[The Hill] Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams would already have won Georgia's governor race if there had been a fair election.
“If she had a fair election, she already would have won," the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee said while speaking at the University of Texas's LBJ School of Public Affairs, according to The Statesman.
Clinton on Tuesday night received the inaugural In the Arena Award from the university. She spoke about a variety of topics after accepting the honor, including Georgia's governor's race, which remains unsettled.
The race has gained national attention, as Abrams vies to become the first African-American woman to be elected governor in U.S. history. Her opponent, former Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp (R), leads Abrams in an official tally of the votes.
Though Kemp's campaign has remained confident that the final vote tally will force a recount.
[Statesman] Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has played as consequential a role in American politics as anyone in her lifetime, received the inaugural In the Arena Award from the LBJ School of Public Affairs on Tuesday.
The award’s name is drawn from a speech President Teddy Roosevelt delivered at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1910, the year after he left the presidency, in which he said: "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena...; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls, who neither know victory nor defeat."
In presenting the award, Angela Evans, dean of the LBJ School, said that Roosevelt "perfectly describes" Clinton’s grit and courage in a lifetime of public involvement as an attorney, advocate for children, first lady of Arkansas and of the United States, New York senator, secretary of state, and two-time candidate for the Democratic nomination for president. In 2016, Clinton failed while "daring greatly" as the first woman to be the nominee of a major party for president, winning the popular vote but losing the electoral vote and the White House to Donald Trump.
"If you want to be blameless, stay on the sidelines," said Evans, who said that for decades and to this day, Clinton perseveres over enormous "vitriol."
Clinton took the stage at the Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium to receive the award to whoops, hollers and applause from the audience, which was studded with longtime supporters who rose to cheer her.
Seated opposite one another on stage in matching red chairs, Evans interviewed Clinton, who recalled that she entered the metaphorical arena in the 1960s.
"It really was an amazing time in American history," Clinton said, noting the presence of Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson’s daughters Luci and Lynda at the event. "It seemed we were all pulling in the same direction to that common ground, that higher ground."
That decade was marred by political assassinations and the Vietnam War, she said, "but people were alive, and they were committed and involved in all the issues of the day."
Ah reckon a coup would be cool
With the tools at the LBJ School.
"Who's gonna be Lyndon?"
"Why, you, Mrs. Clinton,
You stump-broke ol' blue-haired fool mule!"
[Townhall] Let's start things off with the good news: On election night, it looked like conservative Utah Congresswoman Mia Love, who represents Utah's least Republican Congressional district, had been swept away in Democrats' suburban blue wave. But as more votes have been counted, Love's Democratic challenger has seen his lead dwindle away -- and now electoral maven Dave Wasserman is starting to lean toward the conclusion that Love is slightly favored to complete the comeback and win another term:
Despite President Trump's gratuitous shots at Love during these unhelpful remarks last week, Congressional Republicans would be delighted to have their party's only black female Representative return to the lower chamber in January. Keep an eye on this race -- it's trending red. At the other end of the spectrum, California's notoriously endless vote-counting process is once again padding Democrats' numbers, likely handing defeats to a number of Republican candidates who were leading on election night. The imperiled or defeated include incumbent Mimi Walters and first-time federal candidate Young Kim, who stood to become the first Korean-American woman ever elected to Congress (I mentioned her in this post). Given the trajectory of the count, in which she appeared to lead somewhat comfortably last Tuesday night, Kim may well narrowly lose:
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Because there seems to be systematic Dem election fraud and voter fraud in the 2018 mid-terms across the country all of these elections are suspect and need to be investigated. For example, the numbers in Arizona for Senator just don't add up. Same in Florida.
[Free Beacon] House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) on Wednesday praised MSNBC host Rev. Al Sharpton and thanked him for "saving America."
Pelosi spoke at the National Action Network's (NAN) legislative and policy conference, where she laid out the Democratic Party's agenda before introducing Sharpton, who founded the non-profit civil rights organization in 1991. The organization was focused on turning out voters during the midterms.
"We are going to be visionary. We are going to be unifying. We are going to be healing. We are going to be transparent in how we do this. We are going to be respectful of other views, but we are going to try to find our common ground where we can," Pelosi said. "We have a responsibility to do that, but where we can't, stand our ground like a rock. That's what Thomas Jefferson advised us to do."
She went on to tell the conference attendees about how she has received so many letters and phone calls from people thanking her for "saving America." She then said that she would like to give the thanks to the attendees before she introduced Sharpton and thanked him for "saving America," in a clip first flagged by Grabien.
Sharpton, a progressive firebrand and outspoken critic of President Donald Trump, hosts MSNBC's "PoliticsNation" on Saturdays and Sundays and has been floated as a potential Democratic contender in the 2020 race to try to defeat Trump. Regarding a presidential run, Sharpton in August told Buzzfeed that he never "rule[s]anything out."
[Unconstrained Analytics] The Trump administration is suffering under withering information campaigns designed to first undermine, then delegitimize and ultimately remove the President.
Possibly confusing these attacks with an elevated interplay of otherwise normal D.C. partisan infighting and adversarial media relations, the White House response to these campaigns reflects a political advocacy mindset that it is intensely reactive, severely under-inclusive and dangerously inadequate to the threat.
If action is not taken to re-scope and respond to these hostile campaigns very soon, the administration risks implosion and subsequent early departure from the White House.
This is not politics as usual but rather political warfare at an unprecedented level that is openly engaged in the direct targeting of a seated president through manipulation of the news cycle. It must be recognized on its own terms so that immediate action can be taken.
At its core, these campaigns run on multiple lines of effort, serve as the non-violent line of effort of a wider movement, and execute political warfare agendas that reflect cultural Marxist outcomes. The campaigns operate through narratives.
Because the hard left is aligned with lslamist organizations at local (ANTIFA working with Muslim Brotherhood doing business as MSA and CAIR), national (ACLU and BLM working with CAIR and MPAC) and international levels (OIC working with OSCE and the UN), recognition must given to the fact that they seamlessly interoperate at the narrative level as well.
In candidate Trump, the opposition saw a threat to the "politically correct" enforcement narratives they’ve meticulously laid in over the past few decades.
In President Trump, they see a latent threat to continue that effort to ruinous effect and their retaliatory response reflects this fear.
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I believe the original intent of the facilitators was to have the caravan arrive right before the elections so that the Dems could make some hay over the situation. Actually surprised the mex government actually slowed them down some (or nobody had paid the bill for the buses yet).
The MSM coverage was 24/7, too.
Now, not so much.
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The co-author of a much-hyped, peer-reviewed, alarmist paper claiming to have found a huge, unexpected build-up of global warming heat in the oceans has admitted: "We really muffed" the calculations. Muffed? Or projected what you wanted to see?
According to the paper by Laure Resplandy et al, published this month in the prestigious journal Nature, a lot of the missing heat from global warming ‐ 60 percent more than hitherto thought - has been absorbed by the oceans.
Naturally, this shocking discovery caused much excitement across mainstream media and was widely reported by environmental correspondents as proof that the global warming crisis was more serious than evah.
However, their exultant doom-mongering has been shortlived. An independent analyst, Nic Lewis, examined the paper and quickly spotted it was based on flawed math.
As the Global Warming Policy Forum reported:
Independent climate scientist Nicholas Lewis has uncovered a major error in a recent scientific paper that was given blanket coverage in the English-speaking media. The paper, written by a team led by Princeton oceanographer Laure Resplandy, claimed that the oceans have been warming faster than previously thought. It was announced, in news outlets including the BBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post and Scientific American that this meant that the Earth may warm even faster than currently estimated.
However Lewis, who has authored several peer-reviewed papers on the question of climate sensitivity and has worked with some of the world’s leading climate scientists, has found that the warming trend in the Resplandy paper differs from that calculated from the underlying data included with the paper.
"If you calculate the trend correctly, the warming rate is not worse than we thought ‐ it’s very much in line with previous estimates," says Lewis.
In fact, says Lewis, some of the other claims made in the paper and reported by the media, are wrong too.
"Their claims about the effect of faster ocean warming on estimates of climate sensitivity (and hence future global warming) and carbon budgets are just incorrect anyway, but that’s a moot point now we know that about their calculation error".
Another day... another attempt to hoodwink us into serfdom to save the planet
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Yes but every single person takes that risk. I wouldn't risk 5 years in jail if I could single-handed swing an election.
And voter fraud in California? What's the point?
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European Conservative, you might be surprised about California. If you look at voting on a county-by-county level you'll see it is a very red state with a blue coast. I believe rampant voter fraud has made it a far bluer state than the voters would have.
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I must say the U.S. system puzzles me, because in Germany voting is really a straightforward thing. Of course every German has a registered main domicile.
One month before the election, I get a letter from the city telling me where I'm registered to vote. It's a nearby place, I bring the notification, my ID, get handed the ballot, go to a cabin, vote, go back, put my vote in the box under supervision. That's that. Has never taken me more than 10 minutes.
I cannot understand why Democrats are against a state issued photo ID which includes your citizenship. I mean, you can't go to a post office to retrieve a package without showing proper ID.
I understand that Americans do not want a national ID, but it would solve many problems. Start with putting citizenship (or lawful residence status) on every driving license.
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Something to be said for "Ihre Papiere bitte, Ihre Papiere."
I think you haven't been in Germany for a while :-)
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In California in 2016 nobody checked my ID when I voted. Anyone could have said they were me and voted for me. With only 50% of people bothering to vote the odds are good nobody would find out. If anyone found a double-ballot they'd have to determine which was real and which wasn't, a process I've never heard happening in California. They've made it very easy to steal elections if they wanted to.
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They do a cursory check - asking for address, especially if multiple family members (by last name) are registered to vote at different addresses, but Voter ID is raaaaycissss per the Democrats
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[BabylonBee] ROCKVILLE, MD—Popular RPG developer Bethesda has hired a team of leftists to roam the wasteland in its new Fallout 76 video game and act as NPCs, handing out quests and interacting with players.
Bethesda games have often been plagued with buggy NPC behavior, a problem that was easily remedied by just paying liberals to parrot dialogue options as commanded.
"Our new liberal-controlled NPCs are actually much easier to program than the NPCs in our previous games," said one game designer. "Gone are the days of buggy dialogue and facial animations: now we just have liberals obediently doing what we tell them to say and think."
[KhaamaPress] Wed 3:48pm - At least three foreign members of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group have been incarcerated Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! in Kabul city, the Afghan Intelligence said Wednesday.
According to a statement released by the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS), the detained ISIS members were looking to carry out a series of attacks in the city.
The statement further added that the detained individuals originally hail from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... , Tajikistan, and Pakistain.
Disclosing the identities of the detained ISIS members, NDS said Noorullah from Turkey, Noor Mohammad from Tajikistan, and Mohammad Afzal from Pakistain, who were looking to plan and coordiante attacks in Kabul city.
The National Directorate of Security also added that five Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group members have also been arrested from Kabul city during separate operations.
The anti-government armed myrmidon and terrorist groups, including ISIS loyalista and Talibs have not commented in this regard so far.
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A worthwhile investment, even if only to annoy Pakistan.
[KhaamaPress] Weds 11:40am - The Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan Vinay Kumar inaugurated new projects during his visit in central Bamyan province of Afghanistan.
The Indian Embassy in Kabul in a statement said Ambassador Vinay Kumar inaugurated an eight room school funded by Government of India on Tuesday.
The statement further added the Minister for Economy Dr. Mustafa Mastoor and Governor of Bamyan Muhammed Tahir Zahir had also participated in the inauguration ceremony in in Panjab district of Bamyan Province.
In the meantime, Ambassador Vinay Kunar, Minister of Economy Dr. Mustafa Mastoor, and Governor of Bamyan Mohammed Tahir Zahir and Deputy Minister for Higher Education laid the foundation stone for a Male Dormitory to be constructed in Bamyan University with the assistance from Government of India.
India has played a major role in the reconstruction of Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... regime and has invested over $2 billion in various reconstruction and infrastructure projects.
The construction of the major Salma Dam, the new Afghan parliament building, Zaranj-Delaram highway, and some other projects are among the key investments India has done so far in the country.
The government of India pledged a fresh aid package of $1 billion to support the reconstruction projects in Afghanistan during a visit by 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. .. in late 2016.
[KhaamaPress] Wed 9:31am] At least thirty two turbans including a local commander of the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... were killed or maimed during the festivities and Arclight airstrikes in northenr Faryab province of Afghanistan.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North in a statement said festivities broke out between the security forces and Talibs in Kalik village of Qaisar district, leaving at least 18 turbans dead, including one of their local commanders Mullah Khal Mirza.
The statement further added that the security forces also received air support and and as a result at least 14 turbans also sustained injuries.
According 209th Shaheen Corps, at least five vehicles and fifteen various types of weapons of the turbans were also destroyed during the festivities and airstrikes.
Faryab is among the relatively volatile provinces in North of Afghanistan where the Talibs and other groups are actively operating in some of its districts and often carry out terrorist related activities.
[KhaamaPress] Tue 5:15pm - At least two senior Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... leaders were killed or maimed in a deadly infighting which erupted in northern Sari Pul province of Afghanistan.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North in a statement said the incident took place at around 2 pm local time on Monday.
The statement further added that two senior Taliban leaders, Saifuddin also famous as Sadat and Qari Bahramuddin, exchanged fire with each other in Nimdan village located in the outskirts of the scenic provincial capital of Sari Pul province.
The statement further added Saifuddin was killed during the clash while Qari Bahramuddin who is leading a group of 50 Lions of Islam sustained critical injuries during the exchange of fire.
The anti-government armed bad boy groups including Taliban have not commented regarding the incident so far.
Sari Pul has been among the relatively calm provinces in North of Afghanistan but the security situation in some of its districts has started to deteriorated during the recent years.
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While media worthy, the killing of Taliban "leadership" has obviously not resulted in an end the conflict. Perhaps it's time to engage the rank and file.
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A man and a plan: Top Bananas!
"Señor, eet take many mañanas --
Although she turn pinkish
From killing the kingfish --
To empty thees pond of piranhas."
[KhaamaPress] Tue 9:54am - Pakistain has reportedly released a former senior Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... official from the jail as efforts are underway to persuade the group to participate in peace talks.
Two Taliban officials have confirmed to News Agency that Dare Not be Named that Abdul Samad Sani, who served as the Afghan Central Bank governor during the turbans’ rule in the late 1990s, has been released from the jail.
The officials have also confirmed that a lower-ranking commander named Salahuddin has also been released.
The Pak government officials have not commented in this regard so far.
This comes as another senior Taliban leader, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, was released from the jail in Pakistain few days ago.
Reports regarding the release of Abdul Samad Sani emerge at a time when efforts are underway to revive Afghan peace talks.
The U.S. Special Adviser for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad is due to visit Pakistain, 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 United Arab Emirates as part of the ongoing efforts for Afghan reconciliation.
[KhaamaPress] Tue 7:12pm - At least eight Taliban militants were killed in an airstrike carried out by the U.S. forces in southeastern Ghazni province of Afghanistan.
The 203rd Thunder Corps of the Afghan Military in the Southeast in a statement said the airstrike was carried out in the vicinity of Andar district.
The statement further added that the militants were targeted in Kamal Khel area of the district, leaving eight of them dead.
The anti-government armed militant groups including Taliban militants have not commented regarding the airstrike so far.
Ghazni is among the relatively volatile provinces in Southeastern parts of the country where the Taliban militants are actively operating in some of its districts.
Earlier reports indicated that other militants belonging to foreign groups including ISIS loyalists are also active in some of its districts.
[KhaamaPress] Tue 2:19pm - The Afghan National Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mohammad Sharif Yaftali arrived in Malistan district of Ghazni province as the armed forces are preparing for a large-scale offensive to suppress the militants.
Gen. Yaftali said the operations against the militants would likely kick off today.
In the meantime, the 203rd Thunder Corps of the Afghan Military in the Southeast in a statement said the armed forces have launched an offensive (Thunder-4) in some districts of Ghazni province.
The statement further added that the operations are being led by 203rd Thunder Corps Commander Gen. Dadan Lawang.
According to 203rd Thunder Corps, the Commando Forces and other armed troops have also been deployed to Jaghoori and Malistan districts for the launch of a large-scale operation.
This comes as heavy clashes are underway in Malistan and Jaghoori districts of Ghazni province since the last few days.
[KhaamaPress] Tue 12:08 pm - At least fifteen militants were killed and a laser-equipped rocket launcher was seized during a clash between the Afghan armed forces and the Taliban militants in Moqor district of Ghazni province.
The 203rd ThunderCorps of the Afghan Military in the Southeast in a statement said the clash took place in Laram area of Moqor district on Monday.
The statement further added that the armed forces were busy conducting operations as part of Thunder-4 operations when a clash broke out, leaving at least 15 militants dead and 6 others wounded.
According to 203rd Thunder, the armed forces also confiscated a laser guided rocket launcher following the clash.
The anti-government armed militant groups including Taliban militants have not commented regarding the clash so far.
[AnNahar] Italian far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Wednesday met dozens of African migrants colonists, recently evacuated from Libya by the U.N., and sought to reassure them that Italia is "a welcoming, generous and supportive country."
Salvini, who has been at the forefront of the country's hardline approach to immigration, met the group of 51 migrants colonists, mostly families or women with children, on the tarmac at a military airport near Rome.
"For women and kiddies in difficulty, the only way to arrive is by plane, not by inflatable dinghy, because the dinghies are operated by criminals who in exchange for trafficking in human beings, buy weapons," he said.
"This is a demonstration that Italia is a welcoming, generous and supportive country, where I have been entrusted with the duty of bringing back some rules and order."
Almost all those in the group of 32 adults and 19 children came from Horn of Africa nations Æthiopia, Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... and Somalia, as well as Sudan.
They were among more than 2,300 vulnerable people who have been evacuated from Libya via Niger by the U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, since December.
They will be placed with host families in Italia by a Catholic association.
Salvini, the head of the far-right League, which is in a coalition government with the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S), has vowed to stop migrant arrivals and Rome has moved to close its ports to rescue boats.
He supports a deal between Italia and Libya, forged under the previous, center-left government, under which the Libyan coasties intercepts migrants colonists and returns them to the conflict-torn country.
In return, Italia is developing initiatives to legally accept vulnerable people stranded in Libya, where thousands of migrants colonists face arbitrary detention, extortion and violence.
The UNHCR has estimated there to be 679,000 migrants colonists registered living in Libya as of June 2018, though the actual number could be closer to a million.
The situation in Libya's detention centers "continues to tank" because of food scarcity and the spread of diseases including tuberculosis, the UNHCR's special envoy for the Central Mediterranean, Vincent Cochetel, warned Wednesday.
Last month the U.N. Refugee Agency and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) warned the "political discourse concerning refugees and migrants colonists, particularly those arriving by boat, has become dangerously toxic", adding that while boat arrivals had fallen deaths at sea had risen.
On Tuesday Italian police bulldozed a symbolic makeshift camp in Rome, where about a hundred migrants colonists had been living after leaving -- voluntarily or otherwise -- Italia's reception system.
[AnNahar] Libya is planning to extradite the brother of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi
...one of the more notable members of the Manchester Libyan jihadi crowd, which ties back to the al-Qaeda-aligned Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in the 1990s...
to Britannia by the end of the year, Libya's U.N.-backed Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj told the BBC in an interview on Wednesday.
Britannia last year submitted a request to extradite Hashem Abedi after the bombing in May 2017 in which 22 people -- many of them minors -- were killed.
Abedi detonated the bomb, killing himself, outside one of the arena exits shortly after the end of a concert by pre-teen idol Ariana Grande.
Hashem Abedi is suspected of involvement and is wanted by Manchester police on charges of murder, attempted murder and conspiracy to cause kabooms.
In an interview with the BBC on the sidelines of an international conference in Italia, Sarraj said: "I think from here to the end of this year we will finish all the legal procedures in Libya.
"We are fully cooperating because we understand the suffering of the families of the victims of this terrorist attack.
"According to the general prosecutor we can extradite. After we complete the legal process in Libya it is only a matter of time."
When Britannia first made the extradition request in November 2017, the gang holding him refused it.
The Manchester Arena bombing was Britannia's worst terror attack in more than a decade.
Salman Abedi was born in Manchester in 1994, to parents who had been granted asylum after fleeing Moamer Qadaffy's regime.
He was in Libya just days before the attack.
This article starring:
Hashem Abedi
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016.... met on Tuesday evening with the families of soldiers who died while on duty serving their country.
At the beginning of the meeting, the Crown Prince welcomed the families and conveyed to them the greetings and appreciation of Saudi King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians.... for all the relatives of those late soldiers killed in battle in different regions, governorates and centers of the Kingdom.
He further expressed his pride in the sacrifices made by the late soldiers who died while on duty from various sectors of the armed and security forces in defense of their religion, homeland and nation.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Christian rivals from the Lebanese civil war, Samir Geagea ... Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005 ... and Suleiman Frangieh, shook hands with each other on Wednesday, marking a formal reconciliation to end more than four decades of enmity.
Geagea, leader of the Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... (LF) political party, and Frangieh, head of the Marada party, have been foes since the early days of the 1975-1990 civil war.
The two parties had armed militias during the conflict that battled against each other. The war, which drew in regional powers, included fighting between the country’s main sects and rival factions within those sects.
The men, both Maronite Christians, met to reconcile at the seat of the sect’s Patriarch Bechara al-Rai in Bkerki, north of Beirut. They shook hands with Rai and then with each other after several failed reconciliation attempts over the years.
Geagea has been accused of leading a raid in 1978 on the home of Frangieh’s father, Tony Franjieh, a rival Maronite Christian chieftain, who was killed with his wife, daughter and others. Geagea has said he was maimed before reaching Frangieh’s house, and did not take part himself.
This is the second rapprochement of recent years between civil war Maronite Christian rivals.
In January 2016 Geagea endorsed then presidential candidate Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... ... for the Lebanese presidency, ending his own rival candidacy for the position, which must be held by a Maronite Christian under Leb’s sectarian power sharing system.
Geagea and Aoun, who fought each other in the 1975-90 civil war, have been on opposite sides of the political divide since Syrian forces withdrew from Leb in 2005.
President Aoun is a political ally of the Iran-backed Shiite group Hezbollah, whereas Geagea is a staunch opponent of the group. Frangieh is a close ally of Syrian President and Hezbollah ally Bashir al-Assad.
Tony Frangieh, Suleiman’s son, said the reconciliation was a good thing for all Lebanese and was not connected to any presidential aims.
"We are looking forward to the future by achieving this reconciliation," he told Lebanese broadcaster al-Jadeed at the ceremony.
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Possibly an indication of the improved economy in Iraqi Kurdistan, and the impact of resumed American sanctions on Iran.
[Rudaw] US sanctions on Iran could lead to a spike in the number of Iranian migrants colonists coming to the Kurdistan Region to work, according to the Kurdistan Laborers Syndicate.
Workers coming to the Kurdistan Region are classified as two groups ‐ one arriving after getting a license from the Ministry of Labor to work for a company or as a house servant, the other arriving independently to search for work.
According to figures released by the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, some 51,000 foreign laborers have been brought to the Kurdistan Region over the past 11 years through 163 licensed companies ‐ 26,000 laborers for projects and 25,000 for house care.
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[PAGESIX] Viewers are returning to the 9 a.m. hour of the "Today" show after Megyn Kelly’s ouster.
Variety reports that since Kelly was canned about three weeks ago, "viewership in the key demographic favored by advertisers in that time period is up around 10 percent."
The news will perhaps not surprise NBC brass, who saw viewers abandon the time slot in droves after Kelly took over from Tamron Hall and Al Roker in 2017.
Anecdotally, "Today" also saw a spike in viewers after it fired Matt Lauer last November.
Perhaps NBC News just needs to keep firing its most highly paid staffers till it’s unbeatable?
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Yemeni army has destroyed more than 2000 Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... mines in three days only in Hayran district alone, following big advances in the fifth military area in Hajjah governorate.
Specialized Yemeni forces have been dedicated to destroying mines planted by Houthis.
On a bigger scale, Yemeni forces have been able to destroy hundreds of thousands of mines out of a million mines planted by Houthi militias in all Yemeni governorates and villages.
Houthis have been known for planting mines the moment they sense their upcoming defeat.
In the southern governorate of Dhale, dozens of Houthis were killed and injured and ten were detained, including field military leaders, in violent confrontations with the Yemeni forces.
The Yemeni army, with support from the Arab Coalition, has been fighting Houthis in the city of Damt for days, and was successful in liberating big parts of it.
In Hodeidah, Yemeni sources confirmed the death and injury of dozens of Houthis on different battle fronts, whereas the Yemeni army continued to advance towards the northern entrance of the city.
The advances come with great Houthi losses and the fleeing of dozens of militias from the front lines to the internal neighborhoods of the city.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Workers of the Ahwaz Steel Factory continued their ongoing strike for the sixth consecutive day on Wednesday chanting slogans against the Iranian regime.
The workers took the streets in Ahwaz and protested in front of the governorate and rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud like "We will not leave from here, until we receive our rights" and cried out that "no nation has seen this much injustice".
Another slogan chanted on Wednesday focused on the regime saying that Tehran "chant for Imam Hossein, but pride themselves in thieving," in references of using the third Shia Imam for the government’s own profit.
Several reports suggested that the protesters continued their march and blocked the streets leading up to the governorate.
In videos of the protest posted online showed a large group of the Ahwaz steel factory workers gathered outside the governor’s office in the southern province.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The head of the Algerian organization for consumer protection (APOCE), Mustafa Zebdi, revealed that about 84% of the national coffee brands "do not comply" with the criteria stipulated in the legislation.
Zebdi stated in a presser, that the organization had analyzed the sugar percentage in the coffee and the legal labeling on it for 12 coffee brands, produced nationally. It was analyzed by 3 different Algerian labs.
According to the results; the incompliance was in the sugar percentage and in failure to mention the added substances and their percentages on the cover.
The analysis revealed that only 5 out of 12 brands contain an accepted and reasonable sugar percentage.
Zebdi clarified that the added substances might contain Acrylamide, which is a substance considered dangerous by the World Health Organization.
He also explained that the burning of sugar, which generates Acrylamide might cause cancer when consumed at a certain rate, highlighting that this substance is also found in potato chips and particularly in the grilled meat.
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[DAWN] A woman and her two daughters were found dead in Chan Shah graveyard in the Shah Bagh area of Lahore on Wednesday while a third girl, found in an injured state, was shifted to a hospital, said the City Superintendent of Police (SP) Maaz Zafar.
SP Zafar said that the two girls killed were between the ages of 13 and 15 years.
A statement from the injured girl, also a teenager, will be recorded once she is stable, the SP said.
Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar has taken notice of the incident and sought a report from the police.
According to SP Zafar, the station house officer (SHO) and the deputy superintendent of police (DSP) were at the site of the incident and an investigation was underway.
The police official told DawnNewsTV that the woman's husband ‐ who had married six times ‐ was killed 15 days ago in Sheikhupura. He added that two of his former wives had confessed to his murder.
Based on initial investigation, the police said that the mother and her daughters had been killed over a family dispute.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced on Wednesday that he was resigning from the conservative coalition government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in protest at a Gazoo truce.
Announcing his decision, which takes effect 48 hours after he puts it in writing, Lieberman deemed Tuesday’s Egyptian-mediated deal with the Paleostinian group Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, "a capitulation to terror".
"What we're doing now as a state is buying short-term quiet, with the price being severe long-term damage to national security," Lieberman said.
Lieberman also said that his party will quit the government as a result of his resignation, leaving Netanyahu with a narrow majority in parliament.
He added: "We should agree on a date for elections as early as possible," while sharply criticising the ceasefire that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defended.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday defended his decision to accept a ceasefire after the worst escalation with Paleostinian faceless myrmidons in the Gazoo Strip since a 2014 war.
"In times of emergency, when making decisions crucial to security, the public can’t always be privy to the considerations that must be hidden from the enemy," he said at a ceremony in honor of Israel’s founding father David Ben-Gurion.
"Our enemies begged for a ceasefire and they knew very well why."
The deal has provoked criticism from within Netanyahu’s government as well as from Israelis who live near the Gazoo Strip and want further action against its rulers Hamas.
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I still want to keep Bibi.
I also want an incursion plan.
I prefer to keep this together for now.
If you take a look around, it is a bad time for Elections. Yet the Israelis say they have had enough. And Green Light for interdiction was there from on high.
Your Enemies may take it as a sign of weakness both ways.
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... ’s Chief Public Prosecutor in Ankara has prepared a case against Pervin Buldan, co-chair of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), and three deputies for "propagating for a terrorist organization," state media reported.
The allegations against Buldan, who sits in the parliament as a representative from Istanbul, Imam Tascier, Alican Onlu, and Berdan Ozturk stem from speeches the four made during the June parliamentary and presidential election campaign, according to Anadolu Agency.
Their social media remarks and comments during Newroz celebrations in March were also examined.
The files have been submitted to the Interior Ministry to be sent to the parliament with a request to lift immunity from the four.
HDP has not immediately commented on the matter.
This is not the first time that members of the pro-Kurdish party are accused of having connections with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Both former co-chairs, Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag, are in jail on similar charges after the previous parliament voted to lift immunity from a select group of politicians.
Demirtas' trial will resume in Istanbul on Wednesday morning.
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[Ynet] State Department promises a multi-million dollar reward to those with details on location of several high-profile Paleostinian and Lebanese terrorists.
The US State Department on Tuesday announced it was offering up to $5 million for information leading to the location of Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, leader Saleh al-Arouri and Lebanese Hezbollah leaders Khalil Yusif Mahmoud Harb and Haytham Ali Tabatabaei under the agency’s "Rewards for Justice" program.
Later, the State Department designated Jawad Nasrallah, son of Leb’s Iran-backed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, a terrorist and accused him of carrying out attacks against Israel in the West Bank.
The department said both Hamas and Hezbollah receive weapons, training and funding from Iran. Washington recently reimposed sanctions against Tehran after President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... withdrew the United States from a 2015 nuclear deal.
The department also blacklisted al-Mujahidin Brigades (AMB), which it said had links to Hezbollah and had plotted a number of attacks against Israeli targets from a base in the Paleostinian territories.
"Today’s designations seek to deny Nasrallah and AMB the resources to plan and carry out terrorist attacks," the State Department said in a statement. It said the actions denied Nasrallah and AMB access to the US financial system.
The US Treasury added Shibl Muhsin Ubayd al-Zaydi, Yusuf Hashim, Adnan Hussein Kawtharani and Muhammad Abd-al-Hadi Farhat to its Specially Designated Global Terrorists list. al-Zaydi is Iraqi and the others are Lebanese.
Michael Avenatti, who became famous for representing Stormy Daniels in her battle with President Trump, has been arrested for felony domestic violence ... law enforcement sources tell TMZ.
We're told Wednesday afternoon the woman was on the sidewalk on her cellphone with sunglasses covering her eyes, sobbing and screaming on the phone, "I can't believe you did this to me. I'm going to get a restraining order against you."
We're told security brought her inside the building, took her upstairs and Michael showed up 5 minutes later, and ran into the building. He screamed repeatedly, "She hit me first." We're told he angrily added, "This is bulls***, this is f***ing bulls***." We're told he tried getting into the elevator but security denied him access.
Our law enforcement sources say Avenatti was arrested Wednesday after a woman filed a felony DV report. We're told her face was "swollen and bruised" with "red marks" on both cheeks.
Our sources say the alleged incident occurred Tuesday night, but there was another confrontation Wednesday between the two at an exclusive apartment building in the Century City area of L.A.
We're told Wednesday afternoon the woman was on the sidewalk on her cellphone with sunglasses covering her eyes, sobbing and screaming on the phone, "I can't believe you did this to me. I'm going to get a restraining order against you."
We're told security brought her inside the building, took her upstairs and Michael showed up 5 minutes later, and ran into the building. He screamed repeatedly, "She hit me first." We're told he angrily added, "This is bulls***, this is f***ing bulls***." We're told he tried getting into the elevator but security denied him access.
Cops showed up and escorted Avenatti into a corner of the apartment lobby and spoke with him for 5 to 10 minutes, and then took him into custody.
A law enforcement source says on Tuesday, Avenatti "kicked her out of the apartment" and that's when the alleged domestic violence occurred. We're told she went back to the apartment on Wednesday to retrieve her belongings and called police to stand by in case things got heated.
We're told Avenatti is currently in custody.
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Avenatti hit me too. 30 years ago in high school. Or maybe he showed me his shriveled wiener. Whichever pays out more on GoFundMe.
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LOL. According to the Dayton Protocol, which feminists have written into law in many jurisdictions, in any DV situation the man automatically goes to jail. Even if the woman hit him.
Hoist by his own petard.
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[DAILYCALLER] President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... will nominate Neomi Rao, administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Speaking at the White House’s Diwali celebration Tuesday, the president said he was slated to make the announcement on Wednesday, but was so delighted by the event he spontaneously decided to reveal Rao’s pending nomination. Diwali is a Hindu religious festival and Rao is Indian-American.
"I just nominated Neomi to be on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the seat of Justice Brett Kavanaugh," Trump said. "We were going to announce that tomorrow, then I said, ’You know, here we are, Neomi, we’re never going to do better than this right?'"
"Thank you very much, Mr. President, for the confidence you’ve shown in me," Rao replied. "I greatly appreciate it."
The D.C. Circuit seat in question was vacated following Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Rao, the daughter of Indian immigrants colonists, has served as the Trump administration’s deregulatory czar since 2017, and is widely considered a leading authority on agency law. Before re-entering the White House, she founded and led the Center for the Study of the Administrative State at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, increasingly a bastion of conservative jurisprudence.
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Unfortunate article title.
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That's better than Trump tapping Brett:
"We're buds!" "All these suds!" "I'm so wet!"
Press: JUSTICES HARASSED
SEZ DON, "NOT EMBARRASSED"
"O Lord, make us sober." "Not yet!"
[DAWN] Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... gunnies have killed at least 16 farmers and left dozens missing in the latest attacks in restive northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... 's Borno state, militia and residents said on Wednesday.
The civilian militia fighting the gunnies found 15 bodies in fields around Kazaa and Daraa villages, five kilometres (three miles) outside the garrison town of Monguno on Tuesday.
A farmer was also rubbed out while working near Gremari village, 13 km from the state capital Maiduguri.
"Yesterday our members recovered 15 bodies from farms around neighbouring Kazaa and Daraa villages who were killed by Boko Haram on Monday," militia leader Ibrahim Liman told AFP.
"Another 35 people have not been seen and a search will continue today (Wednesday) to find them," he said.
The farmers were mostly from camps in Monguno housing people displaced by the nine-year Islamist insurgency.
Monguno resident Mari Bulama said the opened fire on farmers at work, shooting them as they fled.
"We buried 15 of them yesterday before I left Monguno," said Bulama who arrived at Maiduguri on Tuesday from Monguno, 140 kms away.
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[DAWN] President Tayyip Erdogan said recordings related to the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, which The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has shared with Western allies, are "appalling" and shocked a Saudi intelligence officer who listened to them, Ottoman Turkish media reported on Tuesday.
Khashoggi, a critic of de facto Saudi ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was killed in Saudi Arabia’s Istanbul consulate on Oct 2 in a hit which Erdogan says was ordered at the "highest levels" of the Saudi government.
Erdogan told news hounds on his plane returning from a weekend visit to France that he discussed the Saudi journalist’s killing with the US, French and German leaders at dinner in Gay Paree.
"We played the recordings regarding this murder to everyone who wanted them from us. Our intelligence organization did not hide anything. We played them to all who wanted them including the Saudis, the USA, La Belle France, Canada, Germany, Britannia," he said.
"The recordings are really appalling. Indeed, when the Saudi intelligence officer listened to the recordings he was so shocked he said: ’This one must have taken heroin, only someone who takes heroin would do this’," he added.
US National Security Adviser John Bolton said he did not think that people who heard the recordings concluded that the crown prince was linked to the killing. "And certainly that is not the position of the Saudi government," he said in Singapore.
Asked again if the audio tape provided by Turkey did not link Prince Mohammed to the killing in any way, Bolton said: "I haven’t listened to the tape myself but in the assessment of those who have listened to it, that is right."
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The guy who finds this tape 'appalling' is the same guy who's arrested and jailed tens of thousands of his citizens over the fake coup, right? He must have his own interesting dictionary.
[DAWN] Pakistain may escape a new designation ‐ a serious violator of religious freedom ‐ thanks to the Supreme Court’s decision to release Aasia Bibi, according to diplomatic sources.
In January, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) recommended that Pakistain be designated as a "country of concern" because of its alleged "serious violations of religious freedom".
Although it’s a long-standing USCIRF demand, the US State Department has never so designated Pakistain, but it does highlight the commission’s findings in its annual reports on religious freedom.
In December last year, the State Department named Pakistain as the first, and only, country on its "Special Watch List", a new category created in 2016.
The report for this year complained that religious minorities in Pakistain continued to face attacks from krazed killer groups and society on the lam. It also noted that "abusive enforcement of the country’s strict blasphemy laws result in the "suppression of rights for non-Moslems, Shia and Ahmedis".
Tenzin Dorjee, the USCIRF chief, said: "The case of Asia Bibi illustrates the extent to which blasphemy laws can be exploited to target minority communities."
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Assuming she makes it out of the country alive.
Maybe Trump will send a SEAL team to snatch her. I wouldn't mind squandering some of my tax dollars for that. Besides, it might make a great made-for-TV movie.
[AL] A Jefferson County grand jury has indicted the Southeast regional administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and a former Alabama Environmental Management Commissioner for violating state ethics laws.
Charges include multiple violations of Alabama’s Ethics Act, including soliciting a thing of value from a principal, lobbyist or subordinate, and receiving money in addition that received in one’s official capacity, according to the Alabama Ethics Commission.
Before being appointed by President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... to serve as the Region 4 administrator of the EPA, Trey Glenn worked closely with the Birmingham-based law firm Balch & Bingham and one of its clients, Drummond Co., to fight EPA efforts to test and clean up neighborhoods in north Birmingham and Tarrant.
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Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Over 20 Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... forces of Evil were killed on Wednesday during a military operation in Badush heights in Nineveh province, a security source said as Iraqi forces still launch nationwide manhunts for the IS turbans.
Speaking to the National Iraqi News Agency (NINA), the source pointed out that security forces, backed by the Air Force, carried out numerous landing operations in Badush heights and Hatra districts in Nineveh after receiving intelligence reports about the presence of several IS holy warriors there.
"More than 20 IS bad boyz were potted in the military operation," the source said, warning that dormant cells of the turban group are still active in some parts of Nineveh.
Earlier in the day, the Iraqi Security Media Center announced that 14 Islamic State forces of Evil were incarcerated Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! during a wide-scale security operation in Nineveh.
According to the center, the arrestees were involved in the fights against security forces during the military operations to liberate Nineveh from IS Death Eaters.
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[IsraelTimes] Suspect held in La Belle France on potential charge of condoning terrorism after growing angry over request to show conductor his train ticket
A man who doused himself with wine and tried to self-immolate on a train and waved a phone showing images of armed combatants is being held by French police on a potential terrorism charge.
A French official said Wednesday the man was tackled by a soldier and a police officer, both off duty. The high-speed TGV train was traveling Tuesday from Lille in the north to Montpellier in the south.
The official said the man, who identified himself as Syrian, grew angry when a conductor asked him for a ticket, which he didn’t have. The official wasn’t authorized to discuss the detention publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The newspaper Le Progres, which first reported the arrest, said the wine was a rose.
The man was held on a possible charge of condoning terrorism, having allegedly brandished his phone with photos and video of combatants with weapons, the official said.
Tuesday marked the third anniversary of gun and kabooms that killed 130 people in the Bataclan concert hall and other sites in Gay Paree in 2015.
[AlAhram] Dozens of migrants colonists have barricaded themselves in a container ship in the Libyan port city of Misrata for the past five days, after being picked up at sea, and refuse to disembark, saying Libya is too dangerous for them.
Loaded with cars, the ship Nivin was already bound for Misrata when it picked up 93 migrants colonists in a foundering raft in the Mediterranean Sea late on Friday and continued toward its destination. Two of the migrants colonists agreed to leave with the Libyan coasties, but the others refused, saying Libya was deadly for migrants colonists and they wanted to go to Europe.
They have been in the Misrata port ever since, with the captain and crew taking refuge on the upper decks.
One of the migrants colonists, a man from South Sudan reached by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on the ship, vowed on Wednesday to reach Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... or die trying. He said six fat merchantmen passed his group before the Nivin finally stopped.
Libya's coasties had no immediate comment on the situation.
With just one rescue ship patrolling the Mediterranean, and European ports refusing to take in rescued migrants colonists, fat merchantmen have become increasingly leery of picking up people in the sea. Repeatedly in recent months, they have found themselves caught in the middle between governments hostile to new migrants colonists and an obligation under international maritime law to save
The man, who identified himself only by his name, Victor, fearing for his safety, said he himself had already been imprisoned repeatedly in Libya and that his own brother had died there. He had no intention of returning, he said.
``We don't want to go out in Libya,'' he told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. ``You can come and take my dead body outside.''
Julien Raickman, who is the head of the Doctors Without Borders mission in Libya, said Europe's policy of refusing to take in rescued migrants colonists has led to a spike in deaths. Now one in five who cross perish at sea, he said.
Raickman said the Libyan coasties has given international organizations access to the migrants colonists, who have food and some degree of medical care now, but no toilets or other sanitary facilities. The ship's cargo of cars was peacefully unloaded, but the migrants colonists remained unmoved.
``We're afraid that this dispute will end in violence. The people who are on board are determined. They know that they went far and could face charges for taking control of a boat,'' he said. ``But these are people motivated by despair.''
Not merely entitled colonists, but pirates? It becomes more interesting.
[NYPOST] Hatsune Miku is a virtual reality pop star in Japan, and thanks to a home hologram version of the character, her fans can “marry” her by downloading a fake marriage certificate. One man, Akihiko Kondo, took this a little too seriously, however, and spent $18,000 on a ceremony to marry a computer character.
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...Somali immigrant, Democratic politician, married her brother to get him a green card while still married to the father of her children, Joo-hater...
now says she ’believes in and supports’ boycott movement, after calling it ’counterproductive’ during election campaign.
Omar’s comment came in response to a website called Moslem Girl, which pressed her on her appearance during the campaign at a Minneapolis area synagogue.
During that candidates’ forum, she had said that BDS "stops the dialogue" and is "counteractive" to achieving a two-state outcome.
Like many other Democrats, she noted her opposition to anti-BDS legislation but framed it as a free-speech issue.
"Ilhan believes in and supports the BDS movement, and has fought to make sure people’s right to support it isn’t criminalized," her campaign told Moslem Girl after the election. "She does, however, have reservations on the effectiveness of the movement in accomplishing a lasting solution."
TC Jewfolk, a local Jewish news website which originally reported her ostensible rejection of BDS, pressed her on the issue after the Moslem Girl statement in text messages which it posted on Twitter.
Omar insisted there was no contradiction. "I believe and support the BDS movement and have fought to make sure people’s right to support it isn’t criminalized," she said. "I do, however, have reservations on [the] effectiveness of the movement in accomplishing a lasting solution. Which is what I believe I said at the forum."
The TC Jewfolk news hound pressed her further, asking Omar why she didn’t simply answer "yes or no" when asked about the issue at the synagogue forum for candidates.
"It was a bigger issue and she didn’t ask for a ’yes or no’ answer," Omar replied, referring to the person who posed the question. Omar said her position during the campaign was not "politically expedient."
Omar had earned notoriety in the pro-Israel community for a 2012 tweets posted in which she said that Israel had "hypnotized the world" to ignore its "evil doings." Defending that tweet earlier this year, she said on the same platform that calling attention to the "Israeli Apartheid regime" was not anti-Semitic.
Omar is the first Somali and one of the first two Moslem women elected to Congress. The other Moslem woman elected last week, Rashida Tlaib of the bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... area, also backs BDS.
[Guardian] The threat of Islamic State is mounting again in the Philippines, with estimates there could be between 40 to 100 foreign fighters, and a growing momentum among local pro-Islamic State militant groups.
Prof Rommel Banlaoi, chairman of the Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research, said that he had seen records of up to 100 foreign fighters on the island – a combination of old and new arrivals since the Marawi siege last year – who want to re-establish the east Asia wilayah crushed in the fighting. Banlaoi said the fighters in Mindanao had mainly traveled from neighbouring Indonesia and Malaysia but also Pakistan, Bangladesh and the Middle East.
A high-ranking intelligence officer gave figures of that closely matched Banlaoi’s records. “There are about 40 foreign fighters remaining in the country, but 40 others are in the watchlist,” said the officer.
The presence of foreign fighters is known to embolden rebels and there are increasing concerns of a renewed bid to declare a caliphate in Mindanao. The threat is highlighted by an apparent suicide bombing by a foreign fighter from Morocco in July that killed 11 people. It was claimed by Isis as a “martyrdom” operation.
“Foreign fighters are in the Philippines because they consider the country, particularly Mindanao, as a safe haven, alternative home base and a new land of jihad,” explained Banlaoi, who said he had seen a lot of chatter on the east Asia wilayah on IS social media recently.
“They train and learn from local fighters. They provide funds. They provide a global support network,” he added.
In Malaysia, Ahmad el-Muhammady, who consults with the authorities on de-radicalization of Islamist militants, said the concern over foreign fighters in Mindanao was growing and “the Malaysian intelligence community is closely monitoring the situation”.
As well as often having more experience with conflict, foreign fighters “play a very important role in bridging the parochial divides between Filipino groups” said Zachary Abuza, south-east Asia analyst at the National War College.
“Look at Marawi [and] what happens with Philippine-based IS groups work together. And often foreign fighters try to cajole local militants to escalate the violence,” he said.
Abuza calculated there were up to 40 foreign fighters in Mindanao and he emphasized the serious threat they posed. He said, "Many seek the relative sanctuary of the southern Philippines. There they can regroup, train and plot attacks. With IS’s declaration of an east Asia wilayah, the southern Philippines becomes more important because there is enough ungoverned or very poorly governed space.”
“There are IS cells in Malaysia and Singapore but they don’t control any territory. You can’t be province of the caliphate without territory,” he said.
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They're here! Some of them anyway. Video at link, they wouldn't let me copy the embed code. Folks, this is just down the road apiece from where I live.
[Fox5] SAN DIEGO -- People on the Mexican side of the border could be seen climbing the fence near Friendship Park Tuesday afternoon after part of the Central American migrant caravan arrived in Tijuana.
Several people scaled the fence and sat on top of it. A few jumped or crawled to openings in the fence onto U.S. soil but quickly ran back as Border Patrol agents approached.
Several border agents were seen patrolling the area in trucks, 4-wheelers, a helicopter and on horses.
The U.S. Border Patrol sent a news release stating it believes some of the people at the fence are from the caravan that's been traveling through Mexico from Honduras.
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Anyone that knowingly hires anybody below minimum wage should face jail time. Anyone that hires an illegal over a citizen for the same job will face massive fines.
Any illegal that commits a crime in the US will go to jail in the US and Mexico will be charged the costs (if they don't pay a tax on remittances go up). Create a single Social Security Number to be used for illegals so that the money gets into the system properly.
Do those things and you will slow or stop illegal immigration and/or divide the left upon the Union vs Illegals fault line or both. You own't have to defend the border.
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I don't know what the minimum wage should be, but liberals keep pushing it up and up and I'd like them to confront the hypocrisy of their positions.
[KrebsOnSecurity] A California man who pleaded guilty Tuesday to causing dozens of swatting attacks — including a deadly incident in Kansas last year — now faces 20 or more years in prison.
Tyler Barriss, 25, went by the nickname SWAuTistic on Twitter, and reveled in perpetrating “swatting” attacks. These dangerous hoaxes involve making false claims to emergency responders about phony hostage situations or bomb threats, with the intention of prompting a heavily-armed police response to the location of the claimed incident.
On Dec. 28, 2017, Barriss placed a call from California to police in Wichita, Kansas, claiming that he was a local resident who’d just shot his father and was holding other family members hostage.
When Wichita officers responded to the address given by the caller — 1033 W. McCormick — they shot and killed 28-year-old Andrew Finch, a father of two who had done nothing wrong.
Barriss admitted setting that fatal swatting attack in motion after getting in the middle of a dispute between two Call of Duty gamers, 18-year-old Casey Viner from Ohio and Shane Gaskill, 20, from Wichita.
Viner allegedly asked Barriss to swat Gaskill. But when Gaskill noticed Barriss’ Twitter account (@swattingaccount) suddenly following him online, he tried to deflect the attack. Barriss says Gaskill allegedly dared him to go ahead with the swat, but then gave Barriss an old home address, which was then being occupied by Finch’s family.
Viner and Gaskill are awaiting trial. A more detailed account of their alleged dispute is told here.
According to the Justice Department, Barriss pleaded guilty to making hoax bomb threats in phone calls to the headquarters of the FBI and the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, D.C. He also made bomb threat and swatting calls from Los Angeles to emergency numbers in Ohio, New Hampshire, Nevada, Massachusetts, Illinois, Utah, Virginia, Texas, Arizona, Missouri, Maine, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, New York, Michigan, Florida and Canada.
U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said Barriss faces 20 years or more in prison. Barriss is due to be sentenced Jan. 30, 2019.
Many readers following this story over the past year have commented here that the officer who fired the shot which killed Andrew Finch should also face prosecution. However, the district attorney for the county that encompasses Wichita decided in April that the officer will not face charges, and will not be named because he isn’t being charged with a crime.
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Lucky he pled. Consider: If he'd gone to trial, the prosecution would have had to assert in the sternest and most certain tones that the guy had every reason to believe the cops were a bunch of gun-happy cowboys who loved an opportunity to shoot those known to be innocent.
Otherwise, there'd be no connection between the motivation for the call and the actual death.
Cops would love that, not.
The defense would have to prove the guy thought the cops were a bunch of Mr. Rogers who wouldn't hurt a flea and that this result was the furthest thing from his mind.
I'd pay money to watch that.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] I have noticed attempts by those who are "fond of the Brotherhood" to curb the Saudi momentum towards the Brotherhood and its branches, both the public and secret ones, and aren’t they many!
This attempt aims to benefit from the loud fuss against Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... due to the campaign using the Jamal Khashoggi case. The last thing they care about is attaining the criminal judicial truth as all they want is to employ the case "for needs in the soul of Jacob."
A Jacob here or Jacobs! They want to obstruct the Saudi prowess in combating the Brotherhood, the most dangerous international "network" in the world and they’re doing so via the approach of: "Enough you people, enough talk about the Brotherhood. We have exaggerated this a bit or too much!"
Reality is opposite of that as we ‐ and we’ve talked about this problem here for years ‐ have plenty to say about the Brotherhood’s threat and this is good; however, a few work on establishing real and permanent awareness regarding the Brotherhood’s culture and ideology, which means the prevalence of how many over how to.
ONGOING WAR Anyway, the Saudi Crown Prince, the architect of the Saudi vision and the leader of the war against extremism, said at the Future Investment Initiative conference in Riyadh in his first statement following the vehement media campaign against Saudi Arabia after the Khashoggi problem that the war against extremism is ongoing. His words were clear. Of course, the Brotherhood is the first womb of extremism, via deceit at times, soft talk and gibberish about freedoms at other times or via frank and rough remarks when the time is suitable.
The time was actually appropriate during the wakefulness of the secret Brotherhood dream during the season of chaos or the Brotherhood Spring that lasted from December 2010 until the dream ended in 2014.
Let’s recall some of it. In July 2012, Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, Brotherhood official "Sheikh" Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... could not control his emotions and spoke in Gazoo during a Friday sermon saying: "The Brotherhood’s accession of power in Egypt and Tunisia is the beginning of the Islamic caliphate."
On November 13, 2011, at a ceremony for Ennahda Movement in Sousse, Tunisian Ennahda official Hamadi Jebali hailed the beginning of "sixth caliphate." In that same year, Yemeni Brotherhood official Abdul Majeed al-Zindani told crowds in Sanaa that he sees the morning of the Islamic caliphate rising from every place in the Islamic world, adding that Mursi’s accession to power was a sign of the caliphate.
CONFRONTING THE BROTHERHOOD Truth is, Saudi Arabia’s journey in confronting the Brotherhood is not something of this current era but of the era of King Abdullah as on March 7, 2014, the Saudi commission issued its famous list that was based on the former royal order of late King Abdullah and categorized certain parties as terrorist, and the Moslem Brüderbund was at the forefront.
Is it possible to say: "Enough talk and work on confronting unemployment, corruption and pollution! That’s enough, you’ve annoyed us!?" It’s the same thing as the same determination and same continuity must be adopted when it comes to protecting people from the Brotherhood’s ideological and psychological malaise.
A final word: Confronting the Brotherhood, in terms of its culture, politics and upbringing, is not an occasional matter or a tactical political move but it’s the "philosophy" of a permanent and new life.
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the Saudis consider the bruderbund an existential threat
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... on Tuesday tapped John Abizaid, a top US general from the Iraq war who has studied the Middle East for years, as ambassador to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... .
Abizaid is a fluent Arabic speaker of Lebanese Christian descent who headed US Central Command -- which covers the Middle East -- during the Iraq war from shortly after the US invasion in 2003 through 2007.
The 67-year-old wrote his master's thesis at Harvard University about Saudi Arabia, studying how the kingdom makes its decisions on defense spending, in a paper that won acclaim in academic circles.
A Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, native, Abizaid graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point and later won a scholarship to study in Jordan, where he honed his Arabic, which he did not speak as a child.
Trump has been slow in filling key posts amid his promises to shake up Washington.
Abizaid requires confirmation from the Senate, which would appear likely as the retired four-star general has long enjoyed respect in Washington.
Shortly after taking over as CENTCOM commander, Abizaid told news hounds that US forces were facing a "classical guerrilla-type campaign" from remnants of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party.
His choice of words contradicted his bosses, who initially tried to portray the Iraq invasion as a quick victory, but then defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld did not move to replace him amid admiration for Abizaid's skills.
And soon after retiring in 2007, Abizaid said that, while the United States should try to prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, "there are ways to live with a nuclear Iran," describing the holy manal state's behavior as rational and noting the United States also dealt with a nuclear-armed Soviet Union.
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[DAWN] A 13-year-old boy has shown no remorse for shooting his teacher and a classmate at his Indianapolis-area school, and he will remain the responsibility of the state juvenile detention system until he is 18, an Indiana judge ruled on Wednesday.
Hamilton County Circuit Court Judge Paul Felix rejected a request from the boy's attorneys that he be sent to a private treatment facility for shooting seventh-grade science teacher Jason Seaman and 13-year-old Ella Whistler during the May 25 attack at Noblesville West Middle School.
The boy admitted responsibility for the attack and apologised during a hearing last week. The boy's admission in juvenile court is similar to a guilty plea in adult court.
"I did not think it was sincere," Felix said during the teen's punishment hearing on Wednesday. "No remorse was shown last week."
The boy planned the attack on his own and had meant for it to be deadly, Felix said.
"You went into the school intending to kill not just two people but many people," Felix told the boy. "You wanted devastation, an inescapable tragedy for the ages."
Felix ordered that the boy be sent to the Indiana Department of Correction for placement in a state juvenile detention facility for rehabilitation. He will be placed on probation after turning 18.
The News Agency that Dare Not be Named isn't using the boy's name because he is charged as a juvenile.
Defence lawyer Christopher Eskew said he worries that the youth won't receive the counseling he needs in the state juvenile system, arguing that most of its programmes are for alcohol, drug or sexual abuse.
"There's very little actual emotional treatment there," Eskew said.
Prosecutors said during last week's hearing that the boy found the keys to a basement safe in his family's home, unlocked it and removed two handguns and more than 100 rounds of ammunition that he brought to the school in a backpack.
Prosecutors said the boy "is obsessed with violence being committed upon innocent people".
Investigators said that the day before the shooting, he filmed a video in his family's basement in which he showed two handguns and said: "Tomorrow's Friday, you know what that means. I have to take other people's lives before I take my own."
Whistler survived after being shot seven times. The teacher, Seaman, was shot three times. He testified last week that the boy returned to his classroom from a bathroom break and opened fire.
Seaman, a former football player at Southern Illinois University, said he threw a miniature basketball at the boy as he fired shots, and then tackled the youth and disarmed him.
Investigators testified that the boy's online history was filled with searches for school shootings, including the day before the shooting, when he allegedly searched for "What was the largest mass shooting in America." He also searched for a "blueprint" of the Noblesville school.
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Defence lawyer Christopher Eskew said he worries that the youth won't receive the counseling he needs in the state juvenile system, arguing that most of its programmes are for alcohol, drug or sexual abuse.
He needs the same Counseling Dahmer got in prison. He'll never be right
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[DAWN] A woman and her minor daughter were found hanging from a tree within the vicinity of the former's parent's house in a remote area of Khanewal district on Wednesday.
According to police, the 30-year-old woman and her 4-year-old daughter were strangled to death before their bodies were hung from the tree.
Homicide Sub Inspector Falak Sheer told DawnNewsTV that marks of fingers around necks of both the victims indicate that it was a murder and that the killer or killers hanged their bodies from the tree to portray the crime as a murder-and-suicide case.
The bodies have been moved to the tehsil headquarter hospital for an appointment with Dr. Quincy, he said, adding that a case will be filed after the post-mortem examination report is prepared.
Subsequently, police tossed in the slammer ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... the husband of the victim and said that he has confessed to killing both his wife and daughter.
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[Rudaw] A local official in Duhok province believes the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)’s activities have been affected by recent US bounties on the heads of three senior commanders of the party.
The US last week announced bounties collectively totaling up to $12 million for information leading to the capture of three senior PKK leaders: Murat Karayilan, Cemil Bayik, and Duran Kalkan.
"This has made the PKK show up less often," Sarbast Akrayi, head of Kani Masi sub-district, told Rudaw English on Wednesday.
Kani Masi is located in Duhok province’s Amedi district on the Kurdistan Region’s border with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... With the PKK less active, Ottoman Turkish bombardments have decreased, Akrayi explained.
Turkey frequently carries out Arclight airstrikes against alleged PKK positions in the Kurdistan Region. The country’s Ministry of Defence reported on Tuesday they have "neutralized" 57 "terrorists" in aerial operations in northern Iraq in the last four days. Ottoman Turkish armed forces use the term "neutralized" to refer to those killed, maimed, or otherwise removed from the battlefield.
The Amedi district has always been a hotspot for conflict, both the decades-long PKK-Turkey conflict and Kurdish uprisings against the former Iraqi regime.
"Therefore, the people are used to such things," Akrayi said of the reaction of local residents to the bombardments.
The most devastating period of the PKK-Turkey conflict in this area was between 2015 and 2017 when 4,000 acres of land were desolated, 26 villages were abandoned, and 18 houses were destroyed, Akrayi explained.
The people were left with an estimated 2.3 billion dinars ($1.9 million) in material losses, the official said.
There are 76 villages in the sub-district with a population of 10,000.
The PKK have not completely halted activities, however. Guerrilla forces attacked Ottoman Turkish positions in Erbil province’s Sidakan sub-district early on Wednesday, which was followed by Ottoman Turkish bombardment on the region, according to local mayor Ihsan Chalabi.
"Turkey bombarded Mount Del and borders of Khalifan, Siran, Shelkan, and Blasanan villages at 9:00 am, Wednesday, lasting for 45 minutes," he told Rudaw, adding that the attack was in response to a PKK strike half an hour earlier.
There were no reports of casualties or material losses.
[NYPOST] Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, police nabbed several people suspected of looting in wildfire-ravaged areas.
A man and a woman from the Northern California town of Magalia made off with someone else’s motor home after the owner had evacuated, the Butte County Sheriff’s Office said.
Shayne Tinnel Jr., 22, was at the wheel of the RV and Tracy Sizer, 42, was sitting inside when deputies stopped them Tuesday and placed in durance vile Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! them, officials said. They were charged with vehicle theft, possession of a stolen vehicle and looting.
Also Tuesday, deputies came upon two men on a bike path in an evacuated area between Chico and Paradise, which was razed in the deadly Camp Fire.
The men, Teddy King, 27, of Paradise and John Brown, 38, of Oroville had a laptop that didn’t belong to them, a ski mask, drugs and drug paraphernalia, deputies said.
They were both booked into Butte County Jail on drug charges.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck slipped the habañero into the roasted jalapeño... on Monday, an employee with the power company PG&E told deputies patrolling an evacuated area in Butte Creek Canyon that he saw two men who looked like they were looting.
Deputies found Jason Burns, 41, and Michael Salisbury, 48, hiding in the bedroom of a home with a stash of meth, heroin, a .45-caliber handgun stolen from a Paradise home and loaded magazines.
In the garage, deputies also uncovered an AR-15 rifle, several chainsaws and tools that they suspected were stolen.
Both men are being held on $89,000 bail on a slew of charges.
Two men dressed in jackets similar to the ones worn by US Forest Service workers had already been nabbed for looting in Paradise on Sunday.
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[AlAhram] A German-Kurdish singer was sentenced on Wednesday to more than six years in prison in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... for membership of a terrorist organization, her lawyer said.
Saide Inac, who performs under the name Hozan Cane, was tossed in the slammer Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in Turkey on June 23 while attending a campaign event for the Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) ahead of parliamentary and presidential elections.
The court in Edirne, northwest Turkey, sentenced her on Wednesday to six years and three months in jail, her lawyer Mustafa Pekoz said, adding that she would appeal.
According to her family, the prosecution relied on photographs of Inac with fighters from the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), which Turkey considers to be a "terrorist offshoot" of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Inac was convicted of being a member of the PKK, which is blacklisted as a terror organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... But Inac's relatives say the pictures were taken from a documentary she made about the persecution of the Yazidi religious minority by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group in Iraq.
The imprisonment of the singer, who lives in Cologne ...the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth populated city in Germany.... , comes amid a thaw in relations between Turkey and Germany after a series of spats.
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[DAWN] The body of Superintendent of Police (SP) Tahir Khan Dawar ─ who was kidnapped from Islamabad last month and found dead yesterday in Afghanistan ─ is expected to be handed over to Pakistain authorities tomorrow, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) information minister Shaukat Ali Yousafzai said in a statement on Wednesday.
Police and civil administration have been waiting at the Torkham border since Tuesday night to receive the slain SP's body.
The body was earlier expected to be handed over to Pak authorities today. Yousafzai said a KP Police delegation had waited at the Torkham border crossing all day for SP Tahir's body but were unsuccessful. He did not mention the reason of the delay.
Miram Sadaqat, the spokesperson of the Afghan Red Islamic Thingy, told DawnNewsTV that the organization's volunteers will transfer the body to the Torkham crossing as soon as Afghan authorities hand it over.
He said that Afghan police and hospital administration were "collecting information" about the body.
SP Tahir, a police officer who had survived two suicide kabooms in Bannu, was kidnapped from Islamabad's G-10/4 area on October 26. A body believed to be his was found in Afghanistan's 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 yesterday.
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[IsraelTimes] Man killed identified as 20-year-old fisherman; earlier second Gazook was shot and locked away Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! after approaching fence. Overall the day was calm but tense.
A Gazoo man was rubbed out by Israeli troops Wednesday after approaching the security fence on the Israeli border, according to the Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,-controlled Gazoo health ministry, as tensions persisted after a ceasefire Tuesday ended some of the heaviest fighting in years.
The Israeli military confirmed that soldiers opened fire as a group of Paleostinian men were spotted walking toward the border fence in the northern Gazoo Strip, near the Israeli community of Kibbutz Zikim. According to media reports, the suspect was shot as he continued approaching the fence despite warning shots being fired.
An army spokesperson said the soldiers "operated in accordance with the rules of engagement."
The Paleostinian man was identified by the health ministry as 20-year-old Nawaf Ahmad al-Attar, a fisherman.
Paleostinian media outlets reported that al-Attar had been killed at sea ‐ something the IDF denied.
Earlier in the day, Israeli troops shot and arrested a Paleostinian man who threw a number of grenades at the security fence in the northern Gazoo Strip, the army said. The grenades failed to explode.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, when he was arrested, the suspect was found to be in possession of a pair of boltcutters and a knife.
The two incidents came less than a day into a fragile ceasefire between Israel and terror groups in the Strip, after more than 460 rockets and mortars were fired into southern Israel over the course of 25 hours, killing one person. The military responded to the rockets with Arclight airstrikes throughout the Gazoo Strip.
There were no reports of rocket fire into Israel, or of Israeli strikes on Gazoo, since Tuesday afternoon, when the ceasefire reportedly went into effect. Paleostinians said the truce was brokered by Egypt.
Israel has yet to formally confirm the existence of a ceasefire, but senior diplomatic officials indicated that Jerusalem would abide by it so long as terror groups in the Strip did as well. In addition, the IDF Home Front Command on Tuesday night removed all restrictions on residents of southern Israel, declaring a "return to normality."
Nevertheless, the IDF still kept reinforcements in place surrounding Gazoo.
[IsraelTimes] Over 100 demonstrators gathered at entrances to Sderot and Ashkelon as criticism persists over ceasefire ending intense border flareup.
Channel 10 reported that the residents intend to take their protest tomorrow to Tel Aviv, where they will demonstrate near the Defense Ministry headquarters.
Hundreds took part in a similar demonstration on Tuesday after a ceasefire between Israel and the Gazoo Strip’s Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, rulers took effect following the largest barrage of rockets on southern Israeli communities since the 2014 Gazoo war.
The ceasefire, which Israel has been loathe to officially recognize, has been condemned by many in the country and was cited by Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman in his resignation announcement earlier Wednesday.
At a presser announcing his resignation, Liberman called the ceasefire a "capitulation to terror" and said Israel should have responded more forcefully to the firing of rockets and mortars from Gazoo.
The ceasefire was hailed by Hamas as a victory ostensibly imposed on Israel on Hamas’s terms. Rocket fire at Israel came to a halt on Tuesday afternoon, after two days of incessant attacks.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s administration contends it has "broad discretion" to regulate press access to the White House as it fends off a legal challenge from CNN and other outlets over the revocation of journalist"Journolist" Jim Acosta’s "hard pass."
In a legal filing ahead of a Wednesday hearing on CNN’s request for a temporary restraining order to restore Acosta’s access, the government argues it "was lawful" to punish Acosta for his behavior during a contentious Trump presser last week.
The White House’s explanations for why it seized Acosta’s "hard pass," which grants news hounds as-needed access to the 18-acre complex, have shifted over the last week. Acosta has repeatedly clashed with Trump and press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders in briefings over the last two years.
The News Agency that Dare Not be Named joined with a group of 12 other news organizations planning to file an amicus brief in the case Wednesday.
"Whether the news of the day concerns national security, the economy, or the environment, news hounds covering the White House must remain free to ask questions. It is imperative that independent journalists have access to the President and his activities, and that journalists are not barred for arbitrary reasons," the law firm Ballard Spahr said in a statement on behalf of the news organizations.
Fox News President Jay Wallace said that Secret Service passes for working White House journalists "should never be weaponized." Fox News was one of the organizations part of the filing.
Wallace said while Fox News doesn’t condone the "growing antagonistic tone by both the president and the press at recent media avails," it supports "access and open exchanges for the American people."
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Fox News President Jay Wallace said that Secret Service passes for working White House journalists "should never be weaponized." Fox News was one of the organizations part of the filing.
I was ok with Fox defending the guild; this statement is just stupid. The press is a guest in the house, and acting the ass will get us all kicked out. Acosta was obviously on a two Irish Coffee 3pm gripe. Police your own.
Accosta is an ass. Painfully obvious. He drips of it. So much of an ass when a dog greets him, the dog sticks its nose in his ear. I haven't seen a more classic 'no my blankee' move since I had a two year old with a head cold.
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Whatever the judge decides will also apply to the next Democratic president. Something to keep in mind.
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Considering the last democratic president tapped the phone of major journalists I am unsure that any judges decsion will impact the next democratic president.
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Fox made a mistake mixing itself up with that a$$h__e Acosta. It has nothing to do with freedom of the press. It has everything do do with Acosta's behaviors that went beyond the Pale. All the President wanted to do is to preserve some decorum and respect the dignity of the White House and Presidency. Acosta is just an attention 'ho.
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He's Avenatti in Journolist Disguise
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Whatever the judge decides will also apply to the next Democratic president. Something to keep in mind.
OMG!!! THE PRESIDENT MIGHT BAR A REPORTER FROM THE WHITE HOUSE!!!
Europe doesn't even have free speech rights; you guys work on that and stay out of our business.
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"Everyone has the right to express and disseminate his opinion freely in word, writing and pictures and to inform himself freely from generally accessible sources. Freedom of the press and freedom of reporting by radio and film shall be guaranteed. Censorship does not take place."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The United Arab Emirates, a leading member of a pro-government coalition fighting in Yemen, said Wednesday it supports a UN plan for peace talks to be held in Sweden by the year’s end.
“We welcome early convening of UN-led talks in Sweden,” the UAE state minister for foreign affairs, Anwar Gargash, tweeted in English.
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And Flake is promising to block all judge nominations now for the last month he has a seat because of this. Had to McStain until the end. Worthless piece of shit.
[AlAhram] Austria will not unilaterally expel any Russian diplomats in response to a case in which an Austrian army colonel is suspected of having spied for Moscow for 26 years, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Wednesday.
The case, which was made public on Friday and is being investigated by prosecutors, is an embarrassment for Austria, arguably Russia's closest ally in the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... While most EU countries kicked out one or more Russian diplomats over the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Britannia in March, Austria has hosted President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... twice since that nerve agent attack, including at its foreign minister's wedding.
"There will be no unilateral action by Austria in that direction," Kurz told a news conference after a weekly cabinet meeting when asked if Austria would eject any Russians.
Kurz has cited his country's tradition of neutrality as a reason for not expelling any Russian officials over the Skripal case, even though Vienna is a major diplomatic centre where more than 100 Russian diplomats are posted.
"The relationship between Russia and the European Union is regularly discussed in European forums. That is where this debate belongs," said Kurz, adding that spying by any country was unacceptable.
Britannia blames Russia for the Skripal poisoning. Moscow denies any involvement and has also said it knows nothing about the recently retired Austrian colonel accused of spying for it.
"This will of course not lead to an improvement in relations between the European Union and Russia. And yes, nevertheless we believe that fundamentally a channel for communication with Russia is important," Kurz said.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Turkey aims to deepen ties with Saudi Arabia in all aspects, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said according to a prepared text of his speech to parliament on Wednesday.
The text of the speech also said that Turkey is cooperating closely with the United States, the European Union and other parties to curb the negative impact of US sanctions on its relations with Iran. He also said that Turkey was making efforts to get the US Congress to abandon proposed bills aimed at Ankara.
The US Senate is demanding that sales of F-35 fighter jets be banned for Turkey unless President Donald Trump confirms that Ankara does not threaten NATO to buy defense equipment from Russia or detain US citizens.
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[Inquirer] A 15-year-old cousin of the founders of the Maute terrorist group surrendered to the Joint Task Force Ranao in Butig, Lanao del Sur.
Major Clint Antipala identified the Maute fighter as “AJ.” He was reportedly only 12 years old when recruited in Butig by his cousins Omar and Abdullah. The Maute brothers led the attack and take over of sections of Marawi City last year which sparked five months of fighting with Philippine soldiers.
“He was trained with 12 other members and one of them already surrendered to the 49th IB on October 29,” Antipala said in a statement to the media.
In August, the military reported the surrender of an alias Asnar, 14, also an alleged Maute rebel. The military said Asnar was recruited by Abdullah Maute in 2014, when the boy was only 10 years old.
Military spokesman Edgar Allan Villanueva said, “Nine years old was the youngest recruit (of the Maute Group) and most of these recruits were involved in armed engagement with government forces in the month of February and November of 2016."
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[Rudaw] A senior ISIS leader has confessed to multiple crimes on behalf of the group, including taking Peshmerga captive and parading them in public, a court in Baghdad announced on Wednesday.
"Abu Hamza al-Kurdi had committed many crimes," read a statement from Iraq’s High Judicial Council.
Kurdi was ISIS ’wali’ [governor] for Kirkuk and prior to that Baghdad.
Among the crimes he has been indicted for "taking 21 officers and some Peshmerga and filming them in orange jumpsuits put in iron cages and then paraded before the public" in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , the statement added.
In a night attack on Kurdish forces in the winter of 2015, ISIS faceless myrmidons captured 45 Peshmerga. The remains of three have been found in mass graves in Hawija. The fate of the rest are unknown.
ISIS released video showing at least 18 Peshmerga in cages on public display in Hawija, sparking outrage across the Kurdistan Region.
The court said Kurdi will be dealt with according to Article 1 of the Anti-Terror Law.
Hawija was one of the last areas to be liberated from ISIS in Iraq. The murderous Moslem group was declared defeated in December 2017, but remains a security threat.
In the war against ISIS, more than 1,800 Peshmerga were killed and 10,000 were maimed.
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[Ynet] Assailant shot, maimed while carrying out assault at entrance to cop shoppe in south of city; one of the officers was apparently hurt by friendly fire
Four copperswere maimed in a stabbing attack Wednesday at a cop shoppe in Jerusalem’s Armon Hanatziv neighborhood.
Police said the attacker arrived at the entrance to the cop shoppe and attacked three officers, lightly injuring them. He was shot and seriously injured.
During the scuffle a fourth officer was lightly hurt by shrapnel as others shot at the attacker.
The attacker was restrained by officers on the scene, according to police.
They said the attacker was nabbed Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! and security was being heightened in the area.
Police front man Micky Rosenfeld said officers were searching the nearby area to ensure there were no other persons involved in the attack.
The Armon Hanatziv neighborhood, some of which is in former no-man’s land between East and West Jerusalem, has been the scene of several attacks in past years, including during a wave of stabbings in 2015 and 2016.
In January 2017, a Paleostinian driver rammed his truck into a group of soldiers visiting a popular promenade in the neighborhood, killing four.
[DAWN] The Bajaur Press Club was closed for an indefinite period on Tuesday following threats of terror attacks.
The press club president Hasbanullah Khan told Dawn here that though he did not know about the threats, but the club had been shut down on the directives of bigwigs of the local administration.
Quoting the officials, Mr Khan said they had received information that some unknown miscreants planned to carry out terrorist attacks on the press club building, ’hence you’re advised to keep the club shut for an indefinite period to thwart any unpleasant incident.’
Following the instructions, the press club president said an emergency meeting of the senior journalists was held to discuss the situation in which the participants unanimously decided to shut the club for indefinite period.
Before shutting the press club, scores of Levies personnel arrived on the spot and took position at various places.
The Levies personnel also evacuated vehicles from a nearby bus stand owing to security concerns.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] In a hard-won victory, British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday persuaded her Cabinet to back a draft divorce agreement with the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , a decision that triggers the final steps on the long and rocky road to Brexit.
But she still faces pitfalls and threats from her domestic opponents as she tries to navigate the UK’s orderly exit from the EU.
May hailed the Cabinet decision as a "decisive step" toward finalizing the exit deal with the EU within days. It sets in motion an elaborate diplomatic choreography of statements and meetings.
EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier declared there had been "decisive progress" - the key phrase signaling EU leaders can convene a summit to approve the deal, probably later his month.
Crucially, Barnier said that "we have now found a solution together with the UK to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland."
But the agreement, hammered out between UK and EU negotiators after 17 months of what Barnier called "very intensive" talks, infuriated pro-Brexit politicians in May’s Conservative Party, who said it would leave Britannia a vassal state, bound to EU rules that it has no say in making.
Those "hard Brexit" voices include several ministers in May’s Cabinet. Emerging from the five-hour meeting in 10 Downing St., May said the Cabinet talks had been "long, detailed and impassioned." She said there had been a "collective decision" to back the deal, though she did not say whether it was unanimous.
"I firmly believe, with my head and my heart, that this is a decision which is in the best interests of the United Kingdom," she said.
And in a warning to her opponents, May said the choice was between her deal, "or leave with no deal; or no Brexit at all."
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[DAWN] Sri Lanka's parliament passed a motion of no-confidence in the controversially appointed government of Mahinda Rajapakse on Wednesday, a day after the Supreme Court overturned a presidential decree dissolving the legislature.
Speaker Karu Jayasuriya ruled that a majority of the 225-member assembly supported a no-confidence motion against Rajapakse who was made prime minister on October 26 in place of Ranil Wickremesinghe.
The result does not automatically mean that Wickremesinghe, whose party is the biggest in parliament, has won the constitutional showdown.
President Maithripala Sirisena retains the power to choose the next prime minister.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[The Hill] Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams would already have won Georgia's governor race if there had been a fair election.
[Statesman] Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has played as consequential a role in American politics as anyone in her lifetime, received the inaugural In the Arena Award from the LBJ School of Public Affairs on Tuesday.
[Townhall] Let's start things off with the good news: On election night, it looked like conservative Utah Congresswoman Mia Love, who represents Utah's least Republican Congressional district, had been swept away in Democrats' suburban blue wave. But as more votes have been counted, Love's Democratic challenger has seen his lead dwindle away -- and now electoral maven Dave Wasserman is starting to lean toward the conclusion that Love is slightly favored to complete the comeback and win another term: 
[Free Beacon] House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) on Wednesday praised MSNBC host Rev. Al Sharpton and thanked him for "saving America."
The co-author of a much-hyped, peer-reviewed, alarmist paper claiming to have found a huge, unexpected build-up of global warming heat in the oceans has admitted: "We really muffed" the calculations.
...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. ..
[KhaamaPress] Tue 9:54am - Pakistain has reportedly released a former senior 
...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...
[AnNahar] Libya is planning to extradite the brother of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi 
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016....
Samir Geagea
Michel Aoun
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
[DAWN] A 13-year-old boy has shown no remorse for shooting his teacher and a classmate at his Indianapolis-area school, and he will remain the responsibility of the state juvenile detention system until he is 18, an Indiana judge ruled on Wednesday.
[DAWN] A woman and her minor daughter were found hanging from a tree within the vicinity of the former's parent's house in a remote area of Khanewal district on Wednesday.
[NYPOST] 
...the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth populated city in Germany....
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
[Inquirer] A 15-year-old cousin of the founders of the Maute terrorist group surrendered to the Joint Task Force Ranao in Butig, Lanao del Sur.
