Half-rations for everyone until further notice. Conjugal visits for transgenders only. BX permanently shuttered. Ear lobe expanders no longer authorized. Additional measures as deemed necessary by the commandant.
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But on Tuesday, the school made a jolting announcement. The person responsible for the racist messages, the academy said, was, in fact, one of the cadet candidates who reported being targeted by them.
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We need to start labeling such BS as real hate crime as that is precisely what it is. A black person targeting whites with this BS is no different than if this had actually taken place. Convict and sentence exactly how you would if this had actually happen and we'll this crap shut down pretty damn quick
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When I watched Lt. Gen. Silveria deliver his initial diatribe, my only thought was that it was a knee-jerk rather than considered reaction.
He bought into the meme,and I am sure it was noticed. Too bad.
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They should be prosecuted as if it were a real hate crime since the chill sent through the community threatened by the hoax is identical to that of a real hate crime.
[Daily Caller] Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban gave a great explanation to the Dallas Morning News Tuesday night about why the NFL is in decline.
"But they still have bigger strategic problems in that people don’t want their kids to play football," Cuban told the newspaper. "That’s huge. That impacts how much football kids will watch. And how much football families watch."
"The NFL is going through the innovator’s dilemma," he said. "They’re getting disrupted at their own hand by not dealing with certain issues."
The league should "come clean on CTE [chronic traumatic encephalopathy] and deal with it," he continued. "And it’s not just about reducing [concussions]. Until something’s solved, I’m not going to let my son play tackle football. I’ll let him play touch football or flag football, but there’s no chance of letting him play tackle football."
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The league should "come clean on CTE [chronic traumatic encephalopathy] and deal with it
This strikes me as the typical lefty "let's have a conversation" bull.
I understand that the NFL tried to hide the issue, but, exactly what's hidden now and what can be done about it that isn't being done?
According to current definitions I was concussed playing freshman high school football in '63. That was enough for me and I quit football to concentrate on music. Football is violent and I've heard nothing that will change that short of making the whole game go away.
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It's not just one issue that's causing the decline, in no particular order - a) oversaturation (Thursday Night football, games in London at 9:30 Sunday morning, etc.); b) NFL protests; c) cord-cutting / lack of a la carte cable options; d) this column; e) ESPN & other TV networks getting killed on long-term contracts that were signed when 10% annual growth was assumed without the ability to renegotiate, and most recently f) backlash by NFL advertisers. I may have left one or two other factors but these are the big ones.
At this point, there's been no effort by the NFL to address any of these items. Either they don't think they have any problems or they don't care.
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"That impacts how much football kids will watch. And how much football families watch." Being able to play versus enjoying watching the game are unrelated. College football viewership hasn't gone down has it?
Yes football is eventually doomed because of the health issues and parents not allowing the kids to play but that doesn't explain current decline.
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NCAA football rakes in billions of dollars, but heaven forbid a D1 player sells an autograph or a game ball for a few bucks. College football is a racket. BTW, disgusting how Penn State covered up the shenanigans there with Jerry Sandusky. Joe Paterno isn't the saint they think he is in Penna.
[The Hill] Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) interim chairwoman Donna Brazile in a new interview referred to Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign as a "cult."
"Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough said during Brazile's appearance on the MSNBC show on Wednesday that he thinks President Trump won the 2016 election because of mistakes the Clinton campaign made, former FBI director James Comey and the Russians.
"I'll put it all in there, but it should have never been a close race," he said.
He then asked: "Why did they lose? Was it at the end of the day arrogance?"
"It was a cult," Brazile said. "I felt like it was a cult. You could not penetrate them."
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Speaking of 'cults,' the 18th of this month will mark the 30 anniversary of the tragic events at the socialist, multi-cultural farming project in Guyana.
h/t Instapundic
[StrategyPage] On November 4, a U.S.-made Patriot missile intercepted an Iranian-manufactured Burkan H-2 short-range ballistic missile as its warhead plunged toward the international airport outside Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's capital.
Though the missile was launched from Yemen, with good reason Saudi leaders called the attack an act of "aggression" by Iran. A human rights organization said the "indiscriminate" missile attack was "an apparent war crime." Funny, they never say such things when Arabs fire such missiles at Israel
Under any circumstances, the missile attack signals that war between the Sunni Muslim kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Iran's Shia Islamic revolutionary regime is escalating and their proxy war in Yemen will become more intense.
[Right Scoop] Brit Hume told Tucker Carlson something he definitely did not want to hear ‐ that it was Trump’s unpopularity that lost the Virginia race. "Unpopularity" of a populist president? Total, poll hawking rubbish! Please have a look at the swamp map.
Northern Virginia is chock full of federal bureaucrats, who as a group hate and fear President Trump and his people -- with good reason, as their jobs are under threat. Thus Virginia is a special case.
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The populated area in Virginia near D.C. is a part of the Swamp. The less populated areas in the hinterlands of Virginia tend to be "Red" rather than "Blue." The map posted by BP shows it well.
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Looks like the two graphics are the same. Both say 2016 Presidential, 2016, but are titled 2017, both show the two candidate, percentages are identical...
So naturally, there would not be much change.
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Sorry, I copy-pasted twice.
but the left side is the Presidential election, right is recent election
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Turnout was very heavy for an off year in Northern V. which is a donk heavy area
that's pretty much the whole story
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Trump is polarizing. It's an intentional style, and it has consequences of various kinds. One is to motivate people to vote against him, just as many voted against Hillary in 2016.
That said, Gillespie tried to have it both ways and failed to succeed.
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Virginia's economy did well under Obama, thanks to the massive growth of the federal bureaucracy and contractors, of which the state (along with Maryland) are the principal beneficiaries. Why would VA want a GOP governor?
[LI] So far it’s been difficult to get information on the question of whether the parishioners in the Texas church where yesterday’s mass murder took place were prohibited from carrying guns. Here are the pertinent rules in Texas:
Churches in Texas may prevent handgun license holders from carrying handguns inside church buildings as long as the church gives proper notice. Each church may decide for itself whether to allow:
Both open and concealed carry of handguns
Concealed carry of handguns but not open carry
Open carry of handguns and not concealed carry
No handguns regardless of whether they are carried openly or concealed
A church does not need to take any action if it wishes to allow handgun license holders to conceal carry or open carry in church buildings. If permitting handgun license holders to conceal carry or open carry on church premises is a cause of concern to your church, Texas Penal Code Sections 30.006 and 30.007 provide clear rules for notifying handgun license holders that your church is a gun-free zone or concealed carry only.
So it seems to be a church-by-church decision, but as yet we don’t know which rules were followed by the church where the massacre occurred. Obviously, however, if there was a no-gun rule there, it didn’t deter the gunman and it’s even possible that it encouraged him. Apparently the question of whether to carry guns into a church is a topic that’s been debated both legally and within Christianity itself:
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As a Christian you protect the innocent. Period. The twisted attacker expected guns in the church or he would not have worn body armor, especially a church in Texas.
Dr. Robert Jeffress, Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas who is nationally known as a regular on Fox such as Hannity, Judge Jeanine, and many other talk shows has no less than a dozen police officers inside and outside the 12,000 member church during services. Many congregants keep canceled weapons under their impeccable Sunday Morning suit jackets.
In 1865 the minister and his nephew of Pony Creek Baptist Church near Stephenville, Texas was scalped, hung upside down from a tree in front of the church and burned to death from a fire built below by Comanches. For many years after that riflemen stood guard at the door of the church during services.
God tests his people in many ways, and even though Love is the greatest commandment, as a man you gird your loins, stand up, and protect His sheep.
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Possibly. You'd want to be well-practiced and skilled. However, taking down an active shooter in a crowd is not so easy. It can be difficult and dangerous for the crowd around the active shooter. You don't want to become a part of the problem.
[Daily Mail] Projects are shelved, film releases cancelled, sets shuttered, studios threatened, the Oscars rattled -- this is the chaos confronting Hollywood following sex scandals that have brought down power players like Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey and Brett Ratner.
In the month since The New Yorker and The New York Times published allegations of serial predatory behavior by producer Weinstein -- some 100 women have now accused him of misconduct ranging from harassment to rape -- people who said they had been victimized have felt emboldened to voice allegations against men who had been seen as untouchable.
Spacey, a two-time Oscar winner, and Ratner, a blockbuster director, have also been accused of sexual transgressions, while other actors, managers and agents are in the hot seat as well.
"Who's next?" the Los Angeles Times asked on Sunday.
"There's been scandals in Hollywood since the silent movie age but it was one person or one incident," said Tim Gray, an editor at the entertainment trade magazine Variety.
"I've been at Variety for 30 years, I've never seen something like this," he said.
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Who will be next? NYT's rips David Boies over betrayal for secretly helping Weinstein:
As Farrow reports about Black Cube, an investigative outfit run largely by former Israeli intelligence agents: "Boies personally signed the contract directing Black Cube to attempt to uncover information that would stop the publication of a Times story about Weinstein's abuses, while his firm was also representing the Times, including in a libel case."
An Israeli startup has sued Apple Inc, accusing the iPhone maker of copying its patented smartphone camera technology.
Tel Aviv-based Corephotonics Ltd filed its patent infringement case against Apple in federal court in San Jose, California, on Monday.
Corephotonics, which has raised $50 million from several high-profile venture capital firms and other investors, said its patented dual camera technology for mobile devices was incorporated by Apple in the iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone 8 Plus without its authorization.
[Medium.com] OPEN LETTER FROM HILLARY FOR AMERICA 2016 TEAM
We were shocked to learn the news that Donna Brazile actively considered overturning the will of the Democratic voters by attempting to replace Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine as the Democratic Presidential and Vice Presidential nominees. It is particularly troubling and puzzling that she would seemingly buy into false Russian-fueled propaganda, spread by both the Russians and our opponent, about our candidate’s health. TEH ROOSHINS! TEH ROOSHINS!
Donna came in to take over the DNC at a very difficult time. We were grateful to her for doing so. She is a longtime friend and colleague of many of us and has been an important leader in our party. But we do not recognize the campaign she portrays in the book.
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Hillary wing of Democrats utterly livid at Donna Brazile for going public
The selling of books is generally seen as an honest form of income, and probably much more lucrative that a one-time political payoff. Play your cards right and you can potentially enjoy both. Hence the democratic anger.
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Weird coincidence:
HUMA is the Harvard University Muslim Association
the vehicle used to fund Obama through college
Funded by the Saudi Prince who was just arrested.
Meaning - We'd love to have it more socialist, under our benevolent control. But since you didn't see it our way, we'll continue to work to make it our way.
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The list of names is of those who don't want to suicide or die during a robbery.
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"We're with you, Madame President!"
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So Hilly is supposed to believe none of them were or would be leakers? Not like that Donna person!
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#1 The comments at the link are interesting, too.
Yes they are a snapshot of the alternate reality inside the HRC bubble. My personal favorite: I have never seen a team lose so badly get so much praise for a job well done.
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Re: comment #7; that is a mic drop moment. The threads that need to be unraveled...
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Donna came in to take over the DNC at a very difficult time.
That would be an understatement. Teh One left the DNC $24 million in debt after the 2012 campaign and DWS at the helm. Given what's known now about Hilly's cozy takeover one has to wonder if such indifference was by design.
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Aside from phone calls and political events that are calculated to need visibility as a couple, I doubt they have spend many nights in the same room for a very, very long time. He has the energizer and she has Huma.
[AlAhram] Egypt's Minister of Social Solidarity Ghada Wali said on Tuesday that Egypt currently hosts refugees from 59 countries without restrictions or limitations on their freedoms.
Wali made the comments on the sidelines of the World Youth Forum in Sharm El-Sheikh.
"Refugees in Egypt are not profiled and are afforded full services available to Egyptian citizens in healthcare and education," Wali added.
The Egyptian minister said that her country does not isolate immigrants colonists in camps "as other countries have done."
"Egypt has the highest rate of enrollment of Syrian children in schools at 40,000 children, who receive proper education and services just like Egyptian citizens."
Egyptian representative of the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... High Commissioner for Refugees Karim Atassi said that the commission is working to assist Egyptian humanitarian efforts to host refugees, describing Egypt as a pivotal state in the region.
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said in 2016 that Egypt hosts five million refugees and immigrants colonists despite facing its own economic challenges.
Egypt is actively participating in international forums to develop frameworks on dealing with and protecting immigrants colonists and refugees.
[AlAhram] Malian soldiers killed by a French military strike in northern Mali last month were deserters who had joined an Islamist turban group, a French source close to the matter said on Tuesday.
That contradicted comments from the Malian Defence Ministry, which said on Monday that the soldiers killed in the Oct. 23 strike, a raid on a camp of the Ansar Dine ...a mainly Tuareg group that controlled areas of Mali's northern desert together with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and MUJAO in early 2012... turban group, had been its hostages.
The French source said the raid was carried "on the basis of detailed intelligence against a camp that included Malians who had joined the Islamist ranks. They were hit, amongst others."
"They were not prisoners," the source told Rooters, declining to say how many were killed or captured in the raid.
The source accused Malian authorities of spreading propaganda in the run-up to presidential elections, which are scheduled for November 2018.
A French defence ministry source added: "We have a real trust problem with the Malians."
Malian officials were not immediately available for comment.
The French army previously said that 15 members of Ansar Dine, which is loosely affiliated to other turban groups operating in northern Mali, were taken "out of action" in the raid.
The Malian government is struggling to contain Tuareg and Islamist violence in the country's north, some of which is spreading south. Attempts to place officials in northern towns have sometimes failed, raising questions about the government's ability to maintain stability ahead of the elections.
Islamist Lions of Islam seized northern Mali in 2012 and French forces intervened a year later.
Around 4,000 of its troops remain in West Africa's Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... as part of Operation Barkhane, a cross-border anti-terrorism operation.
La Belle France has also been at the forefront of organising a regional force as part of efforts to find a long-term strategy to exit the region.
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[DAWN] Yemen's Houthis on Tuesday threatened retaliation against the ports and airports of the United Arab Emirates 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... , which this week closed the Yemeni land, sea and air borders.
"All airports, ports, border crossings and areas of any importance to Saudi Arabia and the UAE will be a direct target of our weapons, which is a legitimate right," read a statement released by the rebels' political office.
Allied with Yemen's government, a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia has been battling the Huthis on Yemeni land since 2015.
The statement comes a day after the coalition announced it had closed all of Yemen's borders, after Saudi forces intercepted a ballistic missile headed for the kingdom's international airport in Riyadh. The Huthis had claimed the missile attack.
The United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... on Monday reported the Saudi-led coalition had prevented two humanitarian aid flights from flying to the war-torn country.
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[DAWN] South Korea is negotiating with the United States to buy nuclear-powered submarines to guard against threats from Pyongyang, local reports said on Tuesday, as President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... said Seoul would buy "billions of dollars" of US weapons.
Nuclear-powered submarines can stay submerged for months, giving them a far greater range than their diesel-powered counterparts, and are also crucial to any seaborne nuclear deterrent.
Such a purchase would redraw the balance of power in northeast Asia and could trigger a regional arms race.
Japan, another US ally, does not have nuclear-powered submarines and is barred from having a military under its post-World War II pacifist constitution.
And while China's increasingly powerful navy does include them in its fleet, Beijing would undoubtedly be infuriated by any such acquisition by Seoul.
After a summit in South Korea with his counterpart Moon Jae-In, Trump on Tuesday said Seoul would be buying a large amount of US weapons "whether it's planes, whether it's missiles, no matter what it is".
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Beijing would undoubtedly be infuriated by any such acquisition by Seoul.
Just tell those nice fellas in Beijing that none of it has to happen if Kim Il Fatty slips in the shower one afternoon and whoever takes over asks us to pick up the nukes, no questions asked.
So simple, yet so tough for Beijing.
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Chinese, and probably the rest of us, will be so sorry when Japan rearms.
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I'm assuming we're talking about used nuke boats; Giving them a brand new current tech boat would place the classified stuff out of reach where anybody might look at it.
I don't know why they wouldn't prefer diesel electrics or AIP, unless the SK's are gaming the notion of shooting up the South China Sea in case of a war. Diesels and AIPs are essentially portable mine fields in an open conflict; they have to be prepositioned for area denial. If they try to run far at speed they'll show up on somebody's sonar net, leading to a hunter attack.
A nuke boat's chief asset is the ability to run long, hard, and deep to reach a far target at speed. Unless you're talking about boomers circling in deep water (and that implies SK ICBM's or cruise missiles), I can't see the utility, unless you're thinking about having a shootout with China (or possibly Japan).
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Just tell those nice fellas in Beijing that none of it has to happen if Kim Il Fatty slips in the shower one afternoon and whoever takes over asks us to pick up the nukes, no questions asked.
But they love their little dog.
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Just tell those nice fellas in Beijing that none of it has to happen if Kim Il Fatty slips in the shower one afternoon and whoever takes over asks us to pick up the nukes, no questions asked.
This is the value proposition that Trump is selling. Deal with Pudge's nukes one way or another. Otherwise, we help SKor and Japan upgrade their war-making abilities.
[DAWN] A one-time millionairess dubbed the "Black Widow", who tricked elderly lovers into drinking cyanide and then pocketed millions in insurance payouts and inheritance, was sentenced to death in Japan on Tuesday. I think I used to be married to her.
Kyoto District Court condemned Chisako Kakehi, 70, to the gallows for the murder of three men ─ including a husband ─ and for the attempted murder of another, ending a high-profile case that has gripped the country. At the time I thought it was just her cooking...
Kakehi became notorious after using poison to dispatch a number of elderly men she was involved with, drawing comparisons with the spider that kills its mate after copulation.
"The accused made the victims drink a cyanide compound with a murderous intention in all four cases," Judge Ayako Nakagawa told the court, according to public broadcaster NHK.
"The cases were well prepared in advance. They were cunning and malicious. I have no choice but to impose the ultimate penalty."
Nakagawa rejected defence lawyers' arguments that Kakehi was not criminally liable because she was suffering from dementia.
More than 560 people queued for 51 seats in the courtroom to witness the outcome of the marathon trial, which lasted 135 days.
It was the second-longest court case involving a jury since Japan introduced a joint judge-jury system in 2009.
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...while Bowe Bergdahl skates, due to a judge who doesn't like Trump. That's great. That's just fucking great, man...
[DAWN] An Indian court on Tuesday found a Bangladeshi man guilty of raping an elderly nun in a crime that sparked an outpouring of anger at persistently high levels of sexual assault in the country.
The 71-year-old nun needed surgery after the brutal attack in 2015, when a gang of robbers broke into the convent school where she lived in the eastern state of West Bengal.
A court in the state capital Kolkata found Nazrul Islam guilty of rape and attempted murder, among other offences.
"It was a shameful act," additional judge Kumkum Singha told the packed City Sessions Court.
Singha said Nazrul Islam acted alone in raping the nun, adding that five others enjugged You have the right to remain silent... for their involvement were charged with offences unrelated to the sexual assault.
Islam will be sentenced on Wednesday.
The nun, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was attacked after the robbers ransacked the Convent of Jesus and Mary in Ranaghat and stole cash and other items. A holy scripture was also torn and a statue of Jesus was broken.
The assault was the latest in a string of high-profile rapes in India, and prompted much soul-searching as priests and schoolgirls erupted into the streets demanding justice for the "inhuman" crime.
Supporters closed shops, shuttered schools and held candlelit vigils outside the hospital where the nun underwent surgery for injuries suffered during the attack.
The police came under fire for perceived inaction after 10 men were detained but no arrests made, despite the faces of some attackers being captured on CCTV footage. It took three months before the main accused was arrested.
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[DAWN] The Supreme Court on Tuesday concluded that denying an asset or defending a trust deed ‐ supposedly written in 2005 in a font that became commercially available in 2007 ‐ was below the dignity and decorum of the office of the prime minister. Shades of Dan Rather!
The court could not have shut its eyes when an asset, arising out of "Iqama" (work permit), surfaced during the investigation of the Panama Papers case, especially since a much higher level of integrity was expected from the holder of the highest elected office in the land, the apex court said, apparently answering the rhetorical question posed by ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts... in nearly every public speech since his disqualification.
These observations came in a detailed 23-page judgement, authored by Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan, explaining the reasons why a five-judge Supreme Court bench had rejected a number of review petitions instituted against the July 28 verdict disqualifying Nawaz Sharif.
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[Bloomberg] On their first full day of jury deliberations at the bribery trial of Senator Robert Menendez, a juror asked the judge a basic question: What is a senator?
U.S. District Judge William Walls declined to answer the question, and he refused that juror’s request for a transcript of Monday’s closing argument by Menendez’s attorney, Abbe Lowell. The panel had returned to the Newark, New Jersey, federal courthouse Tuesday after spending about 75 minutes deliberating the day before. Walls told jurors that they should rely on their individual and collective memories to determine how to define a senator.
The juror’s question, odd as it may have seemed, may have related to whether Melgen could have been considered a Menendez constituent. Defense attorneys said during the trial that Menendez regarded it as part of his Senate work to look after the interests of people beyond his home state. In his closing argument, Lowell reiterated that Menendez never introduced legislation that benefited Melgen.
The New Jersey Democrat is accused of taking bribes from Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen in the form of private jet travel, a Paris vacation and campaign contributions in exchange for pushing the doctor’s business interests at the highest levels of the U.S. government. Defense lawyers say they were just favors among good friends.
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So, it was an entirely reasonable question, which the journalist tried to make the juror look like an idiot. This is why nobody trusts you, media.
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I'd like to know the type of person this question came from; he could be a ballbuster / pain in the ass sort. Then again, it's very unlikely blithering idiots would have made it to the jury in the first place, especially this jury.
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Hopefully something that Robert Menedez will very soon no longer be ?
Sorry Beso. The Dems have made it clear that they will fight to retain Menendez in the Senate. He is a Swamp Monster and the other Swamp Monsters, regardless of their supposed party, fight for their own.
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He is a Swamp Monster and the other Swamp Monsters, regardless of their supposed party, fight for their own. interest - how many of them would be in the same situation if investigated thoroughly?
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I think the commenters are missing it: Juror asks judge question that judge decides not to answer. Mistrial. Motivations of juror and judge irrelevant but for outcome.
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having just spent 2 weeks in a Superior Court, I can attest: The Judge does not have to answer all questions, he can refer them to the evidence which addressed that issue. Not necessarily a mistrial argument, but I'm sure the defense attorneys might attempt it
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errr: 3 weeks. Why anyone does this voluntarily (even with the $) is beyond me
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Six people were killed and wounded on Tuesday when an explosive device went off in Baghdad on Tuesday, according to security sources.
The sources told Baghdad Today that an explosive device planted near commercial stores in Haswa, Abu Gharib, exploded, killing one and wounding five others.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Two suicide attackers were killed as they attempted targeting Shia visitors in southwest of Baghdad, commander announced.
“Two suicide bombers, wearing suicide belts, attempted to target visitors of Arba’ineyat al-Imam Hussein [40 days after his death] in al-Radwaniyah region, southwest of Baghdad. However, security troops managed to kill them immediately,” Lt. Gen. Jalil al-Ruba’iy told AlSumaria News on Tuesday.
“One of the attackers was blown up after he was killed, with no casualties reported,” he added. “Security troops tighten measures to prevent any violations.”
Millions of Muslims from inside and outside Iraq head toward Karbala province to visit shrines of Imam Hussein and his brother abul Fadhl al-Abbas, to commemorate the passing of 40 days after their death. Islamic State militants attempt targeting the visitors, while security services highten measures to repulse such attacks.
[TheAntiMedia] Following the death of Prince Mansour bin-Muqrin in a helicopter crash near the Yemen border yesterday, the Saudi Royal Court has confirmed the death of Prince Abdul Aziz bin Fahd ‐ killed during a firefight as authorities attempted to arrest him.
The Duran and Al-Masdar News both report that the prince died when his security contingent got into a firefight with regime gunmen attempting to make an arrest.
The Saudi Royal family has now lost two princes in 24 hours.
As Al Jazeera notes, in this Saudi version of ‘Game of Thrones’, the 32-year-old Bin Salman shows that he is willing to throw the entire region into jeopardy to wear the royal gown
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Wow just wow! Look at his assets in Wikipedia: Link
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Abdul Aziz received exactly half of all profits of the successful Middle East Broadcasting Corporation (MBC).[12] He had a number of palaces in Saudi Arabia and around various other parts of the world which have cost over $2 billion[24] which include:
London Mansion on the Billionaire's row in Kensington, now for sale at £100 million.[25]
A very large private stately residential complex with the replica of Alhambra and several other famous forts set within well maintained splendid gardens covering an area of 134 acres in the exclusive area overlooking Wadi Hanifa in Riyadh. 24.645808°N 46.643202°E
Massive farm near Janadriya covering an area of 715 acres or about 2.89 square kilometers at the northern outskirts of Riyadh. Satellite photos reveal large swimming pools, luxury tents and its own water and sewage treatment facility set within a large date farm.25.138224°N 46.79251°E
In Jeddah he has several palaces with private yacht berths and each palace has more than twenty guest houses .[citation needed]
Al Khobar Palace with berth for his super yacht Prince Abdulaziz [26]
In addition, he reportedly owned "the Pyramid House" on Hillcrest Road in Beverly Hills, California.[27][28] He also had several super yachts including Prince AbdulAziz, which is one of the largest built in the 20th century.[29]
Business activities
His ties with Saudi Oger are well known in Saudi Arabia. The company was founded by Rafik Hariri, who built Saudi Oger into a large company with the assistance of King Fahd. Hariri said ‘The meat on my shoulder is from King Fahd,’ according to As'ad Abu Khalil, a professor of political science at California State University Stanislaus, who has written several books and runs the blog The Angry Arab News Service. Hariri, also a former prime minister of Lebanon, was assassinated in 2005. His son, Saad Hariri, took over Saudi Oger and became Lebanon’s prime minister for 14 months before he was ousted in 2011. Saad Hariri and Prince Abdul Aziz are known to be close.[11]
Abdul Aziz bin Fahd owned fifty percent of the MBC, of which the remainder is owned by his maternal uncle Waleed bin Ibrahim al Ibrahim. It is reported that Prince Abdul Aziz dealed with both the profits and the ideology of MBC Channels, including al Arabiya.[12]
It emerged in a New York Supreme Court affidavit that he was the secret owner of a $1 billion property portfolio in the US [13] which owns the American headquarters of the oil giant BP and the defence contractor BAe Systems. In January 2002 The Daily Telegraph newspaper valued the portfolio at £4 billion.[14] The affidavit, which was subsequently partially sealed by the judge but had already become available on internet blogs [15][16] stated that the properties were being managed by a group which included Sheikh Majid Al Ibrahim, Prince’s maternal uncle, and that total control of the portfolio was ultimately seized by Interventure Capital Group and Interventure Advisers, both of Manhattan, New York. According to a press release issued by Hyatt Hotels Corporation,[17] Interventure Capital Group is run by Jaber Al Ibrahim and is an adviser to Naseel Holding Company, the Al Ibrahim family investment vehicle chaired by Sheikh Majid Al Ibrahim.[18]
According to a report in The Daily Telegraph in October 2010, Interventure Capital Group is also behind another major portfolio of properties which had been controlled by a UK-based company, StratREAL.[19] Assets purchased by StratREAL on behalf of Prince Abdul Aziz bin Fahd included Fifth Street Towers, a Minneapolis office complex, for $294 million in 2007.[20] In May 2012, following a foreclosure on the complex for mortgage default, Fifth Street Towers was sold at a sheriff's auction for $1 over the outstanding debt of $110 million.[21]
A mansion at 5 Palace Green, on London's Kensington Palace Gardens (nicknamed "Billionaires' Row"), was reported to be being offered for sale by Abdul Aziz in July 2013 for £100 million.[22]
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in this Saudi version of ‘Game of Thrones’, the 32-year-old Bin Salman shows that he is willing to throw the entire region into jeopardy to wear the royal gown
Oh, finally somebody who doesn't buy all this modernization dreck.
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According to the 3dc Bannon link: Bannon said a driving force behind the transformation of Saudi Arabia and other major events in the Middle East is the recognition by many regional powers that “President Trump and the United States of America have had enough of it and are just not going to tolerate anymore this financing, the exporting of radical Islamic terror into Western Europe and the United States.”
[NYPOST] A journalist at The Root says the Rev. Jesse Jackson sexually harassed her after a speech at a previous employer, claiming he grabbed her thigh before saying, "I like all of that right there!"
Danielle Young, a writer-producer at The Root, detailed her experience with Jackson in a 2,000-word post published Monday, alleging that Jackson touched her inappropriately while taking a photo with him after a keynote speech by the "living legend" at a "very popular" media company.
"I walked toward Jackson, smiling, and he smiled back at me," Young wrote. "His eyes scanned my entire body. All of a sudden, I felt naked in my sweater and jeans. As I walked within arm’s reach of him, Jackson reached out a hand and grabbed my thigh, saying, ’I like all of that right there!’ and gave my thigh a tight squeeze."
The unexpected touch, Young said, left her "shocked, to say the least," and uncomfortable in a room full of colleagues. So she started to laugh, she said.
"And I continued to giggle as he pulled me in closer, stared down at my body, smiled and told me he was only kidding," Young continued. "The entire time, my co-worker snapped photos."
Young’s post included seven photos of herself with Jackson, including one in which Jackson’s right arm is around her neck while his left arm embraces Young’s arm across her body. Both Young and Jackson are smiling in five of the photos. In another, Young, who said she was "visibly uncomfortable" at the time, is pointing directly at the camera, "asking [Jackson] if we can just take the picture," according to her post.
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Dog bites man story - we already know Jesse likes his side dishes.
[IntellectualTakeout] In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein allegations, the quest to stamp out sexual harassment against women has spread like wildfire, not only in the U.S., but also across the pond to our European counterparts.
As many women have made clear, unwanted attention from men, particularly when it is the aggressive, Weinstein-esque form of sexual assault, is never fun.
But many others are beginning to realize that the fervor to stamp out sexual harassment can go too far, and may in fact further damage the friendly, working and/or courtship relationship between the sexes. This is particularly evidenced through the simple fact that a number of young people now perceive winking to be a form of sexual harassment.
The question is, how did we get to such an escalated form of fear and antagonism between the sexes? It used to seem that a mutual respect existed between men and women, a respect which allowed them to enjoy the companionship of the opposite sex. Now that seems to have vanished. What changed?
Author and columnist Peter Hitchens recently addressed that issue. Writing in the Daily Mail, Hitchens suggests that the great quest for equality and liberation birthed in the sixties spread farther than we may have desired. To be logically consistent, he implies, we must allow the freedom and liberation which that era advanced to extend to other areas of life, breaking down traditional safeguards and manners in the process:
"[M]any of those who claim to seek female equality have another, much fiercer objective. They actually see men as the enemy, the ’patriarchy’, to be overthrown by all means necessary, and replaced by a feminised society. They also see marriage as a machine for oppressing women. Their objectives moved a lot closer last week.
This is why many of those who said they wanted equality also sneered at restraint and manners. They claim now that they want the restraint and the manners back...."
The trouble is, it’s hard to regain those manners once lost:
"But where are such restrained manners to come from in our liberated society? They were part of an elaborate code of courtship and respect which was learned by example in the married family, and has now completely vanished. In our post-marriage free-for-all, why should we expect either sex to be restrained? All that’s left is the police or the public pillory of Twitter."
Interestingly, this problem was foreshadowed by Alexis de Tocqueville in his 19th century analysis of American culture. When it came to the sexes, Tocqueville observed a very different treatment of women in America from what took place in Europe. In Europe, Tocqueville noted, men and women were not only treated as equals, they were also treated as the same in duties and functions. But while such a state looked good on the surface, underneath it created a culture of contempt for women.
In the U.S., however, Tocqueville found that women experienced greater freedom and respect (and by implication, greater happiness) when they embraced the differences between the sexes:
"In the United States men seldom compliment women, but they daily show how much they esteem them. They constantly display an entire confidence in the understanding of a wife and a profound respect for her freedom; they have decided that her mind is just as fitted as that of a man to discover the plain truth, and her heart as firm to embrace it; and they have never sought to place her virtue, any more than his, under the shelter of prejudice, ignorance, and fear."
In other words, manners influenced by social and cultural boundaries ‐ boundaries which some might consider too prudish today ‐ went further in promoting mutual respect and confidence between the sexes than did the complete absence of them."
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In the business world nowadays you're likely to see a fair amount of harassment initiated by women against men, and in certain environments (e.g. insurance companies, banks, etc.), this can be extreme and overwhelming. You'll not be likely to see much argument by men who want to keep their jobs, but if you've got idiots like me who complain, well you're up against city hall.
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"In the United States men seldom compliment women."
Truer today than Alexis would have figured. I can count on one hand the number of compliments I've dished out to women in the past twenty years, none of them in the corporate workplace. It's entirely defensive in nature - I don't need some vindictive psycho broad coming after me and ruining whatever reputation I have. I will not consciously put myself in that fucking prone position.
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The most important thing to remember about modern feminism is that it's dominated by a handful of bitches who envy and hate men - because they can never be men.
#5
One of my distant cousins recently mentioned on her FB page being upset with some aspect of the "male gaze". I guess I won't ever bother to attempt to meet her.
#9
C.S. Lewis famously noted that the truly progressive individual will admit when he’s taken a wrong turn, will turn around, and then look to the past to see where he has gone wrong. Is this what we need to do in regard to male-female relationships?
Today, the left never does this. Instead, their talking points go into the echo chamber of the MSM and rattle around.
I don't happen to believe this statement Why Men and Women Can No Longer Be Friends--maybe this is true in the perverted and distorted reality of the left but not in many other places such as flyover land.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi troops have repulsed an Islamic State attack against security checkpoint in north of Diyala, a local official said on Tuesday.
“Several IS members attempted in the evening launching an attack against joint security checkpoint of al-Hashd al-Shaabi [Popular Mobilization Forces] and police on the borders of the liberated al-BouEissa village, located in the vicinity of Udhaim town, from Salahuddin direction,” Mohamed Daifan al-Ebeidi, head of the town’s local council, told Alghad Press.
“Security personnel at the checkpoint managed to repel the attack and follow the militants with no casualties reported,” he added.
Ebeidi urged the troops to expedite the military operation at Mutaibija, located near Udhaim, to comb it from IS militants and preserve security at the province.
Mutaibija has complicated terrain, with numerous hills that serve as a good hideout for militants. Occasional attacks have been witnessed there by Islamic State against government and paramilitary troops deployments since Iraqi forces, backed by a U.S.-led coalition and PMUs, launched a major offensive to retake areas occupied by IS since 2014.
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[TheLocal.fr] Nine suspects were tossed in the calaboose Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in a series of anti-terror operations carried out around La Belle France on Tuesday, with French media reporting a planned attack on the city of Nice had been thwarted.
The raids took place in the greater Gay Paree region of Île-de-La Belle France and the Provence-Alpes-Côtes-d'Azur region of the south east.
According to reports some nine individuals aged between 18 and 60-years-old were arrested in the raids carried out by La Belle France's specialist counter-terrorist police.
The arrests were reportedly made in the Val-de-Marne department to the south west of Gay Paree, Seine-Saint-Denis to the capital's north, the city of Aix-en Provence, north of Marseille and the town of Menton, on the border with Italia.
Those held included two brothers who were known to have been radicalised, sources told AFP.
An arrest was also made in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... which brought the total number of suspects held to 10.
The 27-year-old man arrested in Switzerland was in contact with a 14-year-old French boy who was "about to carry out the attack," one of the sources said.
The teenager was arrested in the Gay Paree region on June 20 and charged by an anti-terror judge, the sources said.
A photo of the boy holding a paper vowing his allegiance 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 was found on social media, they added.
The Swiss man was "particularly active on social networks... and he had contacts with individuals living in La Belle France with whom he notably discussed violent actions," a judicial source said.
According to BFM TV those arrested are suspected of planning and preparing a terror attack.
The suspects exchanged "disturbing remarks" on the Telegram encrypted messaging app, the sources said, adding that Sherlocks were seeking to "determine what they were plotting".
It is not clear at this stage what their intentions were nor how far down the line their plans were, but according to Le Gay Pareeien newspaper, which first broke the news of the raids, the suspects planned to target the Riviera city of Nice, where 86 people were killed in the Bastille Day truck attack in 2016.
Quoting its own sources close to the probe Le Gay Pareeien said the intentions of the suspects had "become firm".
Authorities in La Belle France have not confirmed Nice was indeed the target.
La Belle France remains on high alert for terror attacks and last week the Minister of Interior Gerrard Collomb claimed that 32 attacks had been foiled since the State of Emergency was declared the night of the November 2015 shootings and bombing in Gay Paree.
Swiss officials said a 23-year-old Colombian woman was taken into custody after police raids there. A Swiss man aged 27 was among those tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in parallel French police swoops linked to Islamist Lion of Islam activity, they added.
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[DAWN] Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... (JeM) chief Masood Azhar's nephew, Talha Rashid, was allegedly killed in an encounter with security forces in India-held Kashmire's (IHK) Pulwama district on Tuesday, according to Indian media reports.
Two other suspected bully boyz and an Indian soldier were also killed in the encounter in Aglar Kandi village, the reports claimed.
A JeM spokesperson confirmed Rashid's death, according to Asia News International (ANI).
"Three bully boyz killed during an encounter at Kandi Aglar village of Pulwama district includes nephew of Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Maulana Masood Azhar ...One of the major players in Pak terrorism. In early 1994, India incarcerated him for his terrorist activities. In 1995, foreign tourists were kidnapped in Jammu and Kashmir. The kidnappers included the release of Masood Azhar among their demands. One of the hostages managed to escape but the rest were eventually killed. In 1999, he was freed by the Indian government in exchange for passengers on hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 that had been diverted to Kandahar. The hijackers were led by Masood Azhar's brother, Ibrahim Athar. Once he was handed over to the hijackers, they fled to Pak territory despite the fact that Islamabad had earlier stated that any of the hijackers would be jugged at the border. The Pak government had also previously indicated that Azhar would be allowed to return home since he did not face any charges there. Shortly after his release, he made a public address to an estimated 10,000 people in Karachi, firing up the rubes against America and India... and outfit's divisional commander," the JeM statement said.
The bully boyz were identified as Divisional Commander Muhammad Bhai and Waseem, a resident of Pulwama's Drubgam.
A civilian was also said to be injured in the encounter between Indian security forces and the krazed killers.
A firefight between bully boyz and security forces broke out as personnel of the 182 and 183 battalions of India's Central Reserve Police Force, the 44 Rashtriya Rifles and IHK police were carrying out a cordon and search operation in the area.
According to the Hindustan Times, a police spokesperson said the operation was conducted after receiving credible leads.
"While the cordon was being laid, the bully boyz opened fire in which one army jawan and a civilian got injured," the spokesperson said.
Two AK-47s and a pistol were recovered from the site of the encounter.
IHK Inspector General of Police Munir Khan said it was "an excellent operation, nicely coordinated between the Jammu and Kashmire police, the army and the CRPF."
"We will ask Pakistain to collect the body because they [JeM] owned it," he alleged. "The matter will be taken up through proper channels."
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[DAWN] An Indian man who came to the United States to study was sentenced Monday to more than 27 years in prison for sending funds to Al Qaeda and plotting to kill the federal judge in his trial.
Good.
Yahya Farooq Mohammad, 39, was one of four men including his brother enjugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in September 2015 and charged for sending $22,000 to US-born holy manAnwar al-Awlaki ... Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, zapped in Yemen, al-Awlaki was a dual citizen of the U.S. and Yemen. He was an Islamic holy man who was a trainer for al-Qaeda and its franchises. His sermons were attended by three of the 9/11 hijackers, by Fort Hood murderer Nidal Malik Hussein, and Undieboomer Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He was the first U.S. citizen ever placed on a CIA target list... , a leader of Yemen-based Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
Mohammad and two others travelled to 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 2009 in hopes of hand-delivering the money to Awlaki, one of the most influential recruiters for Al Qaeda. They did not meet him, but had the money delivered to him by a third party.
After they were arrested in 2015, Mohammad also tried to hire someone to kill the judge in his case, the Justice Department said.
"He threatened the safety of our citizens, a judge and the independent judiciary. Now he is being held accountable," said US Attorney Justin Herdman.
Mohammad came to the United States to study at Ohio State University in 2002. He married a US citizen in 2008.
A year after the his arrest, Mohammad offered another inmate in the Lucas County, Ohio jail $15,000 to kidnap and kill US District Judge Jack Zouhary.
The inmate connected Mohammad with an assassin who was in fact an undercover FBI agent. A member of Mohammad's family paid a $1,000 down payment to the "assassin."
He pleaded guilty in US federal court in Toledo, Ohio to one count of conspiracy to provide and conceal material support or resources to Lions of Islam and one count of solicitation to commit a crime of violence.
In a plea deal, Mohammad agreed to 27.5 years in federal prison, after which he will be deported.
The three other men arrested still face trial. All pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to the charges.
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[AnNahar] At least two non-combatants were killed when dozens of Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... fighters tried to storm a town in a remote area of northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... but were repelled by troops, locals said on Tuesday.
The attempted raid on Gulak, in the Madagali area of the far north of Adamawa state, happened at about 7:30 pm (1830 GMT) on Monday and involved about 50 jihadists.
"There was a shootout that lasted for almost half an hour," said Maina Ularamu, a former chairman of the Madagali local government area.
"One of the (Boko Haram) pick-up trucks, which was laden with explosives, tried to get past the military checkpoint. Soldiers opened fire on it and it went kaboom!.
"That caused a lot of casualties on the part of Boko Haram. One soldier was killed and two other women nearby also died from stray bullets."
There was no immediate confirmation of the deaths from the Nigerian Army when contacted by AFP.
Monday's assault is the latest in the Madagali area, which lies on the border with Borno state and near where Boko Haram had camps in the Sambisa Forest former national park.
Last week, twojacket wallah'> exploding trollop female suicide bombers died in Dar village near Gulak but there were no other casualties. Locals said they believed they may have been trying to target a church.
Nigeria's military said late last year it had forced Boko Haram out of its camps in the Sambisa Forest but there have been reports the Lions of Islam have moved back in.
They are also known to be hiding in the Mandara mountains to the east of Madagali, which form the border with Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... Suicide bombing is a constant threat to civilians. On Tuesday, up to eight people were maimed when four female bombers tried to get into the Borno state capital, Maiduguri.
One detonated her explosives in a crowd on the outskirts of the city near Kaleri village. Two others blew up on farmland while a third was shot, civilian militia and police said.
[Libya Herald] There were angry protests today outside Misrata’s anticrime office following the death in detention of leading Benghazi Revolutionaries’ Shoura Council member Mohammed Bakr al-Yedri.
Photograph’s of Yedri’s body in Misrata hospital mortuary showed signs of bruising and foaming at the mouth. Supporters claimed he had been subjected to electric shocks. The cause of death has not yet been determined.
Yedri, whose nickname was "Nahala" (Bee), lost the lower half of his left arm in a previous incident. He had fled Benghazi reportedly last year as LNA forces closed in on murderous Moslem positions. He had moved to Misrata, from which supplies and reinforcements were being sent by boat via the quay at Libyan Iron and Steel Company (LISCO).
It is understood that Yedri disappeared some weeks ago.
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[Click2Houston] Channel 2 Investigates obtained law enforcement documents revealing Devin Kelley escaped from a behavioral center in New Mexico a little more than five years before Sunday’s deadly rampage in Sutherland Springs.
The incident report, filed by the El Paso Police Department, states Kelley was picked up at a bus terminal in downtown El Paso before midnight on the evening of June 7, 2012. The report states two officers were dispatched to the terminal to look into a missing-person report.
When they arrived, the two officers learned Kelley had escaped from Peak Behavioral Health Services, a mental health facility in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, that has a dedicated unit for service members and veterans.
Xavier Alvarez, who was the director of military affairs for Peak Behavioral Health at the time, told the officers on scene that Kelley, who was 21 years old at the time, had “suffered from mental disorders and had plans to run to from Peak Behavioral Health Services” by purchasing a bus ticket out of state.
NBC News spoke with Alvarez, who according to the police report, said he informed officers that Kelley “was a danger to himself and others as he had already been caught sneaking firearms onto Holloman Air Force base,” located approximately 100 miles from the bus terminal. The report further states that Kelley “was attempting to carry out death threats” he had made on his military superiors.
Alvarez called Sunland Park and El Paso police and El Paso police created a perimeter around the Greyhound station.
Alvarez sat there in the dark, watching for Kelley's arrival. He saw a taxicab pull up and he crept over to it; when it pulled away, he and Kelley were "eye to eye."
"Because he made a reaction as if he was going to run, I quickly restrained him. He put up no fight. He laid on the ground and police were there in seconds," Alvarez said.
He noted Kelley was wet.
"He thought he was going to be tracked and he went through the river to cover these tracks."
"He was very quiet, but he did mention that given the opportunity he would try to go for the [officers'] guns," Alvarez said.
When he went back to the facility, Alvarez told NBC News Kelley was very docile. He was there only a couple of weeks before the military picked him up for his court-martial.
By Theodore Roosevelt Malloch
[AMGREATNESS] Women, minorities, and other so-called marginalized groups have multiple champions. All well and good, even inevitable, I suppose. We are all marginalized in some way. Reductio ad absurdum, we're all individual one-person groups.
Picture right now in your mind’s eye: Hillary Clinton, Ellen DeGeneres, Elton John, Black Lives Matter. Hey, even the redone Caitlyn Jenner. See what I mean?
Yet no one has spoken for the average American male in a very long time, it seems. These are the John Wayne or even Jimmy Stewart kind of guys—men who made America great, who are now long gone, left on the roadside, passed over, or passed away. Hopelessly politically incorrect, especially John Wayne. How many times did he whack Maureen O'Hara's butt?
It’s taboo even to mention them. If you did, you’d be called misogynistic, sexist, racist, homophobic, “toxic,” whatever. That’s part of why Donald Trump’s campaign took off like a rocket—he crossed over the forbidden lines of corrosive political correctness. Trump harks back to a more testicular time...
Can we at least raise the issue? Well in a closet, perhaps. We may well be living in the last years it can be discussed at all...
What we need, finally, is a champion who will not back down in the face of progressive opposition—or any other kind of hate speech or disrespect and begin to—speak up for men. Did I just say that? It was very ballsy of me. The writer can now be dismissed as a rightwing loon. Come the revolution he might get a cigarette and a blindfold, except that smoking is now deemed bad for him and one to the back of the head doesn't require as many people. This is what lies underneath the populist phenomenon. The so-called “smart people” (global elitists) are telling themselves that we are going through a post-industrial revolution. Yes, yes . . . men had to come from the farms, into the mines and factories. Now they have to come out of the factories and head into the cubicles and become part of globalized supply chains. But that’s far from the whole story. Might we point out that supply chains have to supply something?
Industry remains alive and well around the world—there’s just less and less of it in the “old” places these days, such as America’s rust belt states. We have chosen to extend privileges to capital that maintains a small, and getting smaller, strata of managers (call them big bosses) at extraordinary income levels, while outsourcing our manufacturing to poorer nations. Which then become rich and outsource them to even poorer nations. The connection between manufacturing and riches somehow escapes the Brilliant™.
And what happened to our manhood in the process? That got outsourced, too. I'm not sure of that at all.
Statistically, American males are doing less well in school these days. Boys are seen as intrinsically bad and warned constantly about their potential as bullies. Men live shorter and more unhealthy lives compared to women. They are more prone to die early and even to shoot and stab each other. Lower middle-class communities have been decimated by the combined forces of the never-ending sexual revolution and by enduring economic stagnation. Charles Murray documented all this in his frightening sociological tome, Coming Apart. We've glamorized being a rebel, with or without a cause. Tough guys don't read books -- probably aren't even literate. Were the characters played by James Dean literate?
Do you remember James Dean’s line in the 1955 classic film, “Rebel Without a Cause?” I was just thinking about him...
He asked his father this telling question, “What do you do when you have to be a man?” It took twenty three years for my father to answer that question,and then not in all of its particulars. He died before he got to them.
His father didn’t know the answer. Fathers used to. They just couldn't express it in a single conversation, not even in a two-hour movie.
Worse still, he had no sense of the question. There were no guidelines to follow; no rules to master; no script to read. Hell, there were no profound answers to that question. Still aren't.
That is the dilemma our whole culture faces today. We don’t know or have forgotten about manliness. It's still there. I'll agree it's becoming more rare.
Now, I am not some crazy, deep backwoodsman, drum beating warrior type, who wants us to go native or primitive. I don’t wear a loincloth or kill my own dinner (though I do shoot ducks and pheasant, on occasion). I just think we need to get back to basics about manhood if we want to make America great again. I'll also agree that manhood as a concept has been taking a beating. Then something happens that calls for it and the peddlers of "toxic manhood" shut up, sometimes for as long as sixty seconds.
We need to figure this out or we will be (are already being) replaced. A woman can go to the doctor and get fertilized by donor sperm and never see a man, have a husband, or have sex. God forbid they have sons—as they would have no examples to emulate. Is that the future? Welcome to the Brave New World. As in Aldous Huxley.
So using a technique that is utilized in the intelligence world (yes, spy-dom), in the military, and in corporate life, I want to suggest—if only for heuristic purposes—four scenarios about “The Future of Manhood.” I used to have a girlfriend who would holler at me for generalizing from incomplete data. She was right.
So let’s do an exercise in futures thinking. Think of it as strategic planning to consider the longer term. On one side (axis) of your paper, write down strong; and, along the other axis insert, weak. Got it: strong versus weak. See? It’s easy… you’re a born futurist. I get paid a lot of money for this kind of heady stuff, so don’t laugh. If you don't believe in strategic planning, Tinkerbelle will die.
There are four boxes on your paper, right? The header is Manhood. Lower left box, let’s call that strong/weak, or “Father Knows Best.” It was a great TV series that I grew up on and it is the standard, old-fashioned view of manhood. Was that the one with Fred McMurray? Or was that My Three Sons?
This middle class, probably non-urban and traditional values/family man is good, humble, but all-knowing. And he is the head of the house, which is after all his castle. He is firm but fair, decisive and modestly aggressive. As a man, he knows both his own place and is responsible for his kinship band—the nuclear/extended family. The man is pragmatic but principled and self-aware. He is faithfully monogamous and unambiguous about his manliness. He is comfortable in his own skin and believes in power and tradition both. That's the idealized version of Man in the 1950s. Most of the fathers I knew at that time aspired to be like that -- at least I thought they did. I was more the Beaver Cleaver type.
Second Box upper right, is super strong or better, “Superman.” Pure mythology, which is another word for bullshit, despite the number of them you see on movie screens today. Probably, like the rest of us, you don't go to movies anymore but you read the comic books when you were The Beav, maybe even if you were Princess.
As a superhero, rooted in comic book fame, there is a fictional side to this man. Since he was born on the planet Krypton and raised in America as Clark Kent, there is something quite unreal about him. With super born-human abilities, he not only wears a red cape with the letter ‘S’ emblazoned on it, but he is capable of larger-than-life deeds. Hyper-able and super athletic, this man is influenced by Nietzsche’s concept of the Ubermensch. Typically, he dominates women. (Latter-day portrayals of the Man of Steel, alas, are as gelded as most everyone else in popular culture.) Super rough and overly aggressive, supermen attack and terrorize wrongdoers and all gangsters, as only a ruthless vigilante would do. Superman actually comes in two flavors: good and bad; moral and immoral. In practice, this box is left blank. There is no Superman, no Batman, no Mighty Thor, not even Hancock, not even a Tooth Fairy.
The lower-right quadrant is weak. Let’s call it “Girlie-Man.” What are his characteristics? Or Pajama Boy.
Although used by then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger pejoratively, taking after a 1990s-era “Saturday Night Live” sketch featuring the bodybuilders Hans and Franz, these men commit the modern-day politically correct horror of insulting gay men. This ironic mockery has become ensconced as more than a comic façade. Easily offended and overly emotional, a girlie-man is effeminate in that he is primped up and weak even when showing an outward appearance of strength. There is a fake understanding about sexuality and a weakness that becomes an overriding feature both physically and emotionally. They are like girls in many ways. We used to call them "thumb-sucking wimps."
In the last box on the upper far right we have super strong and super weak, a combination best described as "Metrosexual.” I think they're called Hipsters now, but they may have moved on to yet another name.
What are his characteristics? ... if any?
This is the perfectly androgynous male who is neither from Venus nor from Mars. He is very urban (and urbane), enjoys shopping (oh so much!), is into fashion and possesses traits normally associated with women or homosexual men. He can’t walk past a Banana Republic store without making a purchase. He uses moisturizer. His ringtone comes from “Kim Possible.” In their fitted jeans, with “manscaped” eyebrows and perfectly groomed hair (replete with product), these men are the ultimate consumers and exhibit narcissistic qualities. Neither straight nor gay, they have all of the characteristics of gays and the dress. For them, it is “all about breaking gender roles” primarily because they have no concern for the opinions of any but those who are similarly self-absorbed. Lately they affect lumberjack beards, facial hair looking so much like a masculine trait.
Now, looking at these four archetypes in the year 2025 of manhood, where would you place yourself? I'm retired now. I spent my younger years trying to stay in the lower left-hand corner, but I'd point out that the lines between the categories are fluid. There have been times when I've wimped out like a girly boy and times when I've given in to fashion even though I looked stoopid or, worse, phony. Here’s the takeaway: Manliness or traditional masculinity, i.e., being courageous and direct, or—as the true authority on the subject, the Harvard political philosopher Harvey Mansfield, Jr., suggested in his controversial book, Manliness—being assertive, is just plain dying off. Being denigrated isn't the same as dying off.
The synonym, virility, has all but disappeared from general usage. The notion that an etiquette exists wherein a man respects himself and earns the respect of others has surely dissipated, except perhaps in the fictional “Game of Thrones.” I've never watched Game of Thrones. Virility has come to have a sexual connotation, but it still exists. The concepts of duty and heroism are still around.
Come on, name me a definitive act of valor you have witnessed in real life recently? The Cajun Navy. Any firehouse, volunteer or professional or mixed. Any team of EMTs. Policemen in most places. Infantry platoons.
Is there such a thing as self-sacrifice any longer in the “Me Generation” or its descendants? Certainly, we’ve seen some examples in the late wars. Yet the old-fashioned idea that we are here to serve others (men, women, the elderly or children) seems to have flown away. I'd venture to say that chivalry, even the romanticized notion it became, is still around.
Selfishness is the norm and the expectation nowadays. But these other, older values, used to be the themes of true manhood. But that's always been so. Read a history of the Papacy if you want to see some greed and duplicity. Heroism, even simple bravery, is unusual. That's why people notice it.
In fact, U.S. Army General George S. Patton, who was no wuss, wrote a little booklet just after World War I explaining what it meant to be an officer and a gentleman. He distributed it to his men in the 3rd Army during World War II. Patton wanted real men on the front line. He wanted to beat those fascists. He knew that to be victorious in war, men needed to be taught the basics of manhood. In that particular period men rose in their literal millions to Do Their Part. Omaha Beach -- for that matter Utah Beach -- wasn't a place for wimps. The guys who hit the beach at Tarawa had been hangin' around the malt shop or making Fords not long before signing up. Patton's 3rd Army wasn't all that much different from other armies.
He could have said since the time of Homer the ideas of manhood and manliness have been the eternal inspiration, the very image, and inspiration of the human race. He could have recounted the creation story or the legacy of the entire history of mankind across all cultures. Yet the Iliad opens with Achilles and Agamemnon arguing over which one gets to keep the pretty girl as a slave.
We still have some remote but fading remembrance of the days of chivalry, where men showed courtesy to women and children, where they were gentle benefactors to their communities. Hence the word “gentleman.” These knights of yore saw the responsibility of manhood as a noble calling—it had a theological bearing as well as a long-standing and honorable tradition. "Gentlemen" were a distinct class, however. Serfs, peasants, even merchants could be as spineless as they pleased. The Threepenny Opera's been around since the mid-1700s. MacHeath could maybe be considered the original antihero, but I'm sure he had predecessors. Shakespeare had lots if villains, even (Oh, my daughter! Oh, my ducats!) sympathetic ones. All of that is gone. The history of manhood, if it were to be written, would likely start with some distant, unrecognizable stories about a caste of men who won prestige and honor in battle and at war. “War” is part of “warrior,” sorry. But where would that history end? It will end when there aren't any more real villains.
By the time of the early 19th century, this tale evolved into one about yeoman farmers and then artisans. The Industrial Revolution changed all that. Men moved off the farm and into the factories. There they still made things (well, until recent decades) but they no longer had economic independence. They worked for someone else. The notion of being a “breadwinner” prevailed but manhood was slowly emasculated. The yeoman farmers won Crecy and Agincourt, but they were still organized and led by others.
The definition of that word is, to deprive a man of his male identity. Privilege was stripped away and attacked; even their very manhood was questioned or abbreviated, should we add, neutered? Emasculation involves depriving a man of his genitalia -- turning him into a eunuch.
Today, which of the four scenarios best describes reality? And where is it honestly headed by 2025? Probably to about where we are now. That's not to say that there's not a class of dipshits gnawing on the national testicles, but humanity's always been divided into a top ten percent, a bottom ten percent, and a mostly undistinguished middle eighty percent. What's odd is that the dividing lines are so fluid.
Now ponder once more those four scenarios we just created about the future, and ask James Dean’s profound question all over again. Three words: Flight Ninety Three.
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Excellent post Fred. Thankfully, all of the good, brave men are yet not gone.
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I remember growing up in the 50's, virtually all the "men of the houses" were veterans, and we kids all knew it. My uncle told me about his seeing the first bomb drop on Wheeler Field, my dad about holding on to a palm tree during the storm surge of a 1945 Pacific typhoon. I was in awe of them. Dad stayed in the reserves & was called up again for a year in 1950. I was 3 and riding the train to the Norfolk Navy base with mother. She sat next to a sailor in uniform on his way to ship out. He asked (& was granted) to let me sit on his lap so he could remember his own 3 year old son he was leaving behind.
[Inquirer] The Philippine military on Monday discredited a police claim that a Malaysian militant had succeeded slain Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... leader Isnilon Hapilon as the Islamic State's “emir” in southeast Asia.
In a news conference on Monday morning, PNP Director General Ronald dela Rosa identified the Malaysian as “drone operator” Amin Baco. Dela Rosa presented to reporters arrested Indonesian militant Muhammad Ilham Syahputra, according to whom, he said, Baco was not only leading the remaining Maute Group and Abu Sayyaf terrorists in Marawi but also had taken over as “emir."
Experts say Baco was trained under Malaysian militant Zulkifli bin Hir, alias Marwan, who was killed in 2015. Baco was reported to have been killed in Marawi but Reuters, citing intelligence sources, reported that he had fled. Dela Rosa said it was “possible” but “unconfirmed” that Baco had slipped out of Marawi.
But in a statement issued on Monday afternoon, Maj. Gen. Restituto Padilla Jr., spokesperson for the Armed Forces of the Philippines, said Baco was believed to be among the terrorists killed in Marawi. The statement said, "Baco’s remains [are] now the subject of an ongoing aggressive search. The AFP strongly believes that the [Maute group] is now leaderless and without direction."
Padilla maintained that only “clearing operations” were going on in Marawi to get the last IS-inspired terrorists who were “fighting for survival” and hiding “in the hope of escaping.”
Padilla was quoting Lt. Gen. Carlito Galvez Jr., chief of the military’s Western Mindanao Command, who in a separate interview with reporters on Monday said Baco was most likely dead.
In an interview with reporters at AFP headquarters in Camp Aguinaldo, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana did not confirm or deny Dela Rosa’s claim but appeared to play it down. Lorenzana said that even if Baco was now the leader of the stragglers in Marawi, “I think he can no longer amass that number of troops that [Hapilon] can bring to Marawi.”
Troops killed nine of the stragglers in a firefight on Sunday, according to Col. Romeo Brawner Jr., deputy commander of the military forces in Marawi. Brawner said among those killed was Ibrahim Maute, alias Abu Jamil, a cousin of the Maute brothers who led the siege of Marawi in alliance with Hapilon’s faction of the Abu Sayyaf and a number of foreign fighters.
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Qaim (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State militants have waged an attack on Iraqi army forces in Anbar’s western town of Qaim, a security source was quoted saying Tuesday, a few days after Iraqi forces seized the region from the militants.
The source told al-Rafidain channel that militants attacked army posts in Husaiba region. The forces repelled the attack with support from U.S.-led coalition warplanes, the source added.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi raised the Iraqi flag in Husaiba border crossing with Syria on Sunday, shortly after arriving in Qaim to declare its liberation from IS militants.
The victory leaves only the neighboring town of Rawa in Islamic State’s grip.
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Hezbollah and the Syrian army managed on Tuesday to frustrate an ISIL attack on T-2 Station in Deir Ezzor southern countryside, killing or injuring scores of terrorists.
Hezbollah military media circulated a video which documented the achievement:
Source: Hezbollah Military Media Center
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[DAWN] For decades, 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... was known for its resistance to change. And even when changes were introduced, the pace of their implementation was often glacial.
However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... over the past few months, under orders from Mohammed bin Salman, the young crown prince, change in the kingdom, it appears, has been occurring at breakneck speed.
The events of this past weekend have caused seismic shifts within the Saudi establishment. In one fell swoop, the crown prince has rounded up highly influential figures in the kingdom, including princes, ministers and business magnates.
The reason? An ostensible anti-corruption crusade. A new anti-corruption body was hurriedly put together, with the crown prince as its head, and swiftly went to work rounding up some of the most powerful men in the kingdom.
The people rounded up are no two-bit fraudsters: they include Al Waleed bin Talal, the billionaire prince known for his investments spanning the globe, as well as Saleh Kamel, a non-royal who headed one of the kingdom’s top business houses.
Along with the detentions for supposed graft, Mohammed bin Salman had Miteb bin Abdullah, late King Abdullah’s son, removed from his position as head of the powerful National Guard that keeps an eye on internal dissent.
At face value, the anti-graft campaign should be welcomed; after all, princes and other powerful Saudis are known to skim off ’percentages’ from huge contracts. However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... there seems to be more at work here than just a desire to crack down on financial sleaze.
The crown prince appears to be solidifying his grip on power by sidelining potential opponents. Soon after his father Salman became king in 2015, Mohammad bin Salman’s uncle Muqrin was relieved from his duties as crown prince. The position then went to Mohammed bin Nayef, his elder cousin. He too was edged out to make way for the monarch’s son.
While Saudi Arabia has always been an absolute monarchy, some form of participation in government affairs has existed in the shape of power-sharing agreements between leading princes, the holy mans and tribal chiefs. However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... the Saudi heir seems to be upending these decades-old arrangements in favour of total control.
Indeed, he seems impatient to implement his reform agenda and replace the elder generation with fresh blood. However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... alienating other power centres, indeed trying to neutralise them, may actually hamper any attempts at reform as internal divisions are fuelled.
At present Riyadh is at war with Yemen, while its other neighbours ‐ Iraq to the northeast and Syria in the far north ‐ are also unstable. Its rows with Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... and Iran also show no sign of being resolved soon. In such a precarious regional scenario, the crown prince must handle internal reform carefully.
Those states with strong relations with the Saudis, such as Pakistain, must watch and wait to see how the power games in Riyadh play out.
[Ynet] Paleostinian security official tells Ynet his forces foiled planned stabbings, shootings and bombings against Israelis in the West Bank; eager to prevent Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", from exploiting reconciliation deal as means to dig in inside West Bank, official outlines crackdown on terrorists, including arrest of 46 Hamas affiliates and dozens more hailing from other terror groups.
Seven terror attacks against Israelis in the West Bank were thwarted by Paleostinian security forces in October, a Paleostinian official claimed Tuesday in an interview with Ynet.
According the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the Paleostinian security apparatus prevented planned stabbings, shootings and bombings.
Information obtained by Ynet and published at the beginning of the week also illustrated that last month the Paleostinian forces nabbed Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! scores of Hamas murderous Moslems in the West Bank, despite the reconciliation deal signed in early October between the Gazoo-ruling movement and Fatah.
A total of 46 Hamas murderous Moslems were arrested, while dozens more activists affiliated with other myrmidon factions were also handcuffed, the Paleostinian official claimed.
In addition, the official claimed that Paleostinian security forces carried out various operations in which weapons and accessories were confiscated, along with ammunitions intended to be used in terror attacks and money earmarked for their funding.
The extensive security activity of the Paleostinian security forces carried out against Hamas infrastructures embedded in the West Bank comes shortly after the terror group began ceding control of the Gazoo Strip's border crossings with Israel and Egypt to Paleostinian Authority (PA) President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... as part of the reconciliation agreement brokered by Cairo to end a decade of internal schism.
The intensified efforts to clamp down on Hamas in the West Bank however, is also intended to send a clear signal to Israel and the United States that the PA is not willing to permit Hamas to exploit the freshly planted seeds of reconciliation from which a civil and military terror infrastructure could bloom.
With the PA tightening the noose, Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", has publicly demanded from the Paleostinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah to instruct the security forces to immediately cease its arrests, which the movement dubbed as "criminal."
[Hot Air] Fox News’ Catherine Herridge reports that two strains of the Russia story collided or, at least, crossed paths on the day Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya met with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower:
The co-founder of Fusion GPS, the firm behind the unverified Trump dossier, met with a Russian lawyer before and after a key meeting she had last year with Trump’s son, Fox News has learned. The contacts shed new light on how closely tied the firm was to Russian interests, at a time when it was financing research to discredit then-candidate Donald Trump...
Hours before the Trump Tower meeting on June 9, 2016, Fusion co-founder and ex-Wall Street Journal reporter Glenn Simpson was with Veselnitskaya in a Manhattan federal courtroom, a confidential source told Fox News. Court records reviewed by Fox News, email correspondence and published reports corroborate the pair’s presence together. The source told Fox News they also were together after the Trump Tower meeting...
NBC News first reported that Veselnitskaya and Simpson were both at a hearing centered around another Fusion client, Russian oligarch Denis Katsyv. His company, Prevezon Holdings, was sanctioned against doing business in the U.S. for its alleged role in laundering more than $230 million.
The story of Russian influence on the election now has so many moving parts that it’s getting hard to keep them all straight. But it all connects back to lawyer Sergei Magnitsky who died in a Russian prison in 2009. According to his employer, businessman Bill Browder, Magnitsky was arrested after he uncovered millions of dollars in fraud involving Russian companies.
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Rhetorical of course. British intelligence cut-outs, sleazy foreign agents, unnamed sources, secret funding; who could have possibly devised such an elaborate scheme of entrapment ?
The Afghan Security Forces (ANSF) on Tuesday night foiled a complex attack by the Taliban on an Afghan National Police (ANP) training center in volatile Maidan Wardak province, police officials in the area confirmed.
This came just hours after Daesh carried out an attack on Shamshad TV in the nation’s capital Kabul that left at least two people dead and 20 others wounded.
Maidan Wardak police chief said that at least 15 militants attacked the base, but that the security forces killed all attackers. No casualties were reported among Afghan forces.
Initial reports from the area indicate that the insurgents stormed the center from a hillside using heavy artillery and explosives.
BEIRUT: Shelling by the Syrian regime on an opposition-held enclave on the outskirts of Damascus killed seven civilians, while retaliatory fire killed three people on Tuesday, a monitor said.
Six civilians, including two children, were killed by shelling on Saqba, in the Eastern Ghouta area that an opposition group controls but is besieged by regime forces, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Another child was killed in the nearby town of Douma, said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Britain-based monitoring organization.
A total of 18 people were also wounded in the besieged area, he said.
Shelling by the opposition forces on central Damascus later killed three people, including at least two civilians, and wounded at least 15, said Abdel Rahman.
“The shelling was in response to the attack on Ghouta,” said the director of the observatory, which relies on a network of sources on the ground in Syria for its information.
A “de-escalation zone” deal agreed by regime allies Iran and Russia and Turkey, which backs the opposition, has been in place in Eastern Ghouta since July, but it has been repeatedly violated.
In addition to an uptick in regime shelling on Eastern Ghouta, humanitarian workers have warned the conditions inside the enclave were increasingly dire.
Up to 400,000 people are believed to live in Eastern Ghouta, which has been under government siege since 2013.
The blockade has caused serious food and medicine shortages, and pushed the prices for what remains beyond the reach of impoverished residents.
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[AlAhram] A Ottoman Turkish prosecutor has issued detention warrants for 53 active sergeants over alleged links to the US-based holy man accused of orchestrating last year's attempted coup, state media said on Tuesday.
Twenty of the suspects have so far been detained in the operation across 12 provinces, state run Anadolu Agency said. Thirty-three other soldiers were currently being sought, it said.
The interior ministry said on Monday that nearly 700 people were tossed into the calaboose over the previous week on allegations of ties to what Ankara calls the "Gulenist Terror Group".
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"The NCO's are unreliable politically. Arrest them!. The Commissioned are as well, arrest them!"
Pretty soon you have a military force of extremely religious and incompetent commissars
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Deir Ezzor (Syria News) Local sources informed, on Tuesday, that more than four civilians were either killed or wounded in an air strike, carried out by unknown warplanes, on the towns and villages of the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, Enab Baladi News reported.
The sources revealed that four civilians, including two children and a woman, were killed in an air strike carried out by warplanes on al-Sayal area, near the village of al-Shaghfa, in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, amid the ongoing battles against the Islamic State group.
“Heavy air strikes were conducted on the the cities of al-Qawreiya and al-Ashara, in the village of al-Shaghfa and many other areas in Albukamal City, southeast of Deir Ezzor,” the sources explained.
Moreover, the sources did not identify the identity of the warplanes that bombarded the area; however, social media activists affirmed the air strikes were carried out by the Russian warplanes, accompanying the Syrian regime offenses on the city of Albukamal.
Yesterday, informed sources told Enab Baladi that the Russian warplanes committed a massacre in al-Harye Town, in the countryside of the city of Albukamal, leaving eight casualties.
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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
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[Daily Caller] Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban gave a great explanation to the Dallas Morning News Tuesday night about why the NFL is in decline.
[Right Scoop] Brit Hume told Tucker Carlson something he definitely did not want to hear ‐ that it was Trump’s unpopularity that lost the Virginia race.
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... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
The juror’s question, odd as it may have seemed, may have related to whether Melgen could have been considered a Menendez constituent. Defense attorneys said during the trial that Menendez regarded it as part of his Senate work to look after the interests of people beyond his home state. In his closing argument, Lowell reiterated that Menendez never introduced legislation that benefited Melgen.
[NYPOST] A journalist at The Root says the Rev. Jesse Jackson sexually harassed her after a speech at a previous employer, claiming he grabbed her thigh before saying, "I like all of that right there!"
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
...One of the major players in Pak terrorism. In early 1994, India incarcerated him for his terrorist activities. In 1995, foreign tourists were kidnapped in Jammu and Kashmir. The kidnappers included the release of Masood Azhar among their demands. One of the hostages managed to escape but the rest were eventually killed. In 1999, he was freed by the Indian government in exchange for passengers on hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 that had been diverted to Kandahar. The hijackers were led by Masood Azhar's brother, Ibrahim Athar. Once he was handed over to the hijackers, they fled to Pak territory despite the fact that Islamabad had earlier stated that any of the hijackers would be jugged at the border. The Pak government had also previously indicated that Azhar would be allowed to return home since he did not face any charges there. Shortly after his release, he made a public address to an estimated 10,000 people in Karachi, firing up the rubes against America and India...
... Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, zapped in Yemen, al-Awlaki was a dual citizen of the U.S. and Yemen. He was an Islamic holy man who was a trainer for al-Qaeda and its franchises. His sermons were attended by three of the 9/11 hijackers, by Fort Hood murderer Nidal Malik Hussein, and 
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
[Click2Houston] Channel 2 Investigates obtained law enforcement documents revealing Devin Kelley escaped from a behavioral center in New Mexico a little more than five years before Sunday’s deadly rampage in Sutherland Springs. 
This is what lies underneath the populist phenomenon. The so-called “smart people” (global elitists) are telling themselves that we are going through a post-industrial revolution. Yes, yes . . . men had to come from the farms, into the mines and factories. Now they have to come out of the factories and head into the cubicles and become part of globalized supply chains. But that’s far from the whole story.
Here’s the takeaway: Manliness or traditional masculinity, i.e., being courageous and direct, or—as the true authority on the subject, the Harvard political philosopher Harvey Mansfield, Jr., suggested in his controversial book, Manliness—being assertive, is just plain dying off.
All of that is gone. The history of manhood, if it were to be written, would likely start with some distant, unrecognizable stories about a caste of men who won prestige and honor in battle and at war. “War” is part of “warrior,” sorry. But where would that history end?
Excellent post Fred. Thankfully, all of the good, brave men are yet not gone. 
[Inquirer] The Philippine military on Monday discredited a police claim that a Malaysian militant had succeeded slain 
[Hot Air] Fox News’ Catherine Herridge reports that two strains of the Russia story collided or, at least, crossed paths on the day Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya met with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower:
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