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Watched it live. Awesome. Still, it was a little weird watching a welded steel water tower take flight and land. It looked a bit steampunk or perhaps something from the movie "Dune."
[NPR] The College Board is dropping its plan to give SAT-takers a single score that captured a student's economic hardship. The change comes after blowback from university officials and parents of those taking the college admissions exam.
Announced in May, the "adversity score" was intended to assess the kind of neighborhood the applicant comes from, including factors such as the rate of teens who receive free or reduced lunch, the level of crime and the average educational attainment.
In an interview with NPR, College Board CEO David Coleman said boiling all of that complex information down to one number was problematic, and the company is now reversing that decision.
Some people worried that the adversity score would affect SAT scores, when that was never the case, Coleman said.
"The idea of a single score was confusing because it seemed that all of a sudden the College Board was trying to score adversity. That's not the College Board's mission," Coleman said. "The College Board scores achievement, not adversity."
And so, the College Board is launching a tool called Landscape, which will provide admissions counselors with information about a student's background, like average neighborhood income and crime rates, but Coleman said the data points will not be given a score.
I want to know how much he left for a tip; I'll guess somewhere between $0.00 and $0.01...
[SF Gate] - Sen. Bernie Sanders was in town for the Democratic National Committee's summer meeting and dined out with staff at San Francisco's iconic John's Grill this weekend, according to Politico.
The presidential hopeful didn't impress the owner of the 111-year-old restaurant, John Konstin.
"It was all very nice, except for cranky Bernie," Konstin told Politico.
Konstin told SFGATE the U.S. senator from Vermont declined to shake hands and take photos and "was rude" to staff.
"He was just rude, not friendly," Konstin said. "I think he was just hungry and didn't want to be a politician. He lost my vote."
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Yes, and when we all become "government employees" under socialism, "being screamed at" = sent to re-education or labor camp and "you can leave any time you want" = bullet in the head.
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she should have been able to get this in a major newspaper but, since the author knows what she is talking about, and doesn't agree with the left, this is unlikely
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[Epoch Times] More than 2 1/2 years after President Donald Trump assumed office, focus on actions taken during the 2016 presidential campaign is starting to shift toward the CIA and its former director, John Brennan.
While some observers, including this publication, have pointed out for more than a year that Brennan appears to have played a key role in the scandal that’s become known as Spygate, actions taken by Brennan and the CIA now appear to have become a central focus of investigators. That would be the ventriloquist on the right in the graphic.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that Justice Department Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz was "doing a very in-depth dive about the FISA warrant application" and "the behavior regarding the counterintelligence operation."
Graham noted that he believed Horowitz’s report would be coming out in "weeks‐not days, not months" and would prove to be "ugly and damning regarding the Department of Justice’s handling of the Russian probe." Graham noted that the IG’s report has been delayed because "every time you turn around, you find something new."
Graham said he wants the IG’s report to be as declassified as possible in order for the "American public to hear the story."
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Everyone talks about Ohr and the Fusion GPS connection to his wife. I thought I remember that she had a formal one to the Agency, and that whole Ham radio workaround for the NSA Hoover collections system? The Brennan and the cabal that appointed him lingering in the shadows...
Courage is needed to go down this path towards the cancerous knot whose face was facade....
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Not that I can tell, JQC. I can't see where Brennan's hand is, though.
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Always moving the release of the IG report back. Graham's comment makes me wonder if they're holding it to inflict maximum damage on the Dems in presidential elections. Drop it - say - Spring 2020?
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[Epoch Times] WASHINGTON‐The homicide rate in Mexico is rising at record-setting pace this year, with more than 30,000 murders in the first seven months.
It’s on target to hit almost 51,500 deaths by year’s end‐about 1,000 more than in 2018 and 6,000 more than in 2017. That’s not accounting for the huge number of disappearances.
Cartel wars are causing bloodshed at the border, as well as in large port areas and major drug production areas.
Tamaulipas state, which borders Texas, has a U.S. State Department Level 4 travel advisory, which is a "do not travel" warning‐the same as that given to Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan.
"Violent crime, such as murder, armed robbery, carjacking, kidnapping, extortion, and sexual assault, is common," the State Department website warns about Tamaulipas. "Gang activity, including gun battles and blockades, is widespread. Armed criminal groups target public and private passenger buses as well as private automobiles traveling through Tamaulipas, often taking passengers hostage and demanding ransom payments. Federal and state security forces have limited capability to respond to violence in many parts of the state."
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Nonsense. The US is the MOST violent country in the world!!! And police go out and randomly shoot innocent black men. Everybody knows this! /Sarcasm
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State sponsored narco-terrorists.
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Queen Suthida - a 41-year-old former flight attendant and deputy head of his bodyguard unit
Not sure I'd bring a girlfriend into the fold if my wife were in charge of my security..... actually, given my wife is a better shot, I'm sure I wouldn't.
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I've met her at the aerodrome of Jesenwang in Bavaria
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bragger *jealous*
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Well the two basically live in Bavaria, in a mansion at the Starnbergersee in Tutzing. They are occasionally seen biking or even shopping in stores.
Jesenwang is a base for private pilots (I have a license), and she got one from this base, too.
Nothing more than a friendly greeting.
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I could show you some REALLY candid images of the consort but this would get the site banned in Thailand pronto and no moderator should ever dream about visiting Thailand in the future...
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Verstehen, EC.
I don't want anyone here to be trampled by a Siamese elephant.
A special prosecutor will take a new look at the Jussie Smollett case, CBS Chicago reports. Former U.S. Attorney and Iran-Contra affair special counsel Dan Webb was tapped for the role, marking the sixth time he's been appointed special prosecutor in a case.
Webb said he plans on using a special grand jury to assist in the investigation and that grand jury could decide if new charges are warranted. "I'm starting this thing fresh today," Webb said.
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Sure, let us know when they actually file charge and this go to trail.
Will they also charge Kim Foxx and Tina Tchen for their roles in this travesty?
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Isn't there some law that deals with 'incitement to racial/communal violence by disseminating false information' or 'spreading inflammatory disinformation so as to incite riots between communities' ?
[IsraelTimes] Reports say bombing targeted the Hezbollah-allied PFLP ‐ General Command in the Bekaa Valley near Syria border; no comment from IDF.
Arabic media claimed early Monday morning that Israeli aircraft had carried out an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on a base belonging to a Paleostinian terrorist group deep inside Leb, amid a dramatic spike in tensions.
The reported strikes came just hours after Hezbollah leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... vowed to shoot down any Israeli aircraft violating Lebanese airspace.
The reports said the strikes hit a base belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine ‐ General Command (PFLP-GC), a Syria-based terrorist group that fights alongside Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad.
The base is located in the Bekaa Valley in eastern Leb, near the border with Syria.
Videos posted on social media showed explosions accompanied by heavy anti-aircraft fire.
A front man for the group told the Saudi-owned al-Hadath news channel that the "Israeli bombing in the Bekaa did not achieve its objectives," but gave no further details.
There was no comment from the IDF. In past cases where Israel reportedly carried out strikes in the Bekaa Valley, it appeared to be to stop the transfer of advanced arms from 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... to Hezbollah, via Syria.
The PFLP-GC ‐ not to be confused with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine, from which it split in 1968 ‐ was responsible for a number of vicious terror attacks in Israel in the 1970s and 1980s, including one against a school bus in northern Israel, which killed nine children and three adults.
The PFLP-GC largely went underground in the late 1980s, working behind the scenes with the Leb-based Hezbollah terror group, but it reemerged in 2011 with the outbreak of the Syrian civil war.
The reported strike follows the bombing of an Iran-linked base in Syria on Saturday that Israel said foiled a plot to launch kamikaze drones into Israel, a drone attack on a Hezbollah office in Beirut and an attack on an Iran-linked militia in Iraq, both on Sunday.
Israel carried out night raids on Monday at military positions of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) in the Eastern Mountain Range opposite the Bekaa town of Qusaya
It has positions in the eastern region of Bekaa, as well as in Al-Naaemeh just south of Beirut.
Qusaya is only about five kilometers (three miles) from the Syrian border.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces killed at least 8 forces of Evil and destroyed multiple caches of weapons of Taliban ...Arabic for students... and ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... terrorist groups in the past 24 hours.
The informed military sources said Monday that the Special Forces destroyed a large cache of weapons of Taliban in Sangin district of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... The sources further added that the Special Forces killed a Taliban turban and destroyed a large cache of weapons in Imam Sahib district of Kunduz.
Furthermore, the Special Forces destroyed a small weapons cache of ISIS terrorist group in Deh Bala district of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. The sources also added that the Special Forces killed 3 Talibs, detained 3 others and destroyed a small cache of weapons in Sayyidabad district of Wardak.
The Special Forces killed 4 Talibs and destroyed a small cache of weapons during a patrol in Bermal district of Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... , the sources added.
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[KhaamaPress] The Afghan forces have inflicted heavy casualties on Talibs during the latest operations in the restive parts of Balkh province.
The 209th Shaheen Corps said in a statement the Afghan cops conducted operations in Chahar Bolak and Sholgarah districts of Balkh with the support of the artillery units and Air Forces.
The statement further added that the security forces killed 37 Talibs and maimed dozens more during the operations.
Furthermore, the 209th Shaheen Corp said the security forces also killed 9 Lions of Islam of Aa Mohammd Bilal and Raz Mohamamd Haqiar, the two prominent commanders of Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... The security forces also destroyed two main compounds of the Talibs during the operation, the 209th Shaheen Corps added.
The Taliban group has not commented regarding the operations so far.
[ToloNews] At least 15 prisoners including security force members and civilians were rescued in an operation by Afghan Special Forces in Imam Sahib district in the northern province of Kunduz on Monday, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
According to the statement weapons cache belonged to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... was destroyed in the operation.
The statement has not given more details about the operation.
[AAWSAT] 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... announced on Monday it was deploying a naval destroyer to protect its vessels in the Gulf of Aden.
Iran’s state-run Press TV said the newly deployed destroyer was equipped with long-range cruise missile systems and had been dispatched to provide security for Iranian ships traveling through the region.
It said the ship, which it described as Iran’s most advanced destroyer, would be accompanied by a logistical vessel and a helicopter carrier.
Tensions have been high in the region between Tehran and Washington since the Trump administration withdrew in 2018 from the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers. It has since reimposed harsh sanctions against Tehran and barred it from exporting its oil.
Tensions have since escalated in the Gulf region, with explosions that damaged six tankers in May and June, Iran’s shooting-down of a US surveillance drone and its seizure of a tanker flying the flag of US ally Britannia last month.
[AAWSAT] Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... announced on Monday that his country’s ground forces will enter a planned safe zone in northern Syria "very soon."
The move was preceded by the opening over the weekend of a joint operation center with the United States.
Ankara and Washington agreed earlier this month to set up the joint center for the planned safe zone along Syria's northeastern border, but gave few details on the size of the zone or the command structure of the forces to operate there.
"We are slowly making progress in our efforts to establish a safe zone," Erdogan said. "Just like many other issues some saw as untouchable, we are putting the east of the Euphrates issue on track."
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... has repeatedly said that it would not tolerate any delays to the agreement by US officials, warning that it will mount a cross-border offensive on its own to clear its borders from the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) if necessary.
On Monday, Erdogan said progress was being made on plans to establish the safe zone, but added that Turkey had made all preparations to carry out its own plans if its expectations are not met.
"Our priority is dialogue and cooperation. If we are pushed to a road that we don't want or face stalling, our preparations are ready and we will implement our own plans," he said. "Our UAVs and helicopters have entered the region. Very soon, our ground troops will also enter the region."
The comments come two days after Ottoman Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said the joint US-Turkey center became fully operational. Akar also said some YPG positions in the region had been destroyed by US troops as part of the deal.
[AAWSAT] The Iranian Foreign Ministry and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) exchanged accusations, following an official Iranian announcement of sanctions imposed on the Washington-based center and its director on charges of inciting and spreading negative propaganda against Tehran.
The Foundation defines itself as a non-profit, non-partisan research institute focusing on foreign policy and national security.
FDD responded to the Iranian move saying it considers its inclusion on any list put out by the regime as "a badge of honor and looks forward to the day when Americans and others can visit a free and democratic Iran."
In its statement, the Foundation asserted that it conducts independent research and analysis on national security issues, adding that 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... prohibits such freedoms at home, and would like to do so abroad as well.
In another tweet, the institute accused the Iranian regime of occupying the "great nation of Iran for four decades," saying it continues to repress Iranians, stealing their wealth and creating destruction and chaos in the Middle East.
The announcement comes less than a month after the United States imposed sanctions on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, following the escalation of tension between Tehran and Washington.
[BREITBART] A Pak doctor who blamed his sexual assault on a student nurse on the different "cultural norms" of his home country has been allowed to return to work.
Dr Imran Qureshi, a married Pak migrant in his forties, ambushed a 21-year-old student nurse in a ward kitchen at Trafford General Hospital in Greater Manchester, England, backing her into a corner and demanding a hug after touching her neck and chest.
"[The victim] held her hand up to signal for him to move away and told him he was a disgrace. He asked for a hug and she refused but he did it anyway," the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) was told in 2017.
"Then he grabbed her right breast for a few seconds. Miss A. said he was laughing and trying to make light of the situation and then became aggressive and said that friends do what he was trying to do," the tribunal heard.
Ultimately, the Pak doctor ‐ who had already been convicted of sexual assault in a criminal trial, but was only given a 12-month community order and asked to pay £60 victim surcharge £750 in court ‐ was suspended from practicing, but it has now emerged that he has been allowed to return to work despite the fact his time of the sex offender register has not expired.
Qureshi, who blamed his attack on the fact that "culture norms are different in the UK from Pakistain where he’s from", had been "complaining he was finding it hard on benefits", according to a report by the Daily Mirror, and the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) ruled that it would not be "appropriate or proportionate to impose a further period of suspension on Dr Qureshi’s registration."
The MPTS claimeed that "the imposition of conditions will allow Dr Qureshi time to further develop his insight into his criminal offence and conviction" and allow him "to further remediate while, at the same time, protect patients, and maintain public confidence in the profession."
How it arrived at its judgement that allowing a registered sex offender to return to work would "maintain public confidence in the profession" was not explained, and the Mirror reports that requests for comment on the ruling went unanswered.
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But God forbid she should have a pocket knife.
I used to hear that "there'll always be an England"
[NYPOST] Former Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'... is losing ground in the Democratic presidential primary race, according to a new Monmouth University poll released Monday.
Biden polled at just 19% ‐ down from 32% from Monmouth’s last poll in June.
The drop in support now places Biden in a virtual three-way tie with Sens. Bernie Sanders ...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being a socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around... and Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren ...Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts, who traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless... , who topped the poll with 20% of support each from registered Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters across the country.
Support for Warren and Sanders rose since the last poll, up from 14% and 15%, respectively.
Biden lost support from voters across the board, including Democrats, black voters, men and women. The drop in those areas were shifted almost equally to Warren and Sanders.
Support for the rest of the Democrats in the packed primary field remained generally intact, including Mayor Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly... , who’s still polling at just 1%.
The latest poll was conducted from Aug. 16 to Aug. 20, and the results were based off 298 registered voters who identify as Democrats or lean left.
The poll has a plus/minus 5.7 percentage-point margin of error.
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That "don't distract your enemy while they are defeating themselves" advice is looking good...
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Definitely looks like an outlier. Only 298 Democrats polled? Emerson and Politico (more recent polls) have Biden over 30%.
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EC - Biden's not a bad guy but it's obvious that his mind is starting to go.
He clearly doesn't have the mental stamina - tenacity and almost superhuman ability to focus and refocus and refocus again, dozens of times every day, and without making mistakes of any kind - that is needed for the ordeal by fire that is a US presidential campaign.
[AAWSAT] The Libyan National Army announced on Sunday that it has seized a new region in Gharyan city, which it is using as its main base in its battle to liberate 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... from criminal and terrorist militias.
The LNA said its forces captured the Ghout al-Reeh area in southeastern Gharyan, which is located south of Tripoli.
In a brief statement, it added that its strikes on the area forced militias to flee and left 12 people dead, including two suspected ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... members. The maimed are being treated at Gharyan hospital.
Pro-Government of National Accord forces acknowledged the death of three members in Sunday’s fighting.
The LNA is seeking to recapture Gharyan that it had originally seized in late June. It had used it as a main base for attacks on the GNA-held capital.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Jack stuck the cigar in his mouth, stepped onto the gantry, and asked Got a light, Mac?
Von Schtinken stopped short, lowering the dagger and trying to control his features.
If you light that thing, Herr Armschtröng, he pointed out, his voice tense, we all die!... the LNA denied it was behind an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... that left three people dead in the town of al-Sawani south of Tripoli.
LNA front man Ahmed al-Mismari said: "Our forces deny targeting any civilian vehicle in the al-Sawani region as claimed by the misleading Moslem Brüderbund media."
The images shown in their media reveal that the vehicle was targeted on the side by a rocket or projectile, not an airstrike.
He said witnesses can prove the lies of the GNA and its militias, stressing that the LNA is keen on safeguarding civilians and was making accurate strikes.
GNA media had accused the LNA of being behind the attack, broadcasting images of the destruction of several vehicles.
[NYPOST] A Pennsylvania mother is facing charges after her son was reported missing but was found home alone surrounded by bundles of heroin ‐ what he called "Mommy’s medicine," according to new reports.
Leslie Brown, 29, was busted on drug and child endangerment charges after cops in Pittsburgh responded to a Family Dollar store in the city’s Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar section, where she said she lost track of her son, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.
But surveillance footage from inside the store showed that Brown walked in by herself, leading cops to visit her home just outside the city in Penn Hills, the paper says, citing a criminal complaint filed Friday.
Cops allegedly found the underage boy ‐ whose age was not provided by police ‐ by himself at the home, where a couch was littered with bundles of heroin and empty bags to distribute the drug, the complaint states.
When asked about the drugs, the boy told an officer that it was "Mommy’s medicine," police said.
"She makes it sometimes," an officer wrote in the criminal complaint, per the Post-Gazette.
The bags and bundles of heroin allegedly found inside Brown’s home were labeled with names including "Panda," "Play Boy" and "Power Trip," while another bundle marked "Rx 360 out of stock" was also found in Brown’s car, police said.
Brown later admitted to cops that she manufactured the heroin herself on two occasions using over-the-counter products, but declined to say where she bought the narcotics to cut the drug, according to the criminal complaint.
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Not much effort being made in that city to curtail activities like this story, but mayor Santy Claus whiskers peduto is workin' overtime on getting rid of those eeeevil guns, you betcha...
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Separating families! (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
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When heroin is outlawed, outlaws will have heroin.
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Shouldn't there be lawsuitlike the opioids ones? Of course, finding attorneys tough enough to go after the hard drug black market is like finding comedians who are tough enough to tell jokes about muzz...
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[DAWN] China allowed its yuan to sink on Monday while US President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... said the two sides will talk "very seriously" about their war over trade and technology following tit-for-tat tariff hikes and Trump’s threat to order American companies to stop doing business with China.
The escalations prompted warnings that the chances of a settlement of the fight that threatens to tip the global economy into recession were disappearing. But Trump, speaking at the Group of Seven (G7) meeting of major economies in La Belle France, said serious negotiations would begin.
"We are going to start talking very seriously," Trump said. He said the Chinese "mean business".
Trump gave no details. Negotiators already were scheduled to meet next month in Washington following talks in Shanghai in July that ended with no signs of progress.
The Chinese central bank allowed the yuan to decline to 7.1468 to the dollar in tightly controlled trading. It was a relatively modest change from Friday’s low point of 7.0927 but its weakest rate since January 2008. The yuan has lost 6.5% from this year’s high on Feb 28.
Chinese leaders have promised to avoid "competitive devaluation" to help exporters in the face of Trump’s tariff hikes. But regulators are trying to make the state-set exchange rate more market oriented. That allows investor jitters about the tariff war and its impact on Chinese economic growth to push the yuan lower.
(Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates finances the military leader trying to topple a United Nations-recognized government in Libya. It helps lead a coalition of nations imposing an economic blockade of Qatar, despite U.S. calls to resolve the dispute. It hired former staffers of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) as elite hackers to spy in a program that included Americans as surveillance targets, a Reuters investigation found this year. "Americans as surveillance targets"... you mean like the Orange Man ?
And yet, in a highly unusual practice, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) does not spy on the UAE’s government, three former CIA officials familiar with the matter told Reuters, creating what some critics call a dangerous blind spot in U.S. intelligence. "Dangerous blind spot"....similar to the Magic kingdom and 9/11 possibly ?
The CIA’s posture isn’t new. What’s changed is the nature of the tiny but influential OPEC nation’s intervention across the Middle East and Africa - fighting wars, running covert operations and using its financial clout to reshape regional politics in ways that often run counter to U.S. interests, according to the sources and foreign policy experts. Obviously the UAE cannot be trusted. They keep bills of lading, invoices, and receipts of financial transactions. For insurance purposes of course.
The CIA’s failure to adapt to the UAE’s growing military and political ambitions amounts to a "dereliction of duty," said a fourth former CIA official.
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What’s changed is the nature of the tiny but influential OPEC nation’s intervention across the Middle East and Africa - fighting wars, running covert operations and using its financial clout to reshape regional politics in ways that often run counter to U.S. interests, according to the sources and foreign policy experts.
We taught them very well. The "Counter to U.S. interests" piece..... could be a topic for in-depth discussion.
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I knew a former Marine that told me some tales about Switzerland during the 60's -- the Swiss "ignored" the Cloak n' Dagger stuff as long as all the bodies were tidied up before daylight and none of the tourists got a scare! Same thing with Qatar today... it is just too convenient to have a neutral place to do all of your clandestine meetings.
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TheCIA’s failure to adapt to the UAE’s growing military and political ambitions amounts to a "dereliction of duty," said a fourth former CIA official.
Nothing in the article gives one any pause for comfort. Has the CIA taken to relying solely on electronic surveillance and ignored human intel? Are they relying on "five eyes" and the NSA to give them critical intelligence?
The CIA has been derelict in its duties in many instances. For example, two of the 911 hijackers were from the UAE. There are other examples of their missing the boat.
Recent derelictions of duty during the last administration might be due to a pre-occupation with domestic spying (against the law), for example, spying on the Senate and POTUS candidate and newly-elected Trump. I'm not confident this has all been cleaned up yet. It is not a surprise that people out here in "flyover land" are a bit jaundiced about justice being done.
[DAWN] US President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... said on Monday that India and Pakistain could handle their dispute over Indian 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.... e on their own, but he was there should they need him.
Trump has previously offered to mediate between India and Pakistain on the contested Himalayan region. New Delhi rejected the offer while Islamabad welcomed it.
He discussed the issue on the sidelines of a G7 summit in La Belle France with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who withdrew special autonomy for occupied Jammu and Kashmir on August 5.
Trump said Modi told him that he had Kashmir under control.
"We spoke last night about Kashmir, prime minister really feels he has it under control. They speak with Pakistain and I'm sure that they will be able to do something that will be very good," the US president told news hounds.
Modi, speaking alongside Trump, said that all issues between New Delhi and Islamabad were "bilateral in nature".
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THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE
About time we stopped meddling in affairs that don't concern us. If anyone wants our input they will ask for it. Such a refreshing change after decades of sticking our nose into everyone's business.
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Modi's classic reply to newshounds was, "We don't bother other nations with our internal problems."
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Since the UN the Israeli/Palestine issue and the India/Pakistan issue have festered with no winner because small nations and groups have learned they will be saved from total destruction so why not risk another attack?
The world should stop intervening and we'll learn small nations stop screwing with large nations pretty damn quick. That would stop the bulk of little wars.
[TheSun] The idiotic killer was targeting allied forces after the Battle for Mosul in northern Iraq.
He had customised his weapon to carry plastic explosive and planned to detonate it by troops based in the city.
But his plan backfired because he had forgotten to sufficiently charge the device.
Civilian drones ‐ as weaponised by ISIS - automatically 'boomerang' back to their point of launch when they start to run out of power.
They are programmed to return to prevent owners losing their machines.
"We learned this idiot had wired up his drone with explosives but was killed when it’s batteries ran low and it flew home.
"With a weak signal for some reason it detonated over his head.
"This caused quite a laugh for us but the drone threat is very real. The fighter killed himself last year due to his own ineptitude, but is still keeping moral high today." ISIS has become advanced in its use of drone weapons, which it dubs its ’air force’. Stupidity isn't illegal.
But it can be fatal.
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Proprietary DJI feature called Return to Home (RTH). It's triggered when the Intelligent Flight Battery is depleted to the point that it may affect the return of the aircraft. When this happens, a prompt will appear on your screen in the DJI GO/4 app, and the drone will automatically begin to ascend to the set RTH height and return if no action is taken after a 10-second countdown. If the battery power is critically low, then the drone will automatically land itself, and this can’t be canceled by the pilot. He can only yell 'Allyhoo' by then and hope someone was watching him go out with a bang.
ISIS are known to use modified consumer DJI drones, they are a Chinese company but have compromised or unauthorized resellers in Europe that keep shifting stores and locations to avoid sanctions and investigations. Some of these which had early release stock, have been closed down in America, Austria, Denmark, Germany, Belgium. Since 2017, they've had to keep a buyer registry and the US DoD have full access to it. Also, on the insistence of the DoD, the company modified the flight controller firmware to update to a 'registry censor'. Failure to register with DJI on purchase means the drone will have a height limit of 98 feet, and a radius of 164 feet (50 meters). I don't know if they can modify the battery charge though. Of course these things have workarounds, but such level of compliance to the US from a chin-chong company was only possible since after 2016.
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The amusing part from a systems perspective is that the fatality was caused by a 'safety feature'.
"Let's make it return to base on low battery."
"Genius! What could go wrong?"
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Lord Garth, while only some of it is still CUI, the Chinese have been singing it from the rooftops for two years. It's practically common knowledge by now.
In 2014, the US Dept of interior had contracted the Shenzhen company DJI to procure survey drones and the sort. In 2016, the five-sided box looked into the safety of the data exchange taking place, and a GE (Govt. Edition) firmware and data saving system was jointly arrived at. That proprietary firmware was shared across the board and remained with you.
In 2017 when the ISIS uploaded videos of their drone attacks they were found to be DJI. Trump was already looking at ripping Huawei a new one (it was being investigated by many agencies in an industrial theft case since Obama's time) The Shenzhen Drone company had grown by 300% since 2014. Almost all aviation and law agencies everywhere got on its case and DJI was ordered from an anxious China to give all the help they could. That's the only way they could sell their drones in the US, they were told. The UK, Japan, India, some others followed. If a DJI drone is now spotted in a suspicious incident, caught with explosives or found at a blast site now, all these countries must go through the US to find out just how it got there.
The MDR for what DOD did with them was started by your own defsec, Jim Mattis in Aug last year I think, after he banned the use of DJI equipment from being ever contracted or used by military again. I don't know if the review cleared though, so details will have to remain dark.
Since then, a number of other competitors have picked up in the market and the DJI drones do sell in most countries but are impaired by the inability to register from remote places. New companies have GPS tracking and registry as standard protocols.
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Did you know that after knife attacks in Japan in 2010, Japan created a visual identification system with a gigantic 'facial topology forms' weighted library from skull shape to position and shape of eyes, amount and pattern of facial hair etc aimed at picking out muslims, in a crowd. Everybody in the scientific community shut it down of course.
But it worked so well that China made a bid for the system with modifications to adjust for the Tajik and Uighur facial topologies. There has been lots of ML research since then into detecting a type of facial structure and ascertaining ethnicity. The chinese system is crude, because the facial types are near in-differentiable maybe, but it works like a charm with sufficient South Asian and mid eastern samples. But to even speak of it is taboo to humanist nerds.
The chin-chong research.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli security forces find and disarm an improvised bomb planted along a northern West Bank highway, the army says.
A military tracker spotted a suspicious object along a road near Nablus and called in police sappers to investigate. As a precautionary measure, the highway was closed to traffic, the IDF says.
Upon inspection, the sappers determined that the object was an IED and "neutralized" it, the military says.
This foiled IED attack comes days after a bomb that had been planted next to a natural spring in the central West Bank was triggered by bandidosforces of Evil as an Israeli family was visiting the site, killing the teenage daughter and seriously injuring her father and brother.
[IsraelTimes] Hassan Yusef Zabeeb and Yasser Ahmad Daher traveled to Islamic Theocratic Republic multiple times and worked under IRGC Quds Force, military says.
The Israel Defense Forces on Monday identified two of the people killed in its Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in Syria on Saturday as Lebanese nationals trained to operate attack drones by the Iranian military.
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[IsraelTimes] But official says plan for 300-home neighborhood in Dolev is not new; directive from Netanyahu latest example of building beyond Green Line in response to Paleostinian terrorism.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday he has directed the Defense Ministry body responsible for authorizing West Bank construction to advance a plan for a new neighborhood in the Dolev settlement, near where a terror attack last week killed 17-year-old Rina Shnerb.
"We will deepen our roots and strike at our enemies. We will continue to strengthen and develop [Israeli] settlement," Netanyahu said in a statement announcing the directive for some 300 new homes.
Binyamin Regional Council chairman Yisrael Gantz told The Times of Israel that the project that Netanyahu ordered be advanced at the next meeting of the Civil Administration’s High Planning Subcommittee had already been set and could have been on the agenda regardless. The Defense Ministry body’s next session is not slated for another three months.
Last Friday, a terrorist bombing at a natural spring near Dolev killed Shnerb and maimed her father and brother.
Netanyahu has frequently heeded calls from right-wing MKs and settler leaders demanding further development of the Israeli presence beyond the Green Line in response to terror attacks.
Earlier this month, he vowed to push for Israeli illusory sovereignty in "all parts" of the West Bank in response to the killing of 18-year-old Dvir Sorek outside the Migdal Oz settlement.
[NYT] Muslims Form Community Patrol. Some Neighbors Say No, Thanks. Let's try the spicy lamb noodles Mamood. I hear they're a local favorite.
The self-funded group sees itself as a neighborhood watch. But there was alarm after its cars were spotted in Brooklyn without warning, or explanation.
Maeen Ali remembers the worry he felt when he first spotted the “Punish a Muslim Day” screed online.
The letter, mailed last spring throughout England, encouraged violence that ranged from pulling off a woman’s head scarf to bombing mosques. Each attack, the letter instructed, would be rewarded with points. The hate campaign prompted the police in New York and other big cities to expand patrols around mosques and Islamic centers on the specified day.
Mr. Ali, who lives in Downtown Brooklyn, said he was consumed by thoughts of his four children’s safety.
“That just boiled inside of me,” said Mr. Ali, 38, who moved to the United States from Yemen in 1990. “That’s when I said to myself that it was really important to come out and protect Muslims in the community.”
It prompted the NYPD the same NYPD who lifted out bodies from the WTO rubble, who lost 23 officers and many others over the years due to 9/11 - to protect motherf↻cking MOSQUES ?! In NY ?
[Rudaw] djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... was freed from the grip of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... ) more than two years ago.
But of the 1.6 million people currently internally displaced in Iraq, 300,000 are from Mosul alone, according to the International Organization for Migration.
Much of the Old City, which bore the brunt of the damage, remains in rubble. A large proportion of it is riddled with deadly landmines, and basic services for residents are severely lacking.
Rent costs in the less damaged east of the city are proving too expensive for IDPs seeking a return to Mosul.
This has left IDPs no choice but to remain in the rubble of the old city, or to return to camps.
[IsraelTimes] PA blasts move as part of effort to ’erase’ Paleostinians; Washington says no policy change has been made and site was being updated, but no other Mideast listings have been removed.
The current version of the website only mentions Paleostinians on its page for Israel, in the context of the Trump administration’s peace efforts.
Archived versions of the State Department’s website during the tenure of former US president Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... as well as from earlier administrations included the "Paleostinian Territories" in its "Near Eastern Affairs: Countries and Other Areas" page and offered extensive information on the West Bank and 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... It was not immediately clear when the listing was removed. The State Department denied any change in policy.
[NYPOST] Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.) said Monday that he is eyeing a run for the US Senate in 2020, a move that would set up a major Democratic primary fight against Sen. Ed Markey ...U.S. Representative-for-Life from Massachusetts, serving since 1976. He is a member of the Democratic Party, naturally.... "Over the past few weeks I’ve begun to consider a run for the U.S. Senate. This isn’t a decision I’m approaching lightly and ‐ to be completely candid ‐ I wasn’t expecting to share my thoughts so soon," Kennedy wrote in a Facebook post.
The 38-year-old congressman went on to write that he had not yet made a final decision, saying it would come in "the next couple weeks," after "talking to as many [Massachusetts voters] as I can."
Despite his hesitance to confirm his candidacy, Kennedy has already filed to run for a US Senate seat in Massachusetts with the Federal Election Commission, according to FEC records.
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Yeah - Bobby Jr lives in his own fantasy world. He is a prominent anti-vaxxer. He once sued hog producers in North Carolina (when he lived in New York). The suit was tossed for lack of standing. I am not a lawyer, but even I would have looked for at least a token NC resident who could claim "harm" from the hog farms.
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[PJMedia] A new study debunks liberal claims about grinding poverty in the U.S. compared to other developed countries. Accounting for how much America's poorest 20 percent consumes — rather than measures like income that can be misleading for reasons explained below — the study finds that the poorest fifth of Americans consume more resources than the average person in 64 percent of other countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
On average, a person among the poorest 20 percent of Americans consumes more goods and services than the average person in Canada, Greece, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia, Spain, Portugal, Japan, Denmark, Iceland, New Zealand, Slovenia, Slovakia, Israel, South Korea, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Poland, Chile, Hungary, Turkey, and Mexico.
"Our study shows that because of unreported income, charity, and non-cash government benefits like Medicaid and food stamps, consumption by America’s poorest 20 percent exceeds the national averages even in developed nations like Japan, New Zealand and Denmark," James Agresti, president of Just Facts, said in a statement on the report.
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IMHO, Bernie is not a serious contender for POTUS. Can anyone imagine him being taken seriously by foreign leaders or for that matter most Americans? His notions of fiscal responsibility are not realistic and suck. His policies are good for Bernie but not so much for the rest of us. He got rolled by Hillary and there's no reason to believe he wouldn't be rolled or bought off by the deep state again.
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I've long said that every American should visit a country like India to see REAL poverty (and India is by no means the poorest country in the world.)
I joke that in America "poor" people complain that they only get 200 channels on their 65" TVs. Whereas in Bangalore, India I saw people living in corrugated metal shacks, with no running water or electricity - next to a stream that was essentially an open sewer.
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Nations like Chile, Slovenia, Poland, and Portugal are 2nd world, not developed. Mexico and Turkey are still 3rd world. And pure dollar signs don't take into account purchasing power parity. In Asia, their GDP-per-capita adjusts upwards. In Europe, it adjusts downwards. (Taiwan, for instance, technically only has a GDP per capita of $26,000, but it adjusts upwards all the way up to $55,000 due to the very low cost of goods and services. This happens (in a lesser proportion) to Japan and South Korea as well. It is fine and dandy to say that the amount of money people consume don't match up, but there is a significant difference in the expense of things in different parts of the world (which is why Europe is even poorer than it thinks it is).
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It's because of the democrat perception of conservatives and Trump, and a serious disdain for their own constituencies. The premise for fielding these prize idiots in the races is simply 'Persona', the cult factor. They believe that 'if a reality show guy', a larger than life 'gilded hotel tycoon' can win a Presidency, then at least giving him a fight ought to be easy for sideshow freaks like these.
They are so out of marbles themselves, they cannot yet comprehend why we support him, or why Americans elected him. Their terms 'deplorables' and 'irredeemables' clearly indicates that they believe conservative voters are ill-educated, unwashed idiots, regressive schlemiels waiting to be put out of their misery. Their own voters they are convinced, are a spectrum of misfits ranging from retarded to dysfunctional to fundamentalist. If you notice, there's a democrat candidate for every frequency of crazy on the ticket.
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Liberals care about the difference between poor and rich (not ultra Democrat Rich though) not about how these compare to others.
Comparing to others to say our poor are actually Euro-middle class is logical thinking and not emotional.
Suggesting that if we take all the money from the rich (not ultra Democrat Rich though) to give to the poor won't make the poor any better off misses the point in that such a move would make the rich poor as well, thus removing the envy gap.
[BREITBART] An off-duty Baltimore school police officer and a retired Department of Corrections officer shot and killed an armed man who allegedly attempted to rob them on Saturday night.
The men told Sherlocks that they were on Guilford Avenue at about 11 PM when the suspect approached them brandishing a gun and demanding their valuables, Fox 5 News reports.
In response, both men drew their legally concealed firearms and opened fire on the would-be robber.
The suspect was hit multiple times and ran from the scene. He ultimately collapsed on the 2300 block of Guilford Avenue.
The maimed man was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital shortly after being transported there by first responders.
Homicide detectives and C.I.R.T. detectives are investigating the incident, the Baltimore Police Department said. Anyone with information is asked to call 410-396-2100.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) ‐ The Iraqi Interior Ministry said on Monday that its forces destroyed two 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.... hotbeds containing a large cache of weapons and ammunition in the oil-rich province of Kirkuk.
"Acting on intelligence information, federal police forces found a hideout belonging to the terrorist Islamic State group in Tel Rahma area in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... " Maj. Gen. Saad Maan, the ministry front man, said in a press statement.
"Eight explosive charges, 200 bullets, four missiles and an Islam State flag were found inside the hotbed," the front man said.
He added that another IS hotbed was found in Anana village in Kirkuk.
"The two hotbeds were completely destroyed, and the seized weapons were handed over to the competent authorities," the front man noted.
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NORMAN, Okla. (AP) ‐ An Oklahoma judge on Monday found Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries helped fuel the state’s opioid crisis and ordered the consumer products giant to pay $572 million, more than twice the amount another drug manufacturer agreed to pay in a settlement.
Cleveland County District Judge Thad Balkman’s ruling followed the first state opioid case to make it to trial and could help shape negotiations over roughly 1,500 similar lawsuits filed by state, local and tribal governments consolidated before a federal judge in Ohio.
"The opioid crisis has ravaged the state of Oklahoma," Balkman said before announcing the judgment. "It must be abated immediately."
An attorney for the companies said they plan to appeal the ruling to the Oklahoma Supreme Court.
Before Oklahoma’s trial began May 28, the state reached settlements with two other defendant groups ‐ a $270 million deal with OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma and an $85 million settlement with Israeli-owned Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.
Oklahoma argued the companies and their subsidiaries created a public nuisance by launching an aggressive and misleading marketing campaign that overstated how effective the drugs were for treating chronic pain and understated the risk of addiction. Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter says opioid overdoses killed 4,653 people in the state from 2007 to 2017.
Hunter called Johnson & Johnson a "kingpin" company that was motivated by greed. He specifically pointed to two former Johnson & Johnson subsidiaries, Noramco and Tasmanian Alkaloids, which produced much of the raw opium used by other manufacturers to produce the drugs.
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This version of justice makes one think of Miss Prism's comment in Importance of Being Earnest:
Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days.
Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.
Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.”
...and possibly the thing they shot at was not a figment of fevered imaginations.
[Rudaw] The Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) have "dealt" with an unidentified drone flying over one of their Nineveh headquarters on Monday, it claims, as the Iran-backed militia has faced a spate of alleged air attacks on its installations.
Air defense weapons fired on the drone and forced its retreat, according to a tweet from the PMF, known in Arabic as Hashd al-Shaabi, early on Monday evening.
"Hashd al-Shaabi’s Operations Command in Nineveh has dealt with an unidentified drone over one of its headquarters and forced it to withdraw amid intensive fire cover," the PMF’s Media Directorate tweeted.
The drone was observed flying over the headquarters for over 20 minutes by the PMF’s Nineveh Operations Command intelligence service, according to the Media Directorate’s website.
"After establishing [...] that the drone was not Iraqi, and that the Joint Operations Command [coordinating body of Iraq’s security forces] was not aware of it, it was dealt with instantly with ’anti-aircraft weapons’," the directorate said.
This is the second targeting of an unidentified drone by the PMF in the vicinity of one of its headquarters. Last Thursday, the group claimed to have targeted a drone flying over the headquarters of its Brigade 12 in the Baghdad Belt (areas encircling Baghdad) using its air defenses.
At least one PMF member was killed in a strike on Sunday by an unidentified drone in Anbar province’s al-Qaim district near the Syrian border.
PMF weapons depots have also been rocked by explosions believed to have been caused by Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s.
Speculation over the perpetrators of the attacks has run rife, though fingers are currently being pointed at Israel.
[BREITBART] A professor who admitted to local press that he is a member of the far-left krazed killer group Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... has been removed from his position at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
According to a blurb obtained by Campus Reform, Kirkwood Community College President Lori Sundberg made the "decision to remove ... from the classroom" Professor Jeff Klinzman after he admitted to being a part of the violent left-wing political group Antifa.
On Thursday, Klinzman admitted to a local media outlet that he is active with Antifa. According to the local media report, Klinzman expressed his desire to engage in political violence in a comment posted to an Antifa Facebook page.
On the Facebook page for "Iowa Antifa", one can find a litany of far-left statements and conversations. One of them features a tweet from President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... where he calls the group, "Radical Left Wack Jobs who go around hitting... people over the heads with baseball bats". Professor Klinzman wrote in response, "Yeah, I know who I’d clock with a bat..."
Although he refused to be interviewed, Klinzman confirmed to the local news outlet that he considers himself a member of Antifa, leading to a backlash in the Kirkwood community. On Friday, Sundberg announced that she had made the "decision to remove" Professor Klinzman from his teaching duties, citing safety concerns.
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Clearly this person had terrible judgement, its better off for the school to get rid of them before they make national news with some Antifa violence that can't be hushed up by a compliant media.
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That grifter Morris Dees has always been a racketeer.
The guy got his start in multi-level marketing, not "bending the long arc of justice."
IIRC the SPLC actually got so disgusted with him they kicked him out recently - though not for his grifting. Which tells you all you need to know about the rot within that outfit.
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Cool (literally and figuratively) video of the operation. The sleighs (bobsleds) you saw in the CAT trains were Michler Sleighs, which saw service in construction in Alaska and Canada on the DEW line. A discussion of the construction of these sleighs can be seen HERE.
The Peter Snow Miller was a typical piece of precision Swiss equipment. The Clear-View rotary windshield wipers were originally for marine use, but were adapted with heaters for snow plows both highway and railroad.
Camp Century was a cover story for an possible nuclear missile installation under the icecap. What caused abandonment of the installation was the visco-elastic movement of the ice, that moved faster than predicted, so the installation was abandoned. Information HERE.
Lots of raw sewage and hazardous waste to clean up.
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Learned quite a bit here. Thanks 3DC and Alaska Paul!
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) ‐ An Iraqi policeman was killed by a roadside kaboom targeting a police patrol vehicle in the eastern province of Diyala, a security source said.
"A roadside kaboom targeted a police patrol vehicle in Katun al-Rahma district, 9 km west of Baqubah, leaving a policeman dead," the source told privately-owned news website Almaalomah.
"The attack left another policeman maimed," said the source, adding that security forces launched a probe into the incident.
[BREITBART] A man allegedly opened fire on kneeling worshipers at Columbia, South Carolina’s, Centro Cristiano de Columbia Church Sunday, wounding one then fleeing after the gun jammed.
WLTX reports the man allegedly entered the church and demanded money from congregants who were engaged in prayer. He then allegedly fired a small pistol into the air and at congregants, striking one.
The alleged attacker’s gun then jammed, forcing him to flee the scene.
USA Today reports Centro Cristiano de Columbia Church Pastor Henry Alfaro indicated the lights "were dim" when the alleged attacker entered the the church.
Alfaro indicated that the maimed parishioner underwent surgery, but did not provide information on the individual’s condition.
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The crime is being investigated as an armed robbery according to the police and not a race-related crime. The guy had a small caliber handgun that failed after the third shot. The first two shots went into the ceiling and the third was shot into a parishioner near the front of the church. One report said the lighting was too dim to see the identity of assailant. However, the church FB site shows a small congregation church with good lighting. Maybe the parishioners know the assailant--might be someone's relative. Probably nothing to see here.
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the third was shot into a parishioner near the front of the church A latecomer, it seems.
"I will come to church on time, Ave Maria. I will come to church on time, Ave Maria. I will come to church on time, Ave Maria. I will come to church on time, Ave Maria..."
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From The State : After running from the church with an undisclosed amount of stolen money, the suspect got into an empty dark-colored Toyota Prius, possibly dark blue, according to the release. He drove south on Decker Boulevard toward Percival Road and the intersection with Interstate 77, police said.
Police described the suspect as tall, slim black man, who was last seen wearing a black striped shirt and had a bandanna covering part of his face and a beanie No kidding, it was there on the top of his head.
The suspect was armed with a small silver semi-automatic pistol, according to the release. The victim seems critical.
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I suspect if someone tried that at my church here in Texas, he'd of never made it to the door before the hail of return fire dropped him. Semi-rural Texas, doing crime is at your own risk:p
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Dron, IIUC urban slang currently uses the old headgear term beanie to refer to those ugly woolen caps (always black, or navy) that come down over the thug's ears.
An indispensable urban ghetto fashion accessory, even on the hottest days of summer.
[AAWSAT] Days after a devastating flood swallowed up his village, Alsediq Abdelqader bulled his truck through the waters in a desperate attempt to locate his small house north of the Sudanese capital.
Flash floods from the Nile inundated his home last week in Wad Ramli village on the eastern river bank, expelling him and his family who managed to clamber aboard a ferry to the nearest dry land.
His drive through the flash floods was not easy as he had to avoid floating mattresses, house appliances and broken tree branches.
"My entire home is destroyed," said the 57-year-old. "I have lived all my life in this village and I have never seen a flood like this before."
"I'm struggling to recognize my house and trying to identify it, as some others have done, by the trees around it," he added, according to AFP.
His home is among thousands destroyed or damaged by the floods that struck at least 15 states, affecting nearly 200,000 people across Sudan.
The worst hit area was White Nile state in the south.
About 62 people were killed and nearly 100 injured overall, said the official SUNA news agency quoting a health ministry official as saying the crisis "did not reach the level of being declared a disaster."
Volunteers and aid workers immediately rushed to Wad Ramli when the savage floods hit.
Authorities dispatched lorries and boats to wade through the thick water to rescue families and salvage their furniture and valuables.
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If the worst hit area was White Nile state in the south, there must have been very high water as the White Nile passed Khartoum/Omdurman. I'm surprised there wasn't more reporting previous to this.
[DAWN] Hong Kong police said on Monday they arrested 36 people, the youngest aged 12, after violence during anti-government demonstrations escalated as protesters hurled Molotov cocktails at security forces who responded with water cannon and tear gas.
Sunday's protests saw some of the fiercest festivities yet between police and demonstrators since protests escalated in mid-June over a now-suspended extradition bill that would have allowed Hong Kong people to be sent to mainland China for trial.
Police fired water cannon and volleys of tear gas in running battles with brick-throwing protesters on Sunday, the second day of violent festivities in the Chinese-ruled city.
Six officers drew their pistols and one officer fired a warning shot into the air, police said in a statement. "The escalating illegal and violent acts of radical protesters are not only outrageous, they also push Hong Kong to the verge of a very dangerous situation," the government said in a statement. Setting the stage for PLA intervention. Tienanmen II
More demonstrations are planned in the days and weeks ahead, including a rally at Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways headquarters on Wednesday to protest against perceived "white terror", a common expression to describe anonymous acts that create a climate of fear.
Channel 13 reports that Israeli gov has stated: If Hezbollah attacks Israeli targets, the Lebanese government will be held responsible.#Lebanon#Israel [Knish]
[AAWSAT] A corruption case rocked the Interior Ministry in Damascus last week and prompted Interior Minister General Mohammad Rahmoun to make changes in his ministry, less than two months after replacing senior officers.
Ongoing investigations with Maj. Gen. Raed Khazim, Director of the Anti-Narcotics Department, and a number of officers, have revealed their involvement in replacing narcotics with non-narcotics to clear narcos and criminals, following the seizure of 83 kilograms of cocaine.
According to unofficial Syrian media close to the regime, investigations showed the involvement of officers of the interior ministry in overseeing the cultivation of cannabis in secret places. They were detained in Adra central prison pending investigation.
Syrian cannabis trade has been active during the war. Media activists in the opposition accuse the militias of the Lebanese Hezbollah and the military security branch of smuggling drugs and cannabis from the Bekaa in Leb to Syria through the border areas of Qalamoun in the Damascus countryside.
The opposition also accuses the regime’s militias of promoting narcotics among school students. Drug pills and cannabis are even sold publicly on the streets. They also confirm the involvement of influential regime figures and Hezbollah in promoting drugs in Syria.
Drugs are an important financial resource for Hezbollah, estimated at hundreds of millions of dollars, according to the US Drug Enforcement Administration.
Human rights sources following up the case in Damascus told Asharq al-Awsat that the defendants face corruption charges of more than 4 billion Syrian pounds (6.5 million dollars), worth 83 kilograms of cocaine, which were confiscated by the Drug Enforcement Authority.
During their arrest, the cocaine powder was replaced with flour to clear the defendants, who include government officials.
[KhaamaPress] The Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... group has warned that the group will target the sites, employees and subscribers of Salaam Telecommunication Company.
The group issued a statement accusing the telecom company of serving as an intelligence hub for the government and American forces.
The statement further added that the company collects information and share with the intelligence circles.
Furthermore, the group said it will target all sites, employees, vehicles, telecommunication towers of the company and will cut the fibre optics.
The group has also warned that it will take actions against anyone who possess the Salaam Telecom SIM Card.
back in the early days of cell phones when the Taliban ruled, they had a partnership with Afghan Wireless. They are still a provider of cell service in Afghanistan. They are among the largest employers in the country and work with the current govt on many joint projects.
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Emirati prompted move ? For spectrum allocation. The 'information' passed on by the Pak ISI, and enforcement undertaken by turbans. Clean business.
[KhaamaPress] An Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... killed the head of Kangaroo Courts of Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... in south-eastern Ghazni province, the local authorities said.
The Provincial Governor’s Office said in a statement that the security forces conducted an airstrike in Deh Yak district on Sunday.
The statement further added that the airstrike killed Fateh Khan, the head of Kangaroo Courts of Taliban in Andar, Deh Yak and Geru districts.
Furthermore, the Governor’s Office said the security forces conducted the airstrike in Bremzo area of the district.
The Governor’s Office also added in its statement that Fateh Khan was originally a resident of Khane Kala area of Andar district.
The Taliban group has not commented in this regard so far.
[AAWSAT] Syrian activists said Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s targeting the country's last major opposition stronghold, the northwestern province of Idlib, have killed three civilians, including a woman and her child.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the airstrikes hit the village of Basqala on the southern edge of Idlib.
The opposition's Syrian Civil Defense rescue group, also known as White Helmets, said its members helped treat the maimed and handed over the bodies of the dead to their families in Basqala.
Syrian regime forces have been on the offensive since April 30, during which they have captured all opposition-held areas in the adjoining Hama province, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported.
[DAWN] Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... on Monday took the nation into confidence on the government's strategy regarding Indian-Indian 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.... e through a national address, vowing that Pakistain "will go to any lengths" to support the cause of the oppressed Kashmiri people. "Squirrel!"
The premier started his address by saying that he wanted to share with the public the government's policy and stance in view of the existing situation in occupied Kashmir, whose special autonomy was revoked by the Indian government earlier this month. He said the time had come for Pakistain's Kashmir policy to take a "decisive" turn.
"When my government came into power, my first priority was to generate peace in the country. India and we share many problems; unemployment, inflation and climate change, etc.
"So we wanted to be friends with everyone [...] From the start of our term, we made many overtures for dialogue [to India] but there were always some problems. They (India) would look for opportunities to accuse Pakistain of terrorism," the prime minister said.
"First they had elections coming up, so we waited for that to be over, we thought when elections would be over, the situation will be different. Then Pulwama happened; a Kashmiri man went kaboom!.
"India, instead of introspecting, pointed fingers at us. After the elections, we saw that they tried their best to bankrupt Pakistain and tried to have Pakistain 'blacklisted' at FATF (Financial Action Task Force).
[BREITBART] Israel had been following the "killer drones" that 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... planned to use against it on Saturday night since they were flown into Syria from Tehran several weeks ago along with four members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IDF said Sunday.
The plan to attack was orchestrated by the IRGC’s Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani , the IDF chief of staff said.
The Iranian fighters intended to target northern Israel with the attack drones, each of which was packed with "several kilograms of explosives," IDF front man Jonathan Conricus said earlier in the day.
The IDF monitored the Iranian plot for "a number of weeks," Conricus said.
On Saturday around 11pm, Israel Air Force jets struck Iranian targets in the Syrian town of Aqraba, south of Damascus, thwarting an "imminent" UAV attack, the army said. According to war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, five personnel were killed in the strikes, two of whom were operatives for the Iranian proxy terror group Hezbollah and one a member of an Iranian militia. The other two have not been identified.
"The Israeli raids targeting Iranian and Hezbollah posts ... in the southeast of Damascus killed at least three people ‐ two from Hezbollah and a third who was Iranian," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.
"The strike targeted Iranian Quds Force operatives and Shiite militias which were preparing to advance attack plans targeting sites in Israel from within Syria over the last number of days," the IDF said in a statement.
[AAWSAT] The Iraqi president, prime minister and speaker of parliament condemned on Monday the attacks against the Popular Mobilization Forces, saying they were "hostile acts" that target the country.
President Barham Salih hosted Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi and PMF top brass to discuss the developments.
"These attacks are a blatant, hostile act that target Iraq," the presidency said in a statement, adding: "Iraqi illusory sovereignty and the wellbeing of its people are a red line."
It stressed the government would take all necessary steps to "deter aggressors and defend Iraq", but did not threaten a military response.
Among the attendees were PMF chief and national security advisor Faleh Fayyad, the head of the Badr Corps Hadi al-Ameri and the premier's chief of staff Mohammed al-Hashimi.
A string of incidents at PMF bases began in mid-July, when an Iraqi fighter was killed and two Iranians were maimed in shelling on a base in Iraq's Amerli region by "an unidentified drone," according to a statement by the Iraqi joint operations command.
On Sunday, an attack struck a position held by Brigade 45, a PMF unit based near Iraq's desertic western border with Syria, killing one fighter and severely wounding a second.
The Iraqi government has investigated some of the incidents, blaming an unidentified drone for one and saying another was a "premeditated" act without accusing any side or publishing the probes' full results.
Iraq's military front man Yehya Rasool told AFP on Monday the government had launched a new investigation into Sunday's attack.
Asked what diplomatic action Iraq could take, the foreign ministry told AFP it would wait for official conclusions before resorting to the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... .
[DAWN] As United States and Taliban ...Arabic for students... negotiators push to wrap up talks aimed at securing the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan, disagreement remains about whether a pact will mean an end to the holy warriors' fight with the US-backed Afghan government.
US and Taliban officials have been negotiating 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... since last year on an agreement centred on the withdrawal of US forces, and an end to their longest-ever war, in exchange for a Taliban guarantee that international Death Eater groups will not plot from Afghan soil.
US negotiators have been pressing the Taliban to agree to peace talks with the Kabul government and to a ceasefire, but a senior Taliban official said that would not happen. "We will continue our fight against the Afghan government and seize power by force," said the Taliban commander on condition of anonymity.
US President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... is impatient to get US forces out of Afghanistan and end the 18-year war that was launched after the Sept 11, 2001, attacks on the US.
[NYPOST] President Trump went on the defensive Monday, shooting down the idea that hosting a G-7 summit at his Miami golf resort would make him richer, telling news hounds, "I don’t want to make money."
"It’s not about me, it’s about getting the right location," Trump said at a closing G-7 presser, in response to a news hound’s question about him profiting from a possible gathering at the Trump National Doral.
"I don’t want to make money. I don’t care about making money."
During an earlier meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists... , the president gushed over his resort’s accommodations, including its proximity to Miami International Airport, in a pitch for why it’s a prime spot to host next year’s G-7 summit.
"They love the location of the hotel," the former real estate mogul said. "We haven’t found anything that’s even close to competing with it. Really you can be there in a matter of minutes after you land."
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Heck, unless the locals start preying on foreign tourist again, its been a prime vacation spot for Euros particularly during winter. Maybe a greater Canadian population concentration outside Ontario as well. On the other hand, given that those who do come are so often the target of their rapacious tax farmers, it might be as welcoming for them as setting up a Cuban embassy in Miami.
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Soon we will hear of how much they are charged and his hotel will make million, etc... The truth is he has to give all profit and gifts back to the Fed. And he does.
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[AAWSAT] 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... has sold the oil on the tanker Adrian Darya 1, which was detained by British Royal Marines in Gibraltar, and the owner of the oil will decide where the ship goes, announced an Iranian government front man.
Adrian Darya 1, formerly Grace 1, was released from detention mid-August after a five-week standoff over whether it was carrying oil to Syria in violation of Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union sanctions.
The Iranian tanker changed its destination for the third time after leaving Gibraltar last week and headed Sunday towards the Suez Canal.
The tanker, which was at the center of a confrontation between Washington and Tehran, is now heading towards the Canal and no longer recorded as heading to the port of Kalamata in southern Greece or the southern Ottoman Turkish port of Mersin, Refinitiv Eikon and Tankers Trackers shipping data showed on Monday.
The change of route comes after Iranian sources said it was possible the tanker will transfer 1 million barrels of its cargo to a second Iranian tanker to help it cross the Suez Canal.
Refinitiv also said that the tanker must get rid of about 700,000 barrels to 1 million barrels of its current shipment of 2.1 million barrels in order to be able to cross the Canal.
Tanker Trackers tweeted that an Iranian Suezmax, capable of carrying 1 million barrels, was tracked rushing north up the Red Sea.
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Democratic presidential candidate Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'... claimed that he’s "not going nuts," despite yet another gaffe at a campaign stop in New Hampshire.
Biden, 76, was at his second campaign stop of the day, after speaking at Dartmouth College.
"I want to be clear, I’m not going nuts," Biden told the crowd after forgetting where he had just given a speech a few hours earlier. "I’m not sure whether it was the medical school or where the hell I spoke. But it was on the campus," Biden added, according to a report from the Washington Examiner.
During a previous trip to the state Biden also mistook New Hampshire for Vermont, saying that "I love this place. Look, what’s not to like about Vermont in terms of the beauty of it? And what a neat town ... everybody has been really friendly. I like Keene a lot."
The blunders have lead to many questioning if the septuagenarian would be able to take on President Trump in the election, let alone run the White House.
[BREITBART] Border Patrol agents in the Yuma and El Paso Sectors seized methamphetamine and cocaine at interior immigration checkpoints recently re-opened after the downturn in illegal border crossings. Officials closed checkpoints in these sectors and others earlier this year to redirect resources to the border.
Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents assigned to the Interstate 8 Immigration Checkpoint on August 21 observed a gold Ford Explorer approaching for inspection. During the initial interview, a K-9 alerted to an odor it is trained to detect, according to information obtained from Yuma Sector Border Patrol officials. The agents referred the driver to a secondary inspection station.
A search revealed 55 packages of methamphetamine hidden inside the gas tank of the 2001 Explorer. Agents determined the weight of the drugs to be approximately 59 pounds and estimated the street value at more than $135,000, officials stated.
The following day, Welton Station agents conducted a traffic stop on a 2002 Dodge Durango as it traveled through Dome Valley, northeast of Yuma, officials reported. During an immigration interview, the agents discovered the U.S. citizen driver was allegedly smuggling four illegal immigrants colonists from Mexico. Officials say the Dome Valley route is an area where smugglers attempt to move their "cargo" in order to avoid the Interstate 8 checkpoint.
El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents assigned to the Texas Highway 62/180 Immigration Checkpoint on August 21, observed a 2005 Ford Expedition approaching for inspection. Agents report the driver of the vehicle, 32-year-old Raul Cortez of Odessa, Texas, appeared to be "excessively nervous" during the immigration interview. A K-9 carried out a "non-intrusive sniff" of the vehicle and alerted to an odor he is trained to detect, officials stated.
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I recently saw an interview with a BPA. He said that if the cartels were cleaned out, most of our drug and human trafficking problems would disappear.
[Rudaw] Military and politicians south of disputed Kirkuk disagree on who was behind a deadly attack in the area early Saturday morning, with some blaming 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 ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... ) and a prominent Turkmen politician calling it "political."
Arshad Salihi, head of the Iraqi Turkmen Front political party, said the attack near the Daquq town which left six Turkmen dead in a football stadium was a deliberate attack on the minority group. "Dafuq?"
"The Daquq attack was specifically against the Turkmen community," Salihi told Rudaw English. "Federal police need to send reinforcements to protect the Turkmen areas in Kirkuk."
Rockets fell on a football stadium in the Zain al-Abdeen village two kilometers east of Daquq late in the wee hours of Saturday morning. Six people were killed and four others were maimed in the incident.
Zain al-Abdeen residents are part of the Turkmen minority community and follow the Shiite variant of Islam. All the victims in Saturday’s attack were Shiite Turkmen. Daquq is 40 kilometers south of Kirkuk and in the province of the same name. The Kirkuk province is part of the territories claimed by both Erbil and Baghdad.
Salihi thinks that the attack was not ISIS, saying the group is not in Zain al-Abdeen. Instead, the attack was carried out to foment chaos in the disputed territories, according to him.
"Some agenda wants to spread instability in Kirkuk and other disputed areas through these kinds of attacks," Salihi said.
Salihi also said that the Iraqi Turkmen Front has demanded the Iraqi government send a team from the Ministry of the Interior to investigate the attack.
Others are blaming ISIS. Daquq Mayor Sheikh Lewis Findi said the attack was carried out by armed ISIS turbans.
"ISIS attacked Zain al-Abdeen village with light weapons, then shelled the village with three mortars," Lewis told Rudaw English on Monday. "The majority of the victims who bit the dust due to the attack were killed by the machine guns."
Lewis stated that five ISIS snuffies attacked the village wearing uniforms of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), also known as Hashd al-Shaabi. The PMF is a group of militias fighting ISIS, many of which are backed by Iran.
Zaki Kamal, head of the PMF’s Commando Battalion’s 16th in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... told Rudaw English on Monday that there are ISIS sleeper cells in many areas in the disputed territories, especially around Kirkuk and Daquq.
"The clearance operations in the disputed areas were very brief and that resulted in the creation of a security vacuum in the disputed territories," Kamal said on recent anti-ISIS operations in the area. "The security vacuum is helping the ISIS sleeper cells to attack the villages around Kirkuk and other disputed cities easily."
The PMF leader accuses ISIS of carrying out the attack in Daquq.
"Hashd al-Shaabi has one enemy: ISIS," said Kamal.
ISIS has not grabbed credit for Saturday’s attack on Zain al-Abdeen.
[AAWSAT] The Saudi embassy in Ankara and consulate in Istanbul succeeded, in cooperation with Ottoman Turkish security forces, in locating a Saudi tourist who was kidnapped by a Syrian gang last week.
Abir al-Enenzi was kidnapped on Wednesday soon after leaving a department store in Istanbul where she was on vacation with her family.
The Saudi embassy announced Monday that Abir was found and the necessary measures are underway to return her to the Kingdom.
Since receiving the notice of her abduction, the embassy and consulate worked tirelessly with Ottoman Turkish authorities to locate her, it said in a statement. She was found in good health on Monday in an area three hours outside of Istanbul.
The embassy and consulate are following up on the investigations into the case with Ottoman Turkish security agencies.
Sources at the embassy told Asharq al-Awsat that the tourist was kidnapped by a Syrian gang.
Over the weekend, her brother, Faisal posted a message he had received from the gang via the WhatsApp messaging app warning him against reporting the case to the police and asking for ransom.
While cooperating with the security forces, the brother went along with their instructions and agreed to meet up with the kidnappers for the trade. At the specified location, the police arrested one of the kidnappers who had shown up to receive the ransom. He soon confessed to the crime and escorted them to a house where a Syrian family was residing and where the victim was being held.
[DAWN] US President Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... said he was prepared to meet his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani ...Iran's moderate president, which he is, relative to his predecessor, which doesn't mean he's anything but a puppet of the nearest holy man... in the next few weeks after talks over Tehran's nuclear programme at a G7 summit in La Belle France.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif made a surprise appearance on the sidelines of the summit in Biarritz on Sunday at the invitation of French President Emmanuel Macron.
Macron said that the "conditions for a meeting" between Trump and Rouhani to take place "in the next few weeks" had been created through intensive diplomacy and consultations.
"If the circumstances were correct, I would certainly agree to that," Trump said at a joint presser with Macron.
Asked by news hounds if he thought the timeline proposed by his French counterpart sounded realistic, Trump replied: "It does", adding that he thought Rouhani would also be in favour.
"I think he's going to want to meet. I think 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... wants to get this situation straightened out," Trump added.
Trump has put in place a policy of "maximum pressure" on Tehran over its disputed nuclear programme via crippling sanctions that are seen as raising the risk of conflict in the Middle East.
Anbar (IraqiNews) al-Hashd al-Shaabi’s Leader in Anbar, 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 al-Obeidi, announced on Sunday that four members of 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.... group were killed, today, in the fourth phase of operation "Will of Victory" in the desert of Anbar.
In a press statement, Obeidi said that security forces from al-Hashd al-Shaabi carried out a proactive offensive, within Operation "Will of Victory 4", in several areas in the western desert of Anbar.
The offensive resulted in the killing of four members of the Islamic State group, he further added.
Obeidi also pointed out that accurate intelligence information allowed the security forces to kill the members of the terrorist group without inflicting any losses among their ranks, while indicated that the security forces are pursuing the terrorist group, backed by the army aviation.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) – An Iraqi paramilitary commander said on Monday that 10 hotbeds of the Islamic State militant group were destroyed during an ongoing military operation in the country.
“Security forces, backed by Iraqi warplanes, destroyed 10 Islamic State hideouts and killed all terrorists inside as part of the fourth phase of the Operation Will of Victory in the desert of Anbar on the Iraqi-Syrian border,” Qatari al-Obeidi, a senior commander of the Popular Mobilization Forces, told Iraq’s Almaalomah website.
The operation was carried out based on intelligence information, he said, adding that the security forces launched a wide-scale campaign to search for other IS hideouts in the area.
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[AAWSAT] Israeli aircraft carried out multiple strikes on 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's ruling Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", movement early Monday in response to earlier rocket fire from the improvised enclave into Israel, the army said in a statement.
Israeli authorities also announced a punitive reduction in the flow of fuel to the territory's main power station, meaning a deep cut in the already rationed electricity supply.
Three rockets were fired from Gaza into southern Israel on Sunday night, the Israeli army said.
"Three launches were identified from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory," it said in a statement. "Two of them were intercepted by the Iron Dome aerial defense system."
"In response, a short while ago, (Israeli air force) fighter jets struck a number of terror targets in a Hamas military compound in the northern Gaza Strip, including the office of a Hamas battalion commander," a statement Monday morning added.
A Paleostinian security source said there were no casualties.
Sunday’s fire from Gaza comes after Israel staged Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in Syria a day earlier against what it said were Iranian drones being readied to attack Israel. Two Israeli drones also crashed in Beirut’s southern suburbs.
A separate statement from Israeli defense ministry unit COGAT said the latest fuel cut to Gaza was personally ordered by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is also defense minister.
"Netanyahu ordered to downsize the transfer of fuel through the Kerem Shalom (border) crossing to the power station in Gaza by half, effective this morning and until further notice," it said in English.
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - U.S. disappointment with Zimbabwe's government keeps growing amid the heavy-handed response of authorities to any form of opposition, a senior State Department official said on Monday following a crackdown last week against protesters.
"The disappointment just keeps getting worse and worse, unfortunately," said the official, speaking on background to reporters. "The government seems to be getting even more violent in their response to any form of opposition."
The official said Washington had made clear to the government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa what it would take to improve relations between Zimbabwe and the United States. U.S. officials have previously called on Mnangagwa to change Zimbabwe's laws restricting media freedom and allowing protests.
Mnangagwa's government last week banned anti-government protests by the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, which accuses the authorities of political repression and mismanaging the economy. Police fired tear gas to disperse crowds and barred access to the MDC's Harare offices.
Anger among the population has mounted over triple-digit inflation, rolling power cuts and shortages of U.S. dollars, fuel and bread.
In March, President Donald Trump extended by one year U.S. sanctions against 100 entities and individuals in Zimbabwe, including Mnangagwa, saying his government had failed to bring about political and economic changes.
Make no mistake, UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson and our very own Henry Kissinger were the architects of Rhodesia's doom. Robert Mugabe showed such unlimited potential. The late Ian Smith predicted the outcome many decades ago.
[Business Insider] A mysterious explosion at a Russian weapons testing site earlier this month released various radioactive isotopes, creating a cloud of radioactive gases that swept across a nearby town, the country's state weather agency said Monday, and experts said the mixture removes all doubt about what blew up.
The deadly August 8 blast at the Nyonoksa military weapons testing range released a handful of rapidly decaying radioactive isotopes ‐ strontium-91, barium-139, barium-140, and lanthanum-140 ‐ which have half-lives ranging from 83 minutes to 12.8 days, the Roshydromet national weather and environmental monitoring agency said in a statement on test samples. Inform Vlad that the DARPA Lofty Particle Beam Destructor (LPBD) was set on 'STUN.' Please discontinue any further testing.
"These are fission products," Joshua Pollack, a leading expert on nuclear and missile proliferation, told Insider. "If anyone still doubts that a nuclear reactor was involved in this incident, this report should go a long way toward resolving that."
Alexander Uvarov, the editor of the independent news site AtomInfo.ru, told the news agency RIA Novosti that these isotopes were products of nuclear fission involving uranium, Agence France-Presse reported Monday. This collection of radioisotopes could be released by a reaction involving uranium-235.
Nils Bohmer, a Norwegian nuclear-safety expert, told The Barents Observer that "the presence of decay products like barium and strontium is coming from a nuclear chain reaction," adding that it was evidence that it "was a nuclear reactor that exploded."
[DAWN] As part of the government’s renewed efforts to eradicate polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain... , anti-polio campaigns are set to start in various parts on the country ‐ including Lahore, Khyber Pakhtunkhawa and Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... ‐ on Monday. The campaigns of various lengths will span over the next 7 days.
Previous attempts at such campaigns and use of the anti-polio vaccine have been met with resistance amongst some parts of the country which has led to many children not being vaccinated against the disease.
This lack of control has caused Pakistain to be one of three remaining nations ‐ the other two being Afghanistan and Nigeria ‐ that are still fighting polio.
Most recently, five new cases of polio have brought the total number up to 58 this year. This indicating a sharp increase of 383.33 per cent from last year’s figure of 12.
Last week, Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... showed "serious concern" over the recent spike in polio cases in the country and directed federal and provincial government officials to undertake effective awareness and immunisation campaigns so that the disease can be kept in check.
The premier also announced that he will start leading the polio programme from November.
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Who are these fucking idiots trying to rid communities in Pakistain and Nigeria of widespread diseases ? Isn't it their right to refuse to be treated and just die out ? Save the world some carbon too, if you believe all that.
"I have prepared this vaccine now. I must give it to someone !!" - Dr. Teastormcup.
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If you've ever seen a person living in an iron lung, believe me it's the worst.
Seeing a picture isn't the same as people probably can't believe it, but taking care of a person locked in this machine living and breathing was worse than any torture chamber.
Believe me I'd rather be 'sterile or have a small pee pee' than this torturous life.
Terrorists probably would die before getting to the point of needing the iron lung.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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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.
[Epoch Times] More than 2 1/2 years after President Donald Trump assumed office, focus on actions taken during the 2016 presidential campaign is starting to shift toward the CIA and its former director, John Brennan.
[BBC] Rare photographs of the king of Thailand's newly-anointed consort have been released by the palace, reportedly causing its website to crash.
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[BREITBART] A Pak doctor who blamed his sexual assault on a student nurse on the different "cultural norms" of his home country has been allowed to return to work.
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
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[NYPOST] A Pennsylvania mother is facing charges after her son was reported missing but was found home alone surrounded by bundles of heroin ‐ what he called "Mommy’s medicine," according to new reports.
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[TheSun] The idiotic killer was targeting allied forces after the Battle for Mosul in northern Iraq.
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[IsraelTimes] But official says plan for 300-home neighborhood in Dolev is not new; directive from Netanyahu latest example of building beyond Green Line in response to Paleostinian terrorism.
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[NYPOST] Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.) said Monday that he is eyeing a run for the US Senate in 2020, a move that would set up a major Democratic primary fight against Sen. 
[BREITBART] An off-duty Baltimore school police officer and a retired Department of Corrections officer shot and killed an armed man who allegedly attempted to rob them on Saturday night.
...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 
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...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
[AAWSAT] Days after a devastating flood swallowed up his village, Alsediq Abdelqader bulled his truck through the waters in a desperate attempt to locate his small house north of the Sudanese capital.
[AAWSAT] A corruption case rocked the Interior Ministry in Damascus last week and prompted Interior Minister General Mohammad Rahmoun to make changes in his ministry, less than two months after replacing senior officers.
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...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
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...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as 
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[BREITBART] Border Patrol agents in the Yuma and El Paso Sectors seized methamphetamine and cocaine at interior immigration checkpoints recently re-opened after the downturn in illegal border crossings. Officials closed checkpoints in these sectors and others earlier this year to redirect resources to the border.
...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 
...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 
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - U.S. disappointment with Zimbabwe's government keeps growing amid the heavy-handed response of authorities to any form of opposition, a senior State Department official said on Monday following a crackdown last week against protesters.
[Business Insider] A mysterious explosion at a Russian weapons testing site earlier this month released various radioactive isotopes, creating a cloud of radioactive gases that swept across a nearby town, the country's state weather agency said Monday, and experts said the mixture removes all doubt about what blew up.
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain...
