[CNN] A lava bomb hit a tour boat on Monday morning in Hawaii, injuring 23 people, the Hawaii County Fire Department said.
The lava punctured the boat's roof and it returned to Wailoa Harbor, the fire department said.
The roof of the boat after an explosion sent lava flying onto it Monday morning in Hawaii.
Hilo Medical Center confirmed 13 passengers were treated at the hospital, and another 10 passengers with superficial injuries were treated on arrival at Wailoa Harbor.
Of the 13 injured passengers, four were taken by ambulance to Hilo Medical Center, according to the Hawaii County Fire Department.
One woman in her 20s was in serious condition with a fractured femur, the fire department said. Three passengers were in stable condition.
The lava bomb, or flying chunk of molten rock, left a large hole in the boat's roof, the fire department said. A railing was also damaged.
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Just Remember!, "You will know if you are comfortable living on the same island as this powerful creator of new earth when you go to visit Pele at the Volcano Observatory, Jagger Museum, or any place near the Volcano—as the saying goes, “Pele will either embrace you, or spit you out…and you will know if you are meant to be here or not soon after you come here.”
We were told to bring a bottle of gin, flowers, fruits, and the song within us to honor the Goddess Pele, and when we went there, it was such a beautiful day! We could tell she was pleased to see us! "
Just remember don't bring her rot-gut gin!
[WSJ] Eighteen months into Donald Trump’s term, the world is having trouble coming to grips with the most unconventional American president ever. Still, he is neither a bad dream from which the U.S. will soon wake up, nor a fool to be ridiculed.
For someone his critics say is a compulsive liar, Mr. Trump has been remarkably true to his word. Especially compared with his predecessor, he doesn’t moralize. It’s classic Trump to be openly exasperated by the Group of 7’s hand-wringing hypocrisy. Unlike almost every other democratic leader, Mr. Trump doesn’t try to placate critics. He knows it’s more important to get things done than to be loved.
The holder of the world’s most significant office should always be taken seriously. Erratic and ill-disciplined though Mr. Trump often seems, there’s little doubt that he is proving a consequential president. On the evidence so far, when he says something, he means it‐and when he says something consistently, it will happen.
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I would read anything in der Wall Street nie Trumpf why?
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I'll read it for you, Mike. The truth is that the rest of the world needs America much more than America needs us. The U.S. has no threatening neighbors. It’s about as remote from the globe’s trouble spots as is possible to be. It’s richly endowed with resources, including energy and an almost boundless agricultural capacity. Its technology is second to none. Its manufacturing base is vast. Its people are entrepreneurial in their bones. From diversity, it has built unity and an enviable pride in country.
[Quillette] I drive food delivery for an online app to make rent and support myself and my young family. This is my new life. I once had a well paid job in what might be described as the social justice industry. Then I upset the wrong person, and within a short window of time, I was considered too toxic for my employer’s taste. I was publicly shamed, mobbed, and reduced to a symbol of male privilege. I was cast out of my career and my professional community. Writing anything under my own byline now would invite a renewal of this mobbing—which is why, with my editor’s permission, I am writing this under a pseudonym. He knows who I am.
In my previous life, I was a self-righteous social justice crusader. I would use my mid-sized Twitter and Facebook platforms to signal my wokeness on topics such as LGBT rights, rape culture, and racial injustice. Many of the opinions I held then are still opinions that I hold today. But I now realize that my social-media hyperactivity was, in reality, doing more harm than good.
Within the world created by the various apps I used, I got plenty of shares and retweets. But this masked how ineffective I had become outside, in the real world. The only causes I was actually contributing to were the causes of mobbing and public shaming. Real change does not stem from these tactics. They only cause division, alienation, and bitterness.
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Blue on blue??? Uh, that's red on red, friend.
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I love this sentence,
"...I was publicly shamed, mobbed, and reduced to a symbol of male privilege...."
if you are shamed and mobbed doesn't that mean you aren't privileged?
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[The Federalist] By intentionally treating Trump’s denial of colluding with Russia as a repudiation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, the liberal media seeks to accomplish three goals, one silly and two significant. First, by painting the president as a "Russian interference denier," the press attempts to make Trump look foolish, incompetent, or both. While this may be music to Manhattan, Main Street America has long ago tired of this tactic and writes it off as the fake news it is.
Conflating allegations that Trump colluded with Russia with evidence that Russia interfered in the 2016 election also serves two more nefarious purposes: One, it allows the media to ignore Trump’s true criticism of the special counsel’s investigation into his presidential campaign. Two, it allows the press to pretend evidence of Russian misconduct equates to proof that the Trump campaign was complicit in Russia’s interference in the election.
Skipping down to the closing:
This all goes to prove what Trump has been saying all along‐that the special counsel’s investigation collusion between his campaign and Russia is a witch hunt.
The media may believe it is hurting Trump by continuing the Russia collusion charade, but it is not. The Left’s trial by ordeal will not destroy Trump, but it may well hurt our country and achieve Russia’s goal of sowing discord. Friday’s indictment of Russian nationals and Kremlin’s military agency should have united Americans in outrage over Russia’s attempts to influence our election, but instead a sideshow ensued, all to put Trump in his place.
What the press doesn’t realize, however, is that if it continues these efforts, Trump’s place will be the White House for another term.
We've already discussed some of the reasons, but here's another from the WSJ.
[WSJ] The indictment of 12 Russian military intelligence agents last week, on charges they hacked into Democratic National Committee and other servers during the 2016 campaign, raises questions about the timing of the announcement and the work of the hackers themselves. The news came on the eve of the Trump-Putin summit. Why then?
The president was told of the indictments before he traveled. Yet the plain effect of the announcement was to raise further doubts about the wisdom of the meeting‐and perhaps to shape its agenda. Neither is the business of the special counsel or anyone else at the Justice Department. The department has a longstanding policy, not directly applicable here but at least analogous, that candidates should not be charged close to an election, absent urgent need, lest the charges themselves affect the outcome. The general principle would seem to apply: Prosecutors are supposed to consider the impact of their actions on significant events outside the criminal-justice system, and to act with due diffidence.
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The point likely was not merely to inflict damage but also to send a warning.
The Russians would have had the ability to blackmail Clinton, and still do. Death by 30,000 emails, a 'Russian' insurance policy.
The 30,000 Clinton emails? They're 'now' part of an 'ongoing criminal investigation' involving a consortium of evil Russians. Sorry, you cannot see them.
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By tradition, evidence is necessary in court of American law. Compartmentalized info does not qualify as 'you'll have to take my word for it' in a just court of law. Given who'd play that line, let's just say, no, we don't believe you.
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The 30,000 Clinton emails? They're 'now' part of an 'ongoing criminal investigation' involving a consortium of evil Russians. Sorry, you cannot see them.
Add to that the DNC hacking, the Awans, DWS and all the rest. See those documents, no we're sorry. They are now all part of the on-going Russian indictments.
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Yet the plain effect of the announcement was to raise further doubts about the wisdom of the meeting‐and perhaps to shape its agenda.
Donald Trump doesn't do "plain effects". I have been forced to the conclusion that trump can make lemonade out of lemons faster than any other politician / celebrity. No matter what you deal him say an off suit seven deuce, he will find a way to make it a winning hand.
[The Hill] The European Union and Japan signed an agreement on Tuesday that will lift close to 100 percent of tariffs on products exchanged between the two.
The Associated Press reported that leaders from Japan and the EU hailed the deal as a significant step toward installing free trade practices, standing in stark contrast to President Trump’s decision to implement steep tariffs against U.S. allies and China.
Leaders from the EU and Japan struck a deal on key aspects of the agreement late last year, the AP reported. The new policies won’t go into effect immediately, as they require legislative approval.
The deal eliminates about 99 percent of tariffs on Japanese goods entering the EU, and cuts roughly 94 percent of tariffs on European exports to Japan. The latter number will eventually climb to closer to 99 percent, the AP reported.
"The EU and Japan showed an undeterred determination to lead the world as flag-bearers for free trade," Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said.
EU leaders said member countries will be able to buy Japanese beef and fruit more easily, and argued European exports of chemicals, clothing, cheeses and beer will increase, the AP reported.
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Looks like Europeans will be out of work soon, replaced by Japanese automation.
At least they'll have the consolation of reading about GDP growing an extra 0.8% in the newspaper.
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A comment below from Tony Abbot about the TIPP resonates here...In the short term, freer trade can be better for rich people in poor countries than for poor people in rich ones.
[PJMedia] President Trump offended the entire political spectrum with a tweet this morning blaming the U.S. for poor relations with Russia. "Our relationship with Russia has NEVER been worse thanks to many years of U.S. foolishness and stupidity," the president said, and he is entirely correct. By this I do not mean to say that Russia is a beneficent actor in world affairs or that President Putin is an admirable world leader. Nonetheless, the president displayed both perspicacity and political courage when he pointed the finger at the United States for mismanaging the relationship with Russia. People who easily offended are, probably, not very sure that they're right
Our Constitution forbids the creation of "titles of nobility." The Framers thought it was important enough that the prohibition appears twice, once forbidding the federal government from doing it, and elsewhere extending the ban to the states.
And Americans, to the extent that they give the question any thought at all, probably think that the ban works: After all, nobody’s squiring about the United States, sporting titles like Duke of Pennsylvania or Earl of Internal Revenue.
But now I’m wondering if we don’t have a problem. First, Charles C.W. Cooke, a Brit who just recently became an American citizen, noted the practice of calling former government officials by their former titles and called it "grotesque." It’s something he discussed in a recent book.
"By custom, we allow our politicians to retain their titles for life. Throughout the 2012 election, Mitt Romney was referred to as 'Governor Romney,' though he had not been in public office for six years," Cooke wrote. "One can only ask, 'Why?' America being a nation of laws and not men, political power is not held in perpetuity, and there is supposed to be no permanent political class.
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I would say that America has a problem with rent-seeking, and the political system has a failure mode around this.
Whereas marxism is straight extortion to the state, rent-seeking is west's Achilles heel. Of course progressive policies on taxation and min wages tends to magnify these problems but the cause is basically government giving out title for free.
This sounds capitalist but title is the government's main product! The capitalist thing to do is actually charge a market rate for this (not that easy to do admittedly). My preference is for this huge amount to be disbursed as a adult citizens dividend (and replace failure reward benefits), then the states charge a fixed fee for everyone. This effectively sets the average rent = 0, it also tends to prevent land speculation which sucks capital out of the productive economy and causes banking crashes on a cycle.
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Cheap labour (below average wage typically) always means taxpayer subsidized labour.
The other benefit of the above is that non-citizen migrants pay their way (they don't get a dividend but pay the taxes) and thus have to be in actual demand not just a cheaper replacement.
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America also has a cult problem: Silly Con Valley and Elon Musk. "Elon" called the head of the Thai cave rescue operation a pedophile yesterday. Will instapundit denounce that or offer to handle "Elon's" slander suit pro bono? Schnatter got the career death penalty for saying the N word in a training call. Will "Elon's" board flush him or play "Lizzy Holmes wait-n-see?" Inquiring minds want to know...
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When the armed might of the State gets involved in the economy then 'cheap labor' becomes corvée labor and then flat-out slave labor. The money to pay for projects will inevitably run out and then the lash will be employed. They have been floating the idea of a mandatory labor draft for decades...
[Daily Caller] Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said critics of President Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladmir Putin in Helsinki, Finland have "Trump derangement syndrome" Monday on CNN.
"Let me get right to the questioning. Do you believe that President Trump’s meeting with Putin made America safer?" asked CNN host Wolf Blitzer.
"You know, I think engagement with our adversaries, conversation with our adversaries is a good idea. Even in the height of the cold War, maybe at the lowest ebb when we were in the midst of the Cuban missile crisis, I think it was a good thing that Kennedy had a direct line to Khrushchev. I think it was a good thing that we continued to have ambassadors to Russia even when we really objected greatly to what was going on, even during Stalin’s regime. So I think that it is a good idea to have engagement," Paul said.
"And I think that what is lost in this is that I think there’s a bit of Trump derangement syndrome. I think there are people that hate the president so much that this could have easily been President Obama early in the first administration setting the reset button and trying to have better relations with Russia and I think it’s lost on people that they are a nuclear power," Paul continued.
The Kentucky senator added, "They have influence in Syria. They’re in close proximity to our troops in Syria. They are close to the peninsula of North Korea and may have some influence that could help us there. The other thing that’s lost and people forget this completely, the Russians tried to help us stop the Boston marathon bombing. We actually did help them stop a terrorist attack in St. Petersburg because we were communicating and exchanging information."
Paul went on to say that "all of those things are good, and because people hate Trump so much, all of that’s being lost."
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"When I hear Brennan or Clapper either saying the kind of things they've been saying recently, then it tells me, wow, we must be getting close to them," Gohmert said. "Those guilty dogs are barking pretty loud." Rep. Louie Gohmert
h/t Instapundit
[Powerline] Someday, historians will analyze what caused American corporations to veer sharply to the left in the early years of the 21st century. It is a weird phenomenon, as exemplified by the case of WeWork:
Office space sharing company WeWork says it is no longer serving red or white meat at company events.
In an email to employees Thursday, co-founder and Chief Creative Officer Miguel McKelvey said the company won’t serve pork, poultry or red meat, and it won’t allow employees to expense meals that include those meats to the company. Fish will stay on the menu.
I would love to be present when a WeWork marketer takes a prospective client to lunch and explains that he can’t order a hamburger or a chicken salad sandwich. WeWork’s "Chief Creative Officer"‐that’s a bad sign, right there‐explains the company’s theory:
McKelvey said the change means WeWork will use less water and produce less carbon dioxide as well as saving the lives of animals.
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The policy is effective immediately and also applies to the company’s Summer Camp gathering in the United Kingdom in August. McKelvey wrote that WeWork could save 10,000 animals by eliminating meat at the upcoming Summer Camp event.
WeWork apparently thinks the "saved" cows will spend their days gamboling in meadows, while "saved" chickens will retire to old fowls’ homes. Someone should explain to these morons that such animals are raised for the sole purpose of being slaughtered. If demand for pork declines, the price of pork will fall and fewer pigs will be raised. But none will be "saved."
It would be entertaining to calculate how much impact the decline in carbon dioxide emissions resulting from WeWork’s new policy (if any) will have on global temperatures. I’m not sure there are enough zeros for that calculation. I am not in the market for WeWork’s services, but if I were, I would hire someone else, on the assumption that any company that is 1) this dumb, and 2) this distracted from its core mission is probably incompetent.
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The Linda McCartney Cycling Team did the same thing to their riders - forced them to go on a vegan diet. The team sucked, in part, because pro cyclists simply cannot get the required calories they need through a vegan diet; I think a pro cyclist can burn 8,000 calories a day. They shit the bed within two years.
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O lovely lunch ladies of Amite,
What stuff do your students, today, eat?
"An odd dish of crawfish
Or sawdust on 'codfish,'
But, mostly, mysterious grey meat."
[Gateway Pundit] President Trump held an interview Monday with Sean Hannity from FOX News after his meeting and press conference with Vladimir Putin.
President Trump told Sean Hannity that he believes Peter Strzok was working with President Obama.
President Trump: Before I won he said this is nothing and it can’t happen. It’s a very dishonest deal. We have to find out who did Peter Strzok report to because it was Comey and it was McCabe and there was also probably Obama. If you think Obama didn’t know what was going on, when you watch, and I said it today when you watch Peter Strzok’s performance, the lover of Lisa Page, the FBI, I tell you I know so many people... He’s a disgrace to our country. He’s a disgrace to our great FBI.
[Gateway Pundit] The Democrat Socialists of America support no borders, no profit, no prisons and no cash bail.
This weekend Ocasio Cortez held an interview with Firing Line with Margaret Hoover on PBS.
In typical Socialists fashion Ocasio-Cortez unloaded on Israel:
Ocasio-Cortez: "I also think that what people are starting to see at least with the occupation of Palestine is the increasing crisis of humanitarian condition. And that to me is where I tend to come from on this issue."
[Townhall] The most frequently used description of America by those who advocate for large numbers of immigrants -- those here legally or illegally -- is "America is a nation of immigrants."
The statement sounds meaningful. But in reality, it's meaningless. What else could America be? If no one had come to America from elsewhere, the North American continent would have remained populated only by its indigenous people -- which is what many on the left wish had happened. As the late Howard Zinn, author of "A People's History of the United States," the most widely used American history text in high schools and universities, said to me, the world was not better off thanks to the founding of America.
So, the statement "America is a nation of immigrants" tells us nothing about the only questions that matter: Should be there any limits to immigration? And what should we do about illegal immigration?
Regarding the first question, an increasing number of Americans on the left do not believe in any limits: We should allow all those escaping poverty or violence into the United States. As Hillary Clinton was caught on tape saying, she doesn't believe in borders. She speaks for the American left: In the past few weeks, leftists have marched in American streets demanding the abolition of ICE, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
Therefore, for the left, the second question, "What should we do about immigration?" is essentially irrelevant. Their answer is "Nothing. All migrants are welcome."
It was also a nation of slavery. Want to go back? Society and economics change over generations. Time to end slavery came. Time to control who comes into our house is long past due.
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I wonder how California would feel if they were flooded by Republican voting Cubans rather than hopefully Democrat voting Mexican and Central Americans.
[Jerusalem Post] The Democrats hated Monday’s news conference between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin; even some Republicans cringed when Trump said he believed Putin’s denial of involvement in the 2016 US election over what his own intelligence agencies maintain; and many Europeans leaders surely recoiled at the US president appearing so cozy with a man they view as a real and present threat.
But one man who was definitely pleased at what he saw at that extraordinary news conference in Helsinki on Monday was Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
No, his pleasure had nothing to do with the two leaders’ answers to the questions about the alleged election collusion, or their discussion about how they will deal with their competition in the field of gas and oil.
Netanyahu was pleased because his full-court diplomatic press leading up to this meeting ‐ a diplomatic campaign that brought him to Moscow last week for less than 24 hours, and included a phone conversation with Trump on Saturday ‐ paid off.
There, at a news conference being watched by the whole world, both leaders ‐ both! ‐ acknowledged Israel’s security concerns in Syria and the need to address them. Big dogs minding the fact that it's the little dog's yard - and, actually, it's not so little
[American Thinker] The conveniently timed indictments of 12 more Russians by Deputy A.G. (or should we just face reality and ditch the word "deputy"?) Rosenstein, who will never see the inside of an American courtroom, probably includes the Russian who "hacked" into John Podesta's email account secured with the password "password." All ensuring the 30,000 Clinton emails are securely nested alongside the Obama transcripts and passports, and will never see the light of day. National Security, ongoing investigations and all of that.
Rosenstein was no doubt pleased with himself to announce that 12 Russian spies were caught ‐ er, spying, on President Obama's watch, by the way, but neglected to include one small detail in his announcement ‐ namely, that DNC chair Donna Brazile and most of the Obama hierarchy let them do it.
As the Daily Caller reported:
Donna Brazile says in her new book the Democratic National Committee (DNC) went against professional advice and sat idly for a month while Russians stole data because primaries were still underway in a number of states.
"In May, when CrowdStrike recommended that we take down our system and rebuild it, the DNC told them to wait a month, because the state primaries for the presidential election were still underway, and the party and the staff needed to be at their computers to manage these efforts," Brazile wrote in her new book, "Hacks."
"For a whole month, CrowdStrike watched Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear operating. Cozy Bear was the hacking force that had been in the DNC system for nearly a year."
Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear are cybersecurity firms that have reported ties with Russian hackers. Both groups are blamed for the hacks on the DNC in 2016. CrowdStrike is a private U.S. cybersecurity firm that oversaw the protection of the DNC's servers.
The DNC never turned its servers over to the FBI, although it is not clear what Obama's and Comey's FBI would have done with them. Instead, Brazile, et al. simply stood by while the Russians emptied the computer jar of its cookies. Among stuff you couldn't make up was election cheater Donna Brazile telling Martha Raddatz, who got choked up over Trump's victory, on ABC's This Week on Sunday that Russian hackers kept her and predecessor Debbie Wasserman Schultz so busy that the DNC barely had time to put its fingers on the scale to tip the nomination to Bernie Sanders while feeding Hillary Clinton debate questions in advance. As ABC reported:
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We all know that they didn't anticipate Hillary's loss (and she would not have lost to a "Regular Republican").
(a) They were shocked and lashing out looking for somebody to blame.
(b) The "cognitive elites" know (because it's part of their superior education) that "the deplorables" have a blind, unthinking hatred of Russia.
(c) The top levels of CIA/FBI, who are part of the "cognitive elites" - look at the email server scandal, were willing to go along (with a bit of help from their British friends - novichok anyone?).
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Podesta emails with the password PASSWORD was an invitation. The Awans had carte blanche to Dem Congresscritters computers and probably DNC also. HRC server was unprotected for awhile. Weiner used his computer for nefarious things. We don't know what escaped that computer. FBI never looked at DNC servers. Probably many foreign entities could have accessed data with little difficulty.
[Jpost] Left-wing NGOs deemed to be acting against the IDF and delegitimizing Israel will now be prevented from accessing schools and their students, after the Knesset approved the so-called 'Breaking the Silence law' early Tuesday morning.
The law, proposed by MK Shuli Moalem-Refaeli (Bayit Yehudi), states that organizations delegitimizing the State of Israel, acting against IDF soldiers and the objectives of the Israeli education system, will not be permitted to enter school premises or meet with students.
The law targets Breaking the Silence, an organization made up of former IDF soldiers who report about their negative experiences serving over the Green Line.
"Organizations that undermine Israel and besmirch IDF soldiers will no longer be able to reach Israeli students," Education Minister Naftali Bennett said. "Breaking the Silence long ago crossed the red lines beyond legitimate discourse when they started libeling Israel in the international arena. As long as they operate against Israel and the IDF abroad, I won't let them in the education system." Personally, I'd outlaw any organizations funded by EU
[Free Beacon] The Republican National Committee is seizing the opportunity presented by the upcoming Supreme Court confirmation battle to energize conservative voters ahead of the 2018 midterms.
Only minutes after President Donald Trump announced his nomination of U.S. Appeals Court judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, the RNC unveiled how it planned to litigate the case for confirmation directly in front of the American public.
In its efforts, the RNC is relying on methods that previously proved successful in securing the confirmations of Justice Neal Gorsuch, CIA director Gina Haspel, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
The plan, relying heavily on the RNC's extensive field, data, and digital operations, is premised on two phases. The first, which has already begun, is centered on educating voters to Kavanaugh's judicial record and qualifications. To that end, a significant portion of the RNC's resources will be consigned to pushing back against distortions likely to be made of Kavanaugh's personal and professional life.
[Free Beacon] Self-declared Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who defeated Rep. Joe Crowley (D., N.Y.) in a congressional primary last month, said Friday that material gains under capitalism were the result of "human evolution."
Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old whom DNC Chairman Tom Perez called "the future of our party," explained her views on democratic socialism to "Firing Line" host Margaret Hoover. Hoover asked about the future of capitalism and pointed out that it’s the economic system that has brought the most people out of poverty, but Ocasio-Cortez attributed modern prosperity to humanity’s natural growth.
"I think that those things that you talk about, that you discuss, are part of the course of human evolution," she said. "So I would hope that the most recent economic system, our current economic system, is the one that is most beneficial for everyday people."
She added that her preferred system of democratic socialism would work best if people were only to vote for something if it is "a good idea."
"When we talk about democratically socialist economies, first of all, they’re done with the full input of everybody," she said. "You vote. It’s democratic. So if something is not a good idea, it doesn't get voted for, ideally."
She granted that capitalism was temporarily the "most efficient and best" system, but that it must change "as we evolve."
Sheriff Joe reads the Burg ?
[Breitbart] Joe Arpaio, the former Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona revealed that if he wins the U.S. Senate race in his state he would push for the deployment of the U.S. military inside Mexico to stop drugs, gangs and illegal aliens before they reach the American border.
Arpaio is running for the Republican nomination for the Arizona Senate seat that will be vacated by Sen. Jeff Flake. He spoke last night in an interview on this reporter’s talk radio program "Aaron Klein Investigative Radio," broadcast on New York’s AM 970 The Answer and News Talk 990 AM in Philadelphia.
Unveiling part of his policy agenda, Arpaio explained his proposal to deploy U.S. troops inside Mexico:
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No thank you.
It would generate a local insurgency that wouldn't be worth the blood and treasure spent to fight it in the long run.
However, seizing a mile on both sides of the border to turn into a DMZ with barbed wire and angry dogs would do a lot to keep the foot traffic from there away.
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However, seizing a mile on both sides of the border to turn into a DMZ with barbed wire and angry dogs would do a lot to keep the foot traffic from there away.
Don't forget the machine guns.
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...remote machine guns. Seems the Israelis have such a system for border surveillance and enforcement.
[Ynet] Border Police forces prevented an infiltration attempt overnight Sunday of several Paleostinian men in the Jenin area.
The police said several men fled back to the West Bank, while some escaped the police inside the Israeli territory.
One man, a 20-year-old from Jenin, was nabbed Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! and taken in for questioning by security officials. In addition, in a bag of one of the suspects, makeshift weapons had been found.
[IsraelTimes] Military says Arclight airstrikes a response to 'fire terror', with at least 7 fires reported in Israel since morning; rocket launched from Strip falls inside Paleostinian territory
Israeli aircraft struck a pair of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, observation posts in the Gazoo Strip on Monday, with the military saying incendiary balloons were launched from nearby earlier in the day, sparking fires in Israel.
"The strike was carried out in response to the fire terror being led by the Hamas terror organization against Israel’s citizens and illusory sovereignty," the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.
It was not immediately clear if any Paleostinians were maimed in the airstrike.
Some time after the Israeli attack, the army said a rocket was launched towards Israel from the north of the Strip, but apparently fell inside the Paleostinian enclave.
Meanwhile Israeli firefighting crews battled a number of blazes in the border region sparked by flaming airborne devices flown in from Gazoo.
In the Eshkol Regional Council, firefighters were working to extinguish three fires believed to have been caused by incendiary balloons, which local residents found at the scene, the regional council said.
It said seven fires had broken out in the Eshkol region on Monday, with all but one brought under control by firefighters.
"The assessment is that most [of the fires] were likely the result of incendiary balloons, except for one [caused by] burning waste," the regional council said.
Elsewhere, firefighting planes and other industrial equipment were brought in to battle a massive fire near Kibbutz Carmia, north of the Strip. It was not immediately clear what caused the fire.
[IsraelTimes] A falcon with an ignited cloth attached to its tail has been found dead next to field that was torched near Habesor Stream in southern Israel.
An employee of the National Parks Authority found the bird stuck in a tree near the fire in what appeared to be the newest phenomenon of incendiary objects flown from Gaza with the intent of igniting fires in bordering Israeli
[IsraelTimes] Earlier, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the corpse count at 9, said raid targeted an Iranian Revolutionary Guard center
Syrian rebel forces claimed that 22 people, including nine Iranians, were killed in an overnight strike in northern Syria blamed on Israel, the 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... -based al-Jazeera network reported Monday.
The figure, which could not be confirmed, was much higher than an earlier report of nine deaths provided by a Syrian watchdog group.
The al-Jazeera report did not cite its sources or give any further details.
Syrian state media has accused Israel of carrying out the bombing of a military position in Aleppo province late Sunday, in what would be a rare Israeli attack so far north in the war-ravaged country.
"The Israeli missiles targeted an Iranian Revolutionary Guard center, near the Neyrab military airport," said Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based monitor.
He said those killed included at least six Syrians, but could not specify the nationalities of the remaining fighters.
The position is a logistics hub used to provide equipment and food to pro-regime forces fighting at nearby fronts, but it did not store weapons, Abdel Rahman said.
Earlier Monday, the country’s official news agency SANA reported there was only damage to the site, identified as the al-Nayrab airbase, adjacent to Aleppo’s international airport.
"The Zionist enemy (Israel)... targeted with its missiles one of our military positions north of the Nayrab military airport, but the damage was only material," SANA said citing a military source.
Al-Nayrab has in the past been linked with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps militia.
The Observatory, which relies on a network of sources inside the country, said it had recorded a wave of blasts around Nayrab on Sunday night.
It said that a suspected Israeli missile strike had targeted "positions held by Syria’s regime and its allies at the Nayrab airport" and its surroundings.
The base was reportedly previously struck by Israel on April 29 as part of a large raid that also targeted weapons depots near Hama.
There was no immediate comment from Israel, which rarely confirms such attacks.
Suspected Israeli Arclight airstrikes have hit Syrian army positions near Damascus and in the central provinces of Homs and Hama in the past. However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... they rarely occur as far north as Aleppo.
The raid came hours before a high-stakes summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... and 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... , where Syria and Iran are expected to be on the agenda.
Israel has been pushing Russia to remove Iranian-aligned militia fighters from Syria, and has vowed to stop them from getting a foothold anywhere in the country. Russia has reportedly only agreed to removing them from the Golan border region.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who met with Putin in Moscow last week, said Sunday he had discussed the issue with Trump a day earlier.
Netanyahu reportedly told Putin during their Wednesday meeting that Israel would not challenge Assad’s control of Syria, in exchange for freedom to act against Iran.
On July 8, Israel was accused of carrying out an airstrike on the T-4 military base near Homs, also thought to be used by IRGC fighters.
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"Look, Vladimir, we don't want to inadvertently harm your forces. Just tell us where the Iranians are and then stay far away from them for a day or two"
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[IsraelTimes] Barakat Group targeted for funding terror group linked to 1992 attack on Israeli embassy and 1994 AMIA attack, both in Buenos Aires
In a first, Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... ’s government has targeted a Hezbollah fundraising network in the northern Triple Frontier with Brazil and Paraguay.
The Financial Information Unit of the Argentine Republic investigated possible criminal actions by Lebanese citizens living in Argentina who could be involved in money laundering and financing terrorist acts.
Hezbollah has been linked to the 1992 attack on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, which killed 29. A Hezbollah jacket wallah carried out the 1994 attack, orchestrated by Iran, on the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires that killed 85.
The unit investigated the Barakat Group, also known as the Barakat Clan, a criminal organization linked to Hezbollah, which operates in the area known as the "Triple border" made up of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay, led by Assad Ahmad Barakat.
As a result, Argentina’s government issued an administrative order freezing the assets and money of the group’s members, allowed by an article of the national Criminal Code related to financing terrorism.
Barakat, along with other people who operate at the tri-border area, has been designated a terrorist by the Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, of the Treasury Department of the United States, which means that his assets are frozen and he is unable to operate financially in the US.
The Triple Frontier between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay is often mentioned as a place linked to Hezbollah and the Barakat group, and has been investigated over the last two decades as a source of money for Hezbollah and for other groups’ activities related to terrorism.
This is the first time that one of the three governments has frozen assets and funds from a Hezbollah-linked organization based in the Triple Frontier.
The Financial Information Unit identified at least 14 people linked to the Barakat Clan who registered multiple crossings to Argentina, mainly through the Tancredo Neves International Bridge, located in the Province of Misiones. Once in Argentina, the members of the clan would make, in a casino in Iguazú, charges for supposed prizes that together would exceed $10 million, without declaring either the income nor the discharge of funds when crossing the border.
The "strong hypothesis" of the unit is that once out of the country the money is transferred to Hezbollah.
According to a Financial Information Unit statement issued on Friday, the Barakat clan is involved in crimes of smuggling, falsification of money and documents, extortion, drug trafficking, arms trafficking, money laundering and terrorist financing. "In relation to this illegal act, it is suspected that it would raise funds for the Lebanese Hezbollah organization," wrote the government agency. The accounts were frozen on Wednesday, according to the statement.
Argentina is home to a large Lebanese expat community and US authorities suspect groups in that community of raising funds through organized crime to support the Iranian-backed terror organization.
In 2006, the US Treasury targeted the same fundraising network.
Earlier this year, the US and Argentina agreed to work together to cut off Hezbollah funding networks and money laundering financing terrorism across Latin America.
[IsraelTimes] With tensions high, troops simulate urban warfare in city of Beersheba; commander says IDF can move deep into Gazoo quickly, but decisive victory would take time
The Israel Defense Forces on Monday held a large-scale military drill simulating a ground incursion into the Gazoo Strip.
The drill in the country’s Negev region, which involved infantry and armored corps, included exercises in urban warfare, with the city of Beersheba serving as a surrogate for Gazoo’s cities, Channel 10 news reported.
On Monday, the Security Cabinet was briefed on the Home Front Command’s preparedness for conflict, while the army deployed additional Iron Dome Missile Defense systems in central Israel, and called up some reserve forces to better handle security needs.
Monday’s exercise ‐ which the IDF invited local media to film, and which was detailed on the evening’s main news broadcasts ‐ appeared intended to send a message to Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, that Israel was prepared to take drastic action, if needed, to bring peace back to the communities in the Gazoo periphery, which have also endured weeks of "fire kite" attacks launched from the Hamas-run Gazoo Strip.
The IDF’s Gazoo Division recruited reserve drivers Monday to help Israel’s fire department and the army deal with blazes in southern Israel caused by the airborne arson attacks.
Also Monday, the military completed deployment of another Iron Dome Missile Defense system in central Israel. The deployment came as part of the army’s preparations for the possibility that Hamas will instruct its operatives to fire long-range rockets at the heart of Israel.
Taking part in the drill, Ohad Najameh, commander of the 401st Armored Brigade, said he believed penetrating deep into Gazoo would not take long, but that a decisive victory over Hamas would take some time.
"In order to win, we need to confront the enemy, and we want to confront them on our terms, in our time," Najameh told Hadashot TV news. "We’ve developed the tools and the exercises so that we will be the stronger side when we meet Hamas."
Najameh further stated that the IDF was prepared to strike Hamas leadership, and had detailed plans regarding the group’s brass hats. "I believe that striking bigwigs will deal a significant blow and will affect the battlefield," he said. "And yes, we will try to strike them."
"We are ready and speaking in terms of war [that could come] toworrow," Lt. Col. Barak Rubin, deputy commander of the Nahal infanty brigade, told Channel 10. "It occurs to me that this drill could become a real entry into the Strip."
He added: "The purpose is decisive action, that when I meet the enemy, I will be able to defeat him and destroy him. We’re preparing surprises on our side, tools the other side is unaware of."
Lt. Col. Eli Gino, deputy commander of the Givati infanty brigade, added that the commanders and the military as a whole had implemented lessons from the 2014 war in the Strip. "We’ve learned and we’ve improved," he said.
On Monday members of Israel’s Security Cabinet along with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toured the IDF’s Home Front Command headquarters and discussed preparations for emergency situations and earthquake scenarios in civilian areas ‐ another growing concern. Netanyahu also visited the rocket-battered Gazoo border town of Sderot.
During the tour, the Security Cabinet announced its intention to formulate a 10-year plan that will see NIS 5 billion ($1.38 billion) spent on fortification of infrastructure on the home front, against attacks and earthquakes.
[IsraelTimes] Terror group's threat comes as Egypt also shutters Rafah crossing on Tuesday in both directions without explanation
The Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terrorist group on Monday warned Israel of "dangerous consequences" over its fresh restrictions at a commercial crossing with the Gazoo Strip, as the administrators of the Rafah passage linking Egypt to the Paleostinian enclave announced its crossing would also be shuttered in both directions on Tuesday.
"The Israeli occupation’s closure of the Kerem Shalom crossing and depriving Gazoo from the most simple necessities of life is a crime against humanity that will be added to its list of crimes at the expense of the Paleostinian people including those living in the Strip," said Hamas spokesperson Fawzi Barhoum in a statement posted on the organization’s official website.
"These vengeful measures reflect the degree of the oppression and the ugliness of the crime that Gazoo is facing, that will have dangerous consequences for which the occupation will bear full responsibility," the terrorist group said.
The statement came as officials manning the Rafah crossing announced it will not be operating Tuesday in both directions, according to the Hamas-linked Paleostinian Information Center. No reason was given for the closure of the crossing into Egypt, which has been open since late May.
Earlier on Monday, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman’s office said Israel will further limit the flow of goods into the Gazoo Strip in response to the continued airborne arson attacks emanating from the coastal enclave.
Between Tuesday and Sunday, no fuel will enter Gazoo through the Kerem Shalom. The entry of food and medicine will continue, but will require explicit permission from Israel. Additionally, Gazoo fishermen will only be allowed to venture three kilometers (1.8 miles) into the Mediterranean Sea, down from the current six kilometers (3.7 miles).
Liberman’s office said restrictions were toughened due to "continued terror attempts" by Hamas, which is allowing, encouraging and participating in flying incendiary devices and bombs into Israel with balloons and kites.
The arson attacks continued Monday, when at least seven blazes were started in the Eshkol region.
The new restrictions join those imposed by Israel last week, when it halted exports of Gazook produce and stopped most goods from going into the Strip. The military said the closure would continue as long as Paleostinians persist in launching incendiary kites and balloons into Israel.
The arson attacks from Gazoo in recent months that have burned thousands of acres of forest, agricultural lands and brush in southern Israel and caused many millions of shekels in damage.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... criticized the move, saying it "expects Israel to reverse these decisions" which risked "further aggravating the already dire economic situation in Gazoo."
Kerem Shalom is the only cargo crossing between Gazoo and Israel. The Strip has been subject to a strict blockade for the past 11 years that Israel says is necessary to prevent terrorist groups from bringing weapons into the Strip. Egypt also tightly controls the Rafah border crossing into the Sinai.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained that Israel was undertaking multiple measures to pressure Hamas, including closing Kerem Shalom.
The new restrictions came after a weekend flareup between Israel and the Hamas terror group in the Strip, in which some 200 rockets and mortar shells were fired at Israel and the IDF carried out multiple strikes inside the Paleostinian enclave.
On Saturday night, a ceasefire of sorts was brokered by Egypt and other international bodies, though Israel was not directly involved in the talks. The violence abated to some degree, but tensions endured and cross-border attacks continued.
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You have two days left. Do you have any last wishes?
You Fucked with the Wrong GOD.
You will be corralled. Plenty of better qualified "Palestinians than you idiots may run that as a Nation instead of a gangsta paradise where you teach your kids to blow up.
You are the 4th most disgusting organization on the earth, Hamas. And I do not care anymore you satanic imbeciles. I want you gone.
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Arab labor is actually vital to Israel's construction sector and to some extent its manufacturing sector. Most of the arabs working in construction are Israeli citizens and this function is difficult to automate.
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What kind of consequences? You'll keep trying to kill Israelis? What,exactly, changed?
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depriving Gazoo from the most simple necessities of life
So what you're saying is that Paleos can't live without Jews. Sounds about right.
[KhaamaPress] At least twenty three Death Eaters were killed or maimed during the festivities with the Afghan armed forces in western Farah province of Afghanistan.
The 207th Zafar Corps of the Afghan Military in the West said the incident took place in the vicinity of Sheb Koh district.
A statement by Zafar Corps stated that 6 Death Eaters were killed and at least 17 others sustained injuries during the festivities with the security forces.
The statement further added that two Afghan soldiers also bit the dust and two others were maimed during the festivities.
[KhaamaPress] The Kabul Security Commandment officials are saying only the suicide sustained critical wounds in today's incident in capital Kabul.
Hashmat Stanikzai, a front man for the Kabul Security Commandment, said the jacket wallah was identified and shot by the security forces before he manage to reach to his target.
Stanikzai further added that the bomber was looking to target a gathering of protesters in Shahr Naw Park.
No individual or group has so far grabbed credit behind the incident.
The officials had earlier said the suicide bomber has been rubbed out by the security forces.
Dozens of supporters of Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... had participated in a demonstration in Kabul city today, demanding the return of the Vice President from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... The Junbish Milli party led by the First Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum blames specific circles for today's failed suicide kaboom on a gathering attended by the party's supporters in Kabul.
Enayatullah Babur Farahman, a member of the party and chief of staff of the First Vice President's Office, said the move by the ’conspiracist circle' will further strengthen the resolve of the people for justice.
[Reuters] A 29-year-old Russian woman living in Washington has been arrested and charged with conspiracy to act as an agent of the Russian government while developing ties with American citizens and infiltrating political groups, the U.S. Justice Department said on Monday.
Maria Butina, who studied at American University in Washington and is a founder of the pro-gun rights Russian advocacy organization Right to Bear Arms, is accused of working at the direction of a high-level official who worked for the Russian Central Bank and was recently sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, the Justice Department said in a statement.
The court records do not name the official.
However, she is pictured in numerous photographs on her Facebook page with Alexander Torshin, the deputy head of Russia’s Central Bank, and a person familiar with the matter confirmed to Reuters that she worked for him.
Torshin was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department in April.
Butina was arrested on Sunday and was ordered held pending a hearing set for Wednesday, it said.
The complaint was made public on the same day that President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Helsinki, at which Trump refused to blame the Russian leader for meddling in the 2016 election.
Before the summit, Trump also took to Twitter to blast Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into whether Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia, calling it a "rigged witch hunt."
[KhaamaPress] The provincial police chief of southeastern Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... Gen. Akhtar Mohammad Noorzoi claims that the attack on Zazai Maidan was carried out by the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... krazed killer with the support of Pak militias.
Speaking with the news hounds in the aftermath of the attack, Gen. Noorzoi said the attack was launched at around 4am local time along the Durand Line on the houses of the public uprising forces.
He said the local residents reacted quickly and reached the attack area to respond to the coordinated attack by the Talibs.
Gen. Noorzoi further added that the security forces were also dispatched to the area and the attack was repulsed, leaving several bandidossnuffies dead or maimed.
According to Gen. Noorzoi, the dead bodies of at least nine bandidossnuffies were left in the area while an unknown number of bandidossnuffies sustained injuries and fled from the area.
He said at least three public uprising forces also bit the dust during the festivities.
Gen. Noorzoi also added that the security situation in the area is normal now and additional forces have been deployed to respond to future aggressions by the krazed killers.
Anbar (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Iraqi troops destroyed on Monday four Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... tunnels and detonated 80 explosive charges in Anbar province, according to the Iraqi Security Media Center.
In statements to Alghad Press website, Brig. Gen. Yehia Rasool, a front man for the Iraqi Security Media Center, said, "Security forces in al-Jazirah Operations Command started an inspection operation in Anbar, destroying four Islamic State tunnels and detonating 80 explosive charges."
"The troops also destroyed two hideouts and eight IS hideouts in the operation," according to Rasool.
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Kurdish Peshmerga forces. File photo.[/caption djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... (IraqiNews.com) Several fighters of the Kurdish Peshmerga were killed and injured in an operation launched, in cooperation with the U.S.-led Coalition, southeast of Mosul, BasNews website reported on Monday.
The operation launched against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in Qargoukh region, near Makhmur, left many Lions of Islam killed. Moreover, five Peshmerga fighters, including an officer, were killed, while others were maimed.
The operation was launched early on Monday with Arclight airstrikes by the Coalition jets, which were followed by operations by the Peshmerga.
The joint operation between the Kurdish troops and the Coalition comes after around two weeks of another operation in the same region. An informed source said, late June, that a joint operation was launched there, leaving a senior Islamic State member killed.
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Diyala (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Paramilitary troops of al-Hashd al-Shaabi killed on Monday three bully boyz of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group in Diyala province, a security source was quoted as saying.
"A force from al-Hashd al-Shaabi killed three IS members near Hamrin Mountains in Diyala," Iraqi website Almaalomah quoted the source as saying.
"The security forces, backed by al-Hashd al-Shaabi, will continue to purge areas, where Islamic State gangs spread in Adhaim, Hamrin and other cities," the source added.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A US court sentenced Colin Osborne, the man accused of murdering a Saudi student in October 2016 in Wisconsin, to four more years in prison on Monday.
Hussain Saeed al-Nahdi died in October of 2016 from injuries he suffered after he was violently assaulted in Wisconsin.
Al-Nahdi, a Saudi student who studied at the University of Wisconsin, was an outstanding student according to his university’s reports. The university had announced a reward of 15,000 dollars in return for information about the killer.
According to Nahdi’s brother, Ali, a law firm was hired by the Saudi embassy in the US to follow up on the developments of the case.
Ali said that he believes the sentence is very little for a deliberate murder, where they increased four years in this hearing, and two years in the last hearing, which makes a total of six years of prison for a murder.
In 2016, the Dun County District Court had found that Osborne was guilty of a battery with intent to cause physical harm but was not guilty of murder.
"We will follow this with the firm appointed by the embassy, to know the details of the ruling and to seek to intensify the punishment against Hussein’s killer," Ali said.
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[AnNahar] Syrian regime forces backed by Russia made sweeping advances on Monday against rebels holding out in the country's south, a monitor and state media said.
Syria's government has been battling to oust rebels from the strategic southwestern provinces of Daraa and Quneitra since June 19, with a mix of heavy bombardment, ground attacks and negotiated surrenders.
Russian-backed Syrian troops now hold more than 80 percent of Daraa province but scored fresh gains Monday against remaining opposition forces in its western countryside and in neighboring Quneitra.
Quneitra also borders the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel, which has been on high alert since hostilities ramped up in the south nearly a month ago.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Monday that regime units and allied fighters had made a "quick advance" against rebels in the western part of Daraa.
"Syrian regime forces captured the town of al-Hara, as well as Samlin, al-Tiha and Zimrin," said Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman.
He said regime forces had ousted rebels from al-Tiha in a military advance, while opposition forces in al-Hara had agreed a surrender deal.
Fighters in a nearby town, Nawa, were in talks for a similar agreement, he added.
Under such agreements, opposition forces hand over territory as well as their heavy and medium weapons to government troops in exchange for a halt to bombing.
But jihadists holding a hilltop adjacent to al-Hara refused to agree to a handover, said the Observatory.
The regime and Russia responded by heavily bombing the hilltop, killing 30 fighters from al-Qaeda's former Syria affiliate, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).
Regime forces briefly overran the hilltop on Monday but an HTS ambush left 12 regime forces dead and forced them to retreat, Abdel Rahman said.
Citing a military source, Syrian state news agency SANA also said the army had captured a string of villages including al-Tiha and Zimrin.
Russian and Syrian air strikes also pounded Quneitra province for a second day on Monday, the Observatory said.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Indian police tossed in the calaboose Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! two men on Monday over the gang rape and burning to death of a woman, the latest shocking crime against females in the country, officials said.
Five men allegedly took it in turns to rape the woman after barging into her home early on Saturday, before dragging her to a Hindu temple where they burned her to death in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
"Two of the accused were arrested from an adjoining district early Monday and we are looking for the rest," local police chief Radhey Mohan Bhardwaj told AFP.
Initial investigations found the men, who are members of the same extended family as the victim and from the same locality, were "annoyed" with the 35-year-old for meeting a particular man, Bhardwaj said.
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And this is in the Quoran where? Ohh, yes. I read it.
[DAWN] A club-and-machete wielding mob in Indonesia butchered nearly 300 crocodiles in an act of Dire Revenge after a local man was killed by one of the reptiles, authorities said on Monday.
Images from the scene showed dozens of dead crocodiles lying on top of each other and covered in blood after the attack at a breeding farm in Papua province.
The incident happened on Saturday following the funeral of the 48-year-old man who was killed after he entered an enclosure while looking for grass to feed his livestock, police and conservation officials said.
"One of the crocodile farm employees... heard someone screaming for help and ran to the scene where they saw a person being mauled by a crocodile," said Basar Manullang, head of Indonesia's Natural Resources Conservation Agency in West Papua.
The man's family and "hundreds" of other locals, angry over the farm's location near a residential area, marched to the cop shoppe where they were told the breeder would pay compensation, he added.
But the mob was not satisfied and headed to the crocodile farm armed with clubs, knives, machetes and shovels which they used to slaughter some 292 crocs, ranging from palm-sized babies to two-metre adults, authorities said.
Outnumbered police and conservation officials said they were unable to stop the grisly attack. Criminal charges may be laid, they said.
"For now we are still questioning the witnesses," said district police chief Dewa Made Sidan Sutrahna.
The bloody incident highlighted the dangers of trespassing into a breeding farm and also raised concerns about its safety.
"They have to make sure that the farm has good barriers and they need to step up security with CCTV and security signs to warn people" of the dangers, said Dwi Nugroho Adhiasto, programme manager at the World Conservation Society's Indonesia office.
The Southeast Asian archipelago is home to a vast array of wildlife, including several species of crocodile that regularly attack and kill humans.
In March, authorities in Borneo shot and killed a six-metre long crocodile after it ate a local palm plantation worker.
Two years ago, a Russian tourist was killed by a crocodile in the Raja Ampat islands, a popular diving site in Indonesia's east.
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[Al Jazeera] President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... and his US counterpart 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... have committed to improving relations between the United States and Russia, with Putin saying there was no longer any reason for tensions between the superpowers.
The two leaders met in the Finnish capital Helsinki on Monday to talk about "everything from trade to military to missiles to China".
"There are no objective reasons for difficulties [between Russia and the US]. The Cold War is a thing of the past, the situation in the world has drastically changed," said Putin.
Earlier, Trump blamed his own country's past "foolishness and stupidity" for the two powers' hostile relations.
At a presser following the summit, Trump praised their "direct, open and deeply productive dialogue" and emphasised the need for continued diplomacy over confrontation.
"A productive dialogue is not only good for the United States and good for Russia, but it is good for the world," he said.
"Our relationship has never been worse than it is now, however that changed as of about four hours ago... To refuse to engage would not accomplish anything."
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[BBC] Building colonies on the Moon will “provide a blueprint to Mars”, Nasa scientists say. The men and women who will found these lunar settlements will in all likelihood be employed by small private mining companies, not tech tycoons. Many of these companies are connected to the tiny EU nation of Luxembourg.
[Breitbart] Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) lambasted President Donald Trump’s joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir in Helsinki, Finland on Monday.
The Arizona senator released a statement describing President Trump’s remarks during the press conference as "pathetic," disgraceful," and "painful" to observe ‐ "a recent low point in the history of the American Presidency."
"Today’s press conference in Helsinki was one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory. The damage inflicted by President Trump’s naiveté, egotism, false equivalence, and sympathy for autocrats is difficult to calculate. But it is clear that the summit in Helsinki was a tragic mistake," Sen. McCain’s statement begins. "President Trump proved not only unable, but unwilling to stand up to Putin. He and Putin seemed to be speaking from the same script as the president made a conscious choice to defend a tyrant against the fair questions of a free press, and to grant Putin an uncontested platform to spew propaganda and lies to the world."
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Presidents Trump and Putin sitting down and calling each other SOB's for a few hours would have availed the United States and the world so much more. [sarc off]
Darth Bolton, Mattis, Kelly, Pompeo, and the rest of the Trump team are not going to let the President fail. No one has any illusions about Vlad Putin.
As an aside, does any one think the President's wife, a graduate of University of Ljubljana is pro Putin ?
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The meeting was probably a more business-like (and private!) version of: Patton (1970) - Russian son of a bitch scene
Trump doesn't trust Putin, Putin doesn't trust Trump, and both have business that must be done.
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The meeting was probably a more business-like (and private!) version of: Patton (1970) - Russian son of a bitch scene
Trump doesn't trust Putin, Putin doesn't trust Trump, and both have business that must be done.
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The meeting was probably a more business-like (and private!) version of: Patton (1970) - Russian son of a bitch scene
Trump doesn't trust Putin, Putin doesn't trust Trump, and both have business that must be done.
You cannot expect that explanation to satisfy those who want war with Russia.
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Just die, Juan
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Trump and Putin should have pre-recorded a horrible yelling match and played it through the door while they actually had a conversation.
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Picture Don Corleone and the Turk negotiating, I bet that's the approach Trump takes. How can you negotiate better. Be prepared. Know your strengths and the weaknesses of the other party. See a lesson from El Padrino!
Judging from the picture, you have to assume she was an (unfortuntately, HARD)target of opportunity, rather than the epitome of an obsessive fantasy....
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A bus stop. A lady. A dasher.
She's holding an old fashioned slasher.
I keep her in view
As we two form a queue
And am not a bit tempted to flash her.
Of course, that was back when a gal could walk the street with an open straight razor from one end of the Empire to the other without a buncha g.dd.mn busybodies whipping out their cellphones... seems like yesterday but it might as well be "Old Creole Days." Sigh.
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Wasn't where a call for womyn to "kill their rapists" a few days ago?
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Benny Hill on older women: "They don't yell, they don't tell and they're grateful as hell."
This particular case excluded...
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Now that I am actually awake, the following true story comes to mind, as told by Mr. Wife’s elderly Aunt Beadie about her best friend. Aunt Beadie was not really related to the family, but lived next door; she shared the copious fruits of her baking, and Mr. Wife’s father mowed her lawn with as much care as he mowed his own.
At any rate, Aunt Beadie’s friend worked for a 7-Eleven as a cashier ringing up snacks and gasoline to supplement her Social Security check, not having been married to a provident union agitator like Aunt Beadie’s husband had been, and in fact never having been married at all.
One evening, while she was working alone, a gentleman dressed in a stylish raincoat came in to get some snacks. She quietly admired the raincoat, it being very much a baseball jacket kind of neighbourhood where the gentlemen’s ideas of stylishness had always run in a very different direction. Up the stylish gentleman came to the counter behind which she stood next to her cash register, laying down in turn a can of corn and his instrument of delight. The poor dear, utterly flustered by the new experience, picked up the can and smashed it down on the unexpected thing, with exactly the result that can be imagined. The stylish gentleman, naturally, fainted dead away.
He came to just as the friendly policeman was putting him in handcuffs. “Next time, son,” quoth Officer Friendly, ”be smart and buy a loaf of bread.”
Our current miscreant got off easy, though it took his target a little longer to complete her response.
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suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, police wrote.
"Her face"
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That is a great story!
Truly, Skidmark. Aunt Beadie died almost three decades ago, leaving us with a few homemade Christmas decorations and the memory of being helpless with laughter when she told that tale to my darling, ladylike mother-in-law, sister-in-law, and me as we sat around her kitchen table.
[WSJ] Netflix Reports Weaker-Than-Expected Number of New Subscribers:
Video site blamed faulty internal forecasting, not business reasons like price increases
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Syrian regime’s air forces intensified shelling over the "Triangle of Death", which includes areas in northwest Daraa and the Quneitra’s central countryside.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the regime’s air forces targeted positions in Tal al-Hara, Aqrba, Tal Mashra and others, adding that the number of raids targeting the Triangle of Death since Sunday morning increased to around 230.
The regime also used explosive barrels, the observatory added.
Evacuating opposition fighters and their families from Daraa began on Sunday. The evacuation implements the ceasefire decision reached between Russia and opposition factions on July 6. Hundreds of fighters and their family members boarded 15 buses on Sunday leaving Daraa.
Opposition factions in Daraa also began handing their heavy weapons over to the regime on Saturday.
The observatory noted that opposition factions control around 70% of Quneitra, which bears a sensitive location considering its borders with the Golan Heights occupied by Israel.
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[DAWN] The father of Naqeebullah Mehsud ‐ a Wazoo native killed in a staged encounter in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... earlier this year ‐ on Monday moved an application requesting that the case concerning his son's murder be transferred to another court as he has lost confidence in the ability of Special Judge Anti-Terrorism Court-II Khalida Yaseen to conduct a fair trial.
Naqeeb's father Mohammad Khan and his lawyers boycotted today's court proceedings and instead submitted an application complaining that the ATC judge had unduly favoured the prime accused ‐ the powerfurl former SSP Malir, Rao Anwar.
The application stated that the judge repeatedly failed to take action against the undue favours granted to Anwar, who was the only accused in the case brought to court with full protocol and without handcuffs and a prisoner's uniform.
The application also states that the judge failed to act against the investigating officer in the case when he failed to submit his reports in the case on time.
The complainant's lawyer alleged that some of the witnesses in the case had also been threatened into retracting their statements, but the judge did not take any action over it.
"We are also very disappointed as it seems that there appears to be collusion between the prosecution and defence because despite our transfer application and despite opposition of his fellow prosecutors, one of the prosecutors proceeded with the bail application," the lawyer later said in a statement issued to the media.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, the spittle had reached unprecedented levels... Anwar advised the complainant to focus on the case and maintained that no evidence is available against him and the other accused.
Anwar had earlier been found by two separate joint investigation teams (JITs) to have been involved in the staged 'encounter' that led to the murder of Naqeeb and three others. One JIT had been formed by the inspector general (IG) of Sindh, and the other by the Supreme Court.
Nonetheless, Anwar's bail application was accepted last week and the court, in its written order, ruled that he had not been presentt at the scene of the crime.
The judge had written in the order that there was no doubt as per the enquiry report Naqeeb had been killed in a fake encounter. It had also conceded that Naqeebullah, alias Naseebullah, was a 'liberal man' and did not have any 'extremist tendency'.
Naqeeb's father had also earlier objected to Anwar's detention at his home in Malir, which which was declared a sub-jail reportedly due to security issues.
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[DAWN] Russia must "account for its role" in the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine and cooperate with efforts to establish truth and justice, foreign ministers of the world’s industrial democracies said on Sunday.
The statement by the G7 ministers came on the eve of a summit between 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... and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... , but also just before the anniversary of the July 17, 2014 air disaster which killed all 298 crew and passengers when the airliner was shot down.
G7 ministers said a joint investigation into the crash had yielded "compelling, significant and deeply disturbing" findings on Russia’s involvement.
"We are united in our support of Australia and the Netherlands as they call on Russia to account for its role in this incident and to cooperate fully with the process to establish the truth and achieve justice for the victims of MH17 and their next of kin," the statement said.
The call came not only before the Putin-Trump summit in Helsinki on Monday but as the Russian leader was to meet La Belle France’s President Emmanuel Macron in Moscow, where he was attending the World Cup soccer final on Sunday.
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The idea that if Russia and USA fight, they'll fight over EUrope, doesn't seem to penetrate EU minds. Well, anybody capable of seeing Muslim influx as a good thing...
[AnNahar] La Belle France on Monday expelled a radical Islamic preacher to Algeria after his release from prison, where he became a mentor to at least two jihadis who carried out deadly attacks on a satirical newspaper and a Jewish supermarket in January 2015, officials said.
Djamel Beghal was given a 10-year jail term in 2005 after being sent to La Belle France following his arrest in the United Arab Emirates shortly after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks in the US.
He was suspected of leading a network charged by the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now beyond all cares and woe... to attack American interests in La Belle France and is considered by French officials to have been a mentor for several generations of aspiring jihadists.
His activities have also highlighted the struggle by French authorities to prevent Islamic radicalisation in prisons, which have proved fertile recruiting grounds for jihadist fighters.
Beghal, now 52 and stripped of his French nationality, was freed from the Vezin-le-Coquet prison near the western city of Rennes early Monday.
He was brought to Charles de Gaulle airport near Gay Paree for a flight to Algiers, a source close to the case told AFP.
Beghal had been under surveillance for suspected radicalism by French intelligence agents since the mid-1990s, following his arrival in the country from his native Algeria when he was 21 years old.
While serving his first prison sentence Beghal met Cherif Kouachi, one of the brothers who massacred 12 people in an attack on the Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... magazine in January 2015.
Amedy Coulibaly, the man who killed a policewoman and then four shoppers at a Jewish supermarket just outside Gay Paree that same month, also came under Beghal's influence at the Fleury-Merogis prison south of Gay Paree, where he also met Kouachi.
After their release, both Kouachi and Coulibaly visited Beghal while he was serving out his sentence under house arrest.
Beghal was tossed in the calaboose Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! again in 2010 as part of a plot to free him as well as Smain Ait Ali Belkacem, an Algerian who helped carry out Gay Pareekabooms in 1995 which killed eight people.
La Belle France has suffered a wave of deadly terror attacks since January 2015 which have claimed nearly 250 lives, prompting the government to make permanent several state of emergency measures as part of a tough new anti-terror law enacted last year.
[Kurdistan24] Demonstrators demanded jobs and radically improved public services, while they denounced Iran's influence in their region.
The protests, led by local tribal leaders, began in Basra and then spread to five other southern provinces: Najaf, Karbala, Maysan, Babil, and Dhi Qar.
On Saturday, they entered their sixth consecutive day.
The Iraqi government has taken measures to crack down on the demonstrations. It shut down access to social media throughout the country, including the Kurdistan Region, and ordered an internet blackout in most of Iraq.
Baghdad also mobilized security forces to quell the demonstrations, and fatalities ensued.
Two protesters died of their injuries after being attacked by Iraqi forces in the city of Ammara, in Maysan Province. In Najaf, another two protesters were killed by security forces, while seven were wounded.
Some reports suggest that elements within the army are siding with the demonstrators, and it is other forces that are primarily involved in suppressing the unrest. A split within the Iraqi security forces would be very significant.
In the city of Nasriyya (Dhi Qar Governorate), protestors chanted, "Iran, Iran, we don’t want you anymore, Dhi Qar will not shut up anymore!"
Muthanna (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi security forces have arrested 65 protesters in Muthanna governorate as demonstrations over poor public services and corruption across southern Iraqi provinces entered their eighth day.
In remarks to the Iraqi Mawazin website on Monday, a security source said, "65 protesters were apprehended while taking part in a rally in Muthanna governorate."
The source pointed out that "the protests are sill ongoing in the governorate."
On Sunday, an Iraqi protester was killed, while 15 others were injured in mass demonstrations in Muthanna governorate.
The protesters also set fire to some headquarters of political parties.
Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) – The Iraqi Health Ministry has announced that eight people have been killed so far as a result of protests that started last week in Basra and extended to other southern provinces within a few days.
Speaking at a press conference, Seif al-Badr, the ministry's spokesman, said that the "clashes between protesters and security forces left 56 people injured, almost half of them are policemen."
According to the spokesman, three deaths were reported in Muthanna governorate, two deaths in each of Basra and Najaf, and one in Karbala.
Meanwhile, the Iraqi Interior Ministry has said that up to 274 security forces were injured in clashes with protesters since the start of mass demonstrations across the nation last week.
In an online statement, the ministry said there were brigadier generals and senior policemen among the injured.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Security forces have forcibly dispersed a protest, northwest of Baghdad. Some entrances were closed, according to security sources and news reports on Monday.
Speaking to Alghad Press, the source said, "Rioting police in al-Shoala region dispersed a protest of around 300 demonstrators using live ammunition."
Some entrances were closed, the source added.
Moreover, the forces closed exits of al-Aamel district in Baghdad, preventing any gatherings there, Almaalomah website reported.
The troops were highly deployed there, closing exits that lead to Baghdad airport street.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] As popular unrest across several southern cities of Iraq, videos being shared on social media showed several demonstrators burning the offices of political parties with links to Iran, most notably those belonging to the Badr militia, Dawa party and the National Wisdom Movement.
Pictures from Sunday showed the burning of a poster bearing the image of former Iran Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini on a main street in the province of Basra.
"The streets of Basra continue to protest against the Iranian practices, which have been going on for years now, especially the after our water became saline after drainage thrown by Iran in the Shatt al-Arab River," Abu Ahmad al-Mansoori, one of the protesters in Basra, told Al Arabiya English.
The crumbling oil hub of Basra and others parts of the Iraqi southern heartland have long been neglected, especially by the Shiite-led governments who came after former president Saddam Hussein. Similar protests have occurred in the past.
In a rare move, protesters stormed the international airport in Najaf, a holy Shiite city, over the weekend temporarily halting air traffic.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, in response, announced that his caretaker government would release funds for water, electricity and health services in Basra, once dubbed the "Venice of the Middle East" for its network of canals.
[Al Jazeera] Protests have spread to more Iraqi cities after a week of violent demonstrations in the oil-rich city of Basra where at least seven people were killed, dozens maimed, and hundreds tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! , police and activists said.
Monday's protests took place in the eastern province of Diyala and the southern city of Nasiriyah, according to AFP news agency.
The unrest first erupted in Basra on July 8 when security forces opened fire, killing one person. Protesters accused the government of failing to provide basic services, including electricity.
"We are the residents of Basra, not infiltators. We are simply raising our demands, which are clean water, electricity, basic services and jobs. Our peaceful protests are met with bullets," one demonstrator told Al Jazeera.
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[AnNahar] Dozens of soldiers were feared dead after a Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... attack on a military base in remote northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , security sources said on Monday.
Islamist faceless myrmidons overran the base in Jilli village, in the Geidam area of Yobe state, on Saturday evening, a day after a separate attack on troops in neighbouring Borno state.
There has been no official comment about Saturday's attack but one military source told AFP: "So far we have lost 31 soldiers, including three officers.
"Two vigilantes were also killed in the attack," he said, adding that 24 soldiers were maimed and being treated in hospital.
A civilian militia source in the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, added: "I don't have an exact toll of those killed.
"But yesterday the dead casualties were brought in three trucks to Maimalari military barracks here in Maiduguri. This means the casualty toll is high."
The militia member said Boko Haram fighters in military uniform and driving vehicles in army colours were allowed into the base.
"The soldiers mistook them for their colleagues from Gubio and opened the gates to the base. This was what led to all this loss," he added.
More than 700 soldiers were at the base at the time and hundreds of them were unaccounted for as of Sunday.
The military source, who asked to remain anonymous because he was not authorised to talk to the media, said "a number of the missing soldiers have showed up", without specifying a figure.
The attack is suspected to have been carried out by fighters loyal to factional leader Abu Mus'ab al-Barnawi, who is backed by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
Meanwhile a search and rescue operation was understood to be ongoing in the Bama area of Borno state for 18 soldiers and five officers missing since Friday's attack near Bama.
Local security operatives said seasonal rains were hampering the search.
Army front man Brigadier General Texas Chukwu said the Boko Haram attack near Bama was "successfully repelled" and dismissed reports of missing troops.
Twenty-two jihadists were killed while one soldier was injured, he added.
At least 20,000 people have been killed in Boko Haram violence and more than two million others made homeless in northeast Nigeria since 2009.
[DAWN] Former senator and Awami National Party founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism.... (ANP) leader Dawood Achakzai was injured in an incident of firing in Balochistan...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's Killa Abdullah district early on Monday.
Assailants opened fire on Achakzai as he was sleeping at his guest house in Killi Pir Alizai, Levies sources said.
Central ANP leader Zamarak Khan Achakzai said that timely retaliation from their own security personnel caused the assailants to flee.
Dawood Achakzai was taken to Civil Hospital Quetta for medical treatment and an emergency was imposed in the hospital. He is out of danger, doctors said.
Local rustics and Levies personnel reached the site of the attack as an investigation into the incident went under way.
Today's gun attack is the latest in a series of assaults on political parties in various parts of the country. Last week, an ANP leader in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , Haroon Bilour, was killed in a suicide kaboom claimed by the Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain.
Haroon's uncle Ghulam Ahmed Bilour, however, contested the Taliban claim in a Dawn report today, alleging that the attack was an 'inside job'.
Security officials are yet to disclose the motive behind today's attack.
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[In Military] When Russian President Vladimir Putin sits down at the table in Helsinki on Monday, he will surely have in the back of his mind some intelligence worries that have nothing to do with the U.S. president seated across from him.
Putin’s elite spy world has been penetrated by U.S. intelligence. That’s the implication of the extraordinarily detailed 29-page indictment of 12 Russian military intelligence (GRU) officers handed up by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigators on Friday. The 11-count charge includes names, dates, unit assignments, the GRU’s use of "X-agent" malware, its bitcoin covert funding schemes and a wealth of other tradecraft.
Putin must be asking himself: How did the Americans find out all these facts? What other operations have been compromised? And how much else do they know?
"The Russians have surely begun a ’damage assessment’ to figure out how we were able to collect this information and how much damage was done to their cyber capacity as a result," says Jeffrey Smith, a former CIA general counsel, in an email. "They are probably also doing a CI (counter-intelligence) assessment to determine whether we have any human sources or whether the Russians made mistakes that we were able to exploit."
Must the GRU assume that officers named in Friday’s indictment are now "blown" for further secret operations? Should Russian spymasters expect that operations they touched are now compromised? What about other Russian operations that used bitcoin, or X-agent, or another hacking tool called X-Tunnel? Has the United States tracked such operations and identified the targets? Finally, how are U.S. intelligence services playing back the information they’ve learned ‐ to recruit, exploit or compromise Russian officers?
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What he knows is that US intelligence/counter intelligence services are in revolt against the elected president - that gives Russia certain opportunities, which might be weighted against the risks.
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What he knows is that US intelligence/counter intelligence services are in revolt against the elected president - that gives Russia certain opportunities, which might be weighted against the risks.
Had Vlad not been hacking our election and political process, none of this turmoil would be taking place, NONE OF IT! The 'Reset' was working I tell you.
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Are Democratic computers more secure now than they were before their vulnerabilities were publically revealed? What about government computers previously compromised?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A number of tribal elders of Saada said that they hoped for the end of their "Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... nightmare" while stressing that their province is not represented by the militias, but solely through its own people.
Their statement on Monday came during a presser held by the Spokesman of Coalition Forces Colonel Turki al-Maliki at the Armed Forces Club in Riyadh.
Maliki said that the Saada tribal leaders called on their government and the coalition to continue their efforts in liberating their province.
For his part, Sheikh Abdulkhaliq Bishr said that despite the passage of more than a decade and a half of the conflict with the Iranian militias, the people of Saada province are still presenting all kinds of sacrifices, pointing out that Saada is resisting to maintain its Arabism and rejecting the Iranian interference.
Sheikh Bishr also paid tribute to the heroes of the Yemeni National Army and the supporting forces of the Coalition Forces for their sacrifices, urging the legitimate elected government represented by President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi as well as the Coalition supporting the legitimacy to continue the battle to liberate Saada province in particular and 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 general.
Maliki said that Gen. Prince Fahd bin Turki bin Abdulaziz, Commander of the Joint Forces, had met with the Sheikhs of Saada to discuss many issues of interest to the people of Saada province and to set up a mechanism for communication with the Joint Forces.
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[Hoover] After the recent G-7 meeting, some European nations such as France and Germany expressed anger that their views were given short shrift by Donald Trump‐displaying fits of pique memorialized in a now infamous photo of standing G-7 leaders who were leaning into a surrounded and sitting Trump. "International cooperation," huffed an unidentified senior French official, "cannot depend on being angry and on sound bites. Let's be serious." The former British ambassador to the U.S., Peter Westmacott, sniffed, "Trump is readier to give a pass to countries that pose a real threat to Western values and security than to America’s traditional allies. If there is a ’method to the madness,’ to use the words of British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, it is currently well hidden."
Yet in current foreign policy journals, a constant theme is European leaders who lament that Europe does not get its due on the world stage. Why would that be?
After all, if "Europe" is defined by the membership of the 28-member European Union, then it should easily be the world’s superpower. The European project now has an aggregate population (512 million) that dwarfs that of the United States (326 million). Even its GDP ($20 trillion) is often calibrated as roughly equivalent to or even larger than America’s ($19 trillion).
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Is it just me or do the three Americans on the Thalys train in 2015 symbolize the entire issue?
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A thirty something still living in his mother's basement demands respect! Meanwhile has the bro's over, scores some pot, and trolls the net. Haven't we seen this story before?
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A continental ethos of agnosticism, state dependency, childlessness, and multiculturalism leaves Europe especially vulnerable to both the foreign challenges of a dangerous neighborhood, and massive influxes of mostly Muslim immigrants,
But if the peasants will reproduce, this is the plan that must be undertaken to ensure the survival of the tax schemes and ruling oligarchy.
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They're SO used to coasting on unearned respect. Now that it's come to an end, they're reacting poorly. Not surprising. Spoiled adult children don't take it well when Dad kicks them out of the house at age 30.
It's really rather cruel when you think about it. Why didn't Dad do this long ago?
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Is it just me or do the three Americans on the Thalys train in 2015 symbolize the entire issue?
This. They were all descendants of Europe which has lost its brightest, bravest and best to US immigration and war.
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Trump is readier to give a pass to countries that pose a real threat to Western values and security than to America’s traditional allies.
I can't think of anything that poses a greater threat to Western values and security than opening Europe's borders to barbarians from the Middle East.
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Western Values?
The new ones are nihilism and globalism. The old ones like classical liberalism, they killed a couple generations ago. There's nothing to defend.
In which the New York Times and their little Deep State friends try to set President Trump's Afghan policy for him.
[KhaamaPress] The Administration of 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... has reportedly ordered its top diplomat to seek direct talks with the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group in Afghanistan in a bid to help kick start Afghan negotiations.
Sources privy of the development in U.S. and Afghanistan have told The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... that the Trump administration is considering a strategy shift to help the launch of a broader, formal negotiations to end the long war.
No date has been set for the likely talks between the US and the Taliban group with the US State Department and the Taliban yet to formally comment regarding the latest developments.
The officials have said the United States is willing to hold direct talks with the Taliban group in a bid to break the stalemate in Afghanistan.
According to the Times, the shift to prioritize initial American talks with the Taliban over what has proved a futile "Afghan-led, Afghan-owned" process stems from a realization by both Afghan and American officials that President Trump's new Afghanistan strategy is not making a fundamental difference in rolling back Taliban gains.
According to reports, the recent visits by the State Secretary Mike Pompeo and the top US diplomat Alice Wells to Afghanistan and Pakistain were aimed at laying the groundwork for the direct talks between Washington and Taliban.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Five Yemeni non-combatants were killed after a katyusha rocket was fired by the Houthis at a wedding in Al Jawf in northeast of Yemen.
The Yemeni news agency quoted a medical source as saying that Al Jawf Public Hospital said five Yemenis, women and kiddies, were killed, adding that others were maimed and some of them are in a critical condition.
A military source said the Houthis fired the rocket at a ceremony in a house in Al Hazm in Al Jawf where only women had gathered for the celebration.
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[DAWN] Members of the Senate on Monday lashed out at state authorities over their alleged failure to protect candidates and the public ahead of the July 25 elections, while taking aim at policies they said have "allowed" holy warrior ideologies to permeate society.
After the discussions concluded, the upper house prorogued its regular proceedings in view of the Mastung terrorist attack, in which over 145 people were killed.
In a scathing speech, ex-chairman Senate and incumbent PPP Senator Raza Rabbani said the duty to protect citizens was the state's while pointing out that the caretaker set-up was the existing state.
He also regretted that while the country's economy and visa policy had been discussed in the last three meetings of the National Security Committee, the subject of law and order was never made part of the conversation.
"The interim prime minister and military leadership must have been aware of the National Counter Terrorism Authority's (Nacta) report that stated that leaders of all political parties face security threats," he noted while wondering why the provinces were merely sent letters regarding the security situation.
He also criticised the absence of the caretaker interior minister from the session, and wondered whether the law minister would instead answer the house's questions regarding the Mastung attack.
"Will the interior minister again say that those who were attacked were not on the list of those facing security threats?" he wondered.
Rabbani also complained that while orders to arrest political workers were "being implemented swiftly", there was silence on the Mastung incident.
Referring to the participation of alleged members of banned outfits in the forthcoming elections, Rabbani said a new phenomenon was emerging on the model of the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad and Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal.
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[DailyWire] The mainstream media in the U.S. derided President Trump for taking a hard line against fellow NATO members (the ones who don't pay their fair share). But it turns out one liberal newspaper actually thought Trump did OK in Brussels.
"Trump Got From NATO Everything Obama Ever Asked For," wrote The New York Times.
The New York Times? Yes, really.
"Now that the smoke has cleared from the NATO summit meeting, the most tangible result is apparent: President Trump advanced President Barack Obama’s initiative to keep the allies on track to shoulder a more equitable share of NATO’s costs. Mr. Trump even signed on to a tough statement directed at Russia. For once he saw eye to eye with his predecessor," the Times wrote in its own editorial.
As Mr. Trump, and Mr. Obama before him, have argued, Europe can do more to help itself. The allies rely too heavily on the Americans to transport troops and equipment, for instance, and the fact that France ran out of bombs during the 2011 Libya operation demonstrated a crucial weakness. There may be other shortcomings, too ‐ NATO is not transparent with its data.
Greater spending by American allies might mean the United States could lower its own spending and bring thousands of troops home. Mr. Trump didn't make that argument, but he has often talked about withdrawing forces and closing bases, whether in Germany or Syria or somewhere else.
Trump hammered NATO last week, and just before his press conference with international press on Thursday, NATO leaders called an emergency session to address Trump's criticism that they aren't spending enough on defense.
"Yesterday, I let them know that I was extremely unhappy with what was happening, and they have substantially upped their commitment," Trump said at around noon local time in Belgium. "I told people that I'd be very unhappy if they did not up their commitments very substantially," he told reporters after the emergency session.
"Tremendous progress has been made. Everyone's agreed to substantially up their commitment. They're going to up it at levels that they've never thought of before," Trump said. "Commitments were made," he added. "The commitment was at 2 percent, ultimately that'll be going up quite a bit higher than that."
"Everyone in the room thanked me. There was a great collegial spirit in that room. . . . Very unified, very strong. No problem," Trump said. "NATO is much stronger now than it was two days ago."
Now, even The New York Times agrees Trump did more than Obama.
Weird. Granted it was only the editorial and could just be a trial balloon, but still. Gotta be eating at the liberal communist hearts of the left.
[TheNationalInterest] Washington should consider inviting the Indian Navy to make port visits to Diego Garcia and even go so far as to establish a logistics office on the island country.
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Since the US and UK are on the far side of the world a base in Diego Garcia makes a lot of sense for our power projection into the area. Since India is already in the region this makes no sense to me.
[DAWN] Pakistain and Iran on Monday pledged to further deepen their military cooperation.
This was the upshot of Iranian Chief of General Staff Maj Gen Mohammad Bagheri’s visit to Pakistain.
The top Iranian commander’s three-day trip is being attached great importance because bilateral military exchanges between Pakistain and Iran have been very rare due to their mutual mistrust that kept them divided till recently.
Gen Bagheri visited caretaker Foreign Minister Abdullah Hussain Haroon at the foreign ministry and then went to the General Headquarters (GHQ) for a meeting with army chief Gen Qamar Bajwa.
The public affairs division of Pakistain military said Gen Bajwa underscored the need for intensification of military-to-military cooperation and noted that such cooperation would have a "positive impact on peace and security in the region".
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[Al Jazeera] Dozens of relatives of slain Paleostinians held a rally calling on Israel to return the bodies of their loved ones.
Monday's protest in Ramallah took place before an Israeli Supreme Court session on Tuesday regarding the cases of 10 Paleostinians killed by Israeli forces since 2015 whose bodies have not been returned.
Under the slogan "we want our children back", the mothers, fathers and relatives marched from Al Manara Square in downtown Ramallah holding up signs of their slain sons, chanting "freedom to our deaders".
"It is our right to get their bodies back and bury them. It is our right to know what happened to our boys," Azhar Abu Srour, an organiser of the rally, told Al Jazeera.
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It is our right to know what happened to our boys," Azhar Abu Srour
They played stupid games, won stupid prizes
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It is our right to know what happened to our boys
We turned them into girls and sold the girls to ISIS
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany’s foreign minister said on Monday Europe could not rely on Donald Trump and needed to close ranks after the U.S. president called the European Union a "foe" with regard to trade. Thunderous applause.
"We can no longer completely rely on the White House," Heiko Maas told the Funke newspaper group. "To maintain our partnership with the USA we must readjust it. The first clear consequence can only be that we need to align ourselves even more closely in Europe." Trump's major objective: stop everyone from being so goddamned dependent on the US federal government. They're helping him and they don't even realize it.
He added: "Europe must not let itself be divided however sharp the verbal attacks and absurd the tweets may be."
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Trump's set them up to fail he knows the EUSSR will collapse and has very little popular support but the looting classes will close ranks and try inflicting more EUSSR on the peoples of Europe.
[AlAhram] Russia was the target of almost 25 million cyber-attacks during the World Cup, President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... said, though he did not indicate who may have been behind the attacks.
"During the period of the World Cup, almost 25 million cyber-attacks and other criminal acts on the information structures in Russia, linked in one way or another to the World Cup, were neutralised," Putin said during a meeting on Sunday with security services. The comments were reported by the Kremlin on Monday.
[Al Jazeera] Eight migrants colonists including six children were found dead after suffocating from petrol fumes while packed into a truck container on Libya's western coast.
Another 90 migrants colonists recovered from the container on Monday were at death's door and taken to a local hospital for treatment, the security directorate in the town of Zuwarah said in a statement.
Zuwarah is one of the points along Libya's western coastline where smugglers and traffickers hold migrants colonists before putting them on boats to try to cross to Europe.
The migrants colonists were from various sub-Saharan African and Arab countries, as well as Pakistain and Bangladesh, the statement said.
They had been locked inside a refrigerated container designed for transporting meat and fish that was found just outside Zuwarah, close to the Mellitah oil and gas complex, about 110km from the capital, Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... "As a result of the length of time they suffocated, eight of them died including six children, one woman and a young man," the security directorate said.
It posted pictures of at least nine plastic jerry cans holding petrol, as well as a pile of life-jackets apparently intended for use in a boat crossing.
Daytime temperatures in northwest Libya have been in the mid to high 30 degrees Celsius in recent days.
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As opposed to butchering and eating one another. Ok, I'll go with that.
[The Hill] Former President Obama on Monday urged Kenyan leaders to celebrate the nation’s diversity during a stop in the country to help launch an educational center run by his half-sister.
Obama's visit to Kenya, where his late father was born, was his first since he left office. Reuters reported that he praised President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga for making progress in improving rifts between ethnic groups, but said that more still needs to be done.
"It means no longer seeing different ethnicities as enemies or rivals but rather as allies; in seeing the diversity of tribes not as a weakness but as a strength," Obama said.
The former U.S. president was in Kenya for the opening of a sports and training center established by his half-sister, Auma Obama.
Reuters reported that former President Obama made no mention of President Trump in his remarks. Trump inflamed tensions with African nations when he referred to them as "shithole countries" earlier this year.
Obama met Sunday with Kenyatta and is reportedly expected to meet with Odinga during his visit. Any tips for folks back home in South Chicago ?
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Surely he's getting some sort of speaker's fee / other remittance while he's over there? I can't imagine him doing this out of the 'goodness' of his heart.
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If the oogas and the boogas can just come together...
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I've always thought that if Obaba is so great he should bring his light to his ancestral home and lead from behind, the front, the left, whichever works best.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[The Hill] The European Union and Japan signed an agreement on Tuesday that will lift close to 100 percent of tariffs on products exchanged between the two.
[Gateway Pundit] President Trump held an interview Monday with Sean Hannity from FOX News after his meeting and press conference with Vladimir Putin.
[Gateway Pundit] The Democrat Socialists of America support no borders, no profit, no prisons and no cash bail.
[Townhall] The most frequently used description of America by those who advocate for large numbers of immigrants -- those here legally or illegally -- is "America is a nation of immigrants."
[IsraelTimes] Earlier, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the 
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
[IsraelTimes] Barakat Group targeted for funding terror group linked to 1992 attack on Israeli embassy and 1994 AMIA attack, both in Buenos Aires
[IsraelTimes] Terror group's threat comes as Egypt also shutters Rafah crossing on Tuesday in both directions without explanation
...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier...
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Indian police 
[DAWN] A club-and-machete wielding mob in Indonesia butchered nearly 300 crocodiles in an act of 
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
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...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
Frankly, it's not 'Russian' intelligence officers I'm actually concerned about. 
...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...
[DailyWire] The mainstream media in the U.S. derided President Trump for taking a hard line against fellow NATO members (the ones who don't pay their fair share). But it turns out one liberal newspaper actually thought Trump did OK in Brussels.
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
