[AccordingToHoyt] Pratchett’s "Witches" world was so similar to my own, from jumping over fires to get married (not legal in my day, but there was memory of it) to various local folk superstitions, that it was always a surprise when he pulled something I’d never heard of.
One of these is the "rough music."
When someone has done just about enough that a small village can no longer put up with him, the men in the village get together and play a barbarous and terrible music as they nerve themselves up for the barbarous and terrible things they have to do.
...2- Europe is about 20 years "ahead" of us on the road of what a friend of mine calls the Brahamandarins taking over. The internationalist left has been in full command since the nineties. They never had a Reagan (Thatcher sort of kind of held off the tide briefly, but only in one country.) There was no eighties prosperity. Hell, slick Willie was to the right of their right. Obama is about center of their politicians, including his loathing for the country he governed.
3- Europe is in trouble BAD. The government has betrayed the people to the extent of making it almost impossible for rural populations to live with any dignity; for people to afford having families; for people to be safe in their lives, pursuits and possessions. No, I mean to a level you guys don’t comprehend. Imagine if the Obama years had lasted for 30 years now, and he controlled all the media, all the judges and most of the law enforcement.
And Europe has had just about enough. Things like Brexit and the Yellow Jackets filter through here, in the alternate news sources. I wonder how much else is going on, we have not a clue about. The fact we know about the Yellow Jackets at any level is bizarre enough, given that they are ‐ media and internet wise ‐ living in the eighties.
...First however, let me say that hearing the rough music from the rest of the world is starting to echo here. We see what’s going on there. And we hear strange and stupid stuff, like the "whistleblower of the day" and an impeachment without voting and of course, pancake-gate.
Faced with that kind of behavior you obviously think "It’s insane." And "We have to stop it."
But there is something you’re missing. There’s the good news.
The first good news, of course, is that Trump won in 2016. it was bloody impossible. The fraud was unbelievable. But he still won.
And in the midterms ‐ yes, they won the house, but think about it ‐ the fraud was UNBELIEVABLE. Literally. Banana republics were laughing at our random keeping of polling stations open, of weird shenanigans with votes down in FL and of whatever the heck the chick in Georgia thought she was doing. And they won... the house. And not with a rushing majority.
Do you know why they’re going insane? Because they hear the rough music too. And they know that they probably can’t cheat enough to win in November 2020 or even keep the house. And they’re desperate. And none of their increasingly crazier gambits are sticking.
[SCMP] ◼️ Trump's extraordinary Twitter warning against Nato ally Turkey came just after the White House announced a US military drawdown in Turkish-Syrian border areas.
◼️ That decision appeared to give Turkey a green light to attack its long-time Kurdish foes who have been fighting alongside US forces against Isis.
As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I've done before!). They must, with Europe and others, watch over... - Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 7, 2019
The president drew fierce criticism Monday from congressional allies for a White House statement the previous night that the US wouldn’t stand in the way of a Turkish incursion into Syria.
The announcement, which followed a call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, marked an abrupt change in US posture.
Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican who is normally a close Trump ally, said he would introduce bipartisan legislation to sanction Turkey if it invades Syria and suspend it from NATO if it attacks the Kurdish-led forces. He said Trump’s stance risks a comeback by Islamic State.
"Isis is not defeated, my friend. The biggest lie being told by the administration is that Isis is defeated," Graham told Fox and Friends in a phone call Monday.
I got this from the South China Morning Post, because I didn't want to read CNN and NBC gloat about Trump 'floundering' and 'backtracking' to save face.
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Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican who is normally a close Trump ally, said he would introduce bipartisan legislation to sanction Turkey if it invades Syria and suspend it from NATO if it attacks the Kurdish-led forces.
Lindsey late to the party once again. NATO expulsion should have taken place LONG ago.
As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I’ve done before!). They must, with Europe and others, watch over...
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Well, he's certainly the best one can hope for in these times. I would rather that he learned the dynamics and nuances of violence, besides his characteristic 'magnate's tough love dealing'. I think a second term will bring that out.
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So, it's like a joke to him. A display of power ? Aah... maybe we read too much into it. After all, he's just bound to be as daft as the best of us at times. What matters is, the Americans cannot afford to be seen as weak at this juncture no matter what people like 'erb think.
I agree they're not world cops, but to the islamist they're Moby Dick. Which is why the caliphates and Al quaedas do not waste time with others. They know with the US defeated once, the muslims of the world shall suddenly have new impetus in their respective zones. Every islamist faction and terror group gains double the recruits and ten times the morale when America is seen losing. Even if it's just optics.
The Pakis may be going round the world begging right now, but their public is celebrating 'the rout of the US forces at the hands of talibaners.'
If the Turks march into north Syria, the surviving Daesh licking their wounds will feel safer. The prisoners will go free and it will rise worse than last time.
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Erdy is drunk. Real drunk. And he is trying to start a fight. We want the world to know, that if he starts a fight, we won't get involved. We might even hold him down for you.
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[PJMedia] If European Union leaders thought there would be any flagging or hesitation from British Prime Minister Boris Johnson when the Brexit deadline loomed, they were sadly mistaken.
Johnson penned an op-ed in The Sun and The Daily Express that explicitly threatened a British exit from the EU with or without a formal agreement by October 31.
Politico:
"After decades of campaigning, three years of arguments and seemingly endless months of pointless delay, it is now just 25 days until the United Kingdom’s membership of the European Union comes to an end. We will be packing our bags and walking out on October 31. The only question is whether Brussels cheerily waves us off with a mutually agreeable deal, or whether we will be forced to head off on our own," he wrote.
The EU is perfectly aware of Johnson's political troubles -- both in his own party and with the opposition. But Johnson's threat should now impress on the EU the seriousness of the situation. Part of the calculus used by the EU was always that the Brits would get cold feet and keep delaying their exit until a change in political leadership brought them back to their senses.
That's not going to happen now. No court will grant Brexit opponents a stay. It's too late for a referendum. Johnson is pulling out on the 31st, end of story.
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ig report is important (assuming it forthrightly states that the FISA requests were illegal and clearly states why that is so) but more important is that it allows the DOJ to move forward on follow up investigations
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[Wash Examiner h/t Weasel Zippers] Rep. Ilhan Omar has filed for divorce amid rumors that she was having an extramarital affair.
Omar filed to end her marriage to Ahmed Hirsi on Friday, TMZ reported Monday. A court filing was later uncovered that confirmed the news.
Omar is accused of having an affair with Tim Mynett, a prominent Democratic political consultant, whose estranged wife alleged in a divorce filing that he had been in a months-long relationship with the Minnesota Democrat.
The allegation of the affair brought added scrutiny to Omar's own marriage. She has faced repeated questions over her marital history after allegations surfaced that she married her brother and committed immigration fraud.
The freshman congresswoman married Hirsi in 2002 during a faith ceremony but did not legally marry until years later. Omar and Hirsi had two children before they separated in 2008. The next year, Omar legally married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. The two split in 2011, the same year Omar and Hirsi reconciled, but did not legally divorce until 2017. Meanwhile, Omar and Hirsi had a third child in 2012 and legally married in early 2018.
Omar, 37, has denied that she was in a relationship with anyone else. When asked in August whether she had separated from Hirsi or was dating anyone else, Omar said, "No I am not."
"I have no interest in allowing the conversation about my personal life to continue, and so I have no desire to discuss it," she said.
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NY Post has another angle: In August, The Post was first to report that DC-based doctor Beth Mynett had filed for divorce from her husband, Tim Mynett, alleging that he was carrying on an affair with Omar.
All the while, Omar’s campaign fund was paying Tim Mynett’s firm for work, including for travel.
Conservative watchdog groups have filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission over this money transfer.
In early September, Tim Mynett filed a response with the D.C. court denying he had an affair.
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For traditional Muslims, as the Congresswoman affects to be, doesn’t divorce have to come from the husband? Really, to be unfaithful in this as well as to her twice over marriage vows (both traditional and legal) is outside of too much.
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This woman says a lot of things. To make it easy on myself, I'll assume that if her lips are moving it is taqiyya and that she's not fit for the House.
...previously in our archives under the more conventional spelling of Michael Harpon...
45, returned to work Thursday with an oyster knife and a 13” kitchen knife to stab four colleagues to death in lunchtime attack at police HQ
French interior minister Christophe Castaner conceded 'there were obvious failings' on Sunday
He had initially claimed Harpon hadn't given the 'slightest reason for alarm'
But Harpon had praised the Charlie Hebdo massacre while at work in 2015, had links to a Val-d'Oise hate preacher known to French intelligence, and wore traditional Islamic garments to the mosque
Harpon’s 38 year old wife was released without charges Sunday evening
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That's right, Skidmark. But research shows that an animal when contacts rabies is actually compelled toward suicidal behavior. In its heart, it really wants it to end.
[Guardian] Pressure on ministers to explain how warnings were missed before deadly attack.
Pressure is growing on France's government to explain how the radicalisation of a man who killed four colleagues at the Paris police headquarters failed to raise red flags inside the intelligence unit where he worked.
The interior minister, Christophe Castaner, summoned before two parliamentary committees this week, conceded there had been a "malfunction" as he promised to "tighten the net".
The minister came under fire after initially claiming that Mickaël Harpon, a 45-year-old computer expert employed in the intelligence unit at police headquarters in Paris, never gave the "slightest reason for alarm" before the rampage on Thursday.
Harpon had worked for the police since 2003.
Newspaper front pages on Monday described a "serious malfunction" in the intelligence community and "shortages" in the anti-terrorism machinery, as critics called for Castaner's head. Err... his resignation I presume.
Harpon used a kitchen knife and an oyster knife to kill three police officials and an administrative staffer ‐ three men and a woman ‐ and injure two others in a 30-minute lunchtime attack that ended when he was shot in the head. An oyster knife? Everyone knows eating shellfish is haram!
Shellfish are not kosher, but I believe they are permitted to Muslims. It’s pork that both groups are forbidden.
It emerged he had converted to Islam 18 months ago,
and had then been in contact with adherents of Salafism, an ultra-conservative branch of Sunni Islam. "Really they're no different than Alabama methodists, M'sieurs ! Just islamic. We had no idea !"
He had caused alarm among colleagues as far back as 2015 when he defended the massacre of 12 people at the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris by two brothers vowing allegiance to al-Qaida. No report was filed, however.
"There was no alert at the right level at the right time," Castaner told France Inter radio on Monday. "The warning signals should have been sufficient to unlock a thorough investigation."
He added: "I want for any warning sign to be automatically flagged."
Castaner, who said on Sunday he would not resign over the matter "Non, M'sieurs... Absolument pas !
Why in fact, I'm needed even more now !"
, has been summoned to appear before parliament's intelligence committee on Tuesday.
"We're going to try to find out what these failings were," the committee's chairman, Christian Cambon, said on Sunday.
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Any prudent system to flag radical islam symptoms will get massive claims of islamophobia and will be dropped like a hot potato. The lawfare and PC orthodoxy of the race industry have show the effective strategy to cow the West. More of the backend symptoms of the decline of western civilization.
Joshua Brown, 28, was shot dead outside an apartment complex in Dallas, Texas on Friday
He lived in the same apartment complex where white police officer Amber Guyger shot dead her black neighbour, Botham Jean in his apartment, which she mistakenly entered last year
Brown had testified last week during Guyger's murder trial before she was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison
Brown's family attorney, S. Lee Merritt, said he was targeted in an 'assassination'
He is refusing to rule out if police were somehow involved in Brown's shooting
Witnesses say they heard several gunshots and saw a silver sedan speeding out of the apartment complex's parking lot shortly after Brown was shot
Dallas Police Chief Renee Hall said: 'There are no suspects or motives at this time. We are committed to solving this case’
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Dude was shot a year ago outside of a topless bar. This could have been a road rage incident, drug deal gone wrong, a hit, or the guy that shot him a year ago who is out on bail could have finished what they started a year ago.
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In fact this should be the time to investigate (and hopefully come up with) a narrative that he was just another delinquent dipshit whose testimony was never admissible in court.
[Washington Examiner] Former CIA Director John Brennan declared that the United States is "no longer a democracy" under the leadership of President Trump.
Brennan, who has been sharply critical of Trump since leaving office in January of 2017, appeared Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press with Chuck Todd to give analysis on the current state of intelligence affairs as the House of Representatives launches an impeachment inquiry into the president.
Asked to assess the U.S. as he would a foreign government from the perspective of the CIA, Brennan said, "We would look at it as a very corrupt government that is under the sway right now of this powerful individual, who has been able to just corrupt the institutions and the laws of that country."
"I think it's no longer a democracy if an autocrat has it in his hands," Brennan said. "The democratic principles upon which this country are founded are eroding right now."
Brennan has also been the target of ongoing broadsides from Trump, particularly during the Mueller investigation and amid allegations of collusion with the Russian government. Trump attempted to revoke the former CIA head's security clearance in August 2018.
Former U.S. Attorney Joe diGenova referred to Brennan as the "father of all leaks" in regard to CIA information close to the Kremlin.
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Asked to assess the U.S. as he would a foreign government from the perspective of the CIA, Brennan said, "We would look at it as a very corrupt government that is under the sway right now of this powerful individual
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"Somebody keeps on yelling, 'executive order,'" Obama said. "I'm going to actually pause on this issue because a lot of people have been saying this lately on every problem, which is just, 'Sign an executive order and we can pretty much do anything and basically nullify Congress.'" When people started applauding, Obama said, "Wait, wait, wait. Before everybody starts clapping, that's not how it works. We've got this Constitution, we've got this whole thing about separation of powers. So there is no short-cut to politics, and there's no short-cut to democracy. We have to win on the merits of the argument with the American people, as laborious as it seems sometimes."
Critics online immediately pounced on Obama's claims of political impotence, pointing out that he has indeed repeatedly used executive orders to bypass the will of Congress, something he now says is unconstitutional.
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Brennan is a disgrace to this country. Another lefty who is worth about as much as what he has to say. How he has avoided prison this long is beyond me.
[Washington Examiner] The rift between President Trump and the nation’s spy agencies opened before he took office, when he compared the intelligence community with Nazis. Since then, he has clashed publicly with his own spy chiefs, shared classified material with Russian visitors to the Oval Office, and tweeted out a surveillance photograph from his security briefing.
That strained relationship faces its biggest test now, according to insiders, after a whistleblower accused the president of abusing his position to ask a foreign leader to help with his reelection. Well he is the President, or do you deny that as well ?
And it leaves Gina Haspel, the director of the CIA, to rebuild relationships damaged on both sides, according to Fred Fleitz, former National Security Council chief of staff.
The "rebuilding" schedule isn't particularly ahead of schedule is it Mr. Fleitz? And where might Director Haspel been these days ?
"I don’t know whether she’ll be speaking out, but I think she’ll be doing her best to reassure the president about the intelligence that he gets and to reassure the professionals at Langley that the president appreciates what they are doing and we can move past this incident," he said. Haspel "speaking out"....? Not unless John Brennan instructs her to do so.
Both sides blame the other for the dysfunction.
Trump allies say the trouble began with the intelligence community’s distrust of the Republican nominee in 2016. Harry Reid, the then-minority Senate leader, implored officials delivering classified briefings not to divulge secrets after Trump encouraged Russian hackers to hunt down Hillary Clinton’s missing emails. Which was clearly a campaign event joke
Then days before his inauguration, intelligence agencies revealed they believed that Russia ran an influence campaign to help Trump triumph over Clinton ‐ a conclusion interpreted by the president as an attempt to undermine his victory. "Concluded by the president"... and nearly anyone else with a functioning brain.
Kevin Carroll, who served as a CIA case officer, said, "It’s a very troubled relationship. Trump got it off to a terrible start with comments during the transition, comparing the intelligence community to the Nazis, and then his buffoonery in front of the memorial wall the day after he was inaugurated." "It's a troubled relationship"... and that's precisely where the Klingon's wish it to remain.
On his first full day in office, President Trump gave a speech at CIA headquarters. He stood on hallowed ground in front of a memorial to fallen agents where he launched an angry attack on the media and boasted about the size of his inaugural crowd.
It set the stage for a series of bitter public clashes, including an ongoing feud with Barack Obama-era CIA Director John Brennan.
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Both sides blame the other for the dysfunction.
Had candidate Trump not hired former a former UK Spymaster and others to electronically monitor conversations at Langley, things might have been much different.
Hat tip to former NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers who bravely visited Trump Towers and demanded Donald Trump move the clandestine electronic monitoring effort elsewhere.
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As Bob Baer says, this is obviously a palace coup attempt.
Unbelievable what times we're living through.
At this point, after not just decades of failure and massive incompetence but an actual attempt to overthrow a sitting president, it's probably best to raze the CIA completely and start over.
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He has a right to be at odds with the FBI, CIA, and NSA. They have been trying to oust him from the start. Every time Brennan go live on TV we gat another false investigation. The FBI made our nation a global joke with Russiagate. Now the CIA is coordinating directly with congress to overthrow the President. The purge is just starting, we have a long way to go.
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To hell with rebuilding. Can their asses...every single one of them.
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coordinating directly with Democrats in congress to overthrow the President
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A blinding flash, but it would appear the Klington's are not at all happy with the results of the 2016 election. Sort of begs the question about their attitude towards the outcome of previous presidential elections, does it not ?
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Given the 'sudden' escalating recent and ongoing clashes in the ME and NA, history may find that the conflicts were only mitigated by orchestrations of the transnational shadow government community.
WASHINGTON DC (Kurdistan 24) ‐ Late on Sunday, the White House issued a summary of a telephone call that US President Donald Trump held with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier that day.
The White House statement explained that Turkey was about to attack in northeastern Syria and US forces will withdraw from the area where the Turkish military operation is to take place.
The White House said that "Turkey will soon be moving forward with its long-planned operation into Northern Syria."
"The United States Armed Forces will not support or be involved in the operation, and United States forces, having defeated the ISIS territorial ’Caliphate’ will no longer be in the immediate area," it continued.
On Saturday, Erdogan told an annual conference of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), "We will carry out a ground and air operation" across the border into Syria, east of the Euphrates River. "Maybe, today; maybe, tomorrow," he affirmed.
READ MORE: US warns Ankara, amid worry of Turkish incursion into northeast Syria
Turkish media reported on Saturday that the army was reinforcing its positions around Sanliurfa, across the frontier from the Syrian town of Tel Abyad.
And later on Saturday, Washington’s well-regarded Institute for the Study of War warned, "Turkish invasion of northeast Syria looks imminent."
On Sunday, before the White House read-out was published, Turkey issued its own summary of the telephone conversation between Trump and Erdogan. It did not address the issue of an imminent attack. Rather, the Directorate of Communications, which issued Turkey’s read-out of the discussion, said that Trump had invited Erdogan to visit Washington next month, as it was reported by the state-run Anadolu Agency.
The Turkish readout created the impression that no major action would occur until after the two presidents met in November. But the White House read-out made clear that an attack is to be expected at any time, even as it failed to mention any invitation to Erdogan.
A Turkish assault on northeastern Syria raises many questions about the future of that area. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have been America’s main ally in the war against the so-called Islamic State in Syria. They control a large swathe of territory‐one-third of the country.
Yet Turkey considers the Kurdish component of the SDF‐the People’s Protection Units (YPG)‐as the Syrian branch of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK.)
If the self-administration of northeastern Syria is disrupted, it could easily lead to the re-emergence of the Islamic State. The White House statement did not address that problem.
Moreover, the SDF holds a large number of Islamic State fighters as prisoners, as well as their wives and widows, along with their children.
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That bastard sold out the Kurds to the Turks and their two-bit Sultan wannabee. Huge mistake. This will create even more of a mess, and embolden Turkey further. Trump screwed this one up badly.
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"BEIRUT — U.S.-backed Kurdish-led forces said American troops began pulling back Monday from positions along the border in northeast Syria ahead of an expected Turkish invasion that the Syrian Kurds say will overturn five years of achievements in the battle against the Islamic State group.
The Syrian Kurdish fighters also accused Washington of failing to abide by its commitments to its key allies in the fight against ISIS. It's a major shift in U.S. policy". Interesting. This just doesn't sit well. Looks to me like we are seeing a chess match. Game pieces are hidden. Time will tell.
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I doubt the Turkish military can sustain a substantial operation for a long period.
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I doubt the Turkish military can sustain a substantial operation for a long period.
Agreed. In fact, the Kurds have previous experience bleeding them heavily — at the height of the Afrin nonsense I recall a Rantburger comfortingly explaining kill boxes to me — which one imagines President Trump is aware of, and which changes the complexion of this announcement considerably.
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Pssst, Yippy? I heard the leaders of this attack are closet Gulenists. Just saying...
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong!
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IMO it's time we stop policing the world an let the countries in that area take care of their own shit.This will probably let Erdrogan know they aren't as bad as they think they are too.
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Iran has been aggressive. Erdogan's in trouble politically. There's a good chance one or both is trying to claim a 'victory' over US troops for PR / negotiating purposes and provoke a counter strike whose civilian casualties would also be heavily publicized.
Air strikes are a real possibility if Erdogan goes too far. But if in fact the Kurds make him pay - specifically, if he can't use this to appear strong at home - it will backfire on him badly and he can't claim we did it to him.
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In addition, there's the NATO angle. So long as Turkey is notionally a member, it's prudent to avoid any direct military fighting against their troops.
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Why do we even have troops in Syria? ISIS is defeated. Assad won the civil war. What are we even doing there, other than spending billions every month that are badly needed back home?
Or if that's not enough for you: what's the prize when we win? What are we fighting for in Syria? What does victory look like? Bolton doesn't know and neither do you.
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#13 Yes, I agree. I just see for some reason a bigger game at play here to be seen. With Trump I see more than the obvious domestic media consumption provided. The media will misdirect as I believe is part of the plan. They certainly can be played that easily. Perhaps I am reading more into this but a wait and see attitude is my attitude. :)
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First they took the Rhineland Northern Cyprus and we didn't care. Then they took the Sudetenland Afrin and we did nothing. Next they will take Czechoslovakia Northern Syria (they already have Austria Idlib...) and they will stop there, right, Right??
If the Assads are vicious little Mussolini's they at least don't have the external ambitions of Erdogan.
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The Turks have troops tied up in Cyprus, Qatar, Somalia and on the border west of the Euphrates.
Post their anti Gulan purges I don't think they have more than the equivalent of one Division of soldiers that are both reliable and competent enough to handle the job east of the Euphrates. They might be in even worse shape than I have guessed.
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Seriously? The Turk is going to conquer the world? We need to stomp them hard as if they were Nazis? I hear some howlers on Rantburg but that one takes the cake.
Just accept that you lose arguments once in a while, and that doesn't make the other people Hitler.
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Yeah, they only take Americans as hostages, ship refugees to Europe to destabilize, threaten Israel, attack our Kurdish allies, assassinate, in Europe, beat demonstartors in America, and threaten to colonize a caliphate.
But appeasement scum like you say: "Hey, What me worry? It's only some other suckers getting killed and stomped." Literally Hitler? No mirror at home?
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Once again we desert the Kurds, how long before we once again try to coheres them in to becoming our proxies?
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Frank G.
(a) Recep been jailing professional officer corps and replacing them with loyalists.
(b) Syrian Regime (i.e. Russia) is firmly opposed to invasion of its territory & Kurds have good relations with Alawis (both are minorities hated by Sunni Arabs).
(c) Kurds have very effective allies who prefer to operate overtly.
(d) Kurds have been build up in western public's eyes as virtual saints, they ain't.
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I'm told that this could also be because of the left-leaning base that formed the YPG. They're all marxist seculars, which is why they're so open to other ideas and religions. Maybe that was why Trump decided to let them fight their own war, 'let's see who sends for help'. Another communist regime in a pressure-cooker zone is probably not what the world needs.
But in a time when optics are more important than kinetics, this couldn't have come at a worse time. I think the Republican party will be the most disappointed in this move. Bolton would never have advised this.
Because when Obama failed to provide air support to the once a future ISIS, aka McCain's Heroes, Obama needed a trip wire to keep them from getting rolled up and provide a safe area of classic insurgency practices.
Then Erdy saw an opportunity to punish the Kurds and take some major crossroads - Kobani for instance - and tried picking a fight with Syria, who at this point also meant Iran and Russia. A scrap between a NATO member and a Russia/Iran combo would have been awkward to say the least considering bids for uranium were opening. Also, it kept Iran and Russia's ally Syria safe from attack.
Seriously? The Turk is going to conquer the world? We need to stomp them hard as if they were Nazis?
You don't history much do you? You only seem to address conflict in terms of warfare, very 2D there Kahn. This area has been the trade crossroads of the world since before cuneiform. Though it may not be as important as before the age of steam, there is still a large chunk of world trade and resource gathering, people, in this region.
And in terms of warfare, you are wrong again, but I have real work so maybe later.
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"Some bad choices were made after WW1"
~ Rand Paul, Fox News 7 Oct 2019
A perfect example of peace keeping donor fatigue. Anyone remember the democrat silence when Soetoro pulled out of Iraq? If someone, or a group of someone' feels the need, they can ruck up and go join the Kurds. Have at it !
We have no dog in this fight and certainly don't need another trip wire. Call it a day. Get the fok out, stay the fok out !
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So the season opener will be Turkey vs. Syria/Iran/Russia? Popcorn is great, but any opinions on deep fried peanuts? New to me.
Now, one of the Hanson brothers will end up boxing Erdy's ears, and he will come crying to NATO for help, and may encourage a human wave to enter Greece as pressure on NATO to get involved.
At which point I hope NATO tells Turkey to go stuff their noses with capers.
My prediction, and this is a long shot, is that regardless, Turkey will initiate the journey of some 20,000 refugees, or even as few at 5,000, enough to be large enough to not be bothered as they walk to a major European city, preferably with some symbolism. Say, Vienna. Only instead of Kara Mustafa Pasha and a dredge of wailing imams leading the horde, it will be Doctors without Borders, the video production arm of Red Crescent, and the fokkin Pope, and everyone who asks where the food and winter clothing is coming from gets branded a white nationalist or Nazi.
I can only hope we have been there as long as we have in order to prepare the Kurds for when this day would come.
I will also point out that the timeline to form a greater Kurdistan had been extended about four years beyond my amateur estimation.
#Iran's Statistical Center has reported that inflation reached nearly 43 percent in the 12-month period ending in August, exceeding IMF forecasts. This week's graphic breaks down the country's rising #inflation and resulting unrest: https://t.co/rNdrOcJEJP
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You do have to wonder how long the regime can survive things like this.
Any Iranian with any savings or investments at all just saw 43% of it go up in smoke. Including the kleptocrats in the IRG and elsewhere.
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Consumer goods like gas and food are heavily subsidized in Iran. More inflation means more $ubsidies for butter and les$ for guns. It also makes black market missile & nuclear widgets more expensive.
[AmGreatness] ...Released last month, The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation by New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly was expected to sell at least 10,000-12,000 in the first two weeks, according to the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard.
...A publishing source provided the latest BookScan numbers, which can account for about 80% of sales. That number is 3,120. "If you add in ebooks ‐ they may have sold a total of 4,000. That’s one of the most epic bombs in political publishing over the past decade," said the source. And here I assumed that every high school library in the land, and some abroad, are going to get a copy
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They will always be able to say "I worked at the New York Times. I wrote a book..."
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and this even after I wager some true believers bookstore employees (yes they still exist) strategically arranged them in pyramids near the front door
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Guess these two girls won't be believed when they say "I'm on the pill..."
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"Buy a popular book and we'll throw this one in free"
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And here I assumed that every high school library in the land, and some abroad, are going to get a copy
They've been publishing an awful lot of this kind of crap lately and those high school libraries have limited budgets.
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Bomb will be reported as an "overfilled Zippo lighter,"
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Cripes...the missus and I were in Warner-Robbins before this happened. In fact, we passed Houston Medical Center on our way to a family friend's house for dinner....
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Been there, done that (adjusted for changing times and demography). My mom once drove us kids through an unattended gate and down a wide, empty street lined with... warehouses, like. And then there was water on one side, and... submarines! Cool! Not a soul in sight, as we remembered it. She must've been shittin' a brick (sorry, Mom), but she calmly turned around at the end of the pier and drove back out to the now-manned gate. Bemused faces, worried faces, angry faces. Jeeps rolling up. Cool! Mom got an earful, Pop got an earful, etc. Lord knows what happened to the poor guys we "tiger teamed."
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While it won't really affect the shameless Democrats themselves, we should throw out this video to every blog and forum we can, because it's great.
Also, the majority of democrat voters are not 'those who value America', but those easily bribed and stoked into political support for their immediate benefactors. But there have to be a mass of undecided, liberal, tofu-eating vegans and Kennedy fans with strange haircuts who can still be enlightened.
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Part of a military strategy is to isolate the battlefield, by denying the enemy the means to reinforce their strength. I've heard long time Donks who said they'd never vote for Trump, but will not vote for anyone for President this next election.
The coup plotters are intent on delegitimizing Trump. They're delegitimizing the central government. Trump is just showing them for what they are. No principles but the lust for power.
Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, joined Breitbart News Sunday on SiriusXM 125 the Patriot Channel this weekend to expose the deep state: forces he said are driving the effort by Democrats to proceed with impeachment against the president.
Excerpts "The attempt at impeachment is best understood as a legislative coup against a democratically elected president, and the radical leftists in Congress are working arm-in-arm with the deep state saboteurs and their allies in the media in order to try to effectuate this illegal coup," Miller said.
"The deep state is a collection of permanent bureaucrats enmeshed inside the federal government who can’t be fired or removed ‐ at least historically, have not been able to be ‐ because of misguided civil service laws. They believe they know better than you, and your listeners, and the voters how the country ought to be run. At this moment in time, the deep state has a knife aimed at the heart of American democracy.."
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Fixed. Sometimes when a video/audio thingy doesn’t show up like that, all a moderator needs to do is open the article as if to edit, then close it without changing anything. It was so in this case — I’ve no idea why. Rantburg’s code is all homemade, so very occasionally it’s a little quirky.
[Jpost] Trump gives green light to Turkey to takeover Syria, displace U.S. partners
For four years the US and mostly Kurdish fighters in eastern Syria have fought and defeated Islamic State in northeast Syria. On October 6 the White House decided to give the green light to a Turkish invasion of the same area to defeat to displace the partner forces the US had been working with. For more than a year and a half US President Donald Trump has been seeking to leave Syria. In the midst of the impeachment crisis he has now made the decision not to pressure Ankara diplomatically, but to sacrifice other US allies in the war on ISIS. Well, earlier this year Trump did promise to destroy Turkey if they harmed the allies. Let's see this play out. Maybe Erdogan was just told that.
According to a statement from the White House press secretary Trump spoke to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the US says that "Turkey will soon be moving forward with its long-planned operation into Northern Syria." The US will not support the operation and the US claims it has defeated the ISIS "caliphate," so it is mission accomplished in terms of what the US initially went to Syria to do. This is the logic by which Washington has decided to act in the face of a year of Ankara&'s threats to takeover eastern Syria.
Maybe whether Trump aims to let Yipyip put his money where his mouth is. Or maybe the intention is to let Iran and Turkey fight over it. In either case it turns out badly I imagine. I can't understand the move, other than simple economics as a rationale.
Today, President Donald J. Trump spoke with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey by telephone. Turkey will soon be moving forward with its long-planned operation into Northern Syria. The United States Armed Forces will not support or be involved in the operation, and United States forces, having defeated the ISIS territorial “Caliphate,” will no longer be in the immediate area.
The United States Government has pressed France, Germany, and other European nations, from which many captured ISIS fighters came, to take them back, but they did not want them and refused. The United States will not hold them for what could be many years and great cost to the United States taxpayer. Turkey will now be responsible for all ISIS fighters in the area captured over the past two years in the wake of the defeat of the territorial “Caliphate” by the United States.
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The way DJT operates, this is about giving the turk a chance to find out what it feels like to have a bloody nose while stepping on their dicks
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A rant. And... data.
Almost all Kurdish Jews or Jewish Kurds ? emigrated into Israel proper from the 50s onward. The jewish Kurd community used to once have great influence in Iraq. More than that, Grom and TW may know best. But of course, the majority are sadly muslim.
The Kurds, being the most sensible lot of the muslim demographic in the middle east are so hated by sunni and shia alike because they are an amalgam of cultures and religious practices. Most importantly they are seen as takfirs who did not bow down to the ayatollahs and mahdis through the ages and impudently stuck to their own distinct identity. They also refused the madness of jihad and sacrificed greatly in the war on terror, often being frontline hitters while American forces took the credit. This is true, no offense.
Also true is that they were not fighting for relevance or to establish some righteous super-suzerainty over the middle east but for mere survival against vicious hordes of barbaric islamists.
The Kurdish fighters in fact drew their inspiration from the Israeli nation and the Peshmerga have been helped by agencies and arms of governments sympathetic to their cause from the US to China Even the chinks once advocated the establishment of an autonomous kurdish state within the Iraqi republic Israeli aid to Jurd, Yazidi, Christian survivors of the ISIS has been considerable. I wish my country had done more, but that's India for you Sycophant, penny-pinching, money grubbers. Recently, Erdogan's overtures towards the Pakis have been waking up Modi to our appeals to assist the Kurds rather than please OIC sasquatches.
Now, about Turkey. Especially Erdogan. The turkish community in the US was coaxed and prodded by his party to support freshman Ilhan Omar. They have considerable activist clout within the US media and now the HoR through several other Brotherhood stooges too. Then there's the $100 mil that Erdogan pured into a mosque and islamic center in Maryland. Can't think of more, but I'm sure if you dig a little...
In 2016, Wikileaks published thousands of emails documenting the involvement of Berat Albayrak son-in-law of Yippy, in helping ISIS market oil robbed in Syria and Iraq. Turkish transport and logistics were heavily used to assist ISIS fighters fleeing zones occupied by US and allied fighters. Ask almost any ISIS fighter caught in the EU or neighboring borders how he got out and I'm sure he'd tell you about Turkish assist.
The issue is not one of whether the Kurdish cause warrants the support of the US, or anybody. It's about letting Erdogan's Ottoman Syria dreams free reign while mad islamists watch across 'the levant' as it were.
I have the utmost respect for Trump, and even if I didn't I would still support him just for the expediency of such a leader at the moment. But truly loyal allies don't nod in the affirmative to even the mistakes of their friends. I hope people in the military will better apprise the President of the ground realities and the implications of such a move. Bolton certainly would have.
All that being said, I for one shall side with the underdog as usual. Biji Kurdistan !
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Ref #17: And from a Kurdish perspective, it is important to note that another point of tension between Bolton and Trump was northeast Syria. Bolton opposed Trump’s decision last December, following a phone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to withdraw US forces from Syria.
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Yea, well I'm not responsible for your sayings.
Remember two years or so ago that you were lecturing me about the need to 'take responsibility for your elected politicians' even if I didn't vote for them? Funny how that principle doesn't apply when it's applied to you, isn't it?
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Patience. Play the long game. The Kurds aren't going anywhere.
There will yet be an independent Kurdish homeland with a US military forward presence.
Socialist power in Israel has been falling since the mid-1970s, marked first by the election of Menachem Begin and Likud in 1977, and accelerated by Bibi Netwnyahu freeing Israel’s capitalists beast starting in the early 1990s. This rejection of socialism is what the Democratic Party has found increasingly unacceptable over the years, to the point that open Joo-hatred is their preferred position.
No country on earth has benefited more from American largess and protection than Israel. Too bad you can't return the favor to another.
1) Israel has been America's strongest and most consistent supporter in the U.N.
2) Israel spends much of America’s donated funds to buy American weaponry, and often has served as co-developer and beta tester of that weaponry. The F-35 is the most recent example of that.
3) Israel volunteered to fight in both Gulf Wars, but in both cases was told to stand down because if Israel was seen to be involved the Arab countries would refuse to be involved, or even join the fight on Saddam Hussein’s side. You may be old enough to recall that Israel sat tight, doing nothing to imperil the Gulf War I effort while Saddam Hussein rained Scud missiles down on Tel Aviv and Haifa for over a month. The government did distribute gas masks to the population, and directions on how to build gas-proof safe rooms in their apartments, but the Patriot missiles President G.W. Bush sent over were utterly useless as protection. The exercise was repeated during the second Gulf War, and since then safe rooms and gas masks have become standard issue for all Israeli households. Search “Saddam Hussein scud attack Israel” for an interesting selection of articles on the subject.
4) Just as both Presidents Bush refused to allow Israel to join the fight lest their Arab friends walk away, so too domestically various branches of the American intelligence services rejected Jewish volunteer translators after 9/11 lest their Arab and Iranian translators walk off the job. And so there have been entirely too many translators whose connections are frighteningly untrustworthy over the years.
And finally, Israel has quietly helped the Kurds as they can for years. But just as America refused Israeli aid against Saddam Hussein lest the Arabs walk, so too the Kurds would be harmed rather than helped if they were believed to be Israeli clients. On the other hand, the various socialist Kurdish groups were long time clients of the Soviet Union, and still get some support from Putin’s Russia out of sentiment, but they have pretty much hung them out to dry, too. One hopes, Elmavimp Glinegum6967, that for the sake of consistency you quarrel with those you know to be Russian for it as you did with g(r)omgoru.
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The Kurds will look after their own interests. It is Syrian territory. Who should be concerned are the Europeans. Seems the man is disengaging America from flashpoints and not interested in playing lower primate territorial games. They too can be next.
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What you say is accurate and I would echo this TW. Spent the last week with Israelis (JQC wife side of the family) talking about these same issues. I'll add a couple of comments however.
1.According to the Democracy Index, Israel is the only democracy in the Mideast and North Africa. They are a representative government and Israeli-Arabs do have representation in the Knesset, unlike Arab countries. A reason to support Israel and to be measured about support for other countries in that region.
2.Donald J. Trump tweeted on 10/7/2019
Replying to @realDonaldTrump
....almost 3 years, but it is time for us to get out of these ridiculous Endless Wars, many of them tribal, and bring our soldiers home. WE WILL FIGHT WHERE IT IS TO OUR BENEFIT, AND ONLY FIGHT TO WIN. Turkey, Europe, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Russia and the Kurds will now have to.....
...figure the situation out, and what they want to do with the captured ISIS fighters in their “neighborhood.” They all hate ISIS, have been enemies for years. We are 7000 miles away and will crush ISIS again if they come anywhere near us!
3.Congress’ oath of office is:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God."
POTUS, the VP and the military, LE officers oaths are similar.
Currently, POTUS and the U.S. are busy addressing “Domestic Enemies.” Let’s get that done before some knee-jerk reaction to ME possible problems.
4.Maybe it’s time for NATO and the U.N. to step up to the plate and not be feckless for a change in addressing any Turkey/SDF possible p!ssing contest.
5.It’s a little like addressing prostate or other cancers. Sometimes watchful waiting is appropriate before more drastic measures such as excising or nuking the tumor.
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Thank you, people, but that's not my point. The point is, how many here attack Israel to score of me? In particular, using these particular arguments?
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LaRouche? Really? That's all you can come up with? Not just name-calling, but name-calling of the absurd absolute variety?
An absurd absolute is a restatement of the other person's reasonable position as an absurd absolute. For example, if your point is there is high crime in Detroit, the absurd absolute would be your debate opponent saying something such as "So, you're saying every person in Detroit is a criminal." When your debate opponent recasts your opinion to include an "absolute" word, such as every, always, never, all, completely, universally, and the like, you are seeing cognitive dissonance.
Some people call what I just described a strawman argument. But a strawman argument refers to any sort of inaccurate recasting of your opponent's argument. That is the generic case. I'm referring to a specific strawman argument that uses an absurd absolute. When your debate opponent recasts your point as an absurd absolute, you won the debate. That's as far as you can go.
That was written in sarcasm. Partly as a dig to Sovok Man G, partly because of Communist/Socialist Kurd politics and partly because of Socialist Israeli history.
Of course I know from founding to the Camp David Accords, Israel was a Socialist country with more than a little Communist flavor. But Israelis took the aid money (>25% of GDP at the time) and modernized to become a competitive market economy. They redeemed themselves while the Egyptians took the money and subsidized bread.
Seems G doesn't believe the Kurds, or anyone else in the Middle East, should get the same chance Israelis. He a flaming hypocrite in every sense of the word.
Erdogan's promised Turkish military operation in northeast Syria has begun, as confirmed by regional media and video footage. On Monday night Turkish fighter jets commenced bombing the Semelka Border Crossing in far northeast Syria on the border with Iraq.
Both Hezbollah-affiliated al-Mayadeen television channel and Israeli media are also reporting Turkish jets have attacked Kurdish targets in northern Syria.
#BREAKING: Reports: Turkish warplanes have bombed the Semelka Border Crossing at the Syria-Iraq border
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— Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) October 7, 2019
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Also:
Meanwhile Turkey's military spokesman has ominously warned that the army will move forward to "correct the demographics changed by YPG in Northeast Syria" and further that "Turkey won’t allow ISIS to return in any shape or form."
Considering Erdogan already stood down US pressures on acquiring the Russian S-400 air defense system, he appears more willing to call Trump's bluff at this point.
#Turkish armored vehicles set in motion with target #Syria. At the roadside the #TSK is applauded. Via @yasiremres pic.twitter.com/U35PL65LLq
— Ali Özkök (@Ozkok_A) October 7, 2019
As Syria's Kurds have warned from the beginning, and as the military spokesman's words darkly imply, it appears Turkey's campaign will be toward full-on ethnic cleansing of Kurds from the border regions.
Thank goodness. Next time put in one of those emoticon thingies so that I pick up on it, please. I do wish you all would play nicely and love one another as I do all of you, but I realize that isn’t realistic.
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Opinions and values differ. Some can't be compromised.
I fear for the Syrian Kurds. Pasha Erdogan is out to ethnically cleanse them or worse.
One "NO" from Pres Trump could have avoided this. It's the least he could have done to support the one non-back-shooting ally in the Middle East. Trump will suffer fallout from his base for this perceived betrayal. It's a question of how much, not if.
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No country on earth has benefited more from American largess and protection than Israel.
That can be argued.
35 million Kurds under western protection have a better chance to form a nation than 2 (now 7) million Jews.
Numbers and geography would disagree. So would the governments of Iran, Iraq, and Turkey. In fact I have heard many an argument that westerners drawing lines on a map willy nilly are why there are so many conflicts between Middle East, African nations.
2 million in a small area is much easier to unify in purpose than 35 million spread over the size, cultural, and climatic diversity of southern Europe.
The clock started for a greater Kurdistan as soon as ISIS started rolling up Syria and Iraq, and everyone knew there was a time limit. The chances increased the better ISIS performed as a weak Syria and Iraq with preoccupied Turkey and Iran benefits the idea of Kurdistan.
Remember when the Iraqi Kurds told the government, "Dude, ISIS is shooting at us right now, we have taken in the Yzidis, and getting squat from Baghdad...maybe this government isn't for us."
And within 24 hours Baghdad had troops in every major Iraqi Kurd airport?
I think the Kurds had about 4 years more than, my amateur opinion, should have had. That there was not at least a skeleton of Kurdistan already ready for an opportunity is a bit of a worry about the venture.
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Without entanglement with Israel we wouldn't need to be in the Middle East at all.
Bull Shit.
The United States has been involved in the Middle East since before modern Israel.
Every consumer of the industrial critical resources middle east oil has an active interest in any and all activities which may or may not influence middle east oil production has an active interest in Middle East policies and going-ons.
[Ynet] The Paleostinian Authority removed all trace of agreements signed with Israel from its textbooks.
The only signed agreement that is still mentioned in schoolbooks for students from first grade through high school in the West Bank, the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, is the 1993 Oslo accords but even those are mentioned less favorably, and in less detail than earlier versions of the book.
[IsraelTimes] Validating report, Israel Katz says he met with top diplomats from Gulf countries in bid to ‘end the conflict and enable civilian cooperation until the signing of peace agreements’.
Thank you, President Trump, for moving the Overton Window beyond what anyone thought possible.
Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Sunday confirmed that he has been advancing non-aggression treaties with several Arab countries in the Gulf, a "historic" démarche he said could end the conflict between Jerusalem and those states.
"Recently I have been promoting, with the backing of the prime minister, a diplomatic initiative to sign ’non-aggression agreements’ with the Arab Gulf states," Katz wrote on Twitter.
"It’s a historic move that will end the conflict and enable civilian cooperation until the signing of peace agreements," he said, in what appeared to be a tacit acknowledgement that no Arab country is currently willing to establish full diplomatic relations with the Jewish state as long as the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict remains unresolved.
Katz further confirmed that he presented his plan to several Arab foreign ministers during his visit to New York last week at the sidelines of the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... General Assembly. He also discussed the proposal with the US administration’s outgoing special envoy for the grinding of the peace processor, Jason Greenblatt, Katz said.
"I will continue to work to strengthen Israel’s standing in the region and around the world," he pledged.
Katz’s tweet included a link to a report aired Saturday night by Channel 12, which first revealed the existence of the potentially groundbreaking initiative.
The TV report, which did not quote a source, said the deal in the workings is designed to provide for friendly bilateral relations, cooperation in a variety of fields, and no war or incitement, as both Israel and the Gulf states face an increasingly belligerent Iran.
Katz agreed with his Gulf Arab interlocutors during "a series of meetings" in New York to set up working teams to take the non-aggression pact forward, the TV report said.
The draft clauses reportedly include commitments to develop "friendly relations and cooperation" in accordance with the UN charter and international law; to prevent hostility or incitement to hostility against each other; and to eschew any military or security alliance with other parties against each other.
Among other elements, the TV report said, the draft text specifies cooperation in the fight against terror, and in advancing economic interests.
Katz, who is also intelligence minister, has previously met with senior Arab officials at least twice: In early July, he met an unnamed senior Emirati official during a visit to the Gulf city of Abu Dhabi. Later that month, he shared a photograph with Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa during an event hosted by the US State Department in Washington. It marked the rare instance in which a top Arab official is publicly documented meeting a senior Israeli figure.
In November 2018, Katz traveled to Oman to attend an international transport conference. "In my view cooperation between Israel and the Gulf states can and should be expanded," he said at the time. "Israel also has a lot to offer when it comes to water desalination and irrigation, agriculture and medicine."
In his speech at the UN last month, Katz stressed that Israel "has a clear policy to advance ties, and normalization with the Arab Gulf States.
"We have no conflict with the Gulf states, and we have common interests in the field of security against the Iranian threat as well as in developing many joint civilian initiatives," he said.
"Israel has a lot of capabilities in many areas, including hi-tech, innovation, agriculture and water technology, which can help the Gulf states, and the Gulf states have a lot of capabilities that can help Israel as well," he noted. "I hope that this cooperation will lead to the signing of peace agreements between our countries, as we did with Egypt and Jordan."
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Probably, g(r)omgoru. Even so, the fact that there are face to face discussions was unthinkable before President Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem over the shrieks of dismay from State Department and DoD alike. Not to mention the MSM pundits.
[IsraelTimes] The Jerusalem district attorney on Sunday indicted a 12-year-old boy under terror laws for the attempted stabbing of a policewoman in Jerusalem’s Old City last month.
According to the indictment, on September 26, the day of the attack, the minor attended prayers at the al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount.
At the conclusion of prayers, he allegedly walked up to a group of female officers at the Temple Mount’s Chain Gate, above the Western Wall area, pulled out a knife and attempted to stab the officers.
During the ensuing scuffle, a female officer, age 34, was lightly injured when a security barrier fell on her hand.
According to the indictment, a staff member of the Waqf, the Moslem trust that oversees the site, tried to catch the boy and keep the police from him. Arrested as an Accessory?
The boy was overpowered at the scene and arrested.
The boy is accused of committing an act of terror in which he unlawfully attempted to injure a person with a knife for religious and national motive.
Prosecutors asked that the boy remain detained until the end of legal proceedings.
[Jpost] Interior Minister Arye Deri took the first steps toward revoking the permanent resident status of Omar Barghouti,
...one of a long list of members of the Barghouti clan who have prosecuted the war against Israel for over a generation, both politically and as terrorists for both Fatah and Hamas. This one organizes academic boycotts of Israel as well as BDS...
founder of the antisemitic and anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
...formally the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC). Its multi-partisan membership includes Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine, groups listed as terrorist organizations by the US...
"I plan to act quickly to revoke Omar Barghouti’s resident status in Israel," Deri said on Sunday.
Ululululululululu!
"He is a person who is doing everything to hurt the country, and therefore, he cannot enjoy the privilege of being a resident of Israel."
Deri instructed the legal department of the Population, Immigration and Borders Authority to prepare the legal framework to revoke Barghouti’s resident status over breach of trust.
The interior minister’s decision came after Deputy Attorney-General Dina Zilber said he has the authority to do so. A 2018 amendment to the residence law allows the interior minister to cancel resident status over breach of trust, without approval from the Attorney-General’s Office.
In this case, the breach of trust is that Barghouti is promoting boycotts against Israel from within Israel, Deri’s front man explained.
To be fair, he also promotes boycotts against Israel from outside Israel. He’ll be able to do that more easily once he no longer has to get permission for visas from the Israeli government, which should make CAIR and the British Labour Party memberships awfully happy...
Barghouti resides in Acre, having moved to Israel in 1993 after marrying an Israeli-Arab woman. He has a PhD in ethics from Tel Aviv University, despite calling for an academic boycott of Israel.
Barghouti opposes "a Jewish state in Paleostine in any shape or form," he said in a talk to the Dag Hammarskjold Society in 2013.
He does not speak to Israeli media and therefore was unavailable for comment.
"Barghouti led a determined battle against the occupation and settlements," said Joint List MK Ahmed Tibi. "He received his resident status legally, and did not commit a crime other than expressing clear and determined stances here in Israel and in the world against the occupation and colonialism and used the same methods the blacks used in South Africa.
"Boycott is a legitimate nonviolent mode of struggle," he added. "Deri’s intention is arbitrary, and an attempt to silence all actions against the occupation even if they are nonviolent."
Taqiyyah. Israel recognizes the soft jihad of the law as well as the hard jihad of the sword, so you aren’t fooling anyone, O Joint List MK.
And oldie, but still a goody
[USAToday 1/15/2019] To understand events around the world today, one must think in terms of the class struggle.
This sentence sounds like something that could be written by a doctrinaire Marxist. But it is nonetheless true. Much of the current tension in America and in many other democracies is in fact a product of a class struggle. It’s not the kind of class struggle that Karl Marx wrote about, with workers and peasants facing off against rapacious capitalists, but it is a case of today’s ruling class facing disaffection from its working class.
In the old Soviet Union, the Marxists assured us that once true communism was established under a "dictatorship of the proletariat," the state would wither away and everyone would be free. In fact, however, the dictatorship of the proletariat turned into a dictatorship of the party hacks, who had no interest whatsoever in seeing their positions or power wither.
Yugoslav dissident Milovan Djilas called these party hacks the "New Class," noting that instead of workers and peasants against capitalists, it was now a case of workers and peasants being ruled by a managerial new class of technocrats who, while purporting to act for the benefit of the workers and peasants, somehow wound up with the lion’s share of the goodies.
...But the New Class isn’t limited to communist countries, really. Around the world in the postwar era, power was taken up by unelected professional and managerial elites. To understand what’s going on with President Donald Trump and his opposition, and in other countries as diverse as France, Hungary, Italy and Brazil, it’s important to realize that the post-World War II institutional arrangements of the Western democracies are being renegotiated, and that those democracies’ professional and managerial elites don’t like that very much, because they have done very well under those arrangements. And, like all elites who are doing very well, they don’t want that to change. Look at the current crop of Democratic candidates - each and every one a member of Nomenklatura
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In fact, however, the dictatorship of the proletariat turned into a dictatorship of the party hacks, who had no interest whatsoever in seeing their positions or power wither.
"Power corrups, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
~ John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, 13th Marquess of Groppoli, KCVO DL (10 January 1834 – 19 June 1902), was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer. He was the only son of Sir Ferdinand Dalberg-Acton, 7th Baronet,[1] and a grandson of the Neapolitan admiral and prime minister Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet.[2][3] Between 1837 and 1869 he was known as Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Baronet.
He is perhaps best known for the remark, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men...", which he made in a letter to an Anglican bishop.
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The only way to win back some freedom is to cut off the government's bottomless rice bowl. When reelected with R majority in both House and Senate, I hope Pres Trump will force through a balanced budget amendment with a requirement to pay down the national debt.
Dissolving the CIA, transferring the technical people to the DIA and shuffling off (can't fire Civil Service) anyone above second level manager to the Border Patrol would be just desserts.
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Heinz Höhne's The Order of the Death's Head (1971) opined that two evil movements marked the 20th Century: Fascism and... Technocracy: the perverse idea that a dispassionate rule of experts would somehow be better / kinder/ 'more just' and et cetera ad nauseum. The death tolls prove otherwise.
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Dissolving the CIA, transferring the technical people to the DIA and shuffling off (can't fire Civil Service) anyone above second level manager to the Border Patrol would be just desserts.
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They always bring up Eisenhower's warning about the military industrial complex but ignore what immediately follows in the speech -
Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.
In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientifictechnological elite.
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After reading about how John Podesta fell for one of the oldest tricks in the book and got his email account hacked, I don't believe the term technocrat applies. Maybe I'm not thinking of the term in its correct definition. Maybe it's supposed to imply some sort of expertise in managing the reins of power. But Podesta is obviously, pathetically, computer illiterate and technophobic and, if you can't keep up with the latest methods of managing the reins of power, you're a piss poor technocrat. I think kleptocrat suits him and his kind a whole lot better.
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#6 "In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government"
...and thus often has become politicized towards a particular narrative, talking point or result.
[Jpost] German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government has declared that Iran's call to obliterate the State of Israel is not an expression of antisemitism.
On October 1, Merkel’s Foreign Ministry labeled the call to destroy Israel by commander-in-chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Gen. Hossein Salami as "anti-Israel rhetoric."
When the Post asked the Merkel administration if it agreed with the Foreign Ministry statement, a government spokesman told The Jerusalem Post: "We have nothing to add to the reply of the foreign office."
The Post had specifically asked if Salami’s statements were antisemitic.
In late September, Salami delivered his call to exterminate the Jewish state before an audience of IRGC leaders that was publicized by the state-funded IRNA agency, as well as other Iranian regime-controlled outlets.
Salami said that "This sinister regime must be wiped off the map and this is no longer... a dream [but] it is an achievable goal."
He added that his country has "managed to obtain the capacity to destroy the impostor Zionist regime" 40 years after the 1979 Islamic revolution. It's just, how you say Endlösung in English?
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European Conservative Concern Troll will be along momentarily to say 1) Annhella Burka didn't really mean that. 2) She had to say it to placate the Cherman Hoi polloi and all the newcomers. 3) "What dual use exports?"
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Israel will bw around for at least forever (until the old earth is destroyed. It's God promise to the Israel people. Might be a few hiccups here and there, but the country will remain.
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Wow, now you're making things up about other commenters. I thought you only did that about me. Putting words in their mouths, and then criticizing them for what you made up.
Sheesh. Let people speak for themselves.
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[Telegraph] Boris Johnson would veto the EU’s seven-year budget and send a Eurosceptic commissioner to Brussels to "disrupt" the bloc’s workings if he were forced into a Brexit delay, under plans being discussed by ministers.
Senior Government figures are considering a series of proposals to "sabotage" the EU’s structures if Brussels refuses to agree a new deal or let Mr Johnson deliver Brexit without one.
Two Cabinet ministers told this newspaper that they were among those backing a more "aggressive" approach towards Brussels.
It is understood that plans under discussion include blocking the EU’s 2021-27 budget, which is due to be agreed early next year, and nominating a British commissioner who would... LET MY PEOPLE GO!
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The original charter said all had to agree to join to form. When Denmark and Ireland refused, they made them do over till they got the results they wanted. EU from the birth was illegitimate.
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The EU is absolutely furious that they're losing an important member and most of their military. Don't look for them to act like adults, they will lash out with all the righteous anger of a 3 year old who had her lollipop taken away.
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EU Ambassador Nigel Farage. I like the sound of that.
Same here, and I bet he's had plenty of time to figure out 200 ways to throw spanners into their gearbox. That said, I'd rather see Brexit happen than for flamethrowing Farage speeches.
[IsraelTimes] Police on Sunday announced the arrest of a resident of the southern Bedouin town of Tel Sheva on suspicion of supporting 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.... jihadist group and wanting to fight for it in Syria.
The 20-year-old suspect, who was not named, was arrested on September 9 in a joint operation of the Israel Police and Shin Bet security service.
A police statement said that during a raid of the suspect’s home, officers found binoculars, BB guns, a vest, kneepads and a drone with which he is suspected of training to drop "kaboom" on dummy targets.
Police said they also found a large quantity of clothes associated with the Islamic State. Pictures released by police showed camo fatigues.
The suspect’s remand was extended repeatedly and prosecutors from the Southern District were expected to file an indictment against him later on Sunday.
The Shin Bet has in the past estimated that several dozen Israeli nationals had fought for Islamic State and other terror groups in Iraq and Syria. Most were either killed in action or returned to Israel, where they were arrested.
Many willingly returned, despite knowing they would be indicted, due to the abysmal living conditions in the Islamist-controlled areas of Iraq and Syria.
Bilal Abu Rakaik, 20, intended to join the terrorist group and travel to Syria because he supported ISIS ideology. In an attempt to identify with the jihadist organization, Rakaik would listen to songs praising ISIS and read posts and news from the group, including about the war the organization was fighting in Syria, Somalia and Iraq, and about terrorist attacks conducted by it in these countries.
The accused bought uniforms similar to those used by ISIS through the Internet, and wore them daily with sandals outside of his house and in the mosque that he attended. He also took pictures in the uniform and published them on Facebook.
Rakaik found an Internet site detailing the requirements for joining ISIS, including the necessity to apply for a passport to exit Israel. In order to fund his trip to Syria, the accused planned on producing explosives and selling them to others. Rakaik looked at multiple websites for information on how to produce explosives and explosive material. He bought hydrogen peroxide, salicylic acid and aluminum foil and attempted to produce the explosive material in his home.
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[IsraelTimes] Massive South Pars field agreement, reached after 2015 nuclear accord, becomes latest business casualty of US sanctions campaign on Tehran.
The noose continues to tighten.
Oil Minister Bijan Zangeneh, quoted by the ministry’s SHANA news agency, said Sunday that the China National Petroleum Corp. was "no longer in the project." He did not elaborate or give any reason for the withdrawal, though SHANA said the company "had pulled out of a contract" to develop the field.
Officials in Beijing didn’t immediately acknowledge their decision. Phone calls to the CNPC rang unanswered on Sunday and its website bore no mention of the withdrawal.
[Rudaw] State figures announced Sunday night put the corpse count of nationwide protests calling for improved basic services and an end to corruption at 96. Eight security force members have also died, government officials said.
As the sixth day of nationwide protests began drawing to a close, Iraq’s Ministry of Defense, Interior, Health and Joint Operations Command announced their latest casualty figures at a joint presser in Baghdad.
"The current toll of the events that took place amid the protests stands at 104 deaders, including 8 members of security forces," Iraqi security officials said.
"The number of injured protesters and members of security forces stands at 6,107," they added, while claiming they had arrested some "infiltrators" at protests.
Figures released Saturday by the Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights (IHCHR) said 99 people died and 4,000 maimed in the protests. AFP reported the death of eight protesters and the injury of 25 others in eastern Baghdad’s Sadr City on Sunday night, according to medical and security sources.
Protests demanding an end to corruption, nepotism, and mass unemployment, as well as an improved provision of basic services began in Baghdad on October 1, soon spreading to other Iraqi cities.
Demonstrators have been met with violence by security forces, including use of tear gas and live rounds of ammunition.
On Sunday, Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi announced a batch of measures to meet the demands of protesters following an "exceptional Council of Ministers" meeting.
Measures included a monthly allowance of 175,000 Iraqi dinars for 150,000 of the country’s unemployed, as well as plans for 100,000 housing units prioritizing the poor across Iraqi provinces.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... the announced measures have failed to extinguish protests. Though they appeared to show a national slowdown today, demonstrations continued with fervor in Sadr City, one of the capital’s poorest neighborhoods.
One protester expressed dismay at what he described as the Iraqi Army acting in cooperation with police and other security forces to quell protests with violence.
"I have been out here protesting for five days, and we didn’t let anyone [protesters] attack the Army stationed there. We have been protecting it. Now the Army is shooting at us?" he told Rudaw from Sadr City.
Another said the "policy of closing mouths is bygone."
"They have closed the channels that were covering the events. This does you no good Adil Abdul-Mahdi [Iraqi Prime Minister]. For how long will you close them? The footage of the killing of youth is in our phones," the second protester said.
His comments came as local and regional media agencies claimed late on Saturday they had been attacked for their coverage of protests in Iraq.
Kurdish media agency NRT released images of their ransacked Baghdad offices, while news channel al-Hadath released CCTV footage of the Baghdad office it shares with fellow Saudi outlet al-Arabiya being ransacked by button men.
As Rudaw spoke to those protesting in Sadr City, live rounds could be heard being fired, while protesters, who had purportedly set tires alight, could be seen fleeing to safety.
"We call on the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... to intervene to dissolve the parliament, government, and the presidency. Currently, Iranian riot police, Safavid forces, are firing upon us," a protester said as he withdrew alongside Rudaw’s news hound. Another Iraqi eyewitness previously told Rudaw English that Iran-backed Khorasani Brigades had fired at protesters in Baghdad on Tuesday night.
[DAWN] An antiterrorism court on Saturday acquitted a former Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... politician and six others of charges of distributing compact discs (CDs) containing anti-state speeches of their London-based party chief the increasingly rounded Altaf Hussain ... The head of MQM in Pakistain, who has lived in safety and comfort in London and hasn't laid eyes on his purported homeland since about the time Caesar made corporal. Judging from the size of him, he may be a Hutt... "Bring me Solo and the Wookie. No, not Michelle"
Former MPA Sheeraz Waheed; Naeem Shamshad; M. Nabeel; Mubeen, alias Pak; Danish Saeed; Ali Hasan, alias Guddu and Syed Mohammad Shoaib were acquitted of the charges of distributing CDs, which contained speeches and statements to wage war against the state, among the people in an Ahsanabad locality in 2016.
On Saturday, the ATC-II judge pronounced her judgement reserved after recording evidence and final arguments from both sides on Oct 5. All the accused appeared on bail. The judge noted that the prosecution failed to prove allegations against the politician and others beyond a reasonable shadow of a doubt.
The judge cancelled their bail and also discharged their surety. The case against a proclaimed offender, Syed Azhar Ali, alias Anna, was kept on the dormant file until his arrest or surrender.
On Oct 5, the court had reserved its judgement after hearing final arguments from both sides.
According to the prosecution, former politician Waheed along with his around 15 accomplices allegedly distributed CDs, which contained speeches and statements of MQM chief Altaf Hussain to wage war or attempt or abet to wage war against the country, among the people in Ahsanabad.
At least two people have been unprecedentedly charged with violating the anti-mask emergency law. Their cases will be heard at the Eastern Magistracy on Monday morning - despite it being a public holiday.
[TWITTER] Iranian protesters set fire to the office of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei ...the actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... 's representative in Lordegan city following an HIV outbreak, which demonstrators blamed on infected syringes used by health authorities.
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[PULSE.NG] Zamfara Government has summoned an emergency meeting with Fulani ... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity... leaders over attack on an outpost in which nine soldiers were killed in Sunke village of Anka local government area.
Senior Special Assistant to Governor Bello Matawalle on Security Matters, Alhaji Abubakar Dauran, told newsmen in Gusau on Saturday that the meeting was to forestall future occurrence. He however did not say when the meeting will be held.
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Suru attack is the first major security breach since the government initiated dialogue with bandidos in the state.
Dauran confirmed that Thursday’s attack left some soldiers and the attackers dead, while those injured were admitted in Federal Medical Center, Gusau for proper medical attention.
According to him, the attackers were from Niger state.
"Following the good relationship and understanding established with the bandidos which led to their repentance in Zamfara, I can assure you that those attackers are not from Zamfara.
"Immediately after the attack, we reached out to the Fulani leaders in the state who confirmed to us that none of their members participated, but we have summoned a meeting with them to forestal reoccurance," he said.
Some eye witnesses who spoke to NAN on condition of anonymity, said the bandidos that attacked the joint security outpost numbered over 200, riding cycle of violences.
[TheGuardian] The growing scandal around Ukraine shows a Biden nomination would be a big gamble – one Democrats would be foolish to make. Took me a while to figure out why the Commie rag would slam a Donk. After a nanosec of reflection it's obviously a tactic to eliminate the front-runner so Hillary Sanders can swoop in at the last minute.
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I'm still half of the opinion that denial notwithstanding, Big Mike will 'reluctantly' throw her pelt in the ring.
It would be the easiest way to get the deepest of the deep state back to the true levers of power, there would be a litany of 'firsts' checked off, and the Os could get back to doing what they do best: lecturing everyone else while spending taxpayer money.
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Bob is on to something.
Big Mike is the perfect beard for the Deep State. She'll bring back ValJar and the whole creepy crew.
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Soetoro and the CBC will back her within the first 3 minutes of her announcement. Don't count the Hildebeest out until she and Slick are both vertical.
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By now Trump, Giuliani, Barr and Durham must be closing in on the origins of Russia Gate. Trump will have a big enough war chest in 2020 to buy all the ads he needs to tell us all about it in spite of the MSM's attempts to bury it. Hildebeast could still end up wearing orange.
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[PRESSTV] Forced recruitment of civilians to fight along with forces of Evil has been practiced by Kurdish-led members of the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) for the past months, and they turn to kidnapping people to that end.
The latest incident of such abductions has taken place in the eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr.
Local sources, requesting not to be named, told Syria's official news agency SANA on Sunday that SDF Death Eaters, who enjoy Washington's patronage, stormed houses in the al-Hajim neighborhood of the town of Diban. Several people were kidnapped.
Separately, the forces of Evil kidnapped three women at a roadblock east of the city of Raqqah.
[PULSE.NG] The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says its Air Component of Operation HADARIN DAJI (OPHD), has neutralised no fewer than 10 bandidos at forests near Birnin Gwari and Janko Hill in Kaduna.
NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, said the operation was conducted on Saturday.
"The operation was conducted yesterday, Oct. 5, following the directives by the OPHD Headquarters to resume kinetic operations against camps identified as harboring unrepentant armed bandidos.
"The decision was taken in the wake of the attack on troops’ location at Sunke in Anka Local Government Area of Zamfara State as well as the increased migration of bandidos towards the Birnin Gwari area of Kaduna State," he said.
Daramola explained that the attack on the bandidos was undertaken when a NAF helicopter on armed reconnaissance mission over the Birnin Gwari general area spotted several bandidos at the location and engaged them with its guns killing some of them.
He said some bandidos were similarly tracked to Janko Hill and equally neutralised.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Hossein Shariatmadari, one of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei ...the actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... ’s representatives, and the head of Iran’s hardline Kayhan newspaper, called on Iraqis to "occupy the US embassy like the Iranians did in 1979," following major protests that gripped Baghdad in recent days.
In an editorial that featured in the newspaper on Saturday, Shariatmadari reiterated accusations by top Iranian officials claiming that the protests were instigated "by America and foreign elements."
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The Iranians are ticked their Iraqi spy dens have been getting attacked and burned.
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The big problem is that this would indeed be a clever move.
No sarcasm.
Since 1979 Islamic aggression, Islamic war crimes, the unapologetic violation of rules of international conduct by Islamic entities have been rewarded by the West.
[PRESSTV] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... has reportedly reinforced army units at its border with northern Syria ahead of a cross-border incursion against US-sponsored and Kurdish-led holy warriors operating in the region.
The number of Ottoman Turkish military patrols on the frontier with armored vehicles "increased" in the border town of Akcakale, across from Tal Abyad in Syria, the private DHA news agency reported on Sunday.
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May get to see how many TOWs and Javelins the Kurds saved.
[MOI.GOV.AF] 25 Taliban terrorists killed and 15 others wounded in a joint overnight clearance operation carried out by Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) backed by Afghan Air Force (AAF) in Baghak region, Qala-e-Naw City of Badghis.
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Using Dron66046’s definition, jpal, they have precisely as many key members as grunts... and twice as many ears.
Which reminds me: Pappy would have sent you to your room for that, Dron66046 dear, there to ponder the wisdom of your choices (and perhaps gloat a little). ;-)
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And yes, in fairness I have to send myself to my room as well, which is better than having to spamcop myself, as Skidmark did recently. All are equal under the law here.
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Sometimes I just want to rage in the streets and foam at the mouth like Erb, then the moment passes and I have to cleanup my mess as any responsible adult might.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi was said to have rejected the resignation of seven ministers to prevent the collapse of his government as the country witnesses deadly protests over corruption and poor public services.
A political source told Iraq’s Algahd Press website on Sunday that "several political blocs pressurize Abdul Mahdi to force him to carry out a cabinet reshuffle or render his resignation."
The source did not clarify the names of ministers, who offered their resignation.
[PRESSTV] The governor of the Iraqi capital province of Baghdad, Fallah al-Jazairi, has stepped down in the wake of demonstrations against corruption, unemployment and poor public services in the country.
On Sunday, members of the Provincial Council voted in favor of accepting Jazairi’s resignation, and he quit his post.
"Acceptance of applications for candidates for the post is open for five days," an unnamed source in the Council said.
The Baghdad Provincial Council voted to elect Jazairi as the governor of Baghdad during a session on December 22, 2018.
The Council elected Jazairi to replace his outgoing predecessor, Atwan al-Atwani, who had won a seat in the parliament.
On Sunday, Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi's cabinet issued a series of reforms in response to the protests.
[DAWN] A 12-year-old boy who had been missing for a couple of days was found murdered in a Gulshan-e-Maymar area on Saturday morning, officials said. Natural Causes in the Land Of The Pure
They added that the decomposed body of the victim with torture marks was found in bushes on the outskirts of the city.
Area police said the body was recovered by relatives who had been searching for him for the last two to three days. The corpse was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. Police surgeon Dr Qarar Ahmed Abbasi said that the body was decomposed and it appeared to be around two to three days old. The boy was hit on the head with a hard and blunt weapon. He was also strangulated with an aizarband (string) and stabbed in the abdomen. .
Additional police surgeon of the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital Dr Saleem Sheikh told Dawn that the boy was raped before being murdered.
Malir SSP Ali Raza said the boy had been missing from Khamiso Goth .
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Just in case you're wondering about the frailty of the poor lad's neck, an aizarband is a braided cord of string that goes in the loop in your salwaar (muslim jammies). You tie it in front o' you, and untie it to drop yore jammies. Convenient for rapacious rapers.
[Libya Observer] One staffer was injured and two airplanes were damaged by Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s of foreign warplanes backing 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 on Misrata Airport, media office of Volcano of Rage Operation said.
It added Saturday that UAE drones backing up Haftar's forces hit Misrata Airport and caused some damage after the Libyan Army forces targeted their fighters and Russian, Chadian and Sudanese mercenaries on different frontlines.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... the director of Misrata Airport, Adel Gazit, said the airport suspended flights for a while then resumed them in the wake of the airstrikes.
He confirmed that two warplanes - one for Libyan Airlines and another for Libyan Wings - were affected by the strikes.
The foreign drone targeted the civilian Misrata Airport on Saturday morning causing panic among passengers and personnel.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has decided not to stand for re-election in November polls as the politically influential Rajapakse family nominated two candidates by final registration Sunday.
Sirisena’s name was not on a list of 41 candidates who paid deposits by Sunday’s noon deadline to contest the November 16 presidential poll, according to Election Commission records.
It means Sirisena will leave office the day after the election, cutting short his five-year term by 52 days.
A front man for Sirisena’s Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) confirmed he was not seeking re-election.
Sirisena caused a constitutional crisis last year when he sacked Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and replaced him with former president Mahinder Rajapakse.
The Supreme Court later ruled against Sirisena’s action and reinstated Wickremesinghe.
Two of Rajapakse’s brothers -- younger sibling Gotabhaya and elder Chamal -- have paid deposits to be candidates and challenge Sajith Premadasa, the deputy leader of Wickremesinghe’s United National Party.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Heavy fighting renews northeast of Aziziya region, south #Tripoli as Haftar armed groups backed by Russian mercenaries attempt to advance on the region pic.twitter.com/2rFSoX9rpw— The Libya Observer (@Lyobserver) October 6, 2019
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[PRESSTV] Dozens of Israeli settlers have violated the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of East Jerusalem al-Quds under the tight protection of regime forces.
According to a statement by the Department of Islamic Endowments in Jerusalem al-Quds, carried by the Paleostine Information Center, 121 Israeli settlers entered the compound from the Moroccan Gate on Sunday morning, attempting to perform rituals.
It said that 62 of the holy warrior settlers performed rituals in the courtyards while the mosque guards prevented many others from doing so during their provocative tours at the holy site.
Israeli forces stationed at al-Aqsa gates imposed restrictions on Paleostinian worshipers’ access to the mosque, demanded their ID cards, frisked them, and searched their bags, the statement added.
Hard-line Israeli politicians and holy warrior settlers regularly violate the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied city, a provocative move that infuriates Paleostinians.
The al-Aqsa Mosque compound sits just above the Western Wall plaza and houses both the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque.
According to an agreement signed between the Israeli regime and the Jordanian government after Israel’s occupation of East Jerusalem al-Quds in 1967, non-Moslem worship at the compound is prohibited.
Paleostinians want the occupied West Bank as part of their future independent state with East Jerusalem al-Quds as the capital of their future sovereign state.
If 'attempting to perform rituals' is akin to deflowering Fatima (!) then a bit of raising of hands and the hava nagila should bring about the winged steed to shit the skies.
It’s the Ten Days of Repentence between Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish new year) and Yom Kippur (the day of atonement, holiest day of the Jewish calendar), so they probably intended to pray or blow a ram’s horn on the Temple Mount platform, not enter the mosque there. But such attempts by Jews generally trigger rioting by Hamas-linked Muslim “study groups”, who camp out in the mosque ready to attack with staves and rocks, requiring intervention by Israeli soldiers — and there was no report of anything along that line before I fell asleep late last night.
[RollingStone] It’s an insult to real whistleblowers to use the term with the Ukrainegate protagonist.
Start with the initial headline, in the story the Washington Post “broke” on September 18th:
TRUMP’S COMMUNICATIONS WITH FOREIGN LEADER ARE PART OF WHISTLEBLOWER COMPLAINT THAT SPURRED STANDOFF BETWEEN SPY CHIEF AND CONGRESS, FORMER OFFICIALS SAY
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Taibbi is a bad lefty trying to remake himself ahead of the media Gotterdammerung that's coming. He doesn't believe in the things he writes about now but he hopes to still be standing among the smoking ruins of journalism
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Or possibly he is bright enough to realize that this Tactic will boomerang on the next Democratic President. Too late, unfortunately.
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He would fellate any Democrat, male or female or other gender, regardless of the mechanics, even though he does not need an abortion. He's just born that way.
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Taibbi is a punk preppie son of a wealthy TV reporter, a nasty little piece of work with one talent--for sarcasm. He's a spoiled brat who never grew up.
However, this sarcastic one-trick punk has one huge advantage over the rest of our idiot reporters: he knows Russia first-hand.
Taibbi spent several years in Russia, where he edited a pr0nographic little newspaper, and as a result he Russian society well enough to recognize, immediately, that Russiagate was an absurd pack of lies wrapped around an attempted coup.
Everyone who knows Russia-- left, center, far-left, apolitical
--knew instantly that the Steele doc was garbage, a pastiche of bull$hit cobbled together from tall tales and internet gossip.
Masha Gessen, left-wing emigre Russian journalist famous for her exposes on and opposition to Putin, called BS on Russiagate immediately--in The New Yorker.
Stephen F. Cohen, left-wing historian of Soviet Russia, expert on Bukharin, personal friend of Gorbachev, called bullshit on Russiagate immediately--in The Nation.
Others with extensive backgrounds in Russian business or Russian journalism, like Taibbi and Matt Bivens, the former editor if the excellent independent publication, The Moscow Times, called BS on these ridiculous fairytales.
It was obvious from the start that this man whom no one in Russia has ever heard of, the man whose administration has brought us closer to an actual war with Russia than since Woodrow Wilson's, that thus buffoon was not remotely responsible for any of the absurd crimes he was accused of.
Shame on this country's "journalists."
Shame on Obama and his clownshow spy and DOJ apparatus.
What an absolute circus is our political class.
Damn them all. Time for a new political class in this country.
[DAWN] Two more cases of polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain... have been reported in the country ‐ one in Sindh and the other in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... ‐ taking the total number of such cases this year to 72.
The emergency operation centre for polio in Sindh on Saturday confirmed that a polio case had been reported from the Orangi neighbourhood of the teeming metropolis.
They said a 17-month-old girl had become the fourth polio victim in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... this year.
The remaining four victims in the province included two from Hyderabad and one each from Jamshoro and Larkana districts. Sindh had recorded only one case last year, officials said.
"Countrywide, 72 polio cases have been reported this year, out of which 53 cases are from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, eight from Sindh, six from Balochistan and five from Punjab," said an official.
The child in the city’s western Orangi neighbourhood, said an official, "developed a fever and slight weakness in the right leg upon which she was taken to doctors where the case was classified as AFP (acute flaccid paralysis) following which she was tested for polio. However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... her right limb senses remain intact with 4/5 power".
The EOC officials confirmed the child had only received the BCG vaccine in routine immunisation and it was being investigated how many campaign doses of OPV were administered.
They said they had planned "aggressive campaigns" from next month to June 2020, "aiming to eradicate polio from the environment".
The EOC and medical bodies such as the Pakistain Paediatric Association strongly recommended parents to cooperate with polio teams.
Another case of polio has been reported from Jaffarabad district of Balochistan, taking the total number of such cases in the province to six.
The officials of Balochistan Health Department said that a 15-month-old boy from Jaffarabad had been paralysed due to the virus.
[Sudan Tribune] Sudan’s hardliner Islamist holy mans on Friday attacked the newly formed transitional government, saying it is promoting women football to distract Sudanese from the country’s crises.
Last Monday Sudan’s transitional government launched women’ football league as the first match between two female clubs was attended by Sovereign Council member Aicha Musa and Sports Minister Wala’a Essam al-Boushi.
The event was welcomed by the Sudanese and women rights groups particularly as they are eager to see changes in the country after 30 years of the repressive laws regulating women’s freedom of dress, and movement under the rule of the former regime.
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[PRESSTV] US Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020... has lashed out at President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... for his efforts to "destroy" the former vice president and his family, vowing to beat the US president "like a drum" in the 2020 election.
Biden accused Trump on Sunday of "abusing the power of the presidency" by asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a phone call to investigate him and his son, Hunter, over their financial dealings.
The 76-year-old said Trump has "corrupted the agencies of his administration ‐ including the State Department, the National Security Council staff, the Justice Department and the office of the vice president" in his pursuit to do so.
"Enough is enough," Biden wrote in a Washington Post op-ed. "Every day ‐ every few hours, seemingly ‐ more evidence is uncovered revealing that President Trump is abusing the power of the presidency and is wholly unfit to be president. He is using the highest office in the land to advance his personal political interests instead of the national interest."
The former US vice president said Trump's action showed that "he considers the presidency a free pass to do whatever he wants, with no accountability."
"Our first president, George Washington, famously could not tell a lie. President Trump seemingly cannot tell the truth ‐ about anything," Biden noted. "He slanders anyone he sees as a threat. That is why is he is frantically pushing flat-out lies, debunked conspiracy theories and smears against me and my family, no doubt hoping to undermine my candidacy for the presidency."
The 2020 presidential candidate, however, underscored that he would not allow Trump to intimidate him despite a push to tarnish his reputation.
"To Trump and those who facilitate his abuses of power, and all the special interests funding his attacks against me: Please know that I’m not going anywhere," Biden concludes in his op-ed. "You won’t destroy me, and you won’t destroy my family. And come November 2020, I intend to beat you like a drum."
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Look we're dealing here with a man who was Obama's anti-assassination insurance (no matter how they hate me, they won't do anything that might make Joe POTUS)
#4
First Biden is not Trump's rival in the 2020 election. He is the rival of about 20 others to become that rival, and his chances of becoming Trump's rival have been falling steadily for a variety of reasons.
Second, Trump, in the famous phone call merely expressed his opinion that Biden's public brag that he forced the Ukraine government to fire its head prosecutor was horrible, and he hoped Zelensky would find out the truth about it. Trump did not mention the apparent corrupt dealings of Hunter Biden with a Ukrainian gas magnate who was a big time donor to the Clinton foundation.
Third braggarts are not generally reputed to be tellers of truth. Quite possibly Biden's brag was a product of his own insecurities and his wish to appear as a big shot rather than an insignificant Vice-President. Zelensky investigation of the brag might actually prove it false thus releaving some of the horribleness that Trump referred to and thereby improving Biden's reputation.
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"You won’t destroy me, and you won’t destroy my family..."
Right, Trump won't destroy you Joe, you and your family is doing a fine job of destroying yourselves without Trumps help!
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Someone should ask Biden if Trump was ever caught plagiarizing a speech.
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Joke from the 1980s:
Nixon, Carter, Ted Kennedy, and Joe Biden are sitting on the deck of a cruise ship. Over the PA system the captain announces that the vessel is taking on water, and that passengers need to immediately head for the lifeboats.
Carter tells Dick, Teddy and Joe: "As good Christians, we should let the women and children go first."
Nixon mutters, "F--- the women!"
Kennedy: "Do we have time?"
Biden: "Do we have time?"
[TWITTER] The Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i army downed an Iranian-made drone north of the Hajjah province, which was on a mission to scout the area, the defense ministry said in a statement, adding that this is the eighth drone downed over the province since the beginning of the year.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iraqi authorities say they are opening an investigation into recent attacks on several media outlets in Iraq, including one by unidentified masked button men on Al Arabiya’s bureau in Baghdad.
"There was an attack on several media outlets on Saturday, including Dajla, NRT, and Al Arabiya, and today as well on al-Forat television network, as well as on al-Nahar newspaper late last night," Iraqi Interior Ministry front man Major General Saad Maan said during a joint presser on Sunday alongside spokespersons from the Joint Operations Command and the ministries of defense and health.
"Investigations are ongoing right now on the attacks on media channels over the past two days. When there is a security issue in the country, there are some who try and take advantage of the situation and try to settle scores. Because of that, we are urging everyone to stay within the legal frameworks and cooperate with security forces," Maan added.
On Saturday, masked button men in black cars stormed the offices of Al Arabiya, assaulted four employees and smashed equipment before fleeing.
According to Majid Hamid, Al Arabiya’s correspondent in Baghdad, the attack took place at 10 pm on Saturday when masked button men arriving in three black cars forced themselves into the bureau.
"The masked button men and were wearing military gear. They assaulted four of our colleagues who were present in the building. They suffered bruises and one of our colleagues broke his hand as a result of the attack," Hamid told Al Arabiya English.
Hamid then said that security forces at a nearby checkpoint failed to intervene to stop the attack.
"Members of the federal police declined assistance to us during the attack," the correspondent said, adding that the Al Arabiya office had received threats in recent days.
The attack came after the station had received threats for several days.
Al Arabiya’s correspondent said the masked button men then destroyed several CCTV cameras and hard drives containing recordings of the surveillance system. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... the masked button men failed to destroy one hard drive which Al Arabiya then broadcast showing footage of the attack a day later.
Gunmen also attacked the offices of Iraq’s private Dajla and NRT news channels. Both of those privately-owned stations have been covering the daily protests.
An official at NRT said her station is so damaged that they won't be able to broadcast any time soon, according to an News Agency that Dare Not be Named report. The attackers, Sawra Abdul-Wahab told AP, stole $250,000, laptop computers and mobile phones.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] #Kunduz attacked last night resulting in 13 gunmen killed & 7 wounded. Mujahid also martyred in operation.— Zabihullah (..ذبـــــیح الله م ) (@Zabehulah_M33) October 6, 2019
14 armed #Kabul admin troopers left an enemy base in Shahi Khelo area of Markazi Baghlan district #Baghlan noon hours today before joining up with Mujahidin. Officials welcomed & eased them back to normal lives.— Zabihullah (..ذبـــــیح الله م ) (@Zabehulah_M33) October 6, 2019
Combined convoy of American invaders & their hirelings was engaged in Kamal Khelo area of Shilgar district #Ghazni this morning resulting in several gunmen including an invader killed, multiple wounded & APC destroyed.— Zabihullah (..ذبـــــیح الله م ) (@Zabehulah_M33) October 6, 2019
Combined US-hireling convoy engaged in Kamal Khel & Khado Khel areas of Shilgar district #Ghazni this morning resulting in 3 APCs destroyed along with 3 US invaders & 6 hirelings killed, 2 invaders & 7 hirelings wounded.— Zabihullah (..ذبـــــیح الله م ) (@Zabehulah_M33)
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[RADIOSHABELLE] Djiboutian forces serving under AMISOM deployed in Jalalqsi in the Hiiraan region have not been paid their salaries since last December last year despite the government receiving the funds from the 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... , according to Indian Ocean Newsletter.
According to sources privy to the development at the seat of AU in Addis Ababa, the Djibouti government and high-ranking officials in the military pocket the money instead of disbursing them to the soldiers who fight alongside forces from other TCCs in Somalia.
The 6th Battalion which relieved the 4th Battalion in December 2018 in sector 4 has not received any dues since then. The stipends which are paid by the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an through the African Union amount to about $800 for each soldier.
The EU cut by 20% the stipends in February 2016 lowering the figure from $1020 to $800. Troops Contributing Countries (TCCs) governments retain 20% of the pay for administrative costs.
According to sources privy to the development at the seat of AU in Addis Ababa, the Djibouti government and high-ranking officials in the military pocket the money instead of disbursing them to the soldiers who fight alongside forces from other TCCs in Somalia.
Djibouti forces operate within sector 4 in central Somalia which covers the Hiiraan region.
[Sudan Tribune] Sudan’s Minister of Youth and Sports, Walaa al-Boushi, on Saturday filed an official complaint against a radical Islamist hate preacher who accused her of apostasy.
Abdal Hai Youssef an Islamist preacher known for his support to the former regime, last Friday, slammed the launch of women football league saying it aimed to distract Sudanese from the crises.
He further said that Islam prohibits women football and accused the minister of youth and sports of blasphemy ...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran... On Saturday, al-Boushi’s office issued a short statement announcing that "the minister filed an official complaint against the Youssef and that the Sudanese prosecutor summoned him for interrogation".
Several activists were angered by statements and called to incriminate accusations of apostasy by the radical preacher who is known for spreading hate speech and criticizing the revolution.
They further called to ban the controversial Moslemholy man from preaching as he turned his mosque into a base for radical Islamism and inflammatory sermons against the revolution and its transitional government.
A Sudanese Republican Party writer- Nur Hamad, strongly criticized Youssef and challenged him to say that Saudi Crown Prince is an apostate referring to a recent decision in 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... announced last Friday to organize a women football league.
The preacher who is a leading member to the radical Salafist movement in Sudan claimed that the minister was affiliated to the Republican Party, a liberal Islamic group that call to reform the Islamic precepts. Its leader Mahmoud Mohammed Taha was executed by former President Jaafar Nimeiri who was backed during his last days by the Sudanese groups.
Not letting the mob approach Indian Kashmir is a good call, given the current mood on the other side of the border.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Police have blocked a march by thousands of people in Pak-controlled 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.... who wanted to move toward the highly militarized Line of Control that divides the territory between Pakistain and India.
The marchers are protesting the lockdown in Indian-administered Kashmir.
Police placed shipping containers on the road and deployed a large contingent of officers near Jaskool, 8 kilometers from the frontier to stop the supporters of the Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front, which announced it intended to cross the frontier to help Kashmiris under Indian oppression.
Abdul Hameed Butt, a leader of the JKLF, said Sunday the protesters would stage a sit-in until the blockade removed.
Police officer Arshad Naqvi said protesters won’t be allowed to continue because of the threat of "unprovoked enemy fire."
India imposed a strict curfew on Aug. 5 after stripping Indian-controlled Kashmir of its statehood.
[Zero Hedge] Sometimes, if you open up a big enough gate and stand in the void, the gate will swing back and slap you on the ass ‐ which is where serial bungler and arch-schlemiel Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) finds himself at the end of an exhausting week’s dissembling in the WhistleGate matter. Long about now, his reluctant partner in the latest impeachment gambit, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, must feel date-raped just a little bit as every unraveling thread in the story leads back to another exposed deception by Schiff, the Inspector Clouseau of impeachment politics.
Maybe reading an alt-reality version of the Trump-Zelensky phone transcript wasn’t such a hot idea after all, since he read into the record evidence of his own bad faith. What was at issue, of course, were the President’s words, and in substituting something demonstrably other than that, and placing it on the record, Rep. Schiff set up a prima facie case for dismissal of his own case against Mr. Trump. Any way you slice the stunt, it smells like malfeasance.
Then there is the alleged "Whistleblower." The identity of this shadowy figure can’t be concealed indefinitely. The Whistleblower may not even exist, and if he or she does, the classification of whistleblower may not apply to the actions taken by him/her and his/her managers. He/she has been officially described as a CIA agent detailed for some time in the White House during the Obama years, who may have been rotated back into the Trump White House on the pretext of some special expertise, say Ukrainian affairs. That suggests his/her origin as a John Brennan tool. That is, the former CIA chief now nervously awaiting the legal disposition of his intrigues in the RussiaGate matter. WhistleGate may be Mr. Brennan’s last desperate ploy to ward off prosecution, a gate too far.
What for? How about using the CIA to spy domestically on American citizens on US soil, which it is expressly forbidden to do by law, and pretty bad news if authorized by the guy who ran the whole shop, not just some schwantz section leader at a rogue operations desk. The FBI can do it with proper warrants, but not the CIA. Perhaps more troubling is who may have authorized Mr. Brennan to do that. Does the name Barack Obama ring a bell? He has kept so deeply out of sight in recent months that he’s becoming as obscure as James Knox Polk in the public’s memory. Many may forget he played a role in RussiaGate. Shocking to some possibly! All roads appear to lead back to Brennan and Obama. Hardly a 'riddle wrapped in mystery inside an enigma.' What's to be done with them.... or with us ?
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I remember a comment the German Generals made about Hitler when Hitler would make one of his insane decisions micromanaging the war effort : " He is living in "Cloud Cuckoo Land." Obama is even worse when it comes to reality. No matter what he does he doesn't believe he'll ever have to answer for it.
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The identity of this shadowy figure can’t be concealed indefinitely.
Well, they've been throwing out old 'norms' for a while now. The right to face one's accuser is just one more Anglo-American (racist!) tradition that they have no more use for. The return of Star Chamber next!
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WhistleGate. That seems to be a better sobriquet than RussiaGate 2.0 or is it 3.0? A person needs a scorecard to keep up with the ongoing anti-Trump coup. Gotta say, Trump's got grit.
[Sudan Tribune] A leading member of the Sudanese Islamist Popular Congress Party (PCP) on Saturday denied accusations of preparing sabotage operations in the country, saying they adhere to peaceful opposition.
Already one month after its formation, Hamdok’s government is criticised by the Sudanese Islamists who started to reorganize themselves hoping to mobilize the street against the Forces for Freedom and Change after their exclusion from the upcoming formation the transitional parliament.
Islamists activists launched calls on social media for a national protest calling to overthrow the forces of freedom and change, and to form a new government.
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[MIDDLEEASTEYE.NET] Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... said on Sunday he would discuss plans for new parliamentary elections with all factions, including longtime rivals Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,.
Meeting with senior Paleostinian leaders in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, Abbas renewed a pledge to hold the polls - the first since 2006 - but without giving a promised timeframe, AFP said.
In a speech two weeks ago in New York at the UN General Assembly, Abbas said: "I have decided, upon my return from this international gathering, to announce a date for the holding of general elections in Paleostine - in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip," according to Haaretz.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Toll update: #Iraq’s Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Saad Maan said on Sunday that 104 people died and 6107 wounded during violent protests in #Baghdad and elsewhere.— Hamdi (@HamdiAlkhshali) October 6, 2019
The Iraqi Interior Ministry front man said on Sunday that the corpse count from anti-government protests in Iraq rose to 104, including eight security members.
"As many as 104 people, including eight security members, were killed and at least 6,000 others injured in ongoing protests in Iraq," Maj. Gen. Saad Maan told a presser.
The front man noted that protesters also set fire to 51 public facilities and eight partisan headquarters in the mass protests, which entered their sixth day.
He added that a probe was launched to identify whoever targets the innocent demonstrators.
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[PULSE.NG] Gov. Babagana Zulum of Borno has engaged 30 clerics over the unending Boko Haram insurgency in his state. Y'see, the reason they have Boko Haram is because these fellows haven't been praying for peace.
Do they mean peace or submission? I’m sure Boko Haramniks have been praying that everyone else submit...
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[DAWN] Mishal Malik, social activist and wife of locked away ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... Kashmiri leader Yasin Malik ...chairman of one of the two factions of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front. JKLF is a Kashmiri nationalist organization founded in Birmingham, UK in 1977. Branches weren't actually established in Kashmir for another ten years. It has the usual demands for separation of J&K from secular India so it can become an independent Islamic rathole. It seems to have no interest in Pak Kashmir breaking away to join it. In 1994 Malik renounced violence after he was released from jail and from that point he and his organization pursued peaceful means to impose their will on the region... , on Saturday called upon the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... to work for demilitarising India-held 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.... and send a peacekeeping force to stop atrocities in the occupied valley.
During her visit to the Federation of Pakistain Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI), she said that over 2.2 million Kashmiris were ready to cross the Line of Control (LoC).
Ms Malik lauded the business community for putting the Kashmir issue above their interests and snapped trade relations with India. "It is overwhelming to see the support and sentiment of the business community towards the Kashmir cause," she added.
She said that it was the Kashmir issue which had been hindering the development process of Pakistain and Kashmir, noting that the Indian occupied forces were killing unarmed Kashmiris.
She regretted that world capitals were silent over Indian atrocities against innocent Kashmiris. For almost two months the people of India-held Kashmir had been confined to their homes without food, water and medicines. Children in the occupied valley were not attending their schools and colleges whereas hospitals were also not functioning, she said.
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Yasin Malik, founder of the Islamic Students' League and friend of Syed Salahuddin, is actually a militant trained in POK. He was part of the armed HAJY group supposedly 'gave up' extremism after he was magnanimously released from jail after being imprisoned for terrorism, by a leftist government. He also threw in the magic word 'Gandhi' a few times in his announcement for taking up 'peaceful activism', and the stupid Indian govts were conned.
Also involved in the murder of four IAF personnel 30 years ago. That case has re-opened and shall probably see him behind bars for a long time.
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The United Naysayers have their jobs cut out for them it seems. It's become a clearing-house for islamist complaints against sovereign countries refusing them their mini fiefdoms.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] As he stressed that the way to peace in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... starts by halting the aggression against the Arab impoverished country, Yemeni Chief of Staff Major General Mohamamd Abdulkarim al-Ghamari stressed that Sanaa is ready for long-term war if the Saudi-led coalition goes ahead with the aggression.
In an interview published on Sunday, al-Ghamari warned the Saudi-led coalition of more powerful strikes if it wants to go ahead with the campaign against Yemen.
"Yemen is ready for long-term war if the enemy wants," the commander said, stressing the Yemeni forces’ full readiness to defend the Arab impoverished country.
"Way to peace starts by halting aggression and lifting blockade," al-Ghamari said, noting that the seriousness of the Saudi-led coalition states can be proven by actions not sayings.
"Aggression states have to be ready for more powerful strikes if the offensive continues."
"Our stance won’t change, it’s our legitimate right to defend our country against any foreign aggression," he stressed.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed his guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread... he said that deploying more of US and UK arms by Saudi-led coalition states won’t help them, and it that it will rather exhaust the Saudi money and capabilities.
Yemen has been since March 2015 under brutal aggression by Saudi-led Coalition, in a bid to restore control to runaway president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi who is Riyadh’s ally
Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis have been killed or injured in the strikes launched by the coalition, with the vast majority of them are civilians.
The coalition, which includes in addition to 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... and UAE: Bahrain, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Sudan and Kuwait, has been also imposing a harsh blockade against Yemenis.
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Now that Egypt is producing its own gas and some oil in larger quantity, g(r)omgoru, they need less from the Saudis. They’ve done what they need to get more from the IMF, and I believe exports are up as well. So they can push back a bit.
[PRESSTV] Fearless Leader of the Islamic Revolution ...Iran's doddering head theocrat... Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei ...the actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... has said that the Iranian and Iraqi nations are connected through faith and that an enemy plot seeking to sow discord between the two will fail.
"Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and Iraq are two nations whose hearts & souls are tied together through faith in God, love for Imam Hussein and the progeny of the Prophet (PTUI!). This bond will grow stronger day by day," the Leader's official Twitter account cited Ayatollah Khamenei as saying on Sunday.
"Enemies seek to sow discord but they’ve failed and their conspiracy won’t be effective," the tweet added.
[PRESSTV] Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an signatories to a nuclear deal signed between Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and major world powers in 2015 are legally in no position to withdraw from the accord.
Zarif made the remarks in Tehran on Sunday while addressing an open session of the Iranian Parliament, saying that the three European parties to the nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), have failed to fulfill their obligations under the pact and even violated it in some cases.
"In addition to the US that blatantly violated the agreement through its withdrawal, the Europeans (Britannia, La Belle France and Germany) have also put on the same attitude in some cases," the top Iranian diplomat said.
Zarif emphasized that the JCPOA was an international agreement, which has been ratified by the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... and has a clear framework, emphasizing, "The US has pulled out of the deal in violation of international regulations."
US President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... is a stern critic of the nuclear accord, which was clinched by Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany. Under the agreement, nuclear-related sanctions against Iran were lifted in exchange for curbs on Tehran's nuclear program.
Trump unilaterally withdrew the US from the deal in May 2018 and unleashed the "toughest ever" sanctions against the Islamic Theocratic Republic in defiance of global criticism in a bid to strangle the Iranian oil trade.
In response to the White House, Tehran has so far rowed back on its nuclear commitments three times in compliance with Articles 26 and 36 of the JCPOA but stressed that its retaliatory measures will be reversible as soon as Europe finds practical ways to shield the mutual trade from the US sanctions.
[Sudan Tribune] The U.N. Security Council’s Sudan sanctions committee said localized violence and festivities continued in Darfur region despite the regime change in the country.
Joanna Wronecka the head of the sanctions committee briefed the Security Council about the activities of the panel of experts on the security situation in Darfur as they submit their report about the period between 22 June and 27 September.
"The security situation in Darfur (...) was characterized by inter-communal skirmishes, militia attacks on civilians, tensions in camps for internally displaced persons and other localized security incidents, but no large scale outbreaks of violence," said the UN spokesperson in a statement released after the meeting last on Thursday.
Wronecka told the informational consultations meeting that the three months period witnessed festivities between Sudanese security forces, allied militias and th the Sudan Liberation Army-Abdel Wahid (SLA-AW).
Also, there were fighting between the groups of the SLA-AW itself, and attacks against the 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... -United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) and humanitarian agencies, she further said.
The holdout rebel group continues to reject peace talks with the new government saying that the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) and the army stole the revolution and asks for a referendum on their legitimacy before to engage in peace negotiations.
All the other gangs in Darfur region, Blue Nile and South Kordofan states are expected to begin talks with the transitional government in the South Sudanese capital Juba on 14 October 2019.
She said the panel documented violations of international humanitarian law and human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... abuses, rape and sexual violence against communities in Darfur, including internally displaced persons.
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I knew he spelled it "TAOTAMONA." Shame on me for looking it up instead of trusting the spirit. Couldn't resist digging for classic stuff... struck gold first try.
[Rudaw] Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... has approved a request from a Ottoman Turkish university to open three campuses in Ottoman Turkish controlled cities of northern Syria.
Gaziantep University, located on The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... ’s shared border with Syria, applied to Ottoman Turkish education authorities this year to open three faculties in Jarabulus, al-Bab, and Afrin.
Erdogan approved the request on Thursday and logged in Turkey’s Official Gazette on Friday.
"We have ordered the opening of an Economic and Administrative Faculty in al-Bab, Islamic Sciences Faculty in Azaz, and Education Faculty in Afrin, which are affiliated to Gaziantep University’s Presidency," read the presidential decree.
The university opened a vocational training school in Jarabulus in October 2018.
Jarabulus and al-Bab came under the control of the Ottoman Turkish Army and its Syrian proxies during Operation Euphrates Shield in 2016. The Kurdish enclave of Afrin, meanwhile, was taken by these forces during Operation Olive Branch in March 2018.
Ali Gur, the rector of the university, told the state-owned Anadolu Agency (AA) in late May that their decision to open new campuses follows an increased demand for higher education in northern Syria.
"There was a high demand from local assemblies and provincial leaders. I went [to northern Syria] myself and saw the demand, they really need it," Gur said. "Some 2,700 prospective students have already taken proficiency exams."
There will also be scholarships for Syrians who were forced to leave school as a result of the conflict but decided to return, according to Gur.
The opening of the Ottoman Turkish university campuses could cause concern for the Kurds of Afrin, which until the Olive Branch offensive had been controlled the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG).
Having established control over Afrin following the 2011 Syrian uprising, the group created a Kurdish education system, ending a decades-long ban on the Kurdish language.
The YPG-affiliated Hawar News Agency (ANHA) claimed the Ottoman Turkish plan to establish the higher education institutions "confirms" Ankara is trying to engineer the demographic of the region.
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[Washington Examiner] Former CIA Director John Brennan declared that the United States is "no longer a democracy" under the leadership of President Trump.
[Washington Examiner] The rift between President Trump and the nation’s spy agencies opened before he took office, when he compared the intelligence community with Nazis. Since then, he has clashed publicly with his own spy chiefs, shared classified material with Russian visitors to the Oval Office, and tweeted out a surveillance photograph from his security briefing.
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[Jpost] German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government has declared that Iran's call to obliterate the State of Israel is not an expression of antisemitism. 
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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 
...the actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...
... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity...
[TheGuardian] The growing scandal around Ukraine shows a Biden nomination would be a big gamble – one Democrats would be foolish to make.
MOI.GOV.AF] 25 Taliban terrorists killed and 15 others wounded in a joint overnight clearance operation carried out by Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) backed by Afghan Air Force (AAF) in Baghak region, Qala-e-Naw City of Badghis.
[DAWN] A 12-year-old boy who had been missing for a couple of days was found murdered in a Gulshan-e-Maymar area on Saturday morning, officials said.
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...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain...
...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020...
...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran...
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...chairman of one of the two factions of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front. JKLF is a Kashmiri nationalist organization founded in Birmingham, UK in 1977. Branches weren't actually established in Kashmir for another ten years. It has the usual demands for separation of J&K from secular India so it can become an independent Islamic rathole. It seems to have no interest in Pak Kashmir breaking away to join it. In 1994 Malik renounced violence after he was released from jail and from that point he and his organization pursued peaceful means to impose their will on the region...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
