Finally got around to it, did they? At a minimum, I hope this smirking jagoff loses his pension.
[Fox News] - FBI official Peter Strzok, who played a lead role in both the Russian meddling and Hillary Clinton email probes but became a political lightning rod after the revelation of anti-Trump text messages, has been fired.
Strzok attorney Aitan Goelman said in a statement Monday that his client, a 21-year FBI veteran, was fired Friday afternoon, claiming this was a departure from standard practice and politically motivated. Goelman said the bureau’s deputy director "overruled" the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility.
"This decision should be deeply troubling to all Americans," the attorney said. Not this one.
“Lisa is on a warpath,” one former colleague said. “She is not done either.”
Fired FBI leaders Andrew McCabe, James Comey and other current FBI leaders like Bill Priestap could be on deck, according to officials familiar with Page’s congressional testimony in hearings and private sessions with her attorney.
Strzok, FBI sources said, is the target of several investigations.
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His receiving a pension and no legal consequences for attempting to undermine a national election are indeed deeply troubling.
Not to mention plenty of time before they kicked him out that he could use to destroy documents, collude with friends, and anything else that could benefit either himself or the Deep State.
On the one-year anniversary of the deadly Charlottesville protests, white supremacists and radical leftists known as Antifa descended on the Virginia town once more to commit more violence. Late Saturday night, NBC News reporter Cal Perry and his crew were in the thick of it as Antifa members ganged up on them and attacked. The next morning, NBC’s Sunday Today ignored the attack and suggested the media was simply "heckled" by their assaulters. Of course we can expect this same standard to be used in all future instances of "heckling", too. Such as when CNN Jim "Crybaby" Acosta was put in the hospital by the words of some folks at a Trump rally recently.
On Twitter, Perry was documenting the protesters as they marched through the streets of college town when they started to get "very aggressive with the media" and trying to block their camera shots. "Yeah. We’re getting a lot of this. Protesters trying to grab our camera," he responded to one Twitter commenter telling him to "f**k off national media vulture." Afraid someone will recognize you and your tactics?
Things got super-heated when one Antifa protestor shouted "F**k you, snitch a** news b**ch. F**k you" and tried to either pull the camera away from the person using it or knock it to the ground. It was unclear in the video. Maybe someone should check your W-2s and see who pays you to do this?
Despite the video evidence on the ground from their own reporter, NBC went to Garrett Haake, who was at the White House in anticipation of violence there as another white supremacist rally was set to be held. "Overnight, tense moments in the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, far left protesters heckling the media and chanting anti-police slogans," he suggested at the top of his report. They actually used footage Perry and his crew shot but didn't show anything from their attack. I'm actually surprised anyone from the MSM would recognize Antifa as the far left. Let's see if they recognize the Brownshirts as such.
The assault on NBC’s reporter came almost a year since their political director, Chuck Todd used his MSNBC program, MTP Daily to elevate Antifa’s violence as a legitimate tactic against the right. He even doubled down and allowed them to use the formerly prestigious Meet the Press as a platform to push their hate and violent methods. Todd has never condemned them. Because if he does, no more platform.
Todd appeared on Sunday Today and had nothing to say about the attack or Antifa, which had been declared a domestic terrorism group by the State of New Jersey before he had them on last year. Instead of condemning Antifa, he lambasted the President for criticizing anthem protesters and targeted his supporters as racists. Todd, your Antifa boys are not to be equated in any way with misguided anthem protestors who are willing to show their faces and don't use violence and intimidation.
"So I don't think, if the President is, quote, ’learned anything’ I think in his mind, he has seen this is an effective political strategy to keep his base, his base," he declared about what the President had learned since last year’s violence. "That it is the president's continuation of using to be generous, dog whistles, others say they're not silent. You can hear the whistles pretty loudly." And I think the relevant parties can hear NBC's lack of a whistle just as loudly.
It’s sad and disturbing that NBC would choose to ignore violent leftists assaulting their own employees in exchange for railing against President Trump’s voters, but this appears to be the world we live in now. The assault also came after the entire liberal media had been trying to convince the public that Trump supporters where violent ones reporters had to watch out for. That's because Antifa is still a useful fool/tool to our socialist press. That will change one day, especially if the socialists get what they think they want.
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NBC's Sunday Today
August 12, 2018
8:02 a.m. Eastern
WILLIE GEIST: Let's begin this morning with the one-year anniversary of the deadly white supremacist protest in Charlottesville and the death of Heather Haier. Demonstrations in Charlottesville during the day on Saturday were peaceful but got out offhand last night as leftist Antifa protestors lashed out at the media and police. Today a large rally is planned in Washington, D.C., with a big police presence to meet them. NBC’s Garrett Haake is there for us. Garrett good morning.
GARRETT HAAKE: Hey, good morning Willie. D.C. Police will be flooding this area later today trying to keep separate groups of white nationalists and counter-protesters, even as they converge on this small park later tonight.
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Overnight, tense moments in the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, far left protesters heckling the media and chanting anti-police slogans. As the city rolled out a heavy police presence on the eve of its darkest day.
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HAAKE: On a working vacation in New Jersey, President Trump will watch the rally on television, not from a White House window. On Saturday, Mr. Trump tweeting to preemptively "condemn all racism in violence". A stark contrast to his response to last year’s chaos in Charlottesville.
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8:04:34 a.m. Eastern
GEIST: Chuck Todd is NBC's political director and moderator of Meet the Press. Chuck Good morning.
CHUCK TODD: Good Morning.
GEIST: Another extraordinary day in the presidency of Donald Trump right across the street from where he works. He’s not there today but will be this demonstration from white nationalists and probably counter-protesters as well. It comes one year after Charlottesville when the President said, of course, there were very fine people on both sides, seeming to put equivalency between the left and the racist right. Where are we a year later? I know you’re going to tackle some of this on the show. What has the President learned 12 months on?
TODD: Look, I think we are in a pretty divided place today. I think we are probably more racially polarized today than we were a year ago. And as for the President, since Charlottesville, think about the biggest fight he's picked since Charlottesville. The anthem protesters with the NFL and African-American players kneeling there.
So I don't think, if the President is, quote, "learned anything" I think in his mind, he has seen this is an effective political strategy to keep his base, his base. But I could tell you pretty much every other Republican who has to be on a ballot in 2018 believes that this is at the core of the Republican party suburban voter problem, right? That it is the president's continuation of using to be generous, dog whistles, others say they're not silent. You can hear the whistles pretty loudly. But that is sort of why the Republican Party is in this bind in 2018, where you have a slice of the party, the suburban voters, who are just uncomfortable with the Trump brand of Republicanism.
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Antifa is now getting cover by the Democrat Media Complex, thus making them tbeir official Stuhrm Abteilung. The midterms and more so 2020 will see much violence
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To the media, it's not violence when it's done by the left, even when it's done to them.
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To the media, it's not violence when it's done by the left, even when it's done to them.
I can see it now:
"Chuck Todd dead. Accidentally hit in head by U-lock by masked overexcited Antifa demonstration attendee. Several times. As he was innocently trying to find his bicycle so he could lock it up before a Trump voter could steal it."
[DailyWire] The Democratic National Committee in June quietly passed a resolution that banned fossil fuel companies from donating to the party. Now, just two months later, the DNC is reversing that decision, while claiming it's not a reversal.
The reversal, approved by a 30-2 vote, now says the DNC "support[s] fossil fuel workers" and will again accept donations from company political action committees, according to The Huffington Post. The new resolution was introduced by none other than DNC Chair Tom Perez.
The resolution states that "the inclusion of working people and their unions, representing all industries, is critical to the Democratic Party’s ability to affect change that improves the lives of workers, their families, and America’s middle class."
The resolution went on to restate the party's common line about Republicans "chipping away at workers’ rights, weakening unions, and depressing wages ‐ all while giving massive tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires." It also negatively mentioned the Supreme Court decision Janus v. AFSCME, which stopped public sector unions from being able to force non-union employees to pay dues. The DNC called the decision "disgraceful union busting."
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The resolution states that "the inclusion of working people and their unions, representing all industries, is critical to the Democratic Party’s ability to affect change that improves the lives of workers, their families, and America’s middle class."
Does that include me, or just those you think whose votes you can buy?
[Townhall] On Sunday former Director of Communications for the White House Office of Public Liaison and The Apprentice reality star Omarosa Manigault revealed on NBC’s "Meet the Press" that she had recorded her dismissal conversation with White House Chief of Staff John Kelly in the Situation Room. Not only that, but she actually played a 20-second recording of the conversation.
The White House Situation Room is one of the most essential and secure places for our country’s national security. It is where our civilian leadership, intelligence services, and military plan, discuss, and implement many of our top-level defense and security actions on a day-to-day basis.
Many legal and national security experts have pointed out already that Omarosa’s actions there may very well have violated federal law and are prosecutable. Ranging widely without partisan tilt, even some of those who fiercely oppose president Trump acknowledge this is a serious national security breach.
SCIFs, standing for "Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility," are government areas where information that has security-related implications and classifications is utilized. Personnel that do not have the required clearance may under certain circumstance go into these areas under various procedures and supervision.
Perhaps a source for some of the administration leaks has been found.
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Trump is still the only game in town for me, but WTF? His judgement is suspect if he had this creature inside his operation.
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And all the leftists who consider John Kelley to be "the adult in the room" can stand down now...
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Someone (and many more) just don't get it.
How lax was security that she was able to walk in with an electronic device? Was the portal even 'personed'?
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Many legal and national security experts have pointed out already that Omarosa’s actions there may very well have violated federal law and are prosecutable.
[NY Post] The hit on New York taxpayers continues to grow, with the number of $100,000-plus retirees up 20 percent last year.
As the Empire Center reported this week, the number of six-figure pensioners in the state pension system is nearing 5,000 ‐ up 756, or 20 percent, from 3,817 in fiscal 2017. Of those, 20 rake in more than $200,000 a year; three get 300 grand-plus.
Heading the pack: Shashikant Lele, a retired doctor at the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, who pulls in $436,356 annually.
You thought government salaries were high? At least staffers are expected to work in return for their fat pay. Yet those generous paychecks drive up retirement payouts. As do the ludicrously sweet pension terms OK’d by Albany over the years.
Trouble is, someone has to pay for that largesse, and that someone is New York taxpayers. State and local taxes must go to shore up the state pension funds that send checks to retirees. And that amount has grown a frightening 2,900 percent, from $164.5 million in 2000 to $4.8 billion in 2017.
The Empire Center’s E.J. McMahon also links that spike to losses from risky investments the fund made in the hopes of higher returns ‐ in a bid "to perpetuate the illusion" the state can make the juicy pension payouts without inflicting much pain on taxpayers.
Indeed, state comptroller candidate Jonathan Trichter this week is blasting incumbent Tom DiNapoli, who oversees the retirement system, for parking money in hedge funds and private-equity assets that "underperformed" the market by $8 billion.
The high $6 billion in fees Trichter says DiNapoli paid to managers of those funds only made things worse.
Meanwhile, state and local governments are left with an ever-shrinking share of tax revenue for non-pension expenses. Average New Yorkers, that is, pay more and get less.
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Just as an aside, my father was a a research department head at Roswell Park, Mr. Wife started his career in the student summer research program, and my sister programmed their computers for a few years after getting her PhD, before finding a tenure track teaching position. His pension was not anything like Dr. Shashikant Lele‘s, but surgical specialists get paid a lot more to keep people alive than are researchers who kill lab animals creatively while finding treatments for the surgeons to use.
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Civil service originally was to pay out a modest salary with a very modest pension in return for job security. Why anyone is drawing more than the 50 percent level of working taxpaying Americans is an example of the reduction of those taxpayers to involuntary servitude by the pols favoring employee unions over their fiduciary responsibilities to the electorate.
[American Thinker] The American Left is stoking hatred and it’s tearing us apart. Our media is guilty of not only of failing to shame those responsible, in many cases they egg them on, giving them a platform. The volume of irrational hatred spewing into our ether is extremely unhealthy, even dangerous for our republic and the broader American culture.
To be sure, there has been excessive rhetoric from the man who could well go down as the most accomplished and successful president in our history at the rate his achievements mount. But President Trump’s willingness to verbally punch back at his political enemies, sometimes crudely, pales in comparison to the level of hate being spewed out by leftists.
Our country is 242 years old. One has to wonder how it can survive much longer as the decibels of hate, particularly from the left, continue to rise almost hysterically. We’ve already had one civil war. That one cost over 600,000 lives. We don’t need another one.
At a minimum, those pumping out the hate need to be identified, shamed and shunned. This is what an active media should be doing. So who are we talking about? Here’s my list of the top 10 most vicious and dangerous haters in America today.
10. Louis Farrakhan -- Even the progressive hate group called The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies Farrakhan's virulently racist, homophobic, anti-American and anti-Semitic Nation of Islam (NOI) as a hate group and black separatist organization. As the leader of NOI, Farrakhan has preached the organization's theology that blacks are superior to whites, that whites were created 6,600 years ago as a "race of devils" by an evil black scientist named Yakub and that "white people deserve to die." Farrakhan accused Jews of being involved in the September 11 attacks. In a speech this year, Farrakhan described "the powerful Jews" as his enemy. "Now that nation called Israel never has had any peace in 40 years and she will never have any peace because there can be no peace structured on injustice, thievery, lying and deceit and using the name of God to shield your dirty religion under His holy and righteous name." That’s right, he calls the religion of Moses, who gave the world the Ten Commandments, "dirty." Nine more follow:
[LifeNews.com] Dr. Ben Carson has a way of putting things in perspective that endears him to pro-life activists. The neurosurgeon and the author of six best-selling books makes another compelling point about the issue of abortion that is sure to have eveyone who opposes abortion concurring.
He pointed out how ancient civilizations have been criticized for the brutal practices of human sacrifice and child sacrifice ‐ but he wonders if modern society isn’t "guilty of the same thing" because we have legalized abortion.
"Well, it’s interesting that we sit around and call other ancient civilizations heathen because of human sacrifice but aren’t we actually guilty of the same thing?" said Dr. Carson in reference to a question about abortion. "The good thing is the American populace is moving closer and closer to understanding that abortion is murder. Every year we’re getting better on that regard."
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Sadly this is my view on Progressive Feminists. They worship human sacrifice in the form of Abortion. Read what they say, how glorious it is and great they feel about it and you can tell it's a religion with them. Anytime you call to celebrate the death of an infant, you have set yourself outside of humanity. You might be people, but you are no longer human.
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Well. Anti prostitution campaigns center around shaming johns. The "war on drugs" waffles back and forth on attacking supply or demand. Every aborted fetus is the result of impregnation. Maybe take a look at that...
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We also wait till a known wolf strikes, not just terrorists, but criminals and the insane. That's because we do practice human sacrifice.
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Duh, because they don't define "fetus" as "human". They think it's like cutting hair or clipping toenails. How is it that in this day and age, we're not aware of this?
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We called ancient civilizations heathens for many reasons.
[NY Post] An Indiana man accused of raping, killing and eating parts of his ex-girlfriend’s dead body is now mentally competent to stand trial, a state psychiatrist said Thursday.
Joseph Oberhansley, 35, of Jeffersonville has been committed at the Logansport State Hospital since October, when a judge ruled that he wasn’t competent to stand trial for the 2014 killing of girlfriend Tammy Jo Blanton.
Prosecutors allege Oberhansley broke into the Jeffersonville home of Blanton in September 2014, and that he raped her, fatally stabbed her and ate parts of her body.
"This matter has been going on for four years now, and it’s high time that the victim’s family saw justice done," Clark County Prosecuting Attorney Jeremy Mull told the Courier Journal after the hearing.
The letter from the psychiatrist filed with Clark County Circuit Court noted that Oberhansley’s competency has been restored since he was committed there last October to undergo competency restoration. In some of his early court appearances after his arrest, Obserhansley had outbursts in court and said his name was Zeus, WAVE3 reported.
[AmericanThinker] When there is war, conflict, or instability, vulnerable human beings flee, seeking refuge in safer countries. Everyone is familiar with the plight of refugees, and the challenges refugees create for surrounding nations. People need and deserve support, and it requires resources to meet this need.
When there is war, conflict, or instability, vulnerable capital and wealth also flee. The "problem" of fleeing capital is different, however. Because capital and wealth are not as encumbered and physically restricted as are human beings, especially in the modern electronic age, capital moves far from the source of instability. Capital flight makes support of human refugees even more difficult, as capital often flees nations burdened with the obligation of support, nations in close proximity to the underlying cause of flight.
Unlike human refugees, who consume resources and capital, fleeing capital is welcome with inviting arms by safe havens. Capital and wealth must "go somewhere," and if they land in the banks and markets of a particular nation, that nation reaps the reward of that investment. Banks can lend at lower interest rates. Businesses can grow, expand, modernize, and invest. There is great reward and little cost to a recipient nation, especially if that nation has already invested heavily, historically, in the safety and security of the investment, by, for example, modern economic protections, strong security, a stable political system, and reasonable taxation.
...Not all capital flight winds up in the U.S., of course, but it’s safe to say that a good percentage is winding up here. Simple economics: more money chasing the same goods or investment opportunities causes prices to increase. With share prices high, companies can grow, expand, modernize, and invest. The investment increases the value of companies, generates returns for investors, and generates revenues for the U.S. government.
...Trump is not employing a philosophically driven foreign and trade policy wielding empty threats of carrot and stick like his predecessors. His foreign policy is disruptive, and intended to create meaningful reform in both statecraft and trade, first and foremost, to advance U.S. political, economic, and military interests. Achieving these objectives, even in the slightest of degrees, increases the safety and security of the U.S. as a safe haven, which strengthens Trump's ability to reform both foreign services and trade.
[Wash Times] STOWE, Vt. ‐ The governor of Vermont and the premier of Quebec are expected to sign a joint declaration to strengthen the cooperative ties between the state and province.
The signing takes place Sunday afternoon in Stowe ahead of the meeting of political leaders from the New England states and the premiers of the five eastern Canadian provinces in Stowe on Monday.
The agreement and meeting are happening as a bitter trade dispute simmers between Washington and Ottawa.
Republican Gov. Phil Scott’s office says the declaration builds upon an earlier cooperative agreement and advances collaboration in commerce, energy, environmental protection, transportation and tourism. Scott and Premier Phillipe Couillard are expected to sign the declaration at the summit of the Stowe Mountain Resort ski area.
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Vermont is seeking drug distribution exclusivity. Stowe Mountain Resort ski area is one of a few not ravaged by drugs. They try to promote a healthy tourist economy.
[National Review] Several weeks ago we learned the results of a new survey: The United States is apparently one of the ten most dangerous countries in the world for women. It’s not, actually, but that is the conclusion the Left has reached and is promoting based on inflated college-rape statistics and the fetishizing of victimhood. The survey results were compiled not from actual statistics, but instead from 550 interviews with so-called women’s experts around the world. From their answers, it’s clear that those in the intersectional American Left are walking around scared for their physical safety, or at least pretending to, even if that fear isn’t grounded in reality.
America ranked in the same top-ten list as India, where women are all too frequently gang-raped, killed at gunpoint, and even sometimes set on fire afterwards. The U.S. came in at No. 10, while Iran, where a woman was recently arrested and sentenced to 20 years in prison for protesting laws regulating the wearing of a hijab, didn’t rank at all. Anyone familiar with the truly dangerous climate for women in places such as India and the Middle East can understand that while the "Me Too" movement has raised necessary awareness of sexual harassment and assault here in the United States, it has not exposed our society to be inherently violent towards women. Relatively and realistically speaking, it is not uniquely dangerous for anyone to live in most parts of the country, no matter what "women’s experts" may claim.
The notion that women are so at risk in the U.S. becomes particularly interesting when one considers that the same liberal ideologues promoting it are also diametrically opposed to gun rights. The American Left simultaneously holds the views that life is more dangerous for women here than in most other places in the world and that the Second Amendment should be repealed or, at the very least, drastically curtailed. Even under constant threat, women, if gun-rights opponents got their way, would not have the ability to protect themselves with the best defenses available. If women were really so threatened, so at risk of rape or assault at any given moment in the workplace and on the streets, what would we want them to have on their persons and in their homes to protect themselves? Would we want the strongest defense available to women to be pepper spray or a gun?
[American Thinker] The mainstream media desperately want to deflect attention away from a huge spy scandal involving the ranking Democrat senator on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. For two decades, Senator Dianne Feinstein employed a Chinese spy on her staff. And when it was discovered, she was notified, the spy was fired (but not prosecuted), and the entire matter was kept secret from the public.
Only 5 years later did the news appear in public to almost no fanfare, bured deep in a Politico story on other matters.
The reason is obvious. The contrast with the treatment received by the Trump campaign when a Russian spy was merely suspected (on the basis of what appear to be ginned-up concerns over Carter Page, an FBI informant) is so stark as to raise serious question as to the integrity of the FBI counterintelligence operation. The NSA’s ability to monitor every form of electronic communications except ham radio[i] was mobilized to spy on the presidential campaign of the opposition party to the Obama administration. No notification to the campaign was offered, unlike Feinstein’s treatment.
The entire incident is being presented to the public as no big deal. That is a classic example of the fake news of which President Trump so vocally complains. Fortunately, Mark Thiessen checked out the real dimensions of the spy operation:
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Of course it's being "covered up" by the Deep State controlled media. You simply can't have the details of long running projects like the UBL takedown, the Benghazi debacle, the Clinton home brew servers, the Awan Bros. DNC Info Tech team and car dealership, the Tsarnaev Bros, or MAJ Nadal Hasan being made public.
[US News] Do you hate the idea of brown-bagging it as everyone else in the office goes out for lunch? Do you dread parking your old-school Camry in a lot full of BMWs? Do you hope no one sees you with your coupons in the grocery store?
If keeping up appearances is important to you, there are plenty of ways to do it without resorting to falling into debt. Here are 10 ways to look like you're living large without overspending.
#1. Buy used items. From designer clothes to luxury cars, you can buy high-quality goods at a reduced rate simply by opting for secondhand items. "I have a couple ladies who work for me who always look great," says Dawn-Marie Joseph, president of the financial firm Estate Planning & Preservation in Williamston, Michigan. "The majority of them buy their stuff from nice consignment shops." And many more.
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One could live in a van at Wal-Mart parking lots. If you don't like keeping up with the Jones, you could go somewhere where there aren't Jones like Cali, Columbia or Peru or Eucador. Depends whether you need a country without an extradition treaty or not.
[Daily Caller] President Donald Trump greeted nearly 200 military veterans, law enforcement officers, supporters and members of the New Jersey chapter of "Bikers for Trump" at his Bedminster golf club on Saturday afternoon.
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Have you seen the "controversy"? The bikers were wearing off-color patches, like one reading "I like ti**ies and beer". Such an offense to the dignity of the office of the president!
But then I remember Nixon giving Elvis a badge for fighting drug abuse, and Jimmy Carter scheduling the White House tennis courts, and Bubba Clinton being serviced by an intern his daughter's age while on the phone over national security matters, and Obama giving the Queen of England a collection of his speeches... And I realize this meeting, if anything, raised the presidency a bit.
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[BBC] Kinpo is a Taiwanese electronics giant. It employs 40,000 people and has a turnover of $36bn a year. It has developed some ground-breaking products, such 3D printers and a mirror that doubles as a computer screen. The key to success, says chief executive Simon Shen, is thinking far into the future.
[Townhall] Despite numerous promises from congressional Democrats and President Barack Obama when they passed the Affordable Care Act in 2010, the health care law has created far more problems than it has solved. Premiums, deductibles, and health care choices have all worsened since Obamacare went into effect, and there’s no sign America’s health insurance system will improve anytime in the near future.
President Trump inherited a health insurance crisis when he took office in January 2017, so he and congressional Republican leaders immediately began to work to implement their plan to replace Obamacare with a more market-centered approach to improving the nation’s health insurance system. That plan failed miserably, and ever since, the Trump administration has steadily been working‐often quietly‐to gut Obamacare of its most burdensome provisions, providing millions of Americans with financial relief and alternative ways to purchase affordable health insurance and putting Obamacare on a path toward complete collapse.
For example, in December 2017, at the request of the Trump administration and some conservatives in Congress, Republicans included in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act a provision reducing the Obamacare penalty for not purchasing "qualifying" health insurance to $0, beginning in January 2019. This move was particularly important for working-class families because IRS tax data show of the 6.6 million filers required to pay the Obamacare penalty in 2015, the most recent year for which data are available, 36 percent had an adjusted gross income of $10,000 to $25,000. That means Republicans’ decision to lower the penalty to $0 will save millions of working-class people from having to pay fees they likely can’t afford.
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#1 They may not have been enforcing the penalties but many have been paying the fines. They don't want this over the heads in the years to come. Next election should Democrats gain power IRS will come after everybody who has not paid and then added penalties. Most are not politically connected and hence protected as with Al Sharpton.
[The Hill] Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman said Sunday that she secretly recorded chief of staff John Kelly in the White House Situation Room.
"This is a White House where everybody lies ... you have to have your back," Manigault Newman said on NBC's "Meet the Press" on why she recorded her conversation with Kelly as he was firing her.
"If I did not have this recording, people would still believe the false, incredible story that I was running around the White House ... that I tried to charge the residence of the White House. People would still think that I was trying to set off alarms," she continued. "So yes I recorded myself and I have no regret about it."
In the 20-second recording aired on NBC, Kelly can be heard saying that Manigault Newman can "go on without any type of difficulty" relative to her reputation "if we make this a friendly departure."
"I think it's important to understand that if we make this a friendly departure, we can all be, you know you can look at your time here in the White House as a year of service to the nation. And then you can go on without any type of difficulty in the future, relative to your reputation," he said.
Manigault Newman went on to say that Kelly's words were "very obviously a threat."
Many journalists and lawyers in the national security community were quick to point out that the recording should not have happened.
If she isn't up on charges lke, today, there's something very, very wrong.
Mike
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Somebody is going to jail. Even the Demorats can tolerate this given their own crimes. Nothing would give them the screaming willies more than this kind of thing. But you can see how they handle it, see Seth Rich.
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If the recording proves to be true it lends some credibility to her claim that Trump uses the word n***er in the White House (which would show he actually can control his mouth in public...), but she would then presumably go to jail for the security violation. And the Trump security team gets dinged for poor implementation of security. On the other hand, if it's false, then everything else she says is suspect. Two things for sure, 1) Trump makes bad hires, and 2) she's fired.
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Last time I was in a SCIF, cell phones hadn't been invented. Ayou now allowed to take a cell phone into a SCIF?
Anyway, if she is charged, people will just say it's because Trump is a racist misogynist.
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Glenmore, Trump was not there when the recording in the situation room was made. She claims to have heard a recording someone else made of him saying the N'word.
The reason you can't record in there assumes you would be recording standard security stuff that goes on and that stuff is not to be recorded. in this case the room was used as the nearest empty room to contain any outburts or embarrassment during the firing process.
I don't think a lawyer would have too hard a time fighting any charges related to recording in the room. Even if that lawyer lost it wouldn't be worth the time and effort and mudslinging and would only give the attention-seeker more attention.
They should however enforce any non-disclosures she signed as they relate to her book and or press tour.
[Breitbart] On this weekend’s broadcast of "Fox News Sunday," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said the FBI investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, which has turned into special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, was "corrupt at the core."
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MACCALLUM: I want to ask you before I let you go a non-foreign policy question with regards to Bruce Ohr, who is a Department of Justice official Who worked under Sally Yates and just a few offices down from the head of the Justice Department. He’s becoming a much more central figure in what looks to be the initiation of this Russia investigation. What do you know about that?
GRAHAM: Well, he was the number four guy at the Department of Justice. His wife worked for Fusion GPS, the firm hired by the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign to get ‐ to find dirt on Trump. They hired Christopher Steele, a former British agent, who went to Russia to gather a dossier that I think is a bunch of political garbage.
Here’s what I would tell the American people. Both campaigns were investigated by the FBI and the Department of Justice in 2016. When it came to the Clinton campaign, she got a pass. The criminal investigation of the Clinton campaign was a joke. When it came to the Trump campaign, it was corrupt, it was biased and I think unethical. Mr. Ohr should not have had any role in investigating the Trump campaign because his wife worked at Fusion GPS. The two ‐ the FBI agent in charge of the Clinton campaign hated Trump, liked Clinton, and also started the counterintelligence investigation against Trump. When it came to Dianne Feinstein, they went to her and said, hey, there’s a Chinese person working on your staff that we think may be tied to the Chinese government. When it came time to ‐ they never did the same for Trump. So these investigations against Trump were corrupt at the core. They gave Clinton a pass. Bruce Ohr was at least unethical. We need a special counsel to look at all things Department of Justice and FBI when it came to the Trump investigation, particularly the counterintelligence investigation.
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Do your congressional duty and start IMPEACHING these corrupt bureacrats and judges. Congress has the power but never acts.
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Yes. Congress exists to take marching orders. From the courts, from the media, from fat donors like the Kochs. The people's business is not even in the last seat on the bus.
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Lindsay Graham's association with McCain is still too much for me to take.
[Hot Air] It’s the year of the Democratic Socialist and that means that some relatively crazy ideas are all the rage. One of the biggest is the dream-like vision of a society where you get paid whether you work or not. It’s known as universal basic income (UBI) and it fits in nicely with the idea of each according to his needs. Can it work in the United States, particularly in some of our cash-strapped major cities? We may find out soon enough because Chicago is looking at giving it a go.
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Its illegal to pay someone 10 bucks at the poll on election day so they want to be legally able to pay them 1000 bucks the month before? Where do we sign up?
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In Ancient Rome there was a custom where 'client' plebeians would show up daily at their rich Patron's house before dawn to receive a stipend. They would go about their business under the understanding that they were their Patron's private Rent-A-Mob. How little things change over the years...
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The Dems are trying to retain their voter base. Most likely, they will increase thrir voter base as freeloaders move into Chicago from Detriot and other blue cities. Look for a hollowed out shell of a city as the life blood is sucked out.
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Hey, kids! Socialism is bitchen!
Get mucho free soup from our kitchen!
But the man -- so uncool! --
Cruelly covets your gruel,
So tomorrow we'll pitch all the rich in.
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And the day after that? What to do?
Chew the fat, grind the gristle anew...
To eventually savor
The fruits of your labor:
You ate all of us. Who'll eat you?
[Wash Examiner] House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes declared Sunday that Hillary Clinton's campaign "colluded" with nearly every top official in the Justice Department and FBI.
An interview on Fox News had turned to the topic of Trump dossier author Christopher Steele and his ties to Bruce Ohr, a high-level DOJ official who fed the FBI information from the ex-British spy even after he was cut as a source for providing confidential information to the media.
The dossier, published last year by BuzzFeed, contains unverified claims about the Russians having information on President Trump that could be used as leverage. Republican investigators are concerned the FBI deceived a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court when it used information from the dossier without disclosing its Democratic benefactors to gain the authority to spy on onetime Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
Clinton's campaign, as well as the Democratic National Committee, retained Fusion GPS' anti-Trump research through October 2016 after it was initially funded, then dropped by the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative publication.
Nunes, R-Calif., blamed the media for largely ignoring the revelations surrounding the origins of the federal investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia and stressing that the American people "need to know it" called for the declassification of "an unprecedented amount of information."
Ohr, who was the fourth-highest ranking official in the Justice Department, will testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Aug. 28 "to answer why he had 60+ contacts with dossier author, Chris Steele, as far back as January 2016," Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., announced on Twitter late Friday.
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Republican investigators are concerned the FBI deceived a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court when it used information from the dossier without disclosing its Democratic benefactors to gain the authority to spy on onetime Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
The Carter Page role was likely that of a well place decoy. Strangely, neither the DOJ, FBI or Bob Mueller have any interest in him at all now.
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Judge Jeanine says to let the Mueller witch hunt go on. More and more criminality is being revealed with each passing day concerning wrong-doing by the Dems and Deepstate.
“How dare you! Do you know who I am?!”
“”No idea. But for your brother’s sake, we’ll happily tie you up. Book him, Dannollah!”
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) An 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.... leader, who used to work with the group’s alms department, has been incarcerated Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! while trying to infiltrate through a border exit toward Kurdistan, a senior security source said on Friday.
In remarks to Baghdad Today website, the source said, "Iraqi federal troops managed to arrest Mohammed Khalaf al-Jabouri, a leader with Islamic State’s alms department, and brother of the group’s agriculture minister."
The turban, according to the source, "was arrested at a checkpoint between Makhmur and Erbil."
Jabouri "was hiding at Deibka camp in Nineveh," the source, who preferred anonymity, said adding that he was arrested while trying to flee Makhmur.
"Jabouri confessed that his brother used to work as the group’s agriculture minister and that he was killed in an Arclight airstrike," the source said
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Local homeboys, ISIS remnants, Al Qaeda originals, still-faithful Baathists feeling their oats — Fallujah has ever been a seething hive of scum and villainy...
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi authorities announced on Sunday that two Lions of Islam were placed in durance vile Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! in Fallujah district in Anbar.
"Acting upon accurate intelligence reports, Iraqi troops in the in Anbar Operations Command arrested two Lions of Islam in Fallujah district in Anbar," Alghad Press quoted the General Military Intelligence Directorate as saying in a statement.
According to the statement, the two were handed over to the competent authorities for interrogation.
[PRESSTV] A watchdog monitoring hate crimes in Britain have announced that several Muslim women have been attacked since earlier this week after former foreign minister Boris Johnson wrote a controversial article and compared women wearing burqa to "letterboxes" and "bank robbers." Dammit, Brits! Stop dropping your mail in their eye slots!
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Yemen’s army liberated completely the al-Durahmi district south of Hodeidah province following intense festivities with the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militia, according to the website of the Yemeni Ministry of Defense.
The deputy operations commander of the second brigade of al-Amaliak, Colonel Ahmed al-Hujaili, said that the Yemeni National Army launched a fierce attack on the city of Durahmi from several axes, managing to liberate it completely from the Houthis.
Col. al-Hujaili said that the fighting resulted in huge casualties among the Houthi militia in addition to the capturing of 100 Houthi murderous Moslems, while the Yemeni legitimate army confiscated weapons and ammunition.
He explained that the army was able to cut the supply lines of the Houthi coup militias coming from the Directorate of Beit al-Faqih and from other areas.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi has cancelled a visit to Iran, his press office said on Sunday, as the premier came under strong Iranian criticism over his stand on renewed US sanctions against Tehran.
Abadi will still go ahead with a planned visit to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... on Tuesday but has scrapped the Iran leg of the trip "because of his busy schedule", his office said.
An Iraqi official had said on Saturday that Abadi would visit both neighboring Turkey and Iran to discuss economic issues.
According to Iraqi political sources, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , Iran initially agreed to the visit but changed its mind because it was unhappy about Abadi’s remarks.
The premier said last Tuesday that Iraq- which relies on neighboring Iran as a source of cheap imports -- would reluctantly comply with US sanctions against Tehran that took effect the same day. Read more
"We don’t support the sanctions because they are a strategic error, but we will comply with them," said Abadi, whose country is an ally of both Tehran and Washington.
"In general, sanctions are unjust," he said.
On Sunday, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s representative in Baghdad lashed out at Abadi as the Tehran visit was called off.
"These irresponsible remarks have already been condemned by many people. It’s a disloyal attitude towards the honest position of Iran and the blood of the deaders this country has spilt to defend the land of Iraq" against holy warriors, said Moujtaba al-Hussein.
"We are saddened by this position which shows he has been defeated psychologically in the face of the Americans," he said.
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[DAWN] An 11-year-old child bride returned to Thailand this week following widespread outcry over her marriage to a Malaysian man 30 years her senior, an official told AFP on Saturday.
Malaysian Moslems below the age of 16 are allowed to wed with the permission of religious courts but news of the union between the girl and the 41-year-old trader went viral on social media, reigniting calls to end child marriage.
The ceremony took place in June over the border in Thailand’s Moslem-majority south in Narathiwat province, where the girl returned to Wednesday in the wake of "immense pressure from Malaysian media", provincial governor Suraporn Prommool said.
The 11-year-old, believed to be the trader’s third wife, is undergoing mental-health counselling because of the intense level of attention, Suraporn said. He added that the marriage was not recognised under Buddhist-majority Thailand’s civil law but that it took place under the auspices of an Islamic council in Narathiwat with the consent of the girl’s parents.
"We cannot do anything [to annul the marriage] because they married under the religious law," he said.
The trader, however, could face six months in jail if it is found that he did not get permission in Malaysia. The girl was born in Thailand to parents who labour in Malaysia’s vast rubber plantations and Suraporn said she doesn’t speak Thai well.
Around 16,000 girls below the age of 15 in multi-ethnic and predominantly Moslem Malaysia are already married, according to the most recent statistics.
But Human Rights Watch senior researcher Heather Barr said that taking into account the number of children married before reaching 18, the figure could be "much much higher".
Uproar in Malaysia prompted the head of the Ministry of Women and Family Development to weigh in on Facebook last month saying the country "unequivocally" opposes child marriage and is taking steps to raise the minimum age to 18.
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[DAWN] A 40-year-old Paleostinian hit by Israeli fire on the Gazoo border died of his wounds on Saturday, taking the corpse count from protests the previous day to three, the territory’s health ministry said.
He was among at least 131 Paleostinians maimed by Israeli bullets during Friday’s protests, even as an informal truce ending a deadly flare-up between Gazoo’s Islamist rulers Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbung millipede, and the Israeli army largely held.
In all 307 Paleostinians were maimed on Friday, some by tear gas, including two journalists and five medics, the health ministry in the coastal enclave said.
It identified the man who died on Saturday as Ahmed Abu Lulu, saying he was shot in a section of the border east of the southern city of Rafah, where the two other Palestinians were also killed.
The ministry had earlier identified the other two as Ali al-Alul, 55, and volunteer medic Abdullah al-Qatati, 21.
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[DAWN] Terming increasing street crimes a big challenge for police force, new Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... police chief Dr Amir Ahmed Sheikh on Saturday launched a campaign to deal with the menace, asking citizens to send their complaints on a WhatsApp number for prompt action.
Additional Inspector General Amir Sheikh had on Aug 8 replaced former Karachi police chief Mushtaq Ahmed Mahar.
Speaking at a presser at the Karachi Police Office, the new city police chief said that curbing street crimes would be his first priority as complaints of around 40 to 50 victims were being lodged at city cop shoppes on a daily basis.
Accompanied by DIG Javed Odho and DIG Dr Amin Yousufzai, he said he was launching a campaign against street crimes immediately.
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[DAWN] PPP Chairman Bilawal Baby Bhutto Zardari ...Pak dynastic politician, son of Benazir Bhutto and grandon of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. As far as is known, Bilawal has no particular talents other than being pretty and being able to memorize political slogans, but he had the good luck to be born into the right family and he hasn't been assassinated yet... on Sunday took notice of withdrawal of security of former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's former prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics could be awe-inspiring ... by the caretaker government and described it as a "criminal act".
In a statement, the PPP chairman asked the caretaker government to clarify as to whom it intends to facilitate by withdrawing security from Gilani and whether the government is aware that the ex-PM's family has been under threat from terrorists.
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[DAWN] Leaders and activists of Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pakistain (TLP) were booked when they tried to reach Foreign Office in Red Zone on Saturday to protest against a blasphemous cartoon competition in the Netherlands by a politician.
The police tossed in the slammer Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! three protesters and produced them in the court of magistrate which sent them to jail on judicial remand.
Earlier, over 50 protesters gathered at Khayaban-e-Suhrawardy and tried to reach Red Zone.
The police tried to stop them near Federal Lodges by putting up razor wire.
But the protesters put up resistance and removed the blockade and tried to move towards Red Zone which led to altercation and arrest of three workers.
Somehow, the law enforcers succeeded in stopping them at the edge of the Red Zone on the road.
Senior officers of police and capital administration were also present on the occasion.
The administration official informed the protesters that gathering of five or more and use of loudspeakers were banned in the capital under section 144. But they refused to listen to them and insisted to go to the Foreign Office.
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[DAWN] At least one person was killed and nine others, including three Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... (FC) personnel, were maimed in a blast in Balochistan...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's Chaman city on Sunday, DawnNewsTV reported.
Police said unidentified miscreants allegedly targeted a vehicle carrying FC personnel in the Mall Road area of Chaman. The suspects had reportedly planted improvised bomb (IED) in a cycle of violence parked on the roadside.
The injured were rushed to Civil Hospital Chaman for medical treatment where a state of emergency was imposed to treat the injured.
The impact of the blast broke the windows of nearby shops and vehicles.
Police, Levies and Frontier Corps officials have cordoned off the site of the blast.
A similar blast occurred in Chaman on July 20 this year leaving at least five people injured and nearby shops and cars damaged.
Chaman Station House Officer Gul Muhammad said a vehicle belonging to a law enforcement agency (LEA) was the target of the blast.
According to administration officials, the blast was caused by a remote-controlled cycle of violence bomb parked at the side of the ride. The bomb exploded when the LEA's vehicle passed by.
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[DAWN] Police on Sunday claimed the arrests of two suspects after a minor boy in Khairpur was sexually assaulted and found dead near Gambat Bypass.
Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Sukkur Azad Khan said that a boy around 12-13 years of age, who worked until late at night at a tire puncture shop next to a petrol pump in Khairpur, was found hanging at the shop early on Sunday morning.
When police were alerted by a passerby, they took the body into custody and transported it to a hospital in the city.
After conducting a post-mortem examination, doctors said there was evidence that the boy had been sexually assaulted before he died, the DIG said, adding that DNA samples from the victim had been taken and would be sent for testing.
The DIG said that the shop owner and a truck driver, both of whom slept at the shop, were taken into custody.
According to local media reports, the boy had been raped and allegedly murdered. Taking notice of the reports, Sindh Inspector General of Police (IGP) Amjad Javed Saleemi had directed the DIG Sukkur to submit a detailed inquiry report of the incident.
He also ordered the senior superintendent of Khairpur to submit a report of the immediate steps taken by police at the scene of the crime and directed officials to conduct an unbiased and transparent investigation to ensure the victim's family gets justice.
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[DAWN] President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... on Sunday said the crash of the Ottoman Turkish lira, sparked by a bitter dispute with the United States, was a "political plot" against The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and warned Ankara would now seek new markets and partners.
The dispute between the two NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... allies ‐ which reached new intensity over the detention of an American pastor in Turkey ‐ has hammered the lira and also raised questions over the future partnership between Washington and Ankara.
The already embattled Ottoman Turkish lira tumbled some 16 per cent to new record lows against the dollar on Friday as US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... said he had doubled steel and aluminium tariffs on Turkey.
All eyes will be on the lira when foreign exchange markets reopen on Monday after the weekend pause. But Erdogan indicated he was in no mood to offer concessions to the United States, or financial markets.
"The aim of the operation is to make Turkey surrender in all areas, from finance to politics," Erdogan told ruling party members in the Black Sea city of Trabzon.
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Very early this mornïng the Turkish Lira has already dropped another astonishing 9% after catastrophic drops last week and the Euro immeďiately crashed to its lowest point in a year because of heavy EU financial institution ties to Turkey as bond holders.
Russia, China and other troubled currencies are dropping.
Catalist is Erdogan's sudden disdain for paying interest (which is actually a centrïes old Muslim policy), and Donald Trump hitting Turkey with doubling tarriffs last week after being tricked on the Paster Brunson release.
Asian stock markets are starting to ĺoose ground
A global financial crises is feared.
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Erdogan is learning that actions have consequences now, unlike during the Bush and Obama administrations.
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How odd. All the funds and property confiscated from the accused “Gulenists” has not proved enough to sustain the economy for the “real Turks? Ah well —at least it was fun dragging them off to jail and taking their stuff.
What will you do? Fun terrorism, attack israel, attempt to get rid of all non-muslims in your country and jail all your political enemies? Oh wait...yer already doing that.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan and Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... ’s Political Office in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... have confirmed the recent visit by Taliban delegation and meetings with the Uzbekistan officials in Tashkent.
According to a statement released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzebkistan, a delegation of the Taliban political representatives led by Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai ...Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, Head of the Taliban political office in Doha. He was a member of Rassoul Sayyaf's group in the war against the Soviets.... visited Tashkent from 6th to 10th August.
The statement further added that the Taliban delegation exchanged views on peace prospects during their meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affiars.
"The delegation exchanged views with Uzbek officials on the withdrawal of foreign troops and also explored ways for reconciliation in Afghanistan," Suhail Shaheen, front man for the Taliban political office has told The Daily Times.
According to repots, the delegates met Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov and presidential envoy for Afghanistan Ismatilla Irgashev and discussed the security of current and future development projects of Uzbekistan in Afghanistan.
This comes as the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev had earlier offered to host talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban.
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[PRESSTV] A court in Egypt has sentenced the chairman of the outlawed Moslem Brüderbund and other big shots of the movement to life in prison over charges of alleged incitement to murder and violence during protest rallies five years ago.
The Brotherhood’s Supreme Guide Mohammed Badie received life sentence from the Giza Criminal Court on Sunday, along with some other top leaders of the movement, including Mohammed el-Beltagy, Safwat Hegazy, Essam el-Erian and al-Husseini Antar.
The rulings are the latest among several trials and retrials against Badie and other big shots of the Brotherhood that ruled the African country before the military, led by incumbent President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, ousted the first democratically-elected president, Mohammed Morsi, following mass protests in 2013.
The court on Sunday also sentenced Bassem Ouda, the former supply minister under Morsi's rule, to 15 years in jail. It also sentenced the movement’s prominent figures Hisham Kamel, Gamal Fathi, and Ahmed Dahi to 10 years in prison over charges of alleged incitement to commit violent acts in the protests.
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[New Orleans Advocate] Simon Morris snapped when a man swiped his wallet outside an Uptown gasoline station Friday morning. He chased the thief across the street and beat him to death with his fists and feet, New Orleans police said.
Morris, 31, faces a count of manslaughter after the killing of a man identified in court records only by his first name, Edwin.
According to police, Edwin approached Morris and asked him for a dollar outside the Express Mart Gas Station at 4140 S. Claiborne Ave. about 8:20 a.m. Friday. But Edwin then reached into Morris’ back pocket, snatched his wallet and ran across South Claiborne at Milan Street.
Morris caught up with him in the rear driveway of Hi Class Customs, an upholstery and window tinting shop at 4201 S. Claiborne. Morris wrested his wallet back and then began beating on Edwin with his fists, police said.
At least two people tried to restrain Morris. But he kept punching and then started kicking Edwin, who "was begging Morris to stop and was attempting to cover his face and body," police said.
Morris battered Edwin’s head and body "for a duration of five minutes or more," police said. He didn’t stop until one of the witnesses managed to pull him off. The witness said he feared Morris would try to beat him up as well, according to police.
Paramedics took Edwin to University Medical Center for treatment, but he died there not long after arrival. Officers detained Morris and later secured a warrant to jail him on a count of manslaughter.
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Asked him for a dollar. Yup, black male. Typical modus operandi, find where your wallet is and then grab it. Only kind strangers who give the dollar get victimized.
If Morris is white we'll hear about this for months. If he's not the story will stop right here in the local news.
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That case I just don't know. I don't know who was saying what. I'm not sure he was in imminent danger of live or limb since the other guy seemed to just be standing there after.
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Is Morris more Buddha or Charlie?
More Kush, or more Cream of teh Barley?
Should push come to shove,
Sez poor Simon, "One Love"
A la Marley... or is he more Harley?
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Which is to say... yard-long dreadlocks on a paleface in NO in August? Dude's gotta be helpless as a baby hippie... or nuttier than pecan pie. I guess Eddie felt lucky.
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Fat cats on Italian safaris,
The diners all stalking their quarries!
Their stories were great:
"Then I charged at the plate!"
What a shame pity about T. Pittari's!
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[DAWN] President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... vowed on Saturday to defy US "threats" over a detained pastor, showing no signs of concessions in a bitter row that has caused the Ottoman Turkish lira to crash.
Relations between the two NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... allies have sunk to their lowest point in decades over a string of issues including the detention of US pastor Andrew Brunson on terror-related charges, prompting the lira to hit record lows against the dollar.
The Ottoman Turkish strongman also lashed out at interest rates, denounced them as a "tool of exploitation" which should be kept as low as possible.
The embattled lira tumbled 16 per cent against the dollar on Friday, falling further when US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... said he had doubled steel and aluminium tariffs on The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... "It is wrong to dare bring Turkey to its knees through threats over a pastor," Erdogan said in the Black Sea town of Unye.
"Shame on you, shame on you," he said in remarks directly addressed to Washington. "You are exchanging your strategic partner in NATO for a priest."
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[Dhaka Tribune] Laser guns are no longer in the future. China’s new laser assault rifle ZKZM-500 is reportedly capable of hitting a target from a kilometer away, igniting flammable objects, and burning through human skin. The researchers behind the project claim it is ready for production.
The US developed laser firing cannons that can be mounted on armored vehicles and can take down drones by burning its body. But effective laser rifles has been in the world of fantasy, until now.
The South China Morning Post spoke with researchers at the Xian Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who say they have developed a powerful laser rifle that will soon be in the hands of Chinese police who focus on anti-terrorism.
With a range of 800 meters, the ZKZM-500 laser assault rifle is a 15mm caliber weapon that weighs 3kg, which is roughly the same as an AK-47. It can be used to fire through transparent objects such as windows. And it is powerful enough to burn through a gas tank and ignite fuel storage facilities.
The weapon is absolutely silent and its beam is invisible. In the blink of an eye, the weapon can burn through the skin and tissue, causing “instant carbonization.” One researcher told the Morning Post that “the pain will be beyond endurance.”
At $15,000 a piece, the ZKZM-500 does not need any ammunition since its lithium-ion battery can handle over 1000 laser burst that lasts around two seconds each. This new tech is restricted for military and police only.
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And how much does the battery pack cost? How much does it weigh? Va-por-ware.
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this was first reported about a month ago and was greeted with a lot of technical skepticism... doesn't mean the fan quai aren't making progress, tho.
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I haven't read about any morons lasing commercial plane cockpits for a while. Media disinterest or something else?
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However, the LaWS system is rapidly approaching mass production and deployment (2020) after it being proven in trials. The USN ships being built now can generate 2/3rds more energy than needed so they can use these in the future.
China and Russian/Indian hypersonic cruise missiles won't be able to get past a fleet carrying LaWS systems and the Iranian small boat fleet is toast (literally) when going up against this.
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Wonder how much is PLA propaganda and how much is the usual journalistic stupidity.
Still, the kW per shot:
(1000 shots) x (2 sec shot) / (battery smaller than weapon's 3.5 putative weight) = ???
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Been following LASER potential since our first physics department use in 1975. It can be done, it will be done.
As Magpie pointed out you need a mobile power source. I might add the right discharge capacitors. The other problem is the development of high wattage LEDs for such use. The you have to deal with weapon system cooling and flex focusing lens.
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The *best* battery we now have is smokeless propellant pushing a penetrating projectile. Funny how the *breakthrough* that will give us the super-dooper hi-capacity energy storage cells always seems to be 20 years down the road.
[NewsWithViews] Most of us are familiar with the Stepford Wives, but how many of us realize that the men involved in the so-called Deep State have wives that are anything but Stepford-type women?
Those of us who seek news outside of the mainstream know who Nellie Ohr is. Fox News spent the past week inundating us with information about her. The question is: Why did they wait so long to broadcast data published seven months ago? Fox News treated it like a news alert ‐ called it that, in fact.
It’s almost as if everything is being carefully timed to achieve a very secret objective.
Do the words "statute of limitations" resonate as the reason behind Robert Mueller’s, the FBI’s, the DOJ’s and Congressional Committees’ unreasonable delays? If truth can be delayed long enough, no one goes to jail because the statute of limitations comes and goes so no one can be prosecuted.
When a crime (with a few exceptions ‐ like murder) is perpetrated, the authorities have a limited amount of time to catch and prosecute the offender. If the statute of limitations says the authorities have three years to solve and prosecute the crime, the perp can confess the day after the three year limit passes and cannot be prosecuted for it. The crime is "dead."
The Obama administration, the FBI and Department of Justice have handled many of their responsibilities to department policies and to our Constitution with reckless disregard. If they delay things beyond the statute of limitations they cannot be prosecuted. Thus they get to maintain their fictitious record of upholding the Constitution against enemies, foreign and domestic, and all of the mafia-like characters who have caused this challenge to our Constitutional Republic ‐ and they get to retire at taxpayer expense. Continues.
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This is not the best forum for this as it bends more to the conspiracy side. Sorry Fred. But for matter of record, this is fact: Q stated back in October/Fall 2017 to pay attention and investigate their wives and girl friends.
[DAWN] LARKANA: The Larkana antiterrorism court on Saturday sentenced one Sirajuddin aka Siraj Kalhoro to triple life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs250,000 on him after he was found guilty of abducting, sexually assaulting and killing a five-year-old girl in Naudero last year.
The ATC judge Ahmed Luqman Memon passed the verdict which further said that in case the convict failed to pay the fine he would have to undergo additional imprisonment of 16 months. The convict was later sent to central prison.
The girl’s decomposed body was found floating in a pond near railway station a day after she went missing while playing outside her home in Girghal Shah locality in Naudero on Nov 12, 2017.
The woman medical officer who had performed autopsy on the victim’s body had declared strangulation as her primary cause of death and later confirmed to police "she was 80 per cent sure the victim had been raped before death", according to the then SHO of Naudero cop shoppe Sartaj Jagirani.
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and make "life" short, hard, brutal, and painful
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] During the civil war in 2015, the Syrian regime opened a public park in the capital Damascus, in honor of North Korea’s first supreme leader, Kim Il-sung. Adding furthermore to the mystery, the public is prohibited from entering the garden. This reflects the Syrian regime’s determination to retains it as a symbol of the special secret relationship between the two presidents, according to the French newspaper, Le Monde.
Le Monde reveals that the park is located in the town of Kafr Sousse, south-west of Damascus, close to a building belonging to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Sham City Center, one of the largest commercial centers in the Syrian capital.
The park is a meeting point for children of the newly rich who live in high-rise residential towers. It is where they spend their time drinking"Polo", a high-priced lemon and mint juice, and smoke hookah. During the summer of 2017, as the civil war raged and rockets lit sky, the park remained distant and shielded from all the commotion.
When locals are queried about the Kim Il-sung Park, they raise their eyebrows in wonder, oblivious to who this leader is. Kim Il-sung ruled from 1948-1994, and is the grandfather of the current North Korean leader, Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... The park was inaugurated on August 31, 2015 in the presence of Syrian Deputy foreign minister, Faisal Mekdad, and other officials from both countries. Despite what was announced as a significant opening by the Syrian Arab News Agency, it is still difficult to determine the exact location of the park.
According to Syrian Authorities, the park covers an area of 9,000 square meters. It is fenced and can only be accessed by individuals who hold keys to its large gate.
The park is home to a monument surprisingly built 13 years before its opening. It has the birth-date of the Kim Il-sung and describes him as "The eternal leader of the Korean people and the dear friend of the Syrians".
Despite hinting at the obvious cooperation between North Korea and the Syrian regime, the park has triggered speculation about why Damascus, specifically in the midst of a civil war, is beholden to the Pyongyang regime.
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Of course they keep it secure -- it produces half the North Korean food supply!
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[PRESSTV] Saudi authorities have tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... another university professor in the conservative oil-rich kingdom as part of a widening crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... as of 2016.... against Moslem preachers and intellectuals.
The rights group Prisoners of Consciousness, which is an independent non-governmental organization advocating human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... in Saudi Arabia, announced in a post on its official Twitter page on Sunday that Sheikh Nasser al-Omar, a former professor at the Faculty of Fundamentals of Religion at Riyadh-based Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University were tossed into the calaboose and his Twitter account suspended.
The post added that Saudi officials had earlier imposed a travel ban on the academic.
Separately, Saudi officials have arrested Sheikh Ahmed al-Emari, a professor of Koranic studies at the Medina-based Taibah University, on charges of contact with political dissident, Sheikh Safar al-Hawali.
Abdulaziz Abdullatif, a member of the academic board at the same Saudi university, were tossed into the calaboose nearly a year ago.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Arab Coalition's Joint Incident Assessment Team (JIAT) in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... conducted investigations into the shelling of buildings in Saada, citing allegations of its forces targeting civilians in the ongoing conflict in Yemen.
The official front man of the JIAT, Legal Counsellor Mansour al-Mansour said on Sunday during a presser in the Saudi capital Riyadh, that the coalition had received intelligence information indicating the presence of Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... military commanders in a house located in a remote isolated area.
The official presented pictures of the targeted house, which international organizations claimed is adjacent to civilian inhabited houses.
According to the pictures, the targeted house is in an isolated remote area.
The JIAT concluded that the targeting of the building was in accordance with the rules of humanitarian law.
Al-Mansour added that the team also investigated the incident involving the "house in Lahij governorate", which was targeted due to the presence of a gathering of armed members of the Houthi militias, and thus it is considered a legitimate military target, he said.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... said on Sunday it had finalized preparations to create more safe areas in Syria, which would allow the return of refugees who have fled the civil war.
Speaking at his AK Party’s provincial headquarters in the Black Sea city of Trabzon, President Tayyip Erdogan said a quarter of a million people had already returned to liberated areas in Syria.
"God willing soon we will have liberated more places and made more areas safe," he said.
Turkey is host to 2.7 million refugees from Syria.
Turkey is carrying out an offensive in northern Syria’s Afrin region against the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, which Ankara considers a terrorist organization linked to Kurdish hard boyz waging an insurgency on Ottoman Turkish soil.
The Afrin campaign is Turkey’s second cross-border operation during Syria’s seven-year-old civil war. The first, dubbed "Euphrates Shield", targeted ISIS and Kurdish fighters further east than Afrin, and was completed in early 2017.
Erdogan said diplomatic and military efforts in Syria’s Idlib province, where Turkey has set up a dozen military observation posts, had been accelerated to avoid a "catastrophe" like those seen in other parts of Syria.
Syria’s government and allied forces backed by Russia and Iran have swiftly recaptured other rebel strongholds in the southwest and vowed to push on and recover all of the country.
Idlib is the largest remaining Syrian rebel-held enclave and there are fears of further bloodshed in the event of a government-backed offensive.
Erdogan also said Turkey was taking steps to save Iraq’s Qandil area from being a "nest of terror" and that if needed northern Iraq’s Sinjar region could be included in this process.
Turkey’s army has ramped up operations in northern Iraq, with the aim of destroying Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) bases in the Qandil mountains, where high-ranking members of the hard boy group are thought to be located.
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[Breitbart] Police in Melbourne have been slammed for making no arrests after residents of the city’s north-west suburbs were terrorised by gangs of African youths who bragged "police can’t touch us" and branded frightened families "racist".
Despite its sending dozens of armed officers in riot gear to Taylors Hill as more than 100 teenagers gathered "for war", and telling residents to "stay inside and lock their doors" as rival gangs ran amok, police claimed there had been "no threat to community safety". So, Mates, how's that gun control thingie working out for you
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Well, if I couldn't use firearms to defend my property, I might have to resort to stratagems both more basic and more exotic. Some may leave uninvited visitors wishing for a nice clean gut shot.
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well in the absence of firearms for self-protection, they can hit the thugees with their digeridoos - now there's an assaultive weapon.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Security forces on Sunday pulled the bodies of three suspected forces of Evil out of a partially collapsed building in a city in central Jordan following a shoot out, a government spokeswoman said.
Security forces had raided the building in a search for those responsible for a kaboom on a police van on Friday that was maintaining security near a music festival.
Government spokeswoman Jumana Ghunaimat told Rooters the security forces had also seized automatic weapons in a "continuing operation."
Jordan said on Saturday four security personnel were killed during a police raid on a house sheltering forces of Evil suspected of being behind a kaboom on a police van a day earlier.
Security forces stormed a building in the city of As-Salt where suspects behind the planting of the home-made bomb that killed one policeman on Friday were believed to be hiding.
Government spokeswoman Jumana Ghunaimat told the state news agency Petra that three suspects had been locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! so far in an operation that was still underway against a cell hiding in a building in the centre of hillside As-Salt city, about 30 km west of Amman.
The suspects had refused to hand themselves over to the security forces and blown up part of the hilltop building, Ghunaimat added.
Later Ghunaimat said security forces were moving to seize the site and see if there were any civilians held hostage.
Latest reports said kabooms were heard in the vicinity of operation in in As-Salt, a hillside town near Amman, after the raid entered its second phase of an ongoing operation.
Witnesses heard several strong kabooms near the site which a security source said were explosives being detonated by the police as they closed in on the holy warriors.
Police had earlier blamed a gas canister for Friday’s blast near the site of a music festival in the town of Fuheis.
Ambulances were seen rushing to the main city hospital from near the building in a residential area of As-Salt that was sealed off by police.
The terrorist cell was responsible for the kaboom in the town of Fuheis outside Amman that killed one policeman and injured six others on Friday.
During Saturday’s raid, 20 persons were maimed in the collapse of the building in As-Salt.
SECURITY PERSONNEL KILLED The three suspects were held during the operation by ecurity forces during which four security personnel were killed.
Earlier, Jordanian police investigations showed that a home made bomb planted near a police van was behind a blast on Friday that killed the policeman and injured six others.
Police said on Friday a gas canister stored in the van was behind the blast near a gendarmerie parking lot close to the site of a music festival in the town of Fuheis outside Amman.
"This cowardly act will only increase the determination to do our job to protect people," the interior ministry statement said.
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[PRESSTV] Ottoman Turkish-backed bully boyz in Syria are reportedly creating a "national army" with Ankara’s support in the Arab country’s northwest.
The bully boyz are sewing up rifts within their ranks towards building the force, which comprises some 35,000 members from the biggest factions that have been waging militancy against Syria since 2011.
"We are at the beginning. We face many difficulties but we are working to overcome them," the head of the force, Colonel Haitham Afisi, told Rooters on Sunday.
Afisi is trying to unite the bully boy groups. He has ordered them to stop "randomly opening fire"
No more gun sex?? How will anyone know they are big, bad jihadis if they aren’t forever shooting off?
and wear uniforms. Various bully boy outfits have also been banned from operating their own jails and courts and from carrying out extrajudicial arrests.
The news agency said the presence of Ottoman Turkish forces on the ground has helped to shield the bully boyz from Syrian government attacks.
"All the support for the national army is from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... , there are no other states partnering in this matter," Afisi said.
Turkey began operating in northern Syria in 2016 under the banner of fighting the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terror group of ISIS, while pushing against Kurdish bully boys, whom it associates with anti-Ankara separatists. Earlier this year, Ottoman Turkish forces invaded Syria again, this time seizing the northern region of Afrin.
The country has refused to heed calls for withdrawal by Damascus, which views the presence as "occupation."
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[FOX] The co-chair of the Democratic National Committee, Rep. Keith Ellison, was accused of emotional and physical abuse by an ex-girlfriend who said: "You know you did that to me."
Ellison responded to the allegations Sunday, issuing a brief statement that said, "I never behaved in this way."
The allegations surfaced Saturday night from Karen Monahan after her son alleged in a Facebook post that he had seen text messages from Ellison threatening her and video of the congressman screaming obscenities at her as he dragged her off a bed by her feet, The Associated Press reported.
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Discover who's on the official Left hierarchy of 'victims'. Women have been below Muslim for a while (thus the pass for behaviors towards women in Muslim dominated countries). This will pass from the Legacy Infotainment Enterprises quickly. Besides, its Minnesota, they don't seem to care about such behaviors among the 'community'.
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Folks don't like political tricks and releasing this so close to the election smells like such a trick. Also his core fans probably applaud a bit of wife beating. Makes me wonder if Ellison didn't release the news himself.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least seven forces of Evil were killed in separate Arclight airstrikes conducted in two districts of western Farah province of Afghanistan, the Afghan military said Sunday.
According to a statement released by the 207th Zafar Corps of the Afghan Military, at least two forces of Evil were killed in an airstrike carried out by the foreign forces in Gazgin area of Posht Rod district.
The source further added that some weapons belonging to the forces of Evil were also destroyed during the same airstrike.
In another statement, Zafar Corps said the Afghan commandos and foreign forces carried out airstrikes in Dezak area of Bala Bolok district, leaving two forces of Evil dead and three more maimed.
According to Zafar Corps, a hatchback type vehicle belonging to the forces of Evil was also destroyed during the airstrikes.
This comes as the security situation in western Farah province has started to deteriorate during the recent months as the anti-government armed forces of Evil are attempting to expand their foothold in some key western provinces.
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[DAWN] Diamer Deputy Commissioner Didar Malik on Sunday asked a 12-member jirga working with the district authorities to handover 27 suspects allegedly involved in the arson attacks on schools in Diamer district, DawnNewsTV reported.
A meeting was held at the DC office in Chilas, where former Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) Deputy Speaker Malak Miskeen, GB Minister for Excise and Taxation Haider Khan, GB Forests Minister Imran Wakeel and other notables were also present.
DC Malik asked the jirga members to handover the suspects before 4pm on August 13, otherwise, a search operation will be conducted in both Tangir and Darel tehsils.
The jirga assured the deputy commissioner and security officials that they will make efforts to handover the suspects as well as their controllers and requested that officials be prevented from moving into the areas before the agreed deadline.
On the night of August 2, more than a dozen schools ‐ half of which were girls-only centres ‐ had been burned down in Diamer by person or persons unknown.
According to an initial report of the incident, the "miscreants" carried out the attacks in an "organised manner". The assailants first vandalised the buildings and then set them on fire, said the report.
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[DAWN] MATARAM: An earthquake on the Indonesian island of Lombok has killed 387 people, authorities said on Saturday, adding hundreds of thousands of displaced people were still short of clean water, food and medicine nearly a week on.
The shallow 6.9-magnitude quake on Sunday levelled tens of thousands of homes, mosques and businesses across Lombok, just one week after another tremor surged through the island and killed 17.
"It’s predicted the corpse count will continue to grow because there are still victims who are suspected of being buried by landslides and under rubble, and there are victims that have not been recorded and reported to posts," national disaster agency front man Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said.
The number forced from their homes in the disaster has soared to 387,000, Nugroho said, with around 13,000 injured. The hardest hit region of Lombok has been in the north, where 334 people have died and nearly 200,000 have been forced from their homes, according to latest official tolls.
Two people were also killed by the quake on the neighbouring tourist island of Bali.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Has US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s position on Iran changed? Has he demolished his stated strategy as well as the statements of his senior administration officials, abandoned the conditions set by his foreign affairs minister and set closed doors and dead-end paths before the Iranian regime, the biggest sponsor of terrorism in the world?
These questions were raised by some observers in the past phase.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] On August 7, the re-imposed US economic sanctions on Iran came into effect. The move ended a three-month period given by the Trump administration to foreign companies to cut their business ties with Iran, which they developed after signing the nuclear deal in the summer of 2015. From the US point of view, the three month period was sufficient for foreign companies, especially European ones, to wind up their businesses and leave Iran.
ECONOMY NOSEDIVES At present, sanctions have been imposed on cars, coal, gold, metal and banking transactions, and they will be followed in November with sanctions on energy trade. The Europeans tried "to hold the stick from the middle", soothe Iranian fear on one hand and forge an understanding with the Americans on another in order to protect their companies which sealed major deals inside Iran - just as they had in the 1990s when sanctions were imposed on Libya after the bombing of Pan Am Flight and on Iran after the American hostage situation. In the end, the Europeans will not risk losing the US market to Iran, and they will eventually have to deal with the situation, and this has practically began by freezing their companies’ businesses and then exiting Iran.
As-Suwayda (Syria News) Syrian army troops managed, on Sunday, to fully capture the eastern administrative borders of As-Suwayda Province from the grip 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.... Group.
The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported, today, that Assad forces achieved a notable advance against the Islamic State Lions of Islam in the last few hours, and managed to besiege them in Telul al-Safa area, near the eastern borders of Rif Dimashq.
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Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) An Islamic State member, in charge of the 2014 massacre in east of Tikrit, has been arrested in Salahuddin province, the Security Media Center said on Friday.
Spokesperson for the center, Brig, Gen. Yahia Rasool, said in a statement that troops, backed by forces from Samarra Operations Command “managed to arrest a dangerous militant, who was in charge of a massacre, when number of security personnel from al-Alam town were killed in 2014.”
The militant, according to Rasool, “was arrested in an operation in al-Muthanna district in Samarra city.”
In 2014, the militant group, which was in control al al-Alam by then, reportedly killed 17 security personnel and civilians.
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi army has repulsed an Islamic State attack, leaving many militants killed in Salahuddin province, a security source said on Sunday.
Speaking to Alghad Press, the source said, “the Iraqi army foiled an attack by Islamic State in al-Aitha region, east of al-Dour town, from five regions. The attack left five army personnel killed and others wounded.”
Salahuddin Operations Command, according to the source, “killed 14 Islamic State members, wearing suicide belts, and followed the militants which carried out the attack.”
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) – At least five people were killed last night in an attack by the Islamic State group on a village near Iraq’s largest oil refinery Baiji in Salahuddin province, an Iraqi security source said on Saturday.
“A group of Islamic State militants launched an attack on Alb Jrara village near Baiji oil refinery late Friday, promoting locals to carry weapons in an attempt to repel the attack,” the source told Kurdistan 24.
The source said that the clashes between the two sides left “five people dead and one person injured,” adding that among those killed in the attack are four brothers belonging to two families.
“IS militants used heavy and medium weapons in the attack before fleeing the scene into an unknown location,” according to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...Former president of Aghanistan, part of the problem not part of the solution... once again called on Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group’s leadership to participate in the intra-Afghan talks for peace and reconciliation.
The Office of the Former President in a statement said the Former President Hamid Karzai welcomed the announcement by the politicians, political coalitions, members of the resistance zone, and representatives of the parliament and provincial council, regarding the intra-Afghan talks with the Taliban group.
Karzai emphasized on the need for the intra-Afghan peace talks for the realization of peace effort and urged the Taliban group to participate in the intra-Afghan and Afghan-led negotiations, according to the Office of the Former President.
He said the Taliban group should participate in the talks considering the longtime demands of the Afghan people for peace and reconciliation.
This comes as Junbish Milli Party led by the First Vice President had earlier informed that some of the key political parties and movements held talks regarding the grinding of the peace processor with the Taliban and upcoming elections during their last meeting over the past one week.
A front man of Junbish Party Bashir Ahmad Tahyanj said last week that a consensus was reached during the talks between leaders of the political parties and movements in this regard.
He did not disclose further information in this regard but added that the details of the meetings would be shared with the people during a large gathering.
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Is his family "ornamental-use only" Poppy plantation in the middle of the war zone?
[IsraelTimes] IDF struck cell in northern Strip launching devices as arson attacks continued; flaming balloon landed next to a community dining room in Eshkol Region
A large incendiary kite launched from Gazoo landed on power lines near Kibbutz Sufa, sparking a quick operation by employees from the Israeli Electric Corporation to remove the device before a fire was started.
The 4-meter (about 13-foot) kite, which landed on Friday, caused a power outage at the kibbutz and in the surrounding area.
It was removed from the high-voltage wires by electric company workers using a crane.
The IEC released pictures of the kite on Saturday.
In another community near the Gazoo Strip, police sappers neutralized an incendiary balloon flown over from the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-run Paleostinian enclave that landed next to a dining room in an Israeli community in the Eshkol Region.
In response, the Israeli military on Saturday afternoon said it targeted a cell responsible for launching incendiary balloons in the northern Gazoo Strip. Reports in Paleostinian media said two people were maimed in the Israeli strikes in El-Bureij.
There were also Paleostinian reports of a second IDF strike elsewhere in the Gazoo Strip.
A large incendiary kite launched from Gazoo lands on power lines near Kibbutz Sufa, August 11, 2018. Photo: Israel Electric Corporation
Earlier, another incendiary device sparked a fire in the Nir Am nature reserve. The blaze was largely under control by Saturday afternoon, according to the Parks Authority.
[PRESSTV] A monitoring group says at least 39 civilians, including 12 children, have bit the dust and dozens of others sustained injuries when a powerful kaboomdestroyed a weapons depot in Syria’s murderous Moslem-held northwestern province of Idlib.
Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), said the blast occurred in a residential building in town of Sarmada near the border with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... , and caused two buildings to collapse.
Abdel Rahman highlighted that the corpse count was expected to further rise as scores of people remained trapped under rubble and tens of people remain unaccounted for.
The Observatory added that the ammunition depot belonged to an arms dealer working with the Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham , commonly referred to as Tahrir al-Sham, terrorist group, and was situated in the Bab al-Hawa neighborhood of Sarmada.
An AFP correspondent at the site in the rebel-held town of Sarmada near the Ottoman Turkish border said the kaboom caused two buildings to collapse.
In recent months, a series of kabooms and liquidations ‐ mainly targeting rebel officials and fighters ‐ have rocked the province.
While some attacks have been claimed by IS, most are the result of infighting since last year between various other groups.
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So this arms depot was in the middle of an apartment complex or something? Who wants to live near an arms depot? Nobody. But when it's forced, you are going to be human shield/cannon fodder no matter what you want.
And then they lost the "No Smoking" sign.
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Sounds like Haliburton's "Bomb Kits for Martyrs" got mis-delivered.
[DAWN] Pak military officers will receive training in Russian Federation military institutes under a recent agreement signed between the two countries.
The deal underscores Pakistain’s increasing reliance on Russia for its military needs amid strained relations with the US. It was signed earlier this week during a visit by Russian Deputy Defence Minister Col Gen Alexander Fomin.
The agreement comes as local media reported the US has stopped financing military training in the US for Pak soldiers ‐ a step that Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed called "wrong and counterproductive."
Mr Hussain, chairman of the Foreign Affairs committee, said the US is repeating past mistakes through failed policy of trying to bully and browbeat Pakistain with such short-sighted sanctions.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Yemeni military source said on Sunday that the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias have started digging military trenches to surround the port of As-Salif western of Yemen.
The source said that the Houthi militias began digging trenches in the vicinity of the air defense camp and the port of As-Salif, through which most of the humanitarian aid and ships flow through to unload wheat, foodstuffs and various goods.
According to the source, the Houthis prevented fishermen from reaching their marina in the Harfa area north of the port, amid military deployment and checkpoints on roads between the port and the residential neighborhoods.
It is noteworthy that the militias have dug dozens of trenches on the road linking the city of Hodeidah and the port of As-Salif north-west of the city.
CCTV CAMERA AT ENTRANCES Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes... the Houthi militias directed its leaders and supervisors in Sanaa to instal surveillance cameras in front of their homes and headquarters.
The Yemeni news agency Khabar quoted an official security source as saying that directives were issued by the militia requiring its leaders, supervisors and members in high positions to instal surveillance cameras in front of their homes and other buildings in various neighborhoods in Sanaa, amid fears of increasing popular rejection of them.
The source said that these directives were issued as a security precaution following fears among the leaders of the group of any possible attacks, and after the escalation of disputes between the leaders and supervisors of the Houthi militia on appointments and positions and the looting of public and private money in the capital Sanaa and areas under its control.
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Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) At least 12 people, including tribal fighters, were killed and injured in two consecutive bomb blasts, east of Mosul city, an Iraqi officer said.
In remarks to Shafaq News, the policeman said two people, one of whom is a tribal fighter, was killed, while ten others, including four fighters, were injured as two bomb blasts took place in a village in Nimrud town, southeast of Mosul.
The first one, according to the source, targeted two farmers on a motorbike, one of whom was killed, while the other was injured. The second bomb went off as the people and tribal fighters were gathering at the accident spot.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) – Two people were killed and 10 others injured in two bomb blasts in eastern Mosul, local officials said Saturday.
Speaking to The Baghdad Post website, Colonel Ahmed al-Jabouri said that two blasts exploded Saturday in the ancient city of Nimrud in southeastern Mosul, leaving two people dead and 10 others wounded.
According to Jabouri, there were members of Al-Hashd Al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) among the casualties.
The first explosion targeted two people riding a motorbike, leaving one person dead and another wounded.
The second blast happened at the scene of the first explosion, leaving one person dead and nine others wounded, including four members of Al-Hashd Al-Shaabi.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) – Security forces have arrested six Islamic State members in the group’s previously proclaimed capital city of Mosul, the Iraqi Security Media Center announced Sunday.
In a statement, quoted by Baghdad News, spokesman for the Iraqi Interior Ministry Maj. Gen. Saad Maan said that the six terrorists were arrested in al-Zahraa, Nahrawan, al-Karama and Nabi Yunus districts in eastern and southern Mosul.
“Four of the arrestees were involved in fighting against Iraqi security forces, while the fifth was an Islamic State programmer,” Maan 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.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
On the one-year anniversary of the deadly Charlottesville protests, white supremacists and radical leftists known as Antifa descended on the Virginia town once more to commit more violence. Late Saturday night, NBC News reporter Cal Perry and his crew were in the thick of it as Antifa members ganged up on them and attacked. The next morning, NBC’s Sunday Today ignored the attack and suggested the media was simply "heckled" by their assaulters.
[NY Post] The hit on New York taxpayers continues to grow, with the number of $100,000-plus retirees up 20 percent last year.
[NY Post] An Indiana man accused of raping, killing and eating parts of his ex-girlfriend’s dead body is now mentally competent to stand trial, a state psychiatrist said Thursday.
[National Review] Several weeks ago we learned the results of a new survey: The United States is apparently one of the ten most dangerous countries in the world for women. It’s not, actually, but that is the conclusion the Left has reached and is promoting based on inflated college-rape statistics and the fetishizing of victimhood. The survey results were compiled not from actual statistics, but instead from 550 interviews with so-called women’s experts around the world. From their answers, it’s clear that those in the intersectional American Left are walking around scared for their physical safety, or at least pretending to, even if that fear isn’t grounded in reality.
Of course it's being "covered up" by the Deep State controlled media. You simply can't have the details of long running projects like the UBL takedown, the Benghazi debacle, the Clinton home brew servers, the Awan Bros. DNC Info Tech team and car dealership, the Tsarnaev Bros, or MAJ Nadal Hasan being made public. 
[US News] Do you hate the idea of brown-bagging it as everyone else in the office goes out for lunch? Do you dread parking your old-school Camry in a lot full of BMWs? Do you hope no one sees you with your coupons in the grocery store?
[Daily Caller] President Donald Trump greeted nearly 200 military veterans, law enforcement officers, supporters and members of the New Jersey chapter of "Bikers for Trump" at his Bedminster golf club on Saturday afternoon.
Republican investigators are concerned the FBI deceived a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court when it used information from the dossier without disclosing its Democratic benefactors to gain the authority to spy on onetime Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
[DAWN] An 11-year-old child bride returned to Thailand this week following widespread outcry over her marriage to a Malaysian man 30 years her senior, an official told AFP on Saturday.
[DAWN] Police on Sunday claimed the arrests of two suspects after a minor boy in Khairpur was sexually assaulted and found dead near Gambat Bypass.
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
When a crime (with a few exceptions ‐ like murder) is perpetrated, the authorities have a limited amount of time to catch and prosecute the offender. If the statute of limitations says the authorities have three years to solve and prosecute the crime, the perp can confess the day after the three year limit passes and cannot be prosecuted for it. The crime is "dead."
North Korea
Crown Prince of 
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
[Breitbart] Police in Melbourne have been slammed for making no arrests after residents of the city’s north-west suburbs were terrorised by gangs of African youths who bragged "police can’t touch us" and branded frightened families "racist".
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
[DAWN] Diamer Deputy Commissioner Didar Malik on Sunday asked a 12-member jirga working with the district authorities to handover 27 suspects allegedly involved in the arson attacks on schools in Diamer district, DawnNewsTV reported.
