Speculation rampant on if it is the same style as the Soros one. The 'Caravan' news has become a midterm issue and is bolstering President Trump's ratings. Something had to been done to break the Caravan news cycle.
This is turning into kind of a big deal, as they say.
Except...
Hmmm. ABC News hears it wasn’t an explosive device after all, and that it wasn’t actually at the Clinton house:
Preliminary investigations suggest the package was not an explosive device and that it was found near, not on, the Clintons’ property in the Westchester County town of Chappaqua.
Investigators are trying to determine if the package was a hoax, or if concern about it was the result of nervousness.
That would be good news … except for the bad reporting.
Update: NBC now reports “near” too:
Police in New Castle, New York, said they are investigating a suspicious package found early Wednesday morning near the home of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Sgt. Jeffrey Merritt told NBC News officers are working with the Secret Service and the FBI, but declined to release further details.
If the investigation is from an abundance of caution, well … good. That’s exactly what we’d expect. But reporting it as a “bomb” and at the Clinton home would be a huge error.
So what we have here is a possible attempted triple attack, but the near-certainty of bad reporting.
Do you get the feeling that reporters want so badly for the Right to be politically violent, that they're allowing their feelings to corrupt what should be straight-forward reports?
CLARIFICATION: At this time the Secret Service has intercepted TWO suspicious packages - one in NY and one in D.C. Reports of a third intercepted package addressed to the WH are incorrect.
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Do you get the feeling that reporters want so badly for the Right to be politically violent, that they're allowing their feelings to corrupt what should be straight-forward reports?
You mean like how they call for rumors and obvious lies on every real shooting? Like how they still can't accept a Communist killed Kennedy?
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They still can't accept communism is bad. They still can't accept Ted Kennedy committed negligent manslaughter. They still can't accept illegal foreigners are not citizens. The list goes on and on...
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#6 Too bad Breaking and not Booming.
Proof they're Republican bombs? Being so much less experienced at such things than Dems, it makes sense they'd be duds.
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Suspicious package sent to @DWStweets was originally addressed to @EricHolder , but had incorrect address... but return address was Wasserman-Schultz office so it went there. Packages sent to @HillaryClinton also had @DWStweets return address. @WPLGLocal10
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Apparently one was sent to Maxine Waters. Cuomo tried to get into the act, too. In a mid-day press conference in front of New York's Time Warner Center, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that his office was sent a "device."
An NYPD official now says the suspicious package in question has since been deemed safe.
The source describes it as an informational package that contained literature.
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They screwed up on Maxine's IED - they sent it to an address in her district, when everyone knows she doesn't live in that district. She's too good for it
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Skidmark’s Daily Mail article has photos of the device and the envelope sent to CNN. It wppears a workmanlike job, if basic, though I am nit qualified to judge more than that. The article was last updated at 4:08 pm EDT, with the following key points:
Secret Service said Wednesday they intercepted two packages en route to Obama's Washington home and Hillary Clinton's New York residence
Another suspicious package was also discovered Wednesday at the Time Warner Center in New York where CNN's newsroom is located
Authorities have described the devices as 'pipe bombs' that were rudimentary but functional
Investigators believe the devices are all similar to a small pipe bomb found at billionaire George Soros' home in New York on Monday
Other intercepted devices have also been reported that targeted Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, California congresswoman Maxine Waters and former Attorney General Eric Holder
The packages that were intercepted all had Schultz's office listed as a return address
Earlier, a law enforcement source said they believed there had also been a package intercepted for the White House but Secret Service later denied it
The White House issued a statement regarding the devices condemning the 'violent attacks'
Those targeted are among Trump's biggest political enemies and have been subjected to his ire on Twitter
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Shirley, this attack could not have taken place without the direct orders from the POTUS. Or Putin.
[yes, /sarc]
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Don't call me Shirley........or Surely......
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Maybe someone finally snapped after all the Antifa, the Kavanaugh debacle, the "kick them", and all Maxipad Waters incitement to riot, and the Dems in general encouraging mob violence.
Sooner or later it will happen. The big difference is that it already has happened to the conservatives but the press really didn't care enough to cover it.
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Six bombs with digital clock timers and not one of them exploded. Interesting.
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And they all arrived on the same day? I don't know how predictable all these mail districts are, but I don't think I could get that many packages delivered on the same day just within 60 miles of here.
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False Flag to allow for the need to have "conservative violence" as an offset for the read left behavior. This lets the talking heads have something to use, angers the flagging lefty base, and diverts everything from the horrendous impact of the caravan imagery on the upcoming election. Desperation time as they see even the house slipping away and take desperate steps to shift the narrative...
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Debra Wazzerman Shultz return address added credibility since John Brennan contributes to NBC; not CNN. Shultz would miss this type of detail since she was dumb enough to hire Pakistani IT guys.
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I first washed up in Washington in 2017,
Dropped off on Pennsylvania Ave. by someone's limousine,
But the swampies got suspicious when I bought a bunch of clocks
And went round to deliver 'em all to the Dems, dressed up as Mister Fawkes.
Next morning in the twitterverse I caught a lot of heat,
Or, rather, smoke: Failed Mail Kabooms! Deplorable Defeat!
Said the judge, "I'm going to charge you with the possession of these devices...
But the Party profoundly appreciates such noble sacrifices!"
Says I to him, "Your honour, if you'll give me half a sec,
I'll show you how I nearly blew you feckers up, by Kek,
Though the ACME Fake Kabooms I used were basically inert,
And the victims of my fatal hate remain, alas, unhurt."
Grins the judge, "No time for that, my man, I've got another plan
To blame on you, your Trumpkin pals, the Nazis, and the Klan.
Tonight, you'll don a gold toupee, and in a well lit box,
Deposit umpteen envelopes block-printed, 'TOXIC POX!'"
[WSJ] He’s the average American in exaggerated form‐blunt, simple, willing to fight, mistrustful of intellectuals.
Every big U.S. election is interesting, but the coming midterms are fascinating for a reason most commentators forget to mention: The Democrats have no issues. The economy is booming and America’s international position is strong. In foreign affairs, the U.S. has remembered in the nick of time what Machiavelli advised princes five centuries ago: Don’t seek to be loved, seek to be feared.
The contrast with the Obama years must be painful for any honest leftist. For future generations, the Kavanaugh fight will stand as a marker of the Democratic Party’s intellectual bankruptcy, the flashing red light on the dashboard that says "Empty." The left is beaten.
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[Aljazeera] Jordan's former counterterrorism chief General Habis Hanayneh has been shot dead outside his home, according to medical and security sources.
Hanayneh was killed around 7pm (16:00 GMT) on Tuesday in the city of Madaba, around 30km southwest of the capital, Amman.
The 56-year-old, also known as Abu Haytham, died from three gunshot wounds to the chest and was pronounced dead on arrival at al-Nadim hospital, doctor Ibrahim Owais told Al Jazeera.
The assailant has been arrested, according to a statement issued by the spokesman of Jordan's public security department.
"The murderer confessed to his crime, saying he had planned it a while ago, believing that Hanayneh was behind his arrest in Russia in 2005, and caused him trouble at his work," the spokesman said in a statement.
A senior Jordanian intelligence officer and a former senior CIA officer who still has ties to Jordan confirmed Hanayneh's death.
The senior Jordanian intelligence officer, who spoke to Al Jazeera on condition of anonymity, said he had known and worked with Hanayneh for decades and that his death "was a tragic loss to Jordan and the counterterrorism community around the world".
A former CIA analyst, who had worked with Hanayneh in the past and did not wish to be identified for this report, told Al Jazeera that Hanayneh was an "extremely smart intelligence officer" and that he "really understood the underpinning of why individuals join extremist groups".
Hanayneh retired from Jordan's General Directorate of Intelligence (GID) "about a year ago", said the senior Jordanian intelligence officer.
This is the first time in recent memory where a high-ranking Jordanian intelligence officer was killed either on active duty or in retirement.
[Aljazeera] The leader of a controversial vigilante group fights for legitimacy in a crime-riddled South African community. Galeshewe, a Township bordering Kimberley, SA. Operation Wanya Tsotsi at Facebook
[Breitbart] As the Democrats drift further leftward into openly embracing socialism, House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) warns the political battle ahead of the midterm elections just two weeks from now is no longer a traditional partisan battle. Instead it is one where the country must confront and reject extreme ideas from the left.
“The debate today is different than the one we had before with Republicans versus Democrats on the size of what government can be,” McCarthy said in an exclusive interview on Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM 125 the Patriot Channel on Tuesday. “You hit the nail on the head: It’s no longer Republicans versus the Democrats, it’s America versus socialism. The movement in this Democratic Party toward clear socialism, that’s what they’re doing on healthcare–government-run, it’s all government telling you what to do and when to do it instead of unshackling and unleashing the great powers of liberty and freedom.”
With the latest caravan of thousands of prospective illegal aliens streaming from Central America through Mexico to the U.S. border right now, McCarthy said people in the United States “should be upset because in Congress we had put a bill on the floor for immigration reform that would deal with this and end catch-and-release and not one Democrat voted for it.”
McCarthy, as Breitbart News has previously exclusively reported, has put forward legislation that would fully fund President Donald Trump’s planned border wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.
[National Review] Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum, the Democratic Florida gubernatorial candidate, was aware that tickets he received to a Broadway show were purchased by an undercover FBI agent he thought was a land developer, according to more than 100 pages of records given to the state ethics commission and released to the public Tuesday.
The records, which were provided to the commission by an attorney representing Adam Corey, a lobbyist and longtime friend of Gillum’s, include text-messages between Corey and Gillum, and indicate that Gillum lied on numerous occasions in claiming he was unaware who purchased the tickets when he attended the play.
"Mike Miller and the crew have tickets for us for Hamilton tonight at 8 p.m.," Corey texted Gillum on Aug. 10, 2016, referring to one of the two undercover FBI agents who attended the trip to New York while posing as land developers with business before the city.
"Awesome news about Hamilton," Gillum replied.
The ethics commission is currently probing trips Gillum took to New York and Costa Rica that were arranged by Corey.
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It's amazing what a good deal you can get on some of these whores.
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Guessing Martha Stewart, Scooter Libbey and Mike Flynn still don't wish they were black...
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Gillum lied on numerous occasions in claiming he was unaware who purchased the tickets when he attended the play.
Once again, it's not the crime but the cover-up that gets you.
As for the FBI giving him tickets...
Back in the hippie days, there was a running joke about how the most radical SDS cells consisted entirely of FBI informants egging each other on to greater and greater levels of violence. Given what we now know about the FBI, maybe it wasn't that much of a joke.
[The Wrap] Fox News host Shep Smith fired back at an angry viewer on Tuesday, telling a woman on live TV that President Trump was using her "fear of invasion" to whip up votes from his conservative base.
Smith read out loud a tweet from a viewer named "Heidi," who took issue with Smith’s coverage of the migrant "caravan" slowly making its way to the U.S. border.
"Heidi tweets just now, ’Sorry, Shep,'" the anchor read. "We are not falling for your fake story. This is an invasion. This is not a caravan of poor migrants seeking a better life. Yes, there may be some of that there. But you’re full of it if you believe what you’re saying. POTUS has intel. You don’t.'"
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Shep Smith is a classic example of the liberal mindset in that "No cause is too expensive if it is paid for with Other People's Money™!" His "I am impartial like Walter Cronkite" mindset became painfully clear in the BP Oil Spill back in 2010 and I have ignored him ever since.
U.S./MEXICO BORDER—The migrant caravan headed for the U.S. has been the center of much controversy, but the problem seems to have solved itself, as the entire caravan has mysteriously disappeared.
In other, unrelated, good news, there's now a really cool-looking giant wooden horse sitting right at the U.S. border, fresh for the taking.
[Free Beacon] A Minnesota Democrat running for Congress on her business record says she had no knowledge of a company subsidiary that was implicated in a kickback scheme with the Saddam Hussein regime.
Angie Craig is challenging Republican representative Jason Lewis in Minnesota's 2nd Congressional District, a rematch of the 2016 race that Lewis won by fewer than 7,000 votes. She has highlighted her success "working in health care" for more than two decades as evidence that she can "contribute meaningfully to immediately fixing what's wrong with health care." Her rise in the business world came through her work in corporate communications for global medical device firm Smith & Nephew. Her 12-year tenure at the company coincided with allegations that the company profited from corrupt deals with the Saddam Hussein regime. The probe conducted by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker into the oil-for-food program alleged that Smith & Nephew's UAE subsidiary paid more than $50,000 in bribes to members of the Hussein regime to win a $600,000 contract.
Craig denied any knowledge of the subsidiary's dealings with Iraq, pointing out that she only worked for the parent company and had no role in "billings or sales."
[PJ] A pro-ISIS media group issued an online threat against an FBI special agent-in-charge over the arrest of one of their American members on a charge of providing material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization.
Ashraf Al Safoo,
...the quiet Iraqi-American immigrant and family man with a masters degree in computer science who heads a full scale PR organization that employs the usual variety of specialists for the purpose of internet jihad. His previous appearance in our archives gave his name as Ashraf al-Safoo, and no doubt at some point he will be named Ashraf Alsafoo or Ashraf A. Safoo...
34, of Chicago made his first court appearance on Friday and is scheduled to appear for a detention hearing on Thursday. At the time of his arrest he worked as a web developer for BlueBolt Solutions, a Chicago software company; his LinkedIn profile said he specializes in Microsoft technologies.
Al Safoo is a member of Khattab Media Foundation, which disseminates propaganda and recruitment materials on behalf of ISIS including posters, videos and articles released on sites including YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.
In response to his arrest, Khattab just released a new poster depicting a jihadist about to behead a victim face-down on a street with a city skyline in the backdrop. "From Khattab Foundation to Jeffrey The Dog of Romans," states the message. "We read your message YOU son of an infidel mother and the answer will be what YOU will see not what YOU will hear."
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Very well. If you behead our guy, we will feed yours to pigs.
[Breitbart] Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) ‐ who is eyeing a 2020 presidential bid against President Trump ‐ says the United States should be "welcoming" migrant caravans that arrive at the nation’s southern border.
While campaigning for Democrats in Iowa, Harris told a CNN reporter that the U.S. response to the 7,000-strong migrant caravan of job-seekers and previously deported illegal aliens should be "welcoming" and "tolerant."
"We are a country that ... our strength has always been that we are a tolerant country, that we are welcoming, in particular, those who have fled harm," Harris said of the caravan. "And the idea that we’re vilifying any one group and the fear-mongering, that’s not in the best interest of our country."
"What our country wants and what the people of our country want is they want leaders who are focused on the challenges that they face every day," Harris continued. "Like can they put food on the table and pay the bills by the end of the month ... not vilifying one group for the sake of fear-mongering and politics."
Though the establishment media has portrayed members of the migrant caravan as asylum-seekers, the migrants have repeatedly confirmed to the press that they are mostly economic migrants and previously deported illegal aliens who want to resume their old jobs in the U.S.
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I want a list of 'Hollywood'/Progressive millionaires willing to donate their California property to house these migrants... We don't need much land, say ALL of their beachfront property, because we are only talking about enough space to house two small cities --- Already.
Show some of that compassion! Kamala Harris organize your supporters are toddle off.
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We will be kind, we will be welcoming, we will be very tolerant of the fact they are being used as political fodder. And then we will politely congratulate them on their successful walk across Mexico before we put them on the bus headed south.
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Kamala Harris: Americans Must be ‘Welcoming,' ‘Tolerant' to Caravan
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I can recall when the Clintons were POTUS, they were tolerant and understanding of the people in the Branch Davidian church, often referred to as the Waco Siege. What was it, something like 80 or more people who died (burned to death or shot) as the result of the siege?
[AlMasdar] Numerous ceasefire violations by bandidosholy warriors operating in Syria’s Idlib de-escalation zone were reported in Syria’s Latakia governorate and Aleppo’s neighborhoods over the past day. One serviceman of Syrian government forces was maimed, chief of the Russian Center for reconciliation of the conflicting sides Vladimir Savchenko said on Monday.
"During the day shelling attacks were reported from the settlement of Dahr abu-Assad in the Latakia governorate, Aleppo’s Makanis al-Duwayri neighborhood and the area around the research center. One serviceman of Syrian government forces was maimed as a result of shelling in Makanis al-Duwayri," Savchenko said.
Apart from that, in his words, positions of Syrian government forces near the settlement of Tadef in the Aleppo governorate came under shelling by illegal gangs operating near the city of al-Bab.
During the day, officers of the Russian reconciliation center conducted a humanitarian operation in the settlement of Jisrein in the Rif Dimashq governorate. A total of 1.29 tonnes of food products were distributed among civilians.
"In the past day, officers of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties helped sort out the status of 200 people who reside in areas formerly controlled by illegal gangs. Eight pieces of firearms were surrendered," Savchenko added.
The Russian reconciliation center continues to fulfill assigned tasks after the completion of the military campaign in Syria. The center’s officers regularly travel around the country’s liberated areas to assess the humanitarian situation. The main efforts of the Russian military are now focused on assistance to the refugees returning to their homes.
[AlMasdar] (9:20 P.M.) – The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) is preparing to launch a new operation inside of the Idlib Governorate, the Fars News Agency reported on Tuesday.
Citing a Syrian military field commander, Fars News said that the jihadist rebels are reinforcing their positions in the Idlib Governorate’s buffer zone, while also resuming their attacks on the government’s positions.
“The army has specified the strongholds of heavy arms, tanks, cannons, missiles and mortar launchers in demilitarized zone mentioned in Sochi Agreement,” Fars News reported.
The commander said that a group of Ajnad al-Sham, deployed near a Turkish monitoring post in the small town of Sarmin, pounded the Syrian Army positions in the town of Kafraya in Eastern Idlib; this resulted in a heavy firefight.
A military source in the town of Mhardeh told Al-Masdar News last week that the Syrian Arab Army believes the jihadist rebels have no intention to leave the buffer zone.
The source said that the Syrian Army and Russian military watched the jihadist rebels of Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham and the Turkestan Islamic Party building new trenches around the Latakia part of fthe buffer zone.
Turkey is reportedly trying one last time to convince the jihadist rebels to leave the buffer zone; however, if they fail to withdraw, the Syrian Arab Army and Russian military will resume their operations at this front.
[AlMasdar] (3:30 P.M.) – The Syrian government has re-opened Abu Duhur humanitarian crossing to allow more civilians exit the jihadi-held territories in Idlib toward the government-controlled areas.
Supported by Russian military, the humanitarian corridor is equipped with all logistics necessary to receive the civilians who will be leaving the rebel-run parts of the northwestern province.
Both Syrian and Russian armies will oversee the crossing, providing the basic needs as well as medical aid.
Tens of thousands of civilians have crossed the corridor to the government-held areas as the major offensive for Idlib drew near.
In a related context, the Russian and Syrian militaries are considering re-opening Qalaat al-Madiq and Morek crossings in northern Hama.
[AlMasdar] A US-backed Syrian rebel group has reportedly entered a key stronghold for the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... terror group in eastern Syria amid intensifying battles.
"Our forces have blitzed ISIS Lions of Islam and attacked their fortifications inside al-Sousah village", a statement published by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said.
Fierce festivities were reported inside the small village before the Kurdish fighters were capable of entering it.
The advance was made after the village was heavily bombed by the US-led coalition, killing scores of ISIS jihadists as well as civilians.
In this context, The U.S. Coalition destroyed a mosque that was used by the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organization as a command center in eastern Syria, the Joint Task Force of the Operation Inherent Resolve stated.
"On October 22, a Coalition strike destroyed several buildings used by ISIS to launch attacks against Syrian Democratic Force partners in As Susah, Syria," the blurb said.
Last week, Syria accused the US-led coalition of bombing the town of Hajin in Deir Ezzor with internationally banned munitions.
According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the battles between ISIS and the Kurdish forces have so far killed 419 ISIS Lions of Islam and 232 SDF fighter.
The monitoring group also documented the death of at least 48 civilians ‐ including 12 children ‐ in Arclight airstrikes conducted by the US-led coalition on Deir Ezzor countryside.
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[Guardian] Ahmad Cheers remembers the day a few years back when he knew his neighborhood was in the throes of change. He noticed a group of bikers, mostly white, riding though the northern tip of Pittsburgh, Atlanta, well after dark.
In some other parts of the city that may not have been remarkable, but here it took him aback.
"It just really surprised me," said Cheers, 28. "When I came to Atlanta in 2008, to be honest you couldn’t really pay white people to come over here."
Named for its resemblance to the steel-milling, hardscrabble Pennsylvania city in the north, Pittsburgh has long been a predominantly black (upwards of 95%, according to the 2010 census) and working-class section of southern in-city Atlanta.
Today the neighborhood, which was ravaged by the 2008 mortgage crisis, when it saw vacancy rates of up to 50%, is in the midst of an economic turnaround. Bright-yellow advertisements announcing "We buy houses" hang on nearly every utility pole and tree, posted by home flippers looking to make a quick buck as prices swell. Pittsburgh local Sohna Harzeez recalls a home down the street from her that was recently sold and painted, then relisted for $100,000 more than before.
A neighborhood becoming safe enough to bike in at night is, on the face of it, a good thing ‐ Cheers himself is an avid rider. It is what so often follows that kind of change that worries him. Like other, similar Atlanta neighborhoods before it, Pittsburgh, with its cheap home prices and attractive location, is attracting wealthier, younger and yes, whiter people, stoking concerns that longtime residents will be pushed out by higher rents, property taxes and, possibly, a cultural shift that says they are no longer welcome.
"It’s scary to see who is going to be priced out of places that they’ve grown up in, and the places that they’ve lived and remained in for so long," said Cheers.
Gentrification is affecting cities around the world, but housing advocates say there’s something especially unsettling about racial dynamics of those forces in Atlanta, a city historically described as a "black mecca". Yikes! This could alter politics and long-standing urban voting trends.
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Backstory: The money being offered for these properties is enormous and most of the owners are gladly selling and escaping to outlying bedroom communities in the southern arc (south of I-20).
It's a 40 (+ or -) year old demographic trend that has recently been accelerated by an upturn in the economy.
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This happened a decade back in north Denver. It was a real shithole and a true ghetto. Some development projects started and the people sold their houses for tons and escaped to better areas.
The area now is pretty nice and modernized and most importantly... safe. For everyone.
[American Thinker] As television screens fill up with images of the 7,000- to 10,000-strong Honduran migrant army snaking its way up through the belly of Mexico, and President Trump issues warnings that they not cross into the U.S., one group of people, well known for otherwise enjoying grandstanding, has been weirdly silent: Democrats. Fox News has certainly noticed:
Democrats appear to be remaining silent on the issue of the caravan of thousands of immigrants on the march from Central America and unwilling to get into a public debate with President Trump since the midterms are just weeks away.
Where's Sen. Chuck Schumer to weep some blubbery tears for the migrants? Where's House minority leader Nancy Pelosi to fill us in on the state of their souls? Where's the phony rhetoric from ex-president Obama about unskilled, illiterate, and non-English-speaking aliens being an "asset" to our country instead of a drain on its finances? Where's Sen. Bernie Sanders advising us they'll be great socialist voters? Where's Hillary Clinton to tell us they "are citizens" or something of that sort? Where's Rep. Luís Gutiérrez to blame America for the whole thing? Where's Kamala Harris with her love for the cameras?
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The MSMedia is strangely silent about WHO organizes and Planned and Funds the "migrants". You really believe its all "spontaneous" just before the Midterm Elections?
Maybe its Russian Collusion. And maybe you are a S.u.c.k.e.r. OR maybe you just do NOT think.
Maybe the MSMedia doesNOT ask any of these questions is BECAUSE they think you are S.T.U.U.P.P.P.I.D.
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Leaches that produce nothing tangible must survive by feeding off of the productive. Leaches are sports figures, MSM, Hollywood, academics, politicians, government bureaucrats.
They raise no crops, build no houses, manufacture no cell phones, maintain no live stock. Those who do produce tangible assets are the working class that leaches live off of until the productive are bled to death.
Then they must migrate to the next host where other leaches could use a little help to survïve while unchecked and bleeding out their host.
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VP Pence was on CBS News last night saying that Venezuela is funding this march. If that's true then declare war on Venezuela along with Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico.
If we cannot summon the resolve to treat this invasion as the act of war it is then we will lose the war and lose our country.
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As I understand it, the Venezuela intelligence apparatus is run by the Cubans. If there are Venezuelan fingerprints on the caravans sourcing and support, look harder.
[SkyNews] By Alex Crawford, special correspondent, in Istanbul
Body parts belonging to murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi have been found, according to two Sky sources.
The sources have told Sky News the Saudi dissident had been "cut up" and his face "disfigured".
One source also suggested the writer's remains were discovered in the garden of the Saudi consul general's Istanbul home - located around 500 metres away from the consulate.
It contradicts the explanation being made by Saudi officials that the body was rolled up in a carpet and handed to a local collaborator who was tasked with disposing of the evidence.
Notice lack of names and photographs.
[Reuters] Six young patients died and 12 others became sick following an outbreak of adenovirus at a rehabilitation center in Haskell, New Jersey, the state’s Health Department said on Tuesday.
Adenoviruses frequently cause mild illness, with cold-like symptoms, particularly in young children. But the children affected in this case have compromised immune systems, the health department said.
The 18 patients range in age from a toddler through young adulthood and most are under 18 years old, health department spokeswoman Nicole Kirgan said in an email. The department is not releasing exact ages of any patients because of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and privacy reasons, Kirgan said.
The Wanaque Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, which includes a pediatrics center, has been instructed not to admit any new patients until the outbreak ends, the department said.
"This strain of virus tends to cause outbreaks in centers of communal living and has ... unfortunately led to deaths," Dr. Shereef Elnahal, the state’s health department commissioner, said on Twitter. "We take this very seriously."
Health department officials were at the center on Tuesday and also on Sunday and found minor hand-washing deficiencies, the department said. Health officials are working with the center on infection control issues.
The health department will continue an active on-site surveillance and has recommended measures to protect against the further spread of infection, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said on Twitter.
"Heartbroken that several children have lost their lives in an adenovirus outbreak in Haskell," Murphy said.
After experiencing cases of adenovirus in its pediatric unit, the center notified government health agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and is fully cooperating with them and has sought out their guidance, the Wanaque center said in a statement emailed by Rowena Bautista, administrator of the center.
"As a result, facility staff have diligently implemented all available infection control and prevention measures in order to protect the health and safety of the Wanaque Center’s residents," center officials said.
The facility’s pediatrics center serves newborns to 22-year-olds who are "medically fragile" and provides an individualized program for each child, the center’s website said. From preschool through high school, children learn in classrooms that are handicapped accessible and set up for ventilator use, it said.
Haskell is located about 32 miles northwest of New York.
Goody. Here’s hoping President Trump is as firm as he has threatened to be.
[Reuters] TAPACHULA, Mexico/GUATEMALA CITY - A group of over a thousand Central Americans in Guatemala headed toward the Mexican border on Tuesday, as a larger caravan of migrants that has angered U.S. President Donald Trump paused in southern Mexico on its planned journey toward the U.S. border.
Trump has vowed to begin cutting millions of dollars in aid to Central America and called the caravan in Mexico a national emergency as he seeks to boost his Republican Party’s chances in the Nov. 6 congressional elections.
The caravan, mostly Honduran migrants fleeing violence and poverty at home, is currently in the town of Huixtla in Chiapas state, around 31 miles (50 km) north of the Guatemalan border and a distant 1,100 miles (1,800 km) from the United States.
Mexico’s government said in a statement on Tuesday that it had received 1,699 requests for refugee status, including children. The government estimates there are around 4,500 people in the group.
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Anyone discussing the issue of route sanitation. or the potential threat and ticking time bomb of disease, childhood illnesses, polio vaccination, etc. ?
#2
And if you do not turn every one of them back or give them a lift back home, they will continue.
They endanger everybody and none of this is acceptable.
Apply for sanctuary in a safe place but this is not that. This is all political. Go back right now with your commie asses and fix your own commie governments. I have enough here to contend with..
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Here's something tough but effective. Say, hypothetically, you charge a $100K cost to Mexico for each of these 7,000 who enter the US, or $0.7B. Draw the penalty from a tax on the repatriation of income from Western Union-type payments of any cash sent south, and include profits from US and other companies doing business in Mexico.
Use half, $350M, for the wall, and the other half for the items mentioned by Besoeker and other social problems, including crime and terrorism.
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Or we take 20 miles of Mexico as a buffer, dump all our radioactive waste and any other hazardous waste we don't want and put fences on both sides with signs reading "If you cross this fence, you will die." If people cross, they don't make it to the other fence. Problem solved. Think of it as evolution in action.
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If Trump had been given funding for the wall he wanted by the Republican house and senate we wouldn't be discussing thousands of Hondurans and Guatemalans advancing towards us through Mexico now.
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This is an act of war. There is simply no other way to put it. Declare war on Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico. Drop leaflets all along the column to advise these people that US Army soldiers will shoot them if the cross the border. Then if they cross the border, shoot them.
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I've never walked any thousand miles at a time, but I have done my share 25's and 30's and even delightful outing for all that totaled 65. I seem to remember a lot of sweating, like right through the web gear. But all these jokers seem to be wearing clean clothes in every picture. Then of course there is the need for something along the line of 2 gallons of water per day for an active individual in a hot climate. Then what, how, and where do they eat, much less deposit the after affects? Some kind of deep, deep pockets are behind this 'spontaneous movement'.
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Current illegal immigrant rate is estimated at about 2000 per day so if these convoys contained all the immigrants and ran once a week we'd be ahead.
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Lease a couple of thousand acres from Mexico, build a very nice camp. Have the army construct an emergency airstrip. Put the invaders there, feed them three squares and all the tv and films they can handle. Provide excellent medical care. Set up a military tribunal and process them right onto flights back to their native countries.
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Back in 1978 our mayor imposed martial law during a major blizzard. There was some looting - until one looter was shot and killed by authorities. The people cried at the wrongness of killing a boy just taking food from a store, and demanded the mayor rescind the anti-looting orders. He categorically refused, and in fact repeated them with emphasis - something to the effect of 'I'm sorry the boy got killed, but if anyone else is found looting they are liable to be killed too.' There was no more looting.
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At the end of the Mexican-American war in 1848, we could have conquered all of Mexico. We didn't because a)the US at the time didn't want to gain territory by conquest, and b) Mexico was filled with brown Catholics.
Looking back, maybe we should have.
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"Enlisted." Juan texts his familia
In the grip of a grim gringofilia.
Y porque? MREs,
And to learn ABCs
In his God Emperor Trump's new auxilia.
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OPTION 1 - Honduras is so violent, arm the refugees and send them back to retake their country.
OPTION 2 - Fly them south to Tierra Del Feugo and tell them next time they'll be dropped off in Antarctica if they pull this same crap.
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Honduras, a hungry mosquito.
At first just a buzz, then a grito,
And straight through Big Mex
Passed the migrants, and checks,
Like a bad California burrito.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) A civilian was injured in an attack carried out by unidentified button men, north of Baghdad, a security source said on Tuesday.
Speaking to Almaalomah website, the source said "unidentified button men attacked, this morning, a civilian near his house in al-Hamamiyat region in Taji district, leaving him profoundly maimed."
Security troops, according to the source, "cordoned off the accident scene and transferred the maimed to hospital."
[IsraelTimes] IDF investigating identity of perpetrators of attack in southern West Bank city of Halhul
Shots were fired Tuesday evening at a group of Israeli soldiers in the West Bank, the military said.
No troops were hurt in the incident in the Paleostinian city of Halhul in the southern West Bank, according to a statement by the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit.
Details of the attack, including the identity of the assailants, were being investigated, the statement said.
The attack came after a 17-year-old Paleostinian was apprehended earlier in the day by Border Policemen at Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs after he pulled a knife on them.
Police said the teen arrived at a security checkpoint at the entrance to the West Bank city’s holy site and was instructed to empty his pockets. Though he complied, a metal detector went off when he passed through it.
When coppers told him to lift his shirt, he at first refused, then pulled out a large knife he had hidden on his person and brandished it at the officers.
Policemen aimed their weapons at the suspect and ordered him to put down the weapon. He was eventually subdued without shots being fired, and was placed in durance vile I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! and taken for questioning.
Police said they believed the suspect had intended to smuggle the knife into the site in order to carry out an attack.
[IsraelTimes] In major NGO report on Paleostinian Authority and Gazoo, dozens of ex-detainees ‐ critics, activists, political opponents ‐ describe brutality including beating, forced contortion.
And in a surprising move, Human Rights Watch actually reported it.
Alexander Sitnikov, wrote in Svobodnaya Pressa, on a report explaining the ways to counter Putin’s threats to the US military.
[Muraselon] "The Pentagon prefers to keep the details of its confrontation with Russian means of electronic warfare secret," the article said. At times, some retired US generals are praising our electronic systems as the best in the world, even though they still consider the US military the strongest on the planet." Sitnikov wrote.
"What kind of American power can be spoken, if almost all of its weapons are connected to satellite communications, GPS, mobile Internet, and electronic warfare devices, and as is known these connections can be easily disabled. Yet Americans are confident in their power."
"It is quite natural that Syria, torn by the seven-year war, has become the main field of the indirect battle between new types of American and Russian weapons, including electronic warfare." Sitnikov added.
The DARPA report, published recently by the Advanced Defense Research Projects Agency, on the implementation of a $ 9.6 million contract, received a special attention from military experts and journalists. Interestingly, the funds were allocated to provide US forces, in Syria and Iraq, with alternative communications systems capable of operating under strong electronic radio interference conditions.
Worth-notable that DARPA contracts are executed under special confidentiality conditions. The infusion, it seems, has been a mistake. As soon as the report was published in the network, the Washington edition of the Monitor turned to the US Army General Paul Funk, who led, until June, coalition forces in the war against the Islamic state group.
The Monitor noted that "General Funk was surprised and said he was hearing it for the first time". Thus, it is possible to talk about the new DARPA innovations that have emerged recently with US forces.
While the media abroad wrote a year ago about the systems of our electronic warfare, "these systems are not as scary as they are portrayed, they are even more frightening," and now they talk a lot about the constant search for new solutions. That both the Russian and American armies are testing each other regularly, looking for weaknesses.
[IraqiNews] The Syrian Democratic Forces, backed by the U.S.-led Coalition, have announced retaking a strategic village and inflicting huge losses in lives on Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in its last bastion, east of Euphrates.
In a statement, SDF said "counter-terrorism battles have achieved progress and inflicted losses in lives and equipment on the enemy. It liberated half of al-Sousah."
The coalition jets, according to the statement, carried out seven Arclight airstrikes against Islamic State locations in al-Bagoz, al-Sousah and Hajin cities.
"The confrontations in these fronts left 14 forces of Evil killed, while two SDF fighters were killed and three others injured," it added.
Speaking to BasNews, a source from SDF said "our campaign against Islamic State will last for longer than the expected due to the sandstorm that hits the region from one side, in addition to using civilians as human shields by the forces of Evil from another side."
The group also, according, to the source, planted explosives in its last stronghold, which includes villages of al-Bagoz, Hajin, al-Shaafa, al-Sousah, Abu Khater and abul Hassan.
In September, each of the Coalition and SDF announced the launch of operations, east of Euphrates.
SDF controls 28 percent of the Syrian lands, becoming the second controller of lands, after the regime forces, which control around 60 percent.
According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the battles between ISIS and the Kurdish forces have so far killed 419 ISIS Lions of Islam and 232 SDF fighter.
The monitoring group also documented the death of at least 48 civilians ‐ including 12 children ‐ in Arclight airstrikes conducted by the US-led coalition on Deir Ezzor countryside.
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[PULSE.NG] Vice President Mike Pence suggested Tuesday that leftist groups financed by Venezuela might be behind the caravan of Central American migrants colonists headed toward the US border.
Speaking at a forum hosted by The Washington Post, Pence said he had been in contact with the presidents of Honduras and Guatemala about the unfolding situation.
He said Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez told him the caravan "was organized by leftist groups in Honduras financed by Venezuela and sent north to challenge our illusory sovereignty and challenge our border."
The Wall Street Journal editorial board and the conservative Heritage Foundation also have highlighted reports that the caravan was organized by a former Honduran politician, Bartolo Fuentes, of the leftist Libre party.
Fuentes was deported from Guatemala on Friday after being enjugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! for entering the country illegally with Honduran migrants colonists who had trekked from San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
The Honduran newspaper La Tribuna quoted Fuentes on October 16 as acknowledging that he and other Libre members organized the caravan through Facebook.
Libre was founded by a coalition of leftist groups led by Manuel Zelaya, a former Honduran president and ally of the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. Zelaya was ousted by the military in 2009.
Pence said the United States was working closely with Mexico to keep the caravan, estimated to have grown to 7,000 people, from crossing the border.
"We're going to do everything in our power to prevent this caravan from coming north and violating our border," he said.
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"We're going to do everything in our power to prevent this caravan from coming north and violating our border," he said.
I suggest a mine field, 1/4 mile wide, in front of that border.
#3
The last time I mentioned someone should be brought from Germany to the US to stand trial.
Some rants disagreed.
This time I recommend the US send some marshals to capture Bartolo Fuentes and any other members or coyotes
who are seeking to undermine our laws and jeopardizing the safety of the migrants.
Rather this time I recommend the traffickers be dropped off at Guantanamo instead where no due process is required till the trafficking problem is solved.
Money transfers to any of these countries like Honduras and Venezuela should be banned and regarded as funding for terrorism.
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Treat them like the mariel boat lift 'refugees'. Keep them together in groups. Deploy the groups to summer National Guard barracks for processing in Montana, Idaho, North Dakota, with military security. Winter is coming. Of course, if any ask to return home, we can oblige.
In which Sputnik wishes us to join it in being terrified.
Dwelling on the increased threats to the security of the United Kingdom, Captain Kyd painted a quite terrifying picture of the future of warfare:
"I think the coalescence of militarization, quantum computing, of automated fighting elements whether it is in the air, the surface or subsurface, the ability of computers and machines to make fast decision making loops ‐ I think will fundamentally change the character of warfare."
He continued, "The nature of warfare won’t change ‐ which is to dominate and kill the enemy. I think it is an exciting but deeply frightening future where I think the ethics and morals of war will be tested, and where we will see, I am sure, robots engaged in killing other human beings."
Goodness gracious.
Reflecting on the potential forms of warfare, Captain Kyd suggested the world will see an increase in biological, chemical and genetic ways of waging wars.
Oh dear.
"I think we will see all sorts of vile methods. Viral warfare, and also attacks fundamentally against civilian populations through bringing down infrastructure, power grids, cyber warfare ‐ a full spectrum of activity against the population which will be deeply frightening."
Perhaps we should surrender proactively, leaving the Russians to wallow in all that vileness while our souls stay pure under Russian rule.
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"I think we will see all sorts of vile methods. Viral warfare, and also attacks fundamentally against civilian populations through... et cetera etc.
When the Mongols or Huns would just ride through countries burning all the fields and killing the peasants ... that was okay one supposes because humans did it. Idjit.
#7
His jeremiad against technological warfare reminds me (somehow) of an old gaming spoof article published in 2007 by Cracked: The Ultimate War Simulation Game.
Wanting a neat and clean *cough* "humane warfare" .... Ain't going to happen.
#8
The home front. What terrible scenes!
Atrocities. Hot dogs and beans.
"So, does it annoy ya,"
Asks mean Señor Goya,
"When horror escapes from your screens?"
#10
an old gaming spoof article published in 2007 by Cracked: The Ultimate War Simulation Game:
13. I want factions. Not a simple aliens vs. humans or Russians vs. Americans war orgy. I want to share the map with powerful forces who are not friend or foe or anything else, a news media, private corporations, asshole allies and friendly enemies, everyone jockeying for their own interests and me unable to bend over at any moment without turning my codpiece around first. I want a France Syria.
Like that guy said, History repeats itself, first as Internet satire, second as the evening news.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A prominent local leader of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... group has been killed during the operations of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) in northern Kunduz province of Afghanistan.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North in a statement said a prominent Taliban leader Mullah Mansoor who was in charge of overall activities of the group in Kunduz province has been killed in Imam Sahib district.
The statement further added that Mullah Mansoor was killed another key Taliban group member Mullah Yasin and twenty of his fighters.
The turbans were killed during a clash which erupted amid ongoing military operations, the 209th Shaheen Corps added in its statement. The anti-government armed holy warrior groups including Talibs have not commented regarding the report so far.
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[DAWN] North and South Korea and the UN Command agreed on Monday to withdraw firearms and guard posts in the demilitarised zone village of Panmunjom this week, Seoul’s defence ministry said, the latest move in a fast-improving relationship.
The three sides held their second round of talks at Panmunjom to discuss ways to demilitarise the border in line with a recent inter-Korean pact reached at last month’s summit in Pyongyang.
The US-led UNC, which has overseen affairs in the DMZ since the end of hostilities in the 1950-53 Korean War, was not immediately available for comment. "I can say no more!" but it said on Friday it supports the two Koreas’ efforts to implement their military deal.
The announcement comes amid US concerns that the inter-Korean military initiative could undermine defence readiness and comes without substantial progress on North Korea’s promised denuclearisation.
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i dont trust them - this is too easy.
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Who is monitoring NKor rail traffic to the tunnel disembarking points? There should be a flurry of maint techs fueling, lubing and doing systems checks on the cached armor and artillery.
A reasonable suspicion given the history. I'd be *real* suspicious if anyone other than Trump was Prez, Trump the guy who nipped out between courses at a dinner with Xi Jinping to bomb a Syrian airbase.
I see two major paths:
1) Pudge is setting up for some mischief, but anything major will call down the US military like the wrath of heaven.
2) Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un seizes this opportunity to become the Godfather of Modern North Korea. He claims his place in history and leads his country to prosperity (read "no more peasants eating bark").
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Pudge is setting up for some mischief, but anything major will call down the US military like the wrath of heaven.
Guess he forgot about Gen. Mathis.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] President Mohammad 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. .. said the liquidation plan of the former Police Chief of Kandahar Gen. Abdul Raziq was hatched in Pakistain.
Speaking during a gathering with the tribal elders of Kandahar, President Ghani demanded the extradition of the perpetrators involved in the liquidation of Gen. Raziq from Pakistain.
President Ghani arrived in Kandahar province earlier today accompanying a delegation of high level government officials to offer condolences to the people of the province regarding the deadly incident that left Gen. Raziq and Kandahar intelligence chief dead.
The Office of the President, ARG Palace, in a statement said President Ghani hailed the bravery and campaign of Gen. Abdul Raziq for the defense of the country and ain the fight against international terrorism.
He said if the enemies think that the liquidation of Gen. Raziq would lead to security gap in Kandahar then they should rethink as Kandahar has been home to heroes.
President Ghani also conferred the title of hero of independence to Gen. Raziq and changed the name of Kandahar Police training academy to his name, ARG Palace said, adding that President Ghani also instructed the Kandahar and Kabul Municipalities to name certain roads after Gen. Raziq’s name.
Gen. Abdul Raziq lost his life in an attack by a gunman in Kandahar governor’s compound last Thursday.
The provincial intelligence chief of the province Gen. Abdul Momin was also killed in the attack while the provincial governor Zalmay Weesa sustained injuries.
The attack was carried out by one of the security guards of Kandahar governor Zalmay Weesa.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: A local court on Monday granted post-arrest bail to a detained traffic police official booked in a case of extorting money from a rickshaw driver, who died after committing self-immolation in protest.
Police claimed to have detained Head Constable Mohammad Hanif and booked him in a case registered under Section 161 (Public servant taking gratification other than legal remuneration in respect to an official act) of the Pakistain Penal Code at the Saddar cop shoppe.
On Monday, the investigating officer produced the detained constable before the judicial magistrate (East) to seek his physical remand in police custody for interrogation.
The IO stated that Khalid, who used to drive a tri-wheeler, had burnt himself allegedly due to demands for extortion by the suspect, adding that the victim had received more than 50 per cent burns and later succumbed to his wounds in hospital on Monday.
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[DAWN] The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Monday challenged the Sept 19, 2018 Islamabad High Court (IHC) order of suspending the jail term awarded by a trial court in the Avenfield reference to former prime minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two 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... , his daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law retired captain Mohammad Safdar.
In its appeal, which was filed through its special prosecutor Akram Qureshi, NAB contended that the IHC had failed to appreciate that through its order, it had seriously prejudiced the case of the prosecution by holding that the trial court judgement suffered from obvious and glaring defects and infirmities and that the convictions and sentences handed down to the accused might not be sustained ultimately.
It requested the apex court to set aside the IHC order and recall the relief of suspending the sentence and the grant of bail to all the accused.
On Sept 19, a division bench of the high court had set free Nawaz Sharif, his daughter and son-in-law after accepting their petitions seeking suspension of the sentence awarded to them by an accountability court of Islamabad on July 6. The court had awarded 10 years imprisonment to Nawaz Sharif, seven years to his daughter and one year to his son-in-law in the Avenfield apartment reference.
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[DAWN] The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... Human Rights Committee on Tuesday criticised La Belle France's so-called burqa ban, saying the law "violated" the rights of two women who were fined for wearing full-face veils in public.
The committee called for the women to be compensated and for a review of the 2010 law that forbids people from publicly wearing clothing that conceals their face.
"The French law disproportionately harmed the petitioners' right to manifest their religious beliefs," the committee said in a statement.
It added that it was not convinced by La Belle France's claim that the ban was necessary for security and social reasons.
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[NationalPost] VERNON, B.C. ‐ A 34-year-old rapper who fell to his death in British Columbia while performing a stunt that involved rapping while walking on the wing of a plane was a "beacon of light to follow your dreams," his management team says.
Jon James McMurray died Saturday filming a project he had been working on for months, a statement from the team said. He trained "intensively" for the stunt, it said.
"However, as Jon got further out onto the wing of the plane, it caused the small Cessna to go into a downward spiral that the pilot couldn't correct," the statement said. Darwin winner
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The tragickal selfie-stick story
Of Jon "What, me worry?" McMurray:
He fell off the wing.
Angels asked, "Can ya sing?"
And the worst: All his footage was blurry.
[DAWN] Police on Tuesday seized narcotics worth Rs8.5 million from three Nigerian nationals near the Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU) campus in Islamabad.
The three men, who were tossed in the calaboose Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! , are suspected of supplying drugs to students in educational institutions of the capital, police said.
The drugs recovered by Secretariat Police from the suspects included 800 grams of heroin, 250g cocaine and 300g marijuana. A first information report has been registered against them.
Senior Superintendent Police (operations) Mohammad Amin Bukhari, on whose directions the operation was carried out, praised the station house officer of Secretariat Police Station over the seizure of the drugs.
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[IsraelTimes] Authorities say drug use has grown among the Strip’s 2 million residents as people look for an escape from harsh living conditions, soaring unemployment and travel restrictions
Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, authorities have been burning piles of narcotics and cannabis in a yearly sweep against drugs in the beleaguered Gazoo Strip.
Officers in military fatigues on Monday poured gasoline and set alight more than 1 million tablets of opioid painkiller tramadol, about 1,500 slabs of hashish and 900 grams of opium.
With residents suffering under a decade-long Israeli-Egyptian blockade since the terrorist group Hamas took power, authorities say drug use has grown among Gazoo’s 2 million residents as people look for an escape from harsh living conditions, soaring unemployment and travel restrictions. Israel imposes the blockade to prevent Hamas, which seeks to destroy Israel, from importing weaponry.
Hamas says it is fighting the endemic relentlessly. On Monday, it sentenced 17 people convicted of drug trafficking to hard labor prison terms of 10 years to life.
Last year, Hamas politicians endorsed the death penalty to curb drugs.
[DAWN] Charred bodies of four persons were recovered from a torched vehicle in North Wazoo's Spin Wam tehsil on Tuesday. Security officials confirmed that the bodies are of three employees of Maripur Oil and Gas Company and a Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... (FC) official deployed for their security.
According to the details provided by an FC official to DawnNewsTV, the employees of the oil and gas exploration company and their paramilitary escort were heading towards their office a day earlier when they were kidnapped by unknown button men.
Later their bullet-riddled bodies were found burnt inside a torched vehicle in Spin Wam's Abakhel area following a day-long search operation, the official said. He further revealed that the dear departed include an FC official, a foreman, a driver, and a labourer.
A local intelligence official also confirmed the incident and fatalities, saying it was unclear where the button men were from as no group has so far grabbed credit for the incident.
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[IsraelTimes] Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says that the United States and six other Middle East countries are taking action to expose and disrupt terrorist activities being conducted by the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... and Iran to undermine the government of Afghanistan.
Mnuchin says the seven countries have designated nine individuals associated with the Taliban and their Iranian sponsors for sanctions. The seven nations make up the Terrorist Financing Targeting Center which has an operations center in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... Mnuchin met with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia on Monday after announcing last week that he would not attend an investment conference in Saudi Arabia following the death of a journalist in the Saudi consulate in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... The administration sees Saudi Arabia as a key ally in its sanctions campaign against Iran.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least three Talibs were critically maimed in an Arclight airstrike conducted in Kabul province, the Afghan Military said Tuesday.
According to a statement released by 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East, the airstrike was carried out in the vicinity of Surobi district.
The statement further added that the bully boyz were targeted in Chehl Gaz area of Ozbin Valley of Surobi.
In the meantime, the 201st Silab Corps said at least 12 bully boyz were killed during a clash in Nari district of Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... At least 15 bully boyz also sustained injuries during the same festivities, the 201st Silab Corps added in its statement.
In a separate clash in Kamdish district of Nuristan province, at least 8 bully boyz were killed and 12 others sustained injuries, according to 201st Silab Corps.
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[IsraelTimes] Jerusalem city hall says 15 municipal sanitation workers entered the Shuafat Paleostinian refugee camp for the first time ever Tuesday to carry out trash removal and other cleaning services.
The move was ordered by outgoing Mayor Nir Barkat, who has outlawed the UN agency for Paleostinian refugees from operating in the city and providing services to Paleostinian residents.
According to the city, workers found hundreds of tons of untended garbage and construction waste. Workers will start entering the camp daily to take over what the city called UNRWA’s "inadequate services."
It will also start to provide education, health, and other services to the area, to replace UNRWA.
While in the city limits, municipal workers, police, and others have refused in the past to enter the Shuafat camp and other neighborhoods beyond the West Bank security barrier, leading to charges of official neglect. Barkat, who has been mayor since 2008, blamed UNRWA, which has recently had its budget slashed by the US, for the shortfall in services.
The move comes a week before Jerusalem is set to choose a new mayor. Barkat, who visited Shuafat Tuesday, is not running for re-election and it is not clear if his successor will continue the services.
[DAWN] 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... has agreed to provide Pakistain $3 billion in foreign currency support for a year to address its balance-of-payments crisis, the government announced on Tuesday.
The Kingdom has also agreed to provide Islamabad a one-year deferred payment facility for import of oil, worth up to another $3 billion.
The agreements in this regard were signed during the visit of Prime Minister Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five... to Saudi Arabia to attend the Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference, a trip he undertook on the invitation of King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians.... bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud.
According to a blurb issued by the government, several far-reaching decisions on bilateral economic and financial cooperation were reached during the discussions held between Pak and Saudi officials.
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So SA bought the Paki Nukes for $3B plus $3B for 'oil' transport.
[IsraelTimes] In first sanctions, US revokes visas of 21 Saudi officials believed involved in fatal incident; Pompeo promises ’these penalties will not be the last word on this matter’
The United States announced Tuesday that it was revoking visas of nearly two dozen Saudi officials involved in the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in the toughest action to date against its longtime ally, as 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... called the killing the "worst cover-ups in the history of cover-ups."
Trump told news hounds in the Oval Office that he’s expecting a full report on the killing soon. But he said, "They had a very bad original concept" and it was "carried out poorly."
He called the events after Khashoggi’s death "the worst cover-up ever."
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... has claimed Khashoggi, a writer for The Washington Post who wrote critically about Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016.... , died accidentally in a brawl at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2.
But Ottoman Turkish officials say a 15-men team tortured, killed and dismembered the writer and say Saudi officials had planned the killing for days.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the United States has "identified at least some of the individuals" behind the death.
"These penalties will not be the last word on this matter from the United States. We will continue to explore additional measures to hold those accountable," Pompeo told news hounds.
"We are making very clear that the United States does not tolerate this kind of action to silence Mr. Khashoggi, a journalist, through violence," he said.
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert later said that the measure will affect 21 Saudi suspects who will either have their visas revoked or be ineligible for future visas.
Pompeo said that the Saudis came from "the intelligence services, the royal court, the foreign ministry and other Saudi ministries."
The top diplomat said the United States was also looking into whether to take action under a law named after Sergei Magnitsky, the anti-corruption accountant who died in Russian custody, that would impose financial sanctions on individuals behind Khashoggi’s death.
US politicians have been pressing the Trump administration to take tough action, with several mentioning the Magnitsky Act.
The bipartisan Russia and Moldova Jackson–Vanik Repeal and Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012 intended to punish Russian officials responsible for the death of Russian tax accountant Sergei Magnitsky in a Moscow prison in 2009. Since 2016 the bill, which applies globally, authorizes government to sanction human rights offenders, freeze their assets, and ban them from entering the U.S.
Pompeo reiterated that the United States still considered Saudi Arabia an ally, saying he and Trump were "not happy" to move against the kingdom.
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So was this an ostentatious execution of a political enemy of the Saudi regime?
Or was this an operation by MB/Turkish agents of influence within the Saudi security apparatus who deliberately arranged for this encounter to end in Kashoggi's death, triggering an improvised and clumsy attempt at a coverup?
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Thats kinda the fun of speculating here, EH.
The payoff is setting the precidence for pulling visas of foreign nationals for random acts against other foreign nationals in foreign lands.
[DailyCaller] An anti-police protester who told a 9/11 widow that her "husband should probably f***ing rot in the grave" has been fired from his job.
"Steve Wilson is no longer an employee of [Self Enhancement Inc]. His behavior does not represent the values of our organization or the high expectations that we have for our employees," SEI tweeted over the weekend, according to the Daily Wire on Monday.
The statement comes after video of a rally in Portland, Oregon, occupied by both Antifa and Trump supporters, went viral last week.
The protester can be heard screaming profanities at the woman, who then turns around and faces the man to only to explain, "My husband died in 9/11."
"Good for him! Good," the left-wing protester replied. "Good. NYPD were a bunch of sodomized ‐ f***ing sodomizing immigrants with their bully sticks. Your husband should probably f***ing rot in the grave."
When another man walked up to the screaming protester and asked if he had "just called my mom out," however, the guy took off running.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least three NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... soldiers were killed or maimed in an apparent insider attack in western Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province of Afghanistan.
The NATO-led Resolute Support Mission in a statement said the incident took place on Monday.
"A Resolute Support service member was killed in Herat province today," the statement said.
"Two other Resolute Support service members were maimed in the incident. Initial reports indicate the attack was committed by a member of the Afghan cops," NATO added in its statement.
No further details were given regarding the identities of the soldiers killed or maimed in the attack.
In the meantime, the Ministry of Defense of Czech Republic has confirmed that one of its soldiers has been killed and two others have sustained injuries in Herat province.
The statement further added that the incident has taken place in Shindand district of Herat province.
The ministry also added that the maimed soldiers have been taken to Bagram hospital and their injuries are not life-threatening.
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Traumatic amputation is not life-threatening if treated quickly enough. Ending up with an ostomy bag isn't life threatening. Nor is being blind.
So the comfort level isn't what the PIO might be thinking it is.
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This sort of shit scares the crap out of me. My son is a Captain in the Air Force who just started a 6 month deployment in Afghanistan, at a NATO base.
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My best to your son and thank him for his service. My prayers are for his safety as well
Frank
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Captain? My congratulations and thanks to him, Rambler. And lots of prayers, because those Afghans seem to live on a hair trigger away from exploding on those around them.
He did get commissioned relatively late in life (age 31). He spent 4 years in the Marine Corps, got out in 2000, got married, after a few years went back to school and got his commission through AF ROTC.
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Smart young man. He'll have no regrets when he's our age and looks back.
[WashingtonTimes] A new video from the American Association of Evangelicalsreveals how George Soros, through his many funding ventures, has been busily infiltrating the Christian base in America to divide, and ultimately conquer, the religious minded within the Republican Party.
Truly, with the left, political wars know no bounds. Nothing’s sacred; not when it comes to the leftists’ drive to succeed.
Here’s what AAE put out in a press release: "Democrat ministers Rev. Jim Wallis and allies are now touring many states on ’Vote Common Good’ buses to ... split the evangelical vote before the mid-term elections. The AAE video features the newly released voice recording of [Jim] Wallis of Sojourners as he publicly denied that he was a recipient of Soros funding."
But guess what?
His denial’s proven a bit ‐ umm, wrong.
Soros-tied Open Society money and grant dollars have not only flowed by the hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Sojourners, AAE reported. But Soros-tied Open Society money and grant dollars have been flowing to the Sojourners for some time.
"Soros Funding of Sojourners Is Only the Tip of the Iceberg," wrote National Review in August of 2010.
"George Soros Funding Jim Wallis and Sojourners," wrote Crisis Magazine that same month and year, which went on to report: "The funding from Soros’s foundation, The Open Society, was revealed by Marvin Olasky in World magazine."
And then there was this, from the Blaze, in October 2011: "George SorosSends $150000 to Jim Wallis’ Left-Wing Group Sojourners."
’Lest the significance goes unrecognized: The Sojourners is a far-left group that masquerades as a Christian outlet, bent on doing God’s work, but that far more often seems to do nothing but Democrats’ will. Continues...
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So the guy is bearing false witness. Very evangelical of him...
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The Soros Express knows no bounds “The caravan is organized by a group called Pueblo Sin Fronteras, [b]ut the effort is supported by the coalition CARA Family Detention Pro Bono Project, which includes Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLIN), the American Immigration Council (AIC), the Refugee and Immigration Center for Education and Legal Services (RICELS) and the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) – thus the acronym CARA,” WND reported. “At least three of the four groups are funded by George Soros’ Open Society Foundation.” Yellow USAID bags also probably distributed through a Soros NGO.
[DAWN] Ottoman Turkish President 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... on Tuesday called for the trial in Istanbul of the Saudi suspects in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a crime that he said was intricately planned days in advance.
Erdogan had promised that his speech in Ankara would give the "naked truth" about the killing and he gave a host of new details while still saying The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... wanted answers to key questions, including who gave the orders.
Hours before Erdogan delivered his speech to ruling party politicians, a major Saudi investment forum opened in Riyadh under the heavy shadow of the murder after key delegates pulled out.
The murder of the Washington Post contributor has damaged the international reputation of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of 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... as of 2016.... who has spearheaded a reform drive in the kingdom.
"My demand is that 18 people be tried in Istanbul," Erdogan said in a speech to ruling party politicians in Ankara, referring to 18 people including security officials who have already been detained by Riyadh.
He added that "all those who played a role in the murder" had to face punishment.
[AlMasdar] A vehicle thought to belong to the Saudi consulate was found in an underground garage park in Istanbul on Monday, according to city police.
Ottoman Turkish police say the abandoned vehicle, reportedly a black 2011 E-Series Mercedes-Benz sedan, was found on the outskirts of the city, in Sultangazi district. It was said to include a diplomatic number plate.
The garage was cordoned off by police.
Another ‐ unlicensed ‐ vehicle meanwhile was reportedly towed away from outside the 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... n consulate on Monday.
Possibly meaningful, but at any rate now the Turkish government will be able to add the value of two used cars to the rapidly shrinking treasury.
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Poirot to the Turkish detective:
"A cigarette? Very effective!
And while we're at luncheon,
Your wonderful truncheon
Provides us a wider perspective!"
[IsraelTimes] A device found outside a suburban New York residential compound owned by liberal philanthropist George Soros ...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true... "had the components" of an actual bomb, including explosive powder, a law enforcement official says.
"The components were there for an bomb," says the official on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to publicly discuss the continuing investigation. "It was not a hoax device."
The official says the Sherlocks were reviewing surveillance video to determine whether the package had been sent through the mail or otherwise delivered.
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The dems are now all piling on with comments about the violent Trump creature and how he has brought all of this on, hatched bombers, hatred, violence, havoc, etc.
My guess is it's some democratic, nutcase entitlement nationalist, US Postal worker and an inside job.
[Sputnik] The German government plans to give in to Donald Trump's criticism about dependence on Russia's fuel and pour millions into a liquefied natural gas terminal. This is expected to diversify Germany's energy import, open it up to US gas and possibly avert hostile moves against the Nord Stream 2, the Wall Street Journal reports. Nope. Not tired of winning.
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has told the country's lawmakers that the Cabinet is set to co-fund the construction of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipping terminal over breakfast this month. The $576 million project would be located in northern Germany, the US business outlet reports, citing the sources familiar with the meeting.
It's unclear how exactly Germany would support the project, as it could use subsidies, loans, credit guarantees, or protection of investors' rights.
According to the WSJ, one of the first applications was received from an international consortium in mid-October. It plans to construct an LNG terminal in the town of Stade, close to one of the country's biggest cities, Hamburg. The decision is to be made by year-end.
This move is expected to ease tensions between the US and Germany, and even shield the Russian-European joint venture Nord Stream 2 from possible US sanctions, according to the WSJ sources. The chancellor herself reportedly perceived this measure as a strategic decision rather than a diplomatic defeat from the US. American silver or Russian lead. Wasn't a hard decision.
Donald Trump has been promoting American LNG in a bid to boost its exports to Europe. In July 2017, he pitched the product to 12 Central and Eastern European nations as an alternative to energy imports from other suppliers.
"You can never be held hostage to a single supplier," he told a news conference, commenting American LNG.
At the same time, he has repeatedly slammed Europe's reliance on Russian gas supplies. Apart from the vocal criticism, the United States has made a number of attempts to impede the implementation of the Nord Stream 2 project and even incorporated a provision for counteracting the construction of the pipeline in its Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act.
Germany has repeatedly fought off the criticism. Berlin described the Nord Stream 2 project as a rational one, considering the growth of Germany's demand for exported gas in the coming years.
Nevertheless, Merkel's government is turning towards alternative natural gas suppliers in a bid to ease its dependence on Russia, which provides 60 percent of the gas Germany imports and plans to expand with Nord Stream-2.
At the beginning of its term, Merkel's Cabinet has tasked itself with reducing Germany's dependence on natural gas imports via pipelines from Russia and Norway. The new government plans "to create infrastructure for liquefied natural gas (LNG)" from scratch as a part of its energy and climate program.
According to Germany's Economy and Energy Ministry, Merkel endorses all initiatives which support the further diversification of the gas supply ‐ whether from different regions or the means of transporting gas, while the government strongly backs private initiatives to build LNG terminals, which Germany now lacks. Chalk up another defeat against Putty Pie. Trump understands that countries like Russia need money to be big and powerful. More specifically, Western hard currency. He just cut off another funding source for Mother Russia.
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American silver or Russian lead. Wasn't a hard decision.
Dude, can we please stick to The Narrative? This is all about Trump bullying some woman. Nothing to do with Germany lining up alternate gas suppliers or getting out from under the thumb of Russia.
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SteveS
Sure, the topic will come up again I guess
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It’s very good to know that the Merkel government has wisely been working up to diversifying suppliers, and they chose this politically convenient moment to announce it, European Conservative.
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Yes that's pretty much it, and it makes a lot of sense to diversify. U.S, LNG is currently more expensive than Russian gas, but this could change pretty soon.
Actually LNG is a good idea for the next decades.
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[IsraelTimes] A US appeals court has upheld the conviction and life prison sentence given to a London imam for supporting terrorism.
The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals said Tuesday there was overwhelming evidence against Mustafa Kamel Mustafa.
...the Egypt-born one-eyed, hook-handed hate preacher generally known as Abu Hamza al-Masri, previously of Finsbury Park Mosque. He now graces the Florence, Colorado supermax prison, and was connected to more planned and executed terror plots and jihadis around the world over the past several decades than you can shake a stick at, some of them Al Qaeda...
The court also ruled that Mustafa’s 2012 extradition to the US from England didn’t come with conditions preventing his incarceration at the Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado.
Mustafa is missing both hands. His lawyers say he belongs at a prison better suited to people with disabilities.
Ol’ Hook Hands is a dyed-in-the-wool villain of the first water. Very few are as deserving as he of a lifetime spent in Supermax solitary — made especially piquant in his case because he stupidly blew off his hands while failing to learn how to manufacture bombs in Afghanistan. In line with longstanding trial lawyer practice, his advocates, having neither law nor facts on their side, are busily pounding the table.
Mustafa was convicted in 2014 of ensuring there were satellite communications for kidnappers during a 1998 attack that killed four tourists in Yemen, of supporting plans to open an al-Qaeda training camp in Bly, Oregon, and sending someone to an Afghanistan training camp.
[TheCommune] It must be unique for a revolution to begin with a mass demonstration in solidarity with the people of another country. Why did the demonstration in support of Poland on 23 October produce a popular uprising in Budapest?
The international context was very fundamental. In 1955 the Soviet Union had accepted Austrian neutrality, and in 1956 Khrushchev had recognised Yugoslavia as a country on the road to socialism even though it was outside the Warsaw Pact. And now suddenly Gomulka was being swept into power in Warsaw and he also seemed to be taking a neutralist position.
So it seemed that everybody around us was taking a neutralist stand and we Hungarians were again missing the bus, just as we had been the last satellite of Hitler at the end of the war.
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[IsraelTimes] Japan’s government says a man believed to be a Japanese freelance journalist who went missing three years ago while in Syria has been released and is now in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga says Japan was informed by Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... that the man, believed to be journalist Jumpei Yasuda, has been released.
Yasuda was last heard from in Syria in 2015.
Suga said Qatar’s government told Japanese officials that the man is being protected by the Ottoman Turkish authorities and is being identified, and that he is most likely Yasuda.
Suga said he has notified Yasuda’s family of the news.
Yasuda started reporting on the Middle East in the early 2000s. He was taken hostage in Iraq in 2004 with three other Japanese, but was freed after Islamic holy mans negotiated his release.
His most recent trip to Syria was in 2015 to report on his journalist friend Kenji Goto, who was taken hostage and killed by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) Chief Rahmatullah Nabil claims that a key member of Taliban ...Arabic for students... ’s Quetta Council Mullah Sherin had hatched and executed the liquidation plan of Kandahar Police Chief Gen. Abdul Raziq.
In a statement posted online, Nabil said the attacker was trained in Al Hamza training center where jacket wallahs are being trained under the supervision of Taj Mir who is also famous as Mawlavi Zabiullah.
Nabil further added that Taj Mir has close links with the Haqqani terrorist network and the military intelligence of Pakistain.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... he said Mullah Sherin hatched the liquidation plan in close coordination with ISI and cooperation of one of the security guards of Kandahar governor who had helped in the appointment of the attacker as the security guard of the governor.
According to Nabil, the governor’s guard who helped in the execution of the plan has managed to flee the Kandahar city.
Nabil also added that Mullah Sherin has close links with the Haqqani network’s Sirajuddin Haqqani ...son of Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, still titular head of the Haqqani Network.... , currently operates as Taliban’s intelligence chief and is based in Quetta city.
The provincial intelligence chief of the province Gen. Abdul Momin was also killed in the attack while the provincial governor Zalmay Weesa sustained injuries.
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[DAWN] The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday suspended Axact's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Shoaib Sheikh's 20-year jail term and granted him bail against surety bonds worth Rs500,000.
In July, an Islamabad sessions court had convicted Sheikh and 22 others in the fake degree scam case and awarded 20 years imprisonment under different charges. The judge also imposed a fine of Rs1.3 million on each of the convicts.
Sheikh and the others were nominated in a First Information Report (FIR) lodged against them on June 7, 2015 under Sections 419, 420, 468, 471, 473, 109/34 of the Pakistan Penal Code and Section 4 of Anti-Money Laundering Act 2010.
Subsequently, Sheikh challenged his conviction before the Islamabad High Court.
Shaikh's counsel Raja Rizwan Abbasi asked the court to suspend the sentence till the appeal against the trial court's decision in concluded. In his arguments, the lawyer pointed to what he called some grave legal mistakes in the decision.
Justice Athar Minallah observed that there is no complainant in the case. "The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) says that hundreds of thousands of people were defrauded but not even a single victim lodged a complaint," he said. The judge also observed that the prosecution failed to prove that the degrees were fake.
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[Breitbart] Millions of taxpayers dollars trafficked through food stamp fraud went to terrorists who funded their activities at home and abroad, according to an explosive report from the Government Accountability Institute (GAI).
The report from GAI, where Breitbart News Senior-Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer serves as president, highlighted several instances where money obtained through Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits fraud went to fund acts of terrorism, including the 1993 World Trade Center bombings and the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing.
Although this method of using food stamp fraud money for terrorism has been around since the 1980s, it gained notoriety when New York City detectives testified before a Senate subcommittee about the 1993 World Trade Center bombings. More at the link, but it will only make you angrier.
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For those readers unfamiliar with the scheme...
SNAP (and other programs) recipients use their benefit coupons in exchange or as payment for groceries. The groceries are then brokered for cash to local (mini-mart or bodega) merchants at discounted prices. The items are then sold at high market value*.
SNAP associated families may also own and operate said markets. So employees are paid very little.
*Milk, eggs and bread are always high priced at a gas station.
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Lots of bad guy organizations use SNAP benefits, cigarette sales, credit card fraud, and so forth to finance their nefarious schemes. This is why the Democrats do not chase down the fraud in most cases, and why President Trump needs to.
[DAWN] A prominent lawyer and newspaper publisher who is tied to Bangladesh's political opposition was denied bail on Tuesday after his arrest on defamation charges, heightening concerns about a crackdown on dissent ahead of national elections.
Police tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! Mainul Hosein late on Monday in a raid on an opposition leader's home in the capital, said Mahbub Alam, a joint commissioner of the Detective Branch of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
Hosein is the publisher of the English-language New Nation daily and heads its editorial board.
Magistrate Kaisarul Islam gave no explanation for denying Hosein bail at a brief hearing on Tuesday.
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Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) – The death toll from a car bomb attack that rocked Mosul city earlier in the day rose to three, while the number of the injured jumped to 20, the state-run security center said on Tuesday.
A booby-trapped car exploded early Tuesday in a marketplace in Qayyara, south of Mosul.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – Iraqi troops arrested on Tuesday an Islamic State militant who was tasked with providing the group with foodstuffs in Mosul city.
“Troops of the 20th division of the Military Intelligence Directorate managed to arrest the Islamic State’s food provider during an operation in Hamam al-Alil district in Mosul,” Baghdad Today website quoted the directorate as saying in a statement.
“An arrest warrant had been issued for the held terrorist pursuant to article 4 pf the counter-terrorism law,” the statement read.
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[CBS] CIA Director Gina Haspel is traveling to Turkey as part of the investigation into the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, CBS News has learned. Saudi Arabia said Friday that Khashoggi, who was last seen Oct. 2, was killed at its consulate in Istanbul, but said he had started a "fistfight."
Earlier Monday, President Trump told reporters "we have top intelligence people in Turkey," but he didn't specify who he meant.
"We're going to see what we have," Mr. Trump said. "I'll know a lot tomorrow, they'll be coming back tonight or tomorrow morning. But we have people in Saudi Arabia."
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he will release a report Tuesday revealing the "naked truth" about what happened to Khashoggi.
Khashoggi, a journalist for The Washington Post, was a known critic of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is a son of King Salman. Turkish officials allege they have video and audio evidence showing Khashoggi was dismembered. U.S. officials have been increasing pressure on Turkey to share the allegedly damning evidence.
[IsraelTimes] Army says some 200 Paleostinians riot along security fence, throw explosives at soldiers; fire balloons from Strip start 6 blazes in south
Paleostinians clashed with Israeli troops on the Gazoo border Tuesday, with the Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,-run health ministry in the Paleostinian enclave reporting a 17-year-old had died of injuries sustained during the violence.
Muntaser al-Baz, 17, was shot by Israeli soldiers during a protest east of the Bureij refugee camp and died at the Shifa hospital in Gazoo City, according to the ministry.
Five others were maimed during the unrest, the ministry said.
An Israeli army spokeswoman told AFP that troops at the border fence opened fire during a violent protest by about 200 Paleostinians.
"They burned tires and threw bombs at soldiers," she said. "They also threw a petrol bomb."
She said none of the soldiers were maimed.
"Troops responded with riot dispersal means and gunfire according to the rules of engagement," she added.
In addition to the festivities on the border fence, incendiary balloons launched from Gazoo sparked six fires near Israeli towns in southern Israel, a front man for the Fire and Rescue Services said.
[IsraelTimes] Monday military picked up Paleostinian who breached security fence; during interrogation, he said he wanted to be detained in order to stay in Israel. The military said it intended to return the man to the Gazoo Strip on Tuesday.
[DAWN] The latest window for worship at a flashpoint Indian shrine has closed without a single female devotee of menstruating age being admitted, despite a court order overturning a ban on their presence in the temple.
Mobs of Hindu hardliners prevented women aged 10 to 50 from getting into the Sabarimala temple complex when it opened last Wednesday for the first time since the Supreme Court reversed a ban on women of menstruating age from worshipping at the temple.
The shrine in southern Kerala state is only open on a handful of auspicious days every year, and a number of Hindu women between these ages had flocked there in the wake of the court order.
But the ruling had enraged traditionalists, including supporters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Protesters, including women and kiddies, massed at the base of the shrine when it opened last week, threatening women trying to reach it.
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[JOURNALDUCAMEROUN] US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday renewed calls on Pakistain to curb faceless myrmidons fighting in Afghanistan, saying Washington was holding its uneasy war partner accountable.
Pompeo made the comment as he welcomed long-delayed legislative elections in Afghanistan, saying the United States was "encouraged" by voter turnout, despite reports of widespread problems including poll centers that failed to open or lacked voter rolls.
"Our expectation is that Pakistain will not provide safe harbor to bully boyz on their western border," Pompeo told news hounds when asked about Islamabad’s role.
"We couldn’t have made that message any more clear," he said, adding: "Pakistain will be held to account if they don’t achieve that, if they’re not sincere in that effort."
"Everyone wants a reconciliation in Afghanistan and to achieve that, you can’t have a safe harbor for Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... , for Haqqani and for others inside of Pakistain," he said, listing myrmidon movements fighting in Afghanistan.
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... ’s administration last month cut $300 million in military aid to Pakistain after years of US complaints that Islamabad has kept nurturing ties with Death Eaters that target both Afghanistan and rival India.
Pakistain has countered that it has paid a heavy price internally for fighting Death Eaters and that it can help bring the Taliban to the table.
A Taliban delegation earlier this month met in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... with a US envoy. Pakistain’s new Prime Minister Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... is a longstanding supporter of negotiations to end the war in Afghanistan, where the United States has been deployed since 2001.
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If Pakland disappeared tomorrow, you think there were would be a discernable decline in terrorism and unrest in their neighboring countries?
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) repulsed a major assault by the Talibs in northern Faryab province of Afghanistan.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North in a statement said the Talibs launched a major offensive on Sherin Tagab district at around 9pm on Monday night.
The statement further added that the snuffies faced a strong resistance from the national defense and security forces.
According to 209th Shaheen Corps, at least 13 snuffies were killed and at least 19 others sustained injuries after the attack was repulsed by the security forces.
A key commander of the group identified as Qari Zabi was among those killed, the 209th Shaheen Corps added in its statement.
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Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi police forces arrested an Islamic State member at an underground tunnel in Kirkuk province, police media said on Tuesday.
A video posted by Iraqi Federal Police showed the troops storming al-Qahara village in the province before arresting the terrorist.
The arrested militant, media reports said, quoted by Shafaq News website, is Sabah Suleiman, aka “Abu Talha”, but did not mention his ranking in the extremist group.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) – Two Islamic State (IS) terrorists were apprehended Tuesday in the oil-rich Iraqi province of Kirkuk, a state-run security center said as the country still faces a growing threat posed by the terrorist group’s dormant cells.
“Troops of the homeland security service have arrested two members of the Islamic State’s so-called Jund (soldiers) Diwan, who are wanted by Iraqi judiciary over terror-related charges,” Iraqi website Almaalomah quoted spokesman for the Security Media Center Maj. Gen. Saad Maan as saying.
According to the spokesman, the arrested were made in Panja Ali and Jimen areas in Kirkuk.
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[IraqiNews] An Iraqi male beauty pageants contestant says death threats continue to him and his family over his activity, to which religiously-driven contempt left a number of peers dead.
Wahab Hasso, 23, a Yazidi who lived in the Netherlands as a refugee since 2012, and a finalist at two earlier pageants, told Sputnik website he secretly walked out of a 2017 contest in the Netherlands after receiving death threats for his Iraq-based family via angry facebook commentators.
He said threats to his family began in 2017, right after the liquidation of Karar Noshi, a young Iraqi artist and a social network celebrity known for his flamboyant style.
He revealed that the most recent threats were received after the liquidation of Iraqi female pageants star, Tara Fares, who was filmed by a security camera being rubbed out in her car by an attacker.
Hesso vowed to take part in upcoming pageant in the Netherlands in response to the liquidation of Hammoudi al-Meteiry, a 15-year-old boy, famous as "the King of Instagram" who was found dead with stabs in Baghdad earlier this month after his unknown killers doubted his "sexual orientations".
Iraq, since August, has witnessed liquidations of several social celebrities, including, most recently, Tara Fares, a second-ranking for "Miss Iraq" pageant, as well as cosmetics experts and rights activists, incidents which won condemnation by the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone...
[DailyMail] Bulk buying of baby formula has been a delicate issue in Australia this year, with countless parents unable to purchase formula for their children.
Baby formula shoppers, commonly known as 'daigou', often raid the tins in store before they are placed on supermarket shelves.
It is a lucrative market, with some people earning in excess of $100,000 per year after shipping off the tins to willing buyers in China. Why have the ChiComs not developed a domestic baby formula industry?
Of course there are Chinese baby formula brands, but it is equally certain that the Chinese products are neither safe nor nutritious.
Surely there is some way Trump can be blamed for all of this.
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Chinese people don't trust baby formula made in China. Not after the Sanlu scandal, when they put plastic additives in formula to pass protein tests.
China won't allow imports for obvious reasons. So the daigou step in to fill the gap.
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And breast-feeding is looked down upon as unscientific. Baby formula is created by smart people to feed babies. Breastfeeding is what poor peasants from the countryside do, because they can't afford formula.
You want to look like one of the deplorables?
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I also vaguely remember pets being poisoned by pet food from Asia.
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Let me get this picture being painted. China has restrictions on imports. However, the 'daigou' have developed a means around the restrictions. Baby formula is in such a demand that Australia is experiencing a shortage due to this export market.
So, does Australia have restrictions on baby formula imports? Cause anyone with a dime sense of capitalism would have started to ship American based production to Australia for transshipment to China to answer the demand.
In 2007. Some of the raw ingredients sourced in China were deliberately contaminated by the manufacturers with melamine to artificially increase the protein readings in lab tests. As I recall, it was discovered by the product development team at IAMS, then owned by Procter & Gamble, who were encouraged by management to bring their dogs to work. The rash of kidney failures quickly became obvious, though it took a while to track it back to the suppliers. I have friends who lost pets while working in the lab to find the cause. As we were collecting guinia pigs at the time, I was not aware until I read this that the problem was much bigger than a single boutique brand.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Breitbart] As the Democrats drift further leftward into openly embracing socialism, House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) warns the political battle ahead of the midterm elections just two weeks from now is no longer a traditional partisan battle. Instead it is one where the country must confront and reject extreme ideas from the left.
[Free Beacon] A Minnesota Democrat running for Congress on her business record says she had no knowledge of a company subsidiary that was implicated in a kickback scheme with the Saddam Hussein regime.
[AlMasdar] Numerous ceasefire violations by 
North Korea
...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. ..
... served two 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...
[NationalPost] VERNON, B.C. ‐ A 34-year-old rapper who fell to his death in British Columbia while performing a stunt that involved rapping while walking on the wing of a plane was a "beacon of light to follow your dreams," his management team says.
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[IsraelTimes] Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says that the United States and six other Middle East countries are taking action to expose and disrupt terrorist activities being conducted by the 
...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians....
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016....
[WashingtonTimes] A new video from the American Association of Evangelicalsreveals how George Soros, through his many funding ventures, has been busily infiltrating the Christian base in America to divide, and ultimately conquer, the religious minded within the Republican Party.
... 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...
[Sputnik] The German government plans to give in to Donald Trump's criticism about dependence on Russia's fuel and pour millions into a liquefied natural gas terminal. This is expected to diversify Germany's energy import, open it up to US gas and possibly avert hostile moves against the Nord Stream 2, the Wall Street Journal reports.
[IsraelTimes] A US appeals court has upheld the conviction and life prison sentence given to a London imam for supporting terrorism.
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
...son of Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, still titular head of the Haqqani Network....
[DAWN] The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday suspended Axact's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Shoaib Sheikh's 20-year jail term and granted him bail against surety bonds worth Rs500,000.
[Breitbart] Millions of taxpayers dollars trafficked through food stamp fraud went to terrorists who funded their activities at home and abroad, according to an explosive report from the Government Accountability Institute (GAI).
[DAWN] The latest window for worship at a flashpoint Indian shrine has closed without a single female devotee of menstruating age being admitted, despite a court order overturning a ban on their presence in the temple.
