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“Black Americans have a chance right now collectively to say to the Democrats: ‘Hey, if you don’t give us criminal justice reform, we’ll give the country to Donald Trump.' That’ll send the Democrats into a frenzy. Black lives will matter then, I guarantee you."
I would love to see this happen. The dhimocrats would completely shit themselves.
I'm beginning to think this will never end.
Police are investigating after an unarmed black carer for an autistic man was shot by an officer despite footage showing him lying on the ground with his hands in the air. What MORE could he have done? The poor guy was thrust into this situation and had no partner in the police. They have to learn to relax a bit and not draw their guns at the sight of their shadows. Hang back a bit and holler louder. Stand behind a police car or pole while talking to the subject. Maybe look from a couple of angles. Maybe figure out how to use binoculars.
Charles Kinsey was trying to take his 23-year-old patient back to a mental health centre in Miami when he was surrounded by armed police who had been called to reports of a man with a gun threatening to shoot himself. Quick! Get over there and kill him before he can create a problem!
A video taken by a bystander showed Kinsey pleading with officers from North Miami Police not to shoot as he lay down and told his patient sitting next to him to be still. They bystander figured it out. He wasn't in fear of his life. Why can't the cops?
The 47-year-old is heard shouting: "All he has is a toy truck. A toy truck. I am a behaviour therapist at a group home." Very complicated for anyone to understand. I can imagine why the officers were confused.
He also tells his patient to lie down, saying: "Rinaldo, please be still, Rinaldo. Sit down Rinaldo. Lay on your stomach." Given what happened, I'm surprised they didn't shoot Rinaldo 50 times and kill him first.
Moments later Kinsey says he was shot in the leg by one of the officers despite still keeping his hands in the air. Maybe Kinsey should have tried jumping jacks instead?
"I'm going to the ground just like this here with my hands up, and I'm laying down here just like this," he told WSVN-TV from his hospital bed. "I tell them again, 'Sir, there's no need for a firearm. I'm unarmed. He's an autistic guy, he had a toy truck in his hand'. Even more complicated. I can imagine that an officer would be in fear for his life with words like that.
"When he shot me it was so surprising, it was like a mosquito bite. I said, 'Sir, why did you shoot me?' And his answer was, I peed my pants 'I don't know.'" A perfect candidate for the Hillary defense.
A second video shows police detain the pair, with Kinsey claiming he was handcuffed and left bleeding from his gunshot wound. Jesus H. Christ. NO WEAPON. Why are they handcuffed? Do we need Tonka truck control now?
North Miami Police says the incident occurred on Monday (18 July) after officers were called to reports of an armed man threatening to kill himself at the junction of Northeast 127th Street and 14th Avenue. Right. Blame it on the caller. You must believe the caller. You must not question the caller. For example, if the caller said there's a lunatic talking about guns on the lawn at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, you must respond accordingly.
They instead found Kinsey speaking with his autistic patient who had wandered off from a mental health centre and was sitting down in the middle of the road to play with a toy truck. A fearsome sight indeed for someone without any common sense.
A statement issued on Wednesday by North Miami Police confirmed an officer had fired on Kinsey, striking him in the leg: "Arriving officers attempted to negotiate with two men on the scene, one of whom was later identified as suffering from autism. The other man was later identified as an employee of an Assisted Living Facility (ALF). At some point during the on-scene negotiation, one of the responding officers discharged his weapon, striking the employee of the ALF." Three times. The guy laying on his back with his hands in the air. Without the lethal toy truck.
North Miami Police said an investigation into the incident has been turned over to the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office, and urged any witnesses to come forward. There was no indication of any weapon being found. The officer who fired on Kinsey, whose ethnicity or name has not been released, has been placed on administrative leave, as is standard departmental policy. In the meanwhile, he should probably get a head start on his upcoming community service hours. In an autistic group home. Maybe that will knock some common sense into him.
The North Miami Police Department is the latest law enforcement agency under investigation for the shooting of an unarmed black man. Kinsey, whose injuries are not life-threatening, is a member of the Circle of Brotherhood which does good deeds for the community. The group have demanded answers from the police. Good luck getting anything other than "it was justified because the officer was in fear for his life of a toy truck".
"We found out bits and pieces and we're still finding things out," said member Lyle Muhammad. "So we'd just like to go see him."
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Militarizing our police was the biggest mistake we as a nation made under Bush. We need police officers, not soldiers, in our communities. If policing cannot be done due to gang and other violence, then send in the Guard and lock it down, like New Orleans after Katrina. Or build a wall around it and let them police themselves.
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A fuck-up is turned into a universal indictment.
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A nation of hundreds of millions of people interacting every day.
Each person now has a cell phone camera and a social media account.
Human beings are imperfect.
However we have a process in place to address every incident as fairly as possible.
The media and the politicians are using these incidents to furthur worse solutions that will not work better than what is in place instead of urging people to let the existing process take its course.
That is the real provlem.
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You can see that there are too many bad stuff by police.
The problem is that Leftists Media just put the black cases in front pages to get votes fro Democratas including even cases where the police clearely is right. But don't let the most dishonest profession in world mistake you.
There are many cases of police stupidity.
If the story is correct how can you justify this?
Even how can you justify this as a mistake.
trigger issue? cop have a mental issue?
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This one is bad. Looking at that photo - there is no excuse. Thankfully, this incident was not fatal. The offending police officer just unleashed incredible misery upon us all. Thanks, asshole.
In the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the Israeli military successfully beat back a two-front invasion by Syria and Egypt. The war lasted only a few weeks, but its implications for air combat continue to reverberate -- even helping make the case for ditching the iconic A-10 "Warthog."
The Yom Kippur War raged October 6-25 in 1973, and the Israeli forces initially suffered severe setbacks. It was a full, combined arms conflict in which tanks, artillery, planes, infantry, and air-defense missiles all had their say.
But one string of events reaches forward in time from those weeks and threatens the A-10.
Israel's air force, the Chel Ha'Avir, was able to slow and halt nearly all advances by tanks and other ground forces when it was safe to fly. But when the enemy forces stayed under the air-defense umbrella, Israel's pilots came under heavy attack.
In one instance, 55 missiles were flying at Israel's pilots in a single, small strip of land occupied by Syrian forces.
This resulted in Israeli ground forces either quickly losing their air cover to battlefield losses or to pilots becoming so worried about enemy missiles that they couldn't operate properly. In the first three days of fighting, the Chel Ha'Avir lost approximately 50 fighters and fighter-bombers -- 14% of the air force's entire frontline combat strength.
Israeli forces turned the tables with a few brilliant maneuvers. At one point, a pilot realized the enemy was firing too many missiles, so he led his men in quick passes as bait, causing the enemy to expend all its ordnance while downing relatively few planes. The survivors of this risky maneuver were then able to fly with near impunity. And that is the point at which you send in the Hogs.
On another front, troops opened the way for the air force by striking the missile sites with long-range guns. They moved forward of their established safe zones to do so, putting their forces at risk to save the planes above them.
Israel went on to win the war, allowing NATO and other Western militaries to pat themselves on the back because their tactics and hardware defeated a coalition equipped with Soviet tactics and hardware.
But for the Chel Ha'Avir and aviation officers around the world, there was a lesson to be parsed out of the data.
Both the A-4 Skyhawk and the F-4 Phantom flew a high number of sorties against the Syrians, the Egyptians, and their allies. But the Skyhawk suffered a much worse rate of loss than the F-4.
This was -- at least in part -- because the F-4 flew faster and higher and could escape surface-to-air missiles and radar-controlled machine guns more easily. Just a year after the A-10's debut flight and over three years before it was introduced to the air fleet, the whole concept of low-and-slow close air support seemed dated.
The resulting argument, that low-and-slow CAS is too risky, is part of the argument about whether the Air Force should ditch the A-10 Warthog for the fast-moving, stealthy F-35 Lightning II.
Of course, not everyone agrees that the Yom Kippur War is still a proper example of the close-air-support debate.
First, the A-10 has spent its entire service life in the post-Yom Kippur War world. While it suffered six losses against the Iraqis during Desert Storm, it has been flying against more advanced air defenses than the A-4s faced in the Yom Kippur War while remaining a lethal force throughout the flight. The A-10 has never needed a safe space.
Second, while the A-10's speed and preferred altitudes may make it more vulnerable than fast-movers to ground fire, it also makes the jet more capable when firing against ground targets. To modernize the old John A. Shedd saying about ships, "A ground-attack jet at high-altitude may be safe, but that's not what they are designed for."
Finally, the Yom Kippur War was a short conflict in which the Chel Ha'Avir had to fly against a numerically superior enemy while that enemy was marching on its capital. This forced commanders to take additional risks, sending everything they had to slow the initial Syrian and Egyptian momentum.
The US Air Force is much larger and has many more planes at its command. That means it can field more specialized aircraft. F-35s and F-22s can support ground forces near enemy air defenses and go after missile sites and other fighters while A-10s or the proposed arsenal plane attack ground forces from behind the F-22 and F-35 shield.
This isn't to say that the Air Force is necessarily wrong to divest itself of the A-10 to bolster the F-35. The Warthog can't stay on the battlefield forever. But if the A-10 has served its entire career in the post-Yom Kippur world, it seems like a shallow argument to say it couldn't possibly fight and win for another five or 10 years after nearly 40 successful ones.
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If we are faced with an advanced enemy, the air force is supposed to be doing more than sending in A-10's unsupported. Any SAM battery stupid enough to turn on their radars should die in minutes from HARMs. If you are unwilling to prepare the battlefield, you are going to suffer massive losses. This is what the whole concept of COMBINED ARMS is about. That means the air arm needs fights, bombers and CAS aircraft, not the overpriced version of a chinese knock off swiss army aircraft.
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All the Air Force wants to do is take down fighters. They don't consider it manly to deal with tanks.
Take CAS away from them and give it to the Army and Marines. That way the mission will be done by people who care about it.
(And if the Air Force won't provide air cover to CAS from other services, then disband them and fold them back into the Army.)
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SEAD anyone? Each tool has strengths and weaknesses, but Combined means the Zoomies need to be a part. If Air supremacy is their sole mission, the CAS mission and the tools to do it becomes another form of direct fire strategy, just a bit more vertical, and the ground forces are the place for those tools.
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IIRC it was the new missile/gun combination of the SA-6 and ZSU-23 that caused the problem. At first Israeli pilots would split-S upon being lit up by the SA6 radar - right into the sights of the quad 23mm guns.
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Of course, not everyone agrees that the Yom Kippur War is still a proper example of the close-air-support debate.
D'Oh! The Soviets, Egyptians and Syrians thought, planned and wargamed until they had a decent set of tactics against the IAF doctrine. When the Israelis started adapting the situation changed. Kenneth Pollack's Arabs at War thesis as to why the opening moves worked so well and the rest was the normal mediocrity in action.
They are assuming the F-35 will ever be built in sufficient quantities to actually do anything in that high-intensity combat theater.
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Remember that little war we had in '91? Where Iraq and Baghdad were the most heavily defended air space outside of Moscow? Remember how the A-10s were shot down in droves because it couldn't survive?
No, of course you fucking don't. We didn't lose one! (yeah a couple were shot up and had to be scrapped, but they made it home)
The A-10 with combined arms thrives and terrorizes enemy ground forces and I guarantee the F-35 won't perform as well. Especially if they come in low and a 20mm anti-air gunner does a good eyeball track. How well would the flying turkey do against shells vs. the A-10? It would be very expensive, burning metal is what it would be.
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Darth: Four were shot down, one shot up and crashed on landing, and one was shot up and crashed on landing during extreme weather, totalling six losses in Feb. 1991.
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After 8 years of riddling our military personel with transvestites and imcompetant PC people, no matter what our weapons are, we will be defeated. Just like the navy strayed into Iranian waters recently and surrendered at a moments notice.
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Authorities arrested 10 people Thursday who were suspected of planning a terrorist act during the upcoming Summer Olympics, the country's justice minister said.
The suspects have been accused of promoting propaganda from the so-called Islamic State group and allegedly had been in online contact with members of the terrorist group. Brazil Justice Minister Alexandre de Moraes called the suspects "complete amateurs" but said one of them tried to purchase an AK-47 from a local store.
The 10 suspects were taken into custody in multiple states, including Sao Paulo and Parana. Moraes said there had been no specific target, and two more suspects were being sought.
All of the suspects are Brazilian and one was a minor, The Guardian reported.
The country's intelligence agency said this week it is investigating all threats of terrorism against the Olympics. The SITE Intelligence Group reported a jihadi channel on the messaging app Telegram provided suggestions for lone wolf attacks in Rio.
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Brazil Justice Minister Alexandre de Moraes called the suspects "complete amateurs"
Lucky for you. How about the ones you haven't caught yet?
When President Obama entered office, he dreamed that his hope-and-change messaging and his references to his familial Islamic roots would win over the Muslim world. The soon-to-be Nobel Peace Prize laureate would make the U.S. liked in the Middle East. Then, terrorism would decrease.
But, as with his approach to racial relations, Obama's remedies proved worse than the original illness.
Obama gave his first presidential interview to Al Arabiya, noting that he has Muslims in his family. He implicitly blamed America's strained relations with many Middle Eastern countries on his supposedly insensitive predecessor, George W. Bush.
The new message of the Obama administration was that the Islamic world was understandably hostile because of what America had done rather than what it represented.
Accordingly, all mention of radical Islam, and even the word "terrorism," was airbrushed from the new administration's vocabulary. Words to describe terrorism or the fight against it were replaced by embarrassing euphemisms like "overseas contingency operations," "man-caused disaster" and "workplace violence."
In apology tours and mythological speeches, Obama exaggerated Islamic history as often as he critiqued America. He backed the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. He pushed America away from Israel, appeased Iran, and tried to piggyback on the Arab Spring by bombing Libya. He even lectured Christians on their past pathologies dating back to the Crusades.
Yet Obama's outreach was still interpreted by Islamists as guilt and weakness to be exploited rather than magnanimity to be reciprocated. Terrorist attacks increased. Obama blamed them on a lack of gun control or generic "violent extremism."
Careerist toadies in government parroted the party-line message and even tried to outdo their politically correct boss.
Former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano focused on returning veterans as terrorist risks. Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry said that global warming, not the Islamic State, was the real threat. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said the president asked him to make Muslim outreach a top priority for the agency. CIA Director John Brennan said that jihad "is a holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam." Director of National Intelligence James Clapper opined that the Muslim Brotherhood was largely secular.
The president often blamed the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay for needlessly provoking Islam. Obama said that terrorist dangers were no more deadly than falls in bathtubs. He wrote off the Islamic State as an inept jayvee squad, assuring that they posed no existential threat. He campaigned on the premise that al-Qaida was on the run. Obama pulled all troops out of Iraq, which instantly degenerated into chaos.
Obama kept insisting that guns, not Islamic terrorists, were the real danger -- even as assassins used bombs from Boston to Paris, knives from California to Oklahoma, and, most recently, a truck to run over innocents in Nice, France.
Intelligence and law enforcement agencies got the message and worried more about charges of "Islamophobia" than preempting deadly terrorist attacks. Authorities had either interviewed and then ignored the Boston, Fort Hood, San Bernardino and Orlando terrorists, or they had blindly ignored their brazen social media threats.
There was never cause for such weak-horse contrition.
Radical Islam never had legitimate grievances against the West. America and Europe had welcomed in Muslim immigrants -- even as Christians were persecuted and driven out of the Middle East.
Billions of dollars in American aid still flows to Islamic countries. The U.S. spent untold blood and treasure freeing Kuwait and later the Shiites of Iraq from Saddam Hussein. America tried to save Afghanistan from the Soviets and later from the Taliban.
For over a half-century, the West paid jacked-up prices for OPEC oil -- even as the U.S. Navy protected Persian Gulf sea lanes to ensure lucrative oil profits for Gulf state monarchies.
Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, the original architects of al-Qaida, were so desperate to find grievances against the West that in their written diatribes they had to invent fantasies of Jews walking in Mecca. In Michael Moore fashion, they laughably whined about America's lack of campaign finance reform and Western culpability for global warming.
The real problem is that Islamic terrorism feeds off the self-induced failures of the Middle East. Jihadists try to convince the Arab street that returning to religious fundamentalism and exporting jihad will empower Muslims to recapture lost primacy over a decadent and guilty West, just as in the mythical glory days of the caliphate.
In truth, religious intolerance, gender apartheid, illiteracy, autocracy, statism, tribalism and religious fundamentalism all guarantee poverty, economic stagnation and scapegoating. While much of Asia and Latin America progressed through reform, the Middle East blame-gamed its miseries on affluent Western nations and on Israel.
More disturbing, millions of Middle Easterners fled to the safety of Europe and the United States -- but on occasion, only to resist assimilation and show ingratitude once they got there.
In short, the dreamy Obama approach to terrorism has proved a nightmare -- and it is not over yet.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Pictured in a pink wig at a music festival this is the ISIS fanatic who went on an axe rampage on a German train and may have lied about being an Afghan refugee in order to secure asylum status after claims he is Pak.
The terror group released a video yesterday featuring the attacker, who is claimed to be 17, who was rubbed out by police after the attack, which left four people critically injured near the city of Wurzburg.
ISIS used the name 'Mohammed Riyadh' to describe him, however, sources close to the investigation in Germany said that he registered in the country as Riaz Khan Ahmadzai.
He lived on a farm with foster parents in the village of Gaukoenigshofen where the local Catholic priest set up a special room in his church for Moslems like him to pray.
As well as an ISIS flag and a suicide letter being found among his belongings, a Pak document was also found in his room, telling him where to go in Germany to increase his chances of being allowed to stay.
On his Facebook page he wrote in English: 'Life is too short to learn German.'
He was also pictured on his Facebook account wearing a pink wig for a festival at Ochsenfurt near to where he lived.
It was snapped at the Fasching Carnival in February, where events such as concerts, comedy sketches, parades and feasts took place over a four day period.
He also claimed he missed his mother, once posting on the social network site: 'I love you mama. I can forget everything, but not you. I miss you mama.'
Meanwhile in the video released yesterday by ISIS, the attacker, who appears to be older than 17, uses phrases in Pashto, a dialect spoken in Pakistain and not Afghanistan.
German TV station ZDF also noted that experts indicated his accent is clearly Pak.
Locals described the Khan as 'calm and even-keeled' and a 'devout Moslem who did not appear to be radical or a fanatic', according to Joachim Herrmann, interior minister of Bavaria state.
'According to the investigation thus far, there was no evidence on site to point to him belonging to the Islamist network,' Mr Herrmann added
Police however later found a farewell letter he apparently left for his father in which he said the world's Moslems 'must defend themselves.'
'Now pray for me that I can take Dire Revenge on non-believers, pray for me that I can get to heaven' the note said.
Prosecutors said he shouted 'Allahu Akbar' (God is greatest) three times as he made his way through the carriage.
An eyewitness told DPA news agency that the train, which had been carrying around 25 people, looked 'like a slaughterhouse'.
The assailant had arrived as an unaccompanied minor in Germany in June 2015 and had been staying with a foster family in the region for the last two weeks, Herrmann said.
'We must determine what the motive was and to what extent he really belonged to the Islamist scene or self-radicalised very recently,' Mr Herrmann said, adding that the assailant had no criminal record in Germany.
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Turkey has said it will suspend the European convention on human rights during a state of emergency declared in the aftermath of last weekend’s coup attempt.
"Turkey will suspend the European convention on human rights insofar as it does not conflict with its international obligations," the deputy prime minister, Numan Kurtulmus, was quoted as saying by the state-run Anadolu news agency.
The state of emergency will allow the government to rule by decree, passing bills that have the force of the rule of law unless they are overturned by parliament, where the majority of MPs belong to the ruling Justice and Development (AK) party.
Kurtulmus said Turkey would take the step "just like France has done under article 15 of the convention," which allows signatory states to derogate certain rights during times of war or major public emergency.
Article 15 and other international rights treaties allow governments to restrict certain rights, including freedom of movement, expression and association during states of emergency. However, the article stipulates that measures must be strictly proportionate and not discriminate against people based on ethnicity, religion or social group.
Can Dundar, the editor of the opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet, said the emergency state meant Turkey now had "an oppressive regime where the law and liberties will be suspended, press will be censored, and the parliament eliminated".
Germany’s foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, urged the Turkish government to maintain both the rule of law and a sense of proportion in its response to the coup attempt.
"Only provable involvement in illegal acts, not suspected political leanings, should trigger governmental action," Steinmeier said. "It’s also critical that the declaration of emergency be the truly necessary length of time, and to end the measure as quickly as possible."
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] In the end it was all about Ted Cruz.
Delivering an un-vetted speech before the GOP convention Wednesday night, Ted Cruz -- as is always his custom -- carefully calculated just how to do it so it would benefit himself the most. And it backfired.
He uttered the name of his party’s nominee -- the man who invited him to speak -- just once, only to congratulate him on the nomination. Quite pointedly, the Texas Senator refused to endorse Donald Trump.
As if to punctuate his own bitter whining over losing, Cruz actually told conventioneers that New York is different from Iowa, reviving the major theme of his losing campaign against Trump. And reminding folks that, yes, he won the Iowa caucuses and for a very brief moment was the Republican frontrunner.
As he wound up his non-endorsement speech, the convention hall began to get restless. Delegates began to realize that the rude political has-been was actually going to withhold an endorsement.
In an eruption, they thrust to their feet and shouted at Cruz. They booed him and pounded into him, "Trump! Trump! Trump!"
It would have been humiliating for the Texas Senator if he had been listening. Instead, he remained laser focused on a speech he hoped would set him up for another presidential run in 2020. This, of course, would be banking on the deep hope that Donald Trump loses in November. And Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John C. Calhoun ... wins.
This is a man whose arrogance and ego knows no bounds.
"I appreciate the enthusiasm of the New York delegation," Cruz said snidely, as the rowdy crowd of New Yorkers at his feet reproved Cruz for his blatant non-endorsement of the Republican nominee for president.
How could he not? With the Supreme Court in the balance, how could Ted Cruz not swallow hard and endorse the only man who can stop Hillary Clinton from choosing two and possibly five Supreme Court replacements?
This is a man who loves himself and his political career so much more than his country.
And it was not just the New York delegation booing him. It was delegates around the arena, standing up, shouting him down and waving him off the stage.
"Don’t stay home," Cruz said weakly.
"Vote your conscience," he said, as if to highlight that Donald Trump is not a professional politician. It was a signal to the party establishment that they should not vote for Trump if they don’t love him.
As Mr. Trump did during the primary, he will have to win this general election without help of professional incumbent politicians like Ted Cruz. And Ted Cruz will go down with the sinking GOP ship U.S.S. Bush.
Good riddance.
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Cruz last night gave proof that a man can be a brilliant orator, a skilled Constitutional scholar, a genuine conservative thinker, and still be a self-absorbed, petulant, jackass whose need to piss on the leg of an opponent outweighs his loyalty to the future of the nation itself. Had he been really in noble opposition, he would have avoided speaking to the convention, but his face belied that claim, he could not hide his delight. You showed me last night you are a sh*thead Ted!
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So he didn't endorse Trump, but said to "Vote your conscience". Trump knew it was coming and co-ordinated a counter on the floor. Which is FINE.
M. B. Dougherty had a great line in The Week:
When you become outraged at a man who encourages you to abide by your conscience, it means your conscience has already condemned you.
This will blow over in a week or so, Cruz will sit out the election, and if this is enough to sink Trump then he wasn't going to win anyway.
Personally I'm more concerned about the reaction's on the floor, and how people were attempting to move and get to Heidi Cruz. She had to be escorted out for her own safety, and that is just.... wrong.
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think Cruz is positioning himself for 2020. He probably believes Trump will be a disaster, either a) losing to Clinton or b) winning and doing a miserable job. Then he'll be remembered as the one to dis Trump to his face on the official GOP stage.
Sorry. There is just something irksome about the guy. He has that smarmy smile and that smug, nasal voice. If all I could do is read what he says in the newspaper I might think he was OK. But he's not.
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I don't know who the hell you are jackass, but in p0erson you might find cause to regret that kind of insult!
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Please tone it down, #3 Thing. Let's not turn Rantburg into a lefty-worthy insult-scream-fest.
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#7: Are you saying that you're objection to Cruz is his physical attributes? Because that sounds... bad.
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"I don't know who the hell you are jackass, but in p0erson you might find cause to regret that kind of insult!"
But Ted's gotta Shut Up And Take It from the guy who danced around implying that his Dad helped kill Kennedy. And I have to pretend this guy sucking up to Erdogan (who's still got Incirlik surrounded) is a good candidate.
Brutus and Cassius are both honorable men, excellent candidates, and the Party Nominees.
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Read the speech. Then tell me EXACTLY what you find offensive. It was a great speech.
First he congratulated Trump on his victory. Right up front. He told the party that it must unite. Clearly. He specifically told the party it must turn out in November and urged people to not stay at home. He told the voters to vote their conscience - I do not see the problem with that because anyone with a conscience clearly cannot vote for Hillary. And lastly, Cruz told the voters to stand up for those who stand up for the constitution. Given I and others have taken an oath to uphold and defend that Constitution, I see no problem with that statement either.
I don't see anything wrong with it. Remember Reagan gave a speech but did not endorse in 1976 so there is precedent.
And on a personal level, it would have been a lie had Cruz endorsed the man who slurred his wife, lied about his dad and basically called him a liar the entire campaign. Remember, Cruz did not beg to speak, Trump and the GOP asked him to do so, and they knew he was not going to endorse well ahead of time. So why all the rage?
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FYI, the stuff you see flooding the press about this backfiring? Its the establishment trying to bury Cruz. The elites have their guy, Donald Trump, and are angry that Cruz would embarrass them on national TV. This was highlighting the establishment and elites sellout and lack of principles by Cruz sticking to his principles and refusing to bend his knee in obedience to the party. Cruz maintained his values, values that I share. The GOP, Trump and Trump supporters I cannot say the same for.
If Trump's people had not whipped the crowd into booing, and simply sat there and golf-clapped or simply refused to applaud, this would have been forgotten. Instead they booed, and physically went after Cruz's wife. As usual, Trump and his followers screwed this up by making it personal.
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I don't think they should have given him that prime talking slot and his non-endorsement won't help him in 2020. Who's going to suck it up and support him then?
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In context, USA been spreading democracy/nation building for the last 20+ years.
(a) Did it work? Anywhere?
(b) Democracy begins at home.
And that Trump said is classical Jacksonianism. And, IMO - looking from the outside at the forrest, non from inside at the trees, it's long past time USA returned to its roots.
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For the last eight years Obama has fucked up stuff in the name of democracy and in the name of Modern Health Care. Would you stop using naprelan because he says he's for modern health care? Is anything going to get better if we let Erdogan (for instance) fuck over the Kurds and steal another election?
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You mean the guy who got Gaddafi to turn over on the AQ Khan network, thus making Stuxnet possible? I remember a lot of the shitty things you said about him and how you thought Obama and Hillary were better than him in 2009... but go ahead, make your case for Erdogan this week.
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Are you saying that you're objection to Cruz is his physical attributes? Because that sounds... bad.
Uh, yeah. I said I was sorry. But it's like a limp, clammy handshake. It kinda tells you something about the man. And like OldSpook says, if I read the speech I don't find anything wrong with it. But I didn't read it, I watched it on TV, and that makes a difference.
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And I remember getting sinktrapped once for a lot less than Thing said.
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And besides that, I don't give a rat's ass about Kurds or Turks or Syrians or anybody else in that cat box except that I would kick the Turks out of NATO promptly after getting everybody and everything out of Turkey including Incirlik. I don't care. Let the Russians deal with them.
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Briliant move by Cruz. Trump will win in November The convention will be forgotten. Except for the Ted Cruz speech. Ted used Trumps controversial play book. He never said do not vote for the Republican choice which Ctuz supporters will come out and do. He just made it clear he will not kiss the ring on Trumps fist for personal reasons and to Trumps credit he approved the speech before it was given.
This will be an interesting relationship to watch.
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I don't think the orchestrated boos were classy. Kind of petty in and of themselves.
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Demand Mr. Trump sign a pledge to back the winner of the race, then do exactly to opposite when he wins. Sorry folks, your heroes have feet of clay. Vote your conscience, screw integrity. So many Trunk are like so many Donks, my power first, democracy and integrity last.
The man couldn't pull it off just in the Party, he wasn't going to win in November. You'd have your Barry Goldwater moment, but Hillary would appoint at least the next two SCOTUS justices.
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Trump’s former GOP rival, who like the rest of the field signed a pledge during the primaries to support the party’s nominee, said that agreement was “abdicated” when the brash real estate mogul mocked his wife, Heidi, and suggested that his father was involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
“That pledge was not a blanket commitment that if you go and slander and attack Heidi that I’m going to nonetheless come like a servile puppy dog and say, ‘Thank you very much for maligning my wife and maligning my father,‘” Cruz said.
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Like Spook, the speech was fine, but despite the offer by Trump (whom I find the worst candidate my party has selected in my lifetime) Cruz intended to damage Trump on the national stage, giving significant aid to the most dangerous and corrupt candidate the democrats have even proposed, and that is saying something. Cruz wanted revenge and knew it would damage Trump. I'm fine with that, but not at that venue. That puts revenge above the future of the nation. If he cannot keep his word, at least shut up at this crucial moment. As for the insult. When someone makes it offensively personal, I doubt you would tolerate that. I will not.
[LOSANGELES.CBSLOCAL] Dramatic video has been released of a man who police say stands accused of building a chemical weapon inside a Walmart store in Oxnard.
The man wearing all black is initially seen in the security footage from June 18 blending in like any other shopper.
But, authorities say, he didn’t come to the store to shop, but to build a chemical weapon.
"This is a very bizarre case," said Eric Sonstegard, the Oxnard Assistant Police Chief.
Detectives identified the suspect as Martin Reyes. They say he went to the store after conducting research online on how to build a deadly chemical weapon.
Once inside the store, police said the man assembled all of the ingredients from store shelves, which included some kind of electronic appliance.
Police said he used a socket near the stationary section to plug in the appliance, which was then designed to set the chemical weapon off.
"This device could have caused a lot of harm," Sonstegard said.
Store employees noticed Reyes, and the weapon and called 911. Everyone inside the store was evacuated.
Customers who are just now learning about the incident are shaken.
"It’s scary. This is only my second time at this Walmart. And with what’s happening today, it’s scary," said Yvonne Railey, a shopper.
"I would have freaked out. But it doesn’t surprise me," said another shopper.
Oxnard detectives utilizing evidence at the scene and security video tracked down Reyes Tuesday. He was already behind bars on unrelated charges.
"He ended up admitting the entire thing and basically telling them how he created the device," Sonstegard said.
Police said the suspect is mentally unstable and described him as a "career criminal."
A motive for the incident is unknown.
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[Fox] What if the folks who run the Department of Political Justice recently were told that the republic would suffer if Hillary Clinton were indicted for espionage because Donald Trump might succeed Barack Obama in the presidency? What if espionage is the failure to safeguard state secrets and the evidence that Clinton failed to safeguard them is unambiguous and overwhelming?
What if President Obama never really liked his former rival whom he appointed as his secretary of state? What if he had no real interest in seeing her succeed him because he and his wife simply could never trust her?
What if, when Clinton suggested to the president that the U.S. wage a secret undeclared war against Libya, the president went along with it as a no-lose proposition? What if he assumed that if her secret war succeeded he’d get the credit and if her secret war failed she would get the blame?
What if the means of fighting the secret war consisted of employing intelligence assets rather than the U.S. military? What if Clinton concocted that idea because the use of the military requires a public reporting to the entire Congress but the use of intelligence assets requires only a secret reporting to a dozen members of Congress?
Additional 'What if's' follow, any one, or any combination of which are entirely plausible.
[News.com.au] A man has been arrested after driving a car full of gas cylinders into a western Sydney police station. The man drove into the underground car park of Merrylands Police Station and reportedly tried to set himself and his vehicle alight about 7pm on Thursday.
He was arrested about an hour later after a tense stand-off with police. A witness has reported seeing someone being stretchered away from the Memorial Avenue scene as police and emergency crews swarmed the building.
A large exclusion zone has been established as bomb squad officers examine the man's vehicle. No police officers or members of the public were injured during the incident, according to NSW Police.
The alleged attacker has been taken to Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital in a serious condition. The possible motivation for the alleged attack remains unclear.
"The circumstances regarding the incident are in the early stages of being confirmed and no further details are available at this time," NSW Police said in a statement. Merrylands has been the centre of several terror-related incidents and raids in the past two years.
Homes in the suburb were raided in September 2014 over a beheading plot and again 13 months later following the terror-linked shooting of police accountant Curtis Cheng in Parramatta.
Talal Alameddine, 22, of Merrylands, was charged with supplying the gun that 15-year-old Farhad Jabar used to kill Mr Cheng. Alameddine's home was one of two properties raided in December last year following reported Facebook threats made against the Merrylands Police Station.
NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Denis Clifford is expected to address the media later on Thursday night.
so he was a very pious Muslim?
Sounds like the Mosques in Merrylands need to be razed
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Wonder if he checked the fill level on the tanks?
Around here the Propane freezes in the winter.
Or the putz could have picked up a batch of empty tanks at the local Home Depot exchange station.
Mentally unstable doesn't necessarily mean you can't go boom, just that you may not be able to follow a sequence of events to a planned conclusion without interruption.
[Ynet] Italian police have broken up a criminal ring which smuggled at least 100 migrants colonists from the northern city of Milan to other European countries in what authorities described as one of the biggest operations of its kind.
Italia has been on the frontline of Europe's immigration crisis. About 170,000 migrants colonists reached Italia by sea in 2014 and 153,800 came in 2015. So far this year, more than 79,000 migrants colonists have arrived, the vast majority of them Africans.
Police said they enjugged Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! and charged 10 people with smuggling offences, including the suspected ringleader, a 37-year-old Egyptian man. The arrests were made in raids across four northern provinces this week.
Erdogan ally: Coup attempt will tighten Israel-Turkey ties
[IsraelTimes] Senior adviser to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Ilnur Cevik tells Israeli TV that Ankara expects Israeli intel in fight against IS, says US must ‘think very clearly’ about request to extradite cleric.
Golly. That sounds threatening.
Turkey scrambles fighter jets after reported sighting of missing vessels
[Ynet] Turkish F-16 fighter jets scrambled on Wednesday to check reports that missing Turkish coastguard vessels had appeared in Greek waters in the Aegean Sea, Turkish military sources said. They gave no further details. Some Turkish military hardware was seized and used in last weekend's failed coup in which more than 230 people were killed. Officials have said no military equipment remains unaccounted for.
Turkish Embassy Targets 'Gulen-Linked' Cambodia Schools
[AnNahar] A Turkish official in Cambodia Wednesday called for the closure of schools it says are linked to the cleric accused of orchestrating a failed coup in Turkey.
Fethullah Gulen, who denies involvement in the attempted power grab, is the spiritual leader of the Hizmet movement which operates schools around the world and is also linked to media organizations, businesses and think-tanks.
"We know that Fethullah Gulen is behind the coup attempt and we know Zaman schools are affiliated with this person," an anonymous official from the Turkish embassy in Cambodia told AFP Wednesday, referring to the Zaman International School in Phnom Penh. "That's why our government expects these schools to be closed."
A bit high handed, but that's to be expected now that they're becoming a proper neo-Ottoman sultinate.
"We have been in close contact with the Cambodian government... regarding the Zaman schools in Cambodia, and we have requested all kinds of support to be halted," Turkish ambassador Ilhan Kemal Tug said.
The director of the schools, which serve more than 2,000 students in Cambodia from kindergarten to university level, denied formal ties with the preacher. The schools were founded in 1997 by a former journalist with the newspaper Zaman, an outlet seen as aligned with Gulen until its takeover in March by the Turkish government.
"The founders of Zaman International School started with the spiritual motivation of Mr. Fethullah Gulen; however, Mr Gulen has never had any official link, ownership or involvement in the school administration," Ejder Kilic, chairman of Zaman Co Ltd, said in a statement emailed to AFP.
Cambodia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs told AFP it has not received a formal request to shut down the schools.
Turkish National Security Council meeting ends
[Hurriyet] Turkey's National Security Council convened on July 20 under the chairmanship of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the aftermath of the failed coup attempt on July 15. Along with Erdoğan, Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar, force commanders, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım, National Intelligence Organization (MIT) Chief Hakan Fidan, deputy prime ministers, defense, interior and foreign ministers, participated in the meeting.
According to reports, the government is planning to establish a special court for trying coup plotters and building a special prison for the convicted junta members who took part in the July 15 coup attempt.
The tears will flow from your eyes, dear Reader, as Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar’s aide, Infantry Lt. Col. Levent Turkkan relays his tale of woe and betrayal: the poor boy seduced with stolen test answers to betray his pasha and his country -- a betrayal he deeply regrets, though he never raised a hand or a weapon against the the noble Turkish people whom his heart truly loves.
Turkish Defense Ministry suspends 262 military judges and prosecutors as full investigation launched
[Hurriyet] The Turkish Defense Ministry suspended a total of 262 military judges and prosecutors on July 20, as part of an investigation launched into all military judges and prosecutors. The ministry announced the investigation into all military judges and prosecutors had been launched as a part of the ongoing probe into the failed coup attempt of July 15.
Meanwhile, a total of 21 military judges, including five staff colonels and nine members of the military court of appeals, military high administrative court and the Defense Ministry, were taken under supervision by the instruction of the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on July 21. The ministry also suspended one deputy undersecretary, one major general, two brigadiers and one rear admiral from their duties.
In addition, a total of 900 police officers were also suspended from their duties in the capital Ankara for having links to the Gülen movement, blamed for orchestrating the failed coup attempt on July 15.
A total of 257 personnel who were working at the prime minister’s office’s additional building were suspended and their identities were taken. 230 of the suspended were rapporteurs, 19 were experts, six were advisers and the two were legal advisers.
Meanwhile, eight top level executives in the Turkish parliament were removed from duty, while the duty areas of two others have been changed, as the government intensifies its crackdown on the Gülen movement.
In addition, 15,200 personnel in the Education Ministry, 8,777 personnel in the Interior Ministry, 1,500 personnel in the Finance Ministry and 300 personnel in the Energy and Natural Sources Ministry were suspended from their duties.
Youth and Sports Minister Akif Çağatay Kılıç announced that 245 personnel within his ministry had been laid off, while the Energy Ministry and Customs Ministry said they had ended the duties of 300 and 184 employees, respectively.
‘Graveyard for traitors’ to be built in Istanbul for coup plotters: Mayor
[Hurriyet] Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Kadir Topbaş has said the city ordered a space which will serve as a graveyard for the plotters of the July 15 failed coup attempt as no cemetery would accept their corpses, calling the plot “the graveyard for traitors.”
“I ordered a space to be saved and to call it ‘the graveyard for traitors.’ The passersby will curse the ones buried there. ‘Everyone visiting the place will curse them and they won’t be able rest in their graves,’ I said,” Topbaş told a group of coup protesters gathered in Istanbul’s Taksim Square late on July 19, while adding that the mayor of the Black Sea province of Ordu had refused to provide a burial place for the coup plotters.
Go behind, go under, go around
[News.Mic.com] As hard as the Turkish government might try, shutting down Twitter isn't as easy as it seems. At 11:30 p.m. Thursday the Turkish government officially blocked the country's 33 million Internet users from Twitter, but clever, tech-savvy Turks are sharing a simple and effective method to help fellow citizens bypass the ban — and they're sharing it everywhere.
Just hours after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to "root out" Twitter, graffiti has been popping up around Istanbul with two IP addresses anyone can use to circumvent the government's ban. The two numbers — 8.8.8.8. and 8.8.4.4. — refer to Google's Public DNS, which can be easily utilized to maintain access to Twitter.
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[Ynet] An Iraq donor conference on Wednesday raised more than $2.1 billion in aid, surpassing the estimated $2 billion organizers had expected, US State Department front man John Kirby said.
"The conference raised in excess of $2.1 billion, with a number of additional pledges still being finalized," Kirby said in a statement. Defense and foreign ministers from 24 countries met in Washington for a pledging session to help Iraq in its fight against ISIS murderous Moslems.
Now to see which and how many actually pay up -- promises are easy.
HMS Ambush, an Astute-class submarine, was "submerged and conducting a training exercise" when it was involved in what the Ministry of Defence described as a "glancing collision" on Wednesday afternoon.
The incident caused the submarine to dock in Gibraltar, which has long been the subject of a sovereignty row between Spain and Britain. Stickleback class ?
In a statement the Spanish foreign ministry said it had asked the British embassy in Madrid for "urgent explanations over the extent of the breakdown and all relevant information regarding the circumstances of this incident".
The collision caused damage to the front of the conning tower on HMS Ambush, but the Ministry of Defence said that there was "absolutely no damage" to the submarine's nuclear plant.
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The Republican party has been awful at conservatism. It (and the rest of the country) needs chemo. We are getting a vote between cyanide look aid and bloodletting and snake oil.
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Somewhere along the line it switched from 'We the People' to 'This is the American Chamber of Commerce' and missed the signal indicating it was leaving voters for donors.
L.A. Times showing it's red stripe. [LATIMES] Try to imagine, then, a situation in which Trump commanded our military to do something stupid, illegal or irrational. Something so dangerous that it put the lives of Americans and the security of the country at stake. (Trump’s former rival for the Republican presidential nomination, Marco Rubio, said the United States could not trust "the nuclear codes" to an "erratic individual.") Faced with opposition from his military brass, Trump would perhaps reconsider and back down. But what if he didn’t?
Blimpish swagger might fly within the patriarchal confines of a family business...or a dictatorship. It does not work, however, in a liberal democracy.
In that case, our military men and women, who swear to uphold the Constitution and a civilian chain of command, would be forced to choose between obeying the law and serving the wishes of someone who has explicitly expressed his utter lack of respect for it.
They might well choose the former.
"I would be incredibly concerned if a President Trump governed in a way that was consistent with the language that candidate Trump expressed during the campaign," retired Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, who served as head of the CIA and the National Security Agency under President George W. Bush, said in response to Trump’s autocratic ruminations. Asked by TV host Bill Maher
...whose eponymous show brings in 1.76 million viewers for HBO, all of whom fancy themselves intellectuals...
what would happen if Trump told American soldiers to kill the families of terrorists, as he has promised to do, Hayden replied, "If he were to order that once in government, the American armed forces would refuse to act." I can imagine absolutely no situation in which the U.S. military would be involved in a coup. Nor have I seen any instance where Trump as expressed any disrespect for the military. Should President Trump propose something stoopid off the top of his head, the idea would be discussed and dismissed in a staff meeting. The Donald isn't Captain Zero. No one on his staff is going to pronounce him "ready to rule from day one." It's virtually impossible to stage a coup in this country. Not only would the military not obey such orders, but we have hundreds of TV stations, thousands of radio stations, the internet, Twitter, social media, and cell phones. Notice how quickly Yippie spoke to his supporters in Turkey using FaceTime? That times a thousand here. Plus we have an evenly divided country of 315 million people. Stage a coup and you're guaranteed to cheese off half of them at a minimum.
A coup simply is not possible. Succession, however...
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Try to imagine, then, a situation in which Trump commanded our military to do something stupid, illegal or irrational.
"Defend the Borders" sorta thing? Or, "No way, I'm approving a budget for sex change operations in the military!"? Or, "Win the f*cking war already! I'm sending my consigliori over."?
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Concur on the impossibility of a coup. All states have a National Guard that will not follow the Active Force lead even if they did attempt. I am not sure a coup leader could get the Active Duty folks to set aside their school schedules and carefully crafted career ambitions for any such coup nonsense anyaways...further, it would have to be scheduled around the upcoming 4 day weekends and day on day off Christmas schedule. Now if the AC could contract a coup attempt out, perhaps.
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"Try to imagine, then, a situation in which Trump commanded our military to do something stupid, illegal or irrational."
Yeah, I see a member or two of the Joint Chiefs pointing out how stupid, illegal or irrational such a command is and then if pushed stepping down which would publicly leave egg all over the Commander-in-Chiefs face. Unlikely it would even get that far even with the super-political military brass we now have.
[BREITBART] London’s new and first Moslem mayor Sadiq Khan has refused to back a request for the terrorist outfit Hezbollah to be a proscribed organization.
Following a question from UK Independence Party (UKIP) London Assembly member David Kurten, Mr. Khan said that he would not back a ban on the group which has recently had supporters and sympathisers protesting with its famous yellow jihadi flag at ’Al Quds Day’ in London.
Mr. Kurten asked the question in the discussion following Assembly member Kemi Badenoch’s question: "What action is the Metropolitan Police Service taking against the use of flags representing designated terrorist organizations as seen during the recent al-Quds Day march in London on July 3rd?"
While Mr. Khan said he understood "the concerns of the Jewish community, and the distress these flags cause many Londoners", he also said "It would not be appropriate... to comment on an ongoing police investigation" and that he would not commit to pushing for a ban on the "political wing" of Hezbollah.
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[ENT.SITEINTELGROUP] Al-Qaeda demanded 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.... (IS) leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... produce evidence for the allegations made by his front man, Abu Muhammad al-'Adnani, about its "apostasy" and that of other fighters.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A key commander of the Taliban group was killed during a clash in the restive southeastern Ghazni province of Afghanistan. I'm not sure they have any commanders who aren't "key."
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said the Taliban capo identified as Mirza who was also famous as Hamza was killed during the clash.
According to a statement by MoI, Hamza was killed along with two other Taliban fighters after launching an attack on police check post in Qarabagh district.
The statement further added that the attack by the Taliban group was repulsed resulting into the death of Hamza and his lover companions.
At least two other turbans also sustained injuries during the clash, MoI said, adding that two Ak-47 rifles, 2 cycle of violences, and some other ammunition and explosives were confiscated following the clash.
According to MoI, Hamza was involved in major terrorist activities in Ghazni province, specifically in attacks on security check posts in the vicinity of Qarabagh district.
The Talibs group has not commented regarding the report so far.
Ghazni is among the relatively volatile provinces in southeastern Afghanistan where the Talibs are actively operating in a number of its districts and often carry out insurgency activities.
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[DAILYCALLER] A group of adventurers, sailors, pilots and climate scientists that recently started a journey around the North Pole in an effort to show the lack of ice, has been blocked from further travels by ice.
The Polar Ocean Challenge is taking a two month journey that will see them go from Bristol, Alaska, to Norway, then to Russia through the North East passage, back to Alaska through the North West passage, to Greenland and then ultimately back to Bristol. Their objective, as laid out by their website, was to demonstrate "that the Arctic sea ice coverage shrinks back so far now in the summer months that sea that was permanently locked up now can allow passage through."
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Used the inevitable delay to formulate new theory of how global warming causes worldwide cooling?
[NPR.ORG] A federal appeals court has ruled that a Texas voter ID law has a discriminatory effect on minority voters, and it has ordered a lower court to devise a remedy before the November elections.
A district court had found not only that the law discriminated, but that it was intentionally designed to do so. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals saw some flaws in that conclusion and instructed the lower court to reconsider that element of the case and rule again -- preferably after Election Day.
The judges also ruled that the law is not a poll tax and declined to consider whether the law puts an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote.
The Texas voter ID law requires voters to present an approved ID card before voting. It has been controversial ever since it was passed in 2011.
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First it was Canadians voting in Wisconsin, now its grandmothers in Texas. I'm beginning to think maybe the IRS should manage federal identity cards. No job, no taxes, no vote.
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Any non-U.S. citizen or anyone not registered, holding duel citizenship, deceased, in jail or prison, medially incapacitated, on a drip, judged mentally impaired, judged to be intoxicated or high on drugs, in default on student loans, previously convicted of a felony, or too stupid and indolent to NOT have an official form of ID should not be voting under any circumstance.
Anyone carrying a pet or musical instrument, men wearing Man-buns, white men wearing dreadlocks, lobe expanders, ankle jewelry (as depicted above), or extremely slim slacks will be moved to the rear of the line and must provide multiple forms of ID, make no greeting or utterance, and provide evidence of recent use of hand sanitizer.
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Wonder how far I'd get trying to vote in Mexico?
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And such federal ruling discriminate against majority voters by allowing unqualified individuals the power of the vote. It suppresses the vote of the majority. In a real republic, the most valuable thing is the vote and should be protected against any and all abuses. In any other form of governance, its all merely ritual for rubes.
If I have to show TSA an ID to get on a plane, then you better damn well have an ID to vote.
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Texas should try the judges for treason against the state of Texas and impose the death penalty. Voter fraud is treason or an act of war for non-citizens. The penalty for it should be summary execution for non-citizens and a prompt trial and execution for the guilty for citizens.
[FOXNEWS] The failed coup d’état by elements of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s military signals more repression and chaos in the Middle East.
We still lack important information on what motivated the attempt to overthrow President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... , its timing and how and why it collapsed so quickly. Nonetheless, we confidently predict Turkey will suffer several major domestic consequences, in turn causing significant international ripples.
Most importantly, Erdogan’s relentless pursuit of an increasingly radical Islamicization of Turkey will proceed largely unfettered. And no significant institutional or political opposition inside Turkey now stands athwart his penchant for authoritarianism.
The triumph of Erdogan’s government means he has swept the board clear of any real impediments to implementing his radical policies. Both as prime minister and now as president, Erdogan has focused single-mindedly on an Islamicist attack on Turkey’s secular constitution, and the very foundations of a modern Turkey, rising from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, envisioned by Mustafa Kemal.
Turkey’s military, following the pattern laid down by Kemal (known widely as "Ataturk," meaning "father of the Turks"), was intended to be the guardian of the new, Europe-oriented nation-state he strove to create.
Although it may sound odd to Western ears that the military was to safeguard civil rights, especially freedom of religion, in this new Turkey, Kemal well understood that modern thinking needed time to take root and replace the Byzantine medievalism that had characterized Ottoman rule for centuries.
Sadly, Erdogan’s religious zeal has proven Kemal right. For years, Erdogan has replaced high-ranking, secular military officers with loyal Islamicists in a blatant effort to bend the military away from its secular vocation, toward endorsing or at least accepting a re-established state Islam, harking back to the dear departed Ottoman caliphate.
Erdogan’s success at stuffing the military’s top officer corps with Islamicists and political loyalists likely explains why Turkey’s military wasn’t fully behind the coup attempt. Indeed, as seemed clear even in the revolt’s early hours, it appeared more an act of desperation, a last gasp by the military’s pro-secular elements, rather than a concerted effort by a united military establishment.
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Can Mr. Bolton + Mustache be the next Secretary of State? Please?
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I am deeply concerned about our troops stationed in TU.
The USAF, at the direction of The Pentagon, has engaged and trumpeted social experiments directly offensive to their host country's predominant belief, and, soon to be Government, system. Not smart - Facebook photos can get you in deep "doo-doo."
Hoping (all) our assigned personnel are keeping vigilance that will prove unnecessary.
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Any military have insight in to the chances the nukes are actually turned over? Because I personally can't believe such a thing (currently) until it happens.
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[BREITBART] The official 2016 platform of the Republican Party asserts that since the Constitution gives the federal government “no role in education,” it should not join with “centralizing forces” that have attempted to reform education and have subsequently done “immense damage.” Those of us who went to school before the Department of Education was inaugurated often wonder at the steady decline in our schools since then.
The platform affirms the primary role of parents as educators in a child’s life, and supports a constitutional amendment to protect the right of parents to direct their children’s education from the overreach of federal and state governments and from potential international intruders such as the United Nations. It also upholds “parent-driven accountability at every stage of schooling,” and recognizes the value of local control of education.
We reject a one- size-fits-all approach to education and support a broad range of choices for parents and children at the state and local level,” states the GOP platform. “We likewise repeat our long-standing opposition to the imposition of national standards and assessments, encourage the parents and educators who are implementing alternatives to Common Core, and congratulate the states which have successfully repealed it.
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The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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My God - you mean someone's actually read the Constitution?
Now let's live by it.
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Nonsense. The Tenth Amendment has been dead since the Depression. The Supreme Court ruled that even if you grew wheat on your own farm, for your own use, it was still covered by interstate commerce regulations.
The can justify the Feds handling education because the kids could move to another state when they grow up. Or something.
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[THEFEDERALIST] As much as I found Trump’s campaign off-putting, a kernel of something within the Trump campaign spoke to me and stirred that long-dormant resentment. For me, it was a revelation and a possible explanation of why Trump won the Republican primaries and why Americans’ opinions of Congress and both political parties are so low.
My resentment, long in remission, came back and crystallized in the following thought: Americans are governed by politicians who see fit to reimagine entire sectors of our economy and, indeed, our lives despite having little, if any, experience in the areas of life they seek to reform wholesale. This means Americans, seeing the failures of government from Obamacare ... aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read... to the Veterans Affairs, from the Environmental Protection Agency dumping toxic materials into a Colorado river to the Dodd-Frank regulations strangling local community banks, have had just about enough of their credentialed but utterly inexperienced supposed betters reordering their lives and livelihoods.
Think about it: how many practicing physicians helped design and implement Obamacare? How many doctors did the B.O. regime consult in imposing its electronic medical records requirements on physicians? Did the B.O. regime take significant input from doctors who worked within the existing system every day and knew a thing or two about how the proposed reforms might affect their industry? Hardly.
Instead, Americans were treated to the sight of ivory tower intellectuals like Jonathan Gruber with their models, charts, and theories about how wonderful Obamacare would be, and to big insurance companies and their lobbyists helping craft the Obamacare legislation. Gruber and the lobbyists never saw a patient in their lives. Never tried to get a Medicare reimbursement. Never had to comply with the onerous electronic medical records requirements.
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having little, if any, experience in the areas of life they seek to reform wholesale
That's not how I think of American (or Western, including many Israeli) politicians. My images are more "The Island of Doctor Moreau" sorta thing.
[BREITBART] The SITE Intelligence group has confirmed that a jihadist cell calling itself “Ansar al-Khilafah Brasil” — “Soldiers of the Caliphate Brazil” — has pledged allegiance to Islamic State caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, stoking fears that ISIS jihadists are planning an attack on the upcoming Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
SITE published an image found on a Portuguese-language channel dedicated to the Islamic State jihad on the encrypted messaging application Telegram, which establishes the group as an ISIS affiliate and warns they are ready to conduct attacks.
The pledge of allegiance is considered the first of its kind in Latin America, according to SITE director Rita Katz. It states that members of the Brazilian group are “prepared for the sacrifice of becoming martyrs” and warns that Brazilian police training alongside French officers will do little to protect the South American nation, as France has become one of the most frequent targets of Islamic State attacks in the West.
Reuters reports that a man identified by the nom de guerre “Ismail Abdul Jabbar al-Brazili” has been identified as the moderator of at least one Portuguese-language Islamic State Telegram channel and has been translating propaganda from the official ISIS media outlets stationed in Raqqa, Syria, for distribution in Brazil. Authorities have not given any indication they know his true identity. At least one Brazilian national has been arrested trying to join the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, halted on his voyage in Bulgaria.
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Brazil's Sunni ISIS must be greatly outnumbered by its Brazilian Hizbullah. The Hizb began organizing in the Foz de Igacu region (triborder with Paraguay and Argentina) in 1988. Literally thousands of Hizb entered the region on phoney Paraguayan travel docs. They later took part in the Iran-sponsored attacks on Jewish centers in Argentina. Today the Hizb run all sorts of rackets in southern Brazil, and it has for years helped fund their bros. in Lebanon.
The Brazilian Caliphate may be the pipedream of a sixteen year old nuisance. We shall see.
Cleveland, kept in touch with the world by Obamaphone, ...was ruled by a Democrat machine from 1942 through 1971. After the river caught fire during the administration of Carl Stokes they tried a Republican, then went back to being Democrats when the party hacked up Dennis Kucinich ... Police Chief Calvin Williams, who was at the scene, said the person who started burning the flag caught himself and others around him on fire and officers moved in to put out the flames.
"That's when they got defensive," Williams said, "and that's when they assaulted an officer."
One officer was punched and pushed, according to Williams, and "the whole area got amped up when this happened."
Video from the scene showed the flag, followed by a scuffle and a visual of someone spraying a substance into the middle of the crowd. Police said no pepper spray was used but that an officer did use a fire extinguisher.
A group that provides legal services for protesters criticized the police for what it called "aggressive shows of force."
"The Ohio NLG is highly concerned about these arrests and the escalation of police tactics against peaceful demonstrators," said Jocelyn Resnick of the Ohio Lawyers Guild.
The protest was announced in advance by Joey Johnson, a revolutionary communist known for flag-burnings. Hours before the protest, there was a call on Twitter for counter-protesters to turn out, too.
Johnson was one of the 17 nabbed Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! , but Williams said none of the charges were related to burning the flag, which is legal. Johnson and other protesters chanted "America was never great" as they were taken into custody.
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...During the windup to Desert Storm, a group of Cleveland Maoists (yeah, there was/is such a thing) decided to burn a flag in Public Square to provoke the cops into a response, figuring that the sight of a burning flag would send the cops into transports of brutally repressive ecstasy, all of which would be caught on camera and therefore help to usher in the Revolution.
So, their leader (a lady wearing a t-shirt that said, "Mao More Than Ever"), lights off the flag at the height of the demonstration...at which point a few dozen bystanders promptly charge the little band of freedom fighters and beat them within an inch of their lives. The cops allowed the citizens to make their point, and then stepped in to arrest the bruised and bleeding Mao Lady for inciting a riot.
I love my hometown.
Mike
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I must admit to finding the term "Cleveland Maoist" deeply disturbing.
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P2K, despite what people think, the Cuyahoga River no longer catches fire. Mostly because almost all of the industries along it have been shut down.
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So, considering the unemployment. Was les flambéed Cuyahoga a good thing, or bad ?
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The Cuyahoga River in Cleveland is now so clean, the unemployed can spend their spare time fishing in it. The Burning River brand of APA beer is named after those old times.
A day after the first massacre that took place in the Al-Hazawiya neighbourhood in Manbij, the Aleppo countryside, airstrikes led by the international coalition have killed dozens of people and injured others in Tokhar, according to the Syrian National Coalition and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The ISIS run Amaq news agency said that 160 civilians were killed in raids on the Manbij countryside, whilst an international coalition source did not deny that airstrikes had been carried out in Manbij recently and said that an investigation into the matter is being carried out. The source told Asharq Al-Awsat that “We have seen the reports that indicate that people were killed as a result of the shelling, and we are now collecting information on the matter from several parties, some of which were close to the sites that were targeted. Based on the results, we will take necessary measures. We would like to stress that we take precautions and measures to avoid targeting civilians and minimise the harm that may affect them.”
Meanwhile, the US military announced in a statement that opposition fighters that are backed by the United States and are fighting ISIS militants in Syria took control of a base from which operations were led in the city of Manbij at the beginning of the week.
The Director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP that the “bombing carried out by the international coalition targeted the outskirts of the village of Tokhar at dawn yesterday which resulted in 56 civilians dying including 11 children”. Other Syrian opposition websites stated that the death toll has risen to 85 people, including five entire families, most of which were women and children, after residential areas were targeted. Opposition websites also stated that the bombing resulted in the destruction of a mill and a number of mosques and schools.
(IraqiNews.com) SALAHADDIN- A security source in Salahuddin province informed on Tuesday that the Peshmerga forces shot down an ISIS drone at Tuz district to the east of the province.
Talking to Iraqi News, the source said, “Peshmerga forces today succeeded in pulling down an ISIS drone at south of Tuz Khurmato district (65 km east of Salahuddin). The drone was flying over the Peshmerga military units when it was gunned down.”
Seeking anonymity the source further said, “The plane is in good condition and was handed over to the security authorities.”
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Jeddah- Pro-legitimacy forces fighting for Yemen’s freedom had reportedly taken down over 13 militia leaders, among which were commanders loyal to the military camp supporting ousted former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Another seven Houthi leaders were also reported dead, said government military sources fighting in Yemen.
The ousted president, Saleh, makes a strategic ally to the Houthi-led insurgency.
Concerned bodies led investigations right after the leaderships’ reported death as to aid the national army in the future phase. No further details were made; however, data says that many of those taken in for investigation still refuse to testify.
This is considered the greatest number of leaders taken down in record timing by pro-legitimacy forces. With the radical loss in insurgency-leaderships, statements made by the advancing pro-government forces in Yemen on the insurgency-camp destabilization, volatility and morale breakdown is proven true.
Scores of insurgent combatants abandon positions and arms when clashes hit peak and losses are registered.
The battlefield updated status quo is highly expected to play in the government’s delegation favor at the peace talks underway in Kuwait. As the legitimacy, takes in war captives, a soon prisoner sway is also very much anticipated.
In the upcoming few days a mediating commission is expected to form as to close down on a massive prisoner exchange deal which includes government senior officials who Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi’s administration had long invested in efforts to free.
On the other hand, Saudi-led Arab coalition conducted long meetings with Yemeni national army commandership as to discuss military details and battlefield key objectives and status.
Top Yemeni military official told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that the army advances in a balanced and steady rate. Moreover, the army has successfully thwarted a number of insurgency-staged offensives, liberating territory across Nihm and Jawf Districts.
(IraqiNews.com) ANBAR- The commander of Anbar Operations Maj. Gen. Ismail Mahlawi on Wednesday announced that six ISIS fighters were killed at east of Ramadi.
Mahlawi in an interview with Iraqi News, said, “The International Coalition Aviation, in coordination with an Anbar Operations force bombed a hideout of terrorists in Khalidiya Island (23 km east of Ramadi). The hideout was destroyed completely in the bombing.”
“The bombing killed six ISIS terrorists. The shelling comes as a preparation made for the liberation of Khalidiya Island from ISIS control.”
It may be mentioned here that the security forces and the tribes are preparing for wide military operations for liberate Khalidiya Island.
(IraqiNews.com)ANBAR- Buraq forces leader Watiq Fartusi announced on Wednesday of pushing back an ISIS attack at western Anbar.
Fartusi, in press statement, said, “Buraq forces, belonging to al-Hashed al-Shaabi and border guards today pushed backed an ISIS attack, which was aimed at Akashat area at west of al-Ratba (310 km west of Ramadi.”
“Buraq forces and border guards destroyed three ISIS vehicles and forced the rest of terrorists to escape towards the desert,” Fartusi added.
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[DAWN] PESHAWAR: National Accountability Bureau, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , has tossed in the clink its own additional director on charges of corruption.
A statement issued here on Tuesday said Rooman Zaheer, additional director (BPS-19) of NAB, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, was involved in committing the offence of corruption with the connivance of others.
The accused dishonestly, fraudulently and illegally received pecuniary advantage under the garb of closure of NAB inquiry. His arrest was ordered by NAB director general, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The statement said the accused would be produced before the accountability court for obtaining his physical remand.
Meanwhile, a NAB official requesting anonymity told Dawn that they had also recovered Rs687,000 from the accused involved in corruption under a plea bargain. He said the accused had been serving with the NAB for last 10 years.
The official said the accused moved the money through banking channels and later signed a plea bargain agreement with the Bureau and also handed over a draft of the said amount with the accountability watchdog. “Plea bargain is deemed as conviction,” the official said, adding the accused would lose all pension and other related benefits after entering the plea bargain.
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[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson hinted Wednesday that former Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush might be considering an endorsement.
"I can't say that we haven't had conversations," Johnson said in a Wednesday afternoon conversation on CNN from Cleveland, kept in touch with the world by Obamaphone, ...was ruled by a Democrat machine from 1942 through 1971. After the river caught fire during the administration of Carl Stokes they tried a Republican, then went back to being Democrats when the party hacked up Dennis Kucinich ... . "But no push on the conversations."
Johnson said he has also had conversations with 2012 GOP nominee Willard Mitt Romney ...former governor of Massachussetts, the Publican nominee for president in 2012. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals.... When asked who initiated the conversations, Johnson replied, "Not me." When asked if the former Florida governor has called him, Johnson added quickly, "I don't want to -- I want to protect the innocent."
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Thing is, the "Libertarian" candidates don't believe in liberty outside of pot. They've otherwise been approving everything Hillary says.
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Remember when they all wanted Trump to sign a pledge to support the party candidate, so everyone signed. Just as the campaign has exposed so many that have little or no regard for democracy, it has also shown few with integrity as they now expose themselves as just another ego and power tripper.
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I generally like Gary Johnson but I don't see how a Jeb Bush endorsement helps anybody. it'll just draw attention to the fact that Jeb swore to support the Republican nominee and he's every so slightly better than those douchebags jumping on the Hillary train.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The authorities in Germany have reportedly expressed doubts regarding the country of origin of the train attacker who was alleged to be an Afghan asylum seeker.
According to local international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, the authorities have doubts regarding the identity of the attacker.
Emaq news agency which is close to 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 (ISIS) terrorist group published a video of the attacker who introduces himself as Mohammad Riyad speaking in Pashto language.
Riyad claims he is a soldier of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and informs regarding his so called sacred operation in Germany.
However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... doubts regarding the exact identity of the attacker and if he was an Afghan have increased after his accent was noted.
The Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) TV network citing the security sources reported that the attacker was using Pak words in his speech.
Language experts have also said that the attacker’s accent was Pak and in the video he has been identified as Mohammad Riyad but the authorities in Germany have said he was recorded by a different name in Germany.
The Sherlocks have also said they believe the attacker has used the Afghan identity to increase his chance to claim asylum as police has found a Pak document from his room as well.
Under the circumstances, the question arises whether the claimed lad of seventeen wasn't actually a man of much more mature years.
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Perhaps not such a hate crime, as the wrong side
The Brooklyn DA's office is investigating allegations that the two teens beaten to a pulp by an enraged boyfriend outside a Brooklyn Mosque were sexually assaulting his girlfriend, The Post has learned.
The probe was launched after the unnamed woman claimed that the teens were taunting and molesting her when her boyfriend, Christopher Vallaro, ran to her rescue.
Vallaro first made headlines after photos of the 16 and 17-year-old's battered faces surfaced, along with allegations that the 31-year old had called the boys "f‐king terrorists." first CAIR standard lie?
But investigators with the DA's office have scheduled a meeting with Vallaro and his girlfriend to look into the accusations that the teens reached through the car window and groped her breasts and body, sources said. Vallaro came to her rescue when he heard her screaming for help from floors above in his apartment, which is located adjacent to the Sunset Park mosque.
The July 2 beating was originally investigated as a hate-crime, but police later concluded the teens' Muslim faith was not a motivating factor. perhaps it was, just not in a way he wants to admit publicly
During a brief Wednesday appearance, defense attorney Sal Strazzullo submitted 20 letters from his client's neighbors, mostly Muslim-Americans, in Vallaro's defense. oops
"I'm glad that the District Attorney's office is taking a look at the entirely of the situation, and not just what the alleged victims said happened," Strazzullo said.
Vallaro declined comment as he left court.
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I looked at the pics. Looks like he used the kid's face like a drumstick on the car's hood. I'm guessing the kid will think twice before doing that again.
Burundian troops from the 32nd and 33rd battalions are returning home after a year in Somalia, under the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). The first batch of 1,891 officers left Somalia for home on last Thursday. Others will leave the country in the course of this week.
1900 officers? In two battalions?
“Our relationship with the Somali National Army has been good because we shared information about the enemy – Al-Shabaab. Also, during reconnaissance patrols, we were together. And it was the Somali National Army helping us because of the language barrier. It was them who told us the names of the localities, helped us with information and taught us how to communicate with the Somali populations,” said the commander of the 32nd Battalion Major John Manirakiza.
Major Richard Nikoyagize, the commander of the 33rd Battalion attributed the success of the Burundian troops to high discipline and a good working relationship with the Somali National Army.
Burundi is one of the troop-contributing countries to AMISOM, mandated to support the Federal Government of Somalia in defeating the militant group Al-Shabaab. Other troop contributing countries are Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda.
The Burundi National Defence Forces are responsible for keeping security in Sector 5, which comprises areas such as El Baraf, Mahaaday, Balcad, Helman, Walshiq and Quorolow. The troops are also present in sector Kismayo as part of a multinational military deployment. The troops participated in various projects in liberated areas, including providing medical services and safe drinking water to vulnerable communities.
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[DAWN] RAHIM YAR KHAN: Police claimed on Tuesday to have killed seven dacoits in an ’encounter’ at Mahi Chowk near Bhong in Sadiqabad tehsil.
The dacoits were members of Indhar gang operating in border areas of Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... and Sindh. Gang leader Khanu Indhar was also among the dead, while 10 other gang members managed their escape.
According to a police front man, law-enforcement agencies had been chasing the dacoits for the last three days. He said police teams of Sadiqabad, Ahmedpur Lamma, Kot Sabzal and Bhong participated in the operation.
According to police, these dacoits were involved in heinous crimes, including kidnap for ransom, murder, robbery and vehicle snatching. Their bodies were shifted to Kot Sabzal cop shoppe.
According to APP, six of the dead were identified as Khan Mohammad Khanu (ringleader), Nadir, Lalu, Sanuallah, Saghir and Mahdo.
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[DAWN] Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz plans to pass long-delayed legislation against "honour killings" within weeks in the wake of the high-profile murder of outspoken social media star Qandeel Baloch, the daughter of 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... said on Wednesday.
The bill will go before a parliamentary committee as early as Thursday, said Maryam Nawaz Sharif, who is an increasingly influential member of her father's ruling party.
The government has faced mounting pressure to pass the law against murders carried out by people professing to be acting in defence of the honour of their family.
The law would remove a loophole that allows other family members to pardon a killer.
The brother of social media star Qandeel Baloch has been incarcerated Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in connection with her strangling death and told a news conference he was incensed by her often risqu posts on social media.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Taliban group’s expert bomb-maker was killed in an Arclight airstrike in the restive southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province of Afghanistan.
The provincial government media office in a statement said a military chief of the Taliban group for Helmand province Mazlum was also killed in the Arclight airstrike.
Mazlum was also the commander of the ’Red Unit’ of the Taliban group in southern Helmand province who was killed along with the expert bomb-maker in Babaji area.
According to a statement by the provincial government media office, the expert bomb-maker was originally hailing from Pakistain.
The anti-government armed krazed killer groups including the Taliban faceless myrmidons have not have commented regarding the report so far.
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[REUTERS] The United States on Wednesday blacklisted three members of al Qaeda living in Iran, saying they had helped the Islamist Death Eater group on the battlefield, with finance and logistics, and in mediating with Iranian authorities.
Iran has held several al Qaeda high-ranking members and lower-level bandidosturbans since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, though U.S. officials say the precise conditions of their confinement are unclear.
Faisal Jassim Mohammed al-Amri al-Khalidi, a 31-year-old Saudi national, led an al Qaeda brigade and was serving as the group's military commission chief in May 2015, Treasury said, describing him as "part of a new generation" of al Qaeda operatives. As of 2011, Khalidi liaised between al Qaeda associates, central council members, and leaders within the Pak Taliban.
Yisra Muhammad Ibrahim Bayumi, 48 and an Egyptian national, mediated with Iranian authorities as of early 2015, Treasury said, and helped al Qaeda members living in Iran.
Abu Bakr Muhammad Muhammad Ghumayn, 35, had control of the group's financing and organization inside Iran as of 2015, Treasury said. Ghumayn, an Algerian, was previously based in Pakistain.
Al Qaeda and Iran's government have a complex and sometimes tense relationship, according to documents seized from the late Osama bin Laden ... who is no longer with us, and won't be again... 's hideout in Pakistain and made public. At times Iranian authorities promised to release and may have actually released al Qaeda figures, but one of bin Laden's sons who had been held in Iran, Saad, reportedly was killed in 2009.
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The United States on Wednesday blacklisted three members of al Qaeda living in Iran,
[BREITBART] At least one top talent inside Fox News has confirmed to Breitbart News that a major talent meeting among various different hosts is scheduled, and they are considering leaving with Roger Ailes to form a new network to compete with Fox.
"Everyone here hates Gretchen and Megyn," the talent said in a brief phone interview, adding that hosts from Fox and Friends and throughout the primetime lineup from the co-hosts of The Five to Special Report’s Bret Baier to Greta Van Susteren to Bill O’Reilly, Shepard Smith and Sean Hannity are planning to band together and potentially execute contract clauses that allow them to leave if Ailes is driven out.
That being said, if this group--Baier, Hannity, Van Susteren, Smith and O’Reilly--can stick together and effectively negotiate as a bloc with whatever other resources and talent they have, they could strap together enough leverage to block Kelly. But that shows how powerful Kelly has become inside a network where most of her colleagues despise her.
Ailes has come under fire amid unsubstantiated allegations from Gretchen Carlson, the former Fox anchor, and now Megyn Kelly of The Kelly File that he allegedly sexually harassed them.
The only host whom this talent hasn’t personally confirmed as part of a potential mass exodus was O’Reilly. But since Ailes bailed out O’Reilly when he came under fire for a loofah incident that even he would "consider" leaving in a mass exodus.
"Fox can have Megyn," the talent said. "We want Roger."
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"Loofah incident"
Sounds like something Calvin would say.
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The "talent" and network both need to realize that conservative viewership made them, they did not make us. Another real conservative news network would finish this group of clowns - I would love to see it happen.
It is not rocket science 50% of all TV viewers are conservative, if a network serves them then they get 50% of the market. Fox has been suspect for awhile...would love to see a real conservative news network push Fox out.
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anyone who doesn't see the collusion of powerful progressive/elitist democrat forces to destroy the only media voice for conservatives, is simply not paying attention. The power of Fox is deeply damaging to the Clintons, the Obama's and the coterie of Soros allied backers of the globalism progressive voice. Watching the slow descent of Megyn into self-absorbed conceit has been heartbreaking, since she showed such bright promise but has drifted into celebrity mindset.
I agree a conservative network will thrive as a Fox bereft of talent shrivels under the likes of Shep, but the interregnum will come at a time of National need for coverage of the important things that ABC/NBC/CBS/MSNBC/CNN will not even note....
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I would like to see a news channel that (a) didn't have a constant scroll (b) wasn't all opinion shows. Unfortunately I think the opinion shows get the ratings so what can be done?
I would also like to see more international news. What is the point of being owned by an Australian if we don't get proper world news?
[BLOOMBERG] A new commander took control of the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... force battling al-Qaeda-linked hard boyz in Somalia as Uganda said it wants to withdraw its troops from the war-torn nation by the end of next year.
Lieutenant General Osman Noor Soubagleh arrived Monday in the capital, Mogadishu, becoming force commander of the African Union Mission in Somalia, or Amisom, the organization said in a statement. The Horn of Africa country’s elections, due this year, are one of the mission’s main priorities, according to Amisom head Francisco Madeira.
Uganda’s foreign minister last week said the East African nation plans to remove its almost 7,000 troops from Somalia by the end of 2017. While a partial cut in European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... funding for soldiers has been a "handicap," it’s not the main reason for Uganda wanting out, Sam Kutesa said in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, where he was attending an African Union summit.
"What we are interested in is to make sure we create a situation where the people of Somalia take over the security because we cannot be there forever," he said in a July 15 interview. "Uganda is not interested in perpetuating peacekeeping missions without a foreseeable outcome."
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[Al Jazeera] Hundreds of Taliban fighters have largely taken over a district in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province as intense fighting with the Afghan cops continues.
After three days of festivities, Taliban fighters took over up to "65-70 percent" of the Qala-e-Zal district, Afghan officials said on Wednesday, as a part of an intensifying wave of attacks across the country.
"Parts of the district have fallen into the hands of the Taliban, but our security forces are fighting them back," Mahmoud Danish, a front man for the provincial governor, told Al Jazeera.
In a statement to Al Jazeera, the Taliban claimed the entire district had been fallen into their hands.
Nabi Ghichi, the local police commander, told Al Jazeera that the Taliban attack began in the early hours of Monday, warning that he had little logistical support to push the gang's fighters back.
District governor Mahbubullah Saeedi told the DPA news agency that 15 Taliban fighters, one Afghan security force member and one civilian have so far been killed in the fighting. Another 23 Taliban fighters and seven security force members have been maimed.
Scores of families have fled the district after the fight erupted.
"Most of the houses are empty as many fled the ongoing conflict in the district," Ajmal, a local journalist based in Kunduz, told Al Jazeera.
"It looks like the fight will continue for the next few days."
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[Chicago Tribune] A Cook County judge on Wednesday tossed from the fall ballot a constitutional amendment to take away the General Assembly's power to draw legislative district boundaries, dealing a loss to Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and a win to Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan.
The ruling marked the second time in three years that the Independent Maps group suffered a major legal setback in attempting to ask voters whether the state should remove much of the politics from redistricting. The stumbling block was the same as last time, with a judge finding the proposal did not fit a narrow legal window for a petition-driven initiative to change the Illinois Constitution.
Independent Maps chairman Dennis FitzSimons vowed to appeal the case to the Illinois Supreme Court in the hopes the question could still appear on the Nov. 8 ballot. Both FitzSimons' coalition and the People's Map group that filed the lawsuit anticipated that's where the case would end up anyway.
Madigan opposed the referendum, suggesting it would hurt protections on ensuring minority representation. The speaker has maintained his hold at the Capitol for more than three decades in part because he's had the power to draw the boundaries of legislative districts, and a longtime Madigan ally was the attorney for People's Map.
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Cook County Judges?
Madigan owns them all
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[NYTIMES] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's president on Wednesday declared a three-month state of emergency following a botched coup attempt, declaring he would rid the military of the "virus" of subversion and giving the government sweeping powers to expand a crackdown that has already included mass arrests and the closure of hundreds of schools.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... , who was accused of autocratic conduct before the insurrection, said the measure would counter threats to Turkish democracy. Possibly anticipating investor jitters, Erdogan criticized Standard & Poor's for downgrading its credit rating for Turkey deeper into "junk" status and said the country would remain financially disciplined.
The president did not announce details, but the security measure could facilitate longer detentions for many of the nearly 10,000 people who have been rounded up since loyalist security forces and protesters quashed the rebellion that started Friday night and was over by Saturday.
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Gee,
that runs right up to the US election.
Huh.
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I was thinking more about "state of emergency": suspension of Habeas Corpus, suspension of 22nd Amendment, etc.
He recently voted himself a retirement pension increase. His wife is unhappy with D.C., and the hours are too long. I'm reasonably confident he's leaving.
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has banned all academics from leaving the country, cancelling their annual leave, as President Tayyip Erdogan's post-coup crackdown escalated to "exceptional proportions".
Teachers were told on Wednesday they could not travel abroad on any work-related trips for the foreseeable future and those currently overseas were ordered to return.
One British academic at a state-run university in Istanbul told the Telegraph that foreign nationals had also been told to come back to work.
The education ministry said it decided to close 626 private schools and other establishments that are under investigation for “crimes against the constitutional order and the running of that order,” the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. The agency said the schools are linked to Gulen.
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[ARA News] DUHOK – Internal clashes hit the ranks of the Islamic State (ISIS) radical group in the city of Mosul in Iraq’s northwestern Nineveh province after rifts erupted between local militants and foreign jihadis of the group, activists reported on Thursday.
Local Iraqi members of ISIS protested against the growing power of the foreign jihadis in Mosul city.
“The group’s leadership has given its foreign members high ranking positions in the different institutions of the Islamic State, such as the al-Hisba police department, the Sharia Court and training camps,” media activist Ali al-Hussein told ARA News in Mosul.
“This has raised the outrage of local jihadis who claim to fight for their own land and people against the government, Kurds and the US-led coalition,” al-Hussein reported, citing Iraqi members of ISIS.
Armed clashes broke out on Wednesday between a group of Iraqi militants and foreign members of ISIS inside the jihadi training camp in Mosul.
“At least two ISIS militants were killed and seven others were injured in the clashes inside the training camp,” rights activist Amir Qassim told ARA News in Mosul, adding that light weapons were used in the clashes.
“According to a source inside the camp, rifts broke out after ISIS Iraqi fighters refused to follow orders from a foreign jihadi leader. The latter has then opened fire on the Iraqi militants and over 20 fighters were engaged in the internal clashes on Wednesday midnight,” Qassim reported.
This comes as the Iraqi army and Kurdish Peshmerga forces, backed by the US-led coalition, continue the fight against ISIS in the suburbs of Mosul–main bastion for ISIS group in Iraq.
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad- Turkish jets, days after the failed coup in the country, launched cross-border strikes against Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq. The attack killed at least 20 alleged militants. This was reported by Anadolu Agency on Wednesday; the news report being extensively followed by Iraqi News.
“F-16 jets blew up PKK targets in Iraq’s Hakurk region,” the Anadolu Agency report stated.
“The Turkish military has been regularly hitting suspected PKK hideouts and position in Iraq since last year, but Wednesday’s strikes were the first since the failed coup attempt of July 15 in which several F-16 pilots were also involved,” the report further added.
It may be mentioned here that the authorities have rounded around 9,000 people, which include 115 generals, 350 officers and approximately 4,800 other military personnel. These people are suspected to be involved in the failed coup attempt.
(IraqiNews.com) Diyala – An informed source informed that joint security forces foiled a suicide bombing attempt in Diyala and arrested the suicide bomber.
According to information shared by the source it was stated, “Security forces from the Military Intelligence Directorate and the Army’s 20 brigade this morning in an operation successfully arrested a suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt while he was trying to blow up himself up in Diyala.”
The source added, “The security force dismantled the explosive belt and transferred
[ARA News] ALEPPO – Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) launched a new offensive on strongholds of the Islamic State (ISIS) in the northern countryside of Syria’s Aleppo province, killing and wounding dozens of jihadis, military sources reported on Wednesday.
Backed by the US-led coalition forces, the SDF bombed ISIS positions in central Manbij, north of Aleppo.
At least 100 ISIS militants were killed and dozens more were wounded.
“Under heavy bombardment by our forces, Daesh terrorists today suffered the heaviest losses in the Manbij operation,” a spokesman for the SDF told ARA News, using another acronym for ISIS.
“After shelling their headquarters in central Manbij, the terrorists escaped the area to hide inside residential neighbourhoods,” he said.
“We have collected more than 100 corpses of Daesh jihadists, and we also destroyed several ISIS machine guns and vehicles,” the official said.
This comes just one days after the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) captured an ISIS headquarters in Western Manbij, that has been for long used by the radical group as a command centre and logistics hub.
“The Daesh [ISIS] headquarters, located in a hospital, was being used as a command center and logistics hub. The [SDF] also seized a significant amount of the city during the operation, which provided civilians the opportunity to escape,” the US-led coalition said in a statement on Tuesday.
“The SDF freed additional territory in the city of Manbij in the face of determined resistance from ISIL [ISIS],” it added.
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[Yahoo] If he wins the presidency, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump would seek to purge the federal government of officials appointed by Democratic President Barack Obama and could ask Congress to pass legislation making it easier to fire public workers, Trump ally, Chris Christie, said on Tuesday.
Christie, who is governor of New Jersey and leads Trump's White House transition team, said the campaign was drawing up a list of federal government employees to fire if Trump defeats Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the Nov. 8 presidential election.
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Oh my heavenly daze - yet another reason to vote for 'the best qualified individual since Bill Clinton'.
Scare tactics. Fire the useless political appointees, who want to move to somewhere else, anyway. Let the rest expire in place.
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If George W. had done this he would have had a much easier time as President and would not have had to put up with all of the "leaks" and innuendo from Langley and Foggy Bottom
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Clean house should be the rule, not the exception. He might have been a chauvinistic jerk, but Charles DeGaulle got it right when he said "The cemeteries are filled with indispensable men..."
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He might have been a chauvinistic jerk
Give the old general a break. He was just your everyday, garden variety Frenchman.
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It should be very easy to fire anyone in Washington and they should expect to be cut lose at any infraction. What we have now is an abomination where lifetime bureaucrats feel unconstrained by the law.
Of course a lot of the loudmouths said they'd quit (which they won't but which would make life a bit easier for everyone if they did).
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 28 loyalists of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed during the latest operations conducted in East of Afghanistan.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces said the faceless myrmidons were killed in Nangahar province in the past 24 hours.
The operations were conducted by the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) in Kot and Achin district, 201st Silab Corps said, adding that the US forces also provided support to the Afghan forces.
No further details were given on how the US forces provided the support to ANDSF but the regular Arclight airstrikes are carried out by the US forces based in Afghanistan.
No casualties were incurred to the civilians or the members of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces, 201st Silab Corps added.
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(IraqiNews.com) Diyala – Diyala Police Command announced today that the security forces have arrested seven suspects on terrorism charges southwest of Baqubah.
Diyala police spokesperson Colonel Ghalib al-Attiyah in a statement said, “Based on accurate intelligence information, security forces arrested seven terrorists in Beni Saeed area, 20 km southwest of Baqubah.”
Adding further Attiyah said, “The arrested terrorists carried out terrorist activities, which included Husseiniyat Beni Saad bombing, Civil Status Directorate bombing and several others.”
[IBTIMES.CO.UK] At least 17 soldiers were killed and dozens injured when some unidentified gunnies attacked an army base in Mali, in West Africa. The landlocked country is reportedly facing growing threats from Islamist holy warriors and defence minister Tièman Hubert Coulibaly has vowed to give an "appropriate" reply to the forces of Evil involved in the attack.
According to reports, the attackers raided the army base in Nampala, located in a semi-desert scrubland close to the border with Mauritania on Tuesday (19 July). The holy warriors took over the base for a brief duration an army front man said, adding that three Islamic bully boy groups have grabbed credit for the attack.
Spokesman for the army, Souleymane Maiga, told Rooters that al-Qaeda gunnies in the Islamic Maghreb attacked from the north and an ethnic Peul group launched an attack from the southeast, while the Macina Liberation Front linked to Ansar Dine ...a mainly Tuareg group that controlled areas of Mali's northern desert together with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and MUJAO in early 2012... ‐ a bully boy Islamist group ‐ waited outside the town to ambush military reinforcements. He added that following the attack, Malian troops retreated to nearby Diabaly to regroup. An intelligence source told the news agency that the attackers seized weapons and vehicles from the base and took them to a forest in the region.
Ansar Dine has already grabbed credit for the attack, admitting that its Macina Battalion launched the raid. The National Alliance for the Safeguarding of Peul Identity and the Restoration of Justice (ANSIPRJ) ‐ headed by Oumar Aldjana, reportedly also grabbed credit for the attack through a call to a donor-funded national radio station, Studio Tamani reported.
"We lost 17 men and unfortunately 35 were also maimed and these have all been transported for medical care in the region of Segou," Coulibaly said on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
following the attack. The army is now looking for the holy warriors responsible for the attack, he said and noted, "We will make sure that this coordinated terrorist attack ... is met with an appropriate response."
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[Libya Observer] Derna Shura pays blood money to 10 people killed by mistake including Bangladeshi worker
Derna Shura Council has paid blood money to the families of 10 people who were killed during the city's 8-month-long war against ISIS. A Bangladeshi national was among the victims, the council said.
Each family was offered LYD 177.500 in compensation for the killing of their beloved ones by mistake according to the Islamic Sharia law. The families accepted the money and pardoned the killers.
The money was donated by a businessman from Benghazi, the Shura Council revealed.
The Bangladeshi worker was identified as "Mohammed Israfil Mimar Ghazi," the council said, adding it had contacted his family in Bangladesh to send the money to them as soon as possible.
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[Beirut Daily Star] Prime Minister Tammam Salam Wednesday discussed with head of Hamas’ Political Bureau Moussa Abu Marzouk ongoing efforts to improve security in Palestinian camps in Lebanon.
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell launched an all-out assault on presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Edward Everett ... late Tuesday and said the only way to repeal Obamacare ... aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read... , realign the Supreme Court and defund Planned Parenthood ...has received federal funding since 1970, when President Richard Nixon signed into law the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act. It is sometimes described as the gynecololgical wing of the Democratic party. is to elect Donald Trump, even as members of his own caucus steer clear of the nominating festivities.
Mr. McConnell brushed aside a cascade of boos from the convention hall and doled out a bit of payback for years of political jockeying with Mrs. Clinton and her famous husband, starting with their attempts to unseat him in Kentucky.
"I’ve had my differences with Barack Obama I am the change that you seek... , but l will give him credit for this. At least he was up front about his plans to move America to the far left," the Kentucky Republican told the convention hall. "Not Hillary. She lied about her emails. She lied about her server. She lied about Benghazi. She even lied about sniper fire."
Mr. McConnell eventually pivoted the man of the hour, Mr. Trump.
The mogul has tussled with senators like Mark Kirk of Illinois and Jeff Flake ...Republican junior senator from Arizona, elected in 2012. Prior to that he was a U.S. Representative for twelve years... of Arizona, who’ve declined to endorse him, and the majority leader largely avoids questions about the nominee on Capitol Hill, though he admits that Mr. Trump won the election "fair and square."
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After she's gone it would no doubt be prudent to discontinue the use of that photo. But until then.....
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McConnell reminds me of the song, "Vicar of Bray," where the Vicar adjusts his allegiance as the winds blow different directions. Here are the verses:
In good King Charles's golden days,
When Loyalty no harm meant;
A Zealous High-Church man I was,1
And so I gain'd Preferment.2
Unto my Flock I daily Preach'd,
Kings are by God appointed,
And Damn'd are those who dare resist,
Or touch the Lord's Anointed. And this is law, I will maintain
Unto my Dying Day, Sir.
That whatsoever King may reign,
I will be the Vicar of Bray, Sir!
When Royal James possest the crown,
And popery grew in fashion;
The Penal Law I shouted down,
And read the Declaration:
The Church of Rome I found would fit
Full well my Constitution,
And I had been a Jesuit,
But for the Revolution.
And this is Law, &c.
When William our Deliverer came,
To heal the Nation's Grievance,
I turn'd the Cat in Pan again,
And swore to him Allegiance:
Old Principles I did revoke,
Set conscience at a distance,
Passive Obedience is a Joke,
A Jest is non-resistance.
And this is Law, &c.
When Royal Anne became our Queen,
Then Church of England's Glory,
Another face of things was seen,
And I became a Tory:
Occasional Conformists base
I Damn'd, and Moderation,
And thought the Church in danger was,
From such Prevarication.
And this is Law, &c.
When George in Pudding time11 came o'er,
And Moderate Men looked big, Sir,
My Principles I chang'd once more,
And so became a Whig, Sir.
And thus Preferment I procur'd,
From our Faith's great Defender
And almost every day abjur'd
The Pope, and the Pretender.
And this is Law, &c.
The Illustrious House of Hanover,
And Protestant succession,
To these I lustily will swear,
Whilst they can keep possession:
For in my Faith, and Loyalty,
I never once will faulter,
But George, my lawful king shall be,
Except the Times shou'd alter.
And this is Law, &c.
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By now McConnell must be used to the boos, at least when talking to Republicans.
[Al Jazeera] WikiLeaks has published 294,546 emails along with thousands of attached files from 762 mail boxes that allegedly belong to the primary email domain of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... 's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
The most recent email in the trove released by the whistle-blowing organization on Tuesday was sent on July 6, 2016. The oldest dates back to 2010.
"It should be noted that emails associated with the domain are mostly used for dealing with the world, as opposed to the most sensitive internal matters," WikiLeaks said on its official website.
WikiLeaks said it obtained the emails a week before Friday's attempted coup.
"WikiLeaks has moved forward its publication schedule in response to the government's post-coup purges. We have verified the material and the source, who is not connected, in any way, to the elements behind the attempted coup, or to a rival political party or state," the organization said.
[AlAhram] Access to the Wikileaks website in Turkey has been blocked after the group announced, following a failed coup by Turkish military units, that it would release a trove of documents on the country's power structure. Wikileaks said on Twitter that Turks who are blocked from accessing its website can "use a proxy or any of our IPs" to get access to the documents on Turkey's ruling party.
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(IraqiNews.com) KIRKUK- A security source in Kirkuk province on Wednesday informed that ISIS appointed a new military Wali of Hawija city, southwest of Kirkuk.
Talking to Iraqi News, the source said, “ISIS appointed one of its leaders as Hawija Wali (55 km southwest of Kirkuk), after the escape of the old Wali and a number of ISIS leaders to an unknown destination with a big amount of money.”
Seeking anonymity the source further said, “ Most of ISIS fighters of foreign origin have fled to Nineveh and a few of them stayed in Hawija,” adding, “The security forces have imposed complete blockade on Hawija and Sharqat.”
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[DAWN] ndian security forces on Wednesday removed dozens of black and Pak flags in India-held Kashmire hoisted by residents observing "black day" on the call of Pakistain government to protest the killing of a top pro-independence Death Eater leader.
Indian administration feared fresh trouble in the tense region after 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... called for observing a "black day" to express solidarity with "Kashmiris facing atrocities at the hands of Indian forces".
In a statement, Nawaz said, "India should realise that when people decide to do something, the weapons cannot stop their way."
Rubbishing Indian claim of Kashmire being its internal matter, Nawaz said: "Kashmire cannot be accepted as an internal matter of India as it has been declared a disputed territory by the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... ."
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[Libya Observer] 13 fighters from Defend Benghazi Brigades were killed in foreign Arclight airstrikes in east Libya on Wednesday; 3 days after 2 French troops were killed in a helicopter downing.
Sources close to DBB said the Arclight airstrikes were conducted by French warplanes in Jilidiya district, 60 km east of Ajdabiya.
"The Arclight airstrikes were in retaliation for the killing of 2 French special forces troops in the helicopter downing in Magrun on Sunday," the sources added.
Defend Benghazi Brigades released Sunday images of dead bodies from the helicopter downing saying 2 of them were French.
The Arclight airstrikes have caused outrage on social media with activists calling for protests to denounce this intervention. The General National Congress has also condemned the Arclight airstrikes and regarded them as a declaration of war.
The French Defense Ministry confirmed Wednesday the killing of 3 French troops in Libya. French government spokesperson Stephane Le Foll has also confirmed presence of French special forces in Libya.
Recent leaks have revealed that La Belle France and other western countries are backing rogue General Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... in his war against his opponents in Benghazi.
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[Daily Beast] It’s the kind of stomach-wrenching brutality you’d associate with ISIS. Except this time, it’s American-armed rebels who are cutting off a boy’s head.
Members of an American-backed rebel group in Syria beheaded a young child in a grisly execution video.
The footage surfaced early Tuesday of members of Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki and a captured child in Handarat, near Aleppo. The young boy, who appears to be prepubescent, is then executed on the back of a pickup truck.
The gruesome videotaped murder of a child drew outrage on social media and the promise of an inquiry from the group’s leadership, which has previously received U.S.-made weapons and American funding. The group no longer gets such backing. But it’s also renewed questions about which rebels the American government has supported in Syria’s ongoing civil war.
"Even if they no longer get U.S. aid, it still shows the moral pitfalls of what we’re trying to do in Syria," Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a terrorism expert and senior fellow with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told The Daily Beast.
There are two clips from the unsavory events. One shows five militants surrounding the boy. In the second, one of them stands over him on the truck and cuts the boy’s head off with a dull knife, raising it over his head.
Details conflict about which groups, exactly, comprise the "moderate" Syrian rebels funded by the U.S.-led coalition, but critics have long warned that fluid dynamics and shifting allegiances on the ground make it difficult to predict which groups will be aligned with U.S. interests.
Yet the Zenki movement was on the white list as recently as December 2014. A McClatchy report on the U.S.’s decision to stop payment and suspend delivery of weapons to rebel factions noted that the crackdown would not affect the Zenki movement and Harakat Hazm in Aleppo. As many as 1,000 Zenki fighters were on the CIA payroll, according to the article.
A field commander for one of the rebel factions told McClatchy at the time that fighters were paid $150 a month, and that the aid cutoff was in response to gains by the Nusra Front, al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria. The Islamic extremists of Nusra reportedly seized American weapons from the U.S.-backed groups.
The rebels have been identified as members of the Nour al-Din al-Zinki Movement. On Tuesday, the movement published a blurb on its Twitter page condemning the killing of the boy and calling the beheading an "individual error that does not represent the general policy of the movement".
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an "individual error that does not represent the general policy of the movement"
DHAHAR, Somalia -- At least five soldiers have been killed after Puntland and Somaliland troops clashed in a deadly battle amidst the latter’s voter registration exercise in restive northern Sanaagregion on Monday, Garowe Online reports.
Puntland Member of Parliament Abdihakin Dhobadired unveiled that he cannot rule out deaths in Sanaag clashes at a press briefing. Locals were quoted as saying that technicals were alsoseized. Puntland Army Commander have confirmed that three soldiers on their side and two high ranking Somaliland military officers were killed.
Highland Governor Mohamed Farah Jentalo blamed the clashes on what he described “Somaliland’s flagrant aggression” during a phone interview with Puntland-based independent station, Radio Garowe. He said, Puntland forces were in control of areas where the fighting erupted in the early hours of the day.
206 wards Saturday opened in Sanaag region and Somaliland Electoral Board asked residents to register and update their details on voter rolls ahead of 2017 presidential and parliamentary elections.
Somaliland Defence Minister Ahmed Haji Ali (Adami) has led a delegation of ministers, MPs and army majors to his stronghold Badhan by Sunday.
In a separate voter registration process, Fisheries Minister Ali Jama Bured is in Dhahar town in a sign for consolidating Somaliland presence in the strongly contested region.
Somaliland beefed up troops over the last few weeks despite warnings that such a military movement could trigger a “fresh flare-up”.
Fears of imminent clashes had already gripped residents of Badhan and Dhahar towns as Somaliland presses ahead with registration campaign.
Security Minister Abdi Hirsi Ali (Qarjab) earlier held a news conference in Galkayo, warning archrival Somaliland of grim consequences should electoral exercise continue.
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Ministry of Interior stated that a sniper attack on the army in southern Baghdad resulted in three casualties.
According to information shared by the source, it was stated, “This morning, a sniper opened fire at an army checkpoint in Latifiya area in southern Baghdad, killing one soldier and wounding two others.”
The source added, “Security forces transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital and the dead body to the forensic department.”
[Libya Herald] The thrust by the Islamist Benghazi Defence Brigade toward besieged myrmidon positions in Ganfouda has been thrown back by the army, according to independent reports.
The BDB had reached Margoun 60km from Benghazi. It is understood that there was an overnight air attack on their positions followed by the advance of army units.
The BDB fighters appear to have retreated rapidly southwards through Karkoura and Al-Jiladea toward Sultan. The bodies of eight captured soldiers, one from the 33 Brigade, were discovered when the army entered Magroun. It appeared that they have been executed before the BDB pulled out. A ninth solder was found unharmed, locked up in one of the houses. There are reports that 15 other bodies, mostly of civilians were also discovered. The likely causes of death have not been revealed.
Army front man Ahmed Mismari told Libyachannel that residents had been warned to stay indoors because the town was "full of dead bodies" that needed to be cleared by the Red Islamic Thingy. He also said that BDB fighters had taken shelter in houses during the overnight Arclight airstrike.
Abandoning Karkura, as they moved south, will have had some significance. The people of the town, renowned for its sea salt production, are largely from the Al-Moushaki tribe. One of BDB commander Mustafa Sharksi’s lieutenants is the local Talib Shadan Moushaki.
The advance of a such relatively small force toward Benghazi has puzzled some observers. It did not seem likely to have had an immediate effect on the military cordon that has trapped IS, Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... fighters and their Benghazi Revolutionaries’ Shoura Council allies in Ganfouda and Gwarsha.
However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... the ultimate objective of the BDB’s operation may have been the small fishing port of Gemenis which is celebrated for its particularly fragrant mint. Indeed at one point someone in the advancing BDB messaged that they could already smell the mint. Geminis also houses one of Libya’s two largest police academies and, according to a local, would have been a strong defensive position with the small harbour for resupply, reinforcements and the evacuation of maimed.
There were supposedly some 30 vehicles in the group, almost all of which the army said it had destroyed ten days ago with air strikes. It also said it had captured Sharksi.
The army claims were evidently inaccurate. They never produced pictures of a captured Sharksi nor of the body of the Islamist leader Usma Jadhran whom they also claimed had been killed in the Arclight airstrikes. Usma is the Islamist leader in Ajdabiya and brother of Petroleum Facilities Guard commander Ibrahim Jadhran and of the town’s mayor Salem.
The BDB column claimed that it managed to shoot down an army helicopter on Sunday killing all aboard. La Belle France’s president Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... , today admitting that three Frenchies had been in the aircraft, insisted it had come down as a result of an accident.
In the small hours of today, this second air strike on BDB positions in Magroun appears to have been of a different order of effectiveness than the original air force assault ten days ago.
There is speculation that rather than continue withdrawing southwards toward Ajdabiya from where army units were supposed to have been following them, the BDB fighters have cut across country toward Al-Bitham on the Two Hundred road running behind the Green Mountains from Ajdabiya up to Tobruk.
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[TIMESLIVE.CO.ZA] The African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... force in Somalia said it is investigating the alleged killing of 14 civilians by Æthiopian soldiers, with witnesses saying they opened unprovoked firing on a prayer meeting.
The incident occurred late Sunday in the west of Somalia, about 30 kilometres from regional capital Baidoa, and involved Æthiopian troops from the AU Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).
"AMISOM has received reports of alleged civilians killed during an offensive between its troops and Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... in Wardinle, Bay region," the mission said in a statement posted on Twitter on Monday evening.
The Al-Qaeda-aligned Shabaab is fighting to overthrow the internationally-backed government in Somalia which is defended by AMISOM troops in the capital Mogadishu and elsehwere.
AMISOM said it had "commenced investigations" and that the findings would be made public.
"Fourteen people, among them traditional elders and civilians, were killed after festivities broke out between Shabaab fighters, and Somali government troops and AMISOM peacekeepers," said local MP Ibrahim Isak Yarow.
"They were at a prayer gathering when a Shabaab fighter started shooting in the area causing the confrontation that led to major civilian casualties."
However, the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... witnesses interviewed by AFP gave a different account.
"The Æthiopian forces arrived at Wardile village and targeted a houses where Koranic teachers and other civilians were staying. There was a religious gathering at the time and people were praying for a sick man," said Mohammed Moalim Ali.
Adan Isak, another witness, said the unprovoked incident shocked local residents.
"It was a shocking tragedy. The Æthiopian soldiers opened fire indiscriminately on civilians, most of them elderly and decent religious men. Fourteen of them was struck down in his prime and six others were maimed," he said.
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[Libya Herald] La Belle France has vehemently denied allegations that its planes bombed the so-called Benghazi Defence Brigades (BDB) overnight at Al-Jlidiya, near Magrun, killing 13 of them.
In a short statement this afternoon, the French authorities said that they had carried out no Arclight airstrikes at all and that the accusations against it aired by some TV stations in Libya served merely to "sow doubt and division in the country".
A French official meanwhile told the Libya Herald that the French government did not support Hafter or the Libya National Army. Its strategy was the destruction of the so-called 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 terrorism in Libya.
The French statement (see below) followed a call earlier during the day by Libya’s controversial holy man, Sadek Al-Ghariani, for mass protests against La Belle France after it admitted the death of three French military officials in a helicopter crash on Sunday and the presence of French security forces in the country. On his Islamist Tanasah TV station, he accused it of effectively declaring war on Libya. He said people should take to the streets and demonstrate against its unacceptable intervention in Libya.
There was, he claimed, a "conspiracy" by foreign countries and their ambassadors together with their supposed Libyan agents to destroy the Libyan revolution.
On the equally Islamist Al-Nabaa TV, an organization calling itself the League of Displaced Benghazi Families similarly called on people to go to Martyrs’ Square in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... and protest.
Other protests came from Misratan politician Fathi Bashaga, the Moslem Brüderbund and the now generally invisible General National Congress (GNC).
In the event, there were demonstrations this afternoon in Tripoli, Benghazi, Misrata and Gharyan. The biggest was in Misrata where several hundred turned out and a French flag was burned. In Tripoli, numbers were muted and in Benghazi even smaller.
In his denunciation, Ghariani also attacked the entire Libyan Political Agreement and the Presidency Council which he accused of failing to solve the electricity and cash shortages and of being responsible for the the crash in the Libyan dinar and inflation. He also called the takeover of ministry building by the PC as illegal.
He further demanded the rump of the GNC to hold a session as soon as possible to discuss the situation. Those who had joined the State Council must return to the Congress, he insisted.
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(IraqiNews.com) Babel – Babel Police Command informed that weapons and an improvised explosive device containing C4 material was found inside a house during a security operation in northern Hilla.
The public relations directorate of Babel police in a statement, said, “Joint security forces carried out a security operation in al-Musayyib district (35 km in northern Babel) and seized an improvised explosive device containing C4 material from a house.”
“The security force also seized a Kalashnikov rifle, a gun, shields and a large quantity of ammunition from the house,” the statement added.
UNITED NATIONS: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says Daesh fighters in Libya are facing the “distinct possibility” of defeat in their last stronghold and are likely to scatter elsewhere in the North African country and the region.
The UN chief said in a new report to the UN Security Council that member states estimate there are between 2,000 and 7,000 Daesh fighters from Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Mali, Morocco and Mauritania.
Ban says one member state recently reported between 3,000 and 4,000 Daesh fighters in Sirte, the extremist group’s last bastion along Libya’s northern coast.
But he said as a result of the recent offensive against Daesh, by forces aligned with the UN-brokered government, “the current number of those in Sirte is now likely well under 1,000.”
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[CITY-JOURNAL.ORG] Any hopes that the nation’s first black president could uplift the nation’s black underclass went up in smoke Sunday when Barack Obama If you like your coverage you can keep it... doubled down on his blaming of America’s police for the recent cop massacres that amount, as Heather Mac Donald rightly says, to a war on cops.
I argued two decades ago in The Dream and the Nightmare that changes in elite culture during the 1960s had a catastrophic effect on the most disadvantaged Americans in ghetto neighborhoods. That decade’s sexual revolution removed the stigma from out-of-wedlock pregnancy. An kaboom of inner-city illegitimacy ensued, with between 70 and 90 percent of black children born to single mothers, depending on the city. The elite’s youthful interest in drug taking petered out, but in the ghetto, tolerance of drug taking resulted in a deadly crack cocaine epidemic. Elite culture’s wholly praiseworthy political push for black civil rights ended in a destructive turn, with intellectuals arguing that punishing black crime, as one bestseller’s title had it, was "blaming the victim." In other words, centuries of slavery and Jim Crow, giving way to lingering racial discrimination, made young black men justifiably angry and rebellious, and their anger, along with the barriers the larger society placed between them and gainful employment, resulted in criminal behavior that was understandable and almost justifiable. So by the early 1990s, murders in New York, for example--mostly by young black men killing other blacks--were occurring on average every four hours, every day.
The same spirit of elite racial contrition made generous welfare payments, with virtually no questions asked, seem like appropriate reparations for the long mistreatment of African Americans. In this way, government ended up enabling the spread of out-of-wedlock childbearing, which the culture had legitimated. But those fatherless welfare families proved far from ideal for raising successful, law-abiding children. What came to be called the cycle of poverty--single parenthood, school dropout, drug use, crime, non-work, welfare dependency--went into overdrive.
This was a cultural problem, a problem of beliefs, worldview, values, and attitudes. Elite culture had defined the ghetto underclass as victims and validated self-destructive attitudes and behavior. Ultimately, that inner-city culture took on its own inventive life, with rap music dismissing women as mere sexual objects, glorifying drugs and the conspicuous consumption that drug dealing could finance, celebrating gangsta behavior, and rejecting all authority. The anthem for this impulse, so to speak, was N.W.A.’s 1988 track "Fuck tha Police."
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In a criminal culture a criminal will hate the police. So will his relatives and friends. So we can dispense with the "commonality" between NWA and anti-cop BHA. I call this Thug Community, when someone is one or two degrees away from a criminal and law enforcement is always the bad guy. Unfortunatly, this community has increased substantially under BHA. To what end? He stokes a criminal hate of Blue to destroy the second amendment. Now we see the fruits of his labors. Open AR carry by BLM. Targeted police attacks. the equation is simple. If you have enough bad guys/wackos killing cops with guns, especially a prticular type of gun, cops will militarize and both they and the community must turn against the second amendment. Not because they are bad guys, but because it's human nature. So the Adversary pits the sheepdog against the Bubba Effect. In case no one noticiced, BHM does not plan for now but the future. Just look at Obamacare, not designed to fix healthcare now, but crash it and force the people's position. He simply plants the seed, we must foresee the weed and pluck it.
Folks say you're known by the company you keep. So this little revelation tells you just about everything you need to know about the Democrats and Hillary Clinton.
Hat tip to Gateway Pundit who reports Mike Brown's mother has been invited to speak at the Democrat National Convention in the city of brotherly love next week.
They have indignation to maintain. The truth doesn't matter.
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As Democrat outrages go, this is right up there; still, I don't think it quite rises to the level of their 2004 convention, when they gave an honored place to the loathsome Michael Moore.
It ought to be a fun week here in Philthadelphia next week, what with practically every leftist scumbag in the country running around protesting something or other. A real freak show.
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I forgot you were there, Dave D. First hand triage reports?
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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In the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the Israeli military successfully beat back a two-front invasion by Syria and Egypt. The war lasted only a few weeks, but its implications for air combat continue to reverberate -- even helping make the case for ditching the iconic A-10 "Warthog." 
Hillary Clinton
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HMS Ambush, an Astute-class submarine, was "submerged and conducting a training exercise" when it was involved in what the Ministry of Defence described as a "glancing collision" on Wednesday afternoon.
[LATIMES] Try to imagine, then, a situation in which Trump commanded our military to do something stupid, illegal or irrational. Something so dangerous that it put the lives of Americans and the security of the country at stake. (Trump’s former rival for the Republican presidential nomination, Marco Rubio, said the United States could not trust "the nuclear codes" to an "erratic individual.") Faced with opposition from his military brass, Trump would perhaps reconsider and back down. But what if he didn’t?
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[FOXNEWS] The failed coup d’état by elements of 
[BREITBART] The official 2016 platform of the Republican Party asserts that since the Constitution gives the federal government “no role in education,” it should not join with “centralizing forces” that have attempted to reform education and have subsequently done “immense damage.”
[THEFEDERALIST] As much as I found Trump’s campaign off-putting, a kernel of something within the Trump campaign spoke to me and stirred that long-dormant resentment. For me, it was a revelation and a possible explanation of why Trump won the Republican primaries and why Americans’ opinions of Congress and both political parties are so low.
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[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson hinted Wednesday that former Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush might be considering an endorsement.
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[Chicago Tribune] A Cook County judge on Wednesday tossed from the fall ballot a constitutional amendment to take away the General Assembly's power to draw legislative district boundaries, dealing a loss to Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and a win to Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan.
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad- Turkish jets, days after the failed coup in the country, launched cross-border strikes against Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq. The attack killed at least 20 alleged militants. This was reported by Anadolu Agency on Wednesday; the news report being extensively followed by Iraqi News.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Ministry of Interior stated that a sniper attack on the army in southern Baghdad resulted in three casualties.
[CITY-JOURNAL.ORG] Any hopes that the nation’s first black president could uplift the nation’s black underclass went up in smoke Sunday when 
Folks say you're known by the company you keep. So this little revelation tells you just about everything you need to know about the Democrats and Hillary Clinton.
