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Melania Trump has done the nation a great service by deciding to maintain Trump Tower as her full-time residence and not to move to the White House any time soon. But her resistance shouldn’t stop there. Now is as good a time as any to eliminate the ceremonial office of the "first lady," that abhorrent honorific we apply to the president’s wife, and encourage the first spouse to live like an ordinary citizen. All we need is for Melania to agree.
Yes, defund the ridiculously large staff that currently earns upward of $1.5 million a year serving Michelle Obama; abolish the federally funded bully pulpit from which the presidential spouses have historically advocated for healthy eating, literacy, child welfare, anti-drug programs, mental health issues and beautification of highways. The president’s spouse isn’t a specimen of American royalty. By giving her a federal budget and nonstop press coverage, we endorse a pernicious kind of neo-nepotism that says, pay special attention to the person not because she’s earned it or is inherently worthy of our notice but because of who she’s related to by marriage.
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We have gotten a little silly about the trappings of office. Gone are the days when the Trumans got in their car and headed out. Truman. The Presidency has been turned into something with all the trappings of a monarchy. Had Hillary won the election, it hard to imagine the jokes that would ensue about Slick Willy and the Office of the First Lady.
Two weeks after Election Day - as Donald Trump assembles his Cabinet - votes in many states are still being counted. And the tally shows that Hillary Clinton's lead in the popular vote, with Michigan's 16 electoral votes still up for grab, continues to grow..
And so the question: How confident can Americans be in the results announced in the wee hours of Nov. 9, given the problems that continue to beset our election system? Problems beset our system? Like fraud? Or the stoopid electoral college/constitution thingy?
Here are some answers: More answers at link, natch.
Q: Who won the popular vote?
A: Clinton's lead of about 1.7 million votes continues to increase, largely due to an influx of absentee and provisional ballots still being counted in Mexifornia California. She has about 63.7 million votes to Trump's 62 million; her margin in California alone is about 3.5 million.
Q: How close are the two candidates in key battleground states?
A: Three thousand votes are all that separate Clinton and Trump in New Hampshire. The margin is about 12,000 in Michigan, 27,000 in Wisconsin, 68,000 in Pennsylvania and 113,000 in Florida - close, but nothing compared to the 537 votes that separated George W. Bush and Al Gore in Florida 16 years ago.
Q: What's the deal in California?
A: It's the largest state, with some of the most permissive voting procedures. More than half the state's votes are cast by absentee ballot, since no excuses are necessary to avoid going to a polling place on Election Day. Do you have to have photo ID? Be registered some time period prior? Be not dead?
Provisional ballots are treated more leniently than in many other states, requiring time to correct mistakes that otherwise would cause votes to be rejected.
Q: So when will the results be official?
A: Eight states have certified their results; another four are due to do so Tuesday. Nearly all will complete their counts by Dec. 13, in time for the Dec. 19 meeting of the Electoral College - the 538 individuals who, usually without exception, vote according to the results in each state. In some states, the final count may come even later.
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"Do you have to have photo ID? Be registered some time period prior? Be not dead?"
I live in San Diego. I dropped my mail in ballot at the ballot box on election day. Nobody checked anything, they just pointed to where I was to drop the ballot.
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Remove the 18M illegal votes and the 2M dead and Hillary has lost the popular vote and Trump has extended his lead in the electoral college. Do the Donks really want to push that argument?
Federal authorities arrested a Brooklyn driver early Monday on charges of attempting to support ISIS just days before the annual Thanksgiving parade in New York that was the subject of a recent threat in an Islamic State magazine.
A criminal complaint alleges that Mohamed Rafik Naji, 37, a legal permanent U.S. resident and citizen of Yemen, discussed a plot to try to conduct a Nice-style attack using a garbage truck to mow down people in Times Square.
Naji was seized at his apartment on Clarendon Road in Flatbush in a multi-agency arrest. Authorities said he worked as a driver for Uber, though the company told NBC4 that he didn't work for them.
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This guy told of his intentions on Facebook. What a moron. But what about the ones who don't?
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Soft targets and a simple tactic, drive a heavy vehicle(truck, semi, bus) into the crowd.
[The Hill] MSNBC’s "Morning Joe" is reporting that President-elect Donald Trump will not pursue investigations into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server or her family’s charity foundation.
"Source tells @Morning_Joe @realDonaldTrump won't pursue investigations into @HillaryClinton for private email server use/Clinton Foundation," Joe Scarborough’s show tweeted Tuesday morning.
Trump had routinely attacked Clinton on the campaign trail over her use of a private server as secretary of State and for foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation while she was in the Obama administration.
"Lock her up" was a common chant among supporters at his rallies.
During one of the presidential debates, Trump quipped that Clinton would be in jail if he was elected.
Trump said in an interview after the election, however, that prosecuting Clinton would not be a priority.
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And then there are her 'accessories to the acts'. Cruel huh? She skates maybe(?), they serve the time. Heh. Anyone else want to be around that poison?
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The thing is, he doesn't need to appoint a special prosecute. Congress is still planning on going after her and the Clinton Foundation. Trump can play "nice" for demoncrats that would be hostile to him, and still put her lying, treasonous ass in jail.
"Kellyanne Conway, a senior official on the Republican's presidential campaign and now his transition team, told Morning Joe the president-elect has a lot on his mind and 'things that sound like the campaign aren't among them.'
'I think Hillary Clinton still has to face the fact that a majority of Americans don't find her to be honest or trustworthy, but if Donald Trump can help her heal, then perhaps that's a good thing,' Conway said."
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Trump has a lot more pressing things to do that live Hillarie's past. DOJ and Congress are the ones to do that. Trump needs to focus on the future and lead this country, let congress and the FBI fight crime...
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I think he should simply allow the FBI and Justice, his justice department, deal with it. Don't commit either way and don't provoke an Obumbles pardon.
After 2-Jan-17 all bets are off.
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I'm not going to pursue a Clinton investigation...but you or Obama screw with me and the presidency and I will make a world-of-$hit rain down on you.
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Anticipation of the contract signing, and last minute chess game to seek concessions, signal voids, mislead and distract.....classic business deal making 101.
[BBC] Weapons meant for Western-backed rebels in Syria are ending up in the hands of so-called Islamic State in neighbouring Iraq - but how are they getting there?
James Bevan and his small team step carefully into a residential house in Qaraqosh, not far from Mosul in Iraq.
A long trail of blood by the entrance and near-ready suicide vests just inside the door confirm what they have been told by a local militia group - this was a position used by fighters from so-called Islamic State (IS).
The team are from the group Conflict Armament Research (CAR). The investigators carry only notebooks and cameras as they hunt for evidence.
Bedding, clothes and remnants of life from the family that once lived there litter the house. But in a backroom, they find what they are after - empty boxes of ammunition.
They shout out details as they take notes and photos. Their aim is to understand how weapons get into the wrong hands.
"To date, the international community has been blind to the fact that weapons are being diverted into conflict affected areas," Mr Bevan explains.
[Defense One] Who is Michael Flynn, Donald Trump’s new national security advisor? There is no single or simple answer. The Flynn you’ve probably heard of, the one who hitched his wagon to Trump for-President, seems intent on convincing the world that he harbors a smoldering animus against Islam. He is a man whose worldview the American Conservative has described as "warped." But there once was a Flynn who resembles the current man barely, if at all.
We can find this earlier Flynn in the papers he wrote while serving as an intelligence officer and in the relationships he formed with special operators working the tough fight in Afghanistan. Through these lenses emerges an innovator who sought to update intelligence collection and dissemination practices to comport with modern technology; an intelligence professional who emphasized building local ties with--yes--Muslim leaders to undermine the insurgent cause; and a manager who pushed hard for big changes, alienating entrenched power brokers in the intelligence community.
In 2010, Flynn was the director of intelligence for joint international forces in Afghanistan, working for top war commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal. Together, they reshaped how operators acquired information and intelligence to target enemies, emerging with a process sometimes called F3EAD, for Find, Fix, Finish, Exploit, Analyze, and Disseminate.
"They are the folks that ’industrialized’ the targeting process of F3EAD," said Stuart Bradin, a retired Army colonel who worked with Flynn in Afghanistan.
Flynn distilled the new ideas in a 2010 white paper, "Fixing Intelligence", coauthored for the Center for New American Security, or CNAS. Its thrust: share more intelligence with and among with more operators at the battalion and company level, and do it much faster.
"Currently, information this basic to a coordinating a successful counterinsurgency literally is inaccessible to the people who need it most. This failure not only jeopardizes an operation, but also exposes international efforts to ridicule for their ineptitude," Flynn wrote.
In the paper, Flynn argued that the military should rely more on open-source and data and much less on classified and expensive intel.
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"The Flynn you’ve probably heard of, the one who hitched his wagon to Trump for-President, seems intent on convincing the world that he harbors a smoldering animus against Islam."
That, right there, is reason enough to cheer.
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And there it is, the accusation that he is a political general, bete noir of the fighting soldier. (And sailor, marine, coast guard, and airmen of both sexes.). But will it stick?
Years ago there was a popular movie titled A Message to Garcia. The plot went like this: "With tension increasing between the United States and Spain (which then ruled Cuba), President William McKinley desired to initiate communication with the Cuban rebels, who could prove a valuable ally in case of war with Spain. McKinley asked Colonel Arthur L. Wagner to suggest an officer to seek Calixto García, one of three top commanders of the rebels. Wagner suggested Andrew Rowan, a lieutenant, who then traveled to Cuba via Jamaica, dressed as a traveling sportsman.
...In the aftermath of the 2016 election, almost everyone wants to take a message to Garcia, now billeted in the Trump Tower. Unfortunately Lt Andrew Rowan has long since been gathered to his fathers and can no longer beat his way past the fever swamps of Manhattan. So Leo Linbeck's letter to Trump, now in my hand, has go to Garcia by Internet. I am perhaps not simply a messenger but someone who occasionally expounded on the same themes.
Dear President-elect Trump,
I’m gonna try to keep this brief, because we’re both pretty busy with important matters ‐ you with filling positions in your cabinet, me with cleaning the kitchen and helping the kids with their homework and school projects.
I want to reach out to you to make sure you remember why you won, and don’t get distracted. It’s easy to do after pulling off a stunning upset.
You’re getting a lot of advice right now from a lot of different people, and magnanimity in victory is a classic American character trait, so please do keep talking to everyone. And if you should pull some of these folks into your administration, even better. Some of them are exceptionally talented people who will help you govern.
But here’s the thing: your supporters didn’t vote for you to "make Washington work." They voted for you to "drain the swamp" ‐ not to put the "best and brightest" in charge of making decisions, but to stop making so many decisions in Washington DC.
Look, I get it. There are some decisions that can only be made in Washington: military, foreign affairs, post offices, voting laws ‐ you know, those areas specifically enumerated in the Constitution as amended.
The rest of the decisions made in Washington DC ‐ in health care, education, labor laws, environment, energy, and campaign finance, just to name a few obvious areas ‐ have no business being decided there. All of these decisions should be moved back to the states. That is how you drain the swamp.
[HotAir] Trump’s popularity has increased since he was elected president. In a Morning Consult/POLITICO poll just before the election, 37 percent of voters said they had a favorable view of Trump, while 61 percent reported an unfavorable view of the then-candidate. After the election, the number of people reporting an unfavorable view of Trump dropped 15 points, to 46 percent. Trump also saw a nine point increase in voters saying they had a favorable view of him, also to 46 percent.
Trump’s favorability among voters has reached new highs since he became president-elect," said Morning Consult Cofounder and Chief Research Officer Kyle Dropp. "This honeymoon phase is common for new presidents. For example, Obama saw about a 20 point swing in his favor following the 2008 election."
The poll consisted of 1,885 voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.
[Gorka Brief] I spoke at a conference at the Virginia Military Institute on 3 November about the reality of the future of war, the nature of irregular warfare that in the past 150 years has been more common than traditional state-vs-state warfare, the threat of ISIS, and the need for a real strategy.
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[Duffleblog Satire] Agents with the Secret Service are reportedly stressed and uneasy about a meeting between President-elect Donald Trump and retired Marine Gen. James Mattis, since the legendary four-star commander has a plan to kill everyone he meets at Trump Tower.
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[NYPost] From transactivists to #blacklivesmatter, social justice groups have taken a serious shellacking over the past 10 days. And despite years of indulgence by a pliant left, the election of Donald Trump suggests that the current era of identity politics is rapidly reaching its expiration date.
For many, it won’t come soon enough. Enabled by the academy and coddled by Hillary Clinton, social justice warriors have been given free rein over a liberal elite too scared -- or simply too lazy -- to know any better.
Fueled by a mix of intolerance and entitlement, the left has cultivated a culture of closed-mindedness that’s left little room for individual thinking and intelligent discourse. Shaming skeptics and silencing critics, they railed against microaggressions and demanded safe spaces. But along the way, the social justice crowd forgot one key thing -- no space is ever safer than the American ballot box.
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The only thing that will end identity politics is to dry up the funding sources that keep it alive.
End affirmative action. See to it that the high court reverses or revises Griggs vs Duke Power. Shrink the size of the government "work" force at all levels to pre-Great Society levels. Defund the left whenever possible in academia and other areas of public grants and subsidies.
When being part of a victim group that bullies the public at large, or being an overt anti-Christian bigot, or advocating for a Soviet style society, or indoctrinating students to do any of these with public education money, etc., earn you a one-way trip to economic oblivion, I think you'll see the SJW autocrats slink away to find some other way to feed, clothe, and house themselves.
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SJW autocrats slink away to find some other way to feed, clothe, and house themselves.
"They are welcome to starve - better if they do. But they don't"
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#1 "Shrink the size of the government "work" force at all levels to pre-Great Society levels. Defund the left whenever possible in academia and other areas of public grants and subsidies."
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Great post - perfect place to start and it doesn't cost us a thing...
Pope Francis on Monday allowed all Roman Catholic priests the power to forgive abortion, a power previously reserved for bishops or special confessors.
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While I certainly have my issues with my Pope in secular matters, there may be less here than meets the eye.
Bishops in many dioceses have pushed down this power to local priests for many years.
There is an upside - this morning at work two of my non-Catholic co-workers approached me and asked about the sacrament of confession. I am not a skilled commentator on all things Catholic but we then touched on moral sin, communion and penance. They were quite moved, as was I, and are now looking deeper into the faith.
Unmentioned is the hope that Allah will step in to defeat him, because otherwise Hamas will be defeated at his "Jewish" hands -- an unthinkable thought.
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Hell, the truth is worse, evidently he's a Presbyterian. Or that was the last church he was in, musta been the burning bush logo that interested him.
Baghdad – (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi Ministry of Interior announced on Monday, that six persons were either killed or wounded by a mortar shell attack near residential area, east of Baghdad.
The ministry said in a press statement, “This morning, a mortar shell fell near residential area in al-Nahrawan, east of the capital, killing two persons and wounding four others.”
“Security forces rushed to the area of incident and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital and the bodies to the forensic medicine department,” the statement added. “Security forces also raided the area to search for the perpetrators of the incident,” the statement explained.
Baghdad – (IraqiNews.com) Baghdad Operations Command announced on Monday, that three civilians were wounded in a booby-trapped bus explosion in al-Sadr City, east of Baghdad.
Spokesman for Baghdad Operations Command, Brigadier General Saad Moen, said in a press statement, “An adhesive explosive device emplaced under a bus exploded, this morning, in al-Sadr City, east of Baghdad, wounding three civilians with different injuries.”
“Iraqi forces imposed security cordon around the area of incident, and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital,” Moen added.
Baghdad – (IraqiNews.com) A member of al-Hashd al-Shaabi was killed and another one was wounded in an armed attack, in southern the capital, Alsumaria News reported on Monday.
Alsumaria News stated, “Today, militants launched an attack using medium weapons on a checkpoint belonging to al-Hashd al-Shaabi in al-Rasheed area, in southern Baghdad, killing one member and wounding another.”
“Security forces arrived in the area of incident, and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital and the body to the forensic medicine department,” Alsumaria added.
Baghdad is witnessing blasts and suicide attacks from time to time, in addition to separate attacks against civilians and security members.
Baghdad – (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi Joint Operations Command said Sunday it was going to kick out reporters working for Asharq al-Awsat newspaper following a report in which it claimed that unwanted pregnancies were rampant among Shia pilgrims in Karbala.
In a statement, the command said that “based on the lies and insults” made by the newspaper about the Iraqi people, it was decided that “every reporter affiliated with that sick newspaper be kicked out and prevented from presence with the troops.” The command accused the newspaper of seeking to divert attention from success in securing the religious season and victories against the Islamic State militants in Nineveh.
The Saudi-owned, London-based newspaper, attributing its report to a World Health Organization mediaagent, said several cases of illegal pregnancies were detected in Karbala, the holy Shia city where millions of Iraqis and foreign visitors are flowing to commemorate the death of Imam al-Hussein, Prophet Muhammad’s grandson.
The WHO categorically detached itself from the report in a statement on Sunday, vowing to take legal action against the newspaper. The newspaper, on its behalf, offered an apology and said it was going to discharge its reporter in Baghdad who made the report, stressing it was still committed to “professionalism and objectivity.”
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi also stressed on his country’s right to sue the paper.
Influential Shia leader, Moqtada al-Sadr, had also labelled the report a “filthy infringement”. He, too demanded an apology or, otherwise, the newspaper’s office “shall be closed through the well-known methods,” as he put it, in a possible reference to a violent option.
[Washington Examiner] Proponents of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline say the Native American tribe protesting the project isn't all that hung up on whether the pipeline will use sacred land, and is really just looking for a bigger cut of the revenue.
The Standing Rock Sioux tribe has claimed that the project has encroached on its land, damaged sacred sites and would potentially harm a major source of their drinking water by going under Lake Oahe.
Sources privy to the discussions say a number of offers had been made to the tribe, including the installation of water quality sensors, construction of a fresh water storage facility to store water in case of a pipeline leak, and other means of ensuring water quality. The developers also offered to create a rapid response team to respond to environmental accidents, including emergency vehicles provided to Standing Rock Tribal members, according to an email from one source involved in the discussions.
But what continued to throw a wall up in the discussions was the tribe's demand to receive a fee for shipping the oil.
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I noticed a high school classmate of mine went there to express solidarity 'with her native brothers and sisters' (she's of French-American extraction). She didn't stick around for the firehoses. For an unwise woman, it was a smart move.
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They may be an extortin g bunch of assholes, but: "Sources privy to the discussions say a number of offers had been made to the tribe, including the installation of water quality sensors, construction of a fresh water storage facility to store water in case of a pipeline leak, and other means of ensuring water quality. The developers also offered to create a rapid response team to respond to environmental accidents, including emergency vehicles provided to Standing Rock Tribal members,"
seems like pretty smart measures to start off with
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The protests on the original issues were largely found by the general population to be without merit, or at least not enough to get worked up over. So in order to gain more public notice and outrage they moved the protest off public land onto private land - a move intended to provoke a response. It did, the people who owned the land, and the heavy equipment on it the SJWs torched, reasonably demanded the law protect them. Of course THAT response was the whole point, allowing photo ops 'proving' their victimhood and the cruel evilness of the authorities. It still hasn't gotten them enough public notice and sympathy though, so --- more rock and Molotov cocktail throwing, more truck burning, more forced arrests, with each protester hoping it's a different one who finally becomes the 'martyr' they need.
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When I was working in the oilfield up in North Dakota, two of the wells were on tribal land. The tool pusher, who was an American Indian explained that any rig operating on tribal land had to carry 2-3 'extra' employees from the tribe. They of course never actually went to the site, they simply got paid. He had some very unkind words to say about the practice and the people participating in it, since he felt it reflected badly on him.
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Silentbrick - that kind of labor practice is in force in virtually all our Third World operations: we have to hire a full staff of locals, who mostly don't even have to show up, and then have the work done by our expats (or done in Houston.) It's not as bad as it used to be in the countries that have been in the business a generation or two, as they now produce a good number of excellent white collar workers.
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I suspect a bit of Middle East money is helping to finance the protesters. If so I hope it drags on. Always happy to see bad people throw their money away.
[Free Beacon] Retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters said Monday night that President Obama has been the worst foreign policy president of his lifetime.
Peters is 64 years old.
Fox News host Eric Bolling asked Peters about the Iran nuclear deal and what Obama would do to stop President-elect Donald Trump from ending it when he takes office in January.
"President Obama, and speaking without hyperbole, has been the most disastrous foreign policy president of my lifetime or yours, Eric, and now he’s not thinking this through," Peters said.
"He’s so desperate, so fervently crazed to preserve this inept nuke deal with Iran, that again he’s not thinking it through," Peters continued. "He’s trying to box Trump in."
Peters went on to say that Obama’s poor policies with Iran will leave Trump no other option down the road than to use military force. He believes Obama is wasting the peaceful options that the United States once had to effectively deal with Iran.
"Military option is all Obama is leaving the next president, and with the Iranians running wild across the Middle East, destructive in every country‐Syria, in Iraq, in Yemen, and elsewhere, in Lebanon, in Gaza‐we have no options left but to pull triggers, and that’s sad," Peters said. "What a legacy."
He added that it is too late to reinstitute sanctions on Iran in order to apply non-military pressure.
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It doesn't help to keep committing to more and more entangling 'alliances'. You can only divert or distract chaos in the long run at great expense, but you can not stop it from playing out. Choose wisely and within your resources. He who tries to defend everything, defends nothing. There would be less disasters if there had been less commitments in the first place.
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Grom, IMO Peters is correct - Obama has been a worse foreign policy President than even Carter & Johnson, whose failures were large but not broad-based, like Obama's.
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I would have to vote for Carter as the most disastrous. He didn't back the Shah, lost Iran, apologized to the Ayatollah, picked a fight with the Soviets in Afghanistan by supporting the very same AQ idiots we are fighting now... Carter was the liberal incompetent genesis for most of what is troubling us now. Not that Obama is any better...Carter was worse.
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LBJ killed a helluva lot more people than Obama and Carter combined. Perhaps off topic but his domestic policy, his so called Great Society, was a disaster that we are still living with. Slimy mother fucker.
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Carter and Obama were dithering, blithering incompetents. LBJ was powerful, forceful, determined and for a long time a lot of people actually believed him.
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Despite what the MSM says to the contrary, Clinton wasn't such great shakes as a POTUS. His ineptitude led to the financial collapse and 911. Also there was Mogadishu, Rwanda, Waco and Ruby Ridge and Hillary Care. He didn't take out Bin Laden when he had the chance. And there was PeckerGate.
[Bloomberg Markets] All four major U.S. equity benchmarks climbed to record highs as oil jumped on optimism OPEC will agree to cut output. The yen rose as markets digested reports of a tsunami warning in the Fukushima region.
The S&P 500 Index, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Nasdaq Composite Index and the Russell 2000 Index rallied together to their all-time peaks for the first time since 1999. Oil surged as Iran signaled optimism that OPEC will agree to a supply-cut deal and Iraq said it will offer new proposals to help bolster unity before next week’s meeting in Vienna. The dollar halted its longest advance ever against the euro. The yen climbed after a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck Japan off the coast of Fukushima, home to the nuclear power plant badly damaged in a March 2011 quake, triggering a tsunami alert.
[IsraelTimes] Move follows criticism by UN’s atomic watchdog that Tehran’s supply exceeded 2015 nuke deal limits
Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency is reporting that the country has transferred some of its surplus heavy water to Oman for sale.
The late Sunday report quotes Behrouz Kamalvandi, front man for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, as saying, "In view of the progress of talks with several foreign firms and countries to purchase heavy water, some quantities of Iran’s surplus production has been transferred to Oman."
Iran was criticized last week by the head of the UN’s atomic watchdog, the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency, for Tehran’s second minor breach this year of the 2015 nuclear deal with major powers.
A report showed that Iran’s stock of so-called heavy water had inched above the level agreed under the landmark accord.
Heavy water, a modified form of normal water, is used in certain types of nuclear reactors.
The 2015 nuclear deal states that Iran’s "needs" are estimated to be around 130 metric tons of heavy water.
"It is important that such situations should be avoided in future in order to maintain international confidence in the implementation" of the deal, Yukiya Amano, director general of the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency, said last week in Vienna.
The 2015 nuclear deal went into effect in January to cap Tehran’s nuclear activities in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.
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Heavy water, a modified form of normal water, is used in certain types of nuclear reactors...you mean like those designed to produce isotopes for nuclear weapons? Iran would never cheat would it?
[Libya Herald] A boom-mobile outside Jalaa Hospital has today killed at least four people and injured 26 including eight children who were leaving a nearby primary school when the kaboom occurred.
Eye-witnesses described body parts strewn around. Pictures showed nearby windows blown out and at least ten vehicles around the boom-mobile completely destroyed.
Children comforted each other as the smoke and dust cleared, amid the wail of car alarms and the tinkling of shattered glass. The injured were rushed the few metres to the hospital accident and emergency department. A hospital front man said some were in a critical condition and might not survive.
Yesterday evening the people of Benghazi had been celebrating what they believed was an end to the random rocketing from Gwarsha, after the army captured to Grad launcher.
But the authorities had warned of an increased risk of boom-mobiles. Security has supposedly been tightened with police road blocks and vehicle checks. Nevertheless, one bomber managed to get through.
Two of the dead today were brother and sister Saif al-Warfali 19 and Sara al-Warfali 23. Among the maimed was at least one seven year old boy.
Yesterday was the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... ’ Universal Children’s Day.
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[RUDAW.NET] Local authorities in Kirkuk are working on forming a new special police force -- up to 700 strong ‐ to augment security following the deadly ISIS attacks that killed more than 100 people last month, many of them from the security forces.
The new force, to number between 500 to 700, is to be formed from existing coppers.
"We have brought together a good number of coppers from the cop shoppes and checkpoints. We will form the new regiment from these coppers," Afrasyab Kamil Ways, spokesperson for Kirkuk police, told Rudaw.
"The decision is that this force will be well-trained, well-armed and in full possession of all equipment needed in every aspect," he added.
He said that, with the formation of the new forces, there will be 75 coppers left at every cop shoppe, a number much smaller than at present. He explained that, with the formation of the new regiment, if there are additional coppers, they will be redistributed among the cop shoppes.
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I'm also impressed. It's like our new president knows how to make deals or something...
[CNBC] Democratic media mogul Bob Johnson told CNBC on Monday that fellow African-Americans should give Donald Trump "the benefit of the doubt," and hope common ground can be reached with the incoming Republican administration about issues facing the black community.
The BET founder — who met with Trump on Sunday at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey — described the sit-down as a "great chat" about "business solutions to social problems."
During the campaign, Trump made the case to African-American voters that Democrats let them down, and argued repeatedly "what do you have to lose" by voting for him.
Johnson, who had supported Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, said he told Trump over the weekend, "The real question you should be asking is what do African-Americans have to gain from your presidency."
"Trump is a business guy, and I think he's going to tilt towards finding [a] way to use fiscal policy … to move the economy forward," he said. "Let's give him a shot. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt; see if we can find common ground."
"That's what's best for African-Americans," Johnson added.
To make his case, Johnson, founder and chairman of The RLJ Cos., quoted founding Congressional Black Caucus member Rep. Bill Clay Sr., a Missouri Democrat who served more than three decades in the House.
Paraphrasing Clay, Johnson said, "Black Americans should have no permanent friends, and no permanent enemies, just permanent interests."
"That's where African-American voters should be," Johnson contended, saying he does not view Trump and the Republicans as enemies or friends. African-Americans have "permanent interests," he said.
Johnson said the country needs a leader, "not somebody who's going to sort of choose sides," and he hopes Trump fits the bill. As for whether his meeting with Trump might mean an administration job, Johnson said unequivocally, no. He joked about the odds being "subzero," adding he "never worked for the government … and never wanted to work for the government."
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He cares much more about you than democrats. They spent most of their existence fighting every real civil rights issue across the board.
Slavery
voting
education
segregation
Womans Suffrage
democrats fought all of this...
and much much more.
Trump said it himself:
"You have nothing more to lose"
[AlAhram] Turkish police on Monday detained a veteran Kurdish politician and a mayor in the southeastern province of Mardin, security sources said, the latest Kurds to be held as part of a wider crackdown on government opponents since a failed coup in July.
Ahmet Turk, 74, who was first elected in 1973 to represent Mardin in the national parliament and served as a politician until 2015, was detained at home in what the state-run Anadolu agency said was part of an "ongoing terror investigation".
The authorities also detained Emin Irmak, the co-mayor of a district within Mardin. Both were stripped of office last week by the government in a crackdown which has seen at least 34 elected mayors removed from municipalities in the largely Kurdish southeast over suspected Lion of Islam links.
Sources said seven other local administration officials in the region were also detained.
The leaders of the main pro-Kurdish opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) were incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! two weeks ago, drawing strong international condemnation of a widening crackdown on dissent under President Tayyip Erdogan.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has been fighting an armed Kurdish insurgency in the southeast and the government accuses the HDP and other Kurdish politicians of links to the PKK Lion of Islam group, deemed a terrorist organization by the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and United States.
Thousands of officials from the HDP, parliament's second biggest opposition party, have been detained in recent months.
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Bush didn't do enough, and Obama totally screwed things up. Perhaps Trump's people can see a way through all this; there are ways to support the Kurds far better than we have done. We should push for a free Kurdistan and a plebiscite for a home-rule Kurdish area in Turkey as well. All Trump needs to do is ask because there are people with long relationships and memories in the region, and a lot of willingness to serve. If he asks, then all he needs is to have the guts to stick it out while the agencies and military do the work.
For those of you not familiar with the region, we have allies there other than (and in addition to) Israel, who will happily support the Kurds - we have been ignoring them (during the Bush administration) or shitting on them (during the Obama administration). I hope Trump supports them.
Full Disclosure: I have friends, former trainees, and former fellow service members who I know are involved in supporting various Kurdish aid and medical activities in the region. I also know and know of people who are working to support Kurdish military efforts in the region. I have supported food & medical relief/supply efforts as well. So this is somewhat personal to me.
I wish the coup had actually been a coup and not a Reichstag fire set up by the government. I would have celebrated Erdogan's execution after a drumhead court martial.
From what I can see, Erdogan is on the path to criminalizing being Kurdish in Turkey as a means of cementing political power and Islamist behavior along side Turkish racialism. Yes, Turks even now are ever bit as racist as the Germans were about "being Aryan" 80 years ago. If Erdogan succeeds, he will be triggering more support for the PKK and more military and terror actions by the PKK's most radical elements. Unlike the Jews in pre-WW2 Germany, these people will not be scapegoats, they will fight viciously. The bloodshed will go up - and when it starts to happen in the non-Kurdish parts of Turkey it will be especially bloody.
If the Kurds were ever to manage to liberate their homeland part of Turkey, Turkey will cease to be able to extract mineral wealth while returning very little to the people who live there - while also repressing the liberty of the people who live in the region. The Turks would have to modernize their government and economy, or else become a poorer Islamic version of Greece. Their position would become untenable for anything other than a return to Ataturk style secularism.
I, for one, will applaud all the destruction of Edogan's fascisiti racist MB-style bastards that is done. I've seen their work, they deserve to be systemically reduced and then hunted to extinction for being SS-style racist bastards. The biggest mistake Bush made was not making Erdogan pay a hard price for his treachery during OIF - perhaps even a military coup would have been in order. The biggest mistake in this area Obama made is giving the Turks any leeway in their conduct during which they were tacitly allowing ISIS support to flow across their border into Syria. Like the mess in Libya, he knew, but chose to ignore it until it blew up on him. Also Obama ignored the Erdogan regime's lies about "striking ISIS" when all the Turks did was to use minor and ineffective strikes against ISIS as a fig leaf for large and coordinated strikes against Kurdish liberation forces in Syria, Iraq and the border area.
We should have supported the Kurds with artillery, ammunition and heavy arms, plus full on air campaign to close the Turkish rat lines for ISIS. We should also have provided CAP like we did during Operation Northern Watch (and Provide Comfort, as well as Operation Desert Fox), to protect their forces training areas and field operations from the Turks.
Instead we coddled this MB bastard and allowed him to strike cross-border against people who should be our allies.
All of Kurdistan, including the parts in Turkey and Iran, deserves liberation, and regardless of that, the Kurds deserve better support from the US. They also deserve better liberation organizations than the PKK: in Kirkuk and the Kurdish areas of Iraq there is solid secular leadership that is oriented toward Western values and they should be helped to organize civil resistance and movement for self-government inside Turkey and Iran. But Obama's inactions and the professional idiots at State are letting Erdogan push everything into those radicals of the PKK in order to coddle the Islamists in Turkey.
Trump can do better, and there are plenty of people and allies that can help. Oppose Salafists and Shias and pay attention (unlike Obama), and have the courage to support his "inconvenient" allies whom the Saudis and Wahabbis may not like (unlike Bush).
All Trump has to do is appoint the right people - and have them ask the right questions. The capabilities and possibilities are there, unused for nearly a decade. It would be nice to see someone actually pay attention to the end results, instead of looking for angles to exploit everything as a domestic political agenda opportunity
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One last thing - if we are ever forced to withdraw from Incirlik, we should crater the entire facility as we leave. We built it, we sure as hell shouldn't leave it for those bastards to use against us.
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One more thing from me (and aping OldSpook juuuust a bit) - Turkey fucked us over by not allowing the 4th ID over their territory when we needed them. Granted Erdogan (Gollum lookalike) wasn't in charge then, but that doesn't matter. Payback's a bitch and they need to be taught a harsh lesson in geopolitical politics, in spades. Arm the Kurds to the teeth.
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Erdogan is on the path to criminalizing being Kurdish in Turkey as a means of cementing political power and Islamist behavior along side Turkish racialism.
Yes. There is an existential dimension underlying this as well, according to this Hurriyet editorial; David P. Goldman, who used to write under the nom de plume of Spengler has discussed it as well. The Kurdish birth rate within Turkey is well above replacement at 3.4, while the Turkish birth rate has fallen below replacement at 1.9, held up by the poor, religious Turks in the villages; around Istanbul the birthrate of the educated and prosperous denizens is 1.5. President Erdogan has spoken about 2038 as the year when the tipping point is reached -- and despite elevating and keeping him in power the Turkish population has not responded by making more babies, though his wife did her bit by having four. Killing Kurds is his only remaining option to slow the Darwinian race.
Could also be titled: "Syrian army ambushes medical supply truck."
[ALMASDARNEWS] Syria's government forces, backed by local fighters, ambushed a vehicle loaded with medicines and medical supplies en route to territories held by the jihadi group Jabhet Fateh al-Sham ...formerly al-Nusra, the current false nose and mustache of al-Qaeda in the Levant... (formerly a-Nusra Front) in the southeast of Hama. They've got a really touching picture showing three of the heroic Syrian Arab Army guys and a local fighting standing on the body of the dead driver, who's in his skivvies.
The ambush, which also killed the truck driver, was carried out in an area called Wadi al-Azib; a longtime supply route for jihadi groups fighting the Syrian Army in al-Salamiyah city.
The predominantly-Ismaili city is repeatedly attacked by ultraconservative fighters from Jabhet Fateh al-Sham as well as ISIS terror organization.
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But surely they have one, or several, anyway. We have plans to invade Canada, should the need arise.
[CNSNEWS] In an interview with National Public Radio on Sunday, retired Army Gen. Jack Keane said that the U.S. military could defeat the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... if the commander-in-chief asks for and implements its plan.
Host Rachel Martin was interviewing Keane about his decision not to accept President-elect Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s offer to serve as Defense secretary, but the report included questions about Trump’s remarks on the campaign trail that he knows more than the generals when it comes to defeating ISIS.
"The military knows how to fight a war," Keane said. "And I told [Trump] - if you're going to do what you suggest - said you were going to do and ask for a campaign plan from the Pentagon for how to defeat ISIS, believe me, you'll get a comprehensive campaign plan with many options in it that this president has never asked for."
Keane said that, in fact, Obama routinely did not take the advice given to him by the military or, if taken, "reduced" those recommendations.
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Champ doesn't need a Pentagon plan. He employs the Klingon targeted assassination of senior leaders plan.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 15 Lions of Islam were killed and 5 others were maimed in a series of Arclight Arclight airstrikes conducted in eastern Laghman province of Afghanistan. ...It has a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution of great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the Arclight airstrikes were carried out in Alishen and Alingar districts.
No further details were regarding the Arclight airstrikes and it is yet not clear if the raids were conducted by the Afghan Air Force or the US forces based in Afghanistan.
Both the Afghan and US forces are conducting regular Arclight airstrikes against the Lions of Islam based in Afghanistan.
The increased raids followed amid rampant Taliban-insurgency across the country as the group is busy conducting attacks as part of its spring offensive.
The US forces based in Afghanistan resumed Arclight airstrikes against the Lions of Islam in Afghanistan after the B.O. regime granted them broader role to suppress the growing insurgency in the country.
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[IsraelTimes] Hamilton Shmamilton. A new poll shows Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s favorability rating is rising like one of his towers, spiking nine points since the election earlier this month, according to a Politico/Morning Consult survey.
The poll shows 46 percent have a "very favorable or somewhat favorable" opinion of Trump, compared to 12% who are not such big fans and 34% who really don’t like the president-elect.
Just before the election, those numbers were flipped, with 61% having a very unfavorable opinion of Trump and only 37% finding him favorable.
The poll was held on November 16-18, according to Politico.
In other words, before the Bannon pushback was up to speed.
Obama’s favorbaiulity rating is also up a bit according to the poll, from 50% to 54% so make what you will of that.
And (almost) everybody agrees Steve Bannon was a poor choice for chief White House strategist, with only two in 10 respondents saying it was a "strong" pick.
#5
Many Trump voters simply left the MSM and ignored the polls. They voted their conscience rather than let a corrupt media tell them how to act and think. The MSM also know as the leftwing State media or Commie press fouled their own nest--now they are going to have to deal with it. They just cannot be trusted anymore.
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The proper term is ctrl.left. Please help to popularize it. It riffs on the alt/ctrl keys on the keyboard as well as the Left's obsession with controlling people.
[RefugeeSettlementWatch] They are worried. And, as my good friend Richard (Blue Ridge Forum) would say, it has a lot to do with rice bowls. What? you ask! Have you ever heard the phrase ’breaking rice bowls?’ It happens a lot when a new administration comes in to power and a lot of people have their livelihoods placed on the line perhaps for the first time ever!
In a story ostensibly about what is going to happen to the new resettlement site of Northampton, Massachusetts, the head of the local Catholic Charities tells us a good bit about what went on when 452 worried refugee resettlement workers got on a conference call with presumably leaders of the two main federal agencies that administer the program and dole out the federal bucks in Washington.
BTW, as we have mentioned previously, both the Asst. Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration and the Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (as political appointees) will soon be on their way out.
[ALMASDARNEWS] During a fierce battle in Syria's eastern city of Deir Ezzor yesterday, six Syrian soldiers were taken captive by ISIS despite the latter being unable to yield any territorial gains.
The video above was originally posted by Amaq Agency, an outlet affiliated with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... . The claim of captured soldiers could not be independently verified by al-Masdar News' military source in the city.
Recently, the Islamic State slaughtered dozens of people in Deir Ezzor, hanging them by meat hooks and letting them bleed to death.
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[Libya Herald] The head of the Thinni administration’s media and culture authority ‐ in effect Beida’s "minister of information" ‐ has resigned in protest over today’s boom-mobileing in Benghazi. In a statement on his Facebook page, Khaled Najem said that he would continue in post only until a new appointment was made.
Security is not his remit but in his statement he alluded to rifts within the interim government over it, saying that there had been failings in providing it.
Security is the joint responsibility of both the military and the interior ministry but there has been disarray in regard to it for months. Over the past year the Thinni administration has had four acting interior ministers ‐ three in the past six weeks ‐ and there were damaging squabbles during the summer over who heads Benghazi’s security directorate. This has undermined security as a whole.
Today’s bombing and Najem’s resignation may well push the military leadership around Khalifa Hafter and Abdul Razzaq al-Nazhouri to formally take over control of the police and security directorates throughout the east of the country.
Najem was appointed head of the media and culture authority eleven months ago when Thinni sacked Omar Gawairi.
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[AnNahar] Twin attacks blamed on jihadists during weekend municipal elections in Mali left six people dead, security sources said Monday.
The violence came as the country held its first election since 2013. Turnout was low however due to continuing fears over security despite the presence of international peacekeepers.
In the first incident, security sources told AFP that five Malian soldiers died after being ambushed while transporting ballot boxes in the restive north.
"After the voting on Sunday, an army convoy taking the ballot boxes for counting was attacked in the north by jihadists. Five Malian soldiers were killed," a security source said.
Another Malian security source said the assailants "wanted to sabotage the elections" and were unable to make off with the ballots.
In the second attack, in the town of Dilli in southwestern Mali overnight Sunday to Monday, a group of alleged jihadists nabbed several vehicles and killed a civilian .
"They arrived early Monday in Dilli. They attacked a council building. The jihadists then took off with two ambulances and a vehicle, after which they killed a civilian and made off for the Mauritanian border," a local official said, requesting anonymity.
A security source said the assailants were probably hoping to find ballot boxes in the building where counting was under way.
Voters are electing 12,000 councilors across Mali as the government wrestles with implementing a 2015 peace deal and warding off the stubborn jihadist threat in the north.
French troops were deployed in 2013 to repel al-Qaeda-aligned jihadists who had overrun several northern towns, joining forces with Tuareg-led rebels.
Some 11,000 U.N. military and police have followed, attempting to maintain security, but the jihadists remain active in the north while also spreading to the west African country's central regions.
Sunday's election -- held two years later than scheduled -- coincided with the first anniversary of a jihadist attack on the Radisson Blu hotel in the capital Bamako that left 20 people dead, many of them foreigners.
U.N. chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon called Saturday for a peaceful vote in areas "where political and security conditions allow" in a nation still under a state of emergency.
The twin attacks were among a string of disruptions to voting in northern and central Mali.
In Timbuktu on Sunday, unknown attackers seized and burned electoral papers in multiple raids.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least two foreign loyalists of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed in an Arclight airstrike in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
According to the local security officials, the two foreign turbans were killed in Achin district after they were targeted in Arclight airstrike carried out by the foreign forces.
The officials further added that the foreign forces used unmanned aerial vehicle to target the two Lion of Islams.
The Arclight airstrike did not incur any casualties to the local residents, the officials added.
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[Iran Press TV] A committee affiliated with Egypt’s Justice Ministry has ordered the confiscation of assets belonging to 46 members and supporters of the Moslem Brüderbund, the latest in a widening government crackdown on the banned movement.
The committee issued the order on Monday, seizing companies involved in trade, construction, and pharmaceuticals.
Reports said notable individuals were among the owners of the companies and businesses confiscated, including Mohammed Abdel-Gawad, who served as the head of Egypt's pharmacists’ union during the rule of Mohammed Morsi, a senior Brotherhood leader and former Egyptian president who was ousted in a coup in 2013.
The Moslem Brüderbund was once Egypt's largest opposition group and still enjoys a huge public support. However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... the government of current president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi outlawed the movement when the former army chief took power more than two years ago. Thousands of Brotherhood members and supporters have been enjugged Please don't kill me! while key figures have been sentenced to death or life in prison.
Sisi’s government has also confiscated assets of scores of Brotherhood members as part of the massive crackdown. The assets include schools, hospitals, and companies across the country.
On Sunday, Brotherhood officials rejected claims by some members that the movement was ready for reconciliation with Sisi.
In a statement, the group said it could not compromise on "the rights of the deaders and injured, the detainees’ right to freedom and the people’s right to honorable life."
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Trump should invite al-Sisi to the White House just for the pure Obama trolling pleasure.
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Absolutely Raj.
stable Egypt without moslem brotherbund is a chief priority. Give Sisi some love. He is very worth it.
Priority should be given to the US/Egypt Africa passage & the need to expand the QIZ treaty with Israel post haste.
Commerce
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"On April 17, [2012] Egypt’s electoral commission permanently disqualified el-Shater and nine other prospective [Muslim Brotherhood] candidates from the race, declaring el-Shater ineligible because of a prior criminal conviction. El-Shater says he will back the candidacy of Mohamed Mursi [Morsy]... Regardless of the election wranglings, men like el-Shater and Malek, both millionaires, are likely to form the leadership core of the Muslim Brotherhood."
In 2012 Egypt's Brotherhood was (and in the USA is) a very wealthy organization.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A former consultant to Iran’s mission to the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... pleaded guilty on Monday to charges that he filed a false tax return substantially understating how much he was paid and conspired to violating a US sanctions law.
Ahmad Sheikhzadeh, 60, entered his plea in federal court in Brooklyn to charges that he conspired to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and aided in the preparation of false individual income tax returns.
As part of a plea deal, Sheikhzadeh agreed to not appeal any sentence of 5-1/4 years in prison or less, said Steve Zissou, his attorney. Sheikhzadeh, who has also agreed to pay over $147,000, is scheduled to be sentenced on March 30.
Sheikhzadeh was nabbed Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in March, two months after when world powers led by the United States and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... lifted crippling sanctions against Iran in return for curbs on Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
Prosecutors said Sheikhzadeh had been a long-term consultant to Iran’s UN mission since 2008 and had been paid a regular cash salary, often through a someone employed there, which he deposited into a Citibank checking account.
Prosecutors said from 2008 to 2012, Sheikhzadeh under-reported his UN income on his person tax returns.
The indictment said he also used his Citibank account for side transactions with two US-based co-conspirators who wished to invest in Iran, and at their request directed an Iran-based co-conspirator to funnel money to people in that country.
Prosecutors said Sheikhzadeh did not obtain any license from the US Treasury Department authorizing these and other activities.
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[Libya Observer] A video posted by the General Investigation Apparatus 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... showed Monday a person named Haitham al-Zintani confessing to the killing and burying of the member of the Islamic Research and Studies Council of Libya’s Fatwa House and Secretary General of Libya Scholars Association, Nadir al-Omrani.
Al-Zintani said that they planned the abduction three months ago; adding that a group affiliated with the Special Deterrent Force and is called Crime Fight Apparatus and based in Sabaa district in Tripoli (also known to be affiliated with the Saudi Madkhali ideology) is responsible for the kidnap and killing of sheikh al-Omrani.
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"Oh, well, hmmm..., a Fatwa. Ok then, go on your way."
[AlAhram] Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's victory and the war on Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... have given Iran's hard-line Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps what it sees as a unique opportunity to claw back economic and political power it had lost.
Sidelined after a nuclear deal was reached with Iranian leaders and the administration of President Barack Obama I am the change that you seek... and major nations, the IRGC is determined to regain its position in Shi'ite Iran's complex governing structure.
Republican Trump said in the campaign that he would abandon the 2015 deal that curbed Iran's nuclear ambitions in return for the lifting of economic sanctions. His tough stance, in contrast to Obama's olive branch, is expected to empower hard-liners who would benefit from an economy that excludes foreign competition.
In addition, the Quds force, that conducts IRGC policies overseas, has played a successful and key role on the battlefields of Iraq increasing the Guards' kudos at home.
"Trump and the Islamic State forces of Evil were gifts from God to the IRGC," said a bigwig within the Iranian government, speaking to Rooters on condition of anonymity like other figures contacted within Iran.
"If Trump adopts a hostile policy towards Iran or scraps the deal, hard-liners and particularly the IRGC will benefit from it," a former reformist official said.
Elected in a landslide in 2013 on a promise to end Iran's diplomatic and economic isolation, pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani has struggled to reconnect Iran's economy to world markets and to attract foreign investment.
Uncertainty over the nuclear deal, unilateral U.S. sanctions, political infighting in Iran alongside complex regulations, labour issues and corruption have hampered a post-sanctions economic revival causing concern to Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who blames the government.
Sanctions Benefitted IRGC
Deeply loyal to Khamenei, the IRGC was created by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of the 1979 Islamic revolution. The IRGC first secured a foothold in the economy after the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War when the holy manal establishment allowed them to invest in leading Iranian industries.
Involved in a wide range of businesses, from energy and tourism to car production, telecoms and construction, the IRGC's empire grew by taking billions of dollars in projects vacated by Western oil companies because of sanctions imposed to curb the nation's nuclear ambitions.
Trying to limit IRGC influence, Rouhani's government stalled or cancelled some major projects with the IRGC, including a $1.3 billion deal with National Iranian Gas Co. in March 2014.
Under the nuclear deal, international sanctions were lifted in January opening up the Iranian economy, thereby threatening the IRGC power base. Now the Guards see an opportunity to lever back their position in the Iranian hierarchy.
"The IRGC will use Trump's win to convince the holy manal rulers to give them more political and economic backing. This is what they have been hoping for since the deal was reached," said the senior government official, who declined to be identified.
"If Trump's presidency scares away foreign investors from Iran, then it is the IRGC that will regain its economic power," said a former reformist official close to Rouhani.
"More economic involvement of the IRGC means a riskier market for foreign investors. It will hinder Rouhani's planned economic growth and will give more political power to the IRGC and their hard-line backers," the reformist official added.
Obama's olive branch, also known as the Obama-Kerry-Clinton Folly (similar to when Neville Chamberlain got rolled by the Nazi). Maybe Trump can figure out a way to get all our boodle (Jizya) back to the U.S.
Saudi Arabia can't dispense largess like it used to, President Aoun, and it's only going to get worse. Sorry.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Newly-elected Lebanese President Michel Aoun ...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... has said he looks forward to reviving and consolidating ties with Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... The news comes shortly after Saudi Arabia’s Prince Khaled al-Faisal invited Aoun to visit Saudi.
Al Faisal, governor of Makkah and an adviser to the king, said during an official visit to Leb that Aoun had promised to visit as soon as a new Lebanese government was formed.
The Saudi delegation also announced that it will hold meetings with Parliament Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet... and Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.
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[RUDAW.NET] The Kurdistan Region’s presidency said on Monday that remarks by a Shiite leader who reportedly threatened to deploy the Iraqi forces in Kurdish areas liberated by the Peshmerga, follow the path of the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and ISIS, both enemies who lost due to the bravery of the Kurds.
Baqir Jabir Solaq, a Shiite leader from the Islamic Supreme Council, in remarks published on social media and some media outlets titled "Bashiqa, we are coming," reportedly said the Iraqi forces and their allied Shiite Hashd al-Shaabi paramilitaries have become strong enough to head to liberated Kurdish areas
"We now have a strong army and Hashd al-Shaabi that cannot be stopped by any border or embankments as a response to the remarks by some that say they will stay in areas that were liberated recently by the Peshmerga," Solaq said.
The Islamic Supreme Council is headed by the powerful Shiite leader Ammar al-Hakeem, who also heads the Shiite National Alliance with whom the Kurdish parties had very strong relations, in particular during their struggle against the former Iraqi regime, ties which have continued since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Last month, the Kurdish President Masoud Barzani in a joint presser with Hakeem in the newly-liberated Bashiqa town hailed the unprecedented cooperation between the Iraqi forces and the Peshmerga in their war against the ISIS.
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A pair of men described as "feminine" and wearing fake eyelashes and long red nails are being sought in connection with a yoga pants heist at a Victoria’s Secret "Come for the pants - stay for the soft pron!
store in South Carolina.
Deana Milligan, an employee at the Spartanburg store, told cops that she observed two black men enter the business around 9 PM Wednesday "and hang out near a yoga pants display."
Milligan said that the duo proceeded to place multiple pairs of yoga pants in shopping bags before fleeing the store without paying for the garments.
A Spartanburg Police Department report describes the suspects as wearing "red sweatshirts and red sneakers and had nose rings." Milligan described the duo as "feminine and stated they were wearing fake eye lashes and long red nails." One suspect, Milligan added, had a neck tattoo, while his accomplice wore a black hat atop a Mohawk haircut.
[Daily Excelsior] Pakistain army today again resorted to heavy mortar shelling in several areas along Line of Control (LoC) in twin border districts of Poonch and Rajouri in which a BSF jawan was killed and five others including four BSF personnel and a civilian were maimed while administration again ordered closure of Government and private schools falling within shelling and firing range on the LoC.
Indian side has given very effective response to Pakistain shelling and firing at forward places and inflicted heavy damage on the enemy side to silent enemy guns, which were targeting civilian locations on this side.
Sources told the Excelsior that Pakistain army, which had shelled forward positions in Balakote and Manjakote sectors of Poonch and Rajouri districts respectively, resumed heavy shelling at Balakote, Mendhar, Mankote, Tarkundi and adjoining areas of Poonch sector at 8.25 am today and Manjakote and Nowshera sectors of Rajouri at 10.20 am prompting Indian side to respond appropriately.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Leb is building wall near the country’s largest Paleostinian refugee camp to prevent holy warriors from infiltrating, a military source said Monday.
The overcrowded and impoverished Ain al-Hilweh camp near the southern coastal city of Sidon has gained notoriety in recent years as a refuge for Moslemholy warriors and runaways.
It also saw deadly fighting last year between the Jund al-Sham Islamist group and members of Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... ’s Fatah movement.
And in September the army said security forces had tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! a Paleostinian refugee suspected of links to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group who was in the camp.
"The construction of the wall began some time ago and the aim is to stop the infiltration of forces of Evil inside Ain al-Hilweh from nearby orchards," the military source told AFP.
"It’s a security measure" that was taken after the arrest of "runaway terrorists" who had taken shelter in the camp, he said.
Pictures were posted online showing cranes lifting huge concrete blocks on the western side of Ain al-Hilweh then setting them side by side, as well as watchtower.
Social media users compared the wall to a controversial separation barrier which Israel has been building in the occupied West Bank since 2002.
"Soon, the children of Ain al-Hilweh will draw pictures depicting Paleostine and freedom on the wall of shame," one person said online.
A camp official, Fuad Othman, called the wall a "provocation".
All walls are provocations until completed, at which point they become enclosures, or at least tactical obstacles.
Major General Mounir al-Maqdah, the head of the Paleostinian security forces in Leb, criticised the construction of the wall.
"The wall, parts of which have been erected, is causing psychological pressure for the Paleostinian refugees," said Maqdah.
"We wouldn’t have needed a separation barrier and watchtowers if the Lebanese authorities had, years ago, found a solution to the Paleostinian presence in Leb," he added.
The military source said Leb "is not building a prison or a separation wall, but a wall for protection", adding residents would be able to go in and out from the camp, except from the western side.
By long-standing convention, the army does not enter Paleostinian refugee camps in Leb but holds positions outside of it, leaving the factions to handle security inside.
More than 61,000 Paleostinian refugees live in Ain al-Hilweh, including 6,000 who recently fled the war in Syria, according to the UN’s agency for Paleostinian refugees, UNRWA.
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No, but you're still a piece of shit, now fuck off and develop your next lecture on how I need to be responsible for someone I didn't vote for, you contemptible asshole...
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And it's always someone elses fault. You know what? Fuck "palistine" forever. You made it up and you faked it. You did not even use the Koran. So do not collect $200, go directly to hell.
I cannot have you be the highest price of land in your irrational hatred of Jews.
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Ohh, the pitiful poor fake "palestinians".... Spend all their money on terror tunnels and explosives. To what shall we owe statehood?
Shitting in the wells and draining them, ruining all the landscape, Gush Katif is overrun by wolves and buzzards. They literally use it as a launching pad.
Anyone using "Palestine" as a reference to RADICAL MOSLEMS owning parts of Israel that belongs to Jews sets me off.
The Islamic instability sets me off
That false prophet sets me off.
That fake name for that fake movement sets me off.
The monies the west spent keeping that lethal disease alive sets me off
The idiot pope sets me off.
All democrats set me off - fascists all
The UN sets me off
PBS sets me off
Lies set me off.
There is nothing in this world I cannot see through and the fake arab front of "Palestine" is a shining example of what is wrong with the entire earth.
NO. You Really can suck it. They had every opportunity. NO MORE MONIES FOR YOUR FAKE PALESTINE.
They gotta have one every ten or fifteen years.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An Egyptian preacher has surprised his followers by announcing that he is indeed the Mahdi ‐ prophesized in Islam as the religion’s last redeemer to fight alongside the Mesiah ‐ and asked all Moslems to be pledge their allegiance to him.
"Hello, MetLife? I'd like to buy a 20 year term policy."
"Certainly, sir. What's your name?"
"Mohammed Abdullah al-Nasr. That's Abdullah with two L's."
"Um, can you wait a moment? I gotta go talk with my supervisor."
[click] [dial tone]
Mohammed Abdullah al-Nasr, a famous Egyptian television preacher known as Sheikh Mizo , declared on his Facebook page that he is the "Mahdi", quoting the Prophet Mohammad and calling both Sunnis and Shiites to comply with his ruling.
"Important statement: I hereby declare that I am the Imam Mahdi, Mohammad bin Abdullah, prophecies were told about me. I have come to rule with justice and I call on Sunnis, Shiites and the people of the earth as a whole to adhere to me as an illustration of the saying of the Prophet, peace be upon him as he said: (When the apocalypse comes, on the last day, God will send someone of my descendent, his name is like mine, his father’s name is like my father’s name, and he will rule with justice an earth that was ruled with oppression and injustice). Saying as certified by Alalbani in Sahih Abou Daoued," he wrote on Facebook.
Nasr said that the discourses of the prophet, leave no room for suspicion that the upcoming Mahdi is called Mohammed bin Abdullah, adding: "My name is indeed Mohammad bin Abdullah."
Several Egyptian lawyers have demanded the prosecution of the preacher, requesting a psychiatric evaluation of his mental faculties.
Dr. Samir Sabri spoke to Al Arabiya stating that he filed a complaint on Monday to the Attorney-General requesting the prosecution of "Mizo" and assigning a court to follow his case where he will be charged with fraud and contempt of religion punishable under Articles 336 and 98 of Egypt’s penal code.
Another lawyer Amr Abdel-Salam told Al Arabiya that Article 89 stipulates that "punishable by imprisonment between six months and five years or a fine between 500 pounds and one thousand pounds against those who exploit religion verbally, in writing, or by any other means, aiming to provoke sedition, disparaging, contempt of religions or harming the national unity and security."
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"I am the Mahdi, the Successor of the Prophet of God. Cease to pay taxes to the infidel Turks and let everyone who finds a Turk kill him, for the Turks are infidels" - Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah
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Nasr said that the discourses of the prophet, leave no room for suspicion that the upcoming Mahdi is called Mohammed bin Abdullah, adding: "My name is indeed Mohammad bin Abdullah. I also go by 'Skippy' to my friends"
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I am Herbie Kitchener, with many initials following.
Let's rumble.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group grabbed credit behind the deadly suicide kaboom on a mosque in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... city. Happy Asura, yall.
The group issued a statement in Arabic via its media wing ’Amaq’ news agency and claimed that the attack was carried out by its jacket wallah on a Shi’ite mosque in the city.
The Talibs group earlier rejected that the group is involved in the attack.
At least 32 people were killed and 85 others were maimed after the suicide bomber detonated his explosives among the worshipers in Baqir-ul-Olum mosque in west of Kabul city this afternoon.
The officials in public health ministry confirmed that 85 people maimed in the attack were taken to hospitals for treatment.
This is the second deadly attack the ISIS terrorist group is claiming responsibility for within the past one and half month.
At least 18 people were killed and 36 others were maimed after a group of gunnies belonging to ISIS terrorist group stormed into Sakhi shrine in Kabul city last month.
The attack on Sakhi shrine was carried out as hundreds of mourners had gathered in the area to observe the Ashura day
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[DeutscheWelle] Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve confirmed on Monday that police detained seven people of French, Moroccan and Afghan origin on Sunday. All of the suspects are aged between 29 and 37. Six of them were not previously known to intelligence services, and one had been flagged to La Belle France by a foreign government.
The raids were linked to a series of arrests in June during the European Championship soccer tournament that was held in cities across La Belle France, Interior Minister Cazeneuve said.
"An attack has been foiled ... The scale of the terrorist threat is enormous and it is not possible to ensure zero risk despite everything we are doing," Cazeneuve said.
Arrests in south and east
Two of the arrests were made in the southern port city of Marseille, while most of the others were made in Strasbourg neighborhoods of Neuhof and Meinau, where authorities dismantled a jihadi network in 2014. Included in the group was the brother of an Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) bomber who attacked the Bataclan concert hall in Gay Paree last November.
Strasbourg - a tourist hotspot on the French-German border - is particularly popular in the winter months when it holds one of the oldest and largest Christmas markets, due to open on Friday. The historic city, which is also the official seat of the European Parliament, was previously the target of a failed krazed killer plot in 2000.
Target 'Gay Paree region'
Although Cazeneuve did not dislclose the target of the attack on Monday, Strasbourg's mayor said the focus of the plot was "the Gay Paree region," Rooters reported. The French capital has already been hit by two deadly attacks within the last two years, killing more than 140 people. A further 86 people were killed in July, in a separate attack in Nice.
According to the interior ministry, French police have detained 418 people this year in terrorism investigations following deadly Islamic State attacks.
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Marseille I can sort of understand, being the armpit of France, but what's with Strasbourg - going after the European Parliament?
Six of them were not previously known to intelligence services...
[ALMASDARNEWS] Despite advancing to the very near edge of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... stronghold of al-Bab, Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) factions shifted their attention on Monday and began attacking Kurdish-held villages in the northeastern part of Aleppo province.
Preceded by a massive primarily Turkish artillery bombardment and at least 26 Arclight airstrikes by the Turkish Air Force, the FSA stormed Sheikh Nassir village in the early morning hours.
Skirmishes continued until noon when the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) withdrew from the village. As the FSA swarmed through Sheikh Nassir, rebel forces captured three Kurdish fighters who were unable to escape the battle in time.
Then, on Monday afternoon, Kurdish forces went on the counter-offensive, retaking Sheikh Nassir just hours after it was lost. During the battle, 21 FSA fighters were killed and 3 Turkish soldiers injured; the latter due to the destruction of a Turkish armored vehicle.
On Sunday, rebel forces had otherwise launched two consecutive assaults on nearby Qabasin, a highly embattled town under ISIS control. Both attacks were repelled although an Islamic State VBIED was destroyed during the festivities.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has legitimized its attacks on the SDF under the guise that the Kurdish YPG - the primary contingent of the SDF - had failed to withdraw to the east of the Euphrates River despite promising to do so last week.
The YPG - a sister party of the outlawed PKK - is considered a terrorist organization by Ankara.
Meanwhile, ...back at the desert island, Bert was realizing to his horror that he'd had only one bottle for one message, and he'd forgotten to include a return address... a SDF spokesperson said the group would seriously consider abandoning the campaign to liberate Raqqa if the U.S. did not pressure Turkey to halt its attacks on the SDF.
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The US must call for extraterritorial Turkish aggressions on the Kurds to stop, and must impose consequences. I wonder if President Trump might want to let his buddy Putin have some airstrike target lists that would be politically difficult for US forces, but not so for the Russians... hmm.
[IsraelTimes] Hundreds of young citizens have joined force in recent weeks.
In the Arab-Israeli village of Jaljulia, the metal gate to the municipality is ridden with bullet marks. The town’s mayor Fayik Auda is not surprised no suspect was tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! for shooting at the government building. In the 10,000 strong village whose history and name extend back to Roman rule, 12 people have been murdered over the past five years, he said, but only one suspect was arrested for these crimes. He turned himself in.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The United States on Monday named a dozen Syrian generals and officers accused of leading attacks on civilian targets in the five-year war and warned they would one day face justice.
US Ambassador Samantha Power said the military commanders were involved in "killing and injuring civilians" with assaults on schools, hospitals and homes since the outbreak of the war in 2011.
"The United States will not let those who have commanded units involved in these actions hide anonymously behind the facade of the Assad regime," Power told the Security Council.
Among those named were five major generals -- Adib Salameh, Jawdat Salbi Mawas, Tahir Hamid Khalil, Jamil Hassan and Rafiq Shihadeh -- along with five brigadier generals and two colonels.
The council met as Syrian and Russian warplanes pounded rebel-held parts of northern Syria including Aleppo, where food rations were running out in the besieged eastern part of the city.
"Those behind such attacks must know that we in the international community are watching their actions, documenting their abuses and one day they will be held accountable," said Power.
"These individuals feel impunity," she said, warning that so did former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic and Liberian warlord Charles Chuck Taylor The former President-for-Life of Liberia, of whom the best that could be said was that he wasn't quite as horrible as Prince Johnson, at least not usually. who faced trial for war crimes.
"Today’s atrocities are well-documented and the civilized world’s memories are long," she said.
UN aid chief Stephen O’Brien told the council that nearly one million people were living under siege in Syria, revising figures from six months ago that showed nearly half a million Syrians were cut off.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Yemeni army on Monday announced the resumption of military operations against the Iran-backed Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias in the country, Al Arabiya News Channel reported.
The army and resistance forces also said they had evicted the Houthi militias from an air base in northern Taiz.
Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Slats Chumbaloni was staring into a hole that was just .45 inch in diameter and was less than three feet from his face ... the Arab coalition supporting Yemen’s government against the Houthis said a 48-hour ceasefire ended at midday (0900 GMT) Monday due to repeated violations by Houthi militias and their allies.
"There is no respect (for the truce), only violations," the coalition front man Major General Ahmed Assiri said, adding that there were "no orders to extend the ceasefire."
Assiri stated that the number of breaches committed by the militia since the beginning of the truce exceeded 500 breaches, 80 percent of them in Yemen, Al Arabiya news channel reported.
The coalition spokesperson explained that violations were made within the first hours of the truce, which took place in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... and the Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... n southern provinces of Najran and Jizan.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iraqi troops fighting ISIS gunnies in the eastern outskirts of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... regrouped on Monday in neighborhoods they have recently retaken from the myrmidon group and conducted house-to-house searches looking for vehicles primed for use in suicide kabooms, according to a top Iraqi commander.
Maj. Gen. Sami al-Aridi of the Iraqi military’s special forces told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named his men also foiled two attempted suicide boom-mobileings early Monday, firing from a US-made tank on the approaching vehicles, which went kaboom! before reaching their intended targets.
He said a civilian woman was maimed in the blasts.
Suicide boom-mobileings and sniper fire underline the difficulty of the campaign to retake Mosul - even in eastern parts where Iraq’s most combat-seasoned troops are operating.
Cutting supply route
Iraqi Shiite militias were massing troops on Monday to cut remaining supply routes to Mosul, ISIS’ last major stronghold in Iraq, closing in on the road that links the Syrian and Iraqi parts of its self-declared "Caliphate".
Six weeks into the US-backed offensive on Mosul, ISIS is fighting in the area of Tal Afar, 60 km (40 miles) to the west, against a coalition of Iranian-backed groups known as Popular Mobilization.
Cutting the western road to Tal Afar would seal off Mosul as the city is already surrounded to the north, south and east by Iraqi government and Kurdish Peshmerga forces.
[RUDAW.NET] Iraqi forces on Monday made further advances into northern and southern djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , while the state-backed Shiite paramilitary was able to "fully clear up" Tal Afar airport, the Iraqi War Media Office said in a round-up on the day’s achievements.
On the al-Zab Front, the 9th armored division and the Nineveh Operations Command were able to liberate the al-Salamiyah area, al-Salamiyah water project, the villages of al-Hamirah and the al-Tawatinat al-Jadida on the Kirkuk-Mosul road. They were also able to open the road between Hamdaniyah towards the Mosul-Kirkuk road and freed the road between Kubar-Hamdaniyah intersection.
On the northern front, the 16th division was able to liberate the villages of al-Salam, Orta Kharab and Abbasiyah, north of Mosul’s al-Qahirah neighborhood on the left bank of the Tigris River.
On the western front, the state-backed Shiite Hashd al-Shaabi paramilitaries fully cleared up Tal Afar airport and cut the road between the airport and Tal Afar district.
On the eastern front, the Iraqi counterterrorism forces continued to clear the buildings and roads currently under their control in several neighborhoods.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Popular Mobilization Units Iraqi Hezbollah...
will begin a blockade on ISIS-held Tal Afar, to djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... 's west, as part of its fourth phase to liberate the city, the militias spokesperson, Abdu Ghani al-Assadi, told IBN news.
"As the Tal Afar airport was completely purged, as well as a number of villages located between the precinct and the airport, security forces are preparing for the fourth phase of western Mosul liberation," he stated.
"The troops are 4500 meters away from the administrative borders of northern Tal Afar," Assadi said, adding that his militia’s role would be to "consummate a blockade on Tal Afar to isolate it from external supply routes preparing for its invasion by the forces assigned for that mission."
"The liberation of Tal Afar will be carried out by the army, federal police and local mobilization units consisted of the town’s people," Assadi said.
The liberation of Tal Afar is essential to blocking any ISIS escape from Mosul to Syria.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Sky Press have reported that a mass grave containing at least 200 bodies executed by ISIS were discovered near djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... on Monday.
" A security force noticed a group of stray dogs scavenging the ground in Hammam al-Alil. Moving to that spot, the forces ran into dead bodies pulled out by the dogs," Sky Press reported.
As the Mosul liberation operations continue, more and more mass graves are being found, revealing the true extend of ISIS atrocities.
It is not known at this moment who those that were executed are.
Baghdad – (IraqiNews.com) The photo-documentation officer at the Islamic State extremist group was killed in security operations at Mosul, the Ministry of Defense said on Monday.
The militant, operating within ISIS’s Amaq News Agency, was killed in operations by the 9th armored division as part of the “We Are Coming, Nineveh” operations,” according to a statement by the ministry.
“Security forces will proceed to chase other elements that appeared in snaps taken by the deceased photographer and were found on the three cameras in his possession.
ISIS has been sustaining severe losses in equipment as well as in leaderships and vital cadres since Iraqi government forces and popular militias launched a major campaign mid October to liberate Mosul, the extremist group’s last foothold in Iraq.
On Sunday, Anti-terrorism forces said they had killed the group’s so-called “Wali (governor) of Aden”, Marwan Hamed Saleh al-Hayali.
Baghdad – (Iraqinews.com) More than 2400 refugees escaping battles between security forces and Islamic State militants have returned to their liberated residences in Nineveh, the Ministry of Migration and Displacement said on Monday.
Ministry official Diaa Sallal said in a statement that 2427 people left the Jadaa camps in Qayyara, Mosul, and Debka, Erbil, and returned home after obtaining security clearances.
The ministry had said earlier this month that the number of refugees escaping violence in Nineveh’s Mosul, the stage of decisive battles between Iraqi security and ISIS, surpassed 56000. Observers say the numbers continue to soar due to the ongoing battles.
Security officials and observers have blamed occasional slowdowns in the operations to liberate Mosul to the existence of civilians at the city’s centre and the fear of using them by ISIS as human shields. Recent reports have also confirmed that ISIS began to bombard the recaptured areas, posing a danger to civilians there.
On Sunday, The UK government’s Middle East and North Africa spokesperson, Edwin Samuel, said in a statement that there are currently international efforts to set up new refugee camps in Iraq to admit 450.000 refugees.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Myanmar’s eight-month-old government faced a fresh crisis on Monday, after four ethnic gangs attacked security forces in the north of the country, dealing a major blow to leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s top goal of reaching peace with ethnic minorities.
Eight people were killed and 29 maimed when a coalition of northern rebels attacked military and police outposts and a business centre near an important trading hub on Myanmar’s border with China on Sunday, the government said.
China put its army on high alert and said it was providing shelter for some people who fled across the frontier to escape fighting in the towns of Muse and Kutkai, in Myanmar’s northeastern Shan state. Beijing called on the parties involved to exercise calmness and restraint. Shan state is majority Tai-speaking (at least as of the last I knew anything about it.) The Shan are ethnically similar to the Thais and Laos. There are also Laha and Lisu, Akha, Kachins, and a few others. It makes up about a quarter of Burma. There used to be a supposedly Nationalist Chinese army (or more accurately the descendants of same) still in the area, making a living exporting heroin and semiprecious stones. The Akha dress very colorfully, but they get pretty smelly because they have a taboo against bathing. The Kachin ladies are very pretty until they become crones at around thirty. They build their houses on stilts to keep snakes out. When Kachin fellows go a'courtin' they sit under the houses and sing and play the banjo. Then they stick their hands up through a hole in the floor. If the girlie favors them she holds the hand or fills it with inviting body part. If she doesn't, she emptied her pipe in it. I think I'll stick to National Geographic...
The sudden escalation of fighting comes as the government grapples with a conflict in northwestern Rakhine that has sent hundreds of Rohingya Moslems fleeing to Bangladesh, posing a new challenge to Nobel peace prize winner Suu Kyi, who swept to power last year on promises of national reconciliation.
In an important realignment of ethnic armed forces, one of Myanmar’s most powerful militias, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), joined three smaller groups that have been in a stand-off with the Myanmar military since festivities on the border last year.
The fighting last year pitted the army against the predominantly ethnic Chinese Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) and its allies, the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and the Arakan Army (AA).
The three groups said they had joined with the KIA to attack the military over the weekend.
"The Burma armed forces have been assaulting to destroy all political and military struggles of the ethnic peoples because they have no will to solve Myanmar’s political problem by politically peaceful negotiation methods," the four groups said in a statement.
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[Libya Herald] A French national has been captured at an Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) training camp and is being held at Benghazi’s Grenada military prison. A video of him was broadcast yesterday by French TV channel M6 but it did not state where he was tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! nor did it name him. It said he was of Algerian origin and from the east of La Belle France. So he's named Rachid, not Jean-Pierre.
Questioned by a French news hound, the man said he had been a second-hand car salesman and that was he had gone to Libya planning to move on to Syria and join the Nusra Front, the jihadist organization previously part of al-Qaeda. He had not intended to join IS.
He refused to send a message to his family on the basis that French intelligence would then know who he was.
There have been reports of European nationals fighting with IS in Libya but this is the first time a suspect has been arrested. Last year two Frenchies were arrested in the south of Tunisia, near the Libyan border, apparently planning to cross over and train in Libya before likewise heading to Syria. They, however, wanted to join IS.
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Heaven only knows why they did this -- it has to hurt. But for those of us who are grateful Mrs. Clinton and her devoted husband will not be the ones moving into the White House, it's a lovely reminiscence.
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Trump won despite the MSM's constant disparaging of Trump and deification of Hillary. There are estimates of voter fraud to the tune of about 18m invalid registrations according to Lou Dobbs. And yet Trump won against a very stacked deck. And yes the popular vote was probably far larger than reported in favor of Trump.
It is being reported at Drudge that Trump called the MSM to Trump Tower for a meeting yesterday and reamed them out. It is said "It was like a firing squad." Too bad it wasn't in a literal sense.
[Libya Herald] The head of the Libyan National Army, Field Marshal Khalifa Hafter, has said that the UN arms embargo is stopping the defeat of the so-called Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... "We have only light arms. We need heavy arms. If we have those arms there will be no more ISIS [in Libya]", he said in an interview broadcast yesterday by French TV channel M6.
He could just do as any other regional warlord does and buy them on the open market, or do an underhanded deal with the Rooshuns...
The arms embargo was unjust, he added, and could not be respected or accepted. By holding to it, the international community was in effect simply taking a neutral position in battle against the Lions of Islam in the country. "If the embargo remains, if the world remains in the position of a spectator, we too will [be forced to] remain just spectators of ISIS".
The call is unlikely to be heeded. While Moscow is thought to be sympathetic to ending the embargo in order to crush IS in Libya, others on the Security Council are not. They have taken the line that the embargo will only end when the Government of National Accord is approved and in full control of the Libyan military.
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... Hafter’s demand comes just after his forces have finally managed to take Benghazi’s Gwarsha district. It is noticeable that, with it, there has been a softening of their previous opposition to him by some of Libya’s western allies.
Three days ago, at the time of the Gwarsha capture, US special envoy Jonathan Winer tweeted: "Tough sacrifices by #Libya National Army soldiers this week reported ‐ 20 killed & 40 injured in counter terror fighting in Benghazi. In similar vein, UK ambassador Peter Millett tweeted: "The #Libya-n National Army liberates #Benghazi’s Quwarsha from #ISIS & #AnsaralSharia. Condolences to the families of LNA deaders."
But, even if and when the Lions of Islam are finally crushed in both Benghazi and in Sirte, it is thought that this will not be the end of the matter.
Officials in Misrata say that many IS supporters managed to escape Sirte and are now regrouping elsewhere.
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Methinks the Klingons are a little gun-shy at this point, General Field Marshal.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Cairo’s prosecutor general said in a statement on Sunday that the country’s President Abdulfatah al-Sissi had faced two previous liquidation attempts: one in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and the second in Egypt.
The prosecutor said two cells, one based in Saudi Arabia, were coordinating to target Sisi during his trip to perform the minor pilgrimage known as umrah in the holy city of Makkah.
The prosecutor said the plot in Saudi Arabia was planned by two workers in the 76-story famous Clock Tower in Makkah.
However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... the prosecutor did not disclose when the two cells were tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... , but Sisi had already performed umrah in August 2014.
The second liquidation attempt was through a seven-member cell made up of six coppers, who were sacked over their Islamist allegiances, along with a dentist.
The leader of the terrorist cell, former police officer Mohammed al-Bakoutchi, reportedly confessed that he had provided information to Sinai Province, ISIS's Egyptian affiliate, over the dispersal of the Moslem Brüderbund’s Rabaa sit-in.
He also leaked information regarding Sisi’s itinerary as part of a plot to kill the president by targeting his motorcades.
The statement also did not detail when the second attempt to kill Sisi was foiled. But the officers, known as the "bearded officers," were arrested last year.
On July 3, 2013, Sisi, who was an army general, replaced the elected Islamist President Mohammed Mursi through a popularly-backed coup. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... Islamists began protests which were put down by the security forces.
Meanwhile, ...back at the game, the Babe headed for second base. He almost made it. Then Sheila slapped him.... this is the first time that Egypt officially acknowledged liquidation attempts against Sisi. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... in June Sisi reportedly canceled his participation at the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... summit in Maurtiania due to "credible information" of a plot to kill him.
Egypt will try 292 krazed killer suspects over plots to assassinate Sisi and attacks in the Sinai Peninsula, a prosecution official said Sunday.
The suspects, including 151 currently in jug, were referred to a military court for alleged membership of the "Sinai State", the local affiliate of the ISIS group, which is leading an insurrection in the Sinai.
The suspects were questioned about the accusations against them and 66 confessed during an investigation that lasted more than a year, the official said.
All of the suspects were involved in 17 operations, including two plots to kill Sisi, one while he was on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia and one in Cairo, the official said.
The official gave no further details, but said those who planned the liquidation attempts were dismissed coppers who adhere to krazed killer ideology.
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History repeats itself: Following a failed Muslim Brotherhood attempt on his life, Nasser attacked the Ikhwan with incredible ferocity; Following attempts on Sisi's life the President seems bent on replicating the past.
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Assassinations are a common past-time in this part of the world. Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981 in Cairo. A fatwa approving the assassination (hit job) was put out by Blind Sheikh and Cleric Omar Abdel-Rahman, who was later convicted in the US for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing during the Clinton administration. The Blind Sheikh is currently soaking up taxpayer money serving a life sentence at the Butner Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina.
[NYPost] President-elect Donald Trump exploded at media bigs in an off-the-record Trump Tower powow on Monday, sources told The Post.
"It was like a f‐ing firing squad," said one source.
"Trump started with Jeff Zucker and said I hate your network, everyone at CNN is a liar and you should be ashamed….
"The meeting was a total disaster. The TV execs and anchors went in there thinking they would be discussing the access they would get to the Trump administration, but instead they got a Trump-style dressing down," the source added. Not unlike some of the ambushes they have laid out for previous Republicans.
A second source confirmed the encounter.
"The meeting took place in a big board room and there were about 30 or 40 people, including the big news anchors from all the networks…," the source said.
"Trump kept saying, ‘We're in a room of liars, the deceitful dishonest media who got it all wrong. He addressed everyone in the room calling the media dishonest, deceitful liars. He called out Jeff Zucker by name and said everyone at CNN was a liar, and CNN was network of liars. He ain't wrong
"Trump didn't say Katy Tur by name, but talked about an NBC female correspondent who got it wrong, then he referred to a horrible network correspondent who cried when Hillary lost who hosted a debate – which was Martha Raddatz who was also in the room.
"Gayle did not stand up, but asked some question, ‘How do you propose we the media work with you?' Chuck Todd asked some pretty pointed questions. David Muir asked how are you going to cope living in DC while your family is in NYC? It was a horrible meeting" How to get the Democratic operatives media to work with him? You don't. You keep them at arm's length and let them twist on the rope they made for themselves.
The meeting was off the record, meaning the participants agreed not to talk about the substance of the conversations.
Have to agree with the Donald: the press has gotten out of control and it has only itself to blame. It's become the mouthpiece of the DNC, or as Glenn Reynolds likes to say, "Democratic operatives with bylines." As Kurt Schlichter wrote today, the Donald doesn't give a damn when the media goes after him, and that makes him immune to media-inspired outrage.
So the media is being given notice: get back to reasonably bilateral, bipartisan, more-or-less even-handed coverage, or you'll end up with the public relations version of waterboarding.
The hour-long powwow included top execs from network and cable news channels. Among the attendees were NBC's Deborah Turness, Lester Holt and Chuck Todd, ABC's James Goldston, George Stephanopoulos, David Muir and Martha Raddatz, CBS' Norah O'Donnell John Dickerson, Charlie Rose, Christopher Isham and Gayle King, Fox News' Bill Shine, Jack Abernethy, Jay Wallace, Suzanne Scott, MSNBC's Phil Griffin and CNN's Jeff Zucker and Erin Burnett. All of which were triggered, had to run to their safe space and blankies and teddy bears.
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All of which were triggered, had to run to their safe space and blankies and teddy bears.
Don't forget the warm cocoa and the petting dogs while you're wearing your Pajama Boy onesies, you bunch of fucking wimps - now get the fuck outta here! I have a bum leg, and I'm so certain I'd kick you candied asses from here to Nantucket fucking Island.
We won, deal with it, as another politician might say.
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Copyright back to 28 years, debundle cable and satellite. They'll feed the pain since they're all part of a conglomerate that has been living on that rent-seeking for generations.
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Since the MSM has already claimed that Trump is a planetary extinction event, it's kind of hard to see where they go from here.
"He's a planetary extinction event and he isn't nice to us!"
He's also put the MSM in a trick-bag: after this meeting if they say bad things about him it looks like they're retaliating; and if they don't it looks like they're afraid of him. What would Insty say -- Troll Level: Galactic Grandmaster?
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David Muir asked how are you going to cope living in DC while your family is in NYC?
None of your damn business, Pretty Boy.
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Trump also *bypassed* the media by issuing a video describing his transisition and plans for the first 100 days.
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I really love the rope-a-dope he is playing with the media. Not only does he sidestep them to give an untampered message to the public, he also causes them to winge themselves inside out and gives him press about things he would rather have them report on.
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Donald Trump is Bricktop: "Do you know what nemesis means?"
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All these alphabet channel people sh!t in their messkits when they did not cover the election so that people could be informed. Instead they were the propaganda arm of the DNC. Now they want to get back in. Problem is that once you betray trust it is almost impossible to get it back. Trump is done with them. They are washed up as far as he is concerned. He doesn't them. Just let em cry, maybe they won't pi$$ so much.
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[RUDAW.NET] An ISIS krazed killer taken captive by Kurdish Peshmerga forces on the Nawaran front north of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... last month has confessed that he was one of the turban group’s executioners and that he had beheaded six Shiite hostages on his first day of training. "I mean, I didn't think there was anything wrong widdit. They wouldn'ta told me to if there was, would they?"
"I joined ISIS through someone from our area named Abu Mahmood," Hassan Hamza, 21, from a village near Nawaran told Rudaw of the time he first joined the radical group. "Abu Mahmoud?" If that's not an alias it should be.
"He asked me to become a krazed killer of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... and said ’I will get you a salary. If you are martyred you will go to paradise’ and I said ’alright’." "Hey, it sounded like a good deal."
"What'd he tell you would happen to you if you wuz captured?"
"We didn't talk about that."
"Too bad."
From his village Hamza was taken to a military base where he was put through weeks of basic training until appointed a guard at an ISIS shelter near Tal Afar, west of Mosul.
"One day when I was in Tal Afar, a special ISIS force came and their emir [leader] chose me alongside a few more saying ’we are taking you to Raqqa’. As soon as we arrived, they put us in a base outside the city which was surrounded by lots of gardens." Hamza recalled.
During his first six months with ISIS, he said, he "received strong and regular trainings. Then, they chose six of us to train on how to carry out beheadings." "That's it? All we gotta do is chop heads off?"
The training began by watching beheadings of hostages and prisoners carried out by more experienced ISIS gunnies "then I was called to repeat the same thing." "There's gotta be a catch to this somewhere!"
"After we watched the beheading scenes, they would tell us about the importance of such punishments." Hamza now said. "After that, the trainers would behead some people in front of us." "Now stand back, trainees! You don't wanna get no blood on you! It ain't halal!"
When the day came for him to put his learning into practice Hamza was brought a number of Shiite hostages and told to "behead some of them as training, so I beheaded six of them."
The former ISIS executioner revealed that he and his fellow gunnies had been indoctrinated by the group that the Kurdish Peshmerga were "infidels and we have to do jihad against them."
Now in captivity, Hamza feels that his ISIS superiors had deceived him and he regrets his actions. "You gonna cut my head off?"
"Prob'ly just hang you."
"What ISIS said about the Peshmerga was not true as they treated me in a good way," he said of his time since his capture. "They are Moslems and they do pray." "And they're gonna hang me."
Not sure whether or not it will reach them or not, Hamza sent out a message to his fellow gunnies urging them to put down their weapons and stop fighting or their only fate is death.
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"behead some of them as training, so I beheaded six of them. Almost did seven, but that's a prime number and I'm kinda OCD about that"
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[Daily Excelsior] Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has said the armed forces in Kashmire have complete power to shoot at those wielding guns, instead of waiting for the Death Eaters to open fire and "getting martyred".
"When I took over as the Defence Minister, the first thing I told them (soldiers) that if you see machine gun or pistol in anyone’s hand, don’t expect that he has come to say hello to you. Before you get martyred, you should eliminate him," Parrikar said addressing BJP’s election rally at Vasco last evening.
"In Kashmire our Army was fighting with the terrorists. Congress Government had given them direction that till they (terrorist) fires bullet on you, you don’t retaliate," he said, claiming that the morale of the Army has gone up since Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Government has come to power in the Centre.
In the backdrop of intense ceasefire violations by Pakistain, Parrikar said the Indian troops have complete power and they are giving apt reply to the enemy.
"Our soldiers now don’t need to seek permission from the Defence Ministry to fire at the person who fires at them. They have complete power and they are giving apt reply to our enemy. I feel bad that some of our soldiers are martyred," the former Chief Minister said.
Parrikar said it took almost six to eight months for him to understand the functioning of the Ministry.
"I was initially not understanding how Defence Ministry works. It took 6-8 months for me after that I understood," the former Goa Chief Minister said.
Parrikar said the recent surgical strike across the LoC has put forth the message that the Government will not be aggressive, but at the same time "will also not take things lying down".
He also said the cross-border tension would ease if Pakistain stops violating ceasefire agreement.
"Surgical strike has given a message that Indian Government will not be aggressive but will also not take things lying down," Parrikar said.
Responding to questions on the Army’s action against terror camps and the recent rise in ceasefire violations across the border, Parrikar said if the ’timetable’ of such violations is observed, there is always some political angle to them.
"The tension between India and Pakistain would cool down only when Pakistain will stop violating ceasefire agreement," he said.
Parrikar said Prime Minister Narendra Modi tried to improve the relations between the two countries "but he was severely criticised".
We welcome good relations always, but not at the cost of national interest," he added.
When asked about growing indigenisation of technology in ship building and missiles, the Defence Minister said, "We want to achieve 75 per cent indigenisation of technology at least. One must not forget that 100 per cent indigenisation of such technology is not possible anywhere in the world."
Parrikar also said that the need is to increase the speed to clear the backlog of projects.
"Most of the defence projects are streamlined and the waiting period for their commencement and completion has come down drastically. We need to increase the speed and focus on projects more so that we will complete the backlog. Synergy of various departments has helped to achieve it," he said.
Earlier, the Minister commissioned ’INS Chennai’, the third indigenously designed guided missile destroyer in the Kolkata class.
Built at the Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd in Mumbai, the ship’s construction also marks the end of the Project 15A to build Kolkata-class guided missile destroyers.
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forces in Kashmir have complete power to shoot at those wielding guns, instead of waiting for the terrorists to open fire and “getting martyred”. They are dead either way.
Thousands of green cards are missing because U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officials apparently sent them to the wrong addresses, jeopardizing national security, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (IG) report made public Monday.
“It appears that thousands of green cards have simply gone missing,” DHS Inspector General John Roth said in a news release. “In the wrong hands, green cards may enable terrorists, criminals, and undocumented aliens to remain in the United States. It is vital that USCIS ensure better tools and procedures are in place to mitigate such risks.”
The USCIS in the last three years received more than 200,000 reports from approved applicants claiming their cards were never delivered, the IG found. Monday’s audit — a follow-up to a March IG report saying USCIS officials sent hundreds of green cards to the wrong addresses — revealed “the problem was far worse than originally thought,” the IG said.
But the actual number of missing cards is unknown, as USCIS relies on reports from applicants, the IG said. (RELATED: Immigration Printed, Mailed Hundreds Of Inaccurate Green Cards)
The number of reports about missing cards increased from 44,519 in fiscal year 2013, to 67,247 in fiscal year 2014, to 92,645 in fiscal year 2015, partly because of technical problems with the agency’s immigration database and partly due to U.S. Postal Service issues, according to the IG.
The IG also found USCIS produced at least 19,000 cards with incorrect information or were duplicates. USCIS, in addition, gave cards with 10-year expiration dates to 2,400 immigrants approved only for two-year conditional residence status. USCIS hasn’t recovered the majority of those incorrect cards.
The IG blamed most of USCIS’s errors on the “flawed design and functionality” of the agency’s Electronic Immigration System (ELIS). The IG has issued previous reports on the cost overruns and delays in updating the agency’s immigration database, but USCIS hasn’t fixed all of those issues.
Okay, Mr. President-Elect, here's a place where cracking a few heads together might make a difference.
The USCIS agreed with the IG’s recommendations to correct design and functionality problems with ELIS, create internal controls to make sure USCIS officials detect green cards early in the production process, develop a standardized process for recovering incorrectly issued cards and find a way to make sure unrecoverable cards aren’t used.
The USCIS desperately questioned the fairness of the IG’s finding on cards sent to the wrong addresses, hand waving claiming USCIS uses the last known address of the applicant and the 200,000 figure includes people who call multiple times for service.
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"We meant Los Angeles California and instead sent them to Lahore, Pakistan. Our bad. Could've happened to anybody"
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Have they tried to match the addresses to those listed as donors to a certain political party?
[AlAhram] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... on Monday urged the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and West to step up backing of Ankara's fight against Kurdish Lion of Islams, as he addressed a meeting of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... politicians.
Erdogan said he expected the support of NATO countries in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's fight against "all terror groups" including the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) jihadists and the group blamed by Ankara for the failed July 15 coup.
He called on the European Union to tighten its approach to the PKK, which Brussels designates as a terror group but whose members, according to Erdogan, are allowed to roam freely within the bloc.
"Those who have a hesitant attitude against terrorist organizations will be hit themselves sooner or later," he said in a speech to deputies at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
Turkey has been a member of NATO since 1952 but its bid to join the European Union has been further set back by disputes over the magnitude of its crackdown in the wake of the coup.
Erdogan had at the weekend mooted that Turkey could join the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a loose security and economic bloc led by Russia and China sometimes seen as an eastern counterpart to NATO.
But he did not refer to this in his speech in Istanbul to the NATO meeting.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg meanwhile emphasised the alliance's "solidarity" with Turkey in the wake of the coup and said Ankara "has the right" to prosecute those responsible.
Pressed by a Dutch politician to condemn the crackdown that has seen over 35,000 enjugged You have the right to remain silent... , Stoltenberg said he had told Turkish leaders all measures had to be taken within the rule of law.
He said he welcomed cooperation between Turkey and the Council of Europe over the legal measures after the coup, saying this should be an "important tool" to ensure the rule of law and human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... are applied.
Stoltenberg also made no reference to Turkish officers serving in NATO command posts who he had said last week had asked for asylum following the failed coup.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, the radioactive tadpoles grown into frogs. Really big frogs, in fact... he added he wanted to see "more assurance measures" from NATO states to help Turkey on its unstable borders, in addition to the current surveillance flights and deployment of missile batteries on the Syrian frontier.
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[Express] THE EU will tonight debate for the creation of a continent wide super army that will be up and running next year – and blame BREXIT for its creation.
Brussels politicians will convene in the French city of Strasbourg to thrash out the plans that will cost taxpayers' £420m-a-year. They will vote on the issue to establish an "EU-wide system for the coordination of rapid movement of defence forces personnel" across Europe.
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...This is what, the tenth or twelfth 'EU Army'? Not happening, not as long as there are More Important Things for them to spend their money on, and there always will be.
Mike
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Can we leave now? Just keep a political liaison at Brussels.
[Iran Press TV] A brother of Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, the tossed in the clink Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN),
...Shiite troublemakers egged on by Iran, of course...
has accused officials in the African country of medical negligence.
Madamasi Yaqub, Zakzaki’s half-brother, told Press TV in an interview aired on Monday, that the holy man’s health was currently better than the time he was brutally attacked by Nigerian army last year, but added that Nigerian officials still denied the Shiekh proper medical treatment.
He said there were still problems with Sheikh Zakzaki’s eyes, adding that his left eye was not working but his right eye could be treated if the Nigerian army allowed the transfer of the holy man to a proper medical facility.
"They have many reasons to deny him medical care. Their mission was to kill him and it was God’s miracle that he survived," Yaqub said, adding that the Nigerian army knew that killing the holy man could have huge repercussions.
He said Sheikh Zakzaky was actively performing his leadership roles for the Islamic Movement in Nigeria despite his poor health conditions behind the bars.
Yaqub also blamed the US, Israel and Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... for the increasing persecution and harassment of Shias in Nigeria.
"They will continue to do everything possible to exert their hegemony over Nigeria’s economy and political affairs," he said through a translator.
Yaqub said a recent attack on followers of the IMN in Kano, which came during the Arba’een mourning rituals in the city, was a plot to annihilate the Islamic movement.
Yaqub said some elements in the army have been irked by the growing popularity of Shia movement in the country and in Africa in general.
Nearly 100 IMN supporters were killed last Monday, after Nigerian forces fired live rounds and tear gas at mourners during a peaceful march held ahead of the Arba’een mourning rituals, which mark 40 days after the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein (PTUI!), the third Shia Imam and the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad (PTUI!).
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Yemeni man living in New York City was incarcerated Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! on Monday and charged by US prosecutors with attempting to provide support to ISIS, including by expressing support for an attack in Times Square.
Mohammed Rafik Naji, who authorities say last year travelled to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... in an effort to join the Death Eater group, was charged in a criminal complaint filed in Brooklyn, where he lives.
He was arrested earlier Monday, according to a spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He is expected to appear in court later in the afternoon.
A lawyer could not be immediately identified.
Naji, 37, is one of more than 100 people to face US charges since 2014 in cases related to ISIS, which has seized control of parts of Iraq and Syria.
According to the complaint, in March 2015, Naji flew to Turkey to join ISIS in Yemen, where it operated in certain parts. He returned to New York in September 2015, flying from Djibouti, the complaint said.
While abroad, he frequently emailed with his girlfriend, who he later called his wife, asking her for money and sending her a "selfie" of himself in black clothing in which a tactical vest and large knife could be seen, the complaint said.
Beginning in August 2015, a paid law enforcement informant made contact via Facebook with Naji, who the complaint said described ISIS as "spreading like a virus" that non-believers "can’t stop it no matter what they do."
Naji remained in contact with the informant once back in the United States, meeting on numerous occasions in which their conversations were recorded, the complaint said.
Those conversations included one on July 19, 2016, five days after an attack in Nice, La Belle France, that ISIS had grabbed credit for that killed 84 and hurt hundreds, the complaint said.
That's the one where the half-mad (according to his father) Tunisian rented a large truck and drove it at full speed through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day, shooting at those he didn't run down until the police killed him.
In that conversation, Naji expressed his support for staging a similar attack in New York’s Times Square, according to court papers.
"They want an operation in Times Square, reconnaissance group already put out a scene, ISIS already put up scenes of Times Square, you understand," Naji said, according to court papers. "I said that was an indication for whoever is smart to know."
CBS News adds a detail important to Americans, but clearly not to Al Arabiya:
Mohamed Rafik Naji is a citizen of Yemen and legal permanent resident of the U.S..
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Russia will deploy two advanced missile systems to its far-west territory of Kaliningrad in a direct response to NATO expansion in eastern Europe, a pro-Kremlin Russian lawmaker said Friday.
A Russian deployment of S-400 surface-to-air missiles and nuclear-capable Iskander balistic missiles to Kaliningrad, with its proximity to NATO member states, will undoubtedly heighten concerns among leaders of the transatlantic security alliance, who were already nervous over incoming American leader Donald Trump’s commitment to their collective defense pact.
Viktor Ozerov, chairman of the defense committee in the Federation Council, Russia’s equivalent to the U.S. Senate, said according to the state-run RIA news agency that Russia had been forced into the deployment by the installation of a U.S. missile shield in eastern Europe.
“As response measures to such threats we will have... to deploy additional forces... This reinforcement includes deployment of S-400 and Iskander systems in Kaliningrad,” RIA quoted Ozerov as saying.
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned in May, just a couple weeks after the U.S. anti-missile shield was declared operational at a site in Romania and days after U.S. and Polish officials broke ground at another site, near the Baltic Sea in Poland, that there would be “action in response to guarantee our security.”
Romania and Poland have requested a bolstered NATO presence in their countries in the wake of Russia’s annexation by force of Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula.
U.S. officials have always maintained that the missile defense shield in Romania is aimed at protecting against a missile threat from Iran. But NATO decided in early 2015 to establish new command-and-control centers in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria by the end of 2016, and those sites are indisputably intended to serve as a warning to an increasingly aggressive Russia that NATO remains resolute in its commitment to defend all members.
Putin views the defense, however -- at least in his public rhetoric -- as offense by the U.S. and NATO in a region that was, until recent decades, firmly within his government’s domain.
“Why are we reacting to NATO expansion so emotionally? We are concerned by NATO’s decision making,” Putin said in an interview taped a couple weeks ago, set to air Monday in a documentary focused on Ukraine.
“What should we do? We have, therefore, to take countermeasures, which means to target with our missile systems the facilities, that, in our opinion, start posing a threat to us,” Putin said in the interview.
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Kaliningrad, formerly known as East Prussia. Where's the 'right of return' there?
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A jacket wallah was rubbed out before he manage to target the top government officials in northern Sar-e-Pul ...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone... province of Afghanistan.
According to the local security officials, the suicide bomber was looking to target the provincial governor and intelligence chief during an official visit to the city.
Provincial governor’s front man Zabiullah Amani said the suicide bomber was rubbed out seconds before he detonate his explosives.
Amani further added that the suicide bomber was identified as he was attempting to get close to provincial governor and intelligence chief.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Russian Foreign Ministry has said that since the rise of ISIS in Syria and Iraq, that over 3,200 Russian have joined the terrorist group.
"According to our estimates, the threat [for Russia] is posed by the turbans of Russian origin, who have been trained in Iraq and Syria," Ilya Rogachev, the Russian foreign ministry’s official for new threats and challenges, told RIA Novosti.
"According to the data of law enforcement agencies and security services, more than 3,200 Russian citizens have left for the conflict zone," he continued.
"The global terrorist threat has taken a new dimension because of the emergence and activities of ISIS in Syria and Iraq," he said.
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[DAWN] Four civilians residing in the border villages of Azad Jammu and Kashmire (AJK) were killed on Monday by Indian shelling while six Indian Army soldiers were killed by retaliatory fire by Pakistain Army troops, confirmed the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
The cross border shelling by Indian forces also injured 18 civilians.
"It was the heaviest mortar shelling since morning in the Nakyal sector, which has left two people dead and 10 others maimed, according to initial reports," Sardar Zeeshan Nisar, assistant commissioner Nakyal, told Dawn by telephone.
The dear departed were identified as Altaf, 40, a resident of Chota Nar Dabsi village and Nazia, 30, a resident of Mathrani village.
Cross-border shelling was also reported from Samahni sector in Bhimber district.
Two children, Tasaver and Ateeq, were killed in Baroh village and another three were maimed in the same sector.
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[IsraelTimes] IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot nominates Lt. Col. Avraham Yitzhak to take over as chief medical officer of the army’s Southern Command, putting him on the path to becoming the first Israeli of Æthiopian heritage in the IDF to hold the rank of colonel.
Yitzchak, who was born in Æthiopia and moved to Israel in 1994, is one of 28 new nominations the army has announced. They are all subject to final approval by the defense minister.
In addition, six women have also been tapped for colonel-level positions. Three of them will receive promotions for their proposed positions, while the rest are already colonels.
Lt. Col. Olga Polyakov will take over as commander of the Home Front Command’s Dan District, which includes Tel Aviv and the surrounding suburbs. She will be the first woman to lead a Home Front Command district. Col. Orli Stern will lead the Logistics Directorate’s building and engineering department. The unnamed-for-security-reasons Col. M. will run Military Intelligence’s human resources department. The other three women -- Lt. Col. Liron Donal, Col. Noa Zumar and Lt. Col. Tali Freed -- will take positions in the army’s legal system.
Lt. Col. Carmel Wahabi, a Druze Israeli, will also preside in the army’s judiciary.
[AlAhram] A 10-page report issued by the Egyptian parliament's foreign affairs committee on Sunday launched a scathing attack on EU and UK politicians and MPs who defend "political Islam."
The report, issued in response to a UK House of Commons' foreign affairs committee's report on the Moslem Brüderbund and political Islam on 7 November, said it does not aim to defend the Egyptian government's security and legal measures against the Brotherhood group and its affiliated hard boy and terrorist organizations.
"Our report reflects our responsibility as elected MPs to stand against a group which seized its one year in power to turn Egypt into a religious state and show the world the true meaning of "political Islam," said the report.
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Hey, you old shitbag - got any condescending lectures for me today? Fuck you, and get off my fucking blog; I've been here since inception, so fuck right the fuck off, asshole.
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"So we are surprised by the new generation of European radical liberals and progressives who defend political Islam and thereby give cover for Islamist movements which claim victimhood to spread across Europe and create a fertile ground for Islamist radicals there," said Said.
Similar to what's going on in the U.S. and other places. The puppeteer's of the left seem to think they are immune to ISIS beheadings and the chaos they unleash. They have not caught on yet that there is no separation between religious, legal, financial and political Islam.
Look at the Dems/Progressives, for example; they are moving to appoint Keith Ellison, MB emeritus for life, as head of the DNC.
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Nothing like a drone putting high explosive on a server farm that the little butt head was using.
Considering how much money he costs the US taxpayer it's only fair we cost the equivalent in damage in the UK.
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.
And so the question: How confident can Americans be in the results announced in the wee hours of Nov. 9, given the problems that continue to beset our election system? 
[The Hill] MSNBC’s "Morning Joe" is reporting that President-elect Donald Trump will not pursue investigations into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server or her family’s charity foundation.
[Libya Herald] A 
[AlAhram] Turkish police on Monday detained a veteran Kurdish politician and a mayor in the southeastern province of Mardin, security sources said, the latest Kurds to be held as part of a wider crackdown on government opponents since a failed coup in July.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 15 Lions of Islam were killed and 5 others were maimed in a series of Arclight 
[RefugeeSettlementWatch] They are worried. And, as my good friend Richard (Blue Ridge Forum) would say, it has a lot to do with rice bowls. What? you ask! Have you ever heard the phrase ’breaking rice bowls?’ It happens a lot when a new administration comes in to power and a lot of people have their livelihoods placed on the line perhaps for the first time ever!
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
[Libya Observer] A video posted by the General Investigation Apparatus in 
Michel Aoun
[RUDAW.NET] The Kurdistan Region’s presidency said on Monday that remarks by a Shiite leader who reportedly threatened to deploy the Iraqi forces in Kurdish areas liberated by the Peshmerga, follow the path of the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and ISIS, both enemies who lost due to the bravery of the Kurds.
A pair of men described as "feminine" and wearing fake eyelashes and long red nails are being sought in connection with a yoga pants heist at a Victoria’s Secret 
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The 
[DeutscheWelle] Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve confirmed on Monday that police detained seven people of French, Moroccan and Afghan origin on Sunday. All of the suspects are aged between 29 and 37. Six of them were not previously known to intelligence services, and one had been flagged to 
[ALMASDARNEWS] Despite advancing to the very near edge of the 
Charles 
[Libya Herald] A French national has been captured at an 
[NYPost] President-elect Donald Trump exploded at media bigs in an off-the-record Trump Tower powow on Monday, sources told The Post.
[RUDAW.NET] An ISIS
Thousands of green cards are missing because U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officials apparently sent them to the wrong addresses, jeopardizing national security, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (IG) report made public Monday.
BRITAIN may foot the £420m-a-year bill
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