[StraitsTimes] Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn has stripped his 34-year-old consort Sineenat Wongvajirapakdi of all titles for being disloyal and ungrateful to the king, according to a royal command issued on Monday (Oct 21). Yer fired, ya' gold diggin' vamp !
According to the two-page announcement, she was trying to sabotage the appointment of Queen Suthida and had overstepped in the affairs of the royal couple. For more of this Thai flavoured soap opera, and details of the catfight feud between the two ladies, head to the link.
[JPost] Lebanon began a sixth day of anti-government protests on Tuesday after supporters of the Hezbollah terrorist movement and the pro-Hezbollah Amal party confronted Lebanese protestors in Beirut on Monday evening.
Videos posted on social media showed motorcycles bearing the flags of Hezbollah and Amal driving through the streets of Beirut, according to Lebanese broadcaster MTV. The motorcycles were confronted by the Lebanese Army and prevented from reaching protestors. About 200 motorcycles took part in the parade, according to Al Arabiya. Military and security sources have stressed that the army will not confront protestors.
"We will not clash with the protesters and make a problem on the ground," said a security source to Asharq Al-Awsat. "If they are convinced, so be it, if they are not the roads will remain closed."
A statement by Hezbollah and another statement by Amal denied that the motorcycle parade was endorsed by either movement. During a meeting between the two movements, a statement was made supporting the "sincere" protests of the Lebanese people, but urging the government to adopt the reforms suggested by Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri.
Amal officials demanded that their supporters stop any movement in the capital, according to Al-Akhbar.
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It was discovered in 1956, and in 1958 they'd figured out what caused it. Ozone is made through the interaction of sunlight in the upper atmosphere, so in places where you only get sunlight 6 months of the year, you don't get much ozone creation. CFC's were not in widespread use in 1956 or 1958. Another natural event we attempt to take credit for.
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Can we now dispatch with this climate change nonsense? It is a scam by the left to part you from your money and redistribute your money into their pockets.
[Issues & Insights] A new and exciting movie was just released illustrating through semi-fictional dramatization how the Chinese government-controlled telecom company Huawei is a primary economic weapon in an arsenal through which Beijing seeks global domination.
The names of the people and the company are all changed, but "Claws of the Red Dragon" dramatizes Canada's arrest at U.S. request last year of Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's financial chief and daughter of its founder, for violations of sanctions on terrorist Iran and other offenses. In retaliation, Beijing detained two Canadians, an ex-diplomat and a businessman, for spying, and retried a 36-year-old tourist serving a 15-year drug offense, sentencing him to the death penalty.
It depicts a real life-based Chinese-Canadian reporter reluctantly taking on the story and risking her life to connect the dots between the company and the Communist Party and the Chinese People's Liberation Army. And the film goes behind closed doors to show the scheming of party operatives whose sights are set on global dominance in our lifetimes.
Having premiered over the weekend on the One America News Network, which will show it again Friday evening, the film is the work of New York-based Chinese-American New Tang Dynasty Television. The production values and acting, particularly Dorren Lee as journalist Jane Li, are top notch. Ex-Trump strategist Steve Bannon, who's an executive producer, hosted a press screening in New York City last week, where he brandished a well-worn copy of "Unrestricted Warfare," a 1999 book by two senior Chinese air force colonels. They argue that economic warfare, attacks on digital infrastructure, and terrorism can enable a lesser power to win a war against the U.S., especially as part of a "grand warfare method" pairing military and non-military tactics. Beijing hasn't veered far off that strategy in the two decades since.
[Rooters]...the justices found that federal courts have no role to play in reining in electoral map manipulation by politicians aimed at entrenching one party in power. On the one hand, it's always been OK for the Dems to gerrymander. On the other hand, I find the practice repugnant. On the third hand, I'm glad SCOTUS deemed it nonnamybidness.
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And on the fourth hand, it's up to the voters. How progressive!
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There's nothing about it that villages the Constitution. If it's so repugnant, the voters can change it. But neither party wants to.
This piece of shit just won't go away
[Daily Caller] The Florida Senate rules committee voted Monday to uphold Republican Governor Ron DeSantis' suspension of Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel.
DeSantis had suspended Israel in January, citing his failure to act during the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, and the committee was tasked with either upholding that suspension or reinstating the sheriff. Nine members voted to make Israel's suspension permanent, while seven voted to reinstate.
Radio host and author Dana Loesch, a vocal critic of Israel, cheered the decision in a series of tweets following the vot
Loesch then pivoted, saying that Israel's position as sheriff was in itself an argument for the 2nd Amendment and called it "further proof that we must be able to rely on 2A for our self defense because we cannot rely on government."
A number of family members and friends of the 17 Parkland school shooting victims were in attendance when the committee convened at 10:30 am. They gave testimony throughout the day and stayed for the vote that was held at 8:45 pm.
[Duffelblog - satire, Herb]
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) was surprised with deployment orders to Antarctica earlier today, her presidential campaign confirmed.
The Democratic presidential candidate has been a unique critical voice against American military imperialism, drawing national attention to the issue during the first two rounds of Democratic primary debates, much to the chagrin of foreign policy hawks on both sides of the political aisle.
Congresswoman Gabbard is a major in the Hawaii National Guard, serving as a military police officer. She will be deployed to the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station as part of a mission to enhance the security posture at the research station.
Sources at the Pentagon expressed concern at the potential threat posed by a nearby Russian research station located 800 miles away, as well as an increasingly hostile local penguin population.
"The situation in Antarctica is the greatest geopolitical threat we've faced since Grenada in the early 1980s," said National Security Advisor John Bolton. "It's imperative we put boots on the ground to protect America's vital interests in the region."
Gabbard recently made headlines following her brutal indictment of Sen. Kamala Harris's (D-CA) record as California's attorney general in the most recent round of Democratic debates. She was the most searched presidential candidate on Google following the debate, and drew ire from the Harris camp. Harris is rumored to be the favorite among the Democratic establishment and has courted big donors who funded the Clinton campaign in 2016.
Gabbard will be deploying to Antarctica within the week, and is expected to return next summer, shortly after the Democratic National Convention has concluded.
"It's unfortunate that Congresswoman Gabbard's presidential aspirations have been thwarted by her upcoming deployment," said Sen. Kamala Harris. "It will be difficult for her to have much of a voice in this election cycle while stationed at the South Pole."
"If only she had some friends at the Pentagon who could do her a favor," she added, winking dramatically and making finger guns long after the cameras stopped taking pictures.
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That Shutzenschnur Badge proves she's a German-Soviet sympathizer. So there you have it.
[Aljazeera] US forces that crossed into Iraq as part of a pullout from northeastern Syria do not have permission to stay and can only be there in transit, Iraq's military said.
An Iraqi statement on Tuesday contradicted the Pentagon's announcement that all of the nearly 1,000 troops withdrawing from northern Syria are expected to move to western Iraq to continue the campaign against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, or ISIS) and "to help defend Iraq".
"All US forces that withdrew from Syria received approval to enter the Kurdish region so that they may be transported outside Iraq. There is no permission granted for these forces to stay inside Iraq," the statement said.
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"In Transit." Yes thank you! South to Ali al Salem, Kuwait and then home. These sand kaffirs can fok off as well. Clean sweep, south and OUT! Handle it you bastids.
CHICAGO/TOKYO, (Reuters) - The time may not be far off when more adults need diapers than babies as the population grows older, potentially a huge opportunity for manufacturers of incontinence products - if they can lift the stigma that has long constrained sales.
The market for adult diapers, disposable underwear and absorbent pads is growing fast, up 9% last year to $9 billion, having doubled in the last decade, according to Euromonitor.
But manufacturers like market leaders Essity (ESSITYa.ST) and Kimberly-Clark Corp (KMB.N) reckon only half of the more than 400 million adults likely to be affected by weak bladders, are buying the right products, because they are too embarrassed.
Companies are trying various methods to change attitudes, including making products more discreet, avoiding terms like diapers or nappies, and placing items in the personal care aisle, next to deodorants and menstrual pads, rather than in the baby products section.
They are also trying to normalize discussions around the subject through advertising.
In Japan, where adult incontinence products have outsold baby diaper sales since around 2013 due to a rapidly ageing population, market leader Unicharm Corp (8113.T) has adopted the phrase "choi more" in its advertising, which translates as "lil’ dribble", to make light of the problem.
"What we are doing is trying to let people know that incontinence, even among young people, is normal," said Unicharm spokesman Hitoshi Watanabe.
[Red State] You may have noticed in reports about illegal immigration that there’s been a precipitous drop in apprehensions at the border. That’s not because there are fewer being caught, that’s because there are fewer coming across.
That’s in large measure due to the cooperation deal that President Donald Trump struck with Mexico.
In fact, even CNN has had to admit Trump’s success, as Newsbusters observed.
In an astonishing case of pigs flying, CNN actually ran article on Sunday by Catherine Shoichet and Natalie Gallón, "Why some say Mexico already built Trump’s wall ‐ and paid for it."
In it they note that Mexico has effectively built the wall, that Mexico by marshaling thousands of their troops to prevent people from coming in and not going north to the U.S. is acting as the wall itself.
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One of the authors is/used to be working for CNN. I can't find the article in CNN. CNN is still all Trump, all the time.
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The wall is being built at the rate of one mile per day. At that rate, the goal of 500 miles of new wall ought to be about complete by the time for Trump's inauguration in Jan. 2021.
[Red State] If there is one good thing we can point to ‐ without question ‐ that Donald Trump has done for the American people it is expose the absolute and utter elitist snobbery of the D.C. intellectual/government class.
Case in point: a stunningly whiny and clueless op-ed in the Washington Post on Monday from a former USDA scientist complaining about the Department of Agriculture moving to Kansas City. Agriculture Secretary George Perdue announced last year that the agency would be moving in an attempt to get closer to the "stakeholders". The deadline has come and gone and, unsurprisingly, only 45 of the 568 employees have chosen to move with their employer.
What happened to the rest of them?
Andrew Crane-Droesch, who worked at the USDA until this year, was shocked and appalled at such a naked attempt to purge the agency of "undesirables".
Out of the blue, in August 2018, agriculture secretary George "Sonny" Perdue announced that my agency [would be moving]. He claimed that this would lower costs and bring us closer to "stakeholders." That stated justification was a fig leaf for the administration’s true intentions. We didn’t need to sit next to a corn field to analyze agricultural policy, and Perdue knew that. He wanted researchers to quit their jobs.
One hardly knows where to start with this blatant snobbery, it is so insanely condescending. Crane-Droesch uses scare quotes around "stakeholders" and therein lies the red flag that signals the tragic disconnect between the D.C. elite and the average American. He thinks it is some kind of propaganda tool. It doesn’t even occur to him that he actually works for those stakeholders. It should excite him to be closer to the people he is literally paid to serve.
Joni Ernst gets it.
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Wow @HawleyMO this is unbelievable. The elitism of the Swamp is out of control. They’re supposed to work for the American people‐not the other way around. https://twitter.com/hawleymo/status/1186318792231735298 ...
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Clarifying.
Battle lines are starting to be drawn.
Move all the swamp creatures out of D.C.
Just as we dispersed the Federal Reseve Banks and the Circuit Courts across the heartland, so we should force the federal bureaucracy to decamp to Richmond, KC, Cincinnati, Dallas, etc.
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They LIKE being in DC. They are among their tribe there. The public schools are the best in the country and pay the highest salaries. They have a nice enclave there and don't want to leave. It's like an expat neighborhood in a third world country. It is well and good for them to rule us. We wouldn't make decisions that were in their favor if they let us decide.
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Ref #3: It's like an expat neighborhood in a third world country.
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The deadline has come and gone and, unsurprisingly, only 45 of the 568 employees have chosen to move with their employer.
The rest will go to work for the industries they were basically working for before the move. Lobbyists by any other name. See - institutional capture. Now they'll be on their dime, not the taxpayers.
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The deadline has come and gone and, unsurprisingly, only 45 of the 568 employees have chosen to move with their employer.
Indicating that they were not necessary in the first place. Wasn't it Parkinson's Law that bureaucracies expand because it is easier to get promoted by hiring more underlings?
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The FBI wants to tear down and rebuild the J.Edgar Hoover building. As a part of that, In line with this plan to maximize space availability at FBI-owned locations, reduce overall costs, and leverage operational efficiencies, the FBI will be moving more than 2,500 positions—both employees and contractors—to its owned facilities across the nation, including Clarksburg, West Virginia; Huntsville, Alabama; Pocatello, Idaho; and Quantico, Virginia. It is anticipated that several hundred positions could be shifted to FBI facilities in Clarksburg, West Virginia, and Pocatello, Idaho, while the remainder would be realigned to Huntsville, Alabama. The FBI already has a substantial presence in each of these communities. The FBI first began operations in Pocatello in 1984 and Clarksburg in 1995. The FBI’s presence at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville dates back to the establishment of the Hazardous Devices School in 1971.
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Often there seem to be international trends in response to historical forces, trends that then create their own historical forces. The age of 20th Century dictators, for example. Later, the resurgence of conservatism in Reagan and Thatcher. Then, a reaction by the left. And now we have the hand of elites clamping down on the unwashed populaces who would reduce their power.
In the US, it’s evidenced by the no-hold-barred fight to destroy Trump. In western Europe, there’s the EU against the people of many countries, in particular the UK’s Brexit movement. And in Israel there’s the prosecution of Netanyahu, which Caroline Glick describes this way: See yesterday's full post
I note several things, one of which is the participation of Alan Dershowitz, who seems to be fighting this fight on several fronts. Another is the more general idea that one of the ways that the elites are fighting back is through lawfare (something we already know) but in particular through the redefinition of politics as a form of corruption. For those of whom they approve, no act is bad enough to prosecute, but for those they wish to remove, actions that would never have previously been defined as corrupt are now defined that way and the legal system is the means to accomplish their aims. For example, the Israeli left's successful assassination of Ariel Sharon - causing him a stroke - by convicting and jailing his son for campaign finance violations that were ignored in the case of the Labor Party
This parallels the manner in which the legal system manned by liberal judges has been used to circumvent the people’s reluctance or slowness on certain issues in the recent past. One was abortion, of course. Another was gay marriage. State-by-state solutions and decisions were not allowed, and new constitutional rights were created by liberal justices impatient with the pace of change. The time-tested process of using amendments to the Constitution to effect change is considered too tedious and democratic as well.
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They're elites because they say so, and can say so ad nauseam thanks to their control of the culture: media, entertainment, sports, academia.
If you want to change the narrative you need to create a countervailing set of cultural institutions.
Not the odd blog, not one or two pastimes like NASCAR or country music, not a handful of small liberal arts colleges but dominant institutions that others will follow. Not Hillsdale but the Ivy-plus elite colleges. Not Instapundit but the NY Times.
If you want to smash the Deep State, get inside it and destroy it from within. Won't happen otherwise.
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[Red State] All of the IC are not flaming liberals, but, over time, employing the strategy of Gramsci’s Long March Through the Institutions, the people in the IC who are devoted to the institutional prerogatives, or ’equities’ in today’s bureaucratic lexicon, are fairly fervent leftists. They meddled and interfered in the US political system the way no foreign power would ever dare. They worked directly with the media to undermine and discredit the President and any advisors perceived as loyal to him. They sabotaged policies. They worked to create the reason for a special counsel which they hoped would result in either impeachment or a single term of a harmless and emasculated Trump.
I think we’ve reached a point in the current administration where they would be idiots to rely upon very much that the intelligence community offers as legitimate advice and to view every action by the intelligence community as a potential act of sabotage or insubordination. How do you speak freely if you know your words will be in the Washington Post tomorrow? How do you accept analysis and advice, particularly when it conflicts with your gut instincts, if the people giving that advice and counsel are people you know who are trying to have you impeached? You can’t afford to. While you "may" make a bad call following your gut, the odds of that happening area lot less than listening to people who are your sworn enemies.
There is no way of knowing what Barr will find, but what we know with mathematical certainty is that any Republican president would be ill-advised to rely upon the current IC for advice. It has shown that it is relentlessly partisan and will not scruple at using it information and resources to damage a candidate or president it dislikes. Democrats should not be terribly sanguine about this. A President Sanders or President Gabbard would be treated just as harshly as President Trump.
Regardless of what Barr uncovers, there needs to be a thorough-going purge of the policy and management ranks with the IC and safeguards instituted to ensure that this never, ever happens again. The IC is not a branch of government. It should have no politics. If it is to have any value it is to serve all presidents loyally because only by being trusted by the president will it be able to carry out its primary mission of keeping the nation safe. And unless the IC can show that it shares that view, then we might as well shutter the place and start afresh.
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Obama and others in his administration did all they could to destroy trust for the IC, DOJ the DOS. It will be hard and maybe impossible to restore trust in these agencies without completely rebuilding them.
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And now we return to another episode of WHAT'S MY PERV?
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If you recall, our last guest, Mr Carlos Danger from New York, New York, had a hankering for nymphettes, as Professor Humbert called them.
Now see if you can guess the secret desire of our next guess, from Rancho Santa Fe, California, please welcome Pierre Delecto!
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Now Pierre, here's the first question from our studio audience. ...
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Mr Delecto, our audience wants to know: Are you progressive?
PD: [ grins slyly ] Not... exactly.
Transgressive?
PD: Yep. Haha, you got me there! Trans, uh greasiness. Yessir. That's it.
Do your transgressions involve members of the opposite party?
PD: [ frowns ] No, not at all.
So these are fellow travelers of yours?
PD: Yes, actually. [ nods ] We're not open about it but we're members of the same... movement, you could say. Girls?
PD: No, women. Men too.
[ audience gasps, whoops ] Liaisons at hotels?
PD: No never. [ winks ] Not even at a Marriott! No contact at all. Hmmm... Our studio audience would know if you prefer to watch.
PD: wellllll ...I like to be "in the arena," as a dear friend of mine used to say about us. Ah-- you do like to watch!
PD: That would be correct, yes. Yessir. Giving orders?
PD: Oh no! Quite the contrary!
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TAKING orders! We have a winner!
UNIPARTY CUCK-SERVANT!
Jennifer Rubin, come on down! Give it up for Jen! She pegged Pierre [ wink! nudge! ] in less than 45 seconds!
BANGKOK (AP) ‐ Shares are gaining in Asia after upbeat comments from President Donald Trump and other U.S. officials on the status of trade negotiations with China.
The Kospi in South Korea led gains, jumping 1.3% to 2,090.88, thanks to gains in technology companies overnight on Wall Street. Australia’s S&P ASX 200 added 0.3% to 6,674.30. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong picked up 0.2% to 26,765.87, while the Shanghai Composite index slipped 0.1% to 2,936.99. India’s Sensex edged 0.1% higher to 39,320.90.
Shares rose in Taiwan, Bangkok and most of Southeast Asia.
Trump told reporters Monday that he was hoping to sign a trade deal with China next month at a summit in Chile, "or whenever that might be."
On again, off again talks on resolving a dispute over trade and China’s technology policies have dragged on for over a year, with both sides imposing billions of dollars’ worth of tariffs on each other’s goods. The most recent round, earlier this month in Washington, helped forestall a new round of tariff hikes on imports from China that would have escalated tensions.
[American Thinker] Here's her talking about her mom and the country whose voters rejected her, in an appearance on The View, finishing up with not wanting her kids to be exposed to such a place:
"I am so proud of my mom. I’m very biased toward her...love her very much and feel very protective of her, although I know she doesn’t need me to be. But, really my most important role now is as my kids mom. You know I have a daughter Charlotte who just turned five last week, a son Aiden, he is three and baby Jasper just two months old," continued Chelsea Clinton. "And I think about the country they’re living in right now it’s not the country I want them to grow up in. We learned last night that President Trump wanted to dig a ditch at the border and put alligators and snakes and shoot migrants in the leg...The depth of cruelty and inhumanity towards migrants, towards people of color, towards LGBTQ community...is not the America I want my kids to grow up in."
Basically, because American voters rejected her mom and voted for her competition instead, the place now comes up short. Chelsea Chubbell, Spawn of the turkey baster
See, it's only a worthy place worth living in if either her mom or some other leftist of her favor is steeped in power. Vote the wrong way and the place isn't good enough.
Which is redolent of Michelle Obama's famous 2008 statement to the press, commenting on the voter enthusiasm that her husband drew in his campaign appearances, that for the 'first time' in her life, she was 'proud' of her country.
Country good if Democrats are in the catbird seat, country bad if Democrats are out on their ear. There's no good country of its own accord, it's only good if its wearing leftist clothing at election time.
Which shows you the quintessential lefty loyalty to America, which is quite conditional: Leftists only like its leftwing parts, they don't like the country itself, which to freedom-hating leftists, is ultimately an abomination.
In Chelsea's case, it also shows what a spoiled brat she is.
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Global Grifter spawn.
Inherited millions from Mom and Dad's corrupt shakedowns.
Incompetent wannabe fund manager Hubby has pissed away god knows how many hundreds of millions of investors' funds.
Now she wants her own rotten borough thanks to the Unioarty machine.
Time to bring back that wonderful Athenian custom of exiling the most obnoxious citizens.
Go wherever the f--- you want, but go. For not less than five years.
Just STFU and GTFO.
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What rises and flexes its flippers,
Feet loathsomely squishing in slippers,
Preparing to pillage
The world for its village
Of vaguely batrachian nippers?
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That's one of the beauties of America: unlike some countries, you don't need an exit Visa or permission from the government to emigrate. You can go at any time.
So, Chelsea, feel free to pack your bags anytime.
Oh, and take your insane mother with you. The poor woman needs help.
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I'm sure ms13 wouldn't mind babysitting for you.
[The Federalist] The battle of Culiacan marks a turning point in the collapse of the Mexican state. There is now no doubt about who is in control of Sinaloa, let alone the rest of the country. Cartel forces seized a major regional capital city in broad daylight and defeated the national armed forces in open battle.
Violence is rampant across Mexico. Earlier in the week, more than one dozen police officers were massacred in a cartel ambush in western Mexico. A day later, 14 suspected gang members were killed by the Mexican Army. Homicides in Mexico this year are on track to surpass last year’s record total of more than 29,000.
Understand that the fighting in Culiacan is not just another episode in the "drug war," nor is it merely an incident of organized crime. What’s happening Mexico right now is more like an insurgency. Yes, drug-trafficking is one of the things the cartels do, but it doesn’t nearly describe what they are or what role they’re playing in the disintegration of civil society in Mexico. Indeed, over the past decade cartels have diversified their economic activities to include everything from oil and gas production to industrial agriculture to offshore commercial fishing.
In other words, it’s fair to say that Mexico is now on a trajectory to become a vast gangland governed more by warlordism than by the state. The last time this happened was a century ago, during the decade-long Mexican Revolution, which eventually triggered the invasion and occupation of northern Mexico in 1916 by the U.S. Army, including the mobilization of the entire National Guard and a call for volunteers. Before it was over, U.S. forces attacked and occupied Nogales, Sonora, in 1918 and Ciudad Juarez in 1919.
Historically, insurgent and secessionist movements have bedeviled Mexico from its very beginnings. Civil wars and rebellions were endemic in Mexico throughout much of the 19th century, ceasing only with the Porfiriato and resuming with its collapse in 1910.
What’s different today is that Mexico, despite its corrupt and incompetent government, has a rising middle class and a growing economy. Unlike the Mexican state, the Mexican people have shown themselves to be more than capable of industrious and liberal self-government, not just in the success millions of them have achieved in the United States but also in the success of local governments throughout the country.
Set against the Mexican people is a Mexican state incapable of governing and a cartel insurgency that now controls vast swaths of both territory and industry. President Lopez Obrador will not push back on the cartels. He has never said a bad word about El Chapo or the Sinaloa Cartel, and even campaigned for cartel amnesty in 2017, but he does have a long history of associating his political rivals with organized crime.
He has said he wants to tackle the "root causes" of crime and violence, which he has said are poverty and lack of opportunity, and campaigned for president on slogans such as "hugs, not gunshots," and "you can’t fight fire with fire." In short, Lopez Obrador is not the man to rescue Mexico from the unfolding crisis.
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Yes, grom. There are those of us who are more concerned about our own border with Mexico than we are about Syria's border with Turkey.
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Herb, scroll down from here and see my response to your nonsense. No responsible parent would ever advocate legalizing heroin, cocaine, fentanyl, methamphetamine or oxycodone. Do you have kids? You better hope the dealers never offer them a hit. They will sell it to kids just like they do with cigarettes and beer.
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The way to respond to the cartels is with a massive, heavily guarded wall, superior firepower and overwhelming military force.
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Yes, and it's making all the Democrats wet their pants. Mitt Romney (or should I say Pierre Delecto?) too. And we all know it's making John McCain spin in his grave.
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Have not come across an order of battle or any details, other than it seems Team Gov was rapidly out-maneuvered, and Team Chapo's technicals looked well-made.
[DW] Mexico has dispatched over 400 elite troops to patrol the northern city of Culiacan after a failed attempt ...Curses! Foiled again!... to arrest the son of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman left eight dead last week. See "Barn Door - closed too late"
During the operation last Thursday, heavily-armed members of Guzman's Sinaloa cartel launched an assault on security forces who had detained Ovidio Guzman, later prompting them to release him and retreat.
Mexico's defense minister admitted that the operation was "badly planned," while Attorney General Alejandro Gertz announced on Monday that he would investigate those involved, including government officials.
"It is not just about the actions of one public servant or one criminal. We will be analyzing all the facts ... to clarify what crimes may have been committed, then prosecute and punish them, without exception," Gertz told a news conference.
PRESIDENT DEFENDS RELEASE
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has stood by the decision to release Ovidio Guzman, saying that many people would have otherwise been killed.
"Not just the criminals, who are also human beings, the soldiers, who we must protect, but [also] civilians," he said.
During the festivities, cartel members set up roadblocks, set fire to trucks and used military-style weapons.
The government later seized a belt-fed machine gun, seven hand grenades, eight assault rifles and 20 vehicles.
Mexican and US officials also met on Monday to discuss curbing gun smuggling across the border, with Mexico's foreign minister saying many of the guns used in the Culiacan assault were made in the United States.
CONFIDENCE WAVERING IN GOVERNMENT
Although the public appears to be split on whether security forces made the right call in letting Ovidio Guzman go, national polls show confidence in the government is lagging.
In a survey by polling firm GCE, over 63% of respondents said they believed narcos and cartels were more powerful than the government.
In a poll by newspaper Reforma, nearly 70% of respondents said gangs were strengthened by what happened during the botched arrest attempt.
The target in Thursday's raid, 28-year-old Ovidio Guzman, is one of at least 10 children fathered by drug kingpin "El Chapo" Guzman. "El Chapo" is currently serving a life term in the US after being convicted in July for trafficking hundreds of tons of drugs.
What ? Everything from meth to fentanyl and all analog cocktails ? I don't think this can be done under anyone other than a Democrat crazy. You'll have to wait for someone like Bernie or that Buttigieg fellow before some of your hypotheses can be tested on hundreds of thousands.
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Schlichter puts it well in his latest piece, "Snit Romney": The same day he was on the Senate floor fronting about “honor” and “betrayal” there was a civil war breaking out in Mexico, yet Mitt couldn’t spare a second to fight to secure our own border. Every year, our open border literally kills thousands of Americans, via criminals and fentanyl. That’s what we’re interested in, not refereeing between tribes on the other side of the globe.
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Drug gangs went after soldiers families in the latest engagement. Give 24 hour notice to surrender and send women and children out, then their bases and homes should be bombed into rubble and anyone escaping should be shot. No prisoners. Send a message.
In effect, that's what they've done in San Francisco and Los Angeles. So I guess you're OK with homeless meth freaks and fentanyl addicts peeing and pooping on your sidewalks, sleeping in you doorways, spreading Third World diseases and dying in the streets. Here, check it out. It doesn't go away, it vomits on your shoes.
They'll sell it to school children, you know, just like the cotton candy flavored vapor. You'll have little kids passing out on the playgrounds and dying before the paramedics can get to them.
You've heard about the opioid epidemic, right?All the people dying from overdoses of oxycodone? You want that stuff to be available over the counter at your local Walgrens? We're not talking about beer or marijuana. This stuff is death in a pill. You don't care if these people die, if their children become orphans? You don't care what it does to their families, friends and businesses? You don't care what it does to our country? Oh well, shit happens.
And then the Guzmans will become respectable just like the Kennedy's did after Prohibition was repealed. Or they go into other businesses like prostitution and gambling. Then they buy entire cities like Las Vegas, not to mention politicians. Ovidio could become Mexico's next president. Imagine that guy sitting in the Oval Office during a state visit with President Ocasio-Cortez. El Chapo will be released from federal prison and he'll be there too, smiling for the cameras. That the kind of world you want?
But then, eventually, the pendulum swings the other way. Red necks, homophobics, xenophobics, mysoginist and all the other deplorables get sick of it, get angry and go on the rampage. Read about the Boxer Rebellion in China where the government was so weak that Europeans were calling all the shots, only here it'd be Chinese calling all the shots. The result is chaos and the bodies pile up. That's when it finally goes away.
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Policy that decides welfare for the majority must not hinge on the personal proclivities of 'elevated thinkers'. Policy must find a middle ground and draw clear lines that cannot be crossed. That's the real world, sir.
With this and your other theory of non-intervention by default, you'd have the US be completely prone to slow supplanting and surrendering the footing it has tried to sustain for so long. Destruction from outside and inside !
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And yet, meth and oxy available over the counter at Walgreen's would result in LESS harm than the current system of prohibition.
Would Mexico be exploding with violence and exporting their problems to America?
Would our prisons be exploding with inmates?
Would our law enforcement have been corrupted with seizure laws?
You have to look at *just how bad* the current situation is. Literally anything would be an improvement. We fought the drug war. Time to admit it's not working.
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Whatever happened to badanov? Miss his knowledgeable posts about this region.
Badanov poked his head in to comment on the Mexico thread on the 19th, JohnQC, then worked up a few articles for the 20th, but he is having health issues that will continue to require his attention for a bit.
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I will show you how Rantburg can contribute to the war on drugs. Ban the promoter of open borders heroin trafficking going by the pseudonym of "Herb McCoy".
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Lex, JohnQC, I shared the link to this thread with badanov, so you have told him yourselves. <3
Then immediately send his IP Address to:
https://www.dea.gov/submit-tip
Phaick Uneretle6310, Herb McCoy has broken no laws by having and stating that opinion, nor have I seen any indication that he plans to act on that opinion, since that would require supporting certain Democratic politicians. On the contrary, the statement of the extreme of a theoretical position held by a number of Rantburgers resulted in thoughtful discussion of its flaws.
There is nothing to report to the DEA or any other law enforcement agency on the subject as a result. Your brother, I suspect, would not be happy to be distracted from his real work to follow up on such claims. Please do thank him from me for stepping forward to shield us from those who do not hold back from doing real harm, as do and have quite a few Rantburgers in a variety of capacities over the years.
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It's indeed a legit opinion (that most of us, including me, don't share), but opinions are not illegal in the U.S.
I find the idea of Phaick Uneretle6310 to report an opinion to the DEA quite unsettling.
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As Abu eloquently stated, the repercussions of your coveted village idiot who refuses to put himself next to the body of the dead child who somehow got into the sh!t that came across his open border is disgusting.
When my brother is not putting people like your village idiot in prison he is working with ICE and CUSTOMS trying to stem the flow of chemical death coming across the border.
Do not insult me, him or my family or the victims by trying to impose what you're shallow evaluation of his time spent when you don't haven't once sat with the family of a 15 year old as they sat in grief by the child's casket like we have.
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I doubt your brother would put anyone in jail for exercising his 1st amendment right.
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Dam right he would. It would take him not time to find who HB drug connections are. And me, as a former fireman/paramedic who took the victims of open borders to ER to have their stomachs pumped out, that is all the info he needed to start chasing the leads to put users like HB in prison.
Dam straight we can put him away. Do it all the time, EU.
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I know quite a few people who'd be in favor of legalizing all drugs but would never touch them, let alone trade them.
The idea they have is that if drugs were freely available, drug crimes would drop because the margins would go away.
I disagree with this idea. While dangerous drugs would be much cheaper to obtain, use would go up. Probably a lot. Not something anyone could want.
Unfortunately the "War on Drugs" will never be won. It will still save lives.
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PU6310 - Dial it down. I don't like Herb's comments, attitude, virtue signalling at our national security's detriment or any other parts of his sanctimonious shit. However, it's NOT illegal
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I also suspect your brother doing investigation on a "American"* on this basis would violate quite a few rules and laws
*scare quotes because, well, we don't know, right?
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Don't insult law enforcement and read up on the Constitution.
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We are a family of first responders and law enforcement on a border state.
Submit his IP Address. We will take it from there.
How... Orwellian.
Don't agree with Herb a lot but he has the constitutional protected right to spout whatever he wants. And I support his right to spout crap, just like he supports my right to spout crap too.
Fuck you. Fuck your brother and I hope undertake unassisted human flight off the nearest cliff.
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Also if you just take an IP address as a real physical location, you are really fucking ignorant and need to brush up on modern networking technologies.
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Quite a few Rantburgers are in various kinds of law enforcement. Others are firefighters and EMTs or other medical professionals. I would appreciate comments here about whether you would seek to arrest someone based on comments like those made in this thread.
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I suppose Phaick Uneretle6310 wouldn't be so pleased if his IP were made public. He actually pretends that his brother breaks (or is willing to break) the law by harassing people who do nothing more than state an opinion (no matter how dumb it may be).
I have the firm suspicion that your brother, if he is who you say he is, would not be amused.
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I wonder if Omni hotels knows they have someone on their network that is being inflammatory?
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Drug gangs went after soldiers families in the latest engagement. Give 24 hour notice to surrender and send women and children out, then their bases and homes should be bombed into rubble and anyone escaping should be shot. No prisoners. Send a message.
[Ynet] Heads of regional councils plead with PM to repair breaches in West Bank security barrier, warning it is no longer effective in preventing terror attacks, say appeals to the military have gone unanswered.
The heads of local municipalities in the center and north are pleading with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to tackle a real threat to citizens living close to the West Bank security barrier after multiple gaps in the fence were found.
The request by the heads of seven local councils says: "We are disturbed and worried about a severe security breach in our communities and against our residents, given the number and scale of the breaches in the separation fence, with infuriatingly easy crossings receiving with no answer or response from the military."
Construction on the fence began in 2002 during the wave of deadly terror attacks of the Second Intifada. The barrier, which is made of concrete in some areas and wire fencing in others, runs along the border and into the West Bank to include settlements.
The local leaders stress that while the erection of the fence initially created a sense of security, the barrier has now lost its deterrence to the extent that it is failing to prevent terrorist attacks.
The letter cites an incident in August, when a terrorist crossed the fence at Kibbutz Magal and was caught on his way to carry out an attack in the nearby city of Hadera.
"We call upon you as prime minister and defense minister to act quickly to restore peace and security to the (West Bank) border towns," the local leaders say.
Menashe Regional Council head Ilan Sadeh said: "I remember in the early 2000s when we fought for the fence to be built. The fence was erected, millions were invested and we did feel much safer afterwards
"We demand that the government close the breaches in the fence. Deploy army units to patrol up and down as they used to to keep the people safe. Why was so much money invested in this fence - because of terrorist attacks," he said.
[DAWN] 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... on Monday lashed out at Western states, accusing them of "standing by terrorists" in failing to support The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... 's operation against Syrian Kurdish fighters.
"Can you imagine the whole West stood by the bully boyz and all attacked us including NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... member states and Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union countries?" Erdogan said in Istanbul.
"Since when did you start to side with terror? Did PYD-YPG (Syrian Kurdish forces) join NATO and we do not know about it?" he asked.
Ankara says the YPG is a "terrorist" offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has been waging an insurgency inside Turkey since 1984.
The PKK is blacklisted as a terror group by Ankara, the United States and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... .
Ankara's military action against Kurdish forces who played a key role in the fight against the bully boyIslamic 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.... (IS) group has drawn widespread international criticism and prompted some NATO countries to suspend new arms sales.
[DAWN] Harappa police claimed to have booked on Sunday five people for kidnapping and raping a transgender at gunpoint a month ago near village Dhoop Sari.
A Kamalia-based transgender person had been allegedly tortured and raped at gunpoint by two men on the night of Sept 20. The district police officer (DPO) ordered registration of a first information report (FIR) allegedly because the Harappa police were reluctant to listen to the victim.
Another transperson, Binyamin, claimed that while Harappa police registered an FIR against two nominated and three unidentified people, they were reluctant to arrest the culprits.
Assistant Sub-Inspector Mukhtar Ahmed confirmed to Dawn that no arrests had been made so far. On the delayed registration of a case, Harappa Station House Officer Zeeshan claimed that the transperson approached them late.
On Sept 20, four transgender persons from Kamalia had been booked by Zulfiqar for a show at the Mai Maseet Wali Mela in village Dhoop Sari. The group was led by ‘S’. After the show when the group was travelling to Jhang in a car, they were intercepted by five armed men at 2am. They pulled ‘S’ out of the car and took her to a nearby farmhouse. The transperson alleged that she was tortured and raped by two men while three armed men stood guard. They kept her detained for three hours.
The suspects dropped off ‘S’ to Sahiwal city, 20 kilometres from the farmhouse. Later, she was picked up by her colleague Binyamin, who was waiting for her at the festival venue where they had performed.
Binyamin and ‘S’ along with other transpersons approached Harappa police and reported the incident. “Harappa police was reluctant to register a rape case,” alleged Binyamin, adding that they had succeeded in getting a medical certificate, which confirmed rape. They finally approached the Sahiwal DPO on whose directions a rape case was registered late on Saturday. Police booked five people, out of whom two were nominated.
[DAWN] Police have decided to conduct polygraph and DNA tests of five suspects already detained in connection with the death of a nine-year-old boy.
Naveed Khan, a student in the second grade, was found dead in the fields in Shah Khalid Colony, Rawalpindi, seven days after he disappeared on Oct 10.
Sources said that one of the suspects, who remained absconding for a long time, had a history of abusing children.
They said that the suspect had been missing from his home since the police launched a manhunt and they finally picked him up from Gujar Khan.
Superintendent of Police Potohar Syed Ali told Dawn that the police had also received the initial postmortem report which didn’t mention the cause of death. However, a woman is only as old as she admits... the final autopsy report will be completed after forensic report is received, he said.
Mr Ali said that the initial postmortem report did not verify whether the boy was subjected to a sexual assault.
Ajmair Khan, father of the dear departed, told Dawn that the killers of his son would be arrested as the police had been using all tactics.
The police have also decided to launch an intelligence gathering operation by using young police officials in different guises and deploying them in a particular area to trace the killer.
[DAWN] The federal cabinet on Monday approved a summary seeking a ban on the "militant wing" of the Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...the political wing of the Pak Taliban... -Fazl (JUI-F), sources in the cabinet division said.
According to the sources, the summary, moved by the interior ministry, was approved through circulation just a day ahead of a cabinet meeting. The government took the measure to avoid a discussion on the matter in the cabinet, the sources added.
Under the Rules of Business, 1973, a summary is sent to cabinet members who sign the copy to give their approval, but under this circulation method, the summary is also deemed approved after a stipulated period of time even if the cabinet members haven't signed it.
Last week, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan had said that the federal cabinet would take up the matter in its next meeting.
The interior ministry in its summary sent to the cabinet had said: "Various source reports shared by our intelligence agencies and provincial governments with the Ministry of Interior [have] revealed that the JUI-F has established a krazed killer wing, a private militia/Razakar force named ’Ansar-ul-Islam’ to provide security to marchers for the Azadi March scheduled for October 27, 2019 and proposed sit-in in Islamabad from October 31, 2019."
According to the summary, a copy of which is available with Dawn, Ansar-ul-Islam is capable of functioning as a military organization, which is a violation of Article 256 of the Constitution.
The ministry said Ansar-ul-Islam was organised, trained and equipped and it was capable of being used to display physical force in promoting Azadi March and objectives of the JUI-F.
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... is keen to make progress on its long-desired second border crossing with Iraq in order to increase trade, Ankara’s ambassador to Baghdad told Rudaw in an interview.
The only official land border gate between Turkey and Iraq is at Ibrahim Khalil, in the Kurdistan Region near Duhok province’s Zakho and Turkey’s Sirnak. Ambassador Fatih Yildiz envisions a trade boost, including in Iraqi oil, if a new crossing is established.
"One border crossing with Iraq is not enough," Yildiz told Rudaw’s Rebaz Ali. Erbil and Baghdad have considered developing the Ibrahim Khalil gate, "but we need another border crossing as well," he said.
Baghdad has several times expressed the desire for a direct land link to Turkey, primarily to export oil. The issue has returned to the forefront as the Iraqi government looks for an alternate route for its oil exports apart from the problematic Strait of Hormuz.
Yildiz explained that talks between Baghdad and Ankara on the subject are positive. "Talks are ongoing with Iraq about the new border crossing, but it is very important for both Erbil and Baghdad to work together to open the new border crossing," he said.
The proposed new border crossing would also be located in Duhok province, according to Yildiz. The entire frontier between Iraq and Turkey lies within Kurdistan Region territory, putting control into the hands of the regional government.
In a meeting with Kadhim al-Aqaabi, chairman of the Iraqi Border Access Authority, on Monday, Yildiz stressed the importance of Baghdad and Erbil reaching a consensus on a second border crossing.
Trade between Iraq and Turkey suffered a setback during the war against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... ), totaling $16 billion in 2013, but has started to bounce back with the territorial defeat of the terror group.
In 2018, "Our trade with Iraq was $13 billion and we aim to increase our trading with Iraq," Yildiz said in the interview.
"Turkey is exporting 3,000 different products into Iraq," Yildiz confirmed. This is despite a ban from Baghdad on some imports. Iraq has banned imports of many agricultural products including eggs and chickens in order to support and protect domestic food production.
In January, Iraqi President Barham Salih visited Ankara and met with his Ottoman Turkish counterpart 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... who said he wanted to see trade increase to $20 billion.
Turkey is also an important trading partner for the Kurdistan Region, which relies on its neighbour for trade, investment, and oil sales. Like Iraq, the Kurdistan Region’s economy is weighted heavily in favor of foreign imports of food and consumer goods, paid for with oil wealth.
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[FoxNews] Complaining that they lost 11,000 fighting ISIS on our behalf, while ignoring that the alternative to fighting with the aid and support of the American coalition was to either fight ISIS on their own, or to surrender and be treated as the Yezidi were.
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On the other hand, I understand where they're coming from. You asked us to do most of the fighting 'cause you didn't want casualties, now when your buddy (NATO ally) decides to eliminate us, you stand aside. Regardless of the REALPOLITIK aspects, it still leaves a bad taste.
[TOWNHALL] Without a wall, a deported criminal can reenter the country and resume their life of crime. Take the recent example of Antonio Serrano-Perez, a career criminal who was first deported back in October 1998.
For the last 20 years, Serrano-Perez was repeatedly deported to Mexico following convictions for violent crimes and drug-trafficking offenses. In May 2019, Serrano-Perez pleaded guilty to reentering the country once again and was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison by Senior U.S. District Judge John H. McBryde.
[Ynet] The Paleostinian Authority has decided Monday to block 59 Paleostinian news sites in the West Bank, mainly those affiliated with Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", and originating in 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 Ramallah court made the decision based on the attorney general's demand that the continued publication of these sites constitutes a disturbance to security and public order and threatens public safety.
Hamas attacked the move, saying that "the Paleostinian Authority is burying its head in the sand in its attempts to prevent freedom of expression and return the national press to a dark era".
Update at 8:15 p.m. EDT: the Times of Israel has more here. This kind of thing is apparently a bit of a tradition in Mahmoud Abbas’s West Bank.
[The Federalist] According to multiple news outlets on Monday, House Democrats have conceded that they are very unlikely to conclude their impeachment inquiry and vote on articles by Thanksgiving, their original preferred timeline. They cited scheduling difficulties and new evidence of potential wrong doing by the White House as main reasons for the delay.
Democrats now say that they hope to be ready for a vote by Christmas, but waiting that long to resolve the matter in the House and send it over to the Senate is rife with problems, which was why Democrats wanted it to be wrapped up by Thanksgiving in the first place. If articles of impeachment were passed near Christmas, the Senate would be unable to begin a trial until inside of one month before the Iowa caucus on Feb, 3rd.
With 5 of the top Democratic contenders serving currently in the Senate, an impeachment trial could badly gum up the works in the Democratic primary.
[POLITICO] As President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... continued his attacks on the Ukraine whistleblower on Monday, Chuck Schumer ...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 43.87606589775522 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017... is asking the intelligence community what is being done to protect the source from harm.
The Senate Minority leader asked both the acting director of national intelligence and the inspector general on Monday afternoon to outline what "specific steps" they are taking to protect the whistleblower. Schumer said his understanding is the unidentified individual is receiving some security but said that he fears "safety risks may intensify in the event that the whistleblower’s identity is disclosed."
"In light of the President’s ill-advised statements, his lack of respect for the rule of law and his well-documented habit of condoning violence by his supporters, I am concerned that he may disclose the whistleblower’s identity or cause it to be disclosed by others in the administration," Schumer wrote in a letter to acting DNI Joseph Maguire and IG Michael Atkinson. "If that were to happen, it will be your responsibility to take immediate action to protect the whistleblower from both workplace reprisal and threats to his or her personal safety."
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professional politician since 1975 44 years of taking tax-payer money, money for nothing.
aka
Charley "The Joker" Schumer
Charley "The Rent-Seeker" Schumer
Charley "The Schmuck" Schumer
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It's good to be an unethical Congress member. "Money for Nothin' chicks for free. (DS, Dire Straits or Deep State if you prefer.)
"He's being really dumb to do this." -Senator Schumer on Trump taunting US intelligence agencies https://t.co/QbGSmx9Xvp
‐ Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) January 4, 2017
New Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday that President-elect Donald Trump is "being really dumb" by taking on the intelligence community and its assessments on Russia’s cyber activities.
"Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you," Schumer told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. And they showed us all six ways.
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[KhaamaPress] A series of aristrikes and armed festivities left at least 9 Talibs dead or maimed in northern Balkh and Faryab provinces.
The 209th Shaheen Corps said in a statement the security forces conducted Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s amid ongoing festivities in Chaqmaq Village of Pashtun Kot district in Faryab.
The statement further added that the airstrikes killed 6 Talibs and destroyed one of their vehicles.
The airstrikes and armed festivities did not inflict casualties on local residents and security personnel.
Furthermore, the 209th Shaheen Corps said a clash broke out between the Afghan forces and Talibs in Chahar Bolak district which left a Taliban ...Arabic for students... bully boy dead and two others maimed.
[BREITBART] Sunday on MSNBC, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Cory Spartacus Booker U.S. Senator-for-Life from Noo Joisey, formerly the mayor of Newark. Booker is a candidate for president in 2020, running on a platform of Make America Newark. He once wrote an essay on how to grope babes. He is noted for having an imaginary friend named T-Bone... (D-NJ) said his "sound mind" will restore the dignity America lost under the leadership of President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... .Booker said, "I have to say that this is going to have repercussions that are going on for years now. Having a sound mind and commitment to our values, I know what I will bring to that office, not only restoring dignity at home but rejoining with our allies in a concerted effort to create peace not just in that region but to deal with so many other growing, looming challenges." "I am fiercely heterosexual! I AM SPARTACUS!"
He added, "The re-election of Donald Trump means our chances of dealing with global climate change have been dramatically reduced. The re-election of Donald Trump means we are going to continue to see America more isolated from other nations and we will see more influence by nations like Russia who are causing trouble not just in the Middle East but undermining western democracy from Lithuania to the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union. So I am looking forward to being commander-in-chief to begin to bring a sound policy, a stronger alliance and make sure that we are leading with our values in a world that desperately needs more American leadership, not Trump leadership but the kind of American leadership that we are ‐ that the rest of the country, as I talk to world leaders are yearning to see again from this nation."
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Hurdurring about Muh Prinzupuulz all the livelong day won't matter a bit when the Left gets full control of what the Soviets called "the organs".
But I'm sure all those folks heading here from Guat and El Salvador, etc. are all well-versed in Burke and Locke and Madison and von Mises.
So it's all good!
[ConservativeReview] A left-wing criminal justice advocacy group with ties to George Soros is targeting nearly 500 prosecutor and sheriff elections across America in 2019 to install leftist local officials who will be soft on crime and refuse to cooperate with U.S. immigration enforcement.
The Appeal: Political Report has published a list of elections, filing deadlines, and voting dates to raise awareness for local elections for positions that are “responsible for setting a wide range of policies that impact detention conditions, incarceration rates, cooperation with ICE, and more.” The group is drawing special attention to populous counties where local elected officials will decide whether to participate in Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s 287(g) program, a Trump administration initiative to partner state and local law enforcement with ICE to enforce immigration law and deport illegal aliens.
The Appeal: Political Report is a publication of the Justice Collaborative, a project of Tides Advocacy, which is an affiliate of the Soros-funded Tides Foundation. The Tides Foundation has supported numerous left-wing criminal justice reform initiatives, including restoring voting rights to convicted felons in Virginia. These left-wing dark money groups support sanctuary city policies and want to elect local officials who will terminate contracts with ICE.
“These elections could expand the successes achieved in 2017 and 2018 by organizers looking to transform the criminal justice system and law enforcement practices,” editor Daniel Nichanian writes for The Appeal: Political Report.
“As of November, 78 jurisdictions had 287(g) contracts with ICE, a partnership that deputizes local law enforcement to act like federal immigrants agents. Three have since quit as a result of the 2018 elections. Will more follow after 2019?” he asks.
More following is the goal. In addition to this group, progressive billionaire George Soros has been financially backing left-wing local candidates across America to radically change local criminal justice policy. Michele Hanisee, president of the Association of Los Angeles Deputy District Attorneys, recounted in an article how Soros-backed district attorney candidates “have engaged in wholesale purges” of law enforcement personnel to “change the culture” of local law enforcement departments to fit Soros’ anti-incarceration agenda.
The consequences of these soft-on-crime, illegal immigrant-tolerant policies can be deadly. In King County, Washington, an illegal immigrant alleged gang murderer was held in police custody four times without being turned over for deportation because local officials ignored ICE detainers. This same sanctuary county released a criminal alien accused of stabbing a man in front of his son. In Maryland, Montgomery County has become notorious for releasing accused sex offenders with ICE detainers instead of cooperating with ICE and turning these individuals over for deportation.
The Left is taking these local elections seriously. They understand the power district attorneys and sheriffs have in determining policy and assisting or thwarting President Trump’s immigration enforcement agencies. If conservatives want to see the rule of law maintained and criminal illegal aliens kept off the streets, we need to take these local elections seriously too.
[DAWN] The Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz said on Monday that retired captain Mohammad Safdar, son-in-law of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif ...served two three non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts... , was arrested by 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.... police late on Monday night.
According to PML-N front man Marriyum Aurangzeb, Mohammad Safdar was arrested on a charge of "hate speech".
He was arrested on the motorway while he was returning to Lahore from Bhera.
Police had started the paperwork but haven't done much else against him on Oct 11 for speaking against state institutions.
Ms Aurangzeb, condemning the arrest, said the "fascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... government" of 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... had stooped too low to suppress the voice of the opposition. "First Imran Khan should be arrested for making a series of hate speeches," the PML-N leader added.
She said the government was losing its nerves with the approach of "Azadi march".'
[BREITBART] Sen. Willard Mitt Romney ...former governor of Massachussetts, the Publican nominee for president in 2012, now Senator from Utah. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals. He is currently a member of the Never Trump Party and is attempting to assume the mantle of the late John McCain... (R-UT) has been caught using the pseudonym "Pierre Delecto" to defend his own honor on Twitter.
Everything about this story says so much about Mitt Romney: his pettiness, his insecurity, his lack of character, honesty, and decency, starting with how it all unraveled: Romney doing business with the establishment media ‐ in this case, the far-left Atlantic and activist-news hound, McKay Coppins, who was originally hired at BuzzFeed to destroy Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign.
Back in 2011, Coppins was the affirmative-action hire of all affirmative-action hires. Determined to win Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... a second term, BuzzFeed knew it needed a left-wing Mormon (or a "media-approved Mormon," as I dubbed him at the time) on the team, someone who could trash Romney without being called a religious bigot. Before the race was over, among other things, Coppins accused Romney of ginning up a "race war" over his welfare reform proposals.
Moreover, Coppins is not terribly bright. That might seem unfair, but how else to describe a man who assured the world Evan McMullin "is on the verge of beating Trump and Clinton in deep-red Utah" as he’s "literally building a new party." Spoiler Alert: Trump won Utah by 18 points and McMullin is now a punchline. How else to describe a man who declared in 2014: "Trump very badly wants to be taken seriously as a potential political candidate and not be written off as a man-boy who cried wolf. But, at the same time, he plainly has no interest in actually running for office." Spoiler Alert: Trump is the President of the United States.
Anyway, like an abused spouse, Romney continues to cuddle up to his media abusers, people who treated him much worse than Trump ever has. It’s a clinical condition known as McCain Syndrome, and there’s no known cure.
[DAWN] Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif ...served two three non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts... was shifted to Services Hospital late on Monday night after his condition deteriorated which was confirmed by his fresh examination conducted by the government.
The National Accountability Bureau, Lahore, took the decision to shift him to hospital for a medical check-up in light of his fresh reports. "For the medical check-up of Nawaz Sharif, NAB is shifting him to the Services Hospital," a bureau’s front man said, adding doctors would decide about his admission (to the hospital).
Dr Adnan Khan, a personal physician of Mr Sharif, earlier in the evening raised an alarm about his deteriorating health, urging the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... government to immediately shift him to hospital for treatment.
"Former PM #NawazSharif is detected to have critically low Platelet Count (16*10^9/L) that could be due to multiple pathologies & requires immediate in-hospital care. I have requested the authorities concerned to act in urgency," Dr Adnan Khan tweeted after seeing the PML-N supremo at NAB’s Thokar Niaz Baig office.
"Today met former PM #NawazSharif for consultation & evaluation. He’s visibly unwell & has multiple serious life-threatening health issues of acute nature. I have recommended immediate hospitalisation for workup & treatment. The matter is of utmost urgency," Dr Khan said.
[BREITBART] During Sunday’s broadcast of "The Cats Roundtable" on New York AM 970 radio, political commentator and former Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of the word is... adviser Dick Morris weighed in on the prospect Crooked Hillary Clinton ...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away... adds her name to the crowded field of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates.
Host John Catsimatidis asked Morris if there are any candidates out there who have yet to announce a run that he could see running.
Morris said as long as Clinton has a "pulse," there is a good chance she is going to run.
"I think it’s always possible that Hillary runs," Morris stated. "You know, John, there’s a test you can do at home. Just put your fingers on her wrist, and if you feel a pulse, you know she’s going to run."
Morris went on to say he believes Warren gets the nomination, which he explained would be bad news for the Democratic Party looking to take down President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... "I think Warren will still win. And I think Trump will still beat the daylights out of her, But this Democratic process isn’t over yet," he advised.
[AnNahar] 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... on Monday denounced as "unacceptable" any move by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... to establish military bases in Syria, saying such a step would face opposition from the Islamic republic and other countries.
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... said on Friday that Turkey would set up 12 observation posts inside Syria as he warned Ankara would restart an operation against Kurdish forces across the border.
Iran's foreign ministry front man Abbas Mousavi criticised the planned move in response to a question at a news conference.
"The Turks can have any bases and can do anything on their own territory and within their borders, but if you mean... establishing Ottoman Turkish bases in Syria, this is unacceptable," Mousavi said in remarks aired on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
Such a step, he said, would be seen by Iran as an "aggression against the national illusory sovereignty and territorial integrity of an independent country. *SNORT*
"Naturally it will face opposition from the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran and other countries," Mousavi added.
Iran has repeatedly called for an immediate halt to the Ottoman Turkish offensive in Syria, launched on October 9 after the United States announced it would withdraw all its troops from the area.
A US-brokered ceasefire gives Kurdish forces until Tuesday evening to withdraw from a buffer area Turkey wants to create on Syrian territory along its southern frontier.
In his remarks on Friday, Erdogan said the proposed "safe zone" would be 32 kilometres (20 miles) deep, and 444 kilometres in length, and patrolled by Turkey.
But, he said, "We have no intention to stay there. This is out of the question."
[BREITBART] An illegal alien accused of murdering four Americans over the course of a week in Nevada is set to claim that he is "intellectually disabled" in order to avoid the death penalty .
Wilbur Ernesto Martinez-Guzman, a 20-year-old illegal alien from El Salvador, was charged with murdering 56-year-old Connie Koontz, 74-year-old Sophia Renken, 81-year-old Gerald David, and his 80-year-old wife, Sharon David, between January 10 and 15 after prosecutors said he was looking to steal money from his victims to buy more meth. The state of Nevada is seeking the death penalty.
To avoid the death penalty, though, Martinez-Guzman will seek to the deemed "intellectually disabled" which would make him ineligible for the death penalty, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reports:
[Public defenders] say information gathered so far shows [Martinez-Guzman’s] IQ is much lower than originally believed and that he may have been exposed to pesticides and fertilizers while working in farm fields in his native country.
"Based on the investigation to date, there is a good faith basis to believe that Mr. Guzman is ineligible for the death penalty because he may be intellectually disabled. There could be no greater insult to public justice that to execute someone that as a matter of law is ineligible for capital punishment," Washoe County Public Defender John Arrascada wrote in the Oct. 4 motion.
So far, prosecutors have said there is not enough evidence to rule out the death penalty for Martinez-Guzman. The illegal alien’s attorneys are looking to have the trial moved to February 2021 despite the current trial date of April 2020.
Illegal aliens charged with murder have routinely been using the "intellectually disabled" defense to avoid being put to death. In the case of illegal alien gang member Apolinar Altamirano, who allegedly murdered 21-year-old Grant Ronnebeck in January 2015, was able to be deemed "intellectually disabled" in order to avoid the death penalty.
Among those allegedly murdered by Martinez-Guzman was Connie Koontz, a mother, whose mother’s 80th birthday was the following day. Koontz, herself, was set to turn 57 five days after her murder. A GoFundMe page has been created to help the Koontz family in the wake of her murder.
Also allegedly murdered was 74-year-old Sophia Renken, as well as Gerald and Sharon David, who were both beloved members of the South Reno community. Gerald was president of the Reno Rodeo Association in 2006 and Sharon was a member of the group.
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The 'insanity' plea predates modern psychology. The jury made the call, not 'experts'.
BTW, when a dog kills a child, be assured whether the dog is smart or dumb, the death penalty is quick and swift. Be adjudge by the crime, not some 'adjectival' descriptive.
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I am seriously doubting the intellectual capacity of the prosecutors themselves. If you put a little effort in it, how hard can it be convincing a judge that the El Bobo cleverly stalked, killed and robbed multiple people ?
'Too stupid to be executed ?' Seriously ? That's a viable defence ? The judges ought to be removed for being too stupid to sit in those offices if they allow such pleas.
[IsraelTimes] FM Zarif says he hopes to hear ’good news’ soon, as Tehran angles for deal with Washington despite recent tensions.
Iran’s foreign ministry said Monday it has sent the United States a list of names it is demanding in a proposed prisoner swap, opening a potential new channel with Washington amid recent growing tensions. you mean Hostages? How about "F No?" I know Herb would say "pay the ransom!" Iran
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How about 'give us back unharmed every U.S. prisoner you have in exchange for us not wiping out your bullshit speedboat navy'? That's the deal to expect from Trump.
[Jpost] Two members of Iraq's security forces were killed and three maimed when 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.... forces of Evil attacked checkpoints in the Allas oilfields area of the northern Salahuddin province on Monday, the military said in a statement.
The Allas oilfield, 35 km (20 miles) south of Hawija, was one of the main sources of revenue for Islamic State, which in 2014 declared a caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria.
Iraq declared victory over the hardline Sunni forces of Evil in late 2017 after pushing them out of all territory it held in the country. They have since reverted to hit-and-run insurgency tactics aimed at destabilizing the government in Baghdad.
"Elements of the terrorist ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... gangs attacked two security checkpoints in the Alas oilfields area of Salahuddin province, and an improvised bomb blew up a vehicle belonging to security forces stationed there, leading to the martyrdom of two of them," the statement said.
Militants also opened fire on the security forces who attempted to evacuate the bodies, injuring three more.
A joint force consisting of regular troops and mostly Iran-backed Shi'ite paramilitary groups known as the Popular Mobilisation Forces is pursuing the attackers, the statement said.
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[ToloNews] A two day, round-the-clock battle is underway in Gizab district of Uruzgan, and has claimed 20 Afghan security force troops and at least 18 Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... fighters, provincial police reported Monday.
Local officials said that festivities are ongoing 5 km away from the district governor’s compound and police headquarters.
Khetab Khanjari, the provincial police chief, said that Afghan security force commandos were deployed by air on Sunday and seven of them have been killed, along with eight regular security force troops and five police.
"At least 18 Taliban were killed, and 22 others were maimed in the past 48 hours," he said.
Khanjari claimed that the Taliban had already "taken heavy casualties" before the recent flare-up, referring to previous fighting in the area that started over two weeks ago.
[ToloNews] Massoud Andarabi, acting interior minister, said Monday that the Taliban ...Arabic for students... failed to reach their goals this year.
Speaking at a naming ceremony for the police academy, now named for slain General Abdul Raziq, Andarabi said that the Taliban’s Alfath operation was a failure.
Andarabi said that security forces stopped the Taliban from reaching its goals.
"Afghanistan security forces gave rough lessons to the Taliban this year, and the operation launched by the Taliban....did not gain any new territory but instead faced intense resistance by security forces, said Andarabi.
Farid Afzali, commander of the newly-named General Abdul Raziq academy, said that now soldiers will graduate from the school with courage and the vision of Abdul Raziq.
"By naming a police academy in the name of the martyr Abdul Raziq, I wish that the new generation of police would make Raziq their role model and we will see hundreds of new Abdul Raziqs rise in the ranks of the police," said Farid Afzali, the commander of General Abdul Raziq academy.
General Abdul Raziq died in a shooting on October 18, 2018, and the Taliban grabbed credit.
Raziq’s body was laid to rest in Kandahar City.
Gen. Abdul Momin Hassankhail, head of the provincial National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS), was killed in the shootout along with Raziq.
The provincial governor, Zalmai Wesa, and the commander of Maiwand 404 police zone, were maimed in the incident.
Gen. Austin Scott Miller, Commander of US and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... Forces in Afghanistan, was close by when Reziq was killed.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Ilhan Omar, 37, is not only dating, but living 'on and off' with her married campaign aide Tim Mynett, 38, in Washington DC, DailyMail.com can reveal
The two have secret hookups at Omar's love nest and are taking romantic vacations and making plans for a long-term future together
DailyMail.com has obtained photographic evidence that confirms Omar and Mynett have been hooking up whenever she is in DC for congressional work
A source told DailyMail.com: 'They are more or less living together whenever she is in DC. They are even planning a romantic vacation at Christmas'
Quite the Lil' Trollop. Stoning in order?
Insiders have gone so far as to suggest the pair will consider marriage when their respective divorces are finalized
The source added: 'Maybe then the lies, the hypocrisy, all the sneaking around will finally come to an end'
The congresswoman spent months denying she had split from her husband despite this website revealing she had left their home and was having an affair
She finally filed for divorce on October 7 - but still refuses to acknowledge her relationship with Mynett, whose wife also filed for divorce in August
Mynett's spurned wife Beth, 55, is refusing to yield in divorce proceedings because she feels Omar is a risk to their 13-year-old son William's safety
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Tim Mynett will probably have to convert to islam before marriage. Become Timur Muhammad.
I suspect though, that this is possibly a long con. The Mynett family's way of bilking an affection-hungry woman. In the future we'll read about how Mynett was routing her money away to accounts jointly held by the wife.
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Whiskey tango...: Mynett's spurned wife Beth, 55, is refusing to yield in divorce proceedings because she feels Omar is a risk to their 13-year-old son William's safety
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The Dems are not going to take the trash out no matter what low-down things its members do. They vote as a bloc for party and retention of power and not for ethics. Pub are squishy.
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Between this and the Katie Hill thing we are seeing what Mike at Cold Fury called "the morals of a stoat." But remember when Larry Craig's "wide stance" had everybody's hair on fire. Good times...
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Morals of a stoat? That's a good one. Maybe that's why Democrat Party discipline is so much better than the Republicans. None of them really care what the policy is as long as they have the power and the perks.
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Sounds like she is the front runner for a Massachusetts Senate seat.
[Rudaw] Ottoman Turkish-backed Islamist forces are looting and seizing people’s homes and businesses in the northern Syria border town of Sari Kani (Ras al-Ain), according to several residents displaced from the town.
Kurdish security forces left the mixed Kurdish-Arab town on Sunday following several days of intense Ottoman Turkish bombardment and street fighting with the Ottoman Turkish army and its proxy Syrian militias. Close to 300,000 people have been displaced from their homes across northern Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, and over 200 have been killed, including 22 children, since The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... launched an air campaign on October 7 followed by a land invasion two days later.
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Consistent behavior, probably with a genetic basis...
[BREITBART] A 20-strong gang set upon four tree surgeons in Rochdale, England, calling them "white bastards" and cutting off a teenage worker’s hand with an axe. 27-year-old Habibur Rahman, of Milnrow Road, Rochdale, gathered the mob after the workers had stopped him from abusing an elderly woman, the Manchester Evening News reports.
Rahman, incensed that he had been "disrespected" on his "territory", tracked the four workers to the property they were working on in the rape gang blighted city, blocking them in by parking his car across the driveway while the mob approached armed with weapons including a claw hammer, knives, machetes, a knuckle-duster ‐ and the fateful axe.
"I am not going to let them leave," Rahman said from his car, abusing the workers as "white bastards" who were in his "country", the court heard.
"They’re going to get what they deserve. They’re going to get stabbed."
One of the workers, who was just eighteen years old, interposed himself as a "peacemaker", "completely defenceless" ‐ only for the member of Rahman’s mob armed with the axe, Mohammed Awais Sajid, or ’Skinny’, to suddenly slam the weapon into the young man’s chest, smashing through his ribs and collapsing a lung.
"[Sajid] followed up with a 360 degree spin of his arm, an act which was doubtless employed to enhance the speed and devastation of the attack," recalled prosecutor Tim Storrie.
"The blow itself was aimed at the victim’s head. He was dimly aware at this stage of the weeping of blood down into his waistband. He was turning his body, attempting to leave the scene.
"Through good fortune, he said he realised the axe was above him aiming for his head. He put his arm up to defend himself and the blade essentially severed his arm at the wrist."
The dreadful incident was only brought to a close by one of the tree surgeons revving a chainsaw at the mob to scare them away ‐ although not before Rahman had shattered another worker’s nose with a knuckle-duster.
Their teenage victim had to be airlifted to hospital for life-saving emergency surgery and reattachment of his hand ‐ which will never be restored to its full function ‐ which has been followed by another five operations.
Incredibly, Sajid, of Moss Cottage, Kings Road, Rochdale, was acquited of attempted murder. MEN reports that he was instead convicted of a "section 18 wounding" and handed an 18-year term ‐ although there is no indication that this was anything other than a standard determinate sentence, meaning he will almost certainly be automatically released on licence at the halfway point, if not sooner.
Rahman himself was given a four-and-a-half-year term, while brother Zillur Rahma and mob member Arsan Ali each received four-year terms for conspiracy to commit violent disorder ‐ although again, it is standard practice in England that such terms are only served behind bars until their halfway point.
Nine other people investigated in relation to the case were released without charge.
Strangely, there is no mention in local news or a Greater Manchester Police force statement of the authorities treating the crimes of Rahman and his compatriots as racially aggravated ‐ which would attract tougher sentences ‐ despite his statements about the victims being "white bastards".
Indeed, Rahman claimed he had received racist threats from the tree surgeons ‐ claims the judge dismissed as a "pack of lies".
"The fact that a mob could be mobilised so quickly and so heavily-armed is clear evidence in my judgement that you are each associated with gang activity," the judge said, adding that none of them had shown "a shred of remorse" for the attack ‐ strong words which belie the weak sentences he handed down.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Nobody has done more to sink the claim that climate change is endangering polar bears than zoologist Susan Crockford ‐ and she may have paid for it with her job.
After 15 years as an adjunct assistant professor, Ms. Crockford said the University of Victoria rejected without explanation in May her renewal application, despite her high profile as a speaker and author stemming from her widely cited research on polar bears and dog domestication.
Ms. Crockford accused officials at the Canadian university of bowing to "outside pressure," the result of her research showing that polar bear populations are stable and even thriving, not plummeting as a result of shrinking Arctic sea ice, defying claims of the climate change movement.
Her dismissal, which she announced Wednesday in a post on her Polar Bear Science blog, has spurred alarm over the implications for academic freedom and the rise of the "cancel culture" for professors and scientists who challenge climate catastrophe predictions.
"When push came to shove, UVic threw me under the bus rather than stand up for my academic freedom," said Ms. Crockford, who earned a Ph.D. in interdisciplinary studies, specifically biology and anthropology, in 2004.
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Well universities only want smart people and everyone knows that only card-carrying left-wingers are smart - ask any card-carrying left-winger.
Also publishing significant research - which supersedes publication of full professors - while being an adjunct - IS a crime.
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"So these nonces think the white world is under attack from...what ? The 'lectricity ?"
"Not 'lectricity, mope. Hyuman innervention. Like their smoke machines and the phut-phut thingies."
"What's in it fer us ?"
"Look, these perfessers... goggle-eyed duffers all, they pay good dropski to not come out on saturdays, an' we collect a boat load a' fish."
"Grumphh ! Is rayciss you ask me. I can catch my own fish. Three barrels o' Guinness, I'm in."
"Hush, Bobby. Why saturdays then ?"
"They got some docu-mental guy flying in. Look... just disappear for saturday. Sleep in, help Bertha with the washing. Burny here plays dead for 'em for a few seconds. An' they leave us a boat load a' fish. It's a good gig."
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The fact is: Climate in Northern Europe was warmer in the 12th and 13th century than it is today. That's why Viking could colonize Greenland.
The polar bears didn't have a problem with that or they'd be extinct.
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Shhhh, European Conservative. They’ve erased the Medieval Warm Period, donchaknow. It’s considered a sign of denialist stupidity to continue to insist that history happened.
[Jpost] US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claimed in an interview with CNBC that the US "completely fulfilled" its obligations to the SDF and disagreed with suggested the US had abandoned its partners.
We trained, armed, and funded a respectably sized army, of which only 10% were killed in action against an enemy they would have fought anyway?
US officials are seeking to avoid claims that they had any commitment to eastern Syria after US President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... suddenly withdrew forces on October 6, an ordered that continued Monday as American vehicles exited to Iraq. This comes despite the fact that as recently as June the Pentagon claimed to have trained 100,000 "partner forces" among the Syrian Democratic Forces and sought to train up to 110,000 by this month.
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[AlAhram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... is holding covert contacts with Syria's government to avert direct conflict in northeast Syria where both sides have deployed their armies, Ottoman Turkish officials say, despite Ankara's long-standing hostility to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan backs rebels who fought to topple Assad during Syria's eight-year civil war. He described Assad as a terrorist and called for him to be driven from power, something which earlier in the war appeared possible.
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[DAWN] Pakistain is committed to fully implementing its action plan to counter money laundering and terrorist financing by February next year and there’s no disagreement among various governments’ institutions on this matter, says Financial Adviser Abdul Hafeez Sheikh. "We're gonna do it, you betcha! Pinkie swear!"
A global watchdog for money laundering and terrorist financing ‐ the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) ‐ gave Pakistain a four-month lifeline on Friday, urging Islamabad to fulfil its commitments by February 2020.
Speaking to the US-based Pak media on Sunday evening, Mr Sheikh also highlighted the government’s efforts to revive the national economy.
"Basically, all government institutions are on the same page on this issue. We will take the decisions that we need to fight money laundering and terrorist financing," said the adviser while responding to a question about the FATF deadline.
FATF also warned Pakistain that failing to fulfil its commitments to this international monitoring agency could put the country back on a list of jurisdictions branded as uncooperative and tax havens for terror funding.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces killed 9 Talibs and arrested 4 others during the operations in Ghazni, Pashtun-infested Logar and Kandahar provinces.
The military officials said Monday the Special Forces conducted the operations in the past 24 hours.
The officials further added that the Special Forces killed 5 of the bandidosforces of Evil in Giro district of Ghazni where they also destroyed a cache of weapons.
The Special Forces killed 4 other bandidosforces of Evil in Kharwar district of Pashtun-infested Logar province, the officials added.
The military officials added that the Special Forces arrested 4 Talibs during a raid which they conducted in Shah Wali Kot district of Kandahar.
[AlAhram] Ottoman Turkish police on Monday detained three mayors from a main pro-Kurdish party on suspicions of "membership in a terror group" and "disseminating terror propaganda", the official Anadolu news agency reported. "They posted on Rantburg.com"
The three local mayors from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in Kayapinar, Bismil and Kocakoy in the Kurdish majority southeast, as well as the dismissed mayor of Diyarbakir, Selcuk Mizrakli, were taken as part of an investigation launched by prosecutors, Anadolu said.
In August, Mizrakli was one of the three mayors removed from office over alleged links to Kurdish murderous Moslems, along with those from Mardin and Van provinces in eastern The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... The three -- members of the HDP elected in March -- were suspended over alleged ties to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) listed as a terror group by Ankara and its Western allies.
The Ottoman Turkish government has repeatedly accused the HDP of links to the PKK, which has fought a bloody insurgency against the Ottoman Turkish state for much of the past 35 years.
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Running out of 'Gulen Supporters', Yippy?
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*Sigh* This is why it is unwise for businesses to get involved in anything political.
[BREITBART] Women and several prominent feminists have called for a boycott of Always sanitary pads after it was revealed that the company decided to remove a female symbol from their products amidst pressure from transgender activists groups.
An 18-year-old British trans activist named Ben Saunders complained to Procter & Gamble (P&G), the maker of Always sanitary pads, saying that not everyone who menstruates identifies as female.
Another transgender activist, Melly Boom, tweeted that: “There are non-binary and trans folks who still need to use your products too you know!”
Procter & Gamble, the maker of Always, capitulated to the demands of the activists, announcing: “We are glad to inform you that as of December we will use a wrapper design without the feminine symbol.”
The decision to remove the ‘Venus’ symbol from the sanitary pad wrapper across Europe prompted widespread outrage from women, with some calling for a boycott of Always products.
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An 18-year-old British trans activist named Ben Saunders complained to Procter & Gamble (P&G), the maker of Always sanitary pads, saying that not everyone who menstruates identifies as female.
If you don't self-identify as female, don't menstruate.
One daughter of Doris, a Nereid
(of whom there are nearly a myriad)
Is sought by the Police
Of the Sea. Seems the Fleece
Disappeared in this past lunar period.
[IsraelTimes] After US fails to confront Islamic republic for drone downing and pulls troops from Syria, Emirati MP says understanding is that ’Western countries can’t provide security’.
Amid improving relations between Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and the United Arab Emirates, the Gulf state has released $700 million of frozen funds to Tehran in recent days, an Iranian MP said Sunday.
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[MIDDLEEASTMONITOR] A fire broke out on Saturday at Iran’s Abadan oil refinery located in the southwest of the country, although state media has reported that the fire was brought under control yesterday.
"The refinery’s fire department contained the fire and prevented it from spreading to other units," state broadcaster IRIB said on its website, referring to the incident which took place in a canal carrying waste from the refinery.
Footage circulating on social media shows a huge blaze which adds fuel to speculation that it could be a possible Dire Revenge attack by Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... over the 14 September Aramco attacks. Blamed on Tehran, the attack halved the crude output of the world’s top oil exporter. Tehran denied any involvement in the attack, with the Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s of Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... claiming responsibility. Earlier in the month, an Iranian oil tanker was set ablaze in the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi, no fatalities were reported. Tehran named the US, Israel and Saudi as the culprits behind the attack.
ruling Liberals will form a minority government, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp projected on Monday after polls closed across the country.
The Liberals were leading or elected in 146 out of 304 electoral districts that had reported results by about 0230 GMT on Tuesday, the CBC said.
Trudeau needed to win 170 seats to secure a second majority government.
A minority government in the 338-seat House of Commons would leave Trudeau in a weakened position and needing the support of left-leaning opposition parties to push through key pieces of legislation.
Ahead of the vote, polls showed a neck-and-neck race across the country as Trudeau, who took power as a charismatic figure promising "sunny ways," battled Conservative leader Andrew Scheer for the chance to form the next government.
Trudeau, 47, the Liberal Party leader, was endorsed by former US President Barack Obama I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody... in the final stretch of the campaign and is viewed as one of the last remaining progressive leaders among the world's major democracies.
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Trudeau, 47, the Liberal Party leader, was endorsed by former US President Barack Obama
O's endorsement was almost enough to put Scheer in office. Were the voters trying to protect themselves from DS tool lefty doofus Trudeau?
There’s quite a bit to like about Schreer.
Scheer has described himself as focused on economic development, fiscal restraint, and reducing inefficiencies in government. A staunch opponent of the federal carbon tax, he has stated that he would balance the federal budget within two years of forming a government and open up the airline industry to foreign competition. Scheer has been likened to former Prime Minister Stephen Harper. On 27 May 2017, he was elected Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada—wiki
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Oh my poor, beautiful country! The same left leaning, unthinking takers voted for Turdeau as they did last election. The Canuckistanians CAN be that stupid.
Scheer is referred to as "Sheep". No balls at all, endorsed the Paris Accords, tries to be Liberal Lite, no principles that I can see.
Thank heavens that I'm 168 years old (I feel that way most mornings) and will not have to watch the total destruction of what once was a thriving country.
[IsraelTimes] US president says ’small number’ of American soldiers remain deployed on Syrian borders; second group stays to secure country’s oil fields.
US President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... said Monday that a small number of US troops remain in Syria at the request of Israel and Jordan, with some positioned near the borders with Jordan and Israel and others deployed to secure oil fields.
"The other region where we’ve been asked by Israel and Jordan to leave a small number of troops is a totally different section of Syria, near Jordan, and close to Israel," Trump said when asked whether he would leave soldiers in Syria. "So we have a small group there, and we secured the oil. Other than that, there’s no reason for it, in our opinion."
Trump’s comments followed a US pullout from northeastern Syria, leaving the Kurds, America’s staunchest allies in the fight against 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.... , to face invading Ottoman Turkish forces.
Speaking at a cabinet meeting, Trump said the "small number" of US troops staying behind were in an entirely different part of Syria, near its border with Jordan and Israel.
He said another group still in Syria "secured the oil," a reference to oil fields that the US hopes to keep from falling into the hands of jihadist fighters.
"I always said if you’re going in, keep the oil," Trump said, suggesting that the US would "maybe get one of our big oil companies in to do it properly."
Trump said that otherwise US troops are "moving out nicely."
US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said earlier in Kabul, however, that the US withdrawal would take "weeks not days."
"We have troops in towns in northeast Syria that are located next to the oil fields. The troops in those towns are not in the present phase of withdrawal," Esper said.
Israelis have been watching Trump’s decisions on Syria closely, concerned that their country too could be abandoned by its most important ally.
Beyond that, Israel has longstanding concerns over whether its enemy 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... will move to fill any vacuum in neighboring Syria, where Tehran has been supporting Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... in an eight-year-old civil war.
Netanyahu has been careful not to be seen as criticizing Trump, who has been a key supporter, but last week issued a statement saying Israel strongly condemned The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... ’s "invasion of the Kurdish areas in Syria."
He also warned "against the ethnic cleansing of the Kurds by Turkey and its proxies."
Hosting US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday, Netanyahu thanked Pompeo and Trump for their "consistent support for Israel" and hailed the strength of US-Israel ties.
Commenting on the US-arranged ceasefire in Turkey’s offensive in Syria against Kurdish fighters, the prime minister said mildly that he hoped it would "turn out for the best."
[THEHILL] Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments... 's (D-Calif.) office on Monday released a "fact sheet" detailing allegations against President Trump amid House Democrats' ongoing impeachment inquiry.
"President Trump has betrayed his oath of office, betrayed our national security and betrayed the integrity of our elections for his own personal political gain," the document argues.
It goes on to list what Pelosi's office calls proof of a "pressure campaign" and "cover up" by Trump related to Ukraine. The sheet includes quotes from Trump and the anonymous whistleblower who filed a complaint regarding Trump's July 25 phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in which he pressed for an investigation into former Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... and Biden's son, Hunter.
Pelosi launched the House impeachment inquiry last month.
[ToloNews] House Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments... led a bipartisan congressional visit to Afghanistan on Sunday, her office said in a statement.
Pelosi and the delegation met with President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... , Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah ...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president... , and "briefly compared notes" with Secretary Mark Esper, also in Kabul.
The delegation met with General Scott Miller, commander of US and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... troops in Afghanistan, as well as top diplomats, senior Afghan government officials, and civil society leaders, the statement said.
"Our delegation received briefings from Ambassador John Bass and other top diplomats on reconciliation efforts with the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... , which has been responsible for violent attacks in Afghanistan," said Speaker Pelosi’s statement. "We also heard more about the still-pending status of results from the Afghanistan presidential election in September, which we all hope will be available soon."
The delegation, in meetings with Ghani and Abdullah, discussed security issues and improving governance and economic development with Afghanistan.
"Our delegation emphasized the central importance of combating the corruption which endangers security and undermines the Afghan people’s ability to achieve a stable and prosperous future. We underscored that the women of Afghanistan must be at the table for reconciliation talks," the statement said.
The Pelosi-led delegation met with Afghan civil society leaders and Afghan women, and concluded:
"While Afghan women have made some progress in some areas, more work is needed to ensure their security and durable economic and educational opportunities for women and girls in Afghanistan," the statement said.
The delegation also traveled to Camp Morehead to meet with Resolute Support Mission troops, and Pelosi praised the courage of US troops and diplomats on the front lines.
The US has approximately 14,000 troops in Afghanistan as part of a training and advising mission, and to conduct counterterrorism operations against murderous Moslems.
US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper told the AP on Sunday that the number of US troops in Afghanistan could be reduced to 8,600‐and counterterrorist operations could be maintained‐but the reduction would have to coincide with a peace agreement.
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.
[JPost] Lebanon began a sixth day of anti-government protests on Tuesday after supporters of the Hezbollah terrorist movement and the pro-Hezbollah Amal party confronted Lebanese protestors in Beirut on Monday evening.
[Rooters]...the justices found that federal courts have no role to play in reining in electoral map manipulation by politicians aimed at entrenching one party in power. 
[Aljazeera] US forces that crossed into Iraq as part of a pullout from northeastern Syria do not have permission to stay and can only be there in transit, Iraq's military said. 
[Red State] You may have noticed in reports about illegal immigration that there’s been a precipitous drop in apprehensions at the border. That’s not because there are fewer being caught, that’s because there are fewer coming across.
[Red State] If there is one good thing we can point to ‐ without question ‐ that Donald Trump has done for the American people it is expose the absolute and utter elitist snobbery of the D.C. intellectual/government class.
BANGKOK (AP) ‐ Shares are gaining in Asia after upbeat comments from President Donald Trump and other U.S. officials on the status of trade negotiations with China.
[The Federalist] The battle of Culiacan marks a turning point in the collapse of the Mexican state. There is now no doubt about who is in control of Sinaloa, let alone the rest of the country. Cartel forces seized a major regional capital city in broad daylight and defeated the national armed forces in open battle.
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...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
[The Federalist] According to multiple news outlets on Monday, House Democrats have conceded that they are very unlikely to conclude their impeachment inquiry and vote on articles by Thanksgiving, their original preferred timeline. They cited scheduling difficulties and new evidence of potential wrong doing by the White House as main reasons for the delay.
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
"He's being really dumb to do this." -Senator Schumer on Trump taunting US intelligence agencies https://t.co/QbGSmx9Xvp
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U.S. Senator-for-Life from Noo Joisey, formerly the mayor of Newark. Booker is a candidate for president in 2020, running on a platform of 
...anybody you disagree with, damn them...
...former governor of Massachussetts, the Publican nominee for president in 2012, now Senator from Utah. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals. He is currently a member of the Never Trump Party and is attempting to assume the mantle of the late John McCain...
...served 
...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as 
...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 
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
[ToloNews] Massoud Andarabi, acting interior minister, said Monday that the 
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
[BREITBART] A 20-strong gang set upon four tree surgeons in Rochdale, England, calling them "white bastards" and cutting off a teenage worker’s hand with an axe. 27-year-old Habibur Rahman, of Milnrow Road, Rochdale, gathered the mob after the workers had stopped him from abusing an elderly woman, the Manchester Evening News reports.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Nobody has done more to sink the claim that climate change is endangering polar bears than zoologist Susan Crockford ‐ and she may have paid for it with her job.
[Jpost] US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claimed in an interview with CNBC that the US "completely fulfilled" its obligations to the SDF and disagreed with suggested the US had abandoned its partners.
[AlAhram] 
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...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 Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
[DAWN] Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's
...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 
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
[ToloNews] House Speaker 
