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[ArmsControlWonk] On September 14, several explosions rocked the Khurais oilfield as well as the Abqaiq refinery, one of Saudi Arabia’s most vital petrochemical installations. Several hours later, the Houthis claimed that they had targeted both facilities with ten drones as part of their "Balance of Deterrence" campaign.
What made this attack different from other recorded Houthi drone attacks was not only the unprecedented amount of material damage caused but also lingering doubt about the nature and the attribution of the attack. First, a video allegedly showing flying objects entering Kuwaiti airspace led to speculation that like a previous "Houthi" drone attack this strike might actually have originated in Iraq or even Iran. While the video remains unverified, the fact that the Kuwaiti government launched a probe into the issue lends some credence to the idea that something might have happened over Kuwait that day. Speculation about the origins of the attack was further fueled by a tweet by Mike Pompeo in which he claimed that there was no evidence the attacks came from Yemen.
Then the question arose whether drones had been used at all, or whether the attack might in fact have been a missile strike. Previous Houthi drone strikes against oil facilities tended to result in quite limited damage which could be an indication that a different weapons system was used this time. Indeed, Aramco came to the conclusion that its facilities were attacked by missiles. Even more curious, several pictures began to emerge on social media purportedly showing the wreckage of a missile in the Saudi desert. While the images appear real, neither the date the photos were taken nor their location can be verified. Social media users quickly claimed the images showed a crashed Iranian-made Soumar cruise missile. The Soumar and its updated version, the Hoveyzeh, are Iran’s attempts at reverse-engineering the Soviet-designed KH-55 cruise missile, several of which the country illegally imported from Ukraine in the early 2000s. Others claimed it was the Quds 1, a recently unveiled Houthi cruise missile often claimed to be a rebranded Soumar.
Obviously this is our fault for leaving the nuke pact, /sarc
[Express UK] The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation is reporting another ship has been seized in the gulf. Correspondent Amochai Stein said on Twitter: "Iran has seized another oil vessel in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran's Revolutionary Guard arrests a vessel and 11 crew on 'diesel smuggling charges'."
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oil up about $6/barrel to $62 as of this post
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These acts against Saudi refineries and ME shipping gives Iran much needed revenue via higher oil prices on the black market.
[Jpost] Former director of Germany’s foreign intelligence service, Dr. August Hanning said Merkel created a "security crisis” for Germany and the other member states of the European Union. NO, Reeeaaallly?
'Several other terrorists emerged from the building but immediately surrendered and began panicking as two of the bodies didn’t have heads – they thought they were about to be executed.'
I confess I laughed at that. Does that make me a bad person?
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An M1014 firing a 2¾ inch 12 gauge shell filled with 9 hardened steel and antimony 00 buckshot bearings ? A double tap from that should be called a 'double whammy'.
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Get a feeling why WWI Germans (you know the guys who let loose the gas genie) wanted an international law against the thing. They got a up close and personal experience when the Yanks got into the trenches. American never signed on.
[IsraelNationalNews] The Central Elections Committee issued an injunction Sunday night against the left-wing NGO Zazim's initiative to bus 15,000 Arab voters to voting booths on election day, ruling that the initiative is in violation of the election laws.
The injunction came following a petition submitted by the Likud arguing that Zazim, which is heavily funded by the US-based New Israel Fund, is violating the election the laws.
In 2017, the Knesset passed the "V15" law aimed at preventing foreign funded non-party political organizations from interfering in the elections. The law was passed following the efforts of V15, a US-funded group, which actively worked to defeat Prime Minister Netanyahu in the 2015 national elections. You think this is Chicago?
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[2016] The US government supported a group that tried to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last year to the tune of nearly $350,000, or NIS 1.3 million, a Senate inquiry published Tuesday found, though it cleared the State Department of any wrongdoing. The bipartisan probe found no illegal activity in funding the OneVoice group, which became the V15 campaign to oust Netanyahu, though its report chided the State Department for having failed to prevent state funds being used, albeit legally and indirectly, to influence an allied country’s internal political process.
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"0" and Zero are inaccurate. The correct title is Shit Midas.
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Bless you for having a better memory than mine, Chereting Pelosi1889! A search of the Rantburg archives for V15 turned up nothing useful; a search of OneVoice is much more fruitful — see here.
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Huh. Amusing.
O Hauptamt of Heimat Security,
Thou hotbed of grace and demurity,
The place where the finer
Folk keep us in line,
Er, woke: Help me to etch your maturity!
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the situation was “immediately referred” to the Office of the Inspector General and “is currently being investigated to ensure that swift and corrective action is taken.”
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Interesting how little info on the crime is in the report.
Was it on a piece of paper pinned to a bulletin board or drawn on the bathroom wall? Did there appear to be a target or was it found in or near the trash? Was it part of a case someone in the department is working on and simply fell out of a folder? Different details lead to different possible answers.
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Sources inside the department confide that investigators have discovered an unprecedented, "possibly infinite," number of crosshairs, swastikas, and "several other symbols." The emblems are reportedly so cleverly encoded as to be almost invisible to a casual observer. One official praised the employee who first noticed the offensive patterns: "These things had been there for a while, maybe even since the construction of the building, and might have gone unnoticed indefinitely if this very alert HR person, apparently a crossword afficionado, hadn't been unusually constipated."
[IsraelNationalNews] A fire that destroyed a historic synagogue in northeastern Minnesota last week does not appear to have been a hate crime, authorities said Sunday, according to The Associated Press. "Some people did something"
Matthew James Amiot, 36, of Duluth, was arrested Friday in the fire last week at the Adas Israel Congregation in downtown Duluth.
The city’s police chief, Mike Tusken, said at a news conference on Sunday that he has no reason to believe the fire was a hate crime, although the investigation is ongoing.
Police are recommending that prosecutors charge Amiot, who has no permanent address, with first-degree arson. A criminal complaint is expected to be filed mid-week, he said.
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Once again, the proximate cause us copycattism.
We really need to stop publicizing these events, or at least publicizing details about the perpetrators of such crimes. Treat them the way we treat suicides: deny 'glory' or fame to the perp, and watch as copycat behavior declines sharply.
[Jpost] U.S. President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... said on Sunday he authorized the release of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) if needed in a quantity to be determined because of Saturday's attack on Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... 's oil facilities.
"Based on the attack on Saudi Arabia, which may have an impact on oil prices, I have authorized the release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, if needed, in a to-be-determined amount sufficient to keep the markets well-supplied," Trump said on Twitter.
"I have also informed all appropriate agencies to expedite approvals of the oil pipelines currently in the permitting process in Texas and various other States."
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"I have also informed all appropriate agencies to expedite approvals of the oil pipelines currently in the permitting process in Texas and various other States."
Are we sure it wasn’t acquired when oil was $100/bbl? But it probably is a good idea to draw down reserves anyway, given we can just ramp up production at need — reduce maintenance spending at a time when the budget contains entirely too many unnecessary running costs.
[Jpost] 19 people suspected holy warriors were arrested throughout the night in the West Bank. They were transferred to security forces for further questioning.
[Jpost] Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,gunnies stopped Paleostinians from infiltrating Israel, according to reports from 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... A Hamas border patrol stopped two Paleostinians from entering Israel from the Rafah area in the south
[Jpost] A rigged car went kaboom! near a hospital in the Syrian town of al-Rai
...in the Euphrates Shield area in Aleppo province, which is controlled by Turkey...
at the border with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... on Sunday, killing 10 people and wounding 15, the local council and a medical worker said.
The blast also caused damage in the hospital, said a statement from the council of the town, which lies in a part of northwest Syria under the control of Turkey-backed rebels.
Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency said 12 non-combatants were killed after a "terror kaboom" near the frontier.
[Townhall] The clownish antics of Tex Kennedy, that drunk driving furry and El Paso punchline, are much less funny now that he is promising to convert millions of Americans into felons and send armed government agents to their homes to steal their constitutionally-guaranteed property.
...There are 20 million scary fake "assault weapons" out there in the safest of all possible hands ‐ that of American citizens for use in defending themselves, their families, their communities and their Constitution. How many of them were used this year by scumbags to hurt other people in the mass shootings that get exponentially more coverage than the blue city bloodbaths that are exponentially worse?
We had what? Two recent incidents? Two? In Chicago, two shooting incidents is a slow hour. Two in 20 million ‐ I like those odds.
...The harsh fact is that when you send people with weapons to steal other people’s stuff there’s a huge potential for violence ‐ especially if 1) the intended victims strongly (and correctly) believe that they have the Constitutional right to do what they are doing, and because 2) by definition, the people being oppressed have guns. Eric Garner was just trying to peddle some loose cigs and the cops killed him ‐ when you pass a law you resolve to use force to enforce it, and whenever you use force there’s a risk someone ends up in a body bag. Beto is willing to take that risk. Are you?
...So, the question remains ‐ a question our much-worse betters most definitely do not want you asking because its answer will make every Normal American less likely to support our garbage elite’s scheme. The question, you furry freak and all you bloodthirsty leftist Venezuelaphiles, is how many Americans are you willing to see die to realize your dream of an America composed of disarmed serfs?
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Abu, Lex, IMO that you seeing is the difference between intellectual and emotional understanding. Intellectually he knows that you (deplorable, gun clingers) exist and must be fooled - just like his elders been fooling you. But, emotionally, he been so isolated from dissenting opinions is that you're not real.
This, by the way explains left-wing students/faculty response to right wing speakers. Sure they talk incessantly about white supremacists etc... But that's their analog of ghosts and ghoulies stories. And, suddenly, they have to confront a ghoul! Sure they run scared.
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[PJMedia] On Saturday, The New York Times ran a story repeating allegations that Brett Kavanaugh was drunk at a party in college and had his genitals thrust into a woman's face. The allegation has not been confirmed, and friends of the alleged victim say she has no recollection of the events.The man telling the story, Max Stier, represented Bill and Hillary Clinton in the 1990s when Bill Clinton was accused of exposing himself to a woman in a hotel room.
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There are certain members of the national media for which I'd have no problem thrusting my genitals in their face. Okay, maybe a lot of them, and just the chicks...
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How come gays get equal rights under the 14th but public figures do not, as in different standards of libel between public and private persons? /rhet question.
If all other 'capitalists' are to be held accountable for the failure of their product or service why should the media as part of a conglomerate infotainment industry be exempt from shoddy merchandise?
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The big joke - well, one of many big absurdities of this whole shitshow - is that Kavanaugh isn't even a hard-right conservative. In his last post, he shared the bench with none other than Merrick Garland, and Kavanaugh voted the same way as his fellow Judge Garland ninety-seven percent of the time.
97% parity with Obama's pick. And he's supposed to be Satan Mussolini.
What a repulsive circus this is.
An obscene, outlandish, rolling shitshow designed to distract us all from the fact of our elites' obvious mental deformities.
The New York Times added this correction late last night:
Editors’ Note: Sept. 15, 2019
An earlier version of this article, which was adapted from a forthcoming book, did not include one element of the book's account regarding an assertion by a Yale classmate that friends of Brett Kavanaugh pushed his penis into the hand of a female student at a drunken dorm party. The book reports that the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say that she does not recall the incident. That information has been added to the article.
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The New York Times does redeem itself inasmuch as its book reviewer yesterday panned the book, concluding that the book’s impact was counterproductive. It made Justice Kavanaugh look admirable and quite normal instead of disgusting. according to PJ Media.
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The New York Times does redeem itself inasmuch as its book reviewer yesterday panned the book, concluding that the book’s impact was counterproductive.
That's like Tom Hagen chastising Sonny Corleone for being a brute.
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I mean, Tom Hagen = NYT and Sonny Corleone = Pogrebin & Kelly. Hagen the operator is more subtle thus more effective but no less wicked than Sonny the thug.
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I wish their was a way to graph how this sort of thing shifts the votes. I'm betting a lot of folks are shifting rightward with each fake accusation.
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a way to graph how this sort of thing shifts the votes.
Rasmussen has graphs that one need only match to events. Queerly enough, President Trump’s equally polarizing predecessor graphed about the same at this stage of his presidency.
Monday, September 16, 2019
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-nine percent (49%) disapprove.
The latest figures include 35% who Strongly Approve of the job Trump is doing and 41% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -6. (see trends).
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#15 The big joke - well, one of many big absurdities of this whole shitshow - is that Kavanaugh isn't even a hard-right conservative. In his last post, he shared the bench with none other than Merrick Garland, and Kavanaugh voted the same way as his fellow Judge Garland ninety-seven percent of the time.
Ever notice how the conservative commentariat always wants to go to the mattresses for squishes like Kavanaugh or Kevin Williamson, etc. while throwing the Covington kids under the bus?
It's a big club and you ain't in it.
Also, what does it say about Justice Kavanuagh's judgement that he still has a bunch of female law clerks in direct violation of the Pence Rule?
Does anyone smarter than a flatworm doubt that sooner or later one of these women will #MeToo him for the book deals and the dinner party invitations?
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I think people start to smell the garbage without teh retraction after awhile. It starts to repel and they lose the benefit of the doubt on the next one.
[Asia Times] Events in the Arabian Peninsula have upstaged the Israeli elections, supposedly the big story of the week.
The confrontation between Iran and its allies and Saudi Arabia and its allies is on the verge of boiling over into overt warfare.
Attacking the Saudi oil infrastructure is the equivalent of attacking the heart of a living creature – it is the source of its existence as a country. It is not yet clear if the drones came from Iran’s Houthi proxies in Yemen, from Iran itself or from Iraq. What is clear is that Iran is directly or indirectly responsible for the attack, which is a clear and blatant act of war.
If the drones came from Iraq, that would be another Iranian proxy — Iran is awfully fond of coming at a problem from two sides...
Edit late afternoon:
Asked if he has promised the Saudis he will protect them: “No, I haven’t promised the Saudis that," replies @POTUS. "We have to sit down with the Saudis and work something out.”
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My, an incident that gives neocons everything they wanted? Amazing how well it worked out. Now we have to start a war, it's the only choice?
Conflict initiation is tough, said Bolton.
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Sure Erb. It's obviously a false-flag Sooper Sekret Op by our NeoCon Warmongering Mil-Industrial Complex™.
Macro F7, idiot
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I'd start to suspect Herb is actually Tyler Durden from ZeroHedge, but Tyler let's other rabid droolers write most of the copy over there. So who are you actually, Herb? Kunstlerhead or Danny Sjerkoff?
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Every time I see some liberal/chickenshit paleoconservative/chickenshit libertarian taking Herb's line of thought I have to bite my lip because actually getting pieces of my life back relies on the plurality of decisionmakers in this country being that exact sort of vicious retard, leading to a massive increase in the price of oil.
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I wasn't. Ordered liberty requires, y'know, order.
A complex capitalist economy requires clear and extensive rules backed up by the enforcement mechanism of a strong state. Anyone who's ever worked in a wild-west cowboy-capitalist environment knows that market capitalism requires extensive regulation for its own sake.
Libertarianism is idiocy. Adolescent drivel that's been successfully exploited by cheats, market manipulators and predatory pricing monopolists.
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Instead of making shit up about me, like leftists do, how about a little skepticism regarding an event that is everything the neocon warmongers wanted?
Personal attacks aren't arguments.
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It would help to know who are these warmongers first. Any theory with an intangible 'they' is unhealthy tinfoil hat stuff. You think the attacks were carried out by American proxies, is that it ?
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Iran wants a war because the Mullahs actually believe — as Osama bin Laden did — that this will force Allah to step up on their side, conquering the infidels for them.
Separately, it is very interesting that President Trump just openly said he is discussing a mutual defense treaty with Israel, but there is nothing like that at this time for the Saudis — an open “make me an offer” gambit. Good find, 3dc.
Incidentally, a friend of a friend, who is Israeli, apparently will be voting for Bibi Netanyahu this time — though he loathes him — precisely because he believes their friendship will benefit Israel’s security. And I’ve been seeing more and more quiet admissions on this side of the pond that the writer will choose Trump this time because it is clearly necessary, regardless of personal dislike. The latest voted for Evan McMullin last time.
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at 15, I had saved about $8,000 from my own little business. At that time, interest rates were about 14% and mortgage rates were even higher, and inflation was also in double digits. I remember, because I put my $$ in a passbook savings account which of course earned less than the banks' lending rate.
When I graduated from HS, the unemployment rate in my metro area was close to 25%. My father was working several jobs. Our thermostat was set to 62 degrees in the winter in a state bordering Canada.
So yeah, I paid VERY close attention to all the ways that an economy, including a capitalist economy, can get seriously f---ed up. And no, it wasn't because of the evil government, it was mainly - in our patch - due to the combined incompetence of idiot management and greedy bolshevik labor unions. I've never believed that anyone, not "entrepreneurs" or managers or anyone else, has any lock on wisdom.
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Iran wants a war because the Mullahs actually believe — as Osama bin Laden did — that this will force Allah to step up on their side, conquering the infidels for them.
Too complicated. Foreign wars are a test of resolve, especially for Western democracies thousands of miles away. Based on their current military capabilities, without Western intervention, the Iranians can unify the Middle East (ex Israel) under their rule. The only thing that stands in the way is Pax Americana. The invasion of Kuwait came close to not being reversed. The Congressional vote was pretty close. It was approved in the House 250-183 and 52-47 in the Senate. If the expedition hadn't occurred, Iraq would encompass all of the Arab Middle East east of the Suez today.
Iran now faces a president who is unwilling to use force against it - the second in a row over its repeated armed provocations. This is a president who won't even act to evict a leader of a Venezuela that is facing famine and mass unrest. I'd say they're probing their way forward and will push until they meet resistance. No divine intervention expected, although it would obviously be welcome.
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Another way of putting this is that the world views of the West are not the world views of the non-West. The non-West has adopted the technologies of the West without adopting its weltanschaaung. For the non-West, territorial acquisition for personal glory and eternal fame is not some kind of dastardly crime. How many Iraqis really regret the invasion of Kuwait except for the part where Uncle Sam evicted them?
[BREITBART] On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s "AM Joy," House Judiciary Committee member Sheila Jackson Lee ......the clownish U.S. Representative-for-life for Texas's 18th congressional district, serving since 1995. The district includes most of inner-city Houston. She is noted for her lack of tact and intellect. She is a member of the Democratic Party, and almost its epitome...... (D-TX) stated that the Judiciary Committee is "digging for dirt investigating so that we can propagandize educate the public, but as well, find all the facts that may be relevant to then writing the articles of impeachment." AM Joy is always a clusterfark of racialist stoopid.
Jackson Lee said, "We’re investigating so that we can propagandize educate the public, but as well, find all the facts that may be relevant to then writing the articles of impeachment. Which, by the way, that is what will go to the floor of the House for a vote."
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[JPOST] Less than 24 hours after a major attack by at least 10 drones or cruise missiles on key Saudi oil facilities, the rhetoric in the Middle East is heating up and the region appears to be on the brink of conflict.
After US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... spoke to Soddy Arabia
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[KhaamaPress] An Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... killed the shadow governor of Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... for Samangan and his comrades, the Afghan military said.
The 209th Shaheen Corps said in a statement that the security forces conducted the airstrike close to Tuqsan Village in Dara-e Suf Payeen district earlier today.
The statement further added that the airstrike killed Mawlavi Nooruddin, the shadow governor of Taliban for Samangan and his comrades.
Furthermore, the 209th Shaheen Crops said Mawlavi Nooruddin was on his way to Tuqsan Village when the security forces targeted his vehicle at around 9 am local time.
[KhaamaPress] The security forces carried out Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s against Talibs in 4 provinces in the past 24 hours, the military officials said.
The officials further added that an airstrike in Qarabagh district of Ghazni province killed 1 Taliban ...Arabic for students... krazed killer.
Furthermore, an airstrike killed 3 Talibs in Baghlan-e Jadid district of Baghlan province, the officials added.
The security forces conducted another airstrike in Chimtal district of Balkh which killed 2 Talibs, the officials said, adding that a similar airstrike in Gurziwan district of Faryab killed 2 Talibs.
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where's Besoeker these days; he seems to be on a hiatus?
As Frank G says, he is bumming around Europe, which will no doubt add direct observations to his comments on his return. But then, I am recovering from the better part of a week in Las Vegas before driving down to visit trailing daughter #2 and her no longer new husband for the last quarter of this month, which has impacted my own contributions here. Fortunately, Rantburg is a group project.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces killed at least 20 Talibs during an operation in western Farah province of Afghanistan.
The military officials said Sunday that the Special Forces conducted the raid in Anar Darah district of the province.
The officials further added that the Special Forces also destroyed a cache of weapons belonging to Taliban ...Arabic for students... The security situation in Farah province has tanked during the recent months.
Talibs are active in some districts of the province and often conduct terrorist related activities.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella went down under the weight of the custard... the Afghan forces routinely conduct counter-terrorism operations against the anti-government gangs in this province.
The U.S. forces also conduct regular Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in restive parts of the country to suppress Taliban and other anti-government hard boys.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan and U.S. forces conducted counter-terrorism operations in South-eastern Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... province, killing or wounding at least 120 Talibs.
The 203rd Thunder Corps said the Afghan cops conducted the operations with the support of U.S. air power in Warmama district.
The statement further added that the security forces killed at least 90 Talibs during the operations and maimed at least 20 others.
Furthermore, the 203rd Thunder Corps said the security forces also destroyed 23 cycle of violences, a tractor and some weapons during the operations.
[ToloNews] Officials said the incident happened on Sunday when the two pylons were blown up by explosives.
Electric power imported from Uzbekistan was drastically cut in 11 Afghan provinces, including Kabul, after "anti-government armed Death Eaters destroyed two power pylons in the northern province of Baghlan," according to a statement by the power supply company De Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS).
"The incident happened approximately at 10 a.m. on Sunday when the two pylons were blown up by explosives," DABS front man Wahidullah Tawhidi said.
A large portion of the electricity is used by factories in Kabul’s industrial parks in the east of the city.
Power transmission lines in Afghanistan have been damaged many times over the past year.
The Taliban militants destroyed three power pylons in Baghlan province, cutting electricity supply to several provinces including Kabul.
Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat, the State-run power company said in a statement that the militants destroyed the power pylons in in Balak Mirzad Hasan Tal Village of Baghlan.
The statement further added that the militants detonated improvised explosive devices near the power pylons, cutting electricity supply to Kabul and several other provinces in the South and South-east.
The power company also added that the militants had earlier destroyed power pylons in Dand-e Shahabuddin of Baghlan and Buz Kandahari of Kunduz province.
Meanwhile, the company stated that the technical staff are busy reconnecting the power transmission lines.
[Sudan Tribune] The Constitutional Declaration will not be amended to include representatives of the gangs in the transitional government before reaching a comprehensive peace agreement, said a leading figure in the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) on Sunday.
On 11 September 2019, a Sudanese government and the gangs signed "The Juba Declaration of Confidence Building Measures and the Preparation for Negotiation".
Regarding the demand of the gangs to participate in the transitional administration, the government delegation pledged to give its response in the next meeting.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... FFC official Munzir Abul Maali told Sudan Tribune that reopening of the constitutional document is tied to achieving peace with all armed movements and not some of them.
In separate statements, Yasir al-Atta, member of the Sovereign Council, hinted at the possibility of increasing members of the collegial presidential body and the government or maintaining the current number and the replacement of current members by representatives of the armed movements.
Al-Atta further said it was possible to create a new post in the transitional government for a deputy prime minister if it is necessary before to add "We will negotiate with FFC to reach required consensus on all issues".
Article 69 of the Constitutional Document provides that the comprehensive peace agreements signed between the Transitional Authority and the armed movements shall be included in this Constitutional Document in accordance with its provisions.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Russian ground forces are amassing in the southern countryside of the Idlib Governorate, the Turkish-backed militants told the Reuters News Agency this past week.
According to the spokesperson for the Turkish-backed National Army, Major Yousef Hammoud, the Russian ground forces and “Iranian militias” are preparing for a new offensive in the southern countryside of the Idlib Governorate; he did not provide any more details.
“The amassing of Iranian militias and Russian ground troops are all signals that something is being prepared for a new offensive,” he said.
However, despite these claims by the Turkish-backed militants, there are no Iranian militias in the southern countryside of the Idlib Governorate.
Furthermore, a source from the Syrian Arab Army said the arrival of Russian troops in southern Idlib has nothing to do with any operation, but rather, their need to fulfill their checkpoint quota near the demilitarized zone.
The Syrian Arab Army, however, is preparing to launch a new offensive against the militants in the Al-Ghaab Plain and northeastern countryside of Latakia.
For the last three weeks, the Syrian Army has been mobilizing their forces at these fronts for the upcoming operations.
The Syrian Army has already begun striking the militant positions in both areas, but they have yet to begin their storming operation.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Egyptian President ’Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said on Saturday at a conference in Cairo that the events which led to the war in Syria were planned by terrorist organizations that sought to destroy the country, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported.
According to SANA, Sisi made these comments during the National Youth Conference, dubbed "Evaluating the Local and Regional Counter-Terrorism Experience".
The Egyptian President allegedly told the audience that terrorism was used to achieve political goals away from international legitimacy.
In particular, Sisi pointed out how terrorism was used to target and destroy the countries of Syria and Libya.
He emphasized that a conventional war cannot destroy a state, but terrorism can do so.
Sisi said that without the existence of sponsors that adopt and back terrorism, this phenomenon would not have spread and succeeded in such way.
"The phenomenon of international terrorism is a monster that has become out of the control of those who launched it," the Egyptian President concluded.
While Sisi and Assad have not formally met, diplomatic relations between Syria and Egypt have been strong since the Egyptian leader took office.
Egypt has played a major role in advocating and promoting a peaceful solution in Syria, as Sisi has allowed several meetings between the Syrian government and opposition to take place within his country.
[DAWN] Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... issued a decree Sunday granting amnesty and reducing sentences for all crimes committed before Sept. 14, state news agency SANA said.
Similar amnesties have been issued on several occasions most recently last year since Syria's crisis began in March 2011.
According to Sunday's pardon, life-long terms would replace death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... s, and a 20-year-long sentence at hard labour would replace life-long sentences at hard labour, and a 20-year sentence would replace long-life sentences.
Prisoners with incurable diseases including cancer would be freed, it said.
The decree stipulated granting a general amnesty for military deserters who turn themselves in within 3 months for those inside the country, and 6 months for those outside the country.
Also Sunday, Assad received Russia's Special Envoy to Syria Alexander Lavrentiev and its Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin, a day before a trilateral summit in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... that will include the leaders of Russia, Turkey and Iran in which Syria will be the main focus of talks.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) ‐ The Iraqi army destroyed on Sunday an arms depot 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.... bad boy group in the eastern province of Diyala, a security source said.
"Iraqi warplanes destroyed a warehouse that was used by Islamic State bully boyz for storing weapons in al Miqdadiyah district, about 30 km northeast of Baquba, the capital of Diyala," the source told Iraqi news website Mawazin News.
"Four boom belts, four bombs and eight missiles were found inside the hotbed," the source said, adding that all the explosives were destroyed in the operation.
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djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi police announced on Sunday that four 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.... bandidosbully boyz were arrested during a security operation in Mosul city.
The four turbans were nabbed in al Haramat district in the western side of Mosul, Nineveh Police Chief Brigadier General Hamad al-Jabouri told Iraq’s privately-owned IKH News website.
"Three of them were members of Islamic State’s Jund (soldiers) diwan and fought against security forces during the security operations to liberate Mosul from terrorism," he added.
All legal procedures were taken against the arrestees, he noted.
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The marriage of convenience appears no longer convenient. Perhaps this is why Russia announced the war was done.
[Rudaw] Syria's foreign ministry claimed in a letter to the UN late on Sunday that the Kurdish-led, multi-ethnic Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are operating in northeast Syria as per US and Israel "schemes," and threatened to take back "every inch" of territory from what it called a "terrorist" militia group.
The ministry claimed the SDF is committing "terrorist and criminal exercises" against Syrian people in Hasakah, Raqqa, Deir ez-Zor and Aleppo with the military, financial and political support of the US in a letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... (UN) and the President of the Security Council.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Pak Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer... has warned of "consequences" if his nuclear-armed country were to end up losing a conventional war to its similarly nuclear-armed neighbour India.
Pakistain’s prime minister discussed his government’s foreign and domestic policies in an interview with Al Jazeera on 14 September.
When asked if Pakistain would hit India with nuclear weapons in case of a large-scale conflict, Khan first ruled out his country initiating the attack.
"Pakistain would never start a war, and I am clear: I am a pacifist. I am anti-war," he said. They have a rather loose definition of "never starting a war," however. However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... Khan added that when two nuclear-armed states "fight a conventional war, there is every possibility that it is going to end up in a nuclear war."
"If say Pakistain, God forbid, we are fighting a conventional war, we are losing, and if a country is stuck between the choice: either you surrender or you fight ’til death for your freedom ‐ I know Paks will fight to death for their freedom," said Pakistain’s PM.
Khan has repeatedly warned in recent weeks that foreign powers, along with the UN, need to intervene in the standoff between India and Pakistain over disputed 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.... "So that’s why we have approached the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... , we are approaching every international forum, that they must act right now because this is a potential disaster that would go way beyond the Indian subcontinent," said Khan.
Earlier in September, appearing at the International Sikh Convention in the eastern Pak city of Lahore, Khan vowed not to use nuclear weapons first against India.
His spokesperson subsequently insisted the words were "taken out of context," and there is "no change" in Pakistain’s nuclear stance which reportedly does not rule out a first strike against overwhelming conventional force.
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All that remains for India is to devise a delivery and assault plan that minimizes radiation fallout for the tribal areas, unnecessary collateral in their outlying provinces. The leadership and the military are already dead men walking if they don't shut up soon. 'Nuff said.
[DAWN] The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Sunday expressed its "total rejection" of the Israeli prime minister's pre-election pledge to annex part of the West Bank, Saudi state media said.
Battling to win re-election in polls on Tuesday, Benjamin Netanyahu made a deeply controversial promise last week to annex the strategic Jordan Valley, which accounts for around a third of the occupied West Bank.
He also repeated his intention to annex Israeli settlements in the wider West Bank, but in coordination with US President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election...
Take a look: Do Trump and Netanyahu have a mutually beneficial relationship?
After an emergency foreign ministers' meeting in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, the OIC expressed "its total rejection and strong condemnation of the Israeli Prime Minister's declaration".
"This dangerous declaration... deliberately undermines international efforts to achieve a just and lasting peace... and pushes the whole region towards further violence and instability," the 57-member pan-Islamic body added in a statement carried by Saudi state media.
[NYPOST] A former tackle for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers was arrested for trashing his Georgia restaurant and making it appear he was the victim of a hate crime, authorities said.
Edawn Louis Coughman, 31, was charged Wednesday with criminal masterminding the Jussie Smollett ...Cable TV actor whose primary talents seemed to be being black and being homosexual. In a bid for national attention, he paid a pair of Nigerian brothers to rough him up a little so he could claim that two large, white, MAGA hat-wearing men had shouted This is MAGA country! while thumping him at 2:30am on a bitter cold night in Chicago and throwing bleach on him, presumably to lighten him up. The story quickly unraveled, and he became a laughingstock and the poster boy for pretend victimization and attention whoredom... -reminiscent crime at his Lawrenceville business so he could collect from his insurance company and still sell the undamaged appliances he’d claimed were stolen.
Coughman used a yellow crowbar to make it look like a break-in and black spray paint to write "racially-motivated words, swastikas, and ’MAGA’ " on the property, the Gwinnett County Police Department said in a blurb.
Smollett, of "Empire" fame, was accused of pretending he’d been jumped in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... by thugs hollering, "This is MAGA country!"
Police recovered the crowbar, spray paint and appliances from the bed of Coughman’s pickup truck.
Coughman was charged with false report of a crime, insurance fraud and concealing a license plate.
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Doesn't sound like the poh-leese will need to over-investigate (like they did in Chicago).
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Unless, of course, the cops planted the evidence....
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TW, yes saw that too and initially thought that SpellCheck was wreaking another of its horrorz.
"Kauffman"? Kauff: Is that a foreign language?? We don't know no foreign languages in techland ... they must have meant Cough... hmmm: Cough + man = Coughman. There you go! And you're done! 'Organizing the world's information and making it useless to anyone but us.' ......
[RADIOSHABELLE] Somali forces killed at least 10 al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... holy warriors and injured several others maimed in the Lower Shabelle region after the group attacked four districts in the region, local media said on Sunday.
Ali Waal ‐ a police brass hat in the town of Qoryooley, one the district attacked by al-Shabaab ‐ told media that the government forces killed at least 10 fighters after an attack on a military base in the town.
"Al-Shabaab fighters had attacked our base in Qoryooley but we managed to overcome them and killed 10 of them," Ali Waal said.
Some of our soldiers were maimed during the attack, he added.
According to the reports, the group also attacked three other districts in the region but the casualties remained unknown.
"Heavy combat erupts in Lower Shabelle region after al-Shabaab attacked SNA [Somali National Army] bases in Qoryooley, Awdhegle, as well as in Barrire town area," a resident said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie ducked another tomato... Somali-based group al-Shabaab claimed that it had killed 14 African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... peacekeeping mission forces from Burundi and maimed 8 others.
African Union Mission in Somalia known as (AMISOM) has not yet commented on the incident that took place in the Middle Shabelle region.
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[Telegraph] It’s not about Brexit any more, at least not primarily. It’s about whether we remain a democracy in the fullest sense. Our system depends on unwritten conventions and precedents. We expect winners to show restraint and losers to show consent. We expect our officials ‐ including judges, civil servants and, not least, the Commons Speaker ‐ to be impartial. We expect the electorate to be the final umpire.
All these norms are coming under pressure as the campaign to reverse Brexit intensifies. The EU, as well as being undemocratic in itself, tends to degrade the internal democracy of its member nations.
Written during the dark hours immediately before and during World War II, C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, of which That Hideous Strength is the third and final volume, stands alongside such works as Albert Camus's The Plague and George Orwell's 1984 as a timely parable that has become timeless, beloved by succeeding generations as much for the sheer wonder of its storytelling as for the significance of its moral concerns.
The final book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which includes Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra, That Hideous Strength concludes the adventures of the matchless Dr. Ransom. The dark forces that were repulsed in Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra are massed for an assault on the planet Earth itself. Word is on the wind that the mighty wizard Merlin has come back to the land of the living after many centuries, holding the key to ultimate power for that force which can find him and bend him to its will. A sinister technocratic organization is gaining power throughout Europe with a plan to "recondition" society, and it is up to Ransom and his friends to squelch this threat by applying age-old wisdom to a new universe dominated by science. The two groups struggle to a climactic resolution that brings the Space Trilogy to a magnificent, crashing close.
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The referendum is now being apologized for, by the likes of Cameron. The idea being aired is - it should never have been given to the people to decide in the first place. With Corby saying it should be annulled in light of the 'long term interests' of the UK.
[Sudan Tribune] International humanitarian groups expelled by the former regime will be allowed to return to Sudan and work in the war-affected areas in line with the Juba Declaration signed on 11 September, said a member of the Sudanese government negotiating team on Saturday. "Bring money. And food"
Speaking at a symposium entitled “The Future of Peace in Sudan” in Khartoum on Saturday, Sovereign Council member Mohamed Hassan al-Ta’ayshi said that the matter was discussed by the parties during the two-day with the armed groups on confidence-building measures before the resumption of peace talks.
On 4 March 2009, Sudanese authorities expelled 13 international NGOs and revoked the licenses of three national NGOs after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for the then President Omar al-Bashir on war crimes charges.
Further, the government expelled seven more NGOs from Eastern Sudan in 2012, followed by the International Committee of the Red Cross in 2014 and the NGO Tearfund in 2015. However, since the Sudanese authorities allowed some group to resume their activities but the past expulsions left a pall over the humanitarian community.
"We have agreed with the armed groups on all sticking points, even the return of NGOs that were expelled by the former regime. Also, we can allow other humanitarian organizations to access to war-affected areas according to the procedures that preserve the country’s security," said al-Ta’ayshi who is from Darfur region.
The Sudanese government and armed groups on Wednesday signed a roadmap for peace in Sudan brokered by the South Sudanese President Salva Kiir who co-signed the deal with the Sudanese parties.
In line with the Juba Declaration, the parties agreed to immediately implement the confidence-building measures, provided in the Constitutional Document, and to establish appropriate mechanisms for this effect as the peace talks will begin on 14 October.
Al-Ta’ayshi called for setting up partnerships with the international and regional community to achieve peace, pointing to the role is being played by the State of South Sudan in this regard.
He confirmed that Juba Declaration parties had agreed in principle to address the root causes of war in Sudan, saying that everyone is confident that it is time for peace.
Further, he hinted at the possibility of amending the constitutional document and the structures of the transitional authority to accommodate the outputs of future peace agreements.
“A Peace agreement without making adjustments to the structures of constitutional institutions will not achieve the peace we expected," he added.
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In peace and war, through feast and famine, and for more than a third of a century Khartoum has let the NGOs clean up their mess. And the NGOs have done so willingly.
[Rudaw] Two camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Sulaimani, which were once overwhelmed by families fleeing violence in Kirkuk and other parts of Iraq, are being closed down as the majority of IDPs have now returned home, an official said Saturday.
Barzinja camp, which contains 155 cabins, was completely empty when authorities finally closed its gates this week. Surdash camp, which has 400 cabins, in now on the brink of closure as just a "handful" of IDPs still live there.
"In the beginning, there were 146 Arab displaced families sheltering in Barzinja camp. But the number gradually dropped as some of them returned home while others went to other areas looking for work," Rebin Mahmood, the mayor of Surdash sub-district, told Rudaw.
Other IDPs who had sheltered in the Barzinja camp since October 16, 2017, when Iraqi forces and Iran-backed militias seized Kirkuk from the Kurdish Peshmerga, have also returned to their areas, he said.
"There were just 14 Arab families staying in the camp recently. But we decided to refer them to the Ashti Camp in Arbat so we can shut the door of the camp," he added.
The Kurdistan Region is currently hosting 1,040,365 IDPs and refugees, according to the latest Humanitarian Situation Report on IDPs in the Kurdistan Region published by Joint Crisis Coordination Center. Some 225,955 of these are Syrians fleeing the neighbouring country’s protracted civil war.
The majority of residents sheltering in Sulaimani’s Surdash camp were from Kirkuk and Tuz Khurmatu. Now that many people have returned to their homes, there are now just 40 families living there.
"Only 40 families have opted to stay in the Surdash camp," Mahmood told Rudaw.
"UNICEF and other UN agencies have informed them that the camp is running out of services and living conditions [are declining, so they are] offering to transfer them to the Ashti Camp in Arbat," he said.
"Of the 40 families, 18 of them have said they will live on their own, saying they do not want anything. So we consider the camp as closed."
The Iraqi government declared the territorial defeat of ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... in December 2017. The battled to retake territory from the group led to further displacement.
At the height of ISIS violence, some six million Iraqis were displaced across the country. Displacement was particularly pronounced in the north and west of the country ‐ including the provinces of Anbar, Kirkuk and Saladin. While the majority of Iraq’s IDPs have returned home, some 1.6 million continue to reside in camps.
Many are reluctant to return home because of continuing violence in their home areas, a lack of reconstruction following the destruction of their homes, and little in the way of basic services. Some who voluntarily left the camps to salvage their homes and livelihoods have been forced to come back to the camps, unable to piece together the basics.
A recent report by Human Rights Watch documented a series of forced returns, highlighting both state force misconduct and civilian violence. Allegations against security forces include lying to IDPs about where they are being taken, and the forced return of IDPs to areas where ISIS activity is known to be rife.
The New York-based rights monitor claimed that more than 2,000 IDPs have been expelled from camps in Nineveh to their areas of origin in Saladin, Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... and Anbar.
"Some were forced to return to their home regions, despite fears for their safety, including from former neighbors who perceive them as being linked to 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.... . Some have come under attack since being forced home," the report said.
[KhaamaPress] The White House has confirmed that the U.S. forces killed Hamza bin Laden, the son of the late Osama bin Laden ...... who used to be alive but now he's not...... in the Afghanistan/Pakistain region.
According to a statement released by White House "Hamza bin Laden, the high-ranking al-Qa’ida member and son of Osama bin Laden, was killed in a United States counterterrorism operation in the Afghanistan/Pakistain region."
Is Quetta in the Afghanistan/Pakistain region? Is Abbottabad?
The statement did not disclose further information regarding the exact location where the U.S. forces conducted the raid.
However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... the White House added that the loss of Hamza bin Laden not only deprives al-Qa’ida of important leadership skills and the symbolic connection to his father, but undermines important operational activities of the group.
The White House also added that Hamza bin Laden was responsible for planning and dealing with various terrorist groups.
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For a crew that's not keen on pork they have a lot of guys with "Ham" in their names...
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It was scuttlebutt that he was on the 'Stain army aviation plane that crashed into Rawalpindi. That Afghan intelligence and the American SAC had something to do with it nosediving into an army residential.
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I cannot help but notice the difference from the notice of his father's death. No details, no lib ass sniffing, no unit or methodology simply 'gone to room temperature, oh sometime in the last couple of years' . It's almost as though the adults were back in charge or something.
It occurs to me on second reading that President Trump was not necessarily referring to the border region between the two countries, but somewhere in the entirety of the two countries. So my questions about Quetta and Abbottabad are pretty silly.
[Libya Observer] The Libyan Presidential Council (PC) has condemned mass killings in Tarhouna and accused criminal gangs loyal to Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... 's forces of committing the crime.
The PC said in a statement on Sunday that the criminal gangs had killed in cold blood tens of residents in Tarhouna.
"This coward crime amounts to a genocide. We vow to bring all those responsible for the atrocity to justice." The PC said.
It called on the international community and Security Council sanctions committee to take strict measures toward such crimes, urging the UNSMIL to probe the incident.
The crime was also condemned by Tarhouna Protection Force of the Libyan Army under the command of Presidential Council's government, holding Kanyat militia, backed by Haftar, accountable for it.
The force said scores were killed, including a member of the Tarhouna municipality and two members of the city's elders' council.
It also called on the residents of the city to side with the right against wrong and on the UNSMIL to document the crime in order to try the perpetrators at the International Criminal Court.
Media sources said that Kanyat militia in Tarhouna killed in a mass murder about 50 people, including Haftar's opponents and February revolution figures.
[ALMASDARNEWS] U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham ...soft-spoken senator from South Carolina, former best buddy of John Maverick McCain. Since McCain's demise, Graham has become more outspoken, more Republican and more of a supporter of President Trump. The speech he gave in support of Brett Kavanaugh was downright manly and really cheesed off the Dems... of South Carolina has called on the U.S. administration to send a message to Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... by bombing the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s oil refineries.
"Iranian supported Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels who attacked Saudi oil refineries is yet another example of how Iran is wreaking havoc in the Middle East. The Iranian regime is not interested in peace ‐ they’re pursuing nuclear weapons and regional dominance," Graham tweeted on Saturday.
"It is now time for the U.S. to put on the table an attack on Iranian oil refineries if they continue their provocations or increase nuclear enrichment," he continued.
According to Graham, these strikes will deter Iran from continuing their activities in the Middle East region.
"Iran will not stop their misbehavior until the consequences become more real, like attacking their refineries, which will break the regime’s back," Graham added.
Graham, along with a few other U.S. senators and representatives, have been strong advocates for military action against the Islamic Theocratic Republic and increased pressure through different economic means.
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Foreign attacks are one way countries get their people to rally around the flag. Lindsey should look at how even the left was all patriotic in the aftermath of 9/11 and factor that into our plans. Removing the regime is delicate work.
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Over at ZeroHedge it's 100% houthi love. Sick bastards...
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Reading the headline, I said to myself, that must be Sen. Lindsey Graham since Bolton is not a senator and got fired and McCain has not risen from the dead. The article confirmed it.
A reminder that this is not an OpSec secure site, Dron66046. Are you comfortable with the ISI, etc. knowing actual numbers? If yes, go ahead and repost.
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This would be stupid. The Saudis and their neighbors should be the ones considering war, not the US! Whatever happened to countries fighting their own wars rather than running crying to the US?
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Vernal Hatrick, while I agree with the sentiment close to 100% the US has had a policy of fighting the wars on our allies behalf for a long time and our allies have built up their militaries taking that policy into account (and abusing the policy to not build their militaries) and the US has looked the other way until recently.
I believe Trump is asking the Saudi's to take the lead. Saudi Silence so far is telling.
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Ruprecht, unfortunately I can't disagree with you. It is just frustrating to watch. I can at least understand why foreign countries want us to do their work for them, but I cannot understand why some American politicians are so eager to oblige.
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I think Trump doesn't want to go around to our allies hat in hand and ask them to support a war that is their business and not ours, the way we did for the last few wars in the region. You want war Saudi Arabia you build the coalition, you make the pitch to the UN, then come to the US.
[NEWS.CGTN] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... 's Defense Ministry said on Sunday that the delivery of a second battery of Russian S-400 missile defense systems has been completed as of Sunday, and added that the systems would become active in April 2020.
Ankara and Washington have been at loggerheads over Turkey's purchase of the S-400 systems, which the United States says are not compatible with NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... defenses and poses a threat to Lockheed Martin's F-35 "stealth" fighter jets.
The initial parts of the system were delivered to Ankara in July despite warnings about possible U.S. sanctions over the purchase. The United States has also expelled Turkey from the F-35 program, but Ankara has so far dismissed the warnings. Do they know that S-400s are Gulenist?
In a statement, the Defense Ministry said the delivery of the second S-400 battery to Ankara was completed. Efforts to mount the systems and train personnel who will use them were continuing, it said, adding that it planned to activate the S-400s in April 2020.
[Chicago Tribune] Ald. Ed Burke, 14th, is the powerful reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... Democrat who got rich in his private law practice, lowering property taxes for the well-connected, while also running the city’s Finance Committee for some 40 years.
During that time Burke had a hobby ‐ picking judges and putting them on the bench. He’s under a federal extortion indictment for allegedly squeezing the owners of several Burger King restaurants.
As you may know, Burke’s wife, Anne, has been a justice on the Illinois Supreme Court since she was appointed in 2006. Her term as chief justice runs through October of 2022.
I’ve always found her to be a warm and gracious lady. And in his prime, her husband was ruthless and brilliant old school Chicago Irish pol worthy of respect in a tough business. He carved the great public roasts, and if he got the largest, bloodiest piece, well, he had made sure he was the one with the big knife.
But in January 2018, Ed Burke threw a fundraiser at the couple’s home for Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, who is also chair of the Cook County Democratic Party.
Preckwinkle had hired the Burkes’ son and put him on the Cook County payroll in a $100K job.
Lori Lightfoot used those public relations disasters to launch herself past the befuddled Preckwinkle and into the mayor’s office.
And cleaning it all up, like cartoon janitors with push-brooms in those old "Mr. Peabody and Sherman" cartoons, complete with the ironic tuba music, came the state’s Judicial Inquiry Board, which investigates complaints about judges.
The Judicial Inquiry Board ruled that Anne Burke didn’t violate the rules when Ed threw the Preckwinkle fundraiser at their home. But the board wouldn’t explain its ruling, saying it wasn’t allowed to disclose "specifics regarding its decision, findings or information about it’s deliberations on any matter."
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It's loopy, it's poopy, it's... pretty.
The pols sit around
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The powerful pro-government paramilitary unit, al-Baqir Brigade, has vowed to capture the territories controlled by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in eastern Deir Ezzor.
In the video, one of the commanders of the al-Baqir Brigade, Fadi al-’Afays, says in the presence of a Russian soldier that his forces are ready to attack and capture these territories from the SDF.
The Syria-based al-Watan publication released a similar report on Sunday that reiterated the claim about the supreme commander of the al-Baqir Brigade, Sheikh Nawaf al-Bashir, heading to Deir Ezzor from Damascus in the coming days.
The al-Baqir Brigade is one of the most powerful factions in the Iranian-backed Local Defense Forces (LDF); they have participated in several operations alongside the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), including the offensives in Aleppo and southern al-Raqqa.
Many of the al-Baqir Brigade’s early operations took place in the Aleppo Governorate; this is due to the large number of al-Baggara (var. al-Baqqara, al-Bakkara) rustics that are currently part of this paramilitary group.
However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... unlike the pro-government National Defense Forces (NDF), the al-Baqir Brigade and many LDF units work closely with the Iranian troops and Hezbollah, which is one of the reasons for their strong antipathy for the U.S.-backed groups and western-led Anti-ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... Coalition.
It is worth noting that the al-Baqir Brigade has threatened the U.S.-backed forces in Syria on a number of occasions; however, these factions have rarely come to blows in Syria.
[ATimes] Missile and drone attacks most likely launched by pro-Iranian militias operating openly in Iraq.
The leading Iraqi analyst based in the United States is Entifadh Qanbar, President and Founder of the Future Foundation. He previously served as Iraq’s deputy military attaché and as the spokesman and adviser for Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister. He closely follows developments in his home country and has many associates feeding him information that has more than once proved to be accurate. His information about the attack coming from Iraq is backed by prior history and by Pompeo’s clear declaration.
As Qanbar knows, this attack would not be the first time Iran has used Iraq to hit Saudi oil facilities. At least one major previous attack was launched by Iraqi militias and the Iranians from Iraqi territory. Last June the Wall Street Journal carried an important report, based on conclusions reached by US officials, that a May 14 drone attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil industry originated in southern Iraq. According to the Journal, when challenged by the United States, Iraqi officials requested more information and claimed there was no conclusive evidence the attacks originated on their territory.
There are a number of Iranian-guided Shia militias in Iraq that have received drones from Iran. Former senior Iraqi officials in Washington, who are opponents of the current Iraqi government they view as compromised by Iran, believe the likely culprit is Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba (Movement of the Party of God’s Nobles). Hezbollah al-Nujaba had been heavily involved in the fighting in Syria and has received from Iran and operated a drone called the Yasir UAV (drone), based on the US Boeing-Insitu ScanEagle.
Hit the long article — oh and Brent Crude was up %17 by 9 PM EDT.
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Israeli Intel obviously can't say "We saw this but didn't warn you." (I doubt that was the scenario in any case.) They can offer resources going forward.
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Hard to create such effective damage with a few semi-guided munitions of the kind militias usually have or with the skills they possess. Either ‘cover’ for insider sabotage or done with Iranian military materials and assistance.
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One wonders if the pirated US drone may have dramatically enhanced their GPS targeting technology? Land based clandestine recon and cruise missile upgrades from some axis of evil friends (NorK/Chicom/Russian Slavs)? Technology fingerprint may be more important than point of origin.
[DAWN] Human rights group Amnesia Amnesty International has launched a petition on its website, urging people to raise their voice against the government-imposed communications blackout in India-occupied 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.... , that has been in place for over a month.
"Nearly 8 million people have been living through a communication shutdown since August 5," the human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... organization stated on its website.
"The world needs to know what’s happening," it said and urged people to "take action and demand that the government let Kashmir speak."
Occupied Kashmir has been under a strict lockdown and communications blackout since last month, before the Indian government repealed Article 370 of the constitution, stripping the region of its special status on August 5. The move has allowed citizens of India to acquire property in Indian Kashmire and settle there permanently.
The statement released by Amnesia Amnesty International pointed out that there had been multiple reports of raids, arrests, festivities and detentions in occupied Kashmir, and said that the "world can only speculate on what grave human rights violations might be taking place [there] right now".
[Rudaw] Iraq’s Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi on Sunday denied the drone attack on Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s state oil installation originated from Iraqi territory.
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Iran launched nearly a dozen cruise missiles and over 20 drones from its territory in the attack on the SA oil facility, a senior official said. The President is fully aware that Iran is responsible, but he wants the Saudis to acknowledge it if they want US help -
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[NYPOST] A pervy Long Island judge is expected to become a registered sex offender after admitting breaking into a neighbor’s home to steal her dirty panties.
Robert Cicale, 50, had several pairs of worn women’s underwear stuffed into his coat when he was busted fleeing a 23-year-old neighbor’s home in March 2018, prosecutors told Suffolk County District Court on Friday.
The judge ‐ who was suspended from the same court in Suffolk County after his arrest ‐ was initially charged with second-degree burglary.
But he admitted to entering the 23-year-old’s home several times to snatch undies from her hamper and pleaded guilty Friday to a reduced charge of attempted burglary, still a felony, with a Nassau County District Court judge hearing the case, according to Newsday.
Cicale, of East Islip, is expected to get five years of probation and be forced to register as a sex offender when he is sentenced on Nov. 15.
Cicale’s attorney, Michael J. Brown, told Newsday that the former judge had "claimed the credit for his actions."
"He has dealt with his mental illness issues in a proactive manner and is a better person for doing so," Brown said.
District Attorney Timothy Sini insisted in a statement that the proceedings held him "accountable" and "serves justice."
"He violated the law, the public’s trust and the victims’ sense of security," Sini said.
His neighbor was a 23-year-old former intern at the Islip Town attorney’s office, where he used to work, Newsday said. It wasn’t clear whether she had worked directly for him at the time.
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At Momus that night, such a catch:
She stretched from her ladder... a match!
"What a throw! Let me think...
Since they're frilly and pink,
I shall use them to cover my drink."
[ALMASDARNEWS] A Russian Su-35 fighter jet has arrived in Istanbul, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... to take part in the upcoming Teknofest Istanbul Aerospace and Technology Festival, set to begin on Tuesday and run for a week, a source from Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation has confirmed.
According to Russian media, the fighter jet made its way to Turkey independently, landing at Ataturk Airport, where the airshow will be held. In addition to the Su-35, Russian aircraft manufacturers plan to show off other planes, including the MC-21 medium-range airliner (a plane which Turkey has already expressed interest in), as well as the Sukhoi Superjet 100 and the Beriev Be-200 amphibious aircraft.
Unauthenticated photos and video footage of the Su-35 in Istanbul show that it apparently has sortie markings under its cockpit, with some observers speculating that this particular airplane may have flown strike sorties in Syria. Four Su-35S fighters had been deployed to the Khmeimim Air Base in Syria as part of Russia’s anti-terrorist operations in that country.
Turkey has expressed an interest in Russian fighter aircraft, including Sukhoi’s 4++ generation Su-35 and the new fifth-gen Su-57 stealth fighter, following Washington’s decision not to follow through with the delivery of F-35s to its NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... ally after Turkey’s refusal to scrap its S-400 air defence system deal with Russia.
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They already purged all the Gulenist airmen. They'll have to bring in Paki mechanics
What fun!
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the MC-21 regional jet program is in turmoil: only one airframe completely fitted out w/interior and other payload appliances. program keeps sliding for variety of reasons.
so far no indication EASA and FAA are going to certify for operation in their AOR.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Thousands of citizens on Sunday returned to the villages and towns that were retaken by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in the northern Hama and southern Idlib regions, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported.
A SANA news hound said that thousands of citizens have returned to their villages and towns through Souran corridor, which is located in the northern countryside of the Hama Governorate
The return of the displaced came due to the efforts exerted by the Syrian Arab Army for the return of all displaced to their villages and towns.
This comes just weeks after the Syrian Arab Army managed to retake several important areas in northern Hama and southern Idlib, including the city of Khan Sheikhoun and Death Eater strongholds of al-Latamnah and Kafr Zita.
[Sudan Tribune] Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North faction led by Malik Agar has formed its negotiating team and expressed willingness to coordinate with other SPLM-N faction led by Abdel Aziz al-Hilu during the grinding of the peace processor.
The SPLM-N Agar and al-Hilu signed on 11 September the Juba Declaration for peace in Sudan which provides that the negotiations will take place in Juba on 14 October.
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... the SPLM-N al-Hilu held separate negotiations with the Sudanese government delegation while the SPLM-Agar negotiated within the Sudanese Revolutionary Front.
In a statement released on Saturday, Malik Agar said that the executive office of his faction agreed in a meeting held in Juba to form a negotiating team composed of twenty-five persons, including negotiators, experts and secretaries.
Agar further said the cessation of hostilities and humanitarian affairs committee will be chaired by Ismail Jalab.
While another committee for the release of prisoners and confidence-building issues which were agreed to be sent immediately to the capital Khartoum.
The Juba Declaration and the issues it dealt with are an important breakthrough in the grinding of the peace processor, he underscored as the transitional government delegation showed readiness to include all the issues raised by the SRF faction including Kajabar dam and the eastern Sudan issues.
"The Movement appreciates the good spirit that prevailed in the meetings of the Revolutionary Front with the delegation of the Sovereign Council headed by General Mohammed Hamdan Daglo Hemetti, and the meeting with the Prime Minister d. Abdallah Hamdok, and affirms its commitment to everything that has been agreed upon," he stressed.
The separates tracks for Darfur and the Two Areas will be set-up but the gangs need to coordinate the positions on the national issues. Also, it is not clear if the SPLM-N al-Hilu will demand a separate track or will accept to negotiate side by side with the SPLM-N Agar, as the two groups will discuss the conflict in the Two Areas with the government.
For its part, the SPLM Agar said ready to coordinate with the al-Hliu-led group on the issues of the Two Areas between the two factions to reach "an honourable agreement for the people of the Two Areas and Sudan and to address the root causes of war in a just, comprehensive and urgent manner".
Pakistan’s government and people condemn attacks on Saudi oil facilities “Pakistan is ready to take any step for the safety and security of the Kingdom"https://t.co/LfPcl2WpsU
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Now this report
Iran launched nearly a dozen cruise missiles and over 20 drones from its territory in the attack on the SA oil facility, a senior official said. The President is fully aware that Iran is responsible, but he wants the Saudis to acknowledge it if they want US help -
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I was surprised too. Then I found this news is composed of mainly statements from opposition party leaders and irrelevant guys in Pakistain. They all want to embarrass the Imran Khan govt for begging billions from Saudi and not being able to help. I wouldn't be surprised if they resort to breaking light bulbs in Karachi over this just to inconvenience the already belabored former cricketer.
"Imran Khan ! Go help our brothers in Saudi ! YAAAH!"
[DAWN] Hong Kong riot police fired tear gas and water cannon at hardcore pro-democracy protesters hurling rocks and petrol bombs on Sunday, tipping the violence-plagued city back into chaos after a brief lull in festivities.
Tens of thousands of people defied authorities to march through the city in an unsanctioned rally on Sunday, the latest expression of a popular revolt that has raged for the last 99 days.
The rally descended into violence when small groups of hardcore activists ‐ known within the movement as "braves" ‐ attacked the city's main government complex.
Police fired repeated volleys of tear gas and deployed water cannon trucks after Molotov cocktails and rocks were thrown over security barriers surrounding the complex, which has become a frequent flashpoint in the ongoing protests.
Local television networks broadcast footage of protesters tearing down and burning a huge banner celebrating the upcoming 70th anniversary of the founding of communist China -- as well as torching a Chinese flag.
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... ’s purchase of the Russian-made S-400 missile system has seen it removed from the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program and an offer to buy the US MIM-104 Patriot air defence system cancelled. While Ankara believes it can weather the diplomatic storm resulting from the purchase, it may soon find it has far fewer options when it looks to buy new jet fighters and air defense systems.
Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
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Why all the "regrets" in not supplying the tyrant Yippy with our best stuff? Regime change should be the ultimate goal to restore secularists and democracy
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Yeah, Frank, it stinks out loud. If Raytheon needs that business so bad we are all in trouble.
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Of course Bidness Roundtable and Star Chamber of Communism is saying our economy will collapse unless everyone in Honduras and Guatemala comes here right now. So there's that...
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What about the Saudis purchasing essentially the same system? That's different because oil ( or really big bribes IYKWIM). (/s)
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces discovered and destroyed one of the biggest bomb factories of Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... during an operation in Ghazni province.
The 203rd Thunder Corps said in a statement that the Special Forces discovered the bomb making factory in Moqor district.
The statement further added that the Special Forces confiscated and destroyed 165 improvised bombs.
Furthermore, the Special Forces confiscated 26 cycle of violences, a vehicle, 5 Ak-47 rifles, 2 PKM machine guns, a rocket launcher, 15 rockets of the rocket launcher, 500 rounds of Dshk ammunition, 1000 rounds of PKM machine ammunition, 500 rounds of M4 rifle ammunition, 20 military uniforms and 5 radio sets.
[KhaamaPress] An Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in northern Faryab province killed or maimed at least 19 Talibs including a foreign trainer of the group.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North said in a statement that the security forces conducted the airstrike in Gurziwan district on Saturday.
The statement further added that the airstrike targeted a training camp of the snuffies Dara-e Shakh area of the district.
Furthermore, the 209th Shaheen Corps said the airstrike also killed two trainers of the snuffies including a Pak national identified as Mustar Hanzala and Mullah Amanullah who was a resident of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... The 209th Shaheen Corps also added that the airstrike maimed 12 other bandidosbully boyz including Qari Sunatullah and Mullah Rahmat, two key commanders of the group.
[AlAhram] Egyptian security forces have killed a group of suspected bandidossnuffies in North Sinai who were plotting to carry out a series of attacks against police and army troops in the border region, the interior ministry said.
The men were killed after they opened fire from their vehicle on security forces who approached them in the Galabana area, the ministry said in a statement.
The bandidossnuffies were found in possession of ammunition, automatic weapons and materials used in making bombs, it said.
The ministry did not reveal the number or the identity of the suspects but said all of them were killed, adding that another terrorist was killed nearby after he opened fire on security forces.
A total of four copperswere maimed in the two shootouts, it added.
The ministry released photos of bloodied bodies with their faces concealed lying on the ground.
[AlAhram] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... raced on Sunday to restart operations at oil plants hit by drone attacks which slashed its production by half, as 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... dismissed US claims it was behind the assault.
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History shows they will not completely restore the damaged capacity. Of course they don't need to since they are no longer the biggest player.
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But I bet Iran is willing to make up the short-term deficit.
Under the table, of course.
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USA production is about 12.4 MM bar/day (up about 1MM from last year)
We could be up another 1-2 MM barrels within a few months after some pipelines (now under construction) are completed. Not sure about the export facilities on the Coast however.
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But I bet Iran is willing to make up the short-term deficit.
Iran has tankers full of oil in Chinese harbors w/o a buyer.
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The ME is a hot bed of conflict. Now they are cutting each other's throats infrastructure wise. Other than camels and sand, oil is their only real commodity.
Ultimately US technology is going to benefit. As people get tired of suppliers that are trying to whack each other, the rest of the world will turn to fracking, something we've got down to a science, except for the occasional earth quake related side effect.
We have no interest in initiating another war - not for geopolitical reasons, not for economic reasons, not for domestic political reasons. None. Nada, zip, nichego.
There is a principle in nature, as well as human affairs, that goes variously by the terms "entropy," "chance", "randomness," or "chaos."
Iran is an agent of that principle. Iran's theocratic seeks to expand chaos wherever they can.
From BLACK HAWK DOWN:
Hoot: See you're thinking. Don't. Cuz' Sergeant, you can't control who gets hit or who doesn't or who falls out of a chopper or why. It ain't up to you. It's just war..
Stop thinking. The Iranians are agents of chaos. They seek to f--- things up.
They confirm to a well-known type/ John Milton had their number 370 years ago:
Satan (in Paradise Lost): "For only in only in destroying I find ease ..."
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Qui bono? Asking for a friend. Seriously. Not snark. Who benefits from this? I’m interested in the opinions here.
Frackers benefit the most - they've been sucking wind and edging ever closer to Chapter 7 liquidation as oil prices sink. Maybe it's a conspiracy by a cabal of frackers to touch off a war with Iran that sets the Iranian and Saudi oil fields on fire thereby causing $100 oil and rescuing frackers from penury. Just as European wars in the 19th and 20th centuries were an American conspiracy, since the US was the biggest beneficiary of those wars.
Back here in meat world, the most likely culprit is Iran. Iranian weapons, millennia-old Iranian territorial ambitions and American reluctance to respond combined with genuine Arab weakness.
We have no interest in initiating another war - not for geopolitical reasons, not for economic reasons, not for domestic political reasons. None. Nada, zip, nichego.
There is a principle in nature, as well as human affairs, that goes variously by the terms "entropy," "chance", "randomness," or "chaos."
Iran is an agent of that principle. Iran's theocratic seeks to expand chaos wherever they can.
IMO, Iranians don't want war or even chaos. What they want is victory and the fruits of victory. These are very, very old-fashioned goals dating back from before recorded history.
[Libya Observer] The Daily Beast has examined a tranche of internal communications from deep inside Russian Wagner Group Head Prigozhin’s Libya operation, always referred to simply as "the company."
These files, originally obtained by the Dossier Centre, offer documentary proof that Russia’s military role in Libya is far more extensive than has thus far been reported, the report added.
The report says that the files show that, quite apart from running guns for hire and arranging Facebook propaganda campaigns, Russian operatives lately got into the business of "government-in-a-box" political consultancy for Khalifa Haftar
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[Jpost] Paleostinian efforts to join as many UN organizations and protocols as possible hit a roadblock on Saturday when it failed to gain full admission to the Bern-headquartered Universal Postal Union (UPU).
Membership in the UPU ‐ which coordinates postal policies among nations ‐ is automatic to all UN members, but a non-member state requires the support of two-thirds of the countries to join.
The Paleostinians applied in a blitz last November, when it signed forms to join 10 international protocols and conventions as a way to gain legitimacy and place diplomatic pressure on Israel. The Paleostinian request to join the UPU was sent to all member states in April, and they were given four months to respond ‐ with those not responding counted as abstentions.
On Saturday, the Foreign Ministry obtained the results, showing that the Paleostinians were well short of the two-third approval needed for membership. Fifty-six countries supported the bid, 7 states objected, 23 abstained, and another 106 did not respond, and were therefore counted as abstentions.
Over the years, the Paleostinians gained membership into dozens of international organizations, treaties and protocols in an effort to gain unilateral statehood recognition around the world.
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A loose alliance of terrorist organization - and that's all "Palestinian Nation" is - doesn't need a membership in a postal union. They'd only use it to send letter bombs.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
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[ToloNews] Officials said the incident happened on Sunday when the two pylons were blown up by explosives.
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...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 man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat 
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[Sudan Tribune] International humanitarian groups expelled by the former regime will be allowed to return to Sudan and work in the war-affected areas in line with the Juba Declaration signed on 11 September, said a member of the Sudanese government negotiating team on Saturday.
[Rudaw] Two camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Sulaimani, which were once overwhelmed by families fleeing violence in Kirkuk and other parts of Iraq, are being closed down as the majority of IDPs have now returned home, an official said Saturday.
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...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
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...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
[NYPOST] A pervy Long Island judge is expected to become a registered sex offender after admitting breaking into a neighbor’s home to steal her dirty panties.
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[AlAhram] Egyptian security forces have killed a group of suspected 
[Jpost] Paleostinian efforts to join as many UN organizations and protocols as possible hit a roadblock on Saturday when it failed to gain full admission to the Bern-headquartered Universal Postal Union (UPU).
