[Sun UK] How the Mormons and cartels went to war in Mexico - with anti-terror devices, $1m ransoms and shoot-outs in the street
The LeBarons' roots in Mexico date back to the 1880s - and the family history is tinged with bloodshed.
When the Church of the Latter Day Saints banned polygamy in the late 19th century, hoards of Mormons - who traditionally take multiple wives - fled to Mexico to avoid prosecution.
Among these was Alma Dayer LeBarón, who in 1924 set up Colonia LeBaron in Chihuahua state.
Alma's son, Joel, carried on the family's polygamous tradition - taking six wives and 42 children - but after taking over the leadership in the '50s, also united 30 families under the 'The Church of the The Firstborn'.
Joel's brother and second in command, Evril, however, resented his authority.
Driven on by the controversial Mormon doctrine 'blood atonement' - where certain crimes are punishable by death - he ordered Joel's murder and went on to kill a number of his rival faction leaders.
Eventually, Evril, dubbed the 'Mormon Manson', was cornered by police in 1979 and sentenced to life imprisonment.
He died two years later still linked with countless deaths, including those of his own 17-year-old pregnant daughter Rebecca, who had tried to leave the group.
I think it's arseholes like these that destroyed the credibility of Christianity in the minds of millions. They will all burn in hell anyway. Perhaps the cartel fellows and those 'death saint' junkies use this as a justification.
A WATCHMAN scans the roads for killers in the dead of night, peering out from a tower looming over a small, sleepy hillside town. It's not a scene from a film, but the daily life of Mormons fighting to keep their families from the bloody grip of drug cartels running riot in north Mexico.
This week the sickening massacre of nine Mormons - including six children - has shone a spotlight on a fragile community blighted by decades of tragedy.
In a "targeted" hit that has seen a rival of El Chapo arrested, three vehicles belonging to two families were ravaged with bullets on their way to a wedding in Sonora, where babies were left to burn alive and kids were shot in the back.
While police are yet to pin down the hitmens' exact motives, the grisly scene is just the latest chapter in a long, brutal feud between the two groups plagued by kidnappings and brutal executions.
Most remarkably, it has seen a tight knit, religious community turned into a high security fortress where guards barricade roads like anti-terror units, illegal firearms are smuggled in and ordinary civilians man watchtowers on a seven-day rota round the clock.
KIDNAPPINGS AND $1MILLION RANSOMS
The LeBarons - a polygamous community where men take multiple wives - were first caught in the cartels' dangerous web in 2009.
The family's large houses and nice cars attracted the attention of organised criminal syndicates looking to fill their coffers.
It was here that on May 2 16-year-old Eric LeBaron was seized by five armed men as he worked on the family's Sierra Madre ranch.
His younger brother was sent to tell his father, Joel, of the news.
The shameless kidnappers Wat ? called three times to ask for $1million dollars in ransom - refusing to negotiate.
"If you give them a cookie, they'll want a glass of milk. If we don't make a stand here, it's only a matter of time before it's my kid." - Craig LeBaron
Furious, the family debated hiring professional bounty hunters, before going over the heads of the local police force to petition in their hundreds the state's governor and attorney general.
The response was immediate.
Helicopters scoured the streets as police desperately searched for the missing teen. Roadblocks were set up to block off escape routes. Obviously the govt pathetically implored the Cartels to free the hostages, for gear of US reprisal.
And miraculously, within eight days, Eric was freed.
Yet while the clan celebrated victory, tragedy was just around the corner.
More about the Community's stand-off and the Mexican assault at The Sun. Including a 30 year old patsy they've 'caught'. I'm no fan of these false Christs and wolves playing shepherds, but this is no divine judgement. Or is it ? Brrr...
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When the Church of the Latter Day Saints banned polygamy in the late 19th century, hoards of Mormons - who traditionally take multiple wives - fled to Mexico to avoid prosecution.
As did a number of former southern slavers post-1865 to include Brazil as a destination that retained the practice.
We've crossed a frontier here: I've read the article and still can't tell if it's the Bee or not.
[Babylon Bee] Warren has since explained, though, that that mind-boggling cost is actually a part of the plan to pay for it. "If anything, I want it to cost more," Warren told the press. "Because here is how we are going to afford it all: We are going to roll over the National Debt Clock to zero, wiping out all our debt!"
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Since odometers went digital it's not easy to roll them back, but I'm old enough to remember when people got busted for doing it.
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[FoxNews] Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has revealed new quotas in France for migrant workers and restrictions on the kind of health care they can receive. The measures, he said, will help France 'take back control' over its expanding migrant population. But will these new policies help France and its economy, or will they end up being more of a detriment than the migrants themselves? The Heritage Foundation's Robin Simcox weighs in.
Police in Paris cleared on Thursday more than 1,500 migrants out of a pair of makeshift tent camps, as officials are vowing that the communities will no longer be tolerated in the French capital.
The massive operation targeting the camps underneath highways in northern Paris began in the early morning and involved nearly 600 police officers. By the time it was finished, an estimated 1,606 migrants were taken away — and police say they will keep a presence in the areas to may sure they don’t come back.
“I will no longer tolerate these installations by the roadside here or anywhere else on public spaces in Paris,” Didier Lallement, the leader of Paris’ police department, was quoted by Reuters as saying.
Buses picked up the migrants – described by Reuters as being mostly men from Africa and the Middle East – and later dropped them off at gyms and other public venues in the Paris area while the makeshift structures they used to call home were demolished.
Interior Minister Christophe Castaner announced that state-sponsored facilities will now house the migrants as their asylum requests are being processed — but any that are denied must leave French territory and some risk deportation.
Some of those who have been granted asylum, he added, are refusing to stay at the housing that they have been offered, Reuters reported.
The removals came a day after Prime Minister Edouard Philippe revealed new quotas in France for migrant workers and restrictions on the kind of health care they can receive. Those measures, he said, will help France “take back control” over its expanding migrant population.
“Retaking control means when we say yes it really means yes, and when we say no it really means no,” Philippe, who serves under President Emmanuel Macron, said Wednesday. “We’ve decided to go far in opening up where we think it’s good for France, and go far in restrictions where the abuses are intolerable.”
Immigration has become a major political concern for Macron’s La Republic en Marche party, as right-wing voters continue to threaten his chances of winning office again in 2022.
Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Rally party and 2017 presidential candidate, remains Macron’s toughest competition for president. Her party topped Macron’s in the European election this summer — it's considered “the first round” of presidential elections.
French authorities cleared a sprawling migrant camp in Calais in 2016 but migrants have since set up a series of camps in Paris that have been demolished by authorities — and then later rebuilt in different parts of the city, according to Reuters.
“[Police] have told me time and again the camps would not come back, but each time they have reappeared,” Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo was quoted as telling reporters Tuesday.
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Buses picked up the migrants – described by Reuters as being mostly men from Africa and the Middle East – and later dropped them off at gyms and other public venues in the Paris area while the makeshift structures they used to call home were demolished.
Interior Minister Christophe Castaner announced that state-sponsored facilities will now house the migrants as their asylum requests are being processed — but any that are denied must leave French territory and some risk deportation.
Some of those who have been granted asylum, he added, are refusing to stay at the housing that they have been offered, Reuters reported.
Ship em home. NOW
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They may want to disinfect those buses a bit.
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Toss 'em all back to their countries of origin or they will build another camp.
[France24] Two former Twitter employees and a third man were charged in San Francisco Federal Court Wednesday with spying on Twitter users critical of the Saudi royal family, the US Justice Department announced.
The two Saudis and one US citizen allegedly worked together to unmask the ownership details behind dissident Twitter accounts on behalf of the government in Riyadh and the royal family, the department said. Failing to share can have consequences.
According to a court filing, they were guided by an unnamed Saudi official who worked for someone prosecutors designated "Royal Family Member-1," which The Washington Post reported was Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Those charged were former Twitter employees Ali Alzabarah and Ahmad Abouammo, along with Ahmed Almutairi, a marketing official with ties to the royal family. We've never had any difficulty with these people previously. Strange, very strange.
"The criminal complaint unsealed today alleges that Saudi agents mined Twitter's internal systems for personal information about known Saudi critics and thousands of other Twitter users," said US Attorney David Anderson.
"US law protects US companies from such an unlawful foreign intrusion. We will not allow US companies or US technology to become tools of foreign repression in violation of US law," he said in a statement.
The lawsuit comes as US-Saudi relations continue to suffer strains over the brutal, Riyadh-sanctioned murder last year of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who wrote for, among others, The Washington Post. beloved martyr of journalism Jamal Khashoggi
...who was simultaneously a very well paid Washington Post columnist and a long time propagandist for the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda — he died while on the Qatari payroll, but previously wrote at the behest of then-Saudi intel chief Prince Turki al-Faisal...
A critic of Crown Prince Mohammed, Khashoggi was killed and dismembered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
According to the Post, US intelligence has concluded that the prince himself was closely linked to the murder.
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"US law protects US companies from such an unlawful foreign intrusion. We will not allow US companies or US technology to become tools of foreign repression in violation of US law," he said in a statement, then his lips fell off.
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Sh*ttah. You have to say it with that Stewaht Vahney shill accent.
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I wouldn't blame them.
If a company, albeit a US based corporation provides a personal opinion/news/message publishing service that is being used by dissidents of another country to revolt, the US needs to know first. If they cannot do anything about it or won't, the affected country has every right to act against the company in the internet domain.
There is no economic, territorial or diplomatic breach here. And since twitter is being so anti-Trump just before elections, fuck 'em.
Public hearings are finally about to begin in Adam Schiff’s "impeachment inquiry" and he’s called his first three witnesses. Who he’s choosing to march out first tells you everything about the game the Democrats are trying to play.
The names? Bill Taylor, Marie Yovanovitch, and George Kent.
The problem? Not a single one of these "witnesses" had any direct line to Donald Trump at all. None of them received any order from the President to do anything, by their own admission. Further, nothing in their previous testimony pointed to them having any secondary knowledge of an improper quid pro quo involving Joe Biden.
What these witnesses do provide is political fodder. Take Bill Taylor. Despite admitting the only evidence he had for his impressions was an article in The New York Times, he testified that he felt an improper quid pro quo was taking place.
...Former Amb. Marie Yovanovitch is another witness big on flash but low on relevancy. Her only use to Schiff is to proclaim she felt targeted by Trump and that he wanted her out of her position (something well within her powerTrump's authority?). In her past testimony, she says she had no knowledge of any quid pro quo arrangement, so what is she going to actually add of value?
...As for George Kent, his contribution is to claim he was sidelined from policy altogether, which is apparently impeachable because bureaucrats run the country or something.
...But more importantly, notice the names not on the list to headline this thing. Kurt Volker and Gordon Sondland. Why not have the people most closely connected with Trump, who would possibly know of any official decree, testify instead of a bunch of people repeating assumptions and hearsay?
The answer is that they didn’t give Schiff what he wanted. Sondland revised his testimony this week to say he felt a quid pro quo (but not even necessarily an improper one) was "likely," but also admitted it was pure presumption on his part. He testified he was given no order regarding the matter and had no idea why the aid was actually on hold.
Volker, who was the closet up the chain to Trump, has point blank said there was no improper arrangement to his knowledge.
[NYP] Bill Gates said Wednesday that he "made a mistake" when he decided to meet with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein while seeking money for his global health campaign.
Gates made the mea culpa while speaking to The New York Times Dealbook Conference ‐ saying that by sitting down with Epstein he helped legitimize the convicted sexual predator.
"I made a mistake in judgment that I thought that those discussions would lead, literally, to billions of dollars going to global health. It turned out that was a bad judgment," said 64-year-old Gates.
"And I gave him some benefit by the association. So I made a doubly wrong mistake there," he added.
Epstein died in federal lock up in lower Manhattan on August 10 after he was busted by the FBI for sex trafficking.
Theories that Epstein was murdered have swirled since his death, with his brother, Mark Epstein, saying Wednesday that "my brother might have been murdered."
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Gates' personal worth is many times what Epstein's was. Like a lot of smart people, Gates' mistake is thinking the rest of us are dumb enough to believe him.
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yep, so he expected to get billions from a guy that was much less rich than him
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Did anyone at the Shitshow Times conference ask this Grifter about the botchjob called Common Core Math that he imposed on the nation's schools-- such as why he ever thought he should even be involved in education, let alone why he feels himself entitled to steamroll the nation's parents, schools and teachers with this foolish, cockamamie approach?
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Bill Gates said Wednesday that he "made a mistake" when he decided to meet with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein while seeking money for his global health campaign.
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Kildall shot himself in the foot (insert appropriate anatomical reference here).
When IBM set up a meeting with him to discuss licensing CP/M for their new computer called the PC, he blew them off and went hang gliding. And that, campers, is how we ended up with MS-DOS.
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But the weather was just *perfect* for flying that day.
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The Kildall incident (along with IBM's obtuseness re the value of software) just underscores how much of our oligarchs' wealth can be attributed to blind luck.
[NTD] A county in Maryland has partially reversed a sanctuary policy just three months after it was passed. The move comes after a string of illegal immigrants have been charged with rape in Montgomery County.
The policy banned Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials from accessing secure portions of Montgomery County jail. It’s reversal, which was effectively immediately, means ICE can now access "identified areas" of the jail to "ensure that transfers are conducted in a safe environment."
The policy says ICE must submit an immigration detainer and arrive at the jail an hour before the inmate is set to be released, reported WJLA. If ICE fails to comply for whatever reason, the county will release the illegal immigrant into the community, just as the county was doing before, regardless of the crime the person has been charged with.
According to the station, the discharge time can take anywhere between less than an hour to half a day, depending on several factors such as the number of jail staff, population of the inmates at that particular jail, and home verification checks.
Law enforcement sources told WJLA that local and federal authorities in Montgomery County cooperated in the transfer of an individual on Oct. 21.
[Hawaii Public Radio] The City and County of Honolulu is the second county to announce plans to sue fossil fuel companies for what officials say is damage caused by climate change and rising sea levels traced back to corporate action or inaction.
"The evidence is piling up that just as big tobacco misled the public and policymakers about the danger of smoking, big oil waged a decades-long deception campaign and covered up the origins of today’s climate crisis," said Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell on Tuesday.
The mayor pointed to the estimated 3,880 Oahu structures said to be in harm's way if the sea level rises by 3.2 feet as predicted by 2100. The higher oceans could result $12.9 billion in costs, according to a 2017 study from the Hawaiʻi Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission.
Last week, Maui Mayor Michael Victorino said his administration plans to sue the companies for climate change-related damage to roads and other infrastructure.
Both lawsuits will need approval from county councils.
Victorino has been feuding with Maui council members over issues like his insistence that the county argue rather than settle a wastewater lawsuit now before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Caldwell had City Council members Joey Manahan and Ron Menor at a press conference announcing his intention to file a lawsuit against fossil fuel companies. Both supported the administration's plans.
Among the companies that would be named in the suit are Chevron, Shell, Exxon Mobil, BP, the BHP Group, Conoco Phillips, Marathon (formerly known as Tesoro) and Aloha Petroleum.
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The Hawaiian Islands are a hot spot chain and start sinking as soon as their volcanoes stop growing them. Midway Atoll used to be an island like Hawaii.
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I agree PEPPLES, ALL things that need or run on ANY petroleum Products & ALL ammo for Police included! NO SHIPPING what so ever land sea~~any. STARVE!
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About 70% of the islands' (all inhabited ones, anyway) power comes from oil-fired generation. Coal-fired makes up about 15% and 'Renewable' makes up about 15%.
It would be interesting to see an 85% power reduction take effect.
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What about all the goods and supplies shipped into the islands?
Will the freighters and cargo jets be forced to run on renewables as well?
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...ah, the return of the clipper ships! Just redirect some of that unauthorized manpower coming across the border to the work (in colloquial terms - Shanghai'd)
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The mayor pointed to the estimated 3,880 Oahu structures said to be in harm's way if the sea level rises by 3.2 feet as predicted by 2100.
Last I looked, sea level rise was on the order of a millimeter per year which gives 80 mm by 2100 - about 3 inches. Probably not real noticeable depending on the daily tides.
If I were an oil company CEO, I would announce that all fuel shipments and sales would be suspended in 30 days to avoid further legal liability. Then I would sit back with a drink and watch heads explode all over the islands.
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Steve - isn't that the approach that PG&E adopted in California - shut off electricity. Partially to reduce the chance of a wildfire from their equipment. But mostly so they couldn't be blamed when a wildfire broke out.
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[One Zero] Over the last 15 years, the United States military has developed a new addition to its arsenal. The weapon is deployed around the world, largely invisible, and grows more powerful by the day.
That weapon is a vast database, packed with millions of images of faces, irises, fingerprints, and DNA data ‐ a biometric dragnet of anyone who has come in contact with the U.S. military abroad. The 7.4 million identities in the database range from suspected terrorists in active military zones to allied soldiers training with U.S. forces.
"Denying our adversaries anonymity allows us to focus our lethality. It’s like ripping the camouflage netting off the enemy ammunition dump," wrote Glenn Krizay, director of the Defense Forensics and Biometrics Agency, in notes obtained by OneZero. The Defense Forensics and Biometrics Agency (DFBA) is tasked with overseeing the database, known officially as the Automated Biometric Information System (ABIS).
DFBA and its ABIS database have received little scrutiny or press given the central role they play in U.S. military’s intelligence operations. But a newly obtained presentation and notes written by the DFBA’s director, Krizay, reveals how the organization functions and how biometric identification has been used to identify non-U.S. citizens on the battlefield thousands of times in the first half of 2019 alone. ABIS also allows military branches to flag individuals of interest, putting them on a so-called "Biometrically Enabled Watch List" (BEWL). Once flagged, these individuals can be identified through surveillance systems on battlefields, near borders around the world, and on military bases.
[Babylon Bee] NEW YORK, NY‐An ABC News spokesperson claims the story on Epstein they sat on for three years was accidentally tossed out with some old paperwork, then shredded into tiny pieces, and then finally incinerated into a pile of ash.
"There was some kind of mix-up with the papers," said one man standing out by ABC News's official incinerator. "A janitor must have tossed it out while he was cleaning. Then, I guess it got fed through a paper shredder somehow, fed through a second paper shredder by mistake, and finally incinerated at 4,000 degrees."
"These kinds of things just happen sometimes, you know," he added, shrugging.
Station representatives also believe the pile of ashes was then pulled out of the trash, stuffed into a briefcase, set inside a block of solid concrete, and dropped off the end of the docks near a seedy warehouse.
ABC News assured everyone the janitor has been fired, his mop has been confiscated, and he's been tossed outside like a bag of moldy tangerines.
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Like the whistleblower's name, it was known all over DC.
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♫ For a good time ♫ for a good time call ♫...
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Life imitates Bee. Really hard to tell the difference these days.
Look at that photo, for example. It looks like a Saudi architect's demented imitation of the Disneyland theme park's castle. Or something photoshopped.
In the realm of the Shitshow, who can say what's real and what's fake with any certainty?
[IsraelTimes] As part of plea, Ahmadreza Mohammadi-Doostdar admits to travelling to America to relay instructions to Majid Ghorbani on behalf of Tehran.
Two Iranians who were charged with collecting information on Israeli and Jewish targets in the US and on opponents of the Iranian regime have pleaded guilty to acting on behalf of Tehran, the US Justice Department announced Tuesday.
Ahmadreza Mohammadi-Doostdar, 39, a dual US-Iranian citizen, and Majid Ghorbani, 60, an Iranian citizen and resident of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, were arrested last year.
"The Iranian government thought it could get away with conducting surveillance on individuals in the United States by sending one of its agents here to task a permanent resident with conducting and collecting that surveillance," said Jessie K. Liu, United States Attorney for the District of Columbia.
Doostdar is scheduled to be sentenced on December 17 and Ghorbani will receive his sentence on January 15.
As part of his plea, Doostdar admitted he traveled to the United States from 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 three occasions to meet with Ghorbani and to convey directions for Ghorbani’s activities on behalf of Iran.
According to the indictment released by the Justice Department last year, Doostdar traveled to the United States from Iran in or around July 2017, with the aim of collecting intelligence on entities and individuals considered to be enemies of the Iranian regime.
This included Israeli and Jewish interests, as well as individuals linked to The People’s Mujahedeen (MEK), an Iranian opposition organization which was considered by the US to be a terror organization until 2012.
The indictment states that on or about July 21, 2017, Doostdar carried out surveillance and took photos at several Jewish centers in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... , including the Hillel Center and the Rohr Chabad House, where he is accused of taking detailed pictures of the security measures, and the Hillel Center.
The indictment does not name the Israeli targets.
Doostdar then traveled to California where he met Ghorbani, apparently for the first time, according to the indictment.
Two months later Ghorbani flew to New York for one day where he attended an MEK rally and took photographs of people in attendance.
In December 2017 Doostdar traveled back to California to get the MEK information. In conversations between them recorded by the FBI, Ghorbani mentioned trying to "penetrate" the group, while Doostdar spoke of being directed by others to collect the information.
"I will give it to the guys to do their research," he said of the photographs.
The indictment says he paid $2,000 to Ghorbani in their meetings.
In March and April 2018, Ghorbani went to Iran where, according to the indictment, he briefed government officials on his information on MEK and received a list of "taskings" for infiltrating the dissident group.
Last May, Ghorbani attended the MEK-supported Iran Freedom Convention for Human Rights in Washington as part of the California delegation, where he also took pictures of attendees, including while posing in front of the White House.
Doostdar and Ghorbani were both charged with acting as unregistered agents of the Iranian government and providing the Iran government with services in violation of sanctions.
Last July it was reported that Israel’s Mossad spy agency thwarted a plan to bomb a June 30 conference organized by the MEK in Gay Paree. The operation led to the arrest of a cell headed by an Iranian diplomat.
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"The Iranian government thought it could get away with conducting surveillance on individuals in the United States by sending one of its agents here to task a permanent resident with conducting and collecting that surveillance," said Jessie K. Liu.....
[DW] Swedish authorities charged a man on Wednesday with spying on Iran's behalf for several years.
The man, a 46-year-old Swedish-Iraqi national, is suspected of gathering information on members of the Ahvazi Arab exile community for a four-year period between April 2015 and February 2019 when he was arrested.
The Ahvazi are an Arab ethnic minority living in the southwest Iranian province of Khusestan. The minority group faces discrimination and persecution by authorities there, according to Amnesia Amnesty International. Figures for the number of Ahvazi living in Sweden are not available.
The man was charged with collecting personal information "under cover of representing an Arabic evening paper, having photographed and filmed Ahvazi conference delegates and demonstration participants in Belgium, the Netherlands and Sweden," prosecutor Hans-Jorgen Hanstrom said in a statement.
Information gathering activities the man conducted included infiltrating online forums where he found phone numbers and addresses, taking photos of license plates, and gleaning internet log-in details of members of the Ahvazi community.
He allegedly compiled this information and shared it with Iranian security forces in Tehran or online, said the Swedish prosecutor.
The suspect, who has been in pre-trial detention since March 1, has denied the charges.
Unrest in the Iranian province of Khusestan goes back at least 100 years, when a local leader rebelled against Reza Shah Pahlavi's rule.
The Ahvaz National Resistance®, an Iranian ethnic Arab movement for the secession of oil-rich Khusestan from Iran, grabbed credit for an attack in the region's capital Ahvaz that killed 25, leading 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... to arrest hundreds of Ahvazi Arabs.
In January of this year, the EU froze the assets of an Iranian intelligence unit after the Netherlands accused Iran of two killings there, and joined La Belle France and Denmark in alleging that Tehran plotted other attacks across Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... .
[PJ] The one thing that all environmentalists have in common is a hatred of humanity. They loathe mankind and feel guilty for being part of it. As noted cultural critic Sonny Bunch has noted, environmentalists make good movie villains because they want to make your life worse. For example, in the 2014 action-comedy Kingsman: The Secret Service, an insane tech billionaire played by Samuel L. Jackson wanted to kill off most of the population of Earth to save us from ourselves. In the Marvel movies, a tyrannical despot named Thanos wiped out half the universe to save the other half. I think the bad guy in Aquaman was an environmnentalist too, but I can't really remember much about Aquaman. Anyway, the point is that authoritarian lunatics make good villains. Graphic narrative - Wilson's "I don't like the looks of that."
And the best part is that they think they're the good guys! Eric Roston, Bloomberg:
More than 11,000 experts from around the world are calling for a critical addition to the main strategy of dumping fossil fuels for renewable energy: there needs to be far fewer humans on the planet.
"We declare, with more than 11,000 scientist signatories from around the world, clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency," the scientists wrote in a stark warning published Tuesday in the journal BioScience...
The scientists make specific calls for policymakers to quickly implement systemic change to energy, food, and economic policies. But they go one step further, into the politically fraught territory of population control. It "must be stabilized‐and, ideally, gradually reduced‐within a framework that ensures social integrity," they write.
And they want to know why we won't give up our guns.
If these 11,000 scientists really want to "stabilize" the planet by getting rid of humans, I say to them and everyone who agrees with them:
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Hmmm... so Global Grifters tell us we need to take in MRI this country tens of millions of additional peasants from Mexico & Central America because, per sages like NYT's Bret Stephens, of all that empty space he sees when looking down from 30,000 feet upon the flyover country.
But these same buffoons tell us there are too many people, making too many problems, as Phil Collins sang.
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"But, doc, I'm concerned!" Came the answer,
"Just let out your belt and your pants, sir.
Your burden is light...
Quick injection... All right?
You've got plenty of room for more cancer!"
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Fine, as soon as these brave scientists lead the way by being first to step into the suicide booths, we'll consider it. Til then, they need to shut the hell up.
We'll even make it painless, flood the booth with N2, drop the corpse into refrigerated pod for transport to the organ banks. See, we're recycling!"
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Reminds me of Paul Ehrlich's 1968 book "The Population Bomb." It was the first "the sky is falling" book on population control that I recall. The book pushed birth control and abortion as a means of population control. Now, it seems like the recommended solutions are becoming crazier and crazier.
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^ The Club of Rome effort in 1970 was the original global alarmist clownshow. IIRC they predicted the planet would run out of food in a decade or two.
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Its the same with all of the socialism/communism/"green" bullshit. None of the "elites" REALLY want to do away with limousines, private airplanes, firearms, etc--they merely want to do away with OTHER people's access to those things. They'll never lead by example.
[AlAhram] Anti-government protesters blocked the entrance to the Nassiriya oil refinery in southern Iraq on Wednesday, security and oil sources said.
The protesters blocked the tankers that transport fuel to gas stations from entering the refinery, causing fuel shortages across Dhi Qar province, the sources told Rooters. Next they'll complain about fuel and power shortages
The refinery has a maximum production capacity of 30,000 barrels per day (bpd) but had recently only been producing between 15,000-20,000 bpd, oil sources said, which is not enough to meet the province's fuel needs.
The rest is transported from nearby oil-rich Basra and stored in a warehouse within the refinery, which protesters have now also blocked and expelled employees from, the sources said.
Two more Iraqi protesters have been killed in renewed festivities in the Shia holy city of Karbala, a flashpoint in weeks of anti-government demonstrations, a protester and a medic said Wednesday.
They said the two were killed in overnight festivities near the provincial headquarters in the city. They spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of repercussions.
In the capital, Baghdad, protesters clashed with security forces on a fourth bridge across the Tigris River, after previous festivities forced the closure of three other bridges, paralyzing traffic. The protests have been centered in Tahrir Square, on the eastern bank of the Tigris, and the demonstrators have been trying to reach the Green Zone that is located on the other side, which houses government offices and foreign embassies.
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[Washington Compost via Right Scoop] Federal judges have selected a Virginia House of Delegates redistricting map that appears to heavily favor Democrats, redrawing the lines of 26 districts and moving several powerful Republicans into unfavorable configurations.
Six Republicans would wind up in districts where a majority of voters chose Democratic President Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election, according to an analysis of the maps by the nonpartisan Virginia Public Access Project. No current Democrats would see their voter majority change to Republican, based on those election results.
If the court’s map selection stands, it would create a favorable environment for Democrats seeking to take control of the House of Delegates in elections this fall, according to the analysis. All 100 seats in the House are on the ballot, and Republicans hold a 51-to-48 majority.
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Here I thought the reason was that the Virginia GOP a few election cycles ago backed RINOs and actively campaigned against conservatives who won primaries.
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For a majority-rule, 2-party electorate that's divided on a knife edge, a small swing will explain a large shift in partisan outcomes in any given year. But that's not evidence of a lasting realignment. Cases in point: 1992 swung the WH to the Dems, and 1994 swung the House to the GOP, then in 1996 the Dem POTUS was easily re-elected, then impeached, then the 2000 election was a tie. Rinse and repeat.
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re #7: rj, just move the bureaucrats out to where they belong - Agriculture to Kansas, CIA to McMurdo, Antartica, etc, - and the problem will also be solved.
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[Townhall] In this column, I will prove that Democrats: 1) Don't care about "Russians," (Ukrainians?) or anyone else interfering with our democracy; and 2) they also don't give a crap about guns.
Let's begin by looking at the Democrats' Platonic ideal of a democracy: California!
California is wholly controlled by the Democratic Party. The governor is a Democrat. The lieutenant governor is a Democrat. The attorney general, secretary of state and treasurer are Democrats. All these positions have been held by Democrats since the governorship of Arnold Schwarzenegger (who was a Democrat). The state Senate is just under two-thirds Democratic, while the assembly is more than two-thirds Democratic. Both U.S. senators are Democrats, as are 46 of 53 members of Congress.
And what a paradise they've created! For the last several years, with a direct pipeline to the fifth-largest treasury on the planet, California has been waging war on decent people in favor of drug addicts, the mentally ill, criminals, the homeless and transgenders.
In the last century, every great thing started in California: surfing, jeans, Disneyland, tax revolts, McDonald's, movies, car culture, the Grateful Dead, right on red turns, Merle Haggard, skateboarding, Apple computer and the last two elected Republican presidents not named "Bush."
Big political movements used to begin in California. Proposition 13's cap on property taxes led to President Ronald Reagan and a nationwide tax revolt. Proposition 209's ban on affirmative action was followed by Supreme Court rulings restricting the government's ability to discriminate on the basis of race. California's anti-crime rebellion, including a massive prison expansion and the voters' removal of liberal lunatic Rose Bird from the state's highest court, foreshadowed an anti-crime pushback across the country.
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California is wholly controlled by the Democratic Party.
By design. They want a single party system like any authoritarian or totalitarian. You exist to server them. Everything in the Party, Nothing outside the Party, Nothing against the Party.
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This is what happens when you fail to control the border and illegal immigration. California demographics have changed radically in the past few decades. It could happen to your state too and I don't care which state is yours. It could happen anywhere but my guess is that Texas is being targeted. When Texas turns blue the game is over and we lose.
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^ Very right. Texas is in their crosshairs. Remember the antifa poster about Texas ? The recruitment rally ? If the orders come from the DNC, then it stands to reason, that the plan for Texas was being initiated right then and antifa were just the terriers. A test vehicle ? In Texas they'll have to be extra careful they must have realized.
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Almost unbelievable to consider that, as late as the early 1990's, California was a competitive state with a long history of Republican governors and state officials.
Yes, it can happen to Texas. It will happen to Texas unless we get control of the border and end the amnesty & sanctuary city madness.
heeeeere's Kurt
It’s hard to miss the myriad of memes out there declaring that "Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself." A Navy SEAL busted it out on Fox like a boss. Even my dog Barkey got in on the craze. And this phenomenon should be encouraged because it demonstrates our healthy contempt for our garbage ruling class.
Now, did Jeffrey Epstein actually wack himself? Maybe, maybe not. On the self-off side, it’s not like the guy had a huge incentive to ‐ pardon the expression ‐ keep hanging around. But on the "Epstein didn’t kill himself" tip, there’s pretty compelling evidence. A noted pathologist thinks he was wacked. So do people who think that it’s super convenient that a dude with the 411 on the pervo peccadillos of so many mostly Democratic poohbahs just happened to check out before he could start talking. And it’s really weird the cameras went off just before he got perma-cancelled.
Plus, what about the guards? Are we supposed to believe government flunkies were utterly unable to perform their most basic task of making sure that their suicidally-inclined inmate didn’t stretch his neck on their watch? Well, I totally believe it. Let’s add "incompetence of federal workers" to the ledger in the "He Did Himself" column.
Remember, this is our federal government which, in the best possible interpretation of this event, failed so completely that its failure went beyond failure into an extra-dimensional realm of hyper mega-failure. And our garbage elite now wants to put it in charge of our health care. The same people who ‐ again, best case ‐ were unable to keep a guy in a concrete room with cameras on him from throttling himself with a blankey are now supposed to handle your doctoring.
[IsraelTimes] Egyptian authorities have barred Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, chief Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... from traveling outside 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 and Egypt for almost three years to prevent him from meeting with their political rivals, a bigwig in the terror group said in an interview published Tuesday.
The last time Haniyeh traveled beyond Gaza and Egypt was in late 2016 and early 2017 before he was elected Hamas head.
Hamas, which frequently meets with Egyptian intelligence officials mediating between the terror group that rules the Strip and Israel, also maintains close ties with countries that Cairo views as foes such as 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... and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... On Monday, Dar al-Hayat reported that a Hamas delegation including big shots Rawhi Mushtaha and Khalil al-Hayya would travel to Cairo on Wednesday for talks with senior Egyptian intelligence officials and then likely travel to Qatar and Turkey, citing "trusted sources" in the terror group.
That report made no mention of Haniyeh.
Haniyeh lives in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza. Khaled Meshaal, his predecessor, never lived in the West Bank or Gaza while he served as Hamas chairman.
In January, a trip Haniyeh planned to make to Russia to meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was postponed.
At the time, Abu Marzouk tweeted that he and Mikhail Bogdanov, Russia’s deputy foreign minister and presidential Middle East envoy, had discussed over the phone "the postponement of the chairman of the Hamas Politburo’s visit to another time because of the [Russian] foreign minister’s busy state of affairs."
Abu Marzouk’s tweet made no mention of Egypt preventing Haniyeh from traveling to Russia.
Egypt controls the only crossing out of the Gaza Strip apart from Israel’s.
[Jpost] The UN Special Representative for the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq slammed protesters for closing roads and disrupting oil on its way to ports, raising the ire of Iraqis who wonder why the UN cares more about oil and roads than people’s lives. It came days after the UN Secretary General visited Turkey and appeared open to a plan by Turkey to settle Syrian refugees in an area that 200,000 have been forced to flee from due to fighting, leading to questions about the overall UN blindspot on suffering in the region. People's lives, unlike Palestinians' lives, don't pay for 5 course dinners
Jeanine Hennis, a Dutch politician who serves as a diplomat and Special Representative of the Secretary General in Iraq tweeted on Wednesday that the protests in Iraq, where more than 200 protesters have been shot by security forces, are disrupting critical infrastructure. "Also of grave concern. Responsibility of all to protect public facilities. Threats, closure of roads to oil installations, ports causing billions in losses. Detrimental to Iraq’s economy," she wrote. It was undermining fulfilling the protesters’ legitimate demands. "Look: you're bleeding all over the place and causing a mess"
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The UN's only source of funds is likely to be from oil countries in the Middle East if Trump gets re-elected . They may have to move to Geneva or Istanbul.
[Jpost] Almost a year and a half after Israel first fired a David’s Sling interceptor missile and watched as it crashed in Syria, Chinese media reported that the advanced missile is now in the hands of the Russians who are reportedly working to reverse engineer it.
According to a Western expert on missile defense who requested anonymity, not only is the SINA news agency report full of inaccuracies, but Israel takes into account that "all parts of attack systems from aircrafts to missiles, might end up in the hands of adversaries."
What a weird report. And what odd timing.
The report, carried by the Chinese SINA news agency, was referring to a July 2018 incident where Israel operated the David’s Sling system against two Russian-made SS-21 Tochka tactical ballistic missiles launched by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) as part of Damascus’ offensive against rebels along the border with Israel’s strategic Golan Heights.
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Russian mil systems are being reconfigured to a proprietary Linux OS, the BIOS on most military geoloc and even some control modules are the reasonably secure MAKSIM-M1 through M4 architecture. It was tested in China last year, I don't know what on. Maybe transports.
[IsraelTimes] Cyprus police detain two Syrian men on suspicion of human trafficking following the arrival of a boat loaded with 131 Syrian migrants colonists on the island nation’s northeastern coast.
Police say the two men were aboard another vessel that had shadowed the boat ferrying the migrants colonists as it approached the Cypriot coastline yesterday.
Cypriot authorities had tracked the movements of the migrants colonists’ boat by radar.
The men, ages 43 and 53, were arrested after a marine police patrol boat intercepted their vessel off the Akamas nature preserve.
Both men face charges including aiding and abetting the illegal entry of migrants colonists in Cyprus and people trafficking by a sea route.
All 131 migrants colonists, including five women and eight minors, were taken to a reception center on the capital’s outskirts. so 118 Men out of the 131? Send em all immediately back
Israel called for UNRWA’s closure Wednesday, as its commissioner-general, Pierre Krähenbuhl, resigned amid a UN probe into ethical misconduct allegations against him and other top officials in the organization tasked with providing humanitarian assistance to 5.5 million Palestinian refugees.
This "is a victory in the campaign against the politicization and incitement against Israel that is at the root of the agency [UNRWA]," Israel's Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said. "Compounding this, numerous accusations regarding the agency’s conduct signals to the international community that there is no other solution for UNRWA besides its total closure, and it is time to consider alternative models for the refugee issue."
Earlier in the day, the UN said that its Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) found "management issues which relate specifically to the commissioner-general," but did not clarify what those were.
UN spokesman Stephan Dujarric said that with respect to Krähenbuhl, the OIOS’s job was completed and that it had submitted a report to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that would be studied.
"The fact that Krähenbuhl has resigned impacts whatever decisions the secretary-general will have made, but the content of the report will be studied and will be studied very carefully, to make sure that there are lessons learned," he told reporters in New York.
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the organization tasked with providing humanitarian assistance to 5.5 million Palestinian refugees.
We joke about Erdogan milking the Gulenist coup thing but this refugee scam has been going on for half a century. There must be some time limit on how long you can be a refugee and not an inhabitant of wherever you ended up.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu requested that Washington allow the transfer of 12 million dollars to Palestinian security forces, but US President Donald Trump denied the request, Channel 13 reported.
"If it’s so important for Netanyahu, he should pay the Palestinians 12 million dollars," Seniors in the White House told Channel 13, quoting Trump.
His "Mom" Fertilized Egg Carrier™ shouldn't be allowed to practice medicine on children. She's deranged [PJMedia] A Texas boy whose mother claims he is a girl has attended school dressed as a boy. This supports the boy's father's claim that his son is not truly transgender and so should not be pumped with experimental drugs that may cause his chemical castration.
Last month, a Texas jury awarded custody of the 7-year-old boy James Younger to his legal mother, Dr. Anne Georgulas. Georgulas claims her son identifies as a girl and she wants to put him on experimental drugs. A judge later ruled that Jeffrey Younger, the boy's father and Georgulas' ex-husband, should have a say in his son's medical treatment. Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) have weighed in on the case, which has raised the nationwide issue of experimental transgender treatments.
Friends of the father shared images of James and his brother Jude dressed as the boys they are and heading to school.
"Jeff emailed the principal today and James and Jude's teachers had reported that there was zero stress or disruptions in the classroom today. Just another day in school. Prayers answered," the group Save James posted on Facebook with a prayer emoji.
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I think the kid has figured out how to work this.
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Mom needs to be put away in a mental hospital. Physician, heal thyself.
Or at least pay a specialist in Munchausen Syndrome to treat you. Now the Exec. Director of the American College of Pediatricians has weighed in:
Dr. Michelle Cretella, a pediatrician and executive director at the American College of Pediatricians, told PJ Media last year that Georgulas may be suffering from a mental disorder. "This case is consistent with a diagnosis of Munchausen by proxy," she said.
"This is a disorder in which an adult feigns either a physical or psychological condition in a child for their own subconscious reasons," the pediatrician explained. "Most often the perpetrator is the biological mother and she often has a background in health or medicine."
"In the case of imposing gender dysphoria on a son, there are cases in the scientific literature of severe maternal depression triggered in a mother longing for a daughter," Cretella added. "The mother's depression lifts when the boy dresses and acts as a girl. This has been termed 'gender mourning.'"
Pilot reportedly hit ‘send’ by accident while explaining to an intern in the cockpit how the emergency signal switch works. https://t.co/cfNOl8NpXY@AirEuropa
Gov. Matt Bevin cited Kentucky's "history of vote fraud" and "a number of reported irregularities" in Tuesday's voting in explaining why he requested a recanvass of the vote count, which shows him trailing Andy Beshear by just over 5,000 votes.
Kentuckians know "there's more than a little history of vote fraud in our state," Bevin said Wednesday afternoon at the Governor's Mansion.
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Have to admit I don't follow Kentucky politics. It appears Bevin was one or two dumb statements away from Todd Akin territory. It's also obvious that urban / high density suburban areas are blue by nature.
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[Libya Observer] The Libyan Interior Ministry said two of its police personnel were killed after Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s by 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 hit Rapid Intervention Force of Central Backup Force headquarters in Ain Zara In southern Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... The Interior Ministry said in a statement on Facebook that this was the second criminal attack on Interior Ministry's apparatuses after the first hit the main headquarters in Tripoli few days ago, vowing to bring the perpetrators to justice.
Last Thursday, the ambulance and emergency apparatus said a man and his wife as well as their four children were maimed as warplanes of Haftar's forces hit their house near the Interior Ministry's headquarters on Airport Road.
Airpower has been showing strong presence in Tripoli's skies, especially drones provided for Haftar's forces by their foreign backers.
Haftar's warplanes also carried out airstrikes on Jarma Company's building in Tajoura, causing no casualties, while other airstrikes hot Libyan Army positions on Ghout al-Reeh, causing mild injuries to some of the fighters.
ABC bosses are battling to deal with the fallout from comments made by "Good Morning America" news hound Amy Robach, who was caught on a hot mic claiming network brass scrapped her interview with a Jeffrey Want Some Candy, Little Girl? Epstein ...A high class pimp financier who was alleged to maintain a stable of underage whoressex slaves who were paid big bucks to entertain the rich and/or famous. He is a registered sex offender and made att least 17 out-of-court settlements with former members of his stable, with some cases still ongoing. 2011 court docs reveal that 21 email addresses and phone numbers for Bill Clinton and an aide were found in Epstein's electronic black book, and that Clinton frequently flew with Epstein on his private plane between 2002 to 2005. But really, they were probably just discussing finance or politix or something. While getting massaged. Then things got serious, Jeff was tossed in the slammer in New York and then he killed himself. Really. That's what happened... accuser to appease the royal family.
The "GMA" news hound could be heard complaining that she spent three years trying to get the interview with Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who alleges she was forced to sleep with Prince Andrew while she was kept as Epstein’s sex slave, on air.
ABC news chiefs swiftly moved on Tuesday to have Robach issue a statement, in which she backtracked on her initial claims.
The anchor said she was "caught in a moment of private frustration" on the video, which was released by the conservative website Project Veritas Sunday and believed to have been taped this July.
In her statement, Robach said she was "disappointed" that her interview with Giuffre, taped in 2015, did not run as it failed to meet ABC’s reporting standards, while insisting that she had never been told to stop reporting on the Epstein scandal.
ABC sources told Page Six Tuesday there was "zero truth" that the interview was held to court favor with the royals, and particularly, as Robach said on camera, to get an interview with Prince William and wife Kate Middleton.
An ABC source said: "A lot of broadcasters can probably empathize. We do have to run everything past standards and practices and there are times when interviews can’t air.
"We needed time to corroborate details, and we were unable to verify a lot of Virginia’s claims."
This does not, however, answer why ABC did not run the interview at any time after 2015. Giuffre has now made her claims to a variety of media outlets.
[KSTP] A warrant has been issued for a Minneapolis man who is accused of fraudulently signing absentee ballots as a witness.
Abdihakim Amin Essa, 22, is wanted on 13 counts of intentionally making or signing a false certificate, according to a document filed in Hennepin County District Court on Thursday.
The court filing alleges that on July 30, 2018, two election workers at the Hennepin County Election Center claimed to have seen Essa, who was working as an election "helper" to voter registrants and absentee voters, bring a woman in for registration. The woman did not have the right identification to register and was told to come back. When she returned with a different "helper," the address on her voter registration had changed.
The election workers then found Essa and asked him about the discrepancy in addresses. He told them that he had been signing absentee ballots by signing his father's name, Amin Aar, because he was not a U.S. citizen. Essa also admitted to working for a campaign, according to the document. One of the election workers later confirmed that Essa's father was a registered voter.
According to MPR News, Essa's father is a citizen. Why is his son merely a permanent resident?
Election officials then inspected an estimated 9,000 ballots in search of envelopes that Essa had signed either as himself or in his father's name, the court filing states. They were able to find 13 such absentee ballots, which were then discarded. The affected voters were sent letters telling them their ballots had been rejected and they would need to vote again.
The Minneapolis police sergeant who filed the complaint in court was not able to find Essa on two different dates. He is still not in jug.
The facts of this case are shocking. Already, we’ve just learned that one non-citizen can fraudulently vouch for at least 13 people to vote—who clearly were not citizens themselves. And the falsifying of the 13 absentee ballots was only caught because election officials knew to look for Essa’s name, due to his brazenly suspicious activity. How easy is it to cast an absentee ballot? How many other absentee ballots are falsified and never caught?
Even more troubling is the connection between Essa and what appears to be an organized scheme to commit voter fraud. Why aren’t prosecutors looking into the politician, and political party, that Essa was working for? Did the candidate or the party know about this organized effort?
This comes as the Minnesota Voters Alliance (MVA) is suing Minnesota’s Democrat Secretary of State Steve Simon for voter registration data that could help show the extent of voter fraud in Minnesota. Simon, in contravention of state law, has been refusing to release that information.
Many claim, without evidence, that fraudulent voting doesn’t exist, and that instances such as this are isolated incidences. But the people who make these claims really don’t know, because nobody knows for sure. But we should know for sure.
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Mogadishu, Minnesota.
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Deportation, NOW
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This is obviously fake news. After all, Democrats constantly tell us there is no vote fraud. /sarcasm
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Personally speaking, I'd like to see either a) six months in jail for each charge OR b) Supermax for a year, then deportation, preferably using a trebuchet.
[ABC News] JESUP, Ga (WTGS) ‐ A high-speed chase in Jesup led to the arrest of two North Carolina gang members, according to the Georgia State Patrol (GSP).
GSP says the chase started Monday afternoon around 3:30 p.m., when Long County deputies received a call about a stolen vehicle out of North Carolina. The owner was tracking the SUV using GPS and called Long County officials and advised that the SUV was driving west on GA 38 in Ludowici.
Deputies found the stolen Mercedes SUV reportedly driven by 21-year-old Daijon Tanner and another in the passenger's seat, Ray Jordan Jr., 21. Tanner fled from law enforcement. "Daijon, named after that mustard shit I like so much"
GSP says the Long County Sheriff’s Office requested GSP’s assistance with the pursuit into Wayne County. The driver was traveling more than 130 mph down U.S. 301 heading towards Brantley County.
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Dey wuz jus going back to dey school, u kno's how dem popo's is! Daijon jus had he twelf chil with his 12 bbay momas frien girl. Dem po chilrens. WIL dey still get he check? u kno fo dem chilrens.
[Q13Fox] OLYMPIA, Wash. -- A measure that reinstates the use of affirmative action in state employment, contracting and admission to public colleges and universities was narrowly losing Tuesday night in early returns.
Referendum 88 asked people whether they wanted to approve or reject Initiative 1000, which was passed by the Legislature in April. I-1000 amends current statutes that prohibit state government from discriminating against or giving preferential treatment to individuals or groups based on race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in public employment, public education, or public contracting.
While it was passing in King County, the state's most populous, it was being rejected in most other areas. The left put tricky wording in the proposition to hide the fact that it would gut previous law and also it required a 'no' on the proposition to do this. The pro quota people outspent the anti quota people by about 10-1 and the pro quota side had numerous endorsements from newspapers, politicians and big biz. Lot of votes yet to count so this is not over
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Oops, wrong result. This must be voted upon repeatedly until the right answer is achieved and then never voted on again.
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Once Quota sets in, you cannot come back from the shit. While for many selfish, incompetent and outright criminal people and their families, it is a means to an end; for any country it is a means to 'the end'.
A country like India was crippled in her very early years by pro-Quota laws, relegating us to remain the third world probably forever. Only the parts of govt that did not allow for Quotas remained dependable. The rest is all a pigsty of corruption and incompetence.
[RC Public Affairs] Bottom Line: The Trump administration has disrupted the foreign policy status quo. American leaders should take advantage of this moment to enact a foreign policy of restraint.
Since the Cold War, conventional wisdom has held U.S. power to indispensible.
Foreign policy experts have long asserted that global trade depends on U.S. military presence, that our allies around the world rely on U.S. power to deter threats from China, Russia, and other powers, and that U.S. military intervention is the solution to many problems. But neither trade nor international peace rely on U.S. power, and intervention is frequently impractical and rarely popular.
President Trump has thrown the foreign policy establishment into a tizzy.
"The expert community is engaged, for the first time in a long time, in a healthy conversation about the future of U.S. grand strategy." Many Democrats and Republicans have begun pushing for a more isolationist stance in response to the unilateralism of the President’s "America First" attitude. Conversely, many others have adopted a hawkish demeanor in response to the President’s perceived isolationism. But the United States should look beyond these positions to a third alternative.
America and the world would benefit from a more restrained foreign policy.
U.S. leaders should adopt "a foreign policy of restraint" that sets and is guided by "modest, achievable objectives." This foreign policy should privilege diplomacy and trade over intervention, and seek to apply the liberal norms the U.S. follows at home in foreign affairs. Such a foreign policy would keep the U.S. out of costly, unpopular entanglements abroad, and help rebalance the international arena to be more collaborative and rely less on a single power.
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The forever wars against everyone else are designed to distract you from the gummint's forever war against you.
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"The expert community is engaged, for the first time in a long time, in a healthy conversation about the future of U.S. grand strategy."
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^ Yep. We can't close down the "School of Foreign Policy" business fast enough.
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Grand Strategy for the cold war slowly mutated into we can't win, then Reagan appeared and crushed the Soviets in three terms.
Grand Strategy since the cold war was never properly developed beyond thousand points of light which appears to mean letting bad guys be bad and sending US troops to die in sandy hell-holes. The strategy could use a bit of work.
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which appears to mean letting bad guys be bad and sending US troops to die in sandy hell-holes.
Yes, and recognizing the spark of divinity in every MS-13 member, too.
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Grand Strategy can be taught to young people without the frou-frou of calling it a School of International Relations.
Read the old books, by the masters-- Thucydides, Machiavelli, Sun-Tzu, Hobbes etc-- and supplement with tons of historical examples studied in great depth using old-fashioned historical analysis of contingency, human error, the complex interplay of human choice and material constraints across time.
The problem is the globalist nonsense that infects the minds of the people who for the past 25 years or so have dominated this profession. There's really nothing related to foreign policy that can't be taught either in a well-constructed, rigorous history program or a traditional law or economics program.
The Koch Brothers of all people--to their credit-- have actually done something good (for once) with their philanthropic dollars, by funding research into a more restrained, realist foreign policy by Barry Posen and his colleagues at MIT, Michael Desch at Notre Dame and several other leading researchers.
Hard to know which section to put this under. My best shot
[American Thinker] Twitter sanctimoniously announced this week that it suspended the accounts of Hamas and Hezb'allah. "There is no place on Twitter for illegal terrorist organizations and violent extremist groups," said Twitter's spokesperson.
Really? Then why did it take until November 2019 for Twitter to notice that Hamas and Hezb'allah are illegal and violent? Why did it take threats from four congressmen to force Twitter to ban two of the most infamous terrorist organizations on the planet?
Hamas and Hezb'allah are two Iran-proxy terrorist groups that have killed Americans, murdered Jews, bombed Israeli civilians, tyrannized normal Muslim citizens, coerced children to become suicide-bombers, and worked night and day to destroy Israel.
Twitter never noticed until November 1, 2019?
Twitter has no trouble noticing and banning all sorts of speech its woke employees don't like. They suspended Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell for posting the vicious attacks of woke activists harassing his family; Trump's favorite meme-maker, Carpe Donktum; a GOP Senate candidate in Missouri; conservative commentators across the web; the producer of the Ben Shapiro Show (his sin was a joke about Brussels sprouts); and even an Ocasio-Cortez parody.
But for years, Hamas and Hezb'allah had a place on Twitter to spread their vile teachings and recruit killers.
This stopped only because four congressmen threatened Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey with being hauled before Congress to explain why Twitter was flouting U.S. law by supporting designated terrorist organizations.
Twitter did not comply without a fight. The first response was a statement from Twitter's director of public policy and philanthropy that Twitter "draws a distinction between the political and military factions of these organizations" and would not suspend the accounts. Twitter, the congressmen were told, bases its decisions on its "own violent extremist group criteria." The Twitter spokesperson boasted that the company's decisions were "additionally informed by national and international terrorism designations," not by United States' designations.
Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.Y.), Tom Reed (R-N.Y.), Max Rose (D-N.Y.), and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) were having none of that nonsense. They wrote CEO Dorsey:
If you believe that Twitter is better at determining violent extremist content than the United States Government's interagency process, then we urge you to come testify before Congress to explain your own process and how it differs from that of the State and Treasury Departments.
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[The Drive.com] The U.S. Air Force is continuing to update its stockpile of 30,000-pound class Massive Ordnance Penetrator bunker busters, or MOPs, and bring older MOPs up to the latest standard, also known as the GBU-57E/B. This comes as Iran has announced that it will begin injecting uranium hexafluoride gas into centrifuges at its underground nuclear facility at Fordo ‐ the kind of prospective target that drove the development of the MOP in the first place ‐ a significant breach of the controversial 2015 international agreement over the country's nuclear program.
On Oct. 28, 2019, the Air Force announced that it had awarded $90 million contracts to both Superior Forge & Steel Corp. of Lima, Ohio and Ellwood National Forge in Irvine, Pennsylvania for the production of an unspecified number of case assemblies for the BLU-127C/B warhead. The service separately confirmed to The War Zone that this is the warhead at the core of the GBU-57E/B variant, which has been in operational inventory since 2016. The B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is presently the only aircraft capable of and clear to employ the MOP operationally, though B-52 bombers have dropped some of the weapons in prior testing. The future B-21 Raider stealth bomber will also likely be able to carry these weapons.
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All well and good, but one neutron bomb on Tehran would solve the problem.
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[Fox] Police officers in Chile’s capital were set on fire after demonstrators threw Molotov cocktails in their direction. Unrest in Chile began 19 days ago over a hike to subway fares and has grown into a massive movement demanding broad changes.
Two female police officers trying to drive off protesters in Chile’s capital were set on fire after demonstrators threw Molotov cocktails in direction of the officers.
Chile has been facing weeks of unrest, triggered by an increase in subway fares. The protests have shaken a nation noted for economic stability over the past decades, which has seen steadily declining poverty despite persistent high rates of inequality.
Jorge Silva, the Reuters chief photographer in South East Asia who is in Chile covering the protests, said he was standing close to the Baquedano metro station when he saw a flare out of the corner of his eye.
The incident sparked an immediate response from police, Henry Romero, another Reuters reporter, said.
“From that moment things intensified, the police began to use a lot of gas and rubber bullets, the noise of the repeated fire was loud,” he said.
Chileans have poured into the streets demanding better salaries and pensions, and a more equal distribution of wealth. A gathering in Santiago on Tuesday drew just 2,000 to 2,500 people, according to an estimate by Felipe Guevara, mayor of the Santiago metropolitan region.
Bastian Marín, 29 and a business executive, attributed the smaller protest to the fact that people have to work.
"It's hard to have the same number of people every day," he said, adding that a march planned for Friday is expected to be much larger.
The unrest began 19 days ago over a hike to subway fares, but it has grown into a massive movement demanding a broad range of changes. Chile's center-right government has responded with a host of proposed social improvements, which must still be approved by Congress.
[NYPost] The nine women and children slaughtered in Mexico on Monday were part of a Mormon community with ties to the alleged sex-cult Nxivm.
The outpost Mormon community in Mexico is where underlings of Nxivm leader Keith Raniere recruited young women to work as nannies in an upstate New York compound run by the accused cult — suggesting at least in part that the jobs would get the girls away from their home region’s drug violence, according a man hired by Raniere to produce a documentary about the group.
The three moms and six kids killed in Monday’s violence in the northern town of Sonora are believed to have been the victims of a drug cartel, which may have mistaken the group’s caravan of three SUVs for rivals, Mexican authorities said Tuesday.
The filmmaker working with Raniere at the time, Mark Vicente, told the online magazine Slate that the documentary ultimately became a recruiting video for Nxivm, which purported to be a self-help group but morphed into what the feds called a cult that sexually, physically and emotionally abused its mainly female followers.
The film included an interview with Julian LeBaron, who identified himself as the cousin of one of the moms killed Monday and who is a leader of the Mexico Mormon community. LeBaron’s brother was kidnapped by a local drug cartel in 2009, and the family defiantly refused to pay a ransom. The cartel eventually released the abducted man.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian and Russian air forces have unleashed a massive attack across the western countryside of the Idlib Governorate on Wednesday.
According to reports from northwest Syria, the Russian and Syrian air forces carried out several Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s over the Jisr al-Shughour District, hitting a number of areas under the control of the Turkestan Islamic Party, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... , and Hurras al-Deen group.
The Russian and Syrian airstrikes primarily concentrated on Jisr al-Shughour, but many of the strikes also hit jihadist-held sites as far west as the Latakia Governorate.
This latest string of airstrikes by the Russian and Syrian air forces on western Idlib come at a time when the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) builds up their forces for new offensives in the al-Ghaab Plain and northeastern Latakia.
[Fox News] Mark Zaid, one of the attorneys representing the whistleblower at the center of the Democrats' ongoing impeachment inquiry, tweeted conspicuously in January 2017 that a "coup has started" and that "impeachment will follow ultimately."
Then, in July 2017, Zaid remarked, "I predict @CNN will play a key role in @realDonaldTrump not finishing out his full term as president." Also that month, Zaid tweeted, "We will get rid of him, and this country is strong enough to survive even him and his supporters."
Amid a slew of impeachment-related posts, Zaid assured his Twitter followers that "as one falls, two more will take their place," apparently referring to Trump administration employees who defy the White House.
The tweets, which came shortly after President Trump fired then-acting Attorney General Sally Yates for failing to defend federal laws in court, are likely to fuel Republican concerns that the anonymous whistleblower's complaint is tainted with partisanship. Trump's call with Ukraine's leader, which is the subject of the complaint, occurred in July 2019.
“The whistleblower’s lawyer gave away the game," the Trump campaign's communications director, Tim Murtaugh. told Fox News. "It was always the Democrats’ plan to stage a coup and impeach President Trump and all they ever needed was the right scheme. They whiffed on Mueller so now they’ve settled on the perfectly fine Ukraine phone call. This proves this was orchestrated from the beginning.”
Trump has repeatedly accused Democrats and partisans in the intelligence community of effectively plotting a coup against him, through selective leaks and lengthy investigations.
"45 years from now we might be recalling stories regarding the impeachment of @realDonaldTrump. I'll be old, but will be worth the wait," Zaid wrote in June 2017.
He emphasized his interest in impeachment in a variety of other posts.
"Johnson (1868), Nixon (1973), Clinton (1998) impeachment hearings. Next up @realDonaldTrump (2017)," he said in May.
Fox News has previously reported on social media posts by Zaid that highlighted what appeared to be open animus toward the president.
Although Zaid described Democratic House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., as a "mature professional," and circulated articles that touted the reliability of the largely discredited Steele dossier used by the FBI to surveil a former member of Trump's campaign, Zaid has repeatedly unloaded on the president in no uncertain terms.
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I believe that the Democrats know they cannot really 'catch Trump' at some wrongdoing and impeach him rightfully. Nor can they turn the GOP against him.
No, their tactic is that of mob enforcers, labour unionists. Implicit in these attempts is a threat to American electorates, voters themselves - if you elect anyone but a Democrat, the entrenched federal lackeys and staff will make governance impossible for the President. Media circuses powering unrest, federal freezes, dragging on legislation and frivolous litigation, House hearings and a microscopic scrutiny of all White House activity. They'll reduce it to something other than a Presidency if a Democrat cannot occupy the position.
It's an attempt to not only usurp unaccountable power, but to coerce a nation into letting go of its constitution defined status, bit by bit. In the end, who knows ? They might wish to form ...an American Union with neighboring countries ? Everyone under the new Socialist umbrella, fed of American resources ? With their thought pattern, anything is possible.
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Impossible to deny that this whole affair is an embarrassment.
Petty, foolish, with clownishly inept tactics of blatant lies, innuendo, blatant attempts to end-run established procedures and legal (due) process, standards of evidence, presumption of innocence, simple fairness etc.
More worthy of a college-town council squabble, or maybe hockey dads battling over control of a Little League organization, or schoolmom fights in your local PTA.
When you add to this clownish ineptitude the constant, 24/7 media manipulation and distortions, lies and tall tales, there's no other word that adequately captures what's going on, save
SHITSHOW.
A total disgrace.
Lord, what a shitty political class we have.
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He has admitted to being part of a coup, he and all his associates should be arrested, tried and swinging from gibbets on the White House Lawn within a week.
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And now we have another Tent in our Shitshow, courtesy of "whistleblower" counsel's personal fave YouTube channel. Wonder what his legal counterparts, the in-house counsel at Disney Corp. think of the linked (kinked?) personal page, below?
Fortunately for those who still care about things like integrity, character, decency etc, this shithead's YouTube account has now been archived by a diligent blogger. His take:
The Internet has a long memory. In fact, it’s eight years too long for the Ukraine whistleblower’s lawyer Mark Zaid. That was the last time he had activity on his YouTube page, and the three videos he liked at the time are pretty creepy. It seems the lawyer really enjoyed watching videos about the “prettiest” Disney Channel stars, including a video that tracks Selena Gomez from childhood.
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I don't think they understand that if they successfully pull off impeaching Trump on trumped up charges, he won't go. And the civil war will be kicked off in earnest.
[RUDAW.NET] Over the course of Operation Peace Spring, Christian villages in Tel Tamr have been pummeled by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... and and its aligned forces.
The Syriac Military Council, an Assyrian/Syriac military organization is assigned by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to protect the Christian villagers in the area.
"Erdogan-backed gunnies are 2 kilometers away from this village. You can hear their shelling and bombardment. We, as the Syriac Military Council, are spread across the Assyrian villages and are ready to defend our citizens from any attack, together with the People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Syrian army," explains Syriac Military Council fighter Carlos Ashuri.
Madelin is a local Syriac mother of three. She left her children at home and joined the group to protect their village.
"We Assyrians are 17,000 people spread across the Jazira Region in northeastern Syria. Our villages were paradise on earth. Before ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... coming to the region, other differently named groups attacked our region. After the situation calmed down, we were living peacefully. Life was somehow good. Now, Turkey is coming and repeating the same history. They want to return the mess and conflicts to northeast Syria"
Most Christians fled the 33 villages they had inhabited in the Tel Tamr region during Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... 's onslaught in 2014.
Nabil Warda, spokesperson for Syriac Military Council, provides details for their employment in the area.
"Our forces have been deployed in eight villages. They’ve come to the region to over see the situation. Thanks to God, the situation of the villages is calm. They’ve also welcomed displaced people from Sari Kani who have come to the Assyrian villages."
Conflicts took place in six Tel Tamr villages on Sunday, November 3. Three people were killed and four injured. One of the dead was Zau Seng, a member of an international humanitarian organization the Free Burma Rangers.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... will not accept Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... ’s protection of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Turkey’s presidential and foreign policy council member said on Wednesday.
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[Libya Observer] The Emir of 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... , Sheikh Tamim al-Thani reiterated his country's support for the Government of National Accord (GNA), stressing the need to achieve stability and peace in Libya.
He added that the support of some countries to lawless parties is hindering the settlement efforts in Libya.
This came in his statement at the opening of the 48th session of the Qatari Shura Council in Doha, yesterday.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Russian Armed Forces are in possession of an advanced Israeli missile that was fired into Syria last year, the Chinese news site Sina reported this week.
According to the report, the advanced Israeli surface-to-air missile that was fired from the David’s Sling system was handed over to the Russian military from the Syrian Armed Forces after it was found intact inside of Syria.
The report said the Israeli surface-to-air missile was fired into Syria on July 23, 2018; it maintained some minor damage from the impact, but it was still intact and transferred to the Russians for further research.
They would add that the reason the Syrians handed it over to the Russian military was for "reverse engineering" purposes.
"David’s Sling was developed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and American defense contractor Raytheon. The system is designed to intercept enemy planes, drones, medium- to long-range rockets and cruise missiles and the newest generation of tactical ballistic missiles at low altitude," the Jerusalem Post said.
Neither the Israeli nor Russian ministries of defense have commented on this latest report from the Sina news agency.
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[Libya Observer] Italian Parliament members from the governing party have warned that hundreds of Russian mercenaries fighting for 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 in Libya constitute a concerning turning point in the conflict and damage national reconciliation efforts before the international conference in Berlin.
Italian news agency, Aki, reported the politicians as saying that the Russian mercenaries can make difference in the ongoing fighting for Haftar's forces against the forces under the command of Presidential Council's government, "supported by Italia and the UN."
They added that remaining silent is no longer helpful as world powers keep intervening in Libya to destabilize this country "that has very significant strategic importance to Italia."
New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... said Tuesday in a report that 200 Russian mercenaries have been despatched to fight alongside Haftar's forces 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... as part of The Kremlin's expanding influence in the Middle East and Africa.
The New York Times added that Moscow is repeating the same game that it adopted to have a massive influence in the war in Syria.
[DAWN] The alleged rapist-cum-killer of four children of Chunian confessed to his crimes on Wednesday before a judicial magistrate, deputy prosecutor general Abdul Rauf Watoo said.
Sohail Shahzad, the prime suspect in the case, has been in police custody for more than a month. During the investigation, the suspect confessed to murdering four minor boys, the public prosecutor said.
He added that following his confession, the suspect ‐ after approval from the trial court ‐ was presented before a magistrate to record his statement under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC).
Four children ‐ aged between eight and 12 years ‐ had gone missing since June this year with the latest, eight-year-old Faizan, disappearing on the night of September 16.
The remains of three of them were found on September 17 from sand dunes near Chunian bypass, sending shock waves among the area residents who held protests to express concern over the continued lawlessness and failure of police to protect the Chunianlives of people.
Suspect Shahzad, a resident of Chunian, was arrested on October 1 after his DNA matched with samples recovered from the remains of a victim. Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Chief Minister Usman Buzdar had announced his arrest at a detailed presser. Next day, the 27-year-old suspect was produced before an anti-terrorism court in Lahore. He was remanded in police custody for 15 days and later his remand was extended twice.
[Libya Observer] The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Fatou Bensouda has renewed her call on Libyan authorities to surrender to her office Saif al-Islam Qadaffy, son of late dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest... , runaway criminal who operates under 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 command, Mahmoud al-Werfalli, and al-Tuhami Khalid.
Briefing the UN Security Council on Wednesday, Bensouda said the General Command of Khalifa Haftar's forces don't want to surrender al-Werfalli but rather, he was promoted to new military ranks, saying he, Saif and Khalid are all wanted by the ICC for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Bensouda also said that her office is progressing with investigations in order to bring the wanted criminals in Libya to justice, saying the ICC won't hesitate to issue new arrest warrants of any person who commits war crimes or crimes against humanity in the country.
"Saif appealed the charges against him and the appeals division at the ICC is looking into his appeal." Bensouda added.
She indicated that the three runaway Libyans are wanted for torture and crimes against humanity, saying she believes that Saif Qadaffy is in Zintan, while Khalid is in Cairo, Egypt.
Bensouda urged Khalifa Haftar to surrender al-Werfalli in order to try him for the crimes he committed and the Libyan as well as Egyptian authorities to hand over al-Tuhami Khalid and Saif al-Islam to ICC, calling for more international efforts to end impunity in Libya.
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[BREITBART] Eric Ciaramella, whom Real Clear Investigations suggests is the likely so-called whistleblower, was part of an B.O. regime email chain celebrating the eventual signing of a $1 billion U.S. loan guarantee to Ukraine.
That and other emails show Ciaramella interfaced about Ukraine with individuals who played key roles in facilitating the infamous anti-Trump dossier produced by Fusion GPS and reportedly financed by Crooked Hillary Clinton ...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away... ’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee. One of those individuals, then-Assistant Secretary of State for Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Affairs Victoria Nuland (pictured), received updates on Ukraine issues from dossier author Remington Christopher Steele in addition to Nuland’s direct role in the dossier controversy.
Also part of the email chains was Christopher J. Anderson, who was a special adviser to former special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker. Anderson testified to the Democrat-led House committees running the impeachment inquiry.
Ciaramella’s name comes up in six Obama-era government emails that were released by the State Department as part of two previous Freedom of Information Act requests. At the time of the exchanges, Ciaramella served as the Director for Baltic and Eastern European Affairs for the Obama-era National Security Council, where he worked on Ukraine policy. He is now an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency.
One email, titled, "Loan Guarantee," involved Nuland, who was reportedly a key champion of the Ukraine loan guarantee policy.
"Hurray," a celebratory Nuland wrote in response to a translated Ukrainian government announcement about the signing of the $1 billion loan guarantee. The announcement singles out Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020... as being present for the conclusion of an agreement leading to the loan guarantee.
Ciaramella was one of several people CC’d in the email, which was sent from the U.S. ambassador at the time, Geoffrey Pyatt, who was another key champion of the loan guarantee to Ukraine along with Nuland.
The email is one of several that shows Ciaramella in the loop with brass hats such as Nuland working on Ukraine policy under the B.O. regime.
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OK, Tulsi, prove you are for real and beat this guy down.
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Nah, g(r)om. He won't do something so obvious as Epstein did - in a locked cell, where nobody was watching.
He will shoot himself in the back of the head three times, then hang himself.
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If any good comes of this, perhaps the American people will finally realize the complete and utter incompetence of the people who direct and manage our foreign policy and intel and law enforcement agencies, and demand a clean sweep of these maroons.
Shut down the CIA.
Replace the top brass at DOJ and FBI.
Start over with truly apolitical, truly expert foreign policy analysts and lawyers.
[Jpost] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... has captured a wife of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, more than a week after the former 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.... leader killed himself during a raid by U.S. special forces.
"The United States said Baghdadi killed himself in a tunnel. They started a communication campaign about this," Erdogan said
"But, I am announcing it here for the first time: We captured his wife and didn't make a fuss like them. Similarly, we also captured his sister and brother-in-law in Syria,"
...that would be Rasmiya Awad (65), who with hubbie, daughter-in-law and five kiddies lived in a trailer near the town of Azaz...
he said in a speech at Ankara University. He gave no details.
Would he have said anything if he hadn’t needed to show he was still relevant after President Trump neglected to inform him of the purpose of that raid?
A senior Ottoman Turkish official said earlier this week that Turkey had captured Baghdadi's sister, her husband and daughter-in-law, and hoped to gain intelligence from them about Islamic State, although Ankara has not said what knowledge they may have had about the group's operations.
“Dear Abu B. loved my chocolate-chip-banana pancakes with lots of maple syrup and extra crispy bacon,” she told the interrogator yesterday as they sat cozily over yet another pot of Sultan Erdogan’s truly excellent tea. He showed always the deference of one Ummah leader to the relatives of another, though she couldn’t help feeling that he lacked the intellectual depth of her beloved younger brother.
Baghdadi rose from obscurity to lead the ultra-hardline group and declare himself caliph of all Moslems, holding sway over huge areas of Iraq and Syria from 2014-2017 before Islamic State's control was wrested away by a U.S.-led coalition.
Last month, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said two of Baghdadi's wives had also been killed at the site of last month's raid.
The group said a successor to Baghdadi, identified as Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Quraishi, had been appointed. A senior U.S. official said last week that Washington was looking at the new leader to determine where he came from.
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Even the dimwit commenters at ZeroHedge get it. She's a Turkish asset. She was "captured" by the people she works for.
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We captured his wife and didn't make a fuss like them.
"Sending dogs to do a musalman's job, bleh ! In fact she came to us. And so did his sister-in-law, uncle, aunt, cook, cook's mother, about fifty chickens and a chained leper."
[NYPOST] President Trump will be the first president to kick off New York City’s Veterans Day Parade, the White House announced Wednesday.
Trump will address the 100th Annual Opening Ceremony of the parade on Monday and then will lay a wreath at the Eternal Light Memorial at Madison Square Park.
As a private citizen, Trump stepped up to raise or donate large sums of money when the parade was struggling. The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported that in 1995 Trump agreed to give $200,000 and wanted to be named parade grand marshal in return, though it appears he never held that honor. Oh, noze! Quid pro quoze!
In 1985, Trump also made a $1 million donation to create a Vietnam Veterans Memorial at 55 Water St.
"The President has been great supporter of our veterans and indeed this parade here in New York City for more than 25 years," said Bill White, 2019 Veteran’s Day Parade co-producer. "What he is doing now as president with regard to veterans choice, funding our military, and holding them and their families in the highest regard is truly extraordinary. He is loved by our veterans for sure."
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seriously, can we kill P2K's comment? maybe I'm getting paranoid but I've seen Panty-fa up close and these people are stark raving mad. Don't give them ideas.
[BREITBART] The Swedish bomb squad were called to a shopping centre in the city of Kristianstad Monday after an bomb was found outside a property.
Investigators described the homemade device as a "black powder bomb" and said that it was found in the area of the C4 Shopping centre at around 9:15 p.m., newspaper Kristianstadsbladet reports.
Local police 0n-duty investigator Peter Frostlund said that the bomb squad arrived and disarmed what he described as a "small explosive charge" and added that it was then sent away for forensic examination. "We believe it was from IKEA after we identified several extra unused parts and screws nearby"
Kristianstad police spokesperson Robert Loeffel said that Sherlocks were unsure as to how much damage the bomb could have caused in the area and added that the placement may not have been the actual target for the explosive.
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Bet the people who planted the homemade bomb were not home made in Sweden...
[BREITBART] Louisiana Democrat Gov. John Bel Edwards ‐ running for reelection November 16 ‐ has released more than 1,900 convicted criminals from prison since 2017, and more than 14 percent immediately returned to a life of crime.
In 2017, Edwards signed into a law a series of criminal justice bills to reduce prison population in Louisiana to focus primarily on violent offenders and less on those deemed "non-violent" drug offenders. Often, though, violent criminals plead down to lesser drug charges to avoid large prison sentences.
Since then, the Louisiana Department of Corrections has said that about 1,952 convicts have been released from prisons in the state.
And while Edwards’ criminal justice plan was sold as a way to rehabilitate criminals, state officials have said 14.25 percent of those nearly 2,000 released went on to commit more crime within their first year of release.
State officials do not track the released convicts’ criminal records for more than a year after release, indicating that more may have committed additional crimes this year, but that data is not available.
In one case, 33-year-old King Edward Ellis was convicted in 2017 of drunk driving and killing 18-year-old Jordan Prince. Prince had graduated high school 12 days before the crash that killed him. Ellis was sentenced to 15 years in prison but ended up only serving 18 months for Prince’s death and was released from prison early.
[BREITBART] The head of the U.N. agency for Paleostinian refugees has stepped down after a leaked internal report alleged corruption, sexual misconduct, antisemitism, and mismanagement at the agency’s highest levels.
Pierre Krahenbuhl, commissioner general of the agency known as UNRWA, will be replaced on an interim basis by the agency’s acting deputy chief Christian Saunders, it said.
The agency said findings in the probe so far "revealed management issues which relate specifically to the commissioner general."
An internal ethics report has alleged mismanagement and abuses of authority at the highest levels of the agency, which has also faced a financial crisis after US funding cuts.
As Breitbart Jerusalem reported, the investigation was first flagged back in August when New Zealand joined Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... , the Netherlands and Belgium in suspending aid to UNRWA over the report, which among other things alleges nepotism on the part of UNRWA Krahenbuhl.
One bigwig named in the report stepped down from his post due to "inappropriate behavior" linked to the investigation, UNRWA said, while another resigned for what the agency called "personal reasons."
In the wake of the leak, U.S. special Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt called UNRWA "broken," adding "We’re extremely concerned about UNRWA allegations.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Detective branch (DB) of Police has filed charge sheet against sole accused Harun-ur Rashid in Wari’s Samia Afrin Saima murder case.
Investigation officer and DB inspector Md Arjun filed the charge sheet at the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Tuesday, reports BSS.
On October 29, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mainul Islam set November 20 to submit the probe report in the case filed over rape and subsequently murder of seven-year-old Saima in Dhaka’s Wari on July 5.
Saima’s father Abdus Salam filed the case under Women and Children Repression Prevention Act with Wari Police Station on July 6 and police on July 7 managed to arrest killer Harun-ur Rashid from Cumilla.
Saima, a nursery-grade student of Silverdale School went missing after she went out to play on the afternoon of July 5.
Later, her body was found on the 8th floor of their under construction building at 8pm, with a rope wrapped around her neck.
It was found later, the little girl was brutally raped by Harun and the killer dragged her lifeless body by tying a rope around her neck and took it to the kitchen of that vacant flat and expeditiously departed at a goodly pace.
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[BREITBART] A member of the Swedish Centre party has said he sees both "disadvantages and advantages" to the practice of having a polygamous marriage.
Jonny Cato, the new migration policy front man for the Centre Party, said that it was wrong for Sweden to tighten its borders in 2016 following the height of the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an migration crisis. He also said that he would not put a number on the maximum amount of asylum seekers Sweden could take, newspaper Expressen reports.
When asked if he thought people should be able to be married to more than one person at the same time, Cato said: "I think it is a difficult question and it is honestly not something I have thought so much about. I see both the advantages and disadvantages of it."
The 25-year-old also said that, if given the power, he would like to abolish the royal family of Sweden as well.
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An ambitious young Cato, one Jonny
Gave tongue to the virtues of yoni:
"When your team's got more than one
'Tis double (nay triple!) the fun!"
Said the taster of many-yoni-honey.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Israel is aiding the Syrian Kurds in order to fill the void left by the U.S. troops that withdrew from the Ottoman Turkish border last month, the Deputy Israeli Foreign Minister said on Wednesday, as reported by the Rooters News Agency.
In a rare public dissent with U.S. President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... , Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered humanitarian aid to the "gallant Kurdish people" on Oct. 10, saying they faced possible "ethnic cleansing" by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... and its Syrian allies.
Tzipi Hotovely, Israel’s deputy foreign minister, told parliament on Wednesday that the offer had been taken up.
"Israel has received many requests for assistance, mainly in the diplomatic and humanitarian realm," she said. "We identify with the deep distress of the Kurds, and we are assisting them through a range of channels."
Syrian Kurdish officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
Hotovely did not elaborate on the Israeli assistance, other than to say that during "dialogue with the Americans..., we state our truth regarding the Kurds...and we are proud of our taking a stand alongside the Kurdish people".
Israel has maintained discreet military, intelligence and business ties with the Kurds since the 1960s, regarding the minority ethnic group ‐ whose indigenous population is split between Iraq, Turkey, Syria 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... ‐ as a buffer against shared adversaries.
Chief among those today are Iranian-sponsored forces deploying close to Israel’s borders, including within Syria.
"Israel indeed has a salient interest in preserving the strength of the Kurds and the additional minorities in the north Syria area as moderate and pro-Western elements," Hotovely said.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The 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/ISIS/IS/ISIS) murderous Moslems in the southern governorate of Daraa this week pledged their allegiance to the new leader of the group.
The terrorist group’s official media wing released several photos on Wednesday that showed their fighters in the Daraa Governorate pledging their allegiance to the new Islamic State leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi.
While the Islamic State controls no areas in southern Syria, they do maintain several sleeper cells inside the al-Quneitra, Daraa, and al-Sweida governorates.
The Islamic State were previously active in these governorates of southern Syria before their defeat at the hands of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in the Summer of 2018.
This latest move comes just a week after the terrorist group’s long-time leader and founder Abu Ibrahim al-Baghdadi killed himself during a U.S. raid on his position in the Idlib Governorate town of Barisha.
[Dhaka Tribune] The government has banned hard boy outfit Allahr Dal, terming it as a threat to public safety.
In an official notification yesterday, the Ministry of Home Affairs said the group has been banned as its activities pose a threat to public safety and security.
The move came a day after Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan mentioned that the government would ban eight hard boy outfits.
"Intelligence agencies have already received inputs on eight outfits, and steps will be taken against them," he said then before adding it was already decided to outlaw Allahr Dal.
Allahr Dal was formed in 1995 under the leadership of Matin Mehedi alias Mominul Islam, and in late 2004, the outfit merged with banned murderous Moslem organization Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).
In August this year, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) claimed to arrest four of its activists, including acting chief Ibrahim Ahmed Hiro.
As JMB faced a serious blow following arrests of its top leaders following the 2005 countrywide kabooms, Matin left JMB with his followers and tried to reorganize as Allahr Dal, police sources said.
Matin was arrested in 2007 when he was still the chief of the outfit, according to RAB.
The Bangladeshi government on Wednesday banned the militant group Allahr Dal (Allah’s Party) after officials thwarted a plot to spring its leader from prison and launch terror attacks in the country, a senior cabinet minister said.
Khan said authorities had determined that Allahr Dal, which once started as a small group in northern Gaibandha district, was attempting to bolster its ranks in Dhaka and in the southeastern coastal city of Chattogram by distributing extremist pamphlets.
JMB leaders had tasked Allahr Dal members to hurl bombs on Aug. 17, 2005, when around 500 small improvised explosives went off in 300 locations in the country, Monirul Islam, chief of the Bangladeshi police’s Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crimes unit, told BenarNews.
“They carried out bomb attacks in some places,” Islam said, referring to Allahr Dal.
Officials said at least two people were killed and dozens of people were injured in the blasts. JMB claimed responsibility for the bombings.
Islam said a militant leader named Motin Mehdi, a native of Gaibandha, founded Allahr Dal.
In 2011, a court in Kurigram district sentenced Mehdi to life in prison after he was found guilty of involvement in the 2005 bombings. Another court in Jhenaidah district had also recently sentenced him to death. In the court verdict, he was identified as a JMB leader, officials said.
Mehdi remains in prison after his sentencings, Islam said.
But members of Allahr Dal continue to operate despite his imprisonment, authorities said.
On Aug. 19, members of the elite Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) presented four suspected Allahr Dal members during a news conference in Dhaka. Officials said the suspects had planned to attack a prison van that was scheduled to transport Mehdi, the Allahr Dal leader.
RAB members seized mobile phones and computer flashdrives from the suspects.
On Sept. 17, police also detained eight suspected Allahr Dal members during a raid in the southwestern Meherpur district.
Sheikh Zahidul Islam, additional police superintendent in Meherpur, told BenarNews three women were among the eight suspects, including one who said she joined Allahr Dal 18 years ago.
“We came to know about the activities of Allahr Dal in Meherpur through the arrest of one of its members,” he said.
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Years ago there was a rumor that McDonald's used ground earthworms in their burgers. An executive VP at the fast food giant commented they'd never do that because worms cost more per pound than ground beef.
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Food for worms, lads... or is it worms for food?
HAMLET Why, Mickey D's, thou rogue and peasant slave! Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your wormburger is your only emperor for diet...I'm lovin' it ;-)
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Soylant yellow is made of worms!
Sort of an admission that veggie-burgers no matter what they might claim are not really a replacement for beef. Vat created meat might replace beef but our taste buds are trained on thousands of years of tasty cattle and the can't be fooled easily.
HAMLET
Not where he eats, but where he is eaten. A certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service—two dishes, but to one table. That’s the end.
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Þan sayd þe son, “Horrybil bestes restys with þe.” Þe voice sayd, “Thow sal cum and reste with me.” Þan sayd þe son, “Thy fayr flesche falls and fadys away.” “Son, so sal þine do, þat is now so gay.”
(A Disputation Betwyx þe Body and Wormes”, 15th century manuscript)
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While I don't know no Shakespeare...
'And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.
Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but left some of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.' - Book of Exodus
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'But then the Saxons said, We would yet eat. And they ground them up for to save the land; For in that day it was believed among the heathen that if they ate any meat, the world itself perish.
Then the Lord (probably) said to Moses, See that thou stay away from that wretched isle, for they are a people with a head like flint.' - Dron, the meshuganeh's Apocrypha
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Wheeeeeee!!! I am so happy right now — I haven’t the words to tell you how happy I am.
Ok: my ruling is that Lex and European Conservative are tied for winning the thread, and Dron66046 gets an very honourable mention.
And I get to remember my mother explaining what fun she had shocking her English professor at NYU by reading Chaucer aloud as if it were modern Dutch — it works perfectly that way, though Flemish is, in Mama’s considered opinion, almost nearly as good.
Almirad International School mourns the death of the student Mohammed Naghasa who was killed in a rocket attack by warlord Haftar’s armed groups on Salah Eddin neighbourhood in #Tripoli last Monday pic.twitter.com/p53XqVzg3X
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[France24] Two former Twitter employees and a third man were charged in San Francisco Federal Court Wednesday with spying on Twitter users critical of the Saudi royal family, the US Justice Department announced.
[NTD] A county in Maryland has partially reversed a sanctuary policy just three months after it was passed. The move comes after a string of illegal immigrants have been charged with rape in Montgomery County.
[Hawaii Public Radio] The City and County of Honolulu is the second county to announce plans to sue fossil fuel companies for what officials say is damage caused by climate change and rising sea levels traced back to corporate action or inaction.
[One Zero] Over the last 15 years, the United States military has developed a new addition to its arsenal. The weapon is deployed around the world, largely invisible, and grows more powerful by the day.
[Babylon Bee] NEW YORK, NY‐An ABC News spokesperson claims the story on Epstein they sat on for three years was accidentally tossed out with some old paperwork, then shredded into tiny pieces, and then finally incinerated into a pile of ash.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...a 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 
[PJ] The one thing that all environmentalists have in common is a hatred of humanity. They loathe mankind and feel guilty for being part of it. As noted cultural critic Sonny Bunch has noted, environmentalists make good movie villains because they want to make your life worse. For example, in the 2014 action-comedy Kingsman: The Secret Service, an insane tech billionaire played by Samuel L. Jackson wanted to kill off most of the population of Earth to save us from ourselves. In the Marvel movies, a tyrannical despot named Thanos wiped out half the universe to save the other half. I think the bad guy in Aquaman was an environmnentalist too, but I can't really remember much about Aquaman. Anyway, the point is that authoritarian lunatics make good villains.
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
[PJMedia] A Texas boy whose mother claims he is a girl has attended school dressed as a boy. This supports the boy's father's claim that his son is not truly transgender and so should not be pumped with experimental drugs that may cause his chemical castration.
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...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...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...
...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...
[DAWN] The alleged rapist-cum-killer of four children of Chunian confessed to his crimes on Wednesday before a judicial magistrate, deputy prosecutor general Abdul Rauf Watoo said.
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[BREITBART] The Swedish bomb squad were called to a shopping centre in the city of Kristianstad Monday after an 
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
[Dhaka Tribune] Detective branch (DB) of Police has filed charge sheet against sole accused Harun-ur Rashid in Wari’s Samia Afrin Saima murder case.
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...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 
