[ABC15 News] Pee Dee, S.C. ‐ South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) officials say 10 Pee Dee residents have been charged in connection with fraudulent insurance claims following a number of car crashes.
According to a news release from SLED, 10 people have been arrested on 59 charges.
Authorities say all of the individuals filed fraudulent insurance claims after traffic crashes dating back to 2013.
The individuals collected close to $300,000 in fraudulent medical payments, the release said.
Warrants show that the suspects engaged in a number of fraudulent activities, including forging medical bills and medical records, as well as inflating automotive and medical bills.
Officials say the following individuals were charged in connection with the "insurance fraud ring":
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A century of Communism achieved four main results: poverty, oppression, war, and mass death. So why does anybody still think collectivism is 'idealistic'?
[PJ] Former Assistant FBI Director James Kallstrom unloaded on James Comey, Robert Mueller, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama Thursday, charging that major crimes "20 times bigger than Watergate" are being swept under the rug while Attorney General Jeff Sessions "is in a coma."
Appearing on Fox News' Varney & Co., Kallstrom told the host that it "was obvious to anybody that knows anything" that former President Barack Obama was not going to let James Comey indict Clinton.
"It turns out -- unfortunately -- he was a political hack," Kallstrom said flatly. "I think he maybe started out in an honorable way. His opinion of himself is sky high -- just an unbelievable guy with just an arrogance about him.... It got him in trouble because I think he thought he was Superman and he found out that he wasn’t."
Kallstrom blamed the Clintons for Comey's descent into hackery.
"The dogs are always going to bite your heels when you’re dealing with the Clintons," he explained. "Look how long the public, the American people have been dealing with the crime syndicate known as the Clinton Foundation... just look at what's in the public domain. The Clintons have been taking advantage of their stations in life for so long."
"Back in '95, '96 -- somewhere around there -- Bill Clinton let our guidance technology for our ICBM missiles go to China. Things like this that are very devastating," he pointed out.
And then a few years down the road, "we sell 20 percent of our uranium," Kalstrom added, referencing the corrupt Uranium One deal that routed millions of Russian dollars to the Clinton Foundation during the time Secretary of State Hillary Clinton served on the federal government’s Committee on Foreign Investment.
Kallstrom also questioned why Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was appointed to his position.
NEW YORK (AP) ‐ While Fox News Channel has spent hours talking about Hillary Clinton and an Obama-era uranium deal in recent weeks, its news anchor Shepard Smith avoided the story entirely.
Fresh evidence that Smith is an island unto himself at the news network came in research released Thursday by the liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America. During the three weeks starting Oct. 17, Fox News spent just under 12 hours talking about the Uranium One deal, with 29 percent of that time on opinion host Sean Hannity’s prime-time show.
In recent weeks, the issue has been at the center of the nation’s partisan divide. Hannity calls it "the real Russian conspiracy," while Democrats suggest the story is used to distract from news about Robert Mueller’s investigation into President Donald Trump and ties to Russia. Conservatives contend that "mainstream" news outlets are obsessed with Mueller’s investigation.
Republicans have called for a probe into the 2010 purchase of American uranium mines by a Russian-backed company, noting some of the company’s investors had donated money to Clinton. The state department, then led by Clinton, was one of nine U.S. agencies with oversight of the deal, although she has said she wasn’t involved. Trump has said the company’s sale is a scandal on par with Watergate.
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His pretending to be a straight news guy when his aside comments and topic choices say otherwise has to be supported by leadership at Fox. Bedeviled by al the sexual allegations, perhaps they don't want to risk the firing of a homosexual news guy who hasn't played the gay card yet.
[CBS] MALIBU, Calif. -- A Malibu church that has helped the homeless for years has been asked to stop feeding people who are down on their luck. Sends the wrong message in the run-up to the holidays ?
CBS Los Angeles spoke to the people at the United Methodist Church about the request.
Workers at the church say they are able to serve as many as 100 people. They've been serving meals on Wednesdays since 2014.
But now, the food service will come to an end after Thanksgiving at the city's request.
"It's a safe place," said Michah Johnson, who is homeless. "And everyone is welcome. And the food is really good. It's home-cooked. And there's TLC involved."
"The church is very helpful," he added. "They keep my spirits up. They keep me accountable. When you're homeless, it's very easy to slip off and become jaded." Religion is the opiate of the masses. Your 'help' should come from the central government.
The church says the city sent an email asking members to attend a meeting on Monday, where they were asked to stop feeding the homeless.
"Very succinctly," said Dawn Randall, who works with the United Methodist Church. "They claimed we are performing the work of government at no cost increasing homelessness."
"I think many of them eat out of dumpsters and trash cans when they aren't eating with us," said Kay Gabbard, who also works with the United Methodist Church. "We can't pretend like (homelessness) doesn't exist in our backyard. We can't pretend that it only exists outside Malibu."
CBS Los Angeles reached out to Malibu's mayor for a comment. They have yet to hear back.
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So people are going to leave their domaciles just so they can get one free meal a week? The stupid, it burns.
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"Yes it's a great outreach service for those less fortunate than we are, but we just don't like seeing poor folks around here. It sends the wrong impression for those looking to invest in our smug hoity-toity community."
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You all seem to think this is a no brainer but I think you've never lived in a community that's been overrun with the homeless. Wait until you start getting cases of hepatitis a in your town. See how tolerant you are when you have to step over piles of human feces on downtown sidewalks. We have business people who find the bums sleeping in their shop doorways, peeing on the sidewalk outside the shop. What's gonna happen to that business if people have to step over the bums to get to the door? You feed them and they hang around expecting more. You enable them to continue the way they do without trying to change. They pitch their tents all over the place and leave piles of trash and human waste wherever they go because they've gotten the idea that it's OK.
I've read the Bible but I honestly don't know what Jesus would do if he saw the rot these people cause in communities. Would he feed them, exorcise their demons or chase them away with a whip? If we knew how to exorcise their demons we would but we don't know how.
I consider myself a Christian. I understand that Christians feel called to help the downtrodden. I have participated in my church's food drives for the homeless. But the whole time I did I was conflicted. It's not that simple. Somewhere along the line each one of these homeless people made not one but a whole series of bad decisions and now the rest of us are paying for it.
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You all seem to think this is a no brainer but I think you've never lived in a community that's been overrun with the homeless.
No, you are entirely correct. I never have and don't plan on it either.
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Understand, Abu. Plenty of 'Street Homeless' in the upper Midwest cities and larger towns for sure, and there are massive safety/hygiene problems as you describe. The abundance of 'outreach' charities in some areas does seem to attract more of the 'Hobo Lifestyle' types.
Not all homeless folks are the 'perpetually unwashed', though. Many individuals (including teens) and families have had something happen to their lives that forced homelessness and are actually in the process of getting their lives back together. Usually it involves the abstention and recovery from drug/alcohol use.
Too much 'help' can and does stagnate that process for many (see Portland, Or. for example), but a similar number use that to actually step up and return to a positive community-contributing existence.
I still believe the city stopping a once per week meal is a bit callous, though.
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The homeless issue belongs to all of us. I want to help but not in my neighborhood is a tough one. There are truly very few homeless that choose to live the "Hobo" life. The homeless are a dumping ground for the mentally ill that are not sick enough or have the ability to seek care, they are the addicted who have completely fallen off track, and people that have truly landed in a bad position in life. Pushing them into other communities by not helping is not the answer, and it is completely understandable that the city wants them gone, they don't vote. The issue is certainly a complex one and no one want it in their neighborhood. Just be sure when you walk past them, hear people tell them to get a job, and listen to folks complain to be thankful for the good fortune bestowed on you. We are all one or two events in life from living on the streets.
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A large portion of the homeless are those who previously would have been housed in insane asylums. Get them safely housed, fed, and properly medicated, and taking care of those who are homeless because of a concantenation of events much easier.
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If your people of faith are just putting food on the plate and saying see you next week they are not exercising their faith. With the plate of food there must be spiritual food provided at the same time to the recipient.
Many of the people are mentally ill and wouldn't survive outside of a big city where only even one in a hundred may care, but that one gets a homeless person a small amount of food to get through the day.
Others who get spiritual food do find thier way out. Socialism starves people to death both physically and spiritually.
When a nation ceases feeding its poor, God ceases feeding that nation.
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Would he feed them, exorcise their demons or chase them away with a whip?
Maybe He would separate them into three or more groups. Then He might feed some, exorcise the demons from some and chase the rest of them out of town with a whip. Jesus would know which ones deserve which treatment. I sure don't. I just want them outta here.
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Yep. Thats what the rich man thought of the beggar, too.
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Numbers I read suggested that 50% of homeless men had mental issues and 50% addiction issues--making 90%, with 10% being down on their luck but otherwise OK. (Overlap)
Dunno. The folks around where I work include a lot who--well, you can tell why their families don't want them around.
What the church is doing, and what a number of other programs for the homeless do, is concentrating them in one place. That's efficient for distribution of services, and a nightmare for providing a good environment. Setting aside the impact on the rest of the community, which isn't negligible(*), think about the feedback a quasi-stable guy gets from being around 20-100 other not-so-stable men. If you have a critical mass of the weird and aggressive, everybody's going to have to take on some of that in self-defense. Large groups of homeless are going to make each other worse.
(*) Madison bought a building to be remodeled as a homeless shelter. About 2 doors down is a day care. No doubt there are a few guys who would benefit from being near normal kids and parents, but if I ran the day care I'd put up razor wire around the place.
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James, your number are old because there is a large number of millennial that have chosen a migrant/gypsy/homeless lifestyle. I don't know the percentages but it's greater than 10%.
[Daily Caller] Not so long ago, mere mention of the deliberate murder of whites in South Africa‐country folk and commercial farmers, in particular‐was called "racist." "Raaacist!" the media collective brayed when candidate Trump retweeted a related "white genocide" hashtag.
It’s still "racist" to suggest that the butchering of these whites, almost daily, in ways that beggar belief, is racially motivated. Positively scandalous is it to describe the ultimate goal of a killing spree, now in its third decade, thus: the ethnic cleansing of white, farming South Africa from land the community has cultivated since the 1600s.
To the bottom line:
Why?
The South African state’s stout indifference to the plight of whites does not exist in a void. Witness the steady, anti-white venom the dominant-party cobra-head, the ANC, spits out. "The de facto situation is that whites are under criminal siege explicitly because of their race,"....
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When ZimBOB was encouraging attacks on white farmers and the gov of South Africa sat back and watched for the results, well it was a pretty clear sign to leave the region.
[Townhall] A jury is currently deliberating a verdict in the corruption trial for Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ). The New Jersey Democrat’s relationship with Dr. Salomon Melgen has been made front-and-center in this trial. The charge is that Menendez allowed his office to be used to help Melgen, while the Florida-based ophthalmologist gave the senator lavish gifts. Here’s a rundown of some of the activities and charges:
[Wash Times] A federal judge tossed a lawsuit Thursday that would have pushed the State Department and FBI to do more to try to track down Hillary Clinton’s emails, ruling the government has done all it reasonably could to locate the former secretary of state’s messages.
Two watchdog groups, Judicial Watch and Cause of Action, had sued in 2015 demanding the government recover all of Mrs. Clinton’s emails, saying she violated open-records laws by not preserving her messages.
U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg, though, said the FBI did what it could, and did manage to recover thousands of messages Mrs. Clinton didn’t return herself.
"Those efforts went well beyond the mine-run search for missing federal records ... and were largely successful, save for some emails sent during a two-month stretch. Even then, the FBI pursued every imaginable avenue to recover the missing emails," wrote Judge Boasberg, an Obama appointee to the court.
Originally, the case had been dismissed as moot, but last year the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia reversed that finding, ordering the government to "shake loose a few more emails."
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James Emanuel "Jeb" Boasberg (born February 20, 1963)[2] is a United States District Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, also serving as a Judge on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; and former associate judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
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“The Court of Appeals may have asked the Government to ‘shak[e] the tree harder’ for more emails, but it never suggested that the FBI must shake every tree in every forest, without knowing whether they are fruit trees,” he wrote.
You'd almost think this judge was a part of a cover-up but naw, that can't be. I wonder what FBI director Wray says?
If any of the citizens out here violated any Federal laws, they would go to the ends of the earth to dig up info to build a case.
South Korea’s decision to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system has been a thorn in Beijing’s side for over a year. Sensitivities over the THAAD system’s radar capabilities led China to impose harsh sanctions on South Korea’s tourism sector and on key conglomerates, including (especially) the Lotte Group. Consequently, the recent resolution of this bilateral row has come as something of a surprise.
While the timing was unexpected, Beijing stands to benefit from a compromise on this issue at least three major ways. First, the agreement provides assurances from Seoul about China’s strategic position in the region. Second, the rapprochement between China and South Korea creates a better political environment for Beijing to deal with the current North Korea crisis. Finally, the agreement allows China to frame itself as the responsible power in the region while Trump is on his Asian tour.
Although Beijing failed to prevent South Korea’s deployment of THAAD altogether via unilateral sanctions and political pressure, the new agreement got Seoul to publically state it would abide by three "no’s": 1) no additional THAAD deployments in South Korea; 2) no participation in a US-led strategic missile defense system; and 3) no creation of a ROK-US-Japan trilateral military alliance. In essence, South Korea agreed to at least symbolically distance itself from a US-led strategy of containing China. Seoul left itself some wiggle room on these "no’s," but this agreement may be somewhat dissatisfying in Washington. US National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster welcomed the Sino-ROK detente, but he also hinted at US concern over South Korea’s possible decoupling from American-led security structures, saying that he does regard the three no’s as "definitive" in terms of official policy.
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Personally I think Trump probably worked out the timing on this with South Korea.
I wouldn't be surprised. A carrot for China as inducement for dealing with the Pudge Problem.
As for 3) no creation of a ROK-US-Japan trilateral military alliance , that wasn't going to happen, at least not formally.
Not a lot of love for Japan in China OR SKor for some historical reasons.
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It's eyewash for public consumption. When push comes to shove, i.e. if China invades North Korea, does anyone really think the ROK's are gonna avoid shooting down Chinese missiles? The Chinese aren't exactly known for abiding by these types of agreements, so they shouldn't be surprised when the ROK's find a reason to shirk.
Commentary on the region is filled with absurdities. Take the BS about China being concerned about NK refugees. It isn't.
For one thing, China has 1.3b people. It can easily absorb the entire NK population, which amounts to 2% of its population. Jordan has already absorbed 600K refugees amounting to 7% of its population and it has 2/3 China's GDP per capita. I suspect it's probably also clear that the Chinese government is much better organized than King Abdullah's band of Bedouins.
But the real clincher is the fact that, like West Germany in the late 80's, South Korea is prepared to take every single one of those refugees. It's China that's refusing to hand them over. So what's China really afraid of? The collapse of Li'l Kim's regime, which is nothing but a Chinese protectorate by another name.
[LI] Trey Ganem, owner of Trey Ganem Designs in Edna, Texas makes custom coffins. Tuesday, he made the two-hour drive from Edna to Sutherland Springs to meet with the families of victims killed in church massacre. He’s offering free caskets for victims of the massacre, if their families would like one.
Moved to P. 3: Non-WoT because mass killers motivated merely by viciousness or insanity are not involved in the Moslem jihad.
[Free Beacon] NBC host Megyn Kelly said the saga of a woman who flipped off President Donald Trump's motorcade spoke "uniquely to what America's all about" during an interview with her on Thursday.
A photograph of Juli Briskman flipping off Trump's motorcade last month in Virginia as she rode her bicycle went viral, particularly among people frustrated with Trump's administration. However, after she posted it to her social media accounts, she was forced to resign from her job at Akima LLC.
Briskman recounted why she decided to flip off Trump to Kelly, saying it felt "great."
Kelly noted the incident had gotten worldwide coverage.
"To me, it speaks uniquely to what America's all about. You can do that," Kelly said. "That's the beauty of a free society. Whether you love President Trump or hate him, you are allowed to tell the president how you feel about him, whether it's President Obama or President Trump. That's one of our core ideals."
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She is right, and so is it in our core for the company she works for to fire her...
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It is true that her flipping off Trump is protected by the First Amendment. The government can do nothing to her. As she found out, it doesn't mean that there are no consequences.
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I believe you should be able to flip off the president, or anybody else you choose.
You should also be able to post it on FB or whatever, but that's more in the way of virtue signaling than anything else.
It's when your FB post is right there next to your employer's name proudly displayed that the problem starts...
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Whether you love President Trump or hate him, you are allowed to tell the president how you feel about him, whether it's President Obama or President Trump.
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Dear Megyn. It is what America is about. I'm happy she "felt great." However, actions do have consequences. And as long as you think it was worth being unemployed. Yipee for you.
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It's what America's all about. Just like jumping to a different channel and dissing your fans and then watching your ratings plummet. Actions have repurcussions.
[Breitbart] O.J. Simpson Booted from Vegas Bar for Drunk and Disorderly
O.J. Simpson has understandably decided to indulge in some of the things he was deprived of, while in prison. One of those indulgences, is a good stiff drink. However, if Simpson doesn’t watch it those indulgences could land him right back in the slammer.
According to TMZ, Simpson got booted from the Clique Bar, at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Vegas on Wednesday night. Simpson appeared drunk and disorderly, prior to his removal.
According to the report, "...at around midnight last night, Simpson was drunk and became disruptive at the Clique bar. We’re told Simpson was angry at hotel staff and glasses broke at the bar."
This tweet shows Simpson walking through the Cosmopolitan on Wednesday night:
[FreeBeacon] Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) backtracked Wednesday after previously saying the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries were "rigged."
Warren told MassLive.com on Wednesday that she believes the allegations in former acting Democratic National Committee chair Donna Brazile's new book, but said while the allegations showed "bias" in Hillary Clinton's favor, the primaries did not rise to the level of being "rigged."
"While there was some bias at the DNC, the overall 2016 primary process was fair and Hillary made history," she said.
A week earlier, the senator was asked by CNN's Jake Tapper whether she agreed with Brazile's allegation that the process was "rigged" in Clinton's favor. "Yes," she answered simply.
Later that same day, Warren was asked on PBS' "NewsHour" if the DNC's actions meant "the election was rigged."
"I think it was," Warren responded.
"The process was rigged and now it is up to Democrats to build a new process, a process that really works and works for everyone," she added. First Frau Brazile, now Fauxcahontas. Somebody got the word out, and the wagons are circling.
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"Hey, I'm gonna hafta suck up to these people..."
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I can never see the Land O Lakes logo without thinking of the old trick where you fold it up a certain way...
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So it's settled, the Donks didn't rig the election? Nothing to see here? Not true, they just got confused and briefly strayed away from the talking points and told the truth.
The news is that Clinton Crime Syndicate hasn't been taken down yet.
[AlAhram] All the perpetrators of a terrorist attack that killed 16 Egyptian coppers in the Western Desert in October have been killed bar one foreigner who has been tossed in the slammer Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! , President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said on Wednesday.
El-Sisi said that Egyptian authorities would reveal the foreigner’s nationality and confession after the end of the World Youth Forum, which is ongoing in Sharm El-Sheikh this week, state-run MENA agency reported.
"The perpetrators of the Wahat attack were aiming to target Wadi El-Rayan Monastery," El-Sisi said in his comments on the sidelines of the forum, which concludes on Friday.
The Coptic Orthodox monastery is located in Fayoum governorate, around 100km south of Cairo.
The Egyptian president also said that army and police forces are currently combing the country's Western Desert region to eliminate any possible terrorist hideouts in the area.
Eleven coppers, four conscripts and one sergeant were killed in a shootout while raiding a terrorist hideout in Bahariya Oasis, about 135 kilometres (83 miles) southwest of Cairo. The ministry of interior said that 15 bad boyz were potted during the shootout.
A police officer was kidnapped by forces of Evil during the shootout but the Egyptian army and police forces managed to rescue Mohammed El-Hayes in a joint operation on 31 October.
Following the shootout, Egyptian security forces launched a number of operations targeting hideouts in the Western Desert area, and reported they had killed numerous terrorists.
[IsraelTimes] A Paleostinian man was tossed in the calaboose I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! outside a settlement in the central West Bank on Thursday, after a search of his backpack yielded a meat cleaver, a knife, and a copy of the Koran, police said.
The suspect was spotted near the entrance to the Kochav Yaakov settlement, near Ramallah, by a firefighter who called police to inform them of the "suspicious man."
A group of officers from the Israel Police’s Special Patrol Unit were called to the scene and, together with the firefighter, detained the man. A group of IDF soldiers later arrived at the scene as well.
Upon searching the man’s backpack, they found the weapons and the Koran.
According to police, the suspect told the officers that the bag was not his, but that the knives were going to be used to carry out a terror attack.
The man has been placed under arrest and is being interrogated, police said.
[DAWN] At least one person was killed when an kaboom hit the city of Mazar-e-Sharif in Balkh province of Afghanistan on Thursday, TOLO News reported.
According to TOLO News, an eyewitness said the target was a former bully boy commander who was passing through the area.
Balkh police said at least one person was killed in the blast.
According TOLO News, an eyewitness said that two people were maimed in the incident.
Afghan forces have struggled to combat a resurgent Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... since the United States (US) and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... forces formally concluded their combat mission at the end of 2014.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Saudi Arabia on a surprise trip, Thursday night, coming from the United Arab Emirates and met with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman who welcomed him at the airport, reported Saudi Press Agency.
Macron said he made the decision earlier in the morning about heading to Saudi Arabia, in part over Houthi militia in Yemen launching a ballistic missile that targeted Riyadh, the Kingdom’s capital and to discuss issues concerning Iran. He bluntly blamed Iran for the attack, saying that while he still supported Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, a new agreement needed to be reached over Iran’s missile program.
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Crawls on his belly and licks Ibn Salman boots?
[The Hill] Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is calling on Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore to exit the race amid allegations of an inappropriate sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl in 1979.
"The allegations against Roy Moore are deeply disturbing and disqualifying," McCain said in a statement. "He should immediately step aside and allow the people of Alabama to elect a candidate they can be proud of."
In calling for Moore to step aside, McCain joined a growing number of Senate Republicans condemning the allegations against the former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice. Of course the well documented actions of Kennedy, Clinton, Menendez, and countless others are no way a representation of total hypocrisy.
The outgoing Senate Minority Leader even bragged to CNN that the comments, which had been described as McCarthyism, helped keep Romney from winning the election.
"They can call it whatever they want. Romney didn't win did he?" Reid said during a wide-ranging interview."
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Personally I find this sort of thing disgusting and it doesn't matter if Clinton got away with it or not. IF TRUE he should be shamed out of office. If UNTRUE the ones making the claim should be prosecuted in some way shape or form.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... has asked its nationals residing in Leb to leave immediatly in a travel warning issued on Thursday, November 9.
The travel warning also called for Saudi nationals not to travel to Leb from any point of origin.
Due to the situations in the Republic of Leb, an official source at the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the Saudi nationals visiting or residing in Leb are asked to leave the country as soon as possible, the Saudi news Agency reported.
"The Kingdom advised all citizens not to travel to Leb from any other international destinations," the statement .
Kuwait on Thursday evening called for the return of its citizens from Leb and has issued a travel warning to the country.
The United Arab Emirates also renewed its travel warning to Leb that has been in place since February 2016.
This follows a similar warning issued by the Kingdom of Bahrain on November 5 urghing its nationals residing in Leb to leave immediately and to "exercise caution."
The Bahraini call came a day after Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. announced his resignation.
The Bahraini foreign ministry said in a statement received by AFP that its call was "in the interest of its citizens’ safety and to avoid any risks they may be exposed due to the conditions and developments" that Leb is going through.
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Something seems to be accelerating?
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I often take part in what's known as "track II diplomacy" ‐ brainstorming discussions with former officials and academics that explore options for breaking major international impasses or ending conflicts. In one that just concluded, two of my longtime acquaintances from the Middle East greeted me with, "Well, once again America's word is no good. How could you abandon the Kurds?"
My Middle Eastern colleagues were calling attention to what has recently taken place in northern Iraq. There, the Iraqi military, with the clear involvement of Iranians and the Shia militias, pushed Kurdish forces out of Kirkuk,
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There are far more Kurds in Iran and also in Turkey than there are in Iraq or Syria.
If present demographic trends continue, more than half of the population of Turkey will be Kurdish speaking in 20 to 40 years.
Since the government of Iran enjoys practicing and supporting terrorism, we would be justified in supporting independence for the Kurdish majority or plurality regions of Iran. We could support an independent Kurdistan that includes the Kurdish areas of both Iran and Iraq.
There are disgruntled Kurds in Iran, and we could support these with advanced weaponry. Since Iran seems intent on arming itself with nuclear weapons, we could even supply the Kurds with nuclear weapons.
It might even be that the threat of such things might change the Mullahs' behavior.
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Since Iran seems intent on arming itself with nuclear weapons, we could even supply the Kurds with nuclear weapons.
The Kurds are Muslim. Giving them nuclear weapons will end up hurting us. If the Kurds were not Muslim, they would have a far better chance of succeeding.
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The Kurds are mostly Sunni Moslem, but also Yezidi, Christian, Jewish, and atheist. Most of the Jewish Kurds moved to Israel after 1948, but several hundred families chose to remain.
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I left feeling that it is time for the administration either to scale back what it claims it will do or actually begin to marry actions to our words.
This is Trump we're talking about here. Sell the sizzle. There is no steak.
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The message to U.S. client states and wannabes like the Kurds, if the U.S. tells you to not try to expand your territory into an ethic bomb i.e Kurkuk, and then you do anyway, then expect to get nothing for your disrespect of our guidance.
I have supported the Kurds and their national project for 20 years, but Barzani's referendum to include independence for the associated territories was rightly opposed by the U.S. In the past, he would have been deposed and a better policy would have been espoused by his successor. In these kinder and gentler days, his failure to understand the limits of U.S. support will doom his countrymen to another hundred years of servitude to local strongmen.
So sorry. Learn from your mistakes. No one in the U.S. feels bad for the Kurdish leadership. And I mean it, not a single person I have spoken with for the last month feels that the U.S. was responsible for the Kurdish leadership's mistake in calling for independence including Kurkuk. The U.S. did everything to make it not happen. They overstepped and lost. We all feel bad for the Kurdish people. Choose better leaders.
Multiple Women Accuse Minnesota State Senator Dan Schoen Of Sexual Harassment
Minnesota state Sen. Dan Schoen sexually harassed women involved in state politics while serving as a DFL lawmaker, according to multiple women who have spoken to MinnPost. Schoen, currently a first-term senator from St. Paul Park, previously served two terms in the House. He also works as a paramedic and police officer in Cottage Grove.
The women describe behavior by Schoen that ranges from persistent and unwanted invitations to meet to physically grabbing a woman from behind. One woman, who asked to not be identified, said he sent her a photo of male genitalia via Snapchat.
Schoen, who was presented with the allegations in a meeting with MinnPost, was aware of each incident but said in a subsequent statement that the allegations are “either completely false or have been taken far out of context. It was never my intention to leave the impression I was making an inappropriate advance on anyone. I feel terrible that someone may have a different interpretation of an encounter, but that is the absolute truth. I also unequivocally deny that I ever made inappropriate contact with anyone.”
“Despite this, if any of my actions or words have ever made another person feel uncomfortable or harassed, I deeply regret it and truly apologize,” Schoen continued. “This is not who I am nor is it the person I would want anyone to feel I am.”
Up Next: Robert de Niro
[USNP.TODAY] According to court records, journalist John Lichfield, who works for London’s Independent, discovered that the prostitution agency routinely ensnared girls as young as 15, forcing them to have sex with Hollywood’s rich and powerful elite.
Of course the mainstream media did everything they could to cover up for Hollywood favorite Robert De Niro. His regular dealings with the brothel, proved by court documents, received little to no media coverage.
After discovering the court documents, John Lichfield wrote, "Six people are charged with the running of an international prostitution ring, whose call-girls entertained the actor Robert de Niro, the former tennis player, Wojtek Fibak, two senior (but unnamed) French politicians and several Gulf princes. The agency specialised in tricking, or trapping, star-struck teenage girls into selling their bodies with the promise of careers as models or actresses."
Aurélie Wynn claimed the Gossip Girl star sexually assaulted her in July 2014.
The actress, who went by the stage name of Aurelie Marie Cao, described the alleged attack on Facebook on Wednesday.
Mariah Cary facing sexual harassment charges (!)
Racism, it’s not just for white people, and sexual harassment, it’s not just for men anymore, at least if a former bodyguard of one of the world’s biggest diva’s is to be believed. As reported by TMZ, the owner of the singer’s former security company has alleged that Mariah humiliated him by constantly referring to him as a Nazi, a skinhead, a KKK member and a white supremacist.
Diane Nyad: My life after sexual assault
Here I was, a strong-willed young athlete. There he was, a charismatic pillar of the community. But I’m the one who, all these many years later, at the age of 68, no matter how happy and together I may be, continues to deal with the rage and the shame that comes with being silenced.
NPR covered up sexual harassment beefs against Michael Oreskes
The left-wing Washington Post reports that NPR “leaders were aware of at least four complaints against” Michael Oreskes, NPR’s top editor, prior to his resignation last week after two allegations went public. With charges of a cover-up floating about, NPR chief Jarl Mohn has taken a four-week leave for what he says are medical reasons.
In an article published by The New York Times on Thursday, Bateman and his wife Amanda Anka confirmed the incident and described it as 'vile'.
According to them and others who were there, Balazs, 60, committed the alleged assault after persuading Anka to climb up a fireman's ladder to reach a suite which had an impressive view of London.
Washington-based advertising executive Tiffany Bacon Scourby, 39, and Hawaii-based porn star Isis Taylor both say Piven, 52, attacked or harassed them.
LA DA to form sexual crimes task force
Prosecutors in Los Angeles announced on Thursday that the city will form a special task force assigned to sexual assault cases involving Hollywood figures.
Jackie Lacey, the district attorney of Los Angeles County, said on Thursday that the new task force would be assigned to oversee the investigations and prosecutions of people in the entertainment industry accused of sexual misconduct.
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No, this is about making drywall for sale in Florida. Again.
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Yeah ed, some of that cr*p made it to a few major jobsites (and installed) a few years back before the contractors realized what the supply houses had sold them.
Not much hilarity ensued, and the lawyers got richer nonetheless.
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Wonder how much of that goes airborne.
Don't worry, I'm sure it rains out in the Cascades or Sierras before it gets to America.
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The shit wallboard was from American buyers getting the cheapest crap they could find from China. It was meant for domestic use only but the buyers loved it because they could sell it for the same price as the quality stuff.
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It is a testament to the wholesale moronization of our culture that there are gazillions of apparently sane people willing to take out six figures of debt they'll be paying off for decades for the privilege of being "taught" by the likes of Professor Bray. The reason "we don't look back at the Weimar Republic today and celebrate them for allowing Nazis to have their free-speech rights" is because they didn't. A decade ago, as my battles with Canada's "human rights" commissions were beginning, I lost count of the number of bien-pensants insisting that, while in theory we could permit hatemongers like Steyn to exercise their free-speech rights, next thing you know it would be jackboots on the 401. As I said way back when:
"Hateful words" can lead to "unspeakable crimes." The problem with this line is that it's ahistorical twaddle, as I've pointed out. Yet still it comes up. It did last month, during my testimony to the House of Commons justice committee, when an opposition MP mused on whether it wouldn't have been better to prohibit the publication of Mein Kampf.
"That analysis sounds as if it ought to be right," I replied. "But the problem with it is that the Weimar Republic—Germany for the 12 years before the Nazi party came to power—had its own version of Section 13 and equivalent laws. It was very much a kind of proto-Canada in its hate speech laws. The Nazi party had 200 prosecutions brought against it for anti-Semitic speech. At one point the state of Bavaria issued an order banning Hitler from giving public speeches."
And a fat lot of good it all did.
That's why "we don't look back at the Weimar Republic". If you're rube enough to sign up for Professor Bray's classes, here's more, from my book on free speech, Lights Out (personally autographed copies of which are exclusively available at the Steyn store). On page 250 I write:
This argument is offered routinely: If only there'd been "reasonable limits on the expression of hatred" seventy years ago, the Holocaust might have been prevented.
There's just one teensy-weensy problem with it: pre-Nazi Germany had such "reasonable limits." Indeed, the Weimar Republic was a veritable proto-Trudeaupia. As Alan Borovoy, Canada's leading civil libertarian, put it:
"Remarkably, pre-Hitler Germany had laws very much like the Canadian anti-hate law. Moreover, those laws were enforced with some vigour. During the 15 years before Hitler came to power, there were more than 200 prosecutions based on anti-Semitic speech. And, in the opinion of the leading Jewish organization of that era, no more than 10 per cent of the cases were mishandled by the authorities. As subsequent history so painfully testifies, this type of legislation proved ineffectual on the one occasion when there was a real argument for it."
Pick almost any leading Nazi propagandist of the Weimar era: Josef Goebbels? Theodor Fritsch? Both were prosecuted for anti-Semitism. You didn't have to threaten to kill the Jews: The publication of the statement "The Jews are our misfortune" was forbidden by court order. Der Sturmer was prosecuted dozens of times and just plain seized and destroyed on another dozen occasions. Its publisher Julius Streicher was twice gaoled. Read the whole thing at the link
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I lost a lot of respect for Canada when they chased Steyn out. But a nice reminder that anything with "Human Rights" or "People's Democratic Republic" in the name isn't what it sounds like.
[RUDAW.NET] The United States Congress has taken the first steps to impose "terrorist sanctions" on Iranian-proxy militias operating in Iraq.
Hezbollah al-Nujaba and As-Saib Ahl-Haq are alleged to have been "provided training, funding, and arms by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), IRGC-Quds Force, and mentored by Lebanese Hezbollah."
Rep. Ted Poe sponsored the bill on Friday which will first be referred to the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
The text also claims Ahl-Haq leader, Qais al-Khazali, "has pledged allegiance to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei."
Ahl-Haq "conducted numerous attacks" against US and Coalition forces since its inception in 2006, according to the bill.
Rights agencies like the UNHCR and Human Rights Watch have alleged the two groups have carried out human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... abuses in Iraq and Syria during the war against ISIS and Syria’s internal conflict. Alleged abuses include execution of civilians during the 2016 siege of Aleppo and extrajudicial killings of Sunni and Kurdish civilians in areas liberated from ISIS.
The two Iraqi Shiite militias are part of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), which is officially under Iraqi government control.
Nujaba, made up of Iraqis, is known to have close ties to Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah. They participated in operations in October when Iraqi forces and the PMF took federal control of disputed or Kurdistani areas claimed by both Baghdad and Erbil. The group stated it was deployed at the Syria-Iraq border near Rabia.
Ahl-Haq leader Qais al-Khazali in October demanded US forces withdraw from Iraq after ISIS is defeated in the country, reacting to US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s earlier remark that "Iranian militias" in Iraq should "go home."
If the bill passes the House and Senate and US 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... signs it into law, the president will have 90 days to impose sanctions.
Typically, US sanctions are enacted through the Department of Treasury and people and entities are forbidden from transacting with them.
The European Parliament's delegation to Iraq has called for "Iranian proxy Shiite militias forces" to leave Iraq.
"These batallions, such as Kataib Hezbollah, have no place in a free and democratic Iraq, and only help to inflame the already fragile situation," read a statement from David Cambell Bannerman, the chair of its delegation to Iraq.
Kataib was founded by Abu Mahdi Muhandis in 2007. The brigade killed one American civilian in an improvised mortar attack at a base southeast of Baghdad in February 2008. They joined the PMF in May 2016.
"Their immediate withdrawal is the only option," added the European statement.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has called the PMF ‐ who are primarily comprised of Hashd al-Shaabi fighters ‐ "the pride of Iraq."
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[DAWN] JHANG: A brilliant student is fighting for life at the Allied Hospital of Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... after her brother shot at and injured her for refusing to marry before completion of her education.
Warda, who topped the BISE examination 2017 by scoring 1001 (out of 1,100 marks) in FSc and aspires a career in medicine, suffered three bullets on her arm, face and abdomen and is being treated in the emergency ward of the hospital.
Police started the paperwork but haven't done much else against the absconder 12 days after the incident. According to the FIR 1173/17 lodged under section 324 of PPC with the Kotwali cop shoppe, Shadab Colony’s Muhammad Aslam informed the Jhang Kotwali police that his son Sabir Hussain opened fire on his (applicant’s) daughter Warda because of her "marriage dispute" on Oct 24. Sabir fled the house, he said.
He said Warda suffered injuries on her arm, face and abdomen and she was shifted to the Jhang District Headquarters Hospital from where she was referred to the Allied Hospital.
The family says the girl has a distinguished education career and she wants to be a doctor but an unfortunate incident has snuffed light out of her dream.
She appeals to Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... to allow her to get admission to any medical college once she recovers.
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A police commander prominent in acting against local militias was kidnapped last night from his home in Beida.
Ayman Al-Hassi was reportedly wounded when he resisted as an armed gang broke into his home. His elderly mother and his wife were both assaulted by the gunmen. His son managed to escape from the building.
The gang then left with Hassi. The identity of the attackers is unknown. However, Hassi in his role as head of the town’s police investigation unit has earnt a reputation for toughness against militias .
His brother Ahmed Gharour Al-Hassi was also a police commander in the town. He was killed in Ajdabiya in March by gunmen following the Libyan National Army ‘s (LNA) recapture of the Oil Crescent after an Islamist counter-attack led by the Benghazi Defence Brigades.
Ahmed had survived an earlier assassination attempt in Beida, where his unit had conducted a series of raids on properties suspected to hold Islamist militants. His brother Ayman then took over command of the unit.
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[South Front] The Caspian special operations unit will transport and evacuate special forces units on high-speed boats.
According to Izvestiya, Caspian Flotilla has formed a new special operations unit, dedicated to conducting shore operations, such as covertly transporting and evacuating reconnaissance teams, covering them with fire and conducting raids.
The unit will take care of security of sea bases and coasts. The unit will be equipped with Raptor high-speed patrol boats and Tachyon drones. According to the experts, the unit doesn’t have a military-political use. The unit was created as an extension of the Russian Navy, as “coastal” special operations units can be a useful asset in special operations taking place on sea.
The Raptor high-speed patrol boats are to be delivered to the unit until the end of the year. Tachyon drones will be used for covert landing on shores and for discovering enemy saboteurs under water.
The unit’s personnel is currently unknown at the moment, although supposedly, the unit will contain several diver and diver-miners platoons, and coastal troops.
Armored project 03160 Raptor high-speed boats will be the main means of transport for the unit. They’re 16m long, capable of transporting up to 20 fully equipped soldiers. Powered by a 2,000hp engine, the Raptor patrol boats can reach a top speed of approximately 50k. They can execute missions in a radius of 100 miles (160km) from its operating base. The boat is fitted with a remotely operated weapon station to hold a 14.5mm machine gun, as well as a gyro-stabilised, electro-optical module. The gun has a firing range of 2,000m and is used for defence against weapon systems and armoured targets. The electro-optical module provides target detection up to a range of 3,000m.
regnum.ru reports the Russian Navy is due to receive 40 surface combatants starting in 2018, all of them corvette size and smaller.
[RUDAW.NET] A number of Italian senators and members of parliament have voiced their support for the Kurdistan Region after Iraq’s military operations against the Kurdish-held areas. They demand Italia make its position clear by supporting Erbil and urge Baghdad to respect the constitutional rights of the Kurds.
Senator Ricardo Mazzoni, deputy head of the human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... office at the senate, described events in Iraq as "unfortunate," highlighting the fact that the Peshmerga were the first to put up a fight against ISIS in 2014 while the Iraqi army was in retreat.
He said that the people of Kurdistan have earned the right to determine their fate through a referendum after decades of sacrifices.
"The referendum had a clear outcome that the majority of the Kurdish people want independence for Kurdistan," Senator Mazzoni said.
This legitimate right of the Kurdish people needs to be supported by the international community, "especially the Italian government has to work in this regard knowing that it has always been close to the Kurdish people," he added.
He said it is time for Italia to break the silence against Iraq’s punitive measures and help the Kurds return to areas they previously held, including the oil-rich and diverse city of Kirkuk.
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[RUDAW.NET] Kurdistan Region’s Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani has asked the influential Shiite holy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr ... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah... to mediate talks between his government and Baghdad on the basis of the Iraqi constitution, a statement from the office of the Shiite holy man read.
In a phone call on Thursday, Talabani asked the Shiite holy man to aid a renewed commitment to the Iraqi constitution, the statement detailed.
Sadr’s stance echoes that of Baghdad, arguing that the referendum result must be annulled.
"Holding the referendum was not constitutional in the first place, so how can the constitution be adhered to without cancelling the referendum?" asked the statement from his office.
Talabani’s spokesperson Samir Hawrami confirmed to Rudaw that the phone call took place. The two "reaffirmed the need for dialogue to solve the problems between the Kurdistan Region and Baghdad," Hawrami said.
Sadr’s statement said they also discussed Iraq’s 2018 budget.
Baghdad has allocated over 12 percent of the budget for the Kurdistan Region in its draft bill. Erbil insists it is entitled to 17 percent.
Sadr said that the Iraqi state is in a difficult financial situation and people in the south and centre of the country are no better off than the Kurds.
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has offered to freeze the outcome of the independence vote in return for open dialogue with Iraq in light of the Iraqi constitution, but Baghdad has so far rejected this and demanded Erbil declare the vote null and void before any talks begin.
Baghdad also asked Erbil to respect the verdict issued by the Iraqi Federal Court earlier this week that ruled the constitution does not allow the secession of any part of the country.
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[RUDAW.NET] A Ottoman Turkish court has issued an arrest warrant for the spokesperson of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Osman Baydemir on Thursday after he failed to attend a court hearing.
The warrant was issued after Baydemir failed to attend a hearing of a court in Urfa, southeast The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , on charges related to terrorist propaganda stemming from a Newroz, Kurdish new year, event.
His lawyer requested the court postpone the session instead of issuing the warrant so that Baydemir could appear before the court and defend himself.
The Fifth Heavy Penal Court in Urfa refused the request and ordered security forces to bring the HDP spokesperson to court to give his testimony before the prosecutor.
The same court postponed a hearing for another HDP MP, Dilek Ocalan, until March 2018. She is the niece of the imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan.
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[DAILYCALLER] WASHINGTON ‐ Illinois Democratic Rep. Danny Davis says he sees ’nothing wrong’ with the Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, ACLU’s effort to ban the Star Spangled Banner as the country’s national anthem.
"Well, you know, one of the things about the Constitution that our forefathers wrote, and basically, there were none of our foremothers that were there. There were none of our fore-sisters there. There are changes that can take place and there is room to change," he told TheDC Thursday.
Alice Huffman, president of the California chapter of the NAACP, declared the anthem to be "racist" and that it "doesn’t represent our community. It’s anti-black people," SFGate.com, reported Wednesday. The NAACP is hoping for politicians to change it.
Davis, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus went on to say, "Intellectually, if people continue to pursue this nation to become perfected, then I see nothing wrong with that. I mean it was designed, I think they said, to form a more perfect union."
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From an article cited elsewhere on today's 'Burg: "If you want to get away with anything, you need only one skill: distraction."
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Whenever I read that some politician said something stupid, I go to Wikipedia and look for a picture of them. Let's just say I am rarely surprised by what they look like.
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I suspect he might be particularly keen on the "Internationale".
[DAWN] A Pakistain Army sepoy was martyred and five forces of Evil were reportedly killed when they opened fire on newly established army posts at the Pak-Afghan border, the Army's media wing said on Thursday.
"Exploiting absence of any control in Afghan border areas, forces of Evil fired on newly established Pakistain posts in Rajgal valley in Khyber Agency ... the place to go if you've got an Indiana Jones hat and whip. Chock full of high adventure and treacherous Pathans. You should really train up to it, though... at multiple places," the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a blurb.
Five forces of Evil were reportedly killed and four injured during exchange of fire while Sepoy Muhammad Ilyas was martyred, according to ISPR.
The ISPR in August had announced the conclusion of Khyber-4 operation in the agency which included clearing the areas on the Pak side of the border.
Pakistain began fencing the Pak-Afghan border earlier this year to prevent forces of Evil from crossing into the country from Afghanistan.
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Cliffside area. Nasty grounds were smuggling is a normal profession.
[DAWN] Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... police on Thursday announced the arrest of two suspected hit mans allegedly linked with the London faction of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... (MQM).
A statement issued by the office of Senior Superintendent Police (SSP) Anti-Violent Crime Cell (AVCC) stated that the suspects were tossed in the slammer Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! from Gutter Baghicha area near Manghopir Road in Karachi.
A .222 rifle and a Mauser were recovered from the possession of the suspects who reportedly accepted their association with the MQM and their involvement in multiple cases of assassinations.
According to the police statement, the arrested suspects had provided backup and support to culprits during Chakra Goth incident in 2011, which had resulted in the death of four people, including three coppers.
The suspects have been identified as Mohammad Hamid alias Piya and Mohammad Naeem alias Kaala alias Jolly, read the statement.
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[DAWN] President Hassan Rouhani warned 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... on Wednesday that it will achieve nothing by threatening the might of Iran, as a war of words between the regional heavyweights intensifies.
His comments came after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman accused Iran of delivering missiles to Yemeni rebels for use against targets in the kingdom that he described as "direct military aggression".
Iran has strongly denied No, no! Certainly not! supplying any missiles to the rebels, saying that it would have been impossible to do so in any case in the face of a Saudi-led air and sea blockade.
Tehran has hit back against the increasingly fierce rhetoric from Riyadh with strong words of its own, troubling international oil markets.
"You know the might and place of the Islamic republic. People more powerful than you have been unable to do anything against the Iranian people," Rouhani said at a cabinet meeting in remarks aimed at Saudi leaders. "The United States and their allies have mobilised all their capabilities against us and achieved nothing."
Rouhani referred to the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88, in which revolutionary Iran successfully resisted an invasion by Saddam Hussein’s regime supported by Gulf Arab and Western governments.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Egypt’s president said the defeat of the Death Eater ISIS group in Iraq and Syria was likely to have forced bandidosbully boyz to seek a safe haven in neighboring Libya, from which they will later cross into his country where his security forces have been battling bandidosbully boyz in the Sinai peninsula and, more recently, in its vast western desert.
President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi also said Egypt’s ongoing arms buildup was designed in part to equip the country to deal with terrorism and redress the "strategic imbalance" in the region created by conflict and turmoil engulfing several countries in the area like Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen.
El-Sisi would not be drawn into specifics about bandidosbully boyz leaving the battlefields in Iraq and Syria after they lost almost all territory they seized in 2013 and 2014. He said it was only "natural" for them to move to Libya, where mostly Islamist militias wield influence over large swathes of territory, and eventually to Egypt.
"We must have the military capabilities that compensate for that imbalance in the region and to counter terrorism," he said. "This is a threat not just faced by us, but also by Europe," he told during a two-hour news conference in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in southern Sinai.
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[Mail] An FBI counter terrorism supervisor is currently under an internal investigation after a night of heavy drinking with exotic dancers led to his gun being stolen, new documents reveal.
Robert Manson was drinking heavily in a fifth-floor room in the Westin Charlotte hotel in the North Carolina city when his gun, $6,000 Rolex and some cash were stolen from him, a Charlotte- Mecklenberg police report says.
Manson, who is a unit chief in the FBI's international terrorism sector, was heavily intoxicated but uninjured when police were told of the incident, the New York Times reported.
The agent was visiting Charlotte on July 9 for training, and agents told police they'd spent that night drinking with women they believe were exotic dancers.
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Actually, the report said that when the police interviewed the agent the day after the theft, he was still too drunk to talk to them coherently. So they had to get the info from the agent in the room next door.
He's on road to high management.
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Probably a key man on the Russia investigations for Mueller.
It's impossible for me to quantify the increase in disgust and cynicism I have experienced with regard to bureaucratic organizations in the last 20 years.
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A Rolex is a bit pricey for a front-line Feeb. However, to be fair, a person might blow most of his paycheck on a $6000 Rolex, it might have been a gift or it could have been inherited.
Erbil (IraqiNews.com) Erbil (IraqiNews.com) Number of Yazidi survivors, who were kidnapped by Islamic State, has reached up to 3,191, a Kurdish official said on Thursday.
“The recent figures indicate that 6,417 Yazidis are held by IS,” Khairi Bozani, the head of the Yazidi Affairs Office of the Kurdistan Regional Government, told Alghad Press. “Number of kidnapped women reaches 3,547, while 2,870 Yazidi men are abducted.”
“Number of survivors reached 3,191, including 1,128 women and 335 men,” Bozani added. “Female children survivors reached 900, while male children reached 828.”
The Kurdish-speaking community came to the spotlight when Islamic State militants, taking over large parts of Iraq, victimized its members, committing massacres and subjecting them to forced conversions, sexual slavery and other reported atrocities.
In July, Bozani said around 90,000 Yazidi out of a total of 550,000 in Iraq have immigrated to Europe.
Many Yazidis were persecuted and held in Mosul by Islamic State, which considered them devil-worshippers.
A study on the number of Yazidis affected showed that at least 9,900 of Iraq’s Yazidis were killed or kidnapped in just days in an attack by the militants in 2014.
About 3,100 Yazidis were killed – with more than half shot, beheaded or burned alive – while about 6,800 others were kidnapped to become sex slaves or fighters, according to the report published in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Medicine.
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[AlAhram] Turkish police have detained 165 people over suspected links to Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) militant group in Ankara and have arrest warrants for a total of 245 suspects in the capital and surrounding province, state-run Anadolu news agency said on Thursday.
It said 1,500 police officers took part in the operation across Ankara province, raiding 250 addresses. No further details were immediately available.
Private broadcaster CNNTurk said police in the northwestern city of Bursa also detained 27 suspects including some Syrian nationals over alleged links to IS.
They confiscated documents and materials linked to the organisation during raids at the addresses of some suspects, it said.
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Anbar (IraqiNews.com) The number of remaining Islamic State militants is estimated at no more than twenty members at the group’s stronghold in western Anbar, an official said.
“The families that remained in Rawa are around 300 families. News that mentioned that they are besieged to be used at human shields are untrue as the militants are in defeated,” Hussein al-Okaidi, mayor of Rawa told Baghdad Today.
“After the IS blew up the only bridge in Rawa, security troops had to look for a way to the town through al-Rummana,” he added.
Okaidi indicated presence of “desert roads and island that stretches out to the Syrian land. But there should be redeployment and tightening control on land before starting the last battle to clear Rawa of the militants.”
“The remaining number of militants in Rawa are no more than 20, while the rest fled toward Syria,” he added.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi army killed four suicide bombers before crossing into Iraq from Syria on Thursday, a commander was quoted saying.
Maj. Gen. Nawman al-Zawbai, commander of the army’s 7th division, told Alsumaria News that a force from the division killed four militants clad in explosive belts who tried to sneak from the Syrian side into Iraq. His statement did not specify the region where the incident took place.
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[IsraelTimes] Protest against Israeli presence in Golan Heights sees demonstrators vow to keep up 'struggle' of 'shahids [deaders]'
Arab students in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem protested Israel’s presence in the Golan Heights on Wednesday in a demonstration which also saw protesters call for the expulsion of "Zionists" from the country.
"Zionists, out. My land [must be] Arab and free. There is no solution, no solution, but to get rid of the occupier," students said, according to footage obtained by Channel 2.
"Shahid [martyr] be calm, we will continue the struggle," the demonstrators also chanted during the rally at the Mount Scopus campus, which was organized by the student branch of the communist Hadash party.
"From Jerusalem to the Golan, one nation will not be weakened," they called, waving Paleostinian flags. "Paleostine is Arab, and the Golan is Syrian."
A complaint about the slogans was later lodged with police on the grounds of incitement to violence, the TV report said.
In May, Arab students at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem rallied in solidarity with hunger-striking Paleostinian security prisoners, brandishing photos of convicted terrorists, while calling for an "intifada" uprising against Israel and the expulsion of Zionists, Channel 2 reported at the time.
That display was defended by the university faculty, who said the demonstration was held in accordance with its internal regulations and did not breach Israeli law.
The May rally, also organized by the student branch of the communist Hadash party, saw students scream: "Intifada and victory! From Jerusalem to Ashkelon!" and "Let’s talk exile! We don’t want to see any Zionists."
Some students carried a photo of Ihrima Majdi Al Rimawi, who was convicted in the 2001 liquidation of Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze’evi in Jerusalem, the report said.
A security guard reportedly held back activists from the right-wing Im Tirzu group, who sought to stage a counter-demonstration, saying they had no permission from the university to hold a rally.
A statement from the university to Channel 2 in May backed the Hadash protesters and criticized the right-wing activists for engaging them.
Earlier in May, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and politicians lined up to slam the Hebrew University of Jerusalem over a report that said the national anthem would not be sung at a graduation ceremony so as not to offend Arab students.
Army Radio reported that it had obtained a recording of a student querying the decision to not sing Hatikva during the ceremony at the Mount Scopus campus, and being told by an employee of the Humanities Faculty that it was out of "consideration for the other side" ‐ an apparent reference to Arab students.
The university said the graduation ceremony "has followed the same format for years," and that there had been no new decision taken to "cancel" the anthem. It said the national anthem is always played at the state ceremonies that it holds, and that the university president had made this clear to the education minister.
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Army Radio reported that it had obtained a recording of a student querying the decision to not sing Hatikva during the ceremony at the Mount Scopus campus, and being told by an employee of the Humanities Faculty that it was out of "consideration for the other side" ‐ an apparent reference to Arab students.
Fuck the other side. Israel has bent over backwards to try to get along with them. All they have ever received for their troubles is more attacks and death.
Kick 'em out and if they try shit kill them all. Only way to deal with these barbarians.
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A question repeats ad nauseam: How do they get away with this stuff? How did gropers and pederasts run amok in our nation's media for decades without being challenged? How did a web of state operatives, lobbyists, agents, and propagandists fool so many people with disinformation for so long without being caught?
The Deep State works on the basis of blackmail an protection? Who would have thought.
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The ugliness is that I believe our buddies in the deep state and the media/Hollywood perverts and the academic crazies are all one in the same. This article alludes to that and I think that is the real story. The Dems have to be in this as they get a lot of money and support and air time from these loathsome creatures.
As an aside, I posted a thread here a couple of weeks ago and last week I received a reprimand for "divisiveness" interesting in that the thread was posted at home and on my personal computer using my home encrypted Wi-Fi network...
[DAWN] Islamabad police on Thursday registered a First Investigation Report (FIR) against sectarian outfit Tehrik Labaik Ya Rasool Allah (TLY) leader Khadim Rizvi in a case pertaining to the death of an infant.
The infant's family was not able to reach the Pakistain Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) last night because of roadblocks put in place due to a joint rally being held by the TLY and the Sunni Tehrik ...formed in Karachi in 1992 under by Muhammad Saleem Qadri. It quickly fell to trading fisticuffs and assassinations with the MQM and the Sipah-e-Sahaba, with at least a half dozen of its major leaders rubbed out. Sunni Tehreek arose to become the primary opposition to the Deobandi Binori Mosque, headed by Nizamuddin Shamzai, who was eventually bumped off by person or persons unknown. ST's current leadership has heavily criticized the Deobandi Jihadi leaders, accusing them of being sponsored by Indian Intelligence agencies as well as involvement in terrorist activities... (ST).
The rally was held to protest a lack of punishment for those involved in making changes to the Khatm-e-Nabuwat declaration for electoral candidates which have already been reversed.
The police registered an FIR against Rizvi and other participants of the protest under Section 322 of the Pakistain Penal Code which deals with qatl-bis-sabab (unintentional murder).
In the FIR, the child's father alleged that the eight-month-old's life could have been saved if they had reached the hospital in time.
The capital administration and police’s wait-and-see approach to the rally by the religious groups paralysed the capital yesterday, allowing the rally to enter the capital and later occupy Faizabad Bridge.
A few rounds of meetings were held between administration and police officials, and the TLY and ST leadership, but the two sides were unable to reach an understanding, officials had said.
The administration decided to seal the Red Zone except for one road that was left open for the movement of officials.
Containers were also brought to Faizabad and Zero Point and placed at the side of the roads to use once the strength and mood of the rally had been observed, an official said, adding that strategies for the situation were pending until the rally reached Islamabad.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Seven of the 208 accused of corruption have been released, according to a statement by the Attorney-General of the Kingdom of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , in the latest development related to the action initiated by the recently instituted High Commission against Corruption.
Sheikh Saud Al Moaajeb, Attorney General of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and member of the Supreme Committee for Combating Corruption, said on Thursday that the investigations of the individuals who have been summoned are proceeding rapidly and updates will be provided.
The Attorney General said that "the number of persons tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! was 208, while seven were released, for lack of sufficient evidence."
Earlier on Thursday, Saudi Arabia also announced a new list of people suspected of corruption.
Funds were frozen, with arrests also involving managers and officials of government and judicial institutions.
Sheikh Saud said "the financial value of these decades-long practices amounts to very large amount of misappropriated and unutilized public funds, and the potential value of these amounts may exceed $100 billion, according to initial investigations."
Sheikh Saud said "the financial value of these decades-long practices amounts to very large amount of misappropriated and unutilized public funds, and the potential value of these amounts may exceed $100 billion, according to initial investigations."
Further evidence to substantiate the facts in these cases will continue to be collected he said, and "as announced on Tuesday, the Governor of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) has accepted my request to freeze their personal assets in this investigation. This action confirms the findings of our preliminary investigation over the past three years on the scale of these corrupt and large practices."
Next stage of investigations
Sheikh Saud made it clear that "given the magnitude of these charges, under the Royal Order of 4 November, there is a clear legal mandate to move to the next stage of investigations with the suspects, and there is a great deal of speculation around the world about the identities of the individuals concerned and the details of the charges against them. However, ars longa, vita brevis... we will not disclose any details at this time, to ensure that they enjoy the full legal rights granted to them by the Kingdom, and ask to respect their privacy while undergoing judicial proceedings."
However, ars longa, vita brevis... he said normal commercial activity in the Kingdom will not be affected by these investigations. "Only personal bank accounts were frozen, and companies and banks have the freedom to continue transactions and transfers as usual, something that the official authorities in the Kingdom had pointed out and reiterated."
The work of the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, under the leadership of the King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques , King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians.... bin Abdul-Aziz, and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is within a clear legal and institutional framework to maintain transparency and integrity in the Saudi market.
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The other 201 were released from a plane at 30000 feet without a parachute?
[IsraelTimes] The Hague decides not to prosecute city councilman Abdoe Khoulani for invective against Israel supporter
Calling Israeli children "Zionist holy warriors in training" and "future child murderers and occupiers" does not constitute incitement to hate, Dutch prosecutors said.
The Public Prosecution Service decided Wednesday not to prosecute Abdoe Khoulani, a city councilman in The Hague, on the basis of a criminal complaint filed against him over statements he made in May about schoolchildren from Israel who visited his city, the Telegraaf daily reported.
The service cited how Zionists are "indistinguishable" from other people by race, complexion or origins. Khoulani would have been prosecuted had he spoken about Jews, the service also said. Furthermore, the decision said, schoolchildren did not complain themselves against Khoulani, making it procedurally difficult to prosecute him for intending to cause them offense.
The youth movement of the Reformed Political Party, which hosted the visiting Israeli Young Ambassadors program in The Hague, filed the complaint with police against Khoulani for hate speech. Facebook has removed the post with his remarks.
But the prosecution service said it would prosecute Khoulani, who represents the Islamist Party of Unity and is Moslem, for repeatedly insulting Anneke Brons, who has defended Israel on social media and criticized his comment about the children.
In one message, he called Brons a "blonde bitch."
Khoulani continued: "And you know what you should do, Anneke? You should leave the Netherlands immediately and go live in an Israeli colony. Happily steal Paleostinian land and see Paleostinian children being rubbed out. That’s what you should do. You belong there. With the Zionist scum."
Yanki Jacobs, a well-known local rabbi for Chabad on Campus, criticized the decision not to prosecute and called on other Jews to protest it.
"When the judiciary decides to allow such speech by an elected official, who calls children who happened to possess an Israeli passport murderers, we as Jews need to stand up and say that this is unacceptable," he said.
[IsraelTimes] Lawmakers from pro-immigrant, Moslem rights party claim Jewish journalist Cnaan Liphshiz and naturalized citizen spying on 'pro-Paleostine activists in Europe'.
This week, only six months after I became a Dutch citizen, my wife congratulated me for being mentioned in parliament for my reporting on the Netherlands’ relations with Israel
There was just one tiny problem: The mention, which local Jewish leaders later condemned as anti-Semitic, was by a pro-immigrant, Moslem rights party that insinuated that I am a Zionist spy for Israeli intelligence.
The charges appear in a set of questions submitted to the chamber by Denk ("think" in Dutch), a party founded by two Dutch-Ottoman Turkish politicians. Citing my reporting for JTA and prior service in the Israel Defense Forces, they suggested to Cabinet ministers that as a former member of the military, I am part of an effort by Israel to "spy on pro-Paleostine activists in Europe."
To me, Denk’s attack demonstrated that my roots can be used against me ‐ and maybe against my children, too ‐ even in the once-tolerant society into which I thought I had integrated.
What seemed to have inspired the party’s attack was my reporting about the appointment of Cabinet minister Sigrid Kaag, a former staffer for UNRWA, 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... agency for Paleostinian refugees, who is married to a former ambassador of the Paleostinian Authority to Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... This prompted Tunahan Kuzu, a Denk politician, to flag me in a query sent to the minister of general affairs and the minister of foreign affairs. Such queries, like congressional resolutions in the United States, are often used by politicians to draw attention to an issue and usually disappear into a digital archive.
Among the nine questions, Kuzu asked: "Is it true that Liphshiz worked for the intelligence services during his service as researcher for the Israeli army?" Followed directly by: "How do you view the fact that Israel uses its intelligence service to spy on pro-Paleostine activists in Europe?"
My accusers entered the parliament in the March elections, courting Moslems with a platform that resists integration in favor a multicultural vision of Dutch society. Denk has been accused of anti-Semitism, and of countering discrimination against immigrants colonists with its own radical vision of a Balkanized Holland.
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So, I'm guessing that referring to Dutch prosecutors as Islamist puppets would be OK, too?
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Of course, calling Muslim children "terrorists in training" would be prosecuted as incitement.
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Can't wait til the Muzzies become a super-minority/majority in some European country, and establish Sharia (rhymes with diarrhea) Law. Liberals will be faced with praying to the demon allan 5 times a day or else.
[TAMPABAY] Patrick Charles Hannon helped execute two Tampa men 26 years ago. He slashed one man’s throat and shot another man six times in the chest in 1991.
The state of Florida executed him for those crimes on Wednesday night.
Hannon was pronounced dead at 8:50 p.m. He was 53.
He is the only one of three men who took part in the Jan. 10, 1991 murders of Brandon Snider, 27, and Robert Carter, 28, to receive the death penalty.
James Acker, also now 53, is serving a life sentence plus 22 years at Cross City Correctional Institution in Dixie County. Ronald Richardson testified against the other two in exchange for a five-year sentence.
When the curtain rose on the glass window separating the witness gallery from the execution chamber, Hannon was strapped in a gurney, covered by a white sheet.
Before executioners injected the cocktail of drugs that would render him unconscious, paralyzed and then dead, Hannon spoke.
He proclaimed his innocence and apologized ‐ to the family of just one of the men he killed.
"I hope this execution gives the Carter family some peace," he said. "I wish I could have done more to save Robert."
In the gallery, a woman from Snider’s family whispered: "Bulls----."
"I didn’t kill anybody but I was there when Ron Richardson and James Acker did," Hannon said.
"Robbie was a good man and a good friend, and I let him down when he needed me most. As far as Brandon Snider, I think that everybody knows what he did to get this ball rolling.
"I’m sorry this worked out like this, the way it did."
The woman whispered one final vulgarity at Hannon, then waved goodbye as he was put to death.
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Life plus 22 years, darn, that's a stiff sentence.
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He should be almost finished with in-processing in Hell by now.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Of a total population of less than 1 million Rohingya present in Myanmar in mid August this year, more than 600,000 have already been pushed out of the country by a concerted military operation led by the Myanmar military authorities. As a backgrounder, the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army staged a series of concerted attacks on the Burmese army. Unwilling to tolerate another Moslem jihad, the Rohinyas have been expelled to Bangla, where live some of those funding and leading ARSA. Saudi Arabia is too far away to dump them.
These military operations included the burning down of villages (visible from satellite imagery), widespread reports of extensive use of rape as a weapon of war, the extrajudicial killing of civilian men, women, and children, as well as laying down mines on the paths taken by those fleeing the carnage towards the border with Bangladesh.
The UN, in its characteristic conservative tone has described the ongoing intervention by the Myanmar army as ‘textbook ethnic cleansing’, while other world leaders such as French President Emmanuel Macron have more accurately described it as ‘genocide’. The number of corpses hasn't been that overwhelming. The Karens, Kachins, and Shans have been similarly suppressed by the ethnic Burmans occasionally. I realize that being dead is overwhelming to the person departing this Vale of Tears. I also realize that jihad has a habit of sprouting where local Moslem majorities (or near so) coexist next to non-Moslems. We can probably take the Philippines as a case study. You can also chart the decline of the Christian population in Paleostine, and then ask the Yazdis and the Zoroastrians of Iraq for details.
As for the international response? My conversations with Western diplomats circles seem to have conceded as inevitable that the entire remaining Rohingya population in Myanmar will be pushed over the border, and everyone is resigned to just waiting for it to be over and done. Thanks to ARSA.
But one group of people who are not quite so complacent are those who are perpetrating this genocide and those who are urging them on. Their goal is within reach, but they will not take their success for granted until they see it accomplished.
So what do these people fear if obviously not the wrath of the international community or censure from the West? Apparently, the unwelcome intervention of human empathy and remorse. On 30 October, a revered Burmese Buddhist monk by the name of Sitagu Sayadaw has given a rather telling sermon to army officers at the Bayintnaung garrison and military training school in Kayin.
The Pali chronicle The sermon is 3 hours long but the translated transcript of one small section of it is certainly worth reading (here). It involves a tale from the Pali chronicle the Mahavamsa, detailing a 5th Century CE civil war in Sri Lanka between Pali Buddhists and Tamil non-Buddhists. Hmmm... Sri Lanka? Sounds familiar...
The conflict kills ‘millions’ of Tamils, Who're a different ethnic groups from the Singhalese, mostly Hindoos, and speak Tamil dialects.
and after his victory, the triumphant Pali Buddhist king Duttagamani is unable to savor his achievement of winning the conflict and politically reuniting the country due to remorse over the loss of life. Did what he needed to do, and didn't like that he had to do it...
But the king is swiftly released from his anguish by eight helpful Buddhist ‘saints’, who show up at his palace and proceed to put his mind at ease: yes, millions of beings have been destroyed in the conflict, but only one and a half of the millions of Tamils were in fact humans: one of the Tamils had adopted the 5 precepts of Buddhism, and another one accepted the precepts and “taken the three refuges in the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha”. I'd have my quibbles with the translation. Theravada Buddhism, as far as I can recall, doesn't regard any humans as non-human, nor even as "infidels." They use the word "unenlightened."
The death of those two was unfortunate, but the slaughter of millions of non-Buddhists is in no way a problem, and will not impede king Duttagamani’s ascent to heaven upon his death. More likely it won't impede the king's possible achievement of Nirvana.
So if you are one of those foot soldiers in the Myanmar army who is ordered to rape a young Rohingya girl for religion and country, you need not consult your conscience: she’s a Muslim, ergo not a human being. You are doing the work of a Buddhist saint. Thais, Laos, Burmese (more properly Burmans or even more properly Bamar), Shans, and Mons spent many happy years fighting periodic wars with each other. They once fought a war over a lacquered box that somebody filled with elephant poop. More recently the Laos, who are normally a pretty gentle folk, did terrible things to the Hmong in the vicinity of the Plain of Jars. They weren't religious conflicts, but wars over politics or territory and sometimes for looks.
If you are one of the officers ordering wanton extrajudicial killings of unarmed civilians, you are doing nothing more than your solemn duty for the protection of the sanctity of the Buddhist state. These ‘beings’ are not Buddhist, and therefore pose a threat to the religious purity of the state and need to be removed and/or destroyed. That's a part of Islam, not Buddhism. I'm not a Buddhist, but I was pretty interested in it when I was in Southeast Asia. I not only read up on it, but discussed it with practitioners.
Western audiences are accustomed with the idea of using the Christian religion or Islam to encourage and justify mass murder (crusades, jihads, the European Wars of Religion etc.), but genocide in the name of nirvana by and towards beings which expect to be reincarnated is a much more bizarre proposition. It's also one the author pulled out of his butt. The Tamil Tigers weren't religiously motivated, but ethnically. There are something like 165 different ethnic groups in the country. Burmans make up not quite 70 percent of the population of Myanmar. The Shan are just under 10 percent, then the Karens and Kachins. Others are Mon, Chinese, and Indians. Hill tribes are four percent of the population. Rakhine are three and a half percent. The groups split mostly by language, to include the Rohingya, who are of Indian ethnicity, and don't make up the majority in Rakhine state. Even though the country's mostly Lesser Vehicle Buddhist, there's no religious homogeneity. A large number of Karens, for example, are Lutherans. Nobody cares except Moslems -- except when the Moslems decide it's time for jihad. Three and a half percent of the population declaring jihad against the other 96.5 percent will not end well.
Still, there we have it. Zen masters ... are Japanese, a part of their particular strain of Greater Vehicle Buddhism...
inciting and justifying genocide to soldiers who are in the middle of carrying out a genocide. Expelling a population is now called ethnic cleansing...
And we are all failing to identify the religious bigotry dimension of a genocide carried out under the auspices of holy and revered Buddhist monks. Despite the occasional lunatic Buddhist holy man, I still call it an ethnic war. Or maybe you could call it a counter-jihad, which is how I think most people with even a passing knowledge of the subject see it. Myanmar's not sinless by any means -- it was Ne Win, back in the Upper Paleolithic (1962, I think) who instituted the policy of "Burmanization."
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[DAWN] Upon the indignity of disqualification has been heaped further humiliation.
The detailed judgement dismissing the review petitions filed by 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... and his family makes for devastating reading. Not only has the court reiterated its total belief that it acted rightly to disqualify Mr Sharif for omitting to declare a nominal salary, it has also called into question the former prime minister’s character, intentions and competence.
The tone and tenor of the detailed judgement will likely leave legal purists uncomfortable, with the harsh language and condemnation often veering away from strictly legal interpretations.
It had been hoped that the Panama Papers case would lay down good law that could, because of sound legal reasoning, go on to become easily citable as sound precedent, but that is arguably not yet the case.
For Mr Sharif, however, the problems continue to mount. While his demeanour and rhetoric had suggested that he did not expect to receive a sudden reprieve in court, his path to a return to front-line politics continues to narrow.
Perhaps Mr Sharif ought to reflect on his own mistakes that have allowed a political crisis to consume the country for more than a year and a half. Once the Sharif family was enmeshed in the Panama Papers revelations, it was imperative that the then prime minister give a complete and candid account of his family’s wealth and assets.
Instead, Mr Sharif chose the path of obfuscation, evasion and delay. Neither was Mr Sharif willing to submit to political scrutiny in parliament nor was he able to provide satisfactory answers once the matter had shifted to the Supreme Court.
Mr Sharif did not appear to realise that the democratic project was at an inflection point and that his personal conduct would determine whether democracy was strengthened or weakened in the country. Even now, Mr Sharif appears unwilling to acknowledge the legal dimensions of his political troubles, having forced a return as president of the PML-N while his accountability court trial continues.
At some point, Mr Sharif will have to acknowledge that the democratic project is more important than the political fate of any given individual. If he does not, an already worrying political crisis in the country will deepen.
What Mr Sharif must surely avoid is the further introduction of person-specific legislation to help circumvent his legal troubles. Nor must the PML-N make any attempt to somehow clip the powers of the superior judiciary.
With a historic third consecutive on-schedule election less than a year away, the PML-N has an opportunity to convince the electorate that it deserves another stint in power. A fresh mandate, if the PML-N receives one, could help clear the uncertainty that has engulfed the political landscape, while failure to win re-election would render moot a debate on Mr Sharif’s political future. The paramount interest is continuity of the democratic process.
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[IsraelTimes] Dutch police open investigation into killing of Ahmad Mola Nissi, who advocated for independence for Iran's Arab minority.
An Iranian activist who advocated for the independence of the country’s Arab minority was shot to death in the Netherlands on Wednesday.
Ahmad Mola Nissi, 52, was a founder of the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz, or ASMLA, which advocates for an independent state in Iran’s oil-rich Khuzestan Province.
Dutch police said an investigation had been opened into the shooting and a suspect were tossed into the calaboose at the scene of the crime in The Hague.
"His involvement in the incident is being investigated," police said about the suspect, according to Rooters. "Emergency services were at the scene quickly and reanimated the victim, but he died shortly later."
The Ahvazi, who are ethnically Arab, are one of a number of minorities in Iran that says it is persecuted by the country’s Persian majority. Members of the ethnic group say they face discrimination in employment and housing and are often denied political and civil rights, according to Amnesia Amnesty International.
In July, Mola Nissi told Rooters the ASMLA wants to "liberate Ahwaz lands and people from the Iranian occupation."
The ASMLA has an armed wing called the Mohiuddin al Nasser Martyrs Brigade that has claimed attacks on Iranian troops.
Iran has accused its rival 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... of backing separatist groups in the country, which Saudi Arabia denies.
[DAWN] ANOTHER deadly attack in Quetta; yet more coppers targeted and killed. The sickening pattern of violence in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... is too public and clear for state officials to simply try and foist blame on unnamed external actors. That a police brass hat, this time a DIG and two other coppers, could be killed near his official residence in what ought to be a high-security zone in Quetta is an utter failure of the intelligence and security apparatus. There is simply no excuse for why a jacket wallah can infiltrate the area, reach his target and detonate explosives without being identified and stopped. Quetta and the wider province have suffered violence that has ebbed and flowed too many times for the usual explanations to be tolerated. A murky security strategy in the province appears to have made accountability all but impossible. Who is responsible for the consistent lapses and why is it that the only thing that appears horribly certain in Balochistan is that more attacks will occur?
The targeting of coppers is a particularly deadly terrorist tactic. In Balochistan, where the state has been hollowed out by attacking officials over the years to discourage others from serving in the province, there is a desperate shortage of skills at all tiers of the private and public sectors. The worse that shortage is made and the more others are deterred from serving in the region, the less Balochistan will be able to reverse its abysmal socioeconomic indicators. And that will surely help consign Balochistan to many more years of deprivation and violence ‐ a cycle that the security establishment appears to have no real answer to. Without recognising that a militarised security strategy in Balochistan has failed to produce adequate results in a province that is beset by a range of security challenges, Balochistan cannot begin to find answers to a complex, layered security threat.
Perhaps now is the time for the civilian government or one of its partners to issue an urgent call for a fresh national dialogue on Balochistan. Previous attempts have achieved little, but it remains the case that only a combined civilian and military strategy affords Balochistan a chance to escape from its otherwise seemingly endless misery. The different challenges ‐ sectarianism, external interference, domestic militancy, radicalisation of parts of the population and a low-level separatist insurgency ‐ require different responses, but they all need a coherent state strategy. At the moment, it is not clear what strategy the state has to respond to this latest wave of violence. A fresh initiative by the civilian leadership could open the door to an intra-state dialogue and an understanding of how to tackle the different strands of militancy, terrorism and violence in Balochistan. The lack of ideas and initiatives in Balochistan appears to be undermining security in the province; it is time for another path to be taken.
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[FoxNews] The U.S. Army is set to decide whether Pvt. Bowe Bergdahl is entitled to as much as $300,000 in back pay and other benefits he amassed during his captivity with the Taliban.
Bergdahl, 31, was captured by the Taliban in 2009 after he walked off base while in Afghanistan. He was given a dishonorable discharge and he was demoted from sergeant to private in a court decision earlier this month but spared prison. President Trump called the ruling a "complete and total disgrace."
Captive soldiers normally receive special compensation worth around $150,000 in addition to hostile-fire pay and their basic pay they accumulated during the captivity. But determining whether Bergdahl should receive the back pay is not as clear-cut.
The State Department marked Bergdahl in as "Missing-Captured" several days after he was captured and the terror group released a video featuring him alive, Military.com reported in 2014.
But Bergdahl pleaded guilty to desertion in court, complicating whether the army will consider him as a prisoner of war and thus entitled to back pay and compensation.
"My understanding is there has to be an administrative determination of his duty status at each point, from the time he was captured until now," an army official told the Army Times. "In order to figure out what he’s owed, you’re basically going to have to start from that point of captivity."
The official told the Times that it is possible Bergdahl will be given only his accumulated basic pay during his five-year captivity.
Bergdahl, however, might not be eligible for the basic back pay and could even owe money to the military. The Army could determine that he should not be paid for the time in captivity or that he was overpaid since his return to the U.S, according to the official who spoke with the Times.
"Based upon the results of trial, the Army is reviewing Sgt. Bergdahl’s pay and allowances," Lt. Col. Randy Taylor told the Times. "His final pay and allowances will be determined in accordance with DoD policy and Army regulation." If the Army allows him to play his "Victim" card again, he'll get the $. But I doubt 300 large will be enough.
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[IsraelTimes] Deal between organization and the PA fulfills key demand raised by Paleostinian hunger strikers earlier this year.
The International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC) has signed an agreement with the Paleostinian Authority to partially fund family visits to Paleostinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
Wednesday’s agreement fulfills one of the main demands raised by more than 1,000 Paleostinian security prisoners who carried out a hunger strike in Israeli jails earlier this year.
The prisoners ended their 40-day hunger strike, during which they called for better incarceration conditions, at the end of May. One of their primary demands was that they be allowed two monthly visits from family members, rather than one.
Last year, the ICRC, which organized all of the visits, cut back on the number allowed, citing a lack of funds and little family interest in the initiative.
Rima Kamal, an official with the ICRC, told The Times of Israel in an email that, in May, the PA committed to taking over "organizing and funding" the second monthly family visit.
On Wednesday, she said, the ICRC and PA signed "a letter of technical agreement... in accordance with which the ICRC committed to providing technical support to the PA and helping establish a framework that will empower and enable the PA to provide this essential humanitarian service."
The support includes six months of coaching by ICRC staff to PA employees who will run the visits, continued help from the ICRC in liaising with Israeli authorities to attain necessary permits. "If necessary," ICRC employees will accompany the busses that bring the family members to the prisons, Kamal said.
"The responsibility to facilitate family visits for detainees held in Israel is foremost the responsibility of the State of Israel as an occupying power," she added.
The night the hunger strike was declared over, Israeli officials denied Paleostinian claims both that Israel had negotiated with the inmates to end the mass protest, and that it had acceded to any of the prisoners’ demands.
Prison officials told Channel 2 at the time that the hunger strike’s leader, Marwan Barghouti, negotiated the additional monthly visits in a phone conversation with PA Minister of Civil Affairs Hussein al-Sheikh.
According to the Israeli officials, Barghouti and the other prisoners agreed to call off the strike after the PA promised to pay for the additional visits, at an estimated cost of $6 million per year.
The hunger strike was initiated by Barghouti, a prominent Fatah terrorist and political figure, on April 17. Barghouti is serving five life sentences for murders committed during the second Paleostinian intifada.
While Paleostinians said the strike was aimed at improving conditions for inmates and ensuring they were given their rights according to international law, Israeli officials maintained the strike was largely a political maneuver by Barghouti, who had recently failed to be reinstated into his usual powerful position in the Fatah party.
While visitation rights had been a key demand for the hunger strikers, in reality the reduction by the ICRC had changed little on the ground.
In the first of half of 2016, before the new ICRC policy was set in place, 6,542 Paleostinian prisoners were visited. In the latter half of 2016, after the number of visits was decreased to one per month, a total of 6,231 Paleostinian prisoners were visited, making for a difference of 311 visits.
Family members visiting Paleostinians in Israeli jails say they would visit more often if it weren’t for the difficult and time-consuming journeys. Another of the demands of the hunger strikers was that they be moved to facilities in the West Bank territory, thereby making the visits less arduous.
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No G and sadly I do not recall anyone doing that. I could be wrong.
Maybe 10-15 years ago there was massive flooding in NW Minnesota. The Red River overflowed its banks by miles. It was astounding in its mass area.
Long story short, with local media support donations poured into the Red Cross. I can not remember how much actually made it to the victims. But a very healthy portion made it into their general funds. 9-11, same thing.
Come to think of it, rather odd that the Red Crescent wouldn't be overseeing this. Not the Red Cross.
Following a game-changing operation, Syrian Army and allied forces managed to liberate the strategic city of al-Bukamal from ISIL Takfiri terrorists.
Hezbollah Military Media Center reported early on Thursday that the allied forces have entered Al-Bukamal.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Military Media Center reported that Syrian forces and Hezbollah fighters met with Iraqi forces in at the Syrian-Iraqi border, south of Al-Bukamal.
Al-Bukamal, which lies at the border with Iraq, is considered the last major stronghold of ISIL in Syria. Al-Qaim – Al-Bukamal crossing is one of the strategic crossings between Iraq and Syria.
Engineering units in the Syrian Army started to comb Al-Bukamal, and to dismantle explosive devices planted by the terrorists in the area, according to Hezbollah Military Media Center.
Source: Hezbollah Military Media Center
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[Daily Mail] John Hillerman, who played stuffed-shirt Higgins to Tom Selleck's freewheeling detective Thomas Magnum in the 1980s TV series Magnum, P.I. has died at the age of 84.
Hillerman, who had been in declining health, died Thursday at his home in Houston, Texas, his nephew Chris Tritico told media.
Hillerman's nephew remembered his uncle fondly, saying: 'He had an outstanding sense of humor and was one of the most well-read people I ever met. You couldn’t play Scrabble with him.'
Hillerman served four years in the United States Air Force (1953-1957), working in maintenance in a B-36 wing of the Strategic Air Command, and achieving the rank of sergeant.[4][6] He became interested in acting after working with a theatrical group in Fort Worth during his service: "I was bored with barracks life. I got into [acting] to meet people in town. A light went on."[4] After his 1957 discharge, he moved to New York City, to study at the American Theatre Wing, and performed in professional theater for the next twelve years, in productions such as Henry IV, Part 2 and The Great God Brown.[7] Despite starring in over 100 lead roles,[4] Hillerman was unable to make a living as a stage actor, and he moved to Hollywood in 1969.[4][6]
[RUDAW.NET] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... called on the United States to stop arming Kurdish forces in Syria as the war against ISIS there is drawing to a conclusion and the Kurds are alleged to be using the US-supplied weapons against Turkey.
Turkey’s Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli explained his country’s position in a conversation with US Defense Secretary James Mattis on Wednesday on the sidelines of the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... meeting in Brussels.
Noting that ISIS is nearly defeated in Syria, Canikli told news hounds on Thursday that he "clearly told" Mattis that "the shipment of weapons should now end," according to Hurriyet Daily News.
He said he also provided photographic evidence to Mattis that weapons supplied to the Syrian Kurdish forces, the People's Protection Units (YPG), had been used in a recent attack against Ottoman Turkish forces in the southeast of Turkey. He named the AT-4 anti-tank rocket launcher "and expressed our belief that it might be one of the weapons given by the Americans to the YPG."
In their meeting "Secretary Mattis acknowledged the threats posed to Turkey, and reiterated that the US will continue to stand with turkey in its fight against the PKK and all terrorist threats," according to a US read out.
Ankara has repeatedly complained that the United States has aligned with Death Eaters in their backing of the YPG in Syria’s ground war against ISIS. Canikli said he provided evidence to Mattis that the YPG was under the same command as the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) ‐ designated a terrorist organization by both Turkey and the United States.
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[RUDAW.NET] The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... in Iraq has criticized a draft Iraqi law that would allow girls as young as nine years old to be married and has asked for wider consultations in order to ensure women’s rights are fully respected and protected.
"I call upon the Council of Representatives to seize this opportunity of the process to amend the Personal Status Law," said Jan Kubis, the special representative to Iraq of the UN Secretary-General through a statement on Thursday.
The draft, based on the Jaafari school of Shiite religious jurisprudence, is again on the table for Iraqi politicians. The House of Representatives voted "in principle" on Nov. 1 to approve amendments which could allow girls as young as 9 to marry.
If passed, the law would only apply to the country's Shiite citizens and residents.
Versions of the bill, which was also proposed in 2014, have included provisions that prohibit Moslem men from marrying non-Moslems, legalize marital rape by stating that a husband is entitled to have sex regardless of his wife’s consent, and prevent women from leaving the house without permission from their husbands, according to Human Rights Watch.
Kubis called upon the Council of Representatives to "conduct a wider consultation on the draft amendments in a participatory manner to recommit to and ensure the full respect, protection and fulfillment of women and girls’ rights in Iraq in relation to matrimonial and other matters."
The suggested changes could violate child protections enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The 1994 treaty defines a child as any human being under the age of 18 unless the age of majority is decided through national legislation. Iraq is a signatory of the Convention.
Women’s rights campaigners have protested the law, including Yezidi victims of ISIS. Others have complained that this is the Iraq the world wants Kurdistan to remain a part of.
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Drawing ire? Did the UN use a Sharpie or a crayon?
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) The pro-government paramilitary troops have repulsed an Islamic State attack against a security checkpoint in Diyala, a security source said on Thursday.
“Troops of al-Hashd al-Shaabi [Popular Mobilization Forces] managed to repel an attack launched by IS to target a checkpoint in al-Bou Eissa village, north of Udhaim, in Diyala,” the source told Baghdad Today.
“The troops prevented the militants from attacking the checkpoint, making them run away,” the source added. “A bomb placed by the militants was blown up after they ran away.”
Mutaibija, located on borders between Salahuddin and Diyala provinces, 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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[DAWN] The body of an 80-year-old woman, believed to have died several days ago, was found in an Askari IV apartment on Wednesday, officials said. But a strange situation emerged when the daughters of the dear departed refused to move the body from their residence, saying that their mother was just "ill and could never die", the officials added.
The situation pushed the law enforcement agency to intervene and move the body to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... for his appointment with Doctor Quincy despite resistance from the dear departed’s daughters after their neighbours came up with a complaint of stench of a decomposed body emitting for the apartment.
Sharea Faisal SHO Ali Hasan told Dawn that 80-year-old Anees Fiza Ali had died apparently of natural causes around five to six days ago as per statement of her neighbours.
However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... her two daughters refused to believe that she had died claiming that she was just "ill". After foul smell started spreading from the home in Askari IV, the residents informed the police who took the body into their custody.
The SHO added that the dear departed was living with her two unmarried daughters. Dr Qarar Ahmed Abbasi, additional police surgeon of the CHK, told Dawn that the woman’s body had been decomposed.
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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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
NEW YORK (AP) ‐ While Fox News Channel has spent hours talking about Hillary Clinton and an Obama-era uranium deal in recent weeks, its news anchor Shepard Smith avoided the story entirely.
[CBS] MALIBU, Calif. -- A Malibu church that has helped the homeless for years has been asked to stop feeding people who are down on their luck.
Just another tool in the kit bag of communist ideologues. 
[Wash Times] A federal judge tossed a lawsuit Thursday that would have pushed the State Department and FBI to do more to try to track down Hillary Clinton’s emails, ruling the government has done all it reasonably could to locate the former secretary of state’s messages.
[Free Beacon] NBC host Megyn Kelly said the saga of a woman who flipped off President Donald Trump's motorcade spoke "uniquely to what America's all about" during an interview with her on Thursday.
[Breitbart] O.J. Simpson Booted from Vegas Bar for Drunk and Disorderly
Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.
Moqtada 
... the place to go if you've got an Indiana Jones hat and whip. Chock full of high adventure and treacherous Pathans. You should really train up to it, though...
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
[TAMPABAY] Patrick Charles Hannon helped execute two Tampa men 26 years ago. He slashed one man’s throat and shot another man six times in the chest in 1991.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Of a total population of less than 1 million Rohingya present in Myanmar in mid August this year, more than 600,000 have already been pushed out of the country by a concerted military operation led by the Myanmar military authorities.
... 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...
[RUDAW.NET] The 
