JACKSON, Ga. (AP) ‐ A man convicted of killing a Georgia convenience store clerk 25 years ago was put to death late Wednesday night, authorities said.
Inmate Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was pronounced dead at 10:59 p.m. Wednesday after an injection of pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson. He made no last statement but requested a prayer to be recited before the drugs began flowing.
Cromartie was convicted and sentenced to die for the April 1994, slaying of Richard Slysz at a convenience store in Thomasville, near the Georgia-Florida line. The state said Cromartie also had shot and gravely wounded another convenience store clerk days before the killing.
Wednesday’s execution came shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court, without explanation, rejected two appeals by the inmate’s attorneys.
Cromartie took a number of deep breaths while looking at the ceiling before closing his eyes and going still about five minutes after the drugs began flowing, at one point forming his mouth into an "O" and exhaling heavily. Strapped and taped down to a gurney, Cromartie moved little if at all. A news media witness said Cromartie didn’t struggle and said nothing while being strapped down to a gurney.
Pity we can't freeze them until we get the appeals sorted.
The state said Cromartie also had shot and gravely wounded another convenience store clerk days before the killing.
We had an article yesterday about an armed robber whose parents were miffed that a Pizza Hut employee fatally shot their mopey offspring. In theory, would-be robber waves a gun, clerk hands over cash, robber departs, and everyone lives happily ever after. But there are no guarantees the script will play out as written. Foolish to spin the wheel when losing means your life.
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I saw that article too SteveS. I'm sure a lawsuit is on the way.
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What Grom said.
Also the report was unintentionally silly and ironic I think. Or maybe that's just me.
...closing his eyes and going still about five minutes after the drugs began flowing, at one point forming his mouth into an "O" and exhaling heavily.
His tongue began to protrude, blue as a democrat's heart. His penis, which had retracted 'into the bushes' earlier now swelled, then fell limp; his seed dying within him. Cromartie was gone. Gone into the...
Blasphemy! Fred = Moses. Y'all = children of Israel (and the odd Amalekite). Me = at best, Fred's trusty annoying X. rufovillosum sidekick infesting his staff.
[Jpost] As an observant Jew, Yosef David was taught to believe in miracles.
That’s a good thing since David, a social worker from London, is going to need one to succeed in his new mission: unseating Jeremy Corbyn from Parliament in the general election on Dec. 12.
David registered recently as a candidate of the right-wing Brexit Party for the Islington North constituency in London, in what the Jewish News of London characterized as a "challenge" in an article Tuesday. In 2017, the district elected Corbyn, the Labour Party’s leader, with 73 percent of the vote. Only 0.8 percent went to UKIP, the party from which the Brexit Party splintered off.
Labour has won in Islington North in every election since 1937. David acknowledges that he’s probably no match for Corbyn.
"I am aware that overturning a 30,000-plus majority would be a miracle," David told the Jewish News.
So why run?
In the interview, David said it was a way of "highlighting the impact of the antisemitism epidemic in the Labour Party on the community."
[JPost] Rockets fired hours after Israel, Islamic Jihad announce ceasefire. After two days of heavy fighting between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the two sides announced a ceasefire on Thursday morning, which went into affect around 5:30 a.m..
Five rockets were fired towards southern Israel shortly after a ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad went into effect after two days of heavy fighting, the IDF announced on Thursday morning.
According to the military, two of the rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system.
After two days of heavy fighting between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the two sides announced a ceasefire on Thursday morning, which went into affect around 5:30 a.m..
IDF Spokesman Brig.Gen. Hidai Zilberman confirmed that after 50 hours of an operation dubbed "Black Belt," achieved all of its objectives quickly and fully.
The operation, he said, was characterized by “surgical operations and surprise," as well as by cooperation between the Air Force, Military Intelligence and the Shin Bet.
The mainstream press has pilloried President Donald Trump for announcing that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi "died like a dog," and "a coward." To put icing on the mockery cake, Trump has invited "Conan," the military working dog that tracked al-Baghdadi and cornered him in a tunnel, to the White House and referred to Conan as "beautiful" and "talented."
...Churchill is also famous for referring to Gandhi, who had been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, as "a seditious Middle Temple lawyer of a type well known in the east, striding half-naked up the steps of the viceregal palace . . . ."
British First World War Prime Minister Lloyd George apparently so loathed his political rival Churchill and considered him so unprincipled that George publicly announced that Churchill "[w]ould make a drum out of the skin of his own mother in order to sound his own praises."
...Other noted American statesmen have used similar insults to describe their opponents. John Quincy Adams referred to Thomas Jefferson as "a slur upon the moral government of the world." His father, John Adams apparently called Alexander Hamilton, of $10 bill fame, "a bastard brat of a Scotch peddler.
President Lyndon Johnson attacked then-House minority leader and future President Gerald Ford as "a nice guy [who] had played too much football with his helmet off."
Theodore Roosevelt, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating peace between Russia and Japan, thereby ending the Russo-Japanese War, is supposed to have referred to his boss, and then President, William McKinley as "having the backbone of a chocolate éclair."
Current British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, while he was a sitting member of Parliament, is also on record as having won a £1,000 prize for the "President Erdogan Offensive Poetry Competition" with the following entry: "There was a young fellow from Ankara, Who was a terrific wankerer. Till he sowed his wild oats, With the help of a goat, But he didn’t even stop to thankera."
...Any commenter with any knowledge of history would recognize that mocking, and even taunting an opponent, even at the highest levels of the political class, is a long-standing tradition.
Even when Trump follows these norms, he is pilloried. But perhaps, he should continue. After all, if he continues along this path he stands a good chance of earning a Nobel Prize in Literature like Sir Winston Churchill and a Nobel Peace Prize, just like fellow President Theodore Roosevelt. Judging by the standards applied to former President Barack Obama when he won the Nobel Peace Prize, Trump has certainly met or surpassed the requirements.
PACIFIC PALISADES, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Dr. Bruce M. Hensel, a former longtime medical correspondent for KNBC in Los Angeles, was arrested Wednesday morning on suspicion of asking a 9-year-old girl to send him sexually suggestive pictures, authorities said.
Hensel, 71, was taken into custody about 10:15 a.m. by investigators from the Los Angeles Police Department's Juvenile Division, a spokesperson for the agency said. He was released later in the day after posting $5,000 bail.
He was seen leaving the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown L.A., where he dodged questions from Eyewitness News reporter Eileen Frere and quickly scurried into a car before driving away.
In a statement, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said Hensel was charged with one felony count of contact with a minor for sexual purposes.
Hensel allegedly requested the images from the daughter of an acquaintance through a messaging app on or about Aug. 4, said Deputy District Attorney Angela Brunson of the DA's Cyber Crimes Division.
Hensel's attorney, Steve Sitkoff, released the following statement: "Dr. Hensel is completely innocent of the charge. We are cooperating with the authorities and look forward to a speedy and complete exoneration."
On Oct. 16, members of the Los Angeles Regional Internet Crime Against Children Task Force served a search warrant at Hensel's home in Pacific Palisades.
Items were removed from the hillside house as part of the investigation, an LAPD spokesperson said.
Hensel was a medical correspondent for KNBC for nearly three decades and had prior stints at NBC in New York and KCOP in Los Angeles. In addition to his reporting on medical issues for KNBC, he was known for answering viewer questions on the station's "Ask Dr. Bruce" segment. He won multiple Emmys for his work in addition to honors from medical organizations.
An online biography indicates Hensel also served as a medical professor at UCLA and hosted a nationally syndicated call-in radio show.
Last year he co-directed and produced a documentary about transgender relationships entitled "Beyond the Opposite Sex," which aired on Showtime.
If convicted as charged, Hensel faces a possible maximum sentence of 18 months in state prison, prosecutors said.
[The Drive] The U.S. Air Force hopes to begin tests involving a Kratos XQ-58A Valkyrie stealthy unmanned aircraft acting as a data-fusion and relay gateway between its F-22 Raptors and F-35A Joint Strike Fighters early next year. This will follow a separate experiment to first demonstrate that the new data link, known presently as GatewayOne, can enable the two jets to share information without degrading their stealthy signatures, scheduled to occur next month.
Will Roper, the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, outlined the plan, which is as part of what he called a "connect-a-thon" rapid experimentation concept, at a Defense Writers Group breakfast in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 12, 2019. Preston Dunlap, who holds the recently created position of "Chief Architect" within Roper's office, had announced the first phase of the gateway experiment last week at a separate event that Defense One hosted.
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This would be something US intelligence agencies would be wise to look into, if we had any left, instead of Obama Administration Bureaucrats trying to frame Trump.
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Good thought.
I would suppose any time-delay-of-signal calculations would be obfuscated by multiple orbiters as a position offset device. Same, same as GPS positioning is much more accurate for military over civilian reporting. Chips just truncate trailing digits.
[Futurism.com] Galaxies millions of light years away seem to be connected by an unseen network of massive intergalactic structures, which force them to synchronize in ways that can’t be explained by existing astrophysics, Vice reports. The discoveries could force us to rethink our fundamental understanding of the universe.
"The observed coherence must have some relationship with large-scale structures, because it is impossible that the galaxies separated by six megaparsecs [roughly 20 million light years] directly interact with each other," Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute astronomer Hyeop Lee told the site.
There have been many instances of astronomers observing galaxies that seem to be connected and moving in sync with each other. A study by Lee, published in The Astrophysical Journal in October, found that hundreds of galaxies are rotating in exactly the same way, despite being millions of light years apart.
And a separate study, published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics in 2014, found supermassive black holes aligning with each other, despite being billions of light years apart.
SPOOKY ACTION
While current cosmological principles support the alignment and movement of ancient stars at a smaller scale, astronomers are puzzled by the much, much larger patterns across vast distances.
But before they can draw any conclusions, they’ll need more data ‐ the body of work is still limited, as Vice points out.
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'I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.' - Gawd
'Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.' - Book of Hebrews
'By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.' - Psalms
Scientists of the sort that blindly deify Stephen Hawkings cannot come to grips with one simple idea that should occur to everyone who ever read about relativity.
I state my primary assumption. That 'what is perceived by every empirical device as 'entropy' from one frame of reference, may be highly ordered from another'. It is my belief that there is only one frame of reference wherein the universe appears ordered. That frame of reference is Christ's. And it does not appear in the tangible universe, but is reachable only in the Spirit of the Lord.
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The universe that we see conjectured out in bright colours and graphs for us is filtered in by our limited consciousness. Instruments see more than we can, and machines have to interpret that data for us in quantifications we can interact with. Our best minds, those purveyors of pretend pluralities - mathematicians; they design elaborate structures of interplay between forces and quantities to barely explain the music of reality. Those that can read their language are blessed, but still deaf. The ones that know God, hear it but may not be able to explain. It would greatly aid the scientist to acknowledge the existence of God and start his/her search from there. I'm not talking crazed apologetics, but just acceptance of intelligent causality would be a start. At the very least, the scientist should shun hostility toward the frame of reference of faith.
Mankind shall forever endeavor to learn and explain what is closed off to us by the prison of our bodies. It's healthy to ask and wonder and gaze at the sky. It also wouldn't hurt to acknowledge Him for all you can see. But scientists today are increasingly prodded by the tenets of their profession to try to find a way to deny Him. The heavens that they look to unerringly declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
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Dante figured it out long before modern physicists stumbled their way into a solution.
It's an artifact of the S3, the 3-sphere, as posited by the non-Euclidean Geometry in Friedmann et al's closed solution to the Einstein field equations.
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As long as we’re on the subject and speaking of entropy, some leading physicists are writing interesting papers referenced here: The Universe is Made of Tiny Bubbles Containing Mini-universes.
[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.‐Rep. Adam Schiff and the House Intelligence Committee called on their first star witness to prove that Donald Trump committed high crimes and misdemeanors: Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg.
"Ms. Thunberg, thank you for being here today," Schiff began but was immediately interrupted by the girl:
"How dare you!" she shouted.
"Oh, heh, um... I'm on your side, here, let's take it easy," Schiff continued awkwardly. "What information do you have on Donald Trump and his blatant corruption when it comes to his phone call with Ukraine?"
"You have stolen my dreams and my childhood!" she shouted, pounding the table in front of her. The crowd began to get emotional, weeping and shouting and screaming at the sky all at once. "This is all wrong! I shouldn't be here. I should be back in school!"
Even Schiff himself shed a few tears and led the committee in a standing ovation for Thunberg's bravery. "I think we've heard enough. I declare Donald Trump impeached!" Sadly, Schiff was later informed that he couldn't simply declare impeachment.
Thunberg concluded her testimony by shouting, "PEOPLE ARE DYING!" to thunderous applause.
The committee is now expected to call on other star witnesses like Alyssa Milano, Jane Fonda, and Debra Messing.
Reminds one of the trial scene from Woody Allen's Bananas.
Fielding Melish: "I object, your honor! This trial is a travesty. It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham."
[Yahoo via MSN] WASHINGTON — A Ukrainian company that employed Hunter Biden paid more than $450,000 to a prominent Washington think tank, including picking up the tab for energy-related conferences as part of a campaign to burnish its image in the United States after it was accused by Western officials of corruption.
Burisma’s support of the Atlantic Council was detailed last week by the Wall Street Journal, which said the company had given the think tank $100,000 per year for three years starting in 2016. The council lists Burisma as a contributor on its website.
The Atlantic Council told Yahoo News Tuesday that in addition to the $100,000 given annually by Burisma, the company “also reimbursed speaker travel and event costs, which ... amounted to around [$50,000 to $70,000] per year.”
In the public impeachment proceedings starting Wednesday, Republicans, led by House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes, R-Calif., will likely focus on Burisma to justify efforts by President Trump and his associates to pressure the Ukrainian government to publicly announce it was investigating the company. Republicans have already delved deep into the dealings of Burisma in closed-door depositions over the past month.
The Democrat-led impeachment inquiry in the House is based on the allegation that because Trump wanted the Ukrainians to investigate the son of former Vice President Joe Biden — a leading rival for the presidency — he attempted “to coerce a foreign nation to engage in political investigations designed to help his campaign,” as House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., put it on Tuesday.
There is also the issue of an Atlantic Council-sponsored trip that brought a dozen or so congressional staffers to Ukraine in August. The trip included Republican and Democratic staffers, but one — Thomas Eager — worked for Schiff’s Intelligence Committee, and the group at one point met with Bill Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine.
So Schifferbrains et al. launch a kangaroo court proceeding which results in their own leading presidential nominee's corruption aired for all to see.
This is truly something out of the Saturday morning cartoons.
Elmer Fudd shooting himself in the arse.
Wyle E. Coyote's ACME Rocket making a U-turn, with Wyle E. holding his incinerated little parasol and staring sheepishly at the audience.
Do we really deserve these shitheads?
What exactly did we do to invoke such punishment by the gods?
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That's right, Lex. They threw old sleepy Joe under the bus. But don't worry. Hillary is waiting in the wings.
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Er, I guess now it's Deval Patrick.
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The Atlantic Council? Soros has provided some funding to the Atlantic Council. Soros also played a role in destabilizing Ukraine in order to set it up for an asset grab. Schiff's committee didn't really do a deep dive into the corruption in Ukraine. His star chamber kangaroo court wasn't interested in that at all. Smells of part of a cover-up.
[Federalist] Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent made the case for launching an investigation into the Bidens and their involvement in Ukraine related to the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
Kent, the State Department’s top official on Ukraine, said during testimony before the House Intelligence Committee in the Democrats’ partisan impeachment proceedings Wednesday he was concerned about a, "perception of a conflict of interest," related to Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, serving on the board of the energy company while his father oversaw the Obama administration’s policy towards Ukraine.
Hunter Biden served on the board of the company for $50,000 a month despite having no prior experience in the energy industry while his father served as vice president deeply involved U.S.-Ukrainian policy.
Kent also testified in a private deposition that he voiced his discomfort over the situation to the White House in 2015 where administration officials brushed off Kent’s concerns.
"I raised my concerns that I had heard that Hunter Biden was on the board of a company owned by somebody that the U.S. Government had spent money trying to get tens of millions of dollars back and that could create the perception of a conflict of interest," Kent told lawmakers behind closed doors in October. "The message that I recall hearing back was that the vice president’s son Beau was dying of cancer and that there was no further bandwidth the deal with family related issues at that time... That was the end of that conversation."
During his testimony before the House on Wednesday, Kent reiterated his conviction that officials in Ukraine ought to be investigated to root out corruption related to Burisma.
"To summarize, we thought the [CEO of Burisma] had stolen money. We thought a prosecutor had take an bribe to shut the case," Kent said.
"Are you in favor of that matter being fully investigated and prosecuted?" asked Minority House Intelligence Committee Counsel Steve Castor.
"I think, since U.S. taxpayer dollars were wasted, I would love to see the Ukrainian prosecutor general’s office find who the corrupt prosecutor was that took the bribe, and how much of it was paid," Kent said.
Leaked documents from the Ukrainian General Prosecutor’s office indicate complex money transfers from foreign sources into the control of a “slush fund” owned and operated by Devon Archer, John Kerry Senior, John Kerry Junior, Heinz Jr, and Hunter Biden.
— Michael Coudrey (@MichaelCoudrey) November 14, 2019
Leaked transaction and bank records indicate an influx of large payments from Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings Limited to Rosemont Seneca Bohai LLC, in what appears to be monthly payments of $83,333.33. pic.twitter.com/BZXi61NnOO
— Michael Coudrey (@MichaelCoudrey) November 14, 2019
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"The message that I recall hearing back was that the vice president’s son Beau was dying of cancer and that there was no further bandwidth the deal with family related issues at that time... That was the end of that conversation."
Now, we need to get the time line straight here. Was that before or after Hunter Biden started boinking his sister-in-law?
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[Jpost] For some time, Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, has bragged that it has all sorts of new "secret weapons" to use against Israel.
There has been a conflict going on between Israel and Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... now for nearly two days. How come Hamas has not yet, as of press time, used these advanced "secret weapons"?
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[Rudaw] Fierce festivities took place on Wednesday between Ottoman Turkish proxies and Kurdish forces in northern Syria’s strategic town of Tel Tamr, with each claiming territorial gains.
The deadly festivities come amid Ottoman Turkish president Erdogan’s visit to Washington D.C. to discuss the issue with US officials.
"Fierce festivities continue between Syrian Democratic forces (SDF) and pro-Ottoman Turkish groups in northern from Tel Tamr to Abu Rassin," reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
Located about 30km away from the The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... -Syria border, the predominantly-Christian town of Tel Tamr saw fresh fighting between Ottoman Turkish-backed groups and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Four SDF fighters were killed and seven others, according to a statement from the force.
The SDF added that "the Ottoman Turkish invasion army and its terrorist factions, by drones, attempted to attack and occupy the villages of Rihaniyeh, Amriyah, Irbin, Faisaliah, Minhar and Mahmudiyah," referring to villages located to the north of the town.
Turkey’s Operation Peace Spring against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria has now entered its second month. The operation is backed by Syrian proxy forces, some of whom are suspected to be previous members of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS).
Turkey signed two deals with the US and Russia to temporarily pause its invasion in return for the withdrawal of the SDF fighters from its borders. However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... the ceasefire did not last long.
The SDF and Turkey have been blaming each other for the violation of the two US and Russia-brokered deals.
The SDF has allowed the deployment of Syrian regime forces to its borders with Turkey, including Tel Tamr, in an attempt to curb further Ottoman Turkish attacks. The regime forces, however have been attacked by Ottoman Turkish-backed groups several times, killing a number of them.
The SDF-affiliated Rojava Network news outlet reported the SDF reclaiming control of a number of villages in Tel Tamr.
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... pro-Ottoman Turkish militias claimed control of "a number of farms" in the vicinity of the Christian town.
The Ottoman Turkish Ministry of Defence has denied accusations of ethnic cleansing, and has said it does not target minority groups.
[PJ] During Wednesday's public impeachment inquiry, Republicans rightfully reaffirmed the point that neither of the two witnesses, Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs George Kent or Ambassador William Taylor, have any firsthand knowledge of President Trump's phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. In fact, neither man has ever spoken with or met President Trump.
In an attempt to counter that rather devastating and inconvenient fact for the Democrats, Illinois Democrat Congressman Mike Quigley offered a bizarre defense of Kent and Taylor's lack of direct knowledge of the pertinent details of the investigation.
"I guess to close, primer on hearsay, I think the American public needs to be reminded that countless people have been convicted on hearsay because the courts have routinely allowed and created, needed exceptions to hearsay," Quigley said. "Hearsay can be much better evidence than direct, as we have learned in painful instances and it's certainly valid in this instance," he added.
Shitshow, Part 184. Next: "Sentence first! Trial after!"
Which Congressman will be bold enough to play Alive?
'If any one of them can explain it,' said Alice, (she had grown so large in the last few minutes that she wasn't a bit afraid of interrupting him,) 'I'll give him sixpence. I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.'
The jury all wrote down on their slates, 'she doesn't believe there's an atom of meaning in it,' but none of them attempted to explain the paper.
'If there's no meaning in it,' said the King, 'that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. ..."
''Let the jury consider their verdict,' the King said, for about the twentieth time that day.
'No, no!' said the Queen. 'Sentence first - verdict afterwards.'
'Stuff and nonsense!' said Alice loudly. 'The idea of having the sentence first!'
'Hold your tongue!' said the Queen, turning purple.
'I won't!' said Alice.
'Off with her head!' the Queen shouted at the top of her voice. Nobody moved.
'Who cares for you?' said Alice, (she had grown to her full size by this time.) 'You're nothing but a pack of cards!'
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....you just figured it out. It's all a facade to keep the gullible in line. It's an oligarchy that currently is undergoing a mental crisis because the people actually selected their leader not the caste so they need to use any means necessary to fix that from ever happening again.
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I hear democrats eat aborted babies and bathe in blood. While they were having secret meetings, there was a secret trial and they were all found guilty of treason and sentenced to be gently flogged to death with scented bootlaces.
[Townhall] I get a little picky about this whole due process thing, not just because I’m a lawyer and not just because I helped defend our Constitution overseas in uniform a couple times, but because I’m an American citizen. Let’s understand clearly the nature of the due process argument over impeachment. This is not about Donald Trump getting due process. This is about the American people getting due process.
It’s our choice for president that is being challenged. You get due process under our glorious Constitution when you are about to have your individual rights infringed ‐ like having your freedom or money taken. President Trump has no individual right to be president. It’s a position that we citizens gave him in order to work for us. The presidency is not his, any more than being a colonel meant the eagle belonged to me. The real due process rights at issue here belong to us, America’s citizens, who are faced with the prospect of having our right to choose our president infringed upon.
In other words, when no one is allowed to put on a defense to the impeachment inquisition, it’s not Trump who is being deprived of his due process rights. It’s the American people who are being deprived of their due process rights.
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We are all, mostly all, angry about what is going on. Some are close to picking up arms over this. Not sure who the author is, G(r)om???, but he sure states the core of our angers very well. Our right to choose the president is being infringed on, and he is not able to carry out the duties we elected him to do are being disrupted as well.
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It’s Kurt Schlichter from Townhall, 49 Pan. He is popular around here.
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The real due process rights at issue here belong to us, America’s citizens, who are faced with the prospect of having our right to choose our president infringed upon.
This. Schlichter is often full of (highly entertaining, admittedly) sound and fury but this time he goes stone cold sober and gets right to the heart of the matter.
This is an attempt to nullify an election.
It's the kind of shite that happens all the time across the Chaos Nations of the third world. It has never happened to an American president, no matter how bitter or nasty the politics, in our history. Even in the most bitter struggles of D and R over the last half century, neither party crossed this Rubicon. Clinton and Nixon were both 2nd term presidents; Nixon had list the support of ~75% of his own party.
These f-----s are ripping up our history and our institutions. Because Orangeman Bad.
F--- these morons. This coup must not be allowed to stand.
[Daily Caller] Fox News host Chris Wallace said that Ambassador William Taylor’s House testimony Wednesday was "very damaging" to President Donald Trump.
"I think that William Taylor was a very impressive witness and was very damaging to the president," Wallace said. "First of all, as you pointed out, he took very copious notes at almost every conversation when he put quotes in his opening statement, he said those were direct quotes from what was said." (RELATED: House Republicans Release 18-Page Memo Featuring Their Case Against Impeachment) He could've been deaf and mute and Chris "Son of Mike" would've still given him a tongue-bath. Pffft
"It also doesn’t hurt that he has a voice like Edward R. Murrow. He is a pretty impressive presence up there," he added.
"And I think very non-political. He went out of his way to talk about what he knew, what he was specifically testament to. The only thing he talked about was a strong feeling that it was in the U.S. national security interest to support Ukraine in the fight against Russia. But, he certainly wasn’t taking any partisan position." (RELATED: President Trump Promises Release Of ’Tantalizing’ First Phone Call With Ukraine)
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He went out of his way to talk about what he knew, what he was specifically testament to. The only thing he talked about was a strong feeling that it was in the U.S. national security interest to support Ukraine in the fight against Russia.
So the only think he knew was he had a strong feeling.
Bombshell! Or maybe a tingle.
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Stop lying, you gullible sack of shit.
Here's this bullshitter a year ago after Day One of serial liar and partisan activist Christine Blowsey Ford's slander-fest, the Shitshow that was the Kavanaugh hearings:
During a break that followed the first 90 minutes of the hearing, Wallace said on Fox of Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony, “This was extremely emotional, extremely raw and extremely credible.”
“Nobody could listen to her and talk about the assault and the impact it had on her life and not have your heart go out to her. And she obviously was traumatized by an event,” he continued. Referring specifically to the bizarre format of the hearing, Wallace added, “This is a disaster for the Republicans.”
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Steve, multi-voting only happens on one side of the aisle.
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I was impressed by Ambassador Taylor, just not the way that Chris Wallace was.
Top one percent of his class at West Point, Vietnam veteran, 50 years in the DoS, blah, blah, blah...and most importantly: Deep State devotee. Tells us all what a war hero he was as if that means we're supposed to trust him. Sorry. I know that many Rantburgers are veterans but then there are veterans like Taylor who give you a bad name. Just because a guy joins the army doesn't mean he's a good guy.
Got his panties in a wad because Trump didn't trust him and left him out of the loop. Trump knows a reptile when he sees one.
And, exactly, why is a little dust up between a rag-tag bunch of ethnic Russian rebels and the Ukrainian Army in Donbas a threat to U.S. security? Do you really believe that Vlad is about to roll his tanks into Poland? I don't.
And, as far as I'm concerned, Crimea has always been a part of Russia. All Putin did was take it back after Obama and McCain organized a coup in Kiev, or Kiyv, or whatever you call it.
I don't understand about the quid pro quo either. If Ukraine is as corrupt as I hear it is, and if Hunter Biden was getting his pockets lined, wouldn't it be wise for the President to find out what the fuck is really going on before he gives them half a billion dollars of tax payer money?
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Ref #10: Top one percent of his class at West Point, Vietnam veteran, 50 years in the DoS, blah, blah, blah...and most importantly: Deep State devotee.
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Standard Principal-Agent Problem in action: Wallace may be acting in own interest by toadying to the people he is interviewing and/or following the wishes of his progressively (pun intended) Leftward trending management at Fox -- but he doesn't seem to be dealing fairly with his consumers, the public...
Or he is R.O.A.D. (Retired On Active Duty) and is only going through the motions and just drawing his salary...
h/t Instapundit
[PJMedia] I was chatting with Terry, my writing partner, this morning. He was in the Intelligence Community for years, as was I; Terry on the analysis side, me in collection and later as a computer security researcher. Both of us had, at one time, an "Extended Background Investigation" clearance, the clearance you need for that stuff people like to say is "beyond top secret." (It's not, but that's another topic I explored in detail back when Edward Snowden turned.)
Now, Terry is a Democrat, pretty liberal, not at all impressed with Trump. But we were talking about Eric Ciaramella who was fired from the White House staff because he was leaking confidential information to the media. According to all the sources, he then returned to the CIA, where he currently works.
Which is, frankly, odd.
How, exactly, do you lose a job for security violations and return to the CIA? One would normally lose one's clearance, and even janitors and cafeteria workers at CIA are cleared.
Then there's LTC Alex Vindman, NSC staffer and active-duty Army officer. He has testified that he disobeyed orders, advised foreign governments to resist Trump, leaked internal information to others, and was actively working to subvert the president's foreign policy.
Now, Gods know I'm not a UCMJ lawyer, but if you look at the Uniform Code of Military Justice, that sounds like an Article 88 (Contempt to officials), Article 92 (Failure to obey order), and Article 133 (Conduct unbecoming an officer). There's an argument to be made for Article 94 (Mutiny) as well.
So this too is odd. Normally, under these circumstances, a serving officer would at least be relieved and very possibly confined awaiting court-martial.
The third thing that struck us both was the complaint that Trump's conversations with Zelensky were being stored on a classified server.
Now if you look at the Department of State's regulations, conversations between American officials and foreign heads of state are automatically classified CONFIDENTIAL and NOFORN.
You normally ‐ at least if you're not Hillary or one of her minions ‐ store classified information on classified servers. Even confidential. (This one hasn't been as exciting since it became clear the Obama administration was using the same server for the same stuff.) Some people want to argue that this shouldn't be classified, but they miss a couple of points: first of all, classification is another one of those Article II powers of the president (see Executive Order 13526). If he says it's classified, it's classified. The second is that the White House was concerned about stuff being leaked and warned Vindman explicitly about talking about it.
So why is it surprising that material is being stored on a classified server? Why the hell was it ever stored on anything BUT a classified server?
The point here is that all of these things would, in the normal course of events, be security violations punishable by everything from actually losing a job to extended terms in Kansas making small rocks.
Why was this not the normal course of events?
I'd really like someone in Congress to ask those questions.
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As the VDH piece said yesterday, we are seeing the exposed part of junta politix in America. I'm sure these are yet the lower echelons of the deepState. Expendables.
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How, exactly, do you lose a job for security violations and return to the CIA? One would normally lose one's clearance, and even janitors and cafeteria workers at CIA are cleared.
[Hot Air] And we should believe Adam Schiff because of, er, his long track record of honesty about his contacts with the whistleblower? Come on, man. The chair of the impeachment inquiry hearings accused Rep. Jim Jordan of issuing a "false statement" in claiming that he knew the identity of the whistleblower. After getting four Pinocchios from the Washington Post for lying about contacts between his office and the whistleblower, Schiff’s hardly in position to complain ‐ or to be taken at his word:
"The only times I prevented witnesses from answering questions" in prior closed-door hearings "was when it was apparent that members were seeking to out the whistleblower," Schiff responded.
"We will do everything necessary to protect the whistleblower’s identity, and I’m disturbed to hear members of the committee who have in the past voiced strong support for whistleblower protections, seek to undermine those protections by outing the whistleblower," he added.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, an aggressive defender of Trump, then chimed in.
"You are the only member who knows who that individual is," Jordan said, referring to the whistleblower, "and your staff is the only staff of any member of Congress who has had a chance to talk with that individual. We would like that opportunity. When might that happen in this proceeding today?" ...
Schiff shot back: "First, as the gentlemen knows, that’s a false statement. I do not know the identity of the whistleblower and I’m determined to make sure the identity is protected."
But, the chairman added, "you’ll have an opportunity after the witnesses have testified to make a motion to subpoena any witness and compel a vote."
[Free Beacon] Prominent international organizations on Tuesday blamed Israel for a Palestinian rocket that hit the offices of the Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR) in the Gaza Strip.
Along with the ICHR, left-wing human rights organization Amnesty International and left-wing activist group Code Pink blamed Israel for the rocket that later reports revealed was fired by terrorists aiming at Israel.
The rocket's explosion, which injured one employee and damaged the building, was most likely collateral damage from a missile barrage orchestrated by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Times of Israel reports. It came on the same day Palestinian Islamic Jihad rained missiles on Israel in response to the Israel Defense Forces' assassination of Baha Abu al-Ata, a leader of the terrorist group.
The IDF fired retaliatory airstrikes on Wednesday, which were only aimed at Palestinian Islamic Jihad targets, a spokesman said.
[Jpost] The EU’s top court has been engulfed since Tuesday in an antisemitic legal scandal because of its singling out of Jewish, Israeli products from the disputed territories for a punitive labeling system. Critics say the legal ruling is discriminatory.
What has been omitted from the rage over the alleged Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union discriminatory ruling is that Germany’s main neo-Nazi
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[AlAhram] Facebook says it removed 3.2 billion fake accounts from its service from April to September, up slightly from 3 billion in the previous six months.
Nearly all of the bogus accounts were caught before they had a chance to become ``active'' users of the social network, so they are not counted in the user figures the company reports regularly. Facebook estimates that about 5% of its 2.45 billion user accounts are fake.
The company said in a report Wednesday that it removed 18.5 million instances of child nudity and sexual exploitation from its main platform in the April-September period, up from 13 million in the previous six months. It says the increase was due to improvements in detection.
The report is Facebook's fourth on standards enforcement.
[AlAhram] Many banks and shops in bustling commercial areas shut on Wednesday, while Hong Kong's Jockey Club cancelled its evening races.
Anti-government protesters dug in at several university campuses across Hong Kong on Wednesday, setting the stage for further confrontations as police said violence in the Chinese-ruled city had reached a "very dangerous and even deadly level".
Protesters - many of them young students - spent much of Wednesday fortifying barricades and stockpiling food and makeshift weapons, as other roving bands of masked protesters disrupted transport and businesses in many areas.
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When the PLA rolls in and lowers the boom, and a few thousand of these young people end up KIA, the US-China trade issue is going to quickly go the way of the Edsel.
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Our populous will easily buy into 'boycott China', but what will be interesting will be all the names and personalities of the Left who'll work against it.
[ToloNews] The GMIC head provides details about post-release fate of freed Haqqani Network prisoners, and a source close to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... says did not take place yesterday.
Firoz Bashar, head of the Government Media and Information Center, said on Wednesday that "international partners have assured us" that Anas Haqqani, Haji Mali Khan and Hafiz Rashid will "not return to the battlefield" and will "go to Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... and remain there."
Bashar also said that the government expects the release of the three Haqqani members to cause "violence to be reduced in the country" and that the move will make the Taliban open to "direct talks with the Afghan government."
At the moment, however, a source close to the Taliban in Kabul says the three Haqqani prisoners have not yet arrived in Qatar and the two American University of Afghanistan (AUAF) professors kidnapped by the Haqqani network ...a branch of the Afghan Taliban, based in Pakistain. The network is a family business founded by the later Jalaluddin Haqqani... are "still in Pakistain."
In Pakistan? How very interesting.
President Ghani said on Tuesday that the "conditional" release of the three Haqqani Network members was intended as an exchange for Kevin King, 63, an American, and Kevin Weeks, 50, an Australian, both of who were kidnapped In 2016 while employed at the American University in Afghanistan.
"The exchange was supposed to take place last night, but due to some problems it didn't happen, and today it is supposed to take place," said Sayed Mohammad Akbar Agha, a former Taliban commander.
TOLOnews spoke to Abdul Fatah, whose 34-year-old son was killed in a 2017 truck bomb explosion in Zanbaq square, and asked him for a reaction to the planned release of Anas Haqqani:
"If this is done in the interest of the nation, and for the peace of our whole country, it is a good step and we wait for God," said Fatah.
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In Pakistan? How very interesting.
The Haqqanis are a wholly owned branch of the Paki ISI. They, with ISI help, have also taken over leadership of the Taliban (a mostly owned branch of the ISI).
[KhaamaPress] A group of 121 ISIS Death Eaters and their family members surrendered to the Afghan forces amid ongoing operations in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
According to a statement released by Ministry of Defense (MoD), 10 ISIS Death Eaters handed themselves over to the Afghan forces together with 111 family members of their comrades including 46 women and 65 children.
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The collapse continues.
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[KhaamaPress] The Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan has announced that it has halted the vote recount process across Afghanistan.
According to a statement released by election commission, the audit and recount process of votes has been stopped until further notice.
However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... the election commission said the resolution will not apply on polling stations whose votes are under scrutiny and are being recounted.
This comes as certain electoral teams of Abdullah Abdullah ...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president... , Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... and Rahmatullah Nabil had called for the suspension of the vote recount process.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory, Igor and Oleg were discussing what the quickest way might be to deal with the monster... election commissioner Aurangzeb has said the election commission has postponed the preliminary vote results which were due to be announced on Thursday.
Aurangzeb further added that the election commission has postponed the preliminary vote results announced due to the existing tensions over vote recount process of more than eight thousand polling stations.
[NYPOST] A drag queen from Asbury Park, NJ., crashed Capitol Hill on Wednesday ‐ appearing for the first public impeachment hearings in a red latex dress and bouffant platinum wig.
Pissi Myles, who character is a riff on the actress Missi Pyle,
Who?
was spotted stalking the halls of the Longworth building among a sea of grey suits and was reportedly recruited to cover the hearings for a news app called Happs.
"It’s a crazy day in Washington! I’m flipping my wig over the high-energy proceedings today," Myles told NBC News.
"Tensions are high, and the bar for who’s allowed in the Longworth House is very, very low," she added.
Myles is an award-winning performer who performs weekly in New York City, according to her website. award-winning?
C-SPAN also caught the coiffed news hound entering the building, capturing a security guard scanning her giant wig with a metal detector.
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This may be news to New York, but the only deviant I know of to make news outside of that tiny neighborhood is the fellow who plays guitar in his undies and a "cowboy hat".
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The Naked Cowboy is Cincinnati’s gift to America. He’s just a theatrical type who found a salable gimmick, nothing more exotic than that. Wikipedia page.
[J-Post] Israel came under heavy rocket fire Tuesday morning and all of Wednesday after the Air Force bombed a building in the Gaza Strip in a targeted strike which killed Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) Leader Bahaa Abu al-Ata.
Rocket sirens sounded in Israeli towns surrounding the Gaza Strip including Ashkelon, Ashdod and Gedera, as two different barrages of rockets slammed into Israel. As of 3 p.m. Wednesday Israel time, more than 250 rockets have been launched, dozens of which were intercepted, according to the IDF.
[Haaretz] Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad reportedly agreed to a ceasefire on Thursday morning, putting a tentative end to two days of hostilities that killed at least 32 Palestinians.
Gaza factions launched massive rocket barrages at Israel for the second straight day on Wednesday, a day after Israel assassinated top Islamic Jihad commander Baha Abu al-Ata.
Thirty-one more Palestinians, including one Islamic Jihad field commander, were killed and at least 97 were wounded in Israeli strikes Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday early morning. It is as yet unclear how many of those killed were non-combatants.
As of the latest estimates, which are likely to go up significantly, Israel's Iron Dome defense system intercepted 90 percent of 300 rockets launched from Gaza. The rockets were fired as far north as Tel Aviv, shutting schools in central and southern Israel and forcing one million children to stay at home.
The Times of Israel is liveblogging here. Between the three news sites the day’s events will no doubt be covered in complete detail. ;-)
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Of course, the cease fire (aka hudna) was only supposed to apply to Israel. And they weren't supposed to shoot back if there were any incoming rockets.
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FWIW, I got a permanent ban on commenting at Power Line on this issue because of a) my use of indelicate language and / or b) opining that Kaepernick should remain unemployed, primarily due to the Left's efforts to deplatform / doxx / get us fired from our jobs, assaulting us with bike locks, and chasing us out of restaurants. I told them to keep the ban in place, as they're now right there with NRO on the 'will never read again' sites of mine. [Bleacher Report] - Colin Kaepernick will have an opportunity to show NFL teams he's still in prime shape to return to the league.
Per ESPN's Adam Schefter, the league will hold a private Kaepernick workout on Saturday that includes on-field work and an interview in Atlanta. Every club is invited to attend. Video of the workout and interviews will also be made available to teams.
Per NFL Network's Ian Rapoport, the NFL arranged for Kaepernick to work out after "several clubs" inquired about his readiness and he and his representatives continued to publicly express his desire to get back into the league. My football opinion - he'll never return to the NFL, this is all bullshit to appease the lefties, the league is pushing teams into this, who will respond by sending their special teams scouts to watch this farce, and that's a good thing he'll never come back.
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The 49ers improved upon their 4–12 record from the previous season, and began the season 8–0 for the first time since 1990, during the Joe Montana era. By starting 8–0, the 49ers were also guaranteed their first non-losing season since 2014. - Wiki
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Wasn't his last season with the 49ers a 2-14 disgrace? Who would want to repeat that--especially with him being a few years older and out of practice now?
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If he'd done this after or during WWII, he'd of been beaten to death on the field and no one would have been arrested. I don't care what freaking color his skin is, he's a worthless self admitted traitor and should at a very minimum, be banished from this country.
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It's not enough to get paid. A social justice warrior must keep fighting for social justice, must keep virtue signaling, must keep making trouble for the sake of making trouble.
And attention whores need attention.
In the name of Allan, look at meeeeeeeee!
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Follow the $$$. He made a pile of money from his virtue-signaling minstrel show for Nike.
The corporation gets to appear more-woke-than-thou in its battle for share of the urban sneaker head market.
The minstrel pockets millions and no longer has to worry about age or injury or underperformance on the field.
[THEBAGHDADPOST] Head of Wisdom Movement Ammar al-Hakim told Wednesday the President of the Kurdistan region, Nechirvan Barzani that it is important to create a fair electoral system and amend some articles of the Constitution.
Hakim said in a statement: "We discussed during our meeting with Barzani the developments in the political situation in Iraq and the region, demonstrators` demands and ways to achieve them to provide services and employment opportunities and contribute to the reform of the political process."
Hakim said: "The demonstrators` demands require the concerted efforts of political blocs. They are demands for reform and we will never allow to ignore them."
He stressed the importance of finding a fair electoral system and amend some articles of the Constitution in line with the changes and in a way that guarantees the rights of all.
He stressed the importance of demonstrating and exploiting the opportunity to get rid of some of the problems that have passed from the previous phases.
He pointed out to the duty of protecting the demonstrators and bring the perpetrators of bloodshed to justice.
Hakim added: "It is a need to protect public and private interests and sorting out those who seek to exploit the demonstrations to achieve special agendas."
[DAWN] The services of Sohail Ayaz, a consultant in a planning and development department project, were terminated on Wednesday following his arrest in Rawalpindi over child pornography and sexual abuse.
As Ayaz was convicted for paedophile sex offences in the UK, his appointment by a government department has also raised questions about the process of hiring consultants in donor-funded projects.
A notification was issued by project director of the Post Crisis Need Assessment (PCNA), said the contract signed between the Governance and Policy Project and Sohail Ayaz on Nov 1, 2017, was terminated with an immediate effect in pursuance of Clause 12 of the contract due to engagement of the consultant in fraudulent practices and immoral activities.
After deportation from the UK on the completion of jail term, Ayaz managed to secure job in the provincial government’s project under the health and planning and development departments and worked undetected for around four years until he was arrested in Rawalpindi in a similar case.
In a confessional video widely shared on social media, the accused admitted raping at least 30 boys.
[THEHILL] A Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, board voted to enact tougher energy efficiency standards for lightbulbs, pushing back against a rollback from the Trump administration.
A new rule from the Department of Energy (DOE) eliminates energy efficiency standards for half the bulbs on the market, a move critics say will make the U.S. a dumping ground for energy-sucking, cost-ineffective bulbs.
The vote from the California Energy Commission essentially bars sales of incandescent and halogen bulbs by adopting stronger energy efficiency standards. The state banned the sale of such pear-shaped bulbs in 2018, but the rule will now extend to all other shapes of bulbs ‐ a wide collection used in chandeliers, recessed lighting and other lamps that DOE just rolled back.
Multiple state and environment and consumer groups have already sued over the DOE rule, citing a portion of law that bars "backsliding" on energy efficiency standards.
But the California decision represents another instance of the state pushing ahead with greener policies than the Trump administration, using the size of its population to push companies to make more environmentally friendly products.
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The green "religionists" are going to prevent me from buying the light bulb I need to be able to see my work and to do work on my home, car, engines and equipment.
The "green" replacement bulbs are much lower wattages, so called equivalent watts of around 13 to 24 watts.
I do not find them to be equivalent.
I think they lie about the facts when it comes to equivalents.
I have made do with 45 watt R20 spot lights, but they are not very bright for difficult to reach and see situations.
60W, 75W, 90W incandescent reflector bulbs, the more the better, for difficult to reach and see situations.
With incandescent bulbs one never has to worry about the color temperature because the light is a very broad frequency spectrum, high quality light.
But with green people who are not doing the work, they only see through a very narrow frequency lens.
One size fits all austerity.
Condemning rather than gracious.
They are blinded by and slave to their own legalism.
Throw the baby out with the bath water.
They just don't care.
O'Brien said, "The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power.
"What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal.
"We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."
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State lines are made to cross. light bulbs will be easy to bring in; natural gas for those cities that have outlawed it in new construction, not so much.
They'd never drive through parking lots within 60 miles of the border with google video vans picking up license plates then pulling over vehicles for fail to turn signal.
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We need tariffs on everything California wants to buy from other states and everything California wants to sell to other states. It can be part of the Living Constitution (tm). And it's what New York and California are trying to do with us with their climate lawsuits.
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I have my copy of the recall petition right here. All I need to do is sign it and mail it but there's room on it for another signatory so I'm hoping to find someone else to sign it.
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So illegal aliens and drugs are A-Ok, but lightbulbs aren't?
[KhaamaPress] An explosion in Kabul city killed or maimed at least 17 people earlier today, the officials said.
Nasrat Rahimi, a front man for the ministry of interior confirmed that the earth-shattering kaboom took place in the vicinity of Fahim Street in 15th district of the city at around 7:25 am local time.
Rahimi further added that the earth-shattering kaboom targeted the vehicle of GardaWorld security company, killing 7 people and maimed 10 others, including 4 foreigners.
Another security source said a jacket wallah detonated his explosives close to a vehicle of the advisers of interior ministry.
The source further added that the earth-shattering kaboom killed 12 people and maimed nearly 20 others.
No group including Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... has so far grabbed credit for the earth-shattering kaboom.
Today’s explosion takes place a day after President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... announced the release of 3 senior Haqqani Network leaders including Anas Haqqani.
Remember the crazy jumbo featured a here few days ago ? The one villagers were afraid of. They had named him Laden. Now, he's converting to hindooism. And there's already a great change.
[NortheastNow] Krishna will be shifted to Orang National Park for training: Official
The rogue elephant of Goalpara district which was tranquilized on Monday was today christened as "Krishna" after Lord Krishna.
Nicknamed as 'Laden' by locals in and around Goalpara district, the rogue male elephant will be trained as a captive elephant under the Assam forest department.
A massive operation by the forest department led by Sootea’s BJP MLA Padma Hazarika on Monday tranquilized the elephant, which had killed many people in the past and destroyed houses and paddy fields.
"We are going to captivate the elephant. However, if we fail in captivating it, we are going to release it in a safe zone in the wild," said Assam forest minister Parimal Suklabaidya.
Forest officials said the elephant got the name ’Krishna’ as its capture on Monday coincided with the Raas Purnima, the auspicious occasion when Lord Krishna performed Maha Raas, the dance of divine love. Whatever that means. Sounds like an orgy.
"Besides, as it will be captivated, we must give it a better name," a senior official said.
"The official said Krishna will be shifted to Orang National Park for training. The two captive elephants of Padma Hazarika Ramu and Bahadur will be used to train Krishna," he said.
The department has also decided that one of the elephant trainers of Hazarika would train the rogue elephant.
The elephant trampled to death five people including three women An equal opportunity destroyer.
on October 29, forcing the state forest department to launch a massive operation to tranquilize it.
The department used drones to locate the rogue elephant’s location in Rongjuli forest division of Golapara district in Western Assam.
Hazarika, who has substantial experience in tackling rogue elephants, assisted the forest department officials in tranquilizing the wild elephant.
Reflecting on his choices in life. Chiefly, that he didn't have any. At least he was spared the death sentence. And had a good run. Ho Ho Ho...
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces ...established in 2007 with the intent of taking one conventional infantry kandak (battalion) from each of the regional ANA corps, giving them special training and equipment, and reorganizing based on the U.S. Army Rangers. Each battalion is assigned to one of the six regional corps. The commandos comprise 7% of the Afghan National Security Forces but conduct 70% to 80% of the fighting... killed 4 Talibs and arrested 2 others during the operations in Baghlan, Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , Farah and Kunduz provinces in the past 24 hours.
According to military officials, the Special Forces arrested 2 Talibs during a raid in Baghlan-e Jadid district of Baghlan province.
The officials further added that the Special Forces killed 2 Talibs during an operation in Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand.
The Special Forces killed 2 more Talibs and destroyed a small cache of weapons during a separate raid in Qalah-ye Kah district of Farah province.
The officials also added that the Special Forces destroyed another cache of weapons during a raid in Aliabad district of Kunduz province.
The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group has not commented regarding the operations so far.
[Townhall] Impeachment has jumped the shark ‐ now that the American people have seen the truth about the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, they are rejecting the Democrat Party’s fictional Ukraine narrative.
According to a recent Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs poll, 59 percent of Americans believe that President Trump’s Interactions with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky were not illegal, with 30 percent of respondents going so far as to say there was "nothing wrong" with the phone call between the two leaders.
The AP poll, however, isn’t the only sign that people are tuning out of the impeachment show Democrats launched on Inauguration Day 2017. Several other reputable surveys have also found that voters have lost their appetite for the Democrat-led impeachment effort.
A recent poll from The New York Times Upshot/Siena College, for example, concluded that 53 percent of voters in the crucial battleground states of Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona don’t want Congress to impeach the president. Another recent survey from Marquette Law backed up that result, finding that 51 percent of Wisconsin voters oppose impeachment.
It will be a very interesting election, indeed. Clarifying, even.
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I bet in 3 days, only MSNBC will be reporting on it and everyone else will flee in terror when US Marshals begin arresting their fellow coup conspirators.
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Ever notice how Schiff's eyes bug out big time whenever Republicans ask difficult questions? My wet dream is that they break him on live, nation-wide TV so that he foams at the mouth, blathers incoherently and needs to be escorted out of the room, needs to be installed in a padded cell with a straight jacket. I can dream, can't I?
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According to SNL comedian Rob Schneider: ‘People in California would vote for a bowl of $h*t if it had D next to it’
"In 2013, Schneider switched political parties from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party, explaining: "The state of California is a mess"
[JPOST] "The Al-Quds Brigades has not exhausted all its missiles and weapons against the enemy," warned al-Nakhla.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) Secretary-General Ziyad al-Nakhlah said that the group will prove that they are able to battle Israel and manage such a fight successfully, in an interview with Al Mayadeen Wednesday night.
Rockets were launched on both Sderot and Ashdod as al-Nakhla spoke. Soon after his speech ended, a heavy barrage of rockets was fired at central and southern Israel, setting off sirens from Ashdod to Rehovot.
Al-Nakhlah also said that Hamas has not, of yet, joined the fight alongside the PIJ against Israel, adding that the terror group has not asked factions to join. The PIJ secretary general specified that they have not reached the stage of all-out war between "the axis of resistance" and Israel. The attacks were carried out in response to the assassination of PIJ official Bahaa Abu Al-Ata and the assassination attempt against a PIJ official in Damascus.
The secretary-general also said that Israel conveyed a request for a ceasefire and that the terrorist group would agree to a ceasefire if Israel met three requirements: the cessation of assassinations, stopping firing on the March of Return demonstrations and the lifting of the siege on Gaza according to former agreements made in Cairo. The secretary-general stated that he expects an answer about the terms of the ceasefire tonight.
"The Al-Quds Brigades has not exhausted all its missiles and weapons against the enemy," warned al-Nakhla.
He stressed that PIJ has decided to protect the March of Return demonstrations.
"For those who say that the current battle is the battle of Al-Quds Brigades, we say it is the battle of the Palestinian people," said al-Nakhlah.
Al-Nakhla added that no rockets are fired by PIJ terrorists without direct commands.
Al-Nakhla stated that the PIJ would continue attacking Israel as long as Israel continues its "aggression."
The current round of fighting began early Tuesday morning after the IAF assassinated PIJ leader Bahaa Abu Al-Ata and his wife and attempted to assassinate a PIJ official in Damascus. Hundreds of rockets have been fired since the assassination was carried out. Israel has responded with multiple waves of attacks in the Gaza Strip against Palestinian terrorist groups.
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a de facto cease fire has been in effect for about 2 hours now
regarding rockets
there are conflicting tallies on how many rockets IJ launched - some tallies do not count short range mortars, that landed in the no-zone around Gaza, some count these but do not count rockets and mortars that did not clear the Gaza border,
also, a few months ago, IJ said it had 6000 rockets, IJ didn't say how many launchers they had but obviously has fewer
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[J-Post] America will leave a military presence on the ground to keep pressure on ISIS
Between 500 and 600 US troops will remain in Syria to keep pressure on ISIS, the chairman of America's Joint Chiefs of Staff has said.
President Donald Trump abruptly announced the withdrawal of all 1,000 American troops from the country last month, with the expectation that they would move into Iraq to continue the fight against Islamic State. However, he has since approved a mission to secure oil fields across eastern Syria, requiring a number of troops to stay in place.
“There will be less than a thousand, for sure,” Gen. Mark Milley said. "Probably in the 500ish frame, maybe six. It's in that area."
"There are still ISIS fighters in the region," he added, explaining: "Unless pressure is maintained – unless attention is maintained on that group – there's a very real possibility there could be a reemergence of ISIS. We committed to [prevent] that. The footprint will be small, but the objective will remain the same."
Following the successful targeting by US Special Forces of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi last month, Washington will be looking for an opportunity to remove his successor, Milley confirmed.
"They've apparently replaced him with another leader," he said. "We have a considerable amount of information on that individual. We'll see in the days ahead, weeks ahead, months ahead if he's able to piece together his organization. We'll pay attention to him and, where opportunities arise, we'll go after him as well."
But he added that, "it's not just Islamic State – it's other groups. I think we will be [there] for a significant amount of time. It's our national interests to be there to help out."
[FoxNews] Sen. Lindsey Graham ...soft-spoken senator from South Carolina, former best buddy of John Maverick McCain. Since McCain's demise, Graham has become more outspoken, more Republican and more of a supporter of President Trump. The speech he gave in support of Brett Kavanaugh was downright manly and really cheesed off the Dems... , R-S.C., blocked a congressional resolution Wednesday that would have recognized the Armenian genocide by Ottoman Turks hours after he and President Trump met with Ottoman Turkish President Recep Tilapia Erdogan.
Graham objected to passing H.Res.296, according to The Hill, saying senators shouldn't "sugarcoat history or try to rewrite it lie through our teeth so as not to offend moon goddess jihad terrorists." Graham's office did not comment on the matter in response to a Fox News request.
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., asked for consent to pass the resolution, which would have formally recognized the mass murder of more than a million Armenian Christians by Mooslems between 1915 and 1923. So now the GOP supports islamic quranic genocide. Can they sink any lower?
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Armenian Genocide is like the 'secret' name of the whistle-blower. Everyone knows it whether or not one of the immediate parties involved doesn't want to admit it.
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Graham objected to passing H.Res.296, according to The Hill, saying senators shouldn't "sugarcoat history or try to rewrite it lie through our teeth so as not to offend moon goddess jihad terrorists."
[TEXASTRIBUNE.ORG] His campaign is suggesting that it no longer sees having a national platform as a must. Instead, it’s staking its hopes on a strong finish in Iowa, Nevada and Castro’s home state of Texas. "I AM....Cornhoolian!"
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so sad
I was looking forward to hearing him expand on his comments on 'abortion justice' which would subsidize abortions for trans-sexuals.
Now we will have to suffer thru with only 10 candidates on the stage (in alphabetical order):
Joe Biden,
Cory Booker,
Pete Buttigieg,
Tulsi Gabbard,
Kamala Harris,
Amy Klobuchar,
Bernie Sanders,
Tom Steyer,
Elizabeth Warren and
Andrew Yang.
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add Lil' Bloomie and Deval "Mini-Obama" Patrick
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The sh-t-talking shrimp made an ass of
Himself, yet the champ was impassive:
"I'll try to make weight
In a gaseous state,
But this Governor Patrick is Massive!"
[BIZPACREVIEW] Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan expressed the same shock at Wednesday’s impeachment inquiry hearing that no doubt many Americans are feeling as they watch this political theater play out.
The first public hearing in the inquiry included witnesses William B. Taylor Jr., the former top diplomat in Ukraine, and George P. Kent, a senior State Department official, two men who were unable to provide anything of substance to the inquiry.
Taylor even admitted multiple times during his testimony that he was merely there to pass along information he had heard secondhand. Jordan got a little tired of the rumors being passed off as evidence and he broke down the entire sham process as only he can. He, like many others, was confused how Taylor could argue he had a "clear understanding" of the alleged quid pro quo at the center of this impeachment inquiry when he had no new substantial information to provide.
"You’re their [Democrats’] star witness," Jordan said in awe after having Taylor admit he had no firsthand knowledge of any phone calls between President Trump and the Ukraine president and also that in multiple meetings with the Ukraine president, a potential investigation was never once brought up.
"I’ve seen church prayer chains that are easier to understand than this," Jordan continued. As Jordan then started breaking down the fact that Taylor’s information was all secondhand and contained no real substance, Adam Schiff ...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election... 's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation... swooped in to save the day and gave Taylor a chance to respond.
"Let me just say, I don’t consider myself a star witness for anything," he eventually said.
"You don’t, they do," Jordan replied, pointing Schiff’s way.
And I, for one, believe them. Really. I do.
[ToloNews] The GMIC head provides details about post-release fate of freed Haqqani Network prisoners, and a source close to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... says did not take place yesterday.
Firoz Bashar, head of the Government Media and Information Center, said on Wednesday that "international partners have assured us" that Anas Haqqani, Haji Mali Khan and Hafiz Rashid will "not return to the battlefield" and will "go to Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... and remain there."
Bashar also said that the government expects the release of the three Haqqani members to cause "violence to be reduced in the country" and that the move will make the Taliban open to "direct talks with the Afghan government."
At the moment, however, a source close to the Taliban in Kabul says the three Haqqani prisoners have not yet arrived in Qatar and the two American University of Afghanistan (AUAF) professors kidnapped by the Haqqani network ...a branch of the Afghan Taliban, based in Pakistain. The network is a family business founded by the later Jalaluddin Haqqani... are "still in Pakistain."
In Pakistan? How very interesting.
President Ghani said on Tuesday that the "conditional" release of the three Haqqani Network members was intended as an exchange for Kevin King, 63, an American, and Kevin Weeks, 50, an Australian, both of who were kidnapped In 2016 while employed at the American University in Afghanistan.
"The exchange was supposed to take place last night, but due to some problems it didn't happen, and today it is supposed to take place," said Sayed Mohammad Akbar Agha, a former Taliban commander.
TOLOnews spoke to Abdul Fatah, whose 34-year-old son was killed in a 2017 truck bomb explosion in Zanbaq square, and asked him for a reaction to the planned release of Anas Haqqani:
"If this is done in the interest of the nation, and for the peace of our whole country, it is a good step and we wait for God," said Fatah.
Mainland Chinese students have begun fleeing Hong Kong campuses over security fears, police and university officials said on Wednesday, as the city’s seething political crisis saw some of its worst violence this week.https://t.co/VVFrPFQSv1
[NBCNews] Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was absent on Wednesday for courtroom argument in two cases.
Chief Justice John Roberts announced that Ginsburg was "indisposed due to illness," a statement similar to the one he made on the first day of the term, Oct. 7, when Justice Clarence Thomas was absent with what a court official said was the flu.
The same court official said Wednesday that Justice Ginsburg was "home with a stomach bug."
The health of Ginsburg, 86, has been a subject of intense interest since she underwent surgery last winter for lung cancer and treatment over the summer for a cancerous tumor on her pancreas.
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re #7: I believe the "No appointments in the last year" only applies if the Senate is controlled by the opposite party. Since Republicans control both the Senate and the White House, it doesn't apply.
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[Debka] Israel’s military spokesman reported that the air force struck and destroyed on Wednesday the Islamic Jihad’s main factory in Rafah for producing warheads for long-range rockets, as well as a pile of finished rockets turned out by the plant. Other targets were a Jihad officer’s command center in Khan Younes that served as a secret store for long-range rockets, and a naval vessel used to train the group’s trainees for commando infiltrations of Israel. It was sunk by an Israeli warship. Since Israel launched reprisals for Jihad’s rocket attacks in Gaza on Tuesday, some 16 Palestinians have been killed and at least 50 wounded.
[USA Today] Saturday morning, as he lay bleeding in a desolate swamp in Florida, James Boyce prepared for the unthinkable. With his wife, Terisa, by his side, he told her he loved her and that he wouldn't change a thing about their 15-year marriage. This was it. His time was up.
But Terisa wasn't about to let her husband become gator bait.
She was determined to make sure her husband lived to tell the tale of how an alligator nearly took his leg and his life.
Boyce, 46, of Palm Beach County, survived after a 10-foot-long alligator chomped down on the back of his leg just above the knee. Boyce was able to free himself, stave off serious blood loss and get help from fellow hunters and emergency responders to wind up with little more than scores of stitches as a memento of the day he nearly died.
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"Yeah ? Well boo hoo hoo ! Do you know there's a serious obesity epidemic in Florida 'gators ? High cholesterol an' all that ! How come no one's writing about that ?"
[Insider] South Korean residents near the North Korean border uncovered a long stream of blood flowing toward one of Seoul's main freshwater sources earlier this week.
The blood stream was the result of a mass pig culling gone wrong. South Korean officials killed over 47,000 pigs thought to have been infected with a highly contagious and incurable African swine fever.
The swine fever virus has wreaked havoc across pig populations in Asia and Europe. South Korea has already had to cull over 300,000 pigs since the virus crossed the border from North Korea in September.
Fearing the contaminated blood water would infect the Imjin River, South Korean officials swiftly swooped in and built dikes and used pumps to halt the blood.
[ASHARQ-AL-AWSAT] Schools in Tehran were ordered to be closed on Wednesday after the Iranian capital was cloaked in dangerously high levels of air pollution, authorities said.
Governor Anoushiravan Mohseni-Bandpey said kindergartens, preschools and primary schools would be shut in the city and the counties of Gharchak, Pishva and Varamin.
"The air quality index for the city of Tehran still has not passed the unhealthy status for sensitive groups," he was quoted as saying by state news agency IRNA.
Average concentrations of hazardous airborne particles hit 133 micrograms per cubic meter in the city and were as high as 150 for 10 districts, he said.
That is far above the World Health Organization's recommended maximum of 25 micrograms per cubic meter on average over a 24-hour period.
Warnings were issued for children, pregnant women, the elderly and people suffering from cardio-vascular or respiratory diseases to stay indoors.
Many people were seen wearing face masks to avoid fumes as they waited for buses on the sides of traffic-choked streets of southern Tehran during morning rush-hour.
A layer of thick smog covered Tehran on Tuesday, but it appeared to dissipate in northern areas on Wednesday morning with fewer school buses on the roads.
Air pollution was the cause of nearly 30,000 deaths per year in Iranian cities, IRNA reported earlier this year, citing a health ministry official.
Each winter, Iran's sprawling capital suffers some of the worst pollution in the world through thermal inversion -- a phenomenon that traps hazardous air over the city.
According to a World Bank report last year, most of the pollution in the city of eight million inhabitants is caused by heavy duty vehicles, motorbikes, refineries and power plants.
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Sharing tricky to access data if anyone is interested. This is the Township-level boundaries (乡 - Admin Level 4) for all of China (not Taiwan or HK). 43,655 in total. The finest-scale data I could find before this dataset was counties (2,851).
The Syrian Army started a military operation on #Idlib, one of the last al-Qaeda and Jihadists stronghold in #Syria. the attack began on the south-east side of Idlib province.
Breaking# Our reporter: Turkey's armed opposition groups targeted positions of Manbij Military Council forces, in Um Adase area in the northwest countryside of the city of Manbij, followed by intermittent clashes between the two sides, amid reciprocal targeting on the same axis. pic.twitter.com/7e19YWXIdU
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I have no idea of the accuracy of the numbers but it is reported in many places that the birthrate is crashing throughout the muzz world. Of course, it is a sad truth that people living in self made hellholes, barely getting by, somehow always seem to have enough energy to reproduce in an indiscriminate manner.
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^Yea, but once Jewish doctors left - infant mortality went back to 80%
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I’m out and about at the moment, and so away from my saved links but there was a study about a decade ago showing that the Palestinians at that time — through double counting Jerusalem, inflating births, and ignoring deaths and emigration, had over-counted their population growth by 1 million souls since Israel gave them self-rule... and therefor stopped doing their census. It’s probably considerably worse now. I am shocked that Stratfor fell for it— that does not bode well for their other predictions.
When you're in the business of making bylines from a jumble of everything from C1 to E6 as 'credible' to paying subscribers, there's bound to come a time when you let slip a few untruths. The armchair strategists who cite you without actually setting foot in Israel certainly won't notice.
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Here is one link on the subject. Lots of numbers, but woven around them an explanation for how the Palestinian figures ended up so far from reality.
[BREITBART] Around one-third of young hookers in the Gay Paree suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis are under 15, with some as young as just six, according to a local NGO.
The Observatory of violence against women in Seine-Saint-Denis published a study on underage hookers Tuesday, looking into 19 court cases in the juvenile court of Bobigny and around forty reports from French child protection services, La Belle France 3 reports.
The children in sex work in the controversial neighbourhood ranged from 17 to just six-years-old, with 89 per cent being prior victims of physical abuse and 40 per cent victims of prior sexual abuse, most of the abuse occurring within their own homes. 61 per cent of the mothers of the child sex abuse victims also reported domestic abuse as well.
Ernestine Ronai, head of the NGO, said that the goal of the study was to better understand the path that led to prostitution in order to better protect children in the future.
"The course of these girls’ lives is marked by violence," Ronai said and noted that the abuse led to failure in school which in turn led to the path to prostitution.
The study also found the important role social media plays in facilitating prostitution, saying 50 per cent of "clients" ‐ abusers ‐ used social media and the internet to approach the children for sexual favours.
The area studied for the report, Seine-Saint-Denis, has achieved a level of notoriety as a prime example of a so-called No Go Zone in La Belle France,
I’m confused. Were we not assured, in the strongest terms, that No Go zones do not exist?
or what the French government technically labels a Sensitive Urban Zone. It has become so difficult to retain staff to work in public services in the area the government now offers special cash incentives to civil servants not to move away, and the suburb has become synonymous with Islamisation, and often the most radical expressions of the Moslem faith.
Child sexual exploitation in vulnerable communities is not limited to La Belle France, however. In Sweden, journalists used the homosexual dating app Grindr while pretending to be a 14-year-old boy named David and found that over 100 adult men messaged the boy for sexual favours.
In another case, journalists claimed to be a 14-year-old girl on a website called "Sugar Daters" and had a man, later revealed to be an employee of Swedish broadcaster SVT, offer to pay the fake account £840 to take her virginity.
Child prostitution is also a major problem in the Netherlands where it was revealed last year that some 1,400 underage girls were forced into sexual slavery per year by migrant-background men. Gideon van Aartsen from Watch Nederland, who works with police to combat child sexual exploitation, said the men were mostly from Moroccan, Ottoman Turkish or Roma backgrounds and that they earned up to 800 euros per day from the child victims.
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On the positive side, none of the old prostitutes are under 15! Yay! Also...
"J'accuse all you Nazis and Joos!
The insensitive term that you use
Pour our banlieues muslimes
Where we frolic and scream
Is, Zones Urbaines Sensible, ou... zoos!
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In another case, journalists claimed to be a 14-year-old girl on a website called "Sugar Daters" and had a man, later revealed to be an employee of Swedish broadcaster SVT, offer to pay the fake account £840 to take her virginity.
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Moderate Islamists allow infidels to live under the caliphate's "protection" as long as they pay the jizya tax. Better than being murdered outright you could say.
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2 points (freely given and worth ALMOST that much)
1. They probably got elected because they are less corrupt, than the other parties. Corruption is a huge problem and not just in the "Islamic world", particularly when combined with incompetence...which is often the case.
2. Moderate Islamist. I know some Muslims, and we've talked about this. "You guys have a problem, it can be summed up in the word Islamist. Either You deal with it...or we will. But one way or the other It Will be dealt with."
PS. Not sure if people really understand that for every Non-Muslim the Islamists kill, they kill 10 of the co-coreligionists.
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PS. Not sure if people really understand that for every Non-Muslim the Islamists kill, they kill 10 of the co-coreligionists.
Well that's one good thing they've got going for them. You know Muhammad was no slouch when it came to chopping off the heads of his wayward flock.
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for every Non-Muslim the Islamists kill, they kill 10 of the co-coreligionists.
Which is a good thing really. If only the civilized world could find it's balls, the muzz could be deceitfully prodded to kill off each other in greater and greater numbers than are being born. And then someone could just put the remainder out of their misery.
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Well, then why doesn't the US and others who oppose Turkey leaven and let it keep whoever is faithless enough to stay? Which would probably be nobody considering that the Nordic countries want to stay allies with the US and Germany would prefer to pretend it doesn't have a military (and France isn't a member).
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This is bullshit. America can just leave it and it's dead. Good luck having a EUTO. You can form military alliances as and when conflicts arise. No sense in paying for the military posturing of nations opposed to your policies all the damn time.
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I think it's between 20 and 30 years ago. There was a very, very good reason to keep it until the Soviet Union completed its dissolution,even if they weren't as large a threat as people thought. But by Clinton's second term, we should have gotten out of there.
[KhaamaPress] The security forces killed 22 Talibs and maimed 7 others including two key commanders of the group in northern Sar-e Pul province.
The 209th Shaheen Corps in a statement said a clash broke out between security forces and Talibs in Sayad district amid ongoing Shaheen-216 operations.
The statement further added that the security forces also conducted Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s during the clash which killed 22 Talibs and maimed 7 others, including Qari Gulbuddin and Ahmad Mala, the two key commanders of the group.
The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group has not commented regarding the clash so far.
[UPI] The Supreme Court of Florida on Tuesday rejected an appeal for a stay of execution for a death row inmate convicted of killing a 14-year-old girl in 1985.
James Dailey was sentenced to death in 1987 for killing Shelly Boggio, whose body was found over 30 years ago stabbed, strangled, drowned and naked floating in waters off Indian Rocks Beach in Pinellas County.
In a 21-page ruling, the justices rejected the appeal for post-conviction relief. Dailey filed the appeal claiming innocence among other objections in September following Gov. Ron DeSantis signing his death warrant.
In the appeal, Dailey, 73, claimed that new evidence proved Boggio was killed by Jack Pearcy, a man who was also convicted in her death and sentenced to life in prison.
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[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.‐In honor of the impeachment hearings beginning this week, the Capitol Building has been decorated to look like a giant circus tent.
As soon as congressional maintenance staff heard that the impeachment hearings were going to begin, they went into storage and got out "the Big Top," also used during the Kavanaugh hearings last year.
"We keep the Big Top on hand for certain situations," said one staff member. "Usually these big inquisition-style trials, that kind of thing. They're great entertainment. And the kids love the monkeys."
Congressional vendors will be selling peanuts, popcorn, programs, and those big foam fingers to enhance viewers' experience.
Rep. Adam Schiff was furious with the changes, saying they make a mockery out of a serious show trial.
"These are serious proceedings, and we will not have them mocked!" Schiff cried, wearing a clown nose, riding an elephant, and juggling fourteen flaming bowling pins. "The American public needs to know how super serious we are about this."
"And now for my last stunt, I will create evidence for impeachment out of thin air!"
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[KhaamaPress] A series of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s killed at least 32 Talibs in Sar-e Pul, Baghlan and Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... provinces in the past 24 hours.
The military officials said Wednesday an airstrike killed 22 Talibs in Sayad district of northern Sar-e Pul province.
The 209th Shaheen Corps had earlier confirmed in an statement that the security forces conducted the airstrike amid ongoing clash in Sayad district.
Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa spent the day shopping for new underwear. Tonight was going to be a special occasion... the officials said an airstrike in Baghlan-e Jadid district of Baghlan killed a Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... bad boy.
The officials also added that an airstrike in Marjah district of Helmand province killed at least nine Lions of Islam of Taliban group.
The Taliban group has not commented regarding the airstrikes so far.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] China has tested a new submarine-launched missile capable of obliterating San Francisco, an insider has revealed, in a massive boost to the country's 'deterrent'.
The Chinese navy tested its state-of-the-art JL-3 missile in Bohai Bay in the Yellow Sea last month, sources said.
The nuclear-capable missile has a 5,600 mile range, significantly longer than its predecessor the JL-2, which could strike targets 4,350 miles away.
It means that Beijing can now carry out nuclear strikes on America's west coast from the security of its own territorial waters.
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Something about 'the security of it's territorial waters'. They won't be very secure if they try to launch against the US. A war with the US would mean they'd already cratered India. That should take a lot of doing.
[THEBAGHDADPOST] The front man of the Commander-in-Chief of Iraqi Armed Forces, Major General Abdul Karim Khalaf, announced that the Central Bank of Iraq has been attacked by 50 groups in the past few days by unruly groups
Khalaf said during a presser that "some of the demonstrators disrupted traffic in the capital, and assaulted the coppers," noting that "the central bank building alone has been attacked by 50 uncontrolled groups diagnosed by security forces."
He explained, "All arrests are made only by judicial orders," noting that "violent perpetrators are very few," saying that "some of them today burned a school and thus will be the target of arrest and prosecution."
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.
JACKSON, Ga. (AP) ‐ A man convicted of killing a Georgia convenience store clerk 25 years ago was put to death late Wednesday night, authorities said.
PACIFIC PALISADES, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Dr. Bruce M. Hensel, a former longtime medical correspondent for KNBC in Los Angeles, was arrested Wednesday morning on suspicion of asking a 9-year-old girl to send him sexually suggestive pictures, authorities said.
[The Drive] The U.S. Air Force hopes to begin tests involving a Kratos XQ-58A Valkyrie stealthy unmanned aircraft acting as a data-fusion and relay gateway between its F-22 Raptors and F-35A Joint Strike Fighters early next year. This will follow a separate experiment to first demonstrate that the new data link, known presently as GatewayOne, can enable the two jets to share information without degrading their stealthy signatures, scheduled to occur next month.
[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.‐Rep. Adam Schiff and the House Intelligence Committee called on their first star witness to prove that Donald Trump committed high crimes and misdemeanors: Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg.
[Yahoo via MSN] WASHINGTON — A Ukrainian company that employed Hunter Biden paid more than $450,000 to a prominent Washington think tank, including picking up the tab for energy-related conferences as part of a campaign to burnish its image in the United States after it was accused by Western officials of corruption. 
[Jpost] For some time, 
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
[PJ] During Wednesday's public impeachment inquiry, Republicans rightfully reaffirmed the point that neither of the two witnesses, Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs George Kent or Ambassador William Taylor, have any firsthand knowledge of President Trump's phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. In fact, neither man has ever spoken with or met President Trump.
[Daily Caller] Fox News host Chris Wallace said that Ambassador William Taylor’s House testimony Wednesday was "very damaging" to President Donald Trump.
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[AlAhram] Many banks and shops in bustling commercial areas shut on Wednesday, while Hong Kong's Jockey Club cancelled its evening races.
...Arabic for 
[KhaamaPress] A group of 121 ISIS 
...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president...
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
[NYPOST] A drag queen from Asbury Park, NJ., crashed Capitol Hill on Wednesday ‐ appearing for the first public impeachment hearings in a red latex dress and bouffant platinum wig.
Israel came under heavy rocket fire Tuesday morning and all of Wednesday after the Air Force bombed a building in the Gaza Strip in a targeted strike which killed Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) Leader Bahaa Abu al-Ata.
[Bleacher Report] - Colin Kaepernick will have an opportunity to show NFL teams he's still in prime shape to return to the league. 
[DAWN] The services of Sohail Ayaz, a consultant in a planning and development department project, were terminated on Wednesday following his arrest in Rawalpindi over child pornography and sexual abuse.
[THEHILL] A 
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
The department has also decided that one of the elephant trainers of Hazarika would train the rogue elephant. 
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) Secretary-General Ziyad al-Nakhlah said that the group will prove that they are able to battle Israel and manage such a fight successfully, in an interview with Al Mayadeen Wednesday night.
...soft-spoken senator from South Carolina, former best buddy of John 
[BIZPACREVIEW] Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan expressed the same shock at Wednesday’s impeachment inquiry hearing that no doubt many Americans are feeling as they watch this political theater play out.
...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that 
[NBCNews] Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was absent on Wednesday for courtroom argument in two cases.
Israel’s military spokesman reported that the air force struck and destroyed on Wednesday the Islamic Jihad’s main factory in Rafah for producing warheads for long-range rockets, as well as a pile of finished rockets turned out by the plant. Other targets were a Jihad officer’s command center in Khan Younes that served as a secret store for long-range rockets, and a naval vessel used to train the group’s trainees for commando infiltrations of Israel. It was sunk by an Israeli warship. Since Israel launched reprisals for Jihad’s rocket attacks in Gaza on Tuesday, some 16 Palestinians have been killed and at least 50 wounded.
[USA Today] Saturday morning, as he lay bleeding in a desolate swamp in Florida, James Boyce prepared for the unthinkable. With his wife, Terisa, by his side, he told her he loved her and that he wouldn't change a thing about their 15-year marriage. This was it. His time was up. 
South Korean residents near the North Korean border uncovered a long stream of blood flowing toward one of Seoul's main freshwater sources earlier this week. 
[BREITBART] Around one-third of young 
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[UPI] The Supreme Court of Florida on Tuesday rejected an appeal for a stay of execution for a death row inmate convicted of killing a 14-year-old girl in 1985.
WASHINGTON, D.C.‐In honor of the impeachment hearings beginning this week, the Capitol Building has been decorated to look like a giant circus tent.
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