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[Reason] Following reports that a violent parody video depicting President Trump murdering a bunch of journalists was shown at a pro-Trump conference over the weekend, Democrats are calling on Congress to make it a federal crime to threaten or attack members of the media. Da Nang Dick "Dick" Blumenthal
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It wasn't already a crime? I thought threatening people was - are journalists not people? I guess I wasted the opportunity for all those years - better get to it right away before the window closes.
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They have long been trying to make journalists a special class of privileged citizen, with more rights than anyone else. I never in my life thought we would see the emergence of aristocracy, but we might well soon.
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The Fourth estate is now part of the new First Estate.
To our new aristocrats, that First Estate is defined as a permanent Overclass of interlocking
- politicos, exec branch bureaucrats, lobbyists
- Wall Street and corporate C-level execs
- Silicon Valley and Hollywood and academic virtue-signalers.
Each now aspires to do the work of the others.
Business titans now posture and preen about their woke cultural bona fides as if they're running for city council in a college town.
Idiot politicians like Schiff aspire to be screenwriters.
Slightly less stupid, failed politicos like Obama trade influence for plum positions as movie producers in multi-million $$$ sweetheart deals with media companies.
Others spend their time not writing laws but in shaping the "narrative"-- cf the BS "impeachment inquiry" that's now been redefined by Pelosi downward, yet again, to mean an open-ended vague expedition to "find the truth" -- instead of a normal legislative procedure leading to a trial in the Senate.
And now the final absurdity: a proposal that "journalists"- as if that term still carries any distinct meaning-- be accorded the same legal protections as the President.
Is Fred a "journalist"? Joe Mendiola? Are we 'burgers all "journalists"?
Well, why not: I publish stuff online. I write stuff in a text box, hit 'Submit', and voila! I'm a published journalist.
Besides, there's more thought behind our scribblings than in a week's worth of NYT or WaPo or Politico.com stenographic efforts.
We aggregate others' stuff? So do they. They cut 'n' paste the same g-damned cliche headlines and talking points as 100 other left-leaning Shitshow tent-masters.
They don't validate their screeds with proper sourcing-- look at the rolling Kavanaugh libel-Shitshow and the blatant lies they've printed out of nothing at all.
If they're going to routinely lie and slander and libel, then they don't get any privileges -- no First Amendment or other special press-related presumptions, nothing that we don't get.
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Three employees at a North Carolina assisted living facility were arrested after police said they ran a fight club with elderly residents with dementia battling it out against each other.
The women were accused in court documents of watching, filming and even encouraging a fight between a 70-year-old woman and a 73-year-old woman at the Danby House assisted living and memory-care facility in Winston-Salem, Fox 8 High Point and other local media reported.
Marilyn Latish McKey, 32, Tonacia Yvonne Tyson, 20, and Taneshia Deshawn Jordan, 26, were each charged with assaulting disabled persons, according to the reports.
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"The first rule of dementia fight club is... is... is... Did I have lunch yet today?" And before anyone comes down on my neck for making light of dementia, I've watched several members of my family suffer with it, I probably carry the gene myself. I'm just sick and tired of the idea that getting offended about what is clearly intended to be a light-hearted take on this or that unfortunate thing constitutes a constructive response to the actual problem. The outrage exists to hit people over the head with, not to better the actual situation, whatever it may be.
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I can tell from those three polynyms the nature of the help employed at the facility.
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Ultimately, that's why we have jury trials - to determine if government is moving beyond community acceptance (or v.v.) Seems to me this was a reasonable resolution - reduced from felony charge in return for a plea rather than continue the trial.
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Jury nullification is supposed to be reserved for the most extreme cases. And yet here it is appearing in ordinary ones.
We lost the drug war. Time to admit it and legalize. This is going to hurt a lot of industries: law enforcement, the courts, prisons, and cities that make a lot of money from fines and confiscations. It's a big shit sandwich and we're all going to have to take a bite.
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We already have nullification at the pre-arrest stage when members of certain communities decide "don't snitch" is the community "standard." Of course, some of that is people seeing retribution visited on those who do come forward and deciding they don't want to sign up for that. It's a mixed bag.
The court system, law enforcement and corrections are not supposed to be revenue-generating "industries," but all too often they are. That creates a backlash also.
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I was a part of a "mock" trial one time with real attorneys, a real judge and a jury. The jury deliberations were videoed and fed back to the audience. The case was a real adjudicated case from out West; Colorado as I recall. The case had to do with a fatal highway accident where there was marijuana involvement. Jury deliberations were a bit unsettling and seemed to have little to do with the law. One jury member said: "I've driven stoned many times and never had any problems."
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"I've driven stoned many times and never had any problems."
It's the cases of "Plenty of harm / culpability but still no foul" that certainly grate.
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We lost the drug war. Time to admit it and legalize.
Make it illegal to use drugs produced by or profiting jihadis, and I might be willing to discuss it. But as it stands, anything trafficked from abroad, much of the fake V1agra, cross-state cigarettes, and credit card identity theft among so much else, seems to be sold to fund various jihadi groups.
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The problem is, people are bad enough with distracted driving when otherwise not impaired. To expand on that, do you want your kids' school bus driver working while high? Your airplane pilot? Your healthcare professionals? Hell, for that matter, your accountant? Yes, yes, all those things already happen now. They should only and always be discouraged.
If people want to be zoned out, sure, why not. Create GonzoLand, with a high fence around it. Go in and knock yourself out, but there only, not out wherever putting the entire public at risk.
As for "taking the monetary incentive out of the drug trade," market supply and demand dynamics say you might take away the outrageous black-market profits but where supply meets demand, money will always change hands.
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I believe there should be an aggressive and wide reaching campaign against drugs in general. Route it through professional advertisers, hollywood. Project the State's interest in promoting athletics. Give health freak youtubers and local contestants cash prizes, promote and attach greater prominence to gymnastics, running, stuff like that. Martial arts, boxing, tricking... all these require better core health that a weed smoking pansy teenager can't summon. Highlight the differences in the ultimate life destinations of people with these habits. A media and advertising blitz. Give tax waivers and grants to celebrities to promote and weave these themes into their la-la land stuff.
Marijuana, peyote, mushrooms are all gateway stuff for people with no anchor and no direction. With parents reduced to the butlers they've become, a serious threat to the coming generations if made completely legal and as abundant as candy. Coupled with the education policies which are shit, and the SJW syllabi of institutions - this is a recipe for slow implosion and death of the country.
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I believe you have a right to get as high as you want, however you want. I also believe you do not have a right to impact ME while doing so - so no driving, piloting planes, operating cranes, doing brain surgery etc. while high. The problem is how to enforce the second part without impacting the first.
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It shouldn't be so hard to secure the border and put a stop to a lot of this nonsense. But if that cartel money has corrupted the Mexican government, you must wonder why Nancy Pelosi and some of her cohorts are so adamant about refusing to secure the border. Follow the money. Or, would you prefer to throw in the towel? Surrender in this war and you will live with the corruption and the rot and the death of a civilization.
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Abu, we've tried to cut off the pipeline for nearly 100 years, for both drugs and alcohol, and all we seem to do is enrich the bad guys - and make them even badder. (And that doesn't even consider the internal meth 'labs' that now make it hard for me to get effective decongestants for my danged allergies.) No, my suggestion is to take unused military bases, admit all those who want to destroy themselves with drugs and let them have at the piles of confiscated drugs. Provide mental health and drug treatment centers at the exit for those who decide they want to exit alive.
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Make it illegal to use drugs produced by or profiting jihadis, and I might be willing to discuss it.
When it becomes legal, the massive profits disappear. You DO know that the only reason drugs are so profitable is that they're illegal, right? Otherwise you might as well try to make money trafficking ballpoint pens or frozen concentrated orange juice. And we call those traffickers "import-export companies".
ANY illegal good has a huge premium attached to it. It happened during Prohibition. Time to repeal our generation's Volstead Act and regulate drugs as a commodity. It'll cut the legs out from under the jihadis to have their revenue removed like this.
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Egad, I am in the same group as Herb. Oh well.
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Marijuana, peyote, mushrooms are all gateway stuff for people with no anchor and no direction.
So? They have no direction with or without the drugs. The drugs don't cause it. You've got the cause and effect backwards. It's the directionless people who are attracted to psychedelics.
"There's this idea that somehow smoking pot makes you lazy but I really believe that it's just lazy people love to smoke pot."
-- David Bienenstock, High Times Editor
do you want your kids' school bus driver working while high? Your airplane pilot? Your healthcare professionals?
Obviously not and literally nobody is arguing this point.
You want fentanyl over the counter? Oxy? Crack? Meth? Be prepared to watch your children die.
They are already dying. Like flies, they are. The harm the drugs being illegal does is more harm than having them legal. We can get rid of meth labs, crack houses, off-limits grow operations in national forests, Mexican drug cartels and all sorts of accessory crimes that are committed in the service of these awful things.
I get where the anti-drug people are coming from. But just like in the Syria situation, you're not seeing the whole picture. You've got to go all the way back to the beginning and completely rethink things. What we have now isn't working, and it can never work. It's been tried all sorts of ways, and has failed every time. You don't reinforce failure, you reinforce success. Time to reboot.
Consider a drug addict who breaks into a row of parked cars, doing $5000 damage to steal $500 worth of car stereos which he sells for $50 which is enough to buy drugs for 2 1/2 days. Wouldn't it be better for the government to produce the drugs at a cost of $5 and just give them to him? Wouldn't everyone involved be better off under this situation?
And suppose the cops catch him and he goes to jail for 7 years. We pay the cost of a fine college education every year to keep him incarcerated. Hurts him, hurts us. Isn't it cheaper and better for everyone just to hand him a Lincoln every 2 1/2 days?
I understand why drugs are bad. They rob you of your free will. But robbing you of your free will AND throwing you in prison for 13 years is worse.
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But if that cartel money has corrupted the Mexican government,
Legalize drugs and you have just put the cartels out of business overnight. Suddenly the Mexican government is a whole lot less corrupt.
Follow the money.
A sound principle.
Or, would you prefer to throw in the towel? Surrender in this war and you will live with the corruption and the rot and the death of a civilization.
The drug war is what is corrupting and rotting our civilization. Let us destroy this foul menace root and branch.
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I guess if you want to group marijuana in with crack,oxy,heroin and the like,why stop there.....lets just call alcohol a gateway drug too. So lets start up prohibition again......wait no, because now you're barking too close to your tree? I've smoked weed for 30 plus years,with many many many friends quit 13 years ago only because of drug testing at the new job. The only shit that it's a gateway to is the fridge and a nice nap.
[LibertyDen] The U.S. District Court (Southern District of Ohio) has dismissed, with prejudice, the Primus Group v. Smith & Wesson, et al lawsuit. The decision was delivered October 9, eliminating the plaintiff’s claims against several prominent AR-15 firearms manufacturers, including Smith & Wesson, Remington Arms Company, SIG Sauer, Sturm, Ruger & Company, Colt Manufacturing, and Armalite.
"This decision by the federal judge to dismiss with prejudice this frivolous case is pleasing, if not unexpected," said Lawrence G. Keane, NSSF Senior Vice President of Government Relations and Public Affairs and General Counsel. "These are lawful and federally-regulated AR-15 modern sporting rifle manufacturers that make semiautomatic rifles for lawful purposes. The judge asserted that the proper venue to establish public firearms policy is through the legislature and not the courts.
The court found the plaintiffs had no standing to bring the case against the defendants. This decision rightfully asserts that those who purposefully and criminally misuse firearms are the ones who are responsible for those crimes. It further affirms that activist lawsuits to prompt judicial action are not the proper avenue to establish policy. Don't worry guys. Beto will ban them for you when he gets in office!
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The last people the anti-gun activists talked into suing the industry got crushed and had to pay the court costs. Brady and Bloomberg groups didn't cover their costs at all, left them to twist in the wind. I've seen no follow up stories about them, so I guess there's no left-wing gloat-worthy outcome for them to celebrate.
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[Babylon Bee] NBA superstar Lebron James recently told reporters that while he respects what Rosa Parks did for civil rights by refusing to give up her seat on a bus in 1955 Alabama, he thinks her protest "probably could have waited a week."
James, an expert in geopolitical relations as well as the game of basketball, went on to explain that people in power stand to lose a lot of money when protesters challenge the status quo. "Civil rights demonstrations should really be limited to times that are convenient to everyone," James told sources. "When Rosa Parks started the bus boycott by refusing to give up her seat, I guess there were some sporting events scheduled that week in downtown Montgomery that lost a lot of revenue. It wasn't fair to them. I can't really blame Ms. Parks though. She was just misinformed."
"In the future, I hope people will think about how voicing their support for civil rights and freedom might impact rich and powerful people, like me," James added. Moar Bee: Oppressed Chinese Citizens Apologize To NBA Players For Disrupting Their Difficult Week
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Emancipation could have waited a while too.
Think of all the lives that would have been saved.
Think of all the money the planters had invested.
Why did middle aged white males like Lincoln and Grant have to stick their nose in?
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According to Rosa she wasn't trying to protest. She was just tired and her feet hurt and she didn't feel like getting up and walking to the back of the bus because a white man wanted her seat.
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I underestimated Ming James. Apparently he can also make big money by dribbling with his chin.
According to WZ:
Hong Kong protesters don masks of Lebron James to protest.
Not sure I would have passed that round of Bee/Not Bee.
Sportsball player.
Sportsball promoter.
Video games.
Clothing brand, especially shoes and headband.
Disney character.
Carbonated cranberry sugar beverage.
Hair re-growth.
"What I wear for pre-game video montage."
Personal music system and headphones.
Automobile preference.
Social media.
Also LeBron:
"I kneel with Colin Caperneck because police brutality must be addressed."
Chinese Communist Policeman shoots civilian in chest point blank.
"Hey everyone, can't believe you ruined my big movie week. You just have no idea how much time I had to spend in a green room so we could pretend I was playing basketball against space alien cartoons. You leave Hong Kong police alone!"
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Yes, it could be a turning point if enough people showed up wherever that nitwit is playing and shame people who bought a ticket to see it. What would quickly follow would be attempts by local gummints to suppress such shaming activity which of course is just doubling down of "keep your free speech off muh wallet." Good times.
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Deacon Blues, I don't think she was a random innocent with tired feet no matter what she says..
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#11 I think their ticket sales will suffer some as well. This isn't a good look for a league that managed to (largely) avoid the anthem glare that Koepernick inflicted on the NFL.
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nba attendance has been nearly constant for over a decade (a bit more than 17k per game)
I think the season begins next week. It will be interesting to see.
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If I had Warcraft, I'd create a character, name him Ming James, make him a bard, equip him with a lyre and a pair of shoes, and walk around playing the chinese national anthem and saying silly shit through my mic like, "Chairman Mao most brave!" "My shoes number one for long march!"
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Maybe find an army of like minded players, make all the same character and name and such, all do a suicide run at the same time yelling Lebron James! a la Leroy Jenkins.
[Business Insider] Losing a job and having your career go up in flames can be scarring. But the smoldering embers sometimes give forth to fertile new soil from which to start anew.
Few have had a more public and dramatic firing than former-FBI director James Comey, who President Donald Trump infamously and suddenly ousted in 2017 amid inquiries into Russian meddling and suspicions that he did not have Comey's loyalty.
That fateful decision sent Comey's law-enforcement career up in smoke ‐ and precipitated the special-counsel investigation by Robert Mueller ‐ but also laid the groundwork to launch a lucrative second-act in media, including six-figure speaking fees, prestigious writing contracts, a TV series, and a multimillion dollar book deal.
In a profile of his post-FBI life by Matt Flegenheimer in The New York Times, Comey asserts his primary preoccupation now, as a self-described "unemployed celebrity," is stopping Trump.
This vocation, while lacking the official powers of his former post in the FBI, appears well-suited for raking in piles of cash.
Comey may have lost a roughly $170,000 annual salary as FBI director, but now he earns as much in a single speaking engagement.
He's been traveling the country giving six-figure paid speeches on leadership, as well as gratis appearances at universities, according to the NYT.
[Campus Reform] A private college in Maine is seeking an Environmental Studies professor with some very specific suggested qualifications.
In addition to having a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion, the university suggests that applicants have backgrounds research topics like "ecofeminism" or "posthumanism."
One private Maine college not only requires that the newest addition to its environmental studies program be a champion of "equity and inclusion," but also hopes that he or she may have some research background in "posthumanism," "ecofeminism," or "queer ecologies."
Bates College has just begun an active search for a new assistant professor for its environmental studies program. The job description suggests that applicants have research backgrounds in various fringe disciplines, including "decolonizing environmentalism" and "feminist environmentalism."
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Bates advertises its environmental studies department as one that "encompasses a broad range of issues" involving the "interaction of humans with both the natural world and built environments." The description of the department includes a claim that "students must think beyond existing disciplinary boundaries" in order to fully understand environmental issues.
The newest addition to the department would be a professor who is involved in the performing or studio arts, literature, or cultural studies, and who is "attentive to hierarchies of power and privilege." The university hopes this individual will "offer cross-cultural and/or transnational perspectives on environmental traditions."
Applicants are expected to highlight their commitment to "equity and inclusion, social and cultural diversity, and the transformative power of our differences."
The department notes that potential research areas for its new professor "are open," but lists various suggestions, such as "ecocriticism and nature writing," "queer ecologies," "indigenous and post-colonial/decolonial/decolonizing environmentalisms," "ecofeminism/feminist environmentalism," and "posthumanism and animal studies."
What is Posthumanism? author and Rice University professor Cary Wolfe has defined "posthumanism" in the context of animal studies as a discipline rejecting the traditional concept of the "humanities" in its recognition of humans as separate from other living beings. Instead, "posthumanities" asks if it is possible to "reject the classic humanist divisions of self and other, mind and body, society and nature, human and animal, organic and technological?"
The successful candidate will be charged with teaching five courses and providing academic advising to students. Employment would begin in August 2020.
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One private Maine college not only requires that the newest addition to its environmental studies program be a ... yada, yada, yada.
When you see a list of requirements like that they already have a candidate that they plan on hiring pre-picked by the Good Olde Girl™ network. They only have an "open job tender" because it looks good to the outsiders.
[Campus Reform] A New Jersey professor suggested on a TV program that racism and President Donald Trump’s policies are responsible for black female obesity.
Rutgers University women’s and gender studies professor Brittney Cooper made the argument during an appearance on “Black Women OWN the Conversation” on the Oprah Winfrey Network.
"I hate when people talk about Black women being obese," Cooper said on the program. "I hate it because it becomes a way to blame us for a set of conditions that we didn’t create."
"We are living in the Trump era," the professor said. "And look, those policies kill our people. You can’t get access to good health care, good insurance." "We CAN get cheetos, though"
Cooper said that research points to black women losing less weight and at a slower rate than do white women, claiming that public health practitioners tie increased stress to a change in metabolism.
"It’s literally that the racism that you’re experiencing and the struggle to make ends meet actually means the diet don’t [sic] work for you the same," she adds.
Campus Reform followed up with Cooper about her appearance on the show and the professor suggested there was a scholarly basis for her remarks.
"I wasn’t making an argument about Trump admin policies and weight," the professor said. "Dr. Arline Geronimus’ research from the 1990s argues pretty convincingly that black women have physiological stress responses to racial stimuli and this affects our long term health. I was citing this body of work and the president’s status as a racially polarizing figure that contributes to issues of racial stress for people of color." Brittney Cooper:
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Magical how it just suddenly appeared starting in November 2016.
Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma. - Wizard of Oz
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This professor is the master of non-sequitur relationships. Brittany does seem to know something about black female obesity and unconnected relationships.
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She probably does have a valid element underneath her argument. Not the Trump element or even current racism, but biological selection in the past few hundred years, where black women who were metabolically-efficient survived longer and generated more and stronger babies than those who 'wasted' scarce calories.
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where black women who were metabolically-efficient survived longer and generated more and stronger babies than those who 'wasted' scarce calories.
It's not genetic in Africans. In many African societies, a fat woman is a sign of beauty and a high status item. Young women nearing marriage age, who are almost always skinny, are force fed until fat w/ huge butt. It shows they have the wealth to raise a family.
Some SW American Indian tribes (Hopi and related if I remember correctly) do have genetic adaptions to famine and during times of plenty are predisposed to put on fat.
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I was raised in the Deep South in the 1970's with almost as many black woman around me as white women - and almost none of them from either group skinny. (There were of course exceptions.) Their diets were pretty similar: lots of deep friend food, sugar on anything you could ladle it onto or into, barbecue, and picnics, socials, and parties every week, especially after church. (I was raised Baptist.)
Good times. Good eating. GREAT eating, in fact! It's amazing I'm a skinny dude, even now. But, yeah, Southerners of any variety tend to be fat. It's the food combined with the lifestyle... which I don't remember being all that stressful for most people (and racially my environment was basically 60w/40b), even with the serious, overt, and even dangerous racism of the time.
Now, admittedly, I'm a white guy, and was a child in the 70's. So there were definitely bad things I didn't see, so maybe it was a lot more stressful for black people than I remember. (Again: I was a child.) But I wouldn't characterize things as generally stressful for most people based on what I recall. Just a lot of good eating and hanging out with friends and family.
[The Hill] A federal judge on Tuesday overturned ObamaCare protections for transgender patients, ruling that a 2016 policy violates the religious freedom of Christian providers.
Judge Reed O’Connor in the Northern District of Texas vacated an Obama-era regulation that prohibited insurers and providers who receive federal money from denying treatment or coverage to anyone based on sex, gender identity or termination of pregnancy. He was nominated by President George W. Bush in 2007.
It also required doctors and hospitals to provide "medically necessary" services to transgender individuals as long as those services were the same ones provided to other patients.
O’Connor, the same judge who last year ruled that the entire Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional, said the rule violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
[PJ] In the most racist incident to happen in all of 2019, look to Oak Park, Ill., trustee Susan Buchanan, who was caught on tape berating her fellow board members for being white and male.
Arguing to adopt a new equity statement for the city of Oak Park, Buchanan lost her marbles and started telling the white men on the board they have no right to an opinion.
"I don't want to hear what you have to say!" she yelled. "Why do you have an opinion on equity? You have been white from birth...why are you arguing 'what is a system of oppression?' You've never experienced one. Just stop Dan. Stop Dino. You are not oppressed...You stop it. You are a white male."
Then she turned to a non-white male of Middle Eastern descent, Mayor Anan Abu-Taleb and said, "Your skin is white enough." Luckily for all of us, white woman Susan Buchanan is qualified, somehow, to decide whose skin color is light enough to make their opinions void.
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Now if this were fiction, they'd had an African-American cop arrest her for public disturbance, an Indian-American shrink classify her as crazy, and Hispanic-American nurses take care of her in the loony-bin.
[PJ] Jose Guerra, a member of the National Assembly legislature in Venezuela, told PJM that Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) should live in Venezuela for an extended period of time without bodyguards to see how bad the humanitarian crisis is in the country under Nicolas Maduro's dictatorship.
Guerra was asked for his opinion of politicians such as Sanders not referring to Maduro as a dictator.
"Maybe they misunderstand what is going on in Venezuela. It's a dictatorship. There's no power separation and more than 400 political prisoners that have been prosecuted like me. It's a new dictatorship," Guerra said during a recent video interview. "Those people should go to Venezuela and live in Venezuela for a couple of weeks in order to have a very good picture of what is going on in Venezuela. I suggest that they go to Venezuela."
To date, more than 50 countries support recognizing Juan Guaido, president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, as the country's president. According to a report in July, Guerra, a member of the assembly’s finance commission, "left Venezuela in June when the Supreme Court stripped him of his parliamentary immunity from prosecution. The commission is now missing five of its 12 members." The report also said "intelligence agents" in Venezuela "arrested Guaido’s assembly deputy, Edgar Zambrano, in May and he remains jailed."
[Babylon Bee] U.S.‐A new study found that support for impeaching President Trump would rise significantly if someone, anyone could just tell people what crime Trump is supposed to have committed.
Republicans and many independents are stubbornly resisting the impeachment inquiry, as though you have to have some kind of reason to impeach the president. Democrats oppose this logic, saying that impeaching a president who insists on being Trump is a constitutional duty. Many Americans are just kind of confused by the whole thing and are waiting for something more interesting to come on TV.
"Impeachment is polling pretty strong just goin' on emotion and stuff," said one pollster, "but man, if we could point to some kind of impeachable offense, the numbers would go way, way up. We're talking very strong support once there is a crime to impeach for."
"Man, if we could just find that Trump, like, secretly nuked Canada or something---that would be the smoking gun," he added wistfully.
A small minority of Americans said they would support Trump even if there ends up being a clear, blatant high crime exposed, though this demographic was almost entirely made up of televangelists and Seb Gorka.
There's going to be a [baseball. for you out-of-towners] World Series game in D.C. for the first time since 1933. Washington nationals sweep the St. Louis Cardinals in four games.
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"Man, if we could just find that Trump, like, secretly nuked Canada or something---that would be the smoking gun,"
We should be able to find a CIA whistle blower who will claim he heard about that happening...
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There's going to be a [baseball. for you out-of-towners] World Series game in D.C. for the first time since 1933. Washington nationals sweep the St. Louis Cardinals in four games.
Wholloped.
Now if NY can just get eliminated could have a good World Series.
No, it isn't the team or even the fans who get me; its the announcers. They are just as bad when the Mets are in the playoffs.
It was so bad during the KC/NYM World Series, and got worse as it was increasingly apparent KC would thump NY. I had to shut off the volume when NY was up to bat. I turned it back on when KC was at the plate just to hear the sweet, sweet tears of boy crushes getting their hearts broken.
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The communists had "show trials." These were trials where the outcome was already determined. These trials were presented to the public where the accusation and verdict were both read. The trials were meant to be for propaganda purposes as well as to serve as a warning to others. Retribution for not following the party line was also a part of these show trials. What is going on with Schiff is not worthy of being a called a communist "show trial" as it is all being done in secret. It is antithetical to American values, basic rights and due process. Most people, when asked, wonder what crime was committed.
[LI] Mosques in Germany are praying for the Turkish army’s success as it wages a fierce military offensive against the U.S.-allied Kurdish forces and civilians in neighboring Syria, German newspaper Die Welt reported.
The worshippers pray the victory verse: "Allah, Lead Our Glorious Army to Victory."
The backing from mosques in Germany comes days after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ordered a full-scale attack against Kurds in northern Syria following the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the region. German mosques read out the "victory verse," or Surah al Fath, from the Muslim holy book Quran, celebrating Muhammad’s victory over his rivals in 7th century Arabia, media reports suggest.
Turkey’s state-controlled Directorate of Religious Affairs, or Diyanet, issued the call to prayer. Germany’s largest Turkish Islamic group, DITIB, which runs some 900 mosques across the country and boasts of 800,00 members, has also allegedly participated in prayers calling for the victory of the Turkish military against Kurds in northern Syria. DITIB officials denied endorsing the call, but a media investigation showed several leading DITIB officials involved in the campaign. Mosques affiliated with Milli Görus, Germany’s largest Islamic association with around 10,000 supporters, also reportedly took part.
German newspaper Die Welt reported the nationwide Islamist prayer call:
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German Islamists aligning themselves with our democratically controlled congress.
[The Hill] The House will vote Wednesday on a resolution condemning President Trump's decision to pull back troops in northern Syria.
A spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calf.) confirmed that the joint resolution formally opposing Trump's strategy will be on the House floor on Wednesday.
Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) urged Republicans to support the resolution ahead of the vote. A bipartisan vote in the House could help add pressure on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to give the measure a vote in the GOP-controlled Senate.
"The chaos and insecurity unleashed in Syria by President Trump’s disastrous decision to precipitously withdraw from northern Syria require strong, smart leadership from Congress," Pelosi and Schumer said.
"With one voice, we call on President Trump to support Kurdish communities, to work to ensure that the Turkish military acts with restraint, and to present a clear strategy to defeat ISIS. This resolution also urges President Erdogan to immediately cease unilateral military action in Syria," they continued.
The resolution ‐ sponsored by Reps. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) and Michael McCaul (R-Texas) in the House and Sens. Robert Menendez (D-N.Y.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) in the Senate ‐ "opposes the decision to end certain United States efforts to prevent Turkish military operations against Syrian Kurdish forces in Northeast Syria."
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No, no more AUMF's. If we need to use military force, declare WAR and go to town. That's the best way to handle these desires to intervene. They should have to vote yes/no on an actual declaration of war.
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Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF)
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#4 If we need to use military force, declare WAR and go to town. That's the best way to handle these desires to intervene. They should have to vote yes/no on an actual declaration of war.
... against - whom? Against what's left of Syria? Against our ally Turkey? Russia? All of the above are on the same side against USIL. Who else then? Iran?
No wonder there's no declaration of war. That would require at least a minimally coherent description of why we're there in the first place.
The partisans of endless war have no idea who our enemies are, or what exactly is the threat they pose.
They're simply bleating about "the Kurds"--but even there they fail to mention that there are many different Kurdish factions, of which the most relevant for this discussion is the organization designated by our own State Dept as a terrorist group, the PKK and its arm in Syria.
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This is not the same thing as a Declaration of War, which is what they need to do according to the Constitution if we are going to go to war in Syria.
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Whatever name they put in a AUMF, could be put in a declaration of war. Declare war on Isis and it's allies, etc. Honestly, I still see no pressing issue requiring the US military in Syria. What is our goal? Propping up Assad? Let the vaunted UN and their peacekeepers play in someone else's civil war.
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Trump should emphasis that although we love the Iraqi Kurds the ones in Syria that everyone is crying about happen to be Communists, which possibly explains the Democrat love for continual war on their behalf.
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Boy, those neo-cons and globalists sure are hopping mad that Trump is taking away their war.
Bipartisan support. It's almost as if there is little meaningful difference in DC between D and R, they generally agree on most things and they stage a kabuki theater to keep our attention.
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All a bunch of drunks who heard Wild Turkey invaded Knob Creek and knocked out the bourbon yards.
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Remember when W was president and every anti-war shreiker was out in force? All the media did was complain about war. Then Bath House came along and war was cool again. Now Trump doesn't want war and the cater wailing can be heard everywhere. There's a pattern here somewhere...
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Kommie Kurds, a new breakfast food, unpalatable to all except Kommie Dems. BIRM.
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Remember when W was president and every anti-war shreiker was out in force? All the media did was complain about war. Then Bath House came along and war was cool again. Now Trump doesn't want war and the cater wailing can be heard everywhere. There's a pattern here somewhere...
They don't particularly pay attention to Rest of World, or international relations.
For these clowns, the domestic US kulturkampf is all. They wouldn't know Fulda from Khyber, don't know Russia from China from Persia and they don't particularly care.
Everything post-1989 for these obsessive comes down to cultural virtue signaling related to either
1) identity politics, or
2) climate change.
Hence the 180-degree turn within all of a year from
a) McCain/Romney = evil warmongers vs poor Russia to
b) McC/Romney = noble patriots vs evil & Wascally Wusskies
[Townhall] I wrote the book on the Obama administration's "Culture of Corruption" 10 years ago, including a thick and sordid chapter on the Beltway swamp creatures of the Biden family. See-no-evil liberals scoffed at my catalogue of back-scratching, shady Delaware deals and Wall Street funny money: What nepotism? What ethical lapses? What corruption?
Now, Hunter Biden himself, the youngest son of former Vice President and Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden, finally admitted this week what Daddy's pooh-poohing pals have long (publicly) denied:
"I don't think that there's a lot of things that would have happened in my life if my last name wasn't Biden," Hunter confessed on ABC's "Good Morning America" Tuesday. A truly amazing list of high-paying positions with daddy's "friends" follows
[American Thinker] While Democrats are pushing the bogus Trump-Ukraine quid pro quo story invented by that great storyteller, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, two groups of Democratic senators have been colluding with Ukrainian interests to advance their own agenda and political careers.
Kudos to Steve Hilton for pointing out the corruption of the first group on the Oct. 13 edition of his Fox show "The Next Revolution" ‐ a group of Democratic senators took cash from a Ukraine lobbyist to push Ukrainian gas interests at the same time the Democrats are pushing the Trump-Ukraine yarn. As Hilton states in a transcript of his show available on Fox Opinion:
Remember Devon Archer, Hunter Biden's business partner? He had previously been a top fundraiser for John Kerry, who was Secretary of State at the time. And soon after Devon and Hunter joined the Burisma Board, the company channeled $90,000 to a lobbying firm called ML Strategies, which was headed by none other than David Leiter, John Kerry's former chief of staff.
That's handy because then-Secretary of State John Kerry himself has visited Ukraine with promises of U.S. aid and assistance. Well, Leiter registered as a Burisma lobbyist in mid-2014. But in the year leading up to that, he gave close to $60,000 to Democrats, including a select group of U.S. senators who would later be instrumental in pushing cash towards Ukraine's energy sector, directly in line with Burisma's interests.
He donated to Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., four times and to Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., three times. A month after the last of those donations, both Markey and Shaheen were among four senators who wrote a letter to President Obama that said, "We should leverage the full resources and expertise of the U.S. government to assist Ukraine in improving its energy efficiency, increasing its domestic production and reforming its energy markets."
This was at a time when Democrats were waging a war on fossil fuels, opposing fracking, and trying to shut down U.S. energy production. American natural gas was bad for the environment, but Ukrainian natural gas was good for the campaign coffers when it involves Hunter Biden’s business interests and John Kerry’s former chief of staff. As Hilton points out, Sen. Markey’s hypocrisy runs particularly deep:
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These Dems provide almost too much election and debate ammo to keep up with it.
No wonder Dems are squealing so hard against Trump and Giuliani and other Pubs for turning the light on them for their Ukraine quid pro quo dealings. I always wondered how so many went into government with modest incomes and came out fantabously wealthy.
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I believe that a lot of republicans not running for election were caused to quit by information collected by spying on their communications. I believe that some democrats could also be chased out this year for the same thing. It all depends on who has FISA and spying control.
[Free Beacon] Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke promised "other consequences" for Americans who choose not to turn in their firearms under his gun confiscation plan.
O'Rourke was pressed by CNN debate moderator Anderson Cooper on how he planned to "take away weapons from people who do not want to give them up." He hinted at "other consequences" for individuals unwilling to voluntarily turn their weapons in
"If someone does not turn in an AR-15, or an AK-47, one of these weapons of war, or brings it out in public and brandishes it in an attempt to intimidate‐as we saw in Kent State recently‐then that weapon will be taken from them," Beto said. "If they persist, there will be other consequences from law enforcement."
O'Rourke did not elaborate on what those consequences would be.
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This guy Beto is not too bright. He missed the meaning of the 2nd Amendment about tyrannical and corrupted governments. IMO, the oversteps, abuses of power, tyranny, and corruption have come from the left.
[Federalist] Trump, after all the media ridicule, was correct in saying that potential Death Eaters have illegally crossed the United States' southern border. Abdulahi Hasan Sharif of Somalia did. And it could happen again.
Many who have professionally worried, as did former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, that violent jihadists might illegally cross the United States’ southern border are often sanctimoniously challenged with this: "Name a single U.S. border-crossing immigrant asylum-seeker who ever committed a terrorist attack."
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Remainers like to think of the UK as a non-entity, but it is Europe that is the over-regulated backwater
In recent years, Brexit’s most implacable opponents have revelled in rubbishing Britain’s hopes of succeeding on the world stage. Britain is a diminished country, they insist, incapable of functioning on its own. Consider Emma Thompson’s description of the UK as "a cake-filled misery-laden grey old island", or Michael Heseltine’s glorious Freudian slip when challenged about our economy outperforming EU rivals: the UK "is doing significantly better than you might hope".
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It'll be interesting to see how how Britain can possibly survive without a constant influx of unemployable, unpleasant, economic refugees from North Africa and Arabia. Hopefully they'll manage.
Fog of war clears a little since yesterday, or not.
[IsraelTimes] The United States is not aware of any "major" escape of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... hard boyz since The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... launched its assault on Syrian Kurdish fighters holding the prisoners, according to a US official.
"We haven’t seen any major successful breakout so far of the detainees," the senior administration official tells news hounds on condition of anonymity.
However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... the official says that anywhere between 50 and 150 wives and children of Islamic State prisoners had escaped in the chaos after Ottoman Turkish forces attacked last week.
"We don’t know where they went. That’s one significant event there," the official says.
"But of course, we don’t have the same ability to monitor this," he said, acknowledging the reduced capacity of the United States as it withdraws troops on orders of President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election... .
The official’s remarks appeared at odds with US Defense Secretary Mark Esper who, criticizing Turkey on Monday, said the incursion "resulted in the release of many dangerous ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... detainees."
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If the Syrian gov get hold of them, they all will be executed and disposed of quietly. Men, women and kiddies.
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We had three choices with these people: (1) let them go (2) keep in prison indefinitely which also means pay for them indefinitely (3) shoot them. But then, maybe the decision will be made for us.
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[IsraelTimes] A US official says the approximately 1,000 US troops being withdrawn from northern Syria will reposition in Iraq, Kuwait and possibly Jordan.
The official spoke to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive planning for a US pullout amid heavy fighting between Ottoman Turkish and Syrian Kurdish forces.
The official says the American troops have pulled out of the Manbij area, where US outposts were set up in 2017. Troops are consolidating their positions to prepare to fly out of the country soon.
The official says US troops based in Iraq could conduct cross-border operations against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group in Syria as they did before creating the now-abandoned partnership with Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.
The White House announced a week ago that US forces in northeast Syria would move aside and clear the way for an expected Ottoman Turkish assault, essentially abandoning the Kurds who fought alongside American forces against Islamic State bully boys.
[IsraelTimes] The man who attacked a visiting Jewish-American professor by throwing a kippa off his head several times in the western German city of Bonn was sentenced to four-and-a-half-years in prison.
The man, 21, a German citizen of Paleostinian heritage, assaulted Professor Yitzhak Melamed in 2018. During the incident, German coppers wrestled to the ground and arrested the 50-year-old visiting professor after believing him to be the assailant. "The Juden used his kippa to attack this man's fist!"
The Israel-born professor was teaching philosophy at the University of Baltimore and was visiting Germany to deliver a lecture. While the professor and a friend were strolling in a park, the attacker shouted anti-Semitic insults in English and German, including "No Jew in Germany!" and knocked the kippa from the professor’s head, and then shoved the professor and hit him on the shoulder.
The professor, who did not attend the court hearing on Monday, said through his attorney that the actions of the police were worse than the assailant, the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle reported.
The interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, where Bonn is located, apologized for the incident, as did the head of Bonn police.
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I wonder if the hat was "Make America Great" if any arrests would be made. What would stop leftists here from knocking off a kippa?. Perhaps things to come.
[Libya Observer] The Libyan Navy has confirmed the rescue of 94 illegal immigrants colonists off Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... 's eastern suburb of Tajoura.
"The immigrants colonists -who included 14 women and 4 children- were found packed in a small rubber boat. Their boat was overloaded and began to take water, leaving its occupants at risk of drowning," Libya's Navy Information Office has stated.
"They were brought to shore and provided with the necessary humanitarian and medical care," it added.
The Libyan Navy underscored that in case no competent authority is ready to receive them, the migrants colonists would be set free, noting it had reached out to all relevant authorities but had received no response yet.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] At least three people were hurt in a clash between asylum-seekers in a town on the Greek island of Samos, police sources said Tuesday.
They said the violence, apparently between groups of Syrians and Afghans, erupted in the town of Vathy late on Monday.
A fire later broke out outside the camp that authorities managed to place under control early on Tuesday morning.
"Half of the 6,000 people who are stuck in Vathy camp on Samos are women and kiddies," medical charity MSF said in a tweet.
"This nightmare must end! Children and other vulnerable people must be evacuated from the Greek islands to safe accommodation."
Despite efforts to relocate people to the Greek mainland, there are over 32,000 migrants colonists and refugees in camps on Aegean islands near The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... , most of them vastly overcrowded, unhygienic and violence-prone.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Two people were killed and 12 were wounded on Tuesday after the Syrian Kurdish YPG forces launched a mortar attack on Turkey’s border town of Kiziltepe, according to the governor’s office in the Turkish province of Mardin.
The attack came amid a Turkish military offensive against Kurdish-led forces including the YPG in northeastern Syria, which is rapidly reshaping the battlefield of the world’s deadliest ongoing war.
The wounded were taken to hospitals in the region to receive treatment, the governor’s office said in a statement.
Last week, eight people were killed and 35 wounded after a similar attack by YPG forces on the border town of Nusaybin in Mardin, the governor’s office had said. Separately, a mortar attack last week on the border town of Suruc, in the Sanliurfa province, killed three others.
The YPG is part of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which Turkey is attacking and attempting to push out from northeastern Syria.
[Unz Review] The discussion, if one might even call it that, regarding the apparent President Donald Trump decision to withdraw at least some American soldiers from Syria has predictably developed along partisan, ideologically fueled lines. Trump has inevitably muddied the waters by engaging in his usual confusing explanations coupled with piles of invective heaped upon critics. The decision reportedly came after a telephone call with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but what exactly was agreed upon and who else might have been present in the room to report back to the intelligence community remains uncertain. Trump clearly believed that he had obtained some assurances regarding limits to any proposed Turkish military action from Erdogan, who almost immediately launched air attacks followed by ground troop incursions against the former U.S. supported Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
It should be observed that the Syrian incursion by the American military, which was initiated by President Barack Obama and his band of lady hawks during the so-called "Arab Spring" of 2011, was illegal from the gitgo. Syria did not threaten the United States, quite the contrary. Damascus had supported U.S. intelligence operations after 9/11 and it was Washington that soured the relationship beginning with the Syria Accountability Act of 2003, which later was followed by the Syrian War Crimes Accountability Act of 2015, both of which were, at least to a certain extent, driven by the interests of Israel.
When American soldiers first arrived in Syria the U.S. War Powers act was ignored, making the incursion illegal. Nor was there any mandate authorizing military intervention emanating from any supra-national agency like the United Nations. The excuse for the intervention was plausibly enough to destroy ISIS, but the reality was much more complex, with U.S. forces in addition seeking to limit Iranian and Russian presence in Syria while also bringing about regime change. The objectives were from the start unattainable as Iran and Russia were supporting the Syrian Army in doing most of the hard fighting against ISIS while the regime of President Bashar al-Assad was not threatened by a so-called democratic alternative which only existed in the minds of Samantha Powers and Susan Rice.
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Syria Accountability Act of 2003, which later was followed by the Syrian War Crimes Accountability Act of 2015, both of which were, at least to a certain extent, driven by the interests of Israel
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Essentially capturing it all, Vernal Hatrick's comment late last evening on the topic 'Trump Followed His Gut on Syria. Calamity Came Fast.'
#37 I'm generally on the side of staying out in Syria. There is nobody there (including the Kurds, who are moderates only the sub-standard standards of the region) worth fighting to protect. Israel would be, should they actually need it, but they don't need anybody's protection (except maybe help from us managing idiots in the EU and the theocracy in Iran on a larger scale). The idea that a stable, developed nation will ever emerge in the region looks increasingly like a foolish notion. Turkey came closer than anybody else ever has in the Islamic world, and they've essentially blown it now.
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[DAWN] QUETTA: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) here on Monday acquitted 15 accused in the Ziarat Residency terrorist attack case.
ATC judge Rahim Daad Khilji pronounced the verdict acquitting 15 of the 33 people nominated in the first information report (FIR) for lack of evidence against them.
Advocates Mumtaz, Shoukat Rakhshani and Jaffar Awan represented the accused.
Thirteen of the 15 acquitted persons were already on bail, while two were in prison.
Nawabzada Hairbyair Marri and 14 other accused nominated in the FIR have not been arrested so far. They have yet to face trial.
On June 15, 2013, the historic Quaid-e-Azam Ziarat Residency was set alight in an arson attack by bully boys.
The outlawed Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... Liberation Army had grabbed credit for the attack.
The then provincial government, headed by chief minister Dr Abdul Malik Baloch, rebuilt and restored the Ziarat Residency to its original shape. The rebuilt residency was inaugurated on Aug 14, 2014.
[DAWN] Text messaging services were blocked in Indian-occupied Kashmir just hours after being restored when a truck driver was killed and his vehicle set ablaze, authorities said on Tuesday.
Indian authorities had only restored call and text services for mobile phones on Monday, following a 72-day blackout in the restive territory imposed after New Delhi scrapped the region's semi-autonomous status.
The seven million-plus people of the Kashmir Valley — the main hotbed of resistance to Indian rule — are still cut off from the internet, however.
Authorities said SMS services were cut on Monday night following the attack on the driver of a truck carrying apples in Shopian.
Residents said two masked gunmen told the driver to move his vehicle because it was blocking the road, but it skidded and got stuck.
“The gunmen then fired at the truck and set it on fire,” a witness told AFP.
Apples are a sensitive issue in Kashmir, which exports vast quantities of the fruit to markets across India. Many orchard owners say they are refusing to harvest this year to protest against the government's move to scrap occupied Kashmir's autonomy. Great, next they'll plead poverty
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Many orchard owners say they are refusing to harvest this year
Bzzzt ! BS Alert. You see what is happening to fruit merchants who try to do business. A merchant's storage was burnt, one guy's son was shot dead because he reopened his shop. The gummint can only protect so many people from their own crazed muslim neighbours.
[GOODMORNINGAMERICA] As President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... continues to fill his Twitter feed and campaign speeches with attacks on Hunter Biden over his foreign business deals, the former vice president's son defended the ethical implications of his private ventures in an interview with ABC News, but conceded taking a misstep in failing to foresee the political implications on his father's career.
"In retrospect, look, I think that it was poor judgment on my part. Is that I think that it was poor judgment because I don't believe now, when I look back on it -- I know that there was -- did nothing wrong at all," Hunter Biden told ABC News in an exclusive interview. "However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... was it poor judgment to be in the middle of something that is...a swamp in ‐ in ‐ in many ways? Yeah."
"I gave a hook to some very unethical people to act in illegal ways to try to do some harm to my father. That's where I made the mistake," said Biden. "So I take full responsibility for that. Did I do anything improper? No, not in any way. Not in any way whatsoever."
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Did I do anything improper? No, not in any way. Not in any way whatsoever."
So that should be the end of it, Hunter? Would that apply to other people, as well? You know who I'm thinking about, don't you?
Besides, you're small potatoes. It's your Father's self-proclaimed extortion we're interested in. (or, "in which we are interested", TW?)
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Channeling his inner Al Gore: "My counsel Daddy Biden tells me there is no controlling legal authority that says that is any violation of any law" ...?
[Palmetto] With the election of President Donald J. Trump, the United States had its 45th president. With the invention of the 1911, the United States had its legendary .45 caliber pistol. It is only fitting that these two icons should be combined, in the "Trump 45" commemorative 1911 pistol.
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[RUDAW.NET] The United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... Human Rights Office said Tuesday that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... could be held accountable for possible war crimes, including the execution of captives and a female Kurdish politician, attacks on medical facilities, and the bombing a convoy of civilians and journalists during its now week-long offensive in northeast Syria. The United States defense chief has also said Washington could hold Turkey to account for possible war crimes.
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We've sent a strongly-worded letter... now will you fund our cocktail parties?
U.S. military sends F-15 fighter jets, Apache gunships in "show of force" to disburse Turkish-backed forces who came "very close" to U.S. troops west of Ain Issa, Syria. Turkish-backed fighters “violated a standing agreement" not to threaten American troops: U.S. official
Nearly 70 people have been killed in Japan by Typhoon Hagibis, as the search for survivors continues for a third day in the aftermath of Japan's strongest storm in years. https://t.co/hTAcF2ZdgK
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that a safe zone has been established in northeastern Syria, adding that refugees in Turkey will be moved to the area.https://t.co/jaIQAqCZBppic.twitter.com/Q7T7vvWqMU
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So Erdogan assumes the SAA will not attempt to drive them out? Interesting thought of Erdogan's that Assad will sit by while Turkey annexes a third (or more) of Syria.
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First I thought of forcible immigration, but the original article says - Erdogan wrote [in WSJ] that Syrian refugees in Turkey will be moved to the safe zone because “the international community missed its opportunity to prevent the Syrian crisis from pulling an entire region into a maelstrom of instability.”
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Sounds better than letting the refugees go to Europe.
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So this whole thing was just Yipyip's way of moving refugees out of his hair?
Establishing an excuse to annex northern Syria as a protectorate like the Republic of Northern Cyprus -- a (quote) country (unquote) that only Turkey recognizes.
[Libya Observer] Libyan Army forces under the command of the Presidential Council's government have advanced on Khallatat frontline, Khalit al-Furjan and al-Maher near Yarmouk Camp after heavy festivities with Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... 's forces since Tuesday morning.
The commander of Salah al-Deen frontline Mohammed al-Darrat said the Libyan Army forces targeted two military vehicles for Haftar's forces as Libyan Air Force targeted many positions for Haftar's forces.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, Bart was wondering if fisticuffs would be appropriate at this point... Haftar's forces announced that a prominent commander of 9th Brigade, Colonel Salim al-Ghaziwi, was killed on Salah al-Deen frontline on Tuesday during the heavy festivities.
The front man for Volcano of Rage Operation Mustafa al-Majea told Anadolu Agency that their forces launched Tuesday morning an offensive to retake lost positions in southern Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... He said Libyan Army forces managed to boost its presence on positions at Yarmouk Camp and controlled the entire Khallatat Buildings St. in southern Tripoli, adding that Libyan Air Force warplanes carried out four Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s destroying six military vehicles for Haftar's forces.
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[Aljazeera] SANA news agency says Syrian army at Manbij's main square as Turkish president vows to press ahead with offensive.
Heavy fighting continues as Turkey presses ahead with its military operation against Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria, now in its seventh day.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the offensive aims to remove the Kurdish-led forces from the border area and create a "safe zone" to which millions of Syrian refugees can be returned.
The move came after the United States announced it was withdrawing its troops from the area, leaving the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), its main ally in the battle against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) armed group, without US military support.
[RUDAW.NET] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... ’s offensive in northern Syria has forced at least 15 international aid organizations to withdraw their staff, compounding the humanitarian emergency, according to a Kurdish administration official.
"The humanitarian plight of the displaced in areas targeted by the aggression has worsened with all humanitarian aid being cut and all international organizations ceasing their activities," the Kurdish administration said earlier on Tuesday in a statement posted on Facebook.
Speaking at a presser, Khalid Ibrahim, the Kurdish administration’s head of humanitarian affairs, said the withdrawal of aid organizations has left "displaced people to suffer".
"At least 15 organizations have left northern Syria due to the Ottoman Turkish offensive," Ibrahim said. "This has resulted in creation of a humanitarian crisis, as displaced people are in need of food, water, and daily requirements."
Local schools in Hasaka province are now hosting families displaced from the border towns of Tal Abyad, Ras al-Ain and surrounding villages as camps reach full capacity.
One Kurdish woman sheltering in a school in Hasaka told Rudaw they are desperate.
"What does Erdogan want from us? Where shall we go? We cannot be displaced every day," she said.
An Arab resident of Sare Kani told Rudaw: "The only thing we need is to return to our homes. We do not want anything else."
More than 300,000 people have been displaced since the start of the Ottoman Turkish incursion ‐ 70,000 of them children, according to Ibrahim. UN OCHA puts the figure at 160,000.
Hasaka, where the majority of the displaced have fled to, is 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of the border-city of Qamishli.
"Displaced children are in need of milk, food, and clean water," said Ibrahim. "Therefore we ask the international community to help us."
The Kurdish Red Islamic Thingy (KRC) says it is running low on supplies. In a statement published Sunday on Facebook, the local aid organization lamented the "extremely limited support" for internally displaced persons (IDPs) and accused the Ottoman Turkish government of breaking international humanitarian law by obstructing aid deliveries.
The Syrian government has full control over #Manbij territories and nearby settlements, Russia’s defence ministry announces in a statement - AFP. pic.twitter.com/QucLHeEwRr
ANDSF conducted a joint clearance operation to clear some of the areas from terrorists. The operation took place in Nili region, Taywara district of Ghor. As a result, two Taliban commanders killed & one was wounded.
Two Taliban terrorists killed & three others wounded in a joint clearance operation carried out by ANDSF in Mahajir Bazaar region, Nehr Saraj district of Helmand. Several Taliban strongholds destroyed & ANDSF detected six roadside bombs. pic.twitter.com/9vnXiJJZaS
GCPSU has arrested three men during two separate search operations in Guzara district of Herat & Kunduz City of Kunduz province. The three had allegedly linked with the Taliban terrorist group & GCPSU recovered some amount of ammunition & military equipment.
Taliban’s deputy commander for Obe district of Herat arrested during an operation carried out by ANP in PD#4, Herat City. Abdullah known as Talha was involved in many terrorist attacks & destructive activities in Herat province. pic.twitter.com/m6m9RGcsY2
#2
What the heck, I can dream. Imagine the sounds of all the anti-Trump groups, " But,But,But." a broken out board motor of despair, and der lamentations of der women.
#7
I just hope all the Holly-weirds and lefty loons read this this month so they can lie awake nights for the next 13 months.
And the Dem candidates. And the talking heads of their minions. Sleep well, suckers!
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They don't read real news. hence why they always have some far out shit too say.
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You have to remember that the polls are BS.
No one in his right mind today would admit to any stranger that he supports Trump-- especially not an anonymous caller whose job is to record your preference in a data base whose contents will, in all likelihood, be syndicated to data exchanges comprising hundreds of entities which will build a profile of you that now contains the behavioral label-- take your pick-- DEPLORABLE, WH-SUPREMACIST, TRUMPIAN, etc.
The only people responding to pollsters' calls these days are the in minority of rabid, open partisans whose preferences were already known. The swing voters -- ie the ones on whom the election will turn -- are overwhelmingly unlikely to be represented in anything like their true numbers in these polls.
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No one in his right mind today would admit to any stranger that he supports Trump
In India, public opinion about world events and people is largely dominated by hollywood and journalists, who invariably lean leftward. Even some govt servants will often just feel the pulse by what the PM or senior foreign officials think and extrapolate their worldview from that.
People ask me about Trump, I tell them he's an uncouth braggart who trounces public opinion, gives zero fucks for other countries, and is committed to cleaning up America by removing lazy louts and dark-skinned professional rebels.
When they ask me, 'So we must root for Warren or Kamala ? Or maybe Tulsi ? ' ; I tell them 'Absolutely not, you duffers. Trump. Trump all the way.'
#16
Let's not go kissing each others' mouths just yet.
My point of order would be, is Colorado part of that bloc of states whose delegates go to the popular vote winner? If so, it should be the same color as that bloc.
If that bloc does make the difference, and we start hearing about 105% turnouts and straight D choices, what is the legal challenge? And you know certain peoples will lose their shit so bad as to make the Gore-a-thon look like tea and bridge.
[GeopoliticalFutures] The origins of new US-Turkish relations
For several years, there has been a significant shift underway in U.S. strategy toward the Middle East, where Washington has consistently sought to avoid combat. The United States is now compelled to seek accommodation with Turkey, a regional power in its own right, based on terms that are geopolitically necessary for both. Their relationship has been turbulent, and while it may continue to be so for a while, it will decline. Their accommodation has nothing to do with mutual affection but rather with mutual necessity. The Turkish incursion into Syria and the U.S. response are part of this adjustment, one that has global origins and regional consequences.
Similarly, the U.S. decision to step aside as Turkey undertook an incursion in northeastern Syria has a geopolitical and strategic origin. The strategic origin is a clash between elements of the Defense Department and the president. The defense community has been shaped by a war that has been underway since 2001. During what is called the Long War, the U.S. has created an alliance structure of various national and subnational groups. Yet the region is still on uneven footing. The Iranians have extended a sphere of influence westward. Iraq is in chaos. The Yemeni civil war still rages, and the original Syrian war has ended, in a very Middle Eastern fashion, indecisively.
A generation of military and defense thinkers have matured fighting wars in the Middle East. The Long War has been their career. Several generations spent their careers expecting Soviet tanks to surge into the Fulda Gap. Cold Warriors believed a world without the Cold War was unthinkable. The same can be said for those shaped by Middle Eastern wars. For the Cold War generation, the NATO alliance was the foundation of their thinking. So too for the Sandbox generation, those whose careers were spent rotating into Iraq or Afghanistan or some other place, the alliances formed and the enemies fought seemed eternal. The idea that the world had moved on, and that Fulda and NATO were less important, was emotionally inconceivable. Any shift in focus and alliance structure was seen as a betrayal.
After the Cold War ended, George H.W. Bush made the decision to stand down the 24-hour B-52 air deployments in the north that were waiting for a Soviet attack. The reality had changed, and Bush made the decision a year after the Eastern European collapse began. He made it early on Sept. 21, 1991, after the Wall came down but before the Soviet Union collapsed. It was a controversial decision. I knew some serious people who thought that we should be open to the possibility that the collapse in Eastern Europe was merely a cover for a Soviet attack and were extremely agitated over the B-52 stand-down.
It is difficult to accept that an era has passed into history. Those who were shaped by that era, cling, through a combination of alarm and nostalgia, to the things that reverberate through their minds. Some (though not Europeans) spoke of a betrayal of Europe, and others deeply regretted that the weapons they had worked so hard to perfect and the strategy and tactics that had emerged over decades would never be tried.
The same has happened in different ways in the Middle East. The almost 20-year deployment has forged patterns of behavior, expectations and obligations not only among individuals but more institutionally throughout the armed forces. But the mission has changed. For now, the Islamic State is vastly diminished, as is al-Qaida. The Sunni rising in Iraq has ended, and even the Syrian civil war is not what it once was. A war against Iran has not begun, may not happen at all, and would not resemble the wars that have been fought in the region hitherto.
This inevitably generates a strategic re-evaluation, which begins by accepting that the prior era is gone. It was wrenching to shift from World War II to the Cold War and from the Cold War to a world that many believed had transcended war, and then to discover that war was suspended and has now resumed. War and strategy pretend to be coolly disengaged, but they are passionate undertakings that don’t readily take to fundamental change. But after the 18 years of war, two things have become clear. The first is that the modest objective of disrupting terrorism has been achieved, and the second is that the ultimate goal of creating something approaching liberal democracies was never really possible.
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One of the clearest thought pieces we've seen in decades.
This especially nails it:
"The world has changed greatly since 2001. China has emerged as a major power, and Russia has become more active. Iran, not Sunni jihadists, has become the main challenge in the Middle East and the structure of alliances needed to deal with this has changed radically since Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom. In addition, the alliances have changed in terms of capability. The massive deployments in the Middle East have ended, but some troops remain there, and to a section of the American military, the jihadist war remains at the center of their thinking. To them, the alliances created over the past 18 years remain as critical as Belgium’s air force had been during the Cold War.
"There is another, increasingly powerful faction in the United States that sees the Middle East as a secondary interest. In many instances, they include Iran in this. This faction sees China or Russia (or both) as the fundamental challenger to the U.S. Its members see the Middle East as a pointless diversion and a drain of American resources.
"For them, bringing the conflict to a conclusion was critical. Those who made their careers in this war and in its alliances were appalled.
"The view of President Donald Trump has been consistent. In general, he thought that the use of military force anywhere must be the exception rather than the rule. ...
"Given the shift in American strategy, three missions emerge. The first is the containment of China. The second is the containment of Russia. The third is the containment of Iran. In the case of China, the alliance structure required by the United States is primarily the archipelago stretching from Japan to Indonesia and Singapore – and including South Korea. In dealing with Russia, there are two interests. One is the North European Plain; the other is the Black Sea. Poland is the American ally in the north, Romania in the south. But the inclusion of Turkey in this framework would strengthen the anti-Russia framework. In addition, it would provide a significant counter to Iranian expansion.
"Turkey’s importance is clear. It is courted by both Russia and Iran. ..."
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So too for the Sandbox generation, those whose careers were spent rotating into Iraq or Afghanistan or some other place, the alliances formed and the enemies fought seemed eternal. The idea that the world had moved on, and that Fulda and NATO were less important, was emotionally inconceivable. Any shift in focus and alliance structure was seen as a betrayal.
THIS. It's blatantly obvious by this point that these thinkers are in a box and cannot see outside. They are so focused on military operations that they aren't aware that it is precisely military operations that are the problem.
others deeply regretted that the weapons they had worked so hard to perfect and the strategy and tactics that had emerged over decades would never be tried.
The sunk cost fallacy rears its ugly head once again. Oh darn, there's no war! Your career was a waste! Well, we'd better have thousands of people die so that you don't feel unfulfilled.
The first is that the modest objective of disrupting terrorism has been achieved, and the second is that the ultimate goal of creating something approaching liberal democracies was never really possible.
Bam! Hit the nail squarely on the head. We can't change the middle east. Only their people can do that. And the vast majority of them don't want to change.
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Ref #5: ....Oh darn, there's no war! Your career was a waste! Well, we'd better have thousands of people die so that you don't feel unfulfilled.
Your rant of course, but I suspect there are a few here who could have done without that comment.
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Now let's take a similar look at Europe. It's not the one endangered by totalitarians from Berlin or Moscow. It's one dominated by authoritarians, though in better suits, from Brussels.
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The whole point of the Cold War was training so we didn't have to fight. Mission accomplished. "Deeply regret"? How can anyone deeply regret winning the war without firing a shot? Sun Tzu would be beaming with pride at this outstanding application of the warrior's mission.
Should I take a page from the SJW Left and start worrying about hurting people's feelings? I thought we were about good arguments and intellectual discourse, not personal attacks and emotional states. I'm getting the idea that I keep making good arguments that nobody can counter, thus the retreat into character attacks. This always happens when I'm on Reddit or other left-wing dominated forums, I sure don't expect it here of all places.
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#2 has emerged as a major power WOT was a real boon to China
Could I suggest crooked, self-enriching politicians and bad policies as an alternative explanation?
#11
Back in the late 90s Apple computers was going down fast. They brought in Gil Amelio to make the cuts required to save the company. When that was done Steve Jobs took over and made the company profitable again.
I often get the impression Trump is like Gil Amelio doing the dirty work, getting crap for it, and knowing he'll probably never get the credit he's do.
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The first is the containment of China. The second is the containment of Russia. The third is the containment of Iran.
Ahh... a lot of containment I see. A sort of economic McCarthyism then. Well, contain to your heart's content. States will not give up trying to exceed their 'place' in the world designated for them by others.
the modest objective of disrupting terrorism has been achieved
It has ?
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This article is basically saying everybody who ever served in any long war, those with the Northern Alliance, before that against Saddam, those who hunted daesh, everyone who ever commanded an offensive or watched over a conflict is a fool with too much diesel in his wagon and sand in his head. A trigger-happy, delusional thug who'd rather watch thousands die than accept that the world is easier disciplined by macro-economic punitive measures on entire populations, not by just killing the real offenders.
I echo the last line though.
You shouldn't even have tried projecting an altruistic, civilizing influence. These places are tribal hell holes. You take from them what you want, and maybe set up a dictator stooge providing contracts for infra and communications, rake in the moolah and the resources. That worked for the UK for decades, why start this democracy shtick with an already liberal democratic people ? All they do is based on consensus, religiously motivated asshole consensus, but the islamists have a true republic ethic. It's the sharia and the ulema that dictates the mental set that their republic ethic serves. Aren't they liberal in allowing men to rape young women ? To stone and behead and impale each other ? There is no robed bureaucrat telling the people what should be done. They're assholes by choice.
The error of the west has always been that they didn't understand the nature of the muslim animal. China didn't either, for that matter. But they chose their policy well. They don't have to understand it. They'll quarantine the rabid and keep them from reproducing, until there are no more.
I can't blame the Americans for not understanding the muslim threat, but I'm sure Israel would have advised US presidents many times on the right course of things. And that advice must have fallen on ears deafened by self-interest and the 'what's in it for us ' refrain. Rant ends.
I still trust God is with Trump, and whatever he does shall prosper As you all know by now, my reasonings are part fanatical .
I just pray he never makes the mistake of evaluating Israel with the same cost-benefit treatment. The day he does, it's 'Mene mene' time.
a fool with too much diesel in his wagon and sand in his head. A trigger-happy, delusional thug
This is an emotional reaction. It is an exaggeration that wasn't said anywhere in the article. Nonetheless, a new paradigm needs to take place. Bush standing down the B-52s is a good comparison. Good, serious people were shocked and absolutely convinced it was all a trick to get us to let our guard down, then BAM! It's because they were so inside a box that they couldn't see outside. All they could see was everything they had worked for all their lives descending to rack and ruin. The sunk cost fallacy.
not by just killing the real offenders
We've been killing the "real offenders" for 18 years now. Victory has not been achieved, nor is it in sight. It doesn't work. Time for a new strategy.
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You shouldn't even have tried projecting an altruistic, civilizing influence. These places are tribal hell holes. You take from them what you want, and maybe set up a dictator stooge ...
Agreed. The only way to deal with a monster like this is the realpolitik way: without sentiment or lofty Wilsonian illusions about remaking people or tribes or religions.
Stop talking. Avoid BS "one-world" universal-aspirations-of-mayonnaise rhetorical tropes and operate ruthlessly to crush these cockroaches wherever you can--with the lightest possible footprint. If there's to be an overseas expedition, make it punitive.
Above all, I think--I hope-- we've learned that, whatever our flaws, our number one goal is to advance our own interests and keep our people safe, our economy solvent and our communities and families strong.
Very few of the policies pursued by our virtue-signaling "global citizen" elite over the past 30 years have produced the above benefits.
Fracking is one: it's been a runaway success-- and the leading Dem contender for POTUS says she wants to "ban" it.
But our China policy has been a disaster, our policy in the Middle East a mess, our Afghan policy a bitter stalemate, and our policies toward Iran and Russia under the previous administration have been comically stupid.
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Above all... keep our people safe, our economy solvent and our communities and families strong.
Which is all one expects from a good king. Trump seems to me a God fearing man, unwilling to give in to the reactive demand for violence and abundant deployment of forces, from people like me. I respect that greatly.
The next term should show us the fruits of just what has been sown now. God knows Trump will need all the support we can drum up regardless of what his policy on the mid-east. The survival of the American republic itself should be a priority for a prez and it is.
The bloodthirsty screech of the desert Djinns will never cease, until Megiddo itself.
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Innit funny how so many people who believe you have no right to self defense also believe there is an infinite need to spend American blood and treasure on some of the most indefensible barbarians on the planet elsewhere?
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In the past the US made folks want to be civilized and like us by being Awesome. People came here and tried to be Awesome in order to fit in. Some took a generation but most made it. We were never about going out and forcing others to be like us until WW2 (which was a somewhat unique situation).
We need to get back to that. We need to stop tolerating the bogus folks and regain confidence. Trump has done a remarkable job so far at this, I can't imagine how things would be if he didn't have a nonstop drum-beat of doom and dragging feet surrounding him constantly.
#22
Seriously, MM's point ("awesome") is well-taken.
Our effective sphere of control extends to our borders plus the two oceans and the countries on those borders.
We need to get back to focusing on events within our sphere of control, and make that sphere as, well, awesome as we can-- instead of fighting for Girls' Education in Tribal Afghanistan, or Good Government for Mosul, or Extending the Blessings of NATO to Ukraine, or creating Kurdish Republic #7 in Wherever.
It's damned hard to create an effective republic - safe solvent & strong - in a huge, socially-diverse geographic area such as ours. That's enough. Being awesome would be even better.
#23
Time to reboot, and since we are no longer beholden to other oil suppliers, our own selfish, self-interests are different than they were ten years ago. Take a breath. Time to reboot.
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Lex...as they used to say, "Right On!"..just sent #14 to an upper east side $ Dem formerly with the Hillarious camp..hope it sinks in.
+++Breaking: Syrian democratic forces with support of Syrian army has recaptured the villages Managhir, Lailan, Tal Attash from Turkish-backed SNA terrorists.#Twitterkurds#Rojava#SDF#SAA#Turkey#Syria
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A French court on Monday sentenced five members of an all-female murderous Moslem cell to between five and 30 years in prison over a failed bid to detonate a boom-mobile outside Notre-Dame cathedral in Gay Paree.
The case is the first to involve a group of women attempting to stage an attack in La Belle France, which has been repeatedly targeted by turbans since 2015, causing the loss of 255 lives.
The five women, aged between 22 and 42, were arrested after a car packed with gas cylinders was found parked near the bustling esplanade in front of the cathedral in the heart of the capital on November 4, 2016.
The two main defendants, Ines Madani and Ornella Gilligmann, had doused the car with diesel in the middle of the night and tried but failed to set it alight with a cigarette.
They were sentenced to 30 years and 25 years in prison respectively.
The women are believed to have been acting on the orders of Rachid Kassim, a French ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... propagandist also suspected of ordering the grisly murder of a French police couple at their home in June 2016.
Kassim is believed to have been killed in an air strike near the Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... in February 2017.
Madani, 22, was arrested a few days after the failed attack in a Gay Paree suburb along with two other defendants, Sarah Hervouet and Amel Sakaou, who were each sentenced to 20 years.
The three burst out of the apartment to which they had been tracked down by police, brandishing knives.
Hervouet stabbed an officer in the shoulder, while Madani was shot in the leg.
Gilligmann was arrested in southern La Belle France.
A fifth woman, Samia Chalel, was also tried for allegedly helping hide Madani. She was sentenced to five years in prison.
The court heard how Madani posed as a male murderous Moslem online to try recruit women for IS and won over Gilligmann in messages exchanged online.
Madani’s lawyers described her as a lonely young woman with half-baked attack plans and a death wish -- a far cry from the prosecution’s characterization of a determined gang of would-be killers.
Madani told the court on Monday she regretted her actions.
"At the time all my plans involved death. Today, my plans are about life," she said. Die in prison, Bitch
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Probably overjoyed to get away from Islamic males.
[Dhaka Tribune] Five people have been killed in reported shootouts in Khulna and Habiganj districts.
In Khulna, four pirates were killed in a shootout with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-6) in Koyra upazila near Sundarban.
"During the shootout, Aminur and his three men were killed. Six of our RAB officers were also injured," RAB-6 Commanding Officer (CO) Lt Col Syed Mohammad Nurus Saleheen Yusuf said while confirming the incident on Tuesday morning.
The dear departed are - Aminur, Rafik, Akhtarul and Shonish Saha.
RAB also recovered huge cache of firearms and ammunitions from the area.
In Habiganj, a suspected robber has been killed in a shootout with police at Shaistaganj.
The dear departed is Kudrat Ali, 40, of Nizampur union in Habiganj upazila.
"We received a tip-off that some 10 to 12 criminals were preparing to commit robbery at Purashudha area on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway," Shaistaganj cop shoppe Officer-in-Charge (OC) Mozammel Haque said while confirming the incident on Tuesday morning.
Later, a team from the Detective Branch (DB) of Police raided the area and the robbers opened fire on law enforcers, triggering a shootout.
Kudrat Ali was caught in the shootout while his associates managed to flee the scene. ... as though they had never been... Four law enforcers, including a sub-inspector, were also injured in the incident.
"Kudrat Ali was a listed criminal and had 13 criminal cases against him," OC Mozammel added.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Kremlin’s envoy for Syria on Tuesday called The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... ’s military offensive in northeast Syria "unacceptable" and complained that the operation had not been cleared by Moscow in advance, the Interfax news agency reported.
Alexander Lavrentiev, Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... ’s envoy for Syria, also confirmed that Russia had brokered an agreement between the Syrian government and Kurdish forces that saw the Kurds cede control of territory to Syrian troops.
Lavrentiev, who was speaking to news hounds in Abu Dhabi during an official visit there by Putin, said the talks between the Kurds and Damascus had taken place at Russia’s Hmeimim air base in Syria among other places.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Hong Kong court has granted an injunction to ban anyone from blocking or damaging areas used to house married coppers and other disciplined services that have been targeted in more than four months of anti-government protests.
The move is the government’s latest step to try to check the protests following Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s decision earlier this month to invoke colonial-era emergency measures to outlaw face masks, used by protesters to hide their identity and withstand tear gas.
Lam said on Tuesday that while every means should be considered to quell unrest, concessions to the protesters in the face of escalating violence would make matters worse.
"I have said in many occasions that violence will not give us the solution. Violence would only breed more violence," Lam told a news conference.
Demonstrators have besieged and hurled petrol bombs at police housing areas in the Chinese-ruled city, damaging facilities, police said in a statement on Tuesday.
The injunction on protests in police housing areas also prohibits the obstruction of roads and bans people from shining laser pens or other flash lights at police facilities.
In August, after protesters mobbed the Hong Kong airport and brought it to a standstill, the High Court issued an injunction banning anti-government protesters from targeting what is one of the world’s busiest airports.
Protesters, many masked and wearing black, have thrown petrol bombs at police and central government offices, stormed the Legislative Council, blocked roads to the airport, trashed metro stations and lit fires on the streets of the Asian financial center.
[AlAhram] Nigeria's president on Tuesday ordered a crackdown on abuse at Islamic schools, after a second police raid in less than a month revealed men and boys subjected to beatings, abuse and squalid conditions.
Nearly 300 had been held captive at a school in the Daura area of Katsina, the home town of President Muhammadu Buhari, where police said they discovered "inhuman and degrading treatment" following a raid on Monday to free the remaining students.
Late last month, police freed hundreds from similarly degrading conditions in neighbouring Kaduna state.
"Mr. President has directed the police to disband all such centres and all the inmates be handed over to their parents," said a presidential front man.
"The government cannot allow centres where people, male and female, are maltreated in the name of religion," he said.
Prior to this week's raid, hundreds of captives had escaped the centre, police said on Tuesday.
The 67 inmates who were freed by Katsina police were shackled, and many were taken to hospital for treatment, police superintendent Isah Gambo told Rooters.
"I tell you they were in very bad condition when we met them," Gambo said.
A freed captive told Rooters on Monday that the instructors beat, raped and even killed some of the men and boys held at the facility, who ranged from 7 to 40 years of age. It was not immediately possible to verify his account.
While the institution told parents it was an Islamic teaching centre that would help straighten out wayward family members, the instructors instead brutally abused them and took away any food or money sent by relatives.
Police said they had arrested the owner of the facility and two teachers, and were tracking other suspects.
The more than 200 captives who escaped were still missing, Gambo said. Police were working to reunite the others with family members.
"The inmates are actually from different parts of the country - Kano, Taraba, Adamawa and Plateau States," he said. "Some of them are not even Nigerians. They come from Niger, Chad and even Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... and other countries."
Islamic schools, called Almajiris, are common in the mostly Moslem north of Nigeria. Moslem Rights Concern, a local organization, estimates about 10 million children attend them.
Buhari said the government planned to ban the schools eventually, but he has not yet commented on the Katsina school.
[RUDAW.NET] Iraq has deployed more troops to the border with Syria as it is fearful around 13,000 Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... ) Lions of Islam and affiliates could potentially sneak across the border amid the ongoing Ottoman Turkish offensive into Kurdish-controlled northern Syria, Iraq's Ministry of Defense spokesperson told Rudaw on Tuesday.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... 's Peace Spring operation, aimed at clearing northern Syria of Kurdish forces and resettling up to three million Syrian refugees from Turkey, continued on Tuesday ‐ but with limited gains. Kurdish forces have reportedly re-established full control over the border town Sari Kani (Ras al-Ain).
Amid the chaos of the Ottoman Turkish operation, ISIS Lions of Islam have beat feet from camps. US officials say Ottoman Turkish forces are intentionally shelling prisons where ISIS members are housed to help them escape.
Iraq, which had large swathes of its territory occupied and overrun by ISIS in 2014, and had to fight a bloody war to liberate territory from the terror group, is fearful that fighters will make their way back into Iraq.
"We are fearful, that due to the Ottoman Turkish attack on Syria, ISIS members could sneak into Iraq as a result," Brigadier Tahsin al-Khafaji, media officer of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense, told Rudaw on Tuesday, using the Arabic acronym for ISIS.
The spokesperson claimed that 13,000 ISIS members are waiting for an opportunity to infiltrate Iraq. "There are 13,000 ISIS members, most of them prominent ISIS leaders, of different nationalities who are battle-hardened and experienced, and they could pose a grave danger to Iraq," added al-Khafaji.
Thus, Iraq wants to prevent such infiltration by reinforcing the border through a new troop deployment. "Military reinforcement has been sent to the Iraq-Syria border," added al-Khafaji.
Besides the troop deployment, watchtowers and 24-hour aerial surveillance have been put in place. Moreover, Iraq has established a communications channel with the Syrian government, Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Turkey, and the US to "prevent possible security breaches".
[DAWN] The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) has validated around a hundred fatwas, also known as religious edicts, in support of polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain... vaccination, sparking hopes that religion-based resistance against vaccinations will decrease.
According to a CII document available with Dawn, the council’s apex body unanimously decided to ratify fatwas by Learned Elders of Islam in support of polio eradication.
The document said that the CII was concerned that Pakistain was facing travel restrictions due to polio cases, and could face further financial problems in the future as such restrictions could be increased.
Babar Bin Atta, the prime minister’s focal person on polio, told Dawn that this was the first time the government tried to seek the CII’s help in controlling the polio virus.
[Jpost] Iran's economy is expected to shrink by 9.5% this year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said, down from a previous estimate of a 6% contraction, as the country feels the impact of tighter U.S. sanctions.
The IMF forecasts, published on Tuesday in the fund’s World Economic Outlook report, are not far from estimates given last week by the World Bank, which said the Iranian economy by the end of the 2019/20 financial year would be 90% smaller than it was just two years ago.
Iran, a large oil producer, saw its oil revenues surge after a 2015 nuclear pact agreed with six major powers that ended a sanctions regime imposed three years earlier over its disputed nuclear program.
But new sanctions brought in after U.S. President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... withdrew from that deal in 2018 are the most painful imposed by Washington, targeting nearly all sectors of Iran's economy.
The IMF had previously forecast Iran's economy to shrink by 6% this year, but that estimate preceded Washington's decision in April to end six months of waivers which had allowed Iran's eight biggest oil buyers to continue importing limited volumes.
The fund said Iran, along with other emerging market economies, continues to experience "very severe macroeconomic distress."
A drop in the Iranian currency following the re-imposition of sanctions has disrupted Iran's foreign trade and boosted annual inflation, which the IMF forecasts at 35.7% this year.
The Iranian rial official rate is set at 42,000 rials to the U.S. dollar, but its market rate stood at around 115,000 against the dollar on Tuesday, according to foreign exchange website Bonbast.com.
[WashingtonExaminer] ABC News ran multiple segments incorrectly claiming that the "footage obtained by ABC News" showed Ottoman Turkish attacks against the Kurds in a Syrian border town, though in truth it was footage from a biannual pyrotechnic event at a West Point, Kentucky, gun range in 2016 or 2017.
Aykan Erdemir, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a former member of the Ottoman Turkish Parliament, confirmed the translation with the Washington Examiner. "That is indeed the source of this piece of misinformation," Erdemir said. "Melih Gökcek, the former mayor of Ankara, is notorious for being a social media troll, as well as for running disinformation campaigns." He added, "He was infamous for spending more time trolling on social media than governing The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... ’s capital city as mayor."
ABC said Monday, "We’ve taken down video that aired on ’World News Tonight’ Sunday and ’Good Morning America’ this morning that appeared to be from the Syrian border immediately after questions were raised about its accuracy." It did not explain how they found the false footage and did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s questions about Gökcek’s tweet.
In 2017, a profile in the Economist dubbed Gökcek "Turkey’s leading conspiracy theorist," citing an incident in which he gave foreign journalists a presentation on the country's failed coup and claimed that "Western powers had been involved in the bloodbath, that the B.O. regime had created 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.... , and that American and Israeli seismic vessels were deliberately setting off earthquakes near Turkey’s Aegean coast."
[DAWN] MAULANA 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... ’s Azadi march has ruffled many a feather in recent days. From the accounts of rifts within the PML-N to the PPP’s confusion to predictions about Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer... ’s uncertain future, no political player has been left untouched.
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German car manufacturer Volkswagen postpones its decision on whether to build a car plant in Turkey, amid widespread condemnation of Ankara's military offensive in northeastern Syria.https://t.co/KFZ0p6xYP4
[WND] At least 125 Republicans have co-sponsored a resolution to censure House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff for his "parody" of the phone call between President Trump and the Ukrainian president that triggered the Democrats' impeachment inquiry.
In a hearing last month, Schiff characterized "the essence" of Trump's message to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as: "We've been very good to your country. Very good. No other country has done as much as we have. But you know what, I don't see much reciprocity here.
"I hear what you want. I have a favor I want from you, though and I'm gonna say this only seven times, so you better listen good," Schiff continued. "I want you to make up dirt on my political opponent, understand? Lots of it ... on this and on that."
After criticism from colleagues, Schiff later claimed his version of the call was a "parody."
Fox News reports 125 lawmakers support a censure resolution proposed by U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus.
Several key leaders are cosponsors, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.
"Schiff simply does not have the gravitas that a weighty procedure such as impeachment requires," Biggs wrote in an opinion piece published by FoxNews.com. "He has repeatedly shown incredibly poor judgment. He has persistently and consistently demonstrated that he has such a tremendous bias and animus against Trump that he will say anything and accept any proffer of even bogus evidence to try to remove the president from office."
Schiff claimed his version of the transcript was "the message that the Ukraine president was receiving."
McCarthy charged Schiff, who claimed for two years to have evidence of Trump-Russia collusion, "has been lying to the American people for years."
"Now he is so desperate to damage the president that he literally made up a false version of a phone call," McCarthy said. "Enough is enough."
President Trump, who calls the congressman "Shifty Schiff," urged him to resign, saying he "lied to Congress and attempted to defraud the American public."
Democrats accuse Trump of using the power of his office to persuade a foreign nation to influence the 2020 presidential election. According to a transcript of the July phone call, Trump asked Zelensky to "look into" Hunter Biden's profiting from the Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma while his father was Obama's point man for Ukraine policy.
The White House argues the subsequently released transcript shows there was no quid pro quo and points out the president has the authority to discuss with a foreign leader a case of alleged corruption that could impact national security.
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All of the House members ought to want to censure him for lying, keeping the country in a turmoil, obstructing justice and trying to kneecap POTUS by any means. Censured? How about trying Schiff for sedition or treason?
Vote out all those who don't think this ought to happen.
[Dhaka Tribune] Nazifa Begum was out for her usual morning walk after Fazr prayers on Tuesday, near the Saleha Market area, on the outskirts of Mymensingh city, when something unusual caught her attention ‐ an unusual shape of object in a drain near her house, moving.
When she went closer to inspect, she realized ‐ to her horror ‐ that the moving object was a human baby, covered in mud and filth, barely breathing.
The newborn boy was covered in filth from head to toe ‐ even his nostrils. His umbilical cord was still attached to his body.
At first, Nazifa was hesitant as to whether she should pick the baby up.
"But then I remembered it was my moral and religious duty to save a life," she told Dhaka Tribune.
"As soon as I took him in my arms, he started crying. He was shivering from cold. I cleaned his face so he could open his eyes," she added.
With the infant in her arms, Nazifa cried out for help. Her son, Nadim Mahmud, as well as several neighbours rushed to the spot when they heard her.
The boy was rescued around 6am, and given a bath after police arrived around 9am.
After police came, Nazifa fed the baby some sugar water, and he fell asleep.
"I held him for three hours," she said. "I saw bruises on his neck and back."
Nazifa’s son Nadim said he had noticed blood in front of a shop near the spot where the newborn had been rescued from.
"I saw blood and footprints there. Maybe the child was delivered at that very place," he commented.
Speaking to Dhaka Tribune, Mymensingh Kotwali Model cop shoppe OC Mahmudul Islam said the baby was in Mymensingh Medical College Hospital under police custody.
"We will inform the court of the baby. The court will decide the next course of action," he added.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Five-year-old Tuhin Hasan was killed by his father, uncle and cousin, Sunamganj police have said a day after the brutal murder that shook the country.
The district’s Acting Superintendent of Police (SP) Md Mizanur Rahman disclosed the information at a press briefing at his office yesterday evening.
"Tuhin’s father Abdul Basir, Basir’s brother Nasir Uddin and nephew Shahriar murdered the five-year-old and hung him from the tree to frame their rivals," he said.
Their involvement was confirmed during police’s primary interrogation and through confessional statements of two of them, he said.
Nasir and Shahriar yesterday confessed in front of a Sunamganj court to their direct involvement in the murder along with Basir.
Another court yesterday also granted police three days to interrogate Basir and his two other brothers, Abdul Mosabbir and Jamshed Ali.
The confessional statements have also confirmed Mosabbir and Jamshed’s direct involvement.
All five were shown arrested in a murder case that Tuhin's mother Monira Begum filed at Derai cop shoppe on Monday night.
Tuhin’s mutilated dead body was found hanging from a tree near the family’s home at Kejaura village under Derai upazila’s Rajanagar union in the early hours of Monday.
The child’s body bore stab wounds, while his throat was slit and his ears and genitals cut off. Two knives that were used to kill him were also left jammed in Tuhin’s abdomen.
The news of the murder and photos of Tuhin’s dead body soon went viral on social media, drawing much condemnation from the netizens.
Many also questioned the sanity and humanity of those who killed the child, and demanded their immediate arrest and maximum punishment.
On Monday evening, Acting SP Mizanur had said that they found the involvement of several family members in the murder following preliminary interrogation.
He said yesterday that Basir is accused in several cases, including one filed over murder. The other four are also named in a number of cases.
"Basir has old rivalries with a number of people of the Kejaura village, including former UP member Anwar Hossain, Soleman and Salatul, over different issues. He decided to kill Tuhin in a bid to frame the rivals and establish dominance in the area."
The police official said: "Basir himself took a sleeping Tuhin outside from their home and led others in killing the child.
"Basir was even carrying Tuhin when the child’s throat was slit. Afterwards, Basir and Nasir led the others in stabbing and mutilating Tuhin’s body, before hanging it from the tree."
Mizanur said they would further investigate to determine whether anyone else was involved in the murder. "We will send the murder weapons for forensic tests and run fingerprints."
"This is a sensitive case. We will submit our investigation report in court very soon. The killers will hopefully get exemplary punishment," he added.
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[AlAhram] Five people were maimed in festivities between the Kurdish and Ottoman Turkish communities in the western German city of Herne, police said, as Kurds demonstrated against Ankara's offensive in northeastern Syria.
Around 350 people were marching through the city centre late on Monday when they were "provoked with hand signals" by people drinking at a nearby kiosk, police said in a statement.
"Some of them stormed into the kiosk, attacked two people inside and injured them" as well as breaking a window, they added.
The demonstration continued and someone threw a bottle at the marchers from a Ottoman Turkish-owned cafe as they passed.
"The reaction was very emotional and angry" as again several participants rushed into the cafe, breaking windows and furniture and injuring at least one person inside, as well as one of the coppers who intervened to stop the fighting.
Nevertheless, "the police were able to calm the situation" and the demonstration ended as planned when the marchers reached their destination in the centre.
Among the five people hurt was the organiser of the march, who was attacked when he tried to stop the violence.
Of the roughly three million people with Ottoman Turkish nationality or roots living in Germany, around one million are Kurds.
Politicians regularly warn of tensions between the two communities, which have been stoked by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... 's offensive into Kurdish-controlled northeast Syria.
Meanwhile in Berlin, local police said a man wearing a jacket with a Ottoman Turkish flag was beaten by around 15 people, leaving him with a facial injury.
"According to the 30-year-old Ottoman Turkish citizen, the men had assaulted him because of the jacket he was wearing which had a Ottoman Turkish national flag on it," said Berlin police in a statement of the incident on Monday evening.
The assailants spoke Arabic and German, added police.
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Spain, a major arms exporter to Turkey, says it is halting sales of military material to Ankara over its offensive in northeastern Syria.https://t.co/FKf7Fwnkba
Canada announces it is temporarily suspending “new export permits” to Turkey, particularly of military equipment, in response to Ankara’s offensive into northern Syria.https://t.co/FxvwwrLKZA
[PRESSTV] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... has arrested four mayors from the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP), in an apparent crackdown on critics of Ankara’s latest offensive against Syria.
The HDP mayors of the Kurdish-majority Hakkari, Yuksekova, Ercis, and Nusaybin districts ‐ which lie in southeastern Turkey near the country’s borders with Syria and Iraq ‐ were detained during pre-dawn raids over "terrorism" links, the state-run Anadolu news agency and the party said on Tuesday, without giving further details.
The HDP has urged Ankara to halt the military operation in Syria, which is purportedly aimed at pushing Kurdish snuffies from the border region. The HDP has called the offensive an "invasion attempt."
Ankara says the HDP is a political front for the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) holy warrior group, which has been waging an insurgency for autonomy in Turkey’s largely-Kurdish southeast since 1984 and is deemed a terrorist organization by Turkey. Thousands of the members of the HDP have been prosecuted over the same accusation, including its leaders. The party denies any affiliation with the outlawed Kurdish holy warrior group.
The Ottoman Turkish government is also angered by descriptions of its offensive on Syria that label it as an invasion.
According to the HDP, 151 of the party’s members, including district officials, have been detained over the past week since that invasion began.
Last week, Ottoman Turkish police also launched criminal investigations against HDP’s co-chairs over their criticism of the attack and began probes into over 500 social accounts over "terrorist propaganda" slamming the offensive.
Russian mercs from Russian PMC are having a time of their lives exploring the bases evacuated by USA. This video is from Manbij, filmed by a Russian merc. #Syriapic.twitter.com/joghmhHvtd
#AlFath Combined convoy of US invaders & their hirelings ambushed in Patkhwab area of #Logar capital this morning resulting in 1 invader killed & interpreter wounded.
— Zabihullah (..ذبـــــیح الله م ) (@Zabehulah_M33) October 15, 2019
#WarCrime Criminal Americans & their hirelings raided Tsaloziyo area of Baraki Barak district #Logar last night during which they broke down gates, looted valuables, destroyed local school, set fire to private vehicles & abducted multiple civilians.
— Zabihullah (..ذبـــــیح الله م ) (@Zabehulah_M33) October 15, 2019
#AlFath Enemy convoy engaged in Shahri Kohna area of Dashti Qala district #Takhar on Mon. resulting in enemy fleeing as 2 APCs destroyed, 8 gunmen killed & 10 wounded.
— Zabihullah (..ذبـــــیح الله م ) (@Zabehulah_M33) October 15, 2019
#AlFath Powerful IED hit commando troopers in Machine Kala area of Sayedabad district #Wardak late Mon. afternoon resulting in 6 gunmen including commander Jan Mir killed. 6 more gunmen killed & another wounded during attacks in Badahkah, Salaro & Machine Kala area.
— Zabihullah (..ذبـــــیح الله م ) (@Zabehulah_M33) October 15, 2019
#AlFath Notoriously brutal CP commander (Sayed Haman) was gunned down & brought to justice on Mon. in Shahri Kohna area of Markazi Baghlan district #Baghlan AK rifle & grenade launcher also seized by Mujahidin. https://t.co/7kM10PWTv8
— Zabihullah (..ذبـــــیح الله م ) (@Zabehulah_M33) October 15, 2019
#Reaction Claims by US Gen. Miller about his hirelings defeating Mujahidin are false. 419 enemy commanders are killed in recent months & tens of troopers/police killed daily. Such claims despite these staggering casualties & without any clear advancement are surprising.
— Zabihullah (..ذبـــــیح الله م ) (@Zabehulah_M33) October 15, 2019
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[PHILADELPHIA.CBSLOCAL] Police say a group of approximately 200 juveniles caused a disruption in Northeast Philadelphia Monday night. In total, police say four arrests were made ‐ one for vandalism and three for disorderly conduct.According to police, the juveniles left the Rolling Thunder Skating Rink in the city’s Castor section before heading out on Roosevelt Boulevard.
Police say several businesses were closed down due to the crowds. The Wawa at Tyson Avenue and Roosevelt Boulevard and a McDonald’s at Cottman Avenue and Roosevelt Boulevard were both shuttered.
Police were on scene trying to disperse the large crowd Monday night.
No injuries have been reported.
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[RUDAW.NET] Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... ) murderous Moslems have stepped up attacks on Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) from the south of the self-administered region in northern Syria as the Ottoman Turkish army and its proxy groups pound Kurdish positions from the north.
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Make up yer mind. Which is it? [PRESSTV] A third of the world's nearly 700 million children under five years old are undernourished or overweight and face lifelong health problems as a consequence, according to a grim UN assessment of childhood nutrition released Tuesday.
"If children eat poorly, they live poorly," said UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore, unveiling the Fund's first State of the World's Children report since 1999.
"We are losing ground in the fight for healthy diets." We think of it as being "overnourished."
Problems that once existed at opposite ends of the wealth spectrum have today converged in poor and middle-income countries, the report showed.
Despite a nearly 40-percent drop from 1990 to 2015 of stunting in poor countries, 149 million children four or younger are today still too short for their age, a clinical condition that impairs both brain and body development.
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[CBS] Dutch police discovered a family of seven living in a farmhouse basement and waiting for the world to end, the BBC reported Tuesday. The family allegedly spent nine years in the basement and were only found after one family member escaped.
According to local news outlet RTV, a 58-year-old man was living with six siblings, aged 18 to 25, on a farm in the Drenthe province. The oldest of the siblings escaped from the basement on Sunday evening, asking staff at a pub in nearby Ruinerwold for help.
The owner of the bar, Chris Westerbeek, said the man was unkempt and looked confused.
"He ordered five beers and drank them," Westerbeek told local media. "Then I had a chat with him and he revealed he had run away and needed help... Then we called the police."
[BBC] Russia has said it will not allow clashes between Turkish and Syrian forces, as Turkey's military offensive in northern Syria continues.
"This would simply be unacceptable... and therefore we will not allow it, of course," said Moscow's special envoy for Syria, Alexander Lavrentyev.
The withdrawal of US troops from the region, announced last week, gave Turkey a "green light", critics say.
Russia is a key military ally of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.
Turks embrace nationalist mood for Syria offensive
Bowen: Trump's pullback reshapes war
The people caught in the middle in northern Syria
Russia's defence ministry said its forces, which have been deployed in Syria since 2015, were patrolling along the "line of contact" between Syrian and Turkish forces.
Later on Tuesday, the Pentagon said F-15 fighter jets and Apache helicopter gunships had been deployed in a show of force towards Turkish-backed forces who had come close to US ground troops near the Syrian town of Ain Issa.
The Turkish-backed fighters had had violated an agreement not to threaten US troops, a military official said.
#UPDATE: Turkish Ministry of Defence confirms two Turkish soldiers were killed today in a mortar/artillery attack along the Manbij frontline, northern Syria https://t.co/tfM5KrLXbQ
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The whole point of Turkey being in NATO was to flank the Soviet Union. We could present them with two avenues of attack, using Turkey to threaten the Caucasus.
With the Soviet Union gone for three decades already, we don't need this any more. Nor do we need NATO. Just disband it already, it's long outlived its usefulness.
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Already gone.
Dissolve NATO and pull our boys and equipment out of there.
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Well since Mutti Merkel has cozied up to Huawei, breakup of NATO may be foregone conclusion. At least the German component, tho, since EU and NATO are pretty contiguous and Germany more or less owns the EU.......
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Dissolve NATO and replace it with binary alliances negotiated on terms that make sense with: UK, Poland, Romania, Turkey, Italy, Spain, Denmark, maybe Holland. Slash our NATO spend in half. Find an accommodation with Russia re. Ukraine and Syria. De-escalate tensions in the Baltic region.
And start focusing 80% or more of our bandwidth not he real threat to this country and to freedom in the world, the ChiCom menace.
#4
The MSM and the Dem Party are a part of the DS or the Swamp. Any means are used by them to achieve their ends. Their means and ends are antithetical to America.
Libyan wannabe dictator Khalifa Haftar tells Sputnik that his army can take control of #Tripoli in just two days, but people’s safety is a priority for him. His remarks come a day after his warplanes destroyed a house in Furnaj neighborhood killing three young girls (sisters) pic.twitter.com/QUywdHixRN
[JPost] A pro-Kurdish protest rally organized by IDF ex-officers is expected to take place in Tel Aviv on Tuesday afternoon following an official appeal to Defense and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and to IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi.
The protesters are expected to gather at around 4 p.m. local time near the Turkish embassy and march toward the American Embassy on Yarkon Street in Tel Aviv, accompanied by a representative of the YPG ‐ the People's Protection Units of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, also known as Rojava.
More than 100 people took to the streets of Tel Aviv on Tuesday to protest Turkey’s military operation in northern Syria, calling on the international community to stop the “genocide of the Kurdish people.”
Organized by political activist Maj. (res.) Yair Fink, the demonstration began in front of the Turkish Embassy on Hayarkon Street and continued south to the US Embassy branch office.
“It’s our moral obligation as Jews to help them,” Fink told The Jerusalem Post during the rally, adding that Israel should help the Kurds in northern Syria by providing ammunition and clothing, and “convincing the world to be on their side and not ignore them.”
Fink penned a letter last week signed by more than 150 IDF reservists calling on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi to provide military and humanitarian support to the Kurds.
“We, as Israelis and Jews, must not stand by when we see another nation abandoned by its allies and is left defenseless,” read the online petition. “We remember very well the blood of our people, what happens when the nations of the world abandon the fate of a people.”
While neither Netanyahu nor Kochavi have responded to the petition, Fink said that 100 people showing up to demonstrate was a success.
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Were the Syrian Kurds rebelling before the US got involved to help, or were they just model citizens until the US tricked them by getting involved in Syria?
[DAWN] KARACHI: The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) suspects that the banned Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) is ‘regrouping’ in the city to carry out terrorist attacks, it emerged on Monday.
The CTD also claimed to have busted two other outfits whose members had been active in sectarian killings and murders of policemen.
“We have received reports that six ‘disgruntled’ militants of the AQIS recently arrived in Karachi from Afghanistan and they are trying to activate their sleeper cell,” said counterterrorism official Raja Umar Khattab.
The CTD official believed it was a splinter group of AQIS that comprised members of different communities who belonged to Karachi and had gone to Afghanistan. They had reportedly developed differences with their leadership, partly because they did not utilise their ‘services’ for a considerable period of time, and now they had returned to Karachi.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[LibertyDen] The U.S. District Court (Southern District of Ohio) has dismissed, with prejudice, the Primus Group v. Smith & Wesson, et al lawsuit. The decision was delivered October 9, eliminating the plaintiff’s claims against several prominent AR-15 firearms manufacturers, including Smith & Wesson, Remington Arms Company, SIG Sauer, Sturm, Ruger & Company, Colt Manufacturing, and Armalite. 
[Babylon Bee] NBA superstar Lebron James recently told reporters that while he respects what Rosa Parks did for civil rights by refusing to give up her seat on a bus in 1955 Alabama, he thinks her protest "probably could have waited a week."
[Campus Reform] A private college in Maine is seeking an Environmental Studies professor with some very specific suggested qualifications.
[Campus Reform] A New Jersey professor suggested on a TV program that racism and President Donald Trump’s policies are responsible for black female obesity.
[PJ] In the most racist incident to happen in all of 2019, look to Oak Park, Ill., trustee Susan Buchanan, who was caught on tape berating her fellow board members for being white and male.
[Babylon Bee] U.S.‐A new study found that support for impeaching President Trump would rise significantly if someone, anyone could just tell people what crime Trump is supposed to have committed.
[LI] Mosques in Germany are praying for the Turkish army’s success as it wages a fierce military offensive against the U.S.-allied Kurdish forces and civilians in neighboring Syria, German newspaper Die Welt reported.
[American Thinker] While Democrats are pushing the bogus Trump-Ukraine quid pro quo story invented by that great storyteller, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, two groups of Democratic senators have been colluding with Ukrainian interests to advance their own agenda and political careers.
[Federalist] Trump, after all the media ridicule, was correct in saying that potential 
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
[DAWN] Text messaging services were blocked in Indian-occupied Kashmir just hours after being restored when a truck driver was killed and his vehicle set ablaze, authorities said on Tuesday.
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
[Palmetto] With the election of President Donald J. Trump, the United States had its 45th president. With the invention of the 1911, the United States had its legendary .45 caliber pistol. It is only fitting that these two icons should be combined, in the "Trump 45" commemorative 1911 pistol.
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[Aljazeera] SANA news agency says Syrian army at Manbij's main square as Turkish president vows to press ahead with offensive.
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
The spokesperson claimed that 13,000 ISIS members are waiting for an opportunity to infiltrate Iraq. "There are 13,000 ISIS members, most of them prominent .jpg "polio")
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain...
...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 
[WND] At least 125 Republicans have co-sponsored a resolution to censure House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff for his "parody" of the phone call between President Trump and the Ukrainian president that triggered the Democrats' impeachment inquiry.
[Dhaka Tribune] Nazifa Begum was out for her usual morning walk after Fazr prayers on Tuesday, near the Saleha Market area, on the outskirts of Mymensingh city, when something unusual caught her attention ‐ an unusual shape of object in a drain near her house, moving. 
[Dhaka Tribune] Five-year-old Tuhin Hasan was killed by his father, uncle and cousin, Sunamganj police have said a day after the brutal murder that shook the country.
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
[PHILADELPHIA.CBSLOCAL] Police say a group of approximately 200 juveniles caused a disruption in Northeast Philadelphia Monday night. In total, police say four arrests were made ‐ one for vandalism and three for disorderly conduct.According to police, the juveniles left the Rolling Thunder Skating Rink in the city’s Castor section before heading out on Roosevelt Boulevard.
[PRESSTV] A third of the world's nearly 700 million children under five years old are undernourished or overweight and face lifelong health problems as a consequence, according to a grim UN assessment of childhood nutrition released Tuesday.
[DAWN] KARACHI: The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) suspects that the banned Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) is ‘regrouping’ in the city to carry out terrorist attacks, it emerged on Monday.
