Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, who was fired for lying under oath, spent $70,000 in taxpayer dollars on a conference table. The FBI also redacted the conference table’s steep price tag from documents that members of the Senate Judiciary Committee requested, in an apparent attempt to hide it from Congress.
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Sometimes they get national security confused with keeping their own asses out of jail.
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There are lefties still hemorrhaging from the story of the dining room set Ben Carson didn't order. This is no problem to them however. Hypocrisy all the way.
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"I and my furniture decisions protect this Nation's Security. Respect mah authoritayyy"
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One of the mysteries of the deep state is just how deep it is. Like the Kryptos sculpture in the courtyard of the Central Intelligence Agency, it has proven remarkably resistant to decoding since its emergence in the aftermath of World War II, after the creation of the CIA. It is, in a very real sense, its own cipher, hiding in plain sight all along and just daring the civilians to call it by its name: the Permanent Bipartisan Fusion Party.
As it happens, the leaders of the PBFP sat for a group portrait the other day. The occasion was the funeral of former First Lady Barbara Bush, wife of George Herbert Walker "Poppy" Bush and mother of George Walker Bush, American presidents 41 and 43, respectively. Also in the photograph was the man who beat Poppy, William Jefferson Blythe III, more commonly known as Bill Clinton; and Barack Hussein Obama II, also known as Barry Soetoro, the man who succeeded George W. Bush. And their wives, of course, including Hillary Rodham Clinton, former senator from New York, former secretary of state in the Obama Administration, and the defeated candidate in the 2016 presidential election.
...The picture is less evocative of a group portrait of past presidents as it is of a family, in this case the Kennedys, with Poppy sitting in for old Joe, the crippled paterfamilias, surrounded by the offspring who went on to wreak so much havoc upon the American body politic. For, like some Biblical genealogy, Bush I begat Clinton who begat Bush II, who would have begotten Clinton II were in not for Obama, who might have begotten either Clinton II redux or Bush III (Jeb!) were it not for Trump.
If it all sounds rather incestuous, that’s because it is.
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Wow. Melania looks like Daniel in the lions' den.
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They hated Reagan too but he was so overwhelmingly popular that they couldn't touch him so they hunkered down and waited him out.
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PBFP? Just call them "globalists". Amounts to the same thing, starting with abandonment of national sovereignty and the US constitution as written & intended.
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It's Friday before a long weekend. I can hardly wait to find out what this evening's data dump is going to be. "That professor who wasn't spying on Trump had an evil twin who was" (page 3 of the NYT sports section)
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.The picture is less evocative of a group portrait of past presidents as it is of a family, in this case the Kennedys, Borgias
h/t Instapundit
Every 20 to 50 years in Germany, things start unraveling. Germans feel aggrieved. Ideas and movements gyrate wildly between far left and far right extremes. And the Germans finally find consensus in a sense of victimhood paradoxically expressed as national chauvinism. Germany’s neighbors in 1870, 1914, 1939‐and increasingly in the present‐usually bear the brunt of this national meltdown.
Germany is supposed to be the economic powerhouse of Europe, its financial leader, and its trusted and responsible political center. Often it plays those roles superbly. But recently, it’s been cracking up‐in a way that is hauntingly familiar to its European neighbors. On mass immigration, it is beginning to terrify the nearby nations of Eastern Europe. On Brexit, it bullies the British. On finance, it alienates the southern Europeans. On Russia, it irks the Baltic States and makes the Scandinavians uneasy by doing business with the Russian energy interests. And on all matters American, it increasingly seems incensed.
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Merkel is a piece of Dreck. Just who the heck does she think she is allowing over a million "immigrants" into Europe without one European country having any say in the matter? Penalize Italy or Hungary for her decision (with help from Brussels)? Sickening.
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On finance, it alienates the southern Europeans.
Here I disagree. The Euro was imposed on Germany by France after reunification.
The Maastricht treaty turned out to be a scheme for enabling southern European loan fraud on a gigantic scale. When the fraud was exposed it turned into an economic suicide pact.
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The article has its bizarre moments. Treating Germany as a monolithic entity, homogeneous from top to bottom. A Bavarian is a Brandenburger is a Silesian.
Another problem can be the result of "No consensus" in a Parliamentary country. The country wanders rudderless because to make a ruling coalition the deals must be struck and lesser, radical groups demand a hand at the helm. The Greens want "No Nukes', for example, and to the Inner Circle it is a price easier to pay than exile to minority status...
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Somehow I imagine that at some point the Arabs in Germany will push to far and we'll see the Germans snap again, and all of that industriousness that is the German character will be turned to revenge of sorts. The difference being that this time most of the world will stay out of the way.
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Former Spokane Chapter NAACP President Rachel Dolezal is now facing legal trouble that could land her behind bars. KHQ has confirmed that Dolezal, who legally changed her name to Nkechi Diallo in 2016, is accused of 1st Degree Theft by Welfare Fraud, Perjury in the 2nd Degree, and False Verification for Public Assistance. Her potential punishment under RCW 74.08.331 could include up to 15 years in prison.
[RADIOSHABELLE] Suspected al-Shabaab ... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia... button men killed a member of parliament in Somalia’s semi-autonomous 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 late Wednesday, officials said.
Mohamud Ali, a police officer in Galkayo town, told the media by phone that Abdihakin Mo’alim Dahir, a Puntland state politician, was shot in the town of Galkayo.
"Two suspected al-Shabaab button men killed Abdihakin Mo’alim Dahir soon after the evening prayer," Ali said.
Dahir was shot in front of the Classic Hotel in the northern part of Galkayo, which Puntland controls. He was seriously maimed and rushed to a local hospital, where he later died, Ali said.
Ali said an investigation and security operations were conducted by the police after the incident.
According to local media, a security guard at the hotel was also killed in the attack.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck reached for the green sauce... Somalia’s Internal Security Ministry said security forces killed two suspected al-Shabaab button men in Bakara market in the capital, Mogadishu.
"Two button men who wanted to cause problems to Somali people were killed by our security forces in Bakara market Wednesday after we received intelligence information," ministry front man Abdi Asiis Ali Ibrahim told news hounds.
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[Khaama Press] The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North has confirmed the casualties of the Afghan armed forces in an overnight attack by the Talibs in northern Faryabn province.
The Shaheen Corps in a statement confirmed that the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... murderous Moslems launched a coordinated attack on Gulzar and Gulzar-1 check posts in Sherin Tagab district late on Wednesday night.
The source further added that the Afghan forces responded to the Taliban attack but three soldiers bit the dust during the clash and at least five others were maimed.
According to Shaheen, at least three M16 rifles and a check post have fallen into the hands of the Taliban myrmidons.
In the meantime, the Shaheen Corps says at least five Taliban murderous Moslems were also killed and seven others were maimed during the festivities.
The Shaheen Corps says additional forces have been deployed in the area to suppress the Taliban myrmidons.
On the other hand, reports emerging from the area suggest that 12 Afghan soldiers have bit the dust during the clash and a number of others have sustained injuries.
The anti-government armed Death Eater groups including Talibs have not commented regarding the report so far.
[RADIOSHABELLE] The Al Qaeda-allied al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... bully boyz have launched well-organized overnight attacks on several Somali military bases in the country’s southern volatile Lower Shabelle region.
The first attack took place in Bula-Mareer village after the armed fighters raided a key army outpost, sparking a heavy shootout that raged on for several hours during the night.
Similarly, the bully boyz staged another assault against Somali government troops manning a base in Km-50 area in the same region. It’s not clear the figures of the casualties yet.
Since the holy month of Ramadan started last week, Al-Shabaab has intensified attacks in the country, mainly in Mogadishu and nearby areas to topple the UN-backed government.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] 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.... has come to be known as the most dangerous jihadist groups, after making gains in Syria and Iraq in the recent past.
The group, initially known as Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), was formed in April 2013, growing out of AL-Qaeda.
Although the group has been disowned by AL-Qaeda, It remains the main jihadist groups fighting government forces in Iraq and Syria, from where it draws a name ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria).
The African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... now says that the group has since expanded its reach into the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... (DRC), Somalia, Tanzania, and Mozambique.
Speaking to journalist at the 5th head of intelligence and Security services of member States of IGAD and EAC meeting in Entebbe, Fransisco Madeira, a special representative of the African Union chairperson in Somalia said, the threat of the ISIS in Eastern Africa and Africa is real.
Madeira says, given that the ISIS is being expelled from the Gulf, they are taking advantage of the Indian Ocean coastline to infiltrate but also activate sleeper terror cells. So far, there is 100 percent evidence of ISIS operations in Somalia’s 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... and have since extended towards Mogadishu.
The Director-General Internal Security Organizations Col Kaka Bagyenda says there is proof that ISIS has collaboration with the Allied Democratic Front (ADF) which has its operation base in DRC.
The group is said to be led by His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart... , a born of Samarra, north of Baghdad, who joined the insurgency that erupted in Iraq soon after the 2003 US-led invasion. It is believed to have thousands of fighters, including many foreign jihadists from the United Kingdom, La Belle France, Germany and other European countries, the United States, the Arab world and the Caucasus.
At the beginning of this year, three Ugandans were reportedly locked away Please don't kill me! in Mozambique at an ISIS Training Camp. Col Kaka Bagyenda says the issue is still under investigation.
Currently, the known terrorist organizations operating in Africa include; ADF, Alshabaab and 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... .
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[ALMASDARNEWS] For the second time today, the jihadist rebels have launched a powerful attack on the bustling provincial capital of Aleppo.
According to a military source in Aleppo, the jihadist rebels of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham fired missiles and artillery shells towards the Mogambo neighborhood and al-Zahra’a Association Quarter in northwest Aleppo.
No details have been released regarding the casualties.
Earlier today, the jihadist rebels attacked the al-Zahra’a Quarter, prompting the Syrian Army to respond with a powerful counter-assault on al-Layraoun and Kafr Hamra.
In the coming weeks, the Syrian Army is expected to kickoff their offensive to clear these last suburbs under the control of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham in Aleppo.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] None of the Russian Army’s air defense missile systems ever crossed the border between Russia and Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Thursday, commenting on the findings released by the Joint Investigation Team on the MH17 crash in Donbass in 2014.
"We got acquainted with the statements made at today’s presser by representatives of the international investigation team on probing the crash of the Malaysian MH17 Boeing over Ukraine on July 17, 2014," the defense ministry stated.
"None of the Russian Army’s air defense missile systems ever crossed the Russia-Ukraine border," the ministry said.
Moscow presented overwhelming evidence proving the use of Ukrainian Buk missile systems in downing flight MH17, the ministry said.
"While cooperating with Dutch law enforcement agencies, Russia presented overwhelming evidence proving that Ukrainian Buk missile systems had been used to down the flight en-route from the Netherlands," the statement reads.
"Moreover, all the primary data received by the Utyos-T radar station, which was operating in the [Russian] Rostov region on July 17, 2014, was passed to the international investigative group," the defense ministry added. "The radar station did not record any aerial objects approaching the Boeing from the east, particularly from the direction of the Snezhnoye and Pervomaiskoye settlements," the statement says.
"The Dutch investigation’s determination to justify its conclusions by using only graphically photos posted on social media causes concern," the statement reads.
"The most important thing that we would like to draw attention to is that Dutch Sherlocks rejected testimonies from eyewitnesses living in Ukrainian settlements close to the crash site, which mention a missile launch from an area controlled by the Ukrainian armed forces," the Russian Defense Ministry added.
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Well there you have it. Let's just move along, shall we ?
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Well, except for those cell phone pictures right after the MH-17 shoot down of a Russian BUK launcher with a missile expended speeding back to Russia.
[Libya Observer] At least 20 illegal immigrants colonists were maimed on Wednesday in Bani Walid town, 170 southwest of 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... , after escaping from a hiding location.
Local sources said 107 immigrants colonists - 23 from Æthiopia, 73 from Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... and 11 from Somalia - tried to escape from a hiding place in a site called "factory 51" when the local trafficker holding them named "Musa Diyab" shot up them, leaving more than 20 maimed.
The immigrants colonists were taken to Bani Walid hospital. A doctor said the injuries vary from medium to severe.
There were no reports of deaths.
Bani Walid is a hotspot for collecting immigrants colonists and taking them to the coastal towns before sailing to the Italian shores.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A Lebanese court on Thursday pressed charges against two alleged foreign members of the 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 .. ... Front that were captured by the Lebanese Army.
According to the National News Agency (NNA), Judge Fadi Sawan indicted the Paleostinian national Jamal Raghab al-Habbal and Syrian national Bilal Mohammad Amin Hamadeh on charges of belonging to and recruiting for the al-Nusra Front.
The defendants were referred to the permanent military court for trial.
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Diyala (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi army, backed by paramilitary troops, killed on Thursday two Islamic State (IS) militants and injured four others in Diyala’s Jalawla.
“A force from the 74th division of the Iraqi army killed early today two elements of Islamic State and injured four others at Um al-Hanta village in Jalawla, northeast of Diyala,” Baghdad Today quoted the media service of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) as saying in a statement.
The statement did not provide further details about how the militants were killed or injured.
The province has seen months of fighting between Iraqi troops and IS militants especially in the Jalawla and Saadiyah areas in the province’s north and areas near the town of Muqdadiyah.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Six people were killed, including Islamic State members, in an attack launched by the militant group, northeast of Baquba, the Security Media Center said on Thursday.
In a statement, Brig. Gen. Yahia Rasool, spokesperson for the center, “the military intelligence managed to foil an attempt by the militants against a village in Jalawla region, Diyala province.”
The militants, according to Rasool “were trying to kill some militants in the region.” However, “the troops managed to kill three militants, while the fourth blew up himself, which resulted in killing two civilians.”
Islamic State continues to launch sporadic attacks across Iraq against troops.
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Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Three security personnel were wounded as a bomb blast targeted their patrol, southwest of Kirkuk, a security source from the province said on Thursday.
Speaking to AlSumaria News, the source said “Islamic State members attacked one of the checkpoints at Jisr Zegheitoun region in al-Rashad town, southwest of Kirkuk, without casualties reported. While personnel of Hawija Liberation Brigades were on way back to their headquarters, a bomb planted on the road went off leaving three personnel injured.”
“Security troops transferred the injured to Kirkuk hospital for treatment,” the source, who asked to remain anonymous, added.
Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi troops killed on Thursday eight Islamic State suicide bombers during a security operation in Kirkuk, security sources were quoted as saying.
Speaking exclusively to Baghdad Today website, the sources said, “Iraqi security force killed eight IS militants, wearing explosive belts, after besieging them in southwestern Kirkuk to deal a big blow to the militant group there.”
There was a woman among the IS suicide bombers but her identity was not revealed, according to the sources.
Four troops of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) were injured in the operation.
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David Hogg Mussolini in diapers...
is trying to shake down Publix. ...which is a grocery chain...
The baby public face of the gun-control movement demanded one million dollars Thursday from the Florida-based grocery chain in a tweet, just one day after calling for a “die-in” protest at its stores.
Publix is being targeted by Mr. Hogg for its support of Adam Putnam, a Republican gubernatorial candidate who is now the state’s agricultural commissioner. The Tampa Bay Times reported earlier this week that Publix had given $670,000 during the last three years to Putnam campaigns.
Mr. Hogg not only sought atonement money Cold, hard, virtue signaling...
from the grocery chain in Thursday’s tweet, he also demanded a pledge of ideological fealty to the gun-control movement.
“I call on @Publix to donate double the money they gave to Putman [sic] to the Stoneman Douglas Victims fund, $1,000,000. And never support an A rated NRA politician again,” he wrote.
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Goin' over to Publix to buy stuff I don't need...
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I like PUBLIX's Fresh Vegetable section, they have several special vegetables I cannot easily get other places for my Salads. ( I like Asian salads ).
And their ethnic selection in foods is rather good....I like their pickled Okra and their Indian Basmati Rice and their Spanish selection, the Jewish section is a little weird , I see its defines=d and I am not a big fan of Latke and Matzo myself, but I like to see its there.
And a big butt of Ham for just six dollars is nice and four Pork Chops for the same is good. And fresh baked Bread for sandwiches is nice every day. Five dollars for a big fresh Apple Pie is a treat. Lots of cheap PUBLIX brand names too...always like to get their own Raisan Bran.
Ham hocks are available if I ask....I like ham hocks to flavor my beans and cornbread.
This Hogg kid smells like a Lefty. And acts like a little Mussolini. Ignore him. Just cut his air off. Let him yell into his socks.
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And then I remember all the companies I won't patronize because of various stands they've taken, like when Macy's decided they would no longer carry Trump's clothing line because he said we need a wall. I used to buy a lot of stuff there but no more. Boycotts can work both ways.
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Seems the lad is taking a chapter out of the Jesse Jackson playbook.
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Hogg, like every other person on the campus that day, will share in the Stoneman Douglas Fund (whatever it's called), so David's idealism will work to increase his pay day. The fund is currently around eight million dollars and change. This is separate from ay goverment payouts to the "survivors".
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Someone looked at the timeline and apparently and determined he was in a classroom, went home, but returned on his bike before the evening news cameras.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) An Iraqi local official who was kidnapped during a visit to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... was released on Thursday, his cousin was quoted saying.
Wamid al-Kaud told Sputnik Arabic that the head of the security committee at Anbar province council was released from kidnappers and is currently in police custody.
He said Kaud’s family has said he was in a good condition, adding that Ottoman Turkish police were investigating circumstances behind his kidnapping.
Early Thursday, the Iraqi foreign ministry said it was following developments in relation to Kaud’s kidnapping, but explained it was maintaining secrecy of the details for his safety.
Hamid al-Elwani, chairman of Anbar province council, told Almaalomah news website that Kaud had been duped by a group pretending to investors from a neighboring country, and lured him away towards an unknown destination.
[Khaama Press] The Afghan armed forces and the Taliban ...Arabic for students... faceless myrmidons suffered casualties during an overnight clash in southern Uruzgan province of Afghanistan.
According to the local officials, the latest clash took place in the vicinity of Chora district and as a result at least sixteen gunnies were killed.
The officials are saying that the clash has also left at least eight security personnel martyred, including coppers and soldiers of the Afghan National Army.
The district administrative chief of Chora Amin Khaliqi confirmed the clash and the casualties toll of the Taliban and security forces.
Khaliqi further added that several Taliban faceless myrmidons have also sustained injuries during the clash which also left a number of security personnel maimed.
According to Khaliqi, the Talibs launched a coordinated attack late on Wednesday night to capture the district but faced a resistance from the security personnel.
The anti-government armed Death Eater groups including Taliban faceless myrmidons have not commented regarding the report so far.
Uruzgan is among the relatively volatile provinces in South of Afghanistan where the Taliban faceless myrmidons are actively operating in some of its districts and often carry out insurgency activities.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi troops have tossed in the clink Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! 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 security minister and the member in charge of the security detachments in two operations in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , a source from Nineveh police said on Thursday.
"Security troops arrested abu Talha al-Efri, a prominent Islamic State member and a minister of the group’s security affiars," Cap. Farouq Adham told BasNews.
The police, according to Adham, "arrested Thanoun al-Sahab, the bad boy in charge of the group’s security detachments as well as selling the Yazidi female captives in Domez Filastine region."
The arrested murderous Moslems "were taken to Nineveh police command headquarters for investigations," he added.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi Joint Operations Command has announced carrying out Arclight airstrikes against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... members in Syria, adding that some locations were completely destroyed.
In a statement on Thursday, the command said "in response to commands by the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, Haidar al-Abadi, and in coordination with the Joint Operations Command, the Iraqi F16 jets carried out today airstrikes against Islamic State locations as well as a missile stock, where gunnies were hiding, in Hegeen region in Syria."
"According to preliminary information, the operation destroyed locations completely," it added.
Earlier this week, Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi has said troops managed to secure the Syrian side of borders and eliminate Islamic State members in Upper Euphrates. He also made instructions to secure the Iraqi borders to limit the infiltration of the terrorists.
The Iraqi-Syrian borders are under the control of joint troops of military and border guards.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Australia’s most wanted 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.... (ISIS) is currently behind bars in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... after his apprehension by the Ottoman Turkish border police in 2016. Chop 'is 'ead orf, mate!
Neil Prakash (age 27) was attempting to cross into Syria from Turkey in 2016 when he was finally apprehended by the Ottoman Turkish border police, the Daily Mail reported.
Once in jug, Prakash revealed to the Ottoman Turkish officials that he married two women and fathered three children while being a member of the Islamic State in Syria, the Daily Mail continued.
The ISIS member is currently awaiting trial in Turkey and if convicted, he will face a lengthy prison term.
However, a woman is only as old as she admits... Australia is currently pushing to have Prakash extradited before his trial in Turkey.
Prakash has an outstanding warrant for his arrest in Australia and will face charges for terrorism if he is extradited.
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Going to guess he has it much better than Billy Hayes...
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[All Africa] Somalia's 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 clashed on Thursday morning in the border town of Tukaraq, Radio Dalsan reports. Residents told Radio Dalsan that both sides were using heavy artillery in this latest flare up between in the disputed Sool region.
Hundreds of residents have been forced to flee with the fighting is reported to be on going with deaths feared from both sides. Somaliland and Puntland are both pointing fingers at the other for starting this latest fighting.
"Farmaajo's militia attacked Somaliland's armed forces around 6 AM this morning. Soldiers from both sides were killed & maimed in the battle" Abdullahi Guri Barwaqo Somaliland's Information Minister said .
Both Puntland and Somaliland are claiming victory in the Thursday fighting. Last week at least 20 soldiers were killed in renewed fighting in Tukaraq.
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[All Africa] By Delicious Mathuthu and Evidence Chipadza
Leader of the newly formed Zim-bob-we Democratic Change party (ZDC), Josphat Ushewokunze who was due to officially launch his party in Harare ahead of the 2018 harmonized elections died in a car accident while on his way to Zim-bob-we from his South African base. Ewps.
Ushewokunze, who was laid to rest last Saturday in his rural home in Guruve was due to officially launch his party in Harare on Friday 11th of May.
ZDCs National Youth President, Foster Nduku, expressed the party's deep shock and disbelief on the passing of their President saying they feel brainless without him.
"I was shocked because the last time I spoke to him he told me that he was going to appoint me as party 's vice chairperson ,we are like a head with no brains now since he is the one aibatanidza vanhu (who united people) during the difficult times," Nduku said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived... the new party's Vice President, Thomas Sibanda was appointed by the Youth Executive to be Acting President till further notice.
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They've been taking politics lessons from the Clintons?
[RADIOSHABELLE] The U.S. military says it has carried out an Arclight airstrike outside Somalia’s capital that killed 10 al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... Death Eaters.
The U.S. Africa Command says it has carried out 14 such airstrikes so far this year against the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab myrmidon group, which continues to hold some rural areas of the Horn of Africa nation.
Dozens of U.S. airstrikes were carried out last year after the Trump administration approved expanded military operations against al-Shabaab, which was blamed for an October truck bombing in Mogadishu that killed more than 500 people.
The new statement says the U.S. military assesses that no non-combatants were killed in Wednesday’s strike about 15 miles southwest of Mogadishu.
The U.S. has faced accusations in recent months of killing civilians in joint operations with Somali forces against al-Shabaab.
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[Khaama Press] The United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... Assistance Mission in Afghanistan confirms that a UN employee who was kidnapped with her child has been released in Kabul.
"The United Nations in Afghanistan welcomes the release in Kabul of a colleague and her child held hostage since January, while expressing outrage at their abduction and the earlier murder of another colleague who was also seized during the same incident," UNAMA said in a statement.
The statement further adds that the release of the woman and her young son is of enormous relief to their loved ones, colleagues and to the entire UN family in Afghanistan.
"We condemn the shameful abduction and what appears to be the deliberate murder of one of our colleagues," said Ingrid Hayden, the Secretary-General’s Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan and Acting Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). "Our thoughts are with the families most affected by this terrible crime and we urge authorities to do everything within their powers to bring the perpetrators to account."
According to UNAMA, the two kidnapped UN personnel, both Afghan citizens, worked in Kabul with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). They went missing on 22 January 2018 when their vehicle was halted by unknown assailants. The driver’s body was recovered in Kabul on 16 March.
"Throughout an extremely difficult period, the UN has worked with the relevant authorities to secure the release of all those kidnapped, and the UN expresses its appreciation to Afghan law enforcement agencies and all others who assisted in the release," UNAMA says.
According to UNAMA, Afghan nationals make up the vast majority of staff working with the United Nations in Afghanistan. Their professionalism, dedication and the sacrifices they make in the interests of development and security are critical to the building of peace in Afghanistan.
Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Iraqi President Fuad Masum has condemned an overnight suicide kaboom near a park in the Iraqi capital Baghdad that left 14 people killed and maimed.
The attack took place around midnight Wednesday when a jacket wallah detonated his boom belt near an amusement park in al-Shula neighborhood in northwestern Baghdad.
There were children among the casualties.
This heinous crime shows how perpetrators of such terrorist attacks are coward and have no moral values, the Iraqi president said.
Masum called on Iraqi security forces to remain vigilant and bring all bully boyz on the lam to trial to be punished for their crimes.
He further offered condolences to the victims’ families and wished the injured a speedy recovery.
No group has so far grabbed credit for the attack, but 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.... (IS) Death Eater group is believed to be behind the blast as it used to target areas where crowds of people gather, including markets, cafes and mosques across Iraq.
[AnNahar] At least five people were killed and several others maimed when a jacket wallah struck a cafe in Baghdad, police said Thursday, in a pre-dawn attack claimed by the Islamic State group.
"A suicide bomber blew up his boom belt while he was surrounded by police near a public garden in al-Shoala district," a mainly Shiite northern neighborhood of the capital, the statement by the security forces said.
IS grabbed credit for the attack and said it killed 15 people, while naming the bomber as Abu Umar al-Ansari.
"He entered into the crowd of apostates and detonated his boom belt, killing 15... and wounding over 19 others", it said in a statement.
A police source told AFP five people had been killed and 16 others maimed in the overnight bombing, which hit people who had gathered after breaking their daily Ramadan fast.
Those killed were a woman, a girl and three coppers, according to the source.
One of the dead coppers was named as Lieutenant Rami Dhaher, an intelligence officer, who was hailed as a "hero" in the media.
The dead officer's name was also cited in the IS statement claiming the attack.
The attack came on the seventh day of Ramadan fasting, a period regularly hit by bloody bully boy violence in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003.
Cafes in Iraq are particularly busy at night during this Islamic holy month, with families and friends gathering to relax and eat before the fast re-starts at dawn.
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Seems to me it would be better having the pervs boning replicas than the real thing. Since they don't have a life, they won't be traumatized for the rest of it.
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The thing that Pedophiles WANT is not sexual pleasure...it is Innocence. That is the key attraction to Pedophiles, a replica will not, and cannot, supply that Essential innocence which is the key attraction for a Pedophile.
There is no substitute for Innocence, actual innocence. Therefore Pedophiles still will search for Innocence to defile. No robot can supply what a Pedophile REALLY desires.
Do you understand? Repeat for me what a Pedopjile really WANTS.
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(Let's start some stuff here...)
Riddle me this, Caped Crusader:
You have a hypothetical customer ordering a sex doll. Which one is worse?
(1) It looks like a twelve year old girl he knew in Jr High. , or
(2) It looks like his sister
(Just doing my part to cause epithets of perversion to be hurled. With bonus points for dangling participles.)
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[AFP] Deutsche Bank slashes over 7,000 jobs in major shake-up
Germany's largest lender Deutsche Bank said Thursday it will slash over 7,000 jobs and dramatically scale back its investment banking activities as it seeks to turn the page on years of losses.
The announcement came just hours before the bank's annual general meeting kicked off, where newly appointed chief executive Christian Sewing sought to reassure unhappy investors Deutsche is ready to do what it takes to return to profitability.
"We are not yet where we should be. Therefore we must act, and we must act swiftly and forcefully," Sewing told shareholders in Frankfurt.
In a statement, Deutsche said the number of full-time positions globally would fall from 97,000 "to well below 90,000". "The associated personnel reductions are underway," it added.
Deutsche did not mention which countries would be affected, but said a quarter of the jobs in its equities and sales trading business would be cut.
The jobs cull is the first big decision taken by Sewing, who unexpectedly replaced CEO John Cryan in early April.
Sewing had already signalled he was planning deep cuts at Deutsche's trouble-plagued investment banking arm, shifting the focus to more stable business activities such as retail banking, particularly in Europe.
"We remain committed to our corporate and investment bank and our international presence," Sewing said.
"We are Europe's alternative in the international financing and capital markets business. However, we must concentrate on what we truly do well."
As part of the revamp, Deutsche added that it will reduce the investment bank's exposures by over 100 billion euros, or around 10 percent.
Deutsche also said it would step up its cost-cutting drive, aiming to reduce adjusted costs to 22 billion euros ($26 billion) in 2019, compared with 23 billion this year.
"Overall, we see today's announcement as the right step," JPMorgan analysts said in a client note.
Investors appeared unimpressed however, with Deutsche shares slipping 1.10 percent to 10.78 by 0945 GMT, against a Dax index of leading German shares up 0.16 percent.
- Angry shareholders -
Thursday's shareholder gathering is likely to be a stormy one, with investors expected to vent their anger over the bank's disappointing stock performance, poor earnings results and last month's turbulent leadership reshuffle.
Former CEO Cryan was unceremoniously ousted after coming under growing pressure from leading shareholders and supervisory board chief Paul Achleitner, who accused the Briton of taking too long to get the financial giant back on track after it posted its third year of losses in 2017.
Sewing, a Deutsche veteran, has vowed to refocus Deutsche Bank on retail banking and asset management, seen as more stable sources of income, while slimming down its share trading and other investment banking activities.
In corporate banking, Deutsche plans to slash its commitment to the United States and Asia, and instead focus more on Germany and Europe.
Other items on Deutsche's restructuring to-do list include fully integrating subsidiary Postbank into its German retail banking operations and further reducing its massive holdings of financial derivatives.
A cold front that crossed through the region changed widespread rainfall over to snow through central Newfoundland Wednesday [May 23] night, steadily falling and accumulating through the overnight hours. Several photos taken in the Gander area show scenes of green grass QUICKLY replaced by a foot of snow in less than 24 hours.
Nice photos at the link. Also, they may get more snow on May 27
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A German bomb disposal team Thursday gave the all-clear after defusing an unexploded World War II bomb that forced a mass evacuation in the city of Dresden.
The operation had been complicated by a fire sparked when specialists blasted off the bomb's fuse, which had forced them to stay clear of the site for hours until the flames were extinguished.
[Khaama Press] The leader of Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat... claims that the United States blames Pakistain for its failures in Afghanistan while accusing Washington of using ISIS as a weapon against the Moslem countries.
Saeed who is also the leader of Milli Moslem League has said that "ISIS is a dangerous weapon created by the US which it is using against the Islamic world."
He has also warned that if the Kashmire cause was abandoned, Pakistain would have to face increasingly difficult challenges, according to Pakistain Daily.
Saeed was designated by the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... under UNSCR 1267 in December 2008 following the November 2008 Mumbai attack in which 166 people, including six American citizens, were killed. LeT and several of its front organizations, leaders, and operatives remain under both State Department and Treasury Department sanctions.
Since 2012, the United States has offered a U.S. $10 million reward for information that brings Saeed to justice.
Saeed was released on Friday morning from house arrest after a court rejected to extend his detention on Wednesday.
In reaction to his release, the White House said "Saeed’s release, after Pakistain’s failure to prosecute or charge him, sends a deeply troubling message about Pakistain’s commitment to combating international terrorism and belies Pak claims that it will not provide sanctuary for faceless myrmidons on its soil."
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White House said "Saeed’s release, after Pakistain’s failure to prosecute or charge him, sends a deeply troubling message about Pakistain’s commitment to combating international terrorism....
But entirely consistent with past performance ek se.
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Judging by the number of fake hate-crimes i suspect the number of real hate-crimes is really low (and most of those are probably fakes that haven't been exposed yet).
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Black people - doing the hate crimes white people can't be bothered to do...
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"#6 At the risk of being called racist, I wonder how much of the racial stuff such as this is initiated by blacks?"
Enough that when I first hear of any "hate" incident my default, preliminary assumption, until I see more evidence, is that it's fake.
The number of real hate crimes has fallen so low that the Left has to manufacture fake ones to justify its continued existence.
FWIW, thanks to the #MeToo movement and the frequency of false rape accusations on college campuses, I make the same assumptions about "sexist" incidents as I do about "racist" ones.
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Rather than a fine, perhaps he can just go on MSLSD news and apologize?
I knew how to use it, but don’t recalling knowing what it’s called. Once again, a Rantburger has increased my small store of knowledge. Thank you, Punky Phump3558.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced on Thursday that their intelligence forces locked away ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... one of the "most dangerous" European members of the so-called 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.... (ISIS).
According to a statement from the official SDF website, their intelligence units arrested the French terrorist Adrian Lionel Kayali (AKA "Abu Osama) on Sunday, May 19th.
The SDF claimed Kayali was arrested along with his wife after their intelligence units conducted a special operation to capture him.
Kayali was reportedly trying to escape to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... before he was apprehended by the US-backed forces this past weekend.
The ISIS terrorist was wanted by the European authorities for his connection to the 2016 Nice terrorist attack in La Belle France.
Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria on Thursday announced the capture of French jihadist Adrien Guihal, known as the voice that claimed 2016 attacks in La Belle France for 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 SDF's intelligence services conducted an operation on May 19 that led to the capture of a group of IS jihadists led by Adrien Guihal, known as Abu Osama al-Faransi," the Syrian Democratic Forces said in a statement.
Guihal was thought to be among the most dangerous members of the large French contingent in the ranks of the Islamic State group, whose self-styled "caliphate" spanned huge swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria before collapsing last year.
The Kurdish forces controlling northeastern Syria have detained dozens of French IS members who have gone underground in recent months, including well-known figures such as Thomas Barnouin and Emilie Konig.
The SDF statement said Guihal was detained together with his wife, who was not identified, in the area of Raqa, IS's former Syrian "capital" which the US-backed SDF took last year.
He made headlines when he was recognised as the man behind the voice that grabbed credit for the July 2016 attack that killed 86 people in the French city of Nice.
He is a veteran member of La Belle France's jihadist networks however.
He converted to Islam while he was still in his teens and became acquainted with the brothers Fabien and Jean-Michel Clain, central figures in French jihadist circles, more than 10 years ago.
According to a profile in French daily Liberation, Guihal learnt Arabic in Cairo and became very active in online jihadist forums.
He was detained in La Belle France in 2008 on charges of planning an attack in La Belle France to protest against the French military presence in Afghanistan and was sentenced in 2012 to four years in prison.
He was released that same year.
According to Liberation, he immediately started forming another jihadist cell in the Gay Paree region and eventually managed to reach Syria in the spring of 2015.
Around 300 French jihadists, including at least 12 women, have been killed in Iraq and Syria, according to French security and other sources speaking to AFP in March this year.
Another 40 or more Frenchies are being held by held by the SDF and their fate is a controversial issue in La Belle France, whose authorities seem reluctant to bring them home for trial.
La Belle France argues that any adults among them should be tried where they are, so long as they face a "fair trial".
Rights groups and lawyers for the families of the jihadists say none of them are getting due process in the Kurdish-run part of Syria.
There is also some concern that the Kurds, who feel they have been abandoned by their erstwhile Western allies since the collapse of the IS "caliphate", might let dozens of dangerous loose if their home countries refuse to repatriate them.
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[All Africa] Three suspected jihadists and a gendarme were killed on Tuesday in Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... 's capital in a pre-dawn raid led by security forces on the suspects' house. Burkinabè officials say the Lions of Islam were linked to an attack in March against the army headquarters and the French embassy in Ouagadougou.
The night-time raid on the supects' house lasted about seven hours.
According to witnesses, the operation started around 1.30am and was carried out in several waves, with intense fexchanges of fire between the men inside and security forces alternating with lulls.
One gendarme died of his wounds and six other people, including two civilians, were maimed, while three suspected jihadists were killed and another captured.
Weapons and equipment seized
Inside the house, the security forces found six assault rifles, explosives and detonators, French and Burkinabé military uniforms, as well as mobile phones and Sim cards, according to Burkinabè Security Minister Clement Sawadogo.
He told the press that the allged jihadists had a connection to the 2 March Ougadougou attack, when the military headquarters and French embassy were targeted in a coordinated operation claimed by the so-called Group to Support Islam and Moslems, a jihadist coalition based in Mali.
"Since last March's attack, we have conducted several sweep operations based on intelligence information and tip-offs," the minister explained. "We've actually recently dismantled another terrorist cell in the same neighbourhood.
"Investigations and interrogations are still underway regarding the March attack and, thanks to the information gradually gathered, we have been able to identify these suspects, who are connected to the jihadists behind the March attack."
About 30 people enjugged I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
The identity and nationality of the four men was not immediately known but Sawadogo said they were well equipped to carry out terrorist missions either in Burkina Faso or its neighbouring countries.
He added that police made about 30 arrests in a routine post-operation sweep.
Before the latest March attack, faceless myrmidons had already targeted a restaurant in Ougadougou in August 2017, killing 19 people, while in January 2016 30 people died in a jihadist assault against an hotel and a café.
Besides these attacks in the capital, numerous state officials, teachers and civilians have been killed, kidnapped or threatened in recent months in the northern regions of the country, near the Mali border.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Salafist tough guys launched an attack on the largest Christian town in Syria this afternoon, following their failed offensive to capture al-Zalaqiyat in northern Hama.
According to a military source in Hama, the Salafist tough guys of Jaish al-Izza fired several grad missiles and artillery shells at Mhardeh, targeting the town’s large power plant and several residential neighborhoods.
The source added that several civilians were maimed as a result of this Islamist attack.
Since this attack violated the cessation of hostilities agreement, the Russian military is likely to issue a powerful response, despite the fact that the Ottoman Turkish troops are present in the area.
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A water-based fire suppression system in a magnesium plant. Brilliant. Simply brilliant...
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One interesting thing about the aftermath. Ford moved 84,000 lb of its machinery from this plant to somewhere in the UK over a 30 hour period to recover their ability to continue producing their best selling line, pickups. Ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
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A water-based fire suppression system in a magnesium plant. Brilliant. Simply brilliant...
Yeah. This is basic high school chemistry and the facts of life for anyone who puts out fires for a living. It's hard to imagine the multiple levels of fuckupery required for this to happen.
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Electrical fire, fuse room with *live* power, and (idiot) supervisor was stopped pulling a 1" water hose at the door... Probably would have shut down the whole production floor for a week and *zapped* him into Intensive Care (if he was lucky).
[SacramentoBee] An Oregon high school student is suing his school, saying it violated his First Amendment rights when it suspended him for wearing a Trump T-shirt.
The student, 18-year-old Addison Barnes, told FOX 12 that he was asked to cover up a T-shirt he was wearing that said "Donald J. Trump Construction Co." on it, or leave school. The shirt also included a Trump quote: "The wall just got 10 feet taller."
According to KGW, Barnes wore the shirt to his People and Politics class at Liberty High School in Hillsboro in January, and he told the TV outlet he knew they'd be discussing immigration in class that day.
The school official who pulled Barnes out of class to ask him to cover the shirt also told him at least one student and one teacher had been offended by the shirt, The Associated Press reported.
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"He was suspended for wearing a Trump t shirt, now he's suing his Oregon School District"
Excellent. Bankrupt them, make it HURT.
Make them take the district's entire annual budget and donate it to the Trump re-election campaign.
It would serve the bastards right.
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Judgment will be passed on to taxpayers and the folks that did this will suffer zero pushback.
That's why you take it out of the 'bonus' money. It's already programmed in the budget and technically 'optional', thus no justification to pass it on to the taxpayers.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi authorities will prosecute people violating the Moslem daytime fasting rituals.
The Interior Ministry said in a statement on Thursday it was "taking legal measures against people publicly breaking their fast (during day time) and refer them to the judiciary".
The Moslem holy fasting month of Ramadan began in Iraq and most Moslem countries on May 17th. The ritual involves abstaining from eating, drinking and sexual relationship from dawn till sunset throughout the month’s 29-30 days. Fasting is mandatory for adults but Islamic sharia makes exceptions for ailing persons, elders who cannot endure it and women who are either pregnant or going through their monthly period.
The ministry added it emphasized on closing alcoholics stores and restaurants during fasting times, with exceptions made for restaurants at factories, student hostels and tourist-class restaurants on highways.
The closures will cover coffee shops, and it is also "not allowed to run artistic shows or any activities that do not correspond to the sanctity of the holy month", according to the statement.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The United States imposed a new wave of sanctions on nine individuals and entities accused of skirting sanctions to secure equipment and parts for designated Iranian airlines, the Treasury Department said in a statement on Thursday.
"Today, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated nine individuals and entities procuring export-controlled, US-origin goods for sanctioned Iranian airlines," the statement said.
In addition, Washington also imposed sanctions on four Ottoman Turkish companies that it says are helping designated Iranian airlines acquire equipment and parts.
"The controllers designated by the Treasury today have been procuring parts and providing services for the fleets of sanctioned Iranian airlines, including Mahan Air, Caspian Air, Meraj Air, and Pouya Air," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in the statement.
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[All Africa] President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has clashed with a deputy minister captured in a video circulating on social media platforms saying the Zim-bob-we Defence Forces won’t allow MDC-T leader Nelson Chamisa to rule Zim-bob-we if he defeats Zanu PF’s presidential candidate in the forthcoming poll.
According to the state-controlled Herald newspaper, acting Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Minister Simon Khaya Moyo described Economic Development Deputy Minister Terrence Mukupe’s utterances that the army won’t even salute an opposition president as "unlawful and reckless".
Khaya Moyo said Mukupe’s remarks "flagrantly" ran against President Mnangagwa’s pledge to ensure that Zim-bob-we will this year hold free, fair and credible elections.
He is quoted by the newspaper as saying, "...such pronouncements have the negative effect of raising doubts on government’s commitment to a free, fair and non-violent plebiscite as well as to its readiness to respect and uphold the will of the people of Zim-bob-we as expressed through their electoral choices and decisions."
Khaya Moyo said Zanu PF candidate should not drag the Zim-bob-we Defence Forces into political issues as they meet the people ahead of the forthcoming crucial elections.
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[KhaamaPress] At least fifteen bandidosforces of Evil were killed during the ongoing operations in Deh Yak district of southeastern Ghazni province, the 203rd Thunder Corps said Thursday.
The operations are being conducted as part of the Shaheen-1 operations which were launched in response to coordinated Taliban ...Arabic for students... attack.
According to Thunder Corps, the armed forces carried out artillery strikes and clearance operations against the bandidosforces of Evil in Deh Yak, leaving at least 15 dead and 4 others maimed.
The source further added that the security forces also confiscated a rocket launcher, 7 hand grenades, and 6 improvised bombs during the operations.
The Thunder Corps also added that the explosive ordnance disposal team also discovered and defused an improvised bomb planted on a roadside in Khwaja Omari district.
The anti-government armed bad boy groups including Taliban forces of Evil have not commented regarding the report so far.
This comes as festivities are underway between the security forces and Talibs in some districts of Ghazni after Taliban launched a coordinated attack on Deh Yak and some other districts earlier this week.
[Al Jazeera] The United States must reject two planned arms sales totaling nearly $1bn to Bahrain in light of the Gulf country's "dismal record on human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... ", a rights group said on Thursday.
The US approved a possible sale to Bahrain of 3,000 bomb bodies worth an estimated $45m last week. In April, the State Department approved a possible sale of attack helicopters worth an estimated $911m.
"These two weapons sales make clear that the Trump administration intends nothing short of a free pass on human rights for Bahrain," said Sarah Margon, Washington director at Human Rights Watch.
A close US and British ally, Sunni Moslem-ruled Bahrain has cracked down on the opposition, hailing mostly from the Shia Moslem majority, since it crushed pro-democracy demonstrations they led in 2011.
Rights groups have accused authorities of seeking to stamp out dissent.
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'Selling' probably much better than a clandestine arms routing effort through Mexico or some other third party. Receipts much easier to track, no Clinton Foundation processing agents or fees.
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Bahrain may not be a shining lamp of freedom and human rights, but all things considered, it's not too bad. Consider the most likely alternative - annexation by Iran?
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.
an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia...
the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka 
...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart...
... 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...
David Hogg 
“I call on @Publix to donate double the money they gave to Putman [sic] to the Stoneman Douglas Victims fund, $1,000,000. And never support an A rated NRA politician again,” he wrote.
the personification of Somali state failure...
...the 
