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If we had that racist, inhumane wall on our border with Mexico the little girl might still be alive.
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So how will the media spin this into Trump's fault?
Take all the walls down, to save the children?
Or smother the news with a pillow?
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This time of year is literally a killer when it comes to heat down on the border. It's a desert folks. Little or no water which is also a reason that it is sparsely populated. Stupidity isn't a crime, but it does carry a death penalty.
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..#4 From India? Why on earth does someone from India need to enter America illegally?
A most interesting question. From the Article:
The numbers of Indian people crossing US borders and being apprehended has grown steadily in recent years.
Possibly too expensive or time-consuming to get in legally? A Viet Namese buddy had to post a bond to bring his family in - $30K if memory serves. No idea how this compares to the cost for a coyote.
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At the company I work for, certain sections of the IT department remind me of when I was in Bangalore 15 years ago. I don't know or care how they got here, but there are LOTS of Indians working in IT in the US.
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[RT] New Delhi is preparing to respond against unfriendly US trade policies directed at it, by hiking levies on 29 American goods, in all worth up to $290 million, Indian media has reported, citing its sources.
The retaliatory measure may be implemented from June 16, according to the Economic Times daily newspaper. The tariffs are set to target walnuts, chickpeas, lentils, boric acid and diagnostic reagents, among other US products.
India has been threatening the US with retaliatory tariffs since last June, after the Trump administration slapped extra duties on the country’s steel and aluminum exports. However, New Delhi postponed introducing the response measure several times since then, citing ongoing trade negotiations with Washington.
“There will be no further extension of the retaliatory tariffs,” the Economic Times reported, citing an official familiar with the matter, who added that India’s commerce department and external affairs ministry support the decision. The Indian government has not officially announced the tariffs nor has it commented on the report, so far.
Apart from additional tariffs, US President Donald Trump annulled India’s trade benefits stipulated under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program, starting June 5. Around $5.6 billion-worth of Indian products used to enjoy duty-free access to the American market annually under the GSP deal.
Washington maintains that New Delhi failed to provide American companies with “equitable and reasonable” access to local markets. At the same time the US has been seeking to narrow its $21-billion trade deficit with India while accusing the country of ‘unfair’ trade practices.
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People in the USA can go without wooden earrings and jute bags. But people in India will still want Harleys.
This is posturing really, to show China some solidarity maybe. We even allowed Huawei to build their plant recently. A lot of fireworx and curry with chopsticks. It won't do Modi any good to rub Trump the wrong way right now, even if he's on a roll.
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A lot of the manufacturing businesses leaving China could go to India, resulting in the India Miracle, or not, depending on tariff levels. Bad time to get into a tariff war with the USA.
Compounded by Russia Today trying to stir up trouble. Also, I note all the indefinite verbiage — preparing, may be implemented, threatening, postponed, not officially announced, possible introduction — and all the anonymous government officials.
I also note, neither profoundly nor originally, that there are two ways to reduce trade deficits: increase American exports to the country or decrease American imports from it. Either way will hurt India more than it does the U.S.
An important component of way too many news stories lately. No more "Dog Bites Man". Now it's all "According to Experts, Man May Bite Dog by 2050".
Once you notice it, it's everywhere.
[AmericanThinker] Last week, Hungarian leader Viktor Orban and Canada’s leading intellectual, Jordan Peterson, met to lambast illegal immigration and political correctness which they believe make sensible public discussions impossible. Peterson also made a noteworthy claim worth thinking about. He said that Islam is not compatible with democracy and that this issue has been barred from public discussion.
I believe Peterson is correct. Islam is not only incompatible with democracy. It is inimical to America’s fundamental values and principles. More important, it is in violation of the United States Constitution. It is time for the United States to take a pre-emptive strike against a moral and political ideology whose stated goal is the abolition of our political system. Not just USA, Islam and its adherents are enemies general of the humankind - to be dealt with as wolves are.
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You should watch the first episode of Ghoul, a netflix series with an islamophiliac bent, showing poor muslims (boo hoo hoo) hiding their faith in an Orwellian furure where only muslims are persecuted.
While the series is shit, I think the concept is rather appealing.
[France24] The former head of Saudi intelligence, Prince Turki al-Faisal, told FRANCE 24 in The Hague that he was pessimistic about the prospects for a successful negotiation between the US and Iran, calling Iran "a disruptive force" in the region. He also accused Tehran of being behind this week's attack by Houthi rebels on a Saudi airport and said he saw no chance for a peaceful solution in Yemen in the near future.
"I'm always hopeful that sensibility can be achieved in the minds of [the] Iranian leadership. However, from their past practice and how they have continued to be a disruptive force in the area, it's difficult to be optimistic about their actions," Saudi Arabia's former intelligence chief, Prince Turki al-Faisal, told FRANCE 24's Marc Perelman.
Turning to the Middle East peace process, Prince Turki said he was waiting for US President Donald Trump to unveil his much-touted "deal of the century" between Israel and the Palestinians. He also denied that the Saudis had abandoned their support for core Palestinian demands in exchange for a rapprochement with Israel.
On the issue of relations with Qatar, Prince Turki lamented that he had seen "no change" in the Qatari position, two years after a Saudi-led coalition imposed an embargo on the country.
Finally, he insisted that the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was carried out by "rogue elements" and forcefully denied claims that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing.
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Finally, he insisted that the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was carried out by "rogue elements"
Appears to be negligible impact on the world stage, or my 401k. I too am going with "rogue elements".
h/t Instapundit
The jury just rendered its verdict on punitive damages in the Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College case.
Daniel McGraw, our reporter in the courtroom, reports that in addition to the $11.2 million compensatory damages awarded last Friday, the jury awarded a total of $33 million in punitive damages, which will probably be reduced by the court to $22 million because of the state law cap at twice compensatory (it’s not an absolute cap, but probably will apply here). That brings the total damages to $33 million. We will have the breakdown soon. The jury also awarded attorney’s fees, to be determined by the judge. Maybe we should have a subheading "II Civil War News", or since it's not restricted to USA, "Western Civil War News"? That's a lotta dough.
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And they probably can't legally use endowment funds.
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Wonder what the discussion is in the lawyers offices of the Legacy Infotainment Enterprises now about that pending action in Kentucky with the school boys?
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The attorney's statements are a precedence in themselves:
“Oberlin College tried to sacrifice a beloved 5th-generation bakery, its owners, and its employees, at the altar of political correctness in order to appease the campus ‘social justice warfare mob'"
“Why is the country watching you. Because the country agrees that what happened to the Gibsons should not happen to anyone, but could happen to everyone.”
[PJ] On Tuesday, former Vice President Joe Biden channeled his inner Barack Obama by falsely claiming that their administration was scandal-free."Know what I was most proud of? For eight years, there wasn't one single hint of a scandal or a lie."
You can actually watch him make this absurd claim with a straight face here:
The scandals of the Obama-Biden administration have been well-documented, but also well-covered-up by the media. They refused to give the scandals of the Obama-Biden administration the coverage they deserved when they happened, and they refused to challenge Obama when he repeatedly made claims of having a scandal-free administration and they certainly aren't going to challenge Biden echoing those same claims. I will, however, because unfortunately, too many people believe the myth of the scandal-free presidency of Barack Obama. So, here are just ten scandals of the Obama-Administration that Sleepy Joe is apparently proud of.
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Not certain if this reaches the Biden level of "scandal" but many died in the rush to gain information on the location of UBL. Similar to the crash of Extortion 17, a somewhat truncated investigation followed:
Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi (25 December 1977 – 30 December 2009) was a Jordanian doctor and a triple agent suicide bomber loyal to Islamist extremists who carried out the Camp Chapman attack, a suicide attack against a CIA base near Khost, Afghanistan on 30 December 2009.
[PJ] Panicked CIA turns to their PR firm The New York Times to get in front of DoJ investigations
The intelligence community's crisis communication firm, The New York Times, spun into action yesterday, "reporting" that A.G. Barr is going to investigate the CIA's participation in the RUSSIA-collusion hoax.
Before I get into the details of this press release written by and published in the NYT, take a moment and ask yourselves, should there be oversight for the CIA? Who conducts that oversight? The CIA "sources" referenced in the NYT press release seem a little miffed that some folks want to check their math.
According to the press release:
The ties between the efforts by the C.I.A. and the F.B.I. to examine Russia’s election interference are broader. In the summer of 2016, the intelligence community formed a task force housed at the C.I.A. to investigate Russian interference. The group shared intelligence with F.B.I. investigators who opened the bureau’s Russia inquiry in an effort to determine whether any Americans were working with the Russians on their interference during the election.
What about CIA activity before "the summer of 2016"? This is the time period when some foreign intel assets were recording and trying to entrap George Papadopoulos (Papa-D.) Papa-D met with a fake "RUSSIAN spy" (but likely Western intelligence asset) Joseph Mifsud in April 2016. Now the pretend story is that after Papa-D met with Mifsud and "learned" the RUSSIANS had dirt on Hillary, he shared that information with Australian diplomat/spy Alexander Downer and a honey pot in May. Downer waited until July ("the summer of 2016") to tell the U.S. and that kicked off the counterintelligence investigation. Why would a Western asset like Mifsud, who trains spies in Italy at The Link, tell a low-level volunteer what he "heard" about the RUSSIANS? Did the CIA deploy Mifsud to fish Papa-D back in April? Was it that punk Brennan? The British spooks? Let's find out.
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The ties between the efforts by the C.I.A. and the F.B.I. to examine Russia’s election
They were not examining or investigating, they were coconspirators in trying to influence an election, the very thing they accused the Russians of trying to do.
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[Debka] Iran’s leader administered a brazen insult to the United States when he told visiting Japanese PM Shinzo Abe on Thursday, June 13, that he did not consider President Donald Trump “worthy” of an exchange of messages with him. “I do not have and will not have any response for him,” he told the Japanese prime minister, crudely knocking down his visitor’s effort to ease the spiraling US-Iranian tensions. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei went on to say that Trump’s promise not to seek regime change in Iran was “a lie” and he did not believe Washington’s offer of “honest negotiations” with Tehran.
Not content with that insult, Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif suggested that an American provocation was behind the “reported attacks on Japan-related” oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. That they took place while Japanese PM Shinzo Abe was meeting supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was “beyond suspicious,” he tweeted.
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A nice guy like Shinzo Abe goes to Iran to try to talk sense with them and on the same day they attack one of his country's tankers. Are they asking for it or what?
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[accordingtohoyt.com] When our time is looked at in history, future historians — if there are any — will be torn between laughing their heads off and disgust.
Recently fell across someone on FB who thought the West had started the crusades against “peaceful” Islam, just out of how evil and imperialistic we were, just because.
This person has a university degree.
When told how wrong she was, she fell back on how the past is unknowable.
You know these are things she was taught, at great expense and effort. Further, her teachers inculcated in her the idea she was so smart and special, the culmination of all intelligence and knowledge in the history of man, which prevents this person and her cohorts from ever examining what they were taught in the light of reason. I mean, they don’t want to come to different conclusions, and thereby become “stupid”.
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She is so correct, hence why in ten years we WILL be a socialist nation and on to communism. Our children are told a republic is bad, socialism is good....
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The really sad thing is Venezuala is a perfect example of socialist failure and they wont' see it.
BLUF:
[American Thinker] This document destruction of archived public statements, done just a day or before Trump entered office in 2017, raises the question about just what the Obama White House wanted to hide from both Trump and the American public.
I don't have access to these public statements any more than anyone else does, but I do recall writing editorials about some of them. I recall that many did pay lip service to the growing border crisis. Many did cite the crisis as a crisis. Many did condemn the damage to rule of law that illegal immigration could do. Some may have criticized sanctuary cities.
A major multi-story FBI facility sits alongside a major freeway in a major US city. Along the front of the top floor of this FBI facility was a huge line of cell phone transmitter/receivers that you see on cell phone towers. Massive number of personal cell phone calls move from tower to tower through these receivers. The FBI building put injected itself into that chain.
As soon as Trump took office the FBI yanked those transmitters/receivers out of the loop.
I can only imagine all of the crap deep state was doing under Obama.
[Babylon Bee] RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA‐A self-checkout machine at a local Walmart store was selected to be honored as the employee of the month for the fifty-second month in a row, sources confirmed Thursday.
The checkout machine was recognized for its speedy service, inability to make mathematical errors, and lack of making small talk with customers.
"Honestly, Checkout Machine #5 is a dream employee," said store manager Glen Anderson. "#5 never complains, never calls in sick, never makes annoying small talk."
The machine didn't make a single error the entire month, yet again, worked full shifts all thirty-one days of the month, and never once took a smoke or lunch break. Customers, especially those with just a few items, reported they had delightful interactions with the employee and were able to get in the store and get out with little hassle thanks to Machine #5.
"It's the poster boy for how we want our employees to act around here and the kind of attitude everyone should have."
[Breitbart] Appearing Wednesday on CNN Tonight with host Don Lemon, network reporter Shimon Prokupecz expressed concerned over a report stating the Department of Justice seeks to interview senior CIA officials as part of Attorney General William Barr’s review of the origins of the FBI investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election.
DON LEMON: You know this New York Times report mentioned that the Justice Department is now questioning CIA officers as they review this Russia investigation, which is?
SHIMON PROKUPECZ: It’s troubling because it’s not ‐ you don’t do this. The CIA kind of operates in their own world. And for the Department of Justice to start begin questioning CIA agents, people who work there, questioning their work. You know for me I think what all this comes down to is former CIA director, John Brennan. I know the president obviously has been very unhappy with the way John Brennan has behaved since he left office. I think it goes back to that.
He’s very concerned about the information and how some of the information that the CIA had really may not have been stood up. They couldn’t verify a lot of the information. And the CIA, certainly John Brennan, was sounding a lot of alarms to Congress saying something’s going on here. I know he was talking to people at the FBI at the time concerned something was going on. But what we’re seeing from the Attorney General right now is that he’s saying that they with were acting on a lot of information that he’s concerned was not verified, there was no there, there. And perhaps they were overreacting and therefore caused other people to start reacting like the FBI and so it’s very ‐ this is we’re in an extremely unprecedented time in terms of when you have Department of Justice officials now questioning CIA agents and analysts.
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The CIA went rogue quite some time ago. They obey nobody, certainly not the elected US government. Why do you think we keep starting wars that literally nobody supports?
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Wow. CNN seems to have abandoned the ‘nobody is above the law’ siren very quickly.
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You know for me I think what all this comes down to is former CIA director, John Brennan. I know the president obviously has been very unhappy with the way John Brennan has behaved since he left office. I think it goes back to that.
Since he left office? How about we take it back, lets say 20 years or so ?
[IsraelTimes] Egyptian security officials are saying that six coppers were maimed by a roadside kaboom targeting a police patrol vehicle in the restive northern Sinai province.
The officials say Thursday that the bomb exploded remotely near the city of El-Arish. They say Islamic murderous Moslems had set up ambushes along the highway leading to El-Arish where they had kidnapped at least 14 civilians over the course of the last 24 hours. The officials speak on condition of anonymity because they aren’t authorized to speak to the media.
Egypt has battled Islamic murderous Moslems for years in northern Sinai, where an affiliate of 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.... jihadist group is based.
Last week, the group grabbed credit for the killing of eight coppers in an assault on a checkpoint near El-Arish.
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[DW] US President 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... announced the US will send upward of 1,000 troops to Poland. The plan was light on details, but Trump said he knew where the forces would come from: Germany. Berlin's reaction is mixed.
Polish officials had been lobbying the Trump administration for a permanent US troop presence in their country. What they got was a more vague outline "affirming the significant defense cooperation between our nations," as US President Donald Trump said at Wednesday's presser at the White House with Polish President Andrzej Duda.
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We did such a fantastic job of protecting Germany that they don't understand why they need to be protected. They literally don't get why armies are necessary. They feel morally superior because their government doesn't pay for bombs. They'd prefer to spend the money on a welfare state while ruthlessly shitting all over the USA for protecting them.
"If any Western European government would follow these ideas of Washington, they would be kicked out of office by their own population," he predicted. "There is no feeling among Western Europeans that there is a military, economic or political threat by the Russian Federation, which would justify the behavior of President Trump in Brussels."
-- Willy Wimmer, Germany’s former State Secretary for Defense
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I'm fine with that. It's mission ended when the wall came down. Everything since then has been nothing but entangling us in other people's failures and local self serving Geo-political games.
[Jpost] The IDF announced that it had seized several M16 weapons from a suspicious vehicle on Thursday near the Paleostinian village Ras Karkar, just north of Ramallah, in the West Bank.
"A short while ago, IDF soldiers identified a suspicious vehicle near the village of in the area of the Ephraim Regional Brigade," it said in a statement. "While searching the vehicle, the soldiers seized M16 weapons."
"The suspect and the weapons were transferred to security forces for further investigation," the IDF added.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Iranian President Hassan Rouhani commented on the ongoing tension between 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 Jews Zionists. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and the United States while speaking to the press alongside Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tehran on Wednesday, marking the first visit to Iran by a Japanese Prime Minister since the 1979 revolution.
Rouhani stated during the press meeting that Iran does not war, but warned that his nation is ready to give a ’firm’ response if they are pushed.
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They don't know what a 'firm response is really like.
[RADIOSHABELLE] The African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) said Wednesday that security forces are interrogating an al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... triggerman who was arrested in Somalia’s southern region with six detonators.
The AU mission did not disclose the name of the senior bad boy who was nabbed in Beledamin in Lower Shabelle on Tuesday.
It said the detonators were meant to be used to carry out attacks along the main supply routes to harm civilians and destroy vehicles.
"AMISOM troops in Beledamin yesterday (Tuesday) arrested an al-Shabaab triggerman in possession of six," it said in a brief statement.
"The gadgets were meant to trigger improvised bombs (IEDs) along main supply routes to destroy vehicles and harm civilians," said the AU mission.
The culprit has been handed over to Somali security forces, it added.
AMISOM promised to continue supporting the transition through the priority tasks, including securing main supply routes, securing key population centers, and mentoring and assisting Somali security forces, both military and police, in close collaboration with the UN mission.
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[KhaamaPress] The Afghan cops repelled a major Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... offensive on Daichupan district of Zabul province killing at least 40 bully boys.
The 205th Atal Corps in a statement said the Talibs launched a major attack on Daichupan district from various angles.
The statement further added that the security forces killed at least 40 turbans after repelling the attack.
The security forces also killed two senior commanders of Taliban Jamil Talawat and Mawlavi Hebat.
According to Atal Corps, the security forces handed over the bodies of 12 Talibs to local residents.
The anti-government armed turbans including Taliban have not commented regarding the clash so far.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan cops have inflicted heavy casualties on Talibs in North of Afghanistan.
The informed military sources said Wednesday the Afghan Special Forces killed 16 Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... fighters in Pashtun Kot district of Faryab.
The Special Forces also maimed 3 Taliban fighters and destroyed some military equipment during the operation.
Furthermore, the Special Forces killed 3 Taliban fighters and detained 8 others in Bagram district of Parwan province.
The sources also added that the Special Forces killed 1 Taliban fighter in Sayad district of Sar-e-Pul ...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets... communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone... province.
The Special Forces also arrested one Taliban fighter during the same operation, the sources said.
This comes as the security situation in some districts of Faryab, Parwan and Sar-e-Pul provinces has tanked during the recent years.
Talibs are active in districts of the three provinces where they often conduct terrorist related activities.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Cynthia backed into the galley, the barbecue fork held in front of her. Jack! she called. Where the hell are you?... the Afghan forces are busy conducting counter-terrorism operations against the anti-government gangs in the three province.
Such generosity of spirit from the far side of the pass.
[KhaamaPress] Pakistain’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi has said that Islamabad is ready to help Afghanistan with the post-settlement reconstruction and development.
He made the remarks during a meeting with the deputy foreign minister of Afghanistan Idrees Zaman in Islamabad on Saturday.
Mr. Zaman is leading a delegation of Afghan officials to participate in first quarterly review session of Afghanistan-Pakistain Action Plan for Peace and Solidarity.
In the meantime, Pakistain’s Foreign Ministry said the exchange of views between Mr. Qureshi and Mr. Zaman covered all aspects of bilateral relations and issues related to Afghan Peace process.
According to a statement released by Pakistain’s Foreign Ministry, the two sides agreed to further enhance cooperation through regular engagement.
They also agreed on exchange of high-level visits by the leadership of the two countries.
The statement further added that Mr. Qureshi reassured Mr. Zaman that Pakistain remained committed to durable peace and stability in Afghanistan calling it a pre-requisite for development and prosperity of Afghanistan and the region.
He also added that Pakistain stands ready to help Afghanistan in post-settlement reconstruction and development of the country.
[NYPOST] Mayor Bill de Blasio secured a coveted spot for the first Democratic presidential primary debate later this month ‐ despite his failure to get at least 65,000 donors.
The Democratic National Committee released the list of the 20 candidates who will partake in the back-to-back debates on June 26 and 27 in Miami.
The four contenders who did not make the cut are Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton, retired Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel and Miramar, Fla., Mayor Wayne Messam.
NBC is expected to announce the lineup for each night on Friday morning. NBC will randomly select 10 candidates to go on each night. Candidates polling above 2% will be evenly split between the two events to assure there is no "undercard debate" or kids’ table.
De Blasio was just one of six candidates who did not meet the donor threshold.
He still qualified ‐ along with Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, former Maryland Rep. John Delaney, former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan and Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Rep. Eric Swalwell ‐ by gaining at least 1% in national polls.
His fund-raising failure came despite getting a little extra credit from his pals at the powerful United Federation of Teachers union, whose president sent out an 11th-hour fund-raising appeal on de Blasio’s behalf Monday morning, The Post has learned.
"We want to ensure that our collective voice shapes the debate and that we hear from as many candidates as possible," UFT President Michael Mulgrew wrote in the email, a copy of which was obtained by The Post.
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it must really annoy de Blasio that the mayor of the 4th largest city in Indiana is more popular than he is
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[NYDAILYNEWS] A man was charged with murder in three recent killings in Dallas, Texas, including the murder of Muhlaysia Booker, a black transgender woman whose death made national headlines last month, police announced Wednesday.
Dallas Police Department major Max Geron said in a presser that they arrested 34-year-old Kendrell Lavar Lyles in the murder of Booker, and a man and woman, both unnamed, in three separate cases.
He also was named a "person of interest" in the murder of another transgender woman, 26-year-old Chynal Lindsey.
On June 5, police arrested the suspect for the shooting death of a female, who’d been killed on May 22. A tip from a witness to another shooting in the same Dallas area led police to link Lyles to the killing of a man after a drug transaction altercation, on May 23.
During the course of the investigation of the two murders, detectives noticed that Lyles drove "the same type of car that is believed to have picked up Muhlaysia Booker on May 18," adding that cell phone records showed that the suspect was around the area where Booker was last seen.
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[NPR.ORG] Thirty-six Memphis Police Department officers and sheriff's deputies were maimed during a large protest Wednesday night, the police department said Thursday. The violence erupted like lava from a volcano after officers of the U.S. Marshals Service shot and killed Brandon Webber, 20.
The shooting occurred around 7 p.m. local time, as officers from the U.S. Marshals Service as part of the Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force tried to take a man into custody. When the officers approached the man, law enforcement officials said, he was getting into his car in the Frayser community in northern Memphis, Tenn.
That man was Webber, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, which is investigating the case. The U.S. Marshals Service says he was wanted on "multiple felony warrants."
When the officers tried to stop Webber, "he reportedly rammed his vehicle into the officers' vehicles multiple times before exiting with a weapon," the TBI says.
"The officers fired striking and killing the individual," according to the TBI.
Residents began to gather in the street, looking for answers, reports local TV news Fox 13. Shelby County Commissioner Tami Sawyer was among the first officials to identify the slain man publicly. She also said the local community has a reason to distrust the police.
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Thirty six cops injured sounds more like a riot than a protest, but hey, to-may-to, to-mah-to.
Another upstanding citizen shot to pieces. Chimp out on marshals serving multiple felony warrants, and this is what they do. No matter how many Wakandans love you... you gonna die.
(county comish) also said the local community has a reason to distrust the police. And vice versa.
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The way we deal with this stuff is stupid. No more tear gas or pepper spray. No more water cannons. You answer a rock with a high velocity rifle round or a spread of 00 buck. You answer a molotov with the same. After the first 30 wind up toes up, they'll learn.
Niven's Laws Once again.
1. Don't throw shit at an armed man.
2. Don't stand next to someone throwing shit at an armed man.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan cops targeted a compound of Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... group in Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... killing at least 3 foreign terrorists.
The 201st Silab Corps in a statement said the 2nd Brigade of Silab Corps conducted artillery strikes on Lashkar-e-Taiba compound in ASmar district on Wednesday.
The statement further added that the compound belonged to Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Majid alias Adalat.
The security forces killed 3 foreign snuffies of the group and maimed 5 more during the operation, the 201st Silab Corps added.
The anti-government armed elements have not commented regarding the operation so far.
[KhaamaPress] The security forces conducted separate operations in three provinces killing or wounding at least 16 Talibs.
The informed military sources said Wednesday that the Afghan Special Forces killed 3 Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... fighters during an operation in Tagab district of Kapisa.
The sources further added that the security forces also conducted an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in Nerkh district of Wardak and killed 3 Taliban fighters.
Furthermore, the Special Forces killed 4 Taliban during an operation in Chisht-e Sharif district of 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 also added that the Special Forces maimed 6 Taliban fighters and destroyed 5 improvised explosives devices during the same operation.
The anti-government armed faceless myrmidons including Taliban have not commented regarding the operations so far.
Reports in #Gaza : PIJ armed wing is the one which fired towards Sderot by Iranian guidance . The Gaza factions are frantically evacuating their outposts and bases. #Israel
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how about next time the IDF hits them before they fully evacuate
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[Bing] The Office of Special Counsel recommended Thursday that Kellyanne Conway be fired from the federal government for violating the Hatch Act on "numerous occasions."
The Hatch Act is a federal law that limits certain political activities of Trump staff federal employees.
He spent 20 years as a prosecutor in California before becoming staff director for U.S. Senator John McCain at the United States Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
[KhaamaPress] Afghanistan and 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 Jews Zionists. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... will expand bilateral cooperation in the field of peaceful nuclear energy.
The Iranian authorities said that Tuesday that the two nations will cooperate on application of atomic energy in healthcare and agriculture.
The officials of the two countries on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding in this regard.
A delegation of Afghanistan Atomic Energy High Commission recently visited Iran to sign the MoU with the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran.
The delegation visited Iran after coordinating with the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEI).
The two countries will mainly focus on human resources capacity building and application of atomic energy in healthcare and agriculture.
[Al Jazeera] The Mexican government said the deployment of National Guard members to the southern border region began this week, but there have been no visible signs of its presence on the ground. Government officials have also made contradictory claims about the status of the force in southern Mexico.
The announced deployment has created confusion in Tapachula near the Mexico-Guatemala border, where migrants colonists and asylum seekers say increased militarisation will not stop migration.
Earlier this month, the government announced plans to send 6,000 National Guard troops to southern states to stem the migration of Central Americans and others heading north overland. The news came amid immigration deal negotiations with the United States following threats by US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... of escalating tariffs on Mexican goods.
Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs Marcelo Ebrard has made several public statements announcing National Guard deployment this week, with support from the Army and Marines. Deployment began Wednesday and will be quickly increasing every day, Ebrard said during a presser on Wednesday, without elaborating on the specifics.
An official from the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs told Al Jazeera on Thursday that the National Guard had not yet been deployed to southern Mexico. It would be part of an escalating rolling deployment that started with members of other security forces and decisions on which forces will be deployed when will depend on strategy and other factors, the official said.
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[Al Jazeera] Syrian government forces have attacked a Ottoman Turkish observation point in Syria's Idlib province, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor... 's Defence Ministry has said, in what it assessed as a deliberate attack involving 35 mortar shells.
Three Ottoman Turkish soldiers were slightly maimed in the attack, the ministry said in a statement on Thursday, and some equipment and facilities were damaged.
"The transportation and treatment of the maimed [soldiers] is ongoing," the statement said. The ministry added that Ankara has made representations to Moscow about the incident.
Under a deal with Russia, Turkey deployed forces in Idlib at a dozen positions around the rebel-controlled northwestern province, where it has set up observation towers to prevent escalations between the Syrian government forces and rebels.
However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... Syria and ally Russia ramped up deadly air raids and artillery fire in the region in late April against Hay'et Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS), a former al-Qaeda affiliate whose fighters dominate the area. Russia wants the group out of Idlib and disarmed, and keeps pressuring Turkey to make that happen.
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[KhaamaPress] The NDS Special Forces killed one terrorist and detained two others during an operation in 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... province.
The National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) in a statement said the bully boyz originally hail from Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... province of Pakistain.
The statement further added that the three terrorists, Mohamad Hakim alias Bilal son of Obaidullah, Rafiullah and Rauzuddin, were fighting for the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... leader Mullah Wakil Ahmad Osmani.
NDS also added that Mullah Osmani is actively involved in terrorist related activities in Kerkh district of Herat and bordering regions between Herat and Badghis.
The National Directorate of Security (NDS) also released a video confession of one of the detained terrorists.
The holy warrior briefs the intelligence operatives regarding his recruitment to Taliban ranks and travel to Afghanistan.
The Taliban group has not commented regarding the killing and detention of the Pak Death Eaters so far.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Harakat Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... has formally rejected the ceasefire that was announced earlier today in the northwestern region of Syria.
In a statement released this afternoon, Harakat Ahrar al-Sham said they reject any ceasefire with the Syrian and Russian armed forces, vowing to keep fighting them in northwestern Syria.
Harakat Ahrar al-Sham is one of the largest rebel groups in Syria; they make up a large portion of the Ottoman Turkish-backed National Liberation Front ...the Turkic paramilitaries intended to replace with their native jihadi ferocity all the highly trained Turkish soldiers Sultan Erdogan I the much beloved has jailed in the last few years for not worshipping the ground he walks upon. The Uighurs and so forth who did not join Al Nusra or ISIS seem to have ended up here...
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Valedictorian Nataly Buhr shocked San Ysidro High School staff and students with her graduation speech on June 6 in San Diego, California
She slammed the school's staff saying her counselor was 'unavailable', administrators were negligent, and a teacher was drunk on the job
'Thank you for using yourself to teach these students about the dangers of alcoholism. Being escorted out of school left a lasting impression,' she said
She claimed her counselor ignored appointments with the student and her parents but beamed with pride when she was named valedictorian
In video of the speech students gasp in shock and cover their mouths
'I was hoping to encourage more students to speak up,' Nataly said of speech
The school district says her speech was pre-approved but she went off-script
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[freewestmedia] Masked leftists attacked a bus in Berlin travelling with cancer patients.
The attack in the quarter Kreuzberg on Thursday was aimed at participants of a real estate congress, reported Berlin daily, the Berliner Morgenpost.
The unsuspecting, innocent and suffering cancer patients from Berlin were on their way to an event in the district of Oberschöneweide. According to police, the bus was travelling with a group of about 50 people when it was suddenly bombarded with eggs, tomatoes and paint bombs.
[KhaamaPress] The security forces conducted separate operations in Uruzgan and Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... provinces killing at least 13 Talibs.
The informed military sources said Wednesday the Afghan Special Forces killed 8 Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighters in Tarin Kot district of Uruzgan.
The sources further added that the Special Forces also destroyed a large quantity of explosives and improvised bombs.
Furthermore, the security forces conducted an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in Marjah district of Helmand and killed 5 Taliban fighters.
The anti-government armed snuffies have not commented regarding the operations so far.
Both Uruzgan and Helmand are among the volatile provinces in South of Afghanistan.
Tanker Front Altair is on fire according to Bloomberg. Marine Traffic shows it was sailing between in the Gulf when the incident happened pic.twitter.com/of9WWsk0Sr
Pentagon believes crew of Norwegian-owned tanker Front Altair detained by Iran. US officials say crew first rescued by merchant vessel, Hyundai Dubai, but Iranian gunboats surrounded ship demanding crew. Captain ordered crew to surrender. 23 crew members being held in Iran v…
[DailySignal] When authorities arrested Ashiqual Alam last week for planning a terrorist attack against Times Square in New York City, it was the 111th Islamist terror plot or attack against the U.S. homeland since 9/11, and the 98th to be a homegrown plot.
New York City is the most common city to be targeted by terrorists in the U.S., and this is at least the fifth plot or attack against the Times Square area specifically. Many will remember the botched car bomb attack against Times Square by Faisal Shahzad in 2010.
More generally, public gathering spaces such as Times Square are the most common type of target by Islamist terrorists, especially following the spread of ISIS propaganda calling for such strikes.
Once again, though, the hard work of the FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force prevented an attack. Over the course of an almost-yearlong investigation involving multiple undercover agents, the task force kept the people of New York safe.
The U.S. must maintain this proactive approach of stopping terrorism before it strikes. At the link, considerably more interesting than the text above, is a scrollable timeline. An interesting aide-memoire, it seems to me, described as follows:
This page is The Heritage Foundation’s compilation of all Islamist terror plots and attacks against the U.S. homeland since 9/11 according to publicly available records. The list does not include activities that are merely linked to terrorism, such as traveling abroad to join a terrorist organization, but each plot requires some threat directed at the U.S. homeland. Additionally, the primary motivation of the terror plot or attack must be a radical Islamist ideology, which supports the use of violence as a means to achieve the long-run objective of imposing Islamic law, i.e., sharia. As this timeline makes clear, the threat of Islamist terror remains real and the U.S. must remain dedicated to defeating terrorism at home and abroad.
The Pentagon confirms the CNN story, saying this about the oil tanker attacks: “At 4:10 p.m. local time an IRGC Gashti Class patrol boat approached the M/T Kokuka Courageous and was observed and recorded removing the unexploded limpet mine from the M/T Kokuka Courageous.”
The photos I saw had the mines ~8 feet out of the water. Not something a scuba team could do easily unless they had some sort of pole to attach the mine at that level.
Methinks a small low radar signature craft (like a zodiac) was used for the initial placement operation, but what do I know.
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[NPR.ORG] The Democratic National Committee announced Thursday the list of presidential candidates who will take the stage at the first primary debates, on June 26 and 27.
To accommodate the massive field of candidates, the debates will be spread over two nights, with 10 candidates taking the stage for each two-hour debate.
Here are the candidates who the DNC said have made the cut, in alphabetical order:
Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet
Former Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant....*
New Jersey Sen. Cory Spartacus Booker U.S. Senator-for-Life from Noo Joisey, formerly the mayor of Newark. Booker is a candidate for president in 2020, running on a platform of Make America Newark. He once wrote an essay on how to grope babes. He is noted for having an imaginary friend named T-Bone...*
South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg*
Former HUD Secretary Julián Castro*
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio
Former Maryland Rep. John Delaney
Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard*
New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand*
Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,
Sen. Kámala Harris Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, now a senatrix from California and 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, indistinguishable from the others...*
Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee*
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar*
Former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke*
Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated by Hillary, then went back to being a socialist... *
California Rep. Eric Swalwell
Massachusetts Sen. 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...*
Writer and spiritual guru Marianne Williamson*
Entrepreneur Andrew Yang*
In order to qualify, all candidates had to hit either a fundraising or a polling threshold. For fundraising, candidates had to have at least 65,000 donors and at least 200 donors in each of 20 states. For polling, candidates had to garner at least 1% support in at least three national or early-state polls.
Candidates marked with an asterisk (*) above met both thresholds according to the DNC.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] In a rare apparent acknowledgment of Israel’s military operations in Syria, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israeli Defense Forces were working systematically to prevent Tel Aviv’s enemies from gaining a foothold near borders
"We respond with attacks and force to every attack against us. But we are not only taking action after the fact, but we are also denying the enemy capabilities before the fact. In a systematic and consistent way, we are working to prevent our enemy from establishing attack bases against us and in our vicinity," Netanyahu said, speaking at an event on Wednesday, according to The Times of Israel.
On Wednesday morning, Syrian air defenses reported downing ’several’ Israeli missiles during a suspected IDF strike in Daraa province. Later in the day, the Syrian Arab News Agency said that the Israeli military had also conducted "electronic warfare" against Syrian defenses to try to suppress its air defense radar installations.
Information about any possible casualties has yet to be reported.
Prior to Wednesday’s strikes, the last reported IDF attack against Syria took place on June 2, with jets striking multiple targets throughout the country which Tel Aviv said was a response to rocket fire into Israel.
Tel Aviv has admitted to carrying out "hundreds" of air attacks against Syria in recent years, and said that the strikes are aimed at countering an alleged Iranian and Iranian-linked presence in the war-torn country.
Damascus has condemned the attacks as a blatant violation of international law and accused Israel of assisting the jihadist rebels in their efforts to destroy Syria. 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 Jews Zionists. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has said that its presence in Syria has been limited to assistance aimed at helping Damascus crush ISIS (ISIS)*, al-Qaeda,* and other terrorist groups.
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[YNETNEWS] Following a rocket strike from Gaza which hit a Sderot Yeshiva building, the city's Mayor Alon Davidi said that only a ground invasion of Gaza to eliminate terror leaders and infrastructure will bring long-term quiet to the region.
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[NYPOST] US 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 front man sent a profane tweet to a potential Republican challenger as he ripped him for wanting to debate his boss.
"Yo @RichValdes what in the actual f‐k makes you think you’re entitled to a debate with AOC," front man Corbin Trent tweeted Sunday at the conservative talk radio producer who’s mulling a run against the freshman congresswoman. AOC: "I'm the boss!"
Earlier that day, Valdes said he tried to challenge Ocasio-Cortez to a debate on the merits of capitalism versus socialism as they both marched in the National Puerto Rican Day Parade. Valdes claims the democratic socialist "jetted to the other side of street" when he tried to approach her.
Trent told The Post after the missed encounter that Ocasio-Cortez didn’t run away from Valdes, and that she "doesn’t owe anybody a debate."
But he wanted to send Valdes a direct message too.
"Pro tip: stalking her at a parade ain’t gonna make it any more likely to happen," Trent said to Valdes in the tweet.
He deleted it the next day, Valdes said.
"I did indeed send that," Trent admitted to The Post in a telephone interview Thursday.
"I did indeed delete it. It didn’t seem that helpful," he said.
Trent said he didn’t regret the move, but rather "regrets that people chase people around."
"I regret that so many people right from presidential candidates to right-wing commentators to random people that start organizations think that they’re entitled to people’s time. I think she’s spending a ton of time in the district talking about what she’s doing, talking about why she’s doing it and making a case for her policies," Trent said.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Iranian rescue services saved 44 sailors from tankers after a reported attack and took them to the Iranian port of Jask, the state-run IRNA news agency reported on Thursday.
The US Navy’s 5th Fleet also said that it was assisting two oil tankers targeted in a "reported attack" near the Strait of Hormuz after the vessels sent distress calls.
It was not immediately clear who attacked the vessels, one of which has been identified as Front Altair, a crude oil tanker owned by Norway’s Frontline and carrying the flag of the Marshall Islands.
According to shipping newspaper Tradewinds, Frontline’s oil tanker had been "torpedoed" off the coast of the Emirate of Fujairah.
Taiwan’S energy firm CPC said it had suspicions that Front Altair, which was carrying 75,000 tonnes of naphtha, was hit by an unknown object.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Jack stuck the cigar in his mouth, stepped onto the gantry, and asked Got a light, Mac?
Von Schtinken stopped short, lowering the dagger and trying to control his features.
If you light that thing, Herr Armschtröng, he pointed out, his voice tense, we all die!... shipping company Bernhard Schulte said that its oil tanker Kokuka Courageous was also damaged in the incident. Kokuka was sailing from 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... to Singapore with a cargo of methanol.
"The hull has been breached above the water line on the starboard side," the company said in a statement. "All crew are reported safe and only one minor injury reported."
Earlier in the day, Iran’s Press TV said that two successive blasts affected two oil tankers on Thursday morning in what it described as "attacks".
Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet quoted Oman authorities as saying that at least one tanker had been attacked in Iran’s territorial waters in the Gulf of Oman.
Brent crude climbed 4.5 percent in the wake of the reports.
[IsraelTimes] The Japanese operator of a tanker that was damaged in a suspected attack in the Strait of Hormuz says all of its crewmembers are now safe onboard a US Navy warship.
The chemical tanker Kokuka Courageous, operated by Kokuka Sangyo Co., was apparently attacked as it was passing through the Strait of Hormuz toward Singapore and Thailand destinations to deliver methanol.
All of its 21 Filipino crewmembers escaped on a life boat and were initially rescued by a Dutch ship that was headed to the United Arab Emirates.
Company executive Michio Yube says the crewmembers are now on an US warship, which a US official told CBS News was the USS Bainbridge guided missile destroyer. One of the crewmembers received treatment for his injury sustained during the attacks.
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... had claimed it rescued all 44 crew members aboard both the Kokuka Courageous and the Norwegian-owned Front Altair.
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Was it Limpet mines, torpedoes, or flying objects? It does seem the sailors are safe and that Iran did not rescue them and there is a fair amount of disinformation and fake news surrounding the incidents.
Any more news about John Kerry accusations of violating the Logan Act for recent talks with Iran?
[ALMASDARNEWS] A Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) sleeper cell attacked a Syrian intelligence post in northern Daraa, today, killing at least two officers.
According to a local source, the Free Syrian Army sleeper cell carried out the attack at an intelligence post south of Busra al-Harir.
Following the attack, the Free Syrian Army fighters fled to an unknown location in the northern countryside of the Dara’a Governorate.
The Free Syrian Army sleeper cells have been carrying out sporadic attacks against the Syrian intelligence forces in southern Syria.
These attacks have resulted in the death of several Syrian intelligence officers over the last five weeks; this has prompted the military to send several units of reinforcements to the Daraa Governorate to help stop these ambushes.
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[DAILYWIRE] Sure they would. Like I'd be happy to put on more weight.
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Sure thing. I choose to your money Bernie to pay these new taxes. Oh and let's use ALL of Hillary's and Bill's money too. That's how this socialism thing works right? Taking other people's money.
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Earn twice the income, pay twice the taxes? I have no problem with that. Pay more taxes on the same income because Senator Bernie and his little friends refuse to let the nation live within its means? No.
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Don't forget the 47% who pay negative taxes. It's a lot more than that now because obamacare takes from the deplorable small business owners, who didn't build that, to give to the people who are likely democratic voters. My nephew, who had a little business which he did build, was forced to sell it and seek employment with the company which bought him out because premiums have tripled and he got zero subsidies. Health insurance for his family was not affordable under the "affordable care act" it seems. So take from likely political opponents, and give to the hoped for democratic base.
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RE Ms. Hoyt, to some of us the infiltration of the Democrats became unavoidably obvious with the nomination of George McGovern. There were many hints before that but he was the cold dead carp to the face wake up call for some of us.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan National Army (ANA) forces pounded Taliban ...Arabic for students... positions with artillery fire in the outskirts of the capital of Sar-e-Pul ...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets... communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone... province.
The 209th Shaheen Corps in a statement said the ANA Artillery pounded Taliban positions in Zanjik, Balghali and outskirts of Sar-e-Pul capital.
The statement further added that the Air Forces also carried out Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s against Talibs.
According to 209th Shaheen Corps, at least 3 Talibs were killed and 7 others were maimed during the operations.
The security forces also destroyed a mortar launcher of the Talibs, the 209th Shaheen Corps added.
The Taliban have not commented regarding the operations so far.
[KhaamaPress] The security forces have killed the shadow district chief of Taliban for Sayad district of Sar-e-Pul province.
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) in a statement said Wednesday that the Special Forces of the Afghan Police conducted an opeation in Sayad district late on Tuesday night.
The statement further added that the Police Special Forces killed Sher Mohammad alias Ghazanfar, the shadow district chief of Taliban for the district.
The ministry also added that Special Forces also arrested one of the close comrades of Sher Mohammad during the operation.
Meanwhile, the ministry of interior said Sher Mohammad was one of the key commanders of Taliban who was involved in major terrorist attacks in Sayad district.
The Taliban group has not commented regarding the killing of Sher Mohammad so far.
[Al Jazeera] 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... says its air defence forces intercepted five drones launched by Yemen's 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... s at Abha airport and the city of Khamis Mushait in the latest escalation of conflict in the region.
The air traffic and air space at Abha airport were operating normally, a Saudi-led coalition front man said in a statement released by the Saudi Press Agency said early on Friday.
At least 26 people were maimed after Houthis fired missile at Abha airport on Wednesday, drawing sharp response from Riyadh which vowed to take "stern action".
The Iran-aligned Houthi movement earlier said that it carried out drone attacks on Abha Airport days after it targeted the airport in southwest Saudi Arabia with missile, the group's al-Masirah TV reported.
The rebels, who have been fighting the Saudi-led coalition since March 2015, have carried out at least four attacks on Saudi Arabia this week as it has stepped up attacks on the kingdom amid tensions between Shia power 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 the US, Saudi Arabia's main ally.
On Monday, Saudi air defence forces intercepted two drones targeting Khamis Mushait in the kingdom's south.
It caused no damage or casualties, the Saudi-United Arab Emirate (UAE) coalition, which intervened in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... in support of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who was ousted from power by the Houthis in late 2014.
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[CNN] The United States has video and photos that show an Iranian navy boat removing an unwent kaboom! mine attached to the hull of the Japanese-owned chemical tanker Kokura Courageous, four US officials tell CNN.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday blamed 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 Jews Zionists. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... for an attack on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman, saying the assessment was based on intelligence, but presented no public evidence to support his claim.
The attack comes at a time of high tensions between the US and Iran, and could provide more fodder for Iran hawks within the administration, whose recent Iran saber-rattling has frustrated President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... . One of them, national security adviser John Bolton, announced last month that the Pentagon was deploying the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and a bomber task force to the Middle East in response to a "number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings" from Iran.
One of the officials said a US military aircraft overhead recorded a full motion video of an Iranian boat moving alongside one of the stricken tankers and removing an ununexploded limpet mine from its hull. The official said the imagery shows a person on board that small boat grabbing the unexploded mine.
The boat made the move even after the USS Bainbridge, as well as a US drone and P-8 aircraft, had been on the scene for four hours. US defense officials believe that the Iranians were seeking to recover evidence of their involvement in the attack.
CNN has not independently seen the video. The officials described the photos and video to CNN on the condition they not be identified discussing sensitive military information. It is not clear if the imagery will be publicly shown.
Another of the officials tells CNN that multiple Iranian small boats have entered the area where the USS Bainbridge continues to be on the scene, prompting US Central Command to issue a statement saying, "No interference with USS Bainbridge, or its mission, will be tolerated."
Earlier Thursday, the two tankers -- one carrying oil and the other transporting chemicals -- were apparently attacked in international waters near the strategically important Strait of Hormuz. All crew members were evacuated and were safe, according to the owners of the two ships.
The vessels were hit "at or below the waterline, in close proximity to the engine room," said the International Association of Independent Tanker Owners (Intertanko).
"These appeared to be well-planned and coordinated" attacks, the association said..
Jonathan Cohen, acting US ambassador to the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... , said Thursday that he echoed Pompeo's comments in a private meeting of the UN Security Council, describing the attack as "another example of Iran's destabilizing activities in the region."
The Iranian mission to the UN rejected the US' claim.
Alireza Miryousefi, a front man for the Iranian mission, tweeted a statement saying Iran "categorically rejects the US unfounded claim" that Iran is behind the attacks and "condemns it in the strongest possible terms."
He added that Iran "expresses concern" over the "suspicious incidents." And he called it "ironic" that the US, which withdrew from the nuclear deal with Iran, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, is now calling Iran to come back for negotiations and diplomacy.
Following the attack, Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, said "suspicious doesn't begin to describe" this latest incident, noting that one of the tankers is Japanese owned and the attack took place as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was visiting Iran in an effort to calm tensions between Washington and Tehran.
"Reported attacks on Japan-related tankers occurred while PM was meeting with Ayatollah [Ali Khamenei] for extensive and friendly talks. Suspicious doesn't begin to describe what likely transpired this morning," Zarif tweeted Thursday.
Just in: Pentagon video of what it says is an Iranian boat removing an unexploded mine from one of the attacked oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. pic.twitter.com/XSxIPcyV6Q
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You mean to tell me, that the ship was attacked, and somehow no security perimeter was set...and the iranians just decided " hell let's go back on the scene of the crime, in broad daylight and remove the rest of the explosives"... this jus assets in deep state are real crafty.
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It's too bad the SEALs can't pick an Iranian Harbor and put a few limpets on every single ship, timed to go off say at 7am. All at the same time. Of course, say nothing on the news to anyone.
[IsraelTimes] Israel planes carried out multiple Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in the Gazoo Strip early Friday, hours after a rocket hit a religious school in southern Israel.
The Israeli military said in a statement that fighter jets and other aircraft attacked "several terror targets, including terror infrastructure in military compounds."
It said it also hit a naval base belonging to the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror group.
"The attack was carried out in response to the rocket that was shot from the Gazoo Strip earlier this evening," the army said.
A video released by the military showed a number of strikes on unspecified targets.
The Hamas-linked Shehab news agency said there were three strikes on a naval facility near Khan Younis in southern Gazoo, causing damage.
It said sites east of Gazoo City were also attacked.
There were no immediate reports of casualties.
The strikes came hours after a rocket launched from Gazoo slammed into a building housing a religious school, causing damage but no injuries. The rocket, which did not explode, struck the outer face of the yeshiva, sending debris onto the sidewalk. A number of tempered-glass windows were also broken.
Most students had gone home for the weekend, but several people were still inside the school at the time.
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[KhaamaPress] The security forces killed 19 Talibs during a clash in Takhar province of Afghanistan.
The Special Forces Operations Corps in a statement said the Afghan Special Forces the turbans were killed in Khwaja Ghar district during the clearance operations.
The statement further added that the Special Forces fullhy cleared the district from the presence of Talibs.
The Special Forces also maimed 12 Talibs and destroyed two captured Humvee armored personnel carriers.
The Talibs have not commented regarding the operation so far.
#UPDATE: Looks like operations at Abha Airport in southern Saudi Arabia have been suspended while it is under Houthi drone attack, number of civilian airliners in holding patterns above the airport right now pic.twitter.com/8rWfnDyEDq
[ToloNews] The ISIS group in Afghanistan is a "very worrisome" threat to the United States, and US counterterrorism efforts have yet to shrink its hard boy ambitions, Head of US Central Command Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie said Wednesday, according to Military Times report.
"ISIS (ISIS) in Afghanistan certainly has aspirations to attack the United States," McKenzie said. "It is our clear judgment that as long as we maintain pressure on them it will be hard for them to do that."
McKenzie, with responsibility for managing American military operations across the greater Middle East, spoke in Germany with news hounds returning home with him from an eight-day trip that took him 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... , Iraq, 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... , the United Arab Emirates and Egypt.
He also spent two days aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the North Arabian Sea.
He stopped at Germany’s Ramstein air base to refuel his airplane before flying to his headquarters in Florida.
Earlier this week, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named cited US. and Afghan security officials In reporting that the ISIS group in Afghanistan is expanding its footprint, recruiting new fighters and plotting attacks on the United States and other Western countries.
McKenzie, a veteran of combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, said he believes ISIS in Afghanistan has not expanded its capabilities but remains a big problem.
"They are very worrisome to us" in their strongholds in eastern Afghanistan, he said, adding that combat operations have failed to reduce the group’s fighting ranks. Others have said they are thought to number in the thousands.
The ISIS affiliate appeared in Afghanistan shortly after the group’s core fighters swept across Syria and Iraq in the summer of 2014, carving out a self-styled Islamic empire in both countries.
The Afghanistan affiliate refers to itself as the Khorasan Province, a name applied to parts of Afghanistan, 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 central Asia in the Middle Ages.
US forces in Afghanistan are combatting the ISIS group separately from their mission of advising and assisting Afghan defense forces in their battle against the Taliban ...Arabic for students... .
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[ToloNews] At least nine people were killed and 11 others maimed in a suicide kaboom that targeted a security check post in Jalalabad city in the eastern province of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. on Thursday afternoon.
Attaullah Khogyani, the provincial governor’s front man, said the suicide kaboom happened in Jalalabad’s Police District Six in Familiha area.
He said that it is not known whether the victims are military or civilians.
President Ghani condemned today’s suicide kaboom in Jalalabad and said "terrorists" cannot face the Afghan cops on the battlefield, therefore, they target Afghan civilians, the Presidential Palace said in a statement.
[KhaamaPress] Unidentified button men have assassinated a religious holy man and teacher in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
The Nangarhar governor’s office in a statement said Wednesday that unknown button men killed Mawlavi Saifullah in Koz Kunar district earlier today.
The statement further added that the button menrubbed out Mawlavi Safiullah at around 5 am local time as he was on his way home from the mosque.
The governor’s office also added that the button men used a gun with a silencer to assassinate Mawlavi Saifullah.
No individual or group has so far grabbed credit for the attack.
[KhaamaPress] The authorities have released more than 30 Taliban ...Arabic for students... prisoners from the central prison of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
The Nangarhar governor’s office in a statement said the authorities released the Taliban prisoners in accordance with a presidential decree.
The statement further added that 32 Taliban prisoners were set free from the central prison of Nangarhar.
The governor’s office also added that 2,300 people including women are currently serving in Nangarhar central prison.
The statement also added that President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. had ordered the release of 887 Taliban prisoners on the eve of Eid al-Fitr.
The release of Taliban prisoners has attracted mixed reactions from the people as some believe that released Taliban group members would return to battlefield.
However, women are made to be loved, not understood... the authorities are saying that they release the prisoners after proper security screening.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The jihadist rebels launched a powerful attack on the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) positions in southwestern Idlib last night.
Using the cover of night, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... and their allies stormed the Syrian Arab Army’s positions at the eastern and northeastern axes of Qasabiyah.
For nearly two hours, the Syrian Arab Army and Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham clashed at Qasabiyah last night; however, the latter was unable to crack the government’s lines.
According to a military source in northern Hama, the Syrian Arab Army was able to repel the jihadist attack, while also killing and wounding several Lions of Islam in the process.
The Syrian Arab Army then secured the area around Qasabiyah in order to prevent another attack from being carried out later that night.
Qasabiyah is a small town that is located at the southwestern slope of the al-Zawiya Mountain.
The Syrian Arab Army maintains a presence in southwestern Idlib as a result of their control over Qasabiyah.
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JW: NEW IRS Documents Reveal McCain Staffer Urged IRS to Engage in "Financially Ruinous" Targeting
Judicial Watch released newly obtained internal IRS documents, including material revealing that Sen. John McCain's former staff director and chief counsel on the Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee, Henry Kerner, urged top IRS officials, including then-director of exempt organizations Lois Lerner, to "audit so many that it becomes financially ruinous." Kerner was appointed by President Trump as Special Counsel for the United States Office of Special Counsel.
In the full notes of an April 30 meeting, McCain'stain high-ranking staffer Kerner recommends harassing non-profit groups until they are unable to continue operating. Kerner tells Lerner, Steve Miller, then chief of staff to IRS commissioner, Nikole Flax, and other IRS officials, "Maybe the solution is to audit so many that it is financially ruinous." In response, Lerner responded that "it is her job to oversee it all."
[KhaamaPress] The security forces killed 7 Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighters during the operations in Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... and Zabul provinces.
The security forces also arrested five Taliban fighters during the same operations.
The military officials said an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... killed 3 Taliban fighters Marjah district of Helmand.
The officials further added that the Afghan Special Forces killed 4 Taliban fighters in Shinkai and Qalat districts of Zabul.
Furthermore, the Special Forces arrested 5 Taliban fighters during the same operations.
The Talibs have not commented regarding the operations so far.
[KhaamaPress] The NDS Special Forces seized a massive cache of weapons and munitions belonging to Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group in Kabul.
The National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) in a statement said the NDS Special Forces discovered the cache in Paghman district.
The statement further added that the Special Forces of the Directorate seized 52 RPG rockets, 38 RPG boosters, 16 rounds of 82mm mortars, 5 Ak-47 rifles, 1000 rounds of Ak-47 ammunitions, 9 boxes of PKM ammunitions and a large quantity of other military kits.
The National Directorate of Security also added that the Talibjan faceless myrmidons were looking to use the weapons and munitions to stage attacks in Kabul city.
[KhaamaPress] The police forces foiled a large-scale attack plot by Talibs in Obe district killing at least 20 Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... fighters.
The Police Headquarters of 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... in a statement said a large number of Talibs had gathered to launch a large-scale attack to capture Obe district and Ganabad village.
However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... the police forces launched an operation before the gunnies stage the attack killing at least 20 gunnies and injuring 10 others.
The Herat Police Chief Gen. Aminullah Amarkhel said the security forces have recently arrested several foreign gunnies which proves that the neighboring countries specifically Pakistain support the terror groups in Afghanistan.
Gen. Amarkhel assured the residents of Herat province that the security forces will fight to the last drop of blood to thwart enemy conspiracies for disrupting the security of Herat, harming the lives and dignity of the people and territorial integrity of the country.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... the Herat police said two police soldiers also bit the dust during the clash which started at 7pm last evening and continued until 4 am on Thursday.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Russian Air Force resumed their bombing campaign over the Idlib Governorate on Thursday after taking a brief hiatus to negotiate a short-lived ceasefire with their Ottoman Turkish partners.
According to a field report from the nearby Hama Governorate, the Russian Air Force, with coordinates from their Ottoman Turkish partners, launched the attack on the western countryside of Idlib, where the jihadist rebels make up the largest force in the region.
No further details were provided.
While The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... and Russia are backing two different sides in this war, they do occasionally trade intel and carry out joint patrols in northern Syria.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... Russia has recently upped its pressure on Turkey to separate the opposition and jihadist fighters in the northwestern governorates of Syria.
Turkey has been somewhat reluctant to do so because a large number of fighters in the Idlib, Latakia, Aleppo, and Hama governorates are jihadist combatants that are allied with the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA).
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Air Force (SyAAF) has resumed their Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s over the Idlib Governorate, today, after a brief hiatus due to the ceasefire that was brokered by the Russian and Ottoman Turkish armed forces.
According to a report from northern Hama, the Syrian Air Force began their airstrikes over the southern countryside of Idlib, targeting the jihadist defenses in the large town of Khan Sheikhoun.
While the Russian Air Force has been downed due to their 72-hour-long ceasefire agreement with their Ottoman Turkish partners, the Syrian Air Force has resumed their airstrikes in response to the jihadist attack on the Syrian Army’s positions in southwestern Idlib.
Last night, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... and their Ottoman Turkish-backed allies launched a heavy assault on the Syrian Arab Army’s positions inside the town of Qasabiyah; this attack resulted in a fierce battle that ended with the withdrawal of the bully boys.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ottoman Turkish military sent a large convoy to the western countryside of the Idlib Governorate, opposition activists reported this morning.
According to the opposition activists, the Ottoman Turkish military entered the Idlib Governorate from the Hatay Province; they eventually made their way to the Jisr al-Shughour District.
The activists added that the Ottoman Turkish military began patrolling the area between Jisr al-Shughour and the northern countryside of the Hama Governorate.
This move by the Ottoman Turkish military comes just 24 hours after a 72-hour-long ceasefire was announced in northwestern Syria.
Despite this ceasefire announcement, the jihadist rebels and their Ottoman Turkish-backed allies launched a heavy attack on the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) positions in the southwestern countryside of Idlib.
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[NYPOST] A singer in Malaysia was reportedly arrested after she rescued a "dog" from the side of the road ‐ that she later realized was a sun bear.
Zarith Sofia Yasin, 27, told local media she came across the apparently ambiguous creature at night in recent weeks and decided to take it in, believing she was saving it.
"It was night time when I found the bear cub in a weakened state by the side of the road ‐ and I thought it was a dog!" she said, according to The Star.
The animal ‐ which she named "Bruno" ‐ was weak. She said that she wanted to help the bear regain its strength before handing it over to a zoo, the news outlet reported.
"I was worried about sending Bruno to the zoo (while it was ill) because the animals there look skinny," she said, adding she fed the bear well and didn’t keep it in a cage.
Yasin reportedly said: "I know the bear cannot be reared, it can’t be kept as a pet . . . I only wanted to save the bear, I had no intention of exploiting it."
The singer was arrested on Friday by Malaysia’s Wildlife and National Parks Department, according to the news outlet, for allegedly keeping the sun bear in her condo without a permit.
The charge under Section 69 (1) of the Wildlife Protection Act carries a maximum fine of RM200,000 ($48,000) or jail of up to 10 years, or both, if convicted, according to The Jakarta Post.
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It was only when it walked to the phone and dialed the police, I realized it was a bear.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Iran’s leader administered a brazen insult to the United States when he told visiting Japanese PM Shinzo Abe on Thursday, June 13, that he did not consider President Donald Trump “worthy” of an exchange of messages with him. “I do not have and will not have any response for him,” he told the Japanese prime minister, crudely knocking down his visitor’s effort to ease the spiraling US-Iranian tensions. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei went on to say that Trump’s promise not to seek regime change in Iran was “a lie” and he did not believe Washington’s offer of “honest negotiations” with Tehran. 
[accordingtohoyt.com] When our time is looked at in history, future historians — if there are any — will be torn between laughing their heads off and disgust.
[Babylon Bee] RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA‐A self-checkout machine at a local Walmart store was selected to be honored as the employee of the month for the fifty-second month in a row, sources confirmed Thursday.
[Breitbart] Appearing Wednesday on CNN Tonight with host Don Lemon, network reporter Shimon Prokupecz expressed concerned over a report stating the Department of Justice seeks to interview senior CIA officials as part of Attorney General William Barr’s review of the origins of the FBI investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election.
...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 
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...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 
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...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and 
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[NYDAILYNEWS] A man was charged with murder in three recent killings in Dallas, Texas, including the murder of Muhlaysia Booker, a black transgender woman whose death made national headlines last month, police announced Wednesday.
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...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
[freewestmedia] Masked leftists attacked a bus in Berlin travelling with cancer patients.
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, now a senatrix from California and 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, indistinguishable from the others...
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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...
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...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
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...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...
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
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