[Dallas News] 'A Human Wall for Trump' A handful of national guardsmen in a camouflaged pickup, including a soldier standing in the back, his finger on the trigger of a mounted assault weapon, lazily chase their targets along the banks of the Rio Grande.
The fugitives ‐ two women and their children ‐ stand no chance. They simply stop, their will and dreams broken, just feet from the border. U.S. Border Patrol agents watch from their side of the river as the Mexican guardsmen radio immigration officials to pick up their latest prey. It's their job, and if they started doing it 40 years ago, we'd all be a lot better off.
One mother begins to sob in anguish: "This can't be. This can't be." When asked what will happen to the detained families, a soldier tersely replies: "They weren't apprehended, nor were they detained. They were rescued."
Then he kicks the dust from the ground and quietly adds, "I guess we stole their dreams." Wait, I need another box of tissues.
"Mexico essentially built a human wall for Trump, since we can't police our own border at the price of our own dignity," said the Rev. Francisco Javier Calvillo, director of Juarez's Casa del Migrante migrant shelter.
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Supposed to be tomorrow, and there was more from the other point of view, if you didn't drown in your tears. But the dog barked and my finger twitched.
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So they're doing a good job. The article goes on to say :
But López Obrador still enjoys high approval ratings. A recent poll in Mexico's El Financiero newspaper showed a majority of Mexicans — 65 percent — approve of efforts to stop migrants from crossing through Mexico without proper documents. And 68 percent approve of the use of the national guard to do the job.
All the boo hoo hoo in the world is not going to convince both the Mexicans and Americans of this 'evil border control' bullshit.
[CNN] Most commentators portray Harris' exchange with Biden during the second night of the Democratic debate as a potential game-changer for the Democratic presidential nomination. But Harris dropped a bomb on Biden that's bigger than politics. She exposed a psychological shift in some parts of the black community that's been building for years.
The old days of black people putting up with questionable leaders because they felt like they had no other choice may be over. No more talk about trying to understand white people's racism, forgetting the impact of slavery, moving on from the past because "this is a time of healing."
Forgiveness may not always be divine; sometimes it leads to something worse.
"Look at what forgiveness has gotten us. It gave us Trump," said Wes Jackson, a commentator who said he cheered when he saw Harris confront Biden during the debate.
Biden not only misread the room, he misread the time.
Second, forgiveness is not unique to blacks. Whites often forgive those who wrong them as well.
Third, IMO Kamala Harris is an opportunist who will do anything to advance her personal cause. She sensed opportunity and she struck Biden by playing the race card. As it is, it looks like she lied about some of what she put out such as busing and Berkeley elementary being segregated at the time she went there. She is another Hillary Clinton.
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"A girl slept her way to the top. That little girl was me"
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The leftist seem to forget that forced busing was hugely unpopular, and it still would be.
If the German government forced kids from affluent or just plain middle class neighborhoods to be bused into slum districts with decrepit schools, that government wouldn't last a week.
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Your government must be a little more responsive than ours.
Or perhaps they're similar after all--was the expansion of immigration wildly popular?
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In 2013 the Conservative CDU/CSU got 41.5% of the votes.
In 2017 it got 32.9%
Last poll was 26.4%
That popular
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"That slut was me."
[insert chummy photo of young Harris and sugar daddy Willie Brown"]
[Babylon Bee] Calling the measure a "major breakthrough" for the state's education system, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Friday a bill that mandates field trips to gay bars, strip clubs, and abortion clinics for the state's second graders.
"It's important that our kids receive a comprehensive education," Newsom said in a ceremony marking the bill's signing. "For too long, kids in our elementary schools today have not had a fully interactive LGBTQ+ experience. Sure, they can go to their local library and have a drag queen read them a story, or they can dress in drag themselves and go dance at gay bars as we applaud their actions. But it's not enough."
"That all ends today with the signing of the Gay Bar Field Trip Equality Act. Now, we can be assured that our state's kids will be fully immersed in alternative lifestyle education," he said proudly.
Kids will be taken to a local gay bar and given a free beer. They will be free to ask any questions about the LGBT lifestyle, as long as they don't condemn it. Some lucky students may even be selected to work at the bar. "This isn't creepy, trust me," Newsom said.
Governor Newsom continued to assure parents, however, that California public schools are unbiased institutions and that the kids are not being brainwashed to accept the LGBT agenda.
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Rats! From the headline, I went with Not Bee. In my defense, it's California.
[PolitiChicks] Progressive policies pretty much always result in the same thing: the poor stay poor, the middle class gets poorer, and the rich stay rich ‐ even if a little less so.
It reminds me of something Margaret Thatcher said 23 years ago of liberals, "They would rather the poor were poorer, provided that the rich were less rich." Thatcher’s comment is as true today as it was then.
Isn’t it interesting that despite the reliable failure of progressive policies, they continue their dogged advocacy of doubling down?
It’s even more mystifying given that so many progressive Democrats are indeed themselves rich elites. If you’re rich, why push an agenda designed to make yourself "a little less rich?"
Some blame it on liberal guilt. Others claim it’s do-gooderism. But if either of these motives are true, then why push policies that impoverish everyone else? Neither guilt nor good intentions can possibly be satisfied by hurting others.
I have a different explanation. To me it looks like it’s all a grab for political power.
I say that first because a recurring historical pattern shows elites of nearly any ideological stripe ‐ whether monied or intellectual ‐ tend to desire control over their neighbors. In fact, it seems power over others is one of those common maladies of the human heart that mobilizes and motivates every bit as much as lust or greed.
Joe and Fauxcahontas are history.
[Hot Air] Timing is everything. After Kamala Harris delivered one of her most memorable lines from the Democrat debate Thursday night (she had two of them and both involved Joe Biden) an email went out to her Hollywood supporters inviting them to a fundraiser. The line was "America does not want ... a food fight. They want to know how we’re going to put food on their table." This happened only about half-way through the debate.
Never mind the fact that the line is a wrong-headed Marxist-style way of thinking. Americans do not look to the government, or the president specifically, to put food on a household’s table. Let’s acknowledge that it was quite a convenient bit of timing. It certainly adds to the speculation that her zinger was a part of a well-coordinated plan. If you watched the debate, you know that Joe Biden and Eric Swalwell went back and forth about the need for a new generation of leadership and most of the other candidates jumped into the fray. As the audience cheered Kamala’s act of mediation, Team Kamala took advantage of the moment. The emails were sent.
[The Hill] Former Ohio Gov. John "Son of a Postal Worker”
Kasich (R) slammed the Trump administration late Friday over its detainment of child migrants near the southern border, calling it "an unspeakable disgrace and a stain on this nation."
"Watching and reading reports about the gross neglect and mistreatment we're inflicting on kids is appalling," Kasich wrote in a commentary for CNN. "I ask myself, ’Can this be America? Is this the way we in this country treat any human being, let alone the youngest, most fragile and most innocent among us?’"
"But it's true," he added. "What we're seeing now is undeniably un-American, inhumane and shameful."
Kasich, a frequent Trump critic, voiced concern about the migrant family separations occurring at the U.S.-Mexico border, writing that whether the separations are taking place because of "cruel intent, scandalous neglect or a lack of funding," he "care[s] more about how we can help these children."
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The treatment of American citizenship is a stain on the politics of America that too long ago embraced 'citizen of the world' status but carries their programs out upon the back of every sovereign taxpayer.
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What is the government supposed to do? The adults need to be detained. The children cannot be detained in the adult centers where the "parents" are.
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Go ahead, Kasich. Run again.
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[Washington Examiner] The Federal Emergency Management Agency is failing to pay out disaster aid in hurricane-stricken Puerto Rico and struggling to work with the commonwealth's government, according to federal contractors on the ground and the agency’s own internal data.
FEMA is months behind deadline for disbursing billions in disaster aid owed to the commonwealth government, its towns, and its residents nearly two years after Hurricane Maria struck.
Only a fraction of the money approved by Congress through FEMA has been delivered, just $380 million of permanent recovery work, a failure that belies President Trump's complaints that the territory and its 3.2 million U.S. citizens have received too much money.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimates Puerto Rico experienced $90 billion worth of damage from the storm.
FEMA representative Abbey Dennis argued that dollar amounts alone were not sufficient for measuring recovery progress. "Every disaster is different," Dennis said in an email to the Washington Examiner. "Numbers alone cannot and do not provide a complete picture of what is needed to help communities recover."
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Puerto Rico makes Chicago looks like modern efficient Scandinavian government. It's a one party criminal organization that is nothing but Caracas with a line to the US Treasury. Things don't get done till the 'right' people are hired or paid. FEMA is stuck with US laws that eventually show where the money went and those officials don't want to go jail if stuff that is occurring gets out. If we really had a 'media' the amount of official obstruction and theft would have appalled decent America. Place should have been put under marital law and rebuilt a la Germany, Japan, and Iraq before being put back in the hands of the pols.
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Dennis, the FEMA representative, confirmed that the territory’s debt contributed to the decision to require an “additional level of review” for funding but said that FEMA recently removed that added scrutiny in March on the grounds that the commonwealth government demonstrated that it could successfully track the money.
Reads to me as "ripe for corruption by locals." That's likely the sticking point in distributing funds.
[Breitbart] President Donald Trump met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un on Sunday, stepping into North Korea as he shook hands in a moment of high-stakes diplomacy.
Trump made history, becaming the first American president to step foot into North Korea, despite decades of conflict between the two nations.
Trump initiated the meeting at the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between North Korea and South Korea, first publicly calling for the meeting on Twitter before North Korea moved quickly to make the meeting happen.
"Good to see you again", said Kim through a translator, meeting at the DMZ. "I would never have expected to see you at this place."
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...I've been to the DMZ; it's someplace that leaves a lasting impression one way or the other. What truly amazes me here is that Fat Boy seems to have decided PDQ to go down there and do this.
Why?
Mike
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There's an old Klingon proverb - 'Only a Trump can go to North Korea.'
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Why, indeed. It's a couple of things. One is that Trump is the first Western leader to treat Pudge as a grown-up and to show him the respect due the leader of a nation. Miss Manners would approve.
Second, there is an opportunity for Kim to be the father of modern NKor, a regular Lee Kuan Yew who took his people from 3rd Word to 1st World in a single generation. It's a bit early to be betting on the outcome, but a possibility exists which didn't before. That old Klingon proverb ain't too far off.
(Bloomberg) -- It remains the mystery at the heart of Boeing Co.'s 737 Max crisis: how a company renowned for meticulous design made seemingly basic software mistakes leading to a pair of deadly crashes. Longtime Boeing engineers say the effort was complicated by a push to outsource work to lower-paid contractors.
The Max software -- plagued by issues that could keep the planes grounded months longer after U.S. regulators this week revealed a new flaw -- was developed at a time Boeing was laying off experienced engineers and pressing suppliers to cut costs.
Increasingly, the iconic American planemaker and its subcontractors have relied on temporary workers making as little as $9 an hour to develop and test software, often from countries lacking a deep background in aerospace -- notably India.
In offices across from Seattle's Boeing Field, recent college graduates employed by the Indian software developer HCL Technologies Ltd. occupied several rows of desks, said Mark Rabin, a former Boeing software engineer who worked in a flight-test group that supported the Max.
The coders from HCL were typically designing to specifications set by Boeing. Still, "it was controversial because it was far less efficient than Boeing engineers just writing the code," Rabin said. Frequently, he recalled, "it took many rounds going back and forth because the code was not done correctly."
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The coders from HCL were typically designing to specifications set by Boeing. Still, "it was controversial because it was far less efficient than Boeing engineers just writing the code," Rabin said. Frequently, he recalled, "it took many rounds going back and forth because the code was not done correctly."
Sorry, but it is not just cheap, foreign coders. Long before foreign coders were even thought of being brought in, US Corporations run by incompetent top management could not release decent code written by $100 an hour US software engineers for ONE REASON. They had no idea how to TEST CODE.
I have seen huge enterprise systems crash resulting in multiple VPs and large development groups sh8t canned and replaced. Did that fix the problem???? NO!
Not until a decent, real world, internal test environment was established did things finally half way begin to work out in the real world.
This is a sign that Boeing still does not get it. Don't fly in their products until stop blaming cheap or expensive programmers and begin talking about what programmers desperately need and that is a world class systems test environment layer.
And tell these loser execs to get out of the liberal political arena to get promotions and government work and back to turning out A++ results.
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"it took many rounds going back and forth because the code was not done correctly."
P.S. Many rounds is not even close to enough. I want to see thousands and thousands of bugs caught by QA and fixed by the programmers in the most likely hundreds of thousands of lines of code in the system.
Boeing AND Bloomberg and the USA are totally lost and are way, way off track now. This is truly frightening because more lives are going to be lost on Boeing planes.
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Wait, do you have to be under or over qualified to be part of an idiot-test group?
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...Boeing is now thisclose to explaining up on Capitol Hill just what the hell is going on over there:
*The 737 MAX debacle, obviously
*They're still having show-stopping problems with the KC-46 Pegasus - technical problems, especially the remote refueling system (probably the DUMBEST gorram idea ever bolted on to a US military aircraft) and what can no longer be described as anything other than sabotage by the Boeing Renton assembly crews (material left in critical spaces), and God alone knows how much of that screwed up code has made it into the airplane, and
*Now there's reports of MCAS-type problems popping up with the 787.
Somebody decided to cut a corner too many, and now they get to pay for it.
Mike
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SUITS
There's a saying in development
1. You can have it on time
2. You can have it on budget
3. You can have it done right
You get only two of the three, now which are they?
I'd put my bet on one and two.
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After more than 30 years in all aspects of software development this really does seem to be the culmination of cut corners.
First- when budget or schedule is tight the first thing to go is testing.
Second thing to go is documentation.
Third thing is independent testing, test your own work is the rule.
Given how many IT shops I've worked in I can almost hear the conversations. My experience in general is that the Indians are competent for basic stuff but have no initiative, the Eastern Europeans were arrogant and wouldn't follow directions. The big six consultants insisted on being in charge and ordering everyone around even if they didn't know what the project was. Yes there were exceptions but they were few and far between.
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Looks like Boeing was using Third World programmers to do the software development and Third World airlines to do the QA testing.
Bad decisions in the board room. Senior management, why do they hate us?
And, excuse me if I don't know much about aviation, but my understanding of the auto pilot feature is that you wait until the plane reaches a cruising altitude to turn it on and then only to keep the plane on course until you reach your destination. Even then you must have a manual override feature to let the human pilots take over if necessary. Let the human pilots do the take offs and landings. If auto pilot takes off, cruises and lands then you don't need human pilots, right? But I think the software is not quite ready for that.
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I teach a software methodology called Scrum. In Scrum, you test your code CONSTANTLY - every day, a little piece at a time. There is also something called Test Driven Development - where you write your test code BEFORE you write the actual code. I wonder if Boeing uses either one of these methodologies, which are all the rage in the software world today.
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@Procopius2k
1. You can have it on time
2. You can have it on budget
3. You can have it done right
You get only two of the three, now which are they?
I'd put my bet on one and two.
If only. Berlin Airport got zero out of the three.
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A German colleague told us that the Berlin airport saga was Chicago-esque, with suitcases of money changing hands and work done that had to be undone.
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TW. You are right on but testers are not idiots. They are not programmers either. They are the real world users who make up the internal QA process before it goes into production. System testing in every possible weather environment possible. NO CORNERS CUT.
Boeing is now CYAing with MSM help.
WHY??
They are being sued. By families of the deceased and pilots afraid they will be told to fly the MAX. They are being watched by the FAA.
Why are they pointing fingers all of a sudden?
(I guarantee you, since the grounding they have found a long list of software bugs that should have been found during initial development. That is evidence that will be used against them. They need to find scape goats to share the pain with and hopefully earn redemption.
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[AlAhram] Italian police arrested on Saturday the German captain of a migrant-rescue ship at the centre of a standoff with the Italian government after she docked at the island port of Lampedusa.
The Dutch-flagged Sea-Watch 3, operated by German charity Sea-Watch, has been at sea for more than two weeks with 40 rescued Africans on board. The Africans were allowed to disembark and were taken to a reception centre on the island.
After waiting in international waters for an invitation from Italia or an EU state to accept the ship, captain Carola Rackete decided this week to sail for the southern Italian island of Lampedusa but was blocked by Italian government vessels.
But in the early hours of Saturday morning, Rackete entered the port where the ship docked amid a heavy police presence.
Live television video showed the 31-year old German being taken off Sea-Watch 3 by tax police and driven away amid applause and barracking from bystanders gathered at the port.
She has been arrested for "resisting a war ship", a charge which, according to media reports, carries a penalty of up to 10 years in prison.
Italia's right-wing interior minister Matteo Salvini, who is taking a tough line against migrant rescue ships, previously said he would only allow Rackete to dock when other Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union states agree to immediately take the migrants colonists.
"Outlaw arrested. Pirate ship seized. Big fine on foreign NGO. Moslem colonists Migrants all redistributed in other European countries. Mission completed," Salvini said in a tweet on Saturday.
He said Sea-Watch 3, which had not been given permission to dock, had put at risk tax police by squashing one of their motor launches against the port front as it tried to stop the docking.
Salvini, who criticised the Netherlands saying it had given the ship a flag and then washed its hands of the matter, told RAI radio that Italia had been given assurances by five European countries they would take the migrants colonists.
He did not name the countries but media reports said La Belle France, Germany, Luxembourg, Finland and Portugal had agreed.
Speaking at the G20 summit in Osaka, Premier Giuseppe Conte said that, as a lawyer, he recognised there were grounds for possible criminal charges but said it was up to judges to apply the law. "But laws are laws whether you like them or not," he said.
Rackete, who has become a symbol of defiance for challenging Salvini's authority, is already under investigation for breaking Italia's beefed up laws against non-government rescue ships.
A Foreign Office source said on Saturday under Italian laws Sea-Watch 3 would be seized, adding it faced a fine of 20,000 euros ($22,700) which, if not paid, could reach 50,000 euros.
[Rudaw] Alan Kurdi, the 2-year-old boy whose drowning became the iconic image of the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an refugee crisis, is to be commemorated in a film by Ottoman Turkish director Omer Sarikaya. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... Kurdi’s father says the family was not consulted about the project.
The film, based on the 2018 book "The Boy on the Beach" by Alan’s aunt Tima Kurdi, has left surviving relatives distraught, said Alan’s father Abdullah.
"They have not consulted me. The story is completely based on this book," Abdullah told Rudaw TV on Friday.
Abdullah, his wife Rehanna, and their two sons, Alan, 3, and Ghalib, 4, were trying to cross the Aegean Sea to Greece on September 2, 2015 when their smuggler’s boat sank off the Ottoman Turkish coast.
A photograph of Alan lying face down in the surf on a Ottoman Turkish beach caused shock and revulsion worldwide and led to calls for European leaders to offer refugees safe and legal passage.
Ottoman Turkish director Omer Sarikaya told Ottoman Turkish state media agency Anadolu on Thursday he has already started filming "Baby Aylan" in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... ’s Bodrum, Mugla province, near to where Alan’s body was found.
The movie is produced by George Edde and Bahattin Ozturk.
"The greatest feature of the film is that all the income will go to humanitarian aid. None of the actors or actresses will be paid," Sarikaya added. "Of course, my time will be compensated"
The film is expected to be completed by July 2 and to premiere on September 2.
American actors Steven Seagal and Mike Mitchell and German actress Wilma Elles will star in the movie.
Alan’s father told Rudaw he plans to take legal action to halt the film’s production.
"I will seek legal ways [to stop the production]. It will be good if they stop it. If not, I will go to Turkey and hire a lawyer to stop this. I cannot watch a movie where my son is depicted alive," he said.
He also said his son’s name has been spelled incorrectly. "Alan is a Kurdish name," he said.
Sarikaya says he did not seek permission from Alan’s family as his movie is not solely about the boy but about refugees in general.
[DW] Italian police arrested the German captain of a migrant rescue ship after she docked at the port of Lampedusa. Sea-Watch told DW Italia is the safest option and bringing migrants colonists to Germany is risky and time consuming.
Sea-Watch told DW that its boats are unable to bring migrants colonists to Germany or the Netherlands because both countries are too far away from the search and rescue (SAR) zone off Libya, and this could allow for lives to be lost in the SAR while they were making the 5-week journey there and back.
Sea-Watch 3 entered the Italian port of Lampedusa without authorization early Saturday following a two-week standoff between the charity ship's captain and Italian authorities.
German captain Carola Rackete was arrested as the boat docked with 40 migrants colonists remaining on board, front man Ruben Neugebauer told Agence La Belle France-Presse. Television footage showed a heavy security presence at the port and police escorting 31-year-old Rackete off the vessel.
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The interior minister Matteo Salvini, who also contested for the EU, is far-right. He's very anti-immigration, and has constant feuds with the libtard judiciary. There is a change toward nationalist, conservative policies above the usual EU diversity shit in Italy right now.
Well, remove the diesel first. But, yes, sunken ships are good for the environment because they're like little reefs underwater and all kinds or marine life grows there. That's aside from the fact that ships are expensive and it'd be a big loss for DW.
Could also auction it and use the proceeds for legal costs associated with the captain's trial and deportation of the colonists.
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Abu, I assume you mean the costs of prosecuting her, not her legal defense fund.
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Certainly not her legal defense fund. I hope she spends a good long time in an Italian prison.
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[IsraelTimes] Khalid Siddiqi says those allegedly responsible for the former Egyptian president’s death were ’working for Satan’.
An imam in the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... claimed the death of former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi during a court hearing this month was the work of "Zionist agents."
Morsi, a member of the Moslem Brüderbund, was Egypt’s first democratically elected leader. He was ousted and imprisoned by the Egyptian military in 2013.
Egyptian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
reported Morsi died of a heart attack, but the Moslem Brüderbund said he was killed, a claim echoed by ally Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, 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. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... "Mohammed Morsi, the only democratically elected president of Egypt, was killed by those Zionist agents," Khalid Siddiqi of the Islamic Society of San Francisco
...that’s Dr. Hafiz Mohammed Khalid Sidiqqi to you, bub. The highly educated Dr. Siddiqi earned his Ph.D. in Quranic Studies from the University of London and M.A. from Al-Azhar University in Cairo. He has been active in the U.S. since 1983, lectures at several local colleges, and has his very own website here, which connects to his YouTube channel. Dawa are him...
said in a June 21 sermon.
Video of the sermon was released by the Middle East Media Research Institute monitoring group.
Siddiqi lamented that there were many of these "Zionist agents" in the Moslem world "nowadays" and said they were "working for Satan and becoming the disciples of Satan."
He also said Morsi "was only trying to help humanity by bringing the truth of Islam."
"This individual was trying to do simply that thing but obviously, the forces of evil, as they did not allow the president who was democratically elected in Algeria to continue, they did not not allow Morsi as well," Siddiqi said.
He appeared to be referring to the 1991 Algerian parliamentary elections, which were canceled after an Islamist party appeared on track to a sweeping victory, setting off a decade-long civil war.
[ToloNews] At least 30 members of public uprising forces were killed in an attack by the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... in the northern province of Baghlan, local officials told TOLOnews on condition of anonymity.
The sources said that the attack happened at around 11 pm on Friday night when a group of Taliban fighters attacked a village in Nahrin district in the province.
The clash continued for six hours, the sources said, adding that the Taliban took all weapons of the forces with them.
The public uprising forces are part of the pro-government forces who fight under the Afghan government's structure to help the National Defense and Security Forces in maintaining the security of different areas.
The Ministry of Interior Affairs has not commented on the report.
The attack happened in Nahrin district of northern Baghlan province before dawn when the militia members attempted to rescue a group of soldiers surrounded by Taliban militants, Fawad Aman, a defense ministry spokesman, said.
"As they were going to help the soldiers, they got ambushed. Unfortunately, 25 members... were killed in the attack," he said.
The Taliban in a statement claimed responsibility for the attack.
Local militias often work with overstretched security forces in Afghanistan.
The violence in Baghlan came as the US and the Taliban officials were due to start a new round of talks in Qatar to end the 18-year-long US presence in Afghanistan.
The talks, in its seventh round, have centred on four issues: counter-terrorism, the foreign troop presence, an intra-Afghan dialogue, and a permanent ceasefire.
US officials have previously said they are hoping for a deal before the upcoming Afghan presidential elections, which have already been delayed twice and are now set for September.
On Tuesday, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo paid an unannounced visit to Kabul and hoped for a peace deal with the Taliban "before September 1".
[Breitbart] Journalist Andy Ngo was assaulted by Antifa protestors in Portland Saturday afternoon, according to video taken of part of the assault and Ngo himself.
The video showed Ngo, editor of Quilette, being punched and kicked by masked assailants dressed in black and then being hit by various containers of liquid as he is retreating.
He later live-streamed a video of himself describing the assault. His face is scratched and he has blood on his neck. A police officer is heard interviewing him on the livestream.
"I just got beat up by the crowd, with no police at all, in the middle of the street," Ngo said during the livestream.
"Where the hell were all of you," he is heard asking the police officer. He is also heard saying he was assaulted twice earlier in the day, and reported both incidents to the police with no response.
The Portland Police Department tweeted after the assault that it received information that some of the milkshakes being thrown by protestors contained "quick-drying cement"...
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Portland police are under orders from the Mayor not to interfere with Antifa when they are committing acts of violence.
If you don't read Quillette.com, you really should. It's an interesting site with all sorts of commenters. Except you neo-cons, nobody likes you because you're bloodthirsty warmongers.
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We warmongers don’t need blood to be happy, Herb dear. We enjoy bouncing rubble until it becomes dust just as much as introducing bad guys en masse to the afterlife.
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What the cops need to do is tag individuals that are the most aggressive. Have them followed and surveilled. Show them and their families some brutality by proxy or in plain clothes. Make a list of names and addresses, share 'em around with the most twisted Right-wingers. Learn something from countries fighting intifadAntifa for decades.
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Herb - leaving your comment alone so everyone can see what a pathetic mewling pusillanimous troll you really are
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#2 We warmongers don’t need blood to be happy, Herb dear. We enjoy bouncing rubble until it becomes dust just as much as introducing bad guys en masse to the afterlife.
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...OVERKILL: So rarely necessary, so often fun.
And re: Portland - someone needs to have a come-to-Jesus meeting with that deranged city and quietly mention the words, 'Insurrection Act'...
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I wake up this morning only to find out I'm a 'neocon'. I learn something new every day!
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Regardless of the mayor's desire to give antifa carte blanche to do their thing, the cops know very well that once they cede their authority on the street antifa will not be their only problem.
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He is also heard saying he was assaulted twice earlier in the day,
Third times the charm, I guess.
Wonder why he kept returning then whined?
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and reported both incidents to the police with no response.
I'm waiting for the day that a critical mass of normies finally figure that they owe no deference or allegiance to the thoroughly rotten institutions ("skin suits" in Iowahawk parlance) of the West.
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The day will come that Antifa runs into someone that absolutely will not take their shit. And after some of them get slaughtered, expect canonization by the media.
But we should adopt one of their slogans. Nazi's should be punched in the face.
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And after some of them get slaughtered, expect canonization by the media.
Make sure they're identified. Time to play the Left's game of doxxing supporters and financiers. I'm sure the media will play into the part by getting 'grieving' family members to come forward.
Neocons don't click. Stay away, you murderers. Your hands are drenched in the blood of innocents.
Frank G is deliberately abusing his moderator privileges to delete posts he dislikes, that violate no rules of Rantburg. My statement is factual; neocons murder innocents and feel completely OK about it. I read their defense right here on Rantburg.
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"What the cops need to do is tag individuals that are the most aggressive. Have them followed and surveilled. ..."
It's actually not difficult these days to take an internet-based training set of millions of facial and bodily images, run them through some statistical models, and extract features defined as facial shape, type, dimensions etc and use the resulting / discovered features to make PREDICTIONS about which individuals are in the Andy Ngo video above.
I gave no doubt that, using best in class algorithms and image feature extraction techniques, we could identify the perps very quickly.
Btw, all of these algos and feature extraction tools are open source. Tensor flow has plenty of tr available for free.
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HERBY!!! Name the forum software that auto converts to link. You can't. You are too stupid to be specific about anything. Why? Your brain is full of sh!t.
You did not answer the question. Does YOUR mother know how stupid her off spring is???
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Better snubbed by B. than by Xi, he may've thunk. In any case, B., apparently not the kind of person who sleeps well after kicking a puppy, quickly welcomes the little creep back into society:
Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch on Friday released testimony from Hillary Clinton's White House-Liaison-at-the-State Department-turned-lawyer, Heather Samuelson and it shows what she told Judicial Watch is at odds with what she previously told the FBI about Hillary's private email use.
Samuelson testified under oath to Judicial Watch that the DOJ granted her immunity in June of 2016 ‐ remember this is around the same time Bill Clinton met with then-AG Loretta Lynch on the Phoenix airport tarmac.
Heather Samuelson testified under oath to Judicial Watch that contrary to what she told the FBI, she was indeed aware of the fact that Hillary Clinton was using a private email account while she was Secretary of State.
Samuelson's testimony is a part of a court-ordered discovery granted to Judicial Watch by Judge Royce Lamberth who called Hillary's use of a private server "one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency."
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch announced today that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's White House Liaison at the State Department, and later Clinton's personal lawyer, Heather Samuelson, admitted under oath that she was granted immunity by the U.S. Department of Justice in June 2016:
Samuelson: I was provided limited production immunity by the Department of Justice.
Judicial Watch: And when was that?
Samuelson: My recollection, it was June 2015 [later corrected to 2016].
"The news that the Obama DOJ gave immunity to Heather Samuelson, Hillary Clinton’s lawyer responsible for the infamous deletion of 33,000 emails, further confirms the sham FBI/DOJ investigation of the Clinton email scandal," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "And it is curious that Ms. Samuelson changed her story about what she knew and when about the Clinton email system. Attorney General Barr can’t reopen the Clinton email investigation fast enough."
[Jpost] Paleostinian Authority security forces on Friday arrested a Paleostinian businessman who participated in last week’s US-led economic workshop in Bahrain.
The PA and several Paleostinian factions had called on Paleostinians and Arabs to boycott the workshop on the pretext that it was part of the US administration’s scheme to "liquidate the Paleostinian cause."
Paleostinian sources identified the businessman as Saleh Abu Mayaleh from Hebron. They said he was arrested by the PA General Intelligence Service, headed by Gen. Majed Faraj.
Ashraf Jabari, another businessman from Hebron who attended the workshop, told The Jerusalem Post that Abu Mayaleh, 49, was arrested around from his home in Hebron on Friday night. He said that he and other Paleostinians who attended the workshop returned home on Thursday night.
Jabari said that the PA security forces also raided the homes of three other Paleostinian businessmen in the city in an attempt to arrest them.
"The Paleostinian security forces did not find them," Jabari said. "They searched their homes and confiscated security cameras and documents. They told the families of the businessmen that they are wanted for participating in the Bahrain workshop."
Sources in Hebron said that PA intelligence officers raided and searched the home of Ashraf Ghanmen, one of the businessmen who travelled to Bahrain. Ghanem fled his home shortly before the officers arrived, the sources said.
Jabari expressed concern over the safety of Abu Mayaleh, a cancer patient with serious health issues.
He said that Abu Mayaleh was one of 15 Paleostinian businessmen who participated in the workshop in Manama, Bahrain. The other members of the delegation are from east Jerusalem and Bethlehem, he added.
Jabari, who lives in the Israeli-controlled part of Hebron, strongly condemned the arrest of Abu Mayaleh, saying it "exposed the true face" of the PA leadership.
"The Paleostinian Authority does not want peace," he told the Post. "We participated in the conference after receiving personal invitations. We did not go there as representatives of the Paleostinian Authority or the people."
He said that he and his friends were in touch with the US administration and international human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... organizations concerning the PA crackdown.
In early June, Abu Mayaleh, denied that he was planning to attend the Bahrain workshop. He also denied that he was the owner of a shoe factory that does business with the IDF.
In a statement, Abu Mayaleh said that he owns a cement factory, but claimed that his business was confiscated by the Israeli authorities in 2018.
Despite the denial, Abu Mayaleh was persuaded by Jabari to join the Paleostinian delegation to Bahrain.
Last week, Paleostinian social media users published the names of Jabari and several Paleostinian businessmen who traveled to Bahrain, dubbing them "traitors" and urging the PA to immediately arrest them.
Jabari, 45, who went to the Bahrain conference as a representative of the Judea and Samaria Chamber of Commerce, said he and his friends were not afraid of the PA.
The Bahrain workshop was a "big success and that’s why [PA President Mahmoud] Abbas is very worried," Jabari said.
"Of course, we’re not afraid. We’re afraid only of God, and we are capable of defending ourselves. The Paleostinian Authority’s measures against us are illegal. Paleostinian law does not ban anyone from attending a conference. This was a personal invitation to many people and we were not involved in political activities. The Paleostinian Authority’s actions show that we don’t have democracy. Even if we belong to the opposition, there’s no reason why we should be arrested. In Israel, the prime minister consults with the leader of the opposition on sensitive issues. the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... , on the other hand, orders the arrest of anyone who disagrees with him."
[Jpost] Paleostinian Authority security forces released Hebron businessman Saleh Abu Mayaleh on Saturday at 10:45 p.m., after he were tossed into the calaboose upon his return from the economic conference in Bahrain.
According to Paleostinian reports, the decision to release the businessman came following a threatening letter from the US Embassy.
The PA and several Paleostinian factions called on Paleostinians and Arabs to boycott the workshop on the pretext that it was part of a US administration scheme to "liquidate the Paleostinian cause."
[KhaamaPress] The Special Forces killed 7 Talibs and detained 2 others in Paktiay, Farah and Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... The military officials said Friday that the Special Forces killed 4 Talibs during an operation in Zadran district of Paktiya.
The officials further added that the Special Forces killed 3 Talibs during a separate operation in Shindand district of Herat.
Furthermore, the Special Forces detained 2 Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... fighters during an operation in Khak-e Safid district of Farah.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck reached for the green sauce... the Special Forces destroyed 10kg of homemade explosives and several IED-making components during an operation in Shah Wali Kot district of Kandahar.
The Taliban group has not commented regarding the operations so far.
[IsraelTimes] An arson balloon launched from the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip ignited a fire Saturday near Kibbutz Nir Am in the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council, marking a breach in an unofficial truce renewed on Friday between Israel and Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbung millipede,.
Israel’s firefighting teams arrived on the scene and extinguished the blaze.
Earlier Saturday, two Paleostinians were apprehended close to the security fence in northern Gaza with four knives and a set of bolt cutters, according to the Israeli army.
Overnight Friday-Saturday, two Paleostinians were nabbed with a pair of knives in the south of Gaza.
[TIMESOFISRAEL] An official with an Iran-backed militia said members of his group comprised the majority of protesters outside the Bahraini embassy in the Iraqi capital that was attacked this week. But he said he doesn’t know who stormed the mission.
Jaafar al-Husseini, spokesman for the Kataeb Hezbollah, said that storming the embassy was a “natural right for the protesters” to express their anger over Bahrain’s hosting of a US-led economic conference to promote peace between Palestinians and Israelis.
He told the Associated Press that the group’s supporters did not storm the embassy in Baghdad.
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[Rudaw] Militants have launched several recent attacks across the territories disputed between Erbil and Baghdad. The towns of Rashad and Hawija west of Kirkuk in particular have seen an uptick in bully boy activity.
Posting via messaging app Telegram, the ISIS propaganda outlet Nashirnews said turbans had targeted Iraqi federal police in the subdistrict of Rashad and in the city of Tikrit on the Kirkuk road in the last 48 hours.
On Thursday, two improvised bombs were detonated on two public buses in Kirkuk city center, killing one and injuring 17. The provincial council blamed the attack on ISIS remnants.
ISIS has also grabbed credit for a rash of crop fires on the outskirts of Kirkuk city.
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[DW] Neo-Nazi preppers in Germany ordered body bags and used police databases to draw up lists of local politicians to target, says the domestic intelligence agency BfV. The network was preparing for social collapse.
Germany's domestic intelligence agency says a conspiracy of neo-Nazi ...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both.... s compiled a list of political opponents and ordered 200 body bags and quicklime in preparation for a potential collapse of state order, named "Day X."
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ABSOLUTE CHAOS: Fans clash, security breached. Pak fans invade the field. Nabi trips and then he is accidentally tackled by a security officer, who apologies immediately. One Afghan player gets hit on the neck. Crazy scenes. https://t.co/DLB2aJTXnP#PAKvAFG#CWC19
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Sudan’s military ruler said the country’s Transitional Military Council is ready to hand over control to "any authority elected by the Sudanese people."
"We pledge to build the new Sudan and are open to negotiations with everyone," said Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the head of the Transitional Military Council.
"It is our responsibility to listen to the demands of the Sudanese people. We are with the Sudanese people to complete the revolution and build the future of the country," he added.
In a separate statement, the military council said the protest movement would be held responsible for any violence on Sunday.
"The country is going through a serious crisis, and we will hold the Alliance for Freedom and Change entirely responsible if any soul is lost in the march" on Sunday, the council said.
Sunday’s mass rally will be the first attempt to mobilize protesters after the June 3 crackdown on the protest camp outside the military headquarters in Khartoum.
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[KhaamaPress] An explosion in Jawzjan province killed the a key Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... group member who was expert in improvised bombs.
The 209th Shaheen Corps in a statement said the incident took place in Khanqa district of Jawzjan.
The statement further added that Qari Asadullah, Taliban IED expert was placing a roadside kaboom to target the security forces when the earth-shattering kaboom took place.
The Taliban group has not commented regarding the incident so far.
Talibs frequently use improvised bombs as the weapon of their choice to target the security personnel.
However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... the majority of roadside kaboomings inflict casualties on ordinary civilians. The roadside kaboomings also inflict casualties on Taliban mine planters.
[Rudaw] When the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group (ISIS) seized vast swathes of Iraq and Syria in 2014, a considerable number of newly-converted Moslems from western countries flocked to the region to join the group.
ISIS enjoyed immense power and influence during its initial months of control, but was finally dislodged in 2017 with the help of an international coalition and local forces. Hundreds of imported muscle and their families were detained.
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He's lying. He's as stone cold as any of them. This sociopath will gladly recruit in prison, and afterward plot against ISIS enemies wherever he be.
[PhilStar] An Abu Sayyaf faction is suspected to be behind a bomb attack on a military camp in Sulu on Friday. Westmincom spokesman Cirilito Sobejana said the group is led by Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan, whose members pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. Sawadjaan's faction was also tagged in the suicide bombing at Mount Carmel Cathedral in Jolo last December, which left 22 people dead and 101 wounded.
He said the other faction is led by Radullan Sahiron.
Sobejana, who arrived at the Westmincom office in this city from Sulu yesterday, said troops conducted an inspection and assessment at the First Brigade Combat Team command post in Barangay Tanjung, the target of the attack.
Sobejana said initial assessment showed that two improvised explosive devices might have been detonated remotely contrary to earlier reports of a suicide bombing. He said, "We are checking the circumstances, we are validating the incident, we wanted to make sure if this was suicide bombing or an IED attack. It can also be that the perpetrators were carrying the bomb and somebody from a distance observed their actions and the actions of the soldiers and triggered remotely the IED."
Meanwhile, the number of those killed and injured in the bombing has increased. The death toll rose from five to seven, including two civilians. The number of those injured increased from 11 to 22.
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[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces killed 9 Talibs during the operations in Kapisa and Wardak.
The informed military sources said Friday that the Special forces killed 3 Talibs in Tagab district of Kapisa.
Furthermore, the Special Forces destroyed 10 roadside kabooms and one house-borne Improvised Explosive Device during an operation in Nijrab district of Kapisa.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pound, the little lost dog had finished eating the rat terrier... the Special Forces killed 6 Talibs during an operation in Chak-e Wardak district of Wardak province.
The Special Forces also destroyed a weapons cache belonging to Talibs, the sources added.
The Taliban ...Arabic for students... group has not commented regarding the operations so far.
[Jpost] Turkey and UAE support different sides as foreign weapons flow into conflict.
Turkey likes the ineffective Government of National Accord, the UAE and Egypt like General Haftar’s Libyan National Army.
In forty-hours of momentous fighting in Libya’s civil war the forces of the government in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... re-took a strategic city and captured sophisticated anti-tank weapons from the eastern Libyan government leader’s forces. Increasingly the two sides, one backed by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor... Continued on Page 49
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Arab Coalition said forces were able to intercept and destroy a bomb-laden drone launched by the Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...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 legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. 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 They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... militia towards the southern Saudi city of Jazan.
The Arab Coalition front man, Col. Turki al-Maliki, said that the interception of the missile took place at 10:45 pm local time and that the Houthis fired the missile from Sanaa.
"The Houthi holy warriors continue to launch drones to carry out hostile and terrorist acts by targeting civilians and public facilities, and that none of their targets have been achieved," al-Maliki said in a statement.
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[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Megan Rapinoe accepted Democratic Rep. Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez Dem represntative from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details... 's invitation for the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team to tour the House of Representatives after Rapinoe rejected an invite to the White House.
"Consider it done @AOC," Rapinoe said Friday after the New York congresswoman extended the invite and the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team beat La Belle France 2-1 in the quarterfinal of the Women's World Cup.
"It may not be the White House, but we’d be happy to welcome @mPinoe & the entire #USWMNT for a tour of the House of Representatives anytime they’d like," Ocasio-Cortez said.
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...I'm sorry, but at this point I'm cheering for the French team to hand Team USA their a$$es, just to see Megan humiliated.
Mike
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Sorry, Mike - the USWNT beat Les Frogs 2-1 on Friday, with Rapinoe scoring both goals. Sad to say that she's the best women's player going right now. I don't like her schizoid politics any more than you do but I'll support the team even when she's on the pitch.
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Rapinoe, to me, is like the 'comedienne' Janeane Garofalo--a once 'likeable enough', competent at her job who has become twisted & embittered by BDS/TDS. Megs is also on her last go-round as a jock & the ad money is all going to photogenic Alex Morgan. Go USA & if Megs breaks a leg vs England, that'd be cool.
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First they bitch and moan about women not making the same money as men and then they pull this crap. How you gonna make any money if nobody's watching?
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So it's not *that* kind of hanging. Never mind!
[FOXNEWS] President Trump vowed Saturday to "immediately" appeal a judge’s ruling blocking funding for his border wall, while reviving threats to proceed with stalled deportation raids as soon as a week from now.
The president discussed his immigration plans as part of a wide-ranging presser following the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan.
His administration, just after notching a win with the passage of a $4.6 billion bill to address the humanitarian crisis along the U.S.-Mexico border, was dealt a blow Friday when a Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, judge barred Trump from tapping $2.5 billion in military funding to build high-priority segments of the border wall in California, Arizona and New Mexico. Judge Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr. in Oakland acted in two lawsuits filed by California and by activists who contended the money transfer was unlawful and construction would pose environmental threats.
"We're immediately appealing it and we think we'll win the appeal," Trump said at his presser, calling the decision a disgrace. "There was no reason that that should have happened."
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella grabbed the cocoanut cream... the president made clear that despite the passage of the aid package in Congress, he plans to move forward with controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids absent a deal on reforming the asylum process, which he described as unlikely.
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These judges are constipated fools bound up with Obama rhetoric.
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Or maybe the trafficking, drug and prostitution industry pays them. Once appointed, it's not like these judges can be removed by democrats, so there's no reason for them to play their stupid games. There's really no reason why the judiciary would intervene with this kind of activism unless they were invested somehow in the criminal enterprise being carried out. There's also the ongoing attempt to 'colorize' America against the will of the majority, by persons of color in any office. They'll go to any length to erode the executive mandate and reduce border security.
Lots of blah blah about how evil the Assad government is, but no mention whatsoever that the unmentioned rebel groups (except for the unmentioned Kurds) are considerably worse.
[AnNahar] The Syrian regime is co-opting aid and reconstruction assistance, Human Rights Watch said Friday, warning humanitarian players that they risked complicity in human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... abuses.
The New York-based watchdog urged donors, investors and agencies partnering with the Damascus government to ensure their programmes would not entrench repressive policies and contribute to serious human rights violations.
HRW's 94-page report, entitled "Rigging the System" details how humanitarian organizations often comply with Damascus's conditions for fear of losing access or being shut down.
The group admitted that aid in government-controlled areas of Syria was needed and that donors and agencies there had little room for manoeuvre." valign=top style='float:right;;padding:5px;border:0px solid silver;' />Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr...
's forces control around 60 percent of Syria
...that statistic is why I posted these few paragraphs from the article...
and are looking to rebuild the battered country.
The New York-based watchdog urged donors, investors and agencies partnering with the Damascus government to ensure their programmes would not entrench repressive policies and contribute to serious human rights violations.
HRW's 94-page report, entitled "Rigging the System" details how humanitarian organizations often comply with Damascus's conditions for fear of losing access or being shut down.
The group admitted that aid in government-controlled areas of Syria was needed and that donors and agencies there had little room for manoeuvre.
[FOXNEWS] A Minnesota city is reconsidering its decision to no longer say the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of city council meetings after facing major backlash.
The St. Louis Park City Council unanimously voted on June 17 to amend the procedure rules so that the pledge would no longer be said before the start of every session in an effort to serve a more "diverse community."
"We concluded that in order to create a more welcoming environment to a diverse community we’re going to forgo saying the Pledge of Allegiance before every meeting," Council Member Tim Brausen said ahead of the vote.
"If we have an appropriate opportunity, if we have a boy scout color guards or others in attendance or if its a special occasion we will consider using the pledge of allegiance before the meetings," he continued.
In a matter of a few minutes, with no further discussion, the board voted 5-0 in favor of the amendment to proceedings.
Council member Anne Mavity, who sponsored the rules change, told KARE 11 that she doesn’t feel saying the pledge is necessary, especially for non-citizens.
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Excuse me, Ms. Mavity, but who were you elected to serve and who elected you - citizens or non-citizens? Oh, don't bother answering. I can't take it.
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[Reuters] The United States produced 12.16 million bpd of crude in the month [of April]
, up 246,000 bpd from a month earlier When pipeline capacity is increased, the production will probably ramp up pretty fast to 15 M BpD in a few more years.
Meanwhile, monthly gross natural gas production in the lower 48 U.S. states rose to a fresh record high 100.27 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) in April from the prior high of 99.46 bcfd in March, according to the EIA's 914 report
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They open a liquefied natural gas complex in Texas and announce that its resource has been sold for the next decade. Amazing!
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Any of this increased production had any impact on the budget deficit to which Trump added so ignorantly? And while you're at it, what about the workers no longer on welfare and paying taxes?
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[RT] There are no high tempers in Russia about LGBT groups, but they shouldn't instill their views on under-18s, Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... said, adding the ever-growing types of genders may somehow be confusing.
Putin’s latest interview with the Financial Times seems to have hit a nerve, as many public figures, among them singer Elton John, rushed to voice unease over some parts of it. Even at the G20 summit in Osaka, the Russian President couldn’t avoid being challenged into explaining his stance on sexual minorities and liberalism.
Russia has "very relaxed attitude towards the LGBT community, we aren’t biased against them," but the minority must not aggressively disseminate its views among minors who may not be able to decide on their own, he told news hounds.
"Let’s give children an opportunity to grow up and decide afterwards who they want to be. Leave them alone," Putin urged.
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[ToloNews] A security bigshot from Balkh said that the three-week the military operation conducted by Afghan forces in vulnerable parts of Balkh and Dawlat Abad districts of the northern province has been successful as it helped the forces to clear the areas of Talibs.
The police chief of Balkh, Gen. Mohammad Ajmal Faiz, said other vulnerable areas in terms of security are the Chamtal, Chaharbolak, Sholgera and Chaharkent districts in Balkh.
"There were rumors that some schools have been closed for girls in Balkh district. We went there and talked with teachers and found out that there is no problem in this regard," said Faiz.
Balkh residents meanwhile said that insecurity has increased in six districts of the province during the recent months.
They said that even the outskirts of the capital of the province, Mazar-e-Sharif, is faced with some threats by bad boys.
"Mazar is facing some types of threats since March," said Shah Mahmood, a Balkh resident.
"Conflicts are ongoing in the villages located on the outskirts of the city of Mazar-e-Sharif," said Faridoon, a Balkh resident.
Mohammad Afzal Hadid, head of Balkh Provincial Council, said concerns remain high on a possible increase in threats inside the city, despite that it is relatively secure.
"There are concerns among the people about a possible collapse of the city," Hadid said.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... the provincial police chief said that the threats from Afghania township on the outskirts of Mazar have been removed after an operation by the government forces.
"It is all rumors. No one can capture our province," said the police chief.
[IsraelTimes] US President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... said Saturday there will never be an Israeli-Paleostinian peace agreement if one is not negotiated during his presidency, while saying there is a "very good chance" his proposal for solving the decades-long conflict could succeed.
Trump made the remark during a presser at the end of the G20 summit in Japan, days after his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner unveiled the economic aspects of the US peace plan at a conference in Bahrain.
"With me being president, if you don’t get that deal done it’ll never happen," he said.
Trump said he believes the Paleostinians, who have boycotted his administration since his December 2017 recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, want an agreement.
"I know they want to make a deal, but they want to be a little bit cute ‐ and that is okay. I fully understand where they are coming from," he said.
Regarding his decision to cut US aid for the Paleostinians, Trump said it was because they said "nasty things" about him, without specifying.
"I ended that money because a year ago I heard they were saying nasty things and I said, ’Wait a minute, we’re trying to make a deal, we’re trying to help them and they’re saying these nasty things, we’re not gonna pay,'" he said.
"If you’re not negotiating and don’t want to help make peace, we’re not gonna pay you. So let’s see what happens," he added.
Despite the Paleostinians’ rejection of his peace efforts, Trump was optimistic that there is a "very good chance" of reaching an agreement, which he said "may very well be the toughest deal of all."
At the Peace to Prosperity conference in Bahrain this week, Kushner rolled out an economic plan that proposed a $50 billion investment for the West Bank, Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, and countries in the region over the course of 10 years, and pledged to create up to a million new jobs.
The proposal was dismissed by the Paleostinian Authority, which says that Kushner’s plan is a pretext by the pro-Israel Trump administration to impose a political solution that it says will adopt Israel’s positions on solving the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict.
Kushner said that the administration will put out the political component at the "right time" ‐ and said that different people were drafting the political and economic plans.
[AlAhram] An open-source investigation has found that a top Russian military intelligence officer coordinated last year's Salisbury chemical attack from a London hideout using his phone and a few messaging apps.
The award-winning website Bellingcat said late Friday that its joint analysis with the BBC helps establish the command structure Moscow's GRU network of foreign agents used to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and conduct other attacks.
London and Washington identify the GRU as Russia's main security threat to Western interests abroad.
Russia denies involvement in the Skripal case and calls other allegations against the GRU -- including its attempted hacking of the world's chemical weapons watchdog in The Hague last year -- politically motivated.
The findings "shed light on the likely chain of command for this (and other) GRU overseas operations, with one coordinating senior officer communicating with headquarters in Moscow while the team on the ground receive limited to no new instructions," the Bellingcat report said.
"Evidence obtained by us on other international operations involving the same team suggests that this is a stable GRU operational model."
Britannia's Metropolitan Police said it could not comment on an "ongoing investigation".
THE THIRD MAN
British officials have identified the two Russians suspected of delivering the nerve agent to Salsbury as GRU agents Alexander Mishkin and Anatoly Chepiga.
Both men entered Britannia using false passports and were captured on CCTV footage walking around the southern English town shortly before Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found slumped over on a park bench.
They fell into comas but survived and have since gone into hiding.
Mishkin and Chepiga later told Russian television that they were tourists who went to Salsbury to look at the local cathedral.
Western intelligence agencies suspect that the Kremlin ordered Skripal's killing in retribution for his past exposure of Russian spies.
Bellingcat discovered in February that a GRU agent named Denis Sergeev -- alternatively spelled as Sergeyev -- was also in Britannia at the same time.
The website found that Sergeev was in Bulgaria during the 2015 poisoning of a local arms dealer who suffered similar symptoms to Skripal's.
Bulgaria has asked Britannia and Russia for cooperation after reopening that case.
Joint findings by the BBC and Bellingcat detail Sergeev's movements and mobile phone communications while in London in March 2018.
The BBC's report established that Sergeev was a major general -- a rank just three below that of an army commander.
"The involvement of a GRU major general would indicate the unusually high importance of the operation," Bellingcat wrote.
The BBC found that Sergeev used messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Telegram to communicate with both the two Russians in Salsbury and his Moscow commander.
Bellingcat said Sergeev's Moscow contact was using an unregistered mobile phone card that "does not produce a regular 'footprint' left by regular numbers".
The BBC's Russian Service separately reported that Sergeev and his wife "listed the address of the GRU training academy as their own home on an official registry".
Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... told the Financial Times in an interview published on Thursday that he viewed "treason (as) the gravest crime possible".
"I am not saying that the Salisbury incident is the way to do it ... but traitors must be punished," Putin told the newspaper.
[REALCLEARPOLITICS] Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren ...Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts, who traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless... is beginning to solidify herself as a top-tier candidate in the Democrat primary. She has been forced to backtrack on her decades-long claims of being a woman of color, but Harvard still has not done the same. Why has Harvard not set the record straight?
In 1993, Harvard Law School offered Warren a highly coveted tenured professor job. The record is clear as to how she obtained the offer -- Harvard had been the subject of a discrimination lawsuit at the time regarding its hiring practices, and the school was openly trying to hire women and people of color at its law school.
Warren did not begin her job until 1995 due to "family reasons," but shortly after she started, Harvard Law School News Director Mike Chmura began touting her as the first woman of color to be given tenure at the institution. Here are just some of the references to her minority status:
1996: Spokesperson Chmura identifies Warren as a native American professor in the Harvard Crimson.
1997: In the Fordham Law Review, Chmura touts Warren as Harvard Law’s "first woman of color."
1998: Chmura, in a letter to the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , stated that the law school had appointed "eight women, including a Native American." Three days later, the Crimson reiterated that "Harvard Law School has only one tenured minority woman, Gottlieb Professor Elizabeth Warren, who is Native American."
1999: Harvard begins publishing its affirmative action plan on its website and lists a single Native American professor.
Public reports continued to list a single native American professor at the school intermittingly until 2011. The U.S. Department of Labor requires large employers like Harvard to collect diversity statistics annually. Based on public reporting, it is likely that Harvard reported Warren as a minority to the U.S. government during her time.
Looking at a timeline history from the law school’s own website, it lists many minority achievements, such as the first female president of the Harvard Law Review, the first black president of the Harvard Law Review (Barack Obama That’s just how white folks will do you.... ), and the first woman dean (Elena Kagan). But the school is noticeably silent on something it so publicly touted for decades ‐ the first tenured female minority law school professor.
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it lists many minority achievements, the first female president of the Harvard Law Review, the first black president of the Harvard Law Review...the first woman dean (Elena Kagan).
Does it also mention the first math professor to get life without parole(Ted Kaczynski)and first woman to get life without parole (Amy Bishop) ?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Arab Coalition said it has intercepted and destroyed a bomb-laden drone launched by the Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...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 legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. 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 They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... militia toward a populated residential area in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s Asir region.
Colonel Turki al-Maliki, the Arab Coalition spokesperson, said that forces managed to intercept the drone launched by the Houthi militia toward Asir 11:45 pm local time.
The destroyed Houthi missile in Asir was the second of the night after another Houthi drone targeting the southern border city of Jazan was intercepted and shot down hours earlier.
"The Houthi forces of Evil continue to launch drones to carry out hostile and terrorist acts by targeting civilians and public facilities, and that none of their targets have been achieved," al-Maliki said in an earlier statement.
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[FOXNEWS] A Democratic candidate for Florida’s House reportedly has ended her campaign after being challenged on her detailed and graphic claims she treated victims of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting.
"I personally removed 77 bullets from 32 people ... It was like an assembly line," candidate Elizabeth McCarthy had claimed at a gun safety event earlier this year.
But FloridaPolitics.com published a report earlier this month challenging her claims she worked as a cardiologist at Orlando Regional Medical Center
The report listed the following discrepancies: the Florida Department of Health did not have a record of her being a licensed doctor; the parent company of the medical center said there’s no record of any doctor by that name; another company the candidate claimed to be working for denied she worked there; and University of Central Florida officials said they couldn't find a record of the medical degree she claimed. "But other than that.....she was was stilllying wrong"
The report said that officials confirmed she was a registered nurse until 2005, and that she later started a medical company that was in business through 2014.
At first, the candidate maintained she is a doctor when asked about the conflicting details.
"Yes, I did work the night of Pulse," she said, according to FloridaPolitics.com. "It hurts me ... why would I make something like this up? ... I was an RN for 25 years. I’ve been in the medical field all my life."
But the same news outlet reported Friday that she’s now dropping out.
"After thoughtful contemplation, due to professional obligations, I am withdrawing as a Democratic candidate seeking the nomination and election in Florida House District 28," McCarthy reportedly wrote in an email.
She had previously appeared at events alongside U.S. Rep. Darren Soto, D-Fla., who had touted her medical background and work the night of the Pulse shooting.
But after her resume and personal narrative were questioned, party leaders had called on her to prove her medical credentials or drop out.
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Party leaders, off the record, reaffirmed their commitment to upholding the highest standards of character and conduct: "No insane pretend surgeons will ever slip through our vetting process a second time... after being exposed by the malevolent forces of hatred and division!"
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria have handed to Italia one of its citizens accused of belonging to ISIS, a front man said on Saturday.
"Italian jihadist Samir Bougana (aka Abu Abdullah) who had been captured fleeing ISIS and had been imprisoned since then, was handed over to Italian government," said Mustafa Bali, a front man for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
He said the transfer had been made on Rome’s request.
He did not specify when it took place or whether or not the suspected bad boy had already left the country.
Bougana - also known as Abu Hureyre al-Muhajir or Abu Abdullah al-Muhajir - was first captured by Kurdish fighters in Syria in August 2018 as he tried to flee into The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor... He had allegedly been involved in weapons shipments to ISIS.
His transfer is part of a wider effort by the Kurdish administration to rid itself of the dregs of the ISIS proto-state.
Following the collapse of the group’s "caliphate" in March, alleged ISIS fighters from nearly 50 countries have been detained in Syria and Iraq.
Over 11,000 of their family members are being held in Syria’s al-Hol camp alone.
But repatriation is a sensitive issue for Western nations such as La Belle France and Britannia, which have experienced attacks by homegrown bandidosturbans and have little interest in seeing more return.
There are also worries that it could prove difficult to successfully prosecute fighters in Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an courts for crimes committed in Iraq or Syria.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Sudanese security forces raided the head office of a leading opposition group on Saturday, a day before a huge protest march was planned to demand a transition to civilian rule, witnesses and a front man for the group said.
Sudan’s ruling military council and the opposition movement have been wrangling for weeks over how to manage a transition to elections since the military ousted long-time president Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. on April 11.
Security forces raided the Sudanese Professionals’ Association (SPA) office, where the group had been due to hold a news conference.
"This represents a violation of liberties that is even worse than the regime of the former president (Bashir)," Ahmed al-Rabie, an SPA front man, told Rooters. "This is a bad sign for the atmosphere of mediation between the two parties."
The military council did not immediately comment. The SPA made no mention of arrests.
The news conference was planned ahead of a march called on Sunday by an opposition coalition, the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC), that the SPA is a part of. The opposition groups are hoping as many as a million people will join the march, which they want to use to press the military council to hand power over to civilians.
Earlier on Saturday, the military council said FFC would bear the responsibility for any loss of life or damage resulting from the planned march.
"We ... hold the Forces for Freedom and Change fully responsible for any spirit that is lost in this march, or any damage or harm to citizens or state institutions," the council said in a statement carried by state news agency SUNA.
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[IsraelTimes] Following downing of drone and tanker attacks, Air Force says F-22s have been sent to Persian Gulf ’to defend American forces and interests’.
The US has deployed F-22 stealth fighters to Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... for the first time, its military said Friday, adding to a buildup of US forces in the Gulf amid tensions with Iran.
The Air Force F-22 Raptor stealth fighters have been deployed "to defend American forces and interests," the US Air Forces Central Military Command said in a statement that did not specify how many of the hi-tech planes had been sent.
A photo handout showed five of the jets flying above the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.
Tehran and Washington have been locked in an escalating standoff since US President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... unilaterally withdrew from a multi-party 2015 nuclear deal with Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and reimposed sanctions on the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
In May, the US Air Force deployed several nuclear-capable B-52 Stratofortress bombers to the Gulf in response to what the Defense Department described as a possible plan by Iran to attack American forces in the region, as well as an aircraft carrier task force.
[RT] Ottoman Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has revealed that his US counterpart Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election... told him that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... won’t face sanctions over its decision to purchase major missile defense systems from Russia. You keep chirping that, Yippy. Won't you be surprised...
The countries have been at loggerheads over the Moscow-Ankara S-400 deal and the two leaders discussed the issue during a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, on Saturday.
Erdogan told a presser after the meeting that Turkey won’t face sanctions due to its purchase of the S-400 systems and it will be permitted to buy F-35 stealth fighter jets from the US, despite the dispute.
Trump told news hounds that the S-400 deal is a "problem" for the US but noted that Turkey had been barred from purchasing its Patriot systems during the B.O. regime. He added that he will visit Turkey "soon" to improve ties with Ankara.
Ahead of the Trump meeting, Erdogan held discussions with Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... . During that meeting, the Ottoman Turkish leader reiterated his commitment to purchasing the Russian missile defense systems despite pressure from the US. The S-400s are due to arrive in Turkey later this summer.
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[Ynet] Cash-strapped Cairo government sees development of peninsula as crucial to national security, but even prospect of a $9 billion windfall cannot sway the Egyptians on giving up part of this land for a Gazoo expansion
A U.S.-proposed $9 billion aid package could tempt Egypt with long-sought financing to transform its strife-torn Sinai Peninsula, but analysts say political risks are likely to outweigh any potential financial benefit.
Egypt has been struggling to launch infrastructure projects for the development of Sinai, where military and security forces have been battling Islamic State
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[Dallas News] 'A Human Wall for Trump' A handful of national guardsmen in a camouflaged pickup, including a soldier standing in the back, his finger on the trigger of a mounted assault weapon, lazily chase their targets along the banks of the Rio Grande.
[The Hill] Former Ohio Gov. John 
[Washington Examiner] The Federal Emergency Management Agency is failing to pay out disaster aid in hurricane-stricken Puerto Rico and struggling to work with the commonwealth's government, according to federal contractors on the ground and the agency’s own internal data.
[Breitbart] President Donald Trump met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un on Sunday, stepping into North Korea as he shook hands in a moment of high-stakes diplomacy.
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...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. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
[Breitbart] Journalist Andy Ngo was assaulted by Antifa protestors in Portland Saturday afternoon, according to video taken of part of the assault and Ngo himself.
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both....
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...Arabic for 
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...Arabic for 
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
Dem represntative from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details...
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
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...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
...Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts, who traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless...
[FOXNEWS] A Democratic candidate for Florida’s House reportedly has ended her campaign after being challenged on her detailed and graphic claims she treated victims of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting.
...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor...
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
