[FirstPost] No harm in J&K becoming Union Territory if people benefit from it: Ex-PDP leader Farooq Ahmed Dar
Dismissing concerns about Jammu and Kashmir becoming two union territories, former PDP leader Farooq Ahmed Dar said there is no harm if people benefit from it.
He cited the example of New Delhi, asserting that the national capital has continued to develop even though, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is frequently locked in confrontations with the Union government.
"If people can benefit from a UT status, what's the harm?" he asked, pointing out that the state has never developed beyond being a "consumer state" since 1947.
"We were a consumer state in 1947 and are a consumer state in 2019. We were dependent on outside supply and we are dependent even now," said Dar.
Probably the only guy not in house arrest right now, and the first to fold in the face of bleak future prospects as a politician. Has Kashmir found its next Chief Minister ?
[TESLARATI] SpaceX may have signed an agreement with ULA supplier RUAG for bigger Falcon fairings.
SpaceX has been trying for many years to buy these but faced the 8 ball.
According to comments made to a member of the space industry by a RUAG spokesperson, the prominent aerospace supplier may have finally reached an agreement with SpaceX to manufacture a handful of larger payload fairings for future Falcon 9 and Heavy launches.
In the likely event that SpaceX is one of two contractors awarded a portion of several dozen US military launch contracts next year, the company will need to be able to cater to niche requirements, including accommodating unusually tall military satellites. Those satellites can be so tall that SpaceX’s own payload fairing – generally middle-of-the-pack relative to competitors’ offerings – may be too short, meaning that SpaceX will have to find ways around that minor shortcoming.
[American Greatness] The specter of white supremacy haunts America. Let us empower the government to crush it.
Just yesterday, "the deplorables" were to be deplored because they were "racist, sexist, homophobic," clingers to "God and guns," and Russian dupes to boot. Today, the agility and unanimity with which our politicians and media‐heck, the ruling class‐have shifted to indicting roughly 72 percent of the population as white supremacists, likely violent, would fill with envy their homologues in China, Cuba, North Korea, and other tyrannical places. By comparison, Joseph Goebbels had sloppy message discipline. Not even the Soviets in their salad days were so "on message!"
One may suppose that our ruling class merely intends to energize its constituencies and cower the opposition in the 2020 elections. But this is no game. Their proposals would impose pre-punishment for pre-crimes on persons accused or "suspected" of being a "white supremacist." By whom? On the basis of what?
In practice, a "white supremacist" is anyone whom anyone in power dislikes enough to so label him. Who would accept being outlawed at will? Our ruling class plays with matches in a house drenched in gasoline.
Here is the latest. The Wall Street Journal on Saturday featured an essay by one Clint Watts, formerly of the FBI and West Point’s Counter Terrorism Center. Watts makes those proposals using the word "white" 16 times in 18 paragraphs. The sociopolitical ideas rife among white people are the main matrix of terrorism in America, Watts contends. Racial profiling, anyone?
Bemoaning the fact that U.S. law now restricts surveillance of, never mind restrictions on, U.S. persons to those who have committed or may be about to commit crimes, Watts proposes legislation that would permit designating persons associated with what the government may identify as "white supremacist ideology" as subject to surveillance to "preemptively assess whether these white supremacists are taking a radical turn toward violence."
Watts also proposes "red flag" laws, that would allow the government to take away weapons from someone so designated. Loss of weapons would be the least of burdens imposed on anyone so "red-flagged." Career, reputation, possibly family, would be gone because someone in the notoriously impartial FBI so decided, perhaps with the agreement of the highly scrupulous FISA court, subsequent to ex parte, secret proceedings.
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Q for 'burg members: Do you know, directly or indirectly, of anyone who could reasonably be designated with this W.S. label?
That is, of the thousands of people whom you have interacted with over the course of your adult life - and an equal # of people described to you by your close associates based on their interactions - of your ca. 500-2,000 1st- and 2nd-degree acquaintances, how many were actually inclined toward a doctrine of W.S.?
Any?
For me, the number is zero.
My 1st- and 2nd-degree circle comprises about 500 people I've known and worked with directly over the decades; another 500+ social and family-related acquaintances; and probably another few hundred neighbors in the various places I've lived.
I don't know - I have not known, have never heard mention by - anyone who knows a W. S.
I've moved in many circles in many places: high, low, west, east, educated and not, US and foreign. I'm sure the same is true of most of us here on the 'burg.
Do the math, and it is extraordinarily unlikely that W.S.'it's constitute more than 1:10,000 of those 62.9m US adults who voted for the Dread Orange Man in 2016.
That gets you - MAXIMUM - 6,000 W.S'ists in the US.
There are more black supremacists in this country than than W.S'ists.
There are probably about as many ANTIFA ninja warrior nuts as W.S'ists.
There are almost certainly more domestic jihadists than W.S'ists.
No doubt, W.S. is a problem worthy of the domestic counter-terror authorities' attention.
But any serious, sober analysis will yield the conclusion that W.S. cannot be, must not be considered as a uniquely pestilential threat or imminent danger in isolation from those other three supremacist/totalitarian tendencies.
[Aljazeera] Rome, Italy - At his political rally in Milan in March, Italy's far-right Minister of Interior and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini mentioned two women: the Virgin Mary, who, he said "will lead us to victory", and Oriana Fallaci, whom he described as "the founding mother of this Europe".
One of Italy's most famous journalists, Fallaci, who died in her late seventies in 2006, covered the Vietnam War and interviewed the likes of Henry Kissinger, Indira Gandhi and Ruhollah Khomeini.
After September 11, she adopted an anti-Islam stance and today her legacy is enjoying a moment of renewed popularity.
In 2019 Italy, Fallaci's unapologetic Islamophobia is alarmingly mainstream. The new ruling class is rediscovering Fallaci as a prescient thinker.
Streets or squares have been renamed after her in Pisa and Arezzo, in central Italy, and Genoa, further north.
A public garden was also dedicated to her in Sesto San Giovanni, an industrial town close to Milan, where the mayor also blocked the construction of a mosque and recently mentioned Fallaci in his inauguration speech: "Her exhortations to the West to wake up still resonate today."
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Screw muzzizm. A pox on pisslam. They are distinct but also inseparable. And both are incompatible in their very essence to a successful future for mankind.
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Fallaci famously was wearing a head veil to interview Kohmeini, only to throw it on the floor, and call it a "Medieval rag."
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Christopher Hitchens, writing in The Atlantic, called the book "a sort of primer in how not to write about Islam", describing it as "replete with an obsessive interest in excrement, disease, sexual mania, and insectlike reproduction, insofar as these apply to Muslims in general and to Muslim immigrants in Europe in particular".[35]
Trust busting to follow? One can only hope, since reforming themselves is not a possibility.
[SaraACarter] A former Google insider claiming the company created algorithms to hide its political bias within artificial intelligence platforms ‐ in effect targeting particular words, phrases and contexts to promote, alter, reference or manipulate perceptions of Internet content ‐ delivered roughly 950 pages of documents to the Department of Justice’s Antitrust division Friday.
The former Google insider, who has already spoken in to the nonprofit organization Project Veritas, met with SaraACarter.com on several occasions last week. He was interviewed in silhouette, to conceal his identity, in group’s latest film, which they say exposes bias inside the social media platform.
Several weeks prior, the insider mailed a laptop to the DOJ containing the same information delivered on Friday, they said. The former insider is choosing to remain anonymous until Project Verita’s James O’Keefe reveals his identity tomorrow (Wednesday).
He told this news hound on his recent trip to Washington D.C. that the documents he turned over to the Justice Department will provide proof that Google has been manipulating the algorithms and the evidence of how it was done, the insider said.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai told the House Judiciary Committee in December, 2018, that the search engine was not biased against conservatives. Pichai explained what algorithm’s are said Google’s algorithm was not offensive to conservatives because its artificial intelligence does not operate in that manner. He told politicians, "things like relevance, freshness, popularity, how other people are using it" are what drives the search results. Pichai said even if his programmers were anti-Republican, the process is so intricate that the artificial intelligence could not be manipulated and it was to complicated to train the algorithm to fit their bias.
Google did not immediately respond for comment on the insider’s claims, however, this story will be updated if comment is provided.
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Don’t forget that Google Facebook and Twitter gave the Obama campaign tons of user data for free and then refused to SELL the same information to the Trump campaign citing “user privacy”
That by itself should be enough proof of anti conservative bias
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One of the difficulties with investigating and attempts at reining these people in may be their relationship with Federal Law Enforcement, and the intelligence community. The Clinton's didn't invent the 'insurance policy.'
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I don't see what's illegal in political bias. it does seem like the cash value of that bias could amount to a campaign contribution, subject to those laws and regulation.
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Recently, I saw a news story (maybe here) about a Google guy testifying that Google had the capability through manipulation of its AI algorithms of shifting 15 mil votes. Couple this with social media bias and there is a huge problem for the country.
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I think it's as Glenmore said. An individual, a company, a newspaper, a magazine, google... it's part of basic rights to be able use your entire commercial enterprise to try and sway public opinion.
As long as dissemination of slanderous or inaccurate information is not sold to the public as 'facts' and 'news'. The media plays this game within the boundaries of legal ethics. For example, many leftist articles we see pose as centrist, left-of-center, but contain verbiage leaning toward insulting and deprecatory of right-wing views and Trump in ways not immediately overt.
The search engines and soc-media enablers of democrat propaganda can filter out right-wing views and facts of the Trump administrations achievements, not removing them, but burying them under page selections of alternatively irreverent or sanctimonious articles and reports that vilify or heckle the Trump administration. A search on google for right-wing contexts will lead you to more results making fun of them. A search on Amazon, for books on Trump or any right-wing concern will give you more leftist shit with five-stars, signaling you are an oddity in an otherwise saner world that hates Trump.
If they want to do that, they can. It won't work though. They are democrat supporters who are campaigning through their enterprises.
But how can you legally shift votes ? Only by convincing people and converting them to your way of thinking.
I reckon that the people have had their fill of digital media, and it's ability to infect minds is overestimated. When they look at republican cities, counties, businesses and compare the Obama regime with Trump's efforts, his people - I'm sure the democrats seem like a joke to the voter.
Anticompetitive conduct and monopolization — it’s been illegal since the common law days; & powerful federal laws passed in 1800s to rein it in. DOJ has a whole Antitrust Division. Big Tech, rightfully, better worry . . .
2. Require GAM (Google Ad Manager) to subject itself to periodic audits of its bid management practices.
3. Require Google to subject itself to periodic A/B tests comparing search results for a) Democratic candidates and left-leaning media coverage and b) corresponding GOP candidates and right-leaning media coverage.
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Google is not an ordinary media company competing with others in the public square.
Google's 90% dominance of search renders it, de facto, the gatekeeper for digital information, news and assistance.
It is and must be viewed as a public utility akin to the electrical grid or the interstate highway system.
At a minimum it should be intensely regulated and forced to be transparent as to how its algorithms prioritize search results. More likely, search should become a regulated public utility a la electricity or highways.
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Telecoms’ license to engage in commerce can and should be regulated by government to promote the public welfare. Until the government reigns them in, monolithic Telecom companies will continue censoring those they dislike—until the Common Carrier Doctrine is imposed against them. Antitrust action also would be appropriate.
It cannot be disputed that (as private companies) these monolithic Telecom companies have no obligation to comply with the First Amendment. They are not government entities subject to the First Amendment. They laugh every time we claim a civil rights violation to our free speech— because they think they’re safe as private companies to run roughshod over conservatives as much as they please.
However, the Telecoms forget that they cannot be allowed to violate the Common Carrier Doctrine —“come one, come all . . . each to be given fair access and passage."
They also cannot be permitted to continue their criminal Antitrust activities . . .
The imposition of the Common Carrier Doctrine will likely need to be through Congressional Act (although the Courts could certainly equitably find common carrier status easily enough for almost any of these monolithic Telecom companies under current law). And, given the clear coordination between the Telecoms, the DOJs Antitrust Division should take action, as well.
Until the Common Carrier Doctrine is imposed, or an Antitrust action reins them in, these unregulated monolithic Telecom companies will continue their discriminatory abuses of conservatives—hiding behind the false claim of a private right to content-based discrimination.
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It doesn't seem right that companies such as Google should:
1. Promote left-wing candidates and left wing materials and left-biased websites, while at the same time,
2. De-emphasize conservative candidates, and shadow ban and censor conservative web sites, and demonetize authors they don't agree with.
It is not a level playing field. It is very much like a tech way of election-rigging.
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As early as 1934 telecommunications services were considered to be subject to common-carrier regulation. The history since then is complicated, but telecommunications services are still easily considered to be common carriers. See, e.g., Direct Communs. Cedar Valley, LLC v. Federal Communications Commission, 753 F.3d 1015 (10th Cir. 2014).
A common carrier is “A commercial enterprise that holds itself out to the public as offering to transport freight or passengers for a fee. • A common carrier is generally required by law to transport freight or passengers or freight, without refusal, if the approved fare or charge is paid.” Common Carrier, Black’s Law Dictionary 242 (9th ed. 2009).
[FOX] The outside world can do little to assure the future of freedom in Hong Kong beyond making the case that preserving the principles of liberty are at stake. Nevertheless, the plight of that territory’s more than 7 million souls can teach us an important lesson about what China has in mind for the rest of the world. It is not good.
For starters, the continuing protests speak volumes about China’s commitment to "one country two systems." When the British transferred sovereignty over Hong Kong to China in 1997, Beijing agreed to this arrangement. It guaranteed that Hong Kong would be allowed to maintain its own governance and economic system.
The Hong Kong system‐one of great economic freedom--has produced tremendous economic success. But economic freedom is no more popular than political freedom among the Chinese Communist Party. And in recent years, Chinese authorities have been encroaching on the rights supposedly guaranteed to Hong Kongers under the "one country, two systems" agreement.
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What does Hong Kong unrest tell us about China's plans for the rest of the world that we didn't already know? My only surprise is the "one country, two systems" thing lasted as long as it did.
[PJ] "Jeffrey Epstein's computers seized during FBI raid on private island " screams the headline in Tuesday's New York Post.
It's meant to be a shocker, but are you shocked? Of course not. What's shocking is that this didn't happen ten years ago.
The behavior of the federal government in the Epstein matter from its inception to the tycoon/pedophile's death has been nothing short of execrable. The attorney general was "appalled." He should have been, although it's likely little of this happened directly on his watch. But it besmirches the entire organization.
That people were hidden from exposure in this most heinous of crimes ‐ they call it "short eyes" in prison for a reason ‐ because they were important or powerful in some way is nauseating. Once the facts are known, everyone involved (adults only, of course) should be incarcerated or, failing that, subject to the public, career-destroying, opprobrium they so richly deserve. This should happen no matter whose ox is gored. (The repellent celebrities that continued to pal around with Epstein after his initial incarceration deserve their own special ring of Dante's Hell.)
But bad as it is, the Epstein affair is far from the worst malfeasance of the FBI/DOJ in recent years. That honor belongs to the Russia probe. Epstein, horrible as it is, is largely about the private lives of a certain number of despicable individuals. The Russia madness affected all of us, dominating the public attention since Trump was elected and weakening America before the world for absolutely no reason but to reverse the results of an otherwise legal election.
It was a treasonous farce with FBI and the DOJ up to their necks in all of it, as well as numerous other government agencies and officials, but let's restrict ourselves to these two culprits.
The real question before us is can these organizations ‐ two of the most crucial arms of any democracy ‐ correct themselves?
We don't know. This is supposedly underway. But you'll have to excuse me for being a little bit skeptical that enough of the guilty heads will roll or that the house will thoroughly be cleaned. These organizations are too incestuous and, as my headline indicates, are headquartered too close to the rest of the government in Washington. That means that people involved with justice spend too much time around politicians, media and all the rest of the Beltway players. They are subject to influences they should be far away from. They have friends they shouldn't have.
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We don't know. This is supposedly underway. But you'll have to excuse me for being a little bit skeptical that enough of the guilty heads will roll or that the house will thoroughly be cleaned.
Guilty heads have not rolled yet. Peter Strzok, and Andy McCabe are suing for the government for unlawful dismissal. James Comey is still running around pontificating from his high horse. Others are still running around despite seditious acts.
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I think if you're going to conduct an effective purge you must be willing to get rid of the few remaining honest individuals along with all the bad apples in organizations like the FBI and DOJ. What I mean is: fire every last one of them and start over from scratch. Then go on to the intel community. Maybe painful but absolutely necessary.
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Ref #2:. I would recommend cleaning out the source of the cancer, the intelligence community.
[Townhall] Jeffrey Epstein, accused sex trafficker and convicted child sex offender, somehow committed suicide despite being in one of the most secure prisons in the nation this past Saturday, according to initial reports. However, shortly before he died, the billionaire perverted man of mystery gave the New York Times an exclusive, secret interview. This meant the NYT wasn't supposed to cite Epstein as the source for whatever he said during the conversation. But, now that he is dead, the paper released brief details of what that conversation looked like.
While in Epstein's lavish NYC townhouse, the self-admitted social pariah told James B. Stewart numerous sordid tales. The NYT writer says as far as he could tell, Epstein had no remorse for his actions. In fact, he even compared the way the public thought of having sex with underage girls, aka child rape, to the way homosexuality was viewed years ago.
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Well Planned Parenthood and the Judiciary think its OK for underage girls to have abortions without consulting the parents, or for that matter destroying DNA evidence of a crime, carnal knowledge of a minor.
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Pedophiles have a psychosis. It has a start, triggers driving them to the next levels, and if unchecked ends up with brutality for the victim. Not all sexually abuse kids become pedophiles, but ALL pedophiles were sexually abused as kids. It is the one common thread. Read "Child Hunters" It is a study by a profiler on this topic. This is not about blaming the parents, it about understanding it, how to see it, where the trigger points are, how they can get help, and when its too late and there is no form of help to stop them except prison. It also explains that this is a psychosis and castration wont help, its mental, not testosterone, cut the appendage off and he will use something else for the abuse. It also explains the female facilitator in all this. The book is not political or emotional. And the book does not end on a happy note with a "Here is how to fix it". Rather it explains that the Epstein's are minor side shows in this pervasive global tragedy.
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International child-trafficking is a huge problem. Those who used Epstein's network need to be prosecuted. My understanding is that Trump and Sessions have been going after pedos and child traffickers since Trump became POTUS.
[American Thinker] "They're nothing, these girls. They are trash." Thus spake Ghislane Maxwell, accomplice in Jeffrey Epstein's quest to destroy innocence in America, one girl at a time.
What kind of human being could say such a thing? The spoiled rich not only cannot, but won't even try to walk in the rabble's shoes. They are so twisted that the world exists solely for their pleasure.
Anyone with a modicum of decency recoils at such an astonishing lack of self-awareness. This is soul rot, this haughty cutting oneself off from the common run of humanity. Hierarchy and social distance are necessary and inevitable in human affairs, but humanity is even more so, and humanity is missing when entire classes of people become "trash." This is how racists look at other races, misogynists at women, misandrists at men.
Don't doubt it: Maxwell was talking about your little girl, your granddaughter, your baby sister, the girl next door. Anyone not of her social class, and especially girls not of her social class, are trash, fit only to be used and tossed aside as so much litter. Who cares what she feels or what such treatment does to her emotionally? She doesn't matter; they're all trash, and not even white trash ‐ just trash.
Ghislane Maxwell made it possible for Jeffrey Epstein to prey on hapless, helpless young women. She is as guilty as he. The only possible consolation is in the realization that ultimately, Maxwell's opinion of these girls is her own self-opinion as well. She sees women as objects for men to use as they please and then discard. She kept herself from being discarded by making herself useful in other ways.
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ALL large human trafficking and sex rings have a woman facilitator in the core group. Pedophiles want the kids, the don't necessarily want to hunt them, only the serial killers enjoy the hunt. There is ALWAYS a facilitator that's female and willing to feed these kids to monsters. In my studies I'm not sure who is worse, the peod or the facilitator. The Peod has a psychosis, the female is just cruel and has no soul.
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despise a lot
pity only a little
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Subpoena her.
Depose her and find out who her pal's marks were.
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I think most of our hollywood icons would agree with her sentiments. After all, they use up, chew and spit out more human life than any brothel ever did. Who knows what those fuckers get up to, ensconced in their palaces, and what they think of us ?
[Breitbart] Former Georgia Democrat gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams is launching a "voter protection" program that would provide Democrats with fodder to win in 2020 presidential election swing states.
The program, called Fair Fight 2020, would help "Democratic Party leaders and activists" in over a dozen battleground states "to immediately begin building systems to make sure their voters have minimal problems casting ballots and that those ballots are counted," the Washington Post reported Tuesday.
Abrams, 45, is scheduled to announce the program on Tuesday at a convention for the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades in Las Vegas.
Abrams, who has spent the past few months mulling a presidential campaign since her election loss to Georgia Republican Brian Kemp, will be focusing on helping the Democratic Party in 20 battleground states.
The initiative would cost between $4 million to $5 million, spending money on states in the Midwest and Southeast, as well as three states with gubernatorial elections this campaign cycle: Mississippi, Louisiana, and Kentucky.
Lauren Groh-Wargo, chief executive of Fair Fight, said Abrams wants Democrats to be more aware of voting irregularities such as voting machine shortages, inaccurate ballot counts, and a lack of rules governing how votes are counted.
“Ready the mustache wax and the coffee and cookies in the break room, George — it’s going to be a long night.”
[Jpost] The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is seeking to question an alleged Egyptian al-Qaeda operative believed to be living in Brazil, and the South American country has pledged to cooperate with the United States in any way it can.
The FBI added Mohammed Ahmed Elsayed Ahmed Ibrahim to its Most Wanted list on Monday, saying he was being sought "for questioning in connection with his alleged role as an al-Qaeda operative and controller who has allegedly been involved in plotting attacks against the United States and its interests."
The FBI said he had been "providing material support" since about 2013 for al-Qaeda, the group behind the September 11 attacks in New York in 2001. It said he was born in Egypt in 1977 and is currently living in Brazil.
In a joint statement on Monday, Brazil's justice and foreign affairs ministries said the Egyptian had entered Brazil in 2018 and was a legal resident in the country.
"The Brazilian government is open to cooperating with US authorities on its request, in accordance with our law, and is following the case," the statement said.
Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro is working to forge closer ties with US President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... , an ideological ally who has proposed a bilateral trade pact between the two largest economies in the Americas.
Security cooperation between the two countries has long been strong, with US and Brazilian officials working closely together on drug and weapons smuggling cases. The United States has long been concerned by suspected holy warriors from organizations such as Hezbollah who live and operate in Brazil.
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Os homems nao fala Portuguese. Try Sao Paulo. Flights to and from the US at GBU International Airport there daily. And their luggage content checking to and from is horrible.
[Jpost] A former Iranian businessman says he was tortured by Iranian authorities into a false confession of being an Israeli spy and killing Iranian nuclear scientists, according to BBC.
Mazyar Ebrahimi now lives in Germany.
In 2012, Ebrahimi and 12 others appeared on Iranian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
to confess to multiple charges that all carried the death penalty . The 13 looked into the camera and all said they had been trained in Israel before they returned to Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and assassinated Iranian nuclear scientists.
The people were given a script to read written by the Iranian Intelligence Ministry. The ministry also put out its own statement saying they dismantled an spy network created by the Zionist entity.
BBC's Jiyar Gol sat down with Ebrahimi to hear his story.
"The interrogators were hitting the soles of my bare feet with a thick electric cable," Ebrahimi said. "They broke my foot. The beating continued for seven months."
He said he finally agreed to "confess" after being tortured around the clock for 40 days.
Before he was arrested, Mazyar Ebrahimi owned a company that set up TV studios, and he believes one of his competitors falsely accused him of spying.
Four Iranian nuclear scientists were assassinated between 2010-2012 and the government wanted to find the culprits of the crime. More than 100 people were accused of being foreign spies.
Ebrahimi told the BBC that he was ready to admit to anything because he wanted to die.
His interrogators asked him to admit being behind a blast that destroyed a missile factory run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), killing multiple missile experts.
An IRGC intelligence officer began questioning Ebrahimi and realized there were multiple discrepancies between his testimony and the actual event.
Ebrahimi was given apologies by the Intelligence Ministry but remained in jail until 2015. After his release, Ebrahimi filed a complaint against newspapers, the Iranian state TV and against the Intelligence Ministry but withdrew the complaint.
He is now living in Germany, having sought asylum there six months ago.
[Jpost] Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... ’s Intelligence Service of the Federation revealed in its recent report that the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... will stay in the nuclear deal and wait out the November 2020 US election in the hope that US President Donald Trump
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...There's no denying it any longer, and by their silence the Democrat leadership approves. They want to burn it all down to get their way, they no longer care what they have to destroy to get it, and naked threats are now the order of the day.
At least we know where we stand.
Queerly enough, the Democrats are not the majority power in the Senate, and so their warning is nothing more than kabuki for the rubes at this point. Should they actually win both the Senate and the presidency next year, then such statements will be meaningful.
[FoxNews] Several high-profile Senate Democrats warned the Supreme Court in pointed terms this week that it could face a fundamental restructuring if justices do not take steps to "heal" the court in the near future.
The ominous and unusual warning was delivered as part of a brief filed Monday in a case related to a New York City gun law. Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., referenced rulings by the court's conservative majority in claiming it is suffering from some sort of affliction which must be remedied.
"The Supreme Court is not well. And the people know it," the brief said. "Perhaps the Court can heal itself before the public demands it be 'restructured in order to reduce the influence of politics.'"
The last part was quoting language from a Quinnipiac University poll, in which 51 percent favored such restructuring. In the same poll, 55 percent believed the Supreme Court was "motivated by politics" more than by the law.
Dramatic changes to the Supreme Court have been proposed by several Democrats vying for their party's 2020 presidential nomination, with "court-packing" being a common -- though highly controversial -- suggestion. Increasing the number of justices on the court would allow the president to shift the balance on the bench by loading up justices of his or her preference.
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Chief Justice John Roberts will comply with the Dems. He does not handle threats very well.
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I don't like the current game very much either. It is still heavily balanced in the favor of the Uniparty and its Progressive masters. I hope these progressives are all stuck in California when the power finally goes out and the cities die in a mixture of food and water riots. A horrible way to go for horrible people.
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Kritarchy, not a republic?
What deters the US Supreme Court from discovering a "Revealed (legal) Truth" and declare the US Constitution "unconstitutional" by a 5-to-4 vote?
[BREITBART] A man screaming "Allahu Akbar" went on a stabbing spree in downtown Sydney on Tuesday, killing one woman and wounding another before the public restrained him, an incident that local police insist was not terror-related.
The 21-year-old man, who has yet to be publicly identified, can be seen in footage posted online jumping on a car at a busy intersection waving a knife and shouting "Allahu Akbar." The man then falls onto the street as the car moves away, and tried to run away before being tackled by civilians.
"Shoot me, fucking shoot me in the fucking head, shoot me, I want to fucking die," he says at one point.
At a presser, New South Wales police commissioner Mick Fuller confirmed the death of a 21-year-old woman, while rejecting claims that the attack was terror-inspired, saying:
At around two this afternoon we received multiple phone calls about a 21-year-old man from Marayong, in the vicinity of King Street armed with a knife and wearing a balaclava. Over the next six minutes ... there was terrifying carnage in that area. He stabbed a 41-year-old woman in the back ‐ it appears to be a random attack.
Three members of the public who can only be described as highest-order heroes, have engaged this 21-year-old man and have placed him essentially under arrest, even though he was brandishing a large butcher’s knife and was clearly dangerous.A number of other emergency services were in the vicinity and responded shortly after, and police put this individual in jug.
In the next 30 minutes an expanded scene of the crime unfortunately identified a 21-year-old woman ... deceased. All the available information we have at hand would link these two crimes.
Our counter-terrorist command immediately stood up and the joint CT team which includes police and state and fed agencies, have assessed all available info in relation to his crime and it is not currently classed as a terrorism based incident.
The Daily Mail adds that the gentleman was known to the police as having serious mental health issues. The usual photos and video at the link:
Body of a female sex worker, 21, possibly known to the killer, Mert Ney, 21, later found with throat slashed in a CBD building
Suspect was later captured by hero bystanders using chairs and a milk crate
NSW Police have said the suspect 'may have ideologies related to terrorism', also a known wolf who may have escaped from a mental institution
They alleged they found USB stick on him referencing the Christchurch attack
But they added they had found no links between him and terrorist organisations
There are fashions in excuses the crazies give for their behaviour, as in so much else. It remains to be seen if this particular nutter is also a Muslim colonist, or just nuts.
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It remains to be seen if this particular nutter is also a Muslim colonist, or just nuts.
he could be both
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Anyone who shouts ally-ally hoo snackbar while stabbing people is a terrorist. This is a bullshit trend of police in liberal States to classify such cases as a 'deranged man blow-out', and it serves the islamic state well.
If the fucker is successful in creating a heart rending tableau of white bodies, it's an ISIS victory. If he is overpowered he starts drooling and un-focuses his eyes in a imitation of Joey Biden without his morning coffee. They ask his parents about him and they shout in unison;
"Why, yes. Our little Nooruddin was born a drooling imbecile ! He's so harmless we call him Noddy. Please forgive our baby boy... sniff."
Voila ! He's a lone loon, an anomaly in an otherwise well adjusted social milieu. There's no immigrant problem, there's no radicalization problem. The mosques can run, the status quo is safe, the populist majoritarian parties are held at bay.
This is a tactic prescribed for all jihadists to claim weak-mindedness. A lot of jihadis are chosen/recruited/raised specifically because of this trait. In most muslim families there's at least one deformed, spastic or dimwitted baby. The mullahs watch for developing traits conducive to easy weaponization and claim that child for Allan. One of their ideologue scholars has indicated that 'being damim born ugly and deformed in any way means the child is blessed for the aqidahstudy of islamic shit. These are often turned into bombers and frontline fodder for riots and raids.
This one was clearly suicidal, he just forgot that he was in Oz and rather than shoot him down, they'd prefer to arrest him with a milk crate.
Vice President of Southern Transitional Council of #Yemen, a separatist militia backed by the UAE, Hani Bin Breik says they are ready to support Khalifa Haftar in his war on #Tripoli and send him their expertise to deal with “the illegitimate militias”. #Libyapic.twitter.com/A4tRKx3TLU
[EN.ALWASAT.LY] French charities report new rescue in Med, over 350 migrants colonists on board ship seeking safe port
French charities SOS Mediterranee and MSF rescued another 105 migrants colonists off the coast of Libya on Monday, bringing to 356 the number of those aboard the ’Ocean Viking’ now seeking a safe port. The rescue was complicated by the migrants colonists’ blue rubber dinghy starting to sink as the charity vessel approached in international waters around 40 nautical miles from Libya, AFP reported. Those rescued on Monday are all male, mostly Sudanese, and include 29 minors and two boys aged five and 12.
The rescue is the fourth in as many days for the ’Ocean Viking’, which is equipped to carry 200-250 people although the number on board could increase beyond that. The charities have said fair weather conditions are likely encouraging more departures from Libyan shores.
The rescues come at a time of tension between Italia and other EU states, with the Italian government refusing to let migrants colonists land on its shores unless its EU partners help take them in.
Another 150 rescued migrants colonists are stuck on board the ’Open Arms’ ship operated by Spanish charity Proactiva off the coast of Italia’s southern Lampedusa island.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) launched a powerful on the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) positions inside the Deir Ezzor countryside last night.
Under the cover of night, the Islamic State reportedly hit the Syrian Army’s positions in the Badiyah al-Mayadeen region; this resulted in a heavy firefight between the two parties.
According to a military source in the Deir Ezzor Governorate, the Syrian Arab Army suffered three casualties during the terrorist attack, while two members of the Islamic State were killed.
The source added that the Islamic State was unable to achieve their main objective, which was to raid the Syrian Army post near the strategic city of al-Mayadeen.
The Islamic State has carried out several attacks like this in the last few months, prompting the Syrian Arab Army to increase their military presence in the Deir Ezzor and Homs countrysides.
*Snicker* Only so long a national economy can be kept afloat on confiscations from a targetted class.
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Turkey’s currency declines for the third straight trading session, as investors remain cautious of emerging markets following the Argentinian peso’s dramatic fall to a record low against the dollar.https://t.co/6mAX775esM
[ALMASDARNEWS] The jihadist rebels launched a counter-offensive in southern Idlb on Tuesday, targeting the Syrian Arab Army areas recently captured by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA).
Led by "Rouse the Believers", the jihadist rebels began their offensive by sending two jacket wallahs towards the defenses of the Syrian Arab Army.
Following the suicide kabooms, the jihadist rebels began storming the Syrian Arab Army’s defenses in a bid to fracture their front-lines and retake the town of Sukayk and its corresponding hilltop.
However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... the jihadist attacks would ultimately fail in southern Idlib after several attempts to break through the Syrian Army’s front-lines.
According to a military source near the front-lines, the Syrian Arab Army killed dozens of jihadist rebels during the battle, including several foreign combatants.
In addition to the high loss of life, the jihadist rebels also lost a number of vehicles during the short battle on Tuesday.
The source said that the Syrian Arab Army has fully secured Sukayk and Tal Sukayk, adding that they will likely make another attempt to capture the hilltop of Tal Tari, as they were forced to retreat earlier in the day.
Once Tal Tari is captured, the Syrian Arab Army can make their first attempt to retake the key town of al-Ta’manah, which is located north of the hilltop.
[Rudaw] Iraqi forces on Monday night announced the capture of an Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) commander and six other Death Eaters in southwest Kirkuk province who are alleged to have committed "heinous crimes" against civilians.
The seven unnamed ISIS suspects were arrested by Iraqi troops, the defense ministry announced via social media, without describing the circumstances of their capture.
Among the prisoners is an alleged ISIS commander who managed the Hawija Grain Mill when the group controlled the area from mid-2014 to October 2017.
In a video published on Facebook by the Iraqi defense ministry, the unnamed ISIS commander, whose face is blurred, is showed confessing to the murder of three Kurds and two other individuals from Diyala province.
"Members of our group kidnapped three Kurdish nationals and brought them to Hawija. Our leader ordered me to behead them. Together with two other persons who were from Diyala, we executed the order," he said, without identifying their leader.
Iraqi and Kurdish security forces regularly publish videos of their captives making confessions ‐ a format often seen in jihadist propaganda films. Human rights groups regularly accuse Iraqi courts of using confessions obtained by duress.
The defense ministry condemned the "barbaric" group, accusing them of "heinous crimes against humanity killing innocent people" without providing details.
The group allegedly confessed to plotting attacks inside Kirkuk using the families of slain ISIS holy warriors, the ministry claimed.
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[Daily Excelsior] A city court on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant against Congress MP Shashi Tharoor over his alleged remark that the BJP will rewrite the Constitution and pave the way for creation of a "Hindu Pakistain".
Tharoor’s alleged statement had sparked off a controversy with the saffron party demanding an apology from the Congress leader.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Dipanjan Sen issued a bailable warrant against Tharoor on a petition by lawyer Sumit Chowdhury, who claimed the statement promoted disharmony.
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[KhaamaPress] The Ministry of Interior has rejected the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... claims regarding the release of 76 security personnel who were being kept in group’s prisons.
The interior ministry said in a statement said the group has claimed that it has released 76 security personnel in Kunduz, Uruzgan, Khost and Sar-e-Pul ...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone... provinces on the occasion of Eid.
The statement further added that the findings of the ministry and information received from the provinces confirms that the group has released no captive soldier.
Furthermore, the interior ministry said Taliban has issued the statement with an aim to spread propaganda as no captive soldier has been released during the recent days.
The interior ministry also added that Taliban should prove and show to the people of Afghanistan if they have really decided or willing to release the inmates.
[IsraelTimes] A fire that broke out in the Eshkol Regional Council was sparked by an incendiary balloon launched from the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, according to Hebrew media reports.
Firefighters are working to gain control of the blaze and stop it from spreading.
[ALMASDARNEWS] A new video has surfaced of the jihadist rebels beheading two captured Syrian Arab Army (SAA) soldiers in the northern region of Syria.
Based on the video that was released, the jihadist rebels beheaded the Syrian soldiers in the northeastern part of the Latakia Governorate.
The gruesome footage was released on several social media networks, including Twitter and Facebook.
Over the last two weeks, the jihadist rebels have suffered several setbacks in northern Syria at the hands of the Syrian Arab Army.
The Syrian Army’s offensive has paved the way for their troops to enter the Idlib Governorate from two different axes, while also sealing off the northwestern region of the Hama Governorate.
As seen in the past (e.g. Aleppo 2016 offensive), the jihadist rebels often resort to these gruesome tactics in response to their battlefield woes.
[MOBILE.ALMASDARNEWS] Heavy festivities broke out in eastern Aleppo this evening when the Ottoman Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (TFSA) opened fire on the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) troops outside of al-Bab city.
According to reports from eastern Aleppo, heavy gunfire and shelling was exchanged between the SAA and TFSA troops around the front-line town of al-Sukkariyah, resulting in a couple of casualties for both parties involved.
The most recent reports indicated that festivities are still ongoing between the two parties, but the intensity of these firefights have diminished over the last twenty minutes.
They would add that neither side has attempted to advance their positions.
The al-Bab axis in eastern Aleppo has been the scene of fierce festivities in the past, as the Ottoman Turkish-backed troops control al-Bab city and the Syrian Army troops control the neighboring town of Tadef to the south.
[ToloNews] Tribal elders said at least 11 non-combatants were killed in an NDS forces special unit operation in Paktia.
At least 11 people were taken out of their homes and were killed the "01 Unit" of the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... at a night raid in Zurmat district of the northern province of Paktia, tribal elders and residents claimed.
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[DAWN] The corpse count from typhoon Lekima in eastern China rose to 44 people on Monday morning, according to official data, as the storm continued up the coast, racking up billions of dollars in economic losses and widely disrupting travel.
An additional 12 people were recorded dead from the storm, including seven from Zhejiang province and five from Shandong, with 16 people missing, according to data from provincial emergency bureaus and state media.
State broadcaster CCTV had put the corpse count at 32 on Sunday.
Typhoon Lekima made landfall early on Saturday in China’s Zhejiang province, with winds gusting up to 187 kmh (116 mph). The center of the storm has since traveled north through Shandong and off the coast.
Many of the earlier deaths occurred when a natural dam collapsed in Zhejiang after a deluge of 160 mm (6.2 inches) of rain within three hours.
The Shandong Emergency Management Bureau said more than 180,000 people were evacuated in the province, adding to an earlier evacuation of roughly 1 million people in Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces as well as the financial hub of Shanghai.
The latest update from Shandong brings the total estimated economic toll of the storm to 18 billion yuan ($2.55 billion) in China, including damage to 364,000 hectares of crops and more than 36,000 homes. Shandong alone estimated the total economic impact on agriculture was 939 million yuan.
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Many of the earlier deaths occurred when a natural dam collapsed in Zhejiang after a deluge of 160 mm (6.2 inches) of rain within three hours.
6.2" in 3 hours is a lot but dams have various overflow channels, etc. W.when a dam collapses, it is usually because of a structural flaw not fixed in time
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How many hospital ships and rescue helicopters are we sending?
[DAWN] Oil prices fell on Tuesday on lingering concerns over global demand and rising US production, though expectations for major producers to further curtail output offered support.
Brent crude futures LCOc1 were down 20 cents or 0.3% from the previous settlement at $58.29 a barrel by 0643 GMT. The international benchmark has lost over 20% since hitting its 2019 high in April.
US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) CLc1 futures were at $54.69 per barrel, down 24 cents or 0.4%.
A deepening trade war between the United States and China, the world’s two largest economies and energy consumers, has weighed heavily on oil prices in recent months.
China’s central bank lowered its official yuan midpoint for the ninth straight day to a fresh 11-year low on Tuesday. A weaker yuan raises the cost of dollar-denominated oil imports into China, the world’s biggest crude oil importer.
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... , the de-facto leader of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), said last week it plans to keep its crude exports below 7 million barrels a day in August and September to help drain global oil inventories.
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China’s central bank lowered its official yuan midpoint for the ninth straight day to a fresh 11-year low on Tuesday. A weaker yuan raises the cost of dollar-denominated oil imports into China, the world’s biggest crude oil importer.
This is one of the factors preventing China from major yuan devaluation; the Chinese military uses a lot of oil and they have a budget.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Russia’s interior ministry opened an investigation Monday after a video showing a riot policeman punching a woman in the stomach during a protest for free elections went viral.
The video, which has more than 360,000 views, shows a young woman dragged by four masked policemen in riot gear, with one of them punching her in the stomach for no apparent reason. The images provoked outrage in the media and on social networks.
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[PULSE.NG] Argentina's peso slipped further against the dollar Tuesday while the stock market partially recovered as South America's third-largest economy continued to take a pummeling in the wake of pro-business President Mauricio Macri's crushing defeat in party primaries.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Britannia and the United States are discussing a partial trade accord that could take effect on November 1, the day after Britannia is due to leave the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union, a senior Trump administration official said on Tuesday.
The official also said visiting US national security adviser John Bolton and British trade minister Liz Truss had discussed the possibility of the two countries’ leaders signing a road map declaration toward a trade deal at this month’s G7 summit meeting in La Belle France.
The official told news hounds that Bolton and British finance minister Sajid Javid had discussed the possibility of a temporary trade agreement that covered all sectors and could last for something like six months.
During his two-day London visit, Bolton told British Prime Minister Boris Johnson that President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... wanted to see a successful British exit from the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... on October 31 and that Washington would be ready to work fast on a US-UK free trade agreement.
Bolton, who has now left Britannia, was seeking an improved US-British relationship with Johnson after sometimes tense ties between Trump and Johnson’s predecessor, Theresa May.
“Nice little country ya got there — be a shame if our Taliban happened to it while we were distracted.”
[KhaamaPress] Pakistain’s Ambassador to the United States Asad Majeed Khan has said the issue in Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... could affect the Afghan peace talks.
Speaking during an interview with the editorial of New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , Ambassador Khan said the redeployment of troops from the bordering regions with Afghanistan to Kashmir frontier could complicate peace talks with the Taliban ...Arabic for students... However, ars longa, vita brevis... he said Kashmir and Afghanistan issues were separate emphasizing that he was not attempting to link them.
Ambassador Khan further added that Pakistain hoped the American talks with the Taliban would succeed.
He also added that Islamabad is doing all it can and will continue support the Afghan peace talks.
This comes as the Pak Ambassador to Afghanistan Zahid Nasrullah Khan has assured the latest issue in Kashmir will have no impact on Afghan grinding of the peace processor.
He made the remarks during an interaction with the Afghan media outlets in Kabul last week.
[Dhaka Tribune] The abrogation of Article 370 has been a long-standing issue. Meant to be a temporary provision, it had over the years taken on an amoebic permanence because of a lack of political will.
As a result, this provision was used to perpetuate rights violations in the state of Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... as well as fuel separatist sentiments. Politics in the state has been controlled by a handful of families from the valley who have grown in wealth and influence. These dynasties have controlled the destiny of the state and their rule has led to a feeling of exclusion amongst the people of Ladakh and Jammu. In the valley their political opportunism and back and forth power arrangement, has created a disenchantment with mainstream politics.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) resumed their offensive in southwestern Idlib this evening after repelling a large jihadist attack at the southern corridor of the governorate.
Led by the Tiger Forces, the Syrian Arab Army began their attack by storming the small village of Kafr ’Ayn, which is located just east of the former Death Eater stronghold of al-Hobeit.
Following a short battle with Jaish al-Izza and Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... , the Tiger Forces were able to impose full control over Kafr ’Ayn, forcing the Death Eaters to retreat further east this evening.
A source from the Syrian Arab Army told al-Masdar that the military is now attacking the nearby hilltop of Tal ’Aas.
At the same time, the Syrian Arab Army has also resumed their attack at the southern corridor of the Idlib Governorate.
The source said the Syrian Army is storming the hilltop of Tal Tari in a bid to position themselves for the storming of the nearby town of Ta’manah in southern Idlib.
[AlAhram] China has denied a request for two U.S. Navy ships to visit Hong Kong in the coming weeks, U.S. officials said on Tuesday, as the political crisis in the former British colony deepened.
The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the transport dock ship Green Bay had requested to visit later this month, while the guided-missile cruiser Lake Erie had requested to visit in September.
One of the officials said a specific reason was not given, but such a move is not unprecedented.
The last time China denied a port visit to Hong Kong was for the assault ship Wasp in September 2018. The amphibious command ship Blue Ridge made a port visit to Hong Kong in April.
The move comes as police and demonstrators protesting against Beijing's growing influence in Hong Kong clashed at the international airport on Tuesday after flights were disrupted for a second day.
In Washington, President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... said the Chinese government was moving troops to the border with Hong Kong and he urged calm.
Trump said the situation in Hong Kong was tricky but he hoped it would work out for everybody, including China, and "for liberty" without anyone getting hurt or killed.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Clashes between regime loyalists and bully boyz in rebel-held northwest Syria killed 59 combatants on Tuesday, a war monitor said.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS), an bad boy group led by Syria’s former al-Qaeda affiliate, has since January controlled most of Idlib province as well as parts of neighboring Hama, Aleppo and Latakia provinces.
Several other armed rebel groups also operate in the region.
Fighting in southern Idlib and rural Latakia on Tuesday claimed the lives of 29 pro-government forces as well as 30 hard boyz and allied rebels, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
It came as regime warplanes pummeled the Idlib region with air strikes, killing three civilians in the town of Khan Sheikhoun, the Britannia-based monitor added.
Regime forces and anti-government fighters have been caught in fierce battles in the region for days, as the former presses with an advance toward a strip straddling the Hama and Idlib governorates.
On Sunday, regime forces seized the town of al-Habeet in Idlib’s southern countryside, in their first major ground advance in the province since an escalation on the jihadist-dominated enclave more than three months ago.
The region was supposed to be protected from a massive government offensive by a Ottoman Turkish-Russian buffer zone deal struck last September.
But it has come under increasing bombardment by Damascus and its backer Moscow since the end of April that has killed 816 civilians, according to the Observatory.
The violence has also pushed 400,000 people from their homes, according to the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... Syria’s conflict has killed a total of more than 370,000 people and displaced millions since it started with the brutal repression of anti-government protests in 2011.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Some Newark residents are getting bottled water after elevated lead levels were found.
The city has given thousands of filters to residents in homes with lead service lines.
But the US Environmental Protection Agency said recent tests showed drinking water in a few locations was still testing high for lead despite the filters.
Water was available at four locations in the city on Monday.
An environmental group sued the city last year, saying Newark’s water has dangerously high lead levels and alleging that the city has failed to conduct adequate monitoring.
The Natural Resources Defense Council said on Monday it is seeking a court order to force the city to go door-to-door to instruct residents on how to use the filters.
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Stefan Halper, who allegedly met with Trump aides as an FBI informant, asked a federal judge to dismiss a Russian-British academic';s defamation lawsuit against him.
Halper said he has immunity from the lawsuit, which Svetlana Lokhova filed against him in May.
Halper does not admit to being an FBI informant, though he argues government agents have qualified immunity against lawsuits.
Stefan Halper, the former Cambridge University professor who allegedly met with several Trump campaign aides as an FBI informant, asked a federal judge Tuesday to dismiss a defamation lawsuit that a Russian-British academic filed against him in May, saying government agents have immunity from litigation.
Libyan Red Crescent receives 14 bodies of government fighters killed by warlord Khalifa Haftar’s armed groups while in captivity pic.twitter.com/xGarwv1cyS
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I remember they added symbols to accommodate sentiments, the original universal red cross only exists in India I think. There's a red lion and a red crystal and a red jabberwocky and what not.
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The red cross and red crescent have long been internationally approved. The Red Cross organization fought a bitter rear guard action to prevent adding the red star of David to that list, but I think they might have finally succumbed.
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It helps to research first and comment afterward. ;-) According to Wikipedia, the “red crystal”, an empty red diamond for use internationally and in the West Bank/east Jerusalem, was approved in 2005, 74 years after they applied for membership to the international organization, while the Star of David was approved for green-line Israel (and Gaza by implication) only.
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Oh, I know about the David's shield thingy, TW. I just meant what was so wrong with the old universal red cross ? They supplied aid from internment camps to enemy trenches in the two great wars, they were the very symbol of universal humanity. It's ironic that the red societies that sprang up in countries after the Swiss guy's work formed a federation and Turkey first began this 'cresent' nonsense back then it was Ottoman .
Forgive me, but I think it stupid to vie politically over an innocent, universal symbol.
Sigh... but of course we must do it. Or everybody else will have their own symbol leaving out ME ! Oh dear ! While we're on that, they should've gone for the Moses' serpent thingy. GaWD would've...smiled ? ☺
I realize my gaffe though. The red crescent is the local society of Libya part of that federation. There seem to be only red crescents and crosses and a lone shield o' David in the list. In the future, there could be a 'red vindaloo' ambulance taxiing my sorry arse home. Oooerr.. !
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Nigerian Shiite leader Ibrahim Zakzaky and his wife, detained by the authorities since 2015, flew out of the country to receive medical treatment in India on Monday, his supporters and lawyer said.
"The leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky and his wife have at last just left Nigeria for India alongside some family members and security operatives," his supporters said in a statement.
Zakzaky, a Shiite holy man, was arrested in December 2015 after the Nigerian government stormed the IMN’s offices, resulting in approximately 350 deaths. The IMN has since been campaigning for his release, with protests often turning violent.
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... also campaigned for Zakzaky’s release and continues to provide financial and political support to the INM, which has been described as an Iranian proxy group.
In a letter to the Nigerian judicial authorities on July 20, 2019, Iran’s Attorney-General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri criticized the Nigerian government for its treatment of Zakzaky and requested to have him transferred to Iran for treatment, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency.
A week later, Iran’s US-sanctioned Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif "pursued Zakzaky’s situation diplomatically" during a trip to Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... , according to Iran’s foreign front man Abbas Mousavi.
On Saturday Zakzaky’s brother accused Iran of converting Zakzaky and said the IMN should be proscribed for causing terror, according to an interview with Nigeria’s Punch Newspapers.
The INM, which was founded by Zakzaky in the early 1980s after he visited post-revolution Iran, draws inspiration from Iran’s former Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini.
The group has been banned and designated as a terrorist organization by the Nigerian government, amid fears that its military-trained members may launch an insurgency against Sunni President Muhammadu Buhari’s government, whose authority it rejects.
Neither will throwing yourself down the stairs.
[NBCNews] Federal regulators issued a warning Monday urging people not to drink a chlorine dioxide solution that is often promoted online as a remedy for autism, HIV/AIDS, cancer and other conditions.
The products — known as Miracle Mineral Solution, MMS and Chlorine Dioxide Protocol among other monikers — have not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration and can have life-threatening side effects, the department said in a news release.
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Pastor Jim Humble of the Genesis II Church makers of the stuff advises enemas of the powerful bleach for kids. It will cure aids to autism to any man-made disease he says.
The CDC should look into his invention. And quarantine him !
[Dhaka Tribune] The explosion at the Arctic facility on Thursday killed five scientists with Russia's nuclear agency, which later confirmed they were involved in testing new weapons
Radiation levels were up to 16 times the norm in a nearby town after a kaboom at a Russian missile testing site, the national weather service said Tuesday.
The explosion at the Arctic facility on Thursday killed five scientists with Russia's nuclear agency, which later confirmed they were involved in testing new weapons. More victims were hospitalized.
Rosgidromet, the weather monitoring service, said its sensors in Severodvinsk, a town about 30km from the Nyonoksa test site, registered gamma radiation exceeding background levels by "four to 16 times."
Rosgidromet said the levels were higher at six out of eight of its stations in Severodvinsk and that levels returned to normal after 2.5 hours.
One of the sensors registered a level of 1.78 microsieverts per hour, well above the local average but far below dangerous levels.
Russia's Rosatom nuclear agency has said its staff were providing support for the "isotope power source" of a missile and were thrown into the sea from the testing platform by the force of the earth-shattering kaboom.
US experts have linked the incident to the 9M730 Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile touted by President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... earlier this year.
Local authorities in Severodvinsk last week initially published information about the spike in radiation, but later deleted it and a local official said that radiation levels were not above the norm.
US President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... on Monday said the United States "is learning much" from the earth-shattering kaboom and claimed that Washington has "similar, though more advanced, technology."
#4
Try a night maritime extraction paddling a fully loaded RB-15, with prop-wash from a CH-47 pushing you away from the ramp. Makes for a very interesting evening.
[NEWS24] Eight people, including three soldiers, were killed in jihadist attacks on an army base and village in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... ahead of Monday's Eid al-Adha ...a major Moslem holiday, marked by animal sacrifice and ritual rioting... festival, military sources said.
Three troops and three civilians died on Saturday when fighters from the IS-aligned Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... West Africa Province (ISWAP) group attacked a base in Gubio, a town 80km from the regional capital Maiduguri, two sources said on Sunday.
Three soldiers were killed "defending the base from ISWAP snuffies who wanted to overrun it", the first source said.
"Three civilians were hit and killed in crossfire," said the source, an officer who asked not to be identified for fear of punishment.
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Two soldiers and six civilians were maimed, he said.
The jihadists attacked the base in eight pickup trucks fitted with machine guns, leading to a two-hour long battle, said the second source, who gave the same toll.
The attack was repelled with the aid of a fighter jet which deployed two hours into the festivities, said the officer.
"The snuffies were pulverised and forced to withdraw. Eleven of them were killed and three of their vehicles were seized," he said.
ISWAP ransacked the same base in May, killing three soldiers.
'EARS CHOPPED OFF'
In a separate assault on Sunday, fighters from rival jihadist faction Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... killed two residents and burnt homes in an attack on the village of Ngwom, 14km from Maiduguri.
Gunmen in pickup trucks stormed the village in a pre-dawn attack, shooting dead two male residents before robbing women of jewellery and torching four houses, anti-Boko Haram militia leader Babakura Kolo said.
"A woman had one of her ears chopped off by the murderous Moslems as punishment for resisting being robbed," Kolo said.
The jihadists attempted to seize a nearby military base after the raid, but were rebuffed following a one-hour shootout, Kolo and a military source said.
The decade-long insurgency in northeast Nigeria has killed over 27 000 people, displaced some two million and spilt over into neighbouring countries.
The jihadists are notorious for stepping up attacks during the Eid season, prompting heightened security across the region.
ISWAP split from the Boko Haram faction headed by long-time leader Abubakar Shekau ...the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fired by the Caliph and refused to step down... in 2016.
Since mid-2018 ISWAP has ramped up attacks on the military, while Shekau's group tends to hit softer civilian targets.
On Saturday, several soldiers were also maimed when their vehicle hit a mine planted by ISWAP near the border with Niger, the military sources said.
[DAWN] Indian authorities need more time to restore order in Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... , a Supreme Court justice said on Tuesday as a security clampdown entered a ninth day since New Delhi revoked the region's special status, triggering protests.
The court is hearing an activist's petition seeking to lift curbs on communications and movement that have disrupted normal life and essential services in the Himalayan region.
Telephone lines, internet and television networks have been blocked since August 5 when India withdrew occupied Jammu and Kashmir's right to frame its own laws and allowed non-residents to buy property there.
Restrictions on movement and assembly, including a ban on gatherings of more than four people, were tightly enforced on Tuesday in the region's main city, Srinagar.
Menaka Guruswamy, a lawyer for the petitioner, said the court should move to restore hospital services and open schools.
"That is all I ask," she told the Supreme Court in New Delhi.
Justice Arun Mishra said the government wanted to bring Kashmir back to normal as soon as possible.
"The situation is such that nobody knows what is going on. We should give them time to restore normality. Nobody can take one per cent of chance," Mishra said. "Who will be responsible if something really bad happens tomorrow?"
The reaction to India's unprecedented move has so far been largely subdued. But anti-India protests and clashes have occurred daily, mostly as soldiers withdraw from the streets at dusk. Though the scale of the lockdown is unprecedented, civil resistance to Indian rule is not uncommon in Kashmir, and young men have hurled stones and abuse at police and soldiers.
Indian troops patrolling the disputed region allowed some Muslims to walk to mosques to mark the Eid al-Adha festival on Monday, and shops were opened briefly on previous days.
The lockdown is expected to last at least through Thursday, India's independence day.
An uneasy calm continued to prevail along the Line of Control in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, where residents of Chakothi, a remote border town, said they were living in a state of uncertainty.
Jalal Hanif, a shop owner, said there had been no exchange of fire in Chakothi or elsewhere in Pakistan's part of Kashmir since New Delhi imposed the changes.
``But whenever Indian troops open fire, shells and mortars hit our bazaar and homes,'' he said. Hanif said those who can afford to have built bunkers to protect themselves.
Measles cases nearly tripled globally during the first seven months of the year compared to the same period in 2018, the World Health Organization says, amid growing concern over public resistance to the vaccine.https://t.co/Km6cGmXR0j
[Rudaw] The bodies of 31 victims of ’enforced disappearance’ were buried in a Karbala cemetery by a Hashd al-Shaabi affiliated organization on Tuesday, a move panned by Iraqi politicians.
The bodies had been stored in a hospital in the nearby city of Hillah since 2014, according to an official letter by the forensic medicine division of Babel governorate's health department issued on July 29. They were taken from Hillah hospital in northern Babel to Karbala by Raad al-Shook, head of the Fatima al-Zahra organization.
Fatima al-Zahra claim to provide "logistical support" to Hashd al-Shaabi (otherwise known as the Popular Mobilization Forces, or PMF), for which they have received awards from Hashd leaders.
Monday’s burial is one of a series that have been conducted by the organization.
Hadi al-Shimari, a Fatima al-Zahra member, said the organization has buried a total of 231 bodies that had been stored in Hillah hospital’s forensic medicine facility.
"We buried 125 bodies in the first stage, 75 bodies in the second stage, while the 31 bodies is the [current] third stage of the project," al-Shimari stated in an interview with al-Jazeera on Monday.
The bodies are believed to belong to civilians disappeared from the town of Jurf al-Sakhir in northern Babel province in 2014 after the town was recaptured by the Iraqi army and PMF paramilitias.
Strategically located between Sunni krazed killer strongholds in Anbar governorate and the Shiite holy city of Karbala, Jurf al-Sakhir witnessed heavy fighting between ISIS and Iraqi government forces for months.
The Iraqi military, backed by Shiite militias, recaptured Jurf al-Sakhir from ISIS in October 2014.
A September 2018 Human Rights Watch report accused notorious Hashd branch Kata’ib Hezbollah of arbitrary detention and the enforced disappearances of mostly Sunni men and boys in and around Jurf al-Sakhir between July 2014 and October 2017.
Government silence and inaction in the burying of unidentified bodies as sparked anger among Iraqi officials.
Former Iraqi parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi threatened to invite international delegations to supervise a re-exhuming of the buried bodies in Karbala if government silence continued.
Former Iraqi defense minister Khalid al-Obaidi on Monday condemned the "barbaric" burials for occurring without DNA testing to identify the individuals and to give the victims’ families closure.
A Tuesday statement by the predominantly Shiite al-Nasr coalition, led by former Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, also condemned the burials, but asked all political parties to avoid stoking sectarian tension when discussing the incident, and for government measures to prevent any potential sectarian violence in its wake.
All three statements claimed that some of the bodies had been partially dismembered, including those of women and kiddies.
The Iraqi government has come under criticism for procedures surrounding mass grave excavation in Samawa, southern Iraq, where DNA testing is not taking place on the recently exhumed remains of Kurdish civilians killed during the Saddam Hussein-orchestrated Anfal genocide.
"I have criticized the Iraqi government several times, demanding there should be DNA tests for the mass graves by the Iraqi government to help the families identify the graves of their relatives because that is their right and that is the duty of the Iraqi government," Anfal survivor Hedar Zubir Barzani, whose father was taken away during the Anfal campaign, told Rudaw on July 23.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Libyan officials say the fighting around Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... has resumed, following a two-day truce observed during the Moslem holiday of Eid al-Adha ...a major Moslem holiday, marked by animal sacrifice and ritual rioting... The officials said on Tuesday that the eastern-based Libyan National Army led by Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... carried out Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s overnight on the southern outskirts of Tripoli.
They say forces allied to the UN-backed government in Tripoli also shelled Haftar’s forces in the area. On Saturday, both sides had accepted a UN-proposed truce during Eid al-Adha, which began Sunday.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to news hounds.
Haftar’s forces launched an offensive in April to capture Tripoli. The fighting has killed over 1,100 people, mostly combatants, and displaced more than 100,000 civilians.
The battle lines have changed little over recent weeks.
[DailyWire] Imran Khan, the prime minister of Pakistan, took to Twitter early Sunday morning
Oh noze! He’s a tweeting twit — whatever will India do now?
to compare India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, and his policies to those of Hitler and the Nazis. But no mention Santa or Jethro Tull
"The curfew, crackdown & impending genocide of Kashmiris in [India-occupied Kashmir] is unfolding exactly acc to RSS ideology inspired by Nazi ideology," Khan tweeted, referring to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh right-wing political organization. "Attempt is to change demography of Kashmir through ethnic cleansing. Question is: Will the world watch & appease as they did Hitler at Munich?"
I am afraid this RSS ideology of Hindu Supremacy, like the Nazi Aryan Supremacy, will not stop in IOK; instead it will lead to suppression of Muslims in India & eventually lead to targeting of Pakistan. The Hindu Supremacists version of Hitler's Lebensraum.
Indian-controlled Kashmir, one of the world's most sensitive regions, remains in lockdown amid a communications blackout, with landline connections, internet and mobile coverage all suspended. Tens of thousands of additional Indian troops have also been deployed into the already heavily militarized region to head off unrest after the government in New Delhi moved to scrap the region's special status.
Politicians have reportedly been detained, journalists restricted in their reporting and human rights groups have warned of potential abuses due to the lack of international oversight enabled by the communications blackout.
The region previously had autonomy, but that was revoked earlier this month.
Khan's office told CNN that he has been contacting world leader's in an attempt to return Jammu and Kashmir's autonomy. His foreign minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, told the outlet he would press the issue at the United Nations Security Council. Weird it has been Islamists that seek to carry out the Final Solution to completion.
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Big deal. He's called that every day by the leftists in opposition. Works for him.
These days, being called a Hitler means you're a responsible incumbent who values the will of his voters more than the whining of liberal adventurist fools.
[POLITICO] An elderly federal judge presiding over a key lawsuit relating to financier pedophile Jeffrey Want Some Candy, Little Girl? Epstein ...A high class pimp financier who was alleged to maintain a stable of underage whoressex slaves who were paid big bucks to entertain the rich and/or famous. He is a registered sex offender and made att least 17 out-of-court settlements with former members of his stable, with some cases still ongoing. 2011 court docs reveal that 21 email addresses and phone numbers for Bill Clinton and an aide were found in Epstein's electronic black book, and that Clinton frequently flew with Epstein on his private plane between 2002 to 2005. But really, they were probably just discussing finance or politix or something. While getting massaged. Then things got serious, Jeff was tossed in the slammer in New York and then he killed himself. Really. That's what happened... died Sunday, adding another twist to the drawn-out legal saga and to efforts to unseal still-secret details about the conduct of Epstein, his enablers and one of his accusers.
Manhattan-based U.S. District Court Judge Robert Sweet passed away Sunday at age 96, the court announced. Sweet was appointed by President Jimmy Carter ...only the second worst president ever... in 1978, confirmed that same year and continued to hear and rule on cases through the last few months.
Sweet was assigned to a lawsuit that emerged from the aftermath of Epstein’s controversial plea deal a decade ago, in which he escaped federal charges by pleading guilty to two prostitution-related offenses in state court. Epstein ended up spending 13 months in jail, with daily furloughs that allowed him to work in his office.
Critics have denounced the plea deal and the government official who negotiated it: Alexander Acosta, then the top federal prosecutor in south Florida and now U.S. secretary of Labor. The sentence, critics say, was excessively lenient for a man who faced allegations of procuring dozens of teenage girls for sex acts.
[BREITBART] In the wake of Jeffrey Want Some Candy, Little Girl? Epstein’s death over the weekend, a report says two of the high-flying financier’s longtime lawyers are seeking outside legal counsel of their own.
The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported Sunday that lawyers Jeffrey Schantz and Darren Indyke recently hired criminal defense attorneys to represent them. According to the Times, the pair were "involved with some of his trusts and other entities in New York and in the Virgin Islands." Court documents show Epstein’s vast fortune is valued at least $559 million.
[NYPOST] Drone video shows FBI agents and NYPD cops seizing computer equipment from Jeffrey Want Some Candy, Little Girl? Epstein’s mansion on a private island in the Caribbean, according to a report Tuesday.
The video was shot Monday during a raid on Little St. James, the 70-acre island Epstein owned in the US Virgin Islands, CNBC said.
It shows at least two desktop computers and an Apple computer were packaged and marked for transport, CNBC said.
The raid was one of several conducted at various locations tied to the late multimillionaire financier and convicted pedophile, law enforcement sources have told The Post.
Authorities were searching for sex toys and other evidence to corroborate claims by hundreds of women who have accused Epstein, 66, of sexually abusing them when they were underage girls, the sources said.
The NYPD cops visible in the video are part of the FBI New York Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, CNBC said.
"The NYPD is a partner in the task force with the FBI that led to the arrest of Jeffrey Epstein last month," an NYPD spokeswoman told the network.
"The case remains an active and ongoing investigation, and the NYPD continues to work alongside the FBI in investigating leads ‐ including at Epstein’s estate in the Virgin Islands. The NYPD declines further comment on an ongoing investigation."
[IsraelTimes] Two guards assigned to watch Jeffrey Epstein the night he apparently killed himself in jail have been placed on leave and the warden has been removed as federal authorities investigate the financier’s death, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
The announcement came amid mounting evidence that the chronically understaffed Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan may have bungled its responsibility to keep the 66-year-old Epstein from harming himself while he awaited trial on charges of sexually abusing teenage girls.
No! Holmes, how do you do it?!
Epstein was taken off a suicide watch last month for reasons that have not been explained, and was supposed to have been checked on by a guard every 30 minutes. But investigators learned those checks weren’t done for several hours before he was found Saturday morning, according to a person familiar with the case.
That person was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
The Justice Department said the warden of another facility in upstate New York has been named the acting warden at MCC. The FBI and the Justice Department’s inspector general are investigating Epstein’s death.
One of Epstein’s guards the night he took his own life was not a regular correctional officer, one of those familiar with the case said. Serene Gregg, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 3148, told The Washington Post that one of the guards was a fill-in who had been pressed into service because of staffing shortages.
[NYPOST] Screams could be heard coming from Jeffrey Want Some Candy, Little Girl? Epstein’s jail cell the morning he was found dead ‐ as corrections workers frantically tried to revive him, urging, "Breathe, Epstein, breathe!" according to a report Tuesday.
The multimillionaire pedophile’s brother, Mark, was called after Epstein hanged himself with a bedsheet early Saturday at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan and is the one who identified his body, CBS reported.
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Epstein said nothing about the charges when he was arrested.
Not while in jail.
Nothing.
He was not going to ever say anything again.
He made sure of that himself.
Suicide.
Look at the face in the picture above.
The look of a man who has nothing to say to anyone.
Ever.
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Epstein's lost verbal testimony isn't as important as people think. There is substantial documentation, including his diary which, if corroborated, will have plenty.
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Ah the consequences of coopting and corrupting institutions in the pursuit of power. The fall out is a zero trust society. Why should anyone believe in the legitimacy of the next big election?
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#2 Epstein's lost verbal testimony isn't as important as people think.
The investigation can go on without him. Where is Ghislaine Maxwell these days? She probably knows much of what went on. Since Prince Randy Andy's name has been spilled across the news media. She's not likely in GB but maybe. There is Virginia Roberts Giuffre and others who can still testify such as Rachel Chandler. His seized computers and documents are available. Financial records should be available. There are Epstein employees in various locations who can be interviewed. Possible witnesses need to be protected.
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No worries. I think this is the second judge in the Epstein saga to die, of old age.. The first was the judge that sealed the records and gave him his 18 month deal.
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Breaking: guards assigned to check in on E. admit they fell asleep for three hours surrounding time of his death.
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When I first heard about it I joked it was a set up, like most did. I figured the guards that would do it would be moved in. They would get paid very well, they would take the fall for being incompetent, and get fired. The union would then come back and get them rehired or negotiate a golden early retirement for the guards. Unfortunately, I suspect the guard will die in a car accident or suicide.
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[AlAhram] Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said on Tuesday he was working to prevent two rescue ships operated by French and Spanish charities from bringing more than 500 migrants colonists to Italia in the latest Mediterranean stand-off.
The Ocean Viking, which is run by French non-governmental groups (NGOs) Doctors Without Borders and SOS Mediterranee, has picked up some 356 migrants colonists off the coast of Libya since Friday, while Spanish boat Open Arms has saved some 160 people.
Both vessels are in the central Mediterranean, within easy sailing distance of the Italian island of Lampedusa and are seeking a safe port to disembark the mainly African migrants colonists.
But Salvini, the leader of the far-right League who has seen his popularity in Italia soar since he took office last year and launched a fierce anti-immigration crackdown, said on Tuesday the boats were not Rome's problem.
"I am at work in the ministry this morning to prevent more than 500 migrants colonists from disembarking from two NGO boats, one French and one Spanish," Salvini wrote on Facebook.
"I will let you know how this ends. I will not give up."
Earlier this month, Salvini introduced a new law hiking fines for ships that enter Italian waters without authorisation to up to 1 million euros ($1.12 million). It also provides for the arrest of captains who ignore orders to stay away and calls on naval authorities to seize their boats automatically.
Buoyed by his success in the polls, Salvini is looking to trigger an early election in the autumn by bringing down the Italian government, confident he would emerge as prime minister from any new vote. As such, a high-profile clash with foreign charities will bolster his anti-migrant credentials.
Salvini said Libya had offered to take back the migrants colonists aboard the Ocean Viking and said Open Arms should go to Spain.
Italia has taken in more than 600,000 boat migrants colonists since 2014,
... but how many continued on elsewhere after being counted upon entry to Italy?
but new arrivals have fallen sharply over the past two years, with the decline accelerating over the past year.
Latest figures say 4,265 migrants colonists have reached Italia so far in 2019, down 78 percent on the same period in 2018 and down 96 percent on 2017 levels.
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If NGOs are the agents, let them land and put the captain in jail for 10 years. See how many takers they get after that.
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If ever there was a case for humanitarian use of limpet mines, it is now. Save the planet's carbon profile. Sink hundreds of methane producers today !
[CBSNews] The FBI said Tuesday it is investigating after shots were fired in the early morning hours at a San Antonio office building that houses Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). No one was injured in the shooting, officials said.
Investigators say that around 3:00 a.m. Tuesday, shots were fired into a window of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office and Removal Operations Field Office, CBS San Antonio affiliate KENS reports.
The FBI said no one had been arrested in connection to the incident, despite earlier reports from San Antonio police that there was a suspect in custody.
The FBI special-agent-in-charge Christopher Combs called it a "targeted attack."
"To fire indiscriminately into any building especially a federal facility is not an act of protest- it's an act of violence," Combs said at a press conference. "And in in this case it's an act of violence that could have resulted in the assassination of a federal employee. That cannot happen in San Antonio."
ICE San Antonio field office director Daniel Bible told KENS that he believed "political rhetoric and misinformation that various politicians, media outlets and activists" encouraged the incident.
National Review has the arrest:
The incident comes roughly one month after police shot and killed a lone gunman the sorry excuse called Willem, remember ?
outside an ICE detention facility in Tacoma. Wash. The man was armed with a rifle and was throwing "incendiary devices" at the facility. He also tried to ignite a propane tank nearby. The attacker left behind a manifesto in which he identified himself as a member of Antifa intent on stopping the operation of "concentration camps" on U.S. soil.
I'm guessing this too is ANTIFA. I know unhinged protectionist wildcards can be daft bastards but they don't do this. A blind attack on a federal building is a statement. An anti-police statement. Maybe 'tifa is encouraging gun-trained 'lone-wolves' to take shots like they throw stuff. The angle of the shots from the photos is random, wild. No planning, no objective but to lash out and create a ripple. The feebs have a suspect. Let's see.
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Domestic Terrorism. This is a pattern of violent masked protests, the beating of civilians, disruption of local areas in cities, and now firebombing and shootings, as well as the progressive/anarchist screeds that accompany the activity.
And yet our dominant progressive media covers up, ignores or blatantly lies about all this, and worse yet, it propagates the lies that are fueling this terrorism, and fueling the reactions to this as well.
The progressives who run the media must be outed and forced out now. Because if this trend continues, these very same people will be dragged out of their offices and beaten by one side or another in the identitarian war the progressives are starting.
This is going to get 'interesting'. You know John "Pottawatomie" Brown was a terrorist who tried to seize the arsenal at Harpers Ferry, VA. His angst was Congress' and the nation's unwillingness to resolve the slavery issue. They hung him.
The impasse to resolve the immigration issue because one side wants indentured voters to stuff the ballot box rather than free men seems somewhat familiar (not to mention the same parties involved).
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Domestic Terrorism. This is a pattern of violent masked protests, the beating of civilians, disruption of local areas in cities, and now firebombing and shootings, as well as the progressive/anarchist screeds that accompany the activity.
Gosh, why does that sound familiar? Wait, I know! The Ku Klux Klan in the 50s and 60s.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei met with the front man of the Iranian-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...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 legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. 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 They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... militia, Mohammed Abdul Salam, in Tehran on Tuesday, Khamenei’s official website reported.
Earlier on Sunday, Fars News Agency posted in a tweet that Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met with the front man of the Iranian-backed Houthi militia, Mohammed Abdul Salam, in Tehran.
Also on Sunday, Zarif traveled to Doha on Sunday to meet with 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... i officials, according to the Islamic Theocratic Republic News Agency (IRNA).
On Tuesday, the Arab Coalition said the Iranian-backed Houthi militia launched a drone from Sana’a that landed on civilians 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... ’s Amran, adding that the "Houthis repeatedly lie by claiming to have targeted the Kingdom’s Abha airport."
[KhaamaPress] The U.S. military in Afghanistan has rejected the reports suggesting that the U.S. forces have drawn back operations against the holy warrior groups in the country.
The Newsweek magazine earlier reported that the U.S.-led operations against Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... in Afghanistan have significantly reduced or halted as the Pentagon continues to plan for a potential withdrawal of thousands of U.S. forces from its longest conflict ever.
The magazine also reported that it has learnt from Pentagon brasshats that U.S. personnel have been ordered to limit nearly all offensive combat operations against the Taliban and cease advising the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces as the Trump administration proposes cutting U.S. troop strength in Afghanistan by nearly half to 6,000 as a means of finalizing "technical" details among Taliban leadership.
However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... Col. Sonny Leggett, the USFOR-A front man, said "This article is inaccurate and speculative, citing unnamed sources who are likely as far from the subject as they are from Afghanistan itself."
Ooooooh, ouch. I suspect the good colonel used different words inside his head...
Col. Leggett further added "The characterizations of changes to our authorities and operations have no basis in fact. We have no such orders and have made no such changes."
This comes as the 8th round of peace talks between the U.S. and Taliban representatives recently concluded 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... i capital of Doha.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] President Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... said on Monday that the United States is learning "much" from a deadly blast during a Russian missile test that caused elevated radiation levels.
"The United States is learning much from the failed missile explosion in Russia. We have similar, though more advanced, technology," Trump wrote on Twitter.
"The Russian ’Skyfall’ explosion has people worried about the air around the facility, and far beyond. Not good!" the president tweeted.
Experts have linked the blast - which killed at least five people - to the 9M730 Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile, known by NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... as SSC-X-9 Skyfall and touted by President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... earlier this year.
Trump’s assertion that the US had similar technology was quickly challenged by American expert Joe Cirincione.
"This is bizarre. We do not have a nuclear-powered cruise missile program," Cirincione tweeted.
"We tried to build one, in the 1960’s, but it was too crazy, too unworkable, too cruel even for those nuclear nuts Cold War years," he wrote.
The accident took place at an Arctic military facility on the coast of the White Sea on Thursday, but Russian authorities only admitted its nuclear nature on Saturday.
The missile was being tested on a platform at sea when its fuel caught fire and caused a kaboom, Russian nuclear agency Rosatom said. Several staff were blown into the sea by the blast.
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Liquid fueled booster rocket exploded. Nuclear powered ramjet for sustained flight. By sustained flight, means 30 seconds so far before crashing/parachuting(?) into sea.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Arab Coalition on Tuesday said the Iranian-backed Houthi militia launched a drone from Sana’a that landed on civilians in Yemen’s Amran, adding that the “Houthis repeatedly lie by claiming to have targeted the Kingdom’s Abha airport.”
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces destroyed a training center of the jacket wallahs during an operation in central Pashtun-infested Logar province.
The 203rd Thunder Corps said in a statement the Special Forces destroyed the suicide bombers training center in Tagab area of Baraki Barak district.
The statement further added that the Special Forces also killed 8 Talibs during the same operation.
Furthermore, the 203rd Thunder Corps said the Talibs were also using the compound as a storage depot of weapons, munitions and explosives.
[BREITBART]On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s "All In," 2020 presidential candidate former HUD Secretary and former San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro (D) reacted to the Trump administration’s new immigration rules by stating that President Trump "wants a whiter, wealthier nation."
Castro said, "What it looks like is that this administration is not just against undocumented immigrants colonists, it’s also against legal immigrants colonists. And on top of that, it seems to only want immigrants colonists that look a certain way. I believe what they’re looking for are, it seems like, well-to-do immigrants colonists from some Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an countries. ... Before 1924, people could come to this country ‐ we didn’t have the same system of immigration laws that we have now, and a lot of those folks...came here with nothing, and yet, and I think this is a very important point, Ali, a lot of those folks helped build the great nation that we have today."
He added, "I think the point that needs to be asked is, why is 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... so interested in cutting off this generation of immigrants colonists? And it goes back to what he’s displayed from the beginning of his political career, from birtherism, to the way he started his campaign, to those comments about the Mexican-American judge, to his comments about Ilhan Omar ...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She is apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side... and her colleagues. He wants a whiter, wealthier nation. That’s what he’s interested in."
Omar challenger mounts independent campaign for Minnesota House seat
Aug. 13, 2019 - 2:38 - Decorated Iraq war veteran and congressional candidate Chris Kelley says Rep. Ilhan Omar is not putting the people of Minnesota first.
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Omar is on the Dem ballot. The Dems have not put anyone else up so I guess they are O.K. with crazy. They are not primarying out Omar. Kelly sounds like a discontented Democrat although he says independent. War veteran. 20-year veteran of the Minneapolis Police Department. More at: https://www.wdio.com/news/chris-kelley-hibbing-minneapolis-ilhan-omar-minnesota-election-congress/5435696/
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.
SpaceX may have signed an agreement with ULA supplier RUAG for bigger Falcon fairings.
Watts, an uncanny resemblance I'd say. 
[Aljazeera] Rome, Italy - At his political rally in Milan in March, Italy's far-right Minister of Interior and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini mentioned two women: the Virgin Mary, who, he said "will lead us to victory", and Oriana Fallaci, whom he described as "the founding mother of this Europe".
[Jpost] The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is seeking to question an alleged Egyptian al-Qaeda operative believed to be living in Brazil, and the South American country has pledged to cooperate with the United States in any way it can.
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
[BREITBART] A man screaming "Allahu Akbar" went on a stabbing spree in downtown Sydney on Tuesday, killing one woman and wounding another before the public restrained him, an incident that local police insist was not terror-related.
[EN.ALWASAT.LY] French charities report new rescue in Med, over 350 
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone...
[MOBILE.ALMASDARNEWS] Heavy 
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[DAWN] Oil prices fell on Tuesday on lingering concerns over global demand and rising US production, though expectations for major producers to further curtail output offered support.
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...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Nigerian Shiite leader Ibrahim Zakzaky and his wife, detained by the authorities since 2015, flew out of the country to receive medical treatment in India on Monday, his supporters and lawyer said.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
[Dhaka Tribune] The explosion at the Arctic facility on Thursday killed five scientists with Russia's nuclear agency, which later confirmed they were involved in testing new weapons
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
[Rudaw] The bodies of 31 victims of ’enforced disappearance’ were buried in a Karbala cemetery by a Hashd al-Shaabi affiliated organization on Tuesday, a move panned by Iraqi politicians.
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[DailyWire] Imran Khan, the prime minister of Pakistan, took to Twitter early Sunday morning
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...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...the Nailer of NAFTA...
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
