Mohamed was briefly on the FBI's list of most-wanted terrorists.
If convicted, Wehelie faces 25 years in prison.
This isn't the first time Wehelie’s family has been in the crosshairs of counterterrorism investigators. His son, Yusuf Wehelie, was sentenced to a decade behind bars after being caught in a sting operation moving guns for cash. Yusuf Wehelie's elder brother, Yahya Wehelie, was held in Egypt in 2010 on a trip back from Yemen and is on a "no fly" list.
This is what happens when you accept the Muslim translators’ refusal to work after 9/11 if Jewish translators are also hired. The Daily Mail adds:
Abdirizak Wehelie, aka Haji Raghe, was arrested Saturday night at an airport after returning to the U.S. on an international fight
Son Yusuf Wehelie spoke with an undercover witness about his desire to shoot up a military recruitment center on behalf of the Islamic State group
Yusuf and another son Yahya were barred from returning to the U.S. in 2010
A terror suspect linked to Al Shabaab left a voicemail message on Wehelie's cellphone, one of 180 phone contacts from 2010 to 2017
Wehelie allegedly intentionally misidentified his own voice, court documents say
A judge ordered he be freed on $20,000 unsecured bail following his initial appearance Monday
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I'm not familiar with the term 'unsecured bail',however thanks to the interwebs... This is very similar to ROR bail and is often referred to as signature bail. The defendant must still sign a bond promising appearance at future court dates. But if she fails to appear and a bench warrant is issued, she will be required to pay the amount of the bond. It is still considered unsecured, in that the defendant is freed based on her word even though it is ultimately secured by a bond.
[Bangkok Post] Five Thai border policemen were wounded when their armored truck was hit with two bombs installed in 15-kilogram gas cylinders in Songkhla province late Sunday night.
A police squad traveled to check two houses belonging to Amnuay Yodkaeo, a village official of Ban Khuan Ran village in Thepa district, after gunfire broke on Sunday night. The officers found that the houses had been shot at from a rubber plantation about 100 meters away, where dozens of spent bullet shells were found. No one in the houses was hurt.
The policemen then left the scene on Chonnabot Road. The two bombs were detonated at almost midnight. Chopped steel rods, other shrapnel and the impact of the bombs damaged the armored truck, including its windows.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iran on Monday dismissed as old news a US announcement it is sending a naval strike group to the Middle East in order to deliver the Islamic republic a message, Tasnim news agency reported.
US National Security Advisor John Bolton said on Sunday that the United States was deploying the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group and a bomber task force as a "clear and unmistakable message" that it will retaliate against any attack on its interests or its allies’ by Iran.
"Bolton’s statement is a clumsy use of an out-of-date event for psychological warfare," Iran’s supreme national security council front man Keyvan Khosravi said, quoted by Tasnim.
According to the front man, Iranian armed forces had observed the carrier entering the Mediterranean Sea 21 days ago. Bolton "lacks military and security understanding and his remarks are mostly meant to draw attention to himself," Khosravi added.
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[ToloNews] Reports indicate that an attack by the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... in Farah province has left more than a dozen Army soldiers dead but local officials have not commented on the report so far.
Abdul Samad Salehi, member of Farah Provincial Council, said the fighting occurred in Gulistan district in the Farah province in which 20 Army soldiers were killed.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the entire 614th quadrant searched. The Green Lensman must be found!... Farah police front man Mohibullah Mohib said that at least 50 drugs processing centers belonged to the Taliban were destroyed in Arclight airstrikes in Bakwa district in the province.
He said that more than 18 Talibs were killed in the airstrikes and 25 others were maimed.
Shah Mahmoud Naeemi, member of Farah Provincial Council, said that more than 50 civilians have been affected in the airstrikes, but Mohib rejected the claim.
[ABCNEWS.GO] Authorities in the West African nation of Niger say at least 55 people are dead after a tanker truck filled with fuel went kaboom! near the country's main airport.
President Issoufou Mahamadou called the kaboom a "national tragedy" after visiting a hospital where dozens were maimed, some with serious burns. The corpse count was expected to rise as doctors said some were at death's door.
Authorities believe the kaboom took place after the tanker truck flipped over near a gas station.
Do tanker trucks regularly flip? I don’t recall ever seeing such a thing, but admittedly I’ve led a sheltered life in which tanker trucks to do not feature prominently.
A crowd of people came to try and collect the fuel that leaked out as a result of the accident.
Scores of people have died in similar accidents in West Africa as impoverished people risk their lives to collect fuel leaking from pipelines or trucks.
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A golden half hour few seconds of Huell:
"Well, wowser, a bowser! Spilled fuel!
Folks, this is amaaazing!
That stuff's really blazing.
Ow! Wowww, how undousably coooool!"
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Taankers have a very high center of gravity. I don't believe African roads are noted for the stability of their shoulders, if any.
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I've never been to Niger, but while I'd expect roads to/from the airport to be pretty decent, a little distance away you might find the edge of the pavement to be badly eroded. And if the road isn't paved, not only can the potholes be substantial, but I've seen gulleys cut across the road.
We dreaded hearing the sirens of an entourage (never saw a firetruck go by), because you had to get off the road to let it pass. If the lip between the road and the rest was only 3-4 inches, all was well, but it might be more--and consequently hard to get back on the road.
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[Epoch Times] Alexandra Chalupa, an operative paid by the Democratic National Committee (DNC), asked the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington for dirt on Trump campaign Chairman Paul Manafort in 2016, the embassy confirmed in a statement to The Hill.
While the embassy denies having helped the operative, a former embassy worker told The Hill’s John Solomon that it did help Chalupa, knowing full well that she was working to help elect then-candidate Hillary Clinton and defeat then-candidate Donald Trump.
Ambassador Valeriy Chaly, in written answers to Solomon, said that Chalupa asked the Ukrainian government for information on Manafort’s dealings inside Ukraine. Chalupa tried to arrange for Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to comment about Manafort’s ties to Russia during a 2016 visit to Washington, Chaly said.
“The Embassy got to know Ms. Chalupa because of her engagement with Ukrainian and other diasporas in Washington D.C., and not in her DNC capacity. We’ve learned about her DNC involvement later,” Chaly said in a statement to The Hill. So the DNC, or someone purporting to be a member of the DNC paid money to Ukrainian officials for intelligence on US Citizens. How very interesting.
al-Qassam Brigades released video of barrage of its S-40 missiles that it fired on Israel during Saturday and Sunday fighting. #Gazapic.twitter.com/KDQWtYhJQp
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
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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.
[The Intercept] WENDY ABRAMS HAS used her wealth to help protect the environment and public health. She’s the founder of a public art exhibit meant to raise awareness on climate change, and she serves on the boards of NRDC Action Fund and the Waterkeeper Alliance, and has been on the Environmental Defense Fund’s National Council. She helped found the Abrams Environmental Law Clinic at the University of Chicago, which trains students to address environmental injustices. Abrams was a major donor to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Rahm Emanuel, and she has railed against the Keystone Pipeline and air-polluting coal plants.
[Right Scoop] I had to double take at this headline.
[357] Google is about the same as F*c*book. They want everyone to think the same thoughts. Algorithms of Suppression.
[Breitbart] Former Vice President Joe Biden leaned heavily on the legacy of his old running mate, President Barack Obama, during a campaign appearance on Saturday.
...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...
[IsraelTimes] Obada Alami accused of being in contact with terror operatives in 
[JPOST] The rationing of food and essential goods might be coming back to Iran, for the first time since the Iran-Iraq war of (1980-1988), due to the sanctions being imposed on the Islamic republic - which may cause the government to have a larger role in the rationing of such products.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Cyprus’ president is calling 
[ToloNews] Local officials from Baghlan said the 
[WSJ] Ruling AKP says balloting was marred by fraud and irregularities, but outraged mayor's party calls situation a matter of wanting to preserve control.
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A US judge on Monday sentenced a 25-year-old who was 
[AlAhram] Suspected Islamists have killed seven people in northern Mozambique in weekend attacks, threatening aid to victims of Cyclone Kenneth and paralysing ongoing voter registration for October elections, local sources said on Monday.
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[FoxNews] Former FBI linguist charged with lying to authorities about contact with terrorist.
[Bangkok Post] Five Thai border policemen were wounded when their armored truck was hit with two bombs installed in 15-kilogram gas cylinders in Songkhla province late Sunday night.
