This is a very weird, terrifying, and potentially very important story—someone, maybe criminals, maybe the Chinese military, is messing with GPS around Shanghai in ways that we've never seen before: https://t.co/I2rKNEW28j
In which King County Executive Dow Constantine, tells everyone that the feelings of illegal aliens are far, far, more important then the lives of their kids.
[KOMONews] SEATTLE - Blowback is mounting over three separate murders that might have been prevented, but immigration officials say sanctuary policies got in the way.
The cases involve killings in South Park, Auburn, and Bellevue. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said the people who have been arrested are in the country illegally. ICE officials add that in the past they tried to take them into custody but local officials refused to help.
A man whose son was murdered said his boy might still be alive if King County officials had notified ICE when they had the chance.
Now, the ashes of Juan Carlos Con Guzman are the first thing his father sees when he walks through the front door.
"They take all my love. They broke my heart. Broke everything," said Juan Carlos Con Chiquin.
Before being arrested for murder, immigration officials said one of the men suspected in Guzman's death was in custody for auto theft. ICE asked the King County Jail to let them know when he'd be released. That notification never came and now Guzman is dead.
"They need to change a little bit," Chiquin said.
Because of his son, Chiquin believes local officials need to rethink sanctuary policies when it involves people who commit serious crimes.
There are two other homicide cases involving undocumented immigrants. One is charged with shooting into a home in South Park and killing a father as he sat on his couch. The third case led to a teenager being killed in a Bellevue park.
Bryan Wilcox, a deputy field officer director for ICE, said his agency sought detainers to hold the people involved before these crimes were committed but were ignored.
"In these circumstances, they (need to) work more hard and together," Chiquin said.
While these examples are tragic, sanctuary policies have also helped many immigrants illegal aliens feel more comfortable reaching out to police about threats in the community. reaching out and killing kids and others in the community. (FIFY) However, there is a feeling that some sort of balance needs to be struck. Ultimately, any change in King County would have to come from the county council.
King County Executive Dow Constantine released a statement:
"ICE is now on a public relations offensive against jurisdictions that follow the rule of law, alerting the media to instances when agents send civil Immigration Detainers that are prohibited by county policy. A lie - ICE isn't asking for detention - but to be notified when they criminal is released. Never mind that federal law Trumps county policy.
ICE is fully aware that if they present a valid criminal warrant issued by a U.S. District Court Judge or Magistrate, the county would comply. To be clear, we do not hold people against their will in our detention facilities unless ordered to do so by a judge. I'm sure all the criminals who you arrest, without a judges explicit orders, appreciate that. Why do you have that jail again?
We will continue to honor the Constitution, rather than the extrajudicial orders of any person, including the President." Lets not mention that ICE isn't asking you to detain anyone - just let them know when they are being released. He knows this. King County Executive Dow Constantine is Lying - but then he's a Democrat.
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Isn't there some kind of database that's updated automatically when a release is ordered ? Something an ICE sub-dept, or contracted agency can keep checking with periodically.
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What is it the gun grabbers like to say? NRA members "have blood on their hands?" Well, all you Dow Constantine voters, you have blood on your hands. Like it?
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Prosecute them. They really do bear responsibility for murder.
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In this day and age, that database should be automated and ICE agents should get push notifications on their work cellphones that someone on the list is about to be sprung.
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How about if conservatives funded a community administrated app to check this, tied up with ICE. The jails cannot deny any information requested by civs can they ? Besides, they wouldn't have to check with the prisons, just the county judges ordering the releases and update the db.
I may be ill informed about the specifics of how it works there, but the wily liberals would find a way for such a minor hassle. I think we can too ?
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U.S. Code Title 18 § 2384. Seditious conspiracy
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
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In this day and age, that database should be automated and ICE agents should get push notifications on their work cellphones that someone on the list is about to be sprung.
Maybe time to Freedom Of Information Act their sorry asses. It is a matter of community interest after all. Wankers would probably put up a web page rather than giving us a nice REST interface, but hey, it ain't the first screen we've scraped.
[Free Beacon] Texas Democratic state representative Alfonso "Poncho" Nevárez turned himself in Thursday after a video surveillance camera captured him dropping a cocaine-filled bag at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.
"I do not have anyone to blame but myself," he said in a statement. "I accept this because it is true, and it will help me get better."
Nevárez was arrested and released with bond set at $10,000, according to the Austin American-Statesman.
Surveillance footage from Sept. 6 revealed that he had dropped "a white paper object" as he walked out of the airport. Two Texas Department of Transportation employees found the envelope, and a later investigation determined that it contained cocaine.
Nevárez, who announced earlier this month that he would not seek reelection, confirmed the news on Thursday.
"In a weird way I am grateful. Grief and addiction were consuming me, but oddly enough, I feel better now than I have in a long time, and I mean that," Nevárez said, adding he would seek treatment for his addiction.
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That Democrat cokehead Nevárez
Got caught on a ghat in Benares.
The police asked him, "Why
Have you come here to die?"
"It seemed better than living in Juarez."
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"It was a campaign contribution from Hunter Biden"
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The Congressman's stint was aborted
When his felonies, although rather sordid
Caused the political class
To smirk, "Why--alas!
Better deported than snorted" [or reported]
[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.‐Acme Forks & Knives was trying to block a lawsuit brought against them by the obese community. The lawsuit suggested that the company's utensils were deadly tools that caused people to become overweight.
The Supreme Court has blocked the company's attempt to block the lawsuit, paving the way for victims of heart disease and other diet-related ailments to sue Acme.
"Finally---the big forks and knives lobby will be held accountable for contributing to heart disease and obesity, the leading causes of death among American adults," said a spokesperson for the oppressed obese community. "No human action leads to these deaths. It is entirely on the sentient utensils used to carry out the mass eating events."
"Blood is on their hands!" protesters cried. "Fight the corporate fork and knife lobby!"
Lawyers for the plaintiffs in these lawsuits have presented evidence that Acme Forks & Knives have marketed their utensils to the obese, specifically encouraging them to shovel a bunch of food in their mouths. They also said it was dangerous and irresponsible for the company to market a "fully automatic assault spork" that can shove "300 rounds of chili" into your face in under 10 seconds.
"Nobody needs that kind of forkpower," said one lawyer. "We will get justice for the obvious cause of this epidemic of deaths: the guys who make the utensils."
[The Mises Institute] Few remember him today, for reasons that should unsettle us all, but Vladimir Bukovsky was a hero from a dark age whose example confirms Mises’s motto, taken from the Aeneid: "Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it." Often glossed in the press as a "Soviet dissident," Bukovsky was infinitely more important. He took on the entirety of the Communist behemoth and lived to see it fall ‐ only to watch pieces of it rise again, he claims, and all with the conniving of the West.
Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky seemed destined to be a dissenter. The son of true-believer communists, Bukovsky realized at age ten, when Stalin died, that a mortal god was no god at all. He began to distrust the propaganda of the Soviet state. Apparently preternaturally incapable of lying, to others or, most important, to himself, Bukovsky refused to acquiesce in the quiet suicide of the conscience that is the necessary condition for any totalitarian government to succeed. As an undergraduate, Bukovsky began taking part in public demonstrations against the Soviet regime, after which he was marked for life as an enemy of the state.
Bukovsky embraced this role. Like a handful of others ‐ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, of course, and poets Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstein, to name just a few ‐ Bukovsky valued integrity above all else. He knew that communism was a lie and that everyone complicit with it was a liar, and he would not be a part of any of it. Tortured, imprisoned, subjected to psychological torment and physical deprivation, Bukovsky didn’t yield. He went on hunger strikes, published samizdat that circulated widely inside and outside of the Soviet Union, and made it the purpose of his life to tell everyone, everywhere: man must be free, and freedom and truth are ultimately the same thing.
Bukovsky detailed the decades of abuses and outrages in a book he published after the Soviet Union, grown tired of imprisoning him and increasingly wary of dissidents in general, exiled him. To Build a Castle, which Bukovsky put out in 1978 after he had settled in England, tells the story of the depravity of communist rule. In particular, and especially under Yuri Andropov (a man whom Bukovsky hated like no other), the Soviets learned how to weaponize psychiatry in order to diagnose those who resisted socialism as suffering from "sluggish schizophrenia" or some other nonsensical malady. Declared insane (as were thousands of other dissidents), Bukovsky relied on what he called "the implacable force of one man’s refusal to submit." He was a tiny leaven of truth against the abuse of psychiatry, but even that small truth won out. The Soviets were eventually censured by their psychiatry colleagues in the West; Bukovsky had again not given in to evil, but had proceeded ever more boldly against it. In time, the Iron Curtain fell, and the Evil Empire, which had had a stranglehold on Eastern Europe and half of Eurasia, collapsed. Bukovsky had stared down the Soviet Union ‐ the individual had defeated the collective.
It is at this point in the story of the Soviet Union that we in the West tend to swell with pride. We defeated the communist beast, we believe. Freedom prevailed.
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‐ only to watch pieces of it rise again, he claims, and all with the conniving of the West.
Cause the f****** ruling caste refused to hold those in the West accountable for their long betrayal of Western Civilization with the fall of the Wall. They wanted a more 'kinder gentler' world. You don't use aspirin to cure cancer.
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redefining history to show it was from within that this happened. There are dissenters in every nation, the USSR spent their treasure in finances fighting the cold war, and their human treasure in Afghanistan. They were broken and coming apart by the time Bukovsky came around to try and steal credit.
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Two forces fighting each other eventually look the same. Think about it.
There was an interesting SciFi story done this way. Two species battling across the universe. At one point the Earth side makes humans and a planet with a similar planetary ecology to the enemy. The enemy knows their biology and ecology so knows how to bio/chem/radiation attack it. Earth fights strongly from the planet and looks at each attack modifying it to be more effective and returns the favor to the enemies colonies. At some point it gets good enough to do it to the enemies home planets and exterminate them. Then it needs to write off it's modified enemy like planets and people so they are not a future threat.
The point? For 70 years each was doing the same. The Soviets even had US cities and one assumes we did the same or had think tanks doing the same (or universities). After the win over communism we didn't shut these down...
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Declared insane (as were thousands of other dissidents), Bukovsky relied on what he called "the implacable force of one man’s refusal to submit." He was a tiny leaven of truth against the abuse of psychiatry, but even that small truth won out.
Sounds familiar. We're going through our own (Deep) State-sanctioned perversion of psychiatry in this country as well. So many absurd notions are being forced upon us, daily, by the collective madness that is identity politucs wokeness and its machinery of repression in the form of denunciations, career or professional death, Twitter mobs, corporate HR Gestapo and their idiotic speech codes, "unconscious bias training," "diversity & inclusion" re-education camps and Thoughtcrime suppression.
[Business Insider] Living paycheck to paycheck is an unfortunately common hallmark of American life.
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GoBankingRates recently determined the necessary living wage in each state using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the 50/30/20 budgeting rule. This popular general budgeting rule allocates 50% of annual income to necessities like housing, 30% to discretionary expenses like travel, and the remaining 20% to savings.
The median necessary living wage across the entire US is $67,690. The state with the lowest annual living wage is Mississippi with $58,321. The state with the highest living wage is Hawaii with $136,437. Other expensive states (unsurprisingly) included New York and California, which have notoriously high costs of living and expensive housing markets.
Keep reading to see what the annual living wage necessary is to live comfortably in every US state, listed in alphabetical order by state name. Also included is the actual median household income in each state according to 2018 data from the US Census Bureau and the median price of homes listed for sale in each state from Zillow.
[San Francisco Chronicle] A federal jury in San Francisco awarded Planned Parenthood more than $2.2 million in damages Friday against antiabortion activists who posed as fetal researchers to enter abortion-rights meetings and secretly record participants, rejecting the activists’ claims that they were acting as undercover journalists to expose wrongdoing.
After a monthlong trial, the jurors found that David Daleiden, his employee Sandra Merritt and their collaborators had violated state and federal laws against trespassing, fraud, clandestine recording and racketeering, as well as the nondisclosure agreements the two signed before entering the meetings.
NDAs matter.
Jurors awarded Planned Parenthood more than $500,000 as compensation for the intrusions and $870,000 in punitive damages. Under federal racketeering law, most of the compensation will be tripled.
Jurors also concluded that both Daleiden and Merritt had violated a California criminal law against secretly recording conversations without consent. They both face criminal charges under that law in a separate proceeding in San Francisco Superior Court. Friday’s verdict has no direct impact on the criminal prosecution, which has a higher standard of proof, but it suggested that the defendants have a formidable task in justifying their actions to a jury.
Daleiden, who heads an organization called the Center for Medical Progress, and Merritt entered the abortion conferences by posing as researchers for a nonexistent company called BioMax Procurement Services. The conferences included the annual meetings of the National Abortion Federation in San Francisco in 2014 and in Baltimore in 2015, as well as Planned Parenthood gatherings.
[The National Interest] Key point: The B-52 can carry a huge diversity of weapons and remain an effective military asset.
Sixty-seven years after the U.S. Air Force received its last B-52 from Boeing, the flying branch finally has firmed up plans to fit the heavy bomber with new engines.
Air Force magazine in its January 2019 issue took a deep dive into the re-engining effort.
"If Air Force plans hold up, the B-52 will be approaching nearly a century of service by 2050," reporter John Tirpak wrote. "To keep the airplane flying, the service plans to equip each B-52 with new engines, which are expected to be so much more maintainer-friendly and efficient that they’ll pay for themselves in just 10 years."
In addition to new motors, the 76 B-52s in Air Force service also could get upgraded avionics, defensive gear, sensors and ejection seats, War Zone reporter Joe Trevithick revealed. The re-engined, enhanced bombers could receive the new designation B-52J.
In 2018, the Air Force announced it would retire its 62 1980s-vintage B-1Bs bombers and 20 newer B-2 stealth bombers no later than the 2040s, while the updated B-52s would continue to operate alongside at least 100 new B-21 stealth bombers.
"Despite their age, the B-52s have high mission-capable rates, can carry a huge diversity of weapons, and can perform effectively‐as long as the enemy lacks elaborate air defenses," Tirpak wrote. "Even in a higher-end fight, the B-52 can still launch missiles from well outside enemy air defenses. It is the only U.S. bomber that can launch nuclear cruise missiles, and it will be the initial platform for the new Long-Range Stand-Off missile."
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Designed almost overnight instead of becoming a runaway program like the F-35. KISS is a good principle.
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^ Amen. Feeling a little Herby all of a sudden...
The shell game industrial complex
That gobbled and grew turkey tom pecs
Now squats on your table
(can't fly -- isn't able!)
And marks its Thanksgiving with bomb sex.
[One America News] Reports have suggested the son of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may have used her position to benefit financially. One America’s Kara McKinney has more.
That’s Paul Pelosi, Jr., fourth child and only son of the House speaker.
Fascinating: A rare direct glimpse at Iranian intra-agency disputes. MOIS officials worry that Qassem Soleimani and the Iraqi Shia militias are inflaming sectarian tensions to the point where Iraqis may side with America (and even Israel!) to "save Iraq from Iran's clutches." pic.twitter.com/g1QDCpA5Iz
[AnNahar] Air strikes by Syrian regime ally Russia on Sunday killed nine civilians in the jihadist-run enclave of Idlib in the northwest of the country, a war monitor said.
Five of the victims died in the village of al-Malaja in southern Idlib province while the other four were killed in raids on the town of Saraqeb in the east, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
A number of people were maimed, some seriously, the monitor's head Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP, though he was unable to say how many.
The Idlib region, home to around three million people including many displaced by Syria's eight-year civil war, is controlled by the country's former al-Qaeda affiliate.
The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... jihadist alliance also controls parts of neighboring Aleppo and Latakia provinces.
The region is one of the last holdouts of opposition to forces of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... A ceasefire announced by Russia has largely held since late August.
But the Observatory says 48 civilians -- including 16 children -- have been killed in Russian air strikes on the region since the start of November.
The Britannia-based monitor, which relies on sources inside Syria, says it determines who carries out an air strike according to flight patterns, as well as aircraft and the munitions involved.
Last month Assad said Idlib was standing in the way of an end to the civil war that has ravaged his country.
[IsraelTimes] Egyptian officials said Sunday that a roadside kaboom killed at least three members of the security forces in the restive northern Sinai province.
The explosion hit their armored vehicle in the town of Sheikh Zuweid. Four other security force members were maimed, including an officer.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to talk to news hounds.
No group immediately grabbed credit for the attack.
[KausFiles] I haven't tweeted anything that's pissed off as many people as this (on 11/12) :
I suppose if the Respectable Interagency Consensus on Ukraine is willing to righteously remove a democratically elected president -- in Ukraine (2014) -- it's not such a big step to justify doing the same thing in the US.
Tufts professor Dan Drezner immediately tweeted, paternally, "you're more than a bit out of your depth"-- though he was understandably too busy to explain why. David Frum chided that Trump wasn't "democratically elected," since Hillary won the popular vote ‐ a point echoed by a massive Twitter troll army that apparently follows Frum (who knew?).
** — The apparent urge among Trump opponents to lower the bar for impeachment (until the U.S. becomes effectively the sort of parliamentary system rejected in the Constitution) recently became explicit in anti-Trumper Jonah Goldberg’s case, when he tweeted that “the president ultimately serves at the pleasure of Congress.” That wasn’t the idea.
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Kaus is indeed out of his depth, and playing with fire. Then again, so we're Victoria Nuland and John McCain.
What they all fail to grasp is that Ukraine = Africa with white faces.
There won't be a stable democracy with rule of law and a robust civil society in Ukraine anytime in the next 25 years any more than Libya or Zimbabwe or Mali or Congo will attain stability and good government in that time frame. Won't happen.
Ukraine is Russia's Russia. It's corruption squared, with ethnic and political hatred and separatism layered on top of a dysfunctional society and a legacy of the most brutal anti-semitism beneath it.
On top of all of this is the hard fact that Ukraine stands between Russia and its most important warm-water port, one that sits in a peninsula that is as near and dear to the Russian historical memory as Boston, or maybe the Alamo, is to us.
Yes, Putin's a thug surrounded by gangsters. That's beside the point, which is that there is no way on God's green earth that ANY Russian government, even the most liberal or pro-western, would ever tolerate an independent Ukraine joining NATO.
Face it: our Ukraine "experts" played with fire and burned their fingers. Perfesser Dreznee doesn't know any better than his most naive freshman student does regarding what should be done about Ukraine.
And gadflies like Mickey Kaus, David Frum and their ilk should stop using this pathetically dysfunctional country as a way to settle domestic American scores.
Stop Americanizing and politicizing everything. Try seeing the world as it is for once.
[AmGreatness] Max Boot recently wrote that my arguments against the impeachment inquiry are prima facie proof of why the Democrats should, in fact, impeach Trump: "If even the great historian Victor Davis Hanson can’t make a single convincing argument against impeachment, I am forced to conclude that no such argument exists."
In fact, I made 10 such arguments, all of which Boot attempted, but has failed, to refute. In this context, Boot’s intellectual erosion as a historian and analyst is a valuable warning of stage-four Trump Derangement Syndrome. I offer that diagnosis with regret given I once knew and liked Boot. But his commentary over the last three years has become sadly unhinged.
...No one should know better the horrific crimes of a mass-murdering Josef Stalin than the Russian-born Boot. Stalin’s purges, orchestrated famines, gulags, show trials, liquidation of the officer class, and atrocities during World War II perhaps accounted for over 20 million Russian deaths. So how could Boot write, "I would sooner vote for Josef Stalin than I would vote for Donald Trump"? Twenty million dead souls don’t quite match Boot’s hatred of Trump.
...After the former Republican Boot saw Trump elected, by defeating his own particular favored Republican primary candidate, and Hillary Clinton, he seemed a bit embittered: "For the health of our republic, I think we need to destroy the Republican Party."
...Boot claims there "have been many legitimate investigations prompted by the president’s unethical and even illegal conduct." Well, there certainly have been "bombshell" hysterias designed to subvert or abort his candidacy, his transition, and now his presidency.
But note that if Boot truly believes Trump’s conduct has proved serially illegal and there have been many "legitimate investigations" into his alleged criminal conduct, why then has not a single act resulted in a criminal referral? What is now the fate of all those who swore to us that Trump was a Russian asset, traitor, treasonous, or pervert such as James Comey, Andrew McCabe, James Clapper, John Brennan, and Christopher Steele?
...Boot’s analyses are not factually based. So when he writes, "All that is left is the tribal loyalty that Republicans, including Republican intellectuals, feel toward a Republican president. They would never make such excuses for a Democrat." In fact, I’ve never been a registered Republican, and remain an independent. In reference to tribal loyalty and the damage it does to institutions, Boot should consult James Piereson’s recent essay on Democratic partisan obstruction:
With the impeachment charade in mind, it is useful to review the various political and constitutional "norms" that have been blasted away in recent decades, mostly due to hyper-partisan conduct by Democrats, with encouragement and cover from the mainstream media.
...At many levels, the psychological pathology of projection has characterized this entire three-year effort to remove Trump. That syndrome also applies to the NeverTrump rump that for over 1,000 days has misled and smeared in its self-righteous pursuit of supposed truth and civility. IMO, the biggest problem in the modern world is pretend-intelligentsia
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The same motivation that brought you the Russian Collusion Hoax is what is bringing you the "inquiry" of Trump as an evil traitorous Impeachable.
Its ALL Democrat Butt Dump.
We elected Trump to give us HIRING signs all along the highways and get rid of Obama 'the "smartest man in the room" and all his rule pileup bureaucrats.
The American People don't LIKE bureaucrats. Its Genetic.
The Democrtats literally have NOTHING to offer America.
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Ukraine was "COVER FOR BIDEN" and Kerry and Pelosi and Clinton. They, and others yet to be exposed, used Ukraine as their families' personal slush fund.
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how could Boot write, "I would sooner vote for Josef Stalin than I would vote for Donald Trump"?
Maybe because the guy actually does NOT know much about Stalin or his crimes. He's too young, he grew up here, he's long been a hack who views the world entirely through a domestic US political lens. IIUC he hasn't even spent any amount of time in Russia since he was too young to remember anything.
We are ruled by morons-- who are advised by naifs and ignoramuses.
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Reminds me a bit of Governor Schwarzenegger in California. Democrat State Senate circled wagons and said they wouldn't help at all. He had to get referendums for anything which meant he ws powerless. Voters put these vermin in power, not much can be done until voters wake the F-up.
It's Kurt
[Townhall] So, while that human troll doll of an ambassador was back east dancing for Adam Schiff’s pleasure and I was out in a glitzy blue Los Angeles-area city at a nice restaurant to score some munchables and people were talking and chatting and interacting and how many were talking about impeachment?
Here’s a hint: It’s the same number as the average dates per decade for a Weekly Standard writer.
Ouch.
Just kidding ‐ there is no such thing as a writer for the Weekly Standard because it destroyed itself by sucking.
The number is "Zero."
Nil.
Nada.
Even less than the amount of Indian in Chef Sitting Bolshevik’s DNA.
No one cares.
Well, not no one. People in Washington care. After all, Donald Trump’s real crime is not deferring to the same D.C. geniuses who were so relentlessly awful that they caused us to elect Donald Trump in the first place. The meme is going around that "I hired Donald Trump to fire people like you," and boy ‐ is it ever on point. That the president ‐ yeah, he’s our president and he’s going to keep being our president for five more long years ‐ refuses to submit to the bureaucrats of the ruling caste on foreign policy is not a bug. It’s a feature ‐ the feature that closed the sale.
...Here’s the deal about impeachment. All this three-ring clown show stuff, all these poll-tested narratives ("Remember, our focus group in Duluth says ’quid pro quo’ is 7.632 percent less evocative than ’bribery’! Everyone go with ’bribery’ from now on!"), all these endless, rehearsed resumé dumps they call their opening statements, mean nothing. It’s a joke. This is not a fact-finding inquiry. This is kabuki theater for dumb people, trying to swing them around to embracing the fait accompli that is impeachment.
...So, to get rid of Trump and stop him from his unholy destruction of norms and rules, our elite has abandoned...
The concept of free speech...
The notion of objective reporting...
The idea of due process...
The principle that the people rule, not government flunkies.
They somehow think that this all gets forgotten after the inevitable humiliation of the Democrat coupsters in the Senate. They would scour the Earth of freedoms and rights and call the resulting wasteland "Democracy."
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Whats the CHARGE ? WHAT is Trump being indicted FOR?
For BEING Trump? We elected him FOR that. Get RID of the DC crapheads. They work for us, we don't work for them.
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I'm surprised the Pubs haven't walked out of this Schitt show. By attending this impeachment hearing star chamber show trial gives it far more dignity than it deserves. The lynching occurred before the trial began--sometime back in 2015 or 2016.
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As long as this continues, more information that everybody knows comes out, JohnQC... and the well developed American instinct for fairness drives ever more of the undecideds into President Trump’s camp.
#9
This is Wylie E. Coyote's ACME rocket exploding over his head. Elmer Fudd shooting himself in the arse. Daffy Duck walking into the business end of the hunter's [not Hunter B's] shotgun.
[AnNahar] The Israeli military says it has arrested a man who crossed its northern border from Leb.
It added that the Lebanese national was being held for questioning.
Leb's state-run National News Agency said a Lebanese man jumped over the border fence into Israel after shooting two people on the Lebanese side of the frontier.
Israel has been on high alert since August, when its aircraft struck targets in Syria and Leb linked to Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and 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... In September, brief cross-border fighting erupted after Hizbullah fired a barrage of missiles in response to Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s.
[AlAhram] French police arrested 254 people during festivities in Gay Paree and other cities on the first anniversary of the "yellow vest" movement, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said Sunday.
The violence in Gay Paree, where police battled rioters for hours around the southeastern Place d'Italie square, was the worst in the French capital in months.
A total of 173 people were arrested in the city, Castaner told Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... 1 radio, revising upwards Saturday's count of 147.
Dozens more were arrested in smaller protests in cities including Nantes, Montpellier, Strasbourg, Bordeaux and Toulouse ...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France... Further protests are planned Sunday.
Castaner claimed that there were "few demonstrators" among at the protesters Saturday in Gay Paree, who he said were mainly "thugs, brutes who came to fight the security forces and prevent the emergency services from doing their work."
Several cars were overturned or set alight, bus shelters were smashed and a monument to a World War II hero - Marshal Alphonse Juin -- was defaced.
The windows of a major shopping centre and a neighbouring hotel were also attacked by groups of stone-throwing demonstrators dressed in black, who wore masks to hide their faces.
The police, who had initially authorised the demonstration but declared it illegal after it turned violent, used tear gas and water cannon to try quell the unrest.
In rural La Belle France, the anniversary passed off generally peacefully, with thousands of yellow vests occupying the traffic roundabouts where the movement began last year over rising fuel taxes.
The interior ministry put the number of demonstrators at 28,600 nationwide but the organisers said nearly 40,000 people had rallied -- a far cry from the estimated 282,000 who took part in the first big day of protests on November 17, 2018.
The leaderless yellow vests, who accuse President Emmanuel Macron of ruling on behalf of the urban elite, are adamant that they have not gone away.
They are now looking to join forces with the trade union movement, which is planning a major transport strike over pension reforms starting on December 5.
[AlAhram] A rocket hit Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, which houses embassies and government buildings, on Sunday but caused no casualties or major damage, two police sources said.
Diplomatic sources said aerial bombardment sirens sounded after a blast.
Protesters in Baghdad’s sprawling Sadr City neighborhood on Sunday blocked roads in an effort to keep employees from getting to their workplaces, snarling traffic in some areas.
The roadblocks are in response to a call by influential Shiite holy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr ... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah... for a voluntary strike.
Protesters are also trying to reach the Ahrar bridge, after seizing part of the Sanak bridge and the strategic Khilani square in central Baghdad, as they continue to try to get to the heavily fortified Green Zone, the seat of government.
[AlAhram] An Egyptian military court has sentenced a Libyan krazed killer to death and others to heavy jail terms over a deadly krazed killer attack on security forces two years ago.
The case stems from an October 2017 attack on a police patrol in the Bahariya Oasis in the Western Desert which killed 16 security personnel and injured 13 others.
The court sentenced on Sunday a Libyan krazed killer, identified as Abdel-Rehim al-Mosmary, to death. The man, who was the main defendant in the case, received training on using heavy weapons and making explosives in Libya before infiltrating into Egypt through the Western Desert to carry out terrorist attacks in the country, the court said. He was arrested shortly after the attack.
Five others were sentenced to life imprisonment and 15 to between three and 15 years over charges including murder, attempted murder and joining a terrorist group, the court said. It did not specify the nationalities of the other defendants.
[Rudaw] Protesters in Basra blocked main roads in the city early on Sunday morning to push people to continue nationwide strikes.
The road blockades follow Sunday announcements of national strikes in an attempt to push the Iraqi government to meet the demands of the protesters.
Four provinces in southern Iraq, including Wasit, Babil, Misan, and Dhi Qar announced Sunday as a national holiday as a result of the strikes.
In Baghdad, many schools have been closed by protesters.
"The school is closed after an official order from the people," reads posters hung on their doors.
At least 320 protesters and members of the security forces have been killed since October 1, with around 15,000 others maimed due to the festivities between security forces and protesters.
The government has been slow to respond to protester demands, prompting the blockade of roads leading to major oil fields in the south of the country. City centers have also been shut down, leaving schools and workplaces empty in order to pressure Baghdad officials.
Protests persisted in the southern city of Basra on Saturday, where the main road to one of the country’s biggest oilfields was blocked off.
Located 60 kilometers from Basra, Majnoon is one of the richest oil fields in the world, with an estimated 38 billion barrels of oil.
The blockade of oilfields, oil tanker routes and major ports by protesters has crippled the Iraqi economy, draining the country of billions of dollars. A single week of blockade at Umm Qasr port in Basra caused an estimated 6$ billion in losses.
The United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... ' Special Envoy to Iraq, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, called on protesters to avoid blocking roads to oil installations and ports, as they cause "billions in losses" and undermine the fulfillment of protesters' legitimate demands.
"Disruption of critical infrastructure also of grave concern. Responsibility of all to protect public facilities. Threats/closures of roads to oil installations, ports causing billions in losses. Detrimental to Iraq's economy, undermines fulfilling protesters' legitimate demands," Hennis-Plasschaert tweeted.
Hennis-Plasschaert’s tweet angered Iraqis, however, with many accusing the UN special representative of caring more about oil than the Iraqi people.
Another of those carefully crafted leaks aimed at certain targets.
[Rudaw] The UK government and military covered up credible evidence of war crimes by British soldiers against civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to an investigation by the BBC and the Sunday Times.
Leaks from two government-ordered inquiries into the conduct of troops in the conflicts implicated troops in the killing of children and torture of civilians, the investigation found.
The allegations include murders by a soldier from the elite SAS unit, as well as deaths in jug, beatings, torture and sexual abuse of detainees by members of the Black Watch infantry unit.
Military detectives who unearthed evidence of the alleged war crimes told the year-long investigation by the newspaper and the BBC's Panorama programme that seniors commanders hid it "for political reasons".
"The Ministry of Defence (MoD) had no intention of prosecuting any soldier of whatever rank he was unless it was absolutely necessary, and they couldn't wriggle their way out of it," an investigator told the BBC.
The MoD said the allegations were "untrue" and that the decisions of prosecutors and Sherlocks were "independent" and involved "external oversight and legal advice".
The accusations emerged from two war crimes inquiries -- the Iraq Historic Allegations Team (IHAT) and Operation Northmoor, which dealt with Afghanistan -- which ended in 2017 without any prosecutions.
The government closed the probes after a solicitor, Phil Shiner, who had recorded hundreds of allegations, was struck off from practising law amid claims he had paid people in Iraq to find clients.
Amnesia Amnesty International criticised the decision at the time and some former IHAT and Operation Northmoor Sherlocks now allege Shiner's actions were used as an excuse to close down the inquiries as they found wrongdoing at high levels.
The Sunday Times reported military detectives discovered allegations of falsified documents that were "serious enough to merit prosecutions of senior officers".
It reported one of the SAS's most senior commanders was referred to prosecutors for attempting to pervert the course of justice before the inquiries were ended.
The newspaper said the revelations could result in a war crimes investigation at the International Criminal Court if Britannia was deemed to have failed to hold its military to account.
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told the BBC on Sunday that despite the lack of any prosecutions, it had "got the right balance" in ensuring "spurious claims" were not pursued.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan government has reconsidered decision to swap three big shots of the Haqqani terrorist network with the American University lecturers.
Presidential spokesperson Sediq Sediqqi said late on Saturday that Anas Haqqani, Mali Khan and Hafiz Rashid, the three senior Haqqani network ...a branch of the Afghan Taliban, based in Pakistain. The network is a family business founded by the later Jalaluddin Haqqani... leaders are still in the custody of the Afghan government.
Sediqqi blamed the postponement of the prisoners swap, claiming that the group failed to respect the conditions of the process.
Meanwhile, ...back at the buffalo wallow, Yellow Wolf clutched at his chest and fell from his horse... Sediqqi said the Afghan government has reconsidered decision and will take further actions in the light of the interests and benefits of Afghanistan.
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... on Tuesday announced that the government is intending to release the three senior Haqqani network leaders in exchange for the release of the two American University lecturers.
The Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... group kidnapped the two American University lecturers from West of Kabul city in August of 2016.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan forces seized a massive arsenal of munitions of Taliban ...Arabic for students... during an operation in northern Faryab province.
The 209th Shaheen Corps in a statement said the National Defense and Security Forces conducted the operation in Qarghan district of Faryab.
The statement further added that the arsenal of weapons of belonged to the shadow district chief of Taliban of Qarghan.
The security forces confiscated 100 rounds of rockets, 4 boxes of hand grenades, 100 mortar rounds, 50 rounds of rocket launcher rockets, 5000 rounds of PKM machine gun ammunition, 5000 rounds of Ak-47 rifle ammunition and several improvised bombs, the statement added.
The Taliban group has not commented in this regard so far.
Fascinating. I assume all the members of said Muslim institutions have been thoroughly investigated and connections mapped...
[BREITBART] The French government has shut down mosques, schools, and associations linked to the spread of Islamist ideology in fifteen neighbourhoods across the country. French Secretary of State for the Interior Laurent Nuñez announced the closure of 130 drinking establishments, 12 places of worship, three schools, and nine associations linked to radical Islamism on Friday, Le Gay Pareeien reports.
"We fight against political Islamism that suggests that the law of God is superior to that of the Republic," he told French media. He added that in his view political Islamism should not be conflated with the religion of Islam more generally.
While Nuñez noted that the closures occurred in fifteen different neighbourhoods, he did not identify which specific neighbourhoods were affected by the closures. The closures come as part of the National Plan for the Prevention of Radicalization (PNPR).
[Ay-Pee/HT Clarice Feldman] Iran’s supreme leader on Sunday cautiously backed the government’s decision to raise gasoline prices by 50% after days of widespread protests, calling those who attacked public property during demonstrations "thugs" and signaling that a potential crackdown loomed.
The government shut down internet access across the nation of 80 million people to staunch demonstrations that took place in a reported 100 cities and towns. That made it increasingly difficult to gauge whether unrest continued. Images published by state and semiofficial media showed the scale of the damage in images of burned gas stations and banks, torched vehicles and roadways littered with debris.
Since the price hike, demonstrators have abandoned cars along major highways and joined mass protests in the capital, Tehran, and elsewhere. Some protests turned violent, with demonstrators setting fires as gunfire rang out.
It remains to be seen how many people were arrested, injured or killed. Videos from the protests have shown people gravely wounded.
Iranian authorities on Sunday raised the official death toll in the violence to at least three. Attackers targeting a police station in the western city of Kermanshah on Saturday killed an officer, the state-run IRNA news agency reported Sunday. A lawmaker said another person was killed in a suburb of Tehran. Earlier, one man was reported killed Friday in Sirjan, a city some 800 kilometers (500 miles) southeast of Tehran.
In an address aired Sunday by state television, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said "some lost their lives and some places were destroyed," without elaborating. He called the protesters "thugs" who had been pushed into violence by counterrevolutionaries and foreign enemies of Iran.
Khamenei specifically named those aligned with the family of Iran’s late shah, ousted 40 years ago, and an exile group called the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq. The MEK calls for the overthrow of Iran’s government and enjoys the support of President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
"Setting a bank on fire is not an act done by the people. This is what thugs do," Khamenei said.
The supreme leader carefully backed the decision of Iran’s relatively moderate President Hassan Rouhani and others to raise gasoline prices. While Khamenei dictates the country’s nuclear policy amid tensions with the U.S. over its unraveling 2015 accord with world powers, he made a point to say he wasn’t an "expert" on the gasoline subsidies.
Khamenei ordered security forces "to implement their tasks" and for Iran’s citizens to keep clear of violent demonstrators. Iran’s Intelligence Ministry said the "key perpetrators of the past two days’ riot have been identified and proper action is ongoing."
That seemed to indicate a crackdown could be looming.
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[DW] Venezuela ...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeds places like Honduras and El Salvador, and a significant proportion of the populace as refugeed to Colombia and points south... 's opposition leader Juan Guaidó ...Venezuelan politician, a member of the social-democratic Popular Will party, and serves as a federal deputy to the National Assembly representing the state of Vargas. In 2019 he was appointed by the Popular Will party to become the president of the National Assembly, after which he declared he was acting president of the country, challenging Nicolás Maduro's presidency and starting the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis.... led thousands of his supporters through the streets of the country's capital on Saturday to demand the departure of President Nicolás Maduro ...Commie el presidente para la vida of Venezuela, successor to Hugo Chavez. Nick is his country's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy, except that even though his country's sitting on an enormous puddle of oil, he can't manage to get it out of the ground... In a speech, Guaido called on his supporters to remain in the streets in the upcoming days, reminding them how civilian action ousted Bolivia's Evo Morales only six days before.
In other parts of the city, Maduro supporters wearing red shirts prepared for a scheduled rally at the presidential palace in the center of Caracas. Maduro's socialist party also called upon its members to protest in solidarity with his ally Morales, who currently resides in exile in Mexico.
"If we stay at home, we will lose,'' Guaido said before marching with demonstrators to Bolivia's embassy in eastern Caracas. "Today, tomorrow and Monday - we will be in the street."
One protester, Deborah Angarita, a 60-year-old retired office worker, said while the rally was not large, she felt determined to "stay in the streets until the regime leaves."
Lisbeth Guerra, another protester, said she closed her two electronics shops to attend the protests. "More than anything, I want other nations in the world to take note of our crisis."
Our reporter: A motorcycle bomb exploded in "Khishman" neighborhood, near Military Bridge in Hasakah, northeastern Syria. Causing material damage No information regarding human casualties.#syria#SDF#US#Turkeypic.twitter.com/6qs7tmAcd2
U.S. forces plan to establish a military site, in the western countryside of the town of Amude, northeastern Syria, bordering with Turkey, in the upcoming days. pic.twitter.com/hPzIYhRpoA
[CNN] The teenager who murdered his father and then opened fire on a South Carolina school playground, killing a 6-year-old boy, was sentenced to life in prison without parole Thursday.
Judge R. Lawton McIntosh also sentenced Jesse Osborne, 17, to 30 more years for three attempted murders in the September 2016 school shooting.
Osborne was 14 when he shot his father in their home. He then went to a Townville elementary school where he shot and wounded two children and a teacher. Jacob Hall, one of the children, died three days later.
Osborne, who pleaded guilty last year, told the court he didn't know why he did it.
"I just ask you give me hope for the future and get me help because I do need help," Osborne said. "I want help."
The prosecutor said he was pleased with the sentence.
"He (Osborne) is a very dangerous individual. I think he's shown that by his conduct," 10th Judicial Circuit Solicitor David Wagner told reporters. "The judge made the right call."
Osborne attorney Frank Eppes said he will appeal the sentence.
[NPASYRIA] The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has revealed the identity of the perpetrator who struck the city of al-Bab yesterday, which resulted in dozens of deaths and others maimed. Hundreds of local residents of the city went out in a demonstration in front of the cop shoppe to demand the "execution" of the boom-mobileer, but the local police responded by gun shots.
The Observatory said it had obtained information from trusted sources to reveal the identity of the bomber who killed 19 people and injured dozens.
According to the Observatory, the bomber is called (A. Y.) and comes from the village of Jeblat al-Hamra of eastern al-Bab countryside. He was a former member of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... terrorist group (ISIS) and participated in the battles of Manbij and al-Bab.
After the Turks took control over al-Bab area, he joined al-Hamzat militia of the Syrian National Army before leaving them. He was arrested yesterday in al-Bab by the military police in the city.
In the same context, the observatory said that yesterday hundreds of people in al-Bab city went out in a demonstration in front of the cop shoppe building in the city, demanding the execution of the bomber. Several demonstrators broke into the building to express their dissatisfaction with the chaos status in the city.
The sources said that the police leaders did not go out to the people to know their demands, which made the situation between the demonstrators and the police worse, and led the police to initiate gun shots to disperse them and keep them away from the station.
The areas under the control of the Ottoman Turkish-backed armed opposition groups are in a state of security chaos in light of repeated bombings, liquidations, kidnappings and theft. Also there is widespread public turnout and dissatisfaction among civilians.
[CNN] There is a new Democratic front-runner in Iowa, and his name is Pete Buttigieg ...the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He is running for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country... The mayor of South Bend, Indiana, holds a clear lead in the first-in-the-nation caucus state, climbing to 25% in a new CNN/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll of likely Iowa caucusgoers. That marks a 16-point increase in support for Buttigieg since the September CNN/DMR poll. This survey comes on the heels of other recent polls that have shown Buttigieg joining the top tier of the Democratic primary race in Iowa.
Behind Buttigieg, there is a close three-way battle for second with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren ...Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts, who traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless... at 16%, and former Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020... and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders ...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being a socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around... each at 15%. Since September, Warren dropped six percentage points and Biden slipped five points, while Sanders gained four points.
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Not the first time he's experienced a surge from something pronounced "poll".
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Can't win the nomination without African-American voters. They won't pull the lever for a Bu-Fu. They're the most socially conservative Dems, by far.
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] Real Time host Bill Maher concluded his satirical segment "New Rules" on Friday by advising his audience to "just celebrate Thanksgiving, don’t try to win it." At first glance, his closing monologue might have seemed like words of wisdom for those who "see politics so differently from people who share your very blood." But it quickly turned into a rant against "hate"-filled "rubes" and "Bible thumpers," in other words, conservatives.
After unveiling his tip, Maher proceeded to advise his viewers to "never forget the single shining truth about democracy: it means sharing a country with assholes you can’t stand." Maher made it perfectly clear that he was talking about conservatives.
According to Maher, "we have to accept something about people: half of them have their taste in their ass." He continued to mock and stereotype conservatives: "they eat sweet potatoes with marshmallows, they wear matching family outfits, and put nuts on their truck."
Nothing seemed to upset Maher more about conservatives than their support for President Trump. As a picture of the President supposedly mocking a disabled news hound appeared in the background, Maher expressed his bewilderment that "46 percent of the country wanted that guy picking the Supreme Court." Eventually, Maher informed the audience that despite their intense dislike for those on the other side of the aisle, "we’re stuck with them and they’re stuck with us."
It's beyond strange for Bill Maher to disdain knocking your opponents with harsh words, as he demonstrated.
Trump rallies are filled with words like "enemies of the people," "human scum." They talk of people to be locked up. Well, you can’t lock all us up. Liberals are described as weak, lame, coddling, oversensitive, and limp-dicked.
Which are strong words for a bunch of mouth-breathers, shit-kickers, knuckle-draggers, Bible -thumpers, sister-fuckers and rubes.
The cheers and applause that followed made Maher’s point. That kind of insult is rewarded. And it’s made Maher very rich for doing it over and over and over again.
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assholes you can't stand
Such a way with words. How can this witless moron ibe considered an elitist when he can't come up with more intelligent insults than an illiterate 13 year-old?
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Bill Maher does not have any views of his own. He's a simple-minded whore with a sense for what the political masters want. I guess that passes for 'elitist' now, the elite being Dems.
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Shutting down the feed-back loop. When everything is falling apart and people are dying in the civil war, "Can we talk about this" ain't going to happen.
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Just remember those words Bill, when the hot war kicks off and you have no food, water or electricity in your mansion because all those things are in those "Hate filled Asshole" areas.
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Who is this guy and what network is he on?? Never mind, I don't know or really care. And while I don't hang stuff off my hitch, I do love my truck, and country, and bible, and thanksgiving.
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“Pay attention to meeeeee!!”
The self-proclaimed libertarian, which he isn’t, periodically has outbursts like this, possibly a sort of Tourette syndrome. Past outbursts got his Politically Correct show banished from ABC; since then his show has lived in an obscure corner of HBO.
But he frequently interviews conservatives on his show — always has — and that is probably the only exposure those on his side of the aisle get to hear people like Ben Shapiro and Milo Yiannopoulos unfiltered.
[Asia Times] President Hassan Rouhani warned Sunday that riot-hit Iran could not allow “insecurity” after two days of unrest killed two people and saw authorities arrest dozens and restrict internet access.
“Protesting is the people’s right, but protesting is different from rioting. We should not allow insecurity in the society,” he said.
Rouhani defended the controversial gasoline price hike that triggered the protests – a project which the government says will finance social welfare spending amid a sharp economic downturn.
[BREITBART] MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas ‐ Four Mexican state coppers are recuperating from their injuries after a group of Gulf Cartel button men ambushed them in the border city of Matamoros. The attack comes at a time when Tamaulipas state authorities are actively hunting one of the top leaders within that criminal organization. The attack took place this week in the downtown area of Matamoros near the "Trevino Zapata" open-air market, law enforcement sources revealed to Breitbart Texas. A group of Gulf Cartel button men drove by a squad of coppers and began firing automatic weapons at the officers.
The attack prompted a response by authorities who attempted to fight off the attack from one of their police vehicles with unit number 1154. The patrol vehicle took heavy gunfire and crashed into one of the gunmen’s vehicles.
Four officers were struck by gunfire and sustained various injuries. The brazen attack prompted a massive response by law enforcement and military forces as they tended to the injured officers and began a manhunt in search of the attackers. Authorities arrested at least one suspect in the attack as part of the ongoing investigation.
Our reporter: Renewed heavy Clashes between SDF and Turkish-backed armed opposition groups in the area of Sharakrak, 10km east of Ein-Issa on M4, amid Turkish reconnaissance aircraft overflights.#syria#SDF#US#Turkeypic.twitter.com/DC6jdKPsGl
[NY Post] Rep. Ilhan Omar paid another $150,000 to Tim Mynett's political consulting group in the three months after The Post first revealed allegations the pair were romantically involved, records show.
The 37-year-old Minnesota congresswoman's campaign has funneled $146,712.63 to Mynett's E Street Group since The Post in August reported allegations she was having an affair with her paid consultant, records show.
The latest payments to Mynett's group were for digital advertising, fundraising consulting and video production.
When news of the alleged affair broke, Omar had already paid $223,000 through her campaign since 2018 for fundraising consulting, internet advertising, digital communications, and travel expenses to the E Street Group ‐ taking the latest total to $370,000.
But the federal agency charged with probing the campaign finance complaint against Omar is powerless to act because it doesn't have enough commissioners on the bench to investigate.
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My but these woke congressgirls are easy with official funds. First Batshita gets her campaign to pay her rent 'n' cheetos bill. Now the Somali Seductress pays liver boy's rent with official dough.
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It's almost axiomatic that whatever these shitheads accuse Trump and his retinue of doing is precisely what they themselves have done.
"Believed himself to be above the law" - check.
"Abused his office" - check.
"Worked with a foreign government to allow them to intervene in an election" - check.
"Tampered with witnesses" - check [cf Blowsey Ford and the Yale women who were suborned to lie about Kavanaugh].
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"Conspiring with Russian leaders to undermine US interests" - check [cf. Zero's ludicrously incompetent performance with then-Pres. Medvedev of Russia in March 2012, captured nicely on a hot mic]
[SunStar] Eight Philippine soldiers were injured as the troops clashed anew with Abu Sayyaf militants on Wednesday while military operations against the rebels continue in the province of Sulu.
Western Mindanao Command chief Cirilito Sobejana said the battle broke out when the soldiers spotted some 40 Abu Sayyaf rebels while on security operation on Wednesday in Buhanginan Village, Patikul. He said the firefight lasted for about 40 minutes, after which the militants, followers of Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan and Radullan Sahiron, fled dragging along their casualties.
The military are continuously conducting focused military operations in a bid to rescue a number of hostages, including foreigners, from the hands of the Abu Sayyaf bandits in Sulu, Sobejana said.
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on the 3rd day of major #IranProtests, videos that could make it to BBC inbox despite severe gov restrictions on connection, show that Tehran Grand Bazaar is closed and security forces have visibly high presence. pic.twitter.com/WTcqEiDVbA
[NYPOST] Myles Garrett was apologetic, but he’s challenging the NFL’s discipline.
The Browns star will appeal his indefinite suspension that is set to last at least the remainder of this season, according to NFL Network, after he hit Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph in the head with Rudolph’s helmet Thursday night.
Garrett, 23, will argue that players cannot be suspended for an indefinite period of time for on-field acts under the collective bargaining agreement, NFL Network reports. The defensive end is looking for an exact number of games along with a reduction of the suspension which at minimum will cost him the final six regular-season games and any potential postseason games this year. He will not get paid while suspended. The appeal decision could be reached by Wednesday.
"Last night, I made a terrible mistake," Garrett said Friday in a statement. "I lost my cool and what I did was selfish and unacceptable. I know that we are all responsible for our actions and I can only prove my true character through my actions moving forward.
"I want to apologize to Mason Rudolph, my teammates, our entire organization, our fans and to the NFL. I know I have to be accountable for what happened, learn from my mistake and I fully intend to do so."
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory, Igor and Oleg were discussing what the quickest way might be to deal with the monster... Rudolph is expected to be fined for his role in the incident, in which the quarterback grabbed at Garrett’s helmet before Garrett ripped Rudolph’s helmet off and bashed Rudolph in the head. According to ESPN, the fine guideline for a first-time fighting offense is $35,096.
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^ Too busy protecting mayor santy claus whiskers and the city council from their efforts to violate the state's 2A protections, AKA preemption law.
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$35K as a fine for NFL stars is like $5 to you and me. If you really want to get your point across, fine time rather than $. Make him work 500 hours serving community service in domestic abuse shelters.
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If he is going to lose his paycheck for 6 games then he is about to take a 1.2 million $$ paycut. So the fine is peanuts and the suspension is the real penalty.
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Prison time -- however brief -- is by far the most effective deterrent to future bad behavior.
Nothing terrifies the wealthy man more than the prospect of being treated as an anonymous equal, directed about, told what he can and cannot do 24 hours a day.
[BREITBART] A German woman accused of joining the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group in Syria and marrying an IS fighter has been arrested on arrival in Germany.
Federal prosecutors said the woman, identified only as Nasim A., was arrested Friday evening. They said Saturday she were tossed into the calaboose by Kurdish forces early this year and held at the al-Hawl camp in north-eastern Syria.
Prosecutors say she travelled to Syria in late 2014 and married an IS fighter. The couple allegedly moved to Tal Afar, Iraq, where they lived in an IS-seized house. The woman ran the household, receiving $100 per month from IS and leaving her husband free to fight for IS.
Prosecutors didn´t detail the circumstances of her return to Germany. The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... is currently engaged in a push to deport IS members.
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[BREITBART] BILL RICHARDSON: I believe we are headed toward a brokered convention for the following reason. There’s a total of 4,600 delegates that are out there, 3,800 are pledged. But these superdelegates, 785, could be the margin of victory. They can’t vote until after the second ballot. But If you look at the top tier, Mayor Pete, Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020... , Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren ...Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts, who traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless... , Bernie Sanders
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There’s a total of 4,600 delegates that are out there, 3,800 are pledged.
Does the total ballot box burst when they vote two or three times out of habit?
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Last time, when the super-delegates handed the Democratic party nomination to Hillary Clinton, the Bernie contingent was furious; many stayed home. This time, if the delegates conspire to ignore the admittedly muddled will of the Democratic primary voters to give the nomination to someone who didn’t even run — whether Mrs. Barack Obama or Mrs. Bill Clinton — what odds still more will stay home?
[BREITBART] The University and College Union (UCU) has declared that anyone can “self-identify” as “black, disabled, LGBT+ or women”.
“UCU has a long history (from predecessor unions) of enabling members to self-identify whether that is being black, disabled, LGBT+ or women [sic],” a six-page position statement from the union, which “represents over 120,000 academics, lecturers, trainers, instructors, researchers, managers, administrators, computer staff, librarians and postgraduates in universities, colleges, prisons, adult education and training organisations across the UK.”
“UCU supports the right of all women (including trans women) to safe spaces… UCU also supports a social, rather than a medical, model of gender recognition that will help challenge repressive gender stereotypes in the workplace and in society,” the statement added.
The document focused primarily on gender like this, but that reference to “enabling members to self-identify whether that is being black, disabled, LGBT+ or women” was repeated three times. I would say that self-identifying as disabled would be fraud. Of course, I'd call Rachel Dolezal a fraud, and Elizabeth Warren a fraud. If you call yourself a woman while you still have a dangling participle, I think that's fraudulent, too, but obviously I'm old-fashioned.
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Great! Where's my reparations and cushy civil service gig?
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I self identify as a Martian. It says so on the last census form.
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In all seriousness, this is precisely the scam that most of our Ivy League and other elite university affirmative action recipients fall back on.
People like Fartacus, Zero, KamalHo, young Ms Jeralyn Luther of Yale (aka the screaming c--t whose deranged tantrum led to a pussified Yale president's railroading of two tenured and beloved Yale professors)-- all of these despicable con artists are biracial, not "black."
They're the spawn of extremely well-off families who faced no disadvantage or suffered any grievance whatsoever. KamalHo's Jamaican dad recently told an interview that his grandfather owned slaves!
Affirmative action is a hustle. Long outlived it's shelf life, and needs to be shut down.
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Pro2K, it is our family oral history this whole move to Europe started when cousin Oog took the families prized hand ax and broke it! Great how many times Grandpapa said how can an idiot break a rock? Whe are moving as far as wr can go to get away from these morons!
Then there is the story about the traveling flint trader and the Neanderthals, that's a real hoot too,
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Here's your chance to join Lambda Lambda Lambda.
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Morons. They haven't thought this through at all. I have a daughter with Down syndrome. I've been saving for her to attend a two year special education program at our local state college since she was three: a little bit out of each paycheck for years. They only take a dozen or so students each year, so it's kind of a long shot. I accept that.
But if in a few years I find out that she didn't get a spot because somebody "self-identified" as disabled got it, there WILL be hell to pay. In court, in editorials, and in elections. I swear this on Crom's Wheel of Pain.
[NYPost] The Rev. Al Sharpton raked in $1,046,948 from his own charity last year, according to National Action Network’s latest tax filings obtained by The Post. Pay yer taxes ya deadbeat racist grifting POS
Sharpton got a $324,000 salary — 32% higher than his 2017 pay — in addition to a $159,596 bonus and $563,352 in “other compensation.”
The Harlem-based nonprofit — which Sharpton controls as president and CEO — said the extra cash was to make up for the years from 2004 to 2017 when he didn’t get his full pay.
NAN said it hired an executive compensation firm that determined the good reverend was owed $1.252 million — but he was generously willing to take $500,000 less.
Golly. A soul as big as the whole outdoors, that man.
Sharpton and the nonprofit’s board also agreed “he has now been fully compensated for all the years he was underpaid and received no bonus,” the NAN statement said.
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Amos 'n' Andy were talented professional clowns, Besoeker.
Sharpton is a murderous grifter. The man has bloody hands. He encouraged riots that killed people in Brooklyn back in the day, and he's enabled felony-committing fraudsters for decades.
Nothing better shows the disgusting moral rot of our Shitshow than the procession of Democratic prez-aspirant clowns lining up to lick this despicable murderer's arse
[DAWN] Bolivia’s political crisis turned deadly again when security forces opened fire on supporters of Evo Morales. At least five people died and dozens were maimed, threatening the interim governments efforts to restore stability following the resignation of the former president in an election dispute.
Most of the dead and injured in Sacaba, near the city of Cochabamba, had been shot, Guadalberto Lara, director of the towns Mexico Hospital, said. He called it the worst violence hes seen in his 30-year career.
Angry demonstrators and relatives of the victims gathered at the site of the shootings, chanting: Civil war, now! Morales, who was granted asylum in Mexico after his Nov 10 resignation, said on Twitter that a massacre had occurred and he described the interim government led by Jeanine ez as a dictatorship.
Now they are killing our brothers in Sacaba, Cochabamba, he said in another tweet.
At least 13 other people had died during weeks of earlier protests against Morales before his departure, according to the national Ombudsman’s Office. Several came in festivities between the presidents backers and those accusing him of fraudulently trying to win reelection.
[DAWN] Former premier Nawaz Sharif ...served two three non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts... is expected to travel to London on Tuesday via an air ambulance, PML-N officials said on Sunday.
In a statement issued today, PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb said that an air ambulance will arrive on Tuesday morning to transport Nawaz.
The announcement comes a day after the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Saturday allowed the former premier to travel abroad for four weeks for medical treatment, saying the duration could be extended based on medical reports.
In a blow to the government, which had placed a condition of indemnity bonds for Nawaz's travel, the court had ordered the federal government to remove his name from the Exit Control List (ECL) without any conditions.
[BREITBART] two chemistry professors were accused of making methamphetamine in a school lab, sheriff’s deputies said. Terry David Bateman, 45, and Bradley Allen Rowland, 40, who both worked at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, as associate professors of chemistry were arrested Friday afternoon, the Clark County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement.
Bateman and Rowland face charges of manufacturing meth and using drug paraphernalia, and have been on administrative leave since October 11, KTRK reported.
Staff closed the university science center on October 8 after someone noticed a chemical odor, according to Tina Hall, the university’s associate vice president of marketing and communications.
The university reopened the building on October 29 after an on-call environmental service installed air filtering systems and temporarily removed windows to facilitate ventilation, Hall said.
Hall could not confirm what was found after the mysterious odor report or whether the professors made the meth inside the school.
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>Staff closed the university science center on October 8 after someone noticed a chemical odor, according to Tina Hall, the university’s associate vice president of marketing and communications.
Bullshit (shockingly there's a smell in a chem lab!!) story told by the Uni's paid liar.
#IranProtests, 3rd day, Tabriz University. Students chanting: "we're jobless, we have no future!", "we do the hard work, the result ends up embezzled [stolen in corruption]" pic.twitter.com/TJDiP5QWxM
[NPASYRIA] Violations and harassment operations by the Ottoman Turkish military and the affiliated armed opposition groups, the so-called "Olive Branch" continue against the local people of Afrin, to force them to leave in some way, without being held accountable.
North-Press correspondent reported that Ottoman Turkish-backed armed opposition groups have made the house of a lock citizen in the town of Jinderis, south-west of Afrin into a military point.
According to local sources inside Afrin, which is still controlled by Ottoman Turkish military and its affiliated gangs, these groups turned the house of Khalil Horo into a military point for its murderous Moslems.
Moreover, North-Press also obtained photographs documenting the process of transforming the house into a military point and surrounding it with earthen berms, at the entrance to the town of Jinderis.
It is noteworthy that the region of Afrin in the northwestern countryside of Aleppo, since the control of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... and its backed armed opposition groups over the region, has been undergoing a state of insecurity and chaos, manifested by kidnappings of civilians and looting of people's properties, in addition to killing and displacement operations.
Earlier, North-Press has published that a local source within Afrin region, confirmed that the Ottoman Turkish military and its affiliated of al-Hamzat militia destroyed the house of Hannan Zaher Omar, in the village of Qara Gul of Bulbul district, looted his property and raised the flag of the Ottoman Turkish military above it.
The source added that the Ottoman Turkish army took out the citizen Muhammad Hannan from his house, destroyed the sanitation system and looted the house, as the of the house Muhammad Hannan, is not allowed to return to it.
Furthermore, Ottoman Turkish-backed al-Hamzat militia also destroyed the house of Mannan Omar from the village of Qara Gul of Bulbul district, under the pretext of dealing with separatist agendas, as the source has told North-Press. Where those gunnies took his property in front of his house and ruined them, in order to terrorize the local villagers.
[DAWN] A boom-mobile killed 19 people, 13 of them civilians, in the Ottoman Turkish-controlled town of al-Bab in northern Syria on Saturday, a war monitor said.
The bomb, which struck a bus and taxi station in the town, also maimed 33 people, some of them seriously, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... and its Syrian proxies control several pockets of territory on the Syrian side of the border as a result of successive incursions in 2016-17, 2018 and 2019.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing but the Observatory said there had been persistent security incidents in the town since its capture by Ottoman Turkish troops from the murderous MoslemIslamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group in February 2017. The town, some 30 kilometres (20 miles) northeast of Syria’s second city Aleppo, was one of the westernmost strongholds of the jihadists’ self-styled "caliphate" which was finally eradicated by US-backed Kurdish forces in eastern Syria in March.
Turkey blamed the boom-mobileing on the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) against whom it launched a new invasion further east last month.
Kurdish fighters "continue to target innocent civilians using the same methods as ISIS," the defence ministry said on its official Twitter account using another acronym for IS.
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Three banks are set on fire by protesters in Isfahan. The government's violent response to peaceful protests for transparency & accountability pushed people to use drastic measures like this. People came to the streets with flowers & received bullets in response.#IranProtestspic.twitter.com/ADgveyskGK
[BREITBART] Iran’s supreme leader on Sunday backed the government’s decision to raise gasoline prices and called angry protesters who have been setting fire to public property over the hike "thugs," signaling a potential crackdown on the demonstrations.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... ’s comments came as authorities shut down the internet across Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... to smother the protests in some two dozen cities and towns over the rise of government-set prices by 50% as of Friday.
Since the hike, demonstrators have abandoned their cars along major highways and joined mass protests in the capital, Tehran, and elsewhere. Some protests turned violent, with demonstrators setting fires and there was also gunfire.
It remains to be seen how many people have been injured, killed or arrested. Authorities on Saturday said only one person was killed, though other videos from the protests have shown people gravely maimed.
In an address aired by state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
Sunday, Khamenei said "some bit the dust and some places were destroyed," without elaborating. He called violent protesters "thugs" who had been pushed into violence by counterrevolutionaries and foreign enemies of Iran. He specifically named those aligned with the family of Iran’s late shah, ousted 40 years ago, and an exile group called the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq.
"Setting a bank on fire is not an act done by the people. This is what thugs do," Khamenei said. How about occupying an embassy? However, ars longa, vita brevis... he made a point to back the decision of Iran’s relatively moderate President Hassan Rouhani ...Iran's moderate president, which he is, relative to his predecessor, which doesn't mean he's anything but a puppet of the nearest holy man... and others to raise gasoline prices. Gasoline in the country still remains among the cheapest in the world, with the new prices jumping up to a minimum of 15,000 rials per liter of gas ‐ 50% up from the day before. That’s 13 cents a liter, or about 50 cents a gallon. A gallon of regular gasoline in the U.S. costs $2.60 by comparison.
Khamenei ordered security forces "to implement their tasks" and for Iran’s citizens to keep clear of violent demonstrators.
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.... .50 for a gallon of gas doesnt sound too expensive to us - but keep in mind the average Iranian only makes about $800 a month. At that point it gets expensive right quick.
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[Atimes] Police threaten to use live ammo after protesters shoot arrows and throw gasoline bombs at officers.
Pro-democracy demonstrators holed up in a Hong Kong university campus set the main entrance ablaze Monday to prevent surrounding police moving in after officers warned they may use live rounds if confronted by deadly weapons.
The police warning, which came after one officer was struck by an arrow, marked a further escalation of the near six-month crisis engulfing the city.
China has repeatedly warned that it will not tolerate dissent, and there are growing concerns that Beijing could intervene directly to end the spiraling unrest.
Several loud blasts were heard around dawn on Monday before a wall of fire lit up an entrance to the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), AFP reporters said, as what appeared to be a police attempt to enter the campus was repelled by protesters determined to hold their ground.
Police said they had fired three live rounds in the early hours of Monday at a protest site near the university but that no one appeared to have been hit.
Intense clashes throughout Sunday, which saw a police officer hit in the leg by an arrow and protesters meet police tear gas with volleys of petrol bombs, rolled overnight across the Kowloon district, as a call went out to defend the besieged campus.
There, protesters had hunkered down under umbrellas from occasional fire from police water cannon and hurled Molotov cocktails at an armored vehicle, leaving it ablaze on a flyover near the campus.
[Asia Times] With wooden catapults to launch petrol bombs and bows and arrows pilfered from sports departments, Hong Kong’s democracy protesters are combining new tactics with medieval tech as they battle police.
visit the link to see examples of ancient technology in use in Hong Kong riots.
[NPASYRIA] Commander-in-Chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Mazloum Abdi said that, Ottoman Turkish President Erdogan is extorting the world with a few ISIS terrorist prisoners.
Abdi tweeted today on his Twitter account saying: "We have documents confirming that, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... is using many of ISIS bully boyz in its invasion against northern Syria".
He stressed on the need for an international court in northern Syria to try ISIS detainees, noting that it is the only way to stop Turkey's extortion of the world, to thwart its plans in order to show the truth and build justice.
SDF commander, Mazloum Abdi pointed out that, ISIS Death Eaters committed the most horrendous crimes in the north of Syria.
In a special statement to North-Press, the director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel Rahman confirmed that, the observatory documented the presence of at least 8 members of ISIS who are fighting alongside al-Hamzat and Ahrar al-Sharqiya groups, where they were identified by citizens from al-Qalamoun, Eastern Ghouta and Hasakah, and there are reports which say that, hundreds of ISIS members are among the ranks of the so-called "National Army", but at least 8 cases have been confirmed so far, according to the Observatory.
[BREITBART] Eric Ciaramella, whom Real Clear Investigations suggests is the likely so-called whistleblower, received emails about Ukraine policy from a top director at George Soros ...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true... ’s Open Society Foundations.
The emails informed Ciaramella and a handful of other B.O. regime foreign policy officials about Soros’s whereabouts, the contents of Soros’s private meetings about Ukraine and a future meeting the billionaire activist was holding with the prime minister of Ukraine.
A primary recipient of the Open Society emails along with Ciaramella was then-Assistant Secretary of State for Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Affairs Victoria Nuland, who played a central role in the anti-Trump dossier affair. Nuland, with whom Ciaramella worked closely, received updates on Ukraine issues from dossier author Remington Christopher Steele in addition to her direct role in facilitating the dossier within the B.O. regime.
The emails spotlight Soros’s access to national security officials under the B.O. regime on the matter of Ukraine.
In one instance, Jeff Goldstein, senior policy analyst for Eurasia at the Open Society Foundations, sent a June 9, 2016 email to Nuland and Ciaramella, who were the missive’s primary recipients.
CC’d were three other State Department officials involved in European affairs, including Alexander Kasanof who worked at the U.S. embassy in Kiev.
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Can't we find some photos of ugly Eric with people who don't make him look so good?
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If you hadn't added the fourth photo (with Fauxcahontas) I'd have thought the dude was wearing a Dollar Store plastic fake-big-nose-and-hornrims set.
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Some smart investigator should be able to find something, anything, that Soros has done in violation of some law somewhere in the books and nail his ass to the wall with it. Surely a man with so many fingers in so many pies has violated some statute somewhere along the line. How about RICO?
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[NYPOST] A 5-year-old boy took a superhero-stamped baggie of his dad’s heroin to his Massachusetts kindergarten ‐ telling teachers it turned him into Spider-Man when he tasted it, according to a report.
The youngster sparked alarm at the H.B. Lawrence Elementary School in Holyoke last Thursday after showing off the baggie with a stamp of the Marvel superhero, officials told the Daily Hampshire Gazette.
After his apparent confession about tasting it ‐ telling teachers he had put it in his mouth ‐ the boy was raced to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, the report says. He appeared healthy and officials believe he may have escaped ingesting any of the drug from the sealed bag.
"[The boy] loves Spider-Man," Holyoke Police Lt. James Albert told the paper. "Our officers were quite taken by it all. You don’t often deal with this."
His 29-year-old dad, Benny Garcia, was arrested after officers found him sleeping in bed on top of numerous other bags holding the same white powder, according to the paper.
"The officers located the same sort of baggie (of) heroin stamped ’Spider-Man’ that the child brought to school in a dresser drawer of the defendant’s bedroom," Assistant District Attorney Matthew Green said in court, calling it "a particularly shocking and egregious" case.
Police found at least 170 baggies of heroin as well as baggies and Ziploc bags of cocaine, the paper said, citing court documents.
When officers told Garcia what happened to his son he became "very emotional," according to the court documents.
Garcia pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to charges of drug possession and reckless endangerment of a child, the report said. Judge William Rota ordered him held until a dangerousness hearing scheduled for Nov. 20.
The boy and an infant sibling were removed from the family home by the Department of Children and Families, the report said.
Sultan Recep Tayip Erdogan I, “the much beloved”, keeps such lovely pets.
[NPASYRIA] In a poll conducted by North-Press, Officials in the Yazidi Kurdish House in Aleppo, expressed their opinions regarding the Ottoman Turkish military invasion in northeastern Syria, saying that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... has been a neighbor of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... terrorist group (ISIS) for years, without considering it as a threat to its national security, rather, Turkey has helped them. Turkey now is invading the regions of northeastern Syria under the pretext of its national security.
They also asserted that the armed opposition groups used by Turkey in its invasion, have committed great violations against the Yazidis, and destroyed many of their monuments when they attacked and occupied the region of Afrin last year.
Hisham Ahmad, the co-chair of the Yazidi House in Aleppo, said that Turkey's justification of invading northeastern Syria is clear to everyone, as the national security cover no longer works.
He added that a large proportion of people used by Turkey in its attack on northeastern Syria, were ISIS members, and a number of them had attacked the district of Shingal (Sinjar), "and their hands are stained with the blood of Yazidis and with the abduction of many Yazidi women," he said.
"After their occupation of Afrin, many Yazidis were forcibly converted to Islam as many of their shrines were destroyed," he said.
According to Ahmad, they fear that the Yazidis in northeastern Syria would be massacred because there are many Yazidi villages on the Syrian-Ottoman Turkish border. He justified his fears that "Muhammad Army of Turkey, came to kill infidels and atheists, as they were saying," he said.
Moreover, he called on the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... and institutions defending religious diversity and religious minorities, to put an end to abuses by the Ottoman Turkish military and its affiliates.
Rania Jaafar, the coordinator of Yazidi women's affairs, said that the Yazidi religion was subjected to many genocides during the Ottoman rule, which tried to erase Yazidi customs, traditions and culture.
She continued that Turkey is aiming at the same thing, by combating minorities and erasing the Yazidi religion. It targets all different religions and beliefs, and this's why the Yazidi villages on the Syrian-Ottoman Turkish border have witnessed a great wave of displacement, for fears of a repeat of Shingal catastrophe.
She added that during the era of the Autonomous Administration, they opened many centers and had several activities, while Turkey and its affiliated armed opposition groups destroyed Yazidi landmarks and shrines, when they attacked Afrin region and entered the Yazidi villages.
Furthermore, they imposed Islamic dress on Yazidi women and forced them to enter the Islamic mosques to pray, and established mosques in the villages of Paflon, Faqira, and Yazidi Basofan, in order to change their religious features.
[DAWN] Israel targeted Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", in air strikes on Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... early on Saturday after rockets were fired at it from the Paleostinian enclave, the army said, two days after a fragile ceasefire began.
Hamas, the Islamist movement that has de facto control over the Gaza Strip, had been spared the brunt of Israeli bombardment during this week’s flare-up which focused on its hardline ally Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... A ceasefire has been in place since Thursday morning following the wave of tit-of-tat air strikes and rocket fire between Israel and Islamic Jihad ‐ the territory’s second most powerful krazed killer group.
The army said it launched Saturday’s strikes after "two rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israeli territory" and were intercepted by air defences. It was not immediately known who fired the rockets.
Paleostinian security sources said the Israeli strikes were aimed at two Hamas sites in the north of the territory.
"Among the sites targeted was a military camp of the Hamas terror organization and a military compound used by the Hamas naval forces," a statement from the Israeli military said.
"In addition an underground terror infrastructure was also targeted." There were no reports of casualties.
It was the first time Hamas had been hit since this week’s escalation began with Israel’s assassination of a top Islamic Jihad commander early on Tuesday.
That strike triggered almost immediate retaliatory rocket fire from Islamic Jihad, which set off air-raid sirens and sent Israelis rushing to bomb shelters in the country’s southern and central regions.
The Israeli military said around 450 rockets were fired at its territory during the fighting and air defences intercepted dozens of them.
The military responded with air strikes it said targeted Islamic Jihad krazed killer sites and rocket- and missile-launching squads.
After two days of fighting which killed 34 Paleostinians and no Israelis, a ceasefire was agreed.
[NYPOST] President Trump unexpectedly came to Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... ’s defense on Sunday ‐ but only to say he was "somewhat" better than a rabid dog.
"Mr. Chairman, Joe Biden may be Sleepy and Very Slow, but he is not a ’rabid dog,'" Trump tweeted in an apparent direct message to North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... n leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... , following the country’s shocking attack that also said Biden should be "beaten to death with a stick."
"He is actually somewhat better than that," Trump wrote of the Democratic frontrunner, who has been leading in national polls but is lagging behind South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg ...the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He is running for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country... in the latest Des Moines Register/CNN poll.
The commander in chief then used his tweet to push the fact that he has come further than any previous president in creating dialogue over nuclear weapons with the hostile nation.
"I am the only one who can get you where you have to be. You should act quickly, get the deal done. See you soon!" Trump tweeted.
Far be it from me to try and teach English to the editors at one of America's major newspapers, but on what planet does President Trump unexpectedly came to Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden’s defense on Sunday ‐ but only to say he was "somewhat" better than a rabid dog.
count as coming to someone's defense?
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President Trump unexpectedly came to Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden’s defense on Sunday ‐ but only to say he was "somewhat" better than a rabid dog. "bless his heart"
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Barely rates a 2.0 on the Juche-o-Meter™ as it has no "sea of fire™" mentioned... Still it brings back memories of Rantburgs of years past when the NKor rhetoric had more flying spittle.
[KhaamaPress] A group of 72 sympathizers of ISIS Khurasan terror group surrendered to Afghan forces in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province, the local officials said Sunday.
The officials further added that the gunnies surrendered to the Afghan forces in Achin and Haska Mina districts late on Saturday night.
Ashiqullah Sadat, the district chief of Achin said 69 ISIS gunnies handed over themselves to the Afghan forces with 76 women and 96 children in this district.
The district chief of Haska Mina also confirmed that three ISIS gunnies surrendered to Afghan forces in this district on Saturday night.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch shot Black Bart's other gun out of his other hand...... the provincial government in a statement said the ISIS gunnies also handed over several weapons to the Afghan forces.
The statement further added the local authorities predict that more ISIS gunnies may surrender to Afghan forces in coming days.
The Ministry of Defense had earlier announced that the Afghan forces have increased pressures against the terror group in unprecedented manner during the recent months, forcing hundreds of gunnies of the terror group to surrender.
Night protests against #Iran's Islamic Regime is being continued in #Karaj tonight. Here is an example in Heidar-Abad where the protesters have blocked the roads on security forces making them unable to deploy their troops easily.#IranProtestspic.twitter.com/nmRwJgfPSB
From day 3 of #IranProtests. The Internet is shut down in Iran, more than 20 people have been killed during #IranProtests and people are still in the street protesting the Islamic Republic. pic.twitter.com/3i7OVib4QH
To stop IRGC and millitia force’s vehicles, a group of Iranian protesters in Tehran (Niayesh Highway) are displacing guardrails and blocking the streets. #IranProtestspic.twitter.com/cmRfAnPvH7
This generation had nothing to do with bringing to fruition a totalitarian theocracy & they have zero interest in sustaining it. pic.twitter.com/uhfFTv11MX
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'Reza Shah come back'. OK, put that coffee down campers and just imagine for a brief moment that in the event the mullahs really do come all the way unglued President Trump supports and aids the heir to the Peacock Throne back to Teheran.
I have to imagine the entire global liberal 'elite' spinning around on the ground like Curly while foaming at the mouth. Not enough popcorn on earth for that kind of a spectacle.
[LawEnforcementToday] According to an AGG report, William Stewart Boyd traded his father’s old .38 caliber Smith & Wesson snub nose for less than $100 in a gun buyback in 2004. It was supposed to be destroyed, but somehow the same handgun with serial number J515268 was found next to a dead body involved in a police shooting eight years later.
Boyd, a judge in Cook County, had taken the handgun to a South Side church in Chicago, Illinois where he handed it over to a pair of plainclothes officers with badges on their belts.
“I’m doing the right thing,” he said in an interview with Chicago’s Sun Times, “and, in the process, someone didn’t do what they were supposed to do. That calls into question the process. What’s happening after you turn these weapons in?”
Great question – somehow, this Smith & Wesson .38 ended up in the hands of 22-year-old felon and gang member Cesar Munive – a man previously convicted of sexual abuse of a minor, unlawful use of a weapon, and battery.
During an interaction with the police in July 2012, Munive was shot and killed by Cicero (Illinois) Officer Donald Garrity.
Judge Boyd, rightfully, wants to know how the gun got into the hands of Munive.
There’s some grey area in that story. Officer Garrity has a long history of disciplinary problems and is currently collecting a disability pension for PTSD. Garrity was disciplined for using a “high powered rifle” during a traffic stop, threatening another officer, and was stopped once for going 90 mph in a 30-mph zone.
He was previously with the Berwyn Police Department and was hired by Cicero in 2012.
Munive’s family has accused Garrity of planting the handgun at the scene of the crime to justify his use of force. The family attorney said there were “plenty of warnings readily available to any reasonable police department that it was not safe to put a gun in the hands of such an unstable individual.”
The city of Cicero is ready to pay Munive’s family $3.5 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit out of court.
#2
Idiot. You wanna kill elements of opportunity at least have a plan.
You keep aside a secret stash of un-marked guns or saturday night specials for planting. You don't plant a gun already in the system, with a serial no.
Now the city pays and cops lose. As for the Cook county judge... err, Boyd - Faggot !
[DAWN] Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who spearheaded the brutal crushing of the Tamil Tigers 10 years ago, stormed to victory on Sunday in Sri Lanka's presidential elections seven months after bully boy attacks killed 269 people.
The retired lieutenant colonel, nicknamed the "Terminator" by his own family, won 53-54 per cent of the vote, his front man told AFP as Rajapaksa's main rival Sajith Premadasa of the ruling party conceded the race.
"It is a clear win. We envisaged it. We are very happy that Gota will be the next president. He will be sworn in tomorrow or the day after," front man Keheliya Rambukwella said.
Rajapaksa, 70, had a 49.6pc share of the vote with close to six million ballots counted. He is the younger brother of the charismatic but controversial Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was president from 2005-15.
Results from Sinhalese-majority regions ‐ the Rajapaksas' core support base ‐ were expected to push this above 50pc.
Premadasa, 52, of the ruling party was trailing at 44.4pc. He had strong support in minority Tamil areas and a poor showing in larger Sinhalese constituencies.
Election Commission chairman Mahinda Deshapriya said at least 80pc of the 15.99 million eligible voters participated in Saturday's poll, which was marred by isolated violence that left several people injured.
Rajapaksa conducted a nationalist campaign with a promise of security and a vow to crush religious extremism in the Buddhist-majority country following the April 21 suicide kabooms blamed on a homegrown jihadi group.
[BREITBART] South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg ...the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He is running for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country... is under fire for allegedly faking black support in a campaign email in late October that claimed 400 African-Americans in South Carolina had endorsed his "Douglass Plan" for equality.
The Douglass Plan, named for the (Republican) former slave and abolitionist, proposes a variety of policies aimed at helping black Americans, alongside a committee to study the issue of reparations, which Buttigieg also backs.
The plan is partly aimed at addressing Buttigieg’s persistent weakness among black voters, which is partly the result of difficulties in his relationship with the black community in South Bend. He fired the city’s first black police chief, then faced criticism from the black community after an officer-involved shooting earlier this year. When he tried to make amends by accusing the police department of racism, he faced criticism from law enforcement as well.
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No way this nonentity wins S Carolina.
The Dems are headed toward a brokered convention.
Trump will win easily if his people in PA WI MI and elsewhere get out the vote.
[IsraelTimes] Software giant has come under scrutiny over its investment in AnyVision, whose surveillance technology is used to track Palestinians.
Why Eric Holder, of all people?
Microsoft is hiring former US attorney general Eric Inaction Jackson Holder ... aka Mister Fast and Furious... to review its investment in an Israeli facial recognition startup that scans faces at military checkpoints in the West Bank.
Microsoft said in a statement Friday that Holder will lead a team of former federal prosecutors conducting an audit.
Its aim is to determine whether Israeli firm AnyVision’s technology applications comply with Microsoft’s ethical principles against using facial recognition for mass surveillance.
Microsoft’s announcement came in the wake of an October 28 MSNBC report on its investment.
AnyVision announced a $74 million investment in June from a group including Microsoft’s venture capital arm.
The firm and its Microsoft backing attracted public scrutiny as the Israeli military installed face scanners at border crossings where Paleostinians enter Israel from the West Bank.
A recent report by Israeli business paper The Marker said that the Israeli military also uses technology provided by AnyVision in cameras dotting the Paleostinian territories. The cameras and database are being used to identify and track potential Paleostinian assailants, the report said.
Another investor in AnyVision is the US semiconductor and telecommunications equipment firm Qualcomm.
AnyVision was founded in 2015 by Eylon Etshtein and Prof. Neil Roberston and has Tamir Pardo, a former head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service, on its advisory board, according to its website.
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Facial recognition software works well on faces of ‘white’ people. So you see why Holder was asked to evaluate the ethics of the platform. This is right in his wheel house.
#8
^ Bingo.
Holder is race-hustling ever tech giant that can be cowed. Uber, Google, Microsoft... It's another version of Jesse Jackson's old PUSH race-based shakedown.
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 Mises Institute] Few remember him today, for reasons that should unsettle us all, but Vladimir Bukovsky was a hero from a dark age whose example confirms Mises’s motto, taken from the Aeneid: "Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it." Often glossed in the press as a "Soviet dissident," Bukovsky was infinitely more important. He took on the entirety of the Communist behemoth and lived to see it fall ‐ only to watch pieces of it rise again, he claims, and all with the conniving of the West.
[San Francisco Chronicle] A federal jury in San Francisco awarded Planned Parenthood more than $2.2 million in damages Friday against antiabortion activists who posed as fetal researchers to enter abortion-rights meetings and secretly record participants, rejecting the activists’ claims that they were acting as undercover journalists to expose wrongdoing.
[The National Interest] Key point: The B-52 can carry a huge diversity of weapons and remain an effective military asset.
[One America News] Reports have suggested the son of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may have used her position to benefit financially. One America’s Kara McKinney has more.
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
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...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
Moqtada 
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...Arabic for 
[Ay-Pee/HT Clarice Feldman] Iran’s supreme leader on Sunday cautiously backed the government’s decision to raise gasoline prices by 50% after days of widespread protests, calling those who attacked public property during demonstrations "thugs" and signaling that a potential crackdown loomed.
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeds places like Honduras and El Salvador, and a significant proportion of the populace as refugeed to Colombia and points south...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...The 
President Hassan Rouhani warned Sunday that riot-hit Iran could not allow “insecurity” after two days of unrest killed two people and saw authorities arrest dozens and restrict internet access.
[NY Post] Rep. Ilhan Omar paid another $150,000 to Tim Mynett's political consulting group in the three months after The Post first revealed allegations the pair were romantically involved, records show.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...served 
[BREITBART] two chemistry professors were accused of making methamphetamine in a school lab, sheriff’s deputies said. Terry David Bateman, 45, and Bradley Allen Rowland, 40, who both worked at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, as associate professors of chemistry were arrested Friday afternoon, the Clark County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement.
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
Police threaten to use live ammo after protesters shoot arrows and throw gasoline bombs at officers.
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[NYPOST] President Trump unexpectedly came to 
...the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He is running for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country...
[LawEnforcementToday] According to an AGG report, William Stewart Boyd traded his father’s old .38 caliber Smith & Wesson snub nose for less than $100 in a gun buyback in 2004. It was supposed to be destroyed, but somehow the same handgun with serial number J515268 was found next to a dead body involved in a police shooting eight years later.
