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[NY Post] A notorious British pedophile who was serving 22 concurrent life sentences for abusing 22 children in Malaysia - and up to 200 during an eight-year spree ‐ was stabbed to death in a prison in England, according to reports.
Richard Huckle, 33, was found dead Sunday inside his cell at the high-security Full Sutton Prison in North Yorkshire after being attacked with a makeshift knife, according to the BBC.
"Humberside Police are working closely with the Prison Service to investigate the death of an inmate and at this time we are treating the death as suspicious," police said in a statement. "It would be inappropriate to comment further while a police investigation is ongoing."
In June 2016, the prolific predator was sent away to rot in prison after admitting to the horrific crimes against children between the ages of 6 months and 12 years from 2006 to 2014.
Huckle, of Ashford, Kent, pleaded guilty to 71 offenses involving 22 children, but it is believed there were many more victims throughout Southeast Asia, including in Camodia, where he targeted a 2-year-old child in March 2006.
Under the pretext of being a photographer, English teacher and philanthropist in the impoverished areas of the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, he targeted the kids, including one from the age of 3 to 10, according to the Guardian.
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"It appears he fell down the stairs and landed on a makeshift knife or 'shiv' as they say in GenPop."
"Repeatedly, by the looks of things."
"Yes, that would explain the numerous knife wounds."
"Then our work here is done!"
Time in Malaysia
After leaving education, Huckle spent a gap year in Malaysia from 2005 to 2006.[12] He returned regularly, helping out at local churches and among local communities, before moving there permanently in 2010.[citation needed]
Huckle enrolled onto a short CELTA course with the British Council[13] before starting work as a freelance photographer working in local communities around Kuala Lumpur. He also enrolled onto an IT course with a local university, hoping to further his career and status within the community.[14]
In addition to Malaysia, where all of the crimes he was convicted of occurred, and Cambodia, which was also mentioned in the trial, Huckle travelled extensively around south-east Asia to countries including Singapore, Laos and India. It has been revealed that, while in India, he persuaded a pastor to invite him to an orphanage in Bangalore to take photos and make videos with the children, posing as a teacher in order to gain trust.[15]
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In this humanism oriented pansy world of faggot judges and color coded reformatories, the tears of the little ones became prayers and were answered from above.
I'm content in the knowledge he's being shafted by Belial's finest right now.
[Jpost] The Palestinian Authority government in Ramallah has frozen the bank accounts of dozens of Palestinian non-governmental organizations in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network (PNGO) revealed on Monday.
Palestinians believe the move is in the context of the PA’s economic sanctions against organizations that are affiliated with Hamas and other Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip.
"The Palestinian NGO Network expresses its deep concern over the continued freezing of the accounts of NGOs in the Gaza Strip by the [PA] Ministry of Interior in Ramallah and warns of the repercussions of these measures," PNGO, an umbrella organization for civil society organizations, said.
[RUDAW] ERBIL, Kurdistan Region ‐ Ahmad Mustafa Delzar may be frail nowadays, but his mind is sharper than ever as he approaches his 100th birthday. On Wednesday, when US President Donald Trump justified his Syria withdrawal by claiming the Kurds never helped the US in the Second World War, Delzar, a veteran of that very war, was outraged.
"Trump was not born then ‐ that is why he does not know that the Kurds participated in the war," Delzar told Rudaw’s Hiwa Jamal on Saturday.
Trump was accused of abandoning the Kurds of northern Syria, a critical ally in the war against the Islamic State (ISIS), when he greenlighted the ongoing Turkish offensive.
In an attempt to justify his withdrawal of US troops, seen as the guarantors against a Turkish invasion, Trump said: "They didn’t help us in the Second World War. They didn’t help us with Normandy."
Trump’s comments raised doubts about the reliability of the United States as a partner in the region, with many Kurdish politicians rethinking their long-held faith in the superpower as their protector.
Delzar, who was born in 1920 and is a well-known Kurdish poet, became a member of the Iraq Levies, a minority scout force established by the British during the First World War to control Iraq, in 1943.
"The levies were mainly Assyrians and Kurds and a smaller number of Arabs," Delzar told Rudaw. "I was the 8,000th Kurd who joined the levies during the Second World War. I joined the levies on February 28, 1943."
Delzar went through intense training at Habbaniyah airbase in western Baghdad and then transferred to Palestine via Syria in December 1944. Dezlar and a number of other Kurdish levies stayed on in Haifa in Palestine until the war ended.
"There were around 40 Kurds who participated on the northern Italy front and one of them was Karim Abdulwahid Haji Aziz," Delzar recalled. "Karim was a paratrooper and I remember he parachuted twice in Habaniyah."
The veteran, who spoke to Rudaw from his bed in Erbil, still wears a Kurdish hat known as klaw, with the word Kurdistan embroidered on it.
He’s not alone in speaking out against Trump’s false claims. Several families have come forward with photographs of their fathers and grandfathers proving they were on America’s side in World War Two.
"I heard Trump saying that the Kurds did not take part in the war. He is lying," 69-year-old Mam Fareq Sadeq Ahmad, originally from Kirkuk, told Rudaw, showing a photo of a young, clean-shaven man in green uniform.
No one can say why, which Kurds, where, for how long to what end and with what measure of success we should align our foreign policy - and now the anti-Trumpers are quibbling about ... WWII?
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Ya think after 80 years they would figure out how to defend themselves. Blaming Trump, morons. The Serbs helped us in WWII, but we blasted them in 92 during the Balkans war. Did the Kurds go to save the Christians that were murdered in Syria?
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He wasn't born when the Russians fought the Nazis either. And were these Kurds fighting the Nazis because they were anti-Nazi or pro-Stalin?
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Delzar went through intense training at Habbaniyah airbase in western Baghdad and then transferred to Palestine via Syria in December 1944. Dezlar and a number of other Kurdish levies stayed on in Haifa in Palestine until the war ended.
British Mandate “Palestine” was not a battlefront until 1948. It was a safe place for fighting soldiers to recuperate.
World War II
During World War Two, the Kurds formed 10 companies in the Iraq Levies that the British had recruited in Iraq. Kurds supported the British in the defeating the pro-Nazi 1941 Iraqi coup d'état.[79] Twenty-five percent of the Iraq Levies' 1st Parachute Company was Kurdish. The Parachute Company was attached to the Royal Marine Commando and was active in Albania, Italy, Greece, and Cyprus.[80][81]
Kurds participated in the Soviet occupation of northern Iraq in 1941,[82] creating the Persian Corridor, a vital supply line for the USSR. This led to the short-lived formation of the Kurdish Republic of Mahabad.
Despite the fact they were a tiny minority in the Soviet Union, Kurds played a significant role in the Soviet war effort. On 1 October 1941, Samand Siabandov was awarded the honour Hero of the Soviet Union. Kurds served at Smolensk, Sevastopol, Leningrad, and Stalingrad. Kurds took part in the partisan movement behind German lines. Karaseva received both the Hero of the Soviet Union medal and the medal Partisan of the Fatherland War (First Degree) for organising partisans to fight against the Germans in Volhynia Oblast in Ukraine. Kurds took part in the advance into Hungary and the invasion of Japanese-held Manchuria.[83][84]
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The invasion of Manchuria didn't happen until after the US defeated Japan. 9 August 1945 Manchuria invasion
August 6, 1945 Hiroshima Bombed
August 9 Nagasaki Bombed - time for the Soviets to loot Japanese Manchuria....
[Jpost] Members of the National Executive Committee (NEC), the governing body of the UK Labour Party, have privately expressed concern that the Equality and Human Rights Commission's (EHRC) antisemitism probe could effectively bankrupt the party if the watchdog hands down a negative ruling, according to a report by The Independent.
The report states that the main point of contention was discussed during a recent NEC meeting. Members of the executive are worried that a bleak determination by the commission proclaiming improper handling of antisemitic abuses within the Labour Party could open them up to a financially crippling amount of lawsuits from former members of their party, ending in considerable damages going to the plaintiffs of many these cases, according to the report.
Many members of the NEC are worried about who will be held financially responsible for the hypothetical scenario. "Party officials and allies of Jeremy Corbyn" promptly "shut down" the discussion at the meeting after some wondered if the committee had a strategy in play for handling the legal fees for litigation proceedings and possible settlements awaiting them on the other side of the commission's verdict, according to the report.
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[IsraelTimes] Arab teams long avoided getting Israeli entry permits; some Paleostinians believe change is boost for local sports, while others see it as sign of unwanted thaw with Jewish state.
Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s national soccer team arrived in the West Bank on Sunday, on a groundbreaking visit to play against the Paleostinian national team on Tuesday.
The game will be played in the West Bank town of al-Ram, between Ramallah and Jerusalem, and marks a change in policy for the Gulf state, which has previously only played against Paleostinians in third countries.
Four years ago a similar game was ultimately played in Jordan after pressure on the Saudis not to go to the Israeli-held territory.
Arab clubs and national teams have historically refused to play in the West Bank, where the Paleostinian national team plays, as it obliged them to apply for Israeli entry permits, implying normalization of relations.
But lately clubs or national teams from Iraq, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain have all visited. Others, including Egypt and Leb, still refuse.
Saudi Arabia does not have official diplomatic relations with the Jewish state but the two countries are widely believed to have discreet contacts over Iran, their common enemy.
The match is the first for the Saudi team in the playoffs for the Asian zone of the 2022 World Cup.
[AlAhram] The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a Ottoman Turkish air strike on a convoy in the Syrian town of Ras al Ain killed 14 people including five civilians and maimed 10 on Sunday.
Observatory Director Rami Abdulrahman said the strike had hit a gathering of civilians who had come to Ras al Ain from the city of Qamishli to show support as the town is targeted by Ottoman Turkish forces attacking Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria.
Several foreign journalists were with the convoy when it was struck, according to a news hound from French broadcaster La Belle France 2.
An SDF statement said Ottoman Turkish "invading forces" had targeted a civilian convoy with international media journalists on board that was heading to Ras al Ain accompanied by its fighters to "express their rejection of the Ottoman Turkish invasion".
It said "tens of civilians were dead and injured."
[IsraelTimes] Egyptian security and medical officials said Saturday a kaboom in a town in restive northern Sinai Peninsula had killed at least nine people of the same family.
The officials said the earth-shattering kaboom in Bir al-Abd also maimed six. It was not immediately clear who was behind the shelling and there were no additional details.
Separately, officials said seven security forces personnel were maimed in two bully boy attacks in Bir al-Abd and the border town of Rafah.
The town was the site of a horrific 2017 attack on a mosque by Islamic murderous Moslems which killed over 300 people.
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[Townhall] House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) hired two National Security Counsel (NSC) aides who worked with the Ukrainian whistleblower while at the NSC during both the Obama and Trump administration, the Washington Examiner reported.
Abigail Grace worked at the NSC from 2016 to 2018 in U.S.-China relations, followed by a short stint at the Center for a New American Security think tank. Schiff tapped her in February to work as an Intelligence Committee staffer to help investigate the Trump White House.
The second aide, Sean Misko, worked as an NSC aide until 2017. He was also part of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's policy planning staff under Deputy Chief of Staff Jake Sullivan. He joined the Intelligence Committee as a staffer in August, the same month the whistleblower filed his complaint.
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Has WhistleGate petered out yet? Seems like the narrative has shifted to saying Trump pulled the troops out of Syria and abandoned the Kurds. Jeebus, I guess some people, mostly die hard lefties still swallow this Kool Aid.
[St. Louis Post Dispatch] ST. LOUIS ‐ Public Safety Director Jimmie Edwards, under fire for comments on a local radio show about child shooting deaths in the city, reiterated his point at an aldermanic committee meeting Thursday.
Edwards said while those under 10 years old were innocent victims, some older children had been linked to illegal activity.
"The purpose here is not to demonize anyone; the facts are the facts," Edwards told the Public Safety Committee.
Edwards said a 15-year-old was found dead one morning "with an automatic weapon on his person with an extended ammunition magazine, $5,000 in cash and a large quantity of drugs."
He said another shooting victim, 16, was on "the police carjacking offender list" and had been allegedly shot in a crossfire "engaged in by two other 16-year-olds."
"And finally," Edwards said, "another 15-year-old was alleged to have been ravaging inside a vehicle" in the early morning when he was shot.
He also said two victims over age 10 are believed to have committed suicide.
Edwards’ comments Thursday elaborated on what he said in an interview Oct. 3 on "St. Louis on the Air," a public affairs program aired on St. Louis Public Radio station KWMU (90.7 FM).
He said then that it’s important that children don’t engage in risky activity, adding that about eight of 13 killed in the city this year "were teenagers engaged in criminal behaviors themselves" and "very sophisticated."
The radio comments spurred outrage from 13 organizations, which earlier this week issued a joint statement saying "this kind of demonization of our children is shocking and unacceptable."
Among the organizations signing on were Action St. Louis, ArchCity Defenders, the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri, Metropolitan Congregations United, the Deaconess Foundation and the Organization for Black Struggle.
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A brave man to stand up like this. He's right, which is why they want to shut him up. He cares about solutions, while they only care about creating greater problems so they can gain political power.
Oh, he's black. No wonder he's not being called racist.
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I guarantee he's been called a "white supremacist".
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an automatic weapon on his person with an extended ammunition magazine, $5,000 in cash and a large quantity of drugs which he was transporting in a backpack for his ailing mother, to be delivered to his disabled uncle. No doubt.
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If they didn't fudge the data their points would all fall apart.
[Free Beacon] Former secretary of defense James Mattis on Sunday said that ISIS will "resurge" if the United States does not keep up the pressure in Syria.
"We have got to keep the pressure on ISIS so they don't recover," Mattis said on NBC's Meet the Press. "We may want a war over, we may even declare it over. You can pull your troops out, as President Obama learned the hard way, out of Iraq. But the enemy gets a vote, we say in the military."
Mattis said that unless the United States keeps pushing against ISIS, it is "absolutely a given" that the terrorist organization will come back in full force.
Mattis resigned as secretary of defense in December 2018 after President Donald Trump announced that all United States troops would be withdrawing from Syria.
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He's just angry he doesn't get to have his war any more. I used to have a lot of respect for Mattis, but he revealed himself to be yet another globalist who puts the interests of the American people last. :(
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And what did you do during your tenure to reduce the number of hostages in Turkey?
#4
Probably true. But since we are condemned for collateral damage or even propaganda claims of such, there is no really practical military way of keeping up the pressure.
ISIS is not our problem. Al Qaeda was only our problem because the Soddies bribed our politicians into letting some of their misbegotten sons into our country. All we have to do is keep these people out of our country. They're all nuts and they will always find some reason to fight each other. Let them. They don't come here and we don't go there.
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ISIS is not our problem.
ISIS would very much like to be our problem and, like Al Qaeda, they keep trying. Over and over we discover that lone wolves here in the U.S., as well as Europe and elsewhere, were either seduced by or self-radicalized via ISIS or Al Qaeda internet channels, starting with videos and moving to personal connections.
Whether it is time to take the war into the shadows, as it is in certain other parts of the world, is a different question.
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Mathis is right. They will. Like fire ants, you can kill a bunch or chase them into the neighbors yard, but they *will* come back.
So, a neverending war and hundreds of billions spent is worth preventing a few lone wolves. Understood.
Don't put words in other people's mouths. It is a sign of cognitive dissonance.
The question is what to do. Ignoring them doesn't work. Hearts and minds, hah! Treating terror as police matter doesn't work. Waging near-peer war against distributed bands of desert hillbillies doesn't work and costs waaay too much. What to do?
Given that carpet bombing is off the table, I suspect the answer is smaller, targeted strikes, both drone-zaps in the desert and some up-close wet work. Some people just need killin', as they say.
[MAIL] A retired four-star Marine general has slammed President Donald Trump saying there is blood on his hands over the unfolding crisis in Syria after he ordered all U.S. troops to withdraw from the northern border area.
General John Allen told CNN on Sunday that the U.S. 'greenlighted' the current situation in Syria and that it was 'completely foreseeable'.
Syria's Kurds said Syrian government forces agreed on Sunday to help them fend off Turkey's invasion - a major shift in alliances that came after Trump ordered all U.S. troops withdrawn from the northern border area amid the rapidly deepening chaos.
The fast-deteriorating situation was set in motion last week when Trump ordered U.S. troops in northern Syria to step aside, clearing the way for an attack by Turkey, which regards the Kurds as terrorists.
Since 2014, the Kurds have fought alongside the U.S. in defeating the Islamic State in Syria and Trump's move was decried at home and abroad as a betrayal of an ally.
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Did he complain about the hordes of refuges sent up through Europe from Syria and Libya as the result of Obama and Hillary's Arab Spring? To say nothing about all the people in the ME and North Africa who died as the result of Obama. Sometimes it is best to not say any stupid remarks lest you remove all doubt.
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We, America, did not sign up to enter a war that can never be won. We signed up to remove ISIS and to train the Kurds for self defense. We did not sign up to defend them. We had 50 troops there, not enough to defend themselves let alone a country. I for one, do not want America being the middle eastern police department that all nations hate and want to do another 911 on. Remember 911 was initially triggered by our involvement in the Iraq war against Kuwait. Which both countries took our wealth and treasure only to be hated after. We give a fortune to Israel and Egypt to keep the peace, and again Israel is a friend and Egypt would much rather see us gone. One last point, where the hell were all these crying, I hate my country for abandoning the Kurds, when the Muslims eradicated, meaning murdered, all the Christians in Iraq, or when they murdered the Christians in Syria, or the Christians in South Sudan. They are hypocrites playing politics against Trump for keeping his words.
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It wasn't the war that led to 9/11, it was the postwar stationing of US troops in the sacred soil of Saudi Arabia that caused it.
You know, the same foreign interventionism that has led to basically all the problems we have today. Six trillion spent with nothing to show for it. Americans could live in palaces behind a wall 100 feet high and have free medical care for life, free college, and highspeed rail from sea to shining sea for that money. But no, all we got was war after war, with no end in sight.
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In both World War I and World War II, there were American boys who went to England before our country got involved in those wars and volunteered in either the Canadian or the British military. In the Texas war for independence from Mexico, Davy Crockett and other Tennesseans volunteered to fight at the Alamo.
So, if Megan McCain and all the other brave hawks feel so strongly about fighting somebody else's war, they can put their own asses on the line, they can go to Syria and volunteer to fight with the Kurds. Just don't ask me to pay for it.
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It wasn't the war that led to 9/11, it was the postwar stationing of US troops in the sacred soil of Saudi Arabia that caused it.
Well, that was their excuse for it and it can certainly be said that's what we get for trying to help those people. But it was also the misguided, corrupt policy of letting those nut cases into our country.
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It wasn't the war that led to 9/11, it was the postwar stationing of US troops in the sacred soil of Saudi Arabia that caused it.
Al Qaeda’s real objection to American troops on Arabian soil was that they would prevent an Al Qaeda overthrow of the House of Saud. The various pronouncements tying the corrupt and backsliding Saudis to the “crusaders” made that clear. After all, they never objected to the hordes of Philippino technicians and household servants on the sacred Muslim soil, all of whom were practicing Christians.
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Gen Allen is one of the public faces of the West's total lack of civilisational self-confidence.
There's no reason to believe that a Western mission in Syria would not degenerate into a public display of Western masochism and the importation of alien tyranny into Western nations;
just as the Afghanistan intervention.
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Since 2014, the Kurds have fought alongside the U.S. in defeating the Islamic State in Syria and Trump's move was decried at home and abroad as a betrayal of an ally.
One is motivated to ask "Would ISIS leave Kurds alone if they wouldn't ally with USA?"
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I kinda lost confidence in our generals when McChrystal proposed the "Courageous Restraint" award. Huh?
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One is motivated to ask "Would ISIS leave Kurds alone if they wouldn't ally with USA?"
However, one knows the answer is, “Don’t be ridiculous. ISIS attempted to conquer everybody who wasn’t them, including Al Nusra, the original Syrian branch of Al Qaeda in Iraq and Syria that ISIS was supposed to be part of.”
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For Lex, and others wondering just WTF America was doing in Syria.
"... after decades of accepting the world as it is in the region, we have a chance to pursue the world as it should be.” - Obama
The Syria Transition Support Act, a bipartisan legislation introduced by a FR committee and passed by a majority. It included weapons and training to the (Sunni) Syrian Opposition, sanctions on trade with the (Alawite) Assad Regime, delivering a stable and secure Post-Assad Syria.
Assad's side are the Alawites, the Opposition are mainly sunnis, the majority of Syrians are dominated by an alawite group. This was probably unacceptable to Obama, a sunni himself.
Incidentally, all the attacks on christians, yezidis and others within Syria are perpetrated by the sunnis, people part of the Syrian Opposition. Not mere strong arming and harassment, but the Free Syrian Army and armed mullahs screaming for regime change have indulged in overnight ethnic cleansing and delivered christians and kurds into ISIS hands too.
It seems Trump, in the understandable practice of reversing a predecessor's follies has extricated US forces from a bloody, bedouin power game, and maybe it's a successful move in the short term. I know that God is with Trump as long as he's for Israel and christians and whatever he does shall somehow prosper for now.
The General is right too, in a way. A very minimal presence of base staff and some APCs could have prevented the Turks, but for some reason, Trump personally welcomed Erdogan to feel free to run amok. That is just wrong.
Conservatives as we are, we may run with the 'other people's wars' rationale, but many of you who have served and fought alongside strangers will understand my bitterness with the outcome.
And the thousands of ISIS freed, salafist bastards all the way to Pakistain rejoicing. Why, even Obama could not have delivered such a bounty.
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I'm beginning to think it's rooted in the land itself. A curse, that shall demand blood constantly, the attempts of humans to build States and reach ceasefires notwithstanding.
A bloodthirsty Djinn that shall not be denied, no matter what level of mutual coexistence is imposed. Maybe it's in the Bible somewhere...
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delivering a stable and secure Post-Assad Syria.
How about a stable and secure America? The only place we need to be nation-building is right here at home. This stated mission is a fool's errand that will never realistically happen. Let the Israelis do the dying if it's so important to them.
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for some reason, Trump personally welcomed Erdogan
This forced the Kurds to suddenly become realistic. They quickly submitted themselves to Assad and Russia, and within hours Syrian and Russian forces were headed for the Turkish border.
But even I know that an army must spend time organizing logistics before it can move out, which suggests Assad and Putin’s local generals had been preparing for some time for exactly this situation. One must wonder what it was that turned their thoughts in that direction.
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Sorry, TW. That reply was for Mr. McCoy, who weeps for every village idiot in Afghanistan killed in a drone strike, but happens to dismiss other with abandon.
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Well, TW. You'll agree that the act of keeping ISIS prisoners alive in squalid prisons under local allies, and then letting principal supporters of ISIS kill those prison guards is pretty daft.
From an optics view, it may be salvaged by our 'other people's wars' idea, and we may tell ourselves that Russia will save them, and they're ultimately all muslim commies anyway - but these things gather up a cosmic vendetta of their own in the long run. I just don't have a good feeling.
Oh... forget it. What's done is done. I'm still hungover from yesterday.
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You'll agree that the act of keeping ISIS prisoners alive in squalid prisons under local allies, and then letting principal supporters of ISIS kill those prison guards is pretty daft.
The sillies thought they'd be able to hand the prisoners off to their countrymen, countrymen who’d been fussing at America for nearly two decades about holding jihadis in Guantanamo Bay instead of bringing them to the U.S. for trial. Now we all know, and it seems to me those among the prisoners who manage to escape the battle space unkilled will be a fraction of those who were originally held... and mostly not their women and children.
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That reply was for Mr. McCoy, who weeps for every village idiot in Afghanistan killed in a drone strike, but happens to dismiss other with abandon.
I had so assumed, Dron66046. :-) That’s why I put the bit I’m responding to in italics, and/or name the person I’m responding to. I’ve had to apologize too many times to the legitimately annoyed, which is an effective but unhappy way to learn.
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Who hates Israelis? You just made that up. Rantburgers have some kind of mental block where they read something I wrote and then lie to me about what I said.
I'll say it again: if this issue is so important to them let them send their own people to do the dying. All of Syria isn't worth a single American life.
And yes, I do care a great deal about innocent civilians getting killed. It's called being a fucking human being.
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Yes, the pre-quote. I should use that more often.
You didn't see the party we had yesterday. Two learned men and an Indian drunk. You shoulda seen the look on Frank's face when he entered the room.☺
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if this issue is so important to them let them send their own people to do the dying. All of Syria isn't worth a single American life.
Huh? When did Israel demand the U.S. fix the situation in Syria? Historically it’s been the other way round: Israel wanted to handle a situation by breaking a few key things and killing a few key people, but America told them to not upset various applecarts. The first Gulf War comes to mind, when President George Herbert Walker Bush refused to let Israel bomb Saddam Hussein’s scud missile launchers lest the other Coalition members refuse to get involved where Joooooooos were present; the joint North Korean-Syrian nuclear weapons facility (Israel sent in some scientist-spies for that one to physically obtain samples and photos demonstrating that the Syrians really were building what the Israelis claimed before President Bush would agree); Iran’s nuclear bomb development program — both George W. and Barack Hussein Obama refused repeatedly to agree to Israel bombing the sites, BHO even promising Iran that he would protect them against those mean Israelis, to the point that the Israelis had to cart away and entire fucking warehouse full of documents under the noses of ite Iranian guards to even get a hearing... not that anyone is letting them act on it even yet.
You are full of it, Mr, McCoy. You have an idée fixe on the subject of Israel which is seriously unhealthy.
[American Thinker] Those on the political right believe Fox News is an ally, while those on the left criticize Fox as a right-wing echo chamber. Both groups are wrong. Fox News has made a hard turn to the left in recent years. Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch are relegated to the Fox News Wikipedia page while the new bosses are the next generation of Murdochs, woke, liberal, and no fan of either President Trump or his supporters.
Fox’s news shows are peppered with liberals, from Juan Williams and the recently departed Sheppard Smith to Donna Brazile and Chris Hahn. The evening and weekend opinion show hosts are still solidly conservative, but that number is dwindling. Fox us still better than CNN for example, with no conservative voices, after firing Jeffrey Lord for the high crime of defending Trump on the Orange Man Bad network.
As the impeachment scheme falls apart, with no actual wrongdoing by the President, no bribes or extortion, no pay-to-play, no collusion, or anything else which Trump is accused of, but which Joe Biden actually did, the media has gone into overdrive to push the "everyone hates Trump and wants him thrown from office" mantra.
Who needs high crimes or misdemeanors if a majority of America wants Trump removed from office? Impeachment by opinion poll.
[AmericanThinker] It seems that the charming and attractive Rashida Talib is still running off at the mouth about arresting people, specifically administration officials who refuse to respond to the House’s "impeachment" subpoenas.
According to Rashida:
"There have been actual serious conversations about what the logistics would look like... if we did have to force someone through a court order to come before the Congressional committee... she said. "This is pretty uncharted territory for many of us and even for Congress."
Of course there have been. Leftists yearn for police powers, for the ability to reach out and punish anyone they see, with a ferocity unknown to normal human beings. That was true during the French Revolution, and will be true of the Ganymede revolt of 2250. Now add that special Palestinian seasoning
We have Kurt Schlichter
What our betters ‐ those same smug geniuses who brought us Iraq, let NATO deadbeats string us along, and who let Mexico and China exploit us ‐ truly hate is the fact that the American people stood up in 2016 and demanded that our foreign policy stop sucking. Americans are sick of always getting handed the bill for some lame ruling caste priority, whether it’s paying for the privilege of defending Europe on behalf of ungrateful continentals or funding the weird climate religion or letting China get rich off of gutting our industries. Mostly, we are sick of shipping our magnificent warriors off to die in ill-conceived, poorly-planned, ineptly-executed wars where we ended up shedding our boys’ (and girls’) blood refereeing fights that go back a dozen centuries.
The coastal elite gets to bask in the radiance of its own moral superiority for deploying young people in camo from Nebraska farms and Texas towns, and we get to hold the funerals.
...America First is a commonsense response to decades of America Last. It’s a repudiation of those who get elected by Americans to protect and promote American interests yet think of themselves as "Global Citizens."
The elite scoffs at the notion of a "Trump Doctrine," imagining that no one but them could construct a coherent geopolitical paradigm. Of course, their neo-Wilsonian faculty lounge geopolitical paradigm has been a disaster, but if there’s one thing our garbage elite is good at ‐ it is certainly no good at its core responsibilities of preserving American power, prosperity and freedom ‐ it is weaseling out of accountability for its myriad failures.
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America First is a commonsense response to decades of America Last.
Exactly so, and nicely put. Best framing I've seen. Schlichter should have his own prime time show.
It’s a repudiation of those who get elected by Americans to protect and promote American interests yet think of themselves as "Global Citizens."
Correct, but incomplete. Scratch the "Global Citizen" and you'll see a Global Grifter - witness...
- the Clinton Foundation
- Biden, Inc.
- the Obama Media Company
- the DC/Google revolving door
- DC/Wall Street/Goldman, Blackstone etc revolving door
- DC Lobbyists, Shills and Bedbugs for China including Kissinger Associates
- NBA, Nike, other shit-products' kowtowing to China
Etc etc
President Donald Trump's administration is set to impose economic sanctions on Ankara, potentially as early as this week, for its incursion into northern Syria, one of the few levers the United States still has over NATO-ally Turkey.
Using the U.S. military to stop the Turkish offensive on U.S.-allied Kurdish fighters was never an option, defense officials have said, and Trump asked the Pentagon on Sunday to begin a "deliberate" withdrawal of all U.S. troops from northern Syria.
After Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday that Trump had authorized "very powerful" new sanctions targeting Turkey, the administration appeared ready to start making good on Trump's threat to obliterate Turkey's economy.
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[CityJournal] A modest proposal for my fellow journalists: Could we declare a bipartisan amnesty for the stupid things people did in high school and college‐or at least stop pretending that these things have any relevance in judging a middle-aged adult’s professional competence?
I realize that this suggestion will trouble the many liberal journalists who have worked diligently to reveal what might or might not have happened at a party at Yale that might or might not have been attended by Brett Kavanaugh during his freshman year. (The definitive conclusion from thousands of hours of investigative reporting: people at the party were really drunk.) Nor will it appeal to the conservatives now savoring the seemingly endless series of photos of a young Justin Trudeau in blackface. (The Babylon Bee, a news-satire site, delivered the coup de grace: "Rare Photo Surfaces of Trudeau Not in Blackface.")
I also realize that it’s futile to appeal to my colleagues’ sense of perspective or feelings of compassion. These qualities have always been in short supply in our profession, and they’re rarer than ever in the age of "cancel culture." We can convince ourselves that anything is newsworthy if it embarrasses the other side and generates enough clicks. Exactly how many beers did Kavanaugh drink in high school? A nation’s fate is at stake! Precisely how many parties in the early 1990s did Trudeau attend in blackface? The public has a right to know!
...But now journalists have a selfish reason to behave decently: mutual assured cancellation, a strategic doctrine that has emerged from the recent media furor involving Carson King, a security guard in Iowa. He’d become a media sensation after holding up a sign on ESPN’s College GameDay asking people to send him money so that he could buy Busch Light beer. As the money rolled in, he decided to redirect it from beer to charity, raising more than $1 million for a children’s hospital. Anheuser-Busch kicked in money and planned to include him in a marketing campaign.
It should have been a feel-good story, but then a Des Moines Register reporter unearthed a couple of racist jokes that King had tweeted seven years earlier, when he was 16.
...The Register was besieged by readers outraged at its treatment of King, and they didn’t just write letters to the editor. They retaliated by studying the social-media history of Aaron Calvin, the reporter who had written the article‐and who’d made a few offensive posts of his own, before joining the paper.
...As a form of deterrence, mutual assured cancellation‐let’s call it MAC‐should not be underestimated.
...So long as journalists had a monopoly on public shaming, they were happy to judge yesterday’s behavior by today’s standards.
Now that social media has ended that monopoly, non-journalists can pass judgment, too, and they’re following Alinksy’s rule number 4: "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules." Journalists would be wise to rewrite these rules, and to remember the adage about people in glass houses. In the age of MAC, everyone has stones.
h/t Instapundit
Glenn Greenwald called out the media for not apologizing for "lying to people" and being wrong in their years covering the Trump-Russian collusion investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller. He called on top primetime cable hosts to go before cameras, hang their head in shame and apologize.
"It was continuously on MSNBC which, let me just say, should have their top posts on primetime, go before the cameras and hang their head in shame, and apologize for lying to people for three straight years exploiting their fears to great profit," Greenwald told Carlson. "These are people who are on the verge of losing their jobs. That whole network was about to collapse, this whole scam saved them."
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We’ve got a free press on the internet, JohnQC. It doesn’t pay nearly as well as those cushy jobs in the mainstream media, but there are ever fewer cushy jobs to be enjoyed as the news-reading public turns their attention to more truthful and informative sources.
h/t Instapundit
[EpochTimes] Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) would end the college loan "crisis" by forgiving $1.25 Trillion in such debt and then making college tuition-free, but a new study casts doubt that such a program is even needed.
Warren claims the crisis is so great that it is "crushing millions of families and acting as an anchor on our economy. It’s reducing home ownership rates. It’s leading fewer people to start businesses. It’s forcing students to drop out of school before getting a degree. It’s a problem for all of us."
...But Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Beth Akers said in a study made public Oct. 10 that "Millennials aren’t drowning in student debt." Data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Education show Warren, Sanders and others claiming a college loan crisis are misrepresenting reality.
"Sixty-six percent of millennials have no student debt at all. That’s because they haven’t gone to college or because they managed to get through without having to borrow," Akers wrote.
"Those who do have debt tend to have modest burdens relative to their income. Typical four-year-degree graduates who borrow will accumulate $28,500 in debt over the course of their enrollment," she said.
According to Akers’ calculation, the $28,500 can be repaid at a monthly cost of less $200, which represents only four percent of the average monthly earnings for such individuals.
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So let me see if I understand this, Lizzie. You want me to pay for someone else's kids to go get indoctinated at a place that will derange their critical thinking to the point that they'll vote for you? Hard pass. Toots.
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Now that she's done making $400K a semester teaching one class at Harvard (for which she doesn't think contributes to the high cost of college 'education'), she wants to propose yet another of her government policies which would kill off much of the racket.
h/t Puppy blender
[DailyWire] Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) called for a probe into four Democratic Senators on Sunday over a letter that they sent to Ukraine in 2018 that threatened to withhold aid from the country if it did not continue to investigate President Donald Trump.
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Sens. Menendez, Durbin, Leahy and Murphy should be probed for trying to enlist Ukraine to meddle in our 2020 elections. Probe them hard with a long power rasp for the proctology exam. This quartet has credibility problems.
[AnNahar] A small boat carrying African migrants colonists off the coast of southern Mexico sank Friday, leaving two people dead and one missing, authorities said.
The boat was traveling off the southern border state of Chiapas when it listed to one side, pitching its occupants into the water, the state prosecutor's office said in a statement.
A 39-year-old man was found dead, it added, washed up on the shore. A second body was later located a few hundred metres from the first.
A search operation "managed to rescue eight migrants colonists alive," the prosecutor's office said, adding one person was still missing.
All were from Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... , a country that has seen a growing exodus of refugees amid an increasingly violent conflict between its French- and English-speaking communities.
Chiapas is a main crossroads for migrants colonists crossing Mexico toward the United States. They are mostly Central Americans, but in recent years there has been an increasing number of Africans, who often fly to South America and then make long treks overland and by boat.
African migrants colonists in Chiapas regularly stage protests demanding the Mexican authorities allow them to continue their journey toward the United States.
Undocumented migrants colonists regularly use boats to evade the authorities in southern Mexico, where the government has deployed 6,000 National Guardsmen to tighten the border.
The move is part of its efforts to crack down on irregular migration under a deal to avoid US President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... 's threat to impose steep tariffs on Mexican goods.
Under the deal, the Mexican government has deployed another 15,000 National Guardsmen along its northern border and accepted the return of more than 50,000 migrants colonists seeking asylum in the US, who must now wait in Mexico while their claims are processed.
[FoxNews] Retired Army Master Sgt. Mark Allen died on Saturday, 10 years after he was shot while looking for a missing soldier in Afghanistan back in 2009. He was 46.
Allen was unable to walk or speak since being shot in the head by a sniper in July 2009 during his attempted search for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who walked off his base in Afghanistan and was imprisoned by the Taliban for five years.
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Where the f--- is the reference to the man who sprung Bergdahl? Why no attempt to even ask Obama for comment?
Shame on Fox.
What an absolute disgrace.
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The ME, a region of the world with ever-changing alliances and ever-changing terrorist groups. I recall several times when McCain went over to Syria. In 2017, he met with (some say illegally) the Muslim Brotherhood and AQ (most of whom later became ISIS). Nancy Pelosi went over to Syria in 2007 to meet with Assad although George W. asked her not to. There was no outcry by the MSM. So now, the MSM is reporting that Trump is screwing things up in Syria by abandoning the Kurds. No wonder the American people (the ones who send their sons and daughters to fight never-ending wars and pay the price) are not listening to the MSM and siding with Trump. McCain trips. Pelosi trip, the trip where she donned the hijab.
#Libya Coast Guard rescued 94 illegal migrants after the motor of their boat stopped working off Tajoura shore, east #Tripoli, today. pic.twitter.com/CI61LZlRhd
It was a busy day off the Libyan coast. Human traffickers of all sorts swarmed the water, looking for prey.
[AlAhram] Humanitarian groups on Sunday said they rescued 176 migrants colonists on two rubber boats in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya while Tunisian authorities reported blocking a smuggling boat carrying 110 migrants colonists from setting off for Italia.
Doctors Without Borders and SOS Mediterranee said their Ocean Viking ship rescued 74 migrants colonists Sunday morning about 50 miles (80 kilometers) off the Libyan coast near an oilfield. The groups said six children were among those rescued. In the afternoon, the groups said they rescued 102 people aboard another rubber boat about 40 miles off the coast. They said 12 women, four of them pregnant, and nine children were on board.
Tunisia's interior ministry said three coasties boats pursued the smuggling boat after it left Friday night from the city of Sfax. Officers shouted through loudspeakers at the boat and passengers threw projectiles that injured two officers and broke windows.
The coasties eventually forced the boat back toward Tunisia and rescued 25 migrants colonists who had jumped into the sea.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, the radioactive tadpoles grown into frogs. Really big frogs, in fact... three small boats carrying migrants colonists reached Italian shores on Sunday. ANSA, the Italian news agency, said two boats - one carrying 15 people, the other 11 - landed on the island of Lampedusa. The agency says a third boat with 15 Tunisians aboard landed in southern Sicily.
The new Italian government is doing exactly what it promised to do...
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... ’s administration is set to impose economic sanctions on Ankara, potentially as early as this week, for its incursion into northern Syria, one of the few levers the United States still has over NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... -ally The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... Using the US military to stop the Ottoman Turkish offensive on US-allied Kurdish fighters was never an option,defense officials have said, and Trump asked the Pentagon on Sunday to begin a "deliberate" withdrawal of all US troops from northern Syria.
After Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday that Trump had authorized "very powerful" new sanctions targeting Turkey, the administration appeared ready to start making good on Trump’s threat to obliterate Turkey’s economy.
On Sunday, Trump said he was listening to Congress, where Republicans and Democrats are pushing aggressively for sanctions action.
"Dealing with @LindseyGrahamSC and many members of Congress, including Democrats, about imposing powerful Sanctions on Turkey," Trump said on Twitter, referring to the loyal Trump ally and US senator who lambasted the president last week.
"Treasury is ready to go, additional legislation may be sought. There is great consensus on this. Turkey has asked that it not be done. Stay tuned!" he added.
A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , told Rooters that sanctions were "being worked out at all levels of the government for rollout."
Trump is struggling to quell harsh criticism, including from some of his staunchest Republican backers, that he gave Ottoman Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan a green light to attack the Kurds last Sunday when he decided to pull a small number of US troops out of the border area.
Turkey’s offensive aims to neutralize the Kurdish YPG militia, the main component of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and seen by Ankara as a terrorist group aligned with Kurdish turbans in Turkey. But the SDF has also been Washington’s key ally in fighting that has dismantled ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... ’s "caliphate" in Syria.
Trump’s decision, rooted in his long-stated aim to get the United States out of "endless wars," has prompted bipartisan concerns that it opens the door to the revival of ISIS.
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The big sanction mentioned was stopping all dollar transactions for Turkey. If so, then the US gov better be prepared to have Turkey as a permanent enemy, ala Iran.
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So the CIA is out of the "regime change" business...foreign I mean, since they are still keeping their hand in domestically. And there's that line again about "all enemies foreign & domestic".
[DAWN] Tunisians began voting for a new president on Sunday in the decisive second-round run-off of an election in which they have spurned traditional candidates in favour of a media mogul and a retired law professor who wants to remake democracy.
Nabil Karoui, the media mogul, was only released from detention on Wednesday after spending most of the election campaign behind bars awaiting a verdict in his corruption trial. He denies all accusations of wrongdoing.
Kais Saied spent almost no money on his campaign and is regarded by his supporters as a humble man of principle, while his critics have attacked his conservative social views and backing by Tunisia's moderate Islamist party Ennahda.
Sunday's vote is the third national election in five weeks, following the first-round of the presidential vote in September, in which Saied took 18.4 per cent and Karoui 15.6pc in a crowded field of 26, and a parliamentary election a week ago.
Low turnout and a rejection of established politicians and parties in both polls revealed dissatisfaction with Tunisian politics eight years after a revolution that brought in democracy and inspired the "Arab spring".
10 Taliban terrorists killed & eight others wounded in a joint clearance operation carried out by ANDSF backed by AAF in Yangi Qala district of Takhar. The operation went successful and six villages of Yangi Qala cleared of terrorists. Read More: https://t.co/62C9ouTmgwpic.twitter.com/1KQAfOONyT
GCPSU has arrested five men during an operation in Ab Bazak village, Mohammad Agha district of Logar. The five had allegedly linked with the Taliban terrorists & GCPSU recovered 2 AK-47 rifles, 5 cell phones & some amount of military equipment & uniforms.https://t.co/J19tlLgkpdpic.twitter.com/NHpunXTM8A
CNPA seized 198kg of illicit drugs during two separate operations in Rodat district of Nangarhar & Jalalabad City. CNPA arrested three suspected drug traffickers as well. Read More: https://t.co/4FTg4FoyVvpic.twitter.com/TeF6TB7nOL
ANP discovered & defused nine roadside bombs after several hours of efforts and point of point search operations in Mandozai District of Khost, Shahr Safa District of Zabul, Gardiz City of Paktiya and PD#8 of Kabul City. Read More: https://t.co/eGI1DZK3ktpic.twitter.com/zfkhtvXSxO
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] 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... hit back at the head of northern Cyprus on Sunday after a highly rare rebuke of the Ottoman Turkish government over its offensive against Kurdish turbans in Syria.
"I say it clearly: he has totally overstepped his bounds," Erdogan said in comments carried by state news agency Anadolu.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... ’s "Operation Peace Spring" against Kurdish turbans in northern Syria was launched on Wednesday, drawing criticism from around the world.
But Ankara was not expecting criticism from the Ottoman Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, a territory whose illusory sovereignty Turkey is alone in recognizing.
The republic was created after Turkey invaded Cyprus in 1974 following a coup aimed at bringing the island back under Greek control, and it has been divided ever since.
Its current head, Mustafa Akinci, criticized the Ottoman Turkish assault in Syria on his personal Facebook account on Saturday.
"Even if we call it Peace Spring, it is blood that is spilling and not water," he wrote, calling for "dialogue and diplomacy."
Erdogan warned: "At the given time, we will deliver an appropriate response."
His vice president, Fuat Oktay, had earlier "strongly condemned" Akinci’s statement, adding that the bodies of Ottoman Turkish soldiers killed during the 1974 invasion must be "turning in their graves."
[DAWN] OVER the past four decades, a variety of jihadi organizations have taken root in South Asia, thanks largely to the anti-Soviet Afghan ’jihad’, a geopolitical adventure marshalled by the US, financed by the Gulf Arabs and supported by this country.
Though many outfits have been neutralised in the aftermath of 9/11 and the so-called war on terror, the region is still not completely free from the menace of bully boy militancy. For example, more ferocious terrorist outfits have emerged, such as the self-styled Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group, while ’veteran’ players such as Al Qaeda have branched out and formed new wings.
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Theater for the FATF. The same paper had an editorial a few months ago about mainstreaming former jihadis into the political process to 'decrease extremism and encourage legitimate ascension of faithful muslimeen (sic) to legislative roles'.
Turkey Offensive: Kurdish-led administration says Syrian army will be deployed at Turkish border to repel Turkish aggression and "liberate areas" taken by Turkish army and rebels
[DAWN] Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...the political wing of the Pak Taliban... -Fazl (JUI-F) chief Fazlur Rehman ...Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty... on Sunday warned the government against creating hurdles in the way of the "Azad March" and said that the march will be peaceful.
The JUI-F chief, while addressing the party's Salar Force, comprised of volunteers, said in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. on Sunday that his party workers have opted for a peaceful protest for their rights. "Our party workers and seminary students have always respected the Constitution," he said.
On the occasion, the volunteers presented a guard of honour to Rehman. They took oath of safeguarding the leadership even at the cost of their lives.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Sunday he would press for an EU ban on arms sales to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... , as Ankara pressed its attack on Kurdish forces in northern Syria.
Conte was speaking ahead of a meeting in Luxembourg on Monday of the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union’s foreign affairs committee on the issue - and a day after both La Belle France and Germany joined a list of countries halting arms supplies to Turkey.
A government statement said that Rome had been working since Saturday for a moratorium on arms exports to Turkey "as soon as possible."
"Italia will promote this initiative in all multilateral forums and will work to combat Ottoman Turkish military action in the northeast of Syria with every instrument permitted by international law," said the statement from Conte’s office.
"The Italian government is convinced that we must act with the utmost determination to avoid further suffering of the Syrian people, especially Kurds, and to counteract destabilizing actions in the region," the statement added.
Italia is one of Turkey’s main arms suppliers.
Several European countries, including Finland, La Belle France, Germany, the Netherlands and Norway, have already announced a halt in arms supplies to Turkey.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok will attend peace talks in the South Sudan capital on Monday with rebel leaders from several Sudanese states, said official sources in Juba.
"Tomorrow’s meeting is to mark the launching of Sudan’s peace talks," Ateny Wek Ateny, front man for South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir, told AFP on Sunday.
Hamdok, who was only appointed in August in a deal between the army and the opposition, will meet rebel leaders from the Sudanese states of Darfur, South Kordofan and Blue Nile.
Kiir, who just a few weeks ago signed his own peace deal with rebel leader Riek Machar, offered to mediate between Sudan and the rebels back in November 2018.
This new set of talks follow a first round in September when both sides agreed on a road map for the negotiations.
This week’s meeting is intended to tackle the main issues, said Ateny.
Also attending will be Æthiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who last week won the Nobel Peace Prize, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni ...President-for-Life of Uganda. He assumed office in 1985. His primary virtue is being prefereable to both his predecessors, Idi Amin and Milton Obote... and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Their presence, said Ateny, was to give the talks more weight.
A senior Sudanese delegation arrived in Juba on Sunday.
The Sudanese delegation will meet Abdulaziz al-Hilu, leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), which is active in Bule Nile and South Kordofan states.
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Things that pop out of the article:
1. The vic had "friends"...who knew
2. The "friends" were armed
3. The full might and majesty of the LAW will come down on the murderous Nazi who killed poor sonny boy who was lead soprano in his Satanist Temple choir.
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Curious... discharging fire arms at a vehicle does not seem to be the accepted response to a vehicular accident. Will this be investigated? lol..right
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Now that more indepth articles are up, with Antifa telling their people to not help the police, plus a homeless guy saying there was two vehicles with an argument between them, I suspect the killer is another member of Antifa. You know if anyone but their own had done it, they'd be using him to wave the bloody shirt but they are claiming the motives aren't 'fascists' (Other than themselves). So yeah, Red on Red.
[AA.TR] The YPG/PKK terror group on Sunday set a camp on fire in the Ayn Isa district in northern Syria, where they were holding captured ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... detainees and their families.
"Today at 11.00 a.m. local time [800GMT], senior members of the [terrorist] organization came to the camp and took all of the civilian employees out of the camp [...] At around 13.30 p.m. [1000GMT], we saw that a fire started in the camp area and the smoke was increasing. When our friends went to see as to what was happening, they saw that offices were burning. If the detainees and families had set this fire on their own, our offices would not have been damaged. Our offices are separate from a place where ISIS people and their families were held. This fire was set by the [terror] group itself. They took us out before they set the fire and it is a proof that they initiated the fire," a civil servant told Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity due to security reasons.
A civil servant added that thousands of ISIS terrorists, their families and other civilians -- who were held in the region -- were fleeing the camp area.
Nearly 5,000 people, including 2,000 ISISbandidosbully boyz and their families, were held in the camp. Another 3,000 people were the civilians who had fled other Syrian districts due to the conflict.
Ayn Isa is at about 35 kilometers (21.7 miles) from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... ’s border.
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ‐ Maine has decided that eating like a pig could be a good thing, especially for schools looking to cut down on food waste.
A law saying schools can give food scraps away to pig farmers is now on the books in the state.
The practice of feeding human food waste to pigs goes back millennia, but some school districts in Maine have expressed confusion in recent years about the rules around the practice. So the Maine Legislature passed a clarifying bill that took effect Sept. 19. and the pigs turn the waste into delicious tasty bacon. Win-win
The new standards will help school districts find a use for spoiled food that might otherwise end up in landfills, say supporters, including Republican sponsor state Sen. Stacey Guerin, of Glenburn.
"In Maine, that was a common practice when I was growing up. Hog farmers would come to the back door and take the waste at the end of the day," Guerin said. "I’m glad school administrators can do that with confidence now, without fear of breaking the law."
The new rules state that any individual or institution, including a school, can donate garbage to a swine producer for use as feed even if they’re unaware of the producer’s licensure status. Guerin said the rule change made sense because the schools aren’t responsible for monitoring the license status of hog farms.
[DAILYSABAH] Turkey is the country who suffered the most from Daesh terrorism and the one that is actively fighting against it, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's adviser Professor Gülnur Aybet told UK's Channel 4 in a public broadcast late Saturday.
Responding to channel host's accusations, Aybet said that it is unfair to spread blatant lies over Turkey's recently launched Operation Peace Spring against PKK terrorist group's Syrian wing YPG and its fight against all other terrorist groups, including Daesh.
"It is very unfair to parade these kind of lies that we're bringing in ISIS fighters. This is absolutely shameful," she said, using another acronym for Daesh terrorist group.
"Have some respect for the people who died in Turkey from ISIS attacks. Have some respect for our soldiers who died fighting against ISIS in Syria," she said.
"We asked specifically from the West on intel sharing on this matter and it came unfortunately too late," Aybet added.
Regarding the operation, she said that "There is so much misinformation in Europe and America about why we are doing this," pointing to the Western perception of the anti-terror operation.
"We said before we wouldn't allow a terror corridor," she added.
"We are absolutely determined to go on with this operation. You cannot fight one terror group by arming another terror group, it was bound to hit a wall-this policy of the U.S. which started in the previous administration," she concluded.
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I believe the Syrians and Iraqis would beg too differ on who suffered the most.
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even if it's Patriots vs Dolphins odds....
Professional football teams? Sorry. I suspect one of them is much better than the other. ;-) But yes, I do try to find the good in everyone — so often they rise to the occasion. It’s hard when they don’t, though.
[Dhaka Tribune] Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested 7 suspected members of banned bully boy outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) from Narayanganj, and Pabna on Sunday.
In Narayanganj, RAB 11 arrested two suspected activists of ABT when they were holding a secret meeting in the dead of night at a madrasa under Fatullah cop shoppe in the early hours.
The arrested are Md Mehedi Hossain, alias Murad, 24, and Md Amanullah, 33, confirmed RAB 11 Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Md Alep Uddin.
Mehedi told RAB that he completed his Bachelor of Science degree from a private textile university in Dhaka in 2016, he joined JMB in 2014. He was reaching out across the country to gather recruits up until now. Md Amanullah was a madrasa teacher in Narayanganj who joined ABT through Mehedi. Amanullah secretly held meetings of the JMB members in his madrasa.
The RAB seized a large number of books, and a laptop containing digital data on extremism from their possession.
In Pabna, RAB 14 arrested five suspected activists of ABT from Bera, and Santhia upazila.
The arrested from Bera upazila are: Md Abdullah, 21, and Abul Kalam Azad, 27, of Shambhupur village; Md Wazed Ali, 30, of Hatiagara village, and Mizanur Rahman Mizan, 23, of Chhoto Paina village.
Another arrested Ruhul Amin, 23, hails from Rangamatia village in Santhia upazila.
Bera cop shoppe OC Sheikh Mahmud said: "RAB handed over the suspected ABT members to us this evening (Sunday). Books on extremism was found in their possession.”
#4
Big Anya, a very suave Slav,
Was known through la France for her cave,
"And sometimes," said Anya,
"sez Siggie, champagne
Is simply nice wine. Mazeltov!"
#8
"Fetch me du bon Veuve Clicqot!"
Quite the partner of Sykes, one Picot
We'll stir up Arabs and Kurds
And mix in Ottoman turds Pour ce grand, fantastique SHEET-SHOW!
How nice. If only there was someone they could sell large amounts to ...But Iran is being sanctioned, What a shame.
[CNN] Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... announced on Sunday that it has discovered a new natural gas reserve with the capacity to produce nearly 400 million barrels of gas condensate, which could generate a total of $40 billion.
The natural gas field, named Eram, is located near the Persian Gulf in the southwestern province of Fars and holds about 19 trillion cubic feet of gas, National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) Deputy Managing Director Reza Dehghan said at a presser.
"We have the potential to identify more undiscovered oil and gas reserves (in the country) by using geophysical exploration techniques and discovery drilling and will definitely add to Iran's national wealth," Dehghan said.
The discovery comes at an opportune time for Iran, which has suffered economically under a series of US sanctions aimed at forcing the country to limit its nuclear program.
"America cannot cease Iran's oil production. Sanctions have not stopped the Iranian oil industry. We are active. We are alive," Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said last month.
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Forty billion in revenue OR an earth-shattering kaboom if it all detonated at once. Spontaneously, of course!
[DAILYSABAH] Syrian regime troops began moving to the north to confront The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... 's ongoing counterterrorism operation, state TV said Sunday.
State media, which said the troops were moving to face "Ottoman Turkish army aggression," did not say where the regime troops were deploying in northern Syria.
Earlier Sunday, the Lebanese broadcaster al-Mayadeen said Bashir al-Assad's forces would deploy within 48 hours to the town of Ayn al-Arab which is held by the PKK's Syrian affiliate, the People's Protection Units (YPG), and the nearby town of Manbij which is controlled by YPG-aligned forces.
The towns fall within a swathe east of the Euphrates River controlled by the YPG bandidosbully boyz that is currently being targeted in an operation by Turkey and the Syrian National Army (SNA).
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] "Good evening male, female, approximately either, or neither passengers. This is your captain speaking. Our flight to Yellow Knife will be departing on time, eh?..."
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Better: "Ladies, Gentlemen, and Justin Trudeau ..."
#7
Ladies and gentlemen are not actually genders so much as expected behaviors and on that note, looking around at folks flying these days they should have retired the saying long ago.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] At least five officers were killed in a weekend attack by an gang in Niger’s western Tillaberi region, a local politician said on Sunday.
The region, which is close to Mali, has been rocked by recurrent bad boy attacks.
"On Saturday, an attack targeted a patrol of gendarmes in the town of Sanam, killing five of them," a local Tillaberi politician told AFP.
"The assailants arrived on a cycle of violences and targeted the patrol near the village of Abare on its market day."
A security and government source confirmed the attack without being able to provide the corpse count.
No group has grabbed credit for the attack.
Extremists, including those from ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... , have a presence in southwestern Niger near the border with Mali - where they have carried out bombings, shootings and kidnappings.
More than 250 non-combatants were killed and nearly 240 others were kidnapped between January and August this year, mainly in Niger’s regions of Diffa, Tillaberi and Tahoua in the west, according to a UN report in September.
Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou has repeatedly called on the West and the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... to help the country battle the bad boys.
But the presence of French, American, and German forces in Niger as well as the UN in neighboring Mali has not stopped the increasing attacks.
Serekaniye: Ambulances bringing the dead and injured doctors to hospital after Turkey hit their car. They were on their way to help the victims of another strike by Turkey on a civilian convoy earlier today which killed 11, injured 74 people. pic.twitter.com/U1vCWi4t0L
[AFRICANEWS] Algerian protesters clashed with riot police during an anti-government protest in Algiers Sunday. More than a thousand Algerians are denouncing a draft energy law.
The law is expected to be examined by the Algerian cabinet ahead of its adoption. The law is aimed at attracting foreign investors to assist the North African nation to strengthen its energy output. It will however maintain a 49 percent foreign ownership if passed into law by parliament.
’’They sold (fabricated the law) the hydrocarbons law in the military barracks, so let the Algerian people know that they are the products of our country and the future generations, from our children and grandchildren, they are gambling with Algeria and its goods", a merchant Suleiman said.
For Mehdi, "the hydrocarbons law introduced in this period is considered to be one of the reasons why they have committed to the Algerian state, and therefore to the Algerian people by the gang of parliament and the gang of government."
Algeria produces 1.2 million barrels of oil per day and hydrocarbons account for more than 95% of its external revenues and contribute 60% to state budget.
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(CNN Oct. 12)The commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces told a senior US diplomat, "You are leaving us to be slaughtered," demanding to know whether the US is going to do anything to protect Syrian Kurds as Turkey continues its military operation targeting America's Kurdish allies in Syria.
"You have given up on us. You are leaving us to be slaughtered," Gen. Mazloum Kobani Abdi told the Deputy Special Envoy to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, William Roebuck, in a meeting Thursday, according to an internal US government readout that has been obtained exclusively by CNN.
"You are not willing to protect the people, but you do not want another force to come and protect us. You have sold us. This is immoral," Mazloum added.
He insisted the US either help stop the Turkish attack or allow the Syrian Democratic Forces to strike a deal with the Assad regime in Damascus and their Russian backers, allowing Russian warplanes to enforce a no-fly zone over northeast Syria, thereby denying Turkey the ability to carry out airstrikes. The US does not want the Kurds turning to the Russians, administration officials say.
"I need to know if you are capable of protecting my people, of stopping these bombs falling on us or not. I need to know, because if you're not, I need to make a deal with Russia and the regime now and invite their planes to protect this region," Mazloum said.
#3
Hahahaa...let Russia spend its blood and treasure in this worthless land. They're welcome to it.
The phase “endless war” used to be irritating, except then it became clear that’s exactly what many foreign policy “experts” are advocating. If your exit criteria for closing out some overseas adventure is “We can leave when things are stable” in a place that hasn’t been stable in 5000 years, you are advocating for “endless war.”
Getting out of wars requires getting out of wars. And sometimes, it’s going to be ugly. But unless you can explain to the family of a dead soldier why it’s worth it to stay, it’s not worth it to stay. The American people, at least those who aren’t in DC or the media, understand that every problem around the world is not our problem. If you’re one of those Citizens of the World, then feel free to enlist in the Army of the World. Just count us out of your bloody altruism.
#6
Isn't this batch of Kurds communist? Weren't we only allied with this batch because we had a common enemy we both hated worse? Sort of like 'The Life of Brian' Judean Popular People's Front scene - which gets more timely every day.
Update: Pro-Turkish sources claiming a missle of "barrel bomb" type has just hit a convoy near the village "Kormaza", very heavy casualties reported inside ranks of SNA terrorists and allies.#Twitterkurds#Rojava#SDF#Turkey#TFSA#Syria
No, my dear. You mean Zim-bob-we, known when it was prosperous and law-abiding as Rhodesia.
[BREITBART] On Sunday’s broadcast of CNN’s "Reliable Sources," former ABC "World News’ anchor Sam Donaldson accused President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... ’s supporters of having a "fixation" on returning America to a "white Christian country."
Donaldson said, "The Trump rallies are Trump’s strong supporters. I mean, ’lock her up,’ all the things he says, all the vicious, mean things he says, they love it. There are these people in this country. They’re good Americans otherwise. They’ll probably give you the shirt off their back, they’ll help you if you need it, but they have this fixation. They want to return this country to the white Christian country that they believe it should be again. They don’t want the diversity, and they follow him for this, but they’re not the country. We are a diverse people, we are good and strong because of that, and we’re going to come back to that. I assure you."
#2
It's not about skin color so much as going back to a government that favors the law abiding over the criminal, the citizens over the foreigners, the sane over the lunatics, and the productive over the taker.
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"Returning U.S. to a White Christian Country"
Obviously something Donaldson and CNN want no part of.
#11
Prediction: the next great man to be tarred and feathered as a "white supremacist" by this mindless Shitshow will be the man who called for a colorblind society where his grandchildren would be "judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin" ...
#12
Personally when I hear "Make America Great Again" my mind goes back to the 90s, when the economy was booming, deficit's seemed manageable, we weren't involved in endless wars in Islamic countries, and the left hadn't gone full communist.
Just as the left can burn the flag for one specific protest-related issue and say they aren't burning down the good things the flag represents I can look fondly back on those issues and not even think about social issues.
#15
Donaldson can call it what he wants. I prefer to think of it as trying to prevent this country from becoming a socialist police state and a Third World shit hole.
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Well Sam, since most everything we achieved on the road to greatness over two centuries was in that demographic, I’m ok with it.
Next few days, two #Syria-n army divisions will be deployed to #Hasaka (includes #Qamishli) and #Dier_Elzour governorates as part of the agreement between #SDF and #Damascus. The operation will be led by Brigadier General Suhail Al - Hassan.
[GatewayPundit] Fox News "Sunday Morning Futures" host Maria Bartiromo told Congressman Doug Collins (R-GA) on Sunday that the DOJ IG report on FISA abuse will be released Friday October 18.
DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz has been working on a report documenting the FISA [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] abuses by Obama’s corrupt DOJ and FBI during the 2016 election targeting Donald Trump.
"It’s as thick as a telephone book," Bartiromo said. "More than just FISA abuse."
Congressman Nunes in January of 2018 released a 2-page FISA memo revealing Hillary Clinton’s phony dossier formed an essential role in the FBI obtaining the FISA warrants on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page.
In fact, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe testified that if not for the phony Russia dossier, the FBI would never have sought the FISA warrants.
The FBI, under Comey’s Directorship, obtained one FISA warrant and three subsequent renewals on Carter Page beginning in October of 2016 and ending in June of 2017.
The FBI also defrauded the FISA judges by withholding exculpatory evidence on Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos.
#6
The insurrection by the Deep State is entering a more brazen phase, secret Star Chamber is basis for impeachment investigation dragging on for months, the Syria pullout of a tiny handful of troops is now a betrayal and the defense industrial complex is in full voice,"whistleblowers" and leakers in multiple executive agencies, and the incessant, never-ending 3 yr MSM drumbeat of negative press about anything that they can pretend links to Trump, all the while their alternative is quite literally thinly veiled socialism. The time for intolerant, pushback is upon us...its the last option before something no one here wants to contemplate!
[DAILYCALLER] Rep. Adam Schiff ...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... 's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation... said Sunday that the House Intelligence Committee might not need to interview the CIA analyst who filed a whistleblower complaint against President Donald Trump, a reversal for the Democrat, who has come under fire for failing to disclose the whistleblower’s contacts with his office.
Schiff acknowledged he initially supported the whistleblower testifying about the Aug. 12 complaint, which centered on a July 25 phone call Trump had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
"Given that we already have the call record, we don’t need the whistleblower who wasn’t on the call to tell us what took place during the call, we have the best evidence of that," Schiff said on "Face the Nation." "It may not be necessary to take steps that might reveal the whistleblower’s identity to do that, and we’re going to make sure we protect that whistleblower."
The Democrat has slowly pulled back his preference for the whistleblower to testify after it was revealed Oct. 2 that the CIA analyst had contact with a Schiff aide prior to filing the complaint Aug. 12.
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He just doesn't want it come to light in the interview just how much this person was in touch with Schiff writing this and who he worked for in the past.
#10
What he really means: "We may be able to have a secret trial and political lynching without the whistleblower. We already know Trump's guilty."
What a miscarriage of government and due process. Hope the people of Schiff's district get some sense and remove this guy from office in the voting booth. However, this is doubtful. He needs to be slapped hard for his lies to the American people and his illegal shenanigans.
#11
We would not want the truth to get in the way of the narrative, now would we.
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What a miscarriage of government and due process.
Yes, but itkeeps the Democrats and their enablers busy and focussed while President Trump gets on with other things, like reorganizing the situation in Syria, persuading Mexico to stop passing all those migrants through, reducing NSA staffing by 2/3rds, proposing and approving more young judges, and so forth.
And elsewhere, Twitchy notes the response of the voters to all the shenanigans:
#13
Trump went to Louisiana and their legislature was flipped to Pub. Also, there is now a runoff between the sitting governor, a Dem and a Pub. Trump is the best asset of the Republican Party if some of the NeverTrumpers and RINOS would stop hating Trump and support him.
Criminal enemy prosecutor (Muhammad Haqparast) was gunned down & brought to justice late Sat. afternoon in Deh Qazi area of #Parwan provincial capital.
— Zabihullah (..ذبـــــیح الله م ) (@Zabehulah_M33) October 13, 2019
— Zabihullah (..ذبـــــیح الله م ) (@Zabehulah_M33) October 13, 2019
#WarCrime Criminal Americans & their hirelings raided Kolalgo area of Zurmat district #Paktia last ngiht during which they broke into 200 shops, destroyed multiple, looted cash & valuables, demolished a hotel, ruthlessly murdered a shop owner & caused extensive damages. https://t.co/oBWTlk2CSW
— Zabihullah (..ذبـــــیح الله م ) (@Zabehulah_M33) October 13, 2019
IED & direct attack on hireling enemy Zero-One Unit in Khalaziyo area of Puli Khumri city's PD2 #Baghlan on Sat. resulted in 2 APCs destroyed, 12 gunmen killed & 5 others wounded.
#WarCrime Criminal Americans & their hirelings raided Bashand area of Warduj district #Badakhshan on Sat. during which they demolished 15 homes, ruthlessly martyred 13 civilians including 5 women & 3 children & wounded 20 others. https://t.co/SUB69b6z2w
— Zabihullah (..ذبـــــیح الله م ) (@Zabehulah_M33) October 13, 2019
#AlFath#Breaking: Daychopan DHQ #Zabul along with all buildings fall to Mujahidin of Islamic Emirate. Details later - Ahmadi
— Zabihullah (..ذبـــــیح الله م ) (@Zabehulah_M33) October 13, 2019
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[Yahoo] The United States is poised to move about 1,000 U.S. troops from northern Syria amid an ongoing Turkish incursion into the region, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Sunday, calling the situation "untenable" for U.S. forces.
The pull-back of troops from the region dovetails with President Donald Trump's long-standing desire for the United States to extract itself from foreign conflicts. It comes after Trump a week ago withdrew some U.S. troops deployed to support Kurdish forces in the fight against Islamic State.
That decision, which came under heavy fire from fellow Republicans and allies, helped open the door for Turkey to launch an offensive against the U.S.-backed Kurdish forces, part of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), who have been America's most capable partners in quashing Islamic State.
"In the last 24 hours, we learned that [the Turks] likely intend to extend their attack further south than originally planned, and to the west," Esper said on CBS' "Face the Nation."
"We also have learned in the last 24 hours that the ... SDF are looking to cut a deal, if you will, with the Syrians and the Russians to counterattack against the Turks in the north."
Esper said he spoke with Trump Saturday night, and that the president directed the U.S. military to "begin a deliberate withdrawal of forces from northern Syria."
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When do US Forces leave Incirlik? Wouldn't want to caught in a war zone.
[ARABNEWS] Are we sliding into an expanded conflict in a region already on a knife-edge following Iran’s escalations against oil infrastructure and other targets? Talking to diplomats with decades of Middle East experience, many grimly believe this to be the case. The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... ’s invasion of northeastern Syria demolishes a fragile status quo: Just 2,000 US troops had deterred Iranian proxies from dominating the east of the country, while a few hundred Kurdish fighters guarded nearly 100,000 ISIS <...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... suspects and their families.
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"the American abdication of responsibility in eastern Syria"
What the fuck? WHAT responsibility? We have NO responsibility! Who asked us to do that? Nobody. It has zero support among the American people and does not benefit us one iota.
It's beyond obvious that these people have an entirely warped worldview that is unsupported by any evidence. In their book, America pays for everything and that's just how it is. Nobody has ever stopped to think about if it's a good idea that benefits Americans.
We're self sufficient in oil now. Things have changed. It's not the Carter administration any more.
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Turkey’s blundering intervention may thus be the straw that breaks the camel’s back — collapsing the regional house of cards and precipitating a war to make earlier conflict phases in the Syrian slaughterhouse look like child’s play.
A potential outcome the Orange Man may have already foreseen. Hopefully, his recent actions will enable us to sit this one out.
#5
If Trump is serious about extricating America from the world, then bring our troops and businesses home and let the outside find a new power balance.
#9
So... we're there to oppose Syria and Russia, which oppose ISIS, and also to oppose ISIS, who oppose ... Syria and Russia, and also to oppose Turkey, who opposes, kinda sorta, some of the above
Getting involved in Syria now makes about as much sense as it would have to intervene in the Crimean War in 1854 or one of the Turkish-Russian wars.
#10
I notice the profound policy wonks of Code Pink have been uncharacteristically silent.
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Looks like the DS wants to create a mire for Trump. I'm with Trump on this one. If this spills over into Israel, continue to support Israel, they are the only democracy over there.
#12
Drudge headline is that the Turks are holding Incirlik and the "50 tactical nukes" there hostage. Anyone have an idea if we were dumb enough to actually leave them there after the last threatening event?
#13
Why not just kick Turkey out of NATO for the whole thing ? Be better than sanctions. I suppose the nukes could all be disarmed by a DoD contingent.
#14
Word from some (who knew better than me) were that they were evacuated long ago
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PS Drudge has turned to a Dem/Leftist Whore. Better to hit Rantingly.com
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Better to hit Rantingly.com
Agreed. I’ve been checking both just about every day for comparison purposes, and almost all of the articles I click are on Rantingly. Also, I am much calmer now that the news site matches my understanding of current events.
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Anyone have an idea if we were dumb enough to actually leave them there after the last threatening event?
Apparently so. With Turkey’s invasion of Syria, concerns mount over nukes at Incirlik The Air Force on Monday said it has made no changes to daily operations at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey even as Turkish forces continue to push into Syrian territory, which has prompted U.S. forces to pull back.
But concerns are growing over the reported presence of U.S. nuclear weapons at Incirlik, believed to be about 50 B61 gravity bombs. The New York Times on Monday reported that officials from the State and Energy departments over the weekend reviewed plans for evacuating the nuclear weapons there.
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A senior official reportedly told the Times that the weapons “were now essentially [Turkish President Recep] Erdogan’s hostages” since removing the weapons would effectively spell the end of America’s alliance with Turkey, but keeping them there would leave them vulnerable.
[DAILYSABAH] Tunisian independent candidate Kais Saied has secured more than 72% of votes in the presidential elections held on Sunday, according to exit polls.
Saied's supporters went kaboom! with joy, celebrating on the main boulevard of Tunis even though official results from Sunday's runoff vote weren't expected until Tuesday.
The winner of Sunday's vote will replace Tunisia's first freely elected President Beji Caid Essebsi, who died last July. The new president will also inherit a North African country struggling to create jobs, revive tourism and overcome sporadic terrorism ‐ but proud of its still-budding democracy. This is only Tunisia's second free presidential election.
Polls carried in Tunisian media by Sigma Conseil and Emhrod Consulting forecast that Saied would come out on top with between 72% and 77% of the vote. Rival Nabil Karoui, who was in jail for most of the campaign, was projected to win between 23% and 27%.
Tunisians went to polling stations on Sunday to elect the country's second elected president since the 2011 uprising.
[DAWN] Helicopters, boats and thousands of troops were deployed across Japan on Sunday to rescue people stranded in flooded homes as the corpse count from a ferocious typhoon climbed to at least 19 with more than a dozen missing.
Public broadcaster NHK said 14 rivers across the nation had flooded, some spilling out in more than one spot.
The casualty toll was compiled by Kyodo News service and was higher than one given by the government front man earlier on Sunday, a day after Typhoon Hagibis made landfall south of Tokyo and battered central and northern Japan with torrents of rain and powerful gusts of wind.
"The major typhoon has caused immense damage far and wide in eastern Japan," government front man Yoshihide Suga told news hounds, adding that 27,000 military troops and other rescue crews were taking part in the operation.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[RUDAW] ERBIL, Kurdistan Region ‐ Ahmad Mustafa Delzar may be frail nowadays, but his mind is sharper than ever as he approaches his 100th birthday. On Wednesday, when US President Donald Trump justified his Syria withdrawal by claiming the Kurds never helped the US in the Second World War, Delzar, a veteran of that very war, was outraged.
[IsraelTimes] Egyptian security and medical officials said Saturday 
[St. Louis Post Dispatch] ST. LOUIS ‐ Public Safety Director Jimmie Edwards, under fire for comments on a local radio show about child shooting deaths in the city, reiterated his point at an aldermanic committee meeting Thursday.
[American Thinker] Those on the political right believe Fox News is an ally, while those on the left criticize Fox as a right-wing echo chamber. Both groups are wrong. Fox News has made a hard turn to the left in recent years. Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch are relegated to the Fox News Wikipedia page while the new bosses are the next generation of Murdochs, woke, liberal, and no fan of either President Trump or his supporters.
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
...Deobandi holy man, known as 
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
President-for-Life of Uganda. He assumed office in 1985. His primary virtue is being prefereable to both his predecessors, Idi Amin and Milton Obote...
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ‐ Maine has decided that eating like a pig could be a good thing, especially for schools looking to cut down on food waste.
...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 
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
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...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that 
