Robert Mueller must be convicted of treason and executed. And the reasons are
...Mueller indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers for developing software, under orders from their leadership, in Russia.
Not for using it against us, which still wouldn't be a crime (since US law does not apply in Russia), though it might be an act of war.
For DEVELOPING it.
And in the process he's exposed them to the world. They effectively can never leave Russia without a diplomatic discussion and guarantee of their safety in any nation they might stop in.
Now, anyone capable of basic rational thought (apparently, not-liberals) realizes this is a precedent for Russia, and any other nation, to likewise file charges against any and all of our intelligence community.
Or, really, anyone at all who has done anything that is restricted.
My wife contracts to a defense contractor who produces products for aerospace. She has in fact had Russian sites taken down, sometimes simply by calling the host and saying, "Hey, this server XYZ is sending out a ton of malware, could you? Thanks."
At this point, Russia could say, "That server was conducting operations for our Ministry of Defense, and you have interfered with it. We issue a warrant for your arrest."
Certainly it's bullshit. In response to Mueller's bullshit.
Now, let's move to second order effects, which everything since the election has taught me are impossible for a liberal mind to comprehend.
What if, and I expect they will, the Russians send lawyers on behalf of said agents, as they did for the corporation Mueller charged with something or other, for a timeframe months before said corporation existed? (Yes, he's that much of a shithead, and always has been, and even noted right-winger (/sarc) Alan Dershowitz says so:
The lawyers will commence discovery, demanding all of Mueller's information regarding the case.
Which almost certainly includes intelligence information we don't want them to have. Otherwise, how did he find out about what Russians are doing in Russia in a secret context?
Third order effect (try to wrap your brain around this. I know it's hard) is that the Russians use THAT intel, and that admitted precedent (because just because you do something, doesn't mean you admit it, but once you do, the rules change) as an excuse to then actually hack our defense apparatus or, (GASP!) our elections?
And now we have him arresting a student for "failing to register as an agent of the Russian government," because AS A STUDENT she talked to the head of the NRA.
FUN FACT for liberals and other shitheads: The NRA is not a political organization. It's a tax exempt non-profit educational organization. The NRA-ILA (Institute for Legislative Action) is the 501(c)4 political arm, donations to which are NOT tax deductible.
Do you want a Cold War? Because this is how you get a Cold War.
And aren't you the same fucking shitweasels who were screaming about Iraq, accusing Trump of risking a war with North Korea, a nation who is outgunned by several metropolitan police departments, now willing to risk a war with Russia, that, paraphrasing Trump "Also has a button and it's bigger and it works"?
It's small comfort to me that most of their bombs will vaporize urban liberals, which no rational human being regards as a loss, but there are fallout effects.
To reiterate:
1) We have Mueller going Full McCarthy. Of course, in the long run, McCarthy's fears were proven valid, even though his techniques were wrong. Mueller is simply full of shit.
B: We have Mueller pulling the same shit the Soviets did during the Cold War of arresting students and tourists as bargaining chips, accusing them of being spies for taking photos or meeting with people.
c] We have the entire Demorrhoid Party cheering this on, because who gives a shit if South Korea gets shelled, or Russia bombs another country, or who cares, because FUCK TRUMP! FUCK FUCKING FUCKITY FUCKING TRUMP! (Actual quote from the Shithead Wing of the Demorrhoid Party, which is apparently 143% of them at this point.) My god! Can you imagine how the universe will END if Trump is seen to do anything positive?
So:
Mueller has risked US intelligence assets.
He has compromised at least some of them just by naming these "suspects" who are suspected of doing their jobs, because obviously someone at THIS end IDed them, and just knowing THAT is useful intel to the Russians.
He has raised the risk of an actual shooting war with the only nation that could actually harm us in a shooting war.
He has interfered with the President's ability to negotiate peacefully and to our benefit (OUR. Americans AND liberals both).
Had a single shot been fired or a declaration made, that would constitute treason, for which the penalty is death.
And since he's done so with blatantly partisan intent, I'm calling it "good enough."
Drag that sack of shit out back. Put a 9mm through the base of his fucking skull. Toss the corpse into a trash burner, because we don't want to pollute American soil with it, and get on with the business of NOT STARTING WARS WITH RUSSIA. They'll believe we're serious, and we might actually make headway.
Of course, if you're cool with pissing off Russia, preventing any kind of discussion with them as long as Trump is president, and risking a war...
You liberal shitstains are responsible for this mess. And you are disgusting.
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This should have been answered with gunfire. Here's why, the people doing this are committing an attack with a weapon of mass destruction. It's biological warfare. It's attempting to spread disease.
[Ynet] IAF aircrafts launched Friday evening an extensive attack on Hamas terror tunnels across Gaza.
IDF's Spokesperson's unit said an extensive attack is executed in several locations.
"Hamas will be held accountable for this incident as well as for the series of the terror activities it has been executing over the past months," according to the IDF.
"Hamas has chosen to escalate the security situation and will bear the responsibility for its actions," the IDF asserted.
[Ynet] After Palestinians open fire at IDF troops on Gaza border, Israeli tanks and aircraft retaliate with strikes on terror targets across the Gaza Strip; political and security brass hold emergency situation evaluation in Kirya Headquarters in Tel Aviv; 3 rockets fired from Gaza, Iron Dome intercepts 2.
When the Navy accepted delivery of the newly-built $4.6 billion Zumwalt-class guided-missile destroyer Michael Monsoor (hull DDG 1001) in April, it marked the occasion with a signing ceremony and a news release.
"Delivery of DDG 1001 marks the culmination of years of dedication and hard work from our Navy and industry team," Capt. Kevin Smith, the Zumwalt destroyer program manager, said at the time. "We have incorporated many lessons learned from DDG 1000 and are proud of the end result."
The only problem was the Navy already knew ‐ and had known since February ‐ that the condition of the Monsoor was far from ship-shape.
It already needed a new engine.
That information would not be disclosed for another three months.
News of the engine troubles broke on July 11, when Rear Adm. William Galinis ‐ the program executive officer of ships at the Naval Sea Systems Command ‐ acknowledged the issue at a Navy League breakfast.
His comments were first reported by the U.S. Naval Institute.
One of the Monsoor's two $20 million engines would need to be replaced before the ship could transition to its future homeport of San Diego, he said. The engine was damaged during sea trials early this year, and will be replaced at the General Dynamics Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine.
"In February 2018, a post-cleaning inspection of one of the DDG 1001's two Main Turbine Generators revealed damage to the rotor blades of the generator's MT30 engine," Alan Baribeau, a spokesman for the Navy, said by email. "After the damage was identified, and out of an abundance of caution, the Navy decided to remove the engine in its entirety to ensure a successful and safe transit of the ship to her San Diego homeport."
Baribeau said the Navy accepted delivery of the ship in April ‐ despite the damaged engine ‐ in order to remain on-schedule.
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...and that's how people die. However, all the brass will get medals and a nifty retirement ceremony.
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Before it would have been a manufacturer's defect engine replacement. Now I suppose it falls under the customer warranty. I had a VW Camper situation like that.
The transmission blew 100 miles short of the power train warranty end. The 105 mile tow was covered. The dealership 'declined' to replace the transmission under warranty because of the mileage.
The bus driver, who was also attacked, slammed the brakes on so terrified passengers could flee
A nearby police car reached the scene quickly and the police quickly overpowered the attacker
The politicians may still have their so-clever little ideas, but recent responses like this suggest that in England and Europe the common folk have determined to be less a herd and more a pack.
Now we place our bets, ladies and gentleman: a thirtyish Iranian gentleman with a knife and smouldering backpack — known wolf “asylum seeker” whose last appeal has been denied, or merely insane and in need of medication? A single attacker carrying a kitchen knife and a semi-working bomb is clearly not a trained agent of Iran or one of its proxies.
[CNN] David Resch, the executive assistant director in charge of the FBI's Criminal, Cyber, Response and Services Branch, is retiring after more than two decades of service, as is Scott Smith, who worked under him as the head of the Cyber Division.
The moves are not atypical for FBI agents who have hit the work milestones that the men recently did, making them eligible to receive retirement benefits. But they come as threats in the cyber world, like Russia's election interference and online foreign influence campaigns, have reached a point of alarm.
The bureau also confirmed the upcoming retirement of a third top official, Executive Assistant Director Carl Ghattas, who heads the National Security Branch.
Over a 20-year career, Ghattas worked several of the bureau's most high-profile counterterrorism cases.
Resch and Ghattas had been appointed to their senior positions earlier this year. In their roles -- overseeing all of the bureau's global criminal and cyber investigations, and national security operations and intelligence efforts, respectively -- both men would have been on the front lines of the US fight against Russian hacking.
An FBI official said Thursday that the retirements were not related to the wider climate around the bureau, and pointed to a hiring boom in the late 1990s that has led to a recent rise in senior agent retirements.
[WND] Peter Strzok, the disgraced and disgraceful Federal Bureau of Investigation official, is the very definition of a slimy swamp creature. Strzok twitched, grimaced and ranted his way to infamy during a joint hearing of the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees, on July 12.
In no way had he failed to discharge his professional unbiased obligation to the public, asserted Strzok. He had merely expressed the hope that "the American population would not elect somebody demonstrating such horrible, disgusting behavior."
But we did not elect YOU, Mr. Strzok. We elected Mr. Trump.
Strzok is the youthful face of the venerated "Intelligence Community," itself part of the sprawling political machine that makes up the D.C. comitatus, now writhing like a fire-breathing mythical monster against President Donald Trump.
Smug, self-satisfied, cheating creature that he is, Strzok can’t take responsibility for his own misconduct and blames ... Russia for dividing America. In the largely progressive bureau, moreover, Agent Strzok is neither underling nor outlier, for that matter.
He’s an overlord, having risen "to become the Deputy Assistant Director of the Counterintelligence Division, the second-highest position in that division."
As Ann Coulter observed, the FBI is not the FBI of J. Edgar Hoover.
Neither is the Intelligence Community Philip Haney’s IC any longer.
Haney was a heroic, soft-spoken, demure employee at the Department of Homeland Security. Agents like him are often fired if they don’t get with the program. He didn’t.
Haney’s method and the authentic intelligence he mined and developed might have stopped the likes of the San Bernardino mass murderers and many others. Instead, his higher-ups in the "Intelligence Community" made Haney and his data disappear.
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I don't doubt their intelligence. I doubt their reasonability and judgement. I take their malice for granted.
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Intelligence? You mean stuff like predicting the collapse of the soviet union? Or 9/11, or rise of ISIS? Or Russian response to USA engineered Ukrainian coup?
h/t Instapundit
[PJMedia] A judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denied bond today for an accused Russian spy as prosecutors alleged that she offered sex to gain an edge in her political influence operation. Funny, doesn't look as a honeypot to me
In this photo taken on April 21, 2013, Maria Butina, leader of a pro-gun organization in Russia, speaks to a crowd during a rally in Moscow. Okay, I get the message
h/t Gates of Vienna
The White House sought Thursday to tamp down another firestorm that broke out in the wake of President Trump's summit with Vladimir Putin, making clear the president does not support the Russian leader's proposal to allow his government to interview American officials.
"It is a proposal that was made in sincerity by President Putin, but President Trump disagrees with it," Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said in a brief statement on Thursday afternoon.
The statement came as the administration faced mounting backlash for even entertaining Putin's proposal, which pertained to the Robert Mueller probe.
The Russian leader on Monday had proposed an unusual quid pro quo, offering to let the special counsel team question newly indicted Russian officers as part of the election meddling case, if Russians could question certain U.S. individuals.
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No, most of London already has their kebab served from the Hand That Wipes™. Can't imagine why they'd need utensils...
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Also released today by the Home Office are figures revealing that only in nine per cent of crimes are the suspects charged or summonsed with 48 per cent of cases being closed because the suspect could not be identified.
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Well, at least the gun crime has slowed, to a 2% increase. They should stress that; Londoners would feel better.
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So...if the bobbies wanted to end the crime wave...they could just stab all the criminals they do catch to death, claim it was someone else and criminals are punished without being jailed.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. - July 4, 1776 [written by Englishmen the day before]
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There was nothing worse than for a British bureaucrat or policeman to be accused of racism against “Asian” Muslims. And anyway, so many British actors and politicians have been credibly accused of child s3xual exploitation over the same time period, and their staffs of covering for them, that it’s understandable the same pleasure taken by the lower classes would be likewise ignored, sick though it is.
The Labour Party has much to answer for. Whether the Tories are much better I could not say, but at least on their watch things are coming out and somewhat being prosecuted.
h/t Gates of Vienna
Oldoz Javidi, a member of Sweden’s Feminist Initiative (FI) party, suggested in an interview that was published on Friday on the party’s website, that all Jews should be deported from Israel.
The FI member, with Iranian roots, Why does this sounds familiar?
sees parallels between the United States and Israel. She says both like to steal lands: Israel from the Palestinians and Americans did it from the Native inhabitants of their continent.
She suggests Jews should leave Israel and move to the U.S. to make room for the Palestinians:
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Speaking of stealing lands little is remembered of Norway's long fight for independence from Sweden after its annexation in 1814. That's the problem, seems everyone does it. See - Kaliningrad (which just happens to be across the Baltic from Sweden, you see the Swedes demanding 'right of return' there?)
h/t Gates of Vienna
In 1983, Robert Irwin wrote a fantasy novel The Arabian Nightmare about a young Englishman who was dragged into a whirlwind of sinister and ridiculous events in Cairo. The Arabian nightmare, he learned, was like a disease or a curse. It was terrible and obscene, monotonous, but yet fearful. It brought countless sufferings without the realization of such...
The Arabian nightmare has come to the West. It has come invisibly and struck it like an evil curse. It subdued Western people gradually - through arson, sexual violence, "Salafi" vice squad and Muslim parties, all under the slogans of tolerance and multiculturalism.
The miserable Eloi (see H.G. Wells, The Time Machine) do not even understand that they were turned into cattle being slaughtered in the light of day on their streets. In a desperate attempt to escape from admitting to The Arabian Nightmare, the ruling elites use all conceivable methods of escapism.
Method #1: to level terror with other types of violence.
Method #2: to declare that Islamic terror isn’t Islamic at all.
Method #3 (the most common one) is to declare that fanatics are mere psychopaths.
Method #4: to hide both the ethnic origin of the terrorists and their motives.
Method #5: to accuse of Islamophobia anyone who dares calling the name and religion of a terrorist.
Method #6: to blame the terror phenomenon on some social problems.
Method #7: terror as a marginal spontaneous and irresolvable phenomenon in principle - something like seasonal flowering or inconveniences caused by pigeons.
Method #8: Finally, here goes the last method from the arsenal of totalitarian regimes: censorship, fines, prohibitions and a mere withdrawal of posts, like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube do.
..."There is no sex in the USSR". No, this is not a joke. It was said during the Leningrad-Boston US-Soviet Space Bridge on July 17, 1986 by the administrator of the Leningrad Hotel, Lyudmila Ivanova. In the USSR sex was associated with debauchery and pornography, and there was none of this in the country. In the USSR there was also "no crime, homosexuality, prostitution and drug addiction".
Today there is no Muslim terror in the West. Bullets accidentally fly out of guns, shops and subway cars explode spontaneously, cars squash pedestrians on their own, machetes and knives fly in the air on their own cutting, chopping and stabbing passers-by. Is it all a consequence of global warming? Quite possible.
h/t Gates of Vienna
There’s no chance China will cut its trade surplus with the U.S. in response to President Donald Trump’s tariff threats. For starters, Washington has made no specific demand to which Beijing can respond. But its efforts may have an unexpected side effect: a debt crisis in China.
The 25 percent additional tariffs on exports of machinery and electronics looked, at first blush, like a stealth tax on offshoring. The focus on categories like semiconductors and nuclear components, in which U.S.-owned manufacturers in China are strong, recalled Trump’s 2016 promise to tax "any business that leaves our country."
It seems, though, that offshoring wasn’t the target after all. Now, with the imposition of new tariffs on low-value exports that mostly involve Asian value chains, the simple fact of selling cheap products that the U.S. buys has become the problem.
Either way, the administration appears set on shrinking its current-account deficit (which, at a moderate 2.4 percent of GDP, is far lower than the 6 percent clocked in 2006-7) just as the Federal Reserve raises interest rates. Distress has already been registered in China. On July 13, the yuan (also known as the renminbi) hit 6.725 to the dollar, the weakest in a year and 5 percent lower than at the end of May.
Such a move is nothing earth-shaking for less controlled currencies. But a stable renminbi is a key plank in the leadership’s promise to its people, and the exchange rate is tightly managed by the central bank.
...The Ponzi economy has been sustained by cheap dollars coming in through legitimate or illegitimate channels, and the problem now is that structural surpluses are disappearing and there is less "hot" money from the U.S. seeking yield. When dollars enter, the central bank buys them and issues renminbi. If it has to issue more than is justified by the amount of inflows, it creates inflation, and inflation, which has toppled or almost toppled governments from the Ming dynasty to Tiananmen, is the third rail of Chinese politics.
...Until now, China has managed to keep its huge raft of nonperforming debt afloat thanks to capital inflows, as successive waves of quantitative easing pushed dollars into the world. A tighter dollar would seem to make the bursting of China’s credit bubble an inevitability. When that happens, the renminbi will have to depreciate sharply. This will have a deflationary impact on the world. It will also lead to a decline in China’s share of global GDP, dramatically reduce the nation’s demand for commodities, and diminish its role on the international political stage.
I love my president so much. Why wasn't this done decades ago? Oh, right, because the globalists in charge despised American citizens and wanted hostile countries who hate us to become wealthy, on the preposterously stupid notion that somehow they'd start liking us.
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Ref #1: A Henry Kissinger notion that permitted him to construct Kissinger Associates, Inc., a New York City-based international geopolitical consulting firm, founded and run by Henry Kissinger in 1982. The firm assists its clients in identifying strategic partners and investment opportunities and advising them on government relations.
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China has had a debt crisis for years. They have also had enough foreign money to paper over the cracks. They blew through a trillion of their reserves last year and only have an estimated 3 trillion left and are having to spend more at a faster rate to keep their property bubble from popping.
Trump knows this and he knows he has them in a real twist now. The challenge is to keep this from turning into an actual war where China raids the Taiwan piggy bank and seizes the south sea trade routes and demands money to let nations trade through it.
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China can't invade Taiwan. No amphibious capability. There's a reason they call it the "million man swim".
If they start any crap in the South China Sea, the US Navy closes the Strait of Malacca. All of China's oil comes from the Middle East through there. Who sits at the choke point of the strait? Why, Singapore, a staunch US ally that doesn't shirk its duty to carry its fair share of the load like most of NATO does.
Why do you think China is so big on the whole "belt & road" strategy? To bypass the Strait of Malacca. Of course, road transport costs 13x that of sea transport, but money isn't the issue here.
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The only way China can conquer Taiwan is to destroy the island and occupy the rubble. In response Taiwan can be expected to blast that big damn. Mutually assured destruction.
h/t Instapundit
Last month the Supreme Court held in Janus v. AFSCME that it is unconstitutional for the states to require public employees to pay labor unions if they choose not to become members (these payments were called "agency fees"). There has been plenty written about what this means for the future of public sector unions and what might happen next. But it turns out that there is another important question: what about the agency fees that unions had been collecting before Janus? Are unions liable for collecting them? Can they be forced to pay them back?
A series of lawsuits have been recently brought in seven states arguing that unions are liable, and now subject to quite significant liability. Noam Scheiber has a story in the New York Times about the suits, (and the lawyer bringing the suits, a former law professor and former Texas solicitor general, Jonathan Mitchell):
Even before the Supreme Court struck down mandatory union fees for government workers last month, the next phase of the conservative legal campaign against public-sector unions was underway.
In March, with the decision looming, lawyers representing government workers in Washington State asked a federal court to order one of the state's largest public-employee unions "to disgorge and refund" fees that nonmembers had already paid. Similar lawsuits were filed in California, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Ohio.
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The Right is finally starting to wage Lawfare against the Left. I believe it will happen. I also expect that the attacks against the Left are going to escalate. About time too.
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A series of lawsuits have been recently brought in seven states arguing that unions are liable, and now subject to quite significant liability.
And they'll have to pick up & disclose such a liability on their financial statements, and tax returns as well, until the matter's adjudicated.
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Who cares about their liability? What I would love to see is the Unions being forced to open their books. Transparency. Let's get a good look at what sort of corruption and shenanigans have been paid for out of forced dues!
[BBC] The youngest Spitfire pilot to fly in the Battle of Britain during World War Two has died, it has been announced.
Sqn Ldr Geoffrey Wellum, who was just 18 when he joined the RAF in August 1939, died at his home in Cornwall on Wednesday evening aged 96. He served with 92 Squadron and his first missions included the "dogfights" above London and the Home Counties for which the battle became known.
The Battle of Britain Memorial Trust said it was "saddened by the news".
Sqn Ldr Wellum was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and was later promoted to flight commander with 65 Squadron. He later led eight Spitfires from HMS Furious to relieve Malta.
Sqn Ldr Wellum, speaking in 2013, said: "Somebody said: 'Here's a Spitfire - fly it, and if you break it there will be bloody hell to pay'."
"Looking at my life now, I had peaked at about 21 or 22. It was just lovely blokes, all together in Fighter Squadron." He remained in the RAF until 1960.
Patrick Tootal, secretary of the Battle of Britain Memorial Trust, said members of the charity's staff and volunteers had been "much saddened by the news".
"Only this week Sqn Ldr Wellum had been talking enthusiastically about attending the Memorial Service at Westminster Abbey on 16 September," he said.
[Conservative Tribune] It was President Donald Trump’s move, but it looked like it was right out of the Ronald Reagan playbook.
The Trump administration this week refused to grant visas to six "experts" from the Palestinian Authority to travel to the United Nations for a report on how the Palestinian government plans to achieve its goals for the year 2030, according to The Associated Press.
And while the reasons the visas were denied weren’t available Thursday, it was a solid reminder of just how the world has changed with Donald Trump in the White House.
[Conservative Tribune] The old trope of "good cop, bad cop" may be getting a twist, and it’s no doubt making Democrats nervous.
Call Peter Strzok the bad cop. The embattled FBI investigator already showed a strong political bias that almost certainly influenced his judgment on inquiries into both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump ... and he’s now facing serious questions and a loss of his security clearance as a result.
He put on the bad cop act again during his recent testimony to Congress, where Strzok acted aloof and uncooperative as lawmakers tried to determine if FBI officials purposely tried to undermine the candidacy ‐ and then presidency ‐ of Donald Trump.
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Tons of these stories about how it's all going to come crashing down for the junta at the FBI. Never comes to anything. I think it's disinformation, frankly.
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Hopefully Miss Lisa will have security protection.. and not by the FBI...Delta might be the way to go..
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Gets Immunity and then --how convenient!-- develops Amnesia. Not to be considered an Orchestrated Cover-Up™, not at all, move along there's nothing to see here.
DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) ‐ At least several tornadoes tore through central Iowa on Thursday afternoon, hitting key landmarks in some cities, such as the Marshall County Courthouse in Marshalltown and Vermeer Manufacturing in Pella.
Heavy rain, damaging winds and hail were also part of the system. Seven people inside the manufacturing plant were taken to the hospital and treated for injuries. They have since been released.
Pella Regional Health Center spokeswoman Billie Rhamy confirmed Thursday evening that all the injuries were minor and all patients have been discharged.
The company, which has about 2,800 employees, makes agricultural machinery, including hay balers and mowers, and equipment for the pipeline and forestry management industries.
Vermeer CEO Jason Andringa said that 400 dealers and customers were in town to celebrate the company's 70th anniversary. He said operations will be closed Friday as crews assess the structural damage.
Emergency responders attempted to get inside the damaged building to see if anyone was trapped inside.
Vice President of Operations Vince Newendorp said the east half of the company's campus, which includes seven manufacturing buildings, sustained extensive damage.
He said the plant activated its storm warning system and workers were in shelters when the storm hit.
[Washington Examiner] Jobless claims haven’t been this low since 1969. President Trump is taking the credit, and he isn’t all wrong. Bills he has signed and regulatory actions he has taken have helped unleash businesses to hire more, pay more, and in the end make life better for workers.
Where Trump errs is in taking direct credit. Trump’s interventions in the economy, his tariffs to protect favored manufacturers, and the subsidies he has advocated for some industries or employers have boosted fortunes in the short term for a few jobs. But they haven’t on the aggregate improved the jobs picture. That’s because government intervention generally can only reshuffle resources and jobs, while only economic growth can enrich and empower the working man.
Tariffs can protect certain employers from competition, thus giving them more room to raise prices and thus possibly hire more and increase wages. If we look narrowly at aluminum jobs, then tariffs can be considered a success. But that’s how the Left views economic policy. They look at a narrow, politically favored slice of the economy, like wind turbines or a friendly labor union, and figure out how government can help that segment. In the process, they stultify the broader economy by dragging capital away from more productive activities.
Similarly, special subsidies (such as Trump and Vice President Mike Pence’s favors for Carrier’s Indiana plant) can protect a few jobs. But government-protected jobs are not sustainable, and they typically come at the expense of other jobs.
The Left has no real economic policy. It's first and foremost based upon centralized control and regulation. Power. Profitability only is factored in enriching members of the Inner Party, usually by raiding directly or indirectly the public treasury not in commerce.
[Daily Caller] Special counsel Robert Mueller has offered Clinton-connected superlobbyist Tony Podesta immunity in order to testify against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, according to Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
"Tonight we can report exclusively based on two separate sources we spoke to today that Tony Podesta has been offered immunity by Robert Mueller to testify against Paul Manafort," reported Carlson.
The Daily Caller News Foundation has not independently confirmed the report.
Podesta, whose brother is Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, worked with Manafort’s consulting firm in 2012 on a project to help a Ukrainian non-profit group that supported then-Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych.
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We can rely on the MSM to ignore the fact that Clinton associates need immunity.
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Is Mueller really this desperate? A blatant political hack like Podesta would have zero credibility, and any competent defense attorney would destroy him on cross-exam.
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Most of these enablers/fixers such as the Podesta bros never get a public vetting and yet they up in unelected positions of power working for people like the various dynasty families who have been in power. IMO, if one would really look into the background of some of these people you would find some very dark and strange rangers.
[American Thinker] Robert Mueller's indictment of 12 officers of the GRU, Russia's military intelligence agency, was purely for domestic propaganda purposes. The case was never intended to come to trial because it was presumed by Mueller that Russia would never extradite its own intelligence officers, and thus no holes would be poked in the purported evidence by defense counsel. Thus, the accusations in the indictment would be taken as dispositive by the mainstream media, and the theory that Russia was behind Donald Trump's victory would gain support with an official imprimatur.
Mueller tried this before, with his indictment of Russian entities that supposedly supplied Facebook advertising, only to unexpectedly face a defense team hired by one of the entities, Concord Management. His response has been to delay and obfuscate, quite shamefully (dumping four terabytes of untranslated Russian documents in response to discovery requirements), and then pass off the prosecution to "outside prosecutors" so his team can escape accountability for their phony indictment.
In his second round of indictments purely for show, Mueller tried to avoid the danger of a defense being mounted by making the indictments criminal and naming defendants who are real individuals who would face prison if convicted.
Of course, anybody with half a brain would see that once the United States legitimizes criminal indictments of foreign intelligence officers in this way, other nations will apply the same logic to our own intelligence operations. And the former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul (an Obama appointee) tweeted:
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Let me see if I understand part of this. With the first set of indictments against the Russian companies managed by Concord Management, Concord fought back in court and demanded discovery documents. In answer to the interrogatory, Mueller dumped 4 terabyes of untranslated Russian social media documents. This untranslatd Russian stuff was on Facebook and it was supposed to have influenced the U.S. political process?--Very doubtful unless you read and understand Russian. Give me a break! And were supposed to believe this is not a witch hunt?
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Some statements are simply bizarre: Trump should *Force* the Russians to do 'things'. If the Russians want something it is 'Treason, TREASON I Say!' to agree to their demands.
Warmongering, much?
[Breitbart] Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats told the Aspen Security Forum on Thursday that he wished President Donald Trump had made a different statement at his press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Helsinki summit on Monday.
Coats traveled to Aspen, Colorado, where the nation’s elite gather annually to exchange ideas under the auspices of the non-partisan Aspen Institute. He was interviewed onstage by Andrea Mitchell of the left-wing cable news network MSNBC.
"I wish he had made a different statement, but I think that now that has been clarified," Coats said, referring to the president taking Putin’s denials of interfering in the 2016 presidential election seriously despite the assessment of U.S. intelligence agencies. He noted that Russian interference had not changed the outcome of the election.
Coats had other criticisms for the commander-in-chief.
[AnNahar] Several thousand residents evacuated two pro-regime towns in northern Syria on Thursday, putting an end to one of the longest sieges of the country's seven-year civil war.
Fuaa and Kafraya in Idlib province were the last remaining areas under blockade in Syria and a rare example of pro-government towns surrounded by rebel forces.
The Shiite-majority towns were besieged for three years by rebels and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a jihadist alliance led by Syria's former al-Qaeda affiliate.
Surrounded and bombed by hostile factions, the towns had become a rallying cry for the government and its ally Iran.
A deal was reached Tuesday between regime-backer Russia and rebel-ally The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... to see the residents taken to government-held territory in exchange for the release of prisoners from regime jails.
On Wednesday morning, barricades on the road leading into the towns were removed to let dozens of buses in, AFP's correspondent there said.
Just after midnight, the buses drove out of Fuaa and Kafraya and Thursday morning were at the village of al-Eis, crossing from rebel-controlled territory into regime-held areas in Aleppo province.
Armed HTS fighters stood on the roadside as the convoy of evacuees inched past, with pro-government murderous Moslems and regular civilians sitting solemnly on board and staring ahead.
- 'Entirely empty' -
Some 6,900 civilians and fighters were evacuated and the two towns were now "entirely empty of residents", the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based monitoring group, said Thursday morning.
"As the buses entered regime-held areas, the regime started releasing detainees, as per the deal," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.
According to HTS sources, the evacuation had been agreed in exchange for the release of 1,500 people from government-run jails.
An HTS source said the group's fighters had entered the towns after the evacuation was complete.
Fuaa and Kafraya came under siege in 2015 as rebels and jihadists overran the surrounding province of Idlib, cutting off access to food and medicine.
Those forces had allowed the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... and the Syrian Arab Red Islamic Thingy to deliver aid to the towns in exchange for similar deliveries to two government-besieged towns near Damascus.
The four towns also saw coordinated evacuation deals.
In April 2017, thousands were bussed out of Fuaa and Kafraya in exchange for parallel evacuations from the towns of Zabadani and Madaya.
But a blast targeting a convoy of evacuees from Fuaa and Kafraya left 150 people dead, most of them civilians and including 72 children.
Some reports have suggested Tuesday's deal also involves an agreement to spare Idlib a military offensive by the regime.
The province borders Turkey to the northwest but is otherwise almost completely surrounded by regime-held territory.
It is home to more than two million people, including Syrian civilians and rebels moved out of other opposition-held territory in surrender deals.
Syria's conflict erupted in March 2011 with protests against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... that escalated into a devastating, complex war.
After losing swathes of territory to rebels in the early years of the conflict, Assad's forces have managed to regain much of the country since Russian forces intervened in the regime's favour in 2015. The retaking of second city Aleppo last year marked a major turning point and earlier this year the government retook Eastern Ghouta, the last rebel-held area near the capital Damascus. Both victories followed crushing regime sieges and heavy bombardment.
In recent weeks Russia brokered a deal for rebels to hand over large parts of the southern province of Daraa, considered by many as the birthplace of the anti-Assad revolution. Fighting has continued in the south though, with at least 15 civilians reported killed in air strikes in Daraa province on Wednesday.
[KhaamaPress] At least twenty four turbans were killed or maimed during the operations in northern Kunduz province of Afghanistan, the Afghan military said Thursday.
The 20th Pamir Division of the Afghan Military in a statement said the operations were conducted with the help of Arclight airstrikes and artillery strikes in Imam Sahib and Dasht Archi districts.
The statement further added that two turbans were killed and four others were maimed during the operations involving artillery strikes and air raids conducted in Qerghiz, Joi Begum, and Islam Qeshlaq villages of Imam Sahib District.
At least 9 turbans were killed during the airstrikes conducted in Momin and Se Rahi Mohammad Alam areas as well as Pahayi village.
According to the 20th Pamir Division, at least 7 turbans were also maimed and two of their hideouts were destroyed during the same operations.
The anti-government armed Death Eater groups including Talibs have not commented regarding the report so far.
Kunduz is among the relatively volatile provinces in North of Afghanistan where the Talibs are actively operating in some of its districts and often carry out terrorist related activities.
[ Bloomberg] Vladimir Putin told Russian diplomats that he made a proposal to Donald Trump at their summit this week to hold a referendum to help resolve the conflict in eastern Ukraine, but agreed not to disclose the plan publicly so the U.S. president could consider it, according to two people who attended Putin’s closed-door speech on Thursday.
Details of what the two leaders discussed in their summit in Helsinki, Finland, remain scarce, with much of the description so far coming from Russia. While Putin portrayed the Ukraine offer as a sign he’s seeking to bring the four-year-old crisis to an end, a referendum is likely to be a hard sell with Ukraine and its backers in Europe, who remain committed to an 2015 European-brokered truce deal for the Donbas region, parts of which are controlled by Russian-backed separatists.
White House officials didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. If Putin’s account of Trump’s reaction is accurate, it would suggest a more flexible approach than the U.S. has shown to date on the issue. At the Helsinki meeting, Trump also agreed to consider a Putin request to question the former U.S. ambassador to Moscow over U.S. campaign-finance violations that critics say Trump should have dismissed outright. And the consideration ended in a "No.".
Hmm, #3 oil producer with a lot of land and a strong economy...? Why, you'd think such a small-s state could almost be its own capital-S independent State.
The future charter state of New America will pass Iran in oil production, and will be second only to Russia and Saudi Arabia.
Sexton points out that if another accounting of total US oil production is credited as right, the US is already the number 2 producer. Already.
By the way: The anti-fracking agitprop designed to stop America from becoming the world's biggest oil producer is of course funded by Russia, "interfering" in our domestic politics and influencing elections, trying to get candidates elected who would outlaw fracking.
Why doesn't CNN ever talk about that, he asked rhetorically.
I guess sometimes Russian Interference in Our Precious Democracy is a good thing. As long as it's in service of Russia's actual allies in the US, the socialist/Democrat left. Don't forget the Saudis also heavily invested in anti-fracing propaganda. I'm looking at you, Matt Damond for your Saudi funded bullshit.
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Texas has always been a big oil producer. Congratulations on #3 spot. What's Alaska or North Dakota?
[DAWN] Three banned outfits ‐ the Tehrik-e-Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Pakistain (TTP), Ansarul Sharia Pakistain (ASP) and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... (LJ) ‐ have developed a nexus to target politicianship in the metropolis to "sabotage forthcoming elections and trigger destabilisation in the country", said a senior police official on Wednesday.
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[DAWN] Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...the political wing of the Pak Taliban... i-S chief Maulana Samiul Haq ...the Godfather of the Taliban, leader of his own faction of the JUI. Known as Mullah Sandwich for his habit of having two young boys at a time... on Wednesday welcomed a US offer of direct talks with the Afghan Taliban ...Arabic for students... In a statement issued here, the JUI-S chief termed the US peace overture as pragmatic. He said talks were the only way to restore peace in the country and seek an honourable exit for Washington from there as well.
He said the US should not hesitate to acknowledge the fact that the Taliban were the most formidable political and military reality of the country. He said the world would also welcome resumption of talks between the US and Taliban.
However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... he warned that forces inimical to the peace and vested interests won’t let peace overtures to succeed as their survival rested on the continuing bloodshed in the country.
Mr Sami also demanded removal of important Taliban leaders’ names from the most wanted list.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Central Criminal Court in Baghdad has announced sentencing seven members of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... ’s police to life.
In a statement on Thursday, Abdul-Sattar al-Bayraqdar, a spokesperson of the High Judicial Council, said "the Central Criminal Court issued life sentences for seven convicts who admitted to their affiliation to the so-called Islamic Police."
The convicts, according to the statement, "confessed offering the logistic support and assisting the Death Eater group in its crimes as well as attacking security and military personnel."
"The confessions showed that the holy warriors were trained before joining the Islamic Police," it added.
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Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Thirteen myrmidons, who are members of a terrorist cell that infiltrated into Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... have been jugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! , a security official from the province said adding that security services are working on following the terrorist in the province.
In remarks to media channels on Thursday, Maj. Gen. Maan al-Saadi said, "troops of the Counter-Terrorism Service, during an operation, managed to arrest a cell composed of 13 bully boyz who had sneaked into Kirkuk. After the arrests, terrorist attacks were carried out last night. We have the photo of one of the perpetrators and will arrest him."
Intelligence services of CTS and other security services in the province "follow whoever tries to destabilize the security in Kirkuk. The thirteen bully boyz were arrested in accordance with judicial warrants."
In related news, a security source told AlSumaria News that "the arrested are affiliated to Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... and that reaching them would weaken the dormant cells of the group that takes advantage of attacks to affect the security in Kirkuk."
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) A security personnel were maimed in a kaboom in northern Baghdad, a security source was quoted saying on Thursday.
Speaking to Alghad Press, the source said, "a bomb, placed on the side of the road in Tarmiyah region in Baghdad, went off targeting a vehicle with a conscript on board."
The security personnel, according to the source, "was seriously maimed."
Baghdad has recently seen significant security stability, however, some kabooms take place in sporadic regions across the capital every now and then.
[MITSloan] AN MIT PROFESSOR TRIES TO GET A FOLLOW FROM TAYLOR SWIFT AND ENDS UP WITH A NEW TOOL FOR INFORMATION WARFARE.
WHY IT MATTERS
To influence someone on social media, first you need them to follow you. New research uncovers the behavioral and network features that make that happen.
It was 2014. Taylor Swift had recently released her single “Shake It Off.” She was now a certifiable pop star and Tauhid Zaman, associate professor of operations at MIT Sloan, wondered if he could get her to follow him on Twitter. Swift had about 60 million followers; he had fewer than 1,000. She represented a global empire; he was an academic. A long shot, yes, but these odds were precisely what motivated the question.
“I wanted to know what makes people follow you back,” Zaman said. “Celebrities have a wall around them, but their weaknesses on social media are the people they follow.”
Could he somehow use a celebrity’s friends on Twitter — Swift’s hair stylist or sound engineer — to open the gates to her inner circle? He dubbed this the “follow-back problem,” and he solved it with his students at MIT.
Head to the link to see how.
By the time he and his team got to work on this, though, “Shake it Off” had become much less interesting than the world’s most famous Twitter user, President Donald Trump. What, he wondered, would be the most promising path to get a follow from @realDonaldTrump?
[TheDrive] Multiple types of weapons were fired at the ship during the highly anticipated drill, which included land-based attackers for the very first time, and in a big way. A variant of the U.S. Navy's recently selected Naval Strike Missile was launched by the U.S. Army—which is also looking to acquire the weapon—from a palletized truck-mounted canister. It flew 63 miles to impact the target successfully.
Japan also unleashed four of its Type 12 land-based anti-ship missiles at the ship, which marked the first time Japanese anti-ship missiles were fired under the command of U.S. military assets.
According to Military.com, nearly half a dozen HIMARS guided-artillery rockets were also fired at the vessel. The push to migrate the hugely successful HIMARS into a maritime and even an anti-ship role is something we once suggested ourselves and have been following closely as of late. It was all but a given that it would be featured in some sort of live-fire fashion during RIMPAC 2018.
[KhaamaPress] The Talibs suffered heavy casualties during the festivities with the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces in southeastern Paktia province of Afghanistan.
The 203rd Thunder Corps of the Afghan Military in a statement said at least 27 bully boyz were killed during the festivities.
The statement further added that the festivities took place in Zurmat district and at least three bully boyz were also maimed during the same festivities.
No details have been given regarding the casualties of the armed forces.
In the meantime, Thunder Corps said at least three bully boyz were killed and two others were maimed during a clash in Andar district of Ghazni province.
In another clash in Shewak district of Paktia province at least three bully boyz were killed, Thunder Corps said, adding that four more bully boyz were killed and three others were maimed during a clash in Syedabad district of Wardak prvince.
The Afghan forces also discovered and defused two improvised bombs in Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... province, Thunders Corps added.
[AsiaTimes] Pakistan, Russia, China and Iran are joining forces against terrorist group the Islamic State Khorasan Province in Afghanistan.
A new strategic fault line appeared in the Afghan conflict last week when Islamabad hosted an unusual meeting of the heads of the intelligence agencies of Russia, China and Iran on July 11.
The focus was on joint measures to stop the terrorist group Islamic State Khorasan Province (IS-K) from threatening the territorial boundaries of the four regional states. In the Russian estimation, there could be up to 10,000 fighters in IS-K’s ranks already and the group is already active in nine of the 34 provinces in Afghanistan.
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[ICE Newsroom] FARGO, N.D. ‐ A team of investigators, led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and prosecutors were recognized Wednesday for their work on Operation Denial, a criminal investigation of a trans-national opioid trafficking organization.
Acting Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrator Uttam Dhillon recognized the team with its "Administrator’s Award for Outstanding Group Achievement" at a ceremony in Washington, D.C.
This is the first time an investigation in North Dakota has received this prestigious honor.
HSI leads the team that includes the following agencies: DEA, U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), the Grand Forks (North Dakota) Narcotics Task Force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Portland (Oregon) Police Bureau, IRS’s Criminal Investigations Division, Portland (Oregon) High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Interdiction Task Force, Oregon State Police, and Grand Forks (North Dakota) Police Department.
This case came to the attention of law enforcement as part of Operation Denial, an Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) investigation into the international trafficking of fentanyl and other lethal drugs. The case was significantly aided by the national and international coordination led by the multi-agency Special Operations Division (S.O.D.) near Washington, D.C., as part of Operation Deadly Merchant. This investigation started in North Dakota Jan. 3, 2015, with the overdose death in Grand Forks of 18-year-old Bailey Henke. To date, 32 defendants have been charged in this investigation.
[Al Jazeera] Syrian rebels have reached an agreement with government forces to leave the strategic area of Quneitra along the border with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Syria's official SANA news agency reported.
Citing reports, SANA said the agreement "stipulates the departure to Idlib of Death Eaters who reject the settlement", and allow those who wish to remain to "settle" their status with the authorities, meaning accepting a return of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... 's rule.
In recent days, government forces regained control of strategic parts of Quneitra, leaving only a few pockets of the province under rebel control.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) confirmed the report, adding that "the deal provides for a ceasefire, the handover of heavy and medium weapons and the return of government institutions in the area."
Rooters news agency said it obtained a document of what a rebel source purports to be the final agreement - which includes a provision for Russian military police to accompany two Syrian army brigades into a demilitarised zone agreed upon with Israel in 1973 along the occupied Golan Heights.
Israel had earlier raised alarms that the Syrian government would allow the presence of Iranian troops along its frontiers.
US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... announced earlier in the week after meeting 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... that Washington and Moscow had agreed to coordinate efforts in order to ensure Israel's security.
Putin, the Syrian government's key ally in the nearly eight-year war, cited the need to restore the situation along the Golan borders to the state that prevailed before the outbreak of the Syrian crisis in 2011.
On Tuesday, troops loyal to Bashir al-Assad launched an intense bombing campaign on the densely populated southern town of Nawa, killing at least 14 people and wounding more than 100, according to activists and rescuers.
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[DAWN] LANDI KOTAL: Customs authorities seized large quantity of arms from a truck at Torkham border here on Wednesday.
Officials said that a truck carrying fresh vegetables and steel scrap had arrived at the border point from Afghanistan on Monday (July 16) and was parked at the customs terminal for customs clearance.
The customs staff during examination spotted some arms packed in gunny bags concealed in hidden cavities of the vehicle. Officials said that upon opening of the bags, they found 305 repeater guns which they immediately seized.
Driver of the vehicle managed to escape while his assistant was taken into custody and the vehicle was also impounded.
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" repeater guns". Now there's an expression I haven't heard since Saturday morning horse operas in the '50s.
(Syria News) The Syrian Network for Human Rights reported, on Wednesday, that Russia has killed 1771 children, since its intervention in the Syrian conflict.
In a report released today by the network, it said that the Russian troops committed brutal massacres and killed 6187 civilians, including 1771 children since its intervention in the Syrian conflict.
Russia intervene in Syria in September 2015 after an official call from the Syrian regime, to fight the so-called terrorist groups, which resulted in the killing of thousands of civilians due to the ongoing raids on the rebels-held areas.
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Just a very very small blip in the sum total of all innocents killed in fighting by all parties, in the Near East and Middle East since the end of WWII. Look! a squirrel!
[PRESSTV] Iran's foreign minister has denounced the United States as the world's leading weapons seller, saying Washington's excessive arms exports undermine global peace.
In a tweet on Thursday, Mohammad Javad Zarif reacted to a stunning timelapse video dubbed 'The United States of Arms', which went viral earlier this week, depicting the massive flow of American exports of military equipment to different continents over the last 67 years.
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Arms sales or transfers for say a $10M jet ightr is far less destabilizing than a shipment of AK's costig 100K
[The Hill] Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said Thursday that he didn’t know about the meeting between President Trump and Russian officials in the Oval Office last May before it occurred.
Coats, who Trump nominated to the intelligence post shortly before his inauguration, also acknowledged that it was "probably not the best thing to do" when asked about the meeting during remarks at the Aspen Security Summit. I recommend you (DNI Coats) get to know WH Chief of Staff Kelly (foto attached) a bit better. By the way, your critique "not the best thing to do" of the meeting was less considerably less than professional.
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A Question I would like to ask. There is a rumor floating around that Putin dropped 160 terabytes of info on swamp denizens across several administrations. I'd like to ask Trump: Is there any truth to this or is it just a rumor? As much pushback as has come from the Dems and a few Rinos about the Trump-Putin meeting, one would almost think there is something to this. The Dems seem scared. They are reported to be asking to question the translator about the 2-hour meeting.
Once again the New York Times attempts to create facts on the ground.
[KhaamaPress] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... group has rejected reports suggesting that the leadership of the group has ordered a halt to suicide kabooms in the cities.
A front man for the Taliban group Zabiullah Mujahid issued a statement rejecting the statement attributed to him in a report in which he was quoted as saying that the group will not carry out suicide attacks in the cities anymore.
Mujahid further added that no such statement has been made during the interview in response to a question that why no suicide attack has been carried out in Kabul or other main cities.
He also added that the operations in the cities need more time as the Taliban fighters carefully conduct attacks to prevent civilian casualties.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... he said that the attacks would be carried out in the cities once the targets have been fully ascertained.
This comes as the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... stated in a report that the Taliban group front man Zabiullah Mujahid has said that the leadership of the group has ordered to halt the suicide attacks in the cities.
The report further adds that the decision and change in the tactic was made after the declaration of ceasefire between the government and the group on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr.
[KhaamaPress] Militants affiliated with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria Khurasan (ISIS-K) have kidnapped the workers of a de-mining company in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... of Afghanistan.
A front man for the provincial government Ghani Mosamim confirmed that twelve workers of a de-mining company were kidnapped from Pich Dara district.
Mosamim further added that the de-miners were working for a de-mining company, Arya, and were kidnapped by the ISIS Khurasan bully boys.
The anti-government armed bully boy groups including ISIS faceless myrmidons have not commented regarding the report so far.
The security situation in eastern Kunar province has started to deteriorate sharply during the recent months amid growing insurgency activities by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... and ISIS bully boys.
The anti-government armed faceless myrmidons continuously attempt to expand their foothold in this province amid ongoing military operations and Arclight airstrikes.
The US forces based in Afghanistan also conduct airstrike against the ISIS and faceless myrmidons affiliated with the other groups in a bid to suppress the faceless myrmidons from expanding foothold in this province.
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[Zeihan] The economic conflict between the United States and China continues to ramp up. Earlier this week the Trump administration announced plans for tariffs on another $200 billion in Chinese exports to the United States. Barring (substantial) Chinese concessions the new tariffs will likely come into effect around the end of August. This is now the third volley in what has become a tit-for-tat trade war. I’m starting to think up snazzy names. "Pacific Pong" doesn’t have quite the right je ne sais quoi, but I’m working on it. Suggestions welcome.
The Americans’ imports from China are triple China’s imports from the United States (quadruple if you factor out services). The simple fact is the Chinese are already running out of American imports to penalize. Any effort to shift the dispute to something beyond goods trade will similarly end in colossal failure. The Americans control global trade routes, global energy, global security, and global finance ‐ everything that makes the Chinese system possible. The Chinese simply can’t bring the fight to other fields without suffering immeasurably. (Which isn’t the same thing as me saying I’d like to be an American company operating in China right now.) Chinese holdings of American government debt don’t even give Beijing leverage as such "investments" in reality are capital flight from the Chinese system. Endless inspectors already vex American companies in China, issuing fines and demanding compliance with laws local competitors are given a pass on. They don't like our companies in their country.
While Chinese state media continues to put on a brave face, the days of tone-deaf chest-beating are gone. Government censorship guidelines now regularly bar terms like "Trump tantrum" and "trade war" and in general discourage the discussing of any angle of the issue whatsoever. One of the problems with stoking nationalism is that it can be hard to turn off. With the Politburo realizing they have little ammo for this sort of fight, political consolidation at home is far more important than scoring points in a media firestorm.
But that’s not what I want to talk about today. I want to talk about one of the funniest things I’ve seen in months. On July 11 the Chinese floated the possibility of a 25% tariff on U.S. oil exports. Several media commentators immediately pounced on the trial balloon as evidence of something that would get Trump’s attention because of his stated interest in "achieving American energy dominance." Maybe it will. The criteria for what attracts or doesn’t attract the American president’s attention continues to elude me.
But that doesn’t mean a tariff on American oil isn’t a fabulously stupid idea. It has to do with the nature of the oil market, and in particular the role of American crude within it.
While the pot-stirrer in me would love to see what would happen to a trade-dependent internationally-wired oil-importing economy like China’s under full financial embargo, I’m fairly sure the Chinese will blink on this one. Financial sanctions of the type the White House is preparing would hit China at least an order of magnitude harder than the tariffs they are staring down, and the Chinese are not suicidal. And while I firmly stand by my claim that no one can really claim to know what Trump is thinking I have to admit things are starting to look more than coincidental: a last-minute cave by the Chinese on Iran just as the third round of tit-for-tat tariffs really start to bite? I see some serious negotiating leverage there, useful in many theaters.
The concentration of power in the global system continues to gather in the Americans’ favor. Trump is demonstrating he doesn’t need to build an alliance to fight and win a trade war with multiple countries simultaneously. Trump is showing he can wield financial tools simultaneously with trade tools to crushing effect. Trump is showing an enthusiasm for standing up to the business community, something that resonates not just with his base, but also Bernie Sanders’. And in case you missed it, last week the United States became the world’s largest oil producer courtesy of shale, granting Trump even more leverage and autonomy in international relations. America first.
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China tariffs the imported oil, sells it higher to Nkor. Nkor asks world for more financial aid.
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The trade imbalance is more than just money. America can live a lot longer without cheap a$$ plastic stuff than China can live without oil and food.
[AnNahar] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... on Wednesday intercepted a missile fired from rebel-held territory in neighbouring Yemen, where a Riyadh-led coalition is fighting the holy warriors, state media said.
The ballistic missile was fired from the northern Yemeni province of Saada towards the southern Saudi city of Najran a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen. It is the capital of Najran Province and a favored target of Houthirocket forces.... , but no casualties were reported, said a coalition statement published by the official Saudi Press Agency.
The Iran-backed Huthis have ramped up missile attacks against Saudi Arabia in recent months, which Riyadh usually says it intercepts.
Wednesday's attack brings the tally to 162 rebel missiles launched since 2015, according to the coalition, which that year joined the Yemeni government's fight against Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis.
In 2014, the Huthis overran the Yemeni capital and seized control of much of northern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... as well as a string of ports on the Red Sea.
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and their allies intervened in the conflict the following March, aiming to push back the Huthis and restore the internationally recognised government to power.
Riyadh accuses its regional rival Tehran of supplying the Huthis with ballistic missiles, a charge Iran denies.
Nearly 10,000 people have been killed in the Yemen conflict since the 2015 intervention, 2,200 of them children. The war has pushed the long-impoverished country to the brink of famine.
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Intercepted with what? Patriot? Iron Dome? Who's paying for it?
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[SputnikNews] US President Donald Trump has slammed Turkey for keeping a US pastor in custody on charges of aiding a terrorist group behind the failed coup.
"A total disgrace that Turkey will not release a respected U.S. Pastor, Andrew Brunson, from prison," US president tweeted on Wednesday.
The US pastor has been held in a Turkish jail since October 2016 for allegedly threatening national security by having ties to the organizers of the July 2016 coup attempt to depose President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
US media reported that Brunson and his wife ran a ministry in the Turkish coastal town of Izmir for nearly 20 years.
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ISIS won't be allowed to run amok there like they did in Iraq and Syria.
[KhaamaPress] The Russian and Tajikistan forces have launched joint military exercises close to the border with Afghanistan amid growing instability in the key northern provinces of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Defense of Tajikistan has confirmed that the joint exercises have been launched to prepare the armed forces to respond to possible threats from the Taliban ...Arabic for students... and other gunnies in Afghanistan.
According to reports, at least ten thousand Tajikistani forces have participated in the joint military exercises.
Around 400 Russian troops have also taken part in the military exercises with the Tajikistani officials saying at least 80 military vehicles will also be used.
This comes as the growing instability in the northern provinces of Afghanistan has sparked concerns among the officials of Central Asian countries having borders with Afghanistan.
The Talibs as well as the gunnies affiliated with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria Khurasan (ISIS-K) are actively operating in some of the northern provinces of Afghanistan.
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[PRESSTV] 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... has expressed his strong opposition to the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... ) eastward, warning the US-led military alliance against unspecified consequences in case it seeks to forge closer ties with Ukraine and Georgia.
Addressing a meeting of Russian ambassadors and envoys in Moscow on Thursday, Putin said there was a need to rebuild trust in Europe, and that NATO's attempts concerning deployment of military contingents and infrastructure near Russia’s western frontiers were not acceptable.
"We will respond appropriately to such aggressive steps, which pose a direct threat to Russia," the Russian leader said.
He added, "Our colleagues, who are trying to aggravate the situation, seeking to include, among others, Ukraine and Georgia in the orbit of the alliance, should think about the possible consequences of such an irresponsible policy."
Putin said he had discussed the matter with his US counterpart Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... at a summit in the Finnish capital of Helsinki on Monday.
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[AsiaTimes] Many flights have been delayed or cancelled as the People's Liberation Army closes airspace while it holds military exercises aimed at scaring Taiwan.
A renewed show of force by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on Wednesday to scare Taiwan has resulted in large swathes of the East China Sea and airspace southeast of Shanghai cordoned off.
[InMilitary] US Army M1 Abrams tanks train in Bulgaria
President Trump’s harsh words for Germany set the tone for a tense NATO summit ‐ but America’s allies now know they have no right to assume the US will keep cutting fat checks to cover the cost of Europe’s defense. However, it would be wrong for Europeans to conclude that President Trump wants to withdraw all US forces from Europe. The President simply wants the US military to be NATO’s security guarantor of last resort, not NATO’s "first responder."
Skipping down to the author's suggested key points:
1. Turn US bases in Europe into austere Forward Operating Bases (FOBs) designed to receive deploying forces and then project them into training exercises or combat. Stop the expensive practice of building elaborate facilities for military communities in foreign countries, complete with family housing, schools, and grocery stores, that create jobs for foreign nationals, but do nothing for the U.S. economy.
2. Establish permanent bases in the United States from which future forces will deploy and where service members’ families can live. End accompanied tours overseas except for the few specialists needed to sustain forces deploying through the FOBs.
3. Build regionally focused, lean Joint Force Command (JFC) organizations to replace today’s overly large single-service headquarters. These bloated relics of World War II and the Cold War are too slow to deploy and they obstruct the rapid decision-making required in future warfare. Flatten command with the JFCs and exercise them regularly on short notice.
4. Build self-contained Army formations of 5,000-6,000 soldiers for rapid deployment under joint command. Disband the large 15,000-18,000-man divisions. Extract billions in savings by shedding equipment and organizationsthat are no longer needed.
5. Invest in new airlift and sea-lift to meet demands that commercial transport cannot. Invest in transportation support systems to off-load military cargo in unimproved locations.
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The giant comfortable bases in Europe do nothing but enable our military adventures in the Middle East. Close them all down. Bring the troops home. End the postwar occupation of Europe. Receive the applause of Europeans as the world bully finally leaves.
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Invest in new airlift and sea-lift to meet demands that commercial transport cannot.
Heh, right. The Air Force continually wants to kill the A-10 to fund their next generation of ever fewer fighters. Transport won't even stand a chance in budget looting to support 'sexy' bleeding edge incredible expensive technology.
[AsiaTimes] Pakistan curbs imports amid a foreign exchange crisis.
The economy faces a potential collapse as foreign currency reserves fall below $9.5 billion.
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has moved to curb the country’s bulging import bill to ease pressure on its dwindling foreign exchange reserves. Reserves have tumbled to US$9.5 billion, less than enough to pay for one month’s worth of imports, representing a major crisis for South Asia’s second largest economy.
Faced with a current account deficit of US$16 billion, the SBP on Monday slapped a 100% cash margin on 131 “non-essential” items to arrest the deterioration in the reserves position. The move will discourage imports as many will find it difficult with liquidity constraints to make the 100% advance payments needed for opening a letter of credit.
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[Daily Caller] The frenzied furor and fomented outrage over President Donald Trump’s reluctance to express blind trust for our "intelligence community" defy reason and reality. In their choreographed cries of contempt for Mr. Trump, the "left’s" increasingly shrill proclamations of political apocalypse make "Chicken Little" look rational. At least we’ve moved on from the impending annihilation from the nuclear war with North Korea.
Power is the only thing leftists worship, and they are unraveling in front of our eyes without it. They can’t control Mr. Trump. That alone drives them insane. They have no policies that work. Cities and states they control are criminal sanctuaries and bankrupt cesspools. Check out San Francisco, Portland and Chicago.
Each of the president’s remarkable accomplishments ‐ from unprecedented high employment, our booming economy and the tax cuts to his historic summit with Kim Jong-un ‐ highlights their abject failures and serves to prick their narcissistic egos. The country is doing better without them every day. Even worse, they are desperate to keep their countless crimes and abuses covered up.
We know that there are many honorable, dedicated and legitimate members of our multiple intelligence and law enforcement agencies who strive to protect us the right way every day. So, why might any of us not just declare blind trust for our "intelligence community" writ large? Let me count the ways.
Aside from the fact that former CIA Director John Brennan does not even attempt to conceal his loathing of Trump, it was none other than Brennan who had the CIA spying on members of Congress‐indeed the entire Senate Intelligence Committee. Surely, there were others in the Agency who helped him. How many like Brennan are still there?
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Trump got elected because of the likes of Clapper, Brennan, Comey, Strzok and many others in the intelligence community.
Toss in a few other weaponized agencies like the IRS and it's easy to see why Trump is POTUS. Now if he could just speed up the drainage of the Swamp and have these swamp-dwellers answer for their misdeeds.
[Al Jazeera] Senegal's criminal court sentenced 13 people to prison for attempting to establish a homegrown cell modelled after Boko Haram in the West Africa country.
One of those jailed by the Dakar court on Thursday was Makhtar Diokhane, described as the ringleader of the group. He was handed a 20-year prison term.
"The court was very heavy-handed in sentencing our client and we are going to appeal," Diokane's lawyer Alassane Cisse told Reuters news agency.
Fourteen people, including two of Diokhane's wives, were acquitted.
About 30 Senegalese were put on trial in April for their suspected involvement in the cell after some spent time in Nigeria with the armed group Boko Haram.
Attacks involving Boko Haram have displaced more than 1.8 million Nigerians in the country's predominantly agricultural northeast over the last 10 years. An estimated 20,000 people have been killed.
Moving west?
Twenty-nine other suspects, three of them women, were accused of criminal conspiracy related to financing an armed group, money-laundering, and acts of terrorism.
The public prosecutor had requested life sentences for 11 of the accused, and a 30-year prison term for Alioune Ndao - a popular imam from the town of Kaolack in central Senegal - who was accused of acting as a coordinator. He received a suspended one-month sentence.
Most were arrested in 2015 in Senegal. Prosecutors said was their plan was to foment violence in neighbouring countries as well.
Senegal has so far escaped the al-Qaeda-linked insurgency that has destabilised neighbouring Mali along with attacks on other West African nations including Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast.
But Dakar has stepped up security outside hotels and publics buildings.
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[Breitbart] Columbus Dispatch journalist Randy Ludlow claimed on Twitter, Thursday, that he would "love" to see his Marine son "ship out to Crimea" for a war with Russia.
"The Fake News Media wants so badly to see a major confrontation with Russia, even a confrontation that could lead to war. They are pushing so recklessly hard and hate the fact that I’ll probably have a good relationship with Putin. We are doing MUCH better than any other country!" posted President Trump on Twitter, prompting Columbus Dispatch senior reporter Randy Ludlow to respond.
"My son is a Marine master sergeant. And yes, I’d love to see him ship out to Crimea," Ludlow declared, almost instantly receiving criticism from other users on the social network. This is how "Um, Dad..." moments begin.
The annexation of Crimea occurred swiftly under President Obama’s watch. Russian forces ‐ and unofficial "Russia-allied" militants ‐ began appearing in Crimea by the thousands in February 2014. The Ukrainian government, by then under the anti-Russian government of acting president Oleksandr V. Turchynov, loudly protested to the sudden population boom of Russian soldiers on the peninsula. President Obama responded by issuing a statement that month warning Russia that "any violation of Ukrainian sovereignty would be deeply destabilizing" and "there will be costs."
Yet by mid-March, Crimea ‐ now flooded by thousands of Russian soldiers ‐ declared "independence" after a "vote" Putin forced in the peninsula. Russian attacks continued throughout eastern Ukraine, and the pro-Russian leaders of Crimea now demanded that Putin annex them into the Federation.
On March 19, Putin announced that "Crimea has always been an integral part of Russia in the hearts and minds of people" and called Western nations liars and "cheaters" for having expanded NATO into Ukraine.
The Obama administration did not respond. The Pentagon ignored Ukraine’s pleas for military assistance. Putin officially signed the legal documentation to annex Crimea in late March 2014.
Obama’s inaction earned him a stern critique from even mainstream media sources. "President Obama has led a foreign policy based more on how he thinks the world should operate than on reality," an editorial in the Washington Post dated March 2014 read. "As Mr. Putin ponders whether to advance further ‐ into eastern Ukraine, say ‐ he will measure the seriousness of U.S. and allied actions, not their statements."
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They gave a hundred and fifty billion dollars to Iran to give to Russia to bomb Syria _after_ the invasion of Ukraine but they're pure patriots ready to send their kids to die in what to us is a strategic cul-de-sac.
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So this Ohio presstitute would rather put his own son in harm's way than consider the possibility of solving the issue diplomatically between Trump and Putin. A new low.
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Russians don't always fight very well outside of Russia but they have a long, long history of defending their own territory. Some of the more recent examples are Napoleon and Hitler who both thought Russia was weak but both ran into surprisingly stubborn resistance.
Russians have some valid arguments for their claim on Crimea of which most Americans seem totally ignorant. But it's for damn sure Ukrainians never fought for it and never settled in it like the Russians have.
Just for fun, I went to Wikipedia for its version of the Crimean War. According to Wikipedia, Britain and France could be said to have won this war but from a longer historical view it can be seen as nothing but a bloody exercise in futility that left the Russians in control of the Crimea.
It is chickenshit at best for this old man to commit his son to a war in which our country has no strategic interest. I don't know how he'd feel when his son comes back in a box but I'd have a lot more sympathy for his son than for him.
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People use "Love/Hate" a lot these days, don't they? Everything has to have the Emotional Dial™ cranked all the way to 11 or higher.
I would be proud of a relative showing courage in doing their duty. For this jerk to "Love it" only seems to show that he is treating his son as an expendable prop in his own narcissistic drama.
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The left has always been in bed with the Communists. See Obama's mentor and influences and Bill and Hillary's influences (Alinsky). Didn't Slick travel from the UK to the USSR during his Oxford days? What was he said about the military: "I loathe the military." Now all these lefties are hawks and want a war. WTF? Crazy bastids.
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Volodya himself has stated on several occasions that he does not believe the Russian military can win against the American military.
So, he attacks asymmetrically. His words.
I agree that our forces can win tactically against the Russian military, unless we get into some sort of "knife fight" in which the Russians can take a chunk out of us and make any war politically unsavory.
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The thing about it is that the left believes nationalism is is dirty word. Many on the left have bought into the Soros and other's ideas concerning open borders, multiculturalism, NWO and giving up your national identity. They think we will all be one happy world. It seems that buying into their B.S. would result in disparate warring tribes, the very thing they say they are trying to avoid. The problem is they want to sit on top of the heap with all the money and power.
[Daily Caller] In the last few years, Russia and China have increased political, economic and military cooperation, as well as conducting joint diplomatic offensives against American interests, for example, in Afghanistan.
No doubt the steps taken against Russia by the Obama Administration and the personal animus that developed between the then U.S. president and Vladimir Putin accelerated that cooperation.
Writing in The Diplomat, Francis P. Sempa makes cogent historical points that should be seriously considered by the Trump administration in light of its relations with Russia and China:
While these developments are not indicative of a Sino-Russian security alliance reminiscent of the Sino-Soviet bloc of the 1950s, they nevertheless should cause U.S. policymakers to reflect on diplomatic and policy options for ensuring the preservation of U.S. security interests and a favorable balance of power.
The geopolitical threat posed by the Sino-Soviet bloc gradually receded when the Sino-Soviet split emerged and was successfully exploited by the Nixon administration with its famous ’opening’ to China.
According to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in his book "World Order," the key to triangular diplomacy was to balance "China against the Soviet Union from a position in which America was closer to each Communist giant than they were to each other."
We now have the situation in reverse, to balance the power of an ascending China with a less dominant, but militarily potent Russia.
Unnecessarily alienating Russia, either through politically-motivated or emotionally-satisfying gestures decoupled from the requirements of triangular diplomacy, is not in the national interest of the United States.
[DetroitNews] A Dearborn man believed to be fighting for the Islamic State has been captured in Syria and could face prosecution in the United States.
Ibraheem Musaibli, 28, is believed to be one of only two male Americans captured alive on an Islamic State battlefield. He was taken into custody by coalition-backed forces this month while trying to flee the Middle Euphrates River Valley in northern Syria, according to the New York Times, which first reported his capture.
Musaibli is being held at an undisclosed facility but authorities are planning to bring him to the United States to face criminal charges.
"This is significant because it's one of the first times the Trump administration would use federal courts to prosecute a returning foreign fighter," Seamus Hughes, deputy director of George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, told The News.
An FBI spokesman in Detroit declined to comment Thursday.
Musaibli is identified by the newspaper as a high-school dropout who helped his father operate a perfume shop before marrying, fathering a son and moving to Yemen. He is believed to have traveled to Syria in 2015.
His sister, Fatima Musaibli, who lives in Dearborn with her parents, told The News that FBI agents searched their home eight days ago.
“They took our phones, laptops, my brother’s old passports, a box full of stuff and said they would return it soon, but it’s been more than a week,” Fatima Musaibli told The News.
She said Ibraheem Musaibli traveled to Yemen a few years ago but couldn't recall why he returned other than to be with his wife and young son.
She said they weren’t notified about her brother’s capture until FBI agents arrived on her doorstep and told her and her sons to sit on the living room floor and not move.
“Ibraheem wouldn’t do this," she said. "He’s not violent and not the type to join such a group. We didn’t believe when my brother Abdullah called saying the New York Times was doing a story.
The roots of the FBI investigation were unclear Thursday.
But sealed federal court records in Detroit indicate FBI agents were investigating a man with a similar last name last year.
In January 2017, FBI agents served a search warrant on Facebook information for an account belonging to Abu Abdul Rahman Al-Musibli. The still-active account lists several friends with the last name Musaibli, including one woman in Dearborn.
The next month, in February 2017, the FBI received 820 pages of information from the man's account, according to a copy of the search warrant return obtained by The News. The document was briefly unsealed last year and obtained by The News before a judge resealed the file.
The man's Facebook account says Al-Musibli lives in Al Bayda in central Yemen, and features one photo of fighters marching on a battlefield with weapons.
Musaibli sent text messages to relatives after leaving Yemen confirming that he was joining the Islamic State, the Times reported, citing two unnamed officials familiar with the investigation.
Musaibli eventually became disillusioned after arriving in Syria, however, and his family tried to negotiate a way out with the FBI, according to the newspaper.
The FBI offered to return Musaibli to the United States if he surrendered. He refused, and negotiations stalled, the newspaper reported.
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Summary execution for all ISIS members.
Or they can choose to listen to Hillary speeches 24/7.
[DAWN] IN a small house on the busy College Road in Township, a few Milli Moslem League men are entering details of each of the 170,000 voters from provincial assembly constituency PP-167 on printed slips to help them find their polling stations.
The slips will be distributed among voters during the ongoing door-to-door canvassing for Allah-o-Akbar Tehrik’s candidate Hafiz Khalid Waleed.
Outside, panaflex signage is being handed to volunteers for display on roads in different parts of the constituency, which mostly comprises lower to middle income groups, small traders, and babus government employees, as well as a significantly large number of Christians.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Thursday came under withering criticism from automakers, foreign governments and others as officials consider imposing tariffs of up to 25 percent on imported cars and parts, a levy that could hike vehicle costs, hurting auto sales and industry jobs. I'm sticking with Wilbur.
Hundreds of workers employed by foreign automakers rallied on Capitol Hill, urging the administration to drop the plans they said could threaten their jobs. A bipartisan group of 150 lawmakers signed a letter urging the administration to drop the plans amid the opposition of groups representing nearly all major automakers, dealers, parts companies and retailers.
Administration officials and congressional aides say the tariff probe is in part designed to win concessions during ongoing NAFTA renegotiation talks, but note that Trump has told aides he wants to impose tariffs before the congressional elections in November.
The department opened an investigation in May into whether imported autos and parts pose a national security risk and held a hearing on the probe on Thursday, taking testimony from auto trade groups, foreign governments and others.
[LATimes] "But at 1 p.m., police at the protest site said authorities had been in contact with the group, and it had decided not to come in order to ensure peace."
For her part, Waters urged counterprotesters to stay away. She noted that the organization, which at various points over the last decade has formed militias across the country, also has a history of attempting to provoke violence.
"The Oath Keepers would like nothing more than to inflame racial tensions and create an explosive conflict in our community," Waters said in a statement. But...
That didn’t stop around 50 counterprotesters from arriving outside her office by 12:40 p.m., some from the United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers Local No. 36.
"We’re here to defend our community and the members of our union against the hostile threat of this violent organization that’s coming into our neighborhood with an agenda that is opposed to our interests," said union organizer Cliff Smith. He said he and his group would not be 'baited into confrontations.'
A number of protesters remained near the intersection of 102nd Street and Broadway long after police announced the Oath Keepers were no-shows. For much of this time, the mood remained festive, although it was punctuated with moments of tension.
At one point, counterprotesters pulled a small American flag off of a pickup truck, doused it in lighter fluid and set it ablaze. The crowd then began chanting, cursing the government and saying, 'America was never great.'"
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The oath keepers have a history of doing this. Spouting off at the mouth then not following through.
The thing that they don't realize with this is this is the real stakes now. If they don't show up, the left will see this as another scalp taken and just get even more violent next time as they think the right will just fold and go home.
Either put your money, body and freedom where your mouth is or keep your mouth shut and stay home and fondle yourself while watching The Deer Hunter.
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Either put your money, body and freedom where your mouth is or keep your mouth shut and stay home and fondle yourself while watching The Deer Hunter.
Words to live by...
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Lack of Professionalism by the Oath Keepers, in that:
1. The High Command didn't check to see that the Locals were ready, willing and able to engage; and/or
2. Oath Keepers are amateurs and not Rent-A-Mobs so they can't produce on demand?
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I think Trump nailed it when he said he wants the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters to keep their seats because it allows him to claim they are the face of the Democrat Party. That face is not pretty and may not do very well in November.
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My response is that the Maxine supporters who showed up gave crystal clear indication about the kind of folks who back Maxine and who were on call to create the violent storyline she is hoping for.....this is classic Communist agitprop tactics folks, wonder where they got the playboks, does the DNC have a lending library?
[Mail] Higher prices will be particularly painful for families planning to drive on their summer holidays, motoring groups said.
The Office for National Statistics said rising fuel prices were a major factor affecting living standards last month.
It said the annual rate of inflation held firm at 2.4 per cent in June as the price of motor fuels rose by 11.6 per cent – the biggest increase since September 2014.
[DAWN] The jacket wallah behind the Mastung attack has been identified by the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD), Balochistan...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... police said on Thursday.
Deputy Inspector General (DIG) CTD Aitzaz Ahmed Goraya made this announcement at a presser held in Quetta to brief the media regarding the investigation into the attack.
The Mastung bombing which took place on July 13 during a corner meeting organised by Mir Siraj Raisani ‐ a Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) candidate for PB-35 (Mastung) ‐ claimed the lives of 128 people while injuring more than 200. The attack was the deadliest since the 2014 carnage at Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. 's Army Public School.
DIG Goraya said that the man behind the suicide kaboom has been identified as Hafeez Nawaz. He was a resident of Mirpur Sakro, 33km away from Thatta.
The bomber's brother and sister had reportedly moved to Afghanistan two years ago.
The senior officer appreciated the efforts and cooperation of the Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... CTD towards the investigation.
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[Daily Caller] At a recent speech in South Africa, former President Barack Obama criticized wealth inequality, saying those who have more money should share their earnings with the less fortunate.
"Right now, I’m actually surprised by how much money I got," Obama said of the more than $20 million he earned between 2005 and 2016.
Obama then chided wealthy individuals for excess, saying, "There’s only so much you can eat. There’s only so big a house you can have. There’s only so many nice trips you can take. I mean, it’s enough."
"We’re going to have to worry about economics if we want to get democracy back on track," Obama continued "We’re going to have to consider new ways of thinking about these problems, like a universal income, review of our workweek, how we retrain our young people, how we make everybody an entrepreneur at some level."
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Most of the leadership of the Democrat party seem to be suffering from old age and/or old ideas. Many of them can remember sodomizing immature dinosaurs.
[FOX] The Pentagon is making a massive push to accelerate the application of artificial intelligence to ships, tanks, aircraft, drones, weapons and large networks as part of a sweeping strategy to more quickly harness and integrate the latest innovations.
Many forms of AI are already well-underway with U.S. military combat systems, yet new technologies and applications are emerging so quickly that Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan has directed the immediate creation of a new Joint Artificial Intelligence Center.
“The Deputy Secretary of Defense directed the DoD Chief Information Officer to standup the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center in order to enable teams across DoD to swiftly deliver new AI-enabled capabilities and effectively experiment with new operating concepts in support of DoD's military missions and business functions." DoD spokeswoman Heather Babb told Warrior Maven.
Pentagon officials intend for the new effort to connect otherwise disparate AI developments across the services. The key concept, naturally, is to capitalize upon the newest and most efficient kinds of autonomy, automation and specific ways in which AI can develop for the long term -- yet also have an immediate impact upon current military operations.
[PRESSTV] Yemeni army forces, supported by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have fired a domestically-designed and -developed ballistic missile at a strategic economic target in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s southwestern border region of Jizan in retaliation for the Riyadh regime’s devastating military aggression against their impoverished country.
A Yemeni military source, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , said the short-range Badr-1 missile struck Jizan Airport, also known as King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Airport, with great precision on Thursday afternoon, Arabic-language al-Masirah television network reported.
The development came only a day after Yemeni forces attacked an oil refinery of the Saudi Arabian national petroleum and natural gas company, Aramco, in the kingdom’s capital Riyadh using a long-endurance Sammad-2 (Invincible-2) unmanned aerial vehicle.
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domestically-designed and -developed ballistic missile
Apparently this copy editor learned from the previous guy's mistake in not adding that in as boilerplate
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[Al Jazeera] Nigerian police have enjugged Please don't kill me! eight members of the gangBoko 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... who were involved in the 2014 abduction of more than 276 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok, an official said.
The men "confessed to having participated actively in the kidnapping of the Chibok schoolgirls," police commissioner Damian Chukwu told journalists on Wednesday in the northern town of Maiduguri, once a Boko Haram stronghold.
The eight men were among a group of 22 fighters arrested within the past two weeks, according to Chukwu.
One of the men, aged 23, "confessed to being one of the Boko Haram commanders who coordinated and led the kidnapping" of the Chibok girls, Chukwu added.
Police said those arrested also admitted to organising more than 50 suicide kabooms.
The kidnapping of the Chibok girls captured the world's attention, with celebrities and prominent personalities such as former US first lady Michelle Obama joining a "Bring Back Our Girls" campaign to free them.
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[PRESSTV] The largest US trade association for the oil and natural gas industry hails the beginning of "energy renaissance" in the country, yet warning policies by US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... could disrupt it.
The American Petroleum Institute (API) released an analysis Thursday, announcing a new record in the country’s crude oil and natural gas production in June.
Still, the sector might not thrive and that due to tariffs placed on steel and iron imports by the president, the API suggested.
"For the energy renaissance to continue, the US natural gas and oil industry critically needs policies that advance energy infrastructure around the country as well as the access of US energy to global markets," the association said in its statement.
According to the analysis, production of natural gas hit 4 million barrels per day while production of crude topped 10.7 million barrels per day.
"US oil production has supplied all of the growth in global oil demand so far this year and helped compensate for production losses in some OPEC nations," the API said. "With continued increases in drilling activity, the US is poised for further production increases in natural gas and oil."
Despite having imposed the tariffs, President Trump took the opportunity at his NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... meetings in the EU de facto capital Brussels last week to market the US oil and natural gas exports.
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This all reminds me of Reagan standing strong against the Soviets and all the liberals pissing themselves because they were certain he was going to destroy us all while most conservatives understood brinkmanship as a tactic.
Of course the pants wetting probably convinced the soviets that Reagan was crazy so there is that.
[DailyMail] Astonishing video footage captured at a street demonstration in Paris shows Alexandre Benalla, who is in his mid-30s, attacking two young protesters, one female, one male.
It has led to a political scandal, with opponents of Mr Macron accusing him of trying to cover up the attacks, and calling for Benalla to be imprisoned.
The deputy chief of staff at the Elysee Palace had put on a police helmet, despite not being authorised to do so.
He can clearly be seen first of all grabbing a young woman by the neck at the demonstration on May 1 – a traditional day of street action that this year saw hundreds of thousands campaigning across France against Mr Macron's employment reforms.
Benalla then turns his attention to a bearded Left-wing activist who has been apprehended by gendarmes.
The burly Benalla pulls the man away from the police, and starts slapping him around the head by himself.
When other demonstrators start shouting at Benalla, he looks scared of being identified behind his visor, and then slinks off to a café.
Alexis Corbiere, an MP and spokesman for former far-Left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon, said he 'asked for penal sanctions' against a 'colleague of Macron who disguised himself as a police officer to commit violence.'
[PRESSTV] South Sudan's President Salva Kiir said he is ready to accept a peace deal to end a civil war and set up an inclusive new government.
The deal being negotiated in Sudan would give the country five vice presidents and also covers security and power sharing.
"The people of South Sudan are looking for peace and if that arrangement can bring about peace to the people of South Sudan, I am ready to take it," said Kiir late on Wednesday at a swearing-in ceremony for his foreign minister.
"People talk about exclusivity, nobody is to be left out of the government. I accept it," he said.
South Sudan erupted in conflict in 2013 because of a dispute between Kiir and his former vice president Riek Machar. Tens of thousands have been killed, a quarter of the population has fled their homes and the oil-dependent economy has been wrecked.
A 2015 peace deal briefly halted the fighting but it fell apart after Machar returned to the capital the following year.
The conflict has mostly been fought along ethnic lines, pitting Kiir's dominant Dinka tribe and its rival, the ethnic Nuer of Machar.
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[PRESSTV] Two Paleostinian families have demolished their homes in a village on the outskirts of the Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds, saying they would rather destroy them than face the prospect of Israeli settlers moving in.
Locals said the two families watched as bulldozers demolished their four homes in the Beit Hanina neighborhood on Thursday while friends and neighbors watched on a hillside as dust rose into the air.
Witnesses said that two mechanical diggers smashed through the ceilings, walls and floors of the two buildings for two hours in the area.
Jihad Shawamreh, 50, a taxi driver, said that he built his six-room house in 2000 and that his ex-wife Fawzia, their six children and other relatives lived there until Thursday.
The families argued they had bought the plots in good faith and believed they were the rightful owners.
"I built (my house) with my own hands. It is where I brought up my children. This is where they grew up," Shawamreh said, adding, "We took down the houses for fear of seeing settlers move in and having to see them inside the house."
Shawamreh said the demolition cost $8,200 and that he had turned down offers of money from Israeli settlers to leave the buildings standing.
Shawamreh's neighbor Zeinat Abu Rumeileh, 62, cried as she sat beside the other demolished home in a tent that she said had been provided by the Paleostinian Authority.
"I am not able to watch," she said, weeping into a handkerchief, adding, "I was afraid, of course, but we didn't think that this would happen or even come close to happening."
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[PRESSTV] Madrid has inked a military deal with the Riyadh regime, which would see a Spanish firm build five warships for Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , despite an international cry against the sales of military equipment to the kingdom amid its bloody war on impoverished Yemen.
The agreement was signed between the state-owned Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI) and Spain’s shipbuilder, Navantia, on Thursday, paving the way for the two sides to set up a joint venture in the kingdom for constructing the five battleships, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
The deal is part of a broader framework bilaterally agreed in April -- when Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016.... visited Spain -- which is estimated to be worth around 1.8 billion euros ($2.2 billion).
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"despite an international Iranian/Houthi cry against the sales of military equipment to the kingdom amid its bloody war on impoverished Yemen."
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[DAWN] Adiala jail authorities have limited the movement of 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... after some prisoners started chanting slogans against him as he was out for a stroll in the courtyard of his barrack early in the morning.
Sharif will now also not be allowed to pray in the mosque.
According to sources, the jail authorities are considering moving Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz to Safwat Lodge, commonly referred to as Sihala Rest House, located on the premises of Sihala Police College.
"A bomb disposal squad visited Sihala Police College Wednesday night to comb the premises to ensure there are no explosives in case the former premier and his daughter are moved to Sihala," a security bigshot said.
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[DAWN] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s main opposition leader was fined on Wednesday for defaming President Tayyip Erdogan and his family over claims about international money transfers, the state-run Anadolu news agency said.
Erdogan has dismissed the allegations by Republican People’s Party (CHP) chairman Kemal Kilicdaroglu, saying in November last year that his family "haven’t sent a dime abroad".
Officials at the presidency could not immediately be reached for comment.
The president, who was re-elected three weeks ago and assumed sweeping new executive powers, had vowed to take Kilicdaroglu to court, saying he would "pay the price".
Kilicdaroglu has since been ordered to pay Erdogan moral damages in several court cases, but Wednesday’s ruling ordering a 359,000 lira ($75,000) payment to the president and his close circle marked the largest sum yet.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Ynet] IAF aircrafts launched Friday evening an extensive attack on Hamas terror tunnels across Gaza.
[BBC] The youngest Spitfire pilot to fly in the Battle of Britain during World War Two has died, it has been announced.
DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) ‐ At least several tornadoes tore through central Iowa on Thursday afternoon, hitting key landmarks in some cities, such as the Marshall County Courthouse in Marshalltown and Vermeer Manufacturing in Pella.
[Daily Caller] Special counsel Robert Mueller has offered Clinton-connected superlobbyist Tony Podesta immunity in order to testify against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, according to Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
[Breitbart] Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats told the Aspen Security Forum on Thursday that he wished President Donald Trump had made a different statement at his press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Helsinki summit on Monday.
[AceOfSpades] 
... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
the 
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Central Criminal Court in Baghdad has announced sentencing seven members of 
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) A security personnel were 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
...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...
[The Hill] Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said Thursday that he didn’t know about the meeting between President Trump and Russian officials in the Oval Office last May before it occurred.
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
...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...
Many flights have been delayed or cancelled as the People's Liberation Army closes airspace while it holds military exercises aimed at scaring Taiwan.
[Daily Caller] The frenzied furor and fomented outrage over President Donald Trump’s reluctance to express blind trust for our "intelligence community" defy reason and reality. In their choreographed cries of contempt for Mr. Trump, the "left’s" increasingly shrill proclamations of political apocalypse make "Chicken Little" look rational. At least we’ve moved on from the impending annihilation from the nuclear war with North Korea.
[Al Jazeera] Scandinavia unprepared for worst drought in 74 years as wildfires rage and Stockholm asks for international assistance
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Thursday came under withering criticism from automakers, foreign governments and others as officials consider imposing tariffs of up to 25 percent on imported cars and parts, a levy that could hike vehicle costs, hurting auto sales and industry jobs.
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
[Daily Caller] At a recent speech in South Africa, former President Barack Obama criticized wealth inequality, saying those who have more money should share their earnings with the less fortunate.
[Al Jazeera] Nigerian police have 
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016....
... 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...
