[ARIANANEWS.AF] At least 62 people were killed and 36 others were maimed in a kaboom inside a mosque in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province on Friday, local officials confirmed. "Very Islamic"
Attaullah Khogyani, a front man for the provincial governor told Ariana News that the incident took place in the Haska Mina district of the province.
Khogyani added that the explosives were placed inside the mosque and went kaboom! when worshipers were at the Friday prayers, causing the roof of mosque to collapse on them.
He said the maimed individuals were transferred to the local hospitals.
No individual or group has immediately grabbed credit for the attack.
The Taliban ...Arabic for students... murderous Moslem group in a statement condemned the attack, accusing Afghan government or ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... fighters of carrying it out.
[The Blaze] Pete Buttigieg was praised by many on the left for using religious language during CNN's climate change town hall, including the assertion that it was a "kind of sin" for skeptics to deny climate change.
"Let's talk in language that is understood across the heartland about faith," said Buttigieg, an openly gay presidential candidate.
"You know, if you believe that God is watching as poison is being belched into the air of creation, and people are being harmed by it ‐ countries are at risk of vanishing in low-lying areas ‐ what do you suppose God thinks of that?" he asked rhetorically.
"I bet He thinks it's messed up," Buttigieg answered.
"And you don't have to be religious to see the moral dimensions of this, because frankly, every religious and non-religious moral tradition tell us that we have some responsibility of stewardship, some responsibility for taking care of what's around us," he continued.
"Not to mention taking care of our neighbor. Eventually it gets to the point where this is less and less about the planet as an abstract thing, and more and more about specific people suffering specific harm because of what we're doing right now," he added.
"At least one way of talking about this is that it's a kind of sin," Buttigieg concluded.
The South Bend, Indiana, mayor experienced a surge in polling early in the 2020 nomination race, but his support has since tumbled back to Earth. He is polling at 5 percent, tied for fourth place, in recent polling.
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Speaking of which, where did Mayor Buttplug get the idea that the Christian deity approves of his sodomite ways?
Who is he to invoke God's word or will?
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Y'know, the next Bond movie could be called that. It could be about a deadly toxin spread by am evil wacko to make people pass more gas and speed up the earth's demise. And a gay Bond trying to thwart that.
007 - 'A Kind of Sin'
Starring :
Matt Bomer as James 'Shimmy Me' Bond
Nicholas Cage as the one-eyed, very male wacko.
Billy Porter as Moneypenny.
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Well, when he doesn't win the nomination, he can always go back to his butt gig...
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#9 The LORD Hates the democrat party.
Verily. They embody the spirit of Jezebel just as she was, and their end will probably be the the same. They'll be eaten by the mad dogs they've let accumulate around themselves.
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'Climate change' is simply the same environmental hysteria I've been hearing all my fucking life, except with this decade's label. It was overpopulation in the 60's, global cooling in the 70's to early 80's, then it was global warming until 2004 - 2008, and now we have the latest iterative phrase in a supposed pending apocalypse which never happens. That is why nobody gives a rat's ass besides your neurotic supporters, gay guy. Now get the fuck off the political stage, you useless twit.
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Many have been saying that Global Warming followers are cult-like. That they act more like religious zealots than scientists. Seems Buttigieg has now admitted as much.
[NationalReview] Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asserted that the Russians are attempting to undermine the 2020 election by backing Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D., Hawaii) as a third-party candidate, stating "she's the favorite of the Russians." "Steele and Fusion GPS told me"
Appearing on Obama campaign manager David Plouffe's podcast, Clinton made a number of claims regarding Russian meddling in U.S. elections, including that Gabbard's substantial social-media support relies on Russian bots. Gabbard was the most-searched candidate after the first and second Democratic debates.
"I think they've got their eye on someone who's currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate," Clinton said on the podcast. "She's the favorite of the Russians. They have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far."
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Fire away, Tulsi. Another big fat Shitshow shit-spouter target just opened up for you...
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The antiwar candidate. What they want more than anything is *more war*.
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It's interesting. When I lived in HI, Tulsi morphed from level-headed to just another flake... and now she's the only Donk Candidate with a semblance of sanity. Where o where is my Overton Window?
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God I love ha I got Hildabeest in the public eye again. Adding her voice to the clown show of the democrat party just adds to how insane their political offerings have become. And it’s amusing so see hed dragging Webb's mute offspring along on her grifting forays like that will help her prospects for the congressional seat
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Apologies - it's a slog, agreed. I just liked the very candid last paragraph, 's all:
“He’s incredible,” Bennet says of the president. “He’s got, ‘Build the wall.’ He’s got, ‘Lock her up.’ He’s got, ‘Make America Great Again.’ He’s got, ‘Drain the swamp.’”
[PJMedia] The left is becoming more unapologetically totalitarian every day. Every freedom-loving American should be alarmed.
From hounding conservatives out of restaurants to spitting on Trump supporters at rallies, from firing employees for politically incorrect statements to fining people for "misgendering" a person, the left is on a path toward absolutism.
Even some former and current leftists have recognized this intolerant trend and broken from their colleagues, lamenting their intolerance of opposing ideas and disturbing mission to suppress dissenting opinion.
Just the other day, three incidents typifying the left's authoritarianism popped out at me as I was surveying the morning news.
The Federalist reported that venues in three North American cities -- Toronto, Brooklyn, and Portland -- canceled screenings of a movie about Canadian psychologist and author Jordan Peterson because of leftist criticism. Peterson exploded onto the scene in recent years with his no-nonsense, brilliant, and clear-eyed critique of insane cultural trends, especially those concerning gender. Rest at PJMedia
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"Conservative speech is dangerous because it is a slippery slope to the adoption of conservative ideas? This must be satire. "
Actually it is a slippery slope. When you weight logic over emotion in one argument you are more likely to do so again and again and the left's arguments can't withstand even basic logic.
Looks a lot like several Rooters articles.
[Moscow Times] Russia called Turkey's military incursion into northeast Syria "unacceptable" and said on Tuesday the operation had to be limited in time and scale, a rare broadside that suggests Moscow's patience with Ankara is wearing thin.
In Russia's strongest criticism since Turkey launched its military operation last week, President Vladimir Putin's envoy for Syria indicated Moscow wanted Ankara to wrap up its offensive soon.
"We didn't agree with the Turks any questions about their presence in Syria and we don't approve of their actions," envoy Alexander Lavrentiev told reporters in Abu Dhabi during an official visit there by Putin.
He said Turkish troops had the right under an agreement struck between Damascus and Ankara in 1998, the Adana pact, to temporarily push up to a maximum of 10 kilometers (6 miles) into Syria to conduct counter-terrorism operations. No sanctuary for the PKK.
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Think those S-400's will work against Russian airstrikes? Me neither
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Kinda reminds one of Germany and the USSR dividing up Poland in 1939.
I know we've all been dying to hear how this turned out!
[NPR]The fourth Democratic debate was a long one, about three hours, and ended after 11 p.m. ET.
You might not have made it through the whole thing, but there were some potentially consequential moments.
Here are six takeaways:
1. The scrutiny came for Warren, and her vulnerabilities were exposed some
Buttigieg attacked Warren for promoting "Medicare for All," while not having a detailed plan or saying how she would pay for it.
"Look, this is why people here in the Midwest are so frustrated with Washington in general and Capitol Hill in particular," Buttigieg told Warren. "Your signature, Senator, is to have a plan for everything except this."
Klobuchar was going after Warren for, in her view, dismissing others' plans because they weren't hers. Ouch.
The criticisms strike at Warren's core vulnerability ‐ that she's less electable than others in the race because, one, her policies are too liberal and, two, the former Harvard professor is dismissive and elitist.
2. The Biden versus Warren Rorschach test Say what?
An exchange later in the debate certainly caught the attention of social media, but it was one that was in the eye (and ear) of the beholder.
Warren was touting her role at the inception of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau during the Obama administration when former Vice President Joe Biden objected. Joe wanted a big piece of the credit.
It's not clear what Biden's role was exactly in whipping up votes for the CFPB. Ryan Grim at The Intercept noted that he covered the agency's creation and recalled that while a top Biden adviser was involved, Biden was not.
3. Buttigieg may be back in the game
The small-town mayor, who has become a darling of the donor class, controlled multiple exchanges and had a very strong night. In addition to taking on Warren on health care, he also went after former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke on his proposal to take away privately owned guns and Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard on her support of President Trump pulling U.S. troops out of Syria. Perhaps the only person in the quadrant to support Trump.
In exchange after exchange, Buttigieg appeared to be trying to rein in Democrats from getting too far afield with policies that don't poll very well.
He said he disagreed with Biden that Trump is an "aberration," arguing that the president is a symptom of what he sees as the challenge of a changing country. Actually, I might agree with that. Any Dims want to address that? Buttigieg also criticized Warren for what he called "infinite partisan combat." Think about that for a moment!
Can he sell his third way? He's at least positioned himself for the pragmatic lane if Biden falters, and he could pull from Warren's support given their overlap with college-educated white voters.
4. Questions about Hunter Biden were over and done with surprisingly quickly
The candidates ‐ and, frankly, the moderators ‐ didn't seem to want to go very deep on Biden's son Hunter and his business ties. It's somewhat surprising there wasn't more follow-up given just how much this has been talked about in recent weeks since Democrats opened their impeachment inquiry into Trump after the president's phone call with Ukraine's president.
"Look, my son did nothing wrong," Biden said. "I did nothing wrong. I carried out the policy of the United States government in rooting out corruption in Ukraine. And that's what we should be focusing on."
And that was essentially the end of the conversation. None of the other candidates wanted to touch it.
5. The previously taboo issue of age was broached
The top three Democratic candidates ‐ Warren, Biden and Sanders ‐ are all septuagenarians. Sanders is 78, Biden 76 and Warren 70. In the runup to the debate Sanders had a heart attack that took him off the campaign trail, and that became a reason for the moderators to ask about age.
Biden was asked about being 80 and handling the duties of president. "Look," Biden said, "one of the reasons I am running is because of my age and my experience. With it comes wisdom."
6. Health care was again dominant, while immigration, climate change and race didn't even come up
Once again, Democrats showed the biggest fissure in the party is on health policy. It has dominated Democratic debates for a decade, and it continuously rates as the top issue for Democrats.
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#7: Amy Klobuchar isn't "Minnesota nice." She's a nasty piece of work who just pulled the same throw-a-dear-relative-under-the-bus stunt, in front of a national audience, that Hussein did with when he called his white grandma a racist.
Recall that this was the woman who took Barry in and raised him when his hippie mom and deadbeat dad weren't around.
Barry showed his true colors in that moment; Klobuchar showed the nation her true nature last night.
The candidates are just plain weird. For example, Senator Amy Klobuchar, in discussing the need for rehabilitation of drug addicts, said her father, now age 91 in a nursing home, was an alcoholic who had three DUIs and was told after his third DUI that he could go to rehab or to jail. This is nice. The poor guy is in a nursing home, and his daughter used his story to get some applause. Even the audience, composed of the rabid Democratic base, was silent. Klobuchar has no shame. This was elder abuse.
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In exchange after exchange, Buttigieg appeared to be trying to rein in Democrats from getting too far afield with policies that don't poll very well. He said he disagreed with Biden that Trump is an "aberration," arguing that the president is a symptom of what he sees as the challenge of a changing country.
[Bobby] Actually, I might agree with that. Any Dims want to address that?
Seconded. This guy has some residue of common sense and is unafraid to show it. He could be dangerous in the general. Watch him.
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Buttigieg is aiming for a VP slot. Dems want the first women president first, the first gay president can come next. There are simply too many women voters for it to go the other way.
[American Thinker] Try to imagine that you are the son of a prominent politician who will ultimately rise to the second highest executive office in the land, and your very first job out of law school, when ol' Dad's a mere United States senator, is with a major bank holding company that just happens to be a major contributor to your father's political campaigns. Wonder of wonders, within two years of being a new hire, you are the executive vice president of said company. But you don't tell Daddy about that astonishing advancement because you and Dad, operating out of a keen sense of political and familial decorum, simply don't ever discuss your phenomenal career successes. suuurrre
Then you become a Washington lobbyist, and you and your father maintain your separation and propriety with an agreement in which ol' Pops won't ask you about your lobbying clients and you won't tell him about them. One has to wonder how those seeking influence and advantage in Washington by paying your lobbying firm all those big bucks feel about how all that high-minded family rectitude serves their purposes. As for your newly acquired hedge fund, Daddy already knows about all those investors, but you're not about to ever discuss them with him.
At age 43, when many naval officers are approaching retirement, you are selected to be directly commissioned as a very junior officer in the Naval Reserve, an astounding accomplishment requiring double waivers for your being two tokes over the line: your advanced age, as well as previous drug and alcohol usage ‐ both waivers, no doubt, obtained entirely by your own ingenuity and persistence, inasmuch as you and dear ol' Dad still are maintaining that wall of professional and familial separation, meaning he would never, ever have used his position to pressure the Pentagon to offer an unheard of commission to an unqualified candidate.
Of course, it's a good move for the service: the Naval Reserve pooh-bahs could be expected to eagerly issue such waivers, considering all the benefits you can bring to their service in the decades before you retire in your sixties to collect that nice monthly pension. Ah, but then your nautical ambitions go overboard a single month later, when you can't clear a drug scan, and even dear ol' Daddy can't fade that degree of Pentagon heat ‐ not that he'd try, of course.
But your fickle fortune cookie favors you, and on a fortuitous flight to China with Pops on Air Taxpayer, you sit on opposite sides and ends of the cabin, and you speak not a word of business to each other for fourteen hours so as to maintain your principled propriety. While in China, you discuss nothing but family matters, and Dad introduces you to no one. Nor, on the return flight, do you address matters of commerce due to similar seating arrangements as before. Can you just imagine your old man's surprise when he finally learns from the financial news that the Chinese have awarded your hedge fund an investment deal worth more than $1.6 billion? You can just picture Pop's pride in his boy, except, of course, he can't discuss it with you, because it just wouldn't be proper.
Then, a year later, through your unique personal qualifications, you manage to land a sweet seat on the board of a Ukrainian natural gas company to the tune of $50K to $100K per month, in spite of being behind the curve on the country and knowing nada about natural gas except for Daddy's dazed emissions. Here you just got the boot for taking a toot, and now you are collecting some serious coin. A proud son must be champing at the bit to show Poppa what a self-made success you are, but nope, just wouldn't be proper, now, would it? So you stifle your pride and don't tell the old man a thing about this latest extraordinary turn in your fortunes, because of that conscientious clan claim to indisputable integrity ‐ which makes you wonder how Dad manages to find out about your position in time to call those clowns in Kiev and convince them to call off their corruption investigation, saving your job and your fairly earned compensation.
Try to imagine how your dear ol' daddy ever knows to do that when he doesn't even know you're on the board that's being investigated. It sure wasn't you who told him about it, because we all know that just wouldn't be proper, now would it?
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It's surreal.
Look back: we were told ...
- One of the finest judges in the nation is a serial gang rapist.
- Policemen who shoot criminals in self-defense are "murderers"
- The man who ratcheted up our confrontation with Russia on every front, including trashing our arms control treaty, closing consulates, expanding the sanctions, selling our most advanced weapons to Poland and Ukraine and even Sweden - we're told he's not a "warmonger" but an agent of the Russian state.
- an actual palace coup attempt by our intel and justice department leaders was the prevention of a coup attempt by said "Russian agent"
And now we have Hunter Biden and his dad telling us they never talked business. It's not ludicrous; it's surreal.
Welcome to the Shitshow. Bullshit is the Shitshow's stock in trade.
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Age 43, when many naval officers are approaching retirement, you are selected to be directly commissioned as a very junior officer in the Naval Reserve.....
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Trump tells the truth and the radical Democrats try to crucify him using every fake means they can.
Joe Biden admits to getting an Ukrainian prosecutor because he is trying to prosecute Hunter. The money is then released to Ukraine after the guy is fired. Hunter admits on ABC that he would get the perks if his name were not Biden.
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Don't understand how when Trump insults illegals as hard as he can they still come. Some people have no pride I guess. And why the hell are Indians coming up thru Mejico?
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They're desperate. I don't begrudge them for trying; if I were to put myself in their shoes I can see the Jean Valjean-style logic of trying to feed one's family by pushing on a baker's open door. But that doesn't mean we should leave the door open and tolerate theft. Ultimately this policy is a disaster for everyone, including - maybe especially - for the illegals who live in the shadows with no protection against rape of all sorts, figurative and literal.
Better: They like my ancestors and everyone I work with must enter this country through the front door-- legally.
If you have an asylum claim, take it to your nearest US embassy or consulate. If not, apply for a visa and get in line.
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When I taught a class in Inda 15 years ago, many of the students said their main goal was to get to America. I jokingly told them to go to Mexico, because the US seemed to be letting in anyone from Mexico.
On the other hand, in the IT department at my company, there are sections where I wonder if I'm back in Bangalore.
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Remember. Allowing those on less than average wages to immigrate harms the economy, by lowering average wages which puts pressure on wages for the poor & raises their rents .
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I have nothing against value additions to a foreign country's human resource/intelligentsia, or legitimate emigration . But most of these samples, trust me you don't want them.
If the first step into a country is an illegal one, it's a promise of behavior to come. Indians by nature are sheep, they'll abide by most laws, jump through every hoop, ever hopeful and thankful just to be there. But don't underestimate the shitkickery some of us can get up to when in the wrong company. Besides, the ones who get through the H1B programs or have investments are generally harmless hindus or christians. The ones who have to sneak in are those once denied entry. Muslims and the like.
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Some of them may just be tricked into it by the intercontinental smuggler networks. They probably are the sort who think this is the only way to come to America. Our own governments are to blame for their plight. The Long Thin arm of the law just doesn't mean much to these cartels. It's sad is what it is.
But most of them would be people escaping/avoiding something, but with enough money to pay coyotes.
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Hindus might seem harmless, but they can be just as oppressive towards their neighbors as anybody else when they have a firm majority (although they haven't seem as keen to turn the nations they emigrate to into garbage, like Muslim refugees). Any group can. Observe the oppressive religious regulations effecting diet and dress in Hindu states in India, the Hindus who keep Muslims or atheists or anybody else from keeping and slaughtering cattle. And on a totally different note, India's own corruption no doubt makes this seem like a more logical step. If you HAVE to pay to avoid the bureaucrats back home, why not assume it will be the same anywhere? Why think that anybody will actually give a crap about the law once you have a chance to grease their palms when you haven't ever been given a reason to? I mean, most US politicians and deep state officials don't actually care about the law either, so they're not even very wrong in that assumption.
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I worked closely with a pair of Indian guys back in the late 90s (work with a ton of them now but different stories). The two guys (back in the 90s) made a lot of business trips to Silicon valley to work with my company. One of the guys really wanted to emigrate to the US, the other after a week wanted to go back home. It takes all kinds.
Left the company before I learned if the one guy ever managed to emigrate.
Excuse me? Did you read the article? Any Indian capable of paying that much cash per head to be smuggled into the USA isn’t desperate. If they have that much money, they can live quite comfortably in many places in India. Put a bandage on your bleeding heart.
h/t Instapundit
[Spiked] The people are rising up against the elites. No, I don’t mean Extinction Rebellion. I mean the Rebellion against Extinction Rebellion. Today’s clashes on the Tube between the commuting working classes and the time-rich, bourgeois fearmongers of the XR cult is a wonderful illustration of the elitist nature of eco-politics and of rising public fury with the eco-agenda.
For more than a week now the XR elitists have been disrupting everyday life. They’ve stopped flights from taking off, preventing people from going on well-earned holidays or visiting loved ones abroad. They’ve clogged up roads in city centres, irritating cab drivers and people on buses. And they’ve stormed Smithfield meat market and Billingsgate fish market ‐ smug middle-class vegans lecturing hard-working traders about the correct way to think and live.
But today their sneering campaigning went too far. Today they disrupted the Tube. Yes, this mass, largely electric public-transport system used by millions of people is the latest target of these arrogant disrupters of the masses’ lives. And people got pissed off. Really pissed off.
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They'll never stop because they're right right right and everyone else is wrong. This is how much they hate you.
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If someone feels I'm entitled to their opinions to the extent it disrupts my life, I guess they are entitled to my opinion of that too.
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That's a beautiful video. Orwell would have enjoyed the irony of the overeducated morons put in their place by working people of common sense. "Only an intellectual would do such a thing. Nobody else could be so stupid."
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The very same people that think that there must be a "Living Wage" and the "Freedom of the Individual" think nothing of stealing your personal time and income by obstructing your freedom of movement.
A pox on all of these smarmy little totalitarians. Your right to protest does not give you a right to hold the uninterested hostage and forced to listen to your message.
[Guns America] A judge in California issued a tentative order this week finding a "disconnect" in the ATF’s classification of AR-15 lower receivers as "firearms."
The case began when the ATF launched an investigation and subsequent prosecution against Joseph Roh, who they accused of illegally manufacturing and selling AR-15 receivers in a warehouse outside Los Angeles.
After deliberating for more than a year, US District Court Judge James V. Selna determined that because an AR-15 lower receiver does not house the bolt or breechblock and is not threaded to the barrel, as defined in 27 C.F.R. § 478.11, it does not constitute a "receiver" and cannot be considered a "firearm" under federal law.
"No reasonable person would understand that a part constitutes a receiver where it lacks the components specified in the regulation," Selna wrote.
Therefore, the judge determined, "Roh did not violate the law by manufacturing receivers."
The case garnered national media attention after CNN reported that prosecutors in the case struck a plea deal with Roh to avoid the judge’s tentative order becoming permanent.
According to CNN, "Sources familiar with the agreement said prosecutors wanted to strike a deal in order to prevent Selna’s order from becoming permanent, drawing publicity, and creating case law that could hamper ATF enforcement efforts."
BTW__ I submitted an earlier article on this from TTAG a few days ago but it apparently didn't pass the Mods's' sniff test...along with several others in the past week or so, tho, I'll admit the toilet paper one was a bit over the top....8)
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Apologize for your difficulties Merc. We don't have the luxury of deleting submissions. If it even looks close to newsworthy, it's posted, sometimes shortened a bit, but posted.
Keep posting and let us know if you have difficulty.
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About 16 million AR-15s are in civilian hands with the law as it stands now. I have a hard time believing any effort to jigger the existing law will result in anything that would look like an improvement from a pro Second Amendment point of view.
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I submitted an earlier article on this from TTAG a few days ago
Is this the article you’re referring to, Mercutio?
I will delete articles in the hopper that are duplicates, are missing URLs if I’m too busy to search the internet for the article, are outside of Rantburg’s areas of interest, or are overly excited rather than factual.
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A search reveals your Charmin post was published here, Mercutio. Really stupid people who deserve to be mocked — while they were fussing they did not look into the fact that Procter & Gamble has been responsibly managing forests for paper manufacture for almost a century. And really, recycled paper toilet paper is only one small step above the Soviet stuff. Still, the nice thing about a capitalist economy is that those who want recycled can sand their bottoms while we who are willing to be comfortable have other choices available.
[The Hill] Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz (Hawaii) called out Republican lawmakers on Thursday night following President Trump's remarks likening Turkey's military offensive against Syrian Kurds to a schoolyard fight.
"Enough is enough. Republican silence is a historic travesty," Schatz tweeted in response to Trump's remarks during a campaign rally in Dallas.
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So, where are all these dems who have done freelance diplomacy against America in the past? Jawn F'n Kerry to the smelly brown courtesy phone...
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Schatz, Schiff, The Squat: all appropriately named tentmasters for our national Shitshow.
You cretins have thoroughly botched our foreign policy.
You failed to secure our border, provide any meaningful economic security to over half the population, and then you told us that the majority of Americans are racist shits.
You have actively helped rogue intel and justice officials at all levels to try to pull off a coup against a sitting president.
You promoted and continue to promote an utterly ludicrous conspiracy hoax that makes Joe McCarthy look like a piker.
You have repeatedly slandered and suborned the slander of one of our finest judges, our policemen, and even schoolchildren visiting D.C.
You've done and said nothing as this economy's finance and tech sectors were taken over by a handful of robber barons who signal their virtue even as they preside over the degradation of our politics and our culture. You did nothing to turn around this country's shitty educational system-- in fact you and your idiot oligarch made it even worse, with his/your foolish "Common Core" non-reform.
You unleashed over 20 million illegal aliens, semiliterate peasants whom no one but sweatshop owners have any need for, upon our communities, our schools and hospitals, crushing wages, ruining school performance, causing ERs and hospitals to close, filling the prisons.
And you have the nerve to attack those of us who call you out on your record of unbelievable incompetence and stupidity.
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I guess seeing a Senator named Schatz triggered me, as 'twere. I mean, we talk about the Shitshow but rarely do we see one of its perps actually named after it. Talk about brazen...
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Syrian Kurds are already talking to Syrian government and Turks are already talking about a cease fire to allow the Kurds to get out of the way.
What folks don't understand is sometimes when a big player is involved the smaller players know they don't have to make concessions because they'll be bailed out before a total loss. This is the fallacy of the UN that has allowed conflict in Kashmir and Palestine areas since it was formed because the players know they won't be totally crushed before the UN stops the battle and thus they don't have to be reasonable.
By having the US step aside the Syrian Kurds have been forced to recalculate between peace/survival and continued conflict.
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I've said it before: If Schatz and others like him feel so strongly about fighting other peoples' wars, let them go and do the fighting. Let them put their own asses on the line instead of sending our brave young men to do it for them. But do not ask me to pay for it.
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Ref #8: I've said it before: If Schatz and others like him feel so strongly about fighting other peoples' wars, let them go and do the fighting.
[GRIST] Moderators of the three previous Democratic primary debates caught a lot of flak from environmental advocates for not spending enough time on climate change. On Tuesday night, moderators of the fourth debate paved the way for a new era of climate politics by featuring warming front and center. Just kidding. In actuality not a single question about the biggest threat facing residents of the United States, and the world, was asked of the 12 candidates who qualified for the debate.
That’s despite the fact that CNN, one of the night’s two host media organizations, recently held a climate change-themed town hall during which moderators grilled candidates on all angles of the issue. The New York Times, the other host, has a team of journalists specifically assigned to climate stories. (CNN even ran a Times ad touting its climate coverage during one of the debate’s commercial breaks). And yet, somehow, CNN and the Times were unable to muster even a yes/no question about a crisis that is projected to claim millions of lives and alter the world as we know it.
Instead, the candidates were asked about hot topics in recent news cycles, like about whether President Trump should be impeached and the commander-in-chief’s recent decision to pull troops out of Syria ‐ as well as topics that have come up previously, like gun control, a wealth tax, and the minutiae of single-payer health care versus Medicare for all versus "Medicare for all who want it." That’s all well and good: It’s certainly important that voters hear from the candidates on those issues. But at the 11th hour, when it seemed the moderators might finally ask the candidates a question about climate change, they delivered a disappointment of epic proportions.
h/t Instapundit
[ChicagoBoyz] The irony of very well-recompensed nominally-American basketball players of color reacting with wild indignation to American criticism of China with regard to heavy-handed treatment of citizens of Tibet and residents of Hong Kong is of a density so thick and heavy that it threatens to drop through the core of the earth and come out the other side. This of course, after months of rather public displays by professional athletes of color making a big thing of knee-taking and demonstrations of disapproval during the playing of the American national anthem at the start of various games. This cheap display of woke-virtue sporting world division may already have sunk the National Football League, in the minds and hearts of those fans of football in Flyoverlandia-America. I suppose now we can look forward to seeing the same fatal holed-below-the-waterline-and-sinking-fast pattern in the round-bouncy-ball franchise; honestly, it’s as if the NBA is basically saying, "Hold my beer and watch this!"
...That China in general, or China as a consumer seems to exercise so much economic power over American pop-culture generally is a matter to give one pause. Perhaps it's time to curve-stomp pop culture?
#3
Confucius say, "Man who feel teeny
Should eat every animal's weenie,
But he who drink tea
Made from ballplayer's knee
Soon have backbone like piece of linguine."
[Department of Justice] Jong Woo Son, 23, a South Korean national, was indicted by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia for his operation of Welcome To Video, the largest child sexual exploitation market by volume of content. The nine-count indictment was unsealed today along with a parallel civil forfeiture action. Son has also been charged and convicted in South Korea and is currently in custody serving his sentence in South Korea. An additional 337 site users residing in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington State and Washington, D.C. as well as the United Kingdom, South Korea, Germany, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the Czech Republic, Canada, Ireland, Spain, Brazil and Australia have been arrested and charged.
Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu for the District of Columbia, Chief Don Fort of IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) and Acting Executive Associate Director Alysa Erichs of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), made the announcement.
"Darknet sites that profit from the sexual exploitation of children are among the most vile and reprehensible forms of criminal behavior," said Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. "This Administration will not allow child predators to use lawless online spaces as a shield. Today’s announcement demonstrates that the Department of Justice remains firmly committed to working closely with our partners in South Korea and around the world to rescue child victims and bring to justice the perpetrators of these abhorrent crimes."
"Children around the world are safer because of the actions taken by U.S. and foreign law enforcement to prosecute this case and recover funds for victims," said U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu. "We will continue to pursue such criminals on and off the darknet in the United States and abroad, to ensure they receive the punishment their terrible crimes deserve."
"Through the sophisticated tracing of bitcoin transactions, IRS-CI special agents were able to determine the location of the Darknet server, identify the administrator of the website and ultimately track down the website server’s physical location in South Korea," said IRS-CI Chief Don Fort. "This largescale criminal enterprise that endangered the safety of children around the world is no more. Regardless of the illicit scheme, and whether the proceeds are virtual or tangible, we will continue to work with our federal and international partners to track down these disgusting organizations and bring them to justice."
#3
...for practice. When pols clamor for doing away with currency and sticking the population with their digital money only so they can track every transaction for taxation and political correctness, you'll need to look into alternatives.
#4
... practicing upon innocent children? With pedoph1les?
... practicing with Kim Jong Il and Iran and Maduro and jihadist money laundering?
... practicing with drug cartels?
No thanks.
We - not The Man, but We as in civilized society - need to shut this down before more damage is done.
#5
True. Change must come from within society.
Not by an interminable succession of redundant legislations and righteous judicial rants preceding minimal reformatory sentences.
#6
No, Lex, reason for bitcoin, not those using it. Get a grip. However, to play your rhetorical game, you seem to be happy to have those in power track every transaction you make and watch over your shoulder on how you spend it. You got an alternative beyond direct bartering? /rhet question
#7
I'm all for innovation in commerce that reduces the power of the State to regulate and dis-empower the individual. Like all tech, it is empowering for both law-abiding and law-breakers.
#8
look up debasement of the currency, history thereof
There's a good reason, learned over about 10,000 years of civilization' experience with mediums of exchange, why we want centralized control of the money supply
Bitcoin institutionalizes currency debasement.
Bizarre that people who decry this when perpetrated by bad governments want to do it tenfold through scam currencies ...
#9
#3 Another. The Federal Reserve, the banker's bank wants to be the one's who control fiat money or money that is intrinsically worthless and based on debt. The system results in ever-increasing debt. Money is printed to satisfy the debts and interest. The system tends to result in inflation.
#10
OK gents, I'll cede the floor to one who knows a hell of a lot more than any of us, Nouriel Roubini, who has a demonstrated gift for spotting investment bubbles.
Roubini cuts through the bitcoin bullshit with his usual flair here - sorry for the long re-post but it's buried within a series of articles at Project Syndicate, the website where many of the world's best and smartest economists publish, and it's not easy to find.
So here goes - I'm done here. Take it away, Roubini:
Blockchain’s Broken Promises
Jan 26, 2018 NOURIEL ROUBINI
Boosters of blockchain technology compare its early days to the early days of the Internet. But whereas the Internet quickly gave rise to email, the World Wide Web, and millions of commercial ventures, blockchain's only application – cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin – does not even fulfill its stated purpose.
NEW YORK – The financial-services industry has been undergoing a revolution. But the driving force is not overhyped blockchain applications such as Bitcoin. It is a revolution built on artificial intelligence, big data, and the Internet of Things.
Already, thousands of real businesses are using these technologies to disrupt every aspect of financial intermediation. Dozens of online-payment services – PayPal, Alipay, WeChat Pay, Venmo, and so forth – have hundreds of millions of daily users. And financial institutions are making precise lending decisions in seconds rather than weeks, thanks to a wealth of online data on individuals and firms. With time, such data-driven improvements in credit allocation could even eliminate cyclical credit-driven booms and busts.
Similarly, insurance underwriting, claims assessment and management, and fraud monitoring have all become faster and more precise. And actively managed portfolios are increasingly being replaced by passive robo-advisers, which can perform just as well or better than conflicted, high-fee financial advisers.
Now, compare this real and ongoing fintech revolution with the record of blockchain, which has existed for almost a decade, and still has only one application: cryptocurrencies. Blockchain’s boosters would argue that its early days resemble the early days of the Internet, before it had commercial applications. But that comparison is simply false. Whereas the Internet quickly gave rise to email, the World Wide Web, and millions of viable commercial ventures used by billions of people, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin do not even fulfill their own stated purpose.
As a currency, Bitcoin should be a serviceable unit of account, means of payments, and a stable store of value. It is none of those things. No one prices anything in Bitcoin. Few retailers accept it. And it is a poor store of value, because its price can fluctuate by 20-30% in a single day.
Worse, cryptocurrencies in general are based on a false premise. According to its promoters, Bitcoin has a steady-state supply of 21 million units, so it cannot be debased like fiat currencies. But that claim is clearly fraudulent, considering that it has already forked off into three branches: Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Gold.
Besides, hundreds of other cryptocurrencies are invented every day, alongside scams known as “initial coin offerings,” which are mostly designed to skirt securities laws. So “stable” cryptos are creating money supply and debasing it at a much faster pace than any major central bank ever has.
As is typical of a financial bubble, investors are buying cryptocurrencies not to use in transactions, but because they expect them to increase in value. Indeed, if someone actually wanted to use Bitcoin, they would have a hard time doing so. It is so energy-intensive (and thus environmentally toxic) to produce, and carries such high transaction costs, that even Bitcoin conferences do not accept it as a valid form of payment.
Until now, Bitcoin’s only real use has been to facilitate illegal activities such as drug transactions, tax evasion, avoidance of capital controls, or money laundering. Not surprisingly, G20 member states are now working together to regulate cryptocurrencies and eliminate the anonymity they supposedly afford, by requiring that all income- or capital-gains-generating transactions be reported.
After a crackdown by Asian regulators this month, cryptocurrency values fell by 50% from their December peak. They would have collapsed much more had a vast scheme to prop up their price via outright manipulation not been rapidly implemented. But, as in the case of the sub-prime bubble, most US regulators are still asleep at the wheel.
Since the invention of money thousands of years ago, there has never been a monetary system with hundreds of different currencies operating alongside one another. The entire point of money is that it allows parties to transact without having to barter. But for money to have value, and to generate economies of scale, only so many currencies can operate at the same time.
In the US, the reason we do not use euros or yen in addition to dollars is obvious: doing so would be pointless, and it would make the economy far less efficient. The idea that hundreds of cryptocurrencies could viably operate together not only contradicts the very concept of money; it is utterly idiotic.
But so, too, is the idea that even a single cryptocurrency could substitute for fiat money.
Cryptocurrencies have no intrinsic value, whereas fiat currencies certainly do, because they can be used to pay taxes. Fiat currencies are also protected from value debasement by central banks committed to price stability; and if a fiat currency loses credibility, as in some weak monetary systems with high inflation, it will be swapped out for more stable foreign fiat currencies or real assets.
As it happens, Bitcoin’s supposed advantage is also its Achilles’s heel, because even if it actually did have a steady-state supply of 21 million units, that would disqualify it as a viable currency. Unless the supply of a currency tracks potential nominal GDP, prices will undergo deflation.
That means if a steady-state supply of Bitcoin really did gradually replace a fiat currency, the price index of all goods and services would continuously fall. By extension, any nominal debt contract denominated in Bitcoin would rise in real value over time, leading to the kind of debt deflation that economist Irving Fisher believed precipitated the Great Depression. At the same time, nominal wages in Bitcoin would increase forever in real terms, regardless of productivity growth, adding further to the likelihood of an economic disaster.
Clearly, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies represent the mother of all bubbles, which explains why every human being I met between Thanksgiving and Christmas of 2017 asked me if they should buy them. Scammers, swindlers, charlatans, and carnival barkers (all conflicted insiders) have tapped into clueless retail investors’ FOMO (“fear of missing out”), and taken them for a ride.
As for the underlying blockchain technology, there are still massive obstacles standing in its way, even if it has more potential than cryptocurrencies. Chief among them is that it lacks the kind of basic common and universal protocols that made the Internet universally accessible (TCP-IP, HTML, and so forth). More fundamentally, its promise of decentralized transactions with no intermediary authority amounts to an untested, Utopian pipedream. No wonder blockchain is ranked close to the peak of the hype cycle of technologies with inflated expectations.
So, forget about blockchain, Bitcoin, and other cryptocurrencies, and start investing in fintech firms with actual business models, which are slogging away to revolutionize the financial-services industry. You won’t get rich overnight; but you’ll have made the smarter investment.
#13
Frankly, I find it impossible to trust a cryptocurrency. It is just another scheme and its proponents are just another shady tech company/organization to me. And making and propping up the money should be and is the province of government, one of the few (in my opinion) places where government is infinitely better than any alternatives and where its dominance should be respected.
[Free Beacon] The Trump administration issued new restrictions on the actions Chinese government diplomats are permitted to take in the United States in response to the communist government blocking American personnel stationed in Beijing from meeting with key assets, according to U.S. officials.
The State Department will now require all Chinese foreign missions, including embassy staff and those working in consulates across the United States, to notify the Trump administration in advance of all official meetings held on American soil.
The new directive, U.S. officials say, is a response to China's ongoing constraints on American diplomats. In many cases, the communist government blocks American personnel in China from meeting with local officials, academics, and dissident groups, among others.
The U.S. restrictions are meant to pressure the Chinese government into providing American diplomats with greater freedom of movement and access to certain officials and groups.
"Until that happens, we are going to take some actions that will ... go some ways toward leveling the playing field," a senior State Department official, speaking only on background, told reporters.
"The State Department is going to be requiring that all of the [People's Republic of China] foreign missions‐their embassy and their various consulates around the United States‐will have to notify the Department of State in advance of official meetings with state officials, official meetings with local and municipal officials, official visits to educational institutions, and official visits to research institutions," the official said.
[Townhall] It may not have been the most exciting debate. The September debate was filled with more swipes at one another, but the Democratic debate Tuesday night once again showed how insane this party has become. One could see why impeachment is on the minds of Democrats; it may be the only way to beat Trump in 2020. Trump has an agenda of fewer regulations, tax cuts, a booming economy, over three million new jobs, bigger paychecks, and record unemployment across the board. The Democrats want to increase taxes, wreck capitalism, torch the economy, confiscate guns, give illegal aliens health care, and cannibalize private health insurance. On the latter, it’s the only way for Medicare for All to work.
The top of the 2020 crop is a democratic socialist who just had a heart attack, a fake Indian who can’t answer the simple question about whether her health care plan will jack up middle-class taxes, and a former vice president who is beyond incoherent. They’re also all very, very old. It’s like Night of the Living Dead. Of course, Warren’s health care plan would increase taxes. Everyone’s taxes will go up and she knows that. Hence, her prevarication on the subject. And Warren was treated like the frontrunner Tuesday night. It did not go well; she was raked over the coals for her vague health care remarks. Biden didn’t fare much better and he’s emerging as one of the weakest frontrunners to run for the presidency in recent memory. There’s a reason why he never reached such status in past presidential bids; he’s just not that good. And 85 percent of the reason why he was atop of the polls was due to name recognition. After his serial gaffes on the trail, I think there are a lot of Democratic voters having second thoughts. Yet, Mike Rowe, the former host of the popular show Dirty Jobs and narrator for Discovery’s Deadliest Catch, had the most brutal observation about that night.
[Washington Examiner] The SEAL admiral who oversaw the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Ladin claimed the American republic is "under attack" from President Trump.
William H. McRaven, 63, published an op-ed in the New York Times on Thursday titled, "Our Republic Is Under Attack From the President," the sub-headline of which reads, "If President Trump doesn't demonstrate the leadership that America needs, then it is time for a new person in the Oval Office."
McRaven begins the piece by discussing two recent military events he attended, which he said "reminded me why we care so very much about this nation and why our future may be in peril."
One of the events he referenced, the O.S.S. Society dinner, had "films and testimonials to the valor of the men and women who had fought in Europe and the Pacific during World War II. We also celebrated the 75th anniversary of D-Day."
McRaven added that the United States sacrificed "so much to fight Nazism and fascism," but later added that current service members "have seen our leaders stand beside despots and strongmen."
The piece concluded, "And if this president doesn’t understand their importance, if this president doesn’t demonstrate the leadership that America needs, both domestically and abroad, then it is time for a new person in the Oval Office ‐ Republican, Democrat or independent ‐ the sooner, the better. The fate of our Republic depends upon it."
#1
$12,000. (+ or -) per month, taxpayer and voter paid retirement checks and all they can find time to do is bum rap the President of The United States.
#5
He appears to be suffering severe TDS dating back, as best I can tell, to enauguartion day, 2017. Perhaps there were promises made that the Hildebeest was unable to fulfil ?
#12
Actually the general's right, in this sense - Trump is attacking parts of 'the Republic'; you and I call it the Deep State. It would be nice for people going after Trump with this kind of shit to actually highlight what their differences are with him. As far as I can tell without reading the paywalled source, this one fails that test.
#15
Trump is a passing phenomenon. He's a symbol of a change and the change he represents is fundamental.
The forces he has set in motion - the unmasking of our elites' "global citizen" nonsense, their utter corruption, their disdain for our people and our Constitution - this force will only gather strength post-Trump as American politics undergoes realignment.
Against the Bush-Clinton-Obama Global Grifter uni-party will form a national party that will focus on security for ordinary, non-insider non-coastal non-global grifter Americans.
The admiral doesn't see this, but it's coming.
Trump isn't the messiah; he's more like John the Baptist in a red necktie and orange spray paint, ranting and hollering in his caveman voice and wearing his grubby animal skins.
Even if he ends up with his head on Salome's platter, the End is Nigh for the Global Grifter class. Repent! Think on your sins!
#16
IF DJT is bad? WHAT can one say bout the rest of the FAR SIDE GOOGLE EYED want to be's, wanting to RUIN OOPS, I mean run things. They fly in circles because they have just one wing and it is the LEFT.
#20
I don't encounter anyone who says "You know what, we aren't involved in enough wars, we don't send near enough of our kids overseas to be killed. And, hell, everyone knows the economy needs the boost..."
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#21
He needs to start by going home and making his bed...
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Yeah. These people have been in government *so long* that they literally cannot see the difference between their own desires and what's good for the country. They see them as one and the same.
Our future's not in peril. Theirs is, though.
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Re #17 Just be sure not say the name 3 times
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#24
They have seen our leaders stand beside despots and strongmen, preferring their government narrative to our own.
#26
"If President Trump doesn't demonstrate the leadership that America needs, then it is time for a new person in the Oval Office."
I agree. Conversely, if he *does* demonstrate the leadership America needs, then we should re-elect him to at least one more term. Personally, I'm rather pleased with the job he is doing, if only for the chaos.
It is possible that a New York real estate developer is playing the Great Game at a higher level than a Navy admiral can conceive?
[American Thinker] Amid all the star chamber secrecy in what is fundamentally an unfair "legal' process in the House to remove President Trump, street protests are beginning to form.
The Daily Caller tweeted out one happening in Washington just a few minutes ago:
It's more than a hundred people, and a respectable showing for a work-hours weekday. Some have Trump campaign regalia; some are coming as they are.
It also coincides with the record fundraising seen in the Trump re-election effort as well as campaign rally attendence ever since the far left's impeachment bid began. Combined with the huge GOP turnout in last weekend's successful Louisiana electoral showing, it suggests energized voters on the GOP side. We don't see anything comparable on the Left.
The GOP historically is very slow to hold protests, and those are often sparse as well as few and far between. But they do happen ‐ remember the "Brooks Brothers" protest, when Democrats attempted to steal Florida for Al Gore by counting and continuing to count until they got the result they wanted? Remember the Tea Party protests against President Obama's overspending? This looks pretty similar.
Information is pretty sketchy at this point as to whose these people are (organized? unorganized?), but that will eventually come out. I have a sense that given the secrecy and "Soviet" tactics of the Democrats in their desperate attempt to oust President Trump, these protests will only grow.
#2
These people will reduce the USA to Venezuela, Sudan, Pakistan level of unstable. When elected representatives will have to rush to other countries for fear of public execution and the national wealth will be openly looted by fuckers from far off Somalia and harridans standing straight supported only by the botox in them.
Democracy the too little that passes for it itself is under attack.
No meaning to the right to universal suffrage is what it means basically. The business of State is best left to people who the unelected bureaucrat would 'rather work with', and the citizen can go fuck himself.
Same thing is happening in the UK, where the people are being shown a tiresome soap opera over Brexit and their will denied. France is seeing those yellow vests who have so much to be mad about that they're probably never going to be heard.
I think if coup and pitchfork mob based politics is what the left wants in America, the best thing would be for the right side to initiate it. Give them the USA they so desire.
A close-knit posse of trusted officials in the state dept, police, military - fire all the traitors, replace them with your team and have the DoJ issue warrants for sedition charges and high treason against obvious infiltrators like Omar and Tlaib, democrat senators and critters who openly support impeachment for fictive reasons, Pelosi. Arrest the Obamas for meddling and create a narrative with what is known fact, trust me no one will disbelieve it. Round up all the bastards in white cells with no lawyers or press. Troops in the streets, bullet for molotov, truncheon for protest and indefinite jail for a squeak. The far-right and fringe nationalists can form 'watches' across red cities and keep the crazies out, armed and serious. No arrests for a few diverse bodies dropped, every county sheriff already briefed. And fuck the state judges, close down the courts for a few days until they are 'investigated'. A total purge.
Who will they complain to, the UN ?
Oh dear... I'm treating it like India ! What a stupid, scary thought.
#5
It would be nice to see an overwhelming number of folks vote for trump to make it very, very, clear that the loud voices on Twitter and MSNBC are the outliers and not actually opinion makers.
#9
There is hope that the rebellion will come on November 2020.
Trump has been holding rallies the past few weeks and I've watched them on Fox News. Even in Minneapolis there were upwards of 20,000 wildly enthusiastic supporters there to cheer him on. This was in the midst of the bogus impeachment. Those 20,000 supporters didn't care what Pelosi and Schifferbrains think. Are any of the Democrats getting that much support in red states? I don't think so. Surely it'd be in the news if they did.
Last night Trump was in Dallas at another sold out event with wildly enthusiastic supporters overflowing into the parking lot.
The people at these rallies are wise to the bullshit that the mainstream media is peddling. And if there are that many people at the rallies, how many people weren't able to attend or are just not rally types of people but are still in agreement?
I think Trump will win in 2020 and I think it will be a landslide.
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[Right Scoop] Vice President Pence has just announced a new ceasefire agreement with Turkey that will stop their attacks in northern Syria:
Pence says Turkey will "pause" their operations in Northern Syria to allow for the withdrawal of YPG forces from the ’safe zone’ for 120 hours.
Once the withdrawal is complete Turkey will "halt" their operations completely.
Pence says that, per the initial ceasefire, the US will not impose any further sanctions on Turkey. Once a permanent ceasefire is in effect, Trump has agreed to withdraw the most recent economic sanctions that were imposed last Monday:
[Washington Examiner] A black high school security guard was fired after the school said he violated their zero-tolerance policy for using the N-word when he told a student not to call him the N-word.
Marlon Anderson, a security assistant at Madison West High School in Wisconsin, said he got called a "bit@# @ss N----" by a student and responded do "not call me n----!" The school then fired him.
"Regardless of context or circumstance, racial slurs are not acceptable in our schools," Karen Boran, the principal at the high school, said in an email to parents Wednesday, according to Madison.
Anderson said he was planning on "fighting" against the school district over his firing. The employee handbook allows for the security guard to appeal the school's decision, and the teacher's union said they had already filed an appeal.
The students at Madison West planned a walkout Friday to support Anderson. The school had five incidents last year where teachers or staff used racist slurs in the presence of students. This is the only incident of the school's zero-tolerance policy being used this year.
Gloria Reyes, the school board president, said the school board will "review our approach, the underlying policies, and examine them with a racial equity lens understanding that universal policies can often deepen inequities." "Yeah, we know it looks bad, is indefensible, but we need zero-tolerance brainless policies because we're smart enough to teach your kids. Err...."
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So what zero-tolerance sanction applied to the student mentioned in the story? Same as what happened to the security guard? No? Whutasurprise...
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Gloria Reyes, the school board president, said the school board will "review our approach, the underlying policies, and examine them with a racial equity lens understanding that universal policies can often deepen inequities."
What glorious Newspeak - this guy's not getting his job back, and these chumps might as well formally hand over control of this school to the feral brats that used to be called students.
FWIW, I would not trust the news reports very far. I would not be surprised to find that the incident was just a (stupid) excuse to get rid of him.
And yes, there've been a number of "disturbances" this year at the high schools. Mullah Richard is almost certainly correct.
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#7
Say Sharpton, Obama, Sarandon,
"Restore Mr. Anderson's standing
Since he's really special
In ways that are racial.
Sir, blacken the air with abandon!"
[American Thinker] William Buckley once said he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston phone book than the entire Harvard faculty.
After watching the October 15 Democratic Party presidential candidate debate, I would rather have as president any of the first 2,000 in any phone book in any city in the USA than the present weird bunch of Democrats.
Joe Biden is out of it. He said "coupon-clippers in the stock market" should pay the same tax rates as teachers and firefighters. The "coupon-clippers" are primarily those who buy municipal bonds that are tax-free. The interest is tax-free to induce investors to buy bonds floated by cities, school districts, and states to fund public projects. Maybe Biden doesn't know this. And he doesn't know that the tax rate on taxable dividends and interest is the income tax rate and not the capital gains tax.
Maybe Biden should ask his son Hunter, who is such a savvy investor that the Chinese gave him $1.5 billion to invest. Or he could have asked Tom Steyer, the arrogant billionaire hedge fund guy who pays the capital gains tax and not the "teacher and firefighter rate." Steyer spent $40 million to get in the debates. Steyer is one of the coupon-clippers described by Biden. If Steyer, who has the same chance of winning as Beto, were a Republican, the Dems and the media would ask how many poor people could have been fed with the $40 million wasted by Steyer.
Elizabeth Warren, AKA Pocahontas, says she will fund Medicare for all by taxing the "wealthy and big corporations." Even Joe Biden found this ludicrous and unbelievable. She refused to answer the question whether she will raise taxes on the middle class to fund Medicare for all. We all know that tax rates have to be raised on all taxpayers to fund Medicare for all.
All the candidates have proposals to "fix health care." Nobody asked the candidates why we need to "fix health care," since Obama supposedly fixed it with his Obamacare. We were told by Obama, Biden, and Pelosi that Obamacare would reduce premiums and insure the uninsured and that we could keep our doctors. Evidently, Obama, Biden, Pelosi, and the rest of the gang lied to us. Shocking.
#4
Don't fall for the cameraman and makeup stylist's art. the on e in white is hippo-thighed and squirrel-cheeked.
She's hot the way the only real girl at a drag show is hot, or the way a one-eyed man leads a kingdom of the blind.
For all the sensible things she says -- and really, it's just the rather inaccurate use and repetition of her single sarcastic phrase, "regime change war," that is her sole credential for wisdom -- she's a minor league backbencher with the usual left-wing virtue signaling cliche book.
If she looked like Klobuchar or Fauxcahontas, or had to face real competition and run in a state even half the size of theirs, we'd have never heard of her.
#6
They aren't weird. With the exception of one, maybe two... they are evil. Tyrant wannabes and the republic will be completely dead if they get their hands on power.
#8
They are politicians, parsing their words like lawyers. Listen to them. They speak like politicians, stiff and brittle, never spontaneous, never off script. Off script is where they get into trouble and they know it.
Instinctively, they see Trump as being not one of their own. Republicans see it too and they hate him for it. Trump is not a politician. He is a real human being and he talks like a real human being. The grammar is not always correct. Sometimes he doesn't finish his sentences because everybody knows where it's going and he wants to move on to the next thought. There is no teleprompter. It's all off the cuff...because he's that smart. They hate him for that as much as anything else. But his biggest sin is that he is not corrupt. All of the Democrats and most of the Republicans are.
They loath and despise honesty more than anything. They're not weird. They are reptilian psychopaths.
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#News Heavy fighting between Turkish/SNA and YPG/SDF forces in northern Syria, especially around Ain Issa and Ras al-Ayn with neither operation “Peace Spring” being paused by Turkey nor withdrawal starting by YPG forces. The “deal” memo didn’t make it to the battlefield it seems.
New: Turkish-backed forces appear to be using white phosphorus-loaded bombs—chemical weapons that can maim and kill when in contact with flesh—in Syria.
Horrific photos I obtained showing children w/ chemical burns not included in the text, but linked. https://t.co/lIG0VCQPwP
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Well, just remember that any steps authorized against Turkey will be subject to Pentagon's objections. So, to take significant steps, you must make significant case. Fortunately, Recep is way around the corner.
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There is a very high motivation to lie about this. They'll create fake news because to them, it's worth it because they hate Trump so much.
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There is a very high motivation to lie about this. They'll create fake news because to them, it's worth it because they hate Trump so much.
True. Also consider the very low downside, which creates a very favorable risk-return calculus.
How many "journalists" lost their jobs for reporting the latest round of blatant lies about Kavanaugh? About the Covington boys?
Lying about Trump and anyone associated with him is more than a good risk. It's totally within the investor-"journalist's" efficient frontier. Professional gold.
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Have at last three bullshit flags for the photo; one gigantoturd especially for the descriptor. Looks like the morning after Knob Creek shoot with crying girl layer.
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How can you look at that picture and not be moved, you heartless bastiges? An barren landscape, columns of dense black smoke rising in the background, an unexploded barrel bomb, and in the foreground, a young girl tearfully wiping a speck of burning phosphorus from her eye.
Quite artistic. Sure, it's probably fake, but fake is such a harsh word. Let's just say it is doubtful that all the elements in the photo existed at the same place and time.
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It should be noted that the Kurds reported they were burning tires to confuse the Turkish bombers, which would explain the columns of black smoke in the photo.
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That is correct TW. That is a smoke screen. Phosphorous is white. Artillery is brief smoke cloud. The Kurds covering their movements with tar smoke to hinder Turk eyes overhead.
One most sincerely hopes they can’t, but one feels cynicism flowing in through the cracks.
[DW] Pakistain has taken some steps to avoid the Financial Action Task Force's "black list," but experts say the country lacks a long-term strategy to deal with the terrorism issue. Shamil Shams reports from Gay Paree.
Earlier this month, Pak Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality disorders... urged Kashmiri protesters not to cross the border between Pakistain- and India-administered Kashmir
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Pakistan views the use of terror as a fundamental principle of its existence. They think that if they stopped funding terror, India would invade and, lacking any strategic depth, conquer and annex them. Thus the pure Islamic nation would cease to exist.
They'd rather die than stop terrorism.
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Pakistan has taken some steps to avoid the Financial Action Task Force's "black list," but experts say the country lacks a long-term strategy to deal with the terrorism issue.
Their long term strategy regarding terrorism is to support it. It's worked so well for them up til now.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli forces brought down a drone on Thursday as it was flying in the area of the border fence along the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, the Israel Defense Forces said.
The drone was detected in the area of the southern Gaza Strip and "was brought down by IDF troops," the army said in a statement.
The army did not give details on the size or design of the drone, or how it was stopped.
There were no injuries in the incident. It was not clear from the IDF statement if the drone came down in Israeli territory or not.
Security forces were investigating if the drone was carrying explosives.
[IsraelTimes] Alleged assailant from East Jerusalem subdued after colliding with Border Police armored vehicle following raid in refugee camp near Ramallah; officers say he brandished a knife.
A driver from East Jerusalem attempted to carry out a car-ramming attack against Israeli troops operating near Ramallah in the early hours of Thursday morning before he was shot and seriously injured, Border Police said in a statement.
There were no Israeli injuries reported.
In a statement, Border Police said the force had during the night raided the al-Am’ari refugee camp near Ramallah and arrested two wanted terror suspects.
As the troops were leaving the area, a car sped up to the officers’ armored vehicle and collided with it "with the intention of running over the combat fighters," the statement said.
The troops then "identified the terrorist making a suspicious movement and holding a suspicious object in his hand that turned out to be a knife." They subsequently shot and subdued him.
The statement identified the alleged assailant as a 20-year-old resident of East Jerusalem. It quoted medical officials as saying he had been seriously injured and taken to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.
The Paleostinian Prisoner Club, a Ramallah-based NGO, later identified the suspected assailant as Firas al-Halaq, 25, from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina.
After the attempted ramming, Paleostinians arrived at the scene and rioted, throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at the troops, the Border Police statement added. The officers responded with riot control means, it said.
On Saturday, an Israeli military position in the West Bank came under fire from a passing vehicle. There were no reported injuries in that incident near the Paleostinian city of Tulkarem, the Israel Defense Forces said.
Earlier this month, an bombexploded next to an IDF position near the town of Beit Ummar in the West Bank. A second device was discovered at the army post and was neutralized by sappers.
In May 2018, an Israeli special forces soldier was killed during an arrest operation in Al-Amari after being hit on the head by a stone thrown from a rooftop.
[DAWN] A sessions court in Lahore on Thursday handed a man two death penalties, life imprisonment and a Rs700,000 fine for raping and murdering a child.
Bism Nazim was arrested for raping and murdering a seven-year-old child in 2017 and were tossed into the calaboose in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat jail for the past two years. He was arrested by the police from the scene of the crime and a case against him was registered in Sherakot cop shoppe.
The state prosecutor, in his arguments, told the judge that witnesses and evidence against Nazim had been produced before the court.
Additional session judge Sajawal Khan announced the death penalty .
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[PRESSTV] A 93-year-old former concentration camp guard has arrived in court in a wheelchair, in what could be one of Germany's last trials of Nazi war crimes.
Bruno D., whose surname cannot be given for legal reasons, is accused of being an accessory to 5,230 murders in the final months of World War Two.
He was part of a force manning the watchtowers in Stutthof concentration camp, near what is now the city of Gdansk in Poland, prosecutors say.
He was 17 and 18 at the time of the alleged offences, so the nonagenarian will be tried in a youth court.
Wearing a broad-brimmed hat, the defendant tried to shield his face behind a red folder as an official wheeled him into the Hamburg courtroom for the start of his trial.
Tens of thousands of people, mostly Jews, died at the camp during the six years of its existence. Many were murdered in its gas chamber while others succumbed to hunger, sickness and exhaustion.
A descendant of a survivor told news hounds he came from New York to represent his family.
Ben Cohen said his great-grandmother was murdered at Stutthof gas chamber and that his 90-year-old grandmother "constantly asks 'why, why would they do this? How could they do this?"
Prosecutors argue that as a guard he was an accessory to murder through the act of stopping inmates escaping from the camp, which was one of the last to be liberated in 1945.
Broadcaster NDR reported there are around 29 open cases in Germany against people accused of being involved in the Holocaust, in which Adolf Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like... 's Nazi regime murdered more than 6 million Jews.
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I hope I live to see the day when there are no more ex-Nazis to be prosecuted.
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[DAWN] The Lahore High Court on Wednesday directed the Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) to initiate action against the Home Department officials responsible for misplacing record of shifting of three prisoners from a jail of Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
A two-judge bench was hearing appeals of three people convicted of kidnapping for ransom by a Sargodha trial court. The bench comprised Justice Muhammad Qasim Khan and Justice Asjad Javed Ghural.
The bench learnt that the appellants were shifted from Sargodha to KP jail in 2011 for their trial in other cases. Later, they were released following suspension of their sentence and did not appear before the high court to plead their appeals pending since 2010. However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... the home department was unable to submit record of their shifting.
On a short notice, Additional Chief Secretary Home Ali Murtaza appeared before the bench and sought time to submit a report on the matter. He told the bench that the relevant record was missing.
The bench observed that it appeared that some high officials helped the convicts escape the jail.
The bench directed the ACE director general to initiate action against then home secretary, the deputy secretary and the section officer who approved transfer of the appellants from one province to other in 2011.
The appellants including Fazal Muhammad, Arshad and Adeel were awarded 25-year imprisonment each for kidnapping a man for ransom in Sargodha. However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... police recovered the kidnapped man and arrested the appellants.
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[DAWN] LUCKNOW: Doctors on Wednesday hailed as a "miracle" the survival of a newborn girl found several days after being buried alive, as police hunted for her parents who have been charged with attempted murder.
The nearly eight-day-old baby was found in a clay pot by a father on Thursday when he was digging a grave for his own newborn daughter, who had died the day before, in a village in northern Uttar Pradesh state.
The premature infant weighing just 1.1 kilogrammes (2.4 pounds) was taken to a government hospital in a critical condition with severe dehydration and blood infections before being transferred to a private hospital.
"It’s a miracle that she survived being buried for so long," her doctor Ravi Khanna said.
"The baby must’ve remained buried for 2.5 to three days because she was very emaciated from her cheeks to her neck, her stomach and legs." The girl, who is in an incubator, was now "out of danger" and responding to antibiotic treatment, he said.
"We are feeding her milk via a tube and also slowly increasing the quantity of milk being fed to her," Khanna added.
"The baby’s weight has improved from before and is currently 1.2 kilos and the baby’s condition has improved a little as well."
Doctors and police said the baby could have been buried for more than two days in the pot, which had some holes in it.
Lead investigating officer Pradeep Singh said his team was searching villages near where she was found and asking about recent pregnancies.
"We have filed an attempt-to-murder case and one for endangering the life of the child against unnamed parents," Singh said.
He added that she would be sent to a government-run adoption home after she is discharged from hospital.
But a local politician from the national government’s ruling party, Rajesh Kumar Mishra, who is paying for her treatment in the private facility, said he would adopt the girl he called a "miracle".
"Can you imagine a newborn surviving such a situation for so many days? She is God-sent and I have decided to adopt her," Mishra said.
The politician made national headlines in July when his daughter, then aged 23, accused him of sending his henchmen to kill her and her husband over their inter-caste marriage.
The couple publicly severed their relationship with him and remain in hiding.
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Wow. That last part pretty much ruins the feel-good story.
Like;
'Local hero saves children from fire. Says he gained experience in arson last year by burning his wife.'
[PRESSTV] Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now... says the Damascus government will respond through all legitimate means available to the ongoing ground offensive by Ottoman Turkish soldiers and allied Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... turbans against Kurdish forces in the northern part of the war-battered Arab country.
During a meeting with visiting Iraqi National Security Advisor Falih al-Fayyadh in Damascus on Thursday, Assad said foreign schemes in the Middle East region have been foiled throughout history, and the Ottoman Turkish criminal aggression, launched by President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... ’s administration, on Syria falls within such plots.
"No matter what false slogans could be made up for the Ottoman Turkish offensive, it is a flagrant invasion and aggression. Syria has frequently hit (Ottoman Turkish-backed) proxies and gunnies in more than one place. Syria will respond to the assault and confront it anywhere within the Syrian territory through all legitimate means available," the Syrian leader said.
[PRESSTV] The United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... Relief and Works Agency for Paleostine Refugees in the Near East ‐ the UNRWA - has signed an agreement with La Belle France and the French Development Agency. The French-funded project "WAHET"- will improve water access, health and education for Paleostinian refugees in Leb.
The French ambassador to Leb says in the face of the unprecedented crisis caused by the US withdrawal of funds, other states will shoulder the responsibility and should work towards renewing the mandate of the UNRWA.
Paleostinian children also expressed their content with the proposed project.
Paleostinian refugees have been living in dire humanitarian crisis since their expulsion from Paleostine by Israeli murderous Moslem forces in 1948. Now, hundreds of thousands are spread across 12 camps.
After the US cut funds to UNRWA, other countries found it necessary to increase their support for Paleostinian refugees. Projects like the one signed today could help provide some educational and health reliefs for 12 Paleostinian camps in Leb.
Changed "Undocumented" to Illegal for factuality
[Times of San Diego] Border Patrol agents arrested a convicted sex offender who lacked documentation to be in the U.S. but who had been living in Escondido for 19 years, the agency reported Thursday.
Around 8 a.m. Wednesday, Border Patrol agents approached and questioned the 34-year-old Guatemalan man about his immigration status after locating him in an unspecified northern San Diego County community, Border Patrol officials said.
The man ‐ who had previous convictions for lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 and sex with a minor ‐ admitted he had no documentation that allowed him to be in the U.S., according to the Border Patrol.
He was arrested and taken to a nearby Border Patrol station for processing.
The man, whose name was not released, faces federal charges for being illegally present in the U.S., officials said.
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Is woke California a psycho?
Do Mexican drivers like Maaco?
"Hey, kid! What's your name?
Take a ride. Play a game.
It's called 'hiding the Guatelmalteco!'"
With apologies to Mexicans. All the Mexicans I actually know are sober, conscientious drivers disproportionately likely to do their own body work and painting. Poetic license, wot?
[Rudaw] Iraq has detained a number of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... ) Lions of Islam and ISIS-affiliated families inside within its borders after they escaped Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) prisons in Syria, Yehia Rasool, Iraq’s defense ministry spokesperson, told Rudaw English on Thursday.
Some ISIS Lions of Islam sneaked across the border and were detained in Anbar province over the last two days. It is not clear how many ISIS Lions of Islam entered Iraq and Rasool declined to say how many have been caught.
"Iraqi forces with the help of the Iraqi intelligence department have detained a number of ISIS Lions of Islam inside Iraqi territory during the last two days," Rasool said. "The ISIS Lions of Islam have sneaked into Iraq after they escaped prisons in Syria."
"Iraqi forces are stationed on the Iraqi-Syrian border line to prevent further ISIS Lions of Islam from entering Iraqi territory," Rasool added.
Iraq is worried about the threat from ISIS Lions of Islam detained across the border after The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... launched its Operation Peace Spring last week, aimed at clearing northern Syria of Kurdish forces and resettling up to three million Syrian refugees from Turkey.
At least 750 ISIS affiliates escaped SDF-held Ain Issa camp after Ottoman Turkish shelling close to the camp and detainees rioted. There are fears that more ISIS fighters and supporters could escape if Turkey’s operation continues and the SDF’s focus is diverted to the frontlines.
Iraqi Defense Minister Nijah al-Shimari visited the Iraqi-Syrian border on Wednesday to inspect the security situation.
"Iraqi minister of defense has visited Iraq-Syrian border areas in Nineveh and Anbar [provinces] to check up on the security situation on the Iraqi-Syrian border line," his ministry stated in a Facebook post on Wednesday.
The day before, the ministry announced it had deployed additional troops to reinforce the border.
ISIS Lions of Islam have stepped up their attacks on the SDF’s southern flank in Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor provinces, taking advantage of Turkey’s onslaught to the north.
The International Crisis Group warned that Turkey’s offensive, coupled with instability in Iraq, could enable a resurgence of the terror group.
The Pentagon has stated that ISIS is attempting to expand its influence over populations in Iraq’s Sunni-majority provinces north and west of Baghdad, and has reorganized its leadership and established safe havens in rural Sunni-majority areas.
"ISIS is rebuilding in remote territory, which is hard for Iraqi forces to secure," read a report from the Pentagon Inspector General covering April to late June. ISIS is "able to recruit in these areas using family and tribal connections."
ISIS seized control of swathes of territory across in Iraq 2014. The group was declared defeated by former Iraqi prime minister Haider al-Abadi in December 2017. However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... remnants of the group have returned to earlier insurgency tactics.
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I have come to the conclusion that there's an expectation that life will have some difficulties and, much like an under-stimulated immune system leads to allergies and asthma, a lack of challenge leads the pampered into inventing a challenge and causing themselves problems see vegans (some also with NPD take their own self created problems and inflict them on others).
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces killed 11 Talibs during an operation in central Pashtun-infested Logar province of Afghanistan.
The military officials said Thursday the Special Forces conducted the operation in Charkh district of Pashtun-infested Logar province.
The officials further added that the Special Forces also destroyed a cache of weapons belonging to Talibs.
The Taliban ...Arabic for students... group has not commented regarding the operation so far.
Pashtun-infested Logar is among the relatively volatile provinces in central parts of Afghanistan where Talibs are active in some of its and often attempt to carry out terrorist related activities.
[KhaamaPress] The Special Forces of the Afghan military foiled a large scale attack on Charkh district of Logar by discovering and destroying a Taliban tunnel.
According to a statement released by Special Operations Corps, the Taliban militants had dug the tunnel in a bid to carry out an attack on Charkh district.
The statement further added that the security forces also destroyed 3 bomb making facilities of Taliban, 2 compounds and a training camp of the group.
The Special Forces also killed 12 Taliban militants during the operation and confiscated a large quantity of weapons, munitions and a vehicle, the statement added.
The Taliban group has not commented in this regard so far.
[ToloNews] Residents in the eastern province of Logar on Thursday claimed that the Taliban have shut down at least 29 Madrasas in the province.
The Taliban have also warned faculty to stop teaching at these centers, which are run by the Afghan Ministry of Education.
“It’s very unfortunate that we are not allowing someone to go the mosque or Madrasa, or to read the Holy Quran or to teach. It’s now three months that all Madrasas have been closed in areas under the government control,” said Sayed Farhad Akbari, a tribal elder in Logar.
“The move can have several reasons: either they don’t want the government to have control of religious centers, or the Taliban’s recruitment has been reduced there,” said Sayed Qaribullah Sadat, a member of Logar’s provincial council, suggesting that the closures might be punitive.
A Taliban spokesman said that the group shut these centers down after determining that they were not in line with the Taliban’s doctrine.
Local officials in Logar have said that efforts are underway to reopen these Madrasas.
“We assure you that efforts are underway to open these centers in the coming days; we are in contact with the tribal elders,” said Abdul Wakil Kaliwal, head of Logar’s Education Department.
The closure of the religious schools has deprived over 2600 students from learning, among them 900 girls.
[AlAhram] Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria on Thursday called for a humanitarian corridor to evacuate civilians from a flashpoint border town encircled by Ankara's forces, as The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... 's offensive entered its ninth day.
Ottoman Turkish troops and their Syrian proxies have fully encircled Ras al-Ain, a key border town where Kurdish fighters have been putting up stiff resistance.
"It is the first real advance of the Ottoman Turkish forces inside the city, following fierce resistance by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)," the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said.
Massively outgunned by the Ottoman Turkish army and its airforce, the Kurdish administration pleaded to allow civilians to exit the town that Turkey aims to capture.
It called for "urgent intervention to open a safe humanitarian corridor to evacuate dead and maimed civilians trapped in Ras al-Ain".
Ankara's Syrian proxies -- mostly Arab and Turkmen former rebels they use as a ground force -- hit a hospital in the town on Thursday, trapping patients and staff inside, the Observatory said.
The monitor said the extent of damage in the facility was not yet clear.
The attack came as violent festivities raged inside the town, according to the Observatory and Syrian rebel fighters.
"The battles are at their most intense," said Abu Imran al-Homsi, a rebel commander fighting alongside Ankara's forces.
"We have surrounded (Ras al-Ain) from all sides and cut off supply lines," another rebel commander told AFP.
Observatory head Rami Abdul Rahman said that Ankara's forces had taken about half of the town by Thursday morning.
"There have been intensive air strikes on Ras al-Ain over the past three days," he said.
Kurdish-led SDF forces quickly lost a long stretch of border when Turkey launched its assault on October 9.
They organised a defence of Ras al-Ain, however, with a network of tunnels, berms and trenches that held off Ottoman Turkish forces and their proxies for about a week.
An AFP correspondent on the Ottoman Turkish side of the Ras al-Ain front line said there was constant gunfire and blasts from artillery and air strikes.
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[Libya Observer] The Head of the Libyan Presidential Council Fayez al-Sarraj has confirmed that his government has submitted a complaint to Moscow about Russian mercenaries fighting alongside 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 that are leading an offensive against 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... Speaking on La Belle France 24 Channel on Wednesday, al-Sarraj said his government officials talked to Russian officials about the mercenaries and that his government trusts Moscow's role in Libya's stability.
He also denied that there are any mercenaries fighting alongside Libyan Army forces, saying: "We haven't used mercenaries. We defend ourselves with youths and regular army units."
"Our forces have detained African mercenaries fighting for Haftar's forces and belongings of Russian mercenaries as well." He added.
Al-Sarraj called on the international community and United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... to have a firm stance against the crimes committed by Haftar, saying his government is documenting all the crimes to file them at local and international organizations to hold the perpetrators accountable.
[ToloNews] Zinat Zabe, a government employee, was killed in a rocket explosion in the Paghman district of Kabul province on Wednesday night, Zabeh’s family said Thursday.
The incident happened in the Arghani area of Paghman district. As Zabeh was on his way home, unidentified button men attacked him, according to his family.
"The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... pulled him out of his vehicle but then put him back inside and shot him with a rocket," the family said.
Zabe worked for the Ministry of Finance for the past several years and was married two years ago.
The family said that the Taliban sometimes are in the area but previously there was no tension.
The Taliban have denied involvement.
Afghan cops have not yet commented on the incident.
Residents of Tarhuna city held a funeral prayer today for 14 pro-Haftar gunmen killed in south #Tripoli clashes yesterday against government forces pic.twitter.com/kYHd7ERhEQ
[PRESSTV] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... has agreed to end the military offensive in northern Syria after Kurdish fighters withdraw from a safe zone, US Vice President Mike Pence has said.
Ankara’s incursion "will be halted entirely on completion" of the withdrawal, Pence told news hounds following more than five hours of negotiations between a US delegation and Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... in Ankara on Thursday.
He said that Turkey will suspend its military operation for 120 hours to allow Kurdish YPG bully boyz to pull out from the designated safe zone along the Ottoman Turkish and Syrian border.
"Today the United States and Turkey have agreed to a ceasefire in Syria, in order to allow from YPG forces to withdraw from the safe zone for 120 hours," Pence said.
Turkey's military will primarily enforce a "safe zone" in northern Syria, according to a joint US-Ottoman Turkish statement.
"The safe zone will be primarily enforced by the Ottoman Turkish Armed Forces," the statement said.
Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minster Mevlut Cavusoglu Turkey's military was only "pausing" operations so that the Kurdish YPG forces could leave the zone.
He added no guarantees were made in the talks on the flashpoint Syrian border town of Kobani.
[AlAhram] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said Thursday they are willing to abide by a ceasefire announced by Washington and Turkey, after nine days of fighting along Syria's northern border.
"We are ready to abide by the ceasefire," covering the area from Ras al-Ain to Tal Abyad, SDF chief Mazlum Abdi told a Kurdish TV station.
He spoke after Turkey said it had agreed to suspend its offensive for five days if Kurdish-led forces withdraw from areas near the border.
And how, pray tell, do they plan to get that large sum of money?
[PRESSTV] Iran’s minister of industries and trade says the country will spend nearly 300 million euros to build 200 large vessels as an ailing shipbuilding sector keeps growing only because foreign companies avoid offering services to the country due to the American sanctions.
"We have defined a target for construction of 200 cargo vessels as part of the development plan for maritime industries," said Reza Rahmani on Thursday, adding, "Some €300 million will be invested in this field."
1.5 million per ship implies small ships
How small?
Speaking to news hounds in the southwestern port city of Bushehr, Rahmani said shipyards in the region and other coasts south and north of the country had been experiencing a boom in activity since last year when the US imposed its sanctions on Iran.
"Our ships and vessels no longer sail abroad for repair and restoration," said the minister, adding that shipyards in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... had carried out more than 100 maintenance operations on vessels in various sizes since March 2019.
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1.5 million per ship implies small ships
How small?
200 yachts for the ruling class. They will be smuggling ayatollahs and liquor via Dubai.
[PRESSTV] Venezuela ...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeds places like Honduras and El Salvador, and a significant proportion of the populace as refugeed to Colombia and points south... has won a seat on the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... Human Rights Council (UNHRC) despite fierce attacks from US-allied Latin American countries opposed to President Nicolás Maduro ...Commie el presidente para la vida of Venezuela, successor to Hugo Chavez. Nick is his country's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy, except that even though his country's sitting on an enormous puddle of oil, he can't manage to get it out of the ground... ’s government.
Caracas, however, hailed its "victory" on Thursday and celebrated an "important achievement" after the crisis-hit country received the nod in a vote by the UN General Assembly to elect 14 new members for the 47-member body based in Geneva.
Venezuela would "celebrate a new victory for Bolivarian peace diplomacy," said the country’s Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza.
Attorney General Tarek William Saab also praised it as an "important achievement" as he announced the news of releasing of 24 detained opposition figures.
The UNHRC works to promote and protect human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. around the globe. Its members are elected for staggered three-year terms on a regional group basis.
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this council is like Alcoholics Anonymous, except that they haven't given up the equivalent of drinking.
But maybe the legitimate government of Venezuela can take over this membership and use it against Maduro and his myrmidons.
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High-resolution satellite images show that the construction of #China's first full-sized aircraft carrier is progressing steadily alongside expansive infrastructure work https://t.co/dnkdlRdR7K
Repeating Germany's mistake with the Kriegsmarine. Large capital ships are a complete waste.
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Aircraft carriers allow you to project power around the world in the form of fighter jets. Only a few nations have the ability: the USA, British, French, Chinese, Russians, Indians, and to a much lesser extent Italians and Spanish. Portable air superiority is quite useful and not to be despised.
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Unless they have a good carrier operation tradition to go along with it, they are giant targets.
What makes the US, UK and French carriers so deadly is the very heavy tempo of operations they can maintain for a long time. Days and even weeks of constant air sorties and strikes. Other nations that have carriers can't keep up the tempo and don't have the operational knowledge to do a heavy tempo safely.
Not to mention the damage control training, special hardening of vital areas, etc. China has a long way to go before their carriers are much of a threat in a war.
Strike, maybe. War, no.
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"I'd guess a decade or more of service before a military gets the kind of knowledge"
Is there anything about our operations they don't know already? All they need is practice.
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[ToloNews] Afghan cops launched operations in northern Baghlan province on Wednesday night to clear bully boys, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement on Thursday.
The operation took place in Dand-e-Shahabuddin, Dand-e-Ghori and the Kela Gai areas of Baghlan province, the statement said, adding: "Previously, forces launched operations in Badakhshan, Takhar and Kunduz provinces and many areas of these provinces were cleared of bully boys."
Dozens of Taliban ...Arabic for students... bully boys, including commanders and shadow district governors, have been killed during the operations in Badakhshan, Takhar and Kunduz provinces, according to the statement.
However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... the MoD did not provide further details.
The Taliban have not yet commented on the operations.
[Rudaw] The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) will not handover thousands of detained 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... ) forces of Evil and their families to any force, including the Syrian regime, commander of the force Mazloum Kobani Abdi said late Wednesday.
"The fate of ISIS [ISIS] detainees and families is in our hands. We arrested them, they are held by us and we will determine their fate," Abdi told the SDF-affiliated Ronahi TV.
Abdi said they also will "not accept" The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... or the Syrian regime taking control of the ISIS detainees, even if they invade SDF-controlled area.
There are about 12,000 suspected ISIS fighters detained by the SDF in northern Syria, including some 2,000 foreigners. There are also about 70,000 family members and supporters being held in camps in the region.
Turkey launched its Operation Peace Spring last week. The fighting is largely concentrated in the towns of Sari Kani (Ras al-Ain) and Gire Spi (Tal Abyad) where the Ottoman Turkish army and its Syrian proxies claimed to have seized control, but the SDF says it has retaken lost ground.
At least 750 ISIS affiliates escaped the SDF-held Ain Issa camp after Ottoman Turkish shelling close to the camp and detainees rioted. There are fears that more ISIS fighters and supporters could escape if Turkey’s operation continues and the SDF’s focus is diverted to the frontlines.
The multi-ethnic SDF announced an eleventh-hour "military" deal with the regime in Damascus on Sunday that will see Syrian army troops deployed to key towns like Manbij and along the border with Turkey.
Abdi told Ronahi TV that the agreement with Assad was "necessary," but stressed it was a "military" one only. Further negotiations will take place once the Syrian border is cleared of Ottoman Turkish forces.
The Kurdish commander spoke with US President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... by phone on Monday when he reportedly promised to keep the ISIS detainees under control.
SDF commanders and Kurdish officials in northern Syria have previously warned that if Turkey attacks their region they would no longer be able to prioritize the war against ISIS.
Now under attack, Abdi told Ronahi TV that the protection of their people and territory is the priority of the SDF, but that they remain committed to fighting ISIS.
"Our agreement with the US in the framework of the fight against ISIS [ISIS] continues. At least, it has not officially ended," he said, but they have suspended their military offensive against the terror group.
"The US wants the agreement against ISIS [ISIS] to continue. However, you can observe a lot just by watching... we prioritize the protection of our people and Rojava [northern Syria]. In other words, we have frozen our actions against ISIS. We do not to anything practical. We are in a defensive position against ISIS," he said.
The SDF is the key ally of the US-led coalition against ISIS in northern Syria.
In the past week, the coalition and Iraqi Security Forces conducted five operations against ISIS in Iraq ‐ carrying out Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on ISIS hideouts, eliminating members of the leadership, and reinforcing the border with Syria. During the same time in Syria, the only anti-ISIS activity the coalition reported was a training exercise with local forces in the At Tanf base in the south of the country.
[AnNahar] The Islamic State group said Thursday it had "freed" women held by Syria's Kurds, the latest in a series of reported breakouts since The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... launched a cross-border offensive last week.
In a statement released on the Telegram messaging application, IS said it had stormed a security headquarters west of its former stronghold of Raqa on Wednesday, "freeing Moslem women kidnapped" by Kurdish forces. It did not give a number or say if the women were IS members or wives of jihadists.
Separately three former IS fighters originally from the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip escaped a Kurdish detention center near Tal Abyad close to the Syrian-Ottoman Turkish border, a source in a political faction in Gaza said. The three, two of whom were members of the military wing of Gaza's Islamist rulers Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, before joining the more murderous Moslem IS, called their families Wednesday following their escape but said they did not intend to return home, the source said.
According to the Kurds hundreds of IS relatives have already tried to escape since Ankara launched its offensive on October 9.
At least three French women who had left Ain Issa camp have since joined up with IS, according to messages they sent to their lawyer, seen by AFP.
Five IS jihadists beat feet from a prison near the northeastern city of Qamishli last week, according to Kurdish forces.
On Tuesday, a breakout attempt was foiled in the infamous al-Hol camp, which is so overcrowded that wardens are struggling to control riot.
At least 2,500 of IS fighters are non-Iraqi foreigners of more than 50 different nationalities. Tunisia is thought to have the biggest contingent.
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if I were the SDF I would welcome the chance to unload ISIS detainees to Syria
Syria would probably kill them all
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If I were the SDF, I'd put them all in a mass grave and quickly build a mosque over it.
[AFRICANEWS] Khartoum is seeking to attract foreign businesses back to the country to help revive its ailing economy.
On Wednesday, four U.S diplomats opened accounts at a Sudanese bank for the time in decades.
Ellen Thorburn is Deputy Chief of mission at the US embassy in Khartoum.
"One main reason is for convenience so we can use our new accounts and the debit cards in stores and restaurants as we move around Khartoum. Symbolic it is to support the economy of Sudan, we lifted economic sanctions in 2017 and we want to show that Sudan is open for business, that banks, international banks and businesses are welcome back here", she said.
Sudan has been hit by foreign currency shortages. Despite the United States listing a decade-old sanction in 2017, foreign investors have not returned.
"There’s clearly been some dramatic changes in the Sudanese government and the timing seemed right now with the civilian led transitional government and the changes that they are enacting", Thorburn added.
An economic crisis in December 2018 sparked a nationwide protest leading to the ouster of long-time leader, Omar al-Bashir ...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Hee was overthrown by popular consent in 2019. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it... . The East African nation is now being ruled by a joint civilian-military body, known as the sovereign council. The council is spearheading a transition to civilian rule.
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[SYRIAHR] The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored rocket shelling carried out by the Ottoman Turkish forces and their loyal factions on the city of Ras al-Ayn (Sere Kaniye) at the border strip, despit the American ‐ Ottoman Turkish agreement of halting the military operations in the whole area of east Euphrates.
Cautious and relative calm is prevailing the frontlines in the countryside of Ayn Issa town north of al-Raqqah city, after Ottoman Turkish warplanes had bombarded villages in the area before the U.S. ‐ Ottoman Turkish deal, which left casualties.
20 citizens were maimed with varying severity, after being hit by stray gunshots during celebrations in the cities of al-Hasaka, al-Qamishli and others, of the deal reached between the U.S. and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... , while it rose to 5, the number of casualties of the regime forces of those who have been killed since Tuesday in targeting and shelling carried out by the Ottoman Turkish forces and their loyal factions.
[PRESSTV] The Syrian government has strongly condemned the ongoing ground offensive by Ottoman Turkish soldiers and allied Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... turbans against Kurdish forces in the northern part of the war-battered Arab country, saying the military operation has its roots in the "expansionist ambitions and illusions" of Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... 's administration.
"Despite widespread international condemnation, Erdogan’s regime still insists on its naked aggression towards Syria, and wreaks death and destruction through gross violation of all international regulations and principles in a way that clearly exposes the real face of Erdogan’s fascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... regime," an unnamed official source at the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates told Syria’s official news agency SANA in a statement on Thursday.
The source added, "This treacherous Ottoman Turkish aggression is the outcome of the expansionist ambitions and illusions of Erdogan’s regime, and it affirms that the regime is classified among terrorist groups to which it has provided all forms of support. The offensive deals a heavy blow to the efforts aimed at finding a solution to the crisis in Syria. It makes, therefore, the Ottoman Turkish regime lose its position as a guarantor of the Astana grinding of the peace processor as its aggression completely contradicts the principles and decisions of the process."
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Is the Assad government really willing to give up sovereignty of a large slice of its northern border to Turkey?
Is Turkey going to be allowed to occupy this slice?
I have my doubts on the willingness of the US the Eurpeans, the Russians the Kurds and the Assad government to permit this.
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What's Assad (and Putin) think about Kurdistan?
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After Turkey's foray, 1974 to the present day, into Cyprus and establishing the quisling "Republic of Northern Cyprus" that only the Turks recognize... Does anyone think that Sultan Erdogan will give up what he has taken?
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I wouldn't bet on Erdogan giving anything up. I also wouldn't bet on him being able to keep it, considering that he seems about as incompetent as a dictator can get. He is openly delusional when it comes to economics, seeming to think that merely shouting louder will change everything (kinda like Bernie Sanders actually) and has destroyed his own military for political reasons while alienating more and more of his own citizens. That doesn't spell "renewed empire" so much as "brand-new regional basket case".
[PRESSTV] The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... says an "unprecedented" number of non-combatants were killed or injured in the third quarter of 2019 across violence-wracked Afghanistan, calling the violence "totally unacceptable."
In a new report released Thursday, the United Nations said 1,174 people were killed and another 3,139 maimed from July to September this year.
July alone saw more casualties than in any other month on record since the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) began documenting the violence in 2009, it noted.
The figures represent a 42 percent increase over the same time period last year.
The first six months of the year had seen casualties drop somewhat compared to previous years.
The UN recorded 8,239 civilian casualties in total in the first nine months of 2019 -- 2,563 killed and 5,676 injured. Some 41 percent of them were women and kiddies, UNAMA said.
The report laid most of the blame for the spike at the feet of "anti-government elements" such as the Taliban ...Arabic for students... Tadamichi Yamamoto, the UN's special representative for Afghanistan, said "civilian casualties are totally unacceptable."
"Civilian casualties at record-high levels clearly show the need for all parties concerned to pay much more attention to protecting the civilian population," said Yamamoto.
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Victory is right around the corner! Year 18 going on 19, and it's going to be a doozy!
But hey, I heard on Rantburg that if they're goat herders, it's OK to kill them with smart bombs. Because their lives are worth nothing. To hell with the inherent dignity of all life.
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The [UN] report laid most of the blame for the spike at the feet of "anti-government elements" such as the Taliban
That says to me that your quarrel is with the Taliban’s lack of respect for goat herders, Herb. Go argue with them.
Also, if we want to protect the lives and inherent dignity of Afghan goat herders, it is necessary to kill as many Taliban as possible as quickly as we can manage. Dumb bombs are better than smart bombs for that purpose. Arc lights are better still.
I'm willing to honor the inherent dignity of life... just as long as said life isn't trying to kill me. But without that reciprocity, all bets are off. Garçon, more Arclight for my friends!
[PRESSTV] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... 's offensive against Kurdish-controlled areas of northeastern Syria has displaced over 300,000 people, a report says.
Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Thursday that the rise in the number of people forced to flee was due to a fresh wave of displacement over the past few days from areas around Tal Abyad and Kobane and in Hasakeh province.
He said that most displaced people tried to move in with relatives in safer areas, some were sleeping rough in orchards and others in some of the 40 schools that have been turned into emergency shelters.
On Thursday, the ninth day of the onslaught, Ottoman Turkish forces heavily pounded areas in the border town of Ras al-Ayn. The UK-based group also said that Ottoman Turkish forces had taken control of half of the Kurdish town.
"There have been intensive Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Ras al-Ain over the past three days," Abdel Rahman said.
[Libya Observer] Spokesman of the Counterterrorism Force, Abdul Basit Tikka has confirmed the arrest of an ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... operative in Sirte and referring him to the Public Prosecution.
"The force received information indicating that an ISIS operative had recently entered Sirte after fleeing the city in 2000, following its liberation from ISIS," Tikka said in a statement Wednesday.
"A well-executed ambush set up in cooperation with the Protection and Security Force of Sirte has led to the successful arrest of the suspect," he added.
[PRESSTV] When astronauts orbit the moon or live on its surface in the decade ahead, they will probably be doing so inside inflatable space lodges now in development. Dozens of NASA officials and veteran astronauts are wrapping up a review of five space habitat mockups built by different companies. The mockups offer the US space agency ideas for an ideal Gateway - the planned research outpost in lunar orbit that will house and transfer astronauts to the surface of the moon.
"The whole point is to define what we like and what we don’t like about these different habitats," NASA astronaut Mike Gernhardt, principal investigator for the testing campaign, told Rooters.
He and his team were making a final inspection recently in Las Vegas, Nevada at the headquarters of Bigelow Aerospace, a space habitat company founded by hotel chain billionaire Robert Bigelow.
US Vice President Mike Pence in March told NASA to land its first crew of astronauts on the moon by 2024. That accelerated timeline spawned the space agency’s Artemis program, which calls for privately built lunar landers, robotic rovers and Lunar Gateway ‐ a modular space station in orbit around the Moon with living quarters for astronauts, a lab for science and ports for visiting spacecraft. Gateway is an opportunity to test all these structures in a deep space environment... as a prelude to going to Mars," Bigelow told news hounds. "Potentially we think that for the rest of this century, the expandable architecture is where it's at."
Bigelow's B330 habitat, launched from Earth compacted inside a rocket, is made of a fabric-like material designed to shield inhabitants from deep-space radiation and high-speed space debris. Once docked alongside other Gateway modules in lunar orbit, the habitat unfurls into a two-story, 55-foot-long (16-meter-long) outpost that up to six astronauts could stay in.
The lunar space habitat and colonization program is expected to cost over a billion dollars through 2028.
TOILETS, BEDS AND WINDOWS
Four other companies are doing mockups: Boeing Co, Northrop Grumman, Sierra Nevada Corporation, and Lockheed Martin.
Each of the companies received a chunk of the $65 million that NASA allotted in 2017 to develop the prototypes. The space agency’s proposed funding for 2020 includes $500 million to kick-start development of an initial version of Gateway.
The companies are giving NASA ideas ‐ such as where to place astronaut toilets, how big the beds should be and how many windows the station should have. Those will inform a blueprint that NASA is due to release in the coming months.
NASA wants the habitats to include exercise equipment, a small kitchen, noise-cancelling sleep stations that also block out light and "a reliable and easy-to-use toilet that’s in a location that minimizes the potential for cross contamination with science and meal preparation activities," Gernhardt told Rooters. I guess that Muslim outreach is over?
Gernhardt and two other astronauts spent three days living in each prototype habitat.
For its Gateway habitat mockup, Lockheed Martin is outfitting beds, tables and windows in a 15-foot-wide and roughly 22-foot-long stainless steel structure originally designed as a shipping container to carry supplies to and from the International Space Station.
"The space that you’re living in has to be reconfigurable for the task at hand," Bill Pratt, Lockheed’s habitat program manager, told Rooters. "Like in an RV, your table becomes the bed that you sleep on at night."
Bigelow said his B330 habitat has two toilets for a crew of up to six to use, and that entertainment in the form of virtual-reality Earth simulations for astronauts to feel at home was in the works for future habitats that will revolve around Mars.
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Toileting activities not to contaminate food preparation. Check!
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Transhab inflatable is a great idea to get large volumes up into space with current payload limitations. It's hard to get your mind around inflatables but we've gotta think beyond Buck Rogers rocket-ships if we are going to colonize the solar system before the left totally takes over and makes this planet unlivable.
Warlord Khalifa Haftar’s UAE-backed airforce has conducted an airstrike on a location for the Ministry of Interior in Ben Ashour Street in #Tripoli causing damage to the buildings. No casualties reported. pic.twitter.com/q5fZebkSAv
[SYRIAHR] The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of 2 citizens after the regime forces had targeted their car by a guided missile in Kura village in Jabal Shashaboo.
Separately, helicopters bombarded Kabani area in the northern countryside of Latakia by barrel bombs, along with the overflight of reconnaissance drones over the area, and in the same context, it rose to 190, the number of artillery and rocket shells that targeted new places in the area of Abu al-Duhur, Kafr Nubl, Hass, Kafrumah and Maarrat Hurmah in the south and east of Idlib province, Khalseh village in the southern countryside of Aleppo, Kabani area in the northern countryside of Latakia, and the area of Jabal Shashaboo in the northern countryside of Hama.
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[IsraelTimes] Officials say groups decided to join state security forces without prior coordination to assist PM Abdul Mahdi.
Iran-backed militias deployed snipers to help Iraqi security forces quell a deadly wave of anti-government protests earlier this month that left over 100 people dead, Rooters reported Thursday.
Iraqi security officials said the militia leaders, who sometimes work in tandem with state security forces, decided on their own to assist Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, whose unwieldy government is propped up with the help of the Tehran-aligned groups.
"We have confirmed evidence that the snipers were elements of militias reporting directly to their commander instead of the chief commander of the armed forces," one of the Iraqi security officials told Rooters. "They belong to a group that is very close to the Iranians."
Another security official said the militias deployed snipers to rooftops in Baghdad on the third day of the protests, when the corpse count jumped from half a dozen protesters to over 50.
The source said the orders were given by the leader of the Hashed al-Shaabi, a powerful network of mostly-Shiite, pro-Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... paramilitary units operating inside Iraq. He said Hashed leader Abu Zainab al-Lami was tasked with helping quash the protests by "other senior militia commanders."
A spokesperson for the Hashed on Thursday denied any of the Shiite militias took part in the bloody protests.
"No members were present in the protest areas. None of the elements of the Hashid took part in confronting protesters," the spokesperson told Rooters.
Iraq was gripped by anti-government protests between October 1 and 6, during which 110 people, mainly demonstrators, were killed in festivities with the security forces.
Abdel Mahdi has promised to address protesters’ demands. But the 77-year-old premier began his tenure last year facing a raft of accumulated challenges, including high unemployment, widespread corruption, dilapidated public services and poor security, and he has told protesters there is no "magic solution for all that."
The protests, when they started, quickly spread from Baghdad to the Shiite heartland in the south, including the flashpoint city of Basra. The government imposed a round-the-clock curfew and shut down the internet for days, in a desperate attempt to quell the protests.
The massive crackdown appears to have succeeded in whittling down the number of protesters for now, although sporadic festivities between demonstrators and security forces continue on a smaller scale, including an hours-long shootout last week near the volatile Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City.
Even before this latest wave of unrest, Abdel Mahdi headed an unwieldy government. His coalition includes Shiite populist holy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr ... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah... ‐ who won the most seats in the last parliamentary elections ‐ and Fatah, the political arm of Hashed.
As protests peaked last week, Sadr called for the government he helped form to resign, while the Hashed took the opposite position, saying it was ready to crush the "conspiracy" aiming to bring down the government.
Since then state institutions have been paralyzed by division, effectively preventing concrete responses to protester demands for jobs, services and ending corruption.
[SANA.SY] Hmeimim-based Russian Coordination Center announced that Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organization on Wednesday launched 22 attacks on safe areas in the provinces of Aleppo, Lattakia, Idleb and Hama.
Head of the Center Major General Alexei Bakin, in statements to journalists, said that Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organization has intensified its destructive practices in Lattakia northern countryside.
Bakin indicated that the terrorist organization, sent from its positions from the direction of Jisr al-Shughour city in Idleb countryside, “towards the area of Kabbanieh in Lattakia countryside at least five armored vehicles and two rocket launchers.”
Terrorist groups affiliated to Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organization spread in Idleb city and its countryside and in Lattakia northern countryside, and they attack the residential houses in the safe villages and towns and the posts of the Syrian Arab Army.
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Specifically napalm and Willie Pete (white phosphorus).
[Rudaw] Kurdish military and politicians and health officials have accused Ottoman Turkish forces of using internationally outlawed weapons in its offensive in the northern Syrian town of Sari Kani (Ras al-Ain) and have asked for an international investigation.
"There are a lot of fears that prohibited weapons are being used in Sari Kani. Wounds we treat at the hospitals are not normal injuries at all," Dr. Manal Mohammed, head of the Rojava Health Board, told Rudaw on Wednesday night.
"Our health board is currently investigating to find out what type of weapon is being used against us. Like I said, wounds we treat are not normal at all," the doctor said.
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[KhaamaPress] The Special Forces of the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) killed the controller of Taliba kabooms in North-eastern Takhar province.
According to a statement released by NDS, the NDS Special Forces killed Salahuddin alias Ibrahimi, the controller of Taliba kabooms in Takhar.
The statement further added that Salahuddin had recently visited Taloqan city to carry out a series of assassinations against the tribal elders.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... the National Directorate of Security identified and eliminated Salahuddin in Taloqan city before he could carry out the attacks.
Furthermore, the National Directorate of Security said the NDS Special Forces arrested a group of 9 Talibs during a separate operation in Takhar province.
The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group has not commented in this regard so far.
[AnNahar] Armed men in uniform seized a prominent Iraqi blogger from his home on Thursday, one of his relatives told AFP, after a wave of deadly anti-government protests earlier this month.
The authorities have not confirmed reports of Shujaa al-Khafaji's arrest. The gunnies who allegedly snatched him from his home did not identify themselves or hand over an arrest warrant.
Khafaji uses his Facebook page al-Khowa al-Nadifa (Those Who Have Clean Hands in Arabic) to publish posts on political and social issues. The page has some 2.5 million readers in Iraq.
Last month, he had faced cyber harassment after a string of attacks on military bases the Hashed al-Shaabi, the paramilitary force dominated by pro-Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... groups.
"On Thursday, at 5:30 am (0230 GMT), a group of men in special forces uniform broke into his house and took him in the direction of the al-Muthanna airport prison," in central Baghdad, a relative of the blogger told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Iraq was gripped by anti-government protests between October 1 and 6, during which 110 people, mainly demonstrators, were killed in festivities with the security forces.
At the time, unidentified gunnies in uniform raided several local television stations, destroying their equipment and intimidating their staff.
Journalists and activists also received threats, mostly by phone.
The authorities say they are probing these incidents, but some in Iraq accuse the state of complicity.
Influential Shiite leader Moqtada Tater al-Sadr ... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah... , who has called on the government to resign, wrote on Twitter that "any act of aggression (against journalists or activists)... by the state constitutes an attack on freedom of speech".
"It is impossible to silence the free media... The attackers must be held accountable for their actions," he added.
Citing Khafaji's disappearance, prominent blogger Ali Wajih said in a Twitter post that Iraq was "on a highway to a new republic of fear".
He also claimed to have lost touch with another online activist, Maytham al-Helu.
"I don't know where the state wants to go with this kind of messages, especially when it claims it is not targeting bloggers, journalists and activists," Wajih said.
Khafaji's friends said on Facebook that before he was snatched "he had been followed and all the phones and computers at his home seized."
[AFRICANEWS] Nigeria’s government is under pressure to take urgent action against schools that are abusing children in the name of religion.
Over the last one month, police have conducted three raids on Islamic schools in the northern part of the country, where men and boys were chained to walls, molested and beaten, according to police sources.
The total number of people who have been freed from abusive conditions in these schools is nearly topping 1000.
President Muhammadu Buhari, who in June this year, said Islamic schools called Almajiris, would eventually be banned, is now under pressure to act.
THE POLICE RAIDS Last month, more than 300 boys and men were rescued in a raid on a building in Nigeria’s northern state of Kaduna. The two-storey house had a sign in Arabic at the entrance declaring itself "House of Imam Ahmad Bin Hanbal for the Application of Islamic Teachings".
This week on Monday, a police raid on school in the Daura area of Katsina, Buhari’s hometown, freed nearly 300 boys and med. Police said they discovered "inhuman and degrading treatment".
On Wednesday, police freed about 500 men and boys in yet another raid on an Islamic school in northern Nigeria. Sources from the operation mounted by Katsina police and federal police from Abuja, told Rooters that not all of the 500 students had been mistreated.
GOVERNMENT REACTION 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.
"Mr. President has directed the police to disband all such centres and all the inmates be handed over to their parents," a presidential front man said on Tuesday.
"The government cannot allow centres where people, male and female, are maltreated in the name of religion," he said.
Over the 3 raids, police have arrested at least 16 people including the proprietors and staff at these facilities.
Police is also working to reunite the freed members with their families, while many were taken to hospital for treatment.
"The inmates are actually from different parts of the country ‐ Kano, Taraba, Adamawa and Plateau States," police superintendent Isah Gambo told Rooters.
"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."
[PRESSTV] Thousands of students erupted into the streets of Barcelona on Thursday to protest against Monday's supreme court ruling that tossed in the calaboose I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! nine Catalan separatist leaders for up to 13 years.
The sentence has triggered a series of violent protests over three nights which saw demonstrators cutting off access to Barcelona's airports, molotov cocktails being hurled and infrastructures being set alight in various cities in the region as police used foam projectiles to try to disperse the crowds.
Regional leader Quim Torra issued a televised address shortly after midnight on Thursday calling on protesters to stop the violence.
Police in Catalonia have detained 97 protesters since unrest broke out on Monday, Spain's acting Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said on Thursday, adding there will be "no impunity".
The Spanish government and the Catalan regional government have both condemned violent actions and have said they will protect the fundamental right of assembly and peaceful protest.
[PRESSTV] A Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,front man has accused some Arab states of rushing to normalize relations with Israel, which is engaged in stoking anti-Moslem sentiment and desecrating Moslem sacred sites.
Hamas front man Hazem Qasem said Thursday the Arab states are desperately attempting to advance ties with Tel Aviv at a time when the Israelis are hurting the religious sentiments of the Paleostinian people and Moslems. "Which only we represent!"
He went onto say that a series of recent mass break-ins into the al-Aqsa Mosque by hundreds of Death Eater Jewish settlers reflected "utter contempt for the feelings of the Arab and Moslem nations around the world."
The front man also said an unconditional support by the administration of US President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... has emboldened Israel to violate Paleostinian rights in keeping with its occupation agenda in the region.
The front man stressed that the Paleostinian people, however, would continue to protect holy sites and uphold their struggle until the removal of the occupation from their entire land.
Senior Hamas leaders, in recent months, have repeatedly said moves by certain Arab regimes to normalize relations with Israel constitute a "stab in the back" of the Paleostinian people and their cause.
Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... , the head of the Hamas political bureau, earlier strongly condemned the US-led conference in Bahrain in support of President Donald Trump’s controversial "deal of the century," saying it amounted to Arab "normalization" of ties with Israel.
[SYRIAHR] The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored violent festivities on the areas of Hazawan west of al-Bab city, between the Kurdish forces against The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... -loyal factions, accompanied by artillery shelling whose source is positions of the pro-Turkey factions on areas where the Kurdish forces are deployed north of Aleppo, and the SOHR published today morning, that it monitored sporadic festivities accompanied by artillery shelling; between the Kurdish Forces deployed north of Aleppo and the Turkey-loyal factions, in "Mar’anaz" area west of Azaz city in the northern countryside of Aleppo, but no information about casualties yet, and the Syrian Observatory published today that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored an infiltration operation carried out by the Kurdish Forces after midnight of yesterday; on one of the positions of Turkey-loyal factions in Twees area southeast of Marea city in the northern countryside of Aleppo, then they clashed with members of the factions and were able to kill 6 fighters and injured more than 9 others
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[SANA.SY] Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis on Thursday affirmed the necessity of adopting joint measures by the EU against the Ottoman Turkish regime for stopping its aggression on the Syrian territories.
Babis said that during the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an summit which will be held on Thursday and Friday in Brussels, he will suggest taking such measures in response to the demand of the Czech Chamber of Deputies in this regard.
Head of the Czech Parliamentary Group for Friendship with Syria Stanislav Grospic, for his part, reiterated his condemnation of the Ottoman Turkish offensive which "represents a crime against humanity and an outrageous violation of the international law."
Grospic, in a statement to SANA news hound in Prague, said that the Ottoman Turkish aggression comes in a time when the Syrian Arab Army is achieving victory over terrorism in an attempt to prolong the crisis and to delay the defeat of terrorist organizations and their backers.
[KhaamaPress] A series of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s killed 33 Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... and ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... turbans in seven provinces of Afghanistan in the past 24 hours.
The military officials said Thursday airstrikes in Dasht-e Archi district of Kunduz killed 17 Talibs and destroyed a small cache of weapons.
The officials further added that airstrikes in Rashidan and Qarah Bagh districts of Ghazni killed 6 Talibs and destroyed a weapons cache of the group.
An airstrike in Chak-e Wardak district of Wardak province killed 2 Talibs and destroyed a cache of weapons, the officials said, adding that a similar airstrike in Sharan district of Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... killed 2 Talibs.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch shot Ike through the elbow. Take that, Ike! he yelled...... airstrikes in Pachir Wa Agam and Deh Bala districts of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. killed 3 ISIS krazed killers, the officials added.
The officials also added that airstrikes in Shah Wali Kot of Kandahar and Day Chopan districts of Zabul killed 2 Talibs besides destroying a cache of weapons.
[GreenwichTime] One key to a longer life could be a quieter brain without too much neural activity, according to a new study that examined postmortem brain tissue from extremely long-lived people for clues about what made them different from people who died in their 60s and 70s. I want to become comfortably numb.
"Use it or lose it" has dominated thinking on how to protect the aging brain, and extensive research shows there are many benefits to remaining physically and mentally active as people get older. But the study, published in the journal Nature, suggests more isn't always better. Excessive activity - at least at the level of brain cells - could be harmful.
Possible translation: epilepsy and anxiety are bad.
"The completely shocking and puzzling thing about this new paper is . . . [brain activity] is what you think of as keeping you cognitively normal. There's the idea that you want to keep your brain active in later life," said Michael McConnell, a neuroscientist at the Lieber Institute for Brain Development, who was not involved in the study. "The thing that is super unexpected is . . . limiting neural activity is a good thing in healthy aging. It's very counterintuitive." So my naps are a good thing. I try not to think, it makes my head hurt.
Betcha when they have actually usable data, it will turn out that panicking about everything is life-limiting as well as no fun.
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The completely shocking and puzzling thing about this new paper is... it has actively decreased the lifespan of those who who did considerable mental labor over it.
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If you like a Rye. And i really do. I highly recommend Rabbit Hole Rye. I know it can be found in the Knoxville TN metropolitan area. And my recommendation comes with my guarantee that if you don't like it I'll take it off your hands and make sure it doesn't go to waste.
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.
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
[PJMedia] The left is becoming more unapologetically totalitarian every day. Every freedom-loving American should be alarmed.
Buttigieg also criticized Warren for what he called "infinite partisan combat."
[American Thinker] Try to imagine that you are the son of a prominent politician who will ultimately rise to the second highest executive office in the land, and your very first job out of law school, when ol' Dad's a mere United States senator, is with a major bank holding company that just happens to be a major contributor to your father's political campaigns. Wonder of wonders, within two years of being a new hire, you are the executive vice president of said company. But you don't tell Daddy about that astonishing advancement because you and Dad, operating out of a keen sense of political and familial decorum, simply don't ever discuss your phenomenal career successes.
[Guns America] A judge in California issued a tentative order this week finding a "disconnect" in the ATF’s classification of AR-15 lower receivers as "firearms."
Ref #8: I've said it before: If Schatz and others like him feel so strongly about fighting other peoples' wars, let them go and do the fighting. 
[GRIST] Moderators of the three previous Democratic primary debates caught a lot of flak from environmental advocates for not spending enough time on climate change. On Tuesday night, moderators of the fourth debate paved the way for a new era of climate politics by featuring warming front and center. Just kidding. In actuality not a single question about the biggest threat facing residents of the United States, and the world, was asked of the 12 candidates who qualified for the debate.
$12,000. (+ or -) per month, taxpayer and voter paid retirement checks and all they can find time to do is bum rap the President of The United States. 
[Right Scoop] Vice President Pence has just announced a new ceasefire agreement with Turkey that will stop their attacks in northern Syria:
[Washington Examiner] A black high school security guard was fired after the school said he violated their zero-tolerance policy for using the N-word when he told a student not to call him the N-word.
[American Thinker] William Buckley once said he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston phone book than the entire Harvard faculty.
[Twitter]
[IsraelTimes] Alleged assailant from East Jerusalem subdued after colliding with Border Police armored vehicle following raid in refugee camp near Ramallah; officers say he brandished a knife.
[DAWN] A sessions court in Lahore on Thursday handed a man two death penalties, life imprisonment and a Rs700,000 fine for raping and murdering a child.
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
...Arabic for 
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
...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...
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeds places like Honduras and El Salvador, and a significant proportion of the populace as refugeed to Colombia and points south...
...Arabic for 
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to 
20 citizens 
...anybody you disagree with, damn them...
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[PRESSTV] When astronauts orbit the moon or live on its surface in the decade ahead, they will probably be doing so inside inflatable space lodges now in development. Dozens of NASA officials and veteran astronauts are wrapping up a review of five space habitat mockups built by different companies. The mockups offer the US space agency ideas for an ideal Gateway - the planned research outpost in lunar orbit that will house and transfer astronauts to the surface of the moon.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
Moqtada 
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
[AFRICANEWS] Nigeria’s government is under pressure to take urgent action against schools that are abusing children in the name of religion.
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
