[WSJ] Well, that was bizarre. We’re referring to the fiasco Tuesday of what was supposed to be the sentencing of Michael Flynn. The sentencing was postponed until next year, but not before federal Judge Emmet Sullivan damaged his own reputation with an extraordinary public attack on the former national security adviser for a crime he’s not been charged with or admitted to.
Mr. Flynn pleaded guilty a year ago to a single count of lying to the FBI. Yet after being assured that the former three-star general is sticking with his plea, Judge Sullivan unloaded on the defendant over his supposed violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA.
"All along, you were an unregistered agent of a foreign country while serving as the National Security Adviser to the President of the United States. That undermines everything this flag over here stands for. Arguably you sold your country out," said the judge. He also used the words "treason" and "treasonous."
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[Daily Caller] There is an extensive Taliban infrastructure and support network in Pakistan along its border with Afghanistan, which includes education, recruiting, training, financing and command and control centers.
In these areas, the Taliban often operate freely alongside the Pakistani military and with the support of Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence agency, the ISI.
The following information was supplied by on-the-ground sources but represents only a relatively small portion of the assistance being provided to the Taliban by Pakistan.
Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan borders Afghanistan for hundreds of miles, much of it dotted with Taliban safe havens and staging areas for attacks in Afghanistan.
Quetta, the capital of Balochistan, is the home of the Taliban’s Quetta Shura, a command and control center for operations primarily in southeastern Afghanistan. The Taliban are concentrated in the Pashtun Abad and Gulistan Town sections of Quetta, through which the Pakistani military restricts civilian movement, but provides Taliban access to Cantonment, a Pakistani Army base adjacent to Pashtun Abad and Gulistan.
Wounded Taliban are known to be treated in Quetta’s medical clinics, some fighters reportedly receiving payments from the Pakistani government.
On the main highway connecting Quetta to Afghanistan, Taliban are often seen riding motorcycles or in four-by-four trucks carrying their AK-47 rifles. In Kuchlak, just north of Quetta, there are SUVs without license plates belonging to ISI officers, who monitor and protect Taliban movements.
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Six pious Pak pundits of Luton
Were all much inclined to disputing,
One shouting, one hooting,
One raping, one looting,
One bombing, one stabbing and shooting!
PM Teresa May's lack of leadership brings the UK to this.
[Gcaptain] The British government said on Tuesday it would implement plans for a no-deal Brexit in full and begin telling businesses and citizens to prepare for the risk of leaving the European Union without an agreement.
Those plans include setting aside space on ferries to ensure a regular flow of medical supplies and keeping 3,500 armed forces personnel ready to support the government with its contingency plans.
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The Publishing Industry™ is seeing people "going Indie" and bypassing them on the Internet. The Media™ is feeling the same existential pressure: Suppose you had something to says and no one cares to listen?
[National Review] A committee of Catholic Church leaders and sexual-abuse experts has chastised Catholic bishops worldwide to take responsibility for the Church’s sex-abuse crisis and to speak personally to victims in their areas ‐ or risk losing the Church’s credibility.
"Absent a comprehensive and communal response, not only will we fail to bring healing to victim survivors, but the very credibility of the Church to carry on the mission of Christ will be in jeopardy throughout the world," wrote the steering committee of the Vatican’s upcoming February conference on the Church’s sex-abuse epidemic, in a letter to attendees.
The committee is comprised of cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago, cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai, archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta, the Vatican’s top sex-abuse investigator, and father Hans Zollner, an abuse expert in Rome.
"But each of us needs to own this challenge, coming together in solidarity, humility, and penitence to repair the damage done, sharing a common commitment to transparency, and holding everyone in the Church accountable," they wrote.
"The first step must be acknowledging the truth of what has happened," the committee warned the bishops and other Church leaders.
Pope Francis has called an unusual conference of Church leaders at the Vatican from February 21 to 24 that will address the abuse crisis. The conference will request the presence of the leaders of 110 national Catholic bishops’ conferences as well as many abuse experts and heads of religious orders.
[Political Insider] Fox News anchor Shepard Smith scoffed at comparisons between the FBI’s treatment of Hillary Clinton with their treatment of former Trump National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn.
And he did so by disparaging the reporting of one of the network’s most respected investigative journalists, Catherine Herridge.
Recent reports have suggested Flynn was coerced into forgoing a lawyer during his interview with the FBI, while agents sought to make him relaxed during the process in the hopes of getting him to lie. Flynn was unaware that he was under official review, did not have counsel present, and thought he was just shooting the breeze with fellow lawmen. The interview eventually led to a guilty plea on one count of making false statements.
The revelations have led to comparisons of Clinton’s interview, in which the FBI allowed her to have multiple lawyers and aides present to help defend herself and was conducted in a manner that former Director James Comey described as "unusual."
Herridge noted in a segment with Shep that critics have made the comparisons between the two interviews and the host responded by acting like a child, rolling his eyes, interrupting Herridge’s report, and generally speaking like an ignorant, hardcore fan of the former First Lady.
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So glad I don't pay for FauxNews and therefor don't contribute to Sheppy, Bret or Chris' salaries.
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...well, if you buy any products advertised there on, you are. Far more fractionally than cable or satellite subscriptions, but 'no advertisers, no show'. The Left is working that angle for you right now.
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Shep has always been a Dem-backing Drama Queen. He's just also gay
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#3 I don't have a cable bundle and I don't pay for or watch any of the cable or broadcast news networks. I don't even listen to the audio feed for it on SiriusXM in my car. Real Jazz is better for my blood pressure...
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And, yeah, I get the advertised product angle, but I buy what I buy and I'm not taking the time to see who advertises on those networks. It's pretty much impossible to be "pure" in that regard, but like religious purity (looking at you, muzzez) and political purity, the value of that sort of "purity" is suspect to say the least.
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FoxNews ads are almost all scams or disgusting drugs that can kill you a billion ways.
"Please old feeble person do a reverse mortgage with us and enjoy your old age while we bring in appraisers to re-appraise your home after the mortgage at a low value and then steal your home."
"Please by silver/gold/Pt now its a great investment - neglecting to say that there is sales tax and maybe an assay cost when you sell."
"Geico - we are lizards from Omaha"
"P... - with the fat weird lady .. we will never let on that Soros owns our insurance company"
"look at all the icky plumbing pipes we put in bodies for our ads. Use our prescription gook that can kill you a million ways to avoid farting from your poor eating habits."
... and so on
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[Real Clear Politics] Historian Victor Davis Hanson said there has been no consequences for the wrongdoing by elites in society and warned that republics and successful states fall apart when the elites fall out of touch with the people.
"We have a whole bunch... here at home, that feel they can dictate to people and they're never subject to the ramifications of their own ideology and policy," he said of elites. "And it's like the emperor has no clothes and then they're surprised that Trump won or surprised that people are rioting in Paris. What did they think was going to happen?"
"We know historically, Tucker, when you have successful systems like ours or the Greek city-state of the fourth century or Rome in the fifth century A.D. or the Byzantines in the fifthteenth century or the ancient regime in Rome. Why do they fall apart? They fall apart because an elite no longer warrants the respect they think that they deserve because they are out of touch with the people," Hanson explained on Tuesday's Tucker Carlson Tonight.
Hanson said there is an "inequality" in the law where the elites, an "array of people who have not told the truth," haven't faced criminal charges. He rattled off names like former FBI director James Comey, former DNI James Clapper, former CIA director John Brennan, former FBI agent Andrew McCabe, and others.
It will be that they can do whatever they want with no consequence -- which means that the next time they have full power, things will be far worse than before.
[Free Beacon] The Connecticut Communist Party honored a pair of union organizers, including an official who nearly captured the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor, at its annual awards ceremony.
The party presented the People's World Amistad Awards to Eva Bermúdez Zimmerman in recognition of her upstart challenge against establishment Democrat, as well as longtime union official Shellye Davis. The party described the honorees as "fierce warriors in the forefront demanding workers' and immigrant rights, social justice, peace and equality for a better and sustainable world" in an announcement. The award ceremony was held at a Methodist Church in New Haven on Dec. 8 to mark the 99th anniversary of the Communist Party USA.
Bermúdez Zimmerman made headlines in 2018 when she launched a long shot campaign to challenge Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ned Lamont's lieutenant governor, former Connecticut secretary of state Susan Bysiewicz. Bermúdez Zimmerman, who is married to Connecticut SEIU state council associate director Stacey Zimmerman, took a leave of absence from her work as organizing director of the SEIU Local 2001 for the campaign. Her insurgent run garnered intense media interest as the state's first Puerto Rican candidate for lieutenant governor and was hailed as a "fresh face" in Connecticut's political scene. Despite being out fundraised by Bysiewicz, Zimmerman managed to capture 37 percent of votes in the the August Democratic primary. Lamont and Bysiewicz narrowly won the November election.
The state party also recognized the efforts of Shellye Davis, president of the AFL-CIO affiliated Greater Hartford Central Labor Coalition and a longtime official with the American Federation of Teachers, was also honored for her long history of labor activism. The announcement hailed her work as "leader for the rights of public sector union members and the people they serve, especially the youth."
[Wash Times] President Trump declared Sunday that "at the request of many," he plans to review the murder charges against Maj. Matt Golsteyn.
"He could face the death penalty from our own government after he admitted to killing a Terrorist bomb maker while overseas," Mr. Trump tweeted, calling the soldier a "U.S. Military hero."
On Friday, Army Lt. Col. Loren Bymer announced that the officer would be charged after killing an alleged Afghan bomb-maker.
Maj. Golsteyn admitted in a 2011 job interview with the CIA that he shot and killed the man, who be believed was responsible for killing two Marines in an explosion.
The Army Criminal Investigative Division never found any evidence or corroborating witnesses but based their conclusions off of his admission to the CIA.
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I believe it would have been better for Pres. Trump to have said nothing and let the UCMJ process take it's course. If there is to be one, a pardon can come at any point.
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Disagree. Trump knows this is a question of justice, and has rightfully put the case under scrutiny.
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I agree with regular joe. the military lawyers already failed by bringing him up on charges. This need to be dropped immediately.
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Trump is not only the president, he is the commander in chief. He has every right to review any charges against troops, active or otherwise.
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It's a signal. The 'old' team is still in place. Likely to do the SJW game on the man. The 'Chief' just alerted the old team that this is being watched carefully. He can screw with someone's future just like they can screw with Golsteyn's.
As one of my old seniors said - "You don't want my attention."
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Comments 2 thru 5 all accurate. Talking to Bret Baier (or anyone else) about whom you shot in theater.... not very smart. Going on the BOX at CIA and telling shooting stories.... not very smart either. The questions are yes/no if I remember correctly.
I just have a bad feeling about this dude, and his teevee screamer wife.
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This guy is kind of high-ranking for this. Usually, the military uses lower ranking people when they feel it necessary to demonstrate their affinity with the NYT editorial page.
Had a relation, along with four buddies, accused of causing a replacement to commit suicide. Only when the last of five courts martial was in process did it come out that the prosecution was withholding the fact that the kid got to theater with a suicide watch note in his file. But the Army was going to show they Took This Seriously.
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A Texas Ranger took it upon himself to ride across the US/Mexican border and apprehend a Mexican who had earlier cross over to the US side and shot a US citizen as he was coming out of the front door of a church.
The Ranger was reprimanded for causing an "international incident" and I believe he was fired. Fortunately the Mexican was not only not returned but was tried and hung. The ranger went on to become a Sheriff.
The Ranger viewed his authoritative pawers differently than his high command but was an excellent and fearless lawman.
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[Guardian] Jalil Muntaqim, a former Black Panther who has been in prison for 47 years, has been told he must spend at least another 15 months behind bars having been denied release for the ninth time by a New York state parole board.
The three-member parole panel voted this week by two-to-one to keep Muntaqim, aka Anthony Bottom, incarcerated in the maximum security Sullivan correctional facility in upstate New York. His release had been vociferously opposed by the New York city police unions and by the widow of one of the two police officers he was convicted of murdering in 1971.
Muntaqim’s ninth denial since he became eligible for parole in 1998 was in stark contrast to the release in April of his fellow Black Liberation Army member and accomplice, Herman Bell. At his parole hearing, Bell had expressed revulsion for the 1971 killings, saying: "There was nothing political about the act, as much as I thought at the time. It was murder and horribly wrong."
The Guardian in July profiled Muntaqim’s battle to get out of prison almost half a century after he was arrested for the murders of the two police officers, Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones, in a shooting in Harlem. The officers had been drawn to the spot for what they thought was a domestic dispute but were then ambushed.
[Red State] Some people are nuts. And some nuts prove that they’re nuts, while thinking they’re in actuality changing the world. That’s how we know they’re nuts: They’re completely clueless to the fact that what they’re doing comes across as insane. It’s like that (paraphrased) line from Casa Mi Padre:
"If you were smart, you’d know how stupid you are."
As you may remember, on the 4th of July, a huge nut climbed the Statue of Liberty. In her mind, she was really doing something cool: She was teaching the world that President Trump shouldn’t keep "children in cages." This was, ideologically, vastly ignorant. The country had first responded with horror to photos of kids in cages which were actually staged (here and here). Furthermore, the practice of family separation was the edict of interpreted law, per the left-wing 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (here).
But don’t confuse her with the facts. And don’t confuse her with the acquitted ‐ 44-year-old Therese Okoumou was convicted Monday in a New York courtroom.
She was brought up on misdemeanor charges, but she faces up to 18 months in prison.
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a 44-year-old immigrant from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
According to court records, she’s a Congolese immigrant who once filed a complaint with the New York City Commission on Human Rights, seeking a judicial review and reversal of a “determination” it made regarding alleged incidents of abuse that Okoumou suffered at the hands of a social services agency on Staten Island where she worked.
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Specifically, Okoumou claimed that in 2005, she was treated “in a demeaning manner” by her bosses and told that she would be fired “for complaining of discrimination.” It’s unclear why her complaint was tossed out.
In 2011, Okoumou made headlines after she was hit with an astounding 60 violations for illegally posting ads for her services as a personal trainer.
The Department of Sanitation slapped her with $4,500 in fines that year after she spent five hours one Sunday posting the fliers on Manhattan utility poles.
In 2017, she was arrested and charged with obstructing governmental administration, unlawful assembly and trespassing during a demonstration at the Department of Labor building on Varick Street. She had allegedly covered her mouth with tape and refused to respond to police demands.
On Wednesday, Okoumou told investigators she was part of a group protest organized by Rise and Resist NYC. The activists unfurled a banner on Liberty Island less than an hour before her climb that read: “ABOLISH ICE.”
Organizers initially tried to distance themselves from Okoumou’s Statue of Liberty stunt — saying she had “no connection” with their cause — but later admitted that she was part of the group.
Members described her on social media as a “total bad ass.”
“She’s very dedicated to the resistance generally, but specifically to the issues surrounding immigration and the treatment immigrants have been receiving from ICE and Customs and Border Control,” explained Jay Walker, a Rise and Resist activist. “She’s been an active member for about four or five months.”
Ship her ass back
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Waitaminit! If you abolish ice won't that make all drinks warm and contribute to global worming? Asking for a friend.
[Wash Examiner] Despite our political divisions, here’s a sentiment most Americans can agree on: "You can take my bacon from my cold, dead hands."
Our love affair with the succulent strips has seen everything from bacon lip-gloss to bacon-flavored vodka. We’ve long enjoyed the stuff ‐ pork belly futures were first traded on the Chicago Exchange in 1961.
Unfortunately, the self-anointed "food police," who think Santa should be having water and salad instead of milk and cookies ‐ think bacon is at the center of a public health crisis. They have a solution: Tax it.
And not just bacon, but all meat.
This fall, Oxford researchers suggested taxing beef, bacon, sausage, and other meats. Their justification is on very shaky public health grounds. In short, they claim that meat is bad for people, and therefore the government should tax it. It’s the latest version of the "sin tax."
In our own time, we have seen soft drinks, fruit juice, plastic bags, and even straws similarly targeted by like-minded prohibitionists. Considering the growth, these taxes and their proponents aiming to alter the American lifestyle will clearly not be constrained by a strategy of appeasement.
It’s shocking that this needs to be said, but there are a number of downsides to taxing an entire food group. Chief among them are public health concerns, especially for the poorest among us. Meat is a great source of protein, vitamins, and minerals. Affordable meat helps ensure a diet with sufficient protein for millions of Americans at or near the poverty line, to say nothing of the rest of us.
Meat is a perfectly natural part of the human diet ‐ scientists believe eating meat is what allowed human brains to evolve ‐ and the government recommends meat as a protein source. (The same isn’t true for traditional targets of "sin taxes," such as cigarettes.)
A meat tax, much like a soda tax, would ultimately be regressive and disproportionately harm the poorest among us. Low and middle-income Americans spend roughly half their income on consumption sales taxes, while upper income Americans spend only about 0.8 percent of their income on those same taxes.
In fact, it has an impact on the economy that advocates may not anticipate. When Philadelphia enacted its soda tax, 1,200 people lost their jobs. Meanwhile, Philadelphians did not stop drinking soda but bought from surrounding cities to escape the high tax.
All things considered, it’s hard to view a meat tax as anything more than a way to punish the poor, in terms of nutrition, quality of life, and expenses.
Governments have no business telling us what to eat. It’s up to us to make the best decisions about our diets. While the vegans over at PETA and the Humane Society of the United States would surely be pleased by the nanny state increasing the cost of meat, these same people would likely drool at the idea of altering the packaging of meat, much like has been done with cigarette boxes.
Instead of descending down the rabbit hole of restricting consumer choice based on what the government (or Oxford researchers) think is "good" or "bad," here’s a radical idea: Let people make their own choices at the grocery store without government placing its thumb on the scales and trying to unduly and improperly influence our choices.
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Prohibition worked so well?
How many of these people believe at the very same time: "Ban Tobacco! Ban Meat! Legalize Marijuana! Legalize Drugs!" The inherent conflict is dizzying...
[Wash Examiner] The Nation of Islam and its leaders have received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the U.S. government since 2008 to teach religious study programs for federal prison inmates, according to records reviewed by the Washington Examiner.
A black nationalist group led by Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam preaches that white people are "blue-eyed devils" and Jews are "the synagogue of Satan." Its leaders have received at least $364,500 in contracts and awards from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons and the Department of Justice between fiscal 2008 and fiscal 2019.
The funding was designed to provide "Nation of Islam religious services," "Nation of Islam spiritual guide services," "Nation of Islam study services," and other related programming led by the organization’s leaders, according to Bureau of Prison records. The Nation of Islam has been labeled a hate group by the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
New York Republican Peter King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, told the Washington Examiner the funding was "beyond the pale."
He said: "Categorically, no group or entity or individual associated any way with Farrakhan or the Nation of Islam should receive any federal funding. What Farrakhan preaches is hatred and anti-Semitism and racism, and to use any federal money for any group that’s he’s involved with that do any type of teaching or proselytizing is just wrong."
Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right, called the funding "really outrageous and remarkable." He noted that a court ruling in 2003 prohibited federal prisons from banning Nation of Islam reading materials on First Amendment grounds. But he said this ruling doesn’t require the U.S. government to provide money to the organization.
[DW] The right-wing activist had urged people to arm themselves against migrants colonists. A judge said he had used used racist sentiment to help sell the illegal weapons.
A German court on Tuesday sentenced a far-right activist to prison for the illegal sale of 167 weapons on an anti-immigrant website.
Mario R., whose last name was not given in line with German privacy laws, was sentenced to two years and 10 months in prison and had €99,100 ($112,287) confiscated for illicit trafficking in firearms.
The 35-year-old German national ran a website called "Migrantenschreck," which roughly translates as "Scourge of Moslem colonists Migrants." The website urged people to "arm themselves against refugees."
The portal sold gas-powered pistols that fire high-velocity rubber bullets, crossbows, rubber ammunition and similar weapons. It also featured a ticker on sensationalist anti-immigrant stories.
On the website, men in tutorial videos were seen using the weapons to destroy cardboard cutouts of migrants colonists and leading German politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslems .. "Protect yourself and your family," proclaimed the now-defunct site.
According to the indictment, Mario R. sold the guns from Hungary to buyers in Germany between May and November 2016. The weapons were legal in Hungary but required a permit in Germany.
Mario R. admitted to the crime, but maintained that he was not aware of German law. He can still appeal the verdict and was allowed to leave the court so long as he reports to police.
The judge said that the defendant had used racist sentiments "in a particularly insidious way."
He was tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! in Budapest in 2016 on a European arrest warrant.
[DW] Germany is forcing people displaced by the Syrian war to get documents and hand over money at Syrian consulates loyal to Bashir al-Assad. Refugee advocates say this is inhumane and supports the brutal Assad regime.
Of the hundreds of thousands of displaced Syrians who have come to Germany since 2014, many enjoy only "subsidiary protection" and not full refugee status. Among other things, this means that they are dependent on embassies loyal to the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... Under German law, people with various levels of political asylum or similar protection in Germany have to actively cooperate in procuring identity documentation, including passports. And more and more Syrians are being granted only subsidiary rather than full refugee status. Whereas 99.7 percent of Syrians coming to Germany in 2015 were classed as full refugees, last year only 38.2 percent were ‐ with 61 percent enjoying only subsidiary protection.
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[DW] Five people died in the Strasbourg attack. Among them was a Polish musician who had spoken out in favor of a Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... without borders. Many people view him as a hero, others have criticized his liberal views on migration.
It happened on December 11, in the middle of the Christmas season in downtown Strasbourg. The gunman opened fire and, according to French Sherlocks, yelled out "holy shit! Allahu akbar" ("God is great" in Arabic). Polish musician, journalist and European Parliament tour guide Barto Pedro Orent-Niedzielski stood together with several friends, among them Italian journalist Antonio Megalizzi, in front of the music club Les Savons d'Helene, near the Christmas market.
MAJOR BLOODBATH PREVENTED
A sheepdog, not a sheep.
According to Polish media, citing witness accounts, the two men stepped into the way of the armed shooter and blocked the door to the club. This act of heroism may have prevented a much greater bloodbath. Both of the men were maimed in the attack and died a few days later.
"Barto Pedro Orent-Niedzielski, a French-Polish journalist who was injured in Strasbourg together with Antonio Megalizzi, is no longer alive. Rest in peace. We are fighting terrorism until victory!" wrote Antonio Tajani, president of the European Parliament, on Twitter when he learned of Orent-Niedzielski's death.
"Our brother Barto Pedro Orent-Niedzielski has just left us. I thank you for the love and strength you gave him," wrote Jakub Niedzielski, brother of the late musician, on Facebook.
APPRECIATION IN THE HOMELAND
Polish President Andrzej Duda, a former MEP who remembered Orent-Niedzielski from his time in the European Parliament, also expressed his shock on Twitter: "He was fatally injured when he saved the lives of the other people."
The country's mrime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, has promised the victim's family a life-long state pension. "The Pole has paid with his life for the lives of other people," he said.
Orent-Niedzielski, originally from Katowice in the south of Poland, had lived in Strasbourg for 20 years. He emigrated from Poland with his mother at the age of 16, but in recent years he regularly visited his home town.
THE CONVINCED EUROPEAN
His friends, who called him Bartek, spoke of his great enthusiasm for the idea of an open Europe. He was also committed to supporting the LGBT movement, Jewish culture and solidarity with the Paleostinian people. Orent-Niedzielski's plan was to open a linguistic cafe in Strasbourg where people of different languages and cultures could meet.
"Always full of ideas, an energy volcano, always with a smile on his face," recalls Dariusz Zalega from Katowice. "When we talked about the terrorist attack in Gay Paree in 2015, he didn't look for the culprits where fanatics, racists and know-it-alls were looking for them. He believed responsibility laid with those who cause wars, sell arms and spread hatred. His message was: 'Everyone is my brother.'"
A little over a year before his death, in July 2017, Orent-Niedzielski wrote enthusiastically on Facebook about his new job as a tour guide at the European Parliament. While working for Europhonica, a European Parliament-focused radio station, he tried to convince his listeners of the advantages of a multicultural continent.
CRITICISM OF PRO-EUROPEAN ATTITUDE
Lorenzo Consoli, who works in Strasbourg as a correspondent for the Italian news agency Aksanews, also spoke about Orent-Niedzielski and his Italian colleague Antonio Megalizza in a journalist briefing at the European Parliament.
The two had had the ability "to talk for hours on end about all sorts of European issues. Bartek wanted to bring every injustice to light and Antonio was always looking for concrete solutions to problems," Consoli said.
But the two have also been criticized posthumously for their pro-European attitude, Consoli told DW.
"There are some bad comments claiming that such terrorist attacks would not have taken place if Europe had not kept its doors so open," he said.
The 29-year-old perpetrator of the attack, Cherif Chekatt, was born in Strasbourg. He was rubbed out by police after a two-day, large-scale manhunt.
Poor Bekir adored his Miss Öz!
"He'd twirl his mustaches and curse,
And though he's past thirty,
Twas pure and not dirty,
By Allah!" Her killer concurs.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Janbaz Tarin, 21, who stabbed his former Syrian wife Raneem Oudeh and her mother Khaola Saleem, was sentenced to a minimum of 32 years in prison by a Birmingham court on Monday, according to a report by The Guardian.
Tarin stabbed Raneem and her mother Khaola, who had tried to defend and protect her daughter, to death in Solihull on August 27.
Tarin appears to be from Afghanistan, judging by his name and his Facebook account, which contains some posts in the Pashtun language.
During the trial, it was revealed that Raneem had left her husband Tarin after she learnt he was married to another woman with whom he had several children with in Afghanistan.
A video the night of the crime shows Tarin stalking Raneem and her mother and following them to a shisha lounge where they engaged in a verbal brawl that triggered the mother to slap him.
Raneem contacted the police but she and her mother left before the patrol arrived.
Tarin then followed them home and stabbed them both to death outside their home.
Police tossed in the clink Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! him three days later. During his trial on Monday, Tarin pleaded guilty to the double murder.
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Janbaz Tarin, 21 & he was married to another woman with whom he had several children with in Afghanistan.
Another of those bearded and balding child refugees.
[ALMASDARNEWS] 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... said on Monday that 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... had responded positively to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s plans to launch an offensive on the eastern side of the Euphrates River.
When asked on Tuesday whether the Ottoman Turkish president had made a misstatement, State Department Deputy Spokesperson Robert Palladino said, "Yes." The United States is focused on reforming the Syrian government and "the international process that gives everyone a chance to live in Syria," Palladino said.
Last Wednesday, Erdogan announced that the Ottoman Turkish army was ready to start an offensive against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) on the Euphrates east bank at the earliest opportunity.
Turkey has been claiming that the YPG’s presence near its border threatened its national security.
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[NYPOST] Adult film star Stormy Daniels on Tuesday revealed that she will be featured in the next issue of Playboy. Playboy's still around?
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, announced the news on social media, saying the revelation was something she was "beyond excited and honored to share."
"I am in the new issue of Playboy (Winter 2019 Freedom of Expression) that hits newsstands this week. This is such a dream come true for me," Daniels wrote.
She also expressed her appreciation to all those "who made this shoot possible."
A photo that accompanied her Instagram post showed Daniels dressed in a black jacket and stockings as she leaned against a wall. The Playboy bunny logo appeared in the bottom left corner of the frame.
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I'm afraid even Photoshop won't make that fun to see.
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Braille edition only
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She does urgently need some money to pay Trump .
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what is the draw of paying for the print edition?
The articles? Stop laughing. Once upon a time, back when the Internet was only a gleam in DARPA's eye, the mag featured some seriously good writers, fiction and non. No idea what's in there nowadays. Yeah, the boobs were nice too.
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Kind of like the character Kilgore Trout publishing his science fiction stories in a pr0n magazine to get exposure.
/channeling Kurt Vonnegut in Breakfast of Champions novel
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SteveS, I agree, then. But now? They tried to rebrand the print magazine as a lifestyle magazine when they should have just ended it as a relic of a bygone age.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan police forces have rescued an Afghan-German woman who was kidnapped in Kabul around two years ago, the Ministry of Interior (MoI)said Tuesday.
According to a statement released by MoI, the woman was kidnapped by an individual identified as Najib who had met her in Germany.
No further details have been given regarding the identity of the woman who has been released from her captive but MoI added that Najib had lured the victim to Kabul after meeting her in Germany.
The statement further added that the woman was kept as a captive for around 2 years and her captor was continuously changing her accommodation in different parts of Kabul.
According to MoI, the police forces launched operations and rescued the woman from Bagrami district of Kabul province.
The woman has told police that she was subjected to torture and beating during her captivity in the hands of Najib, MoI said, adding that the perpetrator has also been tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... and is in police custody for further investigations.
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[PULSE.NG] Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... is in recession after it's economy shrank by 3.5 percent during the third trimester of 2018, the state statistics bureau said on Tuesday.
It was the second such shrinkage in a row after the economy shrank 4.0 percent in the second quarter, with respect to the same period a year ago.
Gross domestic product is down by 1.4 percent from January to September compared with 2017.
The hardest hit sectors were business (down 8.9 percent), fishing (-7.3 percent) and manufacturing (-6.6). But finance was up by 5.1 percent.
Argentina has been gripped by an economic crisis this year that forced President Mauricio Macri to agree a $56 billion bailout loan with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
It came as confidence in the peso crumbled, sending the currency into a freefall that saw it lose half its value against the dollar.
The IMF predicts that Argentina's economy will shrink by 2.6 percent this year and another 1.6 percent in 2019.
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agree a $56 billion bailout loan with the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
So Argentina hasn't yet run out of Other Peoples' Money.
[DailyMail] William Shatner said that although the MeToo movement is 'great' he believes that it has become too extreme and likened it to the French Revolution
The 87-year-old said: 'I've got three daughters [aged 60, 57, and 54] and I'm glad that they have more opportunity. At the same time, it's become hysterical'
The Star Trek legend sat down with DailyMailTV for an exclusive interview as he promotes his own Christmas album Shatner Claus Gonna' put his latest album next to this one!:
Shatner also doubled down on his support of the Christmas classic Baby It's Cold Outside after a station in his native Canada took it off the air due to controversy
The actor defended the song, saying he enjoying riling up people and 'the kick of getting somebody upset about something and playing with them verbally'
Shatner revealed he has had to rethink his compliments to women after recently taking a three-hour training course on sexual harassment in the workplace
Shatner said: 'It's all about what is harassment. You might say, as I have on numerous occasions, ''looking good'', ''wow, what a great dress'', ''great legs'''
But, he added: 'I've changed my behavior to quite a degree... because it's a revolution' More @ link...
[Daily Caller] The investigative reporter who broke the first story based on allegations from Christopher Steele offered a surprising assessment of the former British spy’s infamous dossier, which alleges a vast conspiracy of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government.
“Would you agree that a lot of what’s in the Steele dossier has been somewhat vindicated?” Mediaite columnist John Ziegler asked Michael Isikoff, a co-author of the book “Russian Roulette: The Inside Story on Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump.”
“No,” Isikoff responded in an interview released Saturday.
“You would not?” asked Ziegler.
“No,” Isikoff repeated.
Isikoff’s views about the dossier are significant because of his central role in advancing the narrative that the Russian government conspired with Trump associates.
Isikoff is the journalist who wrote the Sept. 23, 2016 article at Yahoo! News laying out Steele’s allegations that Trump campaign adviser Carter Page met secretly in Moscow with two Kremlin insiders. Isikoff’s co-author, David Corn, is the only other reporter to have written about Steele’s claims prior to the 2016 election.
[PULSE.NG] Russia, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... , Iran and the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... voiced hope Tuesday that a committee charged with writing a new Syrian constitution will start work early next year.
The Damascus government, which is backed by Moscow and Tehran, has not yet agreed to the committee, saying it will only support a process that alters Syria's existing constitution.
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov -- flanked by his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif and Turkey's Mevlut Cavusoglu -- read a joint declaration after talks with UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura.
Russia, Iran and opposition backer Turkey "agreed to take efforts aimed at convening the first session of the Constitutional Committee in Geneva early next year," Lavrov said.
The committee has become the centrepiece of UN peace efforts in Syria and aims to set up elections that can turn the page on seven years of devastating war.
De Mistura, who will be replaced as UN envoy on January 7, praised the "significant joint input" from the three powers.
The meeting marked a final moment in de Mistura's four-year tenure, which did not produce a breakthrough for peace.
An op-ed in Syria's pro-government al-Watan newspaper on Tuesday underscored de Mistura's tense relationship with Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... 's regime.
"In Damascus, we will never be sorry for Staffan de Mistura's departure," al-Watan said.
De Mistura is "leaving with regret that he couldn't destroy the Syrian state and couldn't impose the West's agenda on Syrians," it continued, while chastising efforts to "impose a new constitution on Syrians."
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[PULSE.NG] Togo on Thursday votes in legislative elections that are being boycotted by the main opposition after a year of political upheaval which saw demonstrators demanding President Faure Gnassingbe step down.
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[PULSE.NG] The trial of an Indonesian woman accused of assassinating the North Korean leader's half-brother was put on hold Tuesday due to a row over witness statements, the latest delay in the case.
Siti Aisyah from Indonesia and Doan Thi Huong from Vietnam have been on trial for over a year, accused of murdering Kim Jong Nam by smearing nerve agent VX on his face at Kuala Lumpur airport.
The brazen liquidation in February last year shocked the world but the women have denied murder, saying they believed they were taking part in a prank and were tricked by North Korean agents.
The women, in their 20s, went on trial together in October 2017 but proceedings have moved slowly due to the large numbers of witnesses and the fact hearings are held infrequently.
The defence stage of Aisyah's trial had originally been due to begin in November but was delayed to January after her main lawyer fell ill.
And on Tuesday proceedings in Aisyah's case were temporarily halted when the High Court refused to grant her lawyers access to some witness statements, and they decided to appeal.
Huong's trial is due to resume in March and the court will rule Friday whether it will go ahead, or be put on hold with Aisyah's.
The prosecution stage of the trial, during which the women appeared for hearings together, wrapped up in August. The defence parts of their trials will be held separately.
Aisyah's lawyer Gooi Soon Seng said the witness statements were "essential" for the defence and he would appeal the ruling -- a process that could take months.
"Without (the statements) there would be a real miscarriage of justice. It would compromise our case," he told news hounds at the court in Shah Alam, outside Kuala Lumpur.
The seven statements are from witnesses including people who drove Kim Jong Nam around in Malaysia and acquaintances of Aisyah. Prosecutors have refused to hand them over, arguing they should not be made public.
Under current laws, the women will be sentenced to death by hanging if convicted of murdering the estranged relative of the North's leader, Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... Malaysia's new government, which took power in May, has vowed to abolish capital punishment for all crimes, although parliament still needs to vote on the change.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel announced his resignation Tuesday, less than two weeks after his main coalition partner quit in a row over migration, leaving him leading a minority government.
Michel, who took office in 2014, lost the backing of the New Phlegmish Alliance (N-VA) over his support for the UN migration pact, a cause celebre for European anti-immigration parties.
The resignation comes two days after demonstrations against the pact in central Brussels descended into scuffles, with police forced to use tear gas and water cannon to restore order.
After a debate in parliament where opposition parties refused to lend their support to allow his government to keep working until legislative elections in May next year, Michel announced he would quit.
"I have taken the decision to submit my resignation and it is my intention to go to see the king immediately," Michel said.
The Phlegmish nationalist N-VA, led by powerful Antwerp mayor Bart De Wever, had made political demands which Michel judged "unacceptable" -- notably on possible constitutional changes.
The liberal steadfastly defended the Marrakesh migration pact, saying it presented an "opportunity for better European and international cooperation.
The non-binding UN accord, which would promote a common global approach to migrant flows, was initially supported by all four parties in Belgium’s coalition.
But the N-VA changed its mind in late October and pulled out of the coalition the day before Michel flew to Morocco to sign the deal.
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[PULSE.NG] Yemen's flashpoint city of Hodeida was calm Tuesday as a ceasefire took effect and a team including members of the warring sides prepared to monitor the truce agreed at talks in Sweden.
A lasting ceasefire would be a major step in efforts to end Yemen's devastating war, which has killed thousands and left 14 million people on the brink of famine.
The truce which came into force overnight was due to be followed by a team of observers deploying "within 24 hours", a United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... official said.
The Redeployment Coordination Committee includes members of the Saudi-backed government and the Iran-aligned Houthis but is chaired by the UN, said the official who requested anonymity.
"Both parties said publicly they are abiding by the ceasefire," the official told AFP.
The observers are due to oversee the implementation of the truce, the withdrawal of both warring parties from Hodeida city and the pullout of Huthis from its major ports.
The committee chair is expected to report to the UN Security Council on a weekly basis, as part of a diplomatic push to end the conflict which erupted in 2014.
The war between the Houthis and troops loyal to President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi escalated in 2015, when a Saudi-led military coalition stepped in on the government's side.
Since then some 10,000 people have been killed, according to the World Health Organization, but some rights groups believe the toll is far higher.
'COMPLETE CALM' The ceasefire was meant to enter into force at midnight (2100 GMT) on Monday but festivities continued until 03:00 am, pro-government sources and residents said.
Calm held on Tuesday morning in Hodeida city, whose port is the gateway for the vast majority of imports to Yemen.
"There has been complete calm since 03:00 am 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... time in the city of Hodeida," a military source loyal to the government told AFP.
Residents confirmed by phone that there has been no fighting between the government forces backed by the Saudi-led coalition and Iran-aligned Houthis since 03:00 am.
But it was not possible to determine if the halt in fighting was in response to the ceasefire or just a temporary stoppage.
Residents said that daily fighting would usually be fierce in the evening and at night, before coming to a standstill at dawn.
The two warring sides have welcomed the truce in the strategic Red Sea province.
The agreement reached last week included an "immediate ceasefire" in Hodeida and its surrounds, but the truce was delayed as fighting continued.
HODEIDA RESIDENTS 'HOPEFUL' UN envoy Martin Griffiths said on Sunday that the UN was working with both sides to ensure the ceasefire accord was "implemented timely and properly".
In addition to the withdrawal of fighters from Hodeida, the agreement included a planned prisoner swap involving some 15,000 detainees.
A "mutual understanding" was also reached to facilitate aid deliveries to Yemen's third city Taiz -- under the control of loyalists but besieged by rebels.
The two sides have agreed to meet again in late January for more talks to define the framework for negotiations on a comprehensive peace settlement.
Hodeida residents said they hoped the truce would lead to lasting peace.
"We are hopeful that things will go back to the way they were and that there would be no aggression, no air strikes and lasting security," Amani Mohammed told AFP.
Another resident, Mohammed al-Saikel, said he was optimistic the ceasefire would pave the way for a broader truce.
"We are hopeful about this ceasefire in Hodeida and one for Yemen in general," he said.
"We will reach out in peace to whoever does the same."
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prisoner exchange scheduled for mid January
I pretty sure the betting odds are against this happening on time
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[AnNahar] Burnt-out cars, craters and collapsed buildings dot the side of a road in the Syrian village of Hajin, after US-backed forces expelled 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.
The sound of mortar fire and flying bullets resounded inside Hajin on Saturday, as huge clouds of grey smoke billowed over the outskirts of the large village in eastern Syria.
The yellow flag of the Syrian Democratic Forces flew above one building, after the Kurdish-led fighters seized the village from IS jihadists on Friday.
"Hajin has come under the control of our forces," SDF commander Zanar Awaz said.
"We are now fighting on the outskirts of Hajin and we are preparing to enter nearby villages," he said in Kurdish, a shot of white in his short black hair.
"We will finish off this terrorist group."
Hajin lies on the east bank of the Euphrates in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, about 30 kilometres (18 miles) from the border with Iraq.
The village's capture marks a milestone in a massive and costly operation backed by a US-led coalition to expel IS from eastern Syria.
On Saturday, armoured vehicles brought in SDF fighters to reinforce the front lines outside Hajin, as coalition planes and helicopters flew overhead.
An SDF fighter sitting on the top of a vehicle with fellow combattants flashed a victory sign.
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The Kurdish-led SDF launched an offensive in September to expel IS from a pocket including its main village Hajin, but their advance has been fraught with obstacles.
"We've been facing a lot of difficulties: IS boom-mobiles, suicide kaboomers. Most of them are foreign," Awaz said.
On Saturday morning, IS launched a counterattack, but the SDF said it succeeded in repelling them with the backing of coalition air strikes.
Since the start of the operation on September 10, at least 930 jihadists and more than 540 SDF fighters have been killed, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said.
In addition, more than 320 civilians have bit the dust, many in coalition air strikes, according to the Observatory. The coalition has however repeatedly denied targeting civilians.
But no civilians were visible in Hajin on Saturday, after thousands fled the village and nearby areas.
A convoy of armoured cars ferried in US soldiers, churning up dust along the way.
On a hill that used to act as the village cemetery, tunnels and trenches dug by the jihadists lay covered in sheets and colourful blankets.
Bullet and artillery shell casings covered the ground.
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SDF fighter Bahouz, who did not give his last name, remembered first entering the district's hospital.
He said he took pictures of the dead jihadists he saw there.
"They think they'll go to paradise, but we killed them," he said, carrying a gun and hand grenades around his waist.
"Death is their destiny as they destroyed everything."
IS swept across large swathes of Syria and neighbouring Iraq in 2014, implementing their brutal interpretation of Islamic law in areas they controlled.
But they have since seen their dream of a state crumble, as they have lost most of that territory to various offensives.
In Syria, IS fighters are holding out in what remains of the pocket that once included Hajin, including the villages of al-Shaafa and Sousa.
They have also retained a presence in the vast Badia desert, but that front is managed by Russia-backed regime forces.
According to the Observatory, a total of 17,000 SDF fighters are involved in the fight to seize the eastern pocket, compared to around 2,000 jihadists.
Inside Hajin village, SDF fighter Mohammed al-Mohammed said his spirits were high.
"There's only a bit left" to capture from IS, said the 19-year-old.
"We will head on to al-Shaafa and Sousa to liberate them and win, God willing."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Yemeni army announced on Tuesday that a military drone belonging to the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias was shot down in the eastern province of Marib.
The official website of the Yemeni army, that members of the 25th Mika brigade were able to shoot down the plane in the areas between the districts of Harib and Jubba south of the Marib province.
"After inspecting the wreckage of the aircraft carrying explosives, it turned out to be Iranian-made," the statement read.
Several drones have been shot down in recent weeks in different Yemeni fronts where flight engineers from the Yemeni army confirmed that they were made in Iran. In April, two planes of the same type were dropped inside Saudi territory.
A report issued by the Center for Armed Conflict Research in London explained that Iran’s military technology had reached the Houthi militias by helping them use the drones they had previously said were homemade and which were smuggled to the Houthis with other weapons including ballistic missiles.
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[PULSE.NG] An inquest into the fatal shooting of six people in post-election violence in Zimbabwe squarely blamed the military and police on Tuesday, saying the use of live fire was "unjustified and disproportionate".
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[Breitbart] The Department of Justice announced Tuesday the finalized form of the bump stock ban, achieved by amending ATF regulation so as to define bump stocks as "machineguns."
Breitbart News possesses a copy of the DOJ’s summary of the ban, which states:
The Department of Justice is amending the regulations of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to clarify that bump-stock-type devices-meaning "bump fire" stocks, slide-fire devices, and devices with certain similar characteristics-are "machineguns" as defined by the National Firearms Act of 1934 and the Gun Control Act of 1968 because such devices allow a shooter of a semiautomatic firearm to initiate a continuous firing cycle with a single pull of the trigger.
The summary says a bump stock allows the trigger of a semiautomatic firearm to reset between the firing of each round, but describes the bump stock-equipped "semiautomatic firearm" as "self-acting or self-regulating," and therefore a "machinegun."
The DOJ’s summary explains that there will be no grandfathering of pre-owned bump stocks. Rather, all bump stocks must be destroyed or handed over the ATF within 90 days of the ban’s effective date:
With limited exceptions, the Gun Control Act, as amended, makes it unlawful for any person to transfer or possess a machinegun unless it was lawfully possessed prior to the effective date of the statute. The bumpstock-type devices covered by this final rule were not in existence prior to the effective date of the statute, and therefore will be prohibited when this rule becomes effective. Consequently, under the final rule, current possessors of these devices will be required to destroy the devices or abandon them at an ATF office prior to the effective date of the rule.
The push for a bump stock ban begin in Congress following the October 1, 2017, Las Vegas attack. But public support for such a ban was scant and the Congressional push for a ban waned.
At President Trump’s behest the ATF began seeking public comment on a regulatory ban of bump stocks in December 2017. In February 2018 Trump made clear he had directed the DOJ to ban the firearm accessories.
The bump stock ban is expected to appear in the federal register this Friday, thereafter giving owners 90 days to destroy them or turn them in. The 90 days ends March 21, 2019.
On December 18, 2018, a senior DOJ official told Breitbart News there are no plans to compensate bump stock owners for the financial value of their legally purchased bump stock accessories. The official also said the DOJ expects a legal challenge against the bump stock ban and is prepared to fight any suit that is filed.
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If an object (a) causes you to use up your ammo very fast (b) decreases accuracy shouldn't we be giving them away with every gun purchase to stop school shooters and such?
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Seems to me that if they want to save lives they should encourage bump stocks rather than banning them - increase in firing rate should be more than offset by decrease in accuracy.
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When is a bump stock not a bump stock? When you take the guts out of it? Haven't read the law yet.
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I could not afford a bump stock. Blowing through ammo is not a good choice in auto for an individual. Fire discipline and well placed shots are more effective than spray and pray.
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Gustavo Garcia, 36, of Visalia, California, was pronounced dead on State Route 65 in Porterville on Monday morning
Garcia was flung from a stolen truck after a gun battle with police and wrong-way crashes that left four people injured
Authorities say Garcia went on a crime spree that included attacks against random strangers
He shot and killed a man at a gas station convenience store and shot and wounded a farmworker in an orchard and a woman at a motel
The fatality at the gas station has been identified as Rocky Paul Jones, 51, of Vasalia
Garcia also fired gunshots into the backyard of his ex-girlfriend's home, though she and her children were unharmed
He then stole a truck at gunpoint from three farmworkers and led police on a 100mph high speed chase
One driver was left in critical condition and the other three had minor injuries
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Shooting the Americans other Americans don't want to shoot...
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I'd like to see his toxicology report from the autopsy. I'm betting meth induced psychosis or maybe bath salts.
[DW] Authorities raided several buildings in the German capital as part of a larger terrorism probe. One imam is suspected of sending money to an Islamist fighter in Syria in order to carry out "terrorist criminal acts."
Police raided a mosque and several other buildings in Berlin on Tuesday morning in an operation into suspected terrorism financing, prosecutors said.
State criminal police, intelligence officers as well as special police forces took part in the raids, which included the As-Sahaba mosque in the Berlin neighborhood of Wedding.
One of the main suspects was identified as Ahmad A., a holy man at the mosque who preaches under the name of Abul Baraa.
The 45-year-old is suspected of sending money to an Islamist fighter in Syria "for purchasing military equipment to carry out terrorist criminal acts," prosecutors said on Twitter.
Authorities did not immediately release further details about the raids or provide further details about when the alleged money transfer took place.
The As-Sahaba mosque is under surveillance by Germany's domestic intelligence agency and is considered an important meeting point for members of Germany's radical Salafist scene, according to the Berliner Morgenpost newspaper.
The mosque was founded in 2010 by the German-Egyptian Islamist Reda Seyam,
...Al Qaeda-linked jihadi recruiter, financier of jihadi activities at the behest of the Saudi General Intelligence Directorate back when Prince Turki bin Faisal was running things — including the 2002 Bali nightclub bombing that killed 200 — and papa of a bouncing baby boy named Jihad... Salafist doesn’t come close to his orienration...
who is accused of taking part in a terror attack in Bali, according to the paper. He later left Germany to travel to Syria to become the "education minister" for the myrmidon "Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... " (IS) group.
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[bbc] China is flexing its muscles. As the second richest economy in the world, its businessmen and politicians are involved just about everywhere in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Now, though, China is taking a big interest in a very different part of the world: the Arctic.
It has started calling itself a "near-Arctic" power, even though Beijing is almost 3,000km (1,800 miles) from the Arctic Circle. It has bought or commissioned several ice-breakers - including nuclear-powered ones - to carve out new routes for its goods through the Arctic ice.
And it is eyeing Greenland as a particularly useful way-station on its polar silk road.
Greenland is self-governing, though still nominally controlled by Denmark.
It is important strategically for the United States, which maintains a vast military base at Thule, in the far north. Both the Danes and the Americans are deeply worried that China should be showing such an interest in Greenland.
LEAST DENSELY POPULATED PLACE ON EARTH
You've got to go there to get an idea of how enormous Greenland is.
It's the 12th-largest territory in the world, 10 times bigger than the United Kingdom: two million square kilometres of rock and ice.
Yet its population is miniscule at 56,000 – roughly the size of a town in England.
As a result, Greenland is the least densely populated territory on Earth. About 88% of the people are Inuit; most of the rest are ethnically Danish, many of whose ancestors started colonising it 1,000 years ago. The Inuit arrived several centuries later.
Over the years neither the Americans nor the Danes have put all that much money into Greenland, and Nuuk, the capital, feels pretty poor.
Every day, small numbers of people gather in the centre to sell things that will generate a bit of cash: cast-off clothes, children's schoolbooks, cakes they've made, dried fish, reindeer-horn carvings. Some people also sell the bloody carcases of the big King Eider ducks, which Inuits are allowed to hunt but aren't supposed to sell for profit.
CHINA'S AIR POWER
At present you can only fly to Nuuk in small propeller-driven planes. In four years, though, that will change spectacularly.
The Greenlandic government has decided to build three big international airports capable of taking large passenger jets.
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Alternative Hypothesis: The Chinese Mainland is littered with empty commercial properties because of government corruption. The construction moguls are starting to run out of Chinese $Money$ and need to expand overseas or go bankrupt...
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NUUK AIRPORT has a 3117 foot long airport built into the granite. You have to have STOL aircraft like DeHavilland Dash-8 and Dash-7s to transport people in any quantity. If I remember right, the airport is closed on Sundays. Nuuk is a neat place, with Inuit and European flavors.
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More like a dumping place for bad party leaders and generals they don't want to just shoot. They could probably lease facilities in Siberia, but still too close to home.
Saturn is losing its signature rings at a "worst-case scenario" rate, said NASA scientists, and the bands could disappear completely within 100 million years. I blame global warming.
In a study published Monday in the journal "Icarus," researchers confirmed Saturn's rings are disappearing at the maximum rate first estimated through observations by Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes that launched in the 1970s.
The rings are being pulled into the planet "by gravity as a dusty rain of ice particles under the influence of Saturn’s magnetic field," NASA said.
The phenomenon is called "ring rain," and it drains enough water from rings to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool every 30 minutes, said James O’Donoghue of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
"From this alone, the entire ring system will be gone in 300 million years," O'Donoghue said in a statement. "But add to this the Cassini-spacecraft measured ring-material detected falling into Saturn’s equator, and the rings have less than 100 million years to live."
Scientists are still trying to learn how Saturn gained its rings, which consist mostly of ice and rock ranging from the size of a grain of sand to that of a house, NASA said.
The study suggests Saturn acquired its rings later in its life span, instead of when it formed 4 billion-plus years ago.
"We are lucky to be around to see Saturn’s ring system, which appears to be in the middle of its lifetime," said O'Donoghue.
An animation released by NASA shows Saturn's inner rings disappearing first as they get sucked into the planet, followed by its outer rings.
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If global warming is caused by increased solar activity (as seems by higher temperatures measured on Mars) this sort of thing would be expected or even predictable.
[PULSE.NG] Cuba will leave out of its new constitution changes that would have paved the way for legal same-sex marriage, despite majority support in local assemblies, a government official said Tuesday.
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[FOX61] Arizona’s governor has named Rep. Martha McSally to replace U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl in the U.S. Senate seat that belonged to Sen. John Maverick McCain ... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution. As an ordinary citizen he greased the infamous hookers peeing on the Obamabed in Moscow dossier in an attempt to smear President Trump... Republican Gov. Doug Ducey announced Tuesday that McSally will take over after Kyl’s resignation becomes effective Dec. 31. McSally lost the Senate race to Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema.
"With her experience and long record of service, Martha is uniquely qualified to step up and fight for Arizona," Ducey said in a statement. "I thank her for taking on this significant responsibility and look forward to working with her and Senator-Elect Sinema to get positive things done."
McSally will serve until the 2020 election, when voters will elect someone to serve the final two years of McCain’s term.
Kyl was appointed after McCain’s death from brain cancer in August. He previously served in the Senate for Arizona and had said he would only commit to serving until the end of 2018.
The appointment puts Arizona back in the political spotlight just a month after Democrats won their first statewide race in a decade. Democrats hope that the state swings again in 2020 and are expected to target it both in the presidential race and the contest for McCain’s seat.
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Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has appointed fellow Republican Rep. Martha McSally to the Senate, he announced Tuesday, picking a favorite of GOP leaders to fill the seat John McCain held for decades.
McSally, who lost a close race for Arizona’s other Senate seat this year, will succeed Sen. Jon Kyl (R). Kyl will step down at the end of the year following a brief time in McCain’s seat after McCain’s death in August.
"With her experience and long record of service, Martha is uniquely qualified to step up and fight for Arizona’s interests in the U.S. Senate. I thank her for taking on this significant responsibility," Ducey said in a statement.
McSally is expected to run for the seat in a 2020 special election, setting the stage for a potential marquee contest in a battleground state. The seat will also be on the ballot in 2022.
"I am humbled and grateful to have this opportunity to serve and be a voice for all Arizonans," McSally said in a statement issued by Ducey’s office. She said she looked forward to working with Sen.-elect Kyrsten Sinema, the Democrat who defeated her in November.
McSally will become the 25th woman serving in the Senate at the start of the 116th Congress, a record high.
Ducey’s decision comes after weeks of tense relations with McSally and her political strategists. Last week, Ducey and his close confidants were frustrated with McSally ‐ to the point that the governor’s interest in appointing her had diminished, according to two people familiar with this thinking.
But McSally remained a finalist, and in recent days, she has tried to improve her standing with Ducey and the other Republicans she clashed with during her campaign.
On Friday, McSally apologized to McCain’s widow, Cindy McCain, for her lack of praise for the senator on a defense bill named in his honor, according to two people familiar with the conversation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private discussion. Ducey encouraged the meeting.
McSally, a onetime Trump critic, reinvented herself as a staunch supporter of the president during her Senate campaign. She largely avoided mentioning John McCain, who had traded public criticism with the president.
Her posture bothered McCain’s friends and family. Cindy McCain emphasized the importance of respecting the legacy of the seat during her meeting with McSally, according to the people familiar with their conversation.
In a tweet on Tuesday, Cindy McCain wrote, "My husband’s greatest legacy was placing service to AZ & USA ahead of his own self-interest. I respect @dougducey’s decision to appoint @RepMcSally to fill the remainder of his term. Arizonans will be pulling for her, hoping that she will follow his example of selfless leadership."
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Appears their Senate representation will be as divided as their state is. BTW, those who advocate the repeal of the 17th Amendment, this is what you get. The position will be filled to represent the party in power, not necessarily the ballot stuffers.
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So the state of Arizona had two top competitors for the senate. One won. Why would it be wrong to fill the vacant seat with the other top competitor?? Any other appointment would just be a political favor...
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Yeas, all the "jungle primary" stuff in California and the "ranked voting" in Maine. Making it easier than ever for your vote to be fractionalized.
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"Why would it be wrong to fill the vacant seat with the other top competitor??"
In general that would be fine with me. In this particular case, she lost because she was a terrible candidate and a RINO. The GOPe wants her in the seat, but no one else. That is both a lost opportunity and a future potential disaster when AZ votes again.
[PULSE.NG] For three years, djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... 's women were covered in black from head to toe and its men had to keep their beards long. Salons were shut, and plastic surgery considered a crime.
But more than a year after 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's ouster, the Iraqi city is flaunting its more fabulous side.
Need to zap away a scar or a burn? Cover up a bald spot with implants? Whiten teeth for a dazzling smile? Mosul's plastic surgeons and beauticians are at your service.
Raji Najib, a Syrian living in Mosul, recently made use of the city's aesthetic offerings.
The 40-year-old had long been self-conscious of his bald spots, until his Iraqi friends told him what had worked for them -- hair implants at a new clinic in their hometown.
"They told me the equipment was modern, the nurses competent and the prices good," Najib said.
In Mosul, the average hair implant procedure costs around $800, including the follow-up after the operation.
Nearly 90 kilometres (50 miles) to the east in Iraq's Arbil, or even further north in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... , the same operation costs at least $1,200.
Plasma injections to prevent hair loss cost around $63 in Mosul, but at least $20 more in Arbil.
In addition to the difference in price, Najib would have had to put up money and time for travel.
"Going to a clinic in Mosul is much easier, as I don't have time to travel outside Mosul," he told AFP.
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Appears Judge Sullivan got the flog Flynn memo.
[NYT] WASHINGTON ‐ A federal judge on Tuesday postponed the sentencing of Michael T. Flynn, President Trump’s first national security adviser, after warning Mr. Flynn that he could face prison for lying to federal investigators about his conversations with the Russian ambassador during the presidential transition and hiding his role lobbying for Turkey.
At Mr. Flynn’s sentencing hearing in Federal District Court in Washington, Judge Emmet G. Sullivan called Mr. Flynn’s crimes "a very serious offense" and said he was not hiding his "disgust" at what Mr. Flynn had done.
"All along you were an unregistered agent of a foreign country while serving as the national security adviser," the judge told Mr. Flynn. "Arguably that undermines everything that this flag over here stands for. Arguably you sold your country out."
Later in the hearing, the judge corrected himself, noting that Mr. Flynn’s work on behalf of Turkey had ended in mid-November of 2016, before Mr. Flynn became national security adviser. The judge acknowledged he had made a mistake and said he felt "terrible about that."
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Flynn was one of the beneficiaries of a lucrative and legal scam where people who held high level office retire and pretend they can give 'strategic advice' to foreign governments. Most of this ends up in setting up meetings with current office holders who smile nicely, take notes and then do nothing. The foreign governments somehow keep paying.
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Didn't see that one coming from Judge Sullivan but should have.
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If someone as high up as flynn was suborned, why is it assumed that everyone working under him, and the rest of the intelligence establishment, is squeaky clean? Is that just the way "counterintelligence" works these days?
Is counterintelligence just a fancy word for stupidity?
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I am baffled. His rant came out of left field as far as I can tell. Drinks may have been involved. Judicial meltdown, over wrong information, and he didn't seem to want to correct his error. Setting up a mistrial?
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...or he actually believed a unredacted 302 he was given (like the FISA judge).
[PhilStar] The military Western Mindanao Command has gained new troops in its fight against the Abu Sayyaf with Philippine president Duterte's activation of a new Army division in Sulu.
Westmincom spokesperson Gerry Besana said Duterte, accompanied by Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, led the activation of the 11th Infantry ‘Alakdan’ (Scorpion) Division in Barangay Bus-Bus.
In his speech, the president said that the government does not want to be at war with its own people. He said, "Nobody wants this war. I hate it. I do not want to kill fellow Filipinos. I do not want government killing its own citizens."
Besana said the new division will he headed by Brig. Gen. Divino Rey Pabayo. Pabayo is currently the commander of Joint Task Force Sulu, which has been operating against the Abu Sayyaf.
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[RealClearDefense] Melania Trump made history Wednesday by flying in a V-22 Osprey aircraft and onto the deck of an aircraft carrier.
The White House says it’s the first time a first lady has flown in an Osprey. The tiltrotor aircraft takes off and lands vertically. Mrs. Trump flew from Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington to Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Hampton, Virginia, and onto the deck of the USS George H.W. Bush and back.
She later tweeted about her "incredible flight" and visit with service members.
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The only FLOTUS in US history who could launch a thousand ships.
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V-22 Osprey carrier landing? She's much more brave than I.
What's brave about that? Try trapping aboard a carrier in C-2 Greyhound. Now, that's freaky deaky. Or flying off the carrier in a Chinook. Chinook pilots BTW are all (EVERYONE OF THEM) certifiably insane.
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Re: HS: Trapped and catted in a greyhound, and that was right after the crash of one due to unsecured load and massive CG shift ( video on you tube; still painful to watch, mercifully, it stops short of the splash, but not until the stall/descent is well establsihed).
and multiple lauches in variety of rotary winged aircraft, some inot peas soup fog so thick that @ 60 feet, the flight deck ceased to exist....flying by Braille.
[BREITBART] Italian counter-terrorism police have incarcerated Book 'im, Mahmoud! a Somali migrant with ties to 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.... , who discussed bombing Christian churches throughout Italia this Christmas, specifically mentioning Saint Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican.
In an operation involving multiple Italian and international law enforcement agencies, police arrested 20-year-old Mohsin Ibrahim Omar, also known as Anas Khalil, in the southern Italian port city of Bari last Thursday, Italian media reported on Monday.
According to reports, Omar was in direct contact with an operational jihadist cell and had active plans to target Christian churches during the upcoming Christmas holidays, starting with the "biggest one", Saint Peter’s Basilica.
In his communication, Omar spoke of striking the Vatican on Christmas day or shortly afterwards, when there would be "the pope and so many people" and the church would be "full, full, full". Police discovered pictures of the Vatican on the man’s phone, which he had downloaded from the internet.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A group of nine people including four coppers have been placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! on charges of extortion and illegally collecting money from street vendors the in Kabul city, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said Tuesday.
According to a statement released by MoI, the police forces have arrested an individual who was collecting a sum of 4,000 Afghanis daily from street vendors in Pul Kheshti area of the city and was handing over the money to a police officer.
The statement further added that another individual was arrested from Sepahi Gomnam area in the 1st police district of the city who was collecting 9,000 Afghanis daily and was transferring the money to the police officer in charge of the security of the area.
Another individual was also arrested from Company roundabout in the 5th police district on charges of collecting 10,540 Afghanis from street vendors and was handing over the money to the police in charge of the police officer in the area.
Two others were also arrested from the 5th police district of the city on charges of collecting 25,000 Afghanis and were looking to handover the money to the police officer in the same area, MoI added.
The statement by MoI also added that the files of the detained coppers have been referred to military attorney for anti-corruption.
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[Ynet] Terror group's leader Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... would triumph over Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... in both Gazoo and the West Bank if elections were held today, according to a recent public poll.
The poll conducted by prominent pollster Khalil Shikaki and released Tuesday shows that Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh would win with 49 percent to Abbas’ 42 percent.
The poll interviewed 1,200 people in the West Bank and the Gazoo Strip and had a 3 percent margin of error.
Paleostinian elections were last held in 2006 and have been repeatedly delayed since.
What happens when 'Porch Thieves' tangle with a NASA Engineer.
Hilarious
[TheMostImportantNews] There is a growing epidemic of package theft in America today, but one former NASA engineer is taking action. Mark Rober spent six months designing a package that would douse package thieves in glitter and fart spray, and the video that he just posted to YouTube showing the results of his “experiment” already has more than 15 million views. If you have not seen it yet, you should definitely check it out. According to Fortune, Rober actually helped design the Curiosity Rover, but now he has become a global YouTube star…
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan and U.S. forces have killed at least nine snuffies affiliated 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.... of Iraq and Syria Khurasan (ISIS-K)during the separate operations conducted in eastern Kunar and Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. provinces.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East issued a statement on Monday, stating that at least four ISIS-K snuffies were killed in a dronezap carried out by the U.S. forces in Haska Mina district of Nangarhar province on Sunday.
The statement further added that the Afghan Intelligence forces carried out operations with the U.S. air support in Pech Dara of Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... , leaving at least 5 ISIS-K snuffies dead.
According to 201st Silab Corps, another ISIS-K murderous Moslem was also maimed during the same operations.
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[Rappler] Two alleged gunrunners for the Maute terrorist organization responsible for the Islamist takeover of Marawi City, were collared along the North Luzon Expressway in Valenzuela City on December 16.
According to the police report, partners Edgardo Medel and Rosemarie Medel were nabbed by special operations agents, after being caught in a buy-bust operation. Police were able to find the two with the help of a tipster. This source identified the pair as suppliers for the Maute group and are already taking orders for the 2019 elections.
After building up their case and establishing contact with the suspects, undercover cops arranged for a staged purchase. Right after the deal, cops arrested the couple. Seized from the two were two assault rifles, a handgun, and 12,893 rounds of live ammunition for M-60 light machine guns.
The couple brought their three children in the transaction. They were turned over to their other relatives, police said.
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[Rudaw] Berlin crime gangs of Arab origin have long earned infamy with violence and brazen robberies but now, police warn, they have targeted a new generation of refugees for recruitment.
Known in the media as Berlin's "clans", whose founders themselves fled war in Leb in the 1980s, they have long controlled much of the city's illegal drugs trade, street prostitution and protection rackets.
While East European and Asian organised crime and homegrown biker gangs are also active, the clans have been especially visible, given many members' love of gangster bling and muscle cars.
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[The Last Refuge] Without cameras in the courtroom we are constrained to understand the Flynn sentencing hearing today through the perspectives of others. The Daily Caller has an article [See Here] and a thread on the events [is Here] and a great video recap of the events by Will Chamberlain [is HERE].
That said, there is much speculation and punditry delivered opinion on what took place; and how the hearing ended with Judge Emmet Sullivan delaying the sentencing of Michael Flynn for 90-days. While we await the transcript from the court, here’s my view.
Last night, while contemplating the possible outcomes of the hearing, there was a strong likelihood of exactly what happened today.... but only if Judge Sullivan was aware of the conflicted position of Michael Flynn, and approached the hearing from that perspective.
Flynn took the guilty plea of lying to investigators to avoid Mueller charging him over the Turkish lobbying issues (FARA).
Happily, it appears Judge Sullivan is well aware of this very specific dynamic and the issues therein. Special Counsel Robert Mueller used the unregistered foreign lobbying charges, and -more importantly- the devastating narrative that can be drawn from those FARA violations, as leverage over Flynn. Based on the comments from Judge Sullivan, it is clear he is aware of this dynamic.
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Just because I talk to Foreign agents - if I know it or not, does not mean I have to file as a registered agent of Foreign Country. Appearing on RT is not being a Foreign Adviser, and as far as THAT Judge is concerned, he is a protectorate of larger cases.
It is your ass riding on the Logan Act, "Judge" on a phony FISA warrant illegally issued and non checked. Twice.
[NYPOST] A Mississippi teen was placed in durance vile Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! after officials incarcerated Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! him for the drive-by shooting death of a 66-year-old woman.
Lee County Sheriff Jim Johnson told news outlets 17-year-old Latavious Betts was charged as an adult with murder and aggravated assault in Annie Walton’s Dec. 7 death.
Johnson said Betts fired a dozen or more shots into a house near Verona, killing Walton and wounding four others.
Betts was earlier charged with first-degree murder for a March 22 shooting at a Verona car wash. He’s also charged with aggravated assault in a July 8 convenience store shooting that injured two.
The teen was placed in durance vile Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! without bail because he’s accused of violating previous release terms. It’s unclear if he has a lawyer. Betts was captured Friday after a week on the run.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] 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.... (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) is not quite done in the eastern part of the Euphrates River Valley region, despite losing a significant portion of territory to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) over the last two weeks.
In an effort to take advantage of the rough weather conditions, the Islamic State launched a big counter-attack in eastern Hajin on Monday.
The terrorist group was able to retake several areas from the Syrian Democratic Forces east of Hajin before making their push to reenter the town.
While the Islamic State claims they are entrenched inside of eastern Hajin, the Syrian Democratic Forces deny the terrorist group possesses any portion of the town.
With a limited U.S. air presence over Hajin due to the weather, the Syrian Democratic Forces have been forced to rely on their ground troops to beat back the terrorist combatants.
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Over at Drudge top headline says US is pulling out of Syria ASAP
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[AlAhram] Egypt's general prosecution has said that it is referring a police sergeant to criminal court over the murder of a Coptic man and his son in Upper Egypt's Minya last week.
In an official statement, the prosecution said police sergeant Rabie Mostafa Khalifa, who was assigned to guard the Church of Nahdet El-Qadasa, was referred to court in an emergency session for killing Emad Kamal and his son David.
The prosecution charged Khalifa with the premeditated murder of the two men using his service weapon after reviewing CCTV footage from the scene of the crime.
The prosecution said that Khalifa confessed to the crime, but did not reveal a possible motive.
“That uppity kufr spoke back to me, just like he was my equal,” he said. “I had no choice but to show him and his little boy which one of us belonged to the Master Religion.”
On Saturday, the prosecution said that the killing was sparked due to a "verbal altercation."
The incident has sparked outrage among citizens and Church officials.
[Libya Observer] Special Deterrence Force (SDF), Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... Revolutionaries Brigade, Eighth Brigade (Nawasi), Bab Tajoura Brigade, and Joint Deterrence and Intervention Force Abu Salim said in a statement that they had been united under Tripoli Protection Force.
The statement says that Tripoli Protection Force rejects using power to gain political benefits, adding that the unity of the brigades is an attempt to block the recent military movements in the western region.
"We have heard one party of the Libyan conflict trying to resort to using military actions in the western region and thus destabilize Tripoli again and lead to killings and injuries as well as a deduction of properties in the capital. That is why, unity among us is very vital." The statement reads.
It also hailed the efforts of the UNSMIL and its Head Ghassan Salame, pledging support for the upcoming Libyan National Conference in January, saying it would welcome hosting it in Tripoli.
"We reject referring the entire Libyan military institution to one person and taking advantage of it to seize power." The statement remarks.
The announcement of the coalition of forces - which all operate under the Presidential Council's government in Tripoli - came after a meeting in Tripoli port.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[WSJ] Well, that was bizarre. We’re referring to the fiasco Tuesday of what was supposed to be the sentencing of Michael Flynn. The sentencing was postponed until next year, but not before federal Judge Emmet Sullivan damaged his own reputation with an extraordinary public attack on the former national security adviser for a crime he’s not been charged with or admitted to.
[National Review] A committee of Catholic Church leaders and sexual-abuse experts has chastised Catholic bishops worldwide to take responsibility for the Church’s sex-abuse crisis and to speak personally to victims in their areas ‐ or risk losing the Church’s credibility.
[Free Beacon] The Connecticut Communist Party honored a pair of union organizers, including an official who nearly captured the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor, at its annual awards ceremony.
[Wash Examiner] The Nation of Islam and its leaders have received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the U.S. government since 2008 to teach religious study programs for federal prison inmates, according to records reviewed by the Washington Examiner.
...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
... 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...
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North Korea
...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...
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Yemeni army announced on Tuesday that a military drone belonging to the 
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[PULSE.NG] For three years, 
[PhilStar] The military Western Mindanao Command has gained new troops in its fight against the Abu Sayyaf with Philippine president Duterte's activation of a new Army division in Sulu.
[BREITBART] Italian counter-terrorism police have 
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
[Rappler] Two alleged gunrunners for the Maute terrorist organization responsible for the Islamist takeover of Marawi City, were collared along the North Luzon Expressway in Valenzuela City on December 16.
