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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Spicy Diet Linked To Dementia
Nooooooooooooooooooo!

TW, quick! We need you to see if there are any holes in this study!

If only you had set this for tomorrow when you posted it, gorb, then I’d have seen it before the rollover.

— trailing wife
at 1:02 a.m. EDT, Wednesday, 24 July
[StudyFinds] Here’s something to consider the next time you’re thinking about ordering a spicy dish: a new long-term international study has found that a spicy diet could lead to dementia.

According to the study, older adults over the age of 55 who consumed more than 50 grams of chili per day displayed nearly double the risk of developing poor cognition and a decline in overall memory. Interestingly, slimmer adults indulging in a spicy diet exhibited even more significant memory loss.

"Chili consumption was found to be beneficial for body weight and blood pressure in our previous studies. However, in this study, we found adverse effects on cognition among older adults," lead researcher Dr. Zumin Shi explains in a statement.

Researchers analyzed the chili intake of 4,582 Chinese adults over the course of 15 years. Fresh and dried chili pepper consumption was tracked, but sweet capsicum and black pepper were not included in the study.

In general, study subjects who ate more spicy food had a lower income, less body mass, and exercised more frequently than those who preferred more mild flavors. This has led researchers to theorize that skinnier people are more susceptible to chili intake than overweight people, which would explain why skinnier adults displayed more prominent memory loss.

"Chili is one of the most commonly used spices in the world and particularly popular in Asia compared to European countries," co-researcher Dr. Ming Li says. "In certain regions of China, such as Sichuan and Hunan, almost one in three adults consume spicy food every day."

Capsaicin has already been shown to speed up the metabolism, promote fat loss, and hinder vascular disorders, but this is the first time its impact on cognitive functioning has been investigated.

The study’s authors say that more research is necessary on the connection between chili pepper and dementia, and admit that other variables, such as education levels, may also play a role in cognitive decline.
Posted by: gorb || 07/23/2019 16:06 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  admit that other variables, such as education levels, may also play a role
So are they trying to say that eating spicy food means you're uneducated?
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/23/2019 18:08 Comments || Top||

#2  So it that why the food in old folks rehab is so fricking bland that baby food is spicy in comparison?
Posted by: 3dc || 07/23/2019 19:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Horsepoop!
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 07/23/2019 19:11 Comments || Top||

#4  To me, salsa cleans the pipes. The hotter, the better. Daily
Posted by: Frank G || 07/23/2019 19:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Incidentally, one of the same scientists proved once that capsaicin was linked to better lung health. Probably why those chinese opera singers are all meshugene.

This isn't science. It's just superimposing data from a nutritional anthropology statistic onto another statistic with one or two similar variables. eg: Chinese eat chillies, chinese go senile sooner. Hence chillies linked to senility.

... most commonly used spices in the world [5] with a substantial higher chili intake in Asian compared to European countries [6]. In certain regions of China such as Sichuan and Hunan, almost one in three adults consume spicy food.

They're doing pretty okay compared to Europeans, who have repeatedly proven suicidally dumb, and with successively shorter-term memories every decade.

Still more science. Eat chillies to live longer
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/23/2019 19:24 Comments || Top||

#6  More that 50 grams daily is almost 2 ounces. Go look at one of your spice jars. That's a *bleep*load of chili.

The study’s authors say that more research is necessary on the connection between chili pepper and dementia, and admit that other variables, such as education levels, may also play a role in cognitive decline.


tl;dr: single variable studies are generally bullsh!t.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/23/2019 19:28 Comments || Top||

#7  Please pass the salsa.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/23/2019 22:10 Comments || Top||

#8  I call bullshit. Known too many people into old age that loved spicy food. The ones that mentally deteriorated that I knew where plain jane folk and the most exotic spice they had was pepper.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/23/2019 22:28 Comments || Top||

#9  Combined with beans creates methane induced global warming.
Posted by: Phaick Uneretle6310 || 07/23/2019 23:00 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Another Iranian F-14A Tomcat Just Bit the Dust
That's what happens when you take out unused hardware and try to dust it off, I guess.
According to Scramble Facebook News Magazine, it is now (still unconfirmed) reported that the aircraft involved is F-14A 3-6003. According to the picture of the fatal Tomcat, the airframe is completely destroyed.

As we have reported yesterday, one of the few remaining IRIAF F-14A Tomcat fighter jets was involved in a crash at home base Esfahãn-Shahid Beheshti International Airport (Iran).

The IRIAF F-14A from the 8th Tactical Air Base crashed while it was landing. The aircraft reported an emergency to air traffic control during its training flight, subsequently the fighter was approved to make a quick landing at Esfahãn, but the aircraft was not able to hold position and skidded off the runway. Both pilot and Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) were forced to eject. They parachuted safely to mother earth.
I guess they weren't aware that an F-35 can do that.
It is said that the IRIAF only have some twelve to fourteen operational F-14A and F-14AMs left. The IRIAF faces large problems to keep their Tomcats in the air (the AM version is locally modified and equipped with new avionics and multi-function displays in the cockpit, counter measure systems, radar warning receivers and an inertial navigation system).

The U.S. Navy retired the iconic Tomcat on Sep. 22, 2006 and today the F-14 remains in service with IRIAF.

In January 2007, U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) announced that sales of spare F-14 parts would be suspended over concerns of the parts ending up in Iran and in Jul. 2007 the remaining U.S. F-14s were shredded to ensure that any parts could not be acquired.

However in Oct. 2010 IRIAF commander stated that his country was overhauling its F-14s and mentioned that Iran-made radar system had been installed on the fighter.

Moreover in the summer of 2010, Iran requested that the U.S. deliver the 80th F-14 it had purchased in 1974, but delivery was denied after the Islamic Revolution.
Posted by: gorb || 07/23/2019 13:32 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  And Tom Cruise is going to play a 57-year-old fighter pilot. And aviationist.com wears out their 150th keyboard this year pressing the "starwars canyon" macro keys...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/23/2019 14:53 Comments || Top||


Russia Is Jamming the Air Force's F-35s and F-22s near Iran
Classy move, Russia. I don't know what effect you think it will have such as preventing war or the effective use of military force, but it shows your intentions.
The International Federation of Air Line Pilots’ Associations and Israeli Airports Authority in late June 2019 announced that many flights lost the GPS satellite signal while flying into or out of Ben Gurion International in Israel, Breaking Defense reported. There has been no risk to passengers, according to the IAA. The affected aircraft simply switched to backup systems.

Russian forces have been jamming GPS systems in the Middle East. The electronic-warfare campaign could affect U.S. forces gathering in the region in advance of potential strikes on Iran.

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: gorb || 07/23/2019 13:23 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  According to Wikipedia Russia has 24 operational Glonass Satellites.
A single Starship mission (when operational sometime next year) should be able to open it's maw and capture all 24, bring them back to the Earth and turn them over to the NRO for modification and reorbit...
It would be turnabout fair play!
List of functional Glonass Sats
Posted by: 3dc || 07/23/2019 14:19 Comments || Top||

#2  My idea of a good time, 3dc. I'd maybe put the NSA / NRO at arms length on the mission...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/23/2019 15:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Wonder if there's a variant of the HARM missle that homes on GPS spoofers.... if not, can I trademark the idea?
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/23/2019 15:20 Comments || Top||

#4  The Russians are jamming from Latakia where they have Hmeimen air base. The jihadis have been sending suicide drones to Hmeimen. Nothing about supporting Iran or messing with US aircraft.
Posted by: Angaiting Thising6508 || 07/23/2019 15:28 Comments || Top||

#5  "ground-based GPS systems are unaffected"
The ground based receivers are below the radio horizon and aren't 'hearing' the jamming. The ones in the air are getting blotted out by the louder signal.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/23/2019 19:30 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Hot New Presidential Candidate Larry The Cucumber Promises Everyone A Water Buffalo
[Babylon Bee] KITCHEN SINK‐A dark horse presidential candidate has come out of nowhere: Larry the Cucumber. He shot to fame almost immediately after his promise of giving everyone a water buffalo.

"When I am president, everyone will have a water buffalo," he said at a campaign speech. "Yours may be fast, and mine may be slow, but the important thing is that we're achieving total equality when it comes to water buffalo possession in this nation." Cucumber admitted he doesn't have a plan, however, for where he will get them. "Where will we get them? Uh... I don't know. But everyone will have a water buffalo!"

Sadly, his campaign manager, Archibald Asparagus, quickly tried to walk back Cucumber's promise.

"He can't say everyone will get a water buffalo; everyone will not get a water buffalo," he said. "We're going to get nasty letters saying, 'Where's my water buffalo? The government promised me a water buffalo.' And we're just not prepared to deal with that. We don't have the infrastructure to send everyone a water buffalo. We don't have the funding in place."

Asparagus was exasperated as Larry then gave another speech promising everyone a baby kangaroo.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/23/2019 08:40 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Water Buffalo Song
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/23/2019 12:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Just contact the Grand Poobah of the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes. He'll fix you right up.
Posted by: Spot || 07/23/2019 13:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Water Buffalo are mean nasty smelly beasts. When you cook one up large pressure cookers that can run for a day or more are even required to make the meat minimal chew-able. We don't need to discuss taste but you dog would pass on most of the buffalo.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/23/2019 19:10 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
As The Border Crisis Continues, Africa Gets In On The Action
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/23/2019 07:46 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
On Regulation, Trump Exceeds His Campaign Promises
h/t Instapundit
Candidate Donald Trump famously promised to get rid of two federal regulations for every new one. With 2 1/2 years in office under his belt, he has vastly exceeded that standard. Paul Bedard reports:

It was an odd, geeky campaign promise for a populist presidential candidate to make. But when Donald Trump in 2016 pledged to kill two Obama-era regulations for every new one, crowds went wild.

Those cheers stuck with him when he moved into the White House, and he put his promise into an executive order. And now as he opens his reelection campaign, Russ Vought, acting budget office director, has delivered the results sure to win even more rally cheers.

"We’ve hit 13 to 1," he told a Heritage Foundation conference on federalism. And cutting so many regulations, he added, has saved taxpayers $33 billion.

My guess is that number is low.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/23/2019 07:20 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It seems possible that THIS is the reason economic growth is up and unemployment down.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/23/2019 10:29 Comments || Top||

#2  But it all started with Obama. Including the over-regulation.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/23/2019 20:05 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Liberal nightmare: Takeover of federal judiciary by "larval Scalias is devastatingly close to completion"
h/t Instapundit
Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell’s long march towards remaking the federal judiciary is moving along.

Just this week, the Third Circuit "flipped" to majority Republican-appointees, the Second Circuit is on the brink of flipping, and several other evenly split Circuits are likely to go Republican.
But will they stay bought?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/23/2019 07:17 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Maybe, just maybe, you would go back to how the Constitution is suppose to work rather than relying upon the dictates of an aristocracy to implement your goals and power?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/23/2019 7:37 Comments || Top||

#2  "Larval Scalias"
*snort*
I like that
Posted by: Frank G || 07/23/2019 7:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Yes, Frank. I just hope - and pray - the larvae all grow into full-fledged liberal-eating monsters.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/23/2019 8:06 Comments || Top||

#4  Meh, they're counting Bush appointees, too.
Posted by: Regular joe || 07/23/2019 8:41 Comments || Top||

#5  those that begrudgingly support Trump are not surprised. The never Trump on the other hand think that nasty tweets are more important in the long run.
Posted by: ruprecht || 07/23/2019 14:41 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: 3dc || 07/23/2019 19:12 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
US general: Cartels are using migrants to distract from drug smuggling at the border
[Washington Examiner] Criminal cartels are using groups of migrants as a distraction for their drug smuggling activities on the southern border, according to the commander of U.S. Northern Command.

The military has noticed a "relationship" exists between migrants and drug flows, Gen. Terrence O'Shaughnessy said during a talk the Center for Strategic and International Studies on Monday. His command is trying to help the Department of Homeland Security counter the problem.

"The same cartels that are working the drug smuggling are working the migrants and where the migrants are going," O'Shaughnessy said. "We also see them using the migrants as a distraction. And so as they push a group of migrants over here, the drug smuggling goes over there. And we see that coordinated behavior, which we are trying to help plug some of those gaps."

O'Shaughnessy said he was surprised to learn the severity of the narcotics problem when he took over as the head of NORTHCOM in May 2018. As the military command principally responsible for the defense of the U.S. homeland, NORTHCOM plays a supporting role in counternarcotics initiatives, specifically with the Drug Enforcement Administration.

"And why? It's because this is a national crisis. 70,000 Americans killed [by] overdose," O'Shaughnessy said. "How can the Department of Defense not be part of that solution set?"
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/23/2019 06:30 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  Duh.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/23/2019 10:03 Comments || Top||

#2  In Operation order Ranger I and II in 89 & 90 our OP and surveillance personnel noted this as common practice. The Border Patrol agents called it flooding the zone even then. When we built the first wall along the 14 miles in San Diego, they shifted to Tecate and the Pinto Wash. 30 ytlatsr, same sh*t, different day.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/23/2019 15:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Border Ranger I & II..........30 years later....
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/23/2019 15:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Yep - Smuggler's Gulch was the original point. Cut off and they moved toward Tecate
Posted by: Frank G || 07/23/2019 19:03 Comments || Top||

#5  We used to watch the illegals play soccer and use the refreshment stands on the edges of that plataeau before bull-rushing the Gulch at night. My Team Engineer used up almost every piece of steel landing plate in CONUS to build the first 14 mile walls...
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/23/2019 20:43 Comments || Top||

#6  Thank You!
Posted by: Frank G || 07/23/2019 21:02 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Atlanta tries again to host Nobel Peace summit - and hopefully more
[AJC] Plan includes moving office from Italy, creating "peace universities"

Four years after failing to bring the 2015 World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates to Atlanta, the city is primed to host the 2020 gathering as part of a grander plan that could rebrand "The City Too Busy to Hate" with the more global "City of Peace."

The blueprint, if all goes according to plan, also would move the organizing group’s offices here from Piacenza, Italy. In addition to hosting the summit every few years, organizers would collaborate with local colleges to create "peace universities."Boosters are trying to finance the initiative with private funds - and arguing Atlanta is the perfect fit.

The city already is home to the Jimmy Carter Center, dedicated to the 39th president and 2002 Nobel Peace Prize winner. Martin Luther King Jr., who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, lived here.Business and community leaders, including Koch Industries Executive Vice President Jim Hannan, Integral Group’s Egbert Perry and former mayor Andrew Young, laid out the framework at a breakfast meeting of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce on Monday. Unlike in 2015, boosters say they have a memorandum of understanding."It has a chance to be significant," said Hannan. "We have the broad support, but we are going to need people to support building the foundation."
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/23/2019 06:19 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'd be circumspect. Atlanta is not too busy to hate white people, it's like a sport there. I don't know the first thing about Piacenza, but I'll bet you 2:1 it's a far more peaceful place.
Posted by: Beau || 07/23/2019 6:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Apparently, Atlanta has not heard that the Nobel Peace Prize Committee is no longer credible.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 07/23/2019 6:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Well, now that they've solved all their problems...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/23/2019 6:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Apparently, Atlanta has not heard that the Nobel Peace Prize Committee is no longer credible.

Birds of a feather.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/23/2019 7:00 Comments || Top||

#5  They will love too watch the local news when they come. I like too count how many of the feral youths killed each other on that day.
Posted by: chris || 07/23/2019 12:41 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel demolishes Palestinian homes near West Bank barrier
SUR BAHER, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli forces demolished a cluster of Palestinian homes near a military barrier on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Monday, in the face of protests and international criticism.

Israel said the 10 apartment buildings, most of them still under construction, had been built illegally and posed a security risk to Israeli armed forces operating along the barrier that runs through the occupied West Bank.

U.N. officials, who had called on Israel to halt the demolition plans, said 17 Palestinians faced displacement.

Bulldozers accompanied by hundreds of Israeli police and soldiers moved into Sur Baher, a Palestinian village on the edge of East Jerusalem in an area that Israel captured and occupied, along with the West Bank, in the 1967 Middle East War.

Posted by: Besoeker || 07/23/2019 05:58 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
China tells U.S. to remove 'black hands' from Hong Kong
BEIJING (Reuters) - China accused U.S. officials on Tuesday of being behind violent protests in Hong Kong and advised them to remove their "black hands" from the territory.

Foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying made the comment at a news briefing in Beijing, when asked about the Hong Kong protests.

Escalating violence in the city over the weekend opened new fronts in its crisis over an extradition bill that could see people from the territory sent to China for trial in Communist Party-controlled courts.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/23/2019 05:51 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Racism!!!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/23/2019 6:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Perhaps Foreign minister Hua Chunying would enjoy a briefing on the future transfer of the $2.6 billion USS South Dakota (SSN 790) to Taiwan.

Posted by: Besoeker || 07/23/2019 7:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Considering the crap China has pulled with the US and interfering in everything domestically here...

I believe the correct response is, "Eat a bag of dicks."
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/23/2019 8:53 Comments || Top||

#4  violent protests

By the Triads paid by the ChiComs.
Posted by: Angaiting Thising6508 || 07/23/2019 9:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Aren't the triads known as the "Black Hand"? Is this an attempt to blame the U.S. for the triad violence?

Al
Posted by: Gerthudion Thogum4544 || 07/23/2019 10:55 Comments || Top||

#6  That's just dumb and paranoid. As I expect from you
Posted by: Frank G || 07/23/2019 12:36 Comments || Top||

#7  Let's see.. The Triads predate the Chinese in US Chinatowns. The Triads likely predate the founding of the United States. So the Triads are not a US concoction.
Hong Kong was a UK Crown Colony granted to the UK, vaguely sometime in the Opium Wars timeframe.
The US has NEVER run Hong Kong. The US has Never run the Triads...
So, why are they asking the US to clean up a China born syndicate older than the USA?
Posted by: 3dc || 07/23/2019 14:39 Comments || Top||

#8  Lest they forget the worst pirate was a Chinese Woman.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/23/2019 14:40 Comments || Top||

#9  Wikipedia on Ching Shih
Posted by: 3dc || 07/23/2019 14:44 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Mexico says US-border crossings down by 30%
[DW] On the eve of a US-imposed deadline to show progress on curbing migration, Mexico said border crossings had dipped in June. The US has put pressure on its southern neighbor to do more to stop Central American migration.

In April, the US president threatened to impose tariffs on Mexican products if the country did not "stop, or largely stop," the flow of migrants colonists.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/23/2019 01:19 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Whereas our counts show the crossing going up by an order of magnitude.
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/23/2019 8:17 Comments || Top||


Africa North
EU suspends migration control projects in Sudan amid repression fears
[DW] The EU has suspended projects targeting illegal migration in Sudan. The move comes amid fears they might have aided security forces responsible for violently repressing peaceful protests in the country.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/23/2019 01:19 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Would rather bring them to EUrope and repress EUropeans?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/23/2019 7:05 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Rumor: Erdogan dead of heart attack
from a tweet
At least THREE Arab media outlets reporting Turkish President @RTErdogan dead of a heart attack. If true, this will have massive implications for #Turkey, Syria, Iraq, #NATO, Russia.

http://www.alraeesnews.com/31819

https://news-sinaa.com/mix/5482467/

https://palsawa.com/post/216261/
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#1  Induced or natural?
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/23/2019 2:49 Comments || Top||

#2  We will never know.
Posted by: Snavimble Bucket1794 || 07/23/2019 7:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Oh gee darn...
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/23/2019 8:52 Comments || Top||

#4  A situation where Rantburg could use a "Like" button.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/23/2019 10:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Gotta have a heart first...
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/23/2019 12:57 Comments || Top||

#6  'E's not dead, 'E's pinimg!
Posted by: Bugs Prince of the Danes7415 || 07/23/2019 15:43 Comments || Top||

#7  Any truth to this yet? Do we call it if he's not seen by the end of the week?
Posted by: Charles || 07/23/2019 18:14 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Comey's inside man at White House emerges as DOJ inspector general finalizes FISA abuse report
[Washington Examiner] Former FBI Director James Comey had an inside man at the White House, feeding the bureau information about President Trump and his aides in 2017.

Now this individual, who after leaving the government was hired by BuzzFeed to verify parts of British ex-spy Christopher Steele's dossier, may be tied to an investigation into alleged surveillance abuses by the DOJ and the FBI being conducted by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz.

This previously unreported mole in the White House appears in a new report by RealClearInvestigations that explored possible misconduct by Comey for what two U.S. officials described as essentially "running a covert operation against" the president even as he was assuring Trump he was not the subject of any investigation.

Anthony Ferrante, a longtime FBI official, worked as a cybersecurity adviser on the National Security Council. Officials said Ferrante was working in the White House even while the FBI held him on reserve status. All the while, he was sharing information about Trump and his aides back to FBI headquarters.

One former National Security Council official said Ferrante's unique position was highly irregular.

"In an unprecedented action, Comey created a new FBI reserve position for Ferrante, enabling him to have an ongoing relationship with the agency, retaining his clearances and enabling him to come back in [to bureau headquarters]," the official said, adding that the NSC division supervisor was "not allowed to get rid of Ferrante" and that the arrangement appeared to be "in direct conflict with the no-contact policy between the White House and the Department of Justice."

Ferrante left the White House in April 2017, not long before Trump fired Comey as FBI director.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/23/2019 00:47 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yet another member of the Creept Haircut Clubtm
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/23/2019 0:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Creepy. (scheiss)
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/23/2019 0:59 Comments || Top||

#3  It is likely he wasn't the only asset employed by the Bureau:

F.B.I. Sent Investigator Posing as Assistant to Meet With Trump Aide in 2016
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/23/2019 1:16 Comments || Top||

#4  Deep State?

Don't be ridiculous!

- 2017 Resistance/Dems/Media/Hilly/NeverTrumpers
Posted by: Bobby || 07/23/2019 8:04 Comments || Top||

#5  He will enjoy a full golden parachute pension far in excess of the incomes of the countrymen he's betrayed.
Posted by: Regular joe || 07/23/2019 8:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Jeebus! He looks like Strozk or whatever his name was...
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/23/2019 13:18 Comments || Top||


Europe
EU Parliament Gives Platform To Well-Known PFLP Member
[Jpost] Khaled Barakat was invited to speak at the EU by pro-BDS MEP Manu Pineda, who has met with Hamas and PFLP leaders in Gaza.

The EU has allowed a well known member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine to speak at the Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an Parliament in Brussels.
Continued on Page 49
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#1  Well, they've a lot in common.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/23/2019 7:06 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Mexican Federal Police Harrasses At Migrant Shelter -Report
[Jpost] The Mexican Federal Police harassed migrants colonists and threatened to raid a migrant shelter in Coahuila over the weekend, according to the head of a state agency and the head of the shelter, the latest in a series of similar reported incidents.

Hugo Morales, president of the state agency, the Coahuila Commission of Human Rights, said he had confirmed multiple online and witness reports that law enforcement officers took action at the Casa Migrante Saltillo, in the northern Mexican city of Saltillo on Saturday, one day before U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo praised the country's efforts to quell U.S.-bound migration, under a June deal which averted threatened tariffs by President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
"Unfortunately, now that officials are harassing shelters across the country, migrants colonists no longer feel safe relying on them," Morales said.

The Federal Police did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The operation is one in a series of reported incidents in the past month in which federal officers, either members of the Federal Police or of the newly formed National Guard, have approached and threatened to raid similar shelters.

The National Guard also did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Other confirmed approaches by national officials to enter and search migrant shelters have occurred in Tenosique, Tijuana and Agua Prieta.

Jose Maria Garcia, director of a shelter in Tijuana, said migrants colonists transiting in Mexico are more vulnerable to authorities than they were in the past.

"It is strange, now authorities are even asking people for documents in bus stations when they are thought to look like migrants colonists," Garcia said.
Oh NOES! Racial profiling?
The United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
, in response to news of the federal police presence at the Saltillo shelter, in a statement on social media on Saturday called for Mexico to "comply with its Migration law" in light of the "possible immigration verification operation" in the city.

Mexican immigration law prohibits migration verification visits in places where migrants colonists are "housed by civil society organizations, or people carrying out acts of humanitarian assistance or protection."

Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, when asked at a news conference on Monday about the entry of federal police in migrant shelters, said: "In principle I do not know of any indication that the Federal Police or other agencies enter civil society shelters under any circumstances, other than at the request of the shelter itself."

The director of Casa Migrante Saltillo, Alberto Xicotencatl, said federal authorities took action Saturday to monitor the blocks surrounding his shelter, detaining migrants colonists on their way to the safe house. Xicotencatl said four migrants colonists had already reached the building when police caught up and attempted to detain them.

"The police had them by the arms, had them up against the door", he said.

According to Xicotencatl and a statement posted online by the shelter, coordinator Jose Luis Manzo approached the officers, saying they did not have a legal right to detain migrants colonists on the organization's property. At that point, Xicotencatl said, officers threatened to enter the building in search of other migrants colonists without Mexican immigration documents before leaving empty-handed.

Morales said the Coahuila Commission of Human Rights had independently confirmed the police visit and has opened an investigation into the Federal Police actions.
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#1  Make their lives so miserable they go back home
Posted by: Uleck Spererong9442 || 07/23/2019 6:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Racism!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/23/2019 7:01 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian opposition: Israel killed senior Hezbollah officer by Damascus
[Jpost] A senior Hezbollah official and a supporter of Bashir al-Assad's regime in Syria, Mashur Zidan, was killed on Sunday in a car explosion on the outskirts of the al-Kaliya bridge in the southwest of the Damascus suburbs, according to Syrian sources.
Good intel. Hezb needs to purge their Gulenists Juice Spies
Zidan was among those close to Samir Kuntar, who was assassinated by Israel and the blame in Syria is placed on the Mossad, who they claim was responsible for the liquidation of Zidan.

Zidan was travelling with another person when an Israeli drone fired a missile at him, according to a Syrian opposition website.
It looks like Israel is not killing just Iranians.
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#1  A senior Hezbollah official and a supporter of Bashir al-Assad's regime in Syria, Mashur Zidan

The same person? I was hoping for two.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/23/2019 7:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Laudable, but inefficient to take them out one at at a time...now where could you find a bunch of these roaches all together.....
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/23/2019 8:19 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Detained Saudi cleric Awad Al-Qarni said the war on terror "is one of the tools of the West through which it establishes a new era of colonialism"
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#1  I dunno Asswad, if we were going to have colonies we might want them in pleasant places with literate, productive citizens.
Posted by: Cesare || 07/23/2019 7:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Not fair for Kaffirs to fight back against Jihad. Mo said so.
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/23/2019 8:16 Comments || Top||


Great White North
Woman Forced To Close Business After Refusing To Wax Male Genitals Of Pudgy Transgender Person
[DAILYWIRE] A Brazilian immigrant living in Canada was forced to close up her small business after refusing to wax the male genitals of transgender LGBT activist Jessica Yaniv, formerly known as Jonathan Yaniv.

The activist has filed complaints against 15 other estheticians with the tribunal, claiming "gender identity" discrimination, as well
Citing discrimination based on gender identity, Yaniv filed a complaint with the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal seeking financial restitution. The activist has filed complaints against 15 other estheticians with the tribunal, claiming "gender identity" discrimination, as well, The Daily Wire reported last year. It was not until Wednesday, however, that Yaniv’s identity was allowed to be disclosed.

According to The Post Millennial, Marcia Da Silva claims that she refused to service the complainant "due to safety concerns raised by her husband and alleged harassment on Yaniv’s part and not because of the claimant’s identity."

During tribunal proceedings on Wednesday, Da Silva said the complaint from Yaniv forced her to close shop, the outlet noted.
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#1  When being unemployed is better...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/23/2019 0:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Would have been better to just make the procedure exceptionally painful.
Posted by: gorb || 07/23/2019 4:24 Comments || Top||

#3  ...and I'm thankfully spared any pictures of Jonathan Yaniv, a 'woman' with a penis.
Posted by: Raj || 07/23/2019 7:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Think Paul Blart Elena Kagen with 100 extra lbs
Posted by: Frank G || 07/23/2019 7:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Boiling hot wax comes to mind .
Posted by: Snavimble Bucket1794 || 07/23/2019 11:36 Comments || Top||

#6  "Alright, which one of you scamps put JB Weld in the hot wax bottle again?"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/23/2019 12:00 Comments || Top||

#7  Good God Murcek aka satan
Posted by: chris || 07/23/2019 12:43 Comments || Top||

#8  Can't the ... umm, aesthetician sue the business and the err... 'scrotumed lady', for compelling a woman to service male genitalia ? Seems like a perverse thing to do. Any lawyer worth his salt could make that case.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/23/2019 17:08 Comments || Top||

#9  Ooop... it's Canada. That great, big homofascist paradise over yonder.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/23/2019 17:14 Comments || Top||

#10  But Dron66046, they aren't male genitalia any more, because he she it is transitioning to female.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/23/2019 17:53 Comments || Top||

#11 

Found and posted before watching...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/23/2019 18:03 Comments || Top||

#12  It's like sodom and mothèrfuckin' gommorrah. People think they have the right to take your kids to their 'topless pool parties'.

All a child buggerer's gotta do is put on make-up and sashay into a school to 'talk to kids' about their vaginas and make them uncomfortable. Son-of-a-bitch. And Trudeau's a son-of-a-bitch.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/23/2019 18:31 Comments || Top||

#13  "I have a 3" hairy clit with tumors attached. Wax me"
"This gonna be painful, as painful as I can make it legitimately"
Posted by: Frank G || 07/23/2019 19:13 Comments || Top||

#14  Describing this whale as pudgy was a gross understatement.
Posted by: Fat Bob Javish1936 || 07/23/2019 21:00 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Cobra Strike Forces kill 4 Taliban militants in Helmand province
[KhaamaPress] The Cobra Strikes of the Afghan Special Forces killed 4 Talibs during an operation in southern Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province.

The Special Operations Corps in a statement said the Cobra Strike Forces conducted the operation in Nahr-e-Saraj district of Helmand.

The statement further added that the Special Forces killed 4 Talibs during the operation.

Furthermore, the Special Operations Corps said the Special Forces also destroyed a vehicle, a cycle of violence and 4 improvised bombs during the same operation.
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Caribbean-Latin America
Reports of another massive electrical outage in Venezuela
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#1  Is this a competition with NYC?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/23/2019 7:33 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Trump says the ‘report of Iran capturing CIA spies is totally false.
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#1  "...now a list of journalists who work with the CIA, I can provide to sort this all out."

[you think that would tighten the leak sphincters?]
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/23/2019 7:31 Comments || Top||


Hamas group visiting Iran has met with the country’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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Russia denies its planes bombed rebel-held Syrian city
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Russia’s Ministry of Defense denied on Monday its planes carried out Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s on the rebel-held Syrian city of Maarat al-Numan that hit a popular market and residential neighborhoods.

The raids killed at least 20 people in the densely-populated city in the south of Idlib province earlier on Monday and were believed to have been carried out by either Syrian or Russian jets, rescuers and residents said.

"Russia’s Air Force did not carry out any missions in the given region of the Syrian Arab Republic," the ministry said in a statement.
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Home Front: Politix
The Democrats’ 2020 Campaign Theme Is 'You Americans Are Terrible'
[TOWNHALL] Remember Animal Farm from back when you were in school and they taught it as a chilling warning about socialism instead of as a how-to manual? Remember the horse who got worked nearly to death then got sent to the glue farm?

Guess what? You’re the horse.

Your job is to work to generate taxes and feed the cities and defend the country while your betters clink Chardonnay glasses between bouts of redistributing the fruits of your labor to buy the votes of their slack Democrat political constituencies.

And besides being the engine that powers the establishment, you also fulfill another important function. You’re the liberal elite’s punching bag, the scapegoat, the convenient excuse for every flaw, failing and foul-up in the society that very same elite runs. You don’t get the credit you’re due; instead you get scorn, because that scorn both gins up the elite’s dopey allies and acts to keep you in line. It’s a stick to beat you and a chain to bind you.
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Time to dust off the old adage "Tolerance is a two way street"?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/23/2019 7:11 Comments || Top||

#2  ...it was never about tolerance or equality. It was and is about power.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/23/2019 7:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Your side (ours) was tolerant.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/23/2019 7:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Thing is, there are plenty of non-Americans, dead Americans and TWANLOC on the voter rolls.

They're all fine with this stuff, and the Dems have calculated that there are enough of them to ride to power.

And they may be right.

This is why I roll my eyes at the conservative commentators when they do their "Don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry" routine.

The left has already taken their measure and found them to be weaklings who can ignored and rolled.

And if someone on our side is actually effective in fighting back, these same conservative commentators can be counted on to say "That is not who we are!" while stabbing them in the back.
Posted by: charger || 07/23/2019 18:10 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Combat actions today in #Donbas
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Africa North
Egypt hands out 11 life sentences for joining Islamic State
[IsraelTimes] An Egyptian court has sentenced 11 people to life in prison on charges of joining the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
jihadist group in Syria and Iraq.

The Giza criminal court says the defendants all traveled abroad to fight for IS and receive military training.

Two other defendants get 15-year sentences, and another is given three years for the same charges. These include possessing weapons and plotting attacks against security forces and state institutions.

The verdicts can be appealed, and the court has dropped the charges against another defendant.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Cops shoot, injure Palestinian man who tries to stab them in Hadera
[IsraelTimes] Police identify suspect as 21-year-old from West Bank; no other injuries reported.

Police officers shot and injured a 21-year-old Paleostinian man who tried to stab them overnight Monday-Tuesday in the city of Hadera.

The officers noticed the man behaving suspiciously and asked him to identify himself, at which point he pulled out a knife and attempted to attack them, police said in a statement.

One of the officers responded by shooting the suspect in the lower body. Police sappers then searched him for bombs before turning him over to medical personnel for treatment.

Police did not report any other injuries in the incident. Channel 13 news said the suspect was a resident of the West Bank town of Tulkarem and in Israel illegally. He was being treated for his injuries in Hadera’s Hillel Yaffe Medical Center and was in moderate condition.

The suspect’s motives were unclear and police were investigating the incident.
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Africa Horn
‘Our friends were behind the last bombings,’ a Qatari businessman linked to the Qatari emir said after an attack in Somalia’s Bosaso city
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The Grand Turk
Turkey will launch operation in Syria if safe zone not established - minister
[Ynet] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday that if a planned safe zone in northern Syria is not established, and if threats continue against Turkey, Ankara will launch a military operation east of the Euphrates river.

Turkey has been in talks with the United States over the establishment of a safe zone across its border in northeast Syria, where the United States supports the Kurdish YPG militia. Ankara sees the YPG as a terrorist organization.

In an interview with broadcaster TGRT Haber, Cavusoglu also said he hopes an agreement will be reached after talks on Monday with U.S. special envoy for Syria James Jeffrey, who is visiting Turkey.

Ankara wants YPG fighters to withdraw from the border area, while Washington wants guarantees that its Kurdish-led allies in the campaign to defeat Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
in Syria will not be harmed.
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Afghanistan
Telecom Companies In Balkh Shut Down Services At Nights
[ToloNews] Local officials said telecom companies’ offices were closed for 24 hours for shutting down their services at nights.

Telecom services are shutting down their services in the last two nights in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif apparently due to "security threats", residents and local officials said.

The telecom companies have not commented on this decision but sources said that the telecom companies shut down their activities due to security threats.

Balkh Police Chief Gen. Munir Ahmad Fayiz said the offices of the four major telecom companies ‐ Afghan Wireless, Roshan, Etisalat, and MTN ‐ were closed for 24 hours for disconnecting their services in the last two nights.

He said telecom companies have not shared the problem with the police.

"There is no major security threat to them [telecom companies in Mazar]," the Police chief said. "We have not been informed about any threats to them. We sealed their offices according to the warning we had given to them."

The shutdown in services has increased the price of the SIM card of government-owned Salaam Company to Afs1,200, almost $15 ‐ in the black market.

"We will introduce them to judicial institutions if they sold the SIM cards more than its normal price," said Mohammad Taqi Poya, the head of Directorate of Telecommunication and Information Technology in Balkh.

Balkh residents said the issue is concerning and it must be solved.

"SIM cards are not available; they are found in the black market," said Khwaja Sharif, a Balkh resident.

"People are facing problems and all communications were disconnected," said Qadir, a Balkh resident.

Head of Balkh Provincial Council, Afzal Hadid, said efforts are underway to solve the problem.

"What is the solution? Those who want to create a problem for our people must be stopped. We are trying to find alternatives and I am sure that this problem will be solved in the near future," he said.
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Africa Horn
17 dead, 28 wounded in Somalia bomb blast
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The corpse count from a boom-mobileing in Mogadishu on Monday climbed to 17, hospital officials said, with more than two dozen maimed in the earth-shattering kaboom claimed by al-Shabaab
...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
hard boys.

"The bodies of 17 people killed in the blast were taken to the hospital mortuary while 28 others were admitted for various wounds," said Mohammed Yusuf, the director of Medina Hospital, the main trauma facility in the Somali capital.
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China-Japan-Koreas
South Korea: We fired warning shot at Russian aircraft in our airspace
[Jpost] The South Korean military fired two warning shots at a Russian military aircraft that entered South Korean airspace on Tuesday, the Ministry of National Defense in Seoul said, and Chinese military aircraft had also entered South Korean airspace.

It was the first time a Russian military aircraft had violated South Korean airspace, a ministry official said.

The warplane was one of three Russian aircraft to enter the Korea Air Defense Identification Zone (KADIZ) early on Tuesday. Two Chinese military aircraft also entered the KADIZ, the defence ministry said in a statement.

There was no immediate public comment from Russian or Chinese officials.

The South Korean government would lodge official complaints about the violations with China and Russia, the defence ministry in Seoul said.

According to the South Korean military, the Russian aircraft then violated South Korean airspace over Dokdo - an island that is occupied by South Korea and also claimed by Japan, which calls it Takeshima - just after 9 a.m. (midnight GMT Monday).

"The South Korean military took tactical action including dropping flares and firing a warning shot," the defence ministry statement said.

The Russian aircraft left South Korean airspace but then entered it again about 20 minutes later, prompting the South Koreans to fire another warning shot.

The ministry said South Korean warplanes "conducted a normal response" to the incursion, without giving further details.
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Home Front: Culture Wars
Woman Suffering From TDS Gets SUV Stuck In Barbed Wire Fence After Vandalizing ‘Trump 2020' Sign
[Red State] There must be something in the water in Georgia these days.

There’s been the escalating she said-he said war between a Democratic stage legislator and a Cuban-American Democrat over heated words that were exchanged at a Publix grocery store express lane last Friday.

But there’s also another crazy story coming from Georgia involving a woman who hated a Cobb County man’s Trump 2020 display so much that she drove her SUV through a barbed wire fence to vandalize it at 1 in the morning last Monday.

WSB-TV reports:

[Property owner George] Bentley’s security cameras captured a car driving through the barbed wire fence and then knocking over a bright-colored cube around 1 a.m. Monday.

The video then shows a woman standing in front of the camera to spray-paint the Trump sign.

Bentley and his girlfriend, Dee Corson, discovered what happened when they woke up later in the day.

"That’s pretty strong for it to bother you something like this," Corson said.

Unfortunately for the vandal, she couldn’t get her car back through the barbed wire fence:
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The car [still trapped in the barb wire fence] led police to Azaria Moore, 20,

You're welcome. I don't think you need the photo.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/23/2019 7:53 Comments || Top||

#2  I wonder if TDS is just a form of Tourette's Syndrome... both involved uncontrollable outbursts of obscenity.
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/23/2019 8:13 Comments || Top||

#3  I go by this display everyday. Every time I see it it makes me think about how great it is that he has it up since this is a mostly minority side of town. I have had too shut alot of neighbors down with their anti Trump bullshit when they start spouting what they heard on the MSM.
Posted by: chris || 07/23/2019 12:47 Comments || Top||

#4  East Cobb is mostly minority?

ever since my kid gave up travel ball I haven't there much
Posted by: Beavis || 07/23/2019 13:10 Comments || Top||

#5  This side of east cobb is , near the big chicken.But alot of east cobb is becoming minoritywith alot Indians and other asians moving in for the good school systems.
Posted by: chris || 07/23/2019 13:53 Comments || Top||

#6  but alot of hispanics live over in this part of east cobb is what I was referring too.
Posted by: chris || 07/23/2019 13:53 Comments || Top||

#7  Understood Chris, I can’t read half the signs in Gwinnett anymore
Posted by: Beavis || 07/23/2019 17:17 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran's waiting game in the Gulf
[Ynet] Tehran's strategy to promote fear of a world recession in the event of a war has so far backfired and their hopes of returning to nuclear negotiations from a position of strength has also been suspended, but some gains for the Islamic Theocratic Republic could pose dangers down the line for the West.

Since war is inadvisable and unlikely, Iran's position - unless and until it brings about a change in the U.S. sanctions - is to wait it out with the hope that the 2020 elections will seat a new American president.
The conflict in the Strait of Hormuz is as much of a battle of minds as it is a physical battle between Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
on the one hand and the United States, Europe
Continued on Page 49
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Afghanistan
Can win the war in Afghanistan in a week but don’t want to kill 10 million people: Trump
[KhaamaPress] The U.S. President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
has claimed that he could win the war in Afghanistan in a week and could wipe the country ’off the face of the earth’ in ten days.

However,
you can observe a lot just by watching...
he said he did not want to kill ten million people, suggesting that pakistan could play a vital role to ’help the U.S. out.’

He made the remarks during a presser with the visiting Pak Prime Minister Imran Khan
... aka The Great Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems...
at the White House.

Calling the war ’ridiculous’, Trump went on to claim that the fight against Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
has made the US the world’s ’coppers.’

He Said "I have plans on Afghanistan that if I wanted to win that war, Afghanistan would be wiped off the face of the earth, would be gone, it would be over. Literally in ten days."

Meanwhile,
...back at the secret hideout, Scarface Al sneeringly put his proposition to little Nell...
the Pak Prime Minister Imran Khan said "And there is no military solution in Afghanistan, there is no military solution because as Mr. President says if you go out all military there will be millions and millions of people who would die."

He also expressed hopes that they would be able to ask the Taliban in coming days to negotiate with the Afghan government and come to a settlement and political solution.
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#1  that is the crux of it
Posted by: lord garth || 07/23/2019 1:04 Comments || Top||

#2  We would have to destroy the country in order to save it, and it just isn't worth it.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/23/2019 2:50 Comments || Top||

#3  A very good place to be away from. As far away as possible.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/23/2019 5:25 Comments || Top||

#4  ^They migrate
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/23/2019 7:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Can win the war in Afghanistan in a week but don’t want to kill 10 million people and turn Pakistan into a paved parking lot.

FIFY
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/23/2019 7:26 Comments || Top||

#6  What's wrong with large parking lots?
Posted by: 3dc || 07/23/2019 10:43 Comments || Top||

#7  Fuck off herb
Posted by: chris || 07/23/2019 12:33 Comments || Top||

#8  Our Defender of All that is True and Right slurs everyone else. Fuck off anti-American hater
Posted by: Frank G || 07/23/2019 12:35 Comments || Top||

#9  Hey Herb read history? Anyone f*** with the Mongols? Sherman said it correctly - war is hell. We just don't practice war anymore. Probably why we don't see any 'win' anymore just endless police actions around the world.

Don't do war. It's nasty, destructive, and exhausting. However, as Trotsky said - you may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you. If you are going to do it, don't hold back. Don't let anyone tell you how to fight a war without explaining what 'winning' means. Winning isn't about making friends or making people feel virtuous about themselves. Winning means they leave you alone and don't disturb you.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/23/2019 12:49 Comments || Top||

#10  Putting on my contrarian hat let me (partially) agree with HMcC. It is crappy that I have reached the point that genocide is not a horrific idea. On the other hand, I put the blame where it belongs - on a 8th century mindset that not just accepts genocide but makes a religious duty, along with slavery and subjugation of everyone other than their own particular cult/sect.
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/23/2019 13:02 Comments || Top||

#11  I didn't make the world, Herb, I just live in it. Where do you live?
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/23/2019 13:03 Comments || Top||


Airstrikes kill 7 Taliban militants in Helmand, Kunduz and Uruzgan provinces
[KhaamaPress] The security forces carried out a series of Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s in Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, Kunduz and Uruzgan killing at least 7 Talibs.

The informed military sources said Monday that an airstrike in Dishu district of Hlemadn killed 2 Taliban
...Arabic for students...
fighters and maimed 1 other.

The sources further added that an airstrike in Charah Darah district of Kunduz killed 1 Taliban fighter.

Furthermore, the security forces conducted airstrikes in in Khas Uruzgan district of Uruzgan province which killed 3 Taliban fighters.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment...
the military sources said the Afghan Special Forces conducted an operation in Chahar Darah district of Kunduz and destroyed 5 IEDs, 3 rocket propelled grenades, 0.3 kg homemade explosives and a small weapons cache.

The anti-government armed holy warriors have not commented regarding the operations so far.
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Taliban militants suffer heavy casualties in Faryab clashes
[KhaamaPress] The security forces inflicted heavy casualties on Talibs during separate festivities which took place in three districts of Faryab.

The 209th Shaheen Corps in a statement said the security forces clashed with Taliban
...Arabic for students...
in Sherin Tagab, Qaisar and KOhistan districts of Faryab.

The statement further added t4aht the security forces killed 16 Talibs during the festivities and maimed 23 others.

Furthermore, the 209th Shaheen Corps said an Afghan soldier also lost his life during the festivities and two others sustained injuries.

The Taliban group has not commented regarding the festivities so far.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


U.S. officials, Pakistani Army Chief to hold talks on Afghanistan
[KhaamaPress] The Chief of Army Staff of Pakistain Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa and the U.S. officials will hold talks on Afghanistan in Washington.

Pakistain’s Dawn News reported that Gen Bajwa is expected to meet US defence secretary, the current and the newly nominated chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other senior military officials during his visit to the Pentagon

Meanwhile,
...back at the saw mill, Scarface Al had tied Little Nell to the log and was about to turn on the buzz saw...
officials in the United States have said the meetings will focus on Pakistain’s support for the Afghan grinding of the peace processor and the security situations in Afghanistan and Pakistain.

Furthermore, a senior U.S. official has told VOA that President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
will press Pak Prime Minister Imran Khan
... aka The Great Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five...
for assistance in advancing the grinding of the peace processor in Afghanistan when the two leaders meet at the White House on Monday.

The official further added that "The purpose of the visit is to press for concrete cooperation from Pakistain to advance the Afghanistan grinding of the peace processor and to encourage Pakistain to deepen and sustain its recent effort to crackdown on faceless myrmidons and gunnies within its territory."
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


U.S. airstrike kills Taliban deputy intelligence chief in Ghazni
[KhaamaPress] A U.S. Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
killed the deputy intelligence chief of Taliban
...Arabic for students...
for Qarabagh district of Ghazni province.

The 203rd Thunder Corps in a statement said the U.S. forces conducted the airstrike in Khalo Khel and Sherabad areas of Qarabagh district.

The statement further added that the airstrikes killed 8 Talibs including the deputy intelligence chief of Taliban for Qarabagh.

Furthermore, the 203rd Thunder Corps said the airstrike also destroyed a vehicle.

The anti-government armed holy warriors have not commented regarding the airstrike so far.
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#1  Somebody's got to be wondering, How'd they know I was here?
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 07/23/2019 0:43 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: gorb || 07/23/2019 13:55 Comments || Top||

#3  1 down, N to go...
Posted by: SteveS || 07/23/2019 16:21 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Six Shiites Dead in Nigeria Clashes over Imprisoned Leader
[AnNahar] At least six Shiite Moslem protesters were killed in festivities with Nigerian police in the capital Abuja on Monday, witnesses told AFP, the latest deadly violence over the lengthy detention of a religious leader.

Hundreds of protesters from the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), a Shia sect, marched demanding the release of pro-Iranian holy man Ibrahim Zakzaky, who has been held since December 2015 on various charges, including terrorism.

Hundreds of his supporters, including women and kiddies, were killed by the security forces, in December 2015, according to a toll established by rights watchdogs.
Continued on Page 49
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli minister boasts his country 'is the only one that's been killing Iranians' amid heightened tensions in the Gulf
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] An Israeli minister boasted Sunday that his country was the only one that 'has been killing Iranians', after tensions between Britain and Iran rose in the Gulf.

Regional Cooperation Minister Tzachi Hanegbi's comments to public radio were a reference to Israeli strikes in neighbouring Syria against Iranian and Hezbollah military targets.

But they came after Iran seized a British-flagged tanker on Friday, adding to tensions between Washington and Tehran linked to a 2015 nuclear deal.
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#1  As always Israelis overplaying their hand and saying stupid things.
Posted by: Spanky Whuter1088 || 07/23/2019 7:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Hopefully, there are others who are just quieter...
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/23/2019 8:15 Comments || Top||


Four Palestinians reportedly shot, injured during rioting on Gaza border
[IsraelTimes] Four Paleostinians were reportedly shot by the IDF Monday during rioting on border with the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip.

The Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbung millipede,-run Gaza health ministry said the maimed were shot in the eastern part of the Gaza Strip and suffered various degrees of injuries, the Kan public broadcaster reported.

The injured demonstrators were reportedly part of a "truck march" taking place on the border with tractor-trailers, with hundreds of Paleostinians calling for Israel’s blockade on the Gaza Strip to be lifted.

Israel maintains the blockade is necessary to prevent arms smuggling into the Strip.

The IDF said it responded with riot dispersal means.
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Caribbean-Latin America
San Diego Congressional Delegation Offers Bills to Stop Tijuana River Pollution
[TimesOfSanDiego] Four of San Diego’s five members of Congress introduced a package of legislation Monday designed to stop pollution from the Tijuana River from reaching San Diego.

Reps. Juan Vargas, Susan Davis, Scott Peters and Mike Levin announced their Tijuana River Valley Pollution Solution package at a press conference in Chula Vista.

"We have an environmental crisis in San Diego. For years, the cross-border flows of wastewater, trash, and sediment coming from the Tijuana River have plagued our region, disrupting the lives of residents, service members, and visitors," said Vargas, who represents the border area in Congress."

The package of three bills, each introduced by different members, would increase the capital of the North American Development Bank by $1.5 billion to fund treatment projects, enlist the help of the Navy and improve coordination with the Environmental Protection Agency.

Davis noted that the the Navy is building a multi-billion dollar SEAL training facility just miles from the mouth of the Tijuana River and must take steps to make sure future spills don’t impact operations.

"Today, we are taking a comprehensive approach to address the crisis," said Peters. "We must prioritize funding for projects that specifically address water pollution, wastewater treatment, and water conservation to reduce the risk of sewage flows."

Pollution from Mexico via the Tijuana River has caused numerous beach closures from Imperial Beach to Coronado and disrupted Navy exercises.

Rep. Duncan Hunter, who represents rural East County, was not involved in drafting the legislation introduced Monday.
A bunch of donk congress critters want to spend $1.5 billion to fix a problem that Mexico should have fixed decades ago. It should be easy. Tell the Mexican president there will be no more foreign aid from the United States until this problem is fixed, and if that doesn't work then threaten more tariffs. But I guess with donks, nothing is ever easy.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sounds like one of those s#!tholes is over flowing.
Posted by: AlanC || 07/23/2019 7:54 Comments || Top||

#2  alan: the lawmakers or mexico?
Posted by: Glomonter Big Foot9862 || 07/23/2019 15:51 Comments || Top||

#3  No reason it couldn’t be both.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/23/2019 16:41 Comments || Top||

#4  To be fair I believe the USA had a deal regarding splitting the Colorado river and at this point the river doesn't even make it to Mexico (or just barely).
Posted by: rjschwarz || 07/23/2019 22:10 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
Imam arrested for raping multiple women, girls
[Dhaka Tribune] An Imam of a mosque was arrested for raping multiple women and girls after scaring them with retribution of Jinns if they did not comply.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion-1 (RAB-1) arrested Iblis Idris Ahmed, 42, from the Dakshinkhan area of Uttara, in Dhaka on Monday.

After bringing Iblis Idris to face the media at a briefing yesterday afternoon, Caption of RAB-1 Lt Col Md Sarwar Bin Kashem said Iblis Idris was an Imam at a Dakshinkhan mosque, as well as a teacher of its madrasa, for the last 18 years.

"We had received allegations of him raping at least five women and 12 teenage girls, after threatening them with unleashing Jinns on them if they did not listen to him," he said.

The captain said Iblis Idris was also responsible for raping the mosque's Khadem and the madrasa's students as well. "He used to record his crimes and warned them of not speaking about it to anyone."

The RAB official also added that Iblis Idris had confessed to his crimes, while a case was filed against him with the Dakshinkhan cop shoppe.
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#1  Should've stuck with boys - women & girls is unislamic.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/23/2019 6:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Another Global Warming Crisis (tM) - the goat shortage!
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/23/2019 13:08 Comments || Top||

#3  So he didn't make use of Jeffrey Epstein's island trained and vetted little girls?
Posted by: 3dc || 07/23/2019 19:03 Comments || Top||


Murder accused killed in ‘gunfight’
[Dhaka Tribune] An accused of a murder case was killed in a reported shootout with police, at Dumurtala area near Indian Border of Bakshiganj upazila under Jamalpur on Monday morning.

The dear departed was identified as Shipon, 28, son of Jalal Uddin, of Munshichar area in Sherpur Sadar upazila.

Police claimed that four members of law enforcement were also injured in the shootout.

AKM Mahbubul Alam, officer-in-charge of Bakshiganj cop shoppe, said people caught Shipon while conducting robbery in some boats at Bakshiganj on Sunday night, and handed him over to police.

According to his information, police launched drives in Sarmara and Ramrampur areas to seize drugs, and firearms.

When police reached Dumurtola under Kamalpur union, his associates opened fire on the law enforcers, forcing them to fire back in self-defense, triggering a shootout.

Later, police recovered bullet-hit Shipon, and took him to upazila health complex where doctor declared him dead, he added.

Shipon was accused in 14 cases, including a murder case with Sherpur, Shrebardi, and Bakshiganj cop shoppe, the OC added.

Later, police recovered a cycle of violence, a pipe gun, and 300 yaba tablets from the spot.
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Africa Horn
Somali army captures suspected Al-Shabaab members
[RADIOSHABELLE] Somali armed forces captured three suspected al-Shabaab
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
members during a military operation carried out in the country’s southern Lower Jubba region on Monday.

Speaking to the state-run media, the commander of SNA’s 11 brigade, Mohammed Hassan Badal said the suspects have been trying sneak into Kismayo
...a port city in the southern Lower Juba province of Somalia, at the extreme southern end of the country (assuming Somalia can be called a country). It is the commercial capital of the autonomous Jubaland region...
by traveling on a bus.

A tip-off has led to the arrest of the three alleged murderous Moslems who have been handed over to the security agencies in Kismayo town, he said.

This came more than a week after al-Shabaab attack at a hotel in Kismayo, a coastal city which serves as interim Jubaland state that left 26 people dead, including an American citizen.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Release tanker and crew immediately, Britain tells Iran
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Britannia called on Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
on Monday to release a British-flagged tanker and its crew immediately, describing the seizure of the Stena Impero in the Strait of Hormuz as illegal, Prime Minister Theresa May’s front man said.

May is chairing a meeting of Britannia’s COBR emergency response committee and foreign minister Jeremy Hunt is expected to make a statement to parliament later on Monday to face criticism that Britannia should have escorted the ship.

"The ship was seized under false and illegal pretenses and the Iranians should release it and its crew immediately," the front man told news hounds.
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#1  Or, we'll deal with you like we dealt with Rotherham sex slavers?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/23/2019 7:08 Comments || Top||

#2  When will someone finally discover that dialogue with these foks accomplishes nothing at all ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/23/2019 7:10 Comments || Top||

#3  ^One country
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/23/2019 7:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Who remembers why we developed the Marine Corp?
Posted by: Beau || 07/23/2019 7:20 Comments || Top||

#5  "Let them hate, so long as they fear"
Posted by: SteveS || 07/23/2019 11:22 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Paul Krassner, radical activist, dies at 87
[POLITICO] Paul Krassner, the publisher, author and radical political activist on the front lines of 1960s counterculture who helped tie together his loose-knit prankster group by naming them the Yippies, died Sunday in Southern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, his daughter said.

Krassner died at his home in Desert Hot Springs, Holly Krassner Dawson told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. He was 87 and had recently transitioned to hospice care after an illness, Dawson said. She didn’t say what the illness was.

The Yippies, who included Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman and were otherwise known as the Youth International Party, briefly became notorious for such stunts as running a pig for president and throwing dollar bills onto the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Hoffman and Rubin, but not Krassner, were among the so-called "reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
7" charged with inciting riots at 1968′s chaotic Democratic National Convention.
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#1  No doubt the air quality around Desert Springs is improving
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/23/2019 2:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Paul Krassner was the publisher of “the Realist” magazine, one of the raunchiest political publications that ever came out of the left coast. That’s all I will say.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 07/23/2019 2:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Once they became Yippies they were not Merry Pranksters anymore. Merry is always better than yipping dogs.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/23/2019 19:19 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Iraq arrests Islamic State cell, including Baghdadi aide, in Nineveh
The questioning of this one should be interesting...
[Iraq News] A group of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
fighters, including an aide to IS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, were arrested Monday in the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh.

Code-named as "Baghdadi’s Men," the IS sleeper cell confessed to carrying out several terrorist attacks against foreign embassies and churches in Egypt and Syria, Alghad Press quoted the Iraqi Military Intelligence Directorate as saying in a press statement.

The cell members also admitted that they plotted to carry out similar terrorist attacks against Iraqi civilians and institutions in Nineveh province.

Among those arrested is a senior aide to IS runaway leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the statement read.

Iraq declared victory over Islamic State in December with the help of a US-led alliance, having retaken all the territory captured by the snuffies in 2014 and 2015.

Isolated cells believed to be linked to the Islamic State group remain active in some parts of the country. In recent weeks, suspected Islamic State turbans have carried out several attacks targeting security forces in Iraq.
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Europe
Cruise ship rescues 111 migrants off Greece
[DW] The Marella Discovery picked up 111 migrants colonists, including 33 children, near Greece's Peloponnese peninsula. Despite a large fall in migrants colonists crossing the Mediterranean, six people die each day making the journey.

A Maltese-registered cruise ship sailing close to the Greek mainland has rescued more than a hundred migrants colonists, the country's coasties said on Sunday.

The migrants colonists were picked up by the Marella Discovery, an 11-deck luxury liner equipped with swimming pools, a casino and a theater.

The migrants colonists' boat was found in distress on Saturday evening, some 74 kilometers (40 nautical miles) off Greece's Peloponnese peninsula.

Of the 111 people on board, 33 were children.

The coasties did not say which countries the migrants colonists were from or where their boat departed.

MOSLEM COLONISTS MIGRANTS TAKEN TO GREEK PORT
The passengers were taken to the Greek port of Kalamata.

Two of the migrant boat's operators were arrested.

MIGRANT CROSSINGS FALLING
Although the number of migrants colonists attempting the perilous journey has fallen from 362,000 in 2016 to 116,000 in 2018, an average of six migrants colonists die every day in the Mediterranean, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees reports.

Already this year, at least 426 men, women and kiddies have died during the crossing, according to the French medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF).

MSF and the NGO SOS Mediterranee on Sunday announced they would resume migrant rescues with the 69-meter Ocean Viking ship.

The two groups' previous ship, Aquarius, discontinued its work in December following hostility from several Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an governments.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Guy leaps off balcony, missing swimming pool by inches
Guy holding his beer gets to finish it.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  missed it by 'that much'
Posted by: lord garth || 07/23/2019 1:02 Comments || Top||

#2  At our old second/top floor apartment guys would run across the roof over our bedroom in the middle of the night and jump into the pool; I heard splashes, not splats.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/23/2019 2:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Darwin Award candidate
Posted by: warthogswife || 07/23/2019 11:19 Comments || Top||

#4  He still gets a participation trophy though, right?
Posted by: SteveS || 07/23/2019 11:23 Comments || Top||

#5  The splat sound is ...aawesome
Posted by: Frank G || 07/23/2019 11:44 Comments || Top||

#6  Balcony Diving - a Game of Inches! Perhaps Kap can start a third career.
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/23/2019 13:05 Comments || Top||

#7  The article doesn't say, but did the guy survive? Broken back? Perfectly fine? How's his health?
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 07/23/2019 15:25 Comments || Top||

#8  How's his health?

Who cares? His demise was entertaining.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/23/2019 22:08 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Libya’s Mitiga airport halts air traffic after it is targeted by air strike
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Libya’s Mitiga airport has halted air traffic after it was targeted by an air strike, according to a statement. Mitiga is the only working airport in Tripoli, which has been under attack for several months by the eastern-based Libyan National Army.
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Home Front: Politix
Al Franken Says He ‘Absolutely’ Regrets Resignation From Senate
[YAHOO] Al Franken said he "absolutely" regrets resigning from the U.S. Senate in 2017 amid the firestorm over accusations of inappropriate behavior by the comedian turned politician.
"I was requested to request a transfer."
~ CPT Fisby - 1956, Tea House of the August Moon

In a new profile by Jane Mayer published Monday in The New Yorker, seven current and former senators said they also regret calling for his resignation in December 2017: Vermont’s Patrick Leahy
...Democrat Senator-for-Life from Vermont, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, source of more leaks than a plumber could keep up with...
, North Dakota’s Heidi Heitkamp, Illinois’ Tammy Duckworth, Maine’s Angus King, Oregon’s Jeff Merkley, Florida’s Bill Nelson, and New Mexico’s Tom Udall.

Franken told Mayer that he now wishes that he had followed through on his request to appear before a Senate Ethics Committee hearing so that he would have had time to gather evidence to counter what he felt was a false narrative in the media based in part on anonymous accusers.

The New Yorker piece also sheds new light on the accusations by conservative talk radio host Leeann Tweeden that Franken forced an unwanted kiss on her during a 2006 U.S.O. tour that was the center of her accusations. Franken was pressured to resign in December 2017 after seven more women accused him of inappropriate touches or kisses.

Two actresses told the New Yorker they had performed the USO skit featuring a handsy doctor played by Franken in 2003 ‐ well before Tweeden joined the USO tour ‐ and therefore it was not written for her, as Tweeden had said in her statement. Others who were on the 2006 tour questioned her account as well.

Franken also told the New Yorker that New York’s Chuck Schumer
Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower. Senate minority leader as of 2017.
, the top Democrat in the Senate, threatened to have the entire Democratic caucus demand his resignation and said Franken could be censured and stripped of his committee assignments if he decided to stay on.

"I couldn’t believe it," Franken told the magazine. "I asked him for due process and he said no."

A Schumer spokesperson had no comment. Reps for Franken and Tweeden did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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#1  Having gotten the DNC memo that Jeffrey Epstein is going to walk away scot free, Franken feels he deserves the same deal.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/23/2019 0:54 Comments || Top||

#2  False narrative my ass. Franken was caught on camera. He should go back to wearing diapers in public. It's what he is good at.
Posted by: Ebbavise Crereting1024 || 07/23/2019 2:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Al Franken Says He ‘Absolutely’ Regrets Resignation From Senate

"I'm a Democrat! The rules I make for others don't apply to me!"
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/23/2019 7:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Does he regret forcing himself on seven (or more) wimmens? Or just regret getting caught?
Posted by: Bobby || 07/23/2019 7:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Regrets not realizing that the Party protects its own - so he had nothing to fear.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/23/2019 7:52 Comments || Top||

#6  Franken Regrets Resignation From Senate...

That's one - anybody else?
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/23/2019 8:12 Comments || Top||

#7  ....last call.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/23/2019 8:33 Comments || Top||

#8  Having lived in Minnesota, I regret having ever been represented by him.

Al
Posted by: Frozen Al || 07/23/2019 11:00 Comments || Top||

#9  There is some wacky sh!t going on in Minnesota lately. And by lately, I mean the last couple decades. Garrison Keelor. Jesse Ventura. Al Franken. Anything with the word 'Somali' in it.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/23/2019 11:30 Comments || Top||

#10  I think you put Marianne Williamson on the problem mentioned in #9. Almost certainly some kind of crystal alignment problem, or maybe AL Gore's chi...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/23/2019 12:07 Comments || Top||

#11  I, for one, still think it's awesome!
Posted by: Iblis || 07/23/2019 12:09 Comments || Top||

#12  You'd have to have a heart of stone not to laugh at him. Chump.
Posted by: Spot || 07/23/2019 13:11 Comments || Top||

#13  If it had been a Republican, Franken would've led the pitchforks and torches mob
Posted by: Frank G || 07/23/2019 14:03 Comments || Top||

#14  Not caught in bed with a dead child so he's OK he figures.
Posted by: gorb || 07/23/2019 14:13 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Cellphone footage shows teens throwing buckets of water on New York City cops while they were making an arrest
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Daily Mail - where America gets it's news. Feral youts at it again. The advice to stay away from cities when the SHTF is a good one.
Posted by: Warthog || 07/23/2019 8:52 Comments || Top||

#2  In a number of the science fiction SHTF stories that I read , the military destroys the bridges and roads leading in and out of the cities. The ferals turn on each other and soon you have an empty city.
Posted by: Snavimble Bucket1794 || 07/23/2019 11:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Just as I wouldn't cross any of those bridges to get into an urban area when SHTF, it would probably be a bad idea for those urban youts to venture the other way into a countryside of unfriendly civilian rangers who know the locals.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/23/2019 11:53 Comments || Top||

#4  The way to stop this is IMMEDIATE and LETHAL gunfire. You can't know what's in that bucket.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/23/2019 22:32 Comments || Top||


Britain
Jeremy_Hunt calls taking of British ship by #Iran an act of piracy
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Picked right up on that did you?

Does the Brit navy still have any yardarms?
Posted by: AlanC || 07/23/2019 7:37 Comments || Top||

#2  It is NOT an act of piracy. It was an act of war. There are differences. The people doing it should be treated like POWs if captured, for instance (they are actually wearing a uniform and making no bones about what they are up to). Pirates you can just shoot and dump overboard, should you feel like it. Also, it means that you should use your military to attack their nation and do things like seize their interests in your home territories rather just step up patrols of waters where pirates (non-state actors) are operating.
Posted by: Vernal Hatrick || 07/23/2019 8:10 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey to expel Syrians living illegally in Istanbul
[AlAhram] Syrians living illegally in Istanbul have until August 20 to leave the city or face expulsion, authorities warned Monday, as hostility mounts towards the millions of refugees in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
Turkey has 3.5 million Syrian refugees -- more than any other country -- but they are only under "temporary protection" because the government does not offer them formal refugee status.

Under the system, they must stay in the province to which they are assigned, and can only visit other cities with short-term passes.

In a statement published in Ottoman Turkish and Arabic, the Istanbul governor's office said it would no longer tolerate Syrians who are assigned to other provinces.

"Foreigners of Syrian nationality who are not registered under the system of temporary protection or who do not have a residency permit will be expelled to their designated provinces by the Ministry of the Interior," it said.

Those without any registration papers at all would be sent back to Syria, it added.

But Mahdi Daoud, who heads a coalition of Syrian NGOs in Istanbul, said more than 600 people were already sent back to Syria last week -- even though most had protection cards issued for other Ottoman Turkish provinces.

"They were forced to sign documents saying they returned voluntarily to Syria," he told AFP.

He said his coalition, the Forum for Syrian Associations, had complained to the Ottoman Turkish authorities and there had not been any new cases since Saturday.

Security forces have stepped up identity checks in recent days in Istanbul -- at metro and railway stations and in areas with large numbers of Syrians.

There are currently 547,000 Syrians living in the city, according to the governor's office, which said no new registrations were being accepted for refugees.

Daoud said nearly 26,000 Syrians live in Istanbul without a protection card. He was not sure how many had cards from other provinces.

A survey published this month by Kadir Has University in Istanbul showed growing hostility towards Syrian refugees in the city, rising from 54.5 percent of respondents in 2017 to 67.7 percent in 2019.

#SyriansOut became part of the discourse during municipal elections this year -- with many complaining about the number of Arabic signs appearing on shops in Istanbul and elsewhere.
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Africa North
Libyan Air Force carries multiple strikes on positions of Haftar's forces
[Libya Observer] Targets and positions for Khalifa Haftar
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
's forces on different fighting frontlines have been targeted with heavy bombardment by the Libyan Air Force of the Presidential Council's government over the last few days, according to a source at the Burkan al-Ghadab (Volcano of Rage) Operation.

Airstrikes' aims included Haftar's forces positions in al-Asaba, al-Shweirif, al-Jufra and southern 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...
frontlines, the source explained.

"In total, the air force carried out 20 strikes targeting convoys, supplies, vehicles, fighters, and ammo depots with minute precision." The source indicated.

Saturday and Sunday saw the Libyan Air Force carrying out air raids on Wadi Rabea and Tripoli International Airport, destroying military vehicles and killing at least 13 fighters from Haftar's forces.

Intense airpower was put to the fight over the last few days by the Libyan Army under the command of Presidential Council's government to pave the way for an all-out offensive, according to military experts, that is going to be very soon.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Alamo, Davy was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results...
an uneasy calm has descended on fighting frontlines with some skirmishes with the Libyan Army remaining in positions gained in vast areas across southern Tripoli.
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [3 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Saudi blogger visiting Israel attacked by Palestinians at Temple Mount
[IsraelTimes] Mohammed Saud, a Netanyahu fan touring the country at the Foreign Ministry’s invitation, is heckled, spat on and has chairs hurled at him.

A Saudi blogger who is in Israel at the invitation of the Foreign Ministry was attacked and cursed at Monday, during a visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City.

Video of the incident shows a child spitting on Mohammed Saud as he visited the holy site, while others yell at him to leave.

In another clip, chairs and other objects are thrown at Saud as he walks through one of the Old City’s alleys.

One man is heard shouting at Saud, "Go to a synagogue." Others are heard calling him an "animal" and "Zionist trash."

A Foreign Ministry front man condemned Saud’s harassment.

"We strongly condemn the cruel and immoral behavior of some Paleostinians near the al-Aqsa Mosque toward a Saudi media personality who came to Jerusalem to be a bridge to peace and understanding between peoples," Nizar Amer wrote on Twitter.

Saud is one of six Arab journalists and bloggers, including representatives from Jordan and Iraq, brought to Israel by Israel’s Foreign Ministry, which has sought to highlight growing ties between Israel and the Arab world.

The blogger, who speaks Hebrew, is an unabashed partisan of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; his Twitter feed is loaded with messages of support for Israel, Netanyahu and the Likud party. His username on the micro-blogging platform is written in Hebrew as well as in Arabic, and his description includes an Israeli flag emoji and the words "Only Bibi!" using Netanyahu’s nickname.

The group of journalists and bloggers were slated to visit Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, the Knesset, holy sites, and to meet with members of Israeli academia during the trip.

Saud is also reportedly expected to meet Netanyahu on Tuesday.

The ministry has said the visit has "the aim of exposing the journalists ‐- some of whom come from countries that do not have diplomatic relations with Israel -‐ to Israeli positions on diplomatic and geopolitical issues."
Rudaw adds:
Both the Foreign Ministry of Iraq and members of parliament’s foreign affairs committee were not able to comment on the issue to Rudaw English on Monday.

Earlier this month, Iraq’s Ambassador to United States Fareed Yasseen seemed to argue that Baghdad should have some kind of relations with Israel, noting the Iraqi diaspora there.

Some in the Iraqi government attacked the diplomat and called for his resignation. However,
alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk...
the Iraqi foreign ministry defended their diplomat and accused some media of twisting his message.

Upon receiving news of the Iraqi journalist's visit to Israel from some local media agencies, the Iraqi Syndicate of Journalists strongly condemned the visit.

"We strongly condemn any Iraqi journalist who visits Israel, due to political reasons, the hatred Israel has toward Arab states in the Middle East, and all the killings and massacres Israel is committing against the people of Paleostine," it responded.

"The syndicate will take legal action against any Iraqi journalist who would visit Israel now or in the future."
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#1  Something I don't get here. If he is a Saudi blogger how is Iraq in this story?
Posted by: 3dc || 07/23/2019 18:53 Comments || Top||

#2  There is an unnamed Iraqi journalist there, too, 3dc. Only Mohammed Saud of Saudi Arabia is named.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/23/2019 21:46 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Media: The SDNY Will Take Down Trump
[Free Beacon] With some even saying to "forget" about the Robert Mueller Russia investigation, press members said the Southern District of New York's investigation of the Trump organization was where the real threat to President Donald Trump was.

Last week, SDNY prosecutors revealed their investigation into hush money payments to women Michael Cohen claims to have made at Trump's direction had ended. Fox News reported this meant there are likely no charges to be filed against Trump or other members of the Trump Organization.

CNN reported it was a "significant victory" for Trump's family business:
The conclusion of federal prosecutors' investigation of the Trump company's role in the Cohen matter marks a significant victory for the President's family business, although it likely doesn't come as a complete surprise. There had been no contact between the Manhattan US Attorney's office and officials at the Trump Organization in more than five months, CNN reported Friday.

Yet this development could come as a surprise to pundits and reporters who believed, for instance, that "this is where it ends for this president."

So said MSNBC host Donny Deutsch in February about the SDNY's investigation. Deutsch also remarked that "what is going to destroy everything he ever built and his children is a 30-year dishonest criminal enterprise."

"Many analysts have said that the Manhattan office of the Justice Department, the Southern District of New York, poses the real threat to the president," MSNBC's Brian Williams said on March
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And I promise not to c*me in your mouth and the check is in the mail.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/23/2019 0:47 Comments || Top||

#2  ...The next silver bullet is always just around the corner.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 07/23/2019 4:28 Comments || Top||

#3  In his book 'The Case for Trump', Victor Davis Hanson foresaw an ignominious conclusion. While never having met the man, VDH was entirely supportive of Donald Trump's leadership and direction. VDH was satisfied the Deep State would eventually make an example of Trump, either while in office or after his departure.

Hanson's thinking was centered around the need for the Deep State to deter future Orange Men from stepping forth.

I fear Hanson may be correct.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/23/2019 5:42 Comments || Top||

#4  SDNY to investigate Clinton Global Corruption initiative?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/23/2019 6:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Too many of their own folks might be named in that one, BP.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/23/2019 7:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Video montage of all the many predictions of doom
Posted by: Bobby || 07/23/2019 8:01 Comments || Top||

#7  Excellent piece Bobby.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/23/2019 8:31 Comments || Top||

#8  How much of this is anti-Trump and how much is designed to keep the next outsider from even getting involved in politics?

Narrator: Both
Posted by: ruprecht || 07/23/2019 14:43 Comments || Top||

#9  And as usual the Democrats got nothing. Pres. Trump is the squeaky clean Ivory soap of politics.

July 17, 2019: Authorities end investigation into Trump Org connection to Cohen hush money payments
The federal investigation into whether the Trump Organization was involved in Michael Cohen's hush money payments to Stormy Daniels is over.

A federal judge revealed today that federal investigators for the Southern District of New York have concluded their investigation, and ordered the information gathered on Cohen's campaign violations be made public.


Now do Bill and Hillary.
Posted by: Angaiting Thising6508 || 07/23/2019 16:04 Comments || Top||

#10 
July 17, 2019: Authorities end investigation into Trump Org connection to Cohen hush money payments
Posted by: Angaiting Thising6508 || 07/23/2019 16:05 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Predatory lender: Jeffrey Epstein had network of female assistants he would suggest to pals including Charlie Rose - who hired 3 and 'sexually harassed at least one'
[MAIL] Jeffrey Epstein was not just providing underage girls to his friends according to a new report.

New York magazine examined the convicted pedophile's black book, and learned that Epstein maintained a list of female assistants he recommended to pals including Charlie Rose and Bill Clinton.

Written call logs reveal that Epstein recommended five women that Rose should hire in a two-year span, and that three of those women then went to work for the disgraced newsman, who at the time was the host and executive producer of his eponymous talk show on PBS.

Of those three, at least one would later accuse Rose of sexual harassment.

'I was being offered up for abuse,' said that woman, who was just 22 when she was hired by Rose on Epstein's recommendation.

Epstein and his assistant Sarah Kellen called Rose dozens of times in that two-year period.

At the same time, Epstein was being probed by officials in Palm Beach and the FBI following allegations of sexual battery involving minor females.

One of the candidates Epstein named was said to be the 'world’s most perfect assistant she used to work for Harvey Weinstein he’s lucky if he can get her.'
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#1  This may be the most overblown story of the year. "Rich guys have sex with young women" is about as 'dog bites man' as you can get.
Posted by: Iblis || 07/23/2019 10:28 Comments || Top||

#2  We need a list of Epstein's johns.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/23/2019 13:39 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
HRW Says 4 Civilians Killed, Woman Raped by Army in Cameroon
[AnNahar] Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
ian security forces are committing "brazen crimes" against civilians, Human Rights Watch said on Monday, accusing the military of killing four people and raping a woman in the English-speaking northwest region.

For three years government troops have been fighting English-speaking separatists demanding independence in the northwest and southwest regions, leaving hundreds dead and forcing nearly 500,000 people from their homes.

An 80-year-old man and a young man with a mental disability were among those killed in security operations since mid-June, HRW said in a statement on its website.

"These latest crimes add to a long string of abuses by Cameroonian security forces," said Central Africa director at HRW Lewis Mudge.

"Instead of seeing that justice is done, Cameroon's authorities deny that their forces are killing and raping people, so it is essential to remind them that the world is watching."

A 40-year-old woman was beaten and raped in a toilet in Kumbo on June 21 after a group of soldiers demanded to know where separatists were hiding, HRW said.

HRW says unlawful killings and the use of excessive force by government forces have been rife since the crisis started.

"Security forces seem to have little fear of what will happen as they commit brazen crimes against civilians," Mudge said.

Last year, the rights group said separatists had carried out kidnappings, killed civilians and prevented children from going to school in Cameroon's two English-speaking regions.

Government forces were blamed for killing civilians, using excessive force against demonstrators, torture and the burning of homes in several villages, according to a report based on interviews and documents.

English speakers, who account for about a fifth of Cameroon's population of 24 million, have chafed for years at perceived discrimination in education, law and economic opportunities at the hands of the francophone majority.

But the government has rejected demands for autonomy and has dispatched thousands of troops in a crackdown.

The anglophone movement radicalized in 2017, with separatists declaring the creation of the "Republic of Ambazonia" -- a move which was not recognized internationally.
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#1  For three years government troops have been fighting English-speaking separatists

Grammar-Nazis?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/23/2019 6:56 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Eight Civilians Killed In Logar Airstrike
[ToloNews] Local officials said that the Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
was carried out in the district of Baraki Barak in Pashtun-infested Logar Province.

At least eight non-combatants were killed in an airstrike in the eastern province of Pashtun-infested Logar which was carried out by Afghan forces to target krazed killers, a bigwig from the province said.

The airstrike was carried out in Baraki Barak district on Sunday night, the district governor of Baraki Barak said on Monday.

He said that six other civilians were maimed in the airstrike which reportedly targeted two houses in Kochian village in Baraki Barak district.

He said that three women are among those maimed in the airstrike.
The district governor said that the maimed taken to a provincial hospital for treatment.

An MP from Pashtun-infested Logar, Salim Naeemi, said that nine civilians, including six children, were killed in the airstrike.

The ministries of Defense and Interior have not commented on the report so far.

CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IN AFGHANISTAN
On July 15, a bigwig of Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) said that 596 non-combatants were killed and 1,892 others maimed in festivities between government forces and the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
and other attacks by bandidos Death Eaters in Afghanistan since the beginning of the current solar year which coincides with March 21, 2019.

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

The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said in a quarterly report on April 24 that it has documented high levels of harm to civilians but adds that there has been a 23 percent decrease in overall civilian casualties as compared to the same period last year and is the lowest for a first-quarter since 2013.

The report says the UN documented 1,773 civilian casualties (581 deaths and 1,192 injured), including 582 child casualties (150 deaths and 432 injured) between January 1 and March 31.

In the first quarter of 2018, UNAMA documented 2,305 civilian casualties (799 deaths and 1,506 injured), including 609 child casualties (176 deaths and 433 injured), the report says.

The overall reduction of civilian casualties was driven by a decrease in civilian casualties by suicide improvised bomb (IED) attacks, the report says.

UNAMA notes the particularly harsh winter conditions during the first three months of the year, which may have contributed to this trend, the report says.

It is unclear whether the decrease in civilian casualties was influenced by any measures taken by parties to the conflict to better protect civilians, or by the ongoing talks between parties to the conflict, the report mentions.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Britain will seek to put together a European-led maritime protection mission to ensure safe shipping through the Strait of Hormuz
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Not saying it is unpossible, but it comes down to capability + will. You could do this with a little frigate navy, but are the Euros willing to but heads with Iran? Doubtful. First casualty would be that lame-ass nuke treaty the Persians are already cheating on.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/23/2019 18:39 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
How to Alienate Voters and Lose Elections
[SPECTATOR.ORG] "Mayor Pete" is like an applicant for an important position at a large employer who tells the interviewers that he isn’t all that impressed by the past performance of their organization. This observation would be considered presumptuous coming from any candidate, particularly one with Pete Buttigieg
...the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He is running for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country...
’s résumé. He’s asking for a hell of a promotion, after all. He’s currently employed as the mayor of an Indiana town boasting a population of 102,000 people. And his record there is not all it could be. He wants to be the chief executive of a nation of 340 million. A little humility might be in order.

Among the Democrats running for president, however, humility seems to be in rather short supply. They, like all members of their party, routinely insult the people who will decide whether they get the job or not. Nor are they reticent about criticizing the nation they want to run. Moreover, many are making wild promises about the things they will accomplish if given the job, yet they remain oddly unable to answer detailed questions regarding the implementation of these plans. Even worse, they seem utterly incapable of providing any serious cost estimates for their grandiose designs.

In addition to of all these issues, the Democrats seem to be under the impression that it is the responsibility of the electorate to live up to their expectations rather than the reverse. Like Crooked Hillary Clinton
...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away...
, they seem to believe they would be doing the country a favor by taking over. Finally, they are all making the worst mistake any job applicant can make: trashing the guy who currently holds the job, a guy with a lot of solid accomplishments and loyal supporters. All of this means that the Democrats have not yet absorbed the lessons of 2016, and this disqualifies them as a governing party.
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#1  Butt-gig
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/23/2019 0:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Who's counting the votes?
Posted by: charger || 07/23/2019 18:00 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Police arrest ‘most wanted’ NPA leader
[CNC] A New People’s Army leader wanted for murder was nabbed in Tagum City on Friday. Police spokesman Jason Baria identified the arrested militant as Ronnie Dumasig Campaner, a commanding officer of the NPA’s Guerilla Front 2, Southern Mindanao Regional Command, and listed as a “most wanted person” by the Philippine military.

Baria said Campane, a resident of Pantukan town, Compostela Valley province, was arrested for murder, in a residence in Barangay East, Tagum City.
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India-Pakistan
Trump offered to mediate the decades-long Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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Southeast Asia
Roadside bomb injures four Thai rangers
[Bangkok Post] A Thai army officer and his three subordinates were slightly hurt on Monday in Yala province when a bomb hidden beneath the surface of a road went off, toppling their pickup truck.

Bannang Satar police said the 20-kilogram bomb in a gas cylinder was detonated when the vehicle of the rangers reached the spot where the explosion was buried. Its impact caused a big hole of two meters wide and one meter deep and sent the vehicle to land on its side.

Military spokesman Pramoto Prom-in said police and soldiers were collecting evidence to try to find the bombers.
Posted by: ryuge || 07/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency


-Land of the Free
US border patrol arrested more than 1,000 African migrants trying to cross into the country from Mexico in the past two months
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Ebola Brigade. Not kidding.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 07/23/2019 2:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Racist! (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/23/2019 8:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Reparation seeking, post 1865 descendants of slaves left behind. Victim inclusion is your friend.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/23/2019 8:30 Comments || Top||

#4  see article just below where Mexico says illegal crossings are down 30%... direct from Bureau of Government Statistics (see Mark Twain quote for clarification).
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/23/2019 12:55 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Kenya's finance minister, top officials arrested for graft
[DAWN] Kenya's Finance Minister Henry Rotich and other treasury officials were arrested on Monday on corruption and fraud charges related to a multi-million dollar project to build two massive dams, police said.

“They are in custody now awaiting to be taken to court,” police chief George Kinoti told AFP, adding the accused had presented themselves to the authorities after chief prosecutor Noordin Haji ordered their arrests.

The arrest marks the first time a sitting Kenyan minister has been arrested on corruption charges, in a country where graft is widespread.

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#1  Must not have been paying the right people.
Posted by: gorb || 07/23/2019 4:25 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Microsoft to invest $1 BILLION in AI startup co-founded by Elon Musk that aims to make computers smarter than humans
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • OpenAI has employed AI researchers to make advances in the field since 2015

  • The group has laregely focused on the safety and social implications of AI

  • Wants to make system that master a subject as well or better than best humans
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Artificial stupidity.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/23/2019 0:45 Comments || Top||

#2  aims to make computers smarter than humans

I'm afraid for most folks they already are.
Posted by: gorb || 07/23/2019 4:28 Comments || Top||

#3  They think liberals are human?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/23/2019 7:00 Comments || Top||

#4  I expect the Donks to shut that program down, it would endanger their voting base.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/23/2019 7:36 Comments || Top||

#5  The Donks think that this is their future voting base.

Let's look at the semantics, who gets to define SMART?
Posted by: AlanC || 07/23/2019 7:57 Comments || Top||

#6  The only valid argument I ever heard in defense of Microsoft Windows is that it's "good enough". So now that I hear that the inventor of "good enough" is going to make AI smarter than humans, it kinda makes me chuckle.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/23/2019 10:26 Comments || Top||

#7  With M$S involved expect all their code to be hacked from day one and have back doors everywhere.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/23/2019 10:48 Comments || Top||

#8  If MSFT is involved they ain't gonna become intelligent.
Posted by: Hellfish || 07/23/2019 12:23 Comments || Top||

#9  Seriously what could go wrong...go wrong...go wrong...Hal?
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/23/2019 13:09 Comments || Top||

#10  Well, it was HAL, and Arthur C. Clarke swore up and down and left and right it was a complete coincidence that HAL was IBM offset by one letter. HAL was a lesson in the nature of GIGO. All the social justice crap that will be coded into any AI project funded by the leftist blob will be, to paraphrase Heinlein, "indistinguishable from a psychotic newt on crack..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/23/2019 13:24 Comments || Top||

#11  The creepiest part of the HAL character was reactivation in 2010. HAL was completely ignorant of the crimes he committed and was again so flawlessly logical that "he" agreed to facilitate his own destruction. Clarke was way ahead of everyone in understanding the flawed coin AI would have to be.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/23/2019 13:31 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
‘Heavy Clashes’ Ongoing In Key District In Badakhshan, or possibly the Taliban have already won
[ToloNews] The residents of Keran Wa Manjan district called for reinforcement as the fighting between security forces and Taliban is ongoing.

Heavy clashes are ongoing in Keran Wa Manjan district of the northeastern province of Badakhshan between security forces and the Taliban since Sunday, residents of the district said on Monday.

The residents said that at least one public uprising force member was killed in the fighting and four others were wounded.

“The Taliban has also suffered from clashes in the fighting,” residents said, adding that “the security forces need reinforcement and air support to improve the situation.”

A member of Badakhshan Provincial Council, Abdullah Naji Nazari, said a number of government buildings in Keran Wa Manjan district have fallen to the Taliban.

Nazari said that at least 40 members of the local police and public uprising forces led by Commander Malik are fighting against the Taliban and that they really assistance by the government.

However, local officials did not provide details over the clashes.

Keran Wa Manjan shares borders with Nuristan, Panjshir and Takhar provinces.

Taliban militants capture Kuran wa Munjan district of Badakhshan province

[KhaamaPress] The Taliban militants have reportedly captured the control of Kuran wa Mujan district in north-eastern Badakhshan province of Afghanistan.

Amanullah Paiman, a former lawmaker from Badakhshan confirmed that the Taliban militants launched an attack on Kuran wa Munjan on Sunday night.

Paiman further added that the attack claimed the lives of two soldiers and wounded 4 others.

Furthermore, Paiman said the Taliban militants managed to capture Police Headquarters of the district following the clash.

He also added that the Afghan forces are currently based in the outskirts of Kuran wa Munjan district.
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NDS Special Forces storm Taliban leader’s compound in Kunar province
[KhaamaPress] The Special Forces of the National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS) stormed the compound of a Taliban
...Arabic for students...
commander in eastern Kunar province
... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
The National Directorate of Security in a statement said the NDS Special Forces conducted the operation in Dangam district.

The statement further added that the Special Forces killed Ahmadshah, Taliban commander who was in charge of a group of 20 bad boys.

Furthermore, the National Directorate of Security said the Special Forces arrested three faceless myrmidons during the raid.

The NDS Special Forces also confiscated 9 weapons, 2 improvised bombs, 3 radio sets and 39 kilograms of drugs.

The Taliban group has not commented regarding the operation so far.
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Africa North
Libya's Foreign Ministry asks Tunisian authorities for coordination regarding Haftar's aircraft
[Libya Observer] The Libyan Foreign Ministry has asked the Tunisian authorities for coordination before taking any action regarding the Libyan warplane that landed on Monday morning in Mednine.

According to a source from the ministry, meetings for the Libyan Chargé d'affaires in Tunis with Tunisian Foreign and Defense Ministries about the issue are about to take place.

A source from the Libyan embassy in Tunis said they had formed a commission in Sfax to stay in contact with Tunisian authorities about the warplane.

A Libyan L39 warplane landed in Bani Ghazal in southern Mednine in Tunisia and according to the Tunisian Defense Ministry, the pilot said he had a technical malfunction that led him to make an emergency landing.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Big Shirley was still trying to snatch Nunzio bald-headed. She was already halfway there...
a Libyan military source has confirmed that the L39 was for Khalifa Haftar
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
's Air Force and it had taken off from Brak al-Shatti airbase, adding that the GPS device was damaged and the pilot lost destination so he had to land in Tunisia after the aircraft's fuel ran out.
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Haftar's "Zero Hour" to enter Libya's capital foiled by Libyan Army
[Libya Observer] Khalifa Haftar
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
's forces have announced "Zero Hour" to launch an all-out offensive on 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 try once again to enter the capital, but the forces have been met with fierce defense by the Libyan Army forces under the command of Presidential Council's government.

Frontlines saw the "Zero Hour" festivities start at 9.00am in the morning on Monday with Haftar's forces attacking - with air cover - Libyan Army positions on four frontlines, concentrating on Khallit al-Furjan since it's the closest to Tripoli's city center.

"We have foiled the attack of Haftar's forces and gained advanced positions in certain frontlines as our Air Force had carried out Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s on the attacking forces, causing them heavy losses." Libyan Army and Burkan al-Ghadab (Volcano of Rage) operation said.

They said three military vehicles were destroyed as Libyan Air Force targeted two tanks on al-Naher frontline, let alone seizing two military vehicles and capturing 11 mercenaries fighting for Haftar's forces.

Uneasy calm has descended on fighting frontlines after the Zero Hour offensive was repelled, while Haftar's media outlets said the general command put off the Zero Hour offensive due to a malfunction in the communications system.

For over a week, the Zero Hour has been the talk of all Haftar's forces, including his front man Ahmed al-Mismari, who said in a presser that their plan included protecting state institutions and diplomatic missions in Tripoli.

The front man for the Libyan Army Mohammed Gununu commented on al-Mismari's statement saying; "it is just a media propaganda that aims at putting down Libyan Army forces' morale."

Before the Zero Hour, Haftar appointed on Sunday Mabrouk al-Ghazwi as the commander of Tripoli offensive in place of Abdelsalam al-Hassi, who is said to be detained in Rajma.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Civilian air strike death toll in northwest Syria tops 40
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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Iraq
Iraqi security apprehend two terrorists in Kirkuk province
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) ‐ The Iraqi Interior Ministry announced on Monday the capture of two turbans in the oil-rich province of Kirkuk.

Acting upon a tip-off, a security force arrested the pair after storming their hideout in Kirkuk’s Hawija district, the ministry said in a press statement.

The two turbans were handed over to the competent authorities for interrogation as they are facing terror charges, the statement added.
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