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Saudi air defences intercepted a ballistic missile fired towards the city, Saudi-owned channel al-Arabiya reported in a news flash quoting a Saudi-led military coalition official.
A ballistic missile was launched at the Saudi capital, a Houthi spokesman said.
Mohammed Abdussalam said on Twitter that a Volcano 2-H ballistic missile was fired towards al-Yamama royal palace.
Bloomberg reporter Vivian Nereim tweeted: "Loud boom heard in central Riyadh - big enough that we felt it shake our tower."
The Saudi Ministry of Culture and Information tweeted: "Coalition forces confirm intercepting an Iranian-Houthi missile targeting south of Riyadh.
"There are no reported casualties at this time.
The Saudi Arabian military shot down a missile fired at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh.
Amateur video taken at the scene showed four anti-ballistic missiles being fired into the sky followed by loud explosions.
The November 4 attack triggered the tightening of a longstanding Saudi-led blockade of Yemen - already on the verge of famine.
Saudi Arabia angrily accused its arch foe Iran of supplying the missile to the rebels, a charge Tehran strongly denied. They're making them in their basements!
On Thursday, US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley presented what she called "undeniable" evidence that last month's missile was "made in Iran".
But her comments went beyond the findings of a UN investigation which reached no firm conclusion on whether the missile came from an Iranian supplier, saying only that it had a "common origin" to some Iranian designs. Close enough.
A brutal civil war has been raging in Yemen for over two years and the conflict has claimed over 16,000 lives.
A military alliance led by Saudi Arabia has launched thousands of air strikes against the Houthi movement, which now controls much of Yemen.
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...Without taking anything away from the skill of the Saudi ADA crews or the sheer viciousness of the Houthis, the Volcano-2 (or V-2, if you will) is based on an Iranian SCUD descendant and has about a 500m (1640 ft) Circular Error Probable (CEP). That means you would have a circle 3280 feet - more than half a mile - centered on the aimpoint that the missile is expected to land in. Given that the V-2 is probably a product of inshallah design, storage, and maintenance, it was far more likely to hurt people way outside the palace than the ones in it.
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Given that the V-2 is probably a product of inshallah design,
And North Korean (Chinese clone) guidance systems.
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Missile intercepts work. What system did the Saudis use?
Police raided four addresses in South Yorkshire and Derbyshire after intelligence suggested the men were planning to build or acquire a bomb to strike a target in the UK.
The suspected plotters are understood to have been under surveillance, but counter terrorism officers decided to act amid fears the suspects had moved beyond discussion and begun trying to source bomb parts, or materials.
A police spokesperson said: "The public may have heard a loud bang at the time as police entered one of the properties, but it was not an explosion. It was part of the method to gain entry to the property in Meersbrook."
[Free Beacon] Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper referred to President Donald Trump on Monday as an intelligence "asset" for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The term "asset" refers to people with countries or organizations being spied upon who serve as resources for outside spies.
Clapper appeared on CNN to discuss Trump's national security strategy speech given Monday, where he referred to Russia as a rival but also said he wanted to form a partnership.
The two leaders have also expressed recent gratitude to each other, with Putin calling and thanking Trump for sharing intelligence that helped foil a terror plot and Trump thanking Putin for his recent praise of the American economy.
"Is that a contradictory message?" CNN host Jim Sciutto asked Clapper.
"Well, it is to me," Clapper said. "I think this past weekend is illustrative of what a great case officer Vladimir Putin is. He knows how to handle an asset, and that's what he's doing with the president."
"You're saying that Russia is handling President Trump as an asset?" Sciutto asked.
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I remember when U. S. "intelligence" during the Obama trainwreck was given warnings on the Tsarnaev brothers by Russian intelligence. Nothing was done, people were maimed and killed.
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I would tell people I think that, too, if I and several other of my peers within the prior administration were about to be exposed for conspiring to fix an election— a conspiracy which failed miserably— before we conspired to undermine the duly elected incoming administration— a conspiracy that while not quite dead yet, is heaving with its last and final breaths.
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If Clapper had hard evidence Mueller would surely have announced an indictment of Trump by now. But they have nothing so this is mere slander from a guy who is probably hoping against hope that he doesn't get indicted himself.
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I'd say that Russia handled President 0bama as an chump and a rube
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Lying UNDER OATH. Congress: “Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?” Clapper: “No, sir.” Perjury. And Obama shielded him.
OPM hack that opened up thousands to Chinese Intelligence.
Told Obama that ISIS was a JV team wearing Lakers uniforms, and let ISIS grow massively under his watch.
Denied the terrorist roots and international reach of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Why is anyone paying attention to anything this massive failure is saying or doing? The only thing he didn't fail at was weakening the US and kissing Obama's ass.
[Independent] Meet the woman who can smell Parkinson’s disease.
Joy Milne, a retired nurse, has an extraordinary sense of smell. However, it goes beyond simply having a very sensitive nose.
Milne has the ability to detect Parkinson’s disease years before a doctor’s diagnosis.
As described by Milne herself: "I’m in a tiny, tiny branch of the population somewhere between a dog and a human."
She first stumbled across her unusual gift when her husband Les started omitting a strange odour.
At first, Milne attributed the smell to bad hygiene on her husband’s part, but everything changed when the couple attended a Parkinson’s meeting.
She then realised that her husband smelt the same as the other people in the room. 10 years later, Les was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
"I smelled it 10 to 12 years before Les was diagnosed," Milne explains. "As the Parkinson’s got worse, the smell got worse.
"It became just part of him, but I with my sensitive sense of smell, I could smell it all the time and it became quite uncomfortable really, but I had the sense not to nag too much."
According to Milne, Parkinson’s disease has a very thick, musky smell.
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We looked into this years ago. Turns out there are a remarkable number of diseases you can detect based on odor. We were looking at a TB sniffer for airports, but it never got off the ground.
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We were looking at a TB sniffer for airports, but it never got off the ground.
Did you folks ever have a working product Ilbis, or was it just 'wish-ware'?
Something like that would be huge. Especially given the nature of current air travel arrivals.
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People with florid pneumococcal pneumonia have always had a strange odor on their breath, AFAICT, and I usually have an extremely poor sense of smell. This type of ability is probably more common that we are now aware of.
[Breitbart] Monday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh told his listeners he received an email with a "rumor" saying President Donald Trump was forecasting a letter from special counsel Robert Mueller exonerating him of wrongdoing.
Mueller has been investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
"I’ll tell you ‐ I just heard a rumor," Limbaugh said. "I just got an email with a rumor in it. The rumor is that Trump is telling people that Mueller is preparing a letter that exonerates Trump of any wrongdoing in all of this. It’s a rumor. I do not know if it’s true. I don’t know if Trump knows this. I don’t know if somebody told Trump this. I don’t know if it’s bogus. But the email that I got suggests Trump is telling people that he thinks ‐ he’s pretty sure Mueller is going to write a letter pretty soon to assure the American people that their president is not guilty of anything that he’s looking into ‐ that the country needs to know their president isn’t guilty.
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DOJ/FBI casualties mounting, no end in sight. Mueller to soon stop digging and move on. Victory letter and Wolf Blitzer interview to follow. Making plans to resume retirement, adopt rescue dog, go Walleye fishing in the Spring. Possibly write fly tying book.
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Who send that email? I can type up an email with all kind of BS and send it in, doesn't mean any of it is true.
I suspect he or one of his assistants might have fabricated this email and send it to himself just so he can report on it. A major clue, look at how many weasel words he used.
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Such a letter might be a face saving way for Mueller to get himself and the people who put him there out of this mess with a minimum of damage.
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...or a minimum of jail time.
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The left has pinned their last vestiges of hope on some kind of Mueller indictment. If this is true I hope Pharmacies around the nation are well stocked in anti-depressants.
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How often are the breathlessly reported rumours about President Trump wrong? I’ll think about this when something actually happens — I haven't the energy for rumours..
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I remember the show the Untouchables. Elliot Ness was FBI and a hero. What is being done by Muller and Clapper has made me start to question the honesty of all the people in Washington and particularly the justice system . COVFEFE
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I’ll think about this when something actually happens — I haven't the energy for rumours..
Indeed. I don't even believe the weather report any more. Still, sometimes these things can be useful from a traffic analysis standpoint - who is talking about what and why are they trying to sell this.
tl;dr: Station HYPO sent orders to Midway by cable to broadcast a radio message that the island's desalinization plant had broken down. The radio message was broadcast without encryption to ensure that Japan could read it if it was intercepted.
The radio message was duly intercepted by Japan and reported by a message encoded in JN25 stating that AF's desalinization plant was out of order. That message was intercepted by Station HYPO. AF was thus confirmed as Midway.
[WhiteHouse.gov] Here it is, dear Reader, all 51 pages of clearly organized text, so you can draw your own conclusions instead of being told by this journalist or that pundit what it means.
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This man was elected to DC by the people as their representative
Same folks that once voted Jesse Ventura as their governor.
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I guess they decided that Franken was less of a liability than the VP of Planned Parenthood whom the Governor of Minnesortaliberal was going to appoint to fill Franken's seat.
Does no one on the left read anything about Planned Parenthood?
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This is better for the GOP as he would have been replaced by a DEM anyway and this way when the seat comes up again he's tainted and no other DEM has an incumbent advantage.
[AlAhram] Egypt’s Ministry of Interior said on Monday that security forces have raided several hideouts of terrorist cells that were planning to carry out a series of attacks against state institutions and Christian places of worship in three governorates, with five Lions of Islam killed in a shootout during a security raid.
Security forces raided hideouts in the coastal governorate of Alexandria, the Delta governorate of Qalioubiya and El-Wadi El-Gedid governorate in Egypt’s Western Desert.
The ministry said that five bad boyz were potted in a shootout with police after the Lions of Islam opened fire on security forces as they were conducting the raid in Qalioubiya.
Police also incarcerated Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! 10 suspects in Alexandria who the ministry said were funded by Lions of Islam in North Sinai governorate.
The statement also said that security forces raided a training camp at a farm in El-Wadi El-Gedid where Lions of Islam trained to use firearms.
[MSN] A man cops are calling "Criminal Santa" had to call 911 when he reportedly found himself trapped in a California business's chimney this week. Is there such a thing as a chimney that one can slide down and not get caught where it necks down into a damper or deposits the intruder in a locked incinerator or something like that? He's lucky someone didn't light a fire under his ever-so-deserving @$$.
Citrus Heights Police allege 32-year-old Jesse Berube was not trying to spread Christmas cheer when he allegedly crawled down the chimney Wednesday.
According to a police statement, Berube slid down the chimney in an attempt to gain entry into the business.
However, cops say Berube was unsuccessful and became lodged, and unable make his way back out. Fortunately for him, Berube was able to move just enough to call for help.
"Criminal Santa does not have the same skills as the real deal," police joked.
With the help of fire officials using special equipment, Berube was soon able to escape a sooty demise uninjured.
Berube was, however, arrested for burglary and has since been released.
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I know a guy who was revamping an old industrial building as loft spaces. There was a twisty chimney "that had never worked right" so he had a mason cut into it to try make it functional.
There was a skeleton in a jumpsuit in it. It seems he was going down the flue and got caught in the turns and couldn't get out. The police said he'd been there since the 40's or '50's.
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Our cat did the same thing one subzero night after he refused to come inside, even though we called for him. Next morning his yowls for help echoed all over the house. Finally we zeroed in on the upstairs chimney damper. When we opened the damper, the cat fell out like Santa Claus.
[ICE] NEW YORK ‐ A Queens man was convicted Friday for enticing a 16-year-old girl to travel from abroad to engage in sexual activity. The initial arrest stemmed from a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in New York led investigation, with assistance from the Australian Federal Police and the New York City Police Department (NYPD), which led to the recovery of the missing girl.
Anbar (Iraqinews.com) Two Islamic State arms depots have been found in eastern Anbar, the military intelligence said on Monday.
“The two arms depots have been found at al-Subhayat and Nuaimiya areas east of Anbar, with 143 bombs available there,” the Iraqi Directorate of General Military Intelligence said in a statement, quoted by Alghad Press.
The explosive charges were meant to target Iraqi civilians and security men at Subhayat and Nuaimiya areas, the statement read.
Anbar (Iraqinews.com) Islamic State militants have destroyed 15 bridges during their capture of Anbar province, a well-placed provincial official said.
“Islamic State militants have demolished eight bridges at Annah and Rawa towns (210 km west of Ramadi) and seven others at al-Qaam (350 km west of Ramadi),” Mahdi Abdul Farhan, the head of the Roads and Bridges Directorate of Anbar, said in press release, quoted by the National News Center on Monday.
The reconstruction of such “strategic and vital bridges” will cost 15 billion Iraqi dinars and will take a year to be finalized, Farhan added.
Before being driven out of Anbar, Islamic State militants destroyed many bridges linking the province’s towns with the aim of preventing Iraqi troops from advancing further into areas under their control.
Around seventy percent of western regions in Anbar province were destroyed due to terrorist crimes carried out by Islamic State as well as liberation offensives by the military, according to Fahd al-Rashed, a member of Anbar provincial council.
“The rate of destruction exceeds 70 percent in the liberated regions of Rawa and al-Qaam, with a high rate of destruction in Annah west of Anbar,” he told BasNews website earlier this month.
“Preliminary estimates showed the destruction of 26 schools, blasting most of the governmental authorities and booby-trapping of 17 service projects,” he said.
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Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) Over 35,000 Iraqi coppers were killed during the three-year war against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... , an Iraqi military source said.
"The anti-IS war has left over 35,000 Iraqi coppers killed, and another 35,000 injured," the source, who preferred to remain unnamed, told al-Quds al-Arabi on Monday.
He added that the mentioned casualties included army and police personnel, al-Hashd al-Shaabi fighters and members of the Counter Terrorism Service.
"Thousands of Iraqi troops have sustained severe injures, and should travel abroad for surgeries but the government cannot do so due to the austerity policy it has recently adopted."
"The Iraqi government should pay due regard to the victims’ families and help the injured travel abroad to undergo surgeries as soon as possible," the source pointed out.
He highlighted that the Iraqi military has lost billions of dollars in the fight against IS krazed killers, who destroyed many of military equipment and warplanes in the country.
"The last war against Islamic State was one of the most devastating wars in Iraq’s history as it led to the weakening of Iraqi military and destruction of the country’s infrastructure," he stressed.
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How many of them were prisoners executed by ISIS (as opposed to KIA?
Surrendering to ISIS is always a poor survival strategy.
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I'm pretty sure alot of that military equipment they are talking about losing ( as in it was out of their pocket) was left or given to the by the US.
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It's still a loss. They'll now have to replace that equipment. That will cost billions, and the replacements will likely be inferior because they don't have the cash to buy the good stuff, which was what was left to them.
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#2 I'm pretty sure alot of that military equipment they are talking about losing ( as in it was out of their pocket) was left or given to the by the US.
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and dropped/left behind as they fled the initial IS push
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[MSF] For many people living in war-torn or remote areas, medical care is sometimes only available from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The mission of Doctors Without Borders is to help people around the world where the need is greatest. This includes delivering emergency medical aid to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disaster, or who lack access to basic medical care. Through its swift mobilization of resources and personnel, Doctors Without Borders is able to enter underserved regions to provide crucial medical care to patients who wouldn’t survive without it. With over four decades of experience conducting field missions, Doctors Without Borders has focused on improving and innovating its mobile medical facilities. It is these facilities that are instrumental in helping the organization’s doctors respond rapidly. These are the stories of three mobile facilities that have helped doctors save lives around the world.
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They aren't the only people using that tech, nor are their locations the only places it is in use. There are people working to get more of this tech to good people in some tight spots. Its a shame they are in the process of being screwed by regional enemies as well as former allies.
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The US Army has been using this approach for awhile. The CASH unit (Combat Army Surgical Hospital, which replaced the MASH's of Korea and Vietnam) are built around a modular container. each of which is basically an equipped ER or crash room. The pods are designed to hook together, usually in a four way cross, and seal up. The whole thing basically hooks together like building blocks.
The system mostly wasn't used in the late unpleasantness in the Middle East because buildings were already available (i.e. Ibn Sina in Baghdad and the facility at Bagram).
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Just wait until they come up with prefab medical personnel.
[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] Austria’s new government has unveiled plans for financial "sanctions" on immigrants colonists who keep their own culture and do not "integrate" with mainstream society.
The government, a coalition between the conservative People’s Party (OVP) and the far-right Freedom Party (FPO), agreed a deal at the weekend with provisions set to make life more difficult for foreigners in the country.
The two parties’ agreed policy programme says that immigrants colonists who are judged to be "refusing to integrate" should expect "sanctions".
One specific policy outlined in the agreement includes a cut to the basic level of support payments for asylum seekers. The reduction can be recouped by families by earning an "integration bonus" if they are deemed to be adopting Austrian culture, as defined by the government.
The programme also calls for faster deportations of asylum seekers and says undocumented immigration will be halted, as well as vowing to stop the creation of "parallel societies".
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Does this include being willing to go to war over beer, refraining from raping or blowing up the locals and no more honor killings?
[THEHILL] Alex Kozinski, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, resigned Monday in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations, The Washington Post reported.
"I cannot be an effective judge and simultaneously fight this battle. Nor would such a battle be good for my beloved federal judiciary. And so I am making the decision to retire, effective immediately," Kozinski said in a statement to the Post.
The newspaper reported last week that several women accused Kozinski of making sexual comments, touching them inappropriately or kissing them without consent.
Another appointment for President Trump to make, which should be interesting for the 9th Circuit.
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...This one will be fun to watch. 9th Circuit is stacked the way it is for a reason, and the Usual Suspects will do whatever they have to do to make sure that that seat stays 'reliable'...
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Heh heh heh, could you see Trump appointing a really conservative kid judge to the 9th Circus?
Imagine the uproar if a real constitutional scholar was on that bench.
[RT] In an effort to get Moslem men to grow out their facial hair, a Moslem preacher has claimed that clean-shaven men with long hair "cannot be distinguished from women," which can cause "indecent thoughts" to occur between males.
"Men should grow beards. One of the two body parts that separate men from women is the beard," Ottoman Turkish preacher Murat Bayaral told religious station Fatih Medreseleri TV on Saturday, as quoted by Hurriyet. He went on to describe a possible scenario in which a man could find himself having "indecent thoughts" about another man.
"For example, if you see a man with long hair from afar you may think he is a woman if he does not have a beard. Because nowadays women and men dress similarly. God forbid! You could be possessed by indecent thoughts," he said, apparently referring to same-sex relationships.
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Wouldn't it be simpler to compel women to wear false beards in public?
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In the grand bulk of the Arab word, a proclivity toward homosexuality might be expected, where your only alternative is Arab women. But I don't get what this Turkish guy is up to, I mean there's lots of cute chicks in urban areas, maybe he's referencing rural areas.
[RT] Police in the Swedish city of Malmo have retracted advice given to women in the city following the brutal gang-rape of a 17-year-old girl. The force advised women not to go out alone after dark following the vicious attack.
Officers issued the warning over the weekend following the assault, which occurred on Saturday, and marked the third such vicious rape committed by unknown perpetrators in the city in less than a month.
The original warning, reported by various Swedish media outlets, said that women should avoid venturing out after dark without someone for company. Considering it gets dark quite early in Sweden at this time of year, that would mean women should avoid being in the streets alone after approximately 3pm local time.
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... following criticism, Malmo police issued a formal statement on Monday retracting those remarks, describing them as "unfortunate and unclear."
"My advice is to behave as usual and not act on fear," said police spokesperson Mats Karlsson, as cited by SVT.
So far, police have not linked this most recent incident to the previous two but are also not ruling out a connection. In this latest case, there is no CCTV footage to analyze but police are attempting to recover footage from surrounding areas in a bid to catch the attackers.
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I wonder what these same officials are telling their wives and daughters to do.
A newly formed commission comprised of top Hollywood executives has chosen Anita Hill to chair its efforts to combat sexual harassment across the entertainment industry, it was announced Friday.
A powerhouse committee including studio, talent agency and guild leaders from across the film, television, digital and music industries attended the meeting convened by Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy, Nike Foundation Co-Chair Maria Eitel, attorney Nina Shaw and venture capitalist and activist Freada Kapor Klein.
Among those involved in the new effort to create "safer, fairer, more equitable and accountable workplaces" in Hollywood are Paramount CEO Jim Gianopulos, Warner Bros. Chairman and CEO Kevin Tsujihara, Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos, Atlantic Records Chair and COO Julie Greenwald, William Morris Endeavor Co-CEO Ari Emanuel, Creative Artists Agency Co-Chairman Bryan Lourd, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences CEO Dawn Hudson and SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle Carteris.
The Commission on Sexual Harassment and Advancing Equality in the Workplace aims to create a "comprehensive strategy" to address the epidemic of sexual harassment and misconduct that has rocked Hollywood and the country in recent months, exposing alleged abuses by figures such as Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey and Russell Simmons. Next steps will follow in the new year, according to the group.
"The Commission will not seek just one solution, but a comprehensive strategy to address the complex and inter-related causes of the problems of parity and power," Kennedy said in a statement. "The fact that so many industry leaders ‐ across film, television, music, digital, unions, agencies, ATA, AMPAS, television academy and guilds ‐ came together, in one room, to explore solutions speaks to a new era."
Hill is a professor of social policy, law and women’s studies at Brandeis University and a National Women’s Law Center board member who previously chaired the Human Rights Committee of the International Bar Assn. She became an emblem for women’s rights when she brought sexual harassment allegations against then-U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas.
Exactly how the new commission will present best practices to curb sexual harassment remains to be seen.
"We will be focusing on issues ranging from power disparity, equity and fairness, safety, sexual harassment guidelines, education and training, reporting and enforcement, ongoing research, and data collection," Hill said. "It is time to end the culture of silence. I’ve been at this work for 26 years. This moment presents us with an unprecedented opportunity to make real change."
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Note on the Imprimis Article: the author gives you an excellent background on the history of identity politics, but he falls short by way of a solution, especially regarding education, which I would argue is the root of the problem.
[PRESSTV] Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani says the Islamic Theocratic Republic is not providing military assistance to Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... and all claims to this effect are false.
Larijani made the remarks while addressing the extraordinary meeting of the Paleostinian Committee of the Parliamentary Union of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Member States (PUOICM) in the Iranian capital Tehran on Monday.
"We are not a country that would deny providing military assistance to anybody," Larijani said.
He added that Iran was providing military assistance to Paleostine, but had not helped Yemeni fighters in their war with Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... in military terms, dismissing any claim to this effect as a lie.
"The Yemenis' missiles belong to themselves and some countries cannot achieve their goals by making such claims," the top Iranian parliamentarian said.
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[IsraelTimes] Iran reopens all its border crossings with Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, a foreign ministry front man says, after their closure over a controversial independence vote.
Bahram Ghassemi says the two frontier crossings of Haji Omran and Parwezkhan had been reopened, without giving a specific date, after the Bashmaq frontier post began working again in October.
Iran closed the border crossings after Iraqi Kurds on September 25 voted overwhelmingly in favour of independence at a referendum Baghdad insisted was illegal.
Iran and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , which have Kurdish communities of their own, were also against the poll.
Half of ‘dangerous’ Islamists in Germany no longer considered a threat: report
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[TheLocal.de] The German security services believe that around half of the 720 people who are classified as “dangerous Islamists” do not actually pose a particular terror threat, the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) reported on Monday. At the same time, the security services concluded that the other half of those classified as dangerous pose a high risk.
The information comes from a new form of analysis conducted by Germany’s 16 state police services and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA). The security services used the Radar-ITE system for their analysis, which was developed by the BKA and Swiss scientists.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière has said that the security services have foiled three terror attacks this year. According to the SZ, 50 “dangerous” Islamists have been deported so far in 2017.
The BKA hopes that the system can help Germany's overstretched police services to focus on the people most likely to pose a terror threat. German Police Union (GdP) chairman Oliver Malchow on Monday said, “The police need around 24 officers for a round-the-clock observation. We simply have neither the capacity to do this.”
French Court Strikes Down Law Against Visiting Pro-Jihad Websites
17 December
[Breitbart] French courts have scrapped a law that would see those who visit pro-Jihad websites fined or put in in prison saying that such laws would damage the freedom of communication. The law, which criminalises the act of visiting websites liked
Switzerland expels French-Tunisian man over terror fears
16 December
[TheLocal.ch] Swiss police said on Saturday they had expelled a person facing criminal charges in Switzerland for suspected links to a terrorist group, over fears he poses a threat to national security.
Bilal is a French-Tunisian national in his 40s who was working as a taxi driver when he was arrested in Geneva last June. He had reportedly attempted to travel to Syria with his family and also helped recruit others to join the jihadists there.
He was released from Swiss detention last Wednesday and has since been sent back to France, where he is also facing criminal charges, the Tribune de Geneva daily reported.
Hundreds of Islamic State ‘Foreign Fighters’ Have Returned to Europe
16 December
[Breitbart] An estimated 40,000 people travelled from around the world to take up arms for the Islamic State group as it occupied territory in Syria and Iraq and declared a caliphate in 2014.
I have seen estimates that as many as 25,000 were killed there.
Swiss woman stands trial for attempting to join Islamic State
15 December
[TheLocal.ch] A 31-year-old woman from Winterthur who tried to travel to Syria with her small child to join Islamic State (IS) is standing trial under Swiss anti-terror laws.
German naval vessel rescues more than 100 migrants off Libyan coast
14 December
[DW] A Bundeswehr vessel has rescued 102 migrants off the coast of Libya. In a dramatic few days of rescue missions, a further 50 migrants were airlifted after being stranded in the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece.
The German navy has been patrolling the Mediterranean crossing from northern Africa into Europe since May 2015 as part of an EU mission dubbed "Sophia." In that time, German troops have rescued some 22,000 migrants trying to make it across from Libya to Italy.
As Europe scrambles to stem the flow migrants arriving on its shores, data published by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN's migration agency, has reported a drop in the number of migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea. Compared to the 273,000 migrants that landed between January and August 2016, only about 121,000 arrived during the same period this year.
The number would drop even further, were the German navy and other idiots to return those people to the Libyan shore instead of taking them where they were deliberately too poorly equipped to go.
Danish man loses passport for fighting for Isis
13 December
[TheLocal.dk] A 22-year-old Danish-born man has been sentenced to five years in prison after travelling to Syria to fight for the Islamic State terror group. The man’s passport has also been seized by authorities.
The man, Anis Laraba, has Algerian heritage and was born and raised in Denmark. He was an 18-year-old upper secondary school student when he travelled to Syria in 2013 and joined the armed group. Laraba was found to have participated in battle on the side of Isis, thereby breaching Danish terror laws.
He travelled to the Middle Eastern country with a second Danish citizen, Enes Cifti, who has been convicted of similar offences. Cifti was the first Danish-born person to be stripped of his passport when his case was taken to the Supreme Court in November this year, with Laraba now receiving the same punishment.
Laraba was also linked to a radical Danish group known as Kaldet til Islam (Called to Islam).
Refugee helpers in Germany sued for helping refugees
12 December
[DW] German refugee helpers who guaranteed the living costs of Syrian refugees are being forced to pay back costs by job centers. Refugee organizations say people are being punished for showing humanity.
In which certain Germans fuss because it turns out posturing is expensive.
Commission: EU Too White, Mass Third World Migration Must Be ‘New Norm’
18 December
Brussels has said that Europeans must accept mass migration from the third world as the “new norm”, warning that neither walls nor policies will allow any part of the EU to remain “homogenous and migration-free”.
Muslim Women Cause Havoc at Swimming Pool, Threaten Employees
18 December
Staff at a swimming pool in Hanover, Germany, have faced threats after telling Muslim women not to wear jeans or street clothes, dye their hair, or leave large amounts of rubbish in the pool during Friday “women’s days”.
Syrian Asylum Seeker Pair Murdered By Another Migrant In Knife Attacks
17 December
A 37-year-old Syrian asylum seeker has been arrested in the Dutch city of Maastricht after stabbing two other Syrians to death. and wounding several others. The Dutch police claim that they are not investigating the attacks, which took place on Thursday night,
Sweden Forced to Raise Retirement Age To Pay For Mass Immigration Policy
17 December
The increasing costs of population growth in Sweden, driven almost entirely mass migration, have forced the government to seriously consider raising the national retirement age to pay for the additional costs.
EU Deeply Divided On Migration As Austria’s New Chancellor Rejects Migrant Quotas
16 December
Austria’s incoming Chancellor and current Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz has rejected migrant redistribution quotas, as the European Union remains deeply divided on migrant issues following a summit this week.
POLITICO: Let Refugees Work at European Commission
15 December
Newly arrived migrants would be helped better integrate if they were given jobs assisting in the governance of Europe, POLITICO has claimed.
Reuters: Germany — Migrants Must Learn More About Holocaust
15 December
Newly arrived migrants should learn more about the Holocaust in their integration lessons, a German politician has said as Europe experiences a rising tide of anti-Semitic incidents. Reuters reports: More emphasis should be placed on the Holocaust in integration courses
Research: Anti-Semitic Attitudes Common Among Asylum Seekers
15 December
German researcher and historian Günther Jikeli has found that anti-Semitic attitudes are common among asylum seekers as the federal government’s Facebook page was inundated with anti-Semitic messages this week.
Germany to Fund Surveilance Along Tunisia-Libya Border to Catch Extremists, Migrants
15 December
Germany is pouring money into the creation of electronic surveillance systems along Tunisia’s eastern border, designed to prevent extremists and migrants from slipping across into the country from neighboring Libya, a government spokesman said Friday. Tunisia stepped
Anti-Mass Migration Central European Nations Volunteer €35 Million To Reinforce EU Borders
15 December
The four central nations that comprise the Visegrad group (V4) have set aside 35 million euros to help European Union (EU) member states protect the political bloc’s external borders against illegal mass migration. The four countries that make up the Visegrad group,
Reuters: Finnish Presidential Candidate Would Take Nation Out of EU, Tighten Immigration Rules
14 December
The presidential candidate of the Finns Party — who were in government under a coalition deal until June — would take Finland out of the European Union if elected, she has said.
EU at War with Itself as Commission Brands Proposal to End Migrant Quotas ‘Anti-European’
14 December
The European Union has descended into vicious infighting as it continues to struggle with the migrant crisis, with the President of the Council and the European Commission at each other’s throats.
Cologne To Distribute ‘Tolerance’ Wristbands to Combat New Year’s Eve Sex Attacks
14 December
The city of Cologne has announced they will be handing out “respect” wristbands to encourage understanding between individuals on New Year’s Eve and prevent the kind of sex attacks that occurred in 2015.
Hungary Rejects Europe’s ‘Limitless and Permanent Migrant Quota’
13 December
In a stinging new op-ed, Hungarian government spokesman Zoltán Kovács has accused the European Parliament of surreptitiously removing all limits to the European migrant quota, effectively making it “limitless and permanent.”
Public Overwhelmingly Reject ‘Soros Plan’ for Mass Migration to Europe
13 December
The Hungarian government has received millions of notarised responses to its National Consultation on the ‘Soros Plan’ for mass migration, with the public rejecting it overwhelmingly.
Migrants Buying Ready-Made Fake ‘Cover Stories’ To Fool Authorities In Approving Asylum Claims
13 December
People smugglers and others have been selling asylum seekers “fake stories” in order to better improve their chances of getting a positive asylum claim in Europe. A new report claims that asylum seekers from Iran have been buying cover stories
63-Year-Old Migrant Arrested For Molesting Children As Young As Seven At Swimming Pool
13 December
A 63-year-old Iranian asylum seeker was arrested in the German town of Öhringen after being accused of sexually molesting three young children including a seven-year-old boy. The incident, which occurred on Sunday, is said to have occurred at a public swimming
Claim: Newly Arrived Migrants Arrested For Swedish Synagogue Attack
12 December
Three men have been arrested for the attempted firebombing of a Swedish synagogue in Gothenburg, and according to a far-left group all three are recent asylum seekers from Syria and Palestine.
German Police Union Boss: Politicians Give Empty Words Against Antisemitic Incidents While Migrant Policies Make It Worse
12 December
German police union head Rainer Wendt blasted German politicians in the wake of anti-Semitic protests over the weekend, saying that despite their condemnations of their migrant policies have made the problem of anti-Semitism worse.
Austrian City Labelled Radical Islamic Extremist ‘Stronghold’
12 December
The southern Austrian city of Graz has been labelled a “stronghold” of radical extremism after a report revealed half of the mosques in the city are suspected of preaching radical Islam.
Asylum Seeker Who Escaped Psychiatric Hospital Committed Over 50 Crimes in 14 Months
12 December
Authorities in Germany have released new information regarding a dangerous asylum seeker who fled a psychiatric hospital in October, saying he committed more than 50 crimes over a period of only 14 months and is still on the loose.
Wilders: The Pew Report on Muslim Migration to Europe is a Wake-up Call — It is Time to Get Tough
11 December
The bell is tolling for Europe. All the warning signs are turned on red. A demographic catastrophe is in the making. If Europe fails to make a stand, its Judeo-Christian civilization is about to be blown away.
‘Asylum Seekers’ Using Fake Passports To Enter Germany Up 70 Percent
11 December
The number of migrants attempting to enter Germany by aeroplane using forged or fake passports has increased by 70 percent in the second quarter of this year, as they try to get out of crowded Greek camps.
Geneva Bans Burkini in All Public Swimming Pools
10 December
The government of the Swiss city of Geneva have effectively banned the Islamic swimwear known as the Burkini.
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The German security services believe that around half of the 720 people who are classified as “dangerous Islamists” do not actually pose a particular terror threat
and just like that: "We've cut terror threats in half. Huzzah!"
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A refugee from Iraq was sentenced by a Houston court Monday to 16 years in prison for seeking to join ISIS and learn bomb-making skills.
Only sixteen? Originally it was twenty-five....and he was arrested less than two years ago, so the decrease isn’t compensation for an overly long trial.
Omar Faraj Saeed al-Hardan,
...who appears in our archives without the hyphen, thusly: Omar Faraj Saeed Al Hardan, which explains why the Homeland Security no-fly lists are such a mess...
a 25-year-old of Paleostinian origin who was born in Iraq and lived in refugee camps in Iraq and Jordan, was accepted into the United States in 2009.
He earned his permanent residency two years later and, according to US law enforcement, in 2013 began communicating with another refugee in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,,
...another young gentleman of the Palestinian persuasion who grew up in so called refugee camps in Iraq...
discussing traveling to Syria to fight for the al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... h group.
The next year, he discussed with an FBI informant his hopes of traveling to fight with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group and a desire to be trained in making detonators for improvised bombs.
He and the FBI informant also practiced shooting with an AK-47, and Hardan posted statements in support of ISIS online, according to the Justice Department.
He was tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... in January 2016 and charged with providing material support to ISIS.
"Any person who provides material support to a foreign terrorist organization will be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law," said Acting US Attorney Abe Martinez.
President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... has slashed by more than half the country's annual intake of refugees and placed restrictions on other immigrants colonists, saying it is a conduit for potential turbans to enter the United States.
So it would seem.
Separately, a former Washington-area transit police officer
...a thirteen year veteran at the time in question...
who converted to Islam was convicted of trying to help ISIS.
Nicholas Young, 37, had tried to help another man join up with ISIS, only to find that the other man was an undercover FBI informant.
That happens quite a bit, oddly enough.
Oddly, Young was also called a neo-Nazi by prosecutors,
...both are violently supremacist worldviews, but Islamofascism is more respectable nowadays, as well as more violent. Mr. Young (his nom de guerre was no doubt Abu Idiotullah al Amriki) is treading a path long ago made wide and smooth by real Nazis who found sanctuary in the Arab world...
while his lawyers defended him as simply someone with quirky hobbies.
Trying to get to Syria to murder and rape is a quirky hobby? The lawyer is definitely operating on the “throw it all up against the wall, and hope something sticks” philosophy.
He faces up to 60 years in prison.
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[DailyMail] A video circulating on extremist sites purports to be a message from dedicated jihadis, although ISIS has not expanded its official media output to the central African country.
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[UPI] Chinese regional experts have warned that an outbreak of war on the Korean Peninsula looks likelier than ever, despite Seoul and Beijing's agreement last week that such a conflict cannot be tolerated.
Chinese daily Global Times quoted Shi Yinhong, Professor of Renmin University, who said, "The possibility of war breaking out on the Korean peninsula has become the highest in several decades," pointing to the "vicious cycle of threats" between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Shi said that that China can only delay an all-out clash between them as it is too late to turn the situation around. "China only delay war, hoping that the detonator of the time bomb that is North Korea can be removed," he said.
How dreadfully passive voice, to be sure. And who is to bell the cat that China hand-reared from a kitten?
Wang Hongguang, former Deputy Commander of the Nanjing Military Region suggested war could occur much earlier than expected, Chosun Ilbo reported.
"It could break out tonight. It may come before March next year when South Korea and the United States begin their annual military exercise," he said.
Wang cited a local newspaper article that provided a guideline for Chinese citizens in case of a nuclear explosion, saying this was "a signal conveyed to the North telling it to prepare for the coming war."
Putting aside the timing, Professor of Nanjing University Zhu Feng believes Beijing must brace itself for war.
As tensions continue to escalate in the region, a "soft-landing" solution is impossible, he said, adding that "China must prepare psychologically and practically for a nuclear conflict, a radioactive fallout and an atomic explosion."
Last week, the Chinese navy began conducting a four-day live-fire exercise off North Korean waters while the air force held simulated anti-missile drills with Russia, South China Morning Post reported.
The joint exercise was aimed at repelling ballistic and cruise missile threats in the region, according to Beijing's defense ministry.
[DONSURBER.BLOGSPOT] President Trump did not meet the standards of Stephen Henderson, managing director of opinion and commentary at the Detroit Free Press. In column after column this year and last, Henderson called Trump a bigot, a bully, and a harasser of women.
Today the Detroit Free Press fired Henderson.
For sexual harassment.
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The headline link has some really good information. There is a list of "I Fought The Donald, And The Trump Won." It made for highly entertaining reading!
They called him Gramps abu AQI, but never to his face.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) One of the earliest members of al-Qaeda in Iraq was killed Monday in Diyala, a parliament representative of the province was quoted saying.
Furat al-Tamimi told alsumaria News that “ a joint security team managed to kill Ali Mohamed Sahi in a special operation south of Beldruz (30 km east of Baqubah)”.
Tamimi said Sahi belonged to the earliest generation of al-Qaeda leaders in Diyala.
According to Tmaimi, Sahi joined the Islamic State after the militant group came to the forefront, noting that he leads “ one of the most dangerous terrorist cells in Diyala, especially at the Dainiya Basin”.
Sahi fled Mosul to Diyala after the city was recaptured by Iraqi troops in July.
Al-Qaeda, which fought against U.S. troops following the 2003 invasion of Iraq against late president Saddam Hussein, has seen its militant activity disappearing with the rise of the Islamic State in 2014. Many members of the group are thought to have joined IS when the latter proclaimed a self-styled “caliphate” in Iraq and neighboring Syria in 2014.
Furat al-Tamimi, a provincial official, told Arabic-language al-Sumaria television network that government troops ambushed Ali Mohamed Sahi and his two aides on Monday and shot them dead.
Diyala (Iraqinews.com) Four Islamic State militants were killed in various security campaigns in Diyala over the past 24 hours, a military commander said.
“Iraqi troops, backed by al-Hashd al-Shaabi, carried out various surprise security campaigns, targeting Islamic State in Baqubah city in Diyala, leaving four militants killed,” Commander of Tigris Operations Maj. Gen. Mazhar al-Azzawi told Alghad Press on Monday.
The security campaigns were launched after receiving accurate intelligence information on the location of the IS terrorists, he added.
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[DAILYTIMES.PK] In Pakistain, the effort of transforming fabrication into fact is assuming the proportions of an art form with an ever larger number of people falling gullibly onto its venomous tracks. The heinous Christmas-eve attack on the Bethel Memorial Methodist Church in Quetta killing nine people and injuring dozens more, some of them seriously, is a case in point. Instead of facing up to the fact that this is one more of a series of gruesome features dotting our daily lives which need to be combated with a strong and pragmatic narrative coupled with display of political will, layers of fabrication will be built to dull its impact, even creating erroneous and misleading impressions regarding its hows and whys.
The sequential steps of such an effort would include stories on the relative infrequency of terror attacks in Pakistain, even less so in the sectarian and religious domains, the positive outcome of the military operations which have been conducted in the recent past, the timely intervention of the security personnel in averting damage which could have been far more lethal, and trying to drown the sickness of terror in a parlance of condolence and sympathy messages overflowing with intent to help the families which have suffered. There will also be a deafening crescendo of an unflinching national resolve to ensure that the criminals and their aiders and handlers are punished. All this will be conveniently forgotten once overtaken by another similar or dissimilar event in the not so distant future.
I would not be surprised if someone were to craft an outlandish fable that the church was not the real target, but someone who was in the vicinity at that given moment, this being a case of personal enmity. In turn, such-like narrative would be parroted wildly in the evening television shows in an attempt to create further hallucinations. No one will dare ask why such-like things keep happening, and why is this malaise growing with time?
Let’s move to another avenue which illustrates this effort of merging fact with fabrication, even at the cost of clouding the integrity of a key state pillar. Ever since the abject failure of virtually all institutions to deal with accountability- and transparency-related cases falling in their domains, and with all of this landing at the doorsteps of the judiciary, it has been targeted for its alleged partisanship. Its judgments against the former prime minister have been portrayed as apt evocations of its deep-set prejudice. It has also been condemned afor having acted in conformity with a script written elsewhere. The painstaking soliloquies establishing the indispensability of individuals over the state and its institutions is an aberration of the grossest form, yet promoted forcefully in this wonder-land.
In the process, the other side of the coin is completely overlooked, the one dealing with the history of crime and corruption of the family over decades. The unabashed disdain with which such misleading projections are made in public and then stoutly defended during the hilarious comedy shows enacted in the evening television transmissions is unbelievable. But not for the ones who are propounding the falsehoods and who would want every viewer to believe them to the postscript. No shame. No embarrassment. At the end of it all, one is lost in separating fact from fiction. It is all so enmeshed.
At a different level, facts stand out from fabrications in no uncertain terms as, indeed, these should. No matter how thick we try to lay it out for the world, it can see through the load of crap which melts at the first incision of enquiry. But, in the process, alongside creating doubts about our efficacy as a nation, we also lose our credibility ‐ as would a claim that load-shedding in Pakistain is a story of the past. Looking at the person later, I did not see a shred of remorse. It is like they are tutored in the art of lying shamelessly ‐ and they do!
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[RADIOSHABELLE] In coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. forces conducted an Arclight airstrike against al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... bandidosbully boyz in the early evening hours on Friday, Dec. 15, approximately 30 miles northwest of Kismayo ...a port city in the southern Lower Juba province of Somalia, at the extreme southern end of the country (assuming Somalia can be called a country). It is the commercial capital of the autonomous Jubaland region... , killing eight (8) Death Eaters and destroying one vehicle.
We assess no non-combatants were killed in the strike.
U.S. forces will continue to use all authorized and appropriate measures to protect U.S. citizens and to disable terrorist threats.
This includes partnering with AMISOM and Somali National Security Forces (SNSF) in combined counterterrorism operations and targeting terrorists, their training camps, and their safe havens throughout Somalia and the region.
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[PRESSTV] At least five civilians have been killed when Saudi military aircraft carried out an Arclight airstrike against a residential area in Yemen's western province of Hudaydah as the Saudi regime presses ahead with an atrocious military campaign against its crisis-hit southern neighbor.
Local sources, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , said five people bit the dust and ten others sustained injuries on Monday evening, when Saudi fighter jets bombarded a residential building in the al-Tafsah area of al-Khawkhah district.
Saudi military aircraft also carried out two aerial attacks against civilian targets in the Mondabah area of Yemen’s northwestern province of Sa'ada.
Additionally, Saudi warplanes hit a vehicle in the Baqim district, and launched an airstrike in the al-Malahit area of al-Dhaher district.
There were, however, no immediate reports about the number of possible casualties and the extent of damage caused.
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Wait. Weren't we told after 9/11 that there are no civilians? Or is that a pick n choose thing?
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'Civilians' because the impact of the explosions separated them from their weapons?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Twenty members of the ruling al-Thani family in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... held an important meeting, the first of its kind, in which they rejected the policies of Sheikh Tamim.
The meeting was hosted by Sheikh Sultan Bin Suhaim al-Thani, who has already announced his opposition to Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad al-Thani’s policies, on the occasion of the National Day of the State of Qatar.
Bin Suhaim said during the meeting: "Soon we will celebrate with our family in Doha."
Sultan bin Suhaim added that Qatar would soon return to its Gulf origins.
The meeting rejected decisions to withdraw nationalities from the elders of the tribes.
Sheikh Suhaim said that the tribal stance is historic and that Qatar will never back-stab its neighbors.
The meeting commended the role of the Kingdom of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and sister countries to support the people of Qatar.
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[All Africa] President Lt Gen. Dr Seretse Khama Ian Khama says he is stepping down at the end of his term in office a happy man, and that he has learnt a lot from Batswana.
Addressing residents of Bokspits, Rapalspan, Vaalhoek and Struizendam, President Khama said he learnt about the diverse culture of different tribes. "That is why I decided to promote culture including polka music which is predominantly enjoyed in the area," he said.
The four villages are known as BORAVAST, and is an acronym for Bokspits, Rapalspan, Vaalhoek and Struizendam.President Khama said amongst the things that he learnt was the diverse culture evident in different tribes.
He added that the idea of constituency tournaments emanated from Bokspits. He added that during one of his visits to the village some youth complained that the Botswana Football Association (BFA) did not recognise them because they were far from the cities. President Khama told the multitudes who came to bid him farewell that they should be proud of their constituency because it had unique features such as sand dunes that made it to be known worldwide.
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[All Africa] A bogus CIO spy who landed in the dock on allegations of taking a firearm to events attended by President Emmerson Mnangagwa will spend Christmas holidays behind bars after he was denied bail by a Harare magistrate.
Guthrie Chirodzero, 40, was remanded in jug to December 28 by magistrate Rumbidzai Mugwagwa who ruled that he was a danger to the society.
Chirodzero is on charges of taking a firearm to a public gathering, impersonation and forgery after he was also caught in possession of fake Central Intelligence Officer's (CIO), Zim-bob-we Anticorruption Commission identity cards and a fake driver's licence.
According to the state, Chirodzero attended the swearing in of new cabinet ministers by Mnangagwa.
It is alleged that he went on to position himself close to the President while pretending to be a CIO officer.
Chirodzero had used the fake ID's to gain entry into the State House.
On December 6, armed with the same fake cards and a pistol, Chirodzero went to Josiah Magamba Tongogara army barracks where the Zanu PF leader was officiating at the renaming of the former KGVI facility.
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[All Africa] South Africa witnessed a watershed transition in politicianship today when a succession of governing party leaders who were formerly in exile or prison was replaced by a leader of the internal resistance to apartheid.
Cyril Ramaphosa, 65, a lawyer who first made his name in the 1980s by organising workers in the country's mining industry into its most powerful union, won the presidency of the governing African National Congress (ANC) at its five-yearly conference in Johannesburg.
This puts him in line to become South Africa's president, succeeding Nelson Mandela ‐ who served 27 years in prison, Thabo Mbeki ...former president of South Africa, succeeding Nelson Mandela. He now pops up periodically as a mediator when something catches fire in Africa... ‐ who fought apartheid from exile, and Jacob Zuma ‐ who served time both in prison and in exile.
Ramaphosa won 2440 votes from conference delegates, against 2261 votes for Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, immediate past chair of the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Commission and a cabinet minister under presidents Mandela and Mbeki.
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[RT] Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman says Tel Aviv will no longer allow a game of "ping-pong" rocket exchanges to take place with Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood.
"In the next few months all existing tunnels will be blown up and destroyed" by new technologies invented by Israel, Lieberman said during an interview with RTVI, adding that Israel is aiming to put an end to the "ping-pong" of rocket exchanges.
His comments come amid increased tensions between Israel and Paleostinians - who are supported by Hamas - after US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's official recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
According to Lieberman, Hamas is solely responsible for the escalating violence in the Gazoo Strip and argues that a large-scale attack from Hamas is inevitable, stating that "should Hamas be faced with the alternative of losing power or attacking Israel, without a doubt, Hamas will choose another conflict with Israel."
The defense minister also claims that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has been tacitly supporting Hamas, and that "we should revisit all our ties" with Ankara, to sever any dependence from Turkey and to discontinue a proposed gas project with Ankara which would give a "key to our whole gas pipeline" and Israel's energy security to Erdogan - a situation which would have "far-reaching consequences."
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Sulaimaniya (IraqiNews.com) Six people were wounded in Iraqi Kurdistan’s province of Sulaimaniya as protests flared Monday against delayed wages and poor services.
A medical source at the Sulaimaniya emergency hospital told Alghad Press that six people arrived suffering from suffocation with tear gas fired by police.
Thousands of Iraqi Kurds took to the streets against delay of salaries and lack of services in parts of the Kurdistan Region, Kurdish network NRTTV reported.
“Protests broke out in 13 cities in the Kurdistan Region on Monday against the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) austerity measures, delay of payments and lack of services”.
It added that protestors torched the offices of the ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), the opposition Change Movement (Gorran) and the Patriotic Union of the Kurdistan (PUK) in Piramagroon northwest of Sulaimani.
The Baghdad-based Iraqi government had vowed to send salaries of Kurdish public employees following a political crisis and a later military standoff that resulted from the referendum the autonomous Kudistan region held in September for secession from Iraq.
The Iraqi government had adopted penal measures against the Kurdish authorities following the poll, including a ban on financial transactions.
The issues of employees payments and the region’s share in the national budget had always been a subject of dispute between both governments.
[IsraelTimes] Saudi, Egyptian, and other Arab diplomats urge New Delhi to speak forcefully against US recognition of Israeli capital, but plea unlikely to prompt condemnation.
Minister of State for External Affairs MJ Akbar reiterated India’s statement, which only said that the country’s policy would be unaffected by the Trump declaration. "India’s position on Paleostine is independent and consistent. It is shaped by our views and interests, and not determined by any third country," the statement said.
Netanyahu is set to visit India in January, following the high-profile visit of Modi to Israel in July, when he spent three days being shown the country by Netanyahu, but didn’t go to Ramallah, the seat of the Paleostinian Authority government. It was the first-ever visit to Israel by an Indian prime minister.
Abbas visited India in May, meeting with Modi to discuss cooperation and strengthening ties.
[DAILYTIMES.PK] Legislators in the Upper House of parliament on Monday adopted a resolution urging the government to demand financial compensation from the US on account of lives lost and damages done to the properties of innocent citizens of Pakistain as a result of drone attacks inside the territorial limits of the country since 2000.
The Senators urged the government to send copies of the resolution adopted by the House to the UN General Assembly, NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... , EU, Commonwealth and Asian Parliamentary Assembly in order to highlight impact of drone attacks on the social, economic and psychological conditions of the victims.
Ruling PML-N Senator Javed Abbasi presented the resolution which was adopted unanimously.
In another resolution, the government was urged to lay all international conventions, treaties, covenants, commitments and agreements signed or ratified by the government of Pakistain before both parliament.
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[Breitbart] Bangladesh’s Dhaka Tribune reported Thursday that Akayed Ullah, the jihadist responsible for a failed suicide kaboom in New York’s Port Authority Bus Terminal, visited a Rohingya refugee camp during his last trip to the country to conduct charity work.
The Tribune cites Ullah’s mother-in-law, Mahfuja Akhter, as the source for the story tying Ullah to the Rohingya camp. Ullah last visited Bangladesh in September. According to Akhter, "He stayed in Cox’s Bazar for a day and distributed first aid medicines among the displaced Rohingyas in Kutupalong." She insisted that he refused to stay in a hotel "in order to save money to purchase more medicines for the helpless people."
The Rohingya are a majority-Moslem ethnic people from Burma. Human rights NGOs monitoring the situation estimate that hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled the country, following the launch of a nationwide campaign to eradicate them, and traveled to Bangladesh where many suffer in refugee camps with no sign of being able to return home in the near future.
The Dhaka Tribune notes that Bangladeshi counterterrorism officers confirmed that Ullah had visited the camp in question in October, but could not definitively say that he went alone and did not provide any details as to how he decided to make the trip or if anyone invited him.
He entered the country after being sponsored for an immigrant visa by an uncle.
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Is that what they're calling terrorist training camps now?
[Quartz] At least 6 people have been killed and scores more injured in a passenger train derailment near Tacoma, Washington. The Associated Press reports that an Amtrak train carrying 78 passengers derailed while traveling at more than 80 mph, sending several cars onto the busy Interstate 5 below.
The train was making its inaugural trip along a new route from Seattle, Washington to Portland, Oregon aiming to allow for higher speeds and faster service between cities. At least 50 people were sent to hospitals, more than a dozen with critical or serious injuries, the AP reported. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating.
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So, evidently the speed goes from highway speed+ to school zone speed for the curve. The engineer should have slowed down about a mile back, cause it's a train.
I think they do need one of these in California; make the legislature ride it.
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I wanna know what is the meaning of LABRAT KNATS? Is it mere coincidence that this graffiti shows up on that bridge?
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The tight bend appeared to be directly in front of the locomotive still on the tracks. Maybe he braked for the turn and due to a system failure the cars and/or locomotive behind didn’t, causing the train to jackknife.
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The tight bend appeared to be directly in front of the locomotive still on the tracks.
The train was southbound, had a front locomotive and a rear locomotive. The front locomotive derailed & fell onto I-5. The rear locomotive never derailed & was still on the tracks. NTSB in a TV interview stated they retrieved the event recorder from the rear locomotive & verified the train was going 80 mph when the derailment started. They haven't yet spoken to the engineer.
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So speed appears to be the problem rather than something on or done to the tracks.
Human error is always a strong possibility. I don't know anything about automated controls and signalling on rail systems, but given our current crop of enviro-anarchists, I have to wonder if there was a warning signal that was disabled or a control system tampered with.
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Wow, thanks Anguper. So you've seen the photo of the other engine on the tracks with a tighter curve beyond the direction it's pointing? The train managed to (almost) negotiate that at 80 mph?
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King5 also has animation of wreck. Train was running west parallel to I-5 before reaching a curve and overpass south bound.
Actual fatalities so far are _3_, not 6. But I’ve also heard/read that 2 trains cars may have more bodies—the cars are not secure so recovery has been delayed.
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#8 - signalling systems are nearly idiot-proof. The drivers - not so much. Engineers are supposed to know every curve and every speed restriction before the leave the terminal. Driving a passenger train while texting killed 25 in California in 2008.Chatsworth, 2008
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#3 I wanna know what is the meaning of LABRAT KNATS? Is it mere coincidence that this graffiti shows up on that bridge?
Googling around a bit suggests it has been there from some time, like a few years. Lots of curiosity about it.
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If there is Auto Train Stop on this route, the engineer wqasn't using it. Also, this was the FIRST run on a NEW route, pulled by a NEW engine, with notables aboard (most of whom got off a stop behind the wreck), so where was the Road Foreman of Engines who by tradition for such a run, would have been in the cab with the engineer?
[SOFREPNews] I just have got to say it, this may be one of the most interesting guests to ever come on the podcast. When it comes to taking part in CIA operations that have truly influenced the course of modern-day American history, and world history at large, few have the experience of Mr. Jack Devine. Starting his career with the Agency from the late 60’s and into the 90’s, Jack was there for major global events like Iran-Contra, the fall of Chile’s President, and the fight to push the Soviets out of Afghanistan. Jack was also a close personal friend of Charlie Wilson who he describes as a patriot, and labels the film “Charlie Wilson’s War” to be much more a work of fiction than most would have you believe.
We get Devine’s take on current events and figures like Edward Snowden, the investigation of former FBI director Robert Mueller, as well as the Iran nuclear deal and the dangers of a nuclear capable North Korea. Devine is currently the President of The Arkin Group, and his latest book is “Good Hunting: An American Spymaster’s Story.” You’ll hear the shift Jack has seen of former CIA veterans going public, as well as the scary trend of guys with phony credentials claiming CIA experience and being given major platforms in the media. Strap in, because you’re about to learn a whole lot from this man.
Set aside 1:26:19. The gentleman has a great deal to say.
#1
Some of the SOFREP episodes are very informative.
Some only confirm what you already knew.
As for a news organization, they have come a long way. This particular one was exceptional. If you have time to listen, it clears up lots of things that have been spoken of on the Burg.
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Excellent interview. A key takeaway may have been Devine's lament over the politicization at the Director levels of CIA/FBI, senior political appointments as it were.
With regard to his denial of agency involvement in the illicit duel-use of agency cargo aircraft in Central America and elsewhere, some seasoning may be required.
Scotto article dated 15 Dec 2017. Actual Devine interview not dated, but it's always important to note what is not discussed. Christopher Steele... not discussed. Bruce and Nellie Ohr would have been rich topical entries, but news on them probably broke post-interview.
[PRESSTV] Afghan officials say an assault claimed by the ISISTakfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terror group on an intelligence facility in the capital Kabul ended after police potted the attackers.
Kabul police front man Basir Mujahid said two copperswere maimed during an intense fighting, but there were no civilian casualties.
"The attack has ended. Two attackers were killed... only two police were maimed," the front man noted.
An unnamed source with the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS), however, said that at least three assailants were killed in the ensuing shootout.
"They were well hidden in buildings under construction. We went kaboom! their VBIED (vehicle-borne improvised bomb) and killed two or three of them," the source said.
Local residents and witnesses said that roads to the area had been closed and dozens of police and intelligence officers had blocked access to the public during the assault.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Paleostinian government slammed as "unacceptable" Monday a US veto of a draft UN resolution against President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
A front man for Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... said the veto was "unacceptable and threatens the stability of the international community because it disrespects it".
The 14 other countries on the Security Council voted in favor, but US Ambassador Nikki Haley ...Trump administration's ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems... exercised the American veto.
Nabil Abu Rudeina told AFP in Arabic that the support for the resolution, which included US allies La Belle France, Italia and Japan, "showed the (American) isolation. The international community must work now to protect the Paleostinian people."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu immediately thanked Haley for her stance.
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A veto can not be "unacceptable" without declaring yourself an outlaw to the system.
It can be "unapproved by you" but unacceptable is say you are denying the rules of the the system and don't accept the rules. That puts you in the wrong.
[PRESSTV] Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... says all US-backed Kurdish armed bully boyz are "traitors" to the Syrian nation, ramping up the rhetoric particularly against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), which are mainly active in northeastern areas of the Arab country through receiving vital substantial air and armament support from Washington.
The Syrian leader made the remarks in a meeting with a high-profile official and economic delegation from Russia, led by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Monday, Syria’s official news agency, SANA, reported.
"When we talk about those referred to as 'the Kurds', they are in fact not just Kurds. All those who work for a foreign country, mainly those under American command... are traitors" regardless of their names, Assad said.
The YPG is the main part of a larger coalition of fighters ‐ the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) ‐ which was engaged in operations aimed at liberating Raqqah, the former de facto capital of the ISISTakfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group in the war-torn country. Washington considers the SDF, which also includes Arab Death Eaters, as its main proxy force fighting on the ground in Syria.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Lebanese Uber driver with a criminal record has confessed to killing a British woman who worked at the British Embassy in Beirut, a Lebanese security source said on Monday.
The security source said preliminary investigations into the murder of Rebecca Dykes showed the motive was purely criminal, not political, and that the suspect had immediately confessed to the crime, which took place early on Saturday.
A front man for Uber said in an email: "We are horrified by this senseless act of violence. Our hearts are with the victim and her family. We are working with authorities to assist their investigation in any way we can."
The incident is the latest to highlight the issue of safety at Uber, which was stripped of its operating licence in London in September over concerns about its approach to reporting serious criminal offences and background checks on drivers.
London police complained in April that Uber was either not disclosing, or taking too long to report, serious crimes including sexual assaults and this put the public at risk. The firm’s boss has promised to make things right in the British capital.
And globally, the app has suffered a series of scandals in 2017 as a stream of executives left amid controversies involving allegations of sexual harassment and issues surrounding data privacy and business practices.
The company, valued at around $70 billion with investors including Goldman Sachs, has faced bans and protests in countries around the world as it disrupts traditional players who have accused it of cutting corners on safety.
A second security bigshot in Leb said the suspect was aged 41 and had been locked away Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! on drug-related charges in the period 2015-17.
Leb’s state news agency NNA said the suspect had picked Dykes up in his taxi in Beirut’s Gemmayzeh district on Friday evening before assaulting and killing her. Police traced his car through surveillance cameras on the highway, it said.
Lebanese police only said they had arrested a suspect and that it was not a political crime.
Dykes’ body was found strangled by a main highway outside Beirut, a security source said on Sunday. She worked at the British Embassy for the Department for International Development, her LinkedIn page said.
"The whole embassy is deeply shocked, saddened by this news," British ambassador to Leb Hugo Shorter said on Sunday.
"We are devastated by the loss of our beloved Rebecca," Dykes’ family said in a statement issued by Britannia’s Foreign Office. "We are doing all we can to understand what happened."
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‘Miriam' is not an exotic name in German speaking countries.
No? When we lived there in the 1990s, we were assumed to be Jewish because the trailing daughters are named Sarah and Rachel. The entire village was talking about it, I was told later, once they’d got to know me and become proud of how well they’d taught me to speak German. They were right to be proud, too.
The more sophisticated of Mr. Wife’s colleagues made the same assumption.
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Rachel would be more likely to be perceived as a Jewish name in Germany. However the spelling variation Rahel is not an uncommon name in Switzerland.
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...It's appearing now that the train may well have been traveling almost three times as fast as the limit for that part of the track, but as always let's wait for the NTSB to do their thing.
On the other hand, it's amazing how fast those little Antifa angels scrubbed their website when they thought they might actually get nailed for this.
Mike
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[PRESSTV] Ottoman Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 106 people, believed to have worked as matchmakers for the so-called Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), which is accused by Ankara of orchestrating last year’s failed military coup, Istanbul police say.
According a front man for the Istanbul police on Monday, 62 of the suspects had been nabbed Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! in a counter-terrorism operation centered in Istanbul but spread over 20 other provinces in the Anatolian country.
He further said that further operations to locate the remaining 44 suspects were ongoing, adding that they were "marriage officials" for supporters of the US-based opposition holy manFethullah Gülen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... , who Ankara says was behind the botched mid-July 2016 putsch.
Gulen has since strongly rejected any involvement in the coup attempt against Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... , however, Ankara labeled his transnational religious and social movement, Gulen Hareketi, as a terror organization, the so-called FETO. The Ottoman Turkish government has so far submitted a total of seven requests to US officials concerning the extradition of the Pennsylvania-based figure.
The police front man further said that the suspects had allegedly helped set up arranged marriages for some of Gulen’s followers. Ottoman Turkish authorities claim that the Gulen network closely monitored the personal and professional lives of some followers, including their education, career and marriages.
Ottoman Turkish police and the country’s intelligence officials managed to identify the suspects via using conversations traced on ByLock, an encrypted messaging application that was allegedly used by Gulen’s supporters for communication, the police official said.
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#1
And the fallout from the Reichstag fire continues.
Muslim Couple Jailed Over Wedding Knife Terror Plot
14 December
[Breitbart] A Muslim couple has been jailed for plotting terror attacks, including the murder of right-wing journalist and critic of Islam Katie Hopkins.
Ummar Mirza and his wife Madihah Taheer used a life-like dummy and combat knife to train for the attacks and exchanged murderous fantasies on an encrypted messaging app. Mr. Mirza, 21, was jailed for 16 years for preparing acts of terrorism, while Mrs. Taheer, 22, was sentenced to 10 years, the Birmingham Mail reports.
Mr. Mirza’s sister Zainub, who was part of the same terror cell and exchanged Islamist material with the couple, was also jailed for 30 months.
...and we know the odds that is actually true, dear Reader...
stayed under the coach when it boarded a ferry and then as it was driven 140 miles from Dover to Chelmondiston Church of England Primary School in Ipswich
[IsraelTimes] Planes target training camp in the northern Strip, destroying six facilities belonging to the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terrorist organization including buildings and 'terror infrastructure'
Israel carried out a series of Arclight airstrikes against Hamas targets in Gazoo overnight Sunday-Monday, the army said, in retaliation for a volley of rockets fired at Israel from the Paleostinian enclave.
In a statement, the IDF spokesperson said Israeli planes targeted a training camp in the northern Gazoo Strip, destroying six separate facilities belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization including buildings and "terror infrastructure."
The army "will not allow attacks or attempted attacks on citizens," the statement said.
Earlier, the army confirmed that three two rockets were launched from the Gazoo Strip Sunday night, two striking the Hof Ashkelon region inside Israel and a third falling withing the Hamas-controlled territory.
Police said that one rocket hit inside an Israeli community, and the other struck an open field nearby, causing neither damage nor injury.
The rocket fire came two days after an attack in which a missile was fired at Israel, but fell short and struck a house belonging to an Egyptian family in the northern Gazoo city of Beit Hanoun, according to the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, which acts as Israel’s military liaison to the Paleostinians. "Once again, the terror groups launch rockets at the residents of Gazoo," COGAT said.
A Hadashot news report said the rocket damaged the home of the brother of a senior Hamas official, Mushir al-Masri.
*Snicker.*
On Wednesday, a rocket fired at Israel from Gazoo also fell inside the Paleostinian territory and hit a public school, damaging a classroom, Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, who heads COGAT, said at the time.
Once the rockets go up
Who cares where they come down,
That’s not my department
Said Wernher von Braun.
The gentleman is 61, so he could have just announced that he was retiring, despite apparently recently signing a new contract. But with all the abuse accusations flying around, I suppose it is better to be known as an addict than assumed to be a vicious pervert.
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.
[Free Beacon] Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper referred to President Donald Trump on Monday as an intelligence "asset" for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
[Independent] Meet the woman who can smell Parkinson’s disease.
[Althouse] 
[AlAhram] Egypt’s Ministry of Interior said on Monday that security forces have raided several hideouts of terrorist cells that were planning to carry out a series of attacks against state institutions and Christian places of worship in three governorates, with five 
[MSN] A man cops are calling "Criminal Santa" had to call 911 when he reportedly found himself trapped in a California business's chimney this week.
Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) Over 35,000 Iraqi 
[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] Austria’s new government has unveiled plans for financial "sanctions" on im
[THEHILL] Alex Kozinski, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, resigned Monday in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations, The Washington Post reported.
[RT] In an effort to get 
[RT] Police in the Swedish city of Malmo have retracted advice given to women in the city following the brutal gang-rape of a 17-year-old girl. The force advised women not to go out alone after dark following the vicious attack.![]("https://i.pinimg.com/236x/41/cd/0f/41cd0fab558720cc8cbae2c96b73ce6d.jpg")
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
[DailyMail] A video circulating on extremist sites purports to be a message from dedicated jihadis, although ISIS has not expanded its official media output to the central African country.
[UPI] Chinese regional experts have warned that an outbreak of war on the Korean Peninsula looks likelier than ever, despite Seoul and Beijing's agreement last week that such a conflict cannot be tolerated.
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
Sulaimaniya (IraqiNews.com) Six people were wounded in Iraqi Kurdistan’s province of Sulaimaniya as protests flared Monday against delayed wages and poor services.
[IsraelTimes] Saudi, Egyptian, and other Arab diplomats urge New Delhi to speak forcefully against US recognition of Israeli capital, but plea unlikely to prompt condemnation.
[Breitbart] Bangladesh’s Dhaka Tribune reported Thursday that 
[Quartz] At least 6 people have been killed and scores more injured in a passenger train derailment near Tacoma, Washington. The Associated Press reports that an Amtrak train carrying 78 passengers derailed while traveling at more than 80 mph, sending several cars onto the busy Interstate 5 below.
[SOFREPNews] I just have got to say it, this may be one of the most interesting guests to ever come on the podcast. When it comes to taking part in CIA operations that have truly influenced the course of modern-day American history, and world history at large, few have the experience of Mr. Jack Devine. Starting his career with the Agency from the late 60’s and into the 90’s, Jack was there for major global events like Iran-Contra, the fall of Chile’s President, and the fight to push the Soviets out of Afghanistan. Jack was also a close personal friend of Charlie Wilson who he describes as a patriot, and labels the film “Charlie Wilson’s War” to be much more a work of fiction than most would have you believe.
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
...Trump administration's ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems...
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... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world...
