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* Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich, a Democrat, has backpedaled on an executive order he signed several months ago that prohibited cooperation with ICE agents.
* The county executive will allow ICE agents to apprehend illegal aliens in his custody, but only in "identified areas" in the Montgomery County jail.
* The reversal is the latest move by Montgomery County’s government, which endured national criticism for its sanctuary policy amid a string of rape charges against illegal aliens within the jurisdiction.
Following months of national media coverage over the handling of illegal aliens in his custody, Montgomery County, Maryland, Executive Marc Elrich has somewhat reversed a sanctuary policy he signed into law.
Elrich will allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents the ability to access certain areas of the Montgomery County jail in order to apprehend illegal aliens, according to ABC7 News. A county spokesman confirmed to the local news outlet on Nov. 1 that correctional officers have been ordered to give ICE agents clearance to "identified areas" of the jail to "ensure that transfers are conducted in a safe environment."
News of the cooperation between Montgomery County and federal immigration authorities comes three months after Elrich signed an executive order that prohibited county officials from working with ICE.
Elrich signed the "The Promoting Community Trust Executive Order" in July, which barred county police from asking an individual about their immigration status and largely prohibited them from cooperating with ICE agents. Montgomery County had already refused to honor ICE detainer requests, and the new order was the latest sanctuary measure enacted by a deep-blue locality revolting against the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
However, Elrich's order soon proved controversial. Authorities arrested numerous illegal aliens in Montgomery County ‐ all of the arrests taking place just weeks after the order was signed ‐ and charged them with rape or other sexual abuse crimes. The string of rape charges shined a national spotlight on the county's policy toward criminal illegal aliens and its fraught relationship with the agency tasked with removing them.
A public relations battle ensued between federal immigration authorities and Elrich's office.
Elrich said in a public statement issued in late August his office cannot honor ICE detainers unless they come with a judicial warrant. However, ICE and other immigration experts blasted that defense, noting that, under the Immigration and Nationality Act, ICE agents do not need a judge's signature to issue such a warrant.
"The public has been misled to believe that certain judges have the authority to sign a warrant for civil immigration violations ‐ but no such judicial authority exists," an ICE spokesperson said to the Daily Caller News Foundation. "This idea is a myth created by those who either oppose immigration enforcement efforts, are misinformed, or who do not understand how the immigration system works."
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These apparatchiks should suffer the same fate the victims of rape suffered for their inane virtue signalling.
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Isn't this the same buttcheese that told the police they couldn't display the 'Thin Blue Line' wooden flag given them by an appreciative father and son just a couple of days ago???
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...well, if you are an apparatchik in a deep blue area without any real political competition and you make an about-face on this issue, something has had to have spooked them badly.
Flat tire could have put tragic Mormon family in the crossfire of battling Mexican drug cartels
At least nine U.S. citizens, including six children, who live in the Mexican border state of Sonora were killed in a shooting attack Monday
Rhonita Maria LeBaron, died along with her 6-month-old twins and her two other children, aged 10 and 12
Christina Langford Johnson, Dawna Langford and two of Dawna's children, aged 11 and three, were also killed
The victims belong to the LeBaron family - a breakaway Mormon community that settled in the hills of northern Mexico decades ago
The family members were traveling in three cars from the settlement: One mother was heading to Phoenix while the other two mothers were driving to Chihuahua for a wedding on Friday
Family members say one of the mothers had broken down after getting a flat tire
Mexico's top security official Alfonso Durazo said on Tuesday cartel gunmen may have mistaken the group's large SUVs for rival gangs
Nine of the family members were slaughtered in the massacre and one child was still missing. Six children were wounded in the attack and five have since been transferred to hospitals in Phoenix, Arizona
Relatives say one boy managed to hide his wounded siblings - some less than a year old - in bushes before he ran back to their settlement to get help after his mother was gunned down
One of the mothers who was killed managed to save her seven-month-old baby's life by throwing the infant to the floor of their SUV as bullets tore through the vehicle
Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he would discuss security on Tuesday with the U.S. after Trump fired off a series of tweets.
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^ Likely only 1. Something along the lines of "President Trump is a fascist dictator who has offered a Quid Pro Quo to Mexico." We'll send aid if you help stop the cartels" Clearly an impeachable offense."
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'We declared war, and it didn't work,' Lopez Obrador said at a press conference, referring to the policies of previous administrations.'That is not an option.'
Ok, jefe. But a punitive expedition is definitely an option for us.
Agreed that your narco-state is a lost cause and that yourself are a pathetically weak leader, a de facto hostage to the cartels. But don't expect us to sit by and not seek to punish those who slaughtered an American family--burned them
alive-- just a few hundred miles away from our territory.
As a young man, Trump said of his real estate practices, "I play fair. But if you screw me, I screw back--in spades."
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'We declared war, and it didn't work,' Lopez Obrador said at a press conference, referring to the policies of previous administrations.'That is not an option.'
Difference is: Trump is quite likely to wage war. Previous Administrations simply had a photo-op.
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They will do nothing because the duffel bags and briefcases of money that fuel Washington and useless elections of thousands of petty tyrant sadams and Castros would be ruined,
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Very right. If Trump does want to make the bureaucrats do something decisive, I wouldn't put it past them to consider assassination even. The drug business must go on. To many, it's their mainstay.
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Intriguing. One former member [of the Mormon Messican colony] isGeorge Romney, father of 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who was born in 1907 in Colonia Dublan in Chihuahua state.
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Speak up, Pierre Delecto. Defend your father and your fellow LDSaints. If you have any honor at all.
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There are Mexicans who live in US states who go to Mexico on secret missions against the Cartels for their government, then return to the safety of the US where they raise their families without fear of retaliation. Dual national Contractors that are a shadowy group.
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Has Human Rights Watch condemned the cartels for these actual civilians who were slaughtered?
Many moons ago, while driving about the countryside, I heard an interview on the BBC with some spokesdroid from either HRW or Amnesia International. It stuck in my head all these years because in the midst of the usual tongue bath, the interviewer suddenly brought the heat: "You guys are always banging on about the West. There are some really shitty people in this world. How come you never bitch about them?"
(yeah, I'm paraphrasing)
The reply? "Because the really awful people ignore us."
I was stunned, both by the hypocrisy of the remark and by the fact that she told the truth. So much for seizing the high moral ground.
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The interesting thing, SteveS, is that by studiously ignoring the acts of the truly bad who "ignore them", they provide cover for those regimes and groups. The worst abusers of human rights are whitewashed, and the countries that really try get slimed by HRW repeating the flimsiest claims they can find.
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The aliens may see it in a different light kinda like a real estate boom on other planets, kinda hard to displace species that could rip your planet in half without breaking a sweat! Look what farmers did to SAS troops in Libya!
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If it encourages our petty bureaucrats and Deep State to allow US corporations like SpaceX and Blue Origin to move into space and exploit it this move of China's might actually be good.
Why? The default behavior of the D.C. critters has been to make the exploitation of Space IMPOSSIBLE for the private sector. This competition from China could emasculate those critters in the space sector.
[News with Views] The new Batwoman TV series featuring an openly lesbian Batwoman is failing big-time. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that young adults are turned off by the show’s extreme woke and SJW (social justice warrior) politically correct messaging. "Woke" means you are aware of social and racial injustice. "Woke" also means straight white men are the source of all evil and must be punished. Women and minorities are perfect in every way. Woke culture says anyone who dares criticize a woman or a minority hates women and minorities.
Batman fans are outraged over the new Batwoman TV series trashing Batman and its in-your-face trashing of men. If there were such a thing as a woke-a-meter with a range of 1-10, the new Batwoman TV series would receive an 11.
It was a pleasure to learn that young adults are fed-up with SJW Hollywood writers and producers destroying their favorite movie franchises. The 2016 Ghostbusters movie bombed, losing $70 million, infected with woke. SJW has infected Star Wars and various superhero movies. Angry fans say, "Get woke, go broke!" Hollywood has declared that SJW, diversity and gender-swapping in movies is more important than entertaining stories.
Critics rave about movies that check all the right SJW boxes; must praise homosexuality, women and minorities while trashing straight white men. Meanwhile, fans avoid such movies in droves.
It blows my mind that despite losing mega-millions Hollywood is undeterred, hellbent on cramming SJW political messaging down our throats. As a Christian, I believe a spirit of anti-Christ is driving Hollywood’s financially illogical behavior. Hollywood producers love to poke fun of and demonize Christians. They freely use Jesus’ name in vain. And yet, they would never dare to use Muhammad’s name in vain.
In response to the failure of the 2016 Ghostbusters movie, the filmmakers attacked the fans, calling them woman-hating trolls. The star of the Batwoman TV series, Ruby Rose, attacked viewers for the show’s plummeting ratings. Rose said the show is not for old white men.
Clearly, Hollywood’s SJW writers and producers have disdain for average Americans. Loyal fans of various movie franchises say they feel crapped upon. Ignoring fan’s rejection, Hollywood pushes full-speed ahead on creating a new America in which wholesome traditions, biblical principles and values are burned on the alter in worship to their god of debauchery.
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Hmmm ... dangerous to hold up the many-headed Consumer beast as some kind of jury or other democratic verdict on Wokeness. Lots of evidence to be had that there is indeed a large market for virtue-signaling garbage. Look at Nike's stock post-Kaepernick ads and other weaselly stunts.
Woke does sell. Decades of indoctrination by schools and the media have conditioned most Americans to believe their country is a sinkhole of racism, bigotry and oppression have achieved their intended goal.
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^ that's easy to verify. Someone should compare their domestic and international revenues before and after Kaepernick ads to see if there's any merit to that argument. Perhaps you're right but I doubt it.
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Augh ! They shot the terminator to shit. Shit !
The SKYNET of the first two Terminator films was a projection of the cold war angst, and a depiction of the harsh, almost hydraulically actuated bureaucracies growing too powerful under rampant systematization.
If you notice, the increased malleability and polymorphous ductility of the current fictive robot is a projection of hollywood angst about changing sexual roles and gender associations. The concept of SKYNET as a viable enemy is rendered quite useless as the AI revolution never delivered anything beyond toy dogs and roomba®.
The real enemy shown in the film are now ICE agents and the stupidity of law enforcement and governments when the 'survival of the human race may depend any day now on an illegal immigrant !'
[News with Views] We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism. ‐Mao Zedong
The goal of socialism is communism. ‐Vladimir Lenin
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. ‐Mao Zedong
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. ‐Vladimir Lenin
Voltaire, who died in 1778 in France said, "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." And just who rules over us? Despite our populist President and Republican Senate majority, it appears as though the Democratic Socialists are running the country and have been for nearly a century.
Sometimes a seemingly innocuous situation can demonstrate to the world where many corporations’ true values lie, especially when they kowtow to Communist China’s big stick. Even the NBA has shown its colors in bowing to the Reds. Daryl Morey, the general manager of the Houston Rockets, sparked backlash in China after tweeting support for the protests in Hong Kong. He was immediately excoriated by Lebron James and others who knelt to Communist China over American freedoms, all for the love of money.
While Hong Kong fights for freedom from mainland China, America’s youth rally behind the communist Democratic candidates believing that utopia exists for everyone with socialism.
Comments from my previous article regarding the 1941 Lend Lease Act attest that some older Americans understand the extent of Soviet/Marxist espionage within our country. A Vietnam veteran wrote this:
Hunter Biden and his Ukrainian gas firm colleagues had multiple contacts with the Obama State Department during the 2016 election cycle, including one just a month before Vice President Joe Biden forced Ukraine to fire the prosecutor investigating his son’s company for corruption, newly released memos show.
During that February 2016 contact, a U.S. representative for Burisma Holdings sought a meeting with Undersecretary of State Catherine A. Novelli to discuss ending the corruption allegations against the Ukrainian firm where Hunter Biden worked as a board member, according to memos obtained under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. (I filed that suit this summer with the help of the public interest law firm the Southeastern Legal Foundation.)
Just three weeks before Burisma’s overture to State, Ukrainian authorities raided the home of the oligarch who owned the gas firm and employed Hunter Biden, a signal the long-running corruption probe was escalating in the middle of the U.S. presidential election.
Hunter Biden’s name, in fact, was specifically invoked by the Burisma representative as a reason the State Department should help, according to a series of email exchanges among U.S. officials trying to arrange the meeting. The subject line for the email exchanges read simply "Burisma."
"Per our conversation, Karen Tramontano of Blue Star Strategies requested a meeting to discuss with U/S Novelli USG remarks alleging Burisma (Ukrainian energy company) of corruption," a Feb. 24, 2016, email between State officials read. "She noted that two high profile U.S. citizens are affiliated with the company (including Hunter Biden as a board member).
"Tramontano would like to talk with U/S Novelli about getting a better understanding of how the U.S. came to the determination that the company is corrupt," the email added. "According to Tramontano there is no evidence of corruption, has been no hearing or process, and evidence to the contrary has not been considered."
At the time, Novelli was the most senior official overseeing international energy issues for State. The undersecretary position, of which there are several, is the third-highest-ranking job at State, behind the secretary and deputy secretary. And Tramontano was a lawyer working for Blue Star Strategies, a Washington firm that was hired by Burisma to help end a long-running corruption investigation against the gas firm in Ukraine.
Tramontano and another Blue Star official, Sally Painter, both alumni of Bill Clinton’s administration, worked with New York-based criminal defense attorney John Buretta to settle the Ukraine cases in late 2016 and 2017. I wrote about their efforts previously here.
Burisma Holdings records obtained by Ukrainian prosecutors state the gas firm made a $60,000 payment to Blue Star in November 2015.
The emails show Tramontano was scheduled to meet Novelli on March 1, 2016, and that State Department officials were scrambling to get answers ahead of time from the U.S. embassy in Kiev.
The records don’t show whether the meeting actually took place. The FOIA lawsuit is ongoing and State officials are slated to produce additional records in the months ahead.
But the records do indicate that Hunter Biden’s fellow American board member at Burisma, Devon Archer, secured a meeting on March 2, 2016 with Secretary of State John Kerry. In addition to serving on the Burisma board, Archer and Hunter Biden were partners at an American firm known as Rosemont Seneca.
"Devon Archer coming to see S today at 3pm ‐ need someone to meet/greet him at C Street," an email from Kerry’s office manager reads. "S" is a shorthand frequently used in State emails to describe the Secretary of State. The memos don’t state the reason for the meeting.
Tramontano, a lawyer for Hunter Biden, Archer and Joe Biden’s campaign did not return messages seeking comment on Monday.
In an interview with ABC News last month, Hunter Biden said he believed he had done "nothing wrong at all" while working with Burisma but "was it poor judgment to be in the middle of something that is...a swamp in ‐ in ‐ in many ways? Yeah."
Whatever the subject of the Archer-Kerry meeting, its existence is certain to spark interest. That’s because Secretary Kerry’s stepson, Christopher Heinz, had been a business partner with both Archer and Hunter Biden at the Rosemont Seneca investment firm in the United States.
Heinz, however, chose not to participate in the Burisma dealings. In fact, he wrote an email to his stepfather’s top aides in May 2014, pointedly distancing himself from the decision by Hunter Biden and Devon Archer to join Burisma’s board.
Heinz’s spokesman recently told The Washington Post that Heinz ended his relationship with Archer and Hunter Biden partly over the Burisma matter. "The lack of judgment in this matter was a major catalyst for Mr. Heinz ending his business relationships with Mr. Archer and Mr. Biden," Heinz spokesman Chris Bastardi told the newspaper.
A person who assisted Blue Star and Buretta in settling the Burisma matters in Ukraine told me in an interview that the late February 2016 overture to State was prompted by a dramatic series of events in Ukraine that included when that country’s top prosecutor escalated a two-year probe into Burisma and its founder, the oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky.
Zlochevsky’s gas firm hired Hunter Biden and Archer as board members for Burisma Holdings in spring 2014, around the time that British officials opened corruption investigations into Zlochevsky’s gas firm for actions dating to 2010 before Hunter Biden and Archer joined the firm. Ukraine officials opened their own corruption probe in August 2014.
A firm called Rosemont Seneca Bohai began receiving monthly payments totaling more than $166,000 from Burisma Holdings in May 2014, bank records show. The records show Devon Archer was listed as a custodian for the Rosemont Seneca Bohai firm and that Hunter Biden received payments from it. You can read those bank records here.
In September 2015, then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt gave a speech imploring Ukrainian prosecutors to do more to bring Zlochevsky to justice, according to published reports at the time.
By early 2016 the Ukrainian investigation had advanced enough that then-Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin authorized a court-ordered seizure of Zlochevsky’s home and other valuables, including a luxury car. That seizure occurred on Feb. 2, 2016, according to published reports in Ukraine.
The same day that the Zlochevsky seizure was announced in Ukraine, Hunter Biden used his Twitter account to start following Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken, a longtime national security adviser to Vice President Joe Biden who was promoted to the No. 2 job at State under Secretary John Kerry.
The Feb. 4, 2016 Twitter notification from Hunter Biden to Blinken was captured by State email servers and turned over to me as part of the FOIA release.
Within a few weeks of Tramontano’s overture to Novelli and of Archer’s overture to Kerry, Vice President Joe Biden took a stunning action, one that has enveloped his 2020 campaign for president in controversy.
By his own admission in a 2018 speech, Joe Biden used the threat of withholding $1 billion in U.S. aid to strong-arm Ukraine into firing Shokin, a prosecutor that he and his office knew was investigating Burisma.
Biden has said he forced Shokin’s firing because he and Western allies believed the prosecutor wasn’t aggressive enough in fighting corruption.
Shokin disputes that account, telling both me and ABC News that he was fired specifically because he would not stand down from investigating Burisma. In fact, Shokin alleges, he was making plans to interview Hunter Biden about his Burisma work and payments when he got the axe.
Ukraine prosecutors have said they do not believe the Bidens did anything wrong under Ukraine law. But some of the country’s prosecutors made an effort in 2018 to get information about Burisma to the U.S. Justice Department because they believed American prosecutors might be interested in some activities under U.S. law. You can read about that effort here.
Some experts and officials have been quoted in reports saying Joe Biden’s actions created the appearance of a conflict of interest, something all U.S. government officials are supposed to avoid. The questions about conflicts were previously raised in a 2015 article by the New York Times and the 2018 book Secret Empires by author Peter Schweizer.
The new evidence of contacts between Burisma, Hunter Biden and Archer at State are certain to add a new layer of intrigue to the debate. Those contacts span back to at least spring 2015, the new memos show.
On May 22, 2015, Hunter Biden emailed his father’s longtime trusted aide, Blinken, with the following message: "Have a few minutes next week to grab a cup of coffee? I know you are impossibly busy, but would like to get your advice on a couple of things, Best, Hunter."
Blinken responded the same day with an "absolutely" and added, "Look forward to seeing you."
The records indicate the two men were scheduled to meet the afternoon of May 27, 2015.
The State Department records also indicate Hunter Biden met Blinken in person for lunch on July 22, 2015, when State officials gave the name of a person to meet to help him enter the building. "He has the VIP pin and can escort you upstairs for your lunch with Tony," the email said.
The emails don’t indicate whether the meeting had to do with Burisma or one of Hunter Biden’s other interests. But they clearly show that Hunter Biden, his business partner and Burisma’s legal team were able to secure contacts inside the State Department, including to one of his father’s most trusted aides, to Secretary Kerry and to the agency’s top energy official.
The question now is: Did any of those contacts prompt further action or have anything to do with Joe Biden’s conduct in Ukraine in March 2016 when he forced Shokin’s firing? With all the pushback and impeachment nonsense, what would be your best guess?
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Not necessarily retarded but the general population is pretty much kept in the dark by MSM. That's how Schifferbrains can get away with his nonsense. If people really understood what he's doing, they'd laugh him all the way out of DC.
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It's just that what they allege-- Russiagate and now Ukrainegate -- is a carbon copy of what they themselves actually did in 2015-17.
Truly Orwellian.
I guess the only q is how broad, or deep, is the reach of the MSM in this day and age.
Will millions of swing voters in MI WI PA etc be duped by the redirect?
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There is little truth that comes through the MSM. Other ways have to be found to bypass this MSM screen against the truth. There are some outlets that can be trusted.
[MEDIAite] Fox News primetime host and Donald Trump confidant Sean Hannity lashed out at former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, absurdly implying that the pair sat at the head of a wide-ranging "crime family" conspiracy that involved seven different news organizations, two other 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, as well as House Intel Chair Adam Schiff and Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Over the years, Hannity has developed a reputation for floating outrageous ‐ and outrageously complex ‐ conspiracy theories about supposed Democratic and mainstream media perfidy. During his Monday night show, just hours after he was named in impeachment testimony, Hannity again dusted off his red-string-on-corkboard conspiracy theory graphic that he has previously used to smear Bill and Hillary Clinton, former FBI Director James Comey, and Special Counsel Bob Mueller.
[MEDIAite] It would be too nice to say that CNN New Day anchors Alisyn Camerota and John Berman pointed and laughed at Senator Rand Paul Tuesday morning. More apt descriptions might be ridiculed, belittled or, better yet, cut down to size.
At issue was the Kentucky Senator’s calling out the media to out the identity of the whistleblower whose complaint launched the impeachment inquiry that currently presents an existential threat to President Donald Trump’s time in the White House. During the Monday night Trump rally in his home state of Kentucky, Senator Paul challenged the press by saying " I say tonight to the media, do your job and print his name."
Thing is, the Whistleblower Statued passed in 1989 protects the identity of the individual at the center of the current controversy, and to out the person and print his or her name, is against the law. This argument was made by Camerota as she tossed to CNN Contributor, and former Clinton Press Secretary, Joe Lockhart.
"He’s trying to get us to do his dirty work and say the name of the whistle-blower, which is illegal," Camerota said, adding later "If he knows it, why doesn’t he say it? I’ll tell you why he doesn’t say it. Don’t answer that. Because it’s illegal, and he knows that."
But it was Berman who took the mockery/condemnation to another level as he jumped in to make his point.
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John Berman is an American news anchor, currently the co-anchor of CNN's New Day with Alisyn Camerota on CNN, and a regular relief presenter of Anderson Cooper 360°.
One of the Elite: Education:Phillips Academy Andover, Massachusetts
Alma mater:Harvard University, graduated summa cum laude, where he was president of Hasty Pudding Theatricals. Berman is of Sephardic Jewish descent.
No known degree. Sources - CNN Profile and Wikipedia,
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/\ In other words, just an all-around nice guy ?
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The Stasi protected their informants. Anonymously turn gossip into "denouncing an enemy of the state™", but remember to only denounce someone the state wants to denounce.
[Defense News] WASHINGTON ‐ The U.S. Navy is preparing to sign a contract for nine Virginia-class attack submarines, eight of which will include a 84-foot section that boosts the boat’s strike missile capacity, which is down from 11 boats planned for in this year’s budget submission, Defense News has confirmed with sources familiar with the pending contract.
The contract will also include an option for a 10th boat if needed, sources said.
The news, which was first reported by Bloomberg, is the latest jolt to the Virginia-class program that has seen creeping delays and slipping profits in recent years caused by labor issues and a strained submarine industrial supply base. The contract was originally intended to be signed by October of last year, at the start of the 2019 fiscal year, according to Navy budget documents.
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Their new aircraft carrier is eating them out of house and home and it isn't even in service yet.
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The "all big ship Navy", the ongoing LCS boondoggle and the F-35 mess are all combining into a perfect storm. But a first "fix" might be to go to the Pentagon and start cutting the number of Admirals that never go to see and their bloated staffs... (Then we can start trimming the Army, Air Force, Marines, DoD civilians, and...)
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Recall an old SciFi short story (from 1950's?) about a war where one side had massive numerical and tech advantages.... but they kept waiting for R&D to provide "wunderwaffen" and lost the advantage. Once R&D actually came through, the new toys all had fatal flaws. Story ends with their defeat and the head general contemplating murdering his cellmate, the head R&D wonk.
[Military.com] TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ‐ His revolutionary fervor diminished by the years that have also turned his dark brown hair white, one of the Iranian student leaders of the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover says he now regrets the seizure of the diplomatic compound and the 444-day hostage crisis that followed.
Speaking to The Associated Press ahead of Monday's 40th anniversary of the attack, Ebrahim Asgharzadeh acknowledged that the repercussions of the crisis still reverberate as tensions remain high between the U.S. and Iran over Tehran's collapsing nuclear deal with world powers.
Asgharzadeh cautioned others against following in his footsteps, despite the takeover becoming enshrined in hard-line mythology. He also disputed a revisionist history now being offered by supporters of Iran's Revolutionary Guard that they directed the attack, insisting all the blame rested with the Islamist students who let the crisis spin out of control.
"Like Jesus Christ, I bear all the sins on my shoulders," Asgharzadeh said.
At the time, what led to the 1979 takeover remained obscure to Americans who for months could only watch in horror as TV newscasts showed Iranian protests at the embassy. Popular anger against the U.S. was rooted in the 1953 CIA-engineered coup that toppled Iran's elected prime minister and cemented the power of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
The shah, dying from cancer, fled Iran in February 1979, paving the way for its Islamic Revolution. But for months, Iran faced widespread unrest ranging from separatist attacks, worker revolts and internal power struggles. Police reported for work but not for duty, allowing chaos like Marxist students briefly seizing the U.S. Embassy.
[AccordingToHoyt] One of the things I loved about biology was the concept of feedback. If you get too much inventivium in your blood system, your science fictioning gland shuts down so you don’t get too far from reality. (What, you don’t have those? Really?)
...Well, now I think about it, most feedback is annoying.
Economics is full of it ‐ as are other economic systems ‐ and humans find it so annoying they have devised various means of shutting it down, and then become puzzled and do crazy stuff when the system goes out of control.
Take price controls. They deliberately shut down feedback. The idea is "people need to eat and the essentials should be cheap." We went tons of rounds on this in the seventies in Portugal. It was FUN ‐ not ‐ and responsible for empty grocery shelves and problems getting the essentials. Because when cooking oil was dirty cheap by price control, everyone who had ridden this pony before (with bread, with toilet paper, with...) would buy everything in the grocery shelves. Meanwhile, because it was impossible for merchants to make a profit on the thing, they didn’t stock it. Which was okay, because the factories that made it couldn’t afford to at that price, so they stopped. And all the way down the line.
This is because what the idiot politicians were shutting down was the feedback. Prices are many things ‐ and sometimes annoying when you really want a good pair of noise-cancelling headphones but your bank account is crying, to use a totally random example ‐ but MOSTLY? They’re information. They’re feedback.
Because, yes, people work for profit, and profit ‐ things that Warren and Sanders will never get ‐ is not dirty, it’s what people live on, when prices go up ‐ meaning there’s more demand than supply ‐ people go "hey, you can make a profit in this" and start making more, until the supply and demand match, and you can’t make as much money, so people wander off to do other stuff.
...But it is not just in economics (though eh, everything is a branch of economics, as my reading in my 30s informed me. Which means that’s probably when I started going insane) that humans love shutting down feedback.
The truth is we don’t like reality very much, and are more or less perpetually at war with it.
We have this image of how things should be, and because we imagine it so clearly we think it’s a moral imperative.
Which brings us to how we got into a fine mess, in publishing, in universities, in... everything affected by the long march.
The long march looks cunning, and it was. And for some people it was a conscious plan. But here’s the thing, it’s also a process that goes automatically when a large enough group of humans in a nation or a field share an image of what’s "ideal". In other words, in theocracies, the shut down of feedback from reality, and the ramping up of bringing in other true believers is standard, and intensifies as it goes.
This is not a thing of the left, btw. Every human institution, given the power to do it, shuts off feedback they don’t like.
This is why large corporations who can do so buy monopolistic status from governments (in various ways) and then stop heeding reality and go insane. Which is why large and powerful enough corporations become indistinguishable from totalitarian states. And also why, no matter how much influence they have on government, they eventually crumble and fall apart.
...The thing is that once you shut off feedback, the insanity is self-feeding. And if you’re invested in it, you can’t admit it.
Also that once you shut off feedback pushing your favorite view becomes THE thing. Hence not just publishing going hard left, but the universities following, and the utter crazy of corporations (I’m looking at you Gillette) rolling left to die is all part of "there are no other standards, everyone agrees with us. We must preach the truth(y) word from on high, because we’re doing good in the world, and it shows how good we are" missionary effort of a religion without an afterlife and with no concept of forgiveness. Oh, and no contact with reality.
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Could go a step further with this thesis. In engineering, negative feedback controls change from going too far in one direction. Positive feedback, however, forces the system out of control.
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Problem is, it can take a LONG time for feedback to win. And in the meantime it can destroy whole countries. Venezuela still isn't through the process.
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[Right Scoop] A few days ago on the subway in NYC, a "transgender lady" (dude with a ’tude) attacked an old man who was singing gospel songs and reading his bible to people on the Subway. The "transgender lady" reportedly took off his stiletto and hit the man in the head, which is on video.
Here’s how a witness to the attack described it:
What a world we live in that some people see preaching the word of God as a threat to their lives..
This old man right here was just singing some gospel songs and sharing the word of God to people on the train, he didn’t say anything to hurt anyone, he wasn’t even loud, you could barely hear him talk but this is what he got in return from a transgendered Lady. Who hit him on the head with her heels,threw his Bible away and no one didn’t do anything to help but to look at this old man bleed. It’s just so annoying because this old man was far away from Her.........I was just so mad and I felt I needed to do something to help him because he was bleeding too much.
He’s just an old man....... he doesn’t deserve this ...Justice is needed. Please tag the right people who needs to see this ....this old man needs justice because the lady got away.
Fox 5 New York reports that the man was taken to the hospital and his wound took 30 stiches:
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I would pity the fucks standing by idly, if I ever thought they deserved it. I'd rather go to jail for life after beating her to death in front of all those witnesses. I'd consider myself 'well spent'.
If you were doing the Lord’s work, he will understand the brief necessity as long as you truly repent of it. We Jews have a prayer on our holiest of days precisely for that need, asking God for forgiveness. The Torah is not meant to be a suicide pact.
Jesus predicted that Peter would do it three times before the cock crowed and, sure enough, the cock crowd right after Peter did it the third time. That's how he lived to tell the story. Well, if you know those people will kill you before you can convert them, you have to use your head and live to convert another day.
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I actually did share with an Afghan family once. They were very interested in the bible, but there was just no time to interact. I hope Gawd did something with them. I'm just not a very exemplary fellow to be a preaching anything.
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That Augustine guy was keenly aware of where he fell short of perfection — at great length. ;-)
Dron66046, the Jewish rabbis concluded that the rules had to be relaxed a little during the revolt of the Maccabees (about 165 BC). The religious among the Judean soldiers would not fight on the Sabbath, because that is work and therefore forbidden – and the Syrians realized this and started attacking the encampments on the Sabbath, slaughtering all within. That was when the rabbis realized that there are things that can be forgiven if done for the saving of a life, when times are perilous — it sounds like that is what you were dealing with. You did not deny Christ with your heart, I’m sure, but only with your tongue.
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Shame on the New Yorkers riding that car. Shame on any man in that scene. If you can't fight a crazy bitch for an innocent citizen, you deserve to be sifted.
[Guns America - Hunt 365] Dust mingled with the scent of distant rain in my nostrils, rousing a subconscious sense of excitement known only to those who dwell in the desert. Africa was thirsty, waiting for the rain like an alcoholic waits for his next drink. Kudu moved ahead of us through the thorn veldt like so many wraiths, an old bull’s long spiraling horns visible one moment, gone the next. Fingering the sun-heated Winchester ’95 in my hands, I glanced at my PH. Crouched and motionless, he waited. Towering black clouds covered the face of the sun as thunder rumbled in the distance. The bull stepped toward an opening in the bush, and the PH moved forward, cross-sticks in hand.
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A gentleman's personal hunter,
His Jeeves, or, less whimsically, Bunter,
Is quick with the sticks
And knows plenty of tricks
For protecting the pride of the punter.
[Ynet] According to Hamas sources, the Qatari Envoy to the Gaza Strip, Muhammad al-Emadi, announced that Qatar will have difficulties continuing sending the usual 30 million Dollars a month to the Strip. We checked the couch cushions and the ashtray in the Vega, but no change, sorry
Hamas sources say that the organization leadership is expected to appeal to the Qatari Emir, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, explaining to him that cutting off Qatari financial support will cause "an explosion with Israel, who is responsible for the continued siege on the Strip." Have you hugged a fracker today?
[Ynet] The director of the Israeli office of Human Rights Watch lost his Supreme Court appeal against deportation over his alleged promotion of pro-Palestinian boycotts of Israel, his lawyer says.
Omar Shakir, a U.S. citizen, had contested the revocation of his work visa and denied currently supporting anti-Israel boycotts. Why not run for Congress?
[Guardian] Authorities in Kyoto have banned photography in parts of the city’s main geisha neighbourhood, amid a flurry of complaints about harassment and bad behaviour by foreign tourists in the quest for the perfect selfie.
The ban, introduced recently on private roads in the city’s Gion district, includes a fine of up to 10,000 yen (£70), as Kyoto and other sightseeing spots in Japan grapple with the downside of a boom in visitors that is expected to last long after next summer’s Tokyo Olympics.
"Tourism pollution" is a growing problem in Kyoto, where tourists flock to ancient shrines and temples and, in Gion, catch sight of the female entertainers ‐ known locally as geiko ‐ and maiko apprentices dressed in elaborate kimono on their way to evening appointments.
In response to complaints by residents and businesses, the local ward has put up signs near narrow streets leading off Hanamikoji, a public main road, warning visitors not to take snapshots.
[The College Fix] My 11-year-old daughter was recently asked by her school to judge her strengths and weaknesses as a student. One of her self-admitted weaknesses is her sloppy handwriting. The survey asked her about room for improvement, and her answer was both humorous and telling: "It doesn’t matter because we live in a digital age."
How true.
I am child of the 80s and 90s. I came of age at a time when cell phones and the World Wide Web were just ideas and computers were starting to become a thing. I actually recall writing stories in fourth grade on a typewriter ‐ a typewriter!
Today, my daughter is surrounded by and immersed in technology in many ways, both educationally and for recreation ‐ and for better or worse.
But when we discuss college I can’t help but emphasize to her, if she is going to major in anything, it mind as well be in STEM, a.k.a. Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.
She wants to be a novelist, and I told her that’s fine, that’s great, that’s wonderful. Write on the side until you get published, and in the meantime, invest in a college education that can actually pay off and provide a real job until you’re the next Stephen King.
I was reminded of this conversation as a recent press release crossed my desk (wait, scratch that ‐ crossed my inbox I mean), subject line: "Preliminary Salaries Show STEM Majors Lead Class of 2019."
The results of the National Association of Colleges and Employers’ Fall 2019 salary survey show that "at this early juncture, graduates in the computer and information sciences ($81,292), engineering ($69,180), mathematics and statistics ($68,785), and engineering technologies ($60,473) disciplines are leading the Class of 2019 in terms of average starting salary."
Is there any other pursuits besides Medicine and Agriculture that a state university system needs to offer that can not be done by private colleges?
Farm teams for professional sports and departments created for students who 'earn' a worthless degree in studies sold by said universities do not come to mind.
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Sorry but this is wrong-headed. If you can't write clearly--I'm not referring to handwriting but to the expression of ideas in clear and compelling prose--then you will be hard-pressed to think clearly. STEM is not enough. Logic is expressed in language.
A society that is badly trained in the humanities would be like the early 19c Union Army and its STEM-lopsided leadership in the era preceding those great writers and clear thinkers, Lincoln and Grant: numerate, scientifically literate, and incompetent.
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Much of the blame for our society's current confusion and shitty political class can be attributed to the demise of the humanities over the last 40 years. Sloppy thinking, shitty values: these are precisely those flaws which a proper humanities education will correct.
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I'm with Lex. There is also an underlying connexion between legible, appealing script or even typed communication, and the confidence which comes from a well adjusted psyche. I don't mean grandiose loops and swirls of royal blue on scented paper, or tiny dots on the 'i's and perfectly oval 'O's. Just an understandable script, with clear words that convey clear ideas.
My two cents.
I believe a conscious attempt to not improve illegible handwriting is simply the sign of an illegible conscience. Warped, confused and liable to be swayed by assertive people. A schmuck. While I can't blame an 11 year old kid for an easy out like that, an adolescent who fails to develop a legible hand in the modern world would be somewhat of a schmuck. And so would be a parent or teacher for not correcting that.
And STEM is also not for schmucks.
When we learn to write, we also learn to control the flow of our thoughts, the ink on paper a veritable parallel for the actual conversation occurring within. Graphologists and neurobiologists have proved that consciously altering one's handwriting can actually improve the neuronal connectivity for certain intellectual activity. Also proved is the retardation of neuronal connectivity with increased reliance on 'assists' like grammar-check and auto-correct. Our current generation of cut-paste, newspeak adept journalists is a product of just that. There is no music to their thoughts, no conviction. Just a cacophony of impatient urges and exultation of foolish pride.
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I expect the next generation will be using voice recognition software. Funny thing, I recall H. Beam Piper's Null-ABC(1953)(free ePub link) where being literate was subversive...
[Real Clear Politics] Former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon talks Republican resistance to House Democrats' impeachment push, and who he thinks should testify in the public inquiry.
"If Schiff stands there and argues Joe Biden is above the law, Hunter Biden is above the law. The Bidens have to be called. Joe Biden is the hand grenade and Hunter Biden is the pin. And when that pin gets pulled the shrapnel is going to blow back all over the Democratic establishment," Bannon told FNC's Maria Bartiromo on "Sunday Morning Futures."
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[LegalInsurrection] No matter what the current news cycle obsession, Trump judicial nominees continue to be confirmed and Trump continues to transform the federal judiciary.
While you were focused on COMEY, Trump nominated another group of CONSERVATIVE Judges (June 7, 2017)
While you were focused on ... Republicans kept moving judicial nominees through pipeline (February 18,2018)
While you were distracted by [insert news cycle], Trump continued to reshape the federal judiciary (May 19, 2019)
While you were watching the Democrat debates, Mitch McConnell rammed through more judges (August 1, 2019)
And it continues with the media obsessed on Ukraine and Impeachment.
[Diogenes Middle Finger] It looks like we've reached the "can we pull this bi*** outta the fire" stage of the nasally Voodoo Witch's run for president. Stories out during the week described a cratering Harris campaign slashing staff and cutting salaries like the final days of Blockbuster. Her contributions slowing and poll numbers in free fall, she's polling just slightly ahead of Tree Fungus and Spartacus Booker. No one has ever accused her of being an awesome Senator or even a likable person. And the angry black woman in Manolo Blahnik shoes act is not playing well in middle America, black or white.
Still, Harris is putting the whole tamale into Iowa. She plans to spend Thanksgiving there. Barky Obama might've inadvertently set a precedent that black candidates must win the Iowa caucus to prove white people will vote for them. But her problem is not that she's black, she's not. It's that she's from f**ing California and has overly championed LGBTQ and illegals, both problem issues for black primary voters, and most swing state voters. She actually thought she could appeal to clueless suburban soccer moms at the same time fanning the flames of racial resentment with talk of reparations and pretending to be down with the struggle.
She's been on a roll lately, showing a true lack of leadership and personal pettiness when she boycotted a criminal justice reform forum at Benedict College after she learned the organizers gave an award to DJT. She also vocally defended Katie Hill, treating her as the victim of revenge porn and not just the kooky star in a sex farce. She was the only Democratic presidential candidate to have Hill's back. And yes, she got her Kamala on while questioning during some of the worst SOTUS confirmation hearings ever, but due to her junior status, her questions came near the end when most people stopped paying attention.
I'm sure her lack of electablity has nothing to do with the Creepy Voodoo Witch persona she sometimes projects. Maybe it just hasn't hit her yet that most American people don’t care for her proposed commie policies, taking away the American's health care provider choices, guns and wealth, making the nation into a third-world socialist state based on coercion, state sponsored theft, abrogation of the Constitution, hate and fear. But Kamala believes the only reasons she’s losing (even in her liberal home state) is because the country isn’t ready for a black female President. That’s not true. We had 8 years of Obama.
[Hot Air] Could it be true? Are the barons of Wall Street closing their fat cat wallets for Democrats in protest of the rise of Elizabeth Warren in the polls? That’s supposedly the case according to CNBC, and they’ve delivered a message to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Back off from Warren or find someone else to fund the rest of your Senate races.
Some finance executives have recently told Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer that they are, for the moment, holding back from donating to Democrats running for Senate in 2020 due to their concerns with Warren becoming a frontrunner in the race for the party’s presidential nomination, according to people familiar with the conversations. These people spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the private nature of the talks.
The move is intended to put pressure on party leadership and Schumer, who represents New York and has received millions of dollars in donations from Wall Street, to distance themselves from Warren’s economic populism.
On the one hand, this puts pressure on Schumer (assuming this anonymously sourced report is valid) because he’s supposed to be helping to find funding for Democratic Senate candidates in battleground states. And while most Democrats love to talk about how evil the rich bankers are, pretty much all of them are happy to quietly take their money. (And presumably, remember those favors when it comes time to vote on regulations.)
[Barely a blog] In "State of Hate: The Explosion of White Supremacy," hater Fareed Zakaria remind us all "how deeply embedded is the idea of racial hierarchy in western civilization."
"In fact," the prick editorializes, "in some ways it’s in the DNA of the modern west because from the 16th and 17th centuries, as Europe grew richer and stronger, it began to assume that its material success must be a result of its superiority, religious or ethnic or racial. This view built on centuries of western success has taken deep root and not just among whites. People across Asia [pronounced "Ashia" by Zakaria] and Africa prefer light skin to dark."
In his propaganda piece, Fareed takes care to conflate white nationalism with white supremacy, and fails to say whether the West can migrate to Pakistan, India and China en masse, without the people of those countries and their representatives protesting.
And should Pakistanis, Indians and Chinese protest the flooding of their countries by millions of whites who begin to change the character of these countries‐will Fareed characterize native protest as racist protest?
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Fareed Zakariah. I remember this fucker getting waylaid in Delhi and almost beaten up by a mob. The cops had to escort him to the airport. This guy is a snake. The leftist govt gave him a national award and now he goes around claiming to represent Indian interests, toeing whichever line helps his career.
[American Greatness] ichael Flynn’s attorney filed a response Monday to the federal government’s defense against several shocking claims of misconduct. Attorney Sidney Powell alleged in an earlier filing that federal prosecutors, led by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller alumnus Brandon Van Grack, hid or destroyed evidence and used an edited account of Flynn’s statement as a basis for charging the former national security advisor with lying to the FBI.
Powell inferred that an earlier version of Flynn’s statement, as recorded by the interviewing agents, was suppressed or destroyed. She writes,
It is no excuse that the original Flynn 302 is not ’in the possession of’ Mr. Van Grack at this moment. It is in the FBI’s system, or can be retrieved, along with the audit trail, the A1 files, information about any attempt made to destroy it, and all the metadata for the changes which are more important now than ever in light of the absurdity of the government’s Surreply. Tellingly, Mr. Van Grack does not deny that such information is, in fact, available.
Powell also noted that FBI attorney Lisa Page and Bill Priestrap, who was the FBI’s assistant director of investigation and counterintelligence, edited Flynn’s statement after the interview, even though neither was present during the questioning.
Powell also cited the testimony of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who talked to the FBI agents immediately after they interviewed Flynn. McCabe testified to the House Intelligence Committee, "[T]he conundrum that we faced on their return from the interview is that although [the agents] didn’t detect deception in the statements that he made in the interview . . . the statements were inconsistent with our understanding of the conversation that he had actually had with the ambassador."
McCabe proceeded to admit to the committee that "the two people who interviewed [Flynn] didn’t think he was lying, [which] was not [a] great beginning of a false statement case."
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"[T]he conundrum that we faced on their return from the interview is that although [the agents] didn’t detect deception in the statements that he made in the interview . . . the statements were inconsistent with our understanding of the conversation that he had actually had with the ambassador the case we were trying to make against him."
Ain't that a little more like it, Andy?
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[Breitbart] An Australian woman with 200 tattoos said she went blind for three weeks after having her eyeballs inked.
Amber Luke, 24, who refers to herself as Blue Eyes White Dragon, said the procedure was extremely painful. "He turned me into a Newt! ...I got better"
"I can’t even begin to describe to you what the feeling was like. The best thing I can give you is once the eyeball was penetrated with the ink, it felt like [the tattoo artist] grabbed ten shards of glass and rubbed it in my eye," she recalled.
Luke said the artist shoved the needle too deep into her sclera, the white outer layer of the eyeball, causing her to go blind.
"That was pretty brutal," she said.
However, the young woman has no regrets about her decision to have her eyes colored or any of the other tattoos that cover her body.
Luke began to modify herself when she was 16 and has since spent more than $37,000 on procedures that include breast augmentation, lip fillers, and having her earlobes stretched and her tongue split. She also got ear implants to make them look pointed and had silver fang grills made for her teeth.
[Rudaw] Ottoman Turkish warplanes reportedly bombed the Yezidi village of Khanasor, northwest of Shingal on Monday.
"A warplane, who our friends say is from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... struck a base of our YBS [Shingal Protection Units] friends," Khalaf Khudeda, former head of the Khanasor Local Council confirmed to Rudaw English, referring to Shingal Resistance® Units.
"The bombing has resulted in wounds but we do not know how many are maimed or if anyone has died," Khudeda added.
The YBS is a Yezidi militia active in Shingal, believed to be affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), an gang fighting for greater Kurdish political and cultural rights in Turkey and designated a terrorist organization by Ankara.
The PKK has said that while it played a part in the establishment of the YBS, the units' members are solely local Yezidis.
The YBS was established to protect the Yezidi community in Iraq in 2007, playing a crucial role in the fight against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) after it exacted genocide on the ethnoreligious minority in and around the Shingal region in 2014.
On Monday evening, a correspondent for Yezidi news outlet EzidiPress also confirmed a Ottoman TurkishArclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... had taken place in Khanasor.
The Shingal area was subject to repeated Ottoman Turkish airstrikes in 2018. Ankara justified its strikes by claiming Mount Shingal (otherwise known as Sinjar) is host to a number of PKK positions.
Turkey killed prominent local PKK commander Zaki Shingali alongside four YBS fighters in an airstrike in August 2018.
As well as the YBS, other militias and forces including the Iraqi Army, provincial police, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Peshmerga-linked forces, Ezidkhan, and Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces, or PMF) are currently present in Shingal, complicating its security situation.
Murad Ismail, a Yezidi activist and former head of Yazda said his hometown of Khanasor does not want the presence of foreign troops.
"We don’t want Sinjar to become a regional conflict. This is why we ask all gangs not from this region to leave, let them be PKK, let them be PMU, let them be anyone. We want locals to protect their areas. Enough. We don’t want this genocide to result us not have a homeland," he said.
Unconfirmed reports about the injury of Mazloum Abdi, commander of Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), by the Ottoman Turkish strike on Shingal were denied by force spokesperson Mustafa Bali, who described the reports as a "psychological war" against Kurds.
Turkey is fighting the PKK and other forces it claims are offshoots of the group, including the SDF and YBS, at home and inside Iraq and Syria.
[Rudaw] In Iraq’s western province of Anbar, authorities have arrested or investigated individuals expressing support for protests in the majority Shiite south and capital of Baghdad, an international human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... monitor warned on Monday.
"Authorities in Iraq’s Anbar governorate are suppressing the right of residents to show support for demonstrations elsewhere in the country," reported Human Rights Watch (HRW).
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[Rudaw] Fifteen democratically elected mayors from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) have been removed from their positions due to alleged links to Kurdish rebels in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... , according to a report by a local human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... monitor, while dozens more have faced arrest and detention.
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(JTA) - Rep. Ilhan Omar appeared at a rally for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in her home state of Minnesota, offering a strong endorsement that noted his Jewishness.
An estimated 10,000 supporters attended the Sunday night event for the Vermont senator at the University of Minnesota.
Omar, also a Democrat, endorses the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel and is an outspoken critic of its government. The freshman lawmaker has been criticized for using anti-Semitic tropes in some of her criticism.
Sanders also has been critical of Israel during his campaign and said he would "absolutely" consider cutting U.S. aid to Israel to pressure the its government to change its policy, specifically on settlements.
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"People say that Ilhan and I make an odd political couple. But in fact, there is really nothing odd about it at all," Sanders told the rally. "Ilhan and I share a common link as the descendants of families who fled violence and poverty, and who came to this country as immigrants. But that is not just my story or Ilhan's story - that is the story of America." "And together, we'd like to make it yours !"
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The usual term for people like him is “self-hating Jew“, but really he is entirely too fond of himself. He actually is an old fashioned other-hating communist presenting a socialist face to the world, who happened to have Jewish ancestors.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Ottoman Turkish newspaper affiliated with President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... has lashed out at 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... i-owned channel Al Jazeera English and called for The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... to withdraw support for Doha due to the channel’s coverage of Turkey’s operations in northeastern Syria.
"Al Jazeera English, Qatar’s flagship news channel, has been spreading anti-Turkey propaganda," stated the Daily Sabah’s online editorial on Monday.
Pointing to Al Jazeera English’s "Turkey-bashing" coverage of Ankara’s ongoing military operation in northeastern Syria, the editorial alleged that "the network has succumbed to bias and fake news to misportray known holy warriors and runaways from law as oppressed activists," referring to the Kurdish-led forces which Turkey is trying to remove from northeastern Syria.
Turkey’s operation has been widely criticized by media and global leaders alike, with several countries halting arms sales to Ankara over its self-declared plans to change the demographics of northeastern Syria.
"Al Jazeera English, like Western outlets where some of its employees used to serve, refused to provide factual realities in the region. Instead, it reproduced the talking points of certain Western governments and the terrorist group they sponsor, on air," alleged the paper.
In response to Al Jazeera English’s reportedly "hostile" coverage, the Daily Sabah questioned Turkey’s relations with Qatar and suggested that Ankara should withhold support for its regional ally if Al Jazeera English continued to criticize Ottoman Turkish policy.
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Trump's decision to withdraw from Syria seems to have the effect of sowing dissension among the members of the Muslim Brotherhood/Quatar/Turkey/Russia/Iran/Syria-Assad block.
[ToloNews] At least eight non-combatants were killed in a roadside mine blast in northern Baghlan province on Monday, local police confirmed.
The incident took place in the Dand-e-Shahabuddin area close to Pul-e-Khumri, capital of Baghlan province, as the party was traveling from Akakhel village to Pul-e-Khumri , officials at the provincial police headquarters confirmed.
"Four children, two women and two men were killed and six other civilians--including children--were maimed," according to police, who said that the victims have been taken to a nearby hospital.
[SPUTNIKNEWS] It's been three months since India stripped the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... of its special status, thereby escalating tensions with Pakistain.
One person was killed and 18 people injured in a grenade attack on security forces in a market place in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday. The dear departed is reported to be a vendor from the area.
This was the second grenade attack in the past fortnight in the same area of the city.
Monday’s attack came when markets were open and traffic returned to normal in several parts of Srinagar, after three months of lockdown.
[SPUTNIKNEWS] The US and Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... have repeatedly threatened one another with deadly consequences in the event of hostilities, with the US move to send a carrier strike group to the Middle East and to set up a maritime security coalition to protect shipping in the Persian Gulf leading tensions to spike to dangerous new levels.
Iran has the ability and will to target any and all territories sheltering the US or its allies in the region in the event of aggression against Tehran, Armed Forces front man Brig. Gen. Abolfazl Shekarchi has warned.
"Any place and any territorial point sheltering the interests of the United States and its allies would be threatened (in case of any war) and the Islamic Theocratic Republic has proved that it has the capability to do so," the front man for the armed forces general staff said, speaking to Fars News Agency.
"Even if a country does not directly participate in any possible war but its territories host the enemy, we consider that country as a hostile territory and will treat it as an aggressor," Shekarchi added.
Emphasising that Iran would never be the instigator of a war of aggression, the front man also stressed that "if an aggressor commits a strategic mistake" and starts a war, "that aggression will be confronted with the strongest and most crushing response over a geographic expanse beyond what the ill-wishers of the Islamic Theocratic Republic could imagine."
Shekarchi added that the ineffectiveness of US military equipment was recently proven when all the advanced US radar and air defence systems "failed their test in a shameful manner" when Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... militia launched attacks on Saudi Aramco facilities in September. At that time, the front man said, the whole world "realized the weakness and humiliation [of Western countries’ equipment] in this field."
This was the second time Brig. Gen. Shekarchi has warned the US about the dangers of a conflict with Iran. In June, amid regional fears about how the US might respond to the destruction of a $220 million drone by Iranian air defences in the Strait of Hormuz, the front man warned that firing even "one bullet" at Iran would cause the region to "be set on fire" in the war that followed.
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Dron66046 submitted a fourth article on this story. His inlines are captured below in the usual yellow.
[MAIL] Turkey clams it has captured the sister of slain ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and that her arrest is an intelligence 'gold mine'. Invaluable intelligence. Like how a terror camp looks like from behind a 2X6 cm hole in a bedsheet !
Good. Get them all and wring them dry.
The 65-year-old, known as Rasmiya Awad, was found living in a trailer container with her family in Syria, a senior official said.
A Turkish official said she was captured during a raid today near the town of Azaz along with her husband, daughter-in-law and five children.
Little is known about the sister of al-Baghdadi, who was killed in a US raid in the nearby province of Idlib last month.
The area she was found is part of Syria that Turkish forces invaded last month following the withdrawal of US troops from the region.
The adults taken into custody by the Turks are being interrogated, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity In line with government protocol. "Hey ! We're...doing something too.”
The Ottoman Turkish official said the 65-year-old known as Rasmiya Awad is suspected of being affiliated with the krazed killer group. He did not elaborate.
Awad was captured in a raid Monday evening on a trailer container she was living in with her family near the town of Azaz in Aleppo province. The area is part of the region administered by Turkey after it carried out a military incursion to chase away IS gunnies and Kurdish fighters starting 2016. Allied Syrian groups manage the area known as the Euphrates Shield zone.
The reclusive leader al-Baghdadi was known to be close to one of his brothers, known by his nom de guerre Abu Hamza.
Al-Baghdadi's aide, a Saudi, was killed hours after the raid, also in northwestern Syria, in a U.S. strike.
Last August a different sister, whose identity was not released by authorities, was sentenced to death in Iraq. She was found guilty of 'offering logistic support and help to [ISIS fighters] in carrying out criminal acts', according to reports at the time.
A taste of Professor Hanson at length. As always, he is well worth setting aside the time to read in full.
[AmGreatness] Many retired high-ranking military officers have gone beyond legitimately articulating why President Trump may be wrong on foreign policy, and now feel free to smear him personally or speak openly of removing their commander-in-chief from office. And the media and the bipartisan foreign-policy establishment are with them every step of the way.
Much has been written about the so-called Resistance of disgruntled Clinton, Obama, and progressive activists who have pledged to stop Donald Trump’s agenda. The choice of the noun "Resistance," of course, conjures up not mere "opposition," but is meant to evoke the French "resistance" of World War II‐in the melodramatic sense of current loyal progressive patriots doing their best to thwart by almost any means necessary the Nazi-like Trump. Hezbollah and Hamas also regularly refer to themselves as the Resistance®, probably for the same reasons. Try and think of somebody more Nazi-like. Note that Pakistain, what every civilized nation aspires to be, is currently in the throes of Resistance; Maulana Fazl and his yellow-suited Stürmabteilung have given the legally elected prime minister (admittedly a dipshit) 48 hours to get out of Dodge. Iran gets by on its Resistance to The Great Satan. Meanwhile, its satrapies, Iraq and Leb, are Resisting the hated Medes and Persians.
We know from a variety of disinterested watchdog institutions and foundations that the media has offered 90 percent negative coverage of the Trump Administration. CNN in its anti-Trump zeal has ruined its brand by serial fabrications and firings of its marquee biased reporters.
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Those who believe they exist to be the world's policeman and those who don't. When the 22 trillion plus debt arrives, there won't be any money for endlessly defending global governance let alone America.
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Yup. The elected government is not in control. The permanent government - deep state - is fighting tooth and nail to overcome the #1 enemy, the American people.
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[LEGALINSURRECTION] What jumped out at me was the interview with Carmen Twillie Ambar, Oberlin College’s president, who took over after the events at issue. In the interview, Ambar repeated what has become a core part of Oberlin College’s post-trial public relations campaign, the suggestion that Gibson’s Bakery may actually have engaged in racial profiling. It was couched in the interview as a perception issue, that students and faculty had a perception — their own truth and lived experience — of racial profiling.
Koppel seemed genuinely surprised by Ambar’s statements as to perceptions:
KOPPEL: …. But to this day, the president of Oberlin makes allusions to a pattern of racist behavior, if not the specific incident that set things off three years ago.
AMBAR Well, the students pled guilty to the shoplifting. Um, there has been some debate about whether it was shoplifting or false ID.
KOPPEL: It was both.
AMBAR: Right. Well, I think that, that one of the things that the college has always said is that the college has not, doesn’t condone shoplifting, doesn’t condone bad behavior by its students in any way, shape or form. But what led up to the protest, and I think that’s sort of kind of the core issue here, was some series of things that happened before. Some perspectives about people’s experiences in the store.
KOPPEL: Tell me about, tell me about those then. And be specific. What specific incidents are you referring to that happened before?
AMBAR: Right, well, I think that the specific incidents would be, the perception by faculty and students and staff and other people in the town that there had been disparate treatment with respect to people of color in the store. The way I would phrase it, kind of different lived experiences.
DAVE O’BRIEN: This is all basically anecdotal evidence that people …
KOPPEL: Dave O’Brien covered the trials for the local paper, the Chronicle-Telegram
O’BRIEN: People commenting on a, on social media saying I had a, um, I, I felt, I felt uncomfortable in there. I felt like I was targeted because of the color of my skin.
There was no evidence presented in court supporting the claim of a long history of racial profiling, because no admissible evidence was offered.
Subjective feelings, perceptions, own truths, and lived experiences are not evidence supporting the truth of the matter asserted.
There was an interesting portion when Ambar clearly was uncomfortable, when Koppel pressed her as to what her reputation was worth:
KOPPEL: (Narration) What is a reputation worth? (Question to Ambar) You’re a very distinguished academic. What’s your reputation worth?
AMBAR: My reputation is important.
KOPPEL: It’s worth a lot, isn’t it? (Ambar shakes head Yes) I mean, if your reputation was destroyed overnight, you could hardly put a price on that could you.
AMBAR: Well, I certainly believe that reputations are important, but here’s what’s also true, and it’s the jury system that we have, right? And the legal system that we have. That we go through a legal process that makes that determination. And what the institution has said is that we believe that this determination was excessive.
Oberlin College still doesn’t get it.
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Um, there has been some debate about whether it was shoplifting or false ID.
Rule of thumb: if you run out of the store without paying and end up getting tackled by the store owner, it's probably shoplifting.
Defamatory lie #1: "there had been disparate treatment with respect to people of color in the store ... kind of different lived experiences"
Bullshit. No evidence was produced at all. Nothing admitted at trial. No facts. Even when Oberlin asked one of their own staff members to go out and canvas black people in the town, she came back with the same conclusion as did a racially-mixed jury and as did a longtime african-american employee of Gibsons: these people are not racists and have never treated people differently based on race.
Lie #2: "it's not true that the college supported the demonstration [by Oberlin students and staff accusing the Gibsons of racism]"
You stupid f---ing liar. Your employee, the Dean of Students, was busted at trial for explicitly ENCOURAGING students to demonstrate, for actually distributing hate-filled flyers that defamed the Gibsons, and even reimbursing the student demonstrators for food and clothing--with university funds! All of this was admitted at court!
This lie of yours on national TV was so blatant, so foolish and disgusting, that the CBS News team demolished it by bringing in one of the jurors to state the facts and cutting to those facts immediately after your idiotic lies.
Blathering bullshit, on stilts: "Well, I certainly believe that reputations are important. But here's what's also true, and it's the jury system that we have, right? And the legal system that we have, that we go through a legal process that makes that determination. And what the institution has said is that we believe that this determination was excessive."
A jury of local residents, racially mixed, unanimously concluded that your institution not only defamed and tried to destroy a good family's reputation earned over five generations, but that your shitty institution actually tried to drive them out of business-- that you tortiously interfered in their business relationships-- and that you even tried to bully them into not prosecuting your student shoplifters who try to screw them daily.
This woman is not a "distinguished academic." She's yet another illiterate affirmative-action law grad, far out of her depth, and she's destroying the institution that she presides over.
And now this idiot and her retarded counsel are going to get socked with still more damages-- AND millions in new legal bills.
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That interview should be included in the Bakery's appeal to get the whole 400 million. It's obvious that the reduced amount hasn't taught them a lesson.
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"This guy Armbar" and his colleagues and their lawyers are deranged, obsessed, nasty and vicious.
They are still-- three years in, $36m bond posted per court order, including over $6m in legal fees-- they are still trying to destroy this little family business that is beloved by the town and even the left-liberal Oberlin faculty and alums.
Having failed to destroy the Gibsons with high-proved lawfare, having suffered an extraordinary and righteous bitchslap in the form of a $44m defamation judgment ($11m compensatory IIRC, $33m punitive), these sociopaths are now indulging their hatred of an innocent family through both lawfare and media-assassination.
As with the Kavanaugh slander, as with the the Covington Catholic/Nick Sandmann slander, these shitty people are telling blatant lies to their fellow Shitshow clowns in the media.
Blatant lies which a jury and a judge and a lengthy, exhaustive legal process has determined were defamatory, malicious and despicable.
Blatant lies against a 92 year-old man whom their mob stalked at his home in the wee hours, causing this family patriarch to come outside, slip on his doorstep in the darkness and break his neck. He is the man quoted by CBS as saying that after a life of honest, decent service to his community, a life beyond reproach, he will now go to his grave branded forever as a filthy racist.
By these "distinguished academic[s]."
By this affirmative action law grad (Columbia) who doesn't even understand the most basic concepts underlying the rules of evidence, who can't distinguish between feelings and objective reality, who can't utter a coherent sentence.
These people are deranged. They're sociopaths.
They are obsessed, like Captain Ahab pursuing his great white whale, with finding and punishing witches labeled "white male" and Trumpian thought criminal" and "Russian agent."
They truly want to destroy us.
Thank god we still have laws against defamation and tortious interference. Thank god there are still a few journalists like Koppel, and many more African-American citizens, like this trial's jurors and witnesses, who remain committed to facts and logic. Who understand what a filthy and despicable act it is to bear false witness against one's neighbor.
But the forces against us-- entire institutions of academia like Oberlin and Columbia Law School (which admitted and graduated the idiot, Ambar's), legacy big media, the D.C. Establishment -- these forces are relentless and have vast resources and reach. Even Soros is in on the Oberlin smear: the Chair of the Oberlin board of trustees is a Soros hack named Chris Canavan.
Keep fighting, Gibsons.
I wish I could end here but, unbelievable as it is to say, this wretched story is actually even worse... this is such an awful display of human wickedness that it must be said: not only Grandpa Allyn Gibson is likely to go to his grave branded a racist by these despicable shits, but his son Dave Gibson will as well. Dave was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer during the trial and now has only a few months to live.
Oberlin's legal and media strategy, which involves continuing the smear of the Gibsons, has the effect of destroying the spotless reputations of two dying men and their entire legacy.
This disgraceful moron Ambar and her fellow shits are deliberately dragging this out via lawfare, refusing to settle, so that they can outlast two honest and decent fellow citizens -- their neighbors -- and send them to their graves as racists.
What despicable shits these people are. And they run an institution of higher learning. Vile.
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You can't make a rational argument to people who are not interested in having a rational argument. All the proof (or lack of) was laid out in court. The college lost, bigtime. What they did was clearly wrong.
But they're not using rationality. They're using emotional arguments about *how it made them feel*. The blacks were busted for shoplifting the day after Trump was elected. The school was outraged and needed a scapegoat. The bakery would do.
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Don't Muslims say Allah Armbar, perhaps in reference to the fact that Allah was a pro wrestler in another life?
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1. CALIFORNIA WILDFIRE/BLACKOUT/PG&E MEGATHREAD
About a month ago, @timothyhade (curse his name) wrote to say, "hey, you should look into this CA situation, it's nuts." So I did. By the time I was done, I'd written 15,000 words on it. 😵
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PGE shares the blame with Gov. Nuisance and the greens for poor forestry practices. Why not enlist the homeless as firefighters? They and piss and $hit on the flames
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IIUC This guy blames--surprise, surprise--housing sprawl, the whipping-boy of every right-thinking enviro-fanatic. These fools have contributed to the affordable housing crisis by PREVENTING housing from being built in the near suburbs with stifling environmental rules and restrictions.
The solution is more suburban housing of the sort that every family in California wants: with a yard and access to fast highway transportation. Not the green fantasy of more dense housing.
Another factor in the apparently improved Egyptian economy.
[AlAhram] The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) announced on Monday that remittances from Egyptians expatriates have increased by 5.5 percent ($227.1 million) in July and August 2019, recording $4.4 billion, up from $4.2 billion in the same period in 2018.
The CBE previously announced that remittances from Egyptians expatriates had increased by 15 percent in May 2019 compared to the same period in 2018, recording $3 billion up from $2.6 billion in May 2018.
Egypt’s remittances notably jumped after about a year since the flotation of the Egyptian pound, which was implemented in November 2016, rising by 18.4 percent, recording $26.4 billion.
[Rudaw] The United States on Monday slapped sanctions on nine aides to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... on the 40th anniversary of revolutionary zealots seizing the US embassy in Tehran.
The United States said it was also offering a $20 million reward for information to find Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent and CIA contractor who went missing in Iran
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[AlAhram] Iraqi security forces killed at least five people when they opened fire on protesters in Baghdad on Monday, a Rooters witness said, as thousands took part in the largest wave of anti-government protests for decades.
Monday's deaths were in addition to three protesters killed late on Sunday when security forces who opened fire on a crowd trying to storm the Iranian consulate in the Shiite Kerbala city, security and medical sources said.
A Rooters cameraman saw one man rubbed out, his body carried away by fellow protesters, when security forces opened fire with live rounds on demonstrators near Baghdad's Ahrar Bridge. He also saw at least four others killed.
Security and medical sources put the toll at four killed and 34 maimed, but could only confirm one death was from live fire. Two were a result of rubber bullets and tear gas, not live ammunition, they said, giving no reason for the fourth death.
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[AlAhram] The Egyptian army killed 83 Lions of Islam in North and Central Sinai between 28 September and 4 November, the Egyptian Army's General Command said in a statement on Monday.
Army forces seized 65 different types of weapons as well as ammunition, IEDs, and solar cell devices.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck reached for the green sauce... the Egyptian Air Forces destroyed 14 terrorist hideouts, 115 off-road vehicles, 33 cars, 93 cycle of violences, two smuggling tunnels and 376 planted IEDs in the area of operations, the statement added.
Also, border guards foiled illegal immigration attempts by 4,707 people of different nationalities and seized three Thuraya satellite phones.
"Sixty-one wanted criminals and suspects were arrested," the statement said, adding that "three army personnel were killed and injured during the operations against terrorist hideouts."
Security forces “eliminated 77 takfiris,” referring to Sunni Muslim extremists, who were found with stacks of weapons and ammunition in north and central Sinai, the army says.
Six other “highly dangerous” jihadists were killed in shootouts in the region, the army says in a statement on a nationwide anti-militant operation between September 28 and November 4.
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[BREITBART] Antisemitic Rep. Ilhan Omar ...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She is apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side... (D-MN) campaigned for presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders ...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being a socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around... (I-VT) in Minneapolis on Sunday night where she said she is "excited for President Bernie Sanders."
"I am beyond honored and excited for a president who will fight against Western imperialism and fight for a just world," Omar told the crowd of Sanders supporters. "I am excited for President Bernie Sanders."
Omar went on to claim that a "movement" must be built in order for Sanders to take the White House from President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... "Here’s the cold truth: We can’t achieve any of these goals if we don’t build a movement that is representative of all of our aspirations, all of our pain, and all of our shared trauma," Omar said. "That is why we must build a mass movement of the working class that transcends faith, age, gender, and background."
"That’s what we fight for here in Minnesota every single day and that’s the movement that Senator Bernie Sanders is building" Omar continued. "Bernie knows that systematic change in this country has never taken place without millions of people organizing to demand that change."
"That is the history of the labor movement, the history of the women’s liberation movement, that is the history of the civil rights movement, and the LGBTQ movement, and the disability rights under equal justice movement," the freshman Minnesota Congresswoman added.
[OUTLINE] If the goal was to damage President Trump by formalizing the impeachment inquiry, it’s Mission Unaccomplished for House Democrats.
If anything, the vote solidified Trump’s hold on power. There were zero GOP defections, meaning we have zero drama heading into the public phase of impeachment. Everyone is pretty much in the same lanes they’ve been in since the Russian-collusion investigation, the obstruction of justice investigation and every other investigation.
Unfortunately for the Democrats, that gives people little reason to be glued to their screens when House committees take public testimony. The basic story ‐ Trump pressured Ukraine to announce investigations into Democrats that would help Trump ‐ is out there already. People know how they feel about it, and if you believe the polls, they’re pretty evenly split on whether the president deserves to be thrown out of office.
The only potential drama before last week’s vote was whether there might be any movement, whether any Republicans would see it Democrats’ way.
Looks like they don’t.
And when it gets to the Senate, it will play out just the same way. Someone like Sen. Willard Mitt Romney, aka Pierre Delecto ...former governor of Massachussetts, the Publican nominee for president in 2012, now Senator from Utah. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals. He is currently a member of the Never Trump Party and is attempting to assume the mantle of the late John McCain... of Utah may break GOP ranks, but no one thinks 20 Republicans, the bare minimum who would have to defect to convict Trump, would actually do so.
So the Democrats will spend the next few precious months acting out a pretend cliffhanger to which everyone actually knows the script and the ending. No plot twists in sight. Remember health care, the issue that won so many elections for Democrats in 2018? You might, but they don’t seem to.
Come next year, Trump will have an impeachment victory and quite possibly a solid economy. The Democrats will have ‐ what?
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Willie Brown's an honest thief.
Still more rare: a clever one. He knew from direct experience that his former hose-bag Kamala was a liar who'd never reach the shortlist this year. He knows impeachment likewise is a stunt.
Willie's above the fray now. He already has his fedoras and Italian sports cars and his closet full of $5,000 suits already.
He needs nothing and has nothing to lose. He has left the Shitshow and can now speak the truth.
[IsraelTimes] Tehran’s nuclear chief says domestically made centrifuge in development is 50 times faster than those allowed under 2015 accord.
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... on Monday broke further away from its collapsing 2015 nuclear deal with world powers by announcing it’s doubling the number of advanced centrifuges it operates, calling the decision a direct result of President Donald Trump
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[AlAhram] The size of the informal economy, according to its share of the GDP, has fallen gradually across all regions globally from 1991 to 2017, according to a recent chart published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Less room for jihadis and other criminals to operate?
The chart shows that the regions with the highest share of informal economic activities, which is economic activity practiced outside legal frames and is not subjected to a country's tax system, from 2010 to 2017 are sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, both at 34 percent of GDP.
"The informal economy is generally associated with low productivity, poverty, high unemployment, and slower economic growth. It is also more prevalent in low-income countries because as countries develop, the easier it is for workers to transition to the formal sector. At the same time, it provides employment and income to people who would otherwise not find employment, or it supplements their income from employment in the formal, regulated sector," according to the chart's analysis.
"People and companies engaged in the informal economy usually operate on a small scale. This means there are no official statistics on the informal or shadow economy, as it’s sometimes called, so economists need to estimate its size. Some common techniques include surveys or indirect indicators such as the demand for currency."
The IMF said that this situation poses a challenge to policymakers regarding creating an environment where the formal sector can thrive while creating opportunities for people working in the informal sector to maintain or improve their living standards through reducing the costs of doing business, tackling corruption, and improving access to finance and services.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Jordan’s cabinet on Monday resigned ahead of a government reshuffle expected in the next few days, the state news agency said. ... and if you can't believe the state news agency who can you believe? Officials say the reshuffle will solidify Prime Minister Omar al-Razzaz’s mandate to accelerate economic reforms, seen as crucial to spur growth in the debt-ridden country.
Razzaz was quoted by Petra state news agency as saying the move was needed "to face up to the challenges of the coming period."
It was not clear how extensive the reshuffle would be but an official said it would not affect key portfolios, but focus on merging some ministries to cut waste and curb expenditure.
Under an IMF austerity plan, Jordan must rein in spending to cut spiralling debt that stands at around $40 billion, equivalent to around 95 percent of gross domestic product.
Several government moves in recent months to raise the salaries of teachers and army retirees, while government revenues are falling, has further strained state coffers.
King Abdullah appointed Razzaz in the summer of 2018 to defuse the biggest protests in years over tax hikes pushed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to reduce Jordan’s large public debt.
Razzaz has sought to revive confidence in a country where many blame successive governments for failing to deliver on pledges to revive growth, which is stuck at around 2 percent, cut waste and curb corruption.
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said Friday that he is the victim of Dire Revenge porn after a former intimate partner sent explicit images to Dibble’s colleagues, a crime that comes just days after a junior congresswoman from Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, stepped down in a similar situation.
In his surprise statement, Dibble revealed that for the past five months he has been harassed by "a former friend."
"I was involved in a brief intimate and consensual relationship with this person," wrote Dibble, DFL-Minneapolis. "When I attempted to end the relationship, I was threatened with embarrassment as this individual attempted to coerce me into continuing the relationship. My resistance to his threats was met this morning with a communication that was sent to my colleagues with what had been private photos, videos, and text messages."
This reminds me of Jerry Springer, back when he was the very popular mayor of Cincinnati. One fine evening he went across the Ohio river into the more interesting part of Northern Kentucky, and there paid a massage parlour "for services rendered" with a check that bounced. While this did not harm him locally, where he’d earnt his reputation as a character, the rest of Ohio apparently found him a bit much for governor or US senator.
An unknown number of politicians received the images Friday via e-mail attachments, confirmed DFL Caucus spokeswoman Ellen Anderson.
The man who sent those images has not been publicly identified but lives outside the country and isn’t a subordinate or connected with Minnesota politics in any way.
"This has nothing to do with his legislative work and I am not aware of any plans he has to resign," Anderson said.
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Revenge pron and blackmail in an extramarital affair? The voters must be O.K. w/gaymarriage, Will the voters have a revenge vote for the extramarital affair?
[BREITBART] Presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders ...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being a socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around... (I-VT) campaigned in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Sunday night alongside Rep. Ilhan Omar ...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She is apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side... (D-MN) and attempted to slam President Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... with unsubstantiated labels.
"This is, in addition to all of that, a president who is a racist, who is a sexist, who is a xenophobe, a homophobe, and a religious bigot," Bernie Sanders claimed. "This is a president who is trying to divide us up based on the color of our skin, where we were born, our sexual orientation, or our religion."
Sanders, who has made similar statements regarding President Trump in the past, said last month in a tweet that Trump is a "very formidable opponent."
"Trump is a racist, a sexist and a xenophobe. Despite all of that, he will be a very formidable opponent," Sanders proclaimed.
[Libya Observer] The front man for the Libyan Army under the command of the Presidential Council's government, Mohammed Gununu, said their forces "Volcano of Rage Operation" launched attacks on Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... 's forces on Khallit al-Furjan and Nahr Road frontlines, causing them heavy losses.
Gununu added on Monday in a press briefing in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... that the Libyan Army forces advanced on Nahr crossroad and Athem Buildings on Khallit al-Furjan frontline in southern Tripoli.
He added that they arrested three fighters from Haftar's forces and seized one military vehicle as Anti-Terrorism Force targeted Haftar's positions on Wadi Rabea frontline.
Heavy festivities erupted Monday on different frontlines in southern Tripoli as Haftar's forces launched indiscriminate shells on residential areas causing casualties among civilians.
One child was killed and another was injured as other civilians got injured due to random shelling by Haftar's forces on a house and near a clinic in Salah al-Deen, while in Ain Zara, seven schools were closed due to continued festivities.
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Turkey says one of its soldiers has been killed by roadside bomb in northeastern Syria, bringing the death toll to 14 since launching its offensive in Syrian Kurdish-held areas early last month.https://t.co/5brJJyRFBE
Khalifa Haftar’s armed groups have fired rockets on Salah Eddin neighbourhood in #Tripoli. One of the rockets has hit the car park of Nukhba Clinic causing panic among the patients and medical staff pic.twitter.com/pQpCepcbWj
[DAWN] Forty one migrants colonists were found alive in a refrigerated truck in northern Greece on Monday, said police, who arrested the driver. "How are they?"
"Cold."
The migrants colonists, of apparent Afghan origin, were mostly in good condition. Seven of them were given first aid in hospital, the police said.
"The truck contained men and boys. Identifying their nationality will require a couple of days," a police source told AFP.
The truck was immobilised by police on the Egnatia motorway between the towns of Xanthi and Komotini. The driver, a man from Georgia, was arrested.
The discovery came after 39 people, all believed to be Vietnamese nationals, were found dead in a refrigerated truck in Britannia last month, highlighting the risks of illegal migrant routes to Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... , even for those avoiding perilous travel by sea.
Another 31 Pak migrants colonists were found on Saturday hidden in a lorry on a motorway near the French-Italian border.
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In a bizarre incident in Uttar Pradesh's Jaunpur district, an egg challenge cost a man dear as he had to pay with his life, police said on Monday.
The deceased was identified as Subhash Yadav, 42.
Police said that Yadav had accompanied his friend to the Bibiganj market area to eat eggs but suddenly an argument broke out between the two and they decided on a challenge of Rs 2,000 for eating 50 eggs.
Subhash accepted the bet and began eating eggs. He ate 41 eggs and just when he started eating the 42nd, he collapsed and fell unconscious.
The local people rushed him to the district hospital from where he was referred to the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences. He died hours later.
While the doctors claimed that Subhash died due to over-eating, the family members refused to comment on the incident, police added.
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an argument broke out ... challenge of Rs 2,000 for eating 50 eggs
The egg-seller was eggstatic at this ; he eggspediently egged them on, counting coin.
[DAWN] Three people were at death's door in Hong Kong on Monday, authorities said, after a weekend of chaotic festivities with anti-government protesters that led China to call for a tougher stance to end months of unrest in the Asian financial hub.
The injuries were the result of yet another weekend of violence in the former British colony. Riot police stormed several shopping malls packed with families and children including Cityplaza in the eastern suburb of Taikoo Shing on Sunday.
Protesters there had initially formed a human chain before facing off with police in skirmishes up and down escalators and spraying graffiti on a restaurant.
A man with a knife slashed several people and bit off part of a politician's ear. The maimed included a man believed to be the knife-wielder, whom protesters had beaten with sticks.
The city's Hospital Authority said three people were at death's door, with two others at death's door, among a total of 30 injuries from Sunday.
A student at Shue Yan University was hit by a tear gas canister and suffered a severe burn in a separate incident at the weekend, the university's student union said in a statement.
While the Chinese-controlled city and its many businesses function normally during the week, many protests have sprung up spontaneously at weekends over the past five months.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Ottoman Turkish court, in a re-trial, ordered the release of journalists Ahmet Altan and Nazli Ilicak due to their time already served in jail, the Anadolu news agency reported on Monday.
The two men had been convicted of aiding the network of US-based Moslemholy manFethullah Gülen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world. Gülen and Erdogan used to be really good friends, but only one of them could be sultan, and Gülen lost... , accused by Ankara of orchestrating a coup attempt in 2016.
They had denied the charges against them.
The court also acquitted journalist Mehmet Altan, a defendant in the same case, of alleged links to the Gulen network, Anadolu said.
Altan had already been released.
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[SPUTNIKNEWS] Iraq has been hit by nationwide protests since early October, with citizens reportedly demanding the ouster of the government, as well as economic reforms, better living conditions, social welfare and an end to corruption.
As rallies grew violent, authorities claims that they must declare a curfew and cut internet access in Baghdad and five other regions.
According to data from the NetBlocks internet observatory, online "access has been cut across much of Iraq by internet providers as of 21:00 UTC, Monday 4 November 2019 (00:00 Baghdad time 5 November 2019)".
Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi promised earlier in a televised address to carry out a cabinet reshuffle and introduce changes to election laws.
At the same time, Mahdi warned that the government's resignation would throw the country into further chaos. Authorities have previously conducted a reshuffle in security bodies in provinces where protests initially broke out.
Dozens of protesters were maimed as a result of violent festivities with security forces in Baghdad near the area where Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi's office is located, witnesses said on Monday.
On Monday, a general strike was declared in a majority of Iraqi cities, while main highways remain blocked.
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[SPUTNIKNEWS] The former ruler of Malaysia insists his ex-wife wants to use their failed marriage to gain fame and celebrity status and is publicly blasting her for making their marriage public without his consent. The former king denies that he abdicated the throne because of the marriage scandal.
Sultan Muhammad V of Kelantan, the head of Malaysia’s Kelantan sultanate and former King (Yang di-Pertuan Agong) of Malaysia rebuked claims made by his former wife, Russian-born Oksana Voevodina, whom he married and later parted with last year, that he fathered her son, The Daily Mail reported Monday.
In a harsh statement delivered by a palace source who spoke to The Daily Mail, the sultan said photos of Voevodina’s 5-month old son do not prove that he is the father of the baby and the infant could be "the son of any Asian man."
The Sultan "does not feel (the baby) looks like him," a palace source told the Mail, adding that the sultan says her claims that the baby was planned and that he cried with happiness on discovering she was pregnant are "absolute nonsense."
In 2010, 5,138 children were admitted to US ERs for sexual abuse
By 2016, that number surged to 8,818, but the proportion of ER admissions was twice as high that year as in 2010
The St Louis University study authors suggest that the rise has been driven by better awareness of childhood sexual abuse coupled with human trafficking
Experts have called trafficking of children the fastest growing form of organized crime in the US
[SMH] 'What do you want me to do with your terrorist?'
Turkey has warned Britain and other countries that it will send captured Islamic State suspects and their families back home even if their citizenship has been revoked.
Ankara has custody of more than 1000 foreign IS militants, wives and their children after seizing parts of northern Syria and taking them from Kurdish forces. It said it would not hold them forever.
"We will send back those in our hands, but the world has come up with a new method now: revoking their citizenships," Turkish Interior Minister Soleyman Soylu said on Monday, Ankara time.
"They are saying they should be tried where they have been caught. This is a new form of international law, I guess.
"It is not possible to accept this. We will send back Daesh members in our hands to their own countries whether they revoke their citizenships or not," he said, using the derogatory Arabic -acronym for the terrorist group.
“Our courts are fully booked for the next decade with Gulenist and Kurd cases. We have no time for the world-conquering caliphatists who were giving former BFF Assad such lovely problems,” he added.
Soylu complained of European inaction on the matter.
"They found an easy solution," he said. "They say, 'I took his nationality away; it's your problem now'. That's unacceptable in our view; that's totally irresponsible. What do you want me to do with your terrorist?" "Besides sitting here we have the best trained bio-weapons. What good are they to Allan just... wasting away ? We didn't join NATO to shoulder responsibility !"
[SPUTNIKNEWS] A dangerous escalation of tensions near the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip border comes against the backdrop of Tel Aviv’s threat to launch a ground war on the Paleostinian enclave, as Israeli fighter jets struck targets in Gaza in retaliation for recent rockets launched from near the border.
Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, says it has shot down an Israeli drone in the northern Gaza Strip, according to al-Arabiya.
According to Al Mayadeen TV, the drone that was shot down was a quadcopter.
Amid other conflicting accounts, Al Ain said that Hamas was able to take possession of the drone, while the Israeli daily The Jerusalem Post cited some reports as saying that the drone had flown out of the area after being shot at.
The IDF has not yet offered an official comment regarding the incident.
News of the current alleged downing of a drone comes amid heightened tensions in the region, as Israeli combat planes struck military compounds affiliated with Hamas in the Gaza Strip in response to what it claimed were rocket attacks from the Paleostinian enclave, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said in its statement on Saturday.
Yes, dear, we know. And so easy to fill them with gas or concrete, too. We’ve seen the lovely videos of concrete spreading from the far end of that Hizb’allah tunnel last summer — are you volunteering to be next?
[IsraelTimes] Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, leader Yahya Sinwar threatens Israel, warning the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... terrorist group has cross-border tunnels that extend for "hundreds of kilometers" and an arsenal of thousands of rockets and mortars.
Sinwar also directs warnings to Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, a former IDF chief of staff, saying that if the centrist politician succeeds in forming a governing Israeli coalition, "he’ll curse the day he was born."
Sinwar’s comments come after a weekend of rocket fire at southern Israel from the Gaza Strip, which were met with Israeli reprisal strikes in the enclave.
[Libya Observer] If they're open, but no classes, are they really a school?
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Sir Humphrey says yes
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First of all you have to sort out the smooth running of the school. Having students around would be no help at all. We don't measure our success by results but by activity.
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A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake shook Chile, rattling buildings in the capital while a big anti-government demonstration was under way.https://t.co/bnCLqyzf12
[BBC] A Colorado man has appeared in court for allegedly plotting to bomb a synagogue in a case US prosecutors describe as "domestic terrorism".
According to court documents, Richard Holzer planned to bomb the Temple Emanuel synagogue in the town of Pueblo as part of a "racial holy war".
Following a sting operation, the 27-year-old met FBI undercover agents to visit the temple and plan his attack, prosecutors say.
Mr Holzer has not yet entered a plea.
During his court he requested a court-appointed lawyer.
FBI special agent John Smith said in an affidavit that Mr Holzer had "used several Facebook accounts to promote white supremacy ideology and acts of violence".
He told undercover officers that he used to be a member of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) - one of the oldest white supremacy groups in the US - and was now a skinhead.
At least 12 other plots against Jewish institutions throughout the US have been foiled since the Pittsburgh attack, according to the anti-Defamation League, as the community deals with what officials say is a sharp uptick in anti-Semitic attacks.
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OK. I'm taking the contrarian stance. I don't care who she screws (as long as it doesn't involve kids or the livestock).
In addition, I support a Constitutional Amendment that requires all candidates for public office to display full frontal and side shot nude pictures on their campaign literature. This will (a) dissuade disgusting people like Schiff and Pelosi from running and (b) allow you to select attractive gov't officials for when their private selfies are inevitably released to the wild. (Sorry Mitch, you gotta go).
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The problem I have with this POS is her slander of Kavanaugh. That's how she got elected, recall: by telling lies about an honorable man.
We have an epidemic of slander, lies, and defamation in this country.
It's very difficult to win a libel action. Justice Kavanaugh has no recourse. The road to vindication for Nick Sandmann will be long and painful. Millions of other, less famous Americans are facing these Gestapo tactics every day in their neighborhoods and their workplace.
The only way to keep this epidemic from destroying us to bring down the slanderers wherever and whenever we can.
Hence the urgent need to denounce Katie Hill as an opportunistic creep who took advantage of the Kavanaugh Shitshow, and then took advantage of her paid employee.
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There's actually so much wrong with this picture. And the fact there is a picture. Personal lives of the powerful is one thing, but this gives the impression of a sick mind. And a sick official is understandably very corruptible. I'm no prude myself and don't mind orgies in the room next to me, but the people who vote and pay taxes deserve better than what can be seen here. Especially after the Justice Brett thingy.
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There's actually so much wrong with this picture. And the fact there is a picture. Personal lives of the powerful is one thing, but this gives the impression of a sick mind. And a sick official is understandably very corruptible. I'm no prude myself and don't mind orgies in the room next to me, but the people who vote and pay taxes deserve better than what can be seen here. Especially after the Justice Brett thingy.
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I don't agree that Katie Hill is a sign of America's decline. Katie Hill is in decline and did get shitcanned. It is not so much that America is in deline but the left and its culture. How much does the left represent America?
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I mean the people who run our political institutions and our communications & cultural institutions, including our schools and universities, the media, and entertainment industries.
They're the decadent ones who have no attachment to our heritage or even to common sense.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[News with Views] The new Batwoman TV series featuring an openly lesbian Batwoman is failing big-time. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that young adults are turned off by the show’s extreme woke and SJW (social justice warrior) politically correct messaging. "Woke" means you are aware of social and racial injustice. "Woke" also means straight white men are the source of all evil and must be punished. Women and minorities are perfect in every way. Woke culture says anyone who dares criticize a woman or a minority hates women and minorities.
[MEDIAite] It would be too nice to say that CNN New Day anchors Alisyn Camerota and John Berman pointed and laughed at Senator Rand Paul Tuesday morning. More apt descriptions might be ridiculed, belittled or, better yet, cut down to size.
[Right Scoop] A few days ago on the subway in NYC, a "transgender lady" (dude with a ’tude) attacked an old man who was singing gospel songs and reading his bible to people on the Subway. The "transgender lady" reportedly took off his stiletto and hit the man in the head, which is on video.
[Guardian] Authorities in Kyoto have banned photography in parts of the city’s main geisha neighbourhood, amid a flurry of complaints about harassment and bad behaviour by foreign tourists in the quest for the perfect selfie.
[Real Clear Politics] Former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon talks Republican resistance to House Democrats' impeachment push, and who he thinks should testify in the public inquiry.
[Breitbart] An Australian woman with 200 tattoos said she went blind for three weeks after having her eyeballs inked.
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...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
[LEGALINSURRECTION] What jumped out at me was the interview with Carmen Twillie Ambar, Oberlin College’s president, who took over after the events at issue. In the interview, Ambar repeated what has become a core part of Oberlin College’s post-trial public relations campaign, the suggestion that Gibson’s Bakery may actually have engaged in racial profiling. It was couched in the interview as a perception issue, that students and faculty had a perception — their own truth and lived experience — of racial profiling.
[AlAhram] The Egyptian army killed 83 
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...former governor of Massachussetts, the Publican nominee for president in 2012, now Senator from Utah. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals. He is currently a member of the Never Trump Party and is attempting to assume the mantle of the late John McCain...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
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...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
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In a bizarre incident in Uttar Pradesh's Jaunpur district, an egg challenge cost a man dear as he had to pay with his life, police said on Monday.
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