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Home Front: Culture Wars
Educators work to combat racism, whiteness in math
h/t Instapundit
[CollegeFix] "Math equity" doesn’t mean 1 + 1 = 2.

The term refers to the growing insistence among educators that teaching math in the classroom comes with some inherently biased methodology that must be addressed.

Proponents of "math equity" also stress the importance of social justice issues such as race, diversity and gender in math education ‐ a trend that’s catching on.

More professors and educators are tweeting under the hashtag #MathEquity to share strategies on the topic, and webinars and other pedagogical sessions on it abound.

"Equity-based mathematics teaching requires more than implementing new curriculum or using specific practices because it involves taking a stand for what is right," the website for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics states.

"It requires mathematics teachers to reflect on their own identity, positions, and beliefs in regards to racist and sorting-based mechanisms. It involves noticing students, learning about the worlds they live in, and building mathematics that comes from these worlds. And finally, it involves engaging other educators in partnerships to build equity-oriented communities."

The council did not respond to requests from The College Fix for comment.

A 2018 column in Medium on math equity argues math equity must go beyond classroom teaching strategies. It argued math education is biased in favor of a Western narrative.

"The larger problem is that there are no readily recognizable names of non-white math leaders who are fluent in content and/or pedagogy," writes Sunil Singh, who goes on to point out most celebrated mathematicians in the classroom are white: Pythagoras. Euclid. Descartes. Gauss. Newton.

"Every student of mathematics will come across the zero and the negative sign," he states. "Yet, there is very rarely a mention of Brahmagupta in classes."

" ... Calculus was a monumental achievement and deserves to have authorship recognized with Newton. But more students encounter the work of Brahmagupta than Newton. But, what if it wasn’t Newton that discovered calculus? What if it was Japanese scholar Seki Takakazu? We will never know. But the bigger idea is why couldn’t this be a possibility? Do we not want to be dislodged from the entrenched Western narrative?"

Meanwhile, there have been numerous online sessions and webinars to train teachers to adapt to an equity-based approach to math.

A recent online chat session titled "Diversity & Inclusion: Math ED Spaces" discussed on Twitter looked at a student’s sense of belonging and racial diversity in math education, according to a thread by one of the session’s participants.

"We heard ... about creating a sense of belonging for students & teachers of color prompting us to become self-reflective of our work & take action," tweeted Naomi Jessup, assistant professor of mathematics education at Georgia State University.


Naomi Jessup
@mathedmatters
· Jun 12, 2019
Replying to @mathedmatters
We had a diverse group of people across the US and abroad that chose to embark on a journey of understanding how to increase diversity and inclusion in different mathematics education spaces. We looked like a box of multicultural crayons! #MathEdEquity 2/4


Naomi Jessup
@mathedmatters
We applied @PedroANoguera tips for step in the pursuit of equity from @cultofpedagogy podcast. We heard from @TheJLV & @HKhodai about creating a sense of belonging for students & teachers of color prompting us to become self-reflective of our work & take action. #MathEdEquity 3/4

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Jessup did not respond to The College Fix’s requests for comment.

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics has also hosted math equity webinars.

In one 2018 webinar titled "Developing Social Justice Mathematics Activists in Pre-K-Grade 5," its online description states that "when paired with issues of fairness, mathematics becomes a social justice tool that empowers students to mathematically recognize and address oppression they see in their own world."

Some concepts of math equity are not all rooted in identity politics.

A recent tweet from Cathery Yeh, assistant professor of education at Chapman University, listed strategies for math equity on a whiteboard from a more objective view of student academic success, with ideas such as "give students time to think on their own" and "provide students with many different kinds of tools to help them discover their strategy or thinking."

Other tweets on her account, however, favor math equity as a social justice tool.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/17/2019 12:26 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We will never know. But the bigger idea is why couldn’t this be a possibility?

Wow. Possibility based sciences now. Sophistry married to exactitude produces zero applicability. So what if Brahma-fuckin'-Gupta found the zero ? Someone else had to popularize it for use in equations. The chinese began that in the 6th century when they put it to use in calculating per capita income, and much later an Arab took the idea west. It wasn't until it could be used in anything except counting bags of paddy or writing astrology charts, that the fucking thing came to be of use to someone. How does it matter whether a white guy did it or a brown or yellow one ? It's history, not mathematics. Now it seems it's also political science. Are people really going to elevate/reduce everything from simple calculus to walking on the moon to racial politics now ?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/17/2019 13:39 Comments || Top||

#2  If not for the institutional racism I'm sure I could have become a world class pearl diver.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/17/2019 13:54 Comments || Top||

#3  I think there's more to it than not inhaling, B.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/17/2019 14:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Put da RHYTHM back in da algo-rithm
oomba-oomba-oomba-oomba...
Posted by: Lex || 07/17/2019 14:27 Comments || Top||

#5  So for the last few years J have been told by the media it was a black woman that did the hard math to get Apollo 11 to the moon. Someone here is spinning Yarn.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 07/17/2019 15:21 Comments || Top||

#6  Goddamn ! This is madness ! Have you guys actually seen what it entails ? I'm seeing this for the first time.

Characteristics of Equity Maths.

I thought it was just opportunist revisionists seeking petty career advancement by signalling 'wokeness', gaslighting an innocent generation with bilge. It's a neat plan to actually impair the ability of teachers to effectively communicate in a mathematics class, and to reverse all advancement made in western education so far, especial in STEM. I suppose math must be the only subject where clear and terse dialogue takes place, and it cannot be exploited like other subjects, say civics or literature.

Sampler : "Research has recently shown something stunning—when students make a mistake in math, their brain grows, synapses fire, and connections are made; when they do the work correctly, there is no brain growth"
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/17/2019 15:44 Comments || Top||

#7  Taking the mathness out of math.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/17/2019 16:27 Comments || Top||

#8  Right privilege: check it. Show your work woke. Remember, kids, right is white, wrong is strong!
Posted by: Alistaire Whinerong5775 || 07/17/2019 17:28 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
The ‘Squad' aims to guillotine the Democratic old guard
[NYPost] The Democratic Party bears little resemblance to the themes Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton embraced in the 2008 primaries.

...The socialist party has absorbed what is left of the old Democrats. At first, the progressive old guard in Congress, like good Girondists, found the revolutionary carnivores useful in reducing the ranks of the Trumpians, the Tea Party, Reagan Democrats, old Perot voters and the white working class to the inanimate status of "deplorables," "irredeemables," "clingers" and "dregs" ‐ and with them, the bigoted, racist, sexist, nativist, classist, homophobic and xenophobic GOP.

Certainly, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and a few geriatric sympathizers such as Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Dick Durbin enjoyed the progressive feasting on the ancien régime ‐ especially the unity offered by shared hatred of the obviously soon-to-be-impeached, deposed, exiled and discredited President Trump.
I blame the educational system - building up children's egos
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#1  Well, Ah'm kinda OK with that.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/17/2019 14:30 Comments || Top||

#2  It's actually as prescribed by 'Principles of Communism' by Engels.

"(Long term aims)... a constitution, dominance of the proletariat, and 12 specific points which include gradual abolition of private property, a centrally planned economy, and universal education.

"... three relevant types of socialists. Reactionary and bourgeois socialists are antagonistic to these communist aims, and must be fought. Democratic socialists may sometimes usefully align with communists. "


The old guard is always sacrificed for 'the party' to tighten power, it is the basis of their revolution machine. The first socialists serve the machine in hopes of reward and aggrandizement. The second on down the carrot transforms into the stick. The last phase is Stalinesque control. These four are tools compared to what comes next, if any, God forbid.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/17/2019 14:51 Comments || Top||

#3  The Squad aims to Guillotine the US Constitution... There fixed it.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 07/17/2019 15:19 Comments || Top||

#4  "You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs!" The Joker
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 07/17/2019 15:54 Comments || Top||

#5  I'm hoping they take each other out.
Posted by: gorb || 07/17/2019 16:19 Comments || Top||

#6  When do they get to the bit about shooting the kulaks?
Posted by: Matt || 07/17/2019 16:47 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
DoJ Ends Probe Into Trump Hush-Money Payments
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Home Front: Culture Wars
Between Lizards
[AccordingToHoyt] ...What horrified me, and to an extent still does, was that Americans born and bred ‐ you’ll forgive me, my friends? ‐ have absolutely not a blathering clue about world politics, or how much power governments not fettered by the constitution have, or the havoc they can wreak on a peaceable nation.

Recall when I first heard this it was during the cold war. Having heard Jimmy Carter talk and pontificate I was very well aware of how the Soviet Union viewed him, and how he’d roll before them. What was at stake was in fact whether the world at large would become a farm for the Soviets to harvest to disguise the fact their vaunted empire couldn’t even support itself, and a future reminiscent of 1984.

Also, whatever else one said, and honestly he was a man, like others ‐ and we shall not see his like again ‐ Ronald Reagan LOVED America. Meanwhile Jimmy Carter could barely tolerate our stench on him, as he toured European capitals. (Yes, he didn’t despise us as openly as Obama, but it was there.)

It seemed to me only a fool would continue putting himself in the power of one who hated him, when one who loved him was available.
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#1  He sued Georgia in World Court over a count election he was in the early 70s.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/17/2019 16:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Whoops - 1962
The world court suit isn't mentioned in this report but he took it to the Hague.
https://worldhistoryproject.org/1962/11/2/jimmy-carter-wins-election-to-the-georgia-senate
Posted by: 3dc || 07/17/2019 17:07 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
New clues on why women's Alzheimer's risk differs from men's
LOS ANGELES (AP) ‐ New research gives some biological clues to why women may be more likely than men to develop Alzheimer’s disease and how this most common form of dementia varies by sex.
Men and women are different? Fake science, genetic quackery, etc. Surely not to be believed.
At the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday, scientists offered evidence that the disease may spread differently in the brains of women than in men. Other researchers showed that several newly identified genes seem related to the disease risk by sex.

Two-thirds of Alzheimer’s cases in the U.S. are in women and "it’s not just because we live longer," said Maria Carrillo, the association’s chief science officer. There’s also "a biological underpinning" for sex differences in the disease, she said.

Some previous studies suggest that women at any age are more likely than men to develop Alzheimer’s. Scientists also know that a gene called APOE-4 seems to raise risk more for women than for men in certain age groups.

At the same time, women with the disease in its early stages may go undiagnosed because they tend to do better on verbal tests than men, which masks Alzheimer’s damage.
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#1  Alzheimer's Association APOE-4 Test Group photo.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/17/2019 10:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Alzhemers causes men to forget everything. Women with alzhemers stił remember everything their spouse did wrong.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 || 07/17/2019 10:46 Comments || Top||


#4  No correlation with women living longer than men to acquire the infirmity?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/17/2019 12:20 Comments || Top||

#5  The assumption has always been that it must be related to hormones.
Posted by: Iblis || 07/17/2019 15:52 Comments || Top||

#6  With my general knowledge of women, they're like that from birth.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 07/17/2019 15:56 Comments || Top||

#7  So women develop Alzheimer's more than men. How about the trans folks. Are they somehow in the middle statistically?
Posted by: gorb || 07/17/2019 16:32 Comments || Top||

#8  already mentally ill, prolly more susceptible
Posted by: Frank G || 07/17/2019 19:35 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Johnny Clegg, anti-apartheid musician in South Africa, is dood
JOHANNESBURG (AP) ‐ Johnny Clegg, a South African musician who performed in defiance of racial barriers imposed under the country’s apartheid system decades ago and celebrated its new democracy under Nelson Mandela, died Tuesday. He was 66 and had pancreatic cancer.

The Grammy-nominated and British-born singer sometimes called the "White Zulu" died peacefully at home in Johannesburg with his family there, according to Clegg’s manager, Roddy Quin.

"He fought it to the last second," Quin told the South African Broadcasting Corporation.

Clegg’s multi-racial bands during South Africa’s white minority rule attracted an international following. He crafted hits inspired by Zulu and township harmonies, as well as folk music and other influences.

South Africa’s government said in a statement that "his music had the ability to unite people across the races .... Clegg has made an indelible mark in the music industry and the hearts of the people."

One of his best-known songs was "Asimbonanga," which means "We’ve never seen him" in Zulu. It refers to South Africans during apartheid when images of the then-imprisoned Mandela were banned. Mandela was released in 1990 after 27 years in prison and became South Africa’s first black president in all-race elections four years later.
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#1  To this leftest kak I dedicate Bok's 'Die Kaplyn' with Englis ondertitels.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/17/2019 10:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Why bad things happen to good people?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/17/2019 11:36 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Prime Minister Netanyahu makes history as Israel's longest-serving leader
JERUSALEM (AP) ‐ As Benjamin Netanyahu becomes Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, he is solidifying his place as the country’s greatest political survivor and the most dominant force in Israeli politics in his generation.

He has persevered through scandals, crises and conflicts, winning election after election even as the country grows more bitterly polarized. His supporters credit him with keeping Israel safe and prosperous, maintaining its Jewish character and boosting its standing internationally.

His opponents, with equally visceral emotion, claim he has dashed hopes for peace with the Palestinians, torn society apart with vicious attacks on minority Arabs and left-wing opponents, and infused politics with a culture of corruption.

But as the longevity of his 13-year rule is set to surpass that of Israel’s founding father David Ben-Gurion on July 20, all agree Netanyahu has left a permanent imprint on Israel.

"He thinks that he is the right guy in the right place. That he is the one who will save Israel and lead Israel to a safe haven," said Aviv Bushinsky, a former Netanyahu aide. Israelis think that "things are good, so why should we change a winning horse," he added.

Just as he is about to cross a milestone, Netanyahu faces perhaps his greatest political challenge yet. After failing to form a parliamentary majority following April elections, the country is holding a repeat vote on Sept. 17. The following month, he faces a hearing with Israel’s attorney general, who has recommended indicting Netanyahu on corruption charges. If formal charges are filed, Netanyahu could be forced to step aside.
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#2  He explained that his face was covered because it was cold in New York that day.

Hood down, no hat, face covered with scarf. Riiiiight. I always do that, too... when I'm robbing a cradle bank.
Posted by: Alistaire Whinerong5775 || 07/17/2019 17:38 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Prince Charles once again changes his global warming doom deadline
[American Thinker] The presumptive heir to the British throne (some of us hold the hope that his mother will make arrangements to skip over him) Prince Charles keeps switching the deadline for saving humanity from the imaginary threat of man-made global warming. The new "drop dead" date is even more urgent than previous ones issued from his palace.

James Delingpole of Breitbart:
The Prince of Wales has warned global leaders that if we don’t tackle climate change in 18 months the human race will go extinct.

No, really. Here are his actual words, in a speech in London yesterday to foreign ministers from the Commonwealth.

I am firmly of the view that the next 18 months will decide our ability to keep climate change to survivable levels and to restore nature to the equilibrium we need for our survival.

Marc Morano of Climate Depot provides the embarrassing history of the elastic deadline for doom:

In 2009, we had only 8 years:
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#1  Too late, Charles - I'm already dead from the Trump tax cuts!
Posted by: Raj || 07/17/2019 11:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe his electric bill is paid up only till January next year.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/17/2019 11:33 Comments || Top||

#3  sorry, next to next year.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/17/2019 11:33 Comments || Top||

#4  I bet he won't quit flying on private chartered flights though will he
Posted by: chris || 07/17/2019 12:06 Comments || Top||

#5  One can only hope the Queen stays warm for many more years!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/17/2019 12:21 Comments || Top||

#6  One can only hope the Queen stays warm for many more years!

Said Prince Phillip for the last time in the 50s.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/17/2019 12:57 Comments || Top||

#7  If he keeps this up long enough he may eventually get it right. If we don't nuke ourselves or get hit by a meteor first.
Posted by: gorb || 07/17/2019 16:40 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Hiring Pro-Hamas Aide Completes Elizabeth Warren's Anti-Israel Pivot
[The Federalist] Last week, Democrat 2020 hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren tweeted triumphantly about her role in pressing the Department of Justice to investigate a prominent Donald Trump donor and longtime supporter of pro-Israel causes in America.

Warren’s targeting of GOP fundraiser Elliot Broidy is just the latest episode in the senator’s move to embrace the anti-Israel left, to help establish and cement her bona fides with far-left progressives who’ve come to see the destruction of the Jewish state as a non-negotiable cause. Warren’s move tolls warning bells of what we might come to expect from other 2020 candidates eager to appeal to their far-left base. Warren has been itching to prove her anti-Israel chops among the progressives, and it would appear Broidy offers a convenient vehicle for just that.

But harassing prominent Republican donors isn’t the only ingredient needed for completing Warren’s anti-Israel pivot. As Jordan Schactel of The Daily Wire pointed out, Warren’s recent moves follow a linear trend that the 2020 hopeful has been following since she first boycotted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress in 2015. She was a vocal critic of the embassy move and recognition of Israel’s capital in 2017 and joined Bernie Sanders in chastising Israel during the March 2018 Gaza protests without one critique of Hamas, despite Hamas’ role in orchestrating the protests.

Adam Kredo at the Washington Free Beacon reported that Warren recently hired anti-Israel radical Max Berger, who helped to found the IfNotNow organization, a group that has devoted itself to damaging Israel’s reputation in America under the guise of seeking an end to Israel’s "occupation" of Judea and Samaria and East Jerusalem.

In doing so, IfNotNow routinely ignores Palestinian terrorism against Jews, promotes the "scholarship" of noted terrorist spokespersons, and even harasses young Jews attending Birthright trips. Berger’s co-founder, Simone Zimmerman, previously served as the Jewish outreach coordinator for Bernie Sanders, until she was fired for writing a profanity-filled Facebook post directed at Benjamin Netanyahu.
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#1  Pivot?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/17/2019 11:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Once a juice hater always a juice hater.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/17/2019 11:53 Comments || Top||

#3  By 'pivot', we mean charge up the middle.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/17/2019 12:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Still hateful over the Juice/Small Pox Blanket incidents on the Rez
Posted by: Frank G || 07/17/2019 12:36 Comments || Top||

#5  Things don't usually change suddenly. You just become aware of them suddenly.
Posted by: gorb || 07/17/2019 16:30 Comments || Top||


Government
9th Circuit: DOJ Can Withhold Money From Sanctuary Cities
[LI] The Trump administration’s decision to crack down on sanctuary policies by withholding funding resulted in Los Angeles being denied a $3 million grant, a move that prompted the city to sue the DOJ.

On Friday, the Trump administration scored a huge win when the 9th Circuit overturned a nationwide injunction barring the DOJ from prioritizing taxpayer monies to cities and states that cooperate with federal immigration officials.

The three-judge panel, in a 2-1 vote, found that the Trump administration has the right to deny sanctuary cities and states Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) grants.

The Hill reports:
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled in favor of the Trump administration’s efforts to prioritize federal dollars for local policing to towns and cities that complied with certain immigration policies.

The ruling, a split 2-1 decision, said the Department of Justice (DOJ) was within its rights to withhold Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) grants from sanctuary cities and states over their refusal to work with federal immigration enforcement authorities and instead prioritize agencies that focused on unauthorized immigration and agreed to give Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) access to jail records and immigrants in custody.

The city of Los Angeles first sued the administration after it was denied a $3 million grant on the grounds that it did not receive the money because it did not focus on immigration for its community policing grant application. The decision reversed a district court’s ruling.

"The panel rejected Los Angeles’s argument that DOJ’s practice of giving additional consideration to applicants that choose to further the two specified federal goals violated the Constitution’s Spending Clause," wrote Judge Sandra Ikuta, joined by Judge Jay Bybee.

"The panel held that DOJ did not exceed its statutory authority in awarding bonus points to applicants that selected the illegal immigration focus area or that agreed to the Certification," she wrote.

You can read the ruling here.

According to the LA Times, LA City Attorney Mike "Feuer said the city would explore all options, including an appeal to a larger panel of the 9th Circuit."
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#1  Progress, but the 9th Circus as a whole is still overwhelmingly progressive/activist. This won't make it past an appeal to the entire court.
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/17/2019 9:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Ouch. The regressive left must be in a full panic.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/17/2019 10:08 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
Hell Introduces New Extra-Hot Section For People Who Lick Ice Cream And Put It Back On The Shelf
[Babylon Bee] HELL‐After learning of a new video trend in which youths are licking ice cream, putting the lid back on, and placing the container back on the store shelf, hell's management unveiled a new extra-hot section specifically for these people.

The section of the place of torture and separation from God is heated an extra 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The floor is also made of Lego bricks. Christian movies are playing on the television sets, and country music is playing on the speakers. Sources were also able to confirm that several hell employees will be scratching their fingernails on a chalkboard for all eternity throughout the place of torment.

"We feel this punishment is fitting," said a representative for hell. "Frankly, a lot of higher-ups thought it was too forgiving. They were thinking we should take things up to at least 100,000 degrees, but they were finally talked back down to a more reasonable 76,000 degrees."

While the idea of hell has been controversial among many progressive Christians in recent years, all believers came together to affirm that this is "a great idea."
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#1  The floor is also made of Lego bricks.

That is seriously Satanic!
Posted by: SteveS || 07/17/2019 9:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Skid proof though.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/17/2019 14:21 Comments || Top||

#3  and then in the bathrooms, the womens' section has the seat welded in the 'up' position....
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 07/17/2019 18:35 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Netnuts Exposed as Anti-Semites: Ex-CNN Talking Head Says News Networks are 'Zionist Organizations'
[Jewish Insider] PHILADELPHIA ‐ Former CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill claimed that news outlets like NBC and ABC were "Zionist organizations" that produced "Zionist content," during a panel on Friday at the annual Netroots Nation summit held by progressive activists in Philadelphia.
Graphic - Nazi Propaganda Poster. I think that this poster is a propaganda showing a "typical Jew" that has a lot of money, and takes care of all the money, (he is wearing banker clothes, and most Jews were identified to take care of the money, making them look rich).Then you can see that the light is the "German" hand is point to the Jew, saying in a way that something is the Jew's fault.
The summit describes itself as "the largest annual conference for progressives" and has long been a stop for Democratic presidential hopefuls, including this year.

Hill’s comments came less than a year after he lost his CNN perch after calling for a "free Palestine from the river to the sea," during an appearance at the U.N. The statement was interpreted by many as a call for the elimination of Israel, something Hill denied.

He made his comments during a panel on "embedding Palestinian rights in the 2020 agenda," which also featured statements that Israel was engaged in a "white supremacist" project.

In response to a question from the audience, Hill described the choices faced by young journalists when they tell stories about Palestinians.
"tell stories" is a large part of your credibility problems, Journolists
"They’re like, I want to work for Fox, or I want to work for ABC or NBC or whoever. I want to tell these stories," he said. "You have to make choices about where you want to work. And if you work for a Zionist organization, you’re going to get Zionist content. And no matter how vigorous you are in the newsroom, there are going to be two, three, four, 17, or maybe one powerful person ‐ not going to suggest a conspiracy ‐ all news outlets have a point of a view. And if your point of view competes with the point of view of the institution, you’re going to have challenges."
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#1  If you can't believe Marc Lamont Hill who can you believe ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/17/2019 8:46 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm working on a spec script for a remake of Iron Sky, the sci-fi flick with Nazis living in a secret base on the dark side of the Moon. But I can't decide if the evil villains should be the Five Jew Bankers or the Chinese.

Personally, I'd go with the Chinese because Zionists are so last millennia, but I'm leery of running up against the Huawei/G**gle octopus. Hey, Lamont, have your people call my people.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/17/2019 11:16 Comments || Top||

#3  I had a hunch, clicked to see his picture. Bingo!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/17/2019 11:53 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm thinking I could make some money selling "I'm voting for the one who promises to kill me first." bumper stickers to a particular liberal cohort.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/17/2019 16:21 Comments || Top||


Economy
Pending retirement rule could make the IRS your biggest IRA beneficiary, expert warns
[FOX Business] A retirement reform bill is advancing through Congress, which includes some positive provisions for workers ‐ but at least one big downside that could hurt wealthier retirees.

The legislation ‐ known as the SECURE Act ‐ cleared the House of Representatives in May, and is awaiting Senate approval. Among its more well-known provisions are: increasing access to retirement plans, extending the age limit by which people would be allowed to stash money into IRA accounts and delaying when people would be required to take required minimum distributions to 72, from 70 1/2.

As previously noted by FOX Business, there is at least one measure that could seriously impact retirees and their savings. That is the potential elimination of stretch IRAs.

The new proposal stipulates that most non-spouses who inherit an account must drain it within 10 years of the owner’s death, while the current law allows them to stretch it out over a lifetime.

Stretch IRAs are an estate planning strategy ‐ a way that people can pass on their retirement funds to their kids, grandkids or other beneficiaries. For a child, for example, the funds (under current law) can grow tax-deferred or tax-free over the course of his or her lifetime, while taking smaller required minimum distributions along the way (based on age and life expectancy). Those distributions, however, are subject to income taxes.
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#1  .....make the IRS your biggest IRA beneficiary.

As originally envisioned.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/17/2019 8:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Those distributions, however, are subject to income taxes.

Yeah, and that tax bill takes a great big bite out of the distribution. I've heard all the arguments and I'm certainly no expert but it makes me wonder if it wouldn't be better to let that money be taxed when you're working and can afford it and then put it into a regular old investment account.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/17/2019 10:42 Comments || Top||

#3  I selected the 'no tax' SSA option.
I registered myself as a sole-proprietor LLC.
I created a SEP into which I pay the monthly stipend.
The SEP is tax-free diversified.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/17/2019 14:29 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Pakistani police arrest Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed (again)
[al jazeera] Pakistani police have arrested Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, the founder of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) armed group and head of its Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) humanitarian wing, intercepting him on his way to court in the central city of Gujranwala,
The pancake hat, a dead giveaway.
Saeed was arrested on Wednesday by a group of counterterrorism department police at the Kamoke toll plaza, about 50km north of Pakistan's second city Lahore, JuD spokesman Nadeem Awan told Al Jazeera.

"The cases against him are all related to fundraising," Awan said. "He is charged with terrorism financing."
and masterminding the Mumbai massacre, but that's not grounds for punishment in The Land of the Pure
The JuD said it would challenge the arrest in court and apply for bail for Saeed.

"We are going to the High Court, and we will continue to use legal means to fight the injustice against us, and we believe the courts will support us," Awan said.
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#1  "Somebody's gotta go back and get a sh*tload of dimes!"
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/17/2019 10:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Too bad they didn't give him the Sonny Corleone treatment, though.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/17/2019 12:57 Comments || Top||

#3  I'll bet he had A 24/7 medical staff, 5-star accommodations and access to every number in the Pakistain Govt directory.

and we will continue to use legal means to fight the injustice against us Because all our illegal means are busy elsewhere !
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/17/2019 13:15 Comments || Top||

#4  From The Times of Israel:

He was taken into custody in January last year and kept under house arrest for 11 months until a court order ended his detention in November. He was also detained in 2001 and 2008, when he was kept confined to a government-run house and at his home.

In recent months, the government also took over schools, mosques, seminaries and all properties linked to Saeed’s charities and froze their assets.

Pakistan is currently on the Financial Action Task Force’s grey list, denoting its status as a haven for money laundering. It has until October to avoid blacklisting.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/17/2019 22:45 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
S. Idlib: scores of casualties in 2 air gov’t air raids


Regime Air Raids Kill 9 Civilians in Northwest Syria

[AnNahar] Regime Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s on Tuesday killed nine civilians in rebel-held northwest Syria, the target of months of regime and Russian bombardment, a war monitor said.

Three children were among the nine killed outside Maaret al-Numan, a town located in a southern strip of Idlib province, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The corpse count is expected to rise due to critical wounds sustained by some other victims, according to the Britannia-based monitoring group.

Russian and Syrian regime aircraft have ramped up strikes on Idlib since late April, killing more than 600 civilians, while 52 others have died from rebel fire, according to the Observatory.

Regime forces have also been locked in battle with jihadists and allied rebels on the edges of the bastion, which is held by Syria's former al-Qaeda affiliate Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
, including the north of Hama province.

The group in January took full administrative control of the Idlib region, home to three million people, although other jihadist groups and rebel factions are also present.

Syrian air strikes on village market kill at least 12 in S. Idlib: Rescuers

[AlAhram] At least 12 people were killed and scores maimed on Tuesday in aerial strikes believed to have been carried out by the Syrian air force on a popular market in a village in opposition-held northwestern Syria, rescuers and residents said.

Residents and rescuers said bombs dropped on Maar Shoreen village in southern Idlib province by planes which monitors said were Syrian army jets left a trail of death and destruction and maimed scores in a main street of the village's market.

Videos released on social media by activists purportedly showed footage of charred bodies lying on the streets alongside badly burnt people being carried by rescuers. Rooters was unable immediately to independently verify the footage.

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Britain
UK to send third warship to Gulf
[AlAhram] Britannia will send a third Royal Navy warship to the Gulf, the defence ministry announced Tuesday, while insisting that it did not "reflect an escalation" of tensions with Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
in the region.

Britannia has already sent the HMS Duncan, an air defence destroyer, to cover for frigate HMS Montrose while it undergoes maintenance in nearby Bahrain, and will also send frigate HMS Kent "later this year".

Reports said it would head to the Gulf in mid-September.

HMS Montrose last week warned off three Iranian gunboats that UK officials said were trying to "impede" the progress of a British supertanker through the Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf.

The defence ministry said the HMS Kent would be "taking over" from HMS Duncan, but added that an "occasional overlap of ships when one deployment begins and another ends... is not uncommon," suggesting that all three could be in the region at some point.

The ministry said the deployments were "long-planned" to ensure "an unbroken presence" in the crucial waterway and "do not reflect an escalation in the UK posture in the region".

Iranian officials have denied last Wednesday's incident in the Strait of Hormuz ever happened.

The British government has in any case raised the alert level for ships travelling through Iranian waters to three on a three-point scale, indicating a "critical" threat.

HMS Duncan is an air defence destroyer that carries a set of heavy Harpoon anti-ship missiles and has a company and crew in excess of 280.
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#1  3rd ship huh?

The next one have oars?
Posted by: AlanC || 07/17/2019 11:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Wouldn't all this military power of better use in places like Rotherham ?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/17/2019 11:45 Comments || Top||

#3  No strategic commodity in Rotherham like oil, just little girls. I think the Romans implied the Druids sacrificed young maidens to their god.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/17/2019 12:15 Comments || Top||

#4  :-)
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/17/2019 12:20 Comments || Top||


Africa North
IS Jihadists Kill Seven Tuareg Leaders in Sahel
[AnNahar] Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
jihadists in southwestern Niger have killed seven leaders of the Tuareg ethnic group in less than three months, as part of a strategy to create a political void in the region, officials said Tuesday.

Three traditional Tuareg chiefs and four senior Tuareg officials have been killed since late April by the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara
The succulent fruit of the union of splinter factions from Mokhtar Bekmokhtar'sal-Mourabitunes and MUJAO. Once the dust had settled and the smell of gunsmoke had dissipated, they became the Islamic State in Mali, then adopted their present clever name. They are headed by Adnan Abu Walid Saharaoui. It operates along the borders of Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
, Niger, and Mali....

(ISGS) in the volatile region of Niger on the Mali border, they said.

Arrisal Amdagh, a Tuareg chief in the rural district of Inates, was rubbed out at his home in April, and his son Almoubacher Ag Alamjadi, who succeeded him, was killed on Monday, a Nigerien security source said.

Their deaths were confirmed to AFP by Defense Minister Kalla Moutari on Tuesday.

Four senior members of the tribe were killed by a roadside kaboom as they were heading to the father's funeral, their relatives said last month.

In a separate incident in June, a traditional Tuareg leader in Bankilare district was kidnapped and killed, a local source said.

Niger, one of the world's poorest countries, lies in the heart of the fragile Sahel region
... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas...
, which is battling an Islamist insurgency.

Insurgent groups are active in the west and north of the country, spilling over from a long-running campaign in Mali, while Nigeria's 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...
is present in the country's southeast.

"The ISGS strategy is to kill traditional chiefs in the border areas," a security source told AFP.

"It's a way of voiding the area of an effective state presence, enabling you to move in and impose your law."

On July 1, 18 Nigerien soldiers were killed when jihadists struck an army camp at Inates, according to the defense ministry.

Niger is part of the so-called G5 Sahel group of five nations set up to manage a coordinated response to the jihadist insurgency in the impoverished region.
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#1  From what I recall the Tuaregs can be divided into two groups, the ones who live in towns and the ones who live in the deserts and plains. They are related and you don't want to piss off the country Tuaregs, they live by herding, smuggling, and killing and robbing strangers , I expect some Jihadists will start dying soon.
Posted by: Snavimble Bucket1794 || 07/17/2019 1:22 Comments || Top||


Europe
Portugal suspends visas to Iranians for unspecified ‘security reasons’
[IsraelTimes] Portugal’s foreign minister says his country has temporarily stopped granting visas to Iranians "for security reasons."

Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva tells a Portuguese parliament committee about the decision but declines to elaborate on the rationale for it. He says he would provide details privately to politicians on the committee.

Portugal has long had diplomatic relations with Iran, though trade and ties are minor compared with other Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an Union countries.

Online newspaper Observador reports that national news agency Lusa quoted Santos Silva saying, "Portugal doesn’t take lightly who it lets into the country."
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#1  Portuguese gosta barcos e nao gosta piratas de mar. Chau!
Posted by: Angairong Flavigum3253 || 07/17/2019 10:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Lusa quoted Santos Silva saying, "Portugal doesn’t take lightly who it lets into the country."

Racists!
Posted by: jpal || 07/17/2019 14:50 Comments || Top||


Africa North
US slaps sanctions on Al-Qaeda affiliate in Mali
[AlAhram] The US Treasury on Tuesday imposed sanctions on an al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group in Mali that carried out deadly attacks on the west African country's armed forces.

The measures target Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Moslemin (JNIM)
...Mali's most prominent jihadi group, JNIM is an umbrella organization of regional terrorist groups including al-Qaeda in the Maghreb (AQIM) Sahara Emirate, al-Mourabitoun, and local groups Macina Liberation Front (MLF) and Ansar al-Din (AAD)...
-- designated a terrorist organization by Washington last September -- and its commander Bah Ag Moussa, an army deserter who led a raid on a Malian military base that killed 21 former comrades.

"Treasury is targeting the leadership of JNIM, al-Qaeda's branch in Mali, for its destabilizing role conducting terrorist attacks across the country," said Treasury Under Secretary Sigal Mandelker.

"As a leader within JNIM, Bah Ag Moussa directly contributes to the violence and instability fueled by al-Qaeda's terrorism," he said.

The sanctions freeze all US assets owned by the group or its leaders, and block US citizens and institutions from having financial dealings with them.

Despite aid from French and UN forces, Mali struggles to quell unrest that began in 2012 in the north and spread to other parts of the country in Africa's Sahel region
... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas...
French forces in January 2013 intervened in northern Mali after the region was overtaken by jihadist forces and a peace agreement was signed in 2015 with some armed factions, but parts of the country remain out of the control of the government and the armed forces.
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#1  US slaps sanctions on Al-Qaeda affiliate in Mali America

When?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/17/2019 21:03 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Are Women of Color Above Reproach?
[PJ] In the wake of President Trump’s controversial tweets about congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Ayana Pressley, most of the criticism has been that Trump’s comments were racist, sexist, etc., etc. Because it's far easier to launch canned accusations than to address the substance of what he said. Nevertheless, the media predictably latched on to that narrative, and a quick review of related stories almost universally refer to Trump's "racist tweets" because obviously, attacking these four congresswomen couldn't be motivated by anything but racism and/or sexism, right? According to the media and the Democrats, there is no other explanation they want us to believe.

Did I miss the memo that minority women are now above reproach? Are we really supposed to accept the notion that AOC, Tlaib, Omar, and Pressley have done nothing to deserve criticism? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accuses America of running concentration camps, and lies about conditions at migrant detention centers for political points. Ayanna Pressley, while speaking at the left-wing Netroots Nation conference on Sunday, said that Democrats don't need "any more black faces that don't want to be a black voice." Ilhan Omar has made repeated anti-Semitic remarks, including the accusation that "Jewish money controls Congress," and on Monday refused to condemn al-Qaeda. Back in May, Rasida Tlaib bizarrely stated: "There’s always kind of a calming feeling [...] when I think of the Holocaust." These people may have been elected by their districts but they are an embarrassment to the U.S. Congress.

These women are not part of the mainstream of America. They believe America is evil, they are racialists and anti-Semites. Let’s stop pretending they are garden-variety freshman members of Congress. Irrespective of their race and sex, they’re dangerous women who have been propped up by the media as de facto leaders of the Democratic Party. The power they have can’t be overstated. Criticism from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez forced Joe Biden to flip-flop on a number of issues. Yet any time they are criticized, the knee-jerk response to hurl accusations of racism and sexism at the one criticizing them. Recently, we’ve seen this happen internally in the Democratic Party, when AOC accused Nancy Pelosi of racism, with similar accusations being leveled against Joe Biden from Cory Booker, Bernie Sanders, and Kamala Harris. It’s the default attack setting of contemporary Democrats, even against their own.
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#1  They obviously think so.
Posted by: Uleck Spererong9442 || 07/17/2019 6:31 Comments || Top||

#2  That looks like real privilege to me.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/17/2019 9:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Trump put it succinctly in a tweet overnight: "These people are the reason there are instructions on a shampoo bottle..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/17/2019 10:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Unless they accuse Bill Clinton of sexual harassment
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/17/2019 12:04 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ Ouch. Golf clap.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/17/2019 12:23 Comments || Top||


#7  Never enough for the contemporary Jacobins.

The Committee of Public Safety's sword will not rest until it has drawn blood from ALL the enemies of the Revolution - which means everyone these idiots deem a target, liberals and fellow lefties alike.

We're only in the first stages of our version of the Terror of 1793.
Posted by: Lex || 07/17/2019 16:20 Comments || Top||

#8  No.

Now fuck off
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/17/2019 16:25 Comments || Top||

#9  Amen.
Posted by: Lex || 07/17/2019 16:31 Comments || Top||

#10  Above approach? not even at the 0200 booty last call........
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 07/17/2019 18:34 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Drugs pour in from Mexico as Border Patrol forced to focus on migrants
[Washington Examiner] LAS CRUCES, New Mexico ‐ Border Patrol highway checkpoints in the southern New Mexico region that normally seize seven figures of worth of drugs annually have not seized a dollar in nearly four months after being shuttered in late March, allowing drugs to flood into the country. Meantime, with the added supply, prices for illicit drugs are dropping precipitously.

Those seven checkpoints have sat unattended after Border Patrol closed them to move all personnel to the border to assist with apprehending, processing, and caring for the high number of migrant families arriving.

Seven elected officials and law enforcement officials in Doña Ana and Otero counties told the Washington Examiner in interviews they worry that with no one to seize the millions of dollars of illegal substances normally confiscated while being transported north to cities such as Denver and Oklahoma City.

Normally, vehicles attempting to traverse those counties would have to pass a sniff test by a K-9 officer, and the legal status of the occupants would be checked. But since the checkpoints closed on March 25, drug runners can move product up and down the open roads.

"The foot traffic over there is unbelievable ‐ coming through with backpacks and all that stuff," Sheriff David Black of Otero County said about Hidalgo and Doña Ana counties. "Here, we have El Paso. Not a lot of foot traffic coming through all sort of vehicles ... there’s a small part of Texas that’s between the Mexico and our border ... Most of [the drugs are] concealed in vehicles, in tires, gas tanks, stuff like that."

The two checkpoints in his county caught $12.7 million worth of drugs in 2018.
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#1  All according to (D) plan.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/17/2019 8:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Urban commerce.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/17/2019 8:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Gotta raise money for those Dem candidates.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/17/2019 9:27 Comments || Top||

#4  5 hour drive from Las Cruces NM to Epstein's Zorro Ranch outside of Stanley NM.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/17/2019 11:02 Comments || Top||

#5  = another rich source of blackmail for St. Jeff, Pimp to the Powerful
Posted by: Lex || 07/17/2019 14:24 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Texas Democrat Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against Trump
[PJMEDIA] The latest move from the Democrats' secret campaign to help reelect Trump came Tuesday evening, first with the absurd vote to condemn President Trump for "racist" comments made against anti-Semitic and anti-American congressmwomen. But, for Texas congressman Al Green, that wasn't enough. Green has been aggressively pushing for impeachment; on Monday he promised during a Facebook Live press conference to force an impeachment vote.

"I'm here to indicate to the world that to tolerate bigotry is to perpetuate bigotry, especially when you can do something about it [...] I'm a member of the House of Representatives, and I as a member can do something about it," Green said. "Each member of the House of Representatives can bring articles of impeachment to the floor of the House of Representatives. I'm here today to tell you, again, to bring articles of impeachment to the floor of the House of Representatives. I will do so by the end of this month."

Well, apparently he was more anxious to move on with it because he didn't wait for the end of the month. He made his third attempt at forcing a vote on impeachment the following evening after the House passed the resolution condemning Trump.

Texas Rep. Al Green has introduced articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, potentially forcing a vote this week on whether to remove the president from office.

The vote would come too soon for most Democrats, as a majority of the caucus appears to oppose impeachment, for now. But Green is seeking to capitalize on a growing sentiment for impeachment in the wake of Trump's racist tweets over the weekend.

Green introduced the measure shortly after the House voted to condemn Trump for tweets that four Democratic congresswomen should "go back" to their home countries. All are Americans. Green said Tuesday that Trump is unfit for office and "enough is enough."

Like his previous attempts, Rep. Green's latest push for impeachment is likely to go nowhere. Polls have shown that a majority of voters oppose impeachment, and the Democrat establishment are certainly aware that impeaching Trump would backfire on them.
I see the "I am relevant and this temper tantrum I'm throwing shows that you need to pay attention to MEEEEEE!" train of thought is still alive and well.

Congratulations on keeping up the Re-Elect Trump train going!
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#1  The oily untalented Al Green, who can't even sing
Posted by: Frank G || 07/17/2019 4:41 Comments || Top||

#2  the text of Rep Green's articles of impeachment is here and below

interestingly, it doesn't actually say which Trump action is a crime or misdemeanor, in fact in the preamble to the articles state that it doesn't matter if there is no crime


https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4107239-Rep-Al-Green-s-Impeachment-Resolution.html?embed=true&responsive=false&sidebar=false
Posted by: lord garth || 07/17/2019 7:32 Comments || Top||

#3  They really really want a civil war.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/17/2019 7:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Green's private bridge to nowhere.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/17/2019 7:51 Comments || Top||

#5  so what's in the water in southwest Houston. Must be runoff from all the frickin frackin.

/sarc for those who need visual cues....
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/17/2019 9:29 Comments || Top||

#6  Katrina migrants from New Orleans Ddm plantation. After they left Louïsiana, Lousiana turned Republican. An act of God.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 || 07/17/2019 10:39 Comments || Top||

#7  I'm glad he did it. Now every congress critter will have to get off the fence and vote, just before they go out for reelection. The timing is perfect. The entire congress will be forced into a hate trump, support socialism, or support trump..
Posted by: 49 Pan || 07/17/2019 11:25 Comments || Top||

#8  Texas is not what it used to be (just kidding - I used to live in New Mexico).
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/17/2019 11:40 Comments || Top||

#9  #3.... I'm about ready too give them what they want. I for one am very sick and tired of hearing this shit.Sick of AOC and her squad, Pelosi,Schumer the whole lot of them. especially the "celebrities" who for some reason think they know better than anyone else or just normal ppl.
Posted by: chris || 07/17/2019 12:11 Comments || Top||

#10  Green apparently introduced similar articles of impeachment in 2017 and 2018. They were similar in failing to articulate any crimes or 'high' misdemeanors.

At the time, the WaPo and the NYTimes gave it the brushoff, perhaps they were waiting for the Mueller report to find some crime. I doubt either of these papers, or the Chi Trib or the LA Times or any of the big circulation dailies will support this.

Posted by: lord garth || 07/17/2019 12:48 Comments || Top||

#11  From the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman: ‘Trump’s Going to Get Re-elected, Isn’t He?’

It’s enough to wring tears of laughter from a stone.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/17/2019 13:24 Comments || Top||

#12  It's got some real choice segments.

That doesn’t mean a Democratic candidate should stand for nothing, just keep it simple

when the wealth of the top 1 percent equals that of the bottom 90 percent, we do have to redivide the pie.

encouraging legal immigration of both high-energy and high-I.Q. foreigners

Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/17/2019 13:47 Comments || Top||

#13  They were similar in failing to articulate any crimes or 'high' misdemeanors.

So we have a Congresscritter who's somehow dumber than AOC? Amazing.
Posted by: Raj || 07/17/2019 14:28 Comments || Top||

#14  Love how twisted you think, Pan.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/17/2019 14:31 Comments || Top||

#15  JERI-CURL, PLEASE!
Posted by: rature || 07/17/2019 15:40 Comments || Top||

#16  The guy's obviously a double agent working to get Trump re-elected.

Note that the allegation is "bigotry." He's saying in effect that criticism of these 4 racist nitwits = a high crime.

This loony logic is guaranteed to turn out the base for Trump - AND persuade independents who don't care for Trump that the alternative is far worse: Why wouldn't these people come after ANYONE who dares to publicly criticize Omar, Tlaib and Cortez?
Posted by: Lex || 07/17/2019 16:30 Comments || Top||

#17  P2K, and unfortunately, it looks like they'll get their wish. They will literally give us no choice but to shoot them; as in, we're shooting back.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/17/2019 17:08 Comments || Top||

#18  Tabled with Dem votes of wisdom cowardice he vote — 332 to 95, with one lawmaker voting "present"

Rep. Green? Take your oily pomaded ass and sit the fuck down and shut up
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Bill de Blasio is bad for NYC, but great for Andrew Cuomo
[NYPOST] So my favorite newspaper wants Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo to drag Mayor Bill de Blasio
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly...
out of City Hall and drop him on the curb ‐ and, man, wouldn’t that be glorious!

Think Gov. Godzilla vs. Mayor Mothra, with ’Zilla ripping off ’Ra’s wings in the opening credits ‐ then endlessly torturing the big fella just for the joy of it.
Continued on Page 49
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Iraq
PKK bomb kills Turkish soldier in northern Iraq
Ankara (IraqiNews.com) ‐ A Ottoman Turkish soldier was killed by a bomb planted by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday.

"A counter-terrorism operation is ongoing in the region", the ministry said in a statement.

Turkey’s military launched an offensive in May seeking to destroy those rear bases.
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Europe
Colombian Drug Smuggler Had Cocaine Hidden Under His Towering Toupee
[THESMOKINGGUN] Spanish police last month arrested a Colombian man who allegedly had a half-a-kilo of cocaine stashed under his toupee when he arrived in Barcelona on a flight from Colombia.

The accused mule caught the attention of Sherlocks due to the towering nature of the wig sitting atop his head. A subsequent search of the suspect yielded the cocaine, which was inside a plastic bag glued to his dome.

The arrested man is seen in the above mug shots (click to enlarge).

Cops said that the accused mule, who was not identified, arrived June 18 in Barcelona on a "hot flight" from Bogota, which they described as an incoming plane from a narcotics producing country.

"The ingenuity of narcos has no limit when trying to circumvent the controls," police said.

Depending on purity and how it was cut, Sherlocks said, the seized cocaine could have yielded 30,000 euros (equal to about $33,500).

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#1  "I want you to take this package to Barcelona. Top secret stuff, so keep it under your hat."
"You got it, boss!"
Posted by: SteveS || 07/17/2019 15:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe he'd have gotten through if he had done the full 80's costume - big shoulders, big suit, big hair - and told the authorities he got back from attending an iHeart 80's show...
Posted by: Lex || 07/17/2019 16:22 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Turkey claims it ‘neutralized’ 174 in recent ops; PKK deny any losses
[Rudaw] The Ottoman Turkish Ministry of Defense reported on Monday that Ankara has "neutralized" 174 Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) guerillas amid recent operations on its borders with the Iraqi Kurdistan Region. However,
corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds...
the PKK has denied "any losses."

The ministry summarized: 71 individuals were "neutralized" in the first phase of Operation Claw, announced on May 27, three in the second phase and the remainder from other attacks against the PKK in Kurdistan Region of Iraq’s mountainous areas.
Continued on Page 49
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Afghanistan
Clashes reported among Taliban militants in Paktika province
[KhaamaPress] The Talibs have reportedly clashed with each other in Paktika
...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo...
province of Afghanistan.

The 203rd Thunder Crops in a statement said the Talibs clashed with each other in Gian district of Paktika province.

The statement further added that preliminary reports indicate the clash has left three Talibs maimed.

The Taliban
...Arabic for students...
group has not commented regarding the infighting so far.

The security situation in Paktika province has tanked during the recent months.

Talibs are active in some districts of the province and often conduct terrorist related activities.
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India-Pakistan
Man gets jail term, fine for marriage sans wife’s consent
[DAWN] A judicial magistrate has handed down 11-month jail term to a man and imposed Rs250,000 fine on him for contracting second marriage without seeking mandatory permission from his first wife.

Ms Shamim of Ichhra filed a complaint through her counsel, pleading that her husband Muhammad Rashid contracted second marriage without her consent required under section 6 of the Moslem Family Law Ordinance 1961.

The counsel asked the court to punish the man under the law for committing a crime. He also produced witnesses and documentary evidence to prove the offence of the respondent.

The magistrate in his decision observed that verbal and documentary evidence presented by the complainant established that the offense was committed under the law.

Therefore, he handed down 11-month imprisonment to the respondent, with Rs250,000 fine.

The police arrested the man soon after his conviction and shifted him to jail.

However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
the complainant woman expressed dissatisfaction over the quantum of the punishment awarded to her husband. She told media that her husband deserved more imprisonment for the crime he committed.
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Iraq
Iranian bombings take toll on Kurdistan Region border villagers
[Rudaw] 18-year-old Zaytun Qadir was killed by an Iranian bombing on her home on July 10.

Two of her brothers were also injured. She was preparing lunch when the bombs struck.

Iranian artillery shelling has struck Erbil province villages that border Iran.

Despite the perilous conditions, some villagers feel compelled to return to their evacuated villages to reap the harvest of their land - in some cases, so that they can earn enough money to pay their landlords for land they have sublet.
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Community pool closed because Mad Crapper someone kept pooping in it
[FOX5NY] The Buckingham Recreational Facilities Association has a public service announcement for its visitors: Stop pooping in its pool.

In a notice posted Friday afternoon, the association's president said the community pool had to be closed because "someone has been defecating in the pool." And yes, they believe it was on purpose.

"Due to the frequency over the past week, we believe this is intentional," read the statement.

The neighborhood pool is in Macomb Township, located at 50483 Crusader Dr. near 23 Mile Road.

In response to the repeated offense, the board's president said they are reviewing attendance logs and recorded videos. "Rest assured, that we are following published guidelines to restore the pool to a safe and sanitary condition."

Serial pooping problems have plagued Michigan communities in the past. In 2014, the Ypsilanti Police Department made contact with an individual who had been pooping on public park slides.

To lock down any chance of more feces showing up in its pool, the Buckingham recreational group said it has also hired a second pool attendant will oversee duties at the pool. However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
the recent hire means the annual carnival put on by the association will be canceled.
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#1  Tolock down any chance of more feces showing up in its pool, the Buckingham recreational group said it has also hired a second pool attendant will oversee duties at the pool. Duties or Doodies?
Posted by: warthogswife || 07/17/2019 13:38 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Schumer announces support for slavery reparations bill
[AXIOS] Forty acres and a mule wasn't good enough.
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#1  Old Chuckie can go fuckie himself
Posted by: Uleck Spererong9442 || 07/17/2019 6:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Hey, I support a special levy on all registered Democrats, the party of slavery, segregation and the original Klan.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/17/2019 7:36 Comments || Top||

#3  I thought Affirmative Action, Free College Tuition, zero down payment home loans, quota based military promotions (please don't tell me it ain't so), free 'suction based' Planned Parenthood birth control, no-victim prison releases, and SNAP took care of all of that. Is there yet more ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/17/2019 8:00 Comments || Top||

#4  How much is Chuckie personally going to pay? He is one of the wealthy 1%...
Posted by: magpie || 07/17/2019 10:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Is there yet more ?

Gotta keep the pot boiling, B. Gotta keep offering all those victims new, bright, shiny things to keep them voting Democrat. Gotta keep telling them how baaaaaaaaaad the white man is.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/17/2019 10:32 Comments || Top||

#6  #3 Russians have a saying "appetite comes during the meal".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/17/2019 11:42 Comments || Top||

#7  well, if they get reparations would anyone like too open up a Cadillac dealership and a store that sells rims with me?
Posted by: chris || 07/17/2019 12:16 Comments || Top||

#8  How much am I getting for what the Huns, Mongols and Turks did to my ancestors?
Posted by: charger || 07/17/2019 17:11 Comments || Top||

#9  I want mine for Black 47 and 500 years of oppression by the English.
Posted by: Lex || 07/17/2019 21:01 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Separated migrant families sue U.S. government, demand $3 million each
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Six migrant families filed multi-million dollar claims Monday against the Trump administration over last year’s family separations, saying they need the money to pay for counseling and other medical care to heal from the "torture" they said they suffered.

The legal claims are the latest effort by immigrant-rights groups to punish the administration for the separations of thousands of children, which resulted from the Justice Department’s zero tolerance policy for illegal border crossers.

The families and their lawyers say the policy intended to inflict "emotional distress" on the parents and children, hoping it would make attempting to sneak into the U.S. so uncomfortable that fewer people would attempt it.

"It succeeded with devastating consequences," said Mark Fleming, associate director of litigation at the National Immigration Justice Center.

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#1  You haven't seen torture yet. Makes me think this is just all a scam.

Ship 'em to Syria or Yeman where they can experience real torture first hand.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/17/2019 0:18 Comments || Top||

#2  The cops stop a DUI, they separate the adult from the children every day. Either we're equal before the law or there is no law, just power.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/17/2019 7:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Ship 'em to Syria or Yeman where they can experience real torture first hand.

Or El Salvador.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/17/2019 11:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Pay their benefits in the currency from where they came from. Tax it in dollars so the exchange rate is excruciating.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/17/2019 11:34 Comments || Top||

#5  just like the migrants in Europe, DEMANDING free stuff.
Posted by: chris || 07/17/2019 12:17 Comments || Top||

#6  It succeeded with devastating consequences

Exactly the consequences we wanted, thank you.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/17/2019 13:00 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Turkish Embassy in Libya celebrates Democracy and National Unity Day
[Libya Observer] The Ottoman Turkish Embassy in Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
marked on Monday Democracy and National Unity Day that marks the 3rd anniversary of July 15 failed coup attempt by US-based leader Fethullah Gülen
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world. Gülen and Erdogan used to be really good friends, but only one of them could be sultan, and Gülen lost...
Organization (FETÖ).

Ottoman Turkish citizens and Libyan guests attended the ceremony including Ottoman Turkish Ambassador in Tripoli Serhat Aksen, President of the High Council of State Khaled al-Mishri, Vice President of the Presidential Council Abdul-Salam Kajman and member of the Presidential Council Mohammed Zayed.

Ambassador Aksen said in a speech that the coup attempt of July 15 was foiled by the national unity and bravery of the Ottoman Turkish people.

"The Libyan people and the Government of National Accord stood by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
in the face of the July 15 coup attempt and expressed their supports through messages and prayers." He recalls.

Ambassador Aksen also indicated that Libya had taken necessary steps to crack down on FETÖ by closing a school affiliated with the group, emphasizing the solid brotherly relationship between Turkey and Libya even in difficult times.

"Turkey will continue to stand by the people of Libya and its internationally recognized legitimate Government of National Accord." He reiterated.

For his part, President of the High Council of State Khaled al-Mishri drew, in his speech, similarities between July 15 coup attempt and military aggression by warlord Khalifa Haftar
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
on Tripoli.

In his speech, Mohammed Zayed stressed that Libyan people are fighting against the hostilities of warlord Khalifa Haftar with the same spirit that Ottoman Turkish people showed on July 15, 2016, against the coup attempt. He also thanked for the support extended by Turkey and its President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
to the only legitimate executive authority in Libya - the Government of National Accord, in the face of Haftar’s attempt to reinstall military dictatorship in Libya.

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Home Front: Politix
Biden, 'If you like your health care plan … you can keep it'
[FoxNews] "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it."

That familiar pledge, made repeatedly over several years by former President Barack Obama, was named the 2013 "Lie of the Year" by fact-checking website Politifact, as millions of individuals lost their private insurance -- and had to switch to costlier options -- due to changes mandated by the Affordable Care Act.

On Monday, Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden unveiled his own health care plan, and issued a similar-sounding promise while speaking at a presidential forum sponsored by AARP in Des Moines, Iowa.

"I give people the option," Biden said, after dismissing his opponents' "Medicare-for-all" proposals, which would eliminate private health insurance entirely. "If you like your health care plan, your employer-based plan, you can keep it."

Biden added: "You get full coverage, and you can stay with your plan if you like it. You can stay with your employer-based plan, or you can move on. I think it's the quickest, most reasonable, rational and best way to get to universal coverage."

Biden has said his proposal would add a "public option," or government insurance plan, to existing exchanges that sell private insurance.

The "Medicare-like" plan that would be available to anyone ‐ including the 150 million-plus Americans now covered by job-based insurance, a group now ineligible for exchange-based policies.
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#1  Lucy Van Pelt to the courtesy phone.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/17/2019 7:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Her or Jon Lovitz's 'Tommy Flanagan' character, P2k.

Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/17/2019 11:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Seems Biden has sealed his Senate records.....
Posted by: crazyhorse || 07/17/2019 11:50 Comments || Top||

#4  'If you like your health care plan … you can keep it'

If they're dumb enough to believe it once, maybe they'll believe it again if it comes out of another socialist's mouth.
Posted by: gorb || 07/17/2019 16:53 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Kenya Says 3 Militants Killed, 2 Officers Wounded In Attack
[RADIOSHABELLE] Kenya police say three suspected turbans were killed by border police whose vehicle was blown up by an improvised bomb.

A senior police official detailed the attack to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named but insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with media.

He said the Monday evening explosion injured two officers in the southern Kiunga area near the Somali border, and the explosives are believed to have been planted by al-Shabaab
...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
turbans from Somalia who were targeting security units.

He also said the Death Eaters hid in the bushes around the area where the bomb went off and then ambushed the Toyota Land Cruiser.

Al-Shabaab has vowed retribution on Kenya for fighting the Death Eaters who are attempting to topple Somalia’s weak U.N.-backed government.
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Afghanistan
Faryab: 19 Talibs casualties from clash with 209th Shaheen, 12 Talibs kaboom themselves unexpectedly


Uzbek militants among 19 killed, wounded during a clash with the Afghan forces in Faryab

[KhaamaPress] The Afghan forces killed or wounded 19 Taliban militants including 6 Uzbek militants in northern Faryab province.

The 209th Shaheen Corps in a statement said the security forces clashed with Taliban militants in Nazirabad area of Nadirbad district on Monday night.

The statement further added that the security forces killed 11 militants and wounded 7 others during the clash.

Furthermore, the 209th Shaheen Corps said the security forces also wounded 6 Uzbek militants during the clash.

The Taliban group has not commented regarding the clash so far.

Taliban commander among 12 killed, wounded in a premature IED explosion in Faryab

[KhaamaPress] A premature improvised explosive device explosion killed, wounded 12 Taliban militants including the commander of the group.

The 209th Shaheen Corps in a statement said a premature IED explosion killed three Taliban militants including their commander in Faryab.

The statement further added that the explosion took place in Nishar Village of Bulchiragh district, killing Mullah Mohammad Nisheri and his two companions.

Furthermore, the 209th Shaheen Corps said the explosion also wounded 9 other Taliban militants.

The 209th Shaheen Corps also added that the IED went off prematurely at 9:30 pm on Monday as the militants were trying to plant the bomb on a roadside to target the security forces.

The Taliban group has not commented regarding the explosion so far.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Turkish military allegedly builds base in historical part of Afrin
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Kurdish-language Hawar News Agency (ANHA) quoted local sources in Afrin as saying that the Ottoman Turkish Army has turned the historical site in Jandariseh into a military base for its soldiers.

The ANHA source said that they were able to gather this information after seeing the Ottoman Turkish Army build three-meter-high walls near the base. The move comes after the Ottoman Turkish Army troops were accused of destroying artifacts in the Afrin region of Aleppo to build a base.

They would add that the Ottoman Turkish Army’s forces have built two military bases between Tal Saloureh and Jandariseh city and in the town of Dervish in Rajou region.

In a relevant development on Friday, a government cultural official said that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
is helping the bully boyz excavate historical sites in the areas controlled by the Ottoman Turkish military in northern Syria.

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Iraq
ISIS claims responsibility for Baghdad suicide bombings killing 5
[Rudaw] Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) have grabbed credit for a twin explosion that rocked the city of Baghdad late on Monday, killing five civilians and injuring several others.

Two jacket wallahs blew themselves up in the Shiite Abu al-Fadhel al-Abbas mosque compound in al-Turath district, southwest Baghdad, according to AFP.

A mourning ceremony was taking place at a Husseiniyah, a site of Shiite congregation, inside the mosque compound when the earth-shattering kabooms occurred.

A video circulated on social media appears to show those injured bring taken to hospital.

Islamic State took responsibility for the twin blast in Baghdad on Monday, according to one of their propaganda outlets, claiming to have killed and maimed 70 people.

An official statement on the incident has yet to be made by the Iraqi interior ministry.
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Afghanistan
Kabul City: Police defuse bomb, SF tie up 2 Talib sympathizers


Afghan forces foil militants bid to detonate a remote-controlled bomb in Kabul

[KhaamaPress] The Afghan security forces foiled militants bid to detonate a remote-controlled bomb in Kabul, the interior ministry said.

The Ministry of Interior (MoI) in a statement said the police forces discovered and defused the bomb in Shakar Dara district.

The statement further added that the militants had planted the bomb in Chashma-e-Dosh area of the district.

The anti-government armed militants including Taliban have not commented in this regard so far.
Khaama Press adds that the Taliban dunnit.

Afghan Special Forces arrest Taliban sympathizers in Kabul city

[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces arrested two sympathizers of Taliban group during an operation in Kabul city.

The Ministry of Interior (MoI) in a statement said the soldiers of the Special Unit of National Police conducted an operation in 12th district of the city earlier today.

The statement further added that the Special Forces arrested two Taliban sympathizers during the operation.

Furthermore, the ministry of interior said the Special Forces cleared several villages during the separate operations conducted in Sayyidabad district of Wardak province.

The Taliban group has not commented regarding the operations so far.
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Sri Lanka
Drug gangs were behind Easter bombings, blabbers Lankan president
[DAWN] International drug syndicates orchestrated Sri Lanka’s deadly Easter Sunday bombings, the country’s leader claimed on Monday, despite earlier blaming the attacks on Islamists.

The statement comes amid a nationwide narcotics crackdown, with President Maithripala Sirisena aiming to reintroduce capital punishment for drug offences.

Authorities have said local jihadist group National Thowheeth Jama’ath (NTJ) were responsible for the suicide kabooms in churches and hotels that killed at least 258 people in April. The attacks were later claimed by the bully boy Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group.

Sirisena’s office said the day after the bombings that local Death Eaters and international terror groups were responsible for the attacks.

But in a statement issued by his office on Monday, Sirisena said the attacks "were the work of international drug pushers".

"Drug barons carried out this attack to discredit me and discourage my anti-narcotics drive. I will not be deterred," he said.
he said, further discrediting hissowndamnself
Sirisena is waging a battle against efforts by his governing coalition in parliament to abolish capital punishment, which has been subject to a moratorium since 1976.

A front man for Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe discounted the president’s claims. "Police completed the investigations within about two weeks," Sudarshana Gunawardana said.

"There is no mention of drug pushers being involved. We have no reason to doubt our Sherlocks."

He said speedier justice would be a bigger deterrent to narcos than the threat of capital punishment.

"We don’t believe hanging people will address the issue, especially considering that it takes several decades to get a conviction." Sri Lankan courts take on average 17 years to complete criminal trials for grave offences such as murder and rape.

Gunawardana said Wickremesinghe was opposed to capital punishment as it was against the policy of his United National Party, and noted that there was cross-bench support in the legislature to completely abolish it.

Police officials said investigations into the April 21 suicide kabooms were still ongoing, and all the more than 100 people in jug were Sri Lankans.

"We are going on the basis that this was a crime planned and executed by a group of radicalised Sri Lankan Moslems," a senior police official said, asking not to be named.

"Everyone involved in the attacks is either dead or in jug." Sirisena has marshalled public support for an end to the moratorium on the death penalty
, saying that hangings would deter the illegal drugs trade.

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#1  Next he'll say the Catholics did it.

Islamic terror connection with SL Drug-Trade.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/17/2019 7:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Saying the 'Drug Gangs' were responsible would also give him Carte Blanche to run the miscreants through a meat grinder without HRW, and their ilk, getting the vapors.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/17/2019 10:52 Comments || Top||

#3  why does everyone bow down too these pieces of shit. Fuck the "moderate" muslims , there is no such thing. Behind closed doors they all hate everyone who isn't muslim.
Posted by: chris || 07/17/2019 11:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Because some Muslims (e.g. Saudis before fracking) were very generous to their friends, Chris.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/17/2019 12:01 Comments || Top||

#5  anyone i have ever been generous too forgot very quickly. fuck em
Posted by: chris || 07/17/2019 12:07 Comments || Top||

#6  I believe the 'drug gangs' device was cleverly inserted by this guy in the middle of deals with China, to secure more moolah to "fight crime".

There were eight blasts in all, at churches in Negombo and Kochchikade in the country’s west, and Batticaloa in the east. Three luxury hotels drug dealers don't kill their market, I mean they do, but not like this ! in the capital Colombo were also targeted.

Three of the blasts occurred at churches, timed for Easter, at least part of the attack was aimed at the country’s more than 1.5 million christians. The almost simultaneous blasts left no time to warn other churchgoers or people going to service. Until recently the Srisena govt has been in a tussle with Rome and the local diocese over church properties, land that may have been encroached by christian residential societies and church buildings. After the blasts, it becomes necessary to police these areas for their own protection. While the insinuation sounds far-fetched to me, the actions of the Jamaat did eventually curb the diocese land-grabbing and put christians at the mercy of the police.

Sri Lanka’s economy has grown at merely 4% since the power shift in 2017 It wasn't no Luxembourg anyway , the currency has weakened, and Colombo has struggled to repay loans from the IMF. There has been an austerity drive for officials while Srisena regularly visits his bankers in Doha. China parleyed for a port and took 15K acres of prime land away, also leveraging rights to use Lankan ports for its naval vessels. Srisena is beset from all sides in his own govt because of The investigation of the blasts resulting from his soft policy of dealing with the muslims. Conformist liberal appeasement of minorities for his image or diktats from Qatar ? We don't know yet. But someone does. And the corruption scandal that is yet to erupt, information already doing the rounds of his cabinet. Between this, he needs the media and civil groups to avert their scrutiny from him. What better target than... drug gangs ! Those expendable profiteering bastiches. While it's a good thing that some who deserve it will hang now, but they have nothing to do with blowing up churches. I wouldn't be surprised if the Chinese suggested it to him.

"Drug barons carried out this attack to discredit me and discourage my anti-narcotics drive. I will not be deterred," he said.

And then he got $15m in aid for upgrading police resources and a frigate to combat 'import of drugs by gangs through the Indian Ocean', from China Only too happy to oblige dictators and sell-outs .
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/17/2019 12:51 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Pete Buttigieg has raised more money from NYC residents than de Blasio got nationwide
[NYPOST] He’s New York’s favorite mayor ‐ and he works about 700 miles away!

The Big Apple showered Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg
...the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He is running for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country...
‐ the mayor of tiny South Bend, Indiana ‐ with $2.35 million in donations during the past three months, Buttigieg’s campaign revealed Tuesday.

The haul is more than twice the $1.1 million that Mayor Bill de Blasio
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly...
raised in total ‐ nationwide ‐ since launching his own White House bid in May.

Buttigieg also humiliated de Blasio in his own back yard by collecting contributions from 14,000 city residents, more than twice de Blasio’s total 6,700 donors.

"Pete has an important message that is resonating with people in New York and all over the country, and that’s one about generational change and not just winning an election but winning an era," Buttigieg front man Chris Meagher said.

Buttigieg’s local supporters include such quintessential Gothamites as longtime Vogue editor Anna Wintour, media tycoon Barry Diller and financier Bill Ackman, who each made maximum contributions of $2,800, with Ackman doubling down for both the primary and general elections.

Other boldface names who used their city addresses to back Buttigieg include Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow
...Hollywood interchangeable blonde and Eva Braun taste-alike, who's convinced herself that it would be wonderful if Obama were given all the power that he needs. She was married to a guitar player in a rock band, but now she's becoming long in the tooth so he's moved on to somebody else...
, Jesse Eisenberg and Jane Lynch.

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#1  The witless in Blitz of the Glitz
Nix oaters, manipulate bits.
These latter-day Coders
Can program your voters:
Flesh, romcoms and upgraded toes!
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
No relations with Syria and ties with Iran are at all time best: Hamas
[ALMASDARNEWS] Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,’ chief of international relations, Moussa Abu Marzouq, sat down for an interview with the Arabic-language version of the Sputnik News Agency on Tuesday to discuss a number of topics, including the Paleostinian group’s relations with Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and Syria.

When asked about Hamas’ current relationship with the Syrian government, Abu Marzouq responded that relations with Damascus are non-existent at this point.

"There are no developments regarding the relationship with Syria, despite rumors in the media or whether by speakers from inside the movement or inside Syria or from those around them or followers," Abu Marzouq said, adding "there is no movement with Syria and there are no relations with Syria yet."

Abu Marzouq did not specify if Hamas was planning on repairing relations with Damascus.

As for the relationship with Iran, Abu Marzouq explained that the movement’s relations with Iran are at an all-time best. He said: "There are strong relations with the Islamic Theocratic Republic and it has not been broken at all at any stage."

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Afghanistan
Airstrikes kill 5 Taliban militants in two districts of Helmand province
[KhaamaPress] The security forces conducted Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s in two districts of Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province killing at least five Talibs.

The informed military officials said Tuesday that an airstrike killed 2 Talibs in Musa Qalah district of Helmand.

The officials further added that a similar airstrike killed 3 Talibs in Sangin district.

The anti-government armed forces of Evil have not commented regarding the airstrikes so far.

Helmand is among the volatile provinces in South of Afghanistan.

Talibs are active in various districts of the province and often conduct terrorist related activities.
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Britain
Women in UK twice as likely as men to lose their jobs to robots
[NYPOST] Women are twice as likely to lose their jobs to robots as men are, according to a new report.

The study, conducted by London think tank IPPR, found that nearly two thirds (64%) of British workers in industries at high risk from automation are women. That is because women are more likely to work in retail and administrative jobs that could be done by machines.

In total, one in 10 female workers are at high risk of being squeezed out of their jobs by robots, IPPR concluded. In contrast, just four percent of male workers are in the danger zone.

But that doesn’t mean automation should be stopped. Instead, Carys Roberts, chief economist at IPPR and lead author of the report, said the government should do more to enable females to pursue high-skilled tech jobs.

"The Government ‐ and the new Prime Minister ‐ needs to engage fully with business and industry to accelerate automation across the UK economy, with all the advantages that will bring," Roberts said.

"But the new PM needs to enable working women to lead that process so that they are not further disadvantaged in the workplace. He will also need to act to ensure that women both young and older are able to access the good new jobs of the future, and share fully in the benefits these changes will bring."

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#1  Robots are mysogynistic!
Posted by: gorb || 07/17/2019 17:32 Comments || Top||

#2  "Fembots with machine guns in their jumblies!"
Posted by: Frank G || 07/17/2019 19:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Well we have AOC. So it's a beginning but the coding still needs a lot of work. Pelosi is an earlier model and it shows.
Posted by: Hupoluck Bumble2274 || 07/17/2019 21:15 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Roadside Bomb Hits Ethiopian Military Convoy In Somalia
[RADIOSHABELLE] A bomb has destroyed a military convoy carrying Æthiopian troops serving under African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
Mission in Somalia [AMISOM] in Hiran province, killing and wounding at least 20 people.

In a statement, the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab
...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
has grabbed credit for the attack, saying it targeted Æthiopian army convoy at Halgan village, located on the outskirts of Beledweyne city.

The explosion which resulted from a landmine comes amid increased military operations against al-Shabaab in parts of Somalia as the Federal Government is trying to regain full control of the country.

Despite losing large swathes of territory, al-Shabaab continues to attack government-controlled areas, mainly Mogadishu, the Somali capital, where boom-mobileings and liquidations have been on the rise for the past few months.
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Jubaland Leader Holds Meeting With UN Envoy In Kismayo City
[RADIOSHABELLE] The United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
has said the attacks by al-Shabaab
...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
will not deter the progress achieved by the Somali government and its people.

James Swan, special representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Somalia who visited Kismayo
...a port city in the southern Lower Juba province of Somalia, at the extreme southern end of the country (assuming Somalia can be called a country). It is the commercial capital of the autonomous Jubaland region...
just three days after al-Shabaab on Madina Hospital has held talks with Jubbaland authorities.

In a statement, the envoy said the terror attacks will not derail efforts to stabilize Somalia.

"Such despicable acts of terrorism cannot derail the progress that Jubaland made towards reconciliation and political stability, as a federal member state of Somalia," Swan said.

He expressed solidarity saying UN will stand with Somalia and its people.

"The United Nations stands with the people and authorities of Jubaland as they deal with this terrible tragedy," Swan said.

He extended condolences to the families of those who bit the dust in the attack and wished a speedy recovery to the injured.

"The attack that took place on 12 July killed and maimed innocent civilians, including two prominent Somali journalists. There is no political or ideological justification for such atrocities," he stated.

On Friday evening, Vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) rammed into Madina Hotel before heavily armed al-Shabaab fighters made their way into the hotel.
The attack which took place hours to be concluded left 26 people dead and over fifty other injuries.

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Terror Networks
ISIS leader Baghdadi now hiding in Libya: ex-Iraqi minister
[ALMASDARNEWS] The infamous Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is allegedly hiding in Libya, former Iraqi minister Baqr Jaber al-Zubeidi told the Baghdad Post news website this week.

The Iraqi political said that the Islamic State has shifted its attention to North Africa, where they are hoping to carve out a new caliphate in countries like Libya, Egypt, and Tunisia.

Baghdadi has been rumored to be hiding in several regions now, including Syria’s Badiya al-Sham, Iraq’s Rutbah District, and most recently central Libya.

Some rumors claim that the terrorist leader is actually dead; however, ISIS has never corroborated these reports.

The Arabic-language al-Ma’aloumeh news website quoted an intelligence source in Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units) command center in the al-Anbar province as saying that according to the latest intel, al-Baghdadi is hiding in a tunnel in the al-Husayniyat region in the northern parts of the Rutbah District in western al-Anbar.

He added that the security forces are mulling operations to take control of the tunnel, and said that given the heavy deployment of security forces in Rutbah region near the border with Syria and closure of all roads, Baghdadi and the bandidos holy warriors under his command cannot escape.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran to unveil new armored military vehicle
[ALMASDARNEWS] Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
is preparing to unveil their new armored military vehicle that was manufactured inside the Islamic Theocratic Republica, Minister of Defense Brigadier General Amir Hatami said on Sunday.

According to the Tansim News Agency, Hatami said that the Iranian military had signed contracts with Iranian carmakers to manufacture the critical auto parts whose production has been hampered after the withdrawal of foreign contractors from Iran.

In November 2018, the Defense Ministry unveiled a homegrown armored military vehicle, dubbed Toofan (hurricane).

The armored, mine resistant and ambush protected vehicle has been designed to carry out logistical and combat missions in the theater.

Toofan has been delivered to the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Force.

The four-wheel drive truck is protected against land mines and improvised bombs (IEDs) with explosion power of several kilograms of TNT equivalent.
The high mobility multipurpose truck is also resistant to steel-core bullets and can move in difficult terrain, drive through 1.5 meters of water and climb barriers as high as 50 centimeters.

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#1  Something about the phrase 'cutting edge of Iranian technology' fails to inspire confidence.
Posted by: Cesare || 07/17/2019 7:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Eastern Euro technology transfer.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/17/2019 8:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Be fair, Cesare. They do make pretty good beheading swords - 10th century I believe.
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/17/2019 9:23 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/17/2019 11:07 Comments || Top||

#5  You can tell those launchers are stressing the rear ATV suspensions, Skidmark.

Probably not 'off-road-ready'.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/17/2019 11:44 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
New documents revisit questions about Rep. Ilhan Omar's marriage history
[STARTRIBUNE] New investigative documents released by a state agency have given fresh life to lingering questions about the marital history of Rep. Ilhan Omar
...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She is apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side...
and whether she once married a man ‐ possibly her own brother ‐ to skirt immigration laws.
"Bro-Fo"
Omar has denied the allegations.
No, no! Certainly not!
in the past, dismissing them as "baseless rumors" first raised in an online Somali politics forum and championed by conservative bloggers during her 2016 campaign for the Minnesota House. But she said little then or since about Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, the former husband who swept into her life in 2009 before a 2011 separation.

The questions surfaced again this month in a state probe of campaign finance violations showing that Omar filed federal taxes in 2014 and 2015 with her current husband, Ahmed Hirsi, while she was still legally married to but separated from Elmi.

Although she has legally corrected the discrepancy, she has declined to say anything about how or why it happened.

The new documents also detail the Omar campaign’s efforts to keep the story of her marriage to Elmi out of the press, arguing that detailed coverage would legitimize the accusations and invade her privacy.
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#1  She was the last of 7 children....where was Planned Parenthood when you really needed them?
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/17/2019 7:36 Comments || Top||

#2  There's a lot more to this story than you'll find in the Star Tribune. A good start is with Powerline Blog.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/17/2019 10:25 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Badghis clash inflict casualties on both Taliban and Afghan Special Forces
[KhaamaPress] A heavy clash between Talibs and Afghan Special Forces ended in Badghis province inflicting casualties on both sides.

A group of 36 Afghan Special Forces descended on a Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
headquarters in Aab Kamari district on Monday night.

According to reports, the Special Forces descend on Taliban headquarters in Jangal Pista sparked heavy festivities which continued for several hours.

Meanwhile,
...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes...
Qazi Abdul Rahim Rahin, a former parliament from Badghis confirmed that the clash inflicted heavy casualties on the two sides.

Rahin further added that the Special Forces suffered heavy casualties as they were not familiar with the area where thick jungles exist.

He also added that the Special Forces killed 19 Talibs and maimed 20 others during the clash.

However,
ars longa, vita brevis...
he said the Special Forces also lost 18 soldiers during the clash while Taliban captured 6 others.

In the meantime, the Ministry of Defense in a statement confirmed the clash, claiming that heavy casualties were inflicted on Taliban.

The defense ministry however did not disclose further information regarding the casualties of the Special Forces.

Meanwhile,
...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes...
military analyst Abdul Raqib Kohistan
...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns....
i said the Afghan forces suffer casualties due to the lack of coordination among security institution, lack of intelligence and incapability of the leadership of ministry of defense.

Kohistani further added that the Special Operations have increased recently to suppress enemy but unfortunately the lack of coordination among security sectors, lack of intelligence information and administrative weakness in the ministry of defense result in Special Forces casualties.

He also warned that the issues will result in a reduction in Special Forces number, capture of military equipment by enemy besides having a negative impact on morale of the military.
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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Obama's Globalist State Department Still Running the Show in Guatemala?
MODS: I was going to post this last night, but this is BREITBART and I assumed it would show up anyway.

This is pretty dire stuff - I could have missed any reference to it, or Rantburg simply didn't want to include something where the Guatemalan official wants to remain anonymous.
No, we just missed it, Fairbanks. Thank you for submitting the article — Rantburg truly is a team project.
A high-ranking Guatemalan government official told Breitbart News that the U.S. Department of State in that country is working with leftist organizations to allow President Donald Trump’s proposed “safe country” asylum agreement to die. President Trump is seeking agreements with Mexico and Central American countries to help slow the surge of migrants attempting to exploit loopholes in the U.S. asylum system.

A high-ranking Guatemalan government official spoke with Breitbart News under the condition of anonymity about the plans being negotiated between Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales and U.S. President Donald Trump to house so-called asylum seekers who have illegally crossed the U.S. border from Mexico. The proposed agreement would allow asylum seekers from any country to be sent to Guatemala for asylum. The proposal and a meeting scheduled for Monday between the two presidents has been postponed, Breitbart News reported.

“We hope the meeting will happen,” the Guatemalan official told Breitbart News in a phone interview, “but it won’t happen now.” A constitutional court in Guatemala placed an injunction against President Morales’ government from entering into the agreement, Sara Carter reported. “The court has acted against the constitution,” the Guatemalan official continued. He explained the Guatemalan courts are packed with leftist activists.

The official also blamed the U.S. State Department in Guatemala for “not doing anything to salvage the agreement.” He said State Department officials will frequently push to get agreements approved but have not done so in this case.

Breitbart News reached out to the Department of State for a reaction to the Guatemalan officials remarks and about the “safe country” asylum agreement. A response was not received prior to the publishing of this article.

State Department officials did tell Sara Carter, “We are not going to comment on any discussions with Guatemala on this matter.”

The Guatemalan official said that State Department officials in his country have been working with NGOs and hardcore leftists funded by George Soros to undermine efforts by the Trump administration to deal with the crisis along the U.S. southern border.

“We have been working well with the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and the U.S. intel community,” the official explained. “But the State Department is another issue altogether.”

The official continued, “Leftists in our country do not work in a vacuum. They work closely with Democrats in the U.S. and the liberal media to attack President Trump and make President Morales look bad.”
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#1  Compare to June 17, 1954:
Sing a song of quetzals, pockets full of peace! The junta's in the palace, they've taken out a lease. The Commies are in hiding, just across the street; To the embassy of Mexico they beat a quick retreat. And pistol-packing Peurifoy looks mighty optimistic For the land of Guatemala is no longer Communistic.

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Iraq
U.S. airstrike kills two terrorists inside Nineveh tunnel
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Two bad boyz were potted Tuesday in an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
on a tunnel in the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh, a security media cell said.

"Acting on information from the Nineveh Operations Command, the U.S.-led international coalition waged an air raid targeting a tunnel in Sukhairiat area in Nineveh," Alghad Press website quoted the cell as saying in a press statement.

The airstrike left two snuffies dead inside the tunnel, the statement read.

US-led coalition confirms airstrikes against ISIS for Operation Will of Victory

[Rudaw] The US-led coalition in Iraq has, for the first time, confirmed its participation alongside Iraqi Security Forces in its "Will of Victory" operation to defeat the remnants of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
[ISIS], as well as offensives conducted by Kurdish forces in Northern Syria.

An estimated 14,000 to 30,000 ISIS holy warriors remain dispersed across Iraq and Syria, according to the US Defense Department.
"CJTFOIR [Coalition Joint Task Force for Operation Intent Resolve] conducted a series of strikes against ISIS [Arabic acronym for ISIS] controllers this week in Nineveh in support of the Iraqi Security Forces," read a Monday tweet from Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR), the moniker for the US-led coalition against ISIS.

In justification of their involvement, the tweet added that "since the loss of their terrain, ISIS has transitioned to resurgent cells intent on destabilizing the region."

The US-led coalition to defeat ISIS was established after ISIS swept across northern Iraq in 2014, taking over the majority of Nineveh province ‐ home to the country's second largest city of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
‐ and threatening both the federal and regional capitals of Baghdad and Erbil.

The coalition has conducted 34,514 strikes between August 2014 and the end of May 2019, according to a CJTFOIR monthly civilian casualty report released on June 28, 2019.

The Iraqi Security Forces, alongside the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) and with Iraqi and US-led coalition Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s, began Operation Will of Victory to eliminate ISIS remnants in the provinces of Mosul, Anbar and Saladin on July, 7 2019.

With Will of Victory still ongoing, Iraqi Security Media Cell front man Yahia Rasool tweeted a video of himself on Monday detailing the operation’s reportedly unprecedented successes.

"The Iraqi forces and PMF have reached some desert areas in-between Anbar, Mosul and Saladin for the first time since 2014 with the help of the coalition and Iraqi airstrikes," Rasool said.

"The Iraqi army, with the PMF and with Iraqi and US-led coalition airstrikes, has destroyed many ISIS bases and neutralized several ISIS holy warriors in the deserts between Mosul, Anbar and Saladin," he added.

ISIS was declared defeated in Iraq in December 2017, but continues to pose a serious security threat to the country. Militants have formed sleeper cells and resorted to underground tactics, taking advantage of security vacuums that have formed due to Iraqi and Kurdish territorial disputes in these provinces.

There are daily reports of ISIS sleeper cells carrying out hit-and-run attacks on security personnel and infrastructure, and kidnapping and killing local officials and civilians ‐ primarily in Anbar, Nineveh and Saladin.

An estimated 14,000 to 30,000 ISIS holy warriors remain dispersed across Iraq and Syria, according to the US Defense Department.

Regarding operations in Syria, the CJTF-OIR public affairs office told Rudaw English on Monday that they "will continue to work with allies and partners to clear liberated areas, train partners and provide technical assistance, conduct targeted CT operations, and support stabilization efforts."

"The CJTF-OIR mission in Syria remains the enduring defeat of ISIS working by, with and through our partner forces. With the territorial defeat of ISIS, the D-ISIS campaign in northeast Syria has transitioned from liberating territory to enabling local security and preventing resurgent ISIS networks," they added.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Two-thirds of massive underground anti-tunnel wall on Gaza border completed
[IsraelTimes] Workers have completed some 40 kilometers (25 miles) of a massive underground wall along the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
border meant to prevent Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, and other terror groups from tunneling into Israel, Israel’s Defense Ministry says.

The wall is slated to stretch 64 kilometers (40 miles) along the border, and includes sensors that can detect existing tunnels and digging operations in Gaza, the Walla news site reports.

Construction work on the subterranean barrier has already helped unearth 18 cross-border attack tunnels, most of them uncovered since 2017.

The wall will work in tandem with a 3.5-meter-high (11.5-foot-high) aboveground border fence now under construction. The new fence is much heavier and taller than the fence it is replacing, and so will be more difficult to cross, the IDF says.
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India-Pakistan
LHC's decision to grant bail to Khadim Rizvi challenged by Punjab govt in Supreme Court
[DAWN] The Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....

government on Tuesday challenged in the Supreme Court a Lahore High Court (LHC) decision to grant bail to Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pakistain (TLP) chief Khadim Hussain Rizvi, who was booked for launching violent protests against the acquittal of Aasia Bibi last year.

The provincial government, in its appeal, has argued that the high court "did not fulfill legal requirements" in its decision to grant bail, which was made in May this year.

The petition said that there was enough evidence against the TLP chief and urged the top court to nullify the high court's verdict.

The appeal was submitted in the Supreme Court Registrar's Office and will be heard in the Lahore registry by a two-member bench headed by Justice Manzoor Ahmed Malik on July 18.

Rizvi and TLP patron-in-chief Pir Afzal Qadri ‐ who is also nominated in the same case ‐ were granted bail in May this year. Qadri's bail expired on July 15 but was extended on medical grounds.

Civil Lines police had registered the FIR under Sections 290, 291, 353, 427, 186 and 188 of Pakistain Penal Code (PPC), Section 6 of the Sound System Punjab Ordinance 2015 and Section 7 of Anti-Terrorism Act 1997 after the TLP leaders led violent protests against the acquittal of Aasia Bibi in a concocted blasphemy
...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran...
case.

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The Grand Turk
Russia’s S-400 is best missile system in the world: Erdogan
Just a hint: like the S-300, it works better when it’s turned on. Though as the Syrians discovered, turning it on has consequences, too.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Russia’s S-400 is the best missile defense systems in the world, Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
said on Monday.

"S-400 deliveries to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
have begun. What has been said about this? It was said that we will be unable to purchase them and get them delivered. By April 2020, these systems will be fully deployed on the territory of our country. We hold true to our words as Ottoman Turkish people. S-400 is the best missile defense system. I hope that we will produce it together with Russia," Erdogan said.

The Ottoman Turkish president has repeatedly noted Ankara’s plans to produce S-400 missile defense systems jointly with Moscow.

On July 10, Erdogan told news hounds that he "reached an agreement on this issue with Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
On June 29, Kremlin front man Dmitry Peskov said that delivering S-400 missile defense systems to Turkey envisages transferring some technologies to the Ottoman Turkish side as well.

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#1  well it is probably a very good system if it is

- deployed properly
- staffed by trained personnel with operational authority
- attacked by a small number of aircraft or relatively slow missiles
- not disabled by a cyber barrage



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#2  enjoy the S-400Turks; DJT just cancelled your purchase of the F-35.
You didn’t learn from the F-16 sale cancellation,so enjoy the empty hangars
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 07/17/2019 7:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Yah, Yipyip, keep going the way you are and you'll get a chance to prove that.
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/17/2019 7:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Yippy sounz like Mr Check-off in Star Trek 2.0.
Posted by: JHH || 07/17/2019 14:54 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
O’Rourke at 0% in New Hampshire poll
[THEAMERICANMIRROR]
Trump's ancestors didn't own slaves.
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#1  Nowhere to go but up.
Posted by: Lex || 07/17/2019 0:35 Comments || Top||

#2  ... or out
Posted by: Lex || 07/17/2019 0:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Naw.. we need the comic relief....
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/17/2019 7:34 Comments || Top||


Iraq
PMF apprehend 2 Islamic State Leaders in Kirkuk
Kirkuk (IraqiNews) The Popular Mobilization Forces "PMF" (al-Hashd al-Shaabi) announced, on Monday, apprehending two Leaders of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
terrorist group in Kirkuk Province.

The paramilitary militia revealed, in a statement, that ajoint forces from the intelligence of the northern axis, 61st brigade and the Ministry of Interior’s Intelligence forces managed to apprehend two leaders of the Islamic State terrorist group, in Kirkuk Province.
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Afghanistan
Logar: US airstruck Talib Red Unit emir and henchmen, Afghans airstruck 36 Talibs, SF seize weapons


U.S. airstrikes kill top Taliban leaders in Logar province

[KhaamaPress] The U.S. forces conducted a series of airstrikes in the outskirts of the provincial capital of Logar province killing a number of top Taliban leaders.

The 203rd Thunder Corps in a statement said the U.S. forces conducted the airstrikes in Kamal Khel area of the capital of Logar on Monday evening.

The statement further added that the airstrikes killed 22 Taliban militants and wounded 5 others.

Furthermore, the 203rd Thunder Corps said the airstrikes also killed some senior Taliban leaders including Taliban’s Red Unit Commander Qudrat, brother of shadow governor of Taliban, shadow district chief of Taliban for Mohammad Agha, Taliban military commission chief for Khusi.

The 203rd Thunder Corps also added that some other senior Taliban leaders were also killed whose identities have not been ascertained yet.

The Taliban group has not commented regarding the airstrikes so far.

Five Civilians Reportedly Killed In Logar Airstrike

[ToloNews] An Army commander said that at least 25 Taliban fighters were killed in the airstrike in Logar.

At least five civilians were killed in an airstrike by Afghan forces in the central province of Logar on Monday evening, a number of Logar residents claimed.

The residents, who talked to TOLOnews on Tuesday, also claimed that the airstrike left 11 civilians wounded. They said that children were also among the victims.

An Army Commander in Logar, Colonel Abdul Matin Hassankhail, said the airstrike targeted a Taliban gathering in Kamalkhail village on the outskirts of Pul-e-Alam, the center of Logar, which killed 25 Taliban members including their key commanders and wounded 11 others.

Colonel Hassankhail did not reject civilian casualties in the airstrike and said there might be some civilians at the Taliban gathering.

The Ministry of Interior Affairs said in a statement that the airstrike in Kamalkhail village in Logar killed 22 Taliban fighters, including their key commander Nematulah.

Taliban has claimed that the airstrike has left 24 civilians dead and 10 others wounded.

This comes after a sharp rise in civilian casualties in the Afghan conflict.

A fresh figure by Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) indicates that 596 civilians were killed and 1,892 others were wounded in clashes between government forces and the Taliban and other attacks by militants in Afghanistan since the beginning of the current solar year which coincides with March 21, 2019.

The CEO of the AIHRC, Musa Mahmoodi, told TOLOnews on Monday that 733 of the victims are children who have either been killed or wounded in the conflicts during the period.

Special Forces seize up to 100 weapons of Taliban, 1000 rounds of ammunition in Logar

[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces seized up to 100 weapons and 1000 rounds of ammunition during an operation in central Logar province.

The Special Operations Corps in a statement said the Special Forces seized the weapons and ammunition in Kharwar district of Logar.

The statement further added that the Special Forces confiscated 83 Ak-47s and 7 pistols during the operation.

Furthermore, the Special Operations Corps said the Special Forces also arrested three suspected militants during the same raid.
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Europe
Norway arrests Muslim cleric after Italian terror trial
[IsraelTimes] A Moslem holy man found guilty in Italia of planning terror attacks is detained in Norway on an Italian arrest warrant, The Norwegian domestic security agency says.

Iraqi-born Mullah Krekar, born Najm al-Din Faraj Ahmad, was detained late Monday, the PST security agency says. The agency tweets hours after an Italian court found Krekar guilty of attempting to overthrow the Kurdish government in northern Iraq and create an Islamic caliphate, and sentenced him to 12 years.

Italian prosecutors had alleged Krekar, who is based in Norway, is behind Rawti Shax, a Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an network aimed at violently overthrowing the government in Kurdistan. Krekar, who has denied the allegations.
No, no! Certainly not!
plans to appeal, said his Italian lawyer, Marco Vernillo.

In 2015, European authorities arrested 15 Iraqi-Kurdish nationals on terrorism-related charges. Rawti Shax recruited foreign terrorist fighters to be sent to Iraq and Syria and provided logistical and financial support, according to the Italian prosecutors who spearheaded the probe. They alleged that Krekar was the leader.

A refugee from Iraqi Kurdistan who came to Norway in 1991, the 63-year-old holy man has several convictions in Norway, including for threatening Prime Minister Erna Solberg. He also praised the 2015 holy warrior attack on the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo
...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
. Krekar founded the now-defunct Ansar al-Islam murderous Moslem group of Sunni Kurds that reportedly merged with the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group in 2014.
This article starring:
Mullah Krekar
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Home Front: Politix
Woke assimilation: Teaching our politicians to hate America
[NYPOST] Beto O’Rourke;
...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. Beto is a Latino nickname for people whose names end in "erto," like "Roberto" or "Alberto." He is seeking the Dem nomination for President in 2020 because he has nice hair and lots of teeth. He was born into a local political family in El Paso, Texas and is a graduate of a prep school and Columbia University, which is not in Texas. In 2005, he was elected to the El Paso City Council. He was elected to Congress in 2012 after defeating eight-term incumbent Silvestre Reyes in the Democratic primary. He declined to seek re-election in 2018, instead running for the Senate against Republican Ted Cruz, running a campaign that drew national attention because of his skateboarding skills. A few months after he lost, he announced his campaign for President...
‐ the losing Texas candidate for the US Senate who bootstrapped his way into becoming a losing presidential candidate ‐ had a message for refugees who had come to America: Your new country is a hellhole.

The former congressman told a roundtable of refugees and immigrants colonists in Nashville last week: "This country was founded on white supremacy. And every single structure that we have in this country still reflects the legacy of slavery and segregation and Jim Crow and suppression."
Continued on Page 49
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#1 
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India-Pakistan
Opposition leaders lavished billions on themselves under security, camp office expenses: Murad Saeed
[DAWN] Minister for Communications and Postal Services Murad Saeed on Tuesday slammed the "kingly" spending of national wealth by past public office holders on the pretext of setting up camp offices, security arrangements and entertainment.

Before he began discussing the figures, Saeed said that it was important to provide the context under which such lavish expenditures were made.

"In Thar, as seen in the report submitted to the Supreme Court, each year, there are more than 500 children who are dying due to hunger and poverty. The health conditions are such in the chief minister's constituency, that one is hard pressed to find an ambulance to carry the injured to a hospital when a blast occurs.

"The availability of clean drinking water is an issue most prominent in Sindh and Punjab. Data from State Bank of Pakistain (SBP) and Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) shows that Sindh is the most poverty-stricken province followed by South Punjab," he said as he set the stage to provide the contrast which followed.

"We will begin with Yousuf Raza Gillani. He had five camp offices, three in Lahore and two in Multan
...Home of the Multan Sultans...
and he spent Rs245 million on these."

"We then move on to Zardari, who has proved very bhari (costly) for the nation. His two camp offices ‐ one in Larkana where he has a house, and one in Naudero ‐ as well as his security arrangements resulted in the wastage of over Rs3.164 billion of tax payers' money over 2013-2018 when he was not even president of the country."

He said that Zardari had had 246 cars on the pretext of security in 2015, whereas in 2016 he had fled the country, in 2017 he had 164 cars, and in 2018 he had 158 cars.

Saeed said that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
had wasted $460,000 on a single visit to the United States in 2015 and spent 327,000 pounds from the public exchequer on his treatment in the United Kingdom.

Similarly, over Rs4,310m from the public kitty was spent to provide security to a disqualified Nawaz Sharif in Riawind when it was declared a camp office by former Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....

chief minister Shehbaz Sharif.

Saeed said Shehbaz had spent Rs8.726bn on his security as chief minister. He also wasted Rs1.3bn by using the special plane of prime minster 526 times, despite having his own helicopter.

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Home Front: Culture Wars
Planned Parenthood President Is Forced Out Of Her Job In The Eighth Month
Her parting Tweet:
"I just learned that the @PPFA Board ended my employment at a secret meeting. We were engaged in good faith negotiations about my departure based on philosophical differences over the direction and future of Planned Parenthood. My statement to come shortly."
Disagreement over whether or not to offer pre-conception abortions?

Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 07/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  PP president aborted after 8 months.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/17/2019 0:16 Comments || Top||

#2  So near to term. Better luck in your next life career.
Posted by: Snemble Unerert2053 || 07/17/2019 1:00 Comments || Top||

#3  "secrrt meeting" means she was not allowed to defend herself. Like 50 million of their other cictims.
Posted by: Angairong Flavigum3253 || 07/17/2019 1:28 Comments || Top||

#4  ...There's at least one serious report that she got sh!tcanned because she refused to use 'trans-inclusive language' - i.e.; she (an MD, by the by) refused to say that men can have abortions too...

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 07/17/2019 4:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Wow. My post disappeared faster'n Omorong whatsit's.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/17/2019 7:27 Comments || Top||

#6  Firing a non-white??!?. Raaaacists!!!
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/17/2019 7:33 Comments || Top||

#7  She's one of those SuperWhite Asians so she's xtra privledged. Off with her head!!! Men can also have abortions!!
Posted by: AlanC || 07/17/2019 7:37 Comments || Top||

#8  A tell-all book would be delightful. Pls put me down for a half dozen copies.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/17/2019 7:53 Comments || Top||

#9  she was appt to PP President in mid Sept 2018 so it is actually more than 9 months

promising medical career interrupted by politics as she accepted a high level post in Baltimore in 2014 working for a series of corrupt mayors and with incompetents like Rep Elijah Cummings of Md.
Posted by: lord garth || 07/17/2019 7:58 Comments || Top||

#10  So....no tell-all book ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/17/2019 8:01 Comments || Top||

#11  So....no tell-all book ?

A partial-birth abortion.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/17/2019 11:14 Comments || Top||

#12  #4

Wot Mike said. Kinda makes like her ever so slightly, or a least feel a bit sorry for her.
Posted by: JHH || 07/17/2019 14:58 Comments || Top||

#13  Revolution devouring its own - again...
Posted by: Lex || 07/17/2019 16:23 Comments || Top||

#14  #12 - Fight the urge. She was picked because she's a monster, just not strong enough
Posted by: Frank G || 07/17/2019 19:31 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
New York Times Reporter Leaves Following Implosion of Trump Taxes Team
[THEDAILYBEAST] David Barstow joins Berkeley journalism school after winning a fourth Pulitzer and alienating his teammates by trying to ghostwrite a book with a top-secret source.

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#1  Be nice to have had an similar investigation of 0bama's university days...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/17/2019 4:29 Comments || Top||

#2  He won a Pulitzer prize for writing a story about Trump's finances that I fisked into oblivion nine months ago. Good riddance.
Posted by: Raj || 07/17/2019 9:49 Comments || Top||

#3  The Pulitzer is turning into a sign of opprobrium - like winning the Nobel Peace Prize or the mark of Cain.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/17/2019 10:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Pulitzer, Rhodes scholarship, and so on. Typical sop to te left from "foundations." Close them all down. Term limit / sunset everything.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/17/2019 11:36 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Turkish Army removes border fence in front of northern Raqqa town
Golly, it looks like everybody has fences nowadays.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Opposition activists reported last night that the Ottoman Turkish Armed Forces had removed the border fence along the al-Raqqa Governorate’s northern border.

According to the opposition claims, the border fence was completely removed north of the al-Raqqa Governorate town of Tal Abyad.

This move by the Ottoman Turkish Armed Forces comes just a week after the Ottoman Turkish media reported about a new military operation east of the Euphrates.

Over the last two days, northern Syria has witnessed an increase in hostilities between the Ottoman Turkish Armed Forces and Kurdish-led People’s Protection Units (YPG).

On Monday, the Ottoman Turkish Army heavily shelled the YPG’s positions near the key town of Tal Rifa’at in northern Aleppo. No casualties were reported despite the intensity of the attack.

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-Lurid Crime Tales-
MS-13 Committed L.A. Area-Killings With Knives and Machetes, Cutting Out Victim’s Heart
[KTLA] Members of the notorious MS-13 street gang were charged in a years-long string of grisly homicides in the Los Angeles area, including some in which victims were hacked to death in the Angeles National Forest.

Members of the Los Angeles Police Department, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office and the FBI are are expected to announce the unsealing of an indictment against several members of the gang during a news conference Tuesday in downtown L.A., according to a news release issued by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles.

The charges involve at least seven homicides, many of which were recorded by the perpetrators, according to two law enforcement officials who spoke to The Times on condition of anonymity in order to discuss the case candidly. Most of the killings involved knives or machetes, and several of the victims’ bodies were dumped in remote, hilly, areas, the officials said.

Some of the suspects were high school students at the time of the slayings, one official said.

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#1  Hey Nancy, can you just smell the cultural enrichment?
Posted by: Snemble Unerert2053 || 07/17/2019 0:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Nancy's Children(tm)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/17/2019 7:44 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Nancy = Corn?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/17/2019 11:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Just lookt it up on Goggle Translait: pelosi meenz hairy in English.

Scotta be joke in there sommerz.
Posted by: JHH || 07/17/2019 14:46 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Afghan Special Forces large caches of weapons, IEDs in Ghazni province
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces destroyed large caches of weapons and Improvised Explosive Devices during an operation in Ghazni.

The military sources said Tuesday that the Special Forces conducted the operation in Deh Yak district.

The sources further added that the Special destroyed 20 IEDs, 2 Mortars, 1 RPG Warhead, 10 lbs Homemade Explosives, 4 Grenades, 250 ALP Uniforms, 5 acres of Marijuana, a large IED cache and a large Weapons cache.

The anti-government armed gunnies have not commented regarding the operation so far.
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Death toll in Taliban roadside bombing rises to 13 in Kandahar, over 30 more wounded
[KhaamaPress] The corpse count as a result of a roadside kabooming in southern Kandahar province has climbed to 13 people with 30 more maimed.

The 205th Atal Corps in a statement said an improvised bomb planted by Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
went off in Khakrez district.

The statement further added that the earth-shattering kaboom killed 13 civilians including children and maimed more than 30 others.

Furthermore, the 205th Atal Corps said the civilians were travelling between Darzab and Mandigak areas when their vehicle struck the roadside kaboom.

The 205th Atal Corps also added that the earth-shattering kaboom took place at around 1:45 pm local time on Monday.
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