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Secretary of Defense James Mattis made his first on-camera remarks Thursday about North Korea's threats to attack Guam with ICBMs, saying that a potential nuclear incident "would be catastrophic."
While speaking to reporters at the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental(DIUx) event in Mountain View, California, he was asked by a reporter, "Can you talk about the human toll we might see in the event of a nuclear confrontation?"
"My portfolio, my mission, my responsibility is to have military options if you need it," Mattis responded. "However, right now, Secretary Tillerson, Ambassador Haley, you can see the American effort is diplomatically led, it has diplomatic traction, it is gaining diplomatic results. And I want to stay right there right now. The tragedy of war is well enough known. It does not need another characterization beyond the fact that it would be catastrophic."
Deviating from the tone of President Trump, who said the U.S. would unleash "fire and fury" upon North Korea, Mattis stressed that the route forward would be diplomatic, and he repeated the importance of the unanimous 15-1 United Nations Security Council vote to impose economic sanctions on North Korea. There's no warmer pleasure than being able to tell a smart aleck, 'I told you so, but you wouldn't listen' -Hazel Stone
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There are many actors in the whole Google/diversity drama, but I’d say the one who’s behaved the worst is the C.E.O., Sundar Pichai.
The first actor is James Damore, who wrote the memo. In it, he was trying to explain why 80 percent of Google’s tech employees are male. He agreed that there are large cultural biases but also pointed to a genetic component. Then he described some of the ways the distribution of qualities differs across male and female populations.
Damore was tapping into the long and contentious debate about genes and behavior. On one side are those who believe that humans come out as blank slates and are formed by social structures. On the other are the evolutionary psychologists who argue that genes interact with environment and play a large role in shaping who we are. In general the evolutionary psychologists have been winning this debate.
...Which brings us to Pichai, the supposed grown-up in the room. He could have wrestled with the tension between population-level research and individual experience. He could have stood up for the free flow of information. Instead he joined the mob. He fired Damore and wrote, "To suggest a group of our colleagues have traits that make them less biologically suited to that work is offensive and not O.K."
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That is a blatantly dishonest characterization of the memo. Damore wrote nothing like that about his Google colleagues. Either Pichai is unprepared to understand the research (unlikely), is not capable of handling complex data flows (a bad trait in a C.E.O.) or was simply too afraid to stand up to a mob.
Regardless which weakness applies, this episode suggests he should seek a nonleadership position. We are at a moment when mobs on the left and the right ignore evidence and destroy scapegoats. That’s when we need good leaders most.
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David Brooks, AKA "Loose Cannon", "Friendly Fire" and "Batshit Crazy" - never can tell what'll pop out of him \. This I think is an example of "Stopped Clock Syndrome".
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The firing of James Damore over his "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber" memo will empower the tech alt-right.
To understand why, imagine yourself as a Republican working at a big Silicon Valley tech company.
You agree with Damore that some average differences between men and women probably explain some of why such a high proportion of computer programmers are male. You, however, in no way consider yourself sexist.
What Damore’s termination tells you is that many in your field consider people with your beliefs to be unfit to work with. They hold opinions of you similar to those of former senior Google employee Yonatan Zunger, who wrote about Damore, saying:
"Do you understand that at this point, I could not in good conscience assign anyone to work with you? I certainly couldn’t assign any women to deal with this, a good number of the people you might have to work with may simply punch you in the face, and even if there were a group of like-minded individuals I could put you with, nobody would be able to collaborate with them." (Emphasis mine.)
If you are on the right, you probably find it hard to imagine that any reasonably person could read Damore’s memo and think that it reveals the author to be sexist, punchable, or a danger to women’s careers. It appears to you that Damore was excommunicated for questioning the progressive diversity narrative in a most respectful manner.
The right calls the kind of people who went after Damore by the derogative term "Social Justice Warriors" (SJWs). SJWs hold progressive views on diversity and identify politics and, supposedly, find virtue in harming those with heretical beliefs.
...Vox Day, a leader of the alt-right, wrote a book called "SJWs Always Lie" with the explicit goal to "show you how SJWs operate, teach you how to see through their words, explain how to correctly anticipate their actions, and give you the weapons you need to successfully thwart their inevitable attempts to disqualify you, discredit you, and destroy your reputation."
Damore’s firing is probably going to cause many Silicon Valley Republicans to prepare themselves by reading this book.
The key difference in tactics between the alt-right and traditional right is that the alt-right doesn’t place much value on playing fair, and they mock conservatives’ seeming desire to lose honorably. On a recent Periscope video Vox said that his supporters in tech companies (which he claims are numerous) should "be the second or third most enthusiastic SJW in your group."
He considers SWJs to be the enemy that’s beyond reason. When a commentator suggested that publically supporting SJW views might give them legitimacy, Vox said "F--- legitimacy. You are thinking like a conservative..."
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And the Big Band sound is returning. You could use a review of indulgences of the rich and Luther to know human behavior hasn't changed in over 500 years.
Several civilians have been killed in an US airstrike in eastern Afghanistan, local officials said Friday, the latest setback in efforts to bring peace to the war-torn country.
"On Thursday afternoon, the American forces bombarded a civilian private vehicle... when they were travelling inside the district," he told AFP.
"Unfortunately, in the airstrike we have casualties. Eleven people were killed and one wounded. All the victims, which included women and children, were civilians and they were from one family. Crowded civilian vehicle.
"The victims were beyond recognition, So how do we know they were civilians, and from one family? and they were placed inside the sacks and were buried late last night," he added.
One wonders how such a mistake could happen, since there is no mention of any active fighting (and resulting confusion) in the area: was the vehicle 'authorized' as a legitimate target by a Talibunny pretending to be an Afghan official?
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...the latest setback in efforts to bring peace to the war-torn country
The Romans and Mongols had methods of pacifying areas that seemed to work very well (for varying definitions of the term "well") --- not that I'm advocating them, just to be clear.
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Airstrikes on Germany and Japan killed a lot of civilians as well. Turned two countries with militaristic cultures into two of the least militaristic.
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BTW, this is another gift of the SWAMP that thought integrating China into the global market would erase their thousands of years of territorial chauvinism.
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Any fight between the two would by (1) Cyber (2) missile exchange (3) or fighting on some of the most hostile ground in the world. I'm betting on (1).
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Not a Loesch fan. Anti Trumper harridan. But her stock only goes up when anti gun harridans start shrieking...
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National Security threat to the Progressives People Democratic Republic. Socialists do feel the threat of an armed citizenry to their authoritarianism/totalitarianism.
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The whole point of the 2nd Amendment is to insure we are a national threat to the ruling elite. She has it right and should heed the warning.
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....support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, "
The 2nd amendment is meant to empower me, it's an individual right, to be able to do that. And you bet your ass those of us who took that oath are just as much a threat to subversion as you fear we are!
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Kathleen, maybe you should take an extended work leave (be term-limited) and read up on the Bill of Rights and the 2nd Amendment. The purpose of the 2nd Amendment is to prevent a tyrannical government from taking over.
Amendment II
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
Free individuals must protect themselves against the evil will of men, the mob and criminals, and a tyrannical state. The 2nd Amendment guarantees the other amendments.
We often hear about "fake news" today. I have often thought that if you are engaged in the spreading of propaganda and disinformation, you should not enjoy the protections of the 1st Amendment. However, it is fortunate that far wiser heads than mine have established the 1st Amendment which protects freedom of religion speech and the press. These freedoms are not to be abridged.
Some other quotes:
“When the law disarms good guys, bad guys rejoice.”
― Ted Nugent
Civil Wars happen when the victimized are armed. Genocide happens when they are not.”
― A.E. Samaan
The MSM might consider the following quote: “I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright
h/t Instapundit (h/t Ursula Le Guin)
As a woman, (according to the State Department) a minority, and an individualist, I feel the need to weigh in on the whole James Damore controversy.
I feel like what’s being discussed isn’t even close to what is actually going on. In fact, as with many things that are cherished by the left, I feel their "diversity" isn’t diversity at all, and their social engineering attempts fail because they’re not doing what they say they’re doing.
First, and before I get into details here, James Damore did not say what most people think he said. He did not say women are unsuited for tech jobs. He did not say women only have tech jobs due to affirmative action. That is all bullshit piled on by those mau-mauing him, in an effort to expel someone whose questioning made them uncomfortable.
Why it made them uncomfortable is the fascinating part of all this.
It makes them uncomfortable because it shatters the brittle shell of their enforced narrative, which can only be kept by keeping everyone from saying anything against it. It is very much a "the king is naked" situation. If James Damore is allowed to say men and women are different, the entire project of feminism shatters.
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The whole point of Political Correctness is to humiliate people into publicly accepting ludicrous ideas as facts, the more ludicrous the better. If they can make you accept things you know are wrong, they own your soul.
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Feminists have a problem. They won back in the 70's. Every legitimate grievance they raised had been addressed by then. So, what next? Go home, or make sh*t up? Well, now we know the answer.
[Spectator] A tool of the Muslim Brotherhood (during a stint in Saudi Arabia he says that he grew to admire Islam and the concept of jihad), Brennan refused to take his oath as CIA director on the Bible. His hatred for Michael Flynn and Trump stems in large part from his Islamophilia and his nostalgia for the socialism and the atheism of the Old Soviet Union.
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While running this operation of political espionage, he was auditioning for a job under Hillary and turning CIA headquarters into a branch office of her campaign.
In this hothouse atmosphere of pro-Hillary partisanship, any and all contacts between the Trump campaign and anyone even remotely connected to Russia became occasions for "unmaskings."
Instead of exposing this blatant political espionage, the media became a conduit for it. Hersh notes that the New York Times was in effect under the editorship of John Brennan last year. He could plant any smear he wanted against Trump on its front page.
It is obvious that Brennan’s circle was responsible for many if not most of the criminal leaks. Why doesn’t the FBI raid Brennan’s home and rifle through his records? The reason that won’t happen is that the ruling class and deep state, which are composed largely of aging radicals, protects traitors while punishing patriots -- a conclusion to which the improbable testimony of Seymour Hersh adds still more credence.
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I guess Jr's meeting with Russians was all in his mind too... pfff next
[Aljazeera] A prominent member of Hong Kong's Democratic Party said he was beaten and "stapled" by Chinese agents in Hong Kong before being dumped on a remote beach.
Howard Lam, a key pro-democracy activist in the former British colony, told reporters on Friday he was confronted by men speaking Mandarin - spoken in Beijing but not widely in Cantonese-speaking Hong Kong - outside a sports store.
Lam said the men took him away, interrogating him and stapling his skin 21 times for being "unpatriotic" in a nine-hour ordeal.
He was knocked out and eventually found himself dumped on a beach in Hong Kong's remote Sai Kung district.
Hong Kong's police commissioner, Lau Wai-chung, told media he was taking Lam's accusations seriously and they were attaching great importance to investigating the case. The Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of China's State Council were not immediately available for comment.
The alleged attack comes as hostility to Beijing has spiralled in Hong Kong and the battle for full democracy has become a defining issue for the city of 7.3 million people.
Iranian media reports ISIS executes captured member of the Revolutionary Guards near the Syria-Iraq border; Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force, promises revenge for the killing.
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The no lose scenario. I knew I'd live to see it...
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The Chicago solution requires no intervention. Please pass the salt.
[ABC] Current and former U.S. diplomats reacted to President Trump's comments thanking Russian President Vladimir Putin for expelling U.S. embassy workers with dismay.
"As far as I'm concerned I'm very thankful that he let go of a large number of people because now we have a smaller payroll," Trump said at a briefing at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey on Thursday.
"We'll save a lot of money," he added.
It's unclear if the U.S. would save any money because of the expulsion. Any diplomats removed from Russia would be sent to posts elsewhere around the world.
The Russian order to expel 755 U.S. diplomats last month came in response to new sanctions imposed by the U.S. A diplomatic row over Russian interference in the 2016 election began last year after President Obama ordered the seizure of two diplomatic facilities used by Russia in the U.S. and the expulsion of 35 diplomats and their families.
One of those compounds, in rural Maryland outside of Washington, was said to be used for espionage, according to former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
A State Dept. official who is a foreign service officer told ABC News the message from Trump thanking Putin is "really quite sad."
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It's unclear if the U.S. would save any money because of the expulsion. Any diplomats removed from Russia would be sent to posts elsewhere around the world.
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Since the secretary of state has frozen hiring until his goal of cutting staff by a certain percent (I think 7%, but I'm not sure) through attrition is achieved, the number of local staff let go will offset the same number of Americans who would otherwise be encouraged to leave. I think we're seeing posturing for effect.
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That's should help pay for the secret services daily $13,000 golf cart budget, trump tower rent, and expenses he's wasting getting sun in Florida. No one expects anything less from the elite class. Good job, Mr President. Now let's hear that apologists.
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Gee, g(r)om what do you against Ulan Bator? BTW, those are the people who knew how to deal with both the Russians and Chinese.
I don't agree to your point*. But if we accept it for the sake of the argument - who's better to deal with USDS staffers?
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(i) These are the people who stayed behind.
(ii) One can argue that Mongols shaped Russian national character.
(iii) Chinese absorbed Mongols in 2 generations.
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Gee, whatever happened to that poll of Federal hacks, 25% of whom said they'd quit if Trump became president? It didn't quite work out that way, did it?
If the requirement to return home to select a new Khan wasn't followed, most of Central Europe would have ended up like Russia. Instead, Subutai and the horde about faced near Vienna to return to Karakorum.
re: assimilation
2003 found eight percent of men in 16 different Asian populations (0.5 percent of the global male population) shared nearly identical Y-chromosome sequences. Further DNA evidence traced their lineage to Mongolia about 1,000 years ago, which corresponds pretty closely with Genghis's reign.
[Jewish World Review] There are almost as many dividend-stock-picking strategies as there are dividend stocks. You could go for the dividend "achievers," which have boosted dividends for at least 10 consecutive years, or the "aristocrats," which have raised dividends for at least 25 years. You could focus on stocks with the fastest dividend-growth rates, or simply those with today's highest yields.
But to cook up a portfolio full of healthy, sustainable and growing payouts, you need more ingredients. Recent research suggests that mixing a high dividend yield with strong dividend growth and a low "payout ratio" (the percentage of earnings paid out as dividends) is a winning recipe. Pankaj Patel, managing director at investment-research firm Cirrus Research, says a portfolio of stocks combining those three factors has beaten Standard & Poor's 500-stock index by 6 percentage points annually over the long haul.
Generous dividends are a lifeline for seniors drawing income from their portfolios--particularly when the 10-year Treasury yields 2.4% and the S&P 500 yields less than 2%. But dividend growth is slowing and payout ratios are climbing, presenting challenges for investors seeking healthy, sustainable payouts.
[Victory Girls] I was going to title this post "This Is What a Traitorous Swine Looks Like," but I realized I ought to use my words more judiciously than emotionally. I therefore changed the title to reflect what I really want to say about Bradley Chelsea Pile of Petrified Hyena Turds Manning.
For the record, I refuse to call Manning a woman ‐ not because he doesn’t own the required parts, but because he simply doesn’t deserve that courtesy after putting troops, policy, sources, and innocents whose only crime was being nice to coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan in harms way. Nope. Just nope.
After seeing this photo and tweet from Manning, I began to hate my breakfast and my eyes (for what has been seen cannot be unseen). "This is what freedom looks like," says the caption.
I’m normally not a person who ridicules people’s appearance, but Manning really does look like a dude ‐ a pasty, white, somewhat flabby, paunchy dude in a red bathing suit and potential 5 o’clock shadow. That’s why his appearance in Vogue magazine ‐ especially their description of him as a "graceful, blue-eyed, trans" is particularly puzzling to me, considering Vogue’s beatification of women such as the stunning Lupita Nyong’o, Margot Robbie, Natalia Vodianova, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera (hat tip to the King and I).
But in the case of Manning, the outside is quite as unsightly and repellent as the inside, and the fact that Vogue chose to glorify this perfidious sack of whining entitlement is reprehensible to me as an American and a human being.
I also note with some revulsion that Manning has "Network Security Expert" listed in his Twitter description.
[Hot Air] When we last checked in on newly released information regarding that infamous tarmac meeting between then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton, we learned that the media wasn’t terribly interested in discussing the matter any more than absolutely necessary. But as reporters continue to dig through the trove of Justice Department emails obtained by the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, we find out that there were some people who were very interested in talking. The people in question would be Lynch’s staff and they were having a flurry of discussions with none other than the folks at James Comey’s office.
You’ll recall that all of this was taking place only days before Comey would hold his bizarre press conference where essentially cleared Hillary Clinton of any criminal wrongdoing in the private email server scandal. (Only to famously reopen the investigation later.) So if it was really just a casual, chance meeting to discuss grandchildren and golf, why would the Attorney General’s office be sending out a flurry of messages to the FBI Director’s office? It turns out that one of Lynch’s own attorneys was editing talking points for the White House in terms of how to address questions from the press and another of her people was sending talking points to the FBI.
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Bill is early stage dementia. Loretta is a not-especially-bright affirmative action product. The meeting was probably bizarre from an average IQ person's point of view...
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Bill is early stage dementia. Loretta is a not-especially-bright affirmative action product. The meeting was probably bizarre from an average IQ person's point of view...
So, could we be reading too much into this encounter? Perhaps it was something as simple as an opportunistic blow job.
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My guess is Lynch was wavering about something in regards to the Hillary trial and Bill needed to push her in the right direction. A public scandalous meeting truly showed his determination and fearlessness and Lynch got the message.
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Mt sense is that Bubba needed Lynch to see/hear things that they dared not be put in any form of written transmission. SHe was to muzzle/deflect/divert the FBI from the email scandal at all costs. Extensive planning went into making it secret, and dumb luck by a local reporter let us see it. He plane was the most secure from monitoring place possible for the meeting, it wasn't happenstance, it was coordinated very carefully!
[Daily Wire] As The Daily Wire reported, President Trump is currently drafting paperwork to declare the opioid epidemic a "national emergency."
Once upon a time, we considered drug abuse to be an underground issue impacting the dregs of society. "They" have a drug problem, we told ourselves. The "other," that faceless statistic we all heard about but never talked about in polite company, was beyond our help. Today, the opioid crisis is staring us in the face. It's inescapable. This is a full-scale epidemic affecting hardened criminals and unassuming housewives alike.
America’s opioid addiction is costing countless lives every day. But why? How did we get here? The fact is, we're here because we've done very little to address the problem.
Some have linked the uptick in opioid-related addiction to the recession, arguing that unemployment has bred a culture of despair in which drugs are sought as a refuge to blunt the pain of loss. Others place the blame on the astonishing accessibility of painkillers and other prescription drugs.
But the truth is, of course, more complicated than these reductive reasons imply. To understand opioid addiction, we first need to understand what the drug does and the effect it has on the brain.
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I have a friend who was addicted to heroin many years ago. With time, effort, and much support from friends she did manage to escape it, but even knowing all she does, it remains tempting to her. The entry seems to be due to peers, boredom and/or depression, and it doesn't take long to set the hook. I am not sure a general solution exists.
[American Thinker] When in doubt, cry racism. It’s the left’s go-to weapon when the facts are against them. School choice advocates, then, should be heartened: Progressives lately have had to stoop low, get dirty, and hurl mudballs in our direction, because that’s all they’ve got.
This month progressives let fly three separate volleys, hoping the "racist" argument would somehow find its mark. The New York Times, the Center for American Progress, and the American Federation of Teachers all argued that educational choice is "racist," rooted in "slavery," and a cover for "segregation." (One commentator also blames "anti-Catholic sentiment and a particular form of Christian fundamentalism.") Worse, they declare authoritatively, "choice" will spell the end of democracy, as we know it.
First came the Center for American Progress. Their report, "The Racist Origins of Private School Vouchers" (July 12, 2017), chains current voucher proposals to segregationist policies of the past, concluding that vouchers are "fundamentally positioned to funnel taxpayers’ dollars into private schools while draining much-needed resources from public schools and ... vulnerable students."
A week later, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, called Education Secretary Betsy DeVos "a public school denier, denying the good in our public schools and their foundational place in our democracy." Weingarten described "vouchers, for-profit charters and other privatization schemes" as the "polite cousins of segregation," part of a scheme to "protect the economic and political power of the few against the rights of the many." She accuses proponents of educational choice of trying "to starve public schools to the breaking point ... and let the market handle the rest." And that, she declared ominously, is "how a democracy comes apart."
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The federal government runs two K-12 school systems. One by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and another by the Department of Defense. Both can hire and fire. The former rates below national average, the latter above. The DoD schools are not known to discriminate, but are known to expect discipline as one might expect of an organization oriented to that concept. Added to the equation is the value placed by the 'consumer' population in education and the expected behavior of its participants in that light.
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As an anti-progressive, this is an issue I struggle with. If they are against it, I am usually for it, but I am opposed to using vouchers in favor of public schools. Education is the great equalizer. Public schools foster assimilation and cooperation among diverse students, taking knowledge with them to influence their homes and communities. There are standards to graduate and the teachers Americans, not foreign visa holders teaching segregated classes Shariah law. While charter schools are perceived as superior, many parents find the services mandated for public schools are not provided in private charters. Special needs kids are not accommodated, for example. Vouchers should not be used to subsidize parochial and charter schools if they don't provide for all students as mandated by the Constitution. The good news is attendance estimates this year in Houston may be off this year because students are returning to public schools. Easier to fire tenured teachers than to end another government handout. Parents will demand the hefty private tab be subsidized on Joe Blow's back so as to not discriminate, as "free education" will become another mandated wealth redistribution slush fund for elitest administrators.
[The Hill] Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) on Thursday defended Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell after President Trump ratcheted up his criticism of the Kentucky Republican.
"[McConnell] has been the best leader we’ve had in my time in the Senate, through very tough challenges. I fully support him," Hatch, the most senior Republican senator, wrote in a tweet.
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), who has emerged as a vocal critic of Trump, also chimed in with support for McConnell.
The backing for McConnell came as Trump on Thursday escalated his attack against the GOP leader for failing to pass his legislative agenda.
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Assuming you could replace them with even somewhat conservative Republicans, the turnover list would be: McCain, Flake, Hatch, McConnell, Alexander, Collins, Murkowski, Johnson, Strange.... I'm sure I missed a dozen or so.
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"[McConnell] has been the best leader we’ve had in my time in the Senate, through very tough challenges. I fully support him,"
He's seen many of them since his election in 1977. The more recent Senate Majority Leaders.
1. Mitch McConnell
2. Harry Reid
3. Bill Frist
4. Trent Lott
5. Tom Daschle
6. Bob Dole
7. George Mitchell
8. Robert Byrd
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#4 If POTUS cannot gain traction with the Pubs, perhaps he should simply switch parties. The Dems are looking for a strong, new leader.
As much pushback as Trump has gotten from both parties, it couldn't have been much worse if he had started a new party. Please though, do not go with the party of corruption, the Democratic Party; it is better to stay with the "party of do nothing, the party for the timid and faint of heart."
[REUTERS] Japan could legally intercept a North Korean missile headed towards Guam, Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera said on Thursday in remarks reported by Kyodo news service.
Onodera told a lower house of parliament committee that Japan would be allowed to hit a missile headed towards the U.S. Pacific territory if it was judged to be an existential threat to Japan, Kyodo said. This is a reiteration of the Japanese government's position.
Experts say Japan does not currently have the capability to shoot down a missile flying over its territory headed for Guam.
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[AlMasdar] Syrian Arab Army (SAA) forces, led by the Elite Republican Guard, continue to rout ISIS in the northeastern countryside of Hama Governorate, today liberating a number of key locations from the terrorist group.
According to military sources, the SAA was able to secure three key areas from ISIS after a brief engagement with the jihadist faction’s bandidossnuffies south of Ithriyah town, these include the runs of Kharab al-Katnah, the mountain of Jabal Dawylab and the hilltop of Tal Mazroor.
Al-Masdar News currently has no information regarding losses sustained by either the SAA or ISIS as a result of today’s engagement.
In any case, this recent advance by the SAA comes several days after it liberated the village of Marinia (for a second time) and a number of points south of it from ISIS.
The offensive operation being witnessed in this region of Syria is all part of an ongoing effort by pro-government forces to create a large buffer zone south of the Ithriyah to Resafa highway and to further isolate Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... bandidossnuffies in Hama Governorate from their comrades in the easternmost regions of Syria (e.g. Deir Ezzor).
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[AlMasdar] The Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) has suffered a major defeat today as their forces retreated from several points along the Jordanian border.
Backed by Hashd al-Sha’abi (Iraqi paramilitary) and the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP), the Syrian Arab Army’s 5th Corps captured 151st Border Garrison today after launching a powerful attack along the Jordanian border.
According to a military source in southern Syria, the Syrian Arab Army and Hashd al-Sha’abi captured a total of 57km along the Jordanian border, forcing the Free Syrian Army’s Ahmad al-Abdo unit to mass retreat to Jordan.
The Syrian military has now connected the 134th, 139th, and 151st border-garrisons in the al-Sweida Governorate.
Today’s advance on the Jordanian border by the Syrian military marks the first time they control the entire Sweida-Jordan border.
[AlMasdar] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and other pro-government forces have officially liberated some 1,300 square kilometers of territory in Syria’s Badia al-Sham region as a result of recent offensive operations across this battlespace.
The operation ‐ initiated about one week ago ‐ has served to severely undermine the strategic position of Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) mercenaries operating in the great southern desert region.
This is especially true after the SAA and its allies forcibly ejected FSA bandidosforces of Evil from their last positions along the entire section of Jordanian border that runs parallel to Syria’s As-Suwayda Governorate.
[AlMasdar] Units of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) besieged inside the strategic city of Deir Ezzor have started offensive actions against occupying ISIS forces with the apparent objective of retaking the entire area from the terrorist group.
Yesterday, SAA troops clashed heavily with Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... Death Eaters inside Deir Ezzor city. Russia Today’s Ruptly group has released two minutes of footage showing this engagement.
The firefights seen in the video are said to be part of a series of localized operations inside Deir Ezzor by the SAA aimed at gradually ejecting ISIS bandidosfaceless myrmidons from the city ‐ or at the very least putting additional pressure on them ‐ whilst long-awaited relieving forces push in from southern Raqqa and eastern Homs.
Despite being in a highly unfavorable strategic situation inside Deir Ezzor, the SAA has of late launched a series of successful tactical attacks against occupying ISIS Death Eaters inside the city area, taking ground in some cases.
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[AlMasdar] Over 1,000 fighters of the US-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have been killed during engagements inside Raqqa city over the last two months according to an info-graphic released by ISIS propaganda.
According to the ISIS info-graphic (shown below), jihadist faceless myrmidons fighting inside Raqqa have inflicted losses of the SDF to the effect of:
1,040 fighters killed (207 by sniper fire); and
24 vehicles destroyed (6 damaged) including two Humvees, one bulldozer, three Toyota pickups, three BMPs, fourteen “other types” of vehicles and a drone.
Furthermore, ISIS claims that its forces carried out a total of 54 attacks on the SDF of which four were Inghimasis (shock troop) assaults, thiry-six were suicide missions and fourteen were "normal" engagements.
Realistically speaking, it is hard to believe that SDF manpower losses are actually as high as ISIS claims they are; more likely it is the case that SDF Raqqa battle-related deaths are around half to one-third of the number suggested in the jihadist info-graphic.
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[AlMasdar] Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) authorities in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... -occupied northern Aleppo have issued a statement banning their fighters from wearing balaclava face masks, threatening to sue forces of Evil who disobey the directive.
The statement has been issued in response to a theft and robbery epidemic that is plaguing the town of Jarabulus and its surrounding area (currently held by Turkey-backed hard boys); it is reported that such acts are constantly being carried out by men wearing masks (like the ones worn by rebels) who can never be identified.
This is yet another blow to the political validity of Erdogan’s Islamist protectorate in northern Syria and comes not longer after 500 al-Waer residents that originally opted exile in Turkey-occupied northern Aleppo later chose to return to government-held areas in Homs because the conditions were so depraved in the neo-Ottoman enclave.
This latest development offers good insight into the moral character of the "moderate" rebels under Ottoman Turkish military guidance.
To this end it can be understood that FSA forces of Evil serving in the Turkey-led rebel coalition are mercenaries (paid by the Ottoman Turkish foreign office) and many of them have strong jihadist leanings, believing in concepts of justifiable looting (including the kidnapping of humans, namely women) due to their self-perceived service in God’s name.
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[AlMasdar] As the Jobar operation in eastern Damascus approaches its second month, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) continues to slowly but surely pick its way through the maze Islamist defenses entrenched in the area, today achieving a noteworthy breakthrough.
The latest assault by the SAA comes after forty (40) Elephant rockets were delivered onto the positions of the Faylaq al-Rahman Islamist faction in the suburb of Ayn Tarma.
After this bombardment, SAA forces ‐ led by Elite Republican Guard’s 105th Brigade and 106th Brigade stormed rebel positions in southern Ayn Tarma rapidly securing a whole building block located north of the Sunbul fuel station.
This successful push by the SAA forced Faylaq al-Rahman bully boyz to retreat to the central area of Ayn Tarma after suffering ten casualties.
The Salafist tough guys nonetheless left behind one sniper to delay SAA advance units. The SAA managed to located the marksman and neutralize him.
Attacks by the SAA were also made on the Jobar axis today, however, after two separate assaults army forces failed to achieve any breakthrough; festivities are still ongoing.
[FoxNews] The most sophisticated terror plot ever attempted on Australian soil – to bring down an Etihad airline leaving Sydney airport – is now known to have been planned, directed and even supplied directly by ISIS.
Not only did the instructions for the attack come directly from commanders in the terror group – but the military-grade plastic explosives used to build the bomb were sent via airmail. They were shipped from Turkey to Australia by commercial air cargo, most probably in a passenger jet.
That high-grade explosives were so easily sent via airmail, halfway across the world will have alarm bells ringing in Western security agencies. Plastic explosives are hard to detect, but newer x-ray machines usually have the capacity to find them, raising questions about how were they disguised.
The original plot was disrupted by Australian security services on July 29, following a tip from a foreign intelligence service. The plotters, who have now been arrested and charged, were brothers Khaled and Mahmoud Khayat. It’s believed they were recruited by another brother, Tarek Khayat, who is an ISIS commander in Syria.
They received the explosives in Sydney along with other components needed to build the bomb, including detonators. Then, with instructions from an ISIS commander, put the device together.
The brothers put it in luggage and went to the airport, but for reasons that are unknown abandoned the plan before passing through security. It’s alleged they had placed the bomb in a third brother’s bag without his knowledge. Australian police claim the bomb would never have passed through airport security.
Instead, the brothers began working on a chemical-dispersion device to release hydrogen sulfide, a highly toxic gas.
The plot is clear evidence that ISIS is getting smarter about circumventing Western security – and, as they lose territory in Iraq and Syria, are looking at increasingly varied ways to attack Western targets – and recruit fighters.
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Both sides of the civil war in southeast Ukraine reported five dead, seven wounded in ongoing fighting in Donetsk and Lugansk, according to Russian language news accounts.
Last Monday, Ukrainian military authorities reported one soldier dead from mortar fire in Marinka, which is south of Donetsk city. It turned out, according to data supplied from Ukrainian military prosecutors, that two Ukrainian soldiers were killed and another three were wounded when a soldier double loaded a 120mm mortar.
On Tuesday, according to korrespondent.net, one Ukrainian soldier was killed and another was wounded from Russian backed rebel mortar fire, launched grenade and small arms fire near Shirokino at around 1800 hrs.
In a later report, which included a video shot in the area, Ukrainians said that rebels on Wednesday fired 122mm rocket artillery into the area for a total of 27 projectiles.
Elsewhere in the south, Ukrainian media said that a nighttime rebel probe supported by mortar fire was driven back near Talakovka and Krasnogorovka. Ukrainian reports also stated that rebels used BMP-2 30mm autocannon fire at Chermalyk on the coast of the Sea of Azov.
Reports also said that rebel forces used artillery and small arms fire at Avdievka near Donetsk city.
Rebel media said that on Wednesday tanks from the Ukrainian 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade shelled Spartak and parts of western Donetsk city occupied by rebel forces, including at Petrovsky. One residential building was damaged. In Alexandrovka, another apartment building was damaged by Ukrainian artillery fire.
Rebel media said Ukrainian units fired a total of 192 shells and mines on and around Donetsk city.
Wednesday evening, rebel media said close to 300 shells were fired at rebel positions in Donetsk.
[IsraelTimes] Ottoman Turkish authorities detain a Russian national and suspected Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... member for allegedly planning a drone attack on US aircraft at The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s Incirlik air base, police say.
Renad Bakiev is detained in the southern city of Adana over suspicions that he plotted to crash an American aircraft or attack the Incirlik air base using a drone, Adana police say in a statement.
Bakiev also intended to attack the local Alevi community in Adana city, the statement says. It says he was affiliated with IS and had previously traveled to Syria.
The Alevi religious minority is an offshoot of Shia Islam and is the largest religious group in Turkey after Sunnis. IS regards Alevis as heretics.
Bakiev had also used a messaging app widely used by ISIS sympathisers to appeal for 2,800 Ottoman Turkish Lira (£610) from other bully boyz to buy a drone, Adena police said.
During police interrogations, Bakiev admitted to previously having made an attempt to attack U.S. forces at the base, but that this had been unsuccessful.
And, of course, photos at the link.
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[IsraelTimes] Suspects nabbed in West Bank town near Jerusalem, reportedly left behind suicide notes; Shin Bet mum on details
Israeli forces tossed in the clink Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! five Paleostinians "suspected of being involved in terrorism" in the West Bank village of Eizariya, outside Jerusalem, on Thursday, the Shin Bet security service said.
The agency said it could not detail of what they are suspected at this time. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... Channel 10 news reported the five men were armed and were believed to be en route to committing a major attack in Jerusalem.
According to the news outlet, the suspects had all left behind suicide notes.
The Shin Bet said it could not confirm the report and provided no further details.
The five Paleostinians are all residents of the Hebron
...Hamas Central in the West Bank...
area in the West Bank, the Shin Bet said.
The arrest operation was conducted by the Shin Bet, the IDF and Israel Police.
They were taken into custody where they will be interrogated, the police said.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least four teenage boys were incarcerated Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! by the Afghan cops before joining the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group ranks as they were apparently lured by the fighters of the terror group.
The provincial government media office in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province in a statement the teen boys were arrested from the vicinity of Haska Mina district.
The statement further added that the boys aged between 14 to 16 years old and had travelled from Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... to join the ISIS ranks.
The arrested teenage boys have admitted that they were travelling in Nangarhar to join the ranks of the terror group, the statement said, adding that the boys are currently in jug of the security forces for further investigations.
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[BREITBART] Former President Barack Obama I am not a dictator!... ’s National Security adviser, Susan Rice, wants President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... to accept North Korea as a nuclear power.
"History shows that we can, if we must, tolerate nuclear weapons in North Korea -- the same way we tolerated the far greater threat of thousands of Soviet nuclear weapons during the Cold War," she wrote in a New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... op-ed, criticizing the president’s "fire and fury" rhetoric in response to the escalating tensions between the two countries.
Rice urged Gen. John Kelly, White House chief of staff, to stop Trump, and she pointedly attacked Dr. Sebastian Gorka, the deputy assistant to the president.
"John Kelly, Mr. Trump’s chief of staff, must assert control over the White House, including his boss, and curb the Trump surrogates whipping up Cuban missile crisis fears," she wrote.
Rice complained that Trump’s rhetoric was "unprecedented and especially dangerous" and that America would have to be cautious about its response to Pyongyang.
She defended Obama’s actions in response to North Korea, insisting that his administration put them "on edge" by conducting joint military exercises with South Korea and introducing more economic sanctions.
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Only if Trump first nukes the Iranians and their sponsors from the Obama admin.
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We know this woman lies. She's been caught doing it. The primary reason Susan Rice should keep quiet is that she has no credibility. If she says one thing it's a good bet we should do the other.
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Wonder if she would tolerate the NRA having nuclear weapons? (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
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"History shows that we can, if we must, tolerate nuclear weapons in North Korea -- the same way we tolerated the far greater threat of thousands of Soviet nuclear weapons during the Cold War,"
This is blatant revisionism.Soviet nukes could could be 'tolerated' under a policy of deterrence.
However during the Cold War the left had always rejected deterrence as a policy that is too dangerous and too immoral to be acceptable.
In principle, accommodation of, if not surrender to the Soviets was regarded as morally preferable.
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The Liar of Benghazi is probably afraid that even hardcore liberals won't respect her after watching an alpha male take care of this vermin in a way 0bumhole couldn't bring himself to do. All that blah blah 0bumhole spews are just tbe rationalizations of a coward.
[DAWN] Ottoman Turkish authorities on Thursday issued arrest warrants for 35 employees of media groups on suspicion of links to the alleged criminal mastermind of the failed 2016 coup, Fethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... , reported the state-run news agency ...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?... Nine people have been detained so far, Anadolu news agency said, adding that the suspects were accused of using a messaging app allegedly used by Gulen to mobilise followers in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , and of belonging to a "terror" group.
Thousands of people have already been jugged You have the right to remain silent... in Turkey for using the Bylock messaging app, which the authorities say was used by Gulen supporters to coordinate actions ahead of the plot.
The latest arrests come amid growing alarm over press freedom in Turkey under President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... , in particular because of the state of emergency imposed in the wake of the failed July 2016 coup which remains in place.
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[LegalInsurrection] A University of Iowa professor recently argued that appreciation of "white marble" used in classical artwork contributes to "white supremacist ideas today."
Professor Sarah Bond demonstrates in an article published in Hyperallergic that "many of the statues, reliefs, and sarcophagi created in the ancient Western world were in fact painted," meaning the "white marble" often seen in such pieces of art were intended to be colored.
Consequently, Bond argues that "the equation of white marble with beauty is not an inherent truth of the universe," and is thus "a dangerous construct that continues to influence white supremacist ideas today."
Bond goes on to point out that "most museums and art history textbooks contain a predominantly neon white display of skin tone," which "has an impact on the way we view the antique world."
"The assemblage of neon whiteness serves to create a false idea of homogeneity -- everyone was very white! -- across the Mediterranean region," she adds, later stating that misconceptions of the classical era provide "further ammunition for white supremacists today, including groups like Identity Europa, who use classical statuary as a symbol of white male superiority."
"It may have taken just one classical statue to influence the false construction of race, but it will take many of us to tear it down," Bond concludes. "We have the power to return color to the ancient world, but it has to start with us."
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Imagine if all these leftards, inventing all of these things that cause microaggressions, hypermasculinity and the like, actually put their efforts towards constructive uses. Than again, they wouldn't be leftists, then, would they?
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From Wikipedia - In L. Frank Baum's novel 'Wizard of Oz', everyone in the Emerald City is made to wear green-tinted eyeglasses. This is explained as an effort to protect their eyes from the "brightness and glory" of the city, but in effect makes everything appear green when it is, in fact, "no more green than any other city".
Time for dark 'Black-Tinted Glasses'?
We wouldn't see anything clearly, but neither would anyone else.
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By her logic we need to ban bi-focals because they were invented by a white man who owned slaves.
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Genius here could have saved herself the trouble. Nassim Taleb has actually done some interesting and telling genetic work on the Classical Mediterranean identity, without this kind of gibberish of course.
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Fave junkie socialist EVAH. Contains N-word (not saying it's right... but I understand, and it didn't go unpunished, supposedly costing him a Motown deal), cussing, noise.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A senior Taliban ...Arabic for students... commander'>Taliban Überstürmbannführer has made new revelations regarding the death of the former commander of the group Mullah Akhtar Mansoor.
The commander who has wished not to be named has told The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... that Mullah Mansoor ’knew something was happen’ before the dronezap claimed his life.
He said "Pakistain was making very strong demands."
Without providing further information regarding the demands, the former commander said "Mansour was saying you cannot force me on everything. I am running the insurgency, doing the fighting and taking casualties and you cannot force us."
Mullah Mansoor was killed in an Arclight airstrike on 21st May last year as he was travelling in a vehicle with a Pak passport.
He was believed to be more adept at managing money and was on his way back from a visit to Iran when he was targeted by the US forces in Afghanistan with an aerial strike.
According to reports, Mullah Mansoor had visited Iran to discuss with the country’s authorities regarding the growing issue of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group in Afghanistan.
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"Pakistain was making very strong demands."
Mansour didn't want to wear the leash, so Pak intel conveniently and discreetly handed Mullah's itinerary over to the Klingons?
[Iraq News] Eleven Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... Death Eaters were killed, while two others were locked away Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in a joint military operation in Anbar desert, the Defense Ministry’s War Media Cell declared.
Jazeera Operations Command, along with the Tribal Mobilization Forces carried out two military operations from two directions," the WMC said in a statement on Thursday. "The first direction started from the desert toward Anah town. Troops reached to three kilometers away from Anah. The second direction started from the desert toward Anah then to the main road reaching to Rawa town. Troops reached to three kilometers away from Rawa."
"Eleven Death Eaters were killed, three cycle of violences, a booby-trapped vehicle, booby-trapping workshop and three rest houses were destroyed. Twenty-two bombs were defused, while two IS members were arrested," the statement added indicating that the operations lasted for two days.
Earlier on the day, news reports said fifteen paramilitary personnel of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units) were killed as IS Death Eaters attacked defense line in Okashat region in western Anbar.
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Migrants on jetskis reach Spanish enclave of Ceuta in North Africa as police push back 700 Africans as they attempt to storm a 20-foot border fence
10/08/17
About 700 migrants attempted to storm the border between Morocco and Spain at the enclave of Ceuta (pictured) while 12 rode into EU waters off the enclave on jetskis, with one man drowning.
Libyan Coastguard Intercepted over 1,000 Migrants Since Friday
9 August
The Libyan coastguard claims that since Friday it has intercepted over one thousand migrants in various boats attempting to head for Europe and returned them to the Libyan mainland.
1,000 African Migrants Armed With Sticks, Improvised Spears Storm Spanish Border
9 August
A reported 1,000 African migrants armed with makeshift weapons tried to storm the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on Tuesday morning.
Soros-Funded Tunisian NGO Commands Fishermen to Block ‘Defend Europe’ Ship from Port
8 August
Several fishermen in the Tunisian port city of Zarzis have blocked the Defend Europe vessel, the “C-Star”, from refuelling claiming that the ship and its mission to watch over migrant rescue NGOs is “racist”.
[Iraq News] Three Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... Death Eaters were killed while trying to escape in southwest of Kirkuk province, the pro-government Shiite paramilitary troops announced.
In a statement on Thursday, al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units) said, "troops of the 24th brigade noticed a path through which IS Death Eaters escape from Hawija town passing through Hamreen mountains."
Three Death Eaters were killed, while others escaped toward the mountain chain, it added.
Earlier on the day, the Diyala Police Command said two IS rest houses were destroyed in Hamreen Mountains area.
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[Iraq News] Iraqi authorities are holding more than 12 Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... -affiliated children tossed in the slammer Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , a government minister has said, stressing on the issue’s sensitivity.
"ISIS (IS) children is a reality that we avoid discussing because it is highly sensitive, and some take it for an act of defamation," Mohammed Shayya al-Sudani, Iraq’s Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, told Alsumaria TV on Wednesday.
The minister said his ministry had cooperated with security authorities in handling IS fighters’ children who are less than a year of age. "We bring them to Baghdad and subject them to care before investigating about their relatives through DNA tests," al-Sudani stated.
The minister said it was dangerous to leave unauthorized organizations to handle the issue away from the government’s legal channels.
Observers have said that Islamic State fighters’ families would pose a challenge to Iraqi authorities after the recapture of the group’s havens across the country.
Following the liberation of Mosul, IS’s largest stronghold in Iraq, early July, authorities in Nineveh province said they were isolating bully boys’ families in rehabilitation camps.
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[Garowe Online] Kenyan Air force fighter jets have bombed positions of murderous Moslem Islamist group al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... in Lower Jubba region of southern Somalia on Wednesday night, Garowe Online reports.
The warplanes had targeted Weelmarow area, used by the bully boyz as a training camp in the outskirts of Afmadow district, inflicting casualties on herders and their livestock, according to the residents.
A resident, who asked not to be named, told GO that several civilians have sustained severe shrapnel wounds, while more than ten camels were killed during the aerial bombardment by Kenyan military jets.
Reports said KDF launched the air raid, targeting senior Al shabaab commanders attending a graduation event held for newly trained fighters at a secret camp in the rural vicinity near the town of Afmadow, which is under Jubbaland state forces control.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck reached for the green sauce... the Al Qaeda-linked murderous Moslem group Al shabaab has denied claims that it suffered heavy casualties in the KDF Arclight airstrike, but confirmed the deaths of at least 10 camels belonging to the herders.
Kenyan warplanes have targeted al-Shabaab positions in southern Somalia on numerous occasions since it sent troops to the nighbouring country in mid October, 2011 following series of attacks and kidnappings in its soil.
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[IsraelTimes] Army warns Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", not to attack construction of underground protection system, says it will be built ’at any price’
The construction of Israel’s underground security barrier aimed at countering the Hamas terror group’s attack tunnels is picking up speed, the head of the IDF’s Southern Command said Wednesday, with hundreds of workers operating around the clock on the massive engineering project.
Maj. Gen. Eyal Zamir said the military was concerned that the construction on the barrier could spark a conflict with Hamas. The terror group sees its tunnels as a central weapon in the fight against Israel and the Defense Ministry’s barrier presents a threat to them.
“We hope they don’t try to challenge us,” he said.
Another military official said on Thursday that the army does not believe Hamas has any justification -- "ethical, moral or military" -- to prevent Israel from building a protective barrier. It will therefore not tolerate any attempts by the terror group to interfere with its construction, the official said.
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My granddad showed me how to collect nightcrawlers one summer. A penny in the fuse box and a coat hanger jammed into an extension cord would bring him all the worms we needed for a day's fishing.
[AlAhram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... will limit the movement of non-humanitarian goods at the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Syria because the Syrian side is controlled by a "terrorist organization", Customs and Trade Minister Bulent Tufenkci said on Thursday.
Last month, Hayat Tahrir al Sham, a rebel alliance spearheaded by the former al Qaeda offshoot Nusra Front, took control of the border area and most of Idlib province in several days of heavy fighting with its main rival, Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... "Until that group's control ends, or at least weakens, there will be tight control and slowing down of the passage of all products other than humanitarian aid and food," Tufenkci told Turkey's NTV channel.
"We have no imports from Syria, we only export. Therefore, we don't have any issues in that sense," he said, adding that the issue could be resolved in the next two weeks.
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[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Mohammed Abed, a California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA) tenure-track professor of ethics, social & political philosophy, and classical Islamic philosophy believes that genocide of white racists is “morally required”.
Mohammed Abed claims that sometimes you just have to commit genocide to save the world from the evil people…like white racists.
One can certainly concoct a hypothetical scenario in which the deliberate annihilation of a group’s way of life is a “moral and political imperative.” And there may be a case for classifying as genocide campaigns of social destruction that are widely considered to be not only excusable but morally required. The institution of slavery in the American South was, arguably, a comprehensive way of life and worldview to which many whites were profoundly attached. It would not be wildly implausible to say that their investment in the culture and norms of the slave-owning community rivaled in its social meaning and significance an individual’s affiliation with a national or religious group. But because the kidnapping, enslavement, and lifelong exploitation of innocent human beings was a constitutive and thus ineliminable feature of the life led by many Southern whites, annihilating their way of life was a moral imperative. The right course of action was to strip them of an identity that gave meaning to their lives.
Ya know... in the Muslim world the institution of slavery is also, arguably, a worldview to which many Muslims are attached, despite startlingly recent laws forbidding it. By this argument the genocide of Muslims in those countries/regions where slavery is demonstrably practiced by those in a position to do so is morally required. Professor Abed describes himself as a Palestinian exile from the city of Jaffa, which suggests the possibility that he or his parents at some point lived among slaveowners.
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Dr. Abed's career at the U of Wisc included a defense of suicide bombing.
Ironically with respect to his argument, 'abed' in arabic means 'slave'
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Mohammed Abed claims that sometimes you just have to commit genocide to save the world from the evil people
Actually, it works very well for them. I remember a scientific article from the seventies which examined distribution of blood groups among Arab Egyptians relative to Copts on one side and Saudis on the other. Now guess to which group Arab Egyptians were closer?
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"Only thing that can make us browns successful is killing those more successful than us." Logic.
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A tenure-track professor at CSULA? Does that mean he doesn't have tenure yet? Hope so. But then California state universities also have Deans of Diversity. No joke. Your tax dollars at work.
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"Only thing that can make us browns successful is killing those more successful than us."
It works on a relatively-successful way...
Just the place they colonise turns into the shithole they left because it was a shithole. They'll need to find someone else to build civilisation and parasite upon it.
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Seems the left throws around the word genocide pretty easily these days. We've come a long way from "Never Again" haven't we. Then again the left was probably crossing their fingers and making mental kill lists when they said "Never Again" in the aftermath of World War 2.
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Professor, communism, socialism, and national socialism are on the left side of the spectrum, not the right. It is from this side of the spectrum that most genocide has arisen. It seems, that more often than not, it is a product of statism where the state has too much centralized control.
The lie has already gone round the world, now truth has finally finished tying her running shoes.
[IsraelTimes] Nonetheless, a technical committee, formed during recent conflict over holy site, condemns what it calls ’unjustified searches’ by Israel.
The Jerusalem Waqf said on Wednesday that when Israeli security services conducted searches on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem following a shooting attack at the site, they did not damage or steal any historical items.
Israeli police closed down the Temple Mount on July 14 after three Arab Israelis smuggled guns into the compound and used them to shoot two coppers to death.
The shutdown lasted for two days while police investigated the incident. Israel then reopened the site with newly installed metal detectors and cameras -- security measures that led to two weeks of protests by Paleostinians. The measures were eventually removed.
The Waqf, a Jordanian government institution that administers the Temple Mount, known to Moslems as the Haram al-Sharif, convened a technical committee to evaluate any damage caused by the Israeli police during the crisis.
On Wednesday the committee released its report, which said that Israeli forces had not damaged or stolen any historical objects or documents at the site, which includes mosques, museums and libraries that house Islamic artifacts.
"There are no deficiencies of historical value in the safety boxes, inventory or exhibits," the report said.
However, the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... the report did say Israel had rummaged through and possibly copied computer files and broken into private lockers in order to carry out what it called "unjustified searches."
During the searches Israeli police found several weapons, but no guns or serious explosives, Jerusalem Police Chief Yoram Halevi said.
"We found dozens of knives, slingshots, cudgels, spikes, inciting material, unwent kaboom! munitions, stun grenades, binoculars -- but we haven’t yet found caches of live ammunition," he told Army Radio at the time.
[AnNahar] A group of 17 Indonesians who had joined the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa have been handed over to representatives of their country and have left Syria, a local Kurdish official and a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
According to the official, Omar Alloush, the Indonesian nationals included men, women and kiddies. They were handed over on Tuesday at a Syria-Iraq border crossing. They had been asking to be sent back home, he said.
Spokeswoman Nisreen Abdullah from the Women's Protection Units also confirmed the handover. The identities of the Indonesians were not immediately available and Iraqi officials could not confirm the report.
Lalu Muhammad Iqbal, the director of Indonesian citizen protection at the country's foreign ministry, said there has been "communication between the Indonesian side with various parties that control the territory of Syria" including with the North Syrian Kurdish Authority linked to the 17 Indonesians.
He said the Indonesian government in its initial discussions obtained information that the group were not fighters, some had spent most of their time in Syria in IS jails or other isolated conditions, and had fled Raqqa with the help of a third party on June 10.
"Our communication with these parties is more directed to the humanitarian situation," Iqbal said, noting the family includes teenagers and three young children. "The security conditions in the area are so complex that the handling process cannot be done easily," he said.
Last month, an News Agency that Dare Not be Named team in Raqqa met with members of an Indonesian family of 17 and reported on their journey two years ago from Jakarta to Raqqa and their initial desire to live in the Islamic State group's self-proclaimed capital.
They also told the AP of how their dreams were crushed in the face of IS brutality and terror and how different the reality of life under IS was from the utopian dream of an Islamic society they had pursued.
The AP met the women and kiddies at a camp for the displaced run by the Kurdish forces just north of Raqqa, after they had managed to escape.
The AP also interviewed a male relative at a security center run by Kurdish forces in Kobani.
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[DAWN] It’s been more than a year since young law student Khadija Siddiqui was stabbed mercilessly by her class fellow Shah Husain. The incident took place on May 3rd, 2016 in broad daylight on Davis Road, Lahore where Khadija had gone to pick up her younger sister from school. Despite 23 gashes to her body, including the neck, she miraculously survived. Khadija courageously fought for justice and late last month, a court in Lahore sentenced her attacker, who happens to be son of an advocate, to seven years in prison. She sees her survival and legal victory as a chance to live a more meaningful life.
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[DAWN] SHANGLA: A girl and a boy were rubbed out for honour in Dunai Karora area here on Wednesday, police said.
SHO Bakht Zahir told news hounds that the girl and boy were allegedly killed by the former’s brother and father in the name of honour.
The two were rubbed out when they were sitting in corn fields. Later, the police took the bodies to the area rural health centre, and also lodged FIR in the case.
Police said the girl’s family claimed she had illicit relations with the boy for which they killed both of them. The girl was aged 19, and the boy, 22.
Police said they had started search to arrest the alleged killers.
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KOREAN DE-MILITARIZED ZONE — The Pentagon has deployed Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to the Korean de-militarized zone for a massive show of force against Pyongyang, sources confirmed today.
Flanked by a Navy SEAL Team as B-1B bombers flew overhead, a shirtless Mattis engaged in a rigorous workout as North Korean guards looked on. A number of guards expressed terror as the secretary knocked out 100 consecutive pushups while simultaneously singing Toby Keith’s “Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue,” a senior defense official said.
The rapid deployment of Mattis to the region came after President Donald Trump promised “fire and fury” like the world had never seen in response to North Korean threats. Some speculated Trump’s remark was off-the-cuff bluster, but administration officials insisted that Mattis’ nickname of “Mad Dog” was changed to “Fire and Fury” late last month.
Although Mattis’ display of his 20-inch biceps and huge pecs are considered provocative, yet peaceful displays of power, officials privately warned he could at any moment unleash a knife hand and kill thousands.
Meanwhile, Kim Jong-un has challenged the US to a hot dog-eating contest, demanding that Trump send his best competitor and at least 4,000 hot dogs.
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And then he flew to Seattle for an all day meeting with BEZOS. That has me curious as hell.
I could joke about delivery to N Kor via Amazon drones but suspect exploring the possibility of Bezos buy ULA and thereby saving LockMart and Boeing the embarrassment of actually investing real money in rockets.
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Sig Sauer P320 is a striker-fired, semi-automatic pistol. I wonder how many pistols with a hammer and safety discharged when dropped? I recommend they go with the Sig P225-A1.
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Contest is over. recommendations are irrelevant. I personally hope Glock-tards all get Chron's from fretting about it.
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Well, the first line of the PM article is absolutely wrong. The P320 potentially has this issue. The "handgun chosen to be the U.S. Army's next generation handgun" is the M17—it is based on the P320 but has a different fire control unit and SIG's own press release basically says the voluntary upgrade for P320 owners is going to be some sort of retrofit of the M17 trigger unit into the P320. Hell, PM's headline blurb even says "the military version appears unaffected", so how did they allow that first sentence to make it into publication?
[POLITICO] Fox News host Eric Bolling has initiated a lawsuit against the news hound behind the report that led to his suspension.
Yashar Ali, a contributing writer for HuffPost, reported on Friday that several years ago Bolling sent lewd text messages that included photographs of male genitalia to two female colleagues at Fox. The next day Bolling was suspended and Fox launched an investigation by the same law firm that handled probes into the conduct of former host Bill O'Reilly and former Fox chairman Roger Ailes.
After the initial report, Bolling said, via his lawyer, that he "recalls no such inappropriate communications, does not believe he sent any such communications, and will vigorously pursue his legal remedies for any false and defamatory accusations that are made."
On Wednesday, Bolling filed a "summons with notice" in New York State Supreme Court against Ali, seeking $50 million in damages for defamation. Ali must respond within 20 days, demanding that Bolling file a complaint, after which Bolling will have 20 days to file his response before the suit goes forward.
"The nature of this action is for damages and injunctive relief based on defamation arising from the defendant’s efforts to injure the plaintiff’s reputation through the intentional and/or highly reckless publication of actionable false and misleading statements about the plaintiff’s conduct and character. As a result of the defendant’s actions, the plaintiff has been substantially harmed," the summons states.
Bolling is represented by Michael Bowe from the same law firm as Marc Kasowitz, who was President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's personal attorney until last month.
"This anonymously sourced and uncorroborated story is false, defamatory, and obviously intended to destroy this good man's career and family. We will defend Eric aggressively in court, where actual facts, based on evidence, testimony, and cross-examination, will belie these anonymous accusations," Bowe said.
Ali told POLITICO he plans to fight the case.
"I stand by my reporting and will protect my sources, especially the victims, at all costs," Ali said in a statement.
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Doesn't matter - his career at Fox is over. One more scalp for the Left.
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Bill O'Reilly, Charles Payne, now Bolling. All guilty based on accusation. I doubt any of them will return to Fox. The purge will continue until none of the men remain.
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Eric Bolling has been suspended. An investigation will be conducted by law firm Paul Weiss. Washington Free Beacon reports:
The firm, Paul, Weiss, has long been tied to the Clinton family, with its employees donating hundreds of thousands to its political campaigns and later cashing in on political appointments in the government......A partner in the Paul, Weiss Litigation Department, Jeh Johnson is the former Secretary of Homeland Security. Secretary Johnson advises clients, including management teams and boards of directors, on crisis management, government and internal investigations, high-stakes litigation and regulatory matters, and legal aspects of cybersecurity and other security matters. His legal career has encompassed both private law practice and public service, including three Senate-confirmed presidential appointments.
So another set-up but if Bolling calls their bluff and takes this court, he can win if he has the finances to fight his accusers. Most settle before it gets very far. The female accusers identities are going to be demanded in court - and their entire sex life is going to be meticulously searched. Every email they've ever sent or received, every text message, every phone call will be subpoenaed. The reporter and/or the "sources" obviously did this for POLITICAL reasons and Fox News has been effectively dismantled since the Juniors took over.
[BREITBART] Democrats are threatening to shutter many government agencies on October 1 unless President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... gives up his popular campaign promise to build the border wall against Mexico, according to Politico.
In response, Trump’s deputies are offering political compromises to Democrats, including a rise in domestic spending, says Politico:
The White House is pushing a deal on Capitol Hill to head off a government shutdown that would lift strict spending caps long opposed by Democrats in exchange for money for President Donald Trump’s border wall with Mexico, multiple sources said.
Marc Short, the White House’s director of legislative affairs, met with top staffers from both parties on the Senate Appropriations Committee last week to make a hard sell for the proposal, the sources said.
Short -- who said the border funding would be used for a "double fence" -- stressed that the White House is insisting on a down payment for construction this fall. Short also lobbied for a big budget increase for the Pentagon, another priority for Trump.
If Democrats block the spending plan, many government agencies will have to send their employees home. But national security agencies, and various aid programs, such as the Social Security program, would keep operating.
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Shutdown, more than now?
They're on summer vacation!
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Tough to blame the Dems with the MSM on their side. That's what always paralyzed the Republicans before. But Trump is different. He was elected for his promise to build a wall. Time for a showdown.
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Shut it down you whiny, hysterical nut-cases.
Why are you all on the rag at the same time, all the time?
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Note that they never threaten to "shut the government down" in, say, the first half of April.
Just thinkin' here...
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Democrats are threatening to shutter many government agencies on October 1 unless President Donald Trump gives up his popular campaign promise to build the border wall against Mexico, according to Politico.
And I'll raise you the permanent cut-off of the funding from two large federal agencies and deport 5 mil illegals (in other words Democrat voters).
[IsraelTimes] Iran drops midfield duo Haji Safi and Masoud Shojaei from the national team after they play in a soccer match against Maccabi Tel Aviv for their Greek club Panionios last week, the Iranian sports ministry says.
Deputy Sports Minister Mohammad Reza Davarzani says they could no longer wear the national shirt after they played against the Israeli club in the Europa League third qualifying round second leg in Greece.
"Shojaei and Haji Safi have no place in Iran’s national football team any more because they crossed the country’s red line," Davarzani tells state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
. "They have a financial contract with a club to be paid and play for that team, but to play with the representative of a loathsome regime... this is not acceptable for Iranian people."
The two players had refused to play in the away leg in Israel despite facing "pressure" and "financial fines" from their club, the sports ministry says. But they played in the second leg in Greece on August 4. Panionios lost 0-1 and 0-2 on aggregate.
Thousands of Persian speakers take to social media to urge football umbrella FIFA to censure Iran’s own national team over the spat.
On Twitter, under the hashtag #NoBan4OurPlayers, a user under the handle of Ajib Zade wrote that "players should be free to choose who to play against."
But Vali Nasr, a well-known Iran-born Middle East analyst and scholar, argued the Iranian players were actually bound contractually to play against the Israeli athletes as part of their engagement for the Greek team, and therefore should not be punished by Iran. "Professional soccer players are not sovereign actors but employees of their clubs," he wrote on Twitter.
Mahbod Ba, a Twitter user described as a Tehran-based art scholar, was among thousands that tagged FIFA on the social network requesting it "ban the Iranian national team" in response to the ban imposed on the two soccer stars.
[Garowe Online] Unidentified Gunmen killed a security official in the heart of Bosaso, the commercial hub of the northeastern semi-autonomous region of Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... on Wednesday, Garowe Online reports.
Abdi Ali Muse (Abdi Dheere), the deputy commander of central Police station was rubbed out by near the compound of the first degree court of Bari region in the coastal, who immediately expeditiously departed at a goodly pace.
The reason behind the killing of Muse is unclear, as no group has yet grabbed credit for the attack against the official, which was the latest in series of liquidations in the town over the past days.
Police authorities cordoned off the crime area, and have launched an investigation and a manhunt mission to capture the suspects thought to be Al shabaab assassins, according to the eyewitnesses.
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[AlAhram] Egypt's interior ministry has announced that a man suspected of involvement in the deadly armed attack on Christian pilgrims in Minya in May was killed during a police shootout.
A statement published on the ministry's official Facebook page announced that the suspect was killed on Wednesday night during a shootout with police forces in the hilly area of Qena governorate in Upper Egypt.
In May, gunnies attacked buses carrying Coptic Christians to a monastery in Minya governorate. Thirty people were killed and at least 21 injured.
The suspect is a member of a terrorist cell that was involved in the attacks on the Church of St Peter and St Paul in Cairo last December, the Palm Sunday attacks on churches in Tanta and Alexandria, an attack on El-Nakab checkpoint in Wadi Gadid in January, as well as the Minya attack on pilgrims, the statement said.
Possibly the above was a preliminary report, followed by the below:
[IsraelTimes] Egyptian interior ministry says one officer also killed during shootout in south of country
Egypt’s interior ministry said Thursday its forces had killed three jihadists suspected of involvement in deadly attacks against the country’s Coptic Christian minority.
An officer also died in a shootout in the southern province of Qena on Tuesday, security officials said.
Egypt is battling a local affiliate of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... terror group, which has claimed attacks that have killed more than 100 Copts since December.
The shootout occurred after a suspected jihadist, who had previously been detained, guided police to an alleged hideout in Qena, the ministry said in a statement.
"As soon as the security forces reached the location, the terrorist elements suddenly opened fire using all types of weapons, which forced them to retaliate," it said.
The shootout led to the killing of the detained suspect, a policeman who was guarding him, and two other suspected jihadists, the ministry said.
At the hideout, police found weapons and "gold jewellery which was probably stolen from some of the Christian victims" of a previous attack.
[Iraq News] Smoke billows were seen coming up from Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... ’s so-called Islamic Police after huge blasts hit Tal Afar town, west of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , a local source from Nineveh was quoted saying.
"Seven powerful blasts occurred in Tal Afar, amid heavy shelling," the source told AlSumaria News on Thursday.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source added "the areas of shelling were unknown, however, smoke was seen coming out of the main headquarters of IS Islamic Police. The human losses among the snuffies were unidentified."
On Wednesday, the group reportedly began evacuation of the so-called ’security squares’, which the group established after gaining control on Tal Afar town in 2014, due to frequent shelling on IS headquarters and targeting of rest houses of prominent leaders.
[Iraq News] A senior Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... official was killed on Thursday by his own son in the group’s stronghold town of Tal Afar, a local source was quoted saying as military operations to retake the area approach.
The source told Alsumaria News that the head of the the Islamic State’s so-called "ores bureau" was killed by his oldest son mysteriously. Militants began intensive search for the runaway killer, the source added.
Abu Ismail, an Iraqi, was killed by his son inside his residence in central Tal Afar, but the method and reason of the killing was not known, according to the source.
The division headed by Abu Ismail had handled antiquities and mineral resources traffick, the source explained.
Islamic State has held Tal Afar since 2014, when the group occupied a third of Iraq to establish a self-styled "caliphate".
The Iraqi government declared victory over IS in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... last month, while army-backed paramilitary forces isolated Tal Afar both from Mosul and from the Syrian borders. Tal Afar is marked as the next target of anti-IS military action, and the Iraqi Defense Ministry said recently preparations were completed for the invasion of the town.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) personnel conducted at least 45 ground operations and 10 Arclight airstrikes in the past 24 hours, leaving at least 51 holy warriors dead.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) in its latest operational update said the operations were conducted in various provinces of the country with an aim to suppress the growing insurgency of the anti-government armed bully boy groups.
MoD further added that out of the holy warriors killed during the period, at least 26 of them were killed in Posht-e-Rod district of Farah, 24 of them were maimed, and a vehicle along with a cycle of violence were destroyed.
In another operation conducted in Band-e-Taimor area of Maiwand district of Kandahar province, at least 18 holy warriors were killed and 18 improvised bombs were discovered and destroyed.
The Afghan forces also conducted an operation in Qarabagh, Andar, and Geru districts in southeastern Ghazni province, leaving at least 2 holy warriors dead and 5 others maimed.
At least two holy warriors were killed and another one was maimed during the other operations conducted in Alisheng district of Laghman ...It has a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a reputionagreat wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
province, while in Khogyani district of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province, at least one bully boy was killed and two others were maimed.
The Afghan forces also killed two forces of Evil during an operation conducted in Bala Morghab district of Badghis province.
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55 operations, 51 baddies killed.
As silly as the numbers from yesterday.
Greece: Refugees living in limbo
10 August
[DW] Since the closure of the Balkan route, many refugees who arrived on the shores of Greece are trapped in overcrowded camps without any prospects. A report from Fabian Pianka, who visited the Greek hotspot in Samos.
Austria Increases Border Controls to Stem Migrant Influx
9 August
[Breitbart] Austria’s interior minister says police and soldiers are increasing controls on the country’s eastern and southern borders in response to what he says are increased numbers of migrants entering illegally.
EU Nations Move to Resume Returning Migrants to Struggling Greece
9 August
[Breitbart] European Union countries have begun the process of sending migrants who arrived over the last five months via Greece back there to have their asylum applications assessed, resuming a practice that was suspended as Greece struggled to cope with a massive refugee influx.
French farmer who helped migrants gets longer suspended sentence
8 August
[IsraelTimes] A French appeals court on Tuesday increases the sentence against a farmer who has made a point of helping migrants cross the border from Italy, but stops short of jailing him. The court in Aix-en-Provence gives activist Cedric Herrou a four-month suspended sentence — half the length the prosecutor had asked for, but more than his initial sentence.
Herrou, an organic olive farmer, is a leading figure in Roya Citoyenne, an association dedicated to helping migrants. Last month he was arrested and charged as he accompanied 156 migrants to Marseille to help them file their asylum requests.
German police nab crooks with tighter anti-terror checks
7 August
[DW] There are tighter passport controls across the EU this summer, aimed at keeping track of suspected terrorists. A side effect is that police have been able to catch up with other wanted criminals.
Many refugees thought that after two years everything would be fine: language, apartment, work, family reunification. That idea has since been crushed. The processing by the authorities is still dragging on. Some of them still don't have a residence permit. They're struggling with the German language. The German course teaches them the basics, but in order to speak really well they need to have contact with native speakers and practise a lot. Finding an apartment is not easy, even for German citizens. In some cities, getting an appointment with the authorities is like winning the lottery, and the processing takes ages. At the same time, with every passing day their fears grow for their families back home. Many don't know what their lives will be like in six months' time.
It's an alarming development when many young people feel they've been abandoned. The state must take care not to lose these people. Many feel they aren't getting enough support. They have no prospects, but they're looking for something to hold on to. Things happen that we don't see and are no longer doing anything about. Groups form according to nationality (Afghans against Arabs) or political allegiance (for/against Assad in Syria). We pay no attention to these conflicts until they result in altercations and violence. We used to see photos from the LaGeSo [State Office for Health and Social Affairs] in Berlin; pictures of crowds of people, waiting. We were outraged. Now these people have become invisible, yet many are still living in refugee hostels.
Woman 'barred from French vacation home pool over burkini'
6 August
[DW] A report has alleged that a woman vacationing with her family in the southern France city of La Ciotat was kicked out of a vacation home pool due to her full-body swimsuit. The owner then reportedly tried to retain the deposit for pool cleaning fees.
Lower Saxony set to ban Islamic face veils in schools
4 August
[TheLocal.de] The case of a Muslim pupil refusing to remove her niqab triggered debate in Lower Saxony. Now a new law may mean that full-face Islamic veils will no longer be allowed in state schools.
Amazing moment boat carrying dozens of African migrants arrives on Spanish beach in front of shocked tourists and scatter before police arrive
10/08/17
Footage shows the migrants leaping out of an inflatable dinghy and dashing across the sand on beaches at Cadiz in southern Spain, after crossing the Strait of Gibraltar.
Migrants from Africa are found clinging to the bottom of a freight train travelling from Valencia to Munich at speeds of up to 93mph
09/08/17
Seven adults and five children were found travelling under a freight train in Raubling, Germany, near the border with Austria. They are from Nigeria, Somalia and the Ivory Coast, it is believed.
Migrants make 30,000 illegal bids to get into the UK from Calais this year despite costly security measures around the port and Channel Tunnel
09/08/17
The French government logged 17,867 attempts to break into Calais' port and Channel Tunnel with over 12,300 asylum seekers trying to stow away on UK-bound lorries.
Number of Asylum Seekers with Mental Health Issues Rising in Germany
10 August
After a series of violent attacks perpetrated by migrants in Germany which have been blamed on mental illness, many have noted a sharp increase in the number of asylum seekers showing evidence of depression and trauma.
Firefighter Fired, Fined over Anti-Migrant Facebook Post
10 August
A firefighter has been fired from his position after being found guilty of incitement by a German court due to an anti-migrant post he made on Facebook.
Italy Releases Evidence of Open Borders NGO Taking Migrants from People Smugglers
10 August
The Italian government has released photographic evidence which they claim shows the German migrant rescue NGO Jugend Rettet cooperating with people smugglers off the Libyan coast.
Gambian Migrant Attacks Man with Knife on German Train After Being Told to ‘Calm Down’
9 August
A 27-year-old Gambian asylum seeker has been arrested after he attacked a passenger on an intercity train in Germany with a knife and a glass bottle after the victim urged him to”calm down.”
Lorry Drivers Demand Military Deploy to Calais After Deadly Migrant Attacks
8 August
Representatives of British lorry drivers have called for the army to be sent to Calais to protect vehicles if attacks and attempted hijackings by migrants do not subside.
Swedish Minister Refuses to Strip Returning Islamic State Fighters of Swedish Citizenship
8 August
Swedish Interior Minister Morgan Johansson has ruled out the possibility of stripping Islamic State fighters of their Swedish citizenship saying the government refuses to make anyone stateless.
Poland Tells EU: We’ll Take Immigrants from Europe – But Not North Africa and the Middle East
8 August
Witold Waszczykowski says Poland will welcome migrants from its poor and conflict-stricken European neighbours, but will resist the European Union’s efforts to impose a compulsory quota of migrants from North Africa and the Middle East.
Sweden: Police Say Situation ‘Completely Unacceptable’ after 550 Per Cent Rise in Grenade Attacks
6 August
The number of hand grenade attacks in Sweden has risen by 550 per cent in just three years, with police describing the situation as “completely unacceptable”.
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The number of hand grenade attacks in Sweden has risen by 550 per cent in just three years, with police describing the situation as “completely unacceptable”.
And what will they do about it? Not a god damn thing.
[Breitbart] Hamas security forces arrested dozens of jihadists affiliated with Islamic State ideology in wake of rocket fire from Gazoo into Israel on Tuesday evening, a senior jihadist told Breitbart Jerusalem.
According to Gazoo-based jihadist Abou Baker al-Maqdesi, Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, began a widespread operation since yesterday to arrest jihadists, mostly those who identify with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... . Maqdisi said that some of those tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... were released from Hamas prisons in the past few weeks after serving months-long sentences together with hundreds of jihadist prisoners.
One terror rocket was fired Tuesday from the Hamas-controlled Gazoo toward the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council. No damage was caused in the incident, which sparked the wave of arrests.
The Israeli air force responded to the rocket fire by striking Hamas positions in Gazoo. According to the Paleostinians, the Israeli air force struck one position in western Gazoo City and another in the north of the Strip. Both positions belonged to the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the so-called military wing of Hamas.
Hamas-affiliated media claimed that three people were maimed in the Israeli Arclight airstrikes.
According to al-Maqdesi, the arrests carried out by Hamas began immediately after the rocket fire and before the Israeli retaliation. However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... the jihadist refused to identify or give any personal details regarding those purportedly arrested or their precise number. al-Maqdesi added that Hamas security forces increased deployment along the border with Israel after the rocket fire in order to prevent any further launches.
Hundreds of IS-affiliated jihadists are said to be imprisoned in Hamas facilities as part of the contention between Hamas and the jihadists and Hamas’ efforts to improve relations with Egypt, feeding tensions between Hamas and IS fighters in Sinai.
As the arrests continued, Hamas condemned the Israeli strikes in Gazoo.
Hamas front man Fawzi Barhoum said, "The Gazoo Strip won’t continue to be a testing ground for Israeli weapons," and claimed that Israel "bears responsibility for the attacks and their implications."
Barhoum’s comment about Israeli responsibility came in response to reports in the Gazoo Strip that the Israeli planes that struck in Gazoo were brand-new F-35s Israel recently received from the U.S. The Israeli army did not specify in its statements which aircraft had been deployed in the strikes.
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were released from Hamas prisons in the past few weeks after serving months-long sentences together with hundreds of jihadist prisoners
Now you know hoe The Juice feel
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"The Gaza Strip won’t continue to be a testing ground for Israeli weapons"
Keep things up, and it won't be 'testing' anymore.
[THECUT] Blonde hair is at least 11,000 years old. The variety we’re now most familiar with began as a genetic mutation in northern Europe, where the sun is weak: Light hair allows more vitamin D to trickle in through the scalp, the theory goes, which is useful when the sky is cold and dark. It wasn’t the first hair color that people had, so it was rare, and its being rare made it sexually desirable, and its being sexually desirable meant it spread, and then there was a bit more of it.
Fox News and Donald Trump have given blonde hair a new chapter: Now, blonde is the color of the right, for whom whiteness has become a hallmark. Over the past decade or so, as inclusiveness became the hallmark of Obama-era liberals, the left found feminist icons in Rachel Maddow, Samantha Power, and Michelle Obama, who make no apologies for their failure to fit traditional ideals. But #MAGA, Fox News America is a place where all the classic signifiers of privilege and wealth work on overdrive: country-club-issue blue blazers with brass buttons and khaki pants, and above all else, for women, that yellow-blonde, carefully tended hair — a dog whistle of whiteness, an unspoken declaration of values, a wink-wink to the power of racial privilege and to the 1980s vibe that pervades a movement led by a man who still believes in the guilt of the Central Park Five. During that Republican Preppy Handbook era, when Dynasty and Dallas were on TV, the type of conspicuous ostentation that would lead a real-estate developer to sheath his entire apartment in gold leaf was actually in vogue. Look at the movies: Jake’s girlfriend in Sixteen Candles with the lush swoop of thick, blonde locks that ended up stuck in a door (losing the boyfriend to a redhead of all things meant, literally, losing that luscious hair). Johnny, the villain of the Karate Kid films, had a decisive swoosh of blond hair that obscured his headband. We knew, the moment we saw that hair, that small, ethnic Daniel was up against more than another teenager, he was up against privilege itself.
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Well, they didn't have to be taught how to report for pay--do they still do that?, or march, or deal with frostbite, or how to put insignia on Class A uniforms. Still, when I was in, eight weeks was Basic which prepared you for limited defensive fighting. Then you went to AIT to learn how to soldier. Infantry was nine more weeks and then the unit you went to taught you their SOP, if they had time.
This sounds bad.
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[STARTRIBUNE] Minnesota Rep. Jason Lewis is taking issue with protesters who showed up outside of his home.
The Wednesday morning protest at the first-term Republican congressman's suburban house was organized by Take Action Minnesota, a liberal advocacy group. Video footage posted on Lewis' Facebook page shows more than a dozen protesters chanting outside a home before delivering a large letter calling on Lewis to oppose cuts to Medicaid funding.
Lewis is a former conservative radio talk show host who won the 2nd Congressional District seat this fall. He called the protest a violation of his private property and "dangerous ramping up of rhetoric" that targeted his family.
A spokeswoman from Take Action Minnesota says Lewis should simply hold a town hall to meet with constituents who want to speak with him.
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A spokeswoman from Take Action Minnesota says Lewis should simply hold a town hall to meet with constituents bussed-in agitators who want to speak with at him.
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Lewis should go ahead and hold the town hall meeting.
Just make sure there's a lot of security color camera mounted out of reach and well recorded for later broadcast showing how the demos behaves.
Lewis don't really need much of a speech, recycle an old one, and let the demos drown him out. Make sure there's plenty of cops around to protect Lewis from physical attacks and arrest those who try to physically harm others.
[FOXNEWS] A Virginia high school sent a disturbing letter to parents and students announcing they would be selecting students for Advanced Placement and honors classes at least partly based on skin color, a concerned parent told Fox News.
Martin Luther King, Jr. must be turning over in his grave.
A parent forwarded me a copy of the letter sent from John Handley High School in Winchester.
"Through our collective work, advanced classes such as AP and Honors will have proportional representation," read the letter. "Proportional representation is 40% White, 35% Hispanic, 12% African American, 10% mixed race."
The letter went on to explain that public schools across the country "continue to see outcomes that are disproportionate by race and social class."
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Why bother with classes? More efficient to award diplomas, with predetermined class rankings by race, when 5 years old.
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Affirmative Action advanced placement and honors. Who should be surprised. That's the way it works in today's 'real world' of employment. Why shouldn't academia reflect the current reality ?
[DAWN] Condemning Indian atrocities in India-held Kashmire, the Foreign Office (FO) on Thursday alleged that India was trying to convert the region into a Moslem minority region.
"Indian forces are committing crimes against humanity which have resulted in the deaths of 15 innocent people in the past week," FO spokesperson Nafees Zakaria stated in the weekly briefing.
India is in grave violation of the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... Security Council Resolution on Jammu & Kashmire, UN Charter on Human Rights, said Zakaria.
Earlier this week, the Indian Deputy High Commissioner J.P. Singh was also summoned over ceasefire violations by India.
Zakaria, on Thursday, appreciated the arrival of the speaker of the South Korean National Assembly, Chung Sye-Kyun, who met the incumbent Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif and "expressed keen interest in Korean investments in Pakistain and deepening economic cooperation."
The spokesperson condemned Wednesday's kaboom in Dir which led to four army personnel being martyred.
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[FREEBEACON] Members of the Democratic Party are turning on Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz ...Congresswoman from Florida, the abrasive chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. She has been a politician since 1992, and prior to that was in training as a political science major. Her primary accomplishment seems to be that she's Jewish... (D., Fla.) after an IT staffer scandal that only added to her unpopularity.
Democratic Party members are eager for Schultz to step down as part of their effort to rebrand, Politico reported.
Schultz resigned from her post as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee one year ago, after leaked emails revealed she and other party officials were trying to sabotage Sen. Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... ' (I., Vt.) campaign. She was infamously booed by activists, who shouted "shame" at her during a Florida delegation breakfast speech.
Most recently, Schultz came under fire for employing Imran Awan, an IT staffer who has been under federal investigation since February for an equipment and data scam in the House. Schultz had only fired him when he attempted to flee the U.S. to his native Pakistain.
Awan was fired by Schultz six months after two dozen House Democrats fired four of his relatives and one friend who were all under investigation with him.
Schultz dismissed the negative media attention about Awan, claiming she was the victim of a "right wing media" attack. She said the attack was a result of anti-Moslem bigotry towards Awan and his family.
Schultz's response to the Awan scandal upset members of the DNC.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan cops have foiled a deadly attack plot to target a university in northeastern Kapisa province of Afghanistan.
The local security officials are saying that the murderous Moslems were looking to carry out an attack on al-Beruni university in the vicinity of the Hesa-e-Awal district of the province.
Provincial security chief Mohammad Masood Chahardara told news hounds that the Afghan cops have locked away Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! a group of three suspects in connection to the attack plot.
He said the murderous Moslems were attempting to detonate Improvised Explosive Device made out of 100 kilograms of Ammonium Nitrate along with two mortar shells and some of its detonators.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] An kaboom targeted a police vehicle in Kabul city late on Wednesday evening, leaving at least four people maimed.
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) officials confirmed the incident took place in the vicinity of Cinema Pamir area of the city.
MoI front man Najib Danish said a magnetic bomb planted in a police vehicle went off, leaving at least four coppersmaimed.
Last evening’s kaboom followed hours after a jacket wallah detonated his explosives in the outskirts of the city, leaving at least one person dead.
The incident in Bani Hesar area of the city took place between 11 an d12 pm local time on Wednesday close to a check post of the security forces.
The Taliban ...Arabic for students... turbans had grabbed credit behind the attack and claimed that one security official was killed and another was maimed.
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[Iraq News] A civilian was killed and seven others were maimed in two separate kabooms in Baghdad on Thursday, according to Iraq Gate News.
A security source told Iraq Gate News that two improvised bombs (IEDs) went kaboom! today in western and southern Baghdad, leaving one dead and seven others injured.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source added that a security force arrived to the kaboom scene and cordoned it off. The two injured were taken to a nearby hospital and the body was taken to the forensic medicine department.
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[Iraq News] Iraqi authorities have issued arrest warrants since July 24th for 15 private lawyers whom they accuse of working in the past as judges at courts run by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... , Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday.
The organization said that the suspected lawyers represented Islamic State members before official Iraqi courts. "While lawyers are not immune from prosecution if they engage in criminal activity, they should not be prosecuted for doing their job as lawyers, nor should the authorities associate them with their clients’ cause simply because they represented them," a report by the organization said, saying that the situation arouses fears that authorities were intimidating the lawyers to repel them from representing IS suspects.
"The authorities should immediately explain why they are detaining and charging these lawyers," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. "They need to make it clear that Iraqi lawyers should not be afraid to defend ISIS suspects."
HRW said a senior judge told its workers on August 5th that his court had gathered evidence, including witness testimony, that the 15 defense lawyers had worked as lawyers in IS courts in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... "Human Rights Watch researchers observed two trials in which defendants had a state-appointed lawyer. The lawyers did not speak once during the hearings, with the judge and the court stenographer directly questioning the defendant,"the report said.
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[Garowe Online] Authorities in Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... should unconditionally and immediately release journalist Omar Saeed Mohammed, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Police incarcerated Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! Omar, who works for the news website Horseed Media and the privately owned Somali Cable TV channel, on August 6, 2017, in Garowe, the administrative capital of Puntland, a semi-autonomous region of Somalia, according to a witness, press freedom advocates, and media reports.
Jama Deperani, a Somali Cable TV journalist who witnessed the arrest, told CPJ that police refused to provide any justification for the arrest, telling him and Omar only that they were acting on official government orders. They refused to say who had issued the orders, Jama said.
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[AlAhram] Spain could overtake Greece this year in the number of migrants colonists arriving by sea, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Thursday, coming shore on boats and even jet-skis.
Holidaymakers on a beach in southern Spain Wednesday were stunned when a black rubber boat full of migrants colonists reached the shore, its occupants jumping out and running away as scores of sun-worshippers looked on.
On the same day, 12 migrants colonists arrived in waters off the Spanish territory of Ceuta in northern Morocco on jet-skis, with one -- a 28-year-old man from Guinea -- drowning before he could be rescued, authorities said.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[ABC] Current and former U.S. diplomats reacted to President Trump's comments thanking Russian President Vladimir Putin for expelling U.S. embassy workers with dismay.
[Hot Air] When we last checked in on newly released information regarding that infamous tarmac meeting between then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton, we learned that the media wasn’t terribly interested in discussing the matter any more than absolutely necessary. But as reporters continue to dig through the trove of Justice Department emails obtained by the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, we find out that there were some people who were very interested in talking. The people in question would be Lynch’s staff and they were having a flurry of discussions with none other than the folks at James Comey’s office.
North Korea
[FoxNews] The most sophisticated terror plot ever attempted on Australian soil – to bring down an Etihad airline leaving Sydney airport – is now known to have been planned, directed and even supplied directly by ISIS.
North Korea
[DAWN] 
[Iraq News] Iraqi authorities are holding more than 12 
Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
[IsraelTimes] Army warns 
[DAWN] SHANGLA: A girl and a boy were 
[POLITICO] Fox News host Eric Bolling has initiated a lawsuit against the 
[BREITBART] Democrats are threatening to shutter many government agencies on October 1 unless President 
[Iraq News] A senior 
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[DAWN] Condemning Indian atrocities in India-held 
[Iraq News] A civilian was killed and seven others were 
