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Spain's new socialist government promised on Friday it would restore free healthcare for undocumented migrants, a right removed by the former administration as part of cost-cutting.
The move is the latest migrant-friendly initiative by the government of Pedro Sanchez, who offered on Monday to take in a rescue ship [from Save the Children NGO] that was drifting in the Mediterranean sea with 629 migrants on board. Italy and Malta had refused to let it dock. Word will get around, and Spain will soon be up to the gunnels in illegal migrants.
The government will draw up a draft law with the proposal, it said, which must be approved by parliament. Although the Socialists have a minority of 84 seats in the 350-member assembly, most parties back the proposal and it seemed certain to be approved.
"Healthcare is a right and the protection of health is essential," government spokeswoman Isabel Celaa told a news conference.
Spain offers universal healthcare to its citizens. The former center-right government of Mariano Rajoy withdrew the right to general healthcare for undocumented migrants in 2012 as part of a program of spending cuts.
The government later reinstated some rights like access to emergency healthcare in 2015, but fell short of returning full coverage to an estimated 800,000 people residing in Spain without papers.
Spain receives a tiny percentage of the total asylum claims in Europe, and of those received it accepts fewer than the EU average, according to the Spanish Commission for Refugees.
However, the EU border agency expects illegal migration will rise again in 2018, potentially turning migration into a more pressing issue for Sanchez. For more information on the Save the Children NGO, click HERE.
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[Jpost] For the first time in Spain, the parliament of one of the states that comprise the kingdom voted to endorse the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel.
The vote last month by the Parliament of the Chartered Community of Navarre in Spain’s north was passed thanks to the support of representatives of all the parties represented in parliament except the center-right Popular Party, the ACOM pro-Israel advocacy wrote in a statement Friday.
The motion passed on May 21 says the parliament of Navarre calls on the central government to "support any initiative promoted by the international BDS campaign." It also calls on Spain to "suspend its ties with Israel "until that country ceases its policy of criminal repression of the Palestinian population."
Navarre is one of 17 autonomous communities ‐ states with their own parliaments, who together make up the quasi-federal Spanish state. Catalonia’s parliament last year declared independence from Spain, though Madrid declined to recognize the declaration. Navarre has a substantial Basque population and a strong separatist movement.
The motion went on to condemn Israel for "murdering" dozens of Palestinians in May. The condemnation is a reference to Hamas-organized riots along the border with Israel, which featured hundreds of firebombs and attempt to break the fence into Israel. Of 61 people killed in the riots on May 14, 50 were Hamas members, according to one senior member of that organization. Limpieza de sangre then, BDS now?
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As I recall, it is illegal for Spanish government entities to make laws or policies supporting BDS, because it discriminates against an ethnic group. Federal courts have repeatedly reversed this kind of thing at the community level, so it seems reasonable to expect it will do so at the state level as well.
[American Spectator] Why did the FBI assign the same agents who investigated Hillary Clinton’s emails to look into allegations of Russian collusion with Donald Trump’s campaign?
Given the overlapping timetable of both cases, the decision appears not only peculiar but harmful to the efforts. The inspector general notes in his report the repeated excuse that the importance of the Russia investigation led to the crucial delay in the reopening of the Clinton email investigation after the discovery of former Secretary of State’s missing messages on Anthony Weiner’s laptop. The bureau assigning different agents and lawyers to each case, the IG suggests, likely would have prevented the one-month delay in looking into the laptop that came, crucially, just days prior to the 2016 election.
But if the primary concern involved not bringing the investigations to determinative conclusions but to the most politically advantageous conclusions, then assigning different investigators to the different teams does not make sense. As Michael Horowitz’s investigation shows, many of those involved in both investigations shared outspoken political prejudices against Donald Trump, referred to as "that menace" in one text exchange between FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page. Another figure anonymously referred to in the IG’s report received his walking papers from Robert Mueller’s team earlier this year ‐ following the exit’s of Strzok and Page ‐ after the special counsel came across evidence of his pollical bias courtesy of the IG. When asked in a text immediately after the election whether his distaste for Trump might preclude him from working within his Justice Department, he responded: "Hell no. Viva le resistance."
That bias, aired openly among colleagues, never prevented the anonymous lawyer from working on the Clinton email investigation, the FBI’s look into Trump-Russian collusion, or special counsel Mueller’s inquiry into that same matter ‐ until, of course, the inspector general readied to tell the world what the man’s peers already knew. This raises the question of whether what made him so obviously unfit for these tasks to the general public appeared to his colleagues and bosses as his primary qualification.
The use of the same people to look into both Clinton and Trump puzzled Michael Horowitz. The inspector general writes in his report:
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Historically, many revolutionary groups ran about 30-to-1 ratio of Cadre to Sympathizers (Part-time Flunkies), or to put it another way when the Super Villain needs something done there are far fewer "Number #2's" than the Generic Rent-A-Thug sent over from the villain training co-op.
The grammar, composition, and style is charming, or maybe hilarious. But the fact that it is reported at all in the official news outlet I find encouraging. The conclusion, as a sample - it is copyrighted, after all - [Rodong] Chairman Kim Jong Un and President Trump expressed expectation and belief that the two countries which have lived in the quagmire of hostility, distrust and hatred would pass the unhappy past over and dynamically advance toward an excellent and proud future beneficial to each other and another new era, the era of the DPRK-U.S. cooperation would open up.
Kim Jong Un invited Trump to visit Pyongyang at a convenient time and Trump invited Kim Jong Un to visit the U.S.
The two top leaders gladly accepted each other's invitation, convinced that it would serve as another important occasion for improved DPRK-U.S. relations.
The DPRK-U.S. summit talks held in Singapore with success amid enthusiastic support and welcome of the whole world come to be a great event of weighty significance in further promoting the historic trend toward reconciliation and peace, stability and prosperity being created in the Korean Peninsula and the region and in making a radical switchover in the most hostile DPRK-U.S. relations, as required by the developing times.
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[Reuters] SHANGHAI - Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn said it would establish its North American corporate headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, following the purchase of a building in the city’s downtown area.
In a statement, Foxconn said more than 500 people would work at the seven-story building in downtown Milwaukee.
The announcement comes almost a year after the company disclosed plans to invest $10 billion over four years to build a 20 million-square-foot LCD panel plant in Wisconsin that could eventually employ up to 13,000 people.
Taiwan-based Foxconn, known formally as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd (2317.TW), is the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer and employs more than a million people.
And I think they'd be doing that sort of thing even if it were a purple state with a Democrat governor. They are hostile in the extreme to the idea of manufacturing in the United States, and we're all hypocrites if we play the same mercantilistic games as the people who made their current laptops and cell phones.
"Single-handedly?" No, I think not.
[American Thinker] Naturally, the political/media left that crowds out saner voices on television were quick as jack rabbits to announce that the FBI was vindicated by the IG report that was released on Thursday. "Nothing to see here, move along," was their mantra. But one only has to scroll through the list of columns posted at RealClearPolitics on Friday to grasp the abyss between the left and right re: the report.
The report contained an executive summary that said "We found no documentary evidence of political bias." That means they did not find written confessions by all those Trump-hating higher-ups at the once-great law enforcement agency. But the five-hundred page body of the report is chock full of extreme political anti-Trump mendacity. Why the hundreds of texts between several like-minded agents that reek of profound bias against Trump are not documentary evidence is a mystery.
Nevertheless, it is an indisputable fact that a cabal of conspirators on the seventh floor of the FBI building, led by Comey and McCabe, along with John Brennan (CIA) , James Clapper (DNI) , Sally Yates and Rod Rosenstein at Justice coordinated their attempts to prevent Trump from winning the election by all manner of illegal means. Most likely, much of this was at the bidding and with permission of Barack Obama.
Once Trump won, their focus switched to taking him out before he could be inaugurated. They hope still to see him impeached, despite the thriving economy, low un-employment, and possible rapprochement with North Korea.
The New York Times continues to attack Trump, to accuse him of numerous crimes for which they have no evidence. Leftist voices of rage continue to defend Hillary, to claim she was not treated with sufficient deference, even as her many crimes overlooked. Paul Manafort was sent to jail on Friday while Hillary and this bunch of crooks at the FBI and DOJ are walking free, complaining all the while that Trump should never have been elected.
[American Thinker] Researchers have discovered an alarming trend: the average IQ's of human beings is on a downward spiral.
Westerns have lost 14 IQ points on average since the Victorian age, according to a study published by the University of Amsterdam last year. Jan te Nijenhuis thinks this could be because intelligent women tend to have less children than women who are not as clever.... educated people are deciding to have fewer children, so that subsequent generations are largely made up of less intelligent people.
Richard Lynn, a psychologist at the University of Ulster, calculated the decline in humans’ genetic potential.
He used data on average IQs around the world in 1950 and 2000 to discover that our collective intelligence has dropped by one IQ point.
Dr Lynn predicts that if this trend continues, we could lose another 1.3 IQ points by 2050.
Remember when liberals said that a one degree rise in global temperatures in a century could lead to cities being flooded and enormous tidal waves?
Just think what a drop of one IQ point in the next century could cause.
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Intelligence has limits, stupidity is infinite [See - socialism*]. Add billion humans here, add a billion more there, and the average will tend to go down.
* Rewarding the non-productive and punishing the productive just doesn't work out.
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As far as I can tell, the test uses reaction time as a proxy for intelligence; the modern IQ test was not invented until 1904, while Queen Victoria died in 1901, upon which event the Victorian Age ended. There are a good many reasons why reaction time might be measured as being greater nowadays, including living a more sendentary life and technology allowing more accurate measurements in the modern period.
Looking at Lynn’s study (decrease of one IQ point since 1950), it should be noted that proper IQ tests report a number within a ten point range, so a one point difference is within experimental error. Much like climate temperature increases reported in recent years.
Though I will admit that the reelection of Barack Obama would appear to reinforce the claim, though the subsequent election of Trump quite contradicts it. In other words, much like so many claims made by research psychologists.
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Depends on how the IQ Test is structured and what it tests for. Additionally the human brain remaps itself depending on what it is used for. I remember getting a job in an ice cream freezer and "relearning" mental mathematics -- LCD screens don't work at -10F. Did my IQ change, no, but if tested for math skills they would have improved after no longer using an electronic crutch.
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The problem with "intelligence" tests is that they purport to measure an ability or rather potential but are contaminated with "performance" or "achievement" by the nature of the test. Can you read the question, can you understand the question, can you fit the round peg in the appropriate slot? All rely on the testee having achieved some level of skill. So while there is no solid indication that intelligence is declining (since there are no "pure" measures of intelligence), there is plenty of evidence that verbal, reading and math skills are all in the toilet.
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I would be more concerned with lack of basic knowledge (how to take care of yourself and how the world works) and the lack of good decision making (plenty of smart people who do stupid stuff everyday).
[American Thinker] Here's a thought experiment: what happens if you release criminals, a lot of them, from jail?
If you asked a liberal in California, they would tell you that these criminals were unjustly jailed in the first place (think racism on the part of liberal inner city judges, juries, and prosecutors) and that these unjustly imprisoned would return to become productive parts of society.
Imagine their surprise to learn, then, that after reducing or eliminating sentences for certain property crimes, the rate of property crimes has only increased!
California voters’ decision to reduce penalties for drug and property crimes in 2014 contributed to a jump in car burglaries, shoplifting and other theft, researchers reported.
Larcenies increased about 9% by 2016, or about 135 more thefts per 100,000 residents than if tougher penalties had remained, according to results of a study by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California released Tuesday.
Thefts from motor vehicles accounted for about three-quarters of the increase. San Francisco alone recorded more than 30,000 auto burglaries last year, which authorities largely blamed on gangs.
Proposition 47 lowered criminal sentences for drug possession, theft, shoplifting, identity theft, receiving stolen property, writing bad checks and check forgery from felonies that can carry prison terms to misdemeanors that often bring minimal jail sentences.
Do you think liberals have learned anything from this? Think again:
California still has historically low crime rates despite recent changes in the criminal justice system aimed at reducing mass incarceration and increasing rehabilitation and treatment programs, said Lenore Anderson, the executive director of Californians for Safety and Justice and a leader in the drive to pass Proposition 47.
"This report shows we are making progress," she said in a statement calling for less spending on prisons and more on programs to help reduce the cycle of crime.
The ballot measure led to the lowest arrest rate in state history in 2015 as experts said police frequently ignored crimes that brought minimal punishment.
They say that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged. If that's true, then it must also be true in California that a liberal is a liberal who has had his car or home broken into. Indeed people in San Francisco have had their cars broken into so frequently that they think this is the "new normal" and people talk laughingly to each other about how often their cars have been broken into, as if it's a subject of conversation as common as the doings of the local sports team.
[The Federalist] On Thursday, the Justice Department’s inspector general released a long-anticipated report on the FBI’s handling of the criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server that handled classified information. Here are some quick takeaways from the report.
1. Learn How To Interpret An IG Report
The best way to understand an inspector general (IG) report is less as a fiercely independent investigation that seeks justice and more like what you’d expect from a company’s human resources department. Employees frequently think that a company’s human resources department exists to serve employees. There’s some truth in that, but it’s more true that the human resources department exists to serve the corporation.
At the end of the day, the HR department wants what’s best for the company. The FBI’s IG Michael Horowitz has a good reputation for good reason. But his report is in support of the FBI and its policies and procedures. As such, the findings will be focused on helping the FBI improve its adherence to those policies and procedures. Those who expected demands for justice in the face of widespread evidence of political bias and poor judgment by immature agents and executives were people unfamiliar with the purpose of IG reports.
The IG is also a government bureaucrat producing government products that are supposed to be calm and boring. In the previous report that led to Andrew McCabe’s firing as deputy director of the FBI and referral for criminal prosecution, his serial lying under oath was dryly phrased as "lack of candor." In this report detailing widespread problems riddled throughout the Clinton email probe, the language is similarly downplayed. That’s particularly true in the executive summary, which attempts to downplay the actual details that fill the report with evidence of poor decision-making, extreme political bias, and problematic patterns of behavior. Ten more key take-aways follow.
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1. it was a whitewash
2. it identified the most defensible least offensive crimes
2. it identified the least desirable least offensive criminals
2. it was remarkably narrow in it's reach
2. it stepped over many dollars to find some shiney pennies
2. it did not name any IG investigator cronies
2. it did not draw any clinton connection
2. how many is that?
2. due process was clearly engaged to maintain the status quo
[The Federalist] To the outsider, New York City is world-famous for attractions like Times Square, the Statue of Liberty, and the Museum of Modern Art. But to a family of locals, perhaps no landmark impacts public discourse more than the city’s illustrious program for gifted and talented students known as the Specialized High Schools.
These are a group of eight highly selective, publicly funded high schools that offer meritorious students in NYC the opportunity to receive an advanced education. To many denizens of NYC, these schools, which include the famous Stuyvesant and Bronx Science High Schools, represent the hopes and dreams of parents desiring that their children have a better life. Just last week, Democratic Mayor Bill De Blasio released a plan to fundamentally upend the way these schools operate, especially as they relate to its most frequented minority group: Asian-Americans.
De Blasio’s plan would eliminate NYC’s Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT), and replace it with a requirement that the top seven percent of every middle school in NYC be admitted to a Specialized High School ‐ thus exchanging a fundamentally standardized, meritocratic applications process for one predicated on demographics. This approach would heavily favor minorities in low-performing schools (which trend black and Hispanic) over those in high performing schools (which trend Asian). His plan would also reserve 20 percent of seats for schools in "high-poverty" areas.
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And when the unqualified students cannot operate at the level the specialized schools require. Well that is because of racism of course. We will need to 'tone down' the requirements to better accomodate the students of course.
[National Review] And they won’t be solved by whining about criticism.
What do you do with an FBI agent, sworn to uphold the law, who flagrantly violates the law in a rogue investigation aimed at making a name for himself by bringing down some high-profile targets?
Why . . . you promote him, of course. At least that is the way the Justice Department answered that question in the case of David Chaves, an FBI agent who serially and lawlessly leaked grand-jury information, wiretap evidence, and other sensitive investigative intelligence to the media in his quest to make an insider-trading case against some celebrities. And when finally called on it, the Justice Department circled the wagons: proceeding with its tainted prosecution, referring the now-retired Chaves for an internal investigation that has gone exactly nowhere after nearly two years, and using legal maneuvers to block the courts and the public from scrutinizing the scope of the misconduct.
The Ethos of Law Enforcement - It has become a refrain among defenders of the FBI and Justice Department that critics are trying to destroy these vital institutions. In point of fact, these agencies are doing yeoman’s work destroying themselves ‐ much to the chagrin of those of us who spent much of our professional lives proudly carrying out their mission.
The problem is not the existence of miscreants; they are an inevitable part of the human condition, from which no institution of any size will ever be immune. The challenge today is the ethos of law-enforcement. You see it in texts expressing disdain for lawmakers; in the above-it-all contempt for legislative oversight; in arrogant flouting of the Gang of Eight disclosure process for sensitive intelligence (because the FBI’s top-tier unilaterally decides when Bureau activities are "too sensitive" to discuss); in rogue threats to turn the government’s law-enforcement powers against Congress; and in the imperious self-perception of a would-be fourth branch of government, insulated from and unaccountable to the others ‐ including its actual executive-branch superiors.
Once law enforcement saw the virtue in self-policing, in a duty to expose and purge itself of rogue actors. Now, it tends toward not just burying bad behavior but ‐ the best defense being a good offense ‐ hiding it behind claims of a job well done, behind claims that its ends are so noble its means are justified no matter how unseemly.
In the years after the "Great Recession," progressives were frustrated by the incapacity of prosecutors to hold financial institutions responsible for the subprime-mortgage crisis and the housing crash, to which government policies had contributed mightily. One response was a flurry of securities-fraud investigations: If you can’t nail the evil banks, at least nail big-time market players, even if less than compelling evidence needs propping up by extravagant legal theories. Continues
[Hot Air] The American Pharmacists Association was planning a large convention for early next year, one that would require a site capable of hosting up to 6,000 attendees. One of the places it considered holding the convention was Seattle, so it sent an advanced planning team to the city to scout the area. But the homeless problem the planning team encountered on Seattle’s streets led them to write a letter to Seattle’s tourism bureau saying they might have to rule Seattle out for future consideration.
It’s not just the sights and smells that are off-putting to tourists, it’s the danger of being around people with serious mental problems. Case in point, today Seattle news outlets are reporting an incident which happened earlier this month: A tourist who went downtown to see Seattle’s famous Space Needle with his family was attacked by a homeless man with a rope.
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My last visit to SF, a city I used to love showing off to Bay Area visitors, was for a national convention. So many homeless to deal with, crapping on the sidewalks, drug use in the doorways left a very bad impression on me.
In addition, our once proud industry event had "lunch" at the Moscone Center... a box lunch of the most horrible lowest quality ingredients I have ever been served. People were tossing out everything except the chips. Attendees were all complaining loudly. I happen to know the event organizer, and I went to give her a heads up that pitchforks were coming out. She turned to me, knowing she could trust me, and said "we are never coming back here... that box lunch cost us $58 per person!... I worked a couple of hundred trade events in my life and that ranked one of the worst.
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I'm really not going to recommend Iowa, because they think they are something special come election time. Had a very nice time in Dallas at the NRA convention, town whas cleanes I can ever remember seeing it. It's been a while, but the nicest people I ever met in my life were in Ft. Wayne, Indiana.
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[Wash Times] The U.S. Army recently put word out that it wanted submachine guns for conventional forces, and gun-makers were quick to respond.
Ten companies are currently vying to supply troops outside the special operations forces realm with subguns for the modern battlefield. Officials said they wanted a weapon with full/semi-automatic selectable variant and a Picatinny rail, among other features, and organizations from Sig Sauer, Inc. to Colt answered the call.
"For the first time in a long time, the Army is looking at a subgun for conventional forces," Todd South of Military Times reported Wednesday. "Special operations forces have carried these guns for a very long time, but your conventional soldiers and Marines don’t really have them in their arsenal until now."
The Army received the following submissions:
* Z-5RS, Z-5P and Z-5K Sub Compact Weapons; Zenith Firearms
* B&T MP9 Machine Guns; Trident Rifles, LLC
* MPX Sub Compact Weapon; Sig Sauer, Inc.
* 5.5 CLT and 5.5 QV5 Sub Compact Weapon; Quarter Circle 10 LLC
* PTR 9CS Sub Compact Weapon; PTR Industries, Inc.
* MARS-L9 Compact Suppressed Weapon; Lewis Machine & Tool Company
* CZ Scorpion EVO 3 A1 Submachine gun; CZ-USA
* CMMG Ultra PDW; CMMG, Inc.
* Beretta PMX Sub Compact Weapon; USA Corporation
* CM9MM-9H-M5A; Colt’s Manufacturing Company, LLC
"Another subgun option the Army could consider is [Heckler & Koch’s] MP5," Mr. South reported. "The [MP5 MLI] is an improved version on what they’ve had for decades. It’s pretty familiar to a lot of people. A lot of folks growing up like I did in the 1980s and 1990s might have seen it. The Navy SEALs carried it."
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Give em what McCready had: A shotgun and a flame thrower.
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Sweet little inexpensive 9mm gem, the Carl Gustov M/45 or Swedish-K. You can train an operator to write his or her name at 10 meters with little difficulty.
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If you go to the article, or other articles, you find out that the army specified that they want a select-fire weapon in 9mm, so I guess forget about the P90. In all seriousness, it's used by a lot of federal agencies, including the secret service.
[BBC] Paris is to unveil its newly built perimeter defences around the Eiffel Tower to protect against terror threats.
Temporary barriers were placed around the tower in June 2016, and are now being replaced with more permanent measures.
Set to be completed in mid-July, the fences cost nearly €35 million ($40.1m; £30.1m).
More than 240 people have died in terror attacks in France since 2015.
Bernard Gaudillère, president of the Société d'Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel (SETE) which runs the iconic monument, said the new walls were "rock-solid for absolute security".
[The Lid] There is a dangerous trend that is taking place on college campuses across America and the Western world. It’s been building for decades, but it’s never been more dangerous or disturbing than it is today. No longer do our Universities strive to be places of higher education ‐ teaching our kids science, math, history, literature, or critical thinking ‐ today, their highest goal is to indoctrinate our kids to think as they do and to act in a manner accordant with their philosophy of progressivism.
Today’s professors were radicalized while at University in the 60s and 70s, and they never left their ivory towers. Now, with no real problems to protest they manufacture them and demand that their little soldiers’ go out and force the culture at large to bend to their radical beliefs.
Instead of learning about how the world works and what they can do to make it a better place, today’s college students are browbeaten and brainwashed into seeing evil and hatred wherever they look. Instead of making the world better, today’s college students are making it an uglier, meaner, and less civilized place.
[PJ] What was going on in Donald Trump's head when he tweeted Friday in response to the inspector general's devastating report on the FBI that "Christopher Wray will bring it proudly back!"?
Perhaps the president thought he had better things to do than face another interminable nomination battle for a new director. Or perhaps he was trying to co-opt Wray. But if the FBI is meant to come back, proudly or otherwise, Christopher Wray is not the man. He is part of the problem.
In fact, Wray's continuance as director signals the government is not serious about significantly reforming the FBI and that what changes will be made will be essentially cosmetic, lipstick on the proverbial pig. (The inspector general's report can be read that way as well.)
This is not just because Wray worked under James Comey in his first important job as assistant attorney general in charge of the criminal division (2003-2005). That would be guilt by association, although in this instance it's some association. What's more important is what Wray himself has done recently or, more specifically, has not.
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Yeah. My dairy farmer father in law called it "greencutting." At least you wind up with silage.
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We need some bad ass scorched earth legal type with a military background to go in there and kiss ass and take names.
I honestly can't think of a single person currently in Washington that is up to the job. It would be the death by a thousand cuts as the MSM would gleefully print every negative leaks and cry of woe and of course make up a few to make this transforming personality look like a cross between Torquemada and Jeffery Daumer.
[Townhall] On Wednesday, the American Medical Association approved an expansive list of "common-sense" demands for new gun control measures, including proposals to ban the sale and possession of "all assault-type weapons, bump stocks and related devices, high-capacity magazines, and armor piercing bullets." These gun control guidelines were approved by the AMA’s House of Delegates, a forum of the medical organization’s member physicians that meets twice a year to vote on medical and political policy recommendations.
The lengthy list of gun policy changes also includes bans on the sale of firearms and ammunition to those under 21 years of age, prohibitions on the ownership and unsupervised use of firearms by those under 21, and the establishment of a national gun registry for all firearms and a gun licensing system for gun owners.
Additionally, the AMA’s list of gun control proposals contains several measures that are reportedly intended to combat domestic violence, including a proposition to create a new legal procedure by which "family members, intimate partners, household members and law enforcement personnel" can petition courts to confiscate firearms from people "when there is a high or imminent risk for violence." Based on the AMA’s official blog post about their gun control proposals, this gun confiscation procedure does not appear to involve typical due process legal rights where the gun owner in question can defend himself or herself in court, nor is there any explicit definition for how "risk for violence" would be determined by a judge, leaving open the possibility that people without criminal convictions could be subject to having their guns taken away.
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Appears to me prescription drug abuse is killing far more Americans than firearms. Perhaps these people should concern themselves with something a little more relevant to their profession and reality.
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IIRC CDC found about 100,000 people a year die in hospitals from mistakes and mistreatment. Gun deaths (to include suicides) are about a quarter of that. Clean thy own house first.
The AMA still has more clout — and spends far more on lobbying — than the scores of medical specialty societies and splinter groups that sort doctors by political leanings. But it counts fewer than 25 percent of practicing physicians as members, down from 75 percent in the 1950s.
The same article pointed out that the AMA supported ObamaCare, which most doctors have suffered from — some of whom, our own Steve White included, having realized up front how devastating to the profession and the patients it would be.
No doubt more membership will be lost as a result of this vote — one wonders if it has joined the stable of George Soros-funded organizations...
[Townhall] Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) defended his work with President Trump on certain issues on CNN Friday despite his past criticisms of the president. As CNN’s Kate Bolduan continued to press him on the topic, Graham said he’s worked with Obama in the past and there was a double standard about his work with Trump. He then expressed himself in rather strong terminology saying on live television that he doesn’t "give a s**t" if people don’t like him working with Trump.
Boulduan reminded Graham that he went from hating Trump to working with him and that Trump "comes out and hits you again on whatever he decided to on a given day."
"Do you trust him now?" she asked.
After Graham repeatedly said he did, Bouldan told Graham, "people say this is like two-faced. Where’s the Lindsey Graham of standing up to Donald Trump?"
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I do declare. Seems Miss Lindsey might need some time on the faintin’ sofa. Defending oneself from former allies due to switch hittin’ often gives one a case of the vapors somethin’ horrible.
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Well, he does have to face us SC voters in 2 more years.
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South Carolinians are as stupid as Arizonans when it comes to elections. Lins will be re-elected and Kyrsten Enema will be elected to McShame's seat. Just watch.
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[Breitbart] President Donald Trump said Friday he was in the process of fighting a war with agencies like the FBI, citing their "very dishonest" behavior in their investigations.
"I’m actually proud because I beat the Clinton dynasty. I beat Bush dynasty, and now I guess hopefully I’m in the process of beating very dishonest intelligence," Trump said.
He said the FBI betrayed both Republicans and Democrats in the 2016 presidential election.
"[W]hat they did was incredible and a real insult to millions of people that voted in that election on both sides," Trump said.
The president repeatedly attacked Comey, calling him "the ringleader of this whole den of thieves" at the FBI and said his actions were likely "criminal."
He also mocked Comey for using a private email address to conduct business on the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of private email to conduct business.
[Khaama Press] At least three forces of Evil affiliated with 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.... of Iraq and Syria Khurasan (ISIS-K) were killed in an Arclight airstrike in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) in a statement said the airstrike was carried out in the vicinity of Achin district.
The source further added that a weapons and munitions depot of the terror group was targeted in the airstrike and as a result at least three forces of Evil were killed.
According to the Ministry of Defense, several weapons, munitions, and explosives were also destroyed during the airstrike.
Nangarhar has been among the relatively calm provinces in East of Afghanistan but the anti-government armed forces of Evil have been attempting to expand their insurgency in this province during the recent years.
Militants belonging to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... group as well as the ISIS Khurasan are active in some remote districts and parts of the province.
In the meantime, counter-terrorism involving airstrikes, both from the Afghan and US forces are underway to suppress the activities of the anti-government armed forces of Evil in this province.
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[Ynet] Ottoman Turkish authorities on Thursday detained 18 suspected 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 Istanbul and Izmir, two of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... biggest cities, officials said.
In an operation by Turkey's intelligence agency and counter-terrorism police, 10 suspected turbans were detained in the Aegean coastal province of Izmir, a security source said.
Eight more suspects were detained in Istanbul on Wednesday, police said. The suspects were thought be providing financial support to the organization, had travelled to and from conflict zones and been trained to carry out suicide kabooms, it said. It added that three more suspects were still being sought.
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[Ynet] More than 90,000 thousand Paleostinians have worshipped at the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem for Eid al-Fitr prayers.
The Mufti of Jerusalem criticized 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... 's peace plan in his sermon there.
Sheikh Muhammad Hussein said Friday, "this is an unfair plan that aims at the liquidation of the Paleostinian cause."
Trump has promised the "ultimate deal" between Israelis and Paleostinians and is expected to unveil the plan soon.
[Jpost] A bomb went kaboom! in the Shuafat refugee camp in east Jerusalem late Wednesday while the bomb was being assembled, Israel Police said after a preliminary investigation.
One person was critically injured in the kaboom and was taken to hospital.
Police said they found further kaboom in the apartment where the kaboom took place and tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! eight suspects who were taken in for questioning.
"The Israel Police will continue to investigate and act openly and covertly against all those involved and possessing kaboom intended for the preparation of bombs," the police said in a statement.
While leaving at the refugee camp, police clashed with local residents. A police front man said no injuries were reported in the festivities.
Shuafat refugee camp is located behind the West Bank security barrier and Paleostinians have free access into and out of the area.
[Ynet] The IDF has arrested a Palestinian who tried to breach the border security barrier in northern Gaza. Security checks revealed that the suspect was not armed. He has been taken in for questioning.
[Ynet] Security prisoners affiliated with the Fatah movement attacked prisoners on Friday in Nafha Prison. The prisoners involved in the attack were eventually apprehended and returned to their cells as reinforcement units made their way into the Negev-based jail.
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"Shuafat stands out above all for its squalor, its stink and its poor standard of living.
Approximately 80,000 people live in Shuafat and the new neighborhoods that have been built around it, in terribly overcrowded conditions. Most of the new buildings that can be seen from the road leading down toward the Dead Sea were constructed illegally and built very high, with no access roads. This new-old Palestinian city, in a continual state of expansion, is surrounded by walls and fences. While most of the residents have blue Israeli identification cards, only some of them have Israeli citizenship." (JPost)
She's dead now.
[DAWN] TAXILA: The Hassanabdal police on Thursday booked a man along with his son on the charge of killing his wife.
Shamroz Khan reported to the police that the accused had contracted second marriage with his sister Salma Bibi nine years ago after the death of his first wife.
He said his sister was often tortured by her husband and stepson.
He said on Thursday the accused and his son shot her dead.
The police started the paperwork but haven't done much else after an autopsy on the body at the THQ hospital.
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[DAWN] Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts... and Maryam Nawaz arrived in London on Thursday to see Kulsoom Nawaz, who is currently undergoing cancer treatment.
Sharif and Maryam boarded a foreign airline flight at the Allama Iqbal International Airport and arrived in London via Doha.
After boarding the plane Maryam tweeted: "Leaving for London. (We) will be back next week. I can’t wait to meet and hug Ami. I request you all for special dua for her health."
There are reports that the condition of Kulsoom ‐ who is in the advanced stages of lymphoma (throat) cancer ‐ has tanked and she has been shifted to hospital.
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[Zero Hedge] Earlier this week while most of the world was transfixed on the World Cup, the Trump/Kim handshake, or a multitude of other sundry events, Julius Malema, aka the Hitler of South Africa, was busy telling white people in his country that he’s not going wage genocide against them. Yet.
In an interview with TRT World News published this week, Malema said, "We have not called for the killing of white people. At least for now. I can’t guarantee the future."
When the reporter mentioned that some people might view these remarks as a call to genocide, Malema responded, "Crybabies. Crybabies," but later warned white South Africans that "the masses are on board" for "an un-led revolution and anarchy".
Malema is a prominent politician in South Africa and at the forefront of his country’s movement to confiscate land from white property owners and redistribute it to the country’s black population. If this fellow comes to power in SA, be afraid. Be very afraid.
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The Malema supporters in the Parliament wear red and are a growing number. They frequently scream down speakers, conduct walkouts, and disrupt the proceedings.
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Zuma's replacement President Cyril Ramaphosa is a hopeful breath of fresh air. His main emphasis thusfar appears to be ANC party repair. Ramaphosa seeks outside (international) investment and emphasis on education of the young people. With Zuma and Malema still lurking about, I hope he survives.
The prevailing attitude is.... "it's now our turn at the mines, agriculture, industry, and tourism."
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#1 The Malema supporters in the Parliament wear red and are a growing number. They frequently scream down speakers, conduct walkouts, and disrupt the proceedings.
MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WBTW) - Myrtle Beach police arrested four men from Orangeburg County in connection with the shooting outside Ripley’s on Ocean Boulevard Thursday morning.
Captain Joey Crosby with the Myrtle Beach Police Department says officers responded to 9th Avenue North and Ocean Boulevard around 1 a.m. Thursday morning for a report of a shooting.
People were sitting on the steps of Ripley's Believe It Or Not, according to Captain Crosby, and started shooting at two vehicles driving down Ocean Blvd. Police say the vehicles fled the scene west on 9th Ave N. The vehicles are described as a red Jeep Cherokee and a black Lexus sedan.
Captain Crosby says four people have been arrested.
Sa'Quel Pepper, 18, Myleek Henderson and Anthony Robinson, both 19, all of Orangeburg, are each charged with with simple possession of marijuana, unlawful carry of a handgun, possession of a stolen firearm, and discharge a firearm within city limits.
Da'Jour Murphy, 19, of Santee, is charged with simple possession of marijuana, unlawful carry of a handgun, possession of a stolen firearm, discharge firearm within city limits, and possession of a firearm by person convicted of a violent felony.
[DAWN] Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. on Friday telephoned Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa to confirm the news regarding the killing of banned Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain (TTP) leader Mullah Fazlullah ...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much less bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan... in a dronezap in Afghanistan Province Kunar, the military’s media wing said.
According to Inter-Services Public Relations, Mullah Fazal Ullah was "hiding in Afghanistan since 2009".
The ISPR termed the killing of Mullah Fazlullah "a positive development", adding that the TTP leader's death "gives relief to scores of Pak families who fell victims to TTP terror including the APS massacre".
Earlier there were media reports that a US drone targeted and killed Mullah Fazlullah in the Afghan province of Kunar. The Voice of America radio reported that a US military official confirmed to its correspondents that a US dronezap had "targeted the TTP leader in an Afghan province near the border with Pakistain".
The official US radio also quoted unconfirmed reports from the target area as claiming that Mullah Fazlullah had been killed.
According to *Radio Pakistain*, the banned TTP chief was leaving a Lion of Islam centre, known as Pachai Markaz, just before midnight after attending a dinner party along with several key commanders when he was killed. As soon as Fazlullah boarded the vehicle, missiles fired from an unmanned US aircraft hit them, it added.
Ashraf Ghani also made a telephone call to caretaker Prime Minister Nasir-ul-Mulk and confirmed the death of Mullah Fazlullah. PM Mulk thanked the Afghanistan's Caped President for sharing this information and termed it a significant development in the fight against terrorism, Radio Pakistain said.
The premier said, "Finally action has been taken against an enemy of the people and state of Pakistain."
President Ghani also informed PM Mulk about positive developments following the recent ceasefire announcement in Afghanistan which would help pave the way for the Afghan grinding of the peace processor to consolidate.
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[AmericanLibertyReport] One of the great controversies of the Chicago Jesus Obama administration has finally been cleared up. Ben Rhodes, the creative writing major who was placed in charge of creating a media echo chamber among stupid reporters to sucker America into the Iran nuclear deal, is publishing his memoirs this week.
Rhodes finally unravels the mystery of that photograph of Chicago Jesus Obama bowing to King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in 2009. To the American people, that photograph sure did make it look like ‐ for the first time in history ‐ an American president was bowing and groveling to a foreign leader like a whiny, sniveling, submissive little coward.
But, Ben Rhodes’ new book clears it up. You see, Rhodes says Chicago Jesus Obama was not bowing in that photograph. Chicago Jesus Obama was simply bending over to examine a case of jewels that the king had just given him.
Wait, what?
Yes, sure enough, the State Department has confirmed that Chicago Jesus Obama and many of the members of his entourage for his Muslim Apology Tour 2009 accepted big sacks full of jewels from the Saudis.
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Well either he whipped out his jewellers loupe for a quick appraisal as all POTUS's carry one with them for just these occasions or he's a whiny, sniveling, submissive little coward.
Your guess is as good as mine. But i'll go with #2
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No to mention that, according the the Profit, Blacks have the head of a donkey and are good for nothing but slavery. Those are the Prophets words, not mine.
[a French reporters tweet summarizing the RT article] The Russian space agency would like to deploy a laser in space to "incinerate space debris" -- the kind of dual system that would build an anti-satellite capability
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There isn’t any oxygen in space, so it won’t burn. Simply melting it would produce a more concentrated mass, that’s not helpful. So, “incinerate” would mean vaporize, which takes a whole lot of energy delivered precisely at great distance. That’s very difficult. (It’s not the same as the much easier task of disabling a satellite or weapon.)
But a space-based laser could vaporize part of an object such that the resulting vapor jet would de-orbit the object.
[Guardian] Paul Manafort, formerly Donald Trump’s campaign chairman, was taken into custody on Friday after a federal judge (Obama appointee Amy Berman Jackson) determined he had violated the terms of his bail as he awaits trial on multiple federal felony charges.
Manafort, 69, thus became the second former Trump aide to go to jail related to charges brought by the special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian election interference and links between Trump aides and Moscow. Manifort has yet to be convicted of ANYTHING !
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The fact they went after him for witness tampering is ironic. The FBI gave Hillary’s witnesses immunity and then invited them to her interviews with the FBI.
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People at Manafort's level all play fast n loose. Works until it doesn't.
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Unbridled power of the state on display. An argument for term limits of Federal judges. Also an example of the vindictiveness of the Swamp. Manafort's greatest sin was being Trump's campaign manager and helping defeat Hillary Clinton.
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Going to disagree, John. Manafort was probably in the wrong place at the wrong time, but he was also ripe for the picking. If I'm wrong, the wheels will grind until he's clear.
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Ramzan Kadyrov makes a cameo appearance at Putin's meeting with Mohammad bin Salman. Not surprising since Kadyrov was trying to invest in relations with Saudi crown prince over the last couple of years. pic.twitter.com/XyWm2Emx2G
[Rudaw] ERBIL, Kurdistan Region ‐ Clearing debris and repairing roads are the focus of a "major public service campaign" for Shingal announced by Iraq’s Ministry of Construction and Housing on Thursday.
The plan is to clear rubble, re-open roads, and repair and open Yezidi temples.
"About 30,000 tons of trash have been thrown away," the ministry stated. "In order to return life to Shingal, providing services in the centre and the outskirts of Shingal continues."
The ministry also plans to open government buildings in order to begin providing services like issuing passports and identity cards.
Though Shingal was liberated from ISIS in 2015, there has been little effort to rebuild the town.
About two-thirds of the Yezidi population are still living in camps, largely in Kurdistan Region’s Duhok province.
Others have left Iraq and emigrated to Europe, North America, or Australia.
Those who have returned to Shingal are living with little money and no services.
The ability to return to their homes and resume their lives with dignity is a question hanging over the Yezidi community trying to recover from genocide.
Shingal came under the control of Baghdad last October when Iraqi forces took the disputed areas from the Peshmerga.
[www.politico.eu] Former tennis superstar is war-torn Central African Republic’s attaché for sports and culture to the EU.
Former tennis superstar Boris Becker has claimed his diplomatic role for the Central African Republic protects him against legal claims in a bankruptcy case.
The three-time Wimbledon winner — who was declared bankrupt in 2017 over money owed to a private British bank — told the U.K. High Court his appointment as the war-torn African country’s attaché for sports and culture to the European Union should afford him diplomatic immunity against claims on “further assets,” BBC reported Friday.
“This means he cannot be subject to legal process in the courts of any country for so long as he remains a recognized diplomatic agent,” the former tennis star’s legal team said.
Becker won Wimbledon at the age of 17 in 1985, and again in 1986 and 1989. Following retirement, he worked as a pundit for the BBC and became a diplomat for the Central African Republic, one of the world’s poorest countries, in April.
The German former champion claimed the proceedings against him are “unjustified and unjust” and that he is invoking his diplomatic immunity to “bring this farce to an end” and stop “the gravy train for the suits.”
[DAWN] Three soldiers embraced martyrdom in exchange of fire with bandidosDeath Eaters along Pak-Afghan border in Shawal area, of North Wazoo Agency, the military's media wing said.
According to Inter-Services Public Relations, forces of Evil from across the Pak-Afghan border "attempted multiple physical and fire raids on Pakistain Army posts in Shawal". Five bandidosDeath Eaters were reportedly killed in retaliatory fire by the military personnel.
"The security forces valiantly repulsed all attempts to overrun posts and inflict major damage," ISPR added.
The soldiers who embraced martyrdom have been identified as Havildar Iftikhar, a resident of Sargodha, Sepoy Aftab from Chitral and Sepoy Usman resident of Gujrat.
The cross-border Death Eater attack comes three days after Army Chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa's Kabul visit, during which he held a one-on-one meeting with Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. and engaged in delegation-level discussions on issues of bilateral interest.
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[DAWN] A total of 31 illegal Pak immigrants colonists deported by Greek authorities arrived at Islamabad International Airport via The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... on Thursday.
Soon after the deportees arrived, 20 were allowed to return home after the verification of their travel documents.
The remaining 11 were taken into custody by the Federal Investigation Agency’s immigration staff and sent to the Anti-Human Trafficking Cell for legal proceedings.
The immigrants colonists had illegally travelled to Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and were jugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! by Greek authorities. They arrived on a scheduled flight amid tight security.
The deportees were from various parts of Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... and will be sent back to their respective districts.
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[Rudaw] Three people have been killed and several injured in a shooting incident in the southeast of the country. Conflicting reports of what occurred have emerged.
Members of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), including MP Ibrahim Halil Yildiz, came under attack in Suruc, just across the Syrian border from Kobane on Thursday, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
"There are maimed people. First aid has been given to them. There was need for an air ambulance, it has been dispatched," said Turkey's Health Minister Ahmet Demircan, adding that "we will share information as we receive it."
Three people were reportedly rubbed out and at least eight more injured.
Dogan News Agency reported that MP Yildiz was visiting shopkeepers when a heated argument with a group of unidentified persons turned violent.
MP Yildiz escaped the incident unscathed. However his older brother Mehmet Ali Yildiz is among the dead, succumbing to his wounds after arriving at the hospital.
An anonymous source claimed to Anadolu that the attackers were from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). Other reports said the group had expressed support for the PKK.
Pro-Kurdish media, however, have blamed Yildiz’s bodyguards for the attack and the deats.
An investigation is ongoing.
Surac is a majority Kurdish town in the Sanliurfa region and the location of the July 20, 2015 bombing which claimed 34 lives and injured roughly 100 people. The bombing was blamed on ISIS.
Voters in Turkey will go to the polls to elect a president and parliament in snap elections on June 24.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... forces have denied reports that the Gulf-backed troops have reached the Hodeideh Airport this afternoon, despite several claims from pro-government media outlets.
According to the official media wing of the Houthi forces, there have been no festivities near the Hodeideh Airport or most other places around the Hodeideh Governorate.
The Houthi forces added that the kabooms heard in Hodeideh were a result of heavy Arclight airstrikes from the Saudi-led Coalition.
Earlier today, Sky News Arabia reported that the Yemeni Elite Republican Guard and their allies had reached the southern entrance of the Hodeideh Airport after a fierce battle with the Houthi forces.
Since this report, several pro-government activists have claimed that the Yemeni Elite Republican Guard has seized several parts of the airport, with some even claiming that the entire installation is under their control.
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[THEHILL] The U.S. is reportedly planning to pull out of the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... Human Rights Council after festivities over key issues such as Israel.
A source told Rooters that the move could be "imminent." The council will begin a three-week session in Geneva on Monday.
Other diplomatic sources told Rooters that the withdrawal was "not a question of if but of when."
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley ...Trump administration's ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems... has clashed with the council over its treatment of Israel and has repeatedly voted against U.N. measures that were critical of that country. Most recently, the U.S. and Australia were the only two members to vote against a proposal to investigate Israel’s alleged use of excessive force in Gazoo.
Haley has criticized the council over what she called a "chronic anti-Israel bias" and threatened last year to leave.
"When the council passes more than 70 resolutions against Israel, a country with a strong human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... record, and just seven resolutions against Iran, a country with an abysmal human rights record, you know something is seriously wrong," she wrote in an op-ed for The Washington Post last June.
The U.S. rejoined the council under former President Obama after boycotting for three years under former President George W. Bush.
Haley has also called for other reforms to the body, including making it easier to expel member states with poor human rights records, specifically Venezuela, China and 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... .
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It's about time. This joke of a council needs its credibility withdrawn, pronto.
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It's a start...
Hopefully pulling out means pulling out the $ we waste on it.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Salafist tough guys in northern Hama have launched a new attack on the Syrian military’s positions this afternoon, the National Defense Forces (NDF) reported.
According to the NDF, the Salafist tough guys of Jaish al-Izza launched several missiles towards the Syrian military’s positions at the al-Mayadan District and al-Zaleen checkpoint in northern Hama.
The National Defense Forces added that the attack originated from the town of al-Lataminah, which is Jaish al-Izza’s stronghold in northern Hama.
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For some reason people don’t like their status as a product rubbed in their faces even as their posts are controlled for political correctness.
[DAWN] The use of social media networks such as Facebook to consume news has started to fall in the United States as many young people turn towards messaging apps such as Facebook-owned WhatsApp to discuss events, the Rooters Institute has found.
Usage of Facebook, the world’s largest social network, for news is down 9 percentage points from 2017 in the US and down 20 points for younger audiences, according to the Rooters Institute survey of 74,000 people in 37 markets.
"The use of social media for news has started to fall in a number of key markets after years of continuous growth," Nic Newman, research associate at the Rooters Institute for the Study of Journalism, said in the Digital News Report.
"We continue to see a rise in the use of messaging apps for news as consumers look for more private [and less confrontational] spaces to communicate," Newman said.
Facebook and Twitter are still used by many users to discover news but the discussion then takes place on messaging apps such as WhatsApp, often because people feel less vulnerable discussing events on such apps.
"Social media is like wearing a mask," an unidentified UK female respondent from the 30-45 age group was quoted as saying. "When I am in my messaging groups with my friends, the mask comes off and I feel like I can truly be myself."
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I never was on it. I really don't feel I missed anything at all.
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Facebook? Fok no! I'm a pretty common fellow, sort of private if you will, with average means and ambitions. You'd not be interested. Our time here is precious, so be a good neighbor and bugger off:
Codependency is a controversial and likely pseudoscientific concept that refers to a type of dysfunctional helping relationship where one person supports or enables another person's drug addiction, alcoholism, gambling addiction, poor mental health, immaturity, irresponsibility, or under-achievement.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has continued their massive build-up of troops in southern Syria, despite warnings from the U.S. State Department.
According to a military source in Damascus, reinforcements from the National Defense Forces (NDF) and Syrian Arab Army made their way from the Homs Governorate to Dara’a this week.
The reinforcements were deployed to the northern part of the Dara’a Governorate and will likely be moved to the Lijat region or lovely provincial capital.
Recently, the U.S. State Department warned the Syrian government against launching their long-awaited southwest Syria offensive.
State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert issued a statement saying that the U.S. will take decisive action against the Syrian government if they violate the de-escalation zone agreement in this part of the country.
The U.S. has no military presence in southwest Syria and should they take military action against the Syrian government, it will likely come from their positions at the Tanf Base in southeast Homs or their large installation in northern Jordan.
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[Al Jazeera] The government of Æthiopia has said it will release more than 304 prisoners, including 289 convicted on "terrorism" charges, according to state media.
The move is part of a raft of reforms pledged by authorities after violent unrest broke out three years ago, sparked by an urban development plan for the capital, Addis Ababa, that critics said would trigger land seizures in the surrounding Oromia region.
The demonstrations quickly spread to other parts of the country, with protesters demanding wider political freedom and equality, as well as an end to human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. abuses.
Those pardoned on Friday include three Kenyans, who were released following an agreement between the two countries to strengthen bilateral relations, according to a statement sent to state-affiliated Fana by Æthiopia's attorney general.
More than 1,000 prisoners have been released or slated for release since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came to power in April.
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[Al Jazeera] A 26-year-old Iranian refugee has died in a prison camp on the island of Nauru after an apparent suicide.
According to human rights organisation Refugee Action Coalition, the man's body was found on Saturday morning inside his family tent in the RCP3 detention centre.
He is the twelfth person to die in Australian offshore detention and the fifth asylum seeker to die on Nauru.
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[Rudaw] SORAN, Kurdistan Region ‐ Ottoman Turkish jets have bombed areas in Kurdistan’s Qandil and Bradost regions on Friday evening.
"The military aircrafts bombarded Zargali and Kalak Balayan villages, and the mountainous areas of Zargali," Rawanduz mayor Kwestan Ahmed told Rudaw.
The strikes had "created fear among the residents," he added.
Jets also struck in the Sidakan area, north of Rawanduz.
"Hakurk mountains, Gali Rash, and mountainous areas of Shapan village were bombarded," Ihsan Chalabi, the mayor of Sidakan, told Rudaw.
Three fighter jets were spotted in the skies of northern Erbil province and commenced shelling at around 8pm.
Ottoman Turkish forces have pushed at least 30 kilometres into the Kurdistan Region in their military campaign against the PKK, aiming for the group’s Qandil headquarters.
The Ottoman Turkish military claimed on Friday that their jets had "neutralized" 26 PKK fighters in Arclight airstrikes on the Qandil region on Tuesday. The military uses the term "neutralized" to refer to those killed, maimed, or otherwise removed from the battlefield.
"We are bombing Qandil right now," Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... said in a speech on Friday, Hurriyet Daily News reported.
"We will have further good news for you in following days," he added.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... , nine days away from presidential and parliamentary elections, has stepped up its campaign against the PKK. It launched its Qandil campaign earlier this year after military operations in northern Syria. The PKK is labeled a terror organization by Turkey, Europe, and the US.
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[Al Jazeera] A court in Denmark has ordered the government to compensate 18 civilians who were tortured during the Iraq war in an operation carried out by Iraqi security forces along with a Danish battalion.
In total, 23 plaintiffs had sued Denmark after they were nabbed Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! and subjected to "torture and inhumane treatment" in 2004 during operation "Green Desert" near Iraq's main port city of Basra.
The appeals court in Denmark's capital, Copenhagen, ruled on Friday that although the Danish soldiers did not join in the torture, they failed to prevent the abuse.
"The soldiers of the Danish battalion who were sent to Iraq in 2004 and partook in the operation were not found guilty of violence against the Iraqis," the court said.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... they were aware that the prisoners faced a "real risk" of being physically abused by the Iraqi security forces, judges said.
There was no evidence that the Danish battalion could have predicted the "systemic torture and violence" that took place, the court added.
Eighteen plaintiffs were awarded 30,000 Danish kroner (4,000 euro; $4,600).
Defence Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen said he was "satisfied" by the ruling exonerating the soldiers from torture, but added he would appeal the verdict because it placed Denmark "in a difficult situation".
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Kurdish-led People’s Protection Units (YPG) alleged on Friday that their troops had killed at least 15 Ottoman Turkish soldiers and rebels in the Afrin region of northwest Aleppo.
"Within the scope of the second phase of the resistance of the Age against the Ottoman Turkish occupation in Afrin, our units carried out a series of military operations against the invasion forces and its mercenaries in the vicinity of Afrin’s Sherawa district and city center, killing at least 15 Ottoman Turkish soldiers and mercenaries."
While the Ottoman Turkish military and their rebel allies control Afrin, there are many YPG sleeper cells that are believed to be located across this region.
Most recently, a group calling themselves "Suqour Afrin" (var. Afrin Hawks) issued a threat to the Ottoman Turkish-backed rebels and their families in Afrin.
Suqour Afrin demanded that the Ottoman Turkish-backed rebels and their families leave Afrin or else they were going to kill them.
Since they made this threat, several rebel fighters have been killed and at least one major field commander has been assassinated.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Officers of the Center for Countering Extremism have detained a Syrian resident in eastern Moscow, who is suspected of participating in the hostilities in Syria on the side of the murderous Moslems, a police source informed TASS.
"Employees of the General Administration for Combating Extremism, along with their colleagues from the Center for Countering Extremism and the Criminal Investigation Department have detained a 47-year-old resident of Damascus, who participated in the hostilities in Syria on the side of the murderous Moslems, disseminated propaganda and assisted illegal gangs on the territory of this country," the source said.
The murderous Moslem was detained on Thursday in one of the flats on Amurskaya Street in eastern Moscow.
According to the source, the Syrian resident is suspected of crimes under two articles of the Russian Criminal Code: "Organization of an illegal gang or participation in one" and "Public incitement of terrorist acts, public justification of terrorism or terrorist propaganda".
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[Spectator] But it also hurts because there is so much truth in Trump’s criticism. Each of the 29 Nato members agrees to spend 2 per cent of its economic output on defence, but only four do: Greece, Estonia, the UK and the US. Germany, the richest country in Europe, spends just 1.2 per cent of its GDP on defence. Angela Merkel’s offer to raise this to 1.5 per cent is still seen by Trump (and her own defence officials) as insultingly low. Together, European governments are saving about £140 billion by skimping on defence. They do so in the knowledge that the hole will be filled by Uncle Sam. Laughing all the way to the bank.
It’s not just Trump who objects to this. Successive American presidents have been losing patience. Even Barack Obama would complain about ’the Europeans and the Arab states holding our coats while we did all the fighting’. Britain only agreed to observe the 2 per cent defence spending minimum because Obama had told David Cameron that, without the money, he could forget about a ’special relationship’. And keeping UK defence spending at this bare minimum has left the British army with fewer soldiers than at any time since the Napoleonic wars. Still, Britain at least has a functioning military. It’s not clear that the same can be said of other Nato allies.
Take Germany, the target of so much of Trump’s recent ire. While defence is a low priority among a largely pacifist German public, mindful of their country’s history, a report for the German parliament earlier this year revealed the extent of the decay of its army, navy and air force. At the end of last year, the Bundeswehr had 128 Eurofighters, of which 39 could fly. It had six submarines, none of which were working when the report was compiled. Of its 13 ageing frigates, only five could sail. Of its 93 Tornado jets, 26 were ready for action. German air force trainees struggled to qualify because so few aircraft were ready for use. They're not ready because the government refuses to buy spare parts. They could; they just don't want to. And why should they, when they have a sucker to defend them free of charge?
Its staffing is also in crisis. Hans-Peter Bartels, armed forces commissioner to the German parliament, reported recently that 21,000 officer posts are vacant. ’We spent 25 years cutting the defence budget,’ he said. ’We thought everything could be solved through negotiations, agreements, co‐operation and partnerships.’
Wolfgang Ischinger, a former German envoy to Washington, said it was ’undignified’ that the most that Germany could contribute to the US-led fight against Islamic State was reconnaissance flights. ’We take photos, but we leave the dirty business of shooting to others,’ he said. ’We should not develop the reputation of being one of the world’s greatest freeloaders.’ There's that word again: freeloaders. Ungrateful freeloaders at that. When's the last time anyone heard a kind word from Europe? It's been years and years and years.
The reputation of the Germany military has not quite recovered from such fiascos as when, four years ago, soldiers in the- Panzergrenadierbataillon went on an exercise with painted broomsticks instead of guns because of a shortage of weapons. They were part of Nato’s ’Very High Readiness Joint Task Force’. Fucking broomsticks. I bet the Germans are actually proud of this.
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Remember every tax dollar to defense adds to the overall cost of products and services. Think of it as a tariff imposed on American products in the competing world market.
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...I've been saying this for years. That's why the stories about them forming a new 'European' fighting force are so damned funny - they not only don't have the manpower or equipment to do it; they'd have to rely on the US to move them anywhere.
Oh, and they can't talk to each other, either. Everybody runs different comm systems.
Mike
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In a war they'd do what the do on exercise and use their mobiles haha
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European Conservative demanded to know where Europr had a higher tariff on US products than teh US on EU.
Try cars: "The U.S. levies just a 2.5 percent tax on cars imported from Germany and other European Union members, compared with a 10 percent charge on American cars sent to Europe"
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Considering how psychotic EUropean ideology is - is the fact that they're weak is really a bad thing?
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Ah, yes Renault... I once found myself driving a brand new rental Renault 50KM through the hills of Sicily with no 1st, 2nd or reverse gears. Car had 750km on it. Got behind a tractor trailer on an up hill grade and just about stalled her out...had to run a toll booth, just fliging money toward the basket.
Yes, Iran can keep them.
That's true and I did mention that, although it's not just US cars. Japanese cars don't seem to have a problem with that.
And note that due to outward processing (EU cars parts shipped to the US for assembly) a very large portion of US car imports into the EU is actually subject to a much lower import duty.
In 2017, only 1 billion euros out of the total value of US cars imports to the EU of 6.5 billion Euros was subject to the full tariff.
I'm all for abolishing tariffs on cars completely.
But did you know that the U.S. charges 25% tariffs on imported trucks (Europe 10%)?
Tariffs vary, but if you compare ALL tariffs levied by the U.S. and Europe, there's not much difference. Very much a non-issue.
Subsidies and regulation are more important trade barriers, but very often it's hard to decide what's intended as a trade barrier and what's not.
Btw there is no "Buy European" Act in the EU. U.S. companies can compete in EU tenders on an equal footing under EU rules.
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FYI - the Buy American clause in US Federal contracts only applies to steel, thanks to a long-ago steel crisis (1980's?). Often, contractors think it's everything, but I read the Federal requirement. Right, Frank?
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I'm all for abolishing tariffs on cars completely.
I like replacing a car every 5 years.
Any earlier, charge a 40% luxury tax.
Subsidies and regulation are more important trade barriers, but very often it's hard to decide what's intended as a trade barrier and what's not.
Very true. An often overlooked aspect that can be more significant than tariffs are differences in systems of taxation in various nations. E.g., a VAT acts as a direct export subsidy which often dwarfs the impact of tariffs.
[Rudaw] ERBIL, Kurdistan Region ‐ Iraq has declared the extradition of Ali Bashar, a suspect in raping and killing a 14-year-old German girl, by the Kurdistan Regional Government to be illegal.
"The Foreign Ministry iterates that the Kurdistan Region of Iraq’s extradition of suspect Ali Bashar to Germany authorities is a legal violation due to lack of an extradition treaty between both countries," ministry spokesperson Ahmed Mahjoub said in a statement on Wednesday.
Baghdad considers this a violation on the side of those who extradited Ali Bashar, as the exchange and extradition of wanted individuals is "a sovereign authority in the specialty of the federal Ministry of Justice."
Bashar was detained by police in Duhok on Friday after Germany’s interior ministry contacted the KRG’s Ministry of Interior.
The spokesperson says that they do want justice, but within the context of law and the constitution that doesn’t "violate national illusory sovereignty."
The Kurdistan Region is a semi-autonomous region in Iraq. Its government cooperates with Interpol, while Erbil and Berlin have good diplomatic, business, and military relations which have been strengthened in the post-Saddam era.
Bashar is the primary suspect in the killing of Susanna Maria Feldman, 14, of Wiesbaden Germany.
The Iraqi Consulate General in Frankfurt was given evidence and documents, Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported on Tuesday.
The newspaper added that the case will be conducted in adult criminal court after German authorities learned Bashar was already 21 when the alleged crime was committed. They reported Bashar had falsified his age on asylum documents, as well as his name ‐ switching his first and last names.
Charges have not been announced by the prosecutor, but Germany has strict hate laws which could lead to aggravated charges.
Local German prosecutor Achim Thoma has said the cause of death was strangulation.
Bashar convinced his family to return to the Kurdistan Region on June 2. His family denies they were complicit. The family has not been charged.
"We have no evidence that the police did not behave properly," said state prosecutor Christina Graef on Tuesday in Wiesbaden, according to the German newspaper.
Duhok police chief Tariq Ahmed told Rudaw the accused, while in jug, "confessed to the crime of killing a 14 year-old German girl after he raped the girl."
Bashar had been living in a center for refugees with relatives in the same city near Frankfurt.
AFP reported he arrived in Germany in 2015 with his parents and five siblings. The agency added his asylum request was rejected in December 2016, but he obtained temporary residency pending his appeal.
In Germany, asylum seeking peaked at 890,000 in 2015. It dropped to 280,000 in 2016, and 186,644 in 2017 ‐ due in part to a deal between the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... for the latter to provide shelter to refugees in exchange for billions of euros.
[Rudaw] ERBIL, Kurdistan Region ‐ The family of Ali Bashar, a 22-year-old Kurdish man accused of raping and murdering a 14-year-old German girl, was not complicit in his crime and knew nothing of it when they left the country, according to Bashar’s brother.
"A lot of people currently think that our family was complicit with the boy. The family isn’t complicit with him. The family doesn’t even know whether he has done it or not. If he has, he has kept it a secret," Bashar’s brother told Rudaw.
"We were there for four years. Then my father had a heart attack. We returned due to our father," the brother said, rebuffing claims they had fled justice on fake passports.
"Our family didn’t know a thing. If our family knew, we wouldn’t [have returned to Iraq]," the brother said.
The family would like to return to Germany, he said. NO!
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Everything concerning this sc*m and his sc*m family has been illegal:
Illegal entry, fake identity, fake refugee, violent crime spree including armed robbery and possibly child rape, fraudulently obtaining benefits, illegal exit using multiple identities (one of which might have been valid), and of course confessed murder.
None of this would have been possible without the German political class deciding to be an accomplice.
This had been am ongoing abuse of Germany's coerced hospitality and willingness to help; an abuse of the vilest and most despicable kind!
Seriously, where is the f*n outrage?!? Where?
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[DAWN] The Milli Moslem League (MML) ‐ a political face of 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... -led Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... ‐ after repeatedly failing to get itself registered with the Election Commission of Pakistain, has announced to contest the upcoming general election from the platform of Allahu Akbar Tehrik (AAT).
MML spokesperson Tabish Qayyum, while speaking to DawnNewsTV, attested to the fact that after the ECP again dismissed its application on Wednesday, their party's candidates decided to contest the election using the Allahu Akbar Tehrik platform.
Responding to a query regarding the number of candidates from MML standing for election, the spokesperson revealed that around 200 hopefuls will be contesting from across the country.
It is pertinent to mention that the AAT is a political party registered with the ECP, whose leader is Mian Ahsan Bari and which has been allotted the symbol of 'chair' for the 2018 election.
The party was registered a decade ago and contested the 2013 election with the symbol of cow.
Qayyum said that the contestants are facing a lot of difficulties following the ECP's refusal to register their party.
"Our candidates are under a lot of pressure following the commission's decision," he said, adding that the party had hope till the very end that its registration would be approved.
When asked about the possibility of an alliance with other parties, the spokesperson said that the party is in talks with Pakistain Moslem League-Quaid (PML-Q), Pakistain Moslem League-Functional (PML-F), and others as well.
To a question regarding whether the party wishes to form an alliance with the Nawaz league, Qayyum categorically denied the prospect, iterating that an alliance was neither possible nor on the cards for MML, because the PML-N government had been opposing the MML's registration with the ECP.
The MML has been a recipient of the support of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD)'s Hafiz Saeed, who has been accused of alleged involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, and on whose head a bounty of $10 million has been placed.
In April 2018, the US Department of State amended its designation 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... (LeT), identifying Milli Moslem League (MML) and Tehrik-e-Azadi-e-Kashmire (TAK) as LeT affiliates, which makes it impossible for them to register as political parties.
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[DAWN] 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... disputed findings by the Justice Department on Friday that former FBI Director James Comey's handling of the Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary Crooked Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away... email probe was not politically motivated, declaring that the FBI was biased "at the top level" and "plotting against my election."
The department's inspector general report, while critical of the FBI and Comey personally, did not find evidence that political bias tainted the investigation of Clinton's email practices in the months and days leading up to Trump's election.
But on Friday, after tweeting that he did a "great service" to the nation by firing Comey, Trump marched out to the White House North Lawn to talk with "Fox and Friends" for more than half an hour, claiming the report "totally" exonerated him, then pointed towards the accomplishments he said he had achieved and complained about not getting proper credit.
Then he turned to other news hounds and went over the same list for another 20 minutes.
On the inspector general report that found no political bias in the FBI's final conclusions, he said, "The end result was wrong. There was total bias."
"Comey was the ringleader of this whole, you know, the den of thieves. It was a den of thieves," he said.
Trump's comments followed the IG's 500-page report that said Comey was "insubordinate" in his handling of the Clinton investigation because he broke agency protocol. The report also rebuked FBI officials for exchanging anti-Trump text messages during the 2016 campaign.
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If a duly elected President is removed from office ay leftists for no reason whatsoever, everything in this country will crash. The markets, the currency, the banking system, the rule of law, the econnmy, everything.
The extreme threat to the United States is the attacks and attempts to take out the President of the Unïted States and anyone associated with the President by a domestic army of roque players.
[News 7 Miami] JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WSVN) ‐ Police say a man who tried to carjack two people was thwarted after the victims both pulled out guns to protect themselves.
According to Fox 30, Jacksonville police officers arrested 36-year-old Christopher Raymond Hill, charging him with strong-arm robbery, carjacking with firearm or deadly weapon, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and trespassing. Yes, I think you could easily say Chris has that predator look.
Detectives said the incident began when Hill robbed a Walmart liquor store, and attempted to flee in a silver Ford SUV. However, witnesses said the vehicle would not start, so he first tried to carjack Scott Reardean at knifepoint, cutting him on his arms and legs.
"I reached in between my glove box and my console, between my seats, reached down and got my weapon and brandished it for him," Reardean told WJXT. "He was like, ’Don’t shoot me.’ I was like, ’Then get out of here.’"
Hill then jumped into the passenger seat of a woman’s car in a Starbucks drive-thru. Police said the woman got out of her car and grabbed a pistol from her trunk, pointing it at Hill until he ran off.
Reardean said he was glad he had his gun with him for self-defense.
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Prices for used pistols were mostly higher. Prices for used rifles were higher.
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[IsraelTimes] Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", threats to send 5,000 flaming devices from Gazoo toward Israel fail to materialize, with residents focused on Eid al-Fitr and World Cup games. Army uses new radar system to try to intercept fire kites
As the Hamas terror group threatened to launch 5,000 flaming kites and balloons at Israel on Friday, Israeli children at the Gazoo border countered with an airborne message of peace.
At Kibbutz Nir Am, which has suffered a number of fires sparked by burning kites flown from Gazoo, children and residents launched balloons carrying candy towards the Paleostinian enclave, Hadashot TV news reported. Additionally, kibbutz members on Saturday will replant groves at Nir Am burned by the kites in a message of "they burn and we plant," the network said. Nir Am is one of a number of border communities to have had its fields burned as a result of flaming kites and balloons sent over the border as part of the Hamas-led "March of Return" protests.
Hamas threats to send 5,000 flaming kites and balloons into Israel on Friday largely failed to materialize, with many Paleostinians busy with the three-day Eid al-Fitr holiday that caps the fasting month of Ramadan. Eid is traditionally a time of family visits and festive meals, with children getting new clothes, haircuts and gifts.
Attention may also have focused on the World Cup in Russia, with two matches featuring Arab teams taking place Friday afternoon as Egypt, without the iconic Mohammad Salah, took on Uruguay and Iran played Morocco.
Nevertheless, incendiary balloons and kites set 11 fires inside Israel, which were extinguished by the fire services and local volunteers.
In light of Hamas’s call for the mass launching of incendiary devices toward Israel, Israeli military aircraft fired warning shots at a group of Paleostinians in Gazoo involved in the launching of burning balloons.
"A short while ago, an aircraft fired warning shots at an incendiary balloon cell and at vehicles in the south of the Gazoo Strip," the military said in a statement.
"The IDF views the use of incendiary balloons and kites with great severity and will operate to prevent their use," the military said.
It was the third time in 48 hours that Israel shot up Gazooks as they attempted to start fires in Israeli territory with airborne arson devices.
There were no reports of injuries in any of the Israeli strikes.
Also Friday Hadashot news reported that Israel for the first time used a new radar to find kites and balloons, which were then intercepted by drones. The radar, initially designed to detect gliders, was calibrated to pick up the kites.
The method of firing warning shots appeared to be a new tactic that the military was looking to adopt in order to counter the threat posed by these kites and balloons, which have burned thousands of acres of farmland, forests and nature reserves in the regions around the Gazoo Strip, according to Israeli officials.
Earlier on Friday, a booby-trapped balloon was flown into Israeli territory, landing on a highway in the Sha’ar Hanegev region. Police sappers were called to the scene and destroyed the balloon and the bomb attached to it in a controlled kaboom, police said.
The military has sought to counter these kites and balloons with teams of soldiers operating drones. Israeli officials have deemed the drone program a success, but it has not provided a perfect solution.
The Tax Authority estimated that the damage so far amounts to upwards of NIS 5 million ($1.4 million).
This was likely the calmest Friday since Gazooks’ launched their weekend fence protests in late March. Several dozen Paleostinians staged protests along the border throughout the day without any unusual events or casualties on either side of the border.
Paleostinians launched several dozen incendiary kites and balloons towards the Gazoo vicinity, causing 11 fires.
[Al Jazeera] Children as young as 12 and other vulnerable refugees and migrants have been physically and verbally abused by French border guards, international human rights organisation Oxfam said on Friday.
Citing witness statements, Oxfam accused French police of repeatedly withholding food, water and blankets from underage refugees who crossed the border into France from the Italian town of Ventimiglia, where some 16,500 refugees currently live.
"French police officers are not upholding international standards," Oxfam's Chiara Romagno said in a statement. "They taunt children and mistreat them. Some children have had the soles of their shoes cut off before being sent back to Italy," she added. "Jean-Francoise, why you cuttin' the soles of the shoes of those kiddies?"
"Gonna make soup."
The report said children complained about being "physically and verbally abused, and detained overnight in cells without food, water or blankets and with no access to an official guardian," all contrary to French and EU law.
"In one case, a very young Eritrean girl was forced to walk back across the border along a road with no pavement carrying her 40-day-old baby," the report said.
According to European law, unaccompanied children requesting asylum cannot be sent back to where they came from.
Most of the refugees were fleeing persecution and war in countries such as Sudan, Eritrea, Syria and Afghanistan.
"The French authorities do not recognise any of them as asylum seekers and push them back to Italy immediately after crossing, even though they are required by law to assess the situation of each child," the report, which is based on dozens of testimonies, says.
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Could be worse... kids could've been processed by Oxfam.
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"In one case, a very young Eritrean girl was forced to walk back across the border along a road with no pavement carrying her 40-day-old baby," the report said.
Sure. She'll be a REAL asset to her new country
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unaccompanied children requesting asylum cannot be sent back to where they came from
Given the high percentage of those claiming to be asylum-seeking children in the past few years who had actually been fully adult for years....
[National Review] On Thursday, the Justice Department inspector general released a sprawling 568-page report on the handling of the Hillary Clinton emails investigation in 2015-16 by the FBI and DOJ. There’s far too much in the report to detail here in one bite, as it covered (among other things):
1. The decision not to charge Secretary Clinton or anyone else for the mishandling of State Department emails, some containing classified information, by routing them through her now-infamous "homebrew" server (a decision that looks ever more reckless now that we have all focused more intently on the voracious email-hacking appetite of hostile powers such as Russia and China);
2. The also now-notorious tarmac meeting between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton, and the impact of Lynch’s refusal to recuse herself from the investigation;
3. The decisions by Jim Comey to make public statements in July and October 2016 in the midst of the election;
4. The ethical conflicts of FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe (over his wife’s receipt of campaign donations from Clinton ally Terry McAuliffe), and McCabe’s role in slow-walking the followup investigation of Anthony Weiner’s laptop;
5. The ethical conflicts of Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik and his ties to John Podesta and the Clinton campaign;
6. Jim Comey’s own use of a Gmail account for official FBI business, as well as that of others at the FBI;
7. The affair between FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa Page and their various text messages (some more related to the Russia investigation, which was outside the scope of the IG report) bashing Trump;
8. The ethical tangles of the FBI’s decision to allow Hillary Clinton to be represented at her interview by lawyers who were also key witnesses;
9. Pervasive FBI leaks and the receipt of various financial benefits by FBI agents from the media; and
10. An FBI Twitter document dump on the Clinton Foundation a week before the election.
Nobody comes out of this report looking good, and it is hard to blame voters who come away feeling vindicated in the view that that the entire class of elected officials, civil servants, and the press are a corrupt racket.
[ALMASDARNEWS] One day after the Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... ’s interview with al-Alam, his highest ranking general was sent to southwest Syria to inspect the forces before any offensive is launched.
According to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), Defense Minister Major General ’Ali ’Abdullah Ayoub traveled to southern Syria this morning to not only inspect the troops, but also, celebrate ’Eid al-Fitr with the soldiers in Dara’a.
Maj. Gen Ayoub was briefed by field commanders on the combat operations of the army and armed forces in the area, stressing on the importance of combating the remnants of myrmidons.
The top Syrian general often makes trips like these before the Syrian Army launches new offensives.
However, the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... despite the massive build-up of troops, the Syrian Army has postponed their offensive in order to continue reconciliation talks with the rebel forces.
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[ONLINEATHENS] A rabid bobcat recently attacked a Hart County grandmother in her yard, spurring a furious battle that ended with the cat’s strangulation death.
"I thought, ’Not today.’ There was no way I was going to die," DeDe Phillips said Thursday as she recalled the attack that occurred June 7 at her home off Liberty Church Road.
Phillips has begun a round of rabies shots at Northeast Georgia Medical Center. She also has a broken finger, and numerous bite and claw wounds to her hands, arms, chest and legs.
"I’m very lucky," the 46-year-old woman said.
The unprovoked attack occurred about 6 p.m. She had been working on her truck that afternoon and posted a bumper sticker that read: "Women who behave rarely make history." She planned to photograph the sticker and send it to her husband.
She walked out of the house with her cell phone.
"My neighbor’s dog was barking and it drew my attention," she said. "I saw the cat and I took a picture. The cat took two steps and was on top of me. ... It came for my face."
Phillips grew up in the country, where her father-in-law was once a trapper of bobcats. As a result, she knew something about the animal’s behavior.
"They go for your jugular ... because when they can get the vein you’re dead in a couple of minutes," she said.
This bobcat did go for her upper body.
"It caught me slightly on my face, but I got him before he could do much damage there," she said. "I took it straight to the ground and started inching my hands up to its throat. I knew that was the only way I was getting out of this."
With both hands around the bobcat’s neck she began squeezing, but she never shouted for help because her 5-year-old granddaughter was in the house.
"I was scared if I screamed for help that my granddaughter would come out and I didn’t want that to happen," she said.
"Once I got him where he wasn’t moving I started screaming for my daughter-in-law to call 911," she said. Phillips’ son was also called after the 911 call and he showed up with a gun.
But Phillips would not release her grip on the crazed animal as she feared it might not truly be dead.
She didn’t want her son to fire the gun because she was so close, so he pulled a knife.
"My son stabbed it four or five times, but it never budged so I knew it was completely dead," she said.
After Hart County deputies and an ambulance arrived, Phillips drove herself to a hospital. She learned the next day the bobcat was rabid.
Phillips lives in a rural area near the Elbert County line and said she learned only recently a rabid skunk and rabid fox were found in the same area.
Phillips’ cousin Amy Leann Mize has set up an account in Fundly.com to raise money for Phillips medical expenses as the first round of rabies shots already have cost her $10,000. She also faces expenses for treatments to her wounds.
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"Toxic femininity?" No way. This is just an old-school grannie from the days when a woman was expected to be competent in caring for her family, capable of baking cornbread, making soap, and strangling the occasional bobcat.
[ALMASDARNEWS] A reconciliation delegate was assassinated in the Dara’a Governorate, Thursday, as he was preparing to enter his office near the al-Quneitra provincial border.
According to local repports, Dr. Mousa Qanbas was entering his clinic in Tal al-Harrah, when unknown assailants opened fire on him.
Dr. Qanbas was succumbed to his wounds before he could receive any medical care, a source told al-Masdar.
Militant groups have recently targeted residents and rebel factions for holding reconciliation talks with the government in southern Syria; this has prompted the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) to threaten to launch their military operations in Dara’a and al-Quneitra.
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A multi part series to be posted in coming days. Part I: the USA. Here's a selection, click through for the whole thing:
[Zeihan] The great upheavals of the World Wars left the US the pre-eminent power in every respect that matters. Over the course of fifty years, the Americans had gone from almost no navy, stealing Britain’s IP, and being a major global debtor to having the only navy, the technological edge, and to being an economic power on an unprecedented scale. The US had a choice: seek isolation once again and watch its only real competitor – the Soviets – slowly eat away at the periphery until they could challenge the US or find a way to take a ragtag group with long lists of mutual historical grievances a mile long and get them to work together. A real life Magnificent Seven.
The new idea was as straightforward as it was revolutionary: use America’s newfound and historically unprecedented economic power to pay all the previous competing powers of eras gone by to be on the same side. Any country that had any meaningful imperial presence could only do so if it also had a significant naval force. These empires’ clashes ‐ over resources, populations and trade routes ‐ were the root causes of nearly every significant military conflict of the entire industrial period, and they culminated into the First and Second World Wars.
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Bottom line: All the chaos and disruption of the past 15 months has been the result of a Donald Trump who has been actively held back. Now the world gets to see what a Trump unleashed – an America unleashed – can do.
Now they get the hangover, but a lot of countries are just trying Hair-of-the-dog QE (temporal debt) in order to delay the pain of actually fixing their problems.
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Beso, it's also ironic that while Ike warned about it he also "proved" its worth with his successful conduct of the war, getting all those ego maniacal generals on the same page.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Israeli Defense Minister’s remarks follow a report printed in the Wall Street Journal last week claiming that Iranian and Hezbollah forces had left the areas of Daraa and Quneitra in southern Syria, only to return disguised as Syrian troops, in a bid to avoid Israeli strikes.
Speaking to the Israeli radio station 103FM, Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that although there are several dozen Iranian "so-called advisors" in southern Syria, there are no forces there disguised as Syrian army forces or operating within its ranks.
Last week, The Wall Street Journal citing senior Syrian rebels who claimed that Iranian troops and Hezbollah fighters dressed in Syrian army uniforms were present in southern Syria.
Earlier, Russia, the US, Jordan and Israel discussed the withdrawal of all non-Syrian military formations from the southern de-escalation zone on the country’s southern borders with Israel and Jordan.
Tel Aviv insists on the withdrawal of the alleged Hezbollah and Iranian military presence in the country, and has vowed to pursue a military campaign against these forces on Syrian territory.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Rodong] Chairman Kim Jong Un and President Trump expressed expectation and belief that the two countries which have lived in the quagmire of hostility, distrust and hatred would pass the unhappy past over and dynamically advance toward an excellent and proud future beneficial to each other and another new era, the era of the DPRK-U.S. cooperation would open up.
[American Thinker] Here's a thought experiment: what happens if you release criminals, a lot of them, from jail?
[National Review] And they won’t be solved by whining about criticism.
[BBC] Paris is to unveil its newly built perimeter defences around the Eiffel Tower to protect against terror threats.
[The Lid] There is a dangerous trend that is taking place on college campuses across America and the Western world. It’s been building for decades, but it’s never been more dangerous or disturbing than it is today. No longer do our Universities strive to be places of higher education ‐ teaching our kids science, math, history, literature, or critical thinking ‐ today, their highest goal is to indoctrinate our kids to think as they do and to act in a manner accordant with their philosophy of progressivism.
[Townhall] On Wednesday, the American Medical Association approved an expansive list of "common-sense" demands for new gun control measures, including proposals to ban the sale and possession of "all assault-type weapons, bump stocks and related devices, high-capacity magazines, and armor piercing bullets." These gun control guidelines were approved by the AMA’s House of Delegates, a forum of the medical organization’s member physicians that meets twice a year to vote on medical and political policy recommendations.
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
According to Inter-Services Public Relations, Mullah Fazal Ullah was "hiding in Afghanistan since 2009".
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...Trump administration's ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems...
[Al Jazeera] A 26-year-old Iranian refugee has died in a prison camp on the island of Nauru after an apparent suicide.
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
Qayyum said that the contestants are facing a lot of difficulties following the ECP's refusal to register their party.
...the 
[DAWN] President 
Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary 
[News 7 Miami] JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WSVN) ‐ Police say a man who tried to carjack two people was thwarted after the victims both pulled out guns to protect themselves.
[National Review] On Thursday, the Justice Department inspector general released a sprawling 568-page report on the handling of the Hillary Clinton emails investigation in 2015-16 by the FBI and DOJ. There’s far too much in the report to detail here in one bite, as it covered (among other things):
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[ONLINEATHENS] A rabid bobcat recently attacked a Hart County grandmother in her yard, spurring a furious battle that ended with the cat’s strangulation death.
