Seems to my uneducated eye that she may having intermittent problems with the muscles related to swallowing and keeping her esophagus and trachea in sync. Could this be the effect of a stroke?
The leading Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton, was hit with a "coughing attack" midway through remarks today in Iowa.
Clinton is in Iowa, where a CNN town hall is scheduled for tonight. Clinton is 68 years old.
New York Times reporter Amy Chozick wondered on Twitter whether Clinton would even be able to finish her remarks.
".@HillaryClinton has coughing attack at West Des Moines event, may be unable to finish remarks," Chozick said on Twitter. Choking on the truth?
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Remember your talking points, people:
If it's cold, it's just weather.
If it's hot, it's climate change.
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IIRC Guam + CNMI are located widin the Tropic of Cancer, but its been b-r-r-r cold as heck since Saturday PM.
* "MINI-ICE AGE" = AKA WHAT I LIKE TO LABEL AS THE "GREAT ASIA-PACIFIC SLUSHY".
All the above being said, I still hold to my beliefs that the so-called "Mini-Ice Age" is just that, i.e. a "Mini-" or short-term interim period of cold or icy [sleet] weather widing the larger occurrence of Solar/Sun-led GWCC = slowly but steadily intensifying Solar heating up of the Earth + Planetary System to as yet unknown or highly subjective global temperature levels.
[Inquisitor] According to Pearl River County authorities, a gun shop owner and his 17-year-old son were shot and killed in a shootout on Saturday afternoon with two customers -- another man and his 29-year-old son -- over a $25 service charge.
The two customers were hospitalized after being injured in the shooting that occurred at a gun store in Pearl River County's Henleyfield community, according to local authorities.
Pearl River County Sheriff David Allison told WLOX that Jason McLemore, 44, owner of McLemore Gun Shop in Pearl County, Mississippi, and his son Jacob McLemore, 17, were shot and killed on Saturday afternoon following a dispute with two customers, Andy McCool, 52, and his son Michael McCool, 29, over a $25 fee for repair of a gun.
Allison said that McLemore's wife was at the store when Andy McCool and his son entered at about 3:15 p.m. to pick up a handgun that was in for repairs. The men reportedly became angry with McLemore's wife over a $25 service charge after they learned that the weapon had not been repaired.
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It takes time (i.e. money) to take something apart to check a compliant and then reassemble it. It is not the tech's fault if the gun is operating as designed.
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Willie McCool, pilot of space shuttle Columbia comes to mind. Probably not related, I suppose.
Diaspora Affairs Minister Naftali Bennett painted a dark picture of Jewish life in Europe on Sunday, telling the cabinet anti-Semitism on the Continent has reached an "unprecedented" level.
...Bennett also cited statistics indicating that anti-Semitic incidents in London rose more than 60 percent during the 12-month period ending November 15 and that incidents in France shot up 84% in the first quarter of 2015 when compared to the same period the previous year.
While Tel Aviv University's Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry, which tracks such activity, has not yet released final statistics for the past year, 2014 saw a 40% surge in violent anti-Semitism globally.
Such trends, Bennett contended, "represent a significant challenge to the fabric of Jewish life in Europe and beyond," adding that he viewed anti-Semitic violence as stemming from "European Muslims born in Europe and educated in European education systems" rather than from newly arrived refugees.
Aside from Islamic anti-Semitism, increasing support for BDS also presents a grave threat to Jews, he contended, stating that the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement was "gaining momentum" in Europe and that it "promotes a boycott not only of Israel but the representatives and Jewish events, as well."
Delegitimization of Israel and activities such as demonstrations against the Jewish state and accusations that it is "bloodthirsty and illegitimate" create a "slippery slope leading, in the end, to attacks against Jews who identify with Israel," he warned. What can I say: "Go, go Putin!"
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Chancellor Merkel addressed this on Saturday, after the head of the German Jewish community made a presentation last week about the increasing problems caused by the "migrants" in front of a meeting she held with various societal shareholders. Front Page Magazine has the details about that and her suggested policy response -- better Holocaust education -- here.
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Mein Kampf is selling very well right now. I don't know if that's the German language or Arabic language version.
I suspect a repeat of the brownshits and with less sympathy for the Arabic targets. I don't expect camps but a general hostile environment with street fights and race-based attacks that encourages the Migrants to leave.
Whoops! Sorry about that. Spring will arrive in teo months, and with it the next wave of migration. However, there is active social media communication among those already there and those in the road or considering it, according to Deutsche Welle, so hopefully the news of stricter criteria and reduced benefits (a cot in a football stadium instead of a nice apartment and a good job) will reduce desire as well.
Mein Kampf was just released in a new German edition, rjschwarz, after a good deal of controversy and Ignoring Jewish and Israeli protests. At least some of that -- and possibly all, as I'm sure the neo-Nazis had been producing it unofficially all along -- is curiosity about what the man really said.
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File this under "If we could all just get along".
There are operational rules for judging a philosophy invalid. A philosophy is invalid if the answer to either of the following questions is "yes".
1. Does it only work if everybody does it?
2. Does it fail if everybody does it?
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This article brings up some good points, but is largely stupid.
First, $1 trillion over 30 years is $30 billion a year. Expensive, but not going to break the bank. For goodness sake the completely worthless federal education department budget is $70.7 billion per year, and only $20B of that is student loans.
Second, if the U.S. modernizes nukes then so will everyone else to the same level. No, everyone else will modernize as much as they can without regard to what we do. Pakistan, India, North Korea, and China are building bombs and missiles as fast as they can and will continue to do so. UK, France, Russia and the U.S. are the only nuclear countries, who have enough bombs and don't need any more. However, even these bombs need to work when called upon; so, modernization will happen one way or another.
Third, the thing that is causing all the other nuke powers to wig out about the U.S. isn't how many or modern our nukes are it is instead that we have a robust, tested, and deployed anti-missile capability, which makes every other nuke state's arsenal worthless (except Russia's). So, again, what we do to modernize our nukes is meaningless to our potential adversaries.
The only point in this article that has any merit, is the discussion about the delivery systems for the new modernized nukes. Creating duel capable missiles, bombers, and ICBMs is potentially destabilizing. But this is a choice we make in systems development. And their are relatively simple ways to ensure that no mistakes are made. For example, if we are going to build duel capable delivery systems, then we should take care to include observers from potential nuclear adversaries during the weapons deployment process; so, they can be assured that any duel capable system we want to use is armed only with conventional weapons and let them communicate that to their country's strategic command prior to our use of these weapons. People can argue that that is a security risk or many other problems. If that is such a big deal, then don't build duel capable delivery systems. But again, this is not an argument not to modernize, only that the path of modernization with duel capable delivery systems has a set of problems that the path with dedicated delivery systems does not.
[ALMANAR.LB] Malaysian police said on Sunday they had locked away Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! seven turbans belonging to the so-called '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 the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... group who were plotting violence, one of whom was in contact with an hard boy blamed for the deadly Jakarta attack.
Thirty rounds of ammunition was also seized along with books and videos about jihad and an ISIL flag during a series of raids around the country since Friday, national police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said in a statement.
The statement did not mention the confiscation of any weapons or explosives but said the group was planning attacks around Malaysia.
One of those arrested had been in communication with Indonesian hard boy Bahrun Naim, the statement said.
Naim is believed to be the founding member of a Southeast Asian offshoot of the ISIL group.
Indonesian police say Naim orchestrated - from ISIL-held territory in Syria - the gun and bomb assault in Jakarta on January 14 that killed eight people including the four attackers.
Two days after the Jakarta attack, Malaysian police said they arrested a man who was planning a suicide kaboom in Malaysia in the ISIL's name.
Security forces have been put on high alert in Malaysia in the wake of the Jakarta attack, which has been claimed by the ISIL group.
But concern has risen in the multi-faith nation, with authorities saying scores of Malaysians had gone to join the ISIL in Syria and Iraq.
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[Iran Press TV] Over 40,000 demonstrators in Moldova have taken to the streets demanding an early election.
The protesters braved the freezing cold winter in the capital Chisinau on Sunday to express their discontent with the government.
While the temperature was at -10 Celsius, people were seen holding placards with pictures that read, "Enough is enough" and were heard shouting; "We want the country back!" and "Unity, citizens!"
The rally was organized by several activist groups who were demanding that the government announce early election by January 28 or face acts of civil disobedience.
The demonstrators are angry about falling living standards that have left the average monthly salary at just 220 euros ($240). They blame pro-European political parties, in power since 2009, over failure to carry out reforms.
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The gunmen behind the Paris terror attacks have appeared in a newly released ISIL video in which they behead several unidentified hostages. The footage was shot before the attacks took place in November 2015 but was published on Sunday evening.
It is unclear when exactly the footage was filmed.
Among those who carry out the beheadings in the video is Bilal Hadfi, who was killed during the Paris attacks.
"You destroy our homes and kill our fathers, our brothers, our sisters, our mothers and our children," he says into the camera during the footage.
The video also features Abu Qital al-Faransi, his nom-de-guerre, who is believed to have been one of the gunmen who opened fire in the Bataclan.
"Whoever stands in the ranks of the kuffar (enemy), will be a target for our swords,” the video warned, showing pictures of Tower Bridge and St Paul’s Cathedral in London, claiming they were ready to strike “any time, anywhere”.
A few minutes later the face of John Bercow, the speaker of the House of Commons, appears on the screen with a crosshair over his face. Then the footage ends with the message "Whoever stands in the ranks of Kufr will be a target for our swords and will fall in humiliation" superimposed over an image of David Cameron.
It appears to be an account of the attackers' last words before they travelled to France to carry out the attack.
The film is more brutal than previous propaganda videos as it does not cut away before the victims are beheaded.
The video finishes with an encrypted massage dated Nov 16, 2015 which they say reveals the location of their next attack.
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[Iran Press TV] US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Henry L. Stimson ... has vowed to win the Democratic Party's nomination to "relieve" former New York City mayor and billionaire Michael Nanny Bloomberg of any thoughts of running for president. The race is wide open. Anybody with a few billion can get in.
"The way I read what he said is if I didn't get the nomination, he might consider it," Clinton told NBC News on Sunday. "Well, I'm going to relieve him of that and get the nomination so he doesn't have to [run]."
"He's a good friend of mine, and I'm going to do the best I can to make sure that I get the nomination, and we'll go from there," she added.
According to a report, Bloomberg is considering a third-party White House run if race comes down to Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... and Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.
The billionaire has advised friends and associates that he would be willing to spend at least $1 billion of his own money on a campaign for the November 2016 election, the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported on Friday, citing sources briefed on the former mayor's plans.
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The billionaire has advised friends and associates that he would be willing to spend at least $1 billion of his own money on a campaign for the November 2016 election...
Trump's also a billionaire, and he hasn't spent squat so far. A rational person with no chance whatsoever of winning would do no such thing, which is why I'm hoping he gets in!
[Iran Press TV] US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... has a slim lead over his rival, Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John Foster Dulles ... , in Iowa only a week before the caucuses there, a new online poll shows.
According to the CBS News "Battleground Tracker" survey, released on Sunday, Sanders has a 1 point lead over Clinton, 47 to 46 percent.
Former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley ...former Democratic governor of Maryland and aspiring presidential candidate, known locally as The One-Man Economic Wrecking Crew. O'Malley was elected to his second term driven by union support and near-Stalinesque vote margins in Baltimore city (82%) and Prince George's County (88%). He presided over more than 40 tax or fee increases, including a rain tax and a flush tax... has only 5 percent support.
In New Hampshire, Sanders, however, maintains his wide lead, 57 to 38 percent, according to the poll.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, the partisans of Honorius went for their knives and the partisans of Stilicho went for the doors... Clinton has a commanding lead over Sanders in South Carolina, 60 to 38 percent, the survey showed.
In a Democratic primary that appears to be tightening, Clinton has escalated its attacks on Sanders over his perceived inexperience with foreign policy.
In an interview with NBC on Sunday, Clinton acknowledged that her competition with Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination has become intensely personal.
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Democratic presidential nomination has become intensely personal
Really? Personal? Has anyone attacked her daughter's boyfriend's/husband's mother's past drug problem?
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Sanders has said yesterday that guns designed to kill people should be illegal and confiscated. Only hunting g guns should be allowed.
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Whoa, yokay, what did I miss - I'd just read on the Net of Pro-DemoSocialist Bernie/Sanders being ahead by 16 points of Hillary, which is not slim at all???
[Bangkok Post] A Thai ranger on patrol was shot and injured in Narathiwat province on Sunday afternoon.
At about 1:30 p.m., when a team of rangers were taking a break to eat under a large tree near a railway track in Rueso district. While patrol member Jirapong Phumirat was walking into the bushes, he was shot by militants hiding nearby. The sound of gunfire prompted other rangers to open fire. An exchange occurred for about two minutes before the militants fled.
[Iran Press TV] Yemen's 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 ... Ansarullah fighters and allied army units have killed at least eight Saudi soldiers in retaliation for the Arab kingdom's deadly aggression against their country.
According to Yemeni media reports, at least three soldiers were killed by sniper fire near Yemen's Midi region on the border with Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... 's Jizan Province on Sunday.
Five other Saudi forces were killed at the hands of Yemeni forces in a similar fashion in Jizan's al-Tawal region.
Fighters from the popular committees, backed by Ansarullah fighters, alongside Yemeni army soldiers are carrying out attacks against Saudi military positions in retaliation for Riyadh's deadly aggression against their country.
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[ARA News] QAMISHLI – At least three people were killed and a number of others wounded in a bomb attack claimed by the extremist group of Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria’s northeastern Kurdish city of Qamishli, local sources reported on Friday.
The attack took place on Friday evening in the mostly Christian neighborhood of Wista in central Qamishli.
ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack that was carried out with a motorcycle bomb.
“The blast hit the Bab al-Hara restaurant in the Miami Street of Wista neighborhood, killing three civilians and wounding nine others,” a member of the Kurdish security force of Asayish told ARA News in Qamishli. “Some of the wounded suffer serious injuries.”
This comes just one month after ISIS jihadis carried out deadly attacks in Qamishli, killing and wounding dozens of people.
On December 30, three separate bombs hit Qamishli city, causing the death of at least 16 civilians and the injury of more than 45 others.
Speaking to ARA News in Qamishli, Asayish officer Eytan Ferhad commented on the incident saying: “We won’t allow ISIS terrorists to destabilize our city. We will do everything we can to maintain the civil peace and security in Qamishli and other areas in this region.”
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[DAWN] The Afghan Taliban said Sunday that its "political office" in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... is the only entity authorized to carry out negotiations on its behalf, reinforcing the authority of the man who took control of the group amid a tussle over command following the death of long-time leader Mullah Mohammad Omar.
The Taliban made the declaration in a summary emailed by front man Zabihullah Mujahid of a statement it made during unofficial, closed-door talks taking place in the Qatari capital, Doha.
Calling itself the "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan," the group also laid out a series of demands including the release of an unspecified number of prisoners and the removal of senior members from a UN blacklist. It described the demands as "preliminary steps needed for peace."
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And next week the European PGA tour event is the Qatar Masters.
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AFAIC this is just more evidencia that the Taliban will fight the ISIS/ISIL trying to set up in AFPAK + CENTASIA in return for being granted Political Legitimacy, i.e. being legally or formally allowed by Kabul andor Islamabad to participate in Fed-Local level governace + elections.
[ARA News] HASAKAH – Militant fighters of the Islamic State (ISIS) launched on Sunday several attacks on headquarters of the western-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the northeastern province of Hasakah, military sources reported.
ISIS militants bombed a security center for the SDF near the town of al-Hawl in Hasakah province on the border with Iraq.
At least two SDF fighters were killed and five others were wounded.
“ISIS terrorists attacked our security center south of al-Hawl town that has been liberated by the Kurdish-Arab alliance three months ago. The terrorists used car bombs and mortar shells in the attack,” said Dijwar al-Kurdi, a Kurdish member of the SDF.
Al-Kurdi told ARA News that ISIS launched the attack from the direction of Shaddadi city –main ISIS bastion in Hasakah province.
Also on Sunday, the jihadi group targeted headquarters of the Kurdish forces of the YPG –leading member of the SDF– near Mount Abdulaziz (Kazwan) in Hasakah countryside.
“Subsequent to a suicide attack by an ISIS terrorist, clashes broke out between our (YPG) forces and ISIS militants, who were trying to infiltrate in the YPG-held villages in the vicinity of Mount Abdulaziz,” a spokesman for the YPG told ARA News in Hasakah. “Heavy machine guns were used in Sunday’s clashes.
The spokesman added that four ISIS militants were killed in the clashes, while one Kurdish fighter lost his life and two others were injured.
The targeted locations have been recently liberated by the Kurdish troops and allied rebels, supported by the U.S.-led coalition’s air cover.
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It seems President al Sisi's government is determined to get every single one of those troublesome Muslim Brothers as fast as can be done.
[AlAhram] Security forces raided the house, on the capital's western outskirts, after a tip that it was used as a storage space for improvised bombs
Egypt's police forces killed on Sunday a "terrorist" in the town of Kerdasa in Giza, after they engaged in a shootout when they were attempting to storm his house, Ahram Arabic news website reported.
Security forces raided the house, on the capital's western outskirts, after a tip
Mahmoud the Weasel feathers his Swiss accounts...
that it was used as a storage space for improvised bombs, which the police found upon entering the house.
The prosecution has moved to the house to further investigate the matter.
In 2013, Kerdasa was the scene of fierce festivities between security forces and Islamist supporters of deposed president Mohammed Morsi who dominated the district before police raided it to re-impose state control.
In recent months, Egyptian security forces have carried out dozens of raids on apartments where suspected or runaway Islamists forces of Evil were reportedly either hiding
Does Egypt have banana groves?
or preparing for "terrorist operations."
These raids have often ended with suspects being killed by police, who say they were met with gunfire upon arrival at the hideouts.
Oh -- it's a crossfire!
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These raids have often ended with suspects being killed by police, who say they were met with gunfire upon arrival at the hideouts.
Must be hard to gather additional intelligence; you know, dead men tell no tales. You couldn't nab someone when they stepped out for a cigarette?
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BURNS – Leaders of the armed protesters holding the national bird sanctuary on Tuesday plan to push their anti-government agenda in Grant County, whose sheriff recommends the government give in to two of their key demands.
Sheriff Glenn Palmer said in a statement to The Oregonian/OregonLive that "the government is going to have to concede something" to end the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
He said freeing a father-son ranching team from prison "would be a start. Sending the FBI home would be a start." He referred to the FBI's lead role in ending the refuge occupation.
"I just pray to God that cooler heads prevail and that no one gets killed," Palmer said.
The sheriff's endorsement of the militants' demands stunned law enforcement officials, most who would not publicly discuss the matter.
EU states could take more genuine refugees from Syria if they worked together better, the new head of the UN refugee agency has told the BBC.
Italian diplomat Filippo Grandi, who took over the post from Portugal's Antonio Guterres this year, was speaking on a visit to Lebanon.
Where's his office? I'd put a refugee camp right outside in the courtyard...
Mr Grandi also urged the EU to do more for Syrian refugees outside Europe.
EU leaders have warned of a crisis after more than a million migrants entered illegally last year.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls told the BBC this week: "If Europe can't protect its own borders, it's the very idea of Europe that could be thrown into doubt."
On Friday, his Dutch counterpart, Mark Rutte, warned: "When spring comes and the numbers quadruple, we cannot as the EU cope with the numbers any longer."
The new UN High Commissioner for Refugees has been meeting refugees in camps in Lebanon and Jordan. Speaking to the BBC's Quentin Somerville, Mr Grandi said: "Europe can absorb more genuine refugees if it would be better organised among the different member-states.
"However, we understand the predicament. It is a social and political predicament which is very serious."
The EU is drawing up plans to share the "burden" of refugees more evenly among member states, scrapping a controversial rule that means they must claim asylum in the first country they arrive in.
Hungary, one of the most vocal critics of migration policy, has dismissed the crisis as a "German problem" since Germany is where those arriving in the EU "would like to go".
Mr Grandi also urged the EU to "do more for the countries of first asylum" so there would be "less motivation for people to flee further away".
In other words, make Greek welfare just like German welfare. That might buy the cooperation of the Greeks...
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[InterAksyon] Suspected New People's Army militants attacked a police vehicle Sunday morning, triggering a firefight that left three policemen and two civilians wounded. All the casualties were aboard a police vehicle in Zamboanga del Norteo when the ambush occurred.
Chief Inspector Rogelio Alabata said, "The police personnel onboard Patrol Car (Mahindra) were going back to their station from mobile patrol duty. Along the way, two civilians hopped in to report for work at the municipal hall. Upon reaching Sitio Paringan they met a burst of gunfire. Our policemen were able to secure the safety of two civilians and even wounded they fought back against the rebels."
Under fire, the policemen sent a radio message to their station, which contacted the nearest Army camp for reinforcement. Before reinforcements arrived, the militants withdrew.
(IraqiNews.com) Salahuddin – On Sunday, Leader in al-Hashd al-Shaabi Jabbar al-Maamouri revealed, that a joint force managed to kill two fighters of the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) who tried to sneak into Makhoul Mountains north of Salahuddin Province.
Mamouri said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “A force from al-Hashd al-Shaabi and the Police killed two ISIS fighters who tried to sneak into Makhoul Mountains from the western area to attack the security forces.”
Mamouri added, “Makhoul Mountains became a graveyard for ISIS due to the heavy human losses that were inflicted on the organization.”
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[DAWN] PESHAWAR: Rubbishing circulating intelligence reports, Senior Superintendent Police Operations Abbas Majeed Marwat on Sunday denied that Qari Salahuddin, who was apparently targeted by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) earlier today, is a leader of the Kashmire-based Jamatud Dawa.
Salahuddin is an Afghan national who teaches at a local seminary, the SSP said, echoing DSP Khalid's earlier claim of the same.
Earlier in the day, an IED had detonated near Salahuddin's vehicle, injuring him and his driver-cum-guard, Abdul Shakoor, and a passerby, Deputy Superintendent Police Khalid said.
The remote-controlled bomb contained three kilograms of kaboom, Bomb Disposal Squad officials said.
Television footage showed a badly damaged car at the site of the kaboom, which was cordoned off as an investigation was initiated into the attack.
Intelligence sources had claimed the IED targeted Qari Salahuddin -- actually Syed Salahuddin -- a freedom fighter and leader of Kashmire-based Jamatud Dawa.
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Iran says it has signed a deal with Russia’s Lukoil over two exploration projects in the country’s southwestern oil-rich Khouzestan province, Press TV reported. Hormoz Qalavand, the director for exploration affairs of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), has been quoted by the media as saying that Lukoil is to look for hydrocarbon reserves in Dasht-e Abadan and the northern parts of the Persian Gulf.
Qalavand added that the value of the contract is about $6 million, stressing that the Russian company has already started the work over the projects. It will also take care of all the costs in both projects, the official added.
The Russian company and Norway's Statoil had won a deal to launch exploration operations in Anaran block in western Iran in 2003. Lukoil held a stake of 25 percent in the consortium and the remaining stakes belonged to Statoil. Their operations led to the discovery of oil in Azar and Changuleh fields in 2005. However, both had to pull out from Iran in 2011 after the US and Europeans intensified sanctions on Iran.
In December 2015, Lukoil President Vagit Alekperov was quoted by the media as saying that he had discussed the prospects for the company to return to Iran to develop Azar oil field. To the same effect, the company reopened its office in Tehran, with its first vice president Ravil Maganov saying the company looked forward to participating in Iranian energy projects.
Maganov said Azar would be Lukoil's primary focus but the company was studying geological data from other projects as well.
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Iran is holding talks with the US to re-launch direct flights between the two countries, Abbas Akhoundi, the Iranian Minister of Road and Urban Development said.
Sure, why not -- why inconvenience Iranian agents by making them change planes?
Referring to the negotiations on direct Iran-US flights, Farhad Parvaresh, Chairman and Managing Director of Iran Air, the Iranian flag carrier said that daily flights to New York used to take place before the 1979 Islamic Revolution and they will hopefully get resumed in near future.
Following the implementation of the nuclear deal in Jan. 16 Iran is now looking into the possibility of resuming direct flights to the United States in light of the removal of sanctions that have prohibited the country from doing so.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani pledged at the 68th session of the UN general assembly in New York in 2013 to facilitate travel to homeland for Iranian expatriates residing in the US. The US, and Los Angeles in particular, is home to hundreds of thousands of Iranian expatriates.
Travelers between Iran and the US currently have to change flights in a third country, usually in Europe or the Persian Gulf states.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A retired Pak senator Afrasiab Khattak has slammed Pakistain for allowing the Afghan Taliban to use its soil as a parallel government to Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... besides the group has stepped up terror attacks across the country including capital Kabul during the recent months.
The former Pak senator has harshly criticized Pakistain for adopting a dual speak in anti-terror policy, blaming it for the return of terror in Pakistain while pointing finger towards Islamabad following a deadly attack on Bacha Khan University in Charsadda area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
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[EXPRESS.CO.UK] They coded their language with musical references, often referring to “hits”. The conversation included boasts that a song would “climb up the charts” – a veiled reference to increases in jihadi recruits once the attacks had been launched.
It is thought the pilots were preparing to smuggle in explosive devices or chemical weapons. The messages were intercepted as they flew from a European airport, thought to be Schiphol, in Amsterdan, to Middle Eastern destinations.
They were unaware that Channel 121, the Mayday channel used to broadcast emergencies, was being monitored. Con granum salis test: Which channel would you expect to be most likely monitored?
It is believed that at least one of the airlines involved had already been placed on a UK aviation watchlist.
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It is plausible enough for most j school grads.
I am going to speculate that MI 6 has planted some agents deep in the islamic groups. Deeply penetrated. I can only imagine what incentives they used to turn the key personnel.
(hoping to kick off a big round of mole hunting and internal purges)
[IsraelTimes] Parliamentarian Hatem Qafisha and former minister Issa Al-Jabari among six men taken in for questioning overnight Saturday
IDF soldiers overnight Saturday tossed in the slammer Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! two prominent Paleostinians along with four others suspected of terror activities in the West Bank.
Hatem Qafisha, a Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, member of the Paleostinian Legislative Council, and Issa Al-Jabari, former Paleostinian minister of local government, were arrested in Hebron.
They have both been detained many times in the past by security forces. The two men were transferred to the Shin Bet security service for questioning.
Four other Paleostinians were arrested by the Israel Defense Forces in raids across the West Bank on suspicion of involvement in so-called "popular terrorism." Two were suspected members of the Hamas terror group, and two others were detained on suspicion of rock-throwing attacks.
[Chicago Tribune] East reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... City Councilman Robert Battle took the oath of office Friday from behind bars at the Porter County Jail. So we have a precedent for Hillary...
Battle was reelected to his council seat in November, one month after murder and drug charges were filed by the federal government..
Sheriff David Reynolds confirmed Saturday that an unnamed official was brought in to do the swearing-in for Battle, who is being held in federal custody at the Porter County facility.
"There is no reason for me to deny it legally," Reynolds said, adding he spoke to the U.S. marshal, who agreed. Battle could have chosen to be sworn in via video conferencing but opted for an in-person oath, Reynolds said..
Indiana law permits Battle to hold his seat -- and collect the $42,365 salary that it pays -- until he resigns, admits his guilt on any of the charges or is found guilty in court. Battle, a Democrat, ran unopposed in November and received 308 votes.
Michelle Fajman, director of Lake County's election board, confirmed Saturday that her office received Battle's paperwork Friday. Newly elected officials whose terms start Jan. 1 have until Jan. 30 to be sworn into office.
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Among some constituencies, jail time is a resume enhancer.
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So that was 6 Ward Heelers ACORN workers, 50 dead people apiece and two actual living voters? Still would have won by 2 votes if there was no competition.
[BARSTOOLSPORTS] The woman has been identified as 30-year-old Dr. Anjali Ramkissoon, a fourth-year neurology resident employed by Jackson Health System. aka Doctor Dipsy Doodle...
A post from the hospital citing Ramkissoon’s excellent levels of care for epilepsy patients has since been deleted. Oh, really? It turned out not to be excellent?
On review sites like Healthgrades.com and Vitals.com, listings for Ramkissoon as a doctor have been flooded with one-star reviews. But only since she turned into a harridan when she got drunk and disorderly?
Ramkissoon’s Facebook, Linkedin and Instagram accounts have also all been taken down in response to the backlash. So she can't go to Facebook and post something like "Jeezus Gawd, I was so sloshed I acted like a complete fooking idiot and I'm humiliated to the tips of my overpainted toe nails. I never want to show my face in public again but I gotta because I'm a neurologist in real life and the world needs neurologists and I'm a lot better at that than drinking."
Her employer Jackson Health System has also just released the following statement: "Ahem!Harrumph! Harrumph!"
“Anjali Ramkissoon, a fourth-year neurology resident employed by Jackson Health System, has been placed on administrative leave, effective immediately, and removed from all clinical duties. Afraid she's gonna show up drunk, are you? Does she do that often?
Jackson has launched an internal investigation. That sounds like it should involve barium...
The outcome of the investigation will determine if any disciplinary action will be taken, up to and including termination.” My guess is that it will, unless short attention span syndrome cuts in, which in the case of an obscure bottom of the totem pole Bitch M.D. it likely won't.
I’m not saying she deserved what was inevitably coming to her. I suppose giving an institution a bad name is a reason to fire a person, which was why Bill Clinton was forced from office... Oh. Wait. Never mind.
She’s a cunt, plain and simple. Fixed smile, next thing to an asshole...
She needs some sort of slap on the tits to get her back to reality. You'd think by her fourth year of residency she'd have spit out the pacifier and stopped having temper tantrums on the floor of Walmart.
However, does anybody else think ruining her entire life may be just a tad too much? People like Doctor Hootchie have their public temper tantrums because they're convinced they're ever so important, much more important than common folk like, say, Uber drivers.
Internet justice is RUTHLESS. It’s like the lynch mobs of the ol’ west. There is absolutely no mercy taken until somebody is hung from the gallows and shits their britches. The fact is, the child was bright enough to get into medical school, competent enough to make it through an internship, and a good enough resident to get written up for her work with epileptics. Other than the spoon in the mouth thing I have no idea what to do with a grand mal. I doubt most of the lynch mob does, too. Or either. I'm not sure which goes there.
Sure, she gets all the public shaming in the world for being such a bitch. When I was in grade school it woulda just been the pants pulled down on the playground. But judging from the Film at 11, she hadn't found somebody to pull her pants down, which was why she was grouchy.
But maybe think about not terminating her job as a potential neurosurgeon? There's a difference between the "gist" and the "surgeon," but the principle's the same: swatting a fly with a mallet.
I have zero idea if she’s a good brain person thingy, but what I do know is America could use all the best doctors we can get. Students tend to act stoopid like Doctor Hootchie did. Skilled medical professionals don't -- in public. It's kinda like the good old days, when the military had officers' and NCO clubs. Officers could and did get puke-in-the-gutter drunk and goose each other's wives without doing so in front of the enlisted men. NCOs could get puke-in-the-gutter drunk and do stoopid things without feeling the hairy eyeball of Officerdom on them the next morning. Now they have Community Clubs, mingling everybody from Private Last Class to General, and departing from the straight and narrow is a career terminator.
If she is decent with the noggin’, maybe she shouldn’t lose the 8+ years she’s already put into Medical School. I know she can fall back on her looks, but the world has enough Hooters girls. Most of whom look alike... Not that I have a compelling need to stand up for my profession, but I think the world's reaction to Dr. Ramkissoon is just a little over the top. Her behavior was akin to a spectacular car wreck -- you know you shouldn't watch but you will. Dr. R. did a flaming pyro one-car into a concrete abutment, then a tree, then a lamppost, then a deer, then another abutment style wreck. You'd think she was a Ho'wood actress or something.
Ok, we all looked. Now what?
If we shit-canned every resident who at one single point in life acted like an asshole I wouldn't be a doctor today. Just saying.
So how about we let her make a dignified public apology and let her program director put her on quiet probation the rest of the way through her training? And stop looking. Unless she wrecks again.
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"So how about we let her make a dignified public apology and let her program director put her on quiet probation the rest of the way through her training? And stop looking. Unless she wrecks again."
Agreed. Mob justice is just as ugly as anything Doc Rami did.
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Universities need to set up a course geared towards learning what kind of drunk you are. Give parties and film people under different levels of inebriation so folks know if they become total jerks, sluts, wanna fight everybody, or just smile and dance badly.
Once you know that you should be able to avoid incidents like Dr Hoochie's and if you do stumble into filmed drunken rant you deserve the outcome.
Having said that she's indian and thus a semi-protected class. They'll put her on leave or whatever until the heat is off and then put her back on duty with a warning.
(IraqiNews.com) Salahuddin – On Sunday, Defense Ministry media officials announced, that the Commander of suicide bombers’ battalion was killed in an aerial bombardment in Samarra Island, along with twenty members of the ISIS.
The Defense Ministry media officials said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “The Army Aviation, based on accurate intelligence information, shelled a hideout of ISIS leaders gathering, killing the so-called the Commander of ‘Dabeq suicide bombers’ battalion’ in Samarra Island.”
The statement added, “The bombardment also resulted in the killing of 20 ISIS members.”
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Iran is interested in buying over 100 aircraft from Boeing, deputy transport minister Asghar Fakhrieh Kashan told Reuters at Tehran's first major post-sanctions gathering of global business people.
Who sells the spare parts for the Tomcats these days?
Tehran has long said it will need to revamp an aging fleet, hit by a shortage of parts because of trade bans imposed by Washington and other Western countries. World powers last week lifted sanctions against the Islamic Republic in return for Tehran complying with a deal to curb its nuclear ambitions.
Next week Iran will tender an offer for the F-35, and Obama will express interest "for the jobs"...
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I don't think the Arabs who hold a minority interest in Boeing will like this.
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Just like the late Shah, go on a weapons and tech buying spree and blow money they do not really have.
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Whatever you sell to Iran better get the money before delivery. The Russians got stiffed and went on a cash basis for reactors.
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They may be producing more oil now, and they may be able to sell it on the open market now, but they're in the same boat as the rest of the oil world - selling more oil but making less money for it, so they crank open more wells to sell more oil so the price goes down and they make even less....
Hedge funds and private equity groups armed with $60bn of ready cash are poised to snap up the assets of bankrupt US shale drillers, almost guaranteeing that America’s tight oil production will rebound as soon as prices start to recover.
Long, long piece at The Telegraph with graphs and charts.
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Maybe, but not for the lack of trying. And they're sure wounding it.
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Procupius: keep in mind that we're currently closing down coal plants, which will increase oil/gas consumption, and make things easier for Saudi Arabia in the long run. (Oh, and also make steel more expensive to produce, therefore making stuff like drill pipe, casing, and tubing more expensive to produce and use in the US).
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I think that the EPA are Stalin's O's useful idiots in a sense. They think that they are environmental heroes, but they are enablers of the Saudis and the OPECers by shifting demand out of coal and some into imported oil.
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[AnNahar] Pro-government forces overran the last major rebel-held town in Syria's coastal Latakia province Sunday, as the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... prepares to host talks on ending the country's nearly five-year war.
State television said the army, working with pro-regime militia, took control of Rabia after heavy fighting with rebels.
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Investigations into nearly 60 allegations of unlawful killing against UK soldiers in Iraq have been dropped, the Ministry of Defence says. The Iraq Historic Allegations Team (Ihat) has decided not to proceed in 57 cases, the MoD said. A further case was stopped by the military's prosecuting authority.
The news follows a call by PM David Cameron to "stamp out" what he called "spurious" legal claims against British troops returning from action overseas. Ministers had been asked to draw up plans to curb claims, including by restricting "no win, no fee" arrangements, Mr Cameron said.
Lawyers say no-one is above the law, and many abuse cases have been proven.
IHAT was set up to review and investigate allegations of abuse made by Iraqi civilians against UK armed forces personnel in Iraq during the period of 2003 to July 2009. It currently lists more than 1,300 allegations under investigation, ranging from murder to low-level violence - some 280 of those are allegations of unlawful killing.
Conservative MP Richard Benyon, a member of the Commons Defence select committee, said innocent veterans were being unfairly targeted. He told The Sun: "It's an intolerable burden for people who have served their country well to face this knowing they're innocent."
But the Army's former chief legal adviser in Iraq, Lt Col Nicholas Mercer, has criticised plans to crackdown on legal claims against Iraq veterans, saying it was wrong "simply to polarise it as money-grabbing lawyers".
"The government have paid out £20m for 326 cases to date. Anyone who has fought the MoD knows that they don't pay out for nothing," he told the BBC's Today programme on Friday.
However, the £31m Al-Sweady inquiry, found in December 2014 that allegations that UK troops had murdered and mutilated Iraqi detainees after a 2004 battle were "deliberate lies".
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[IsraeliTimes] Two residents of town near Tulkarem carried out attack, while Paleostinian Authority employee helped hide the gun, Shin Bet says
Israeli forces captured a group of Paleostinians, including a member of the Paleostinian Authority intelligence service, whom they suspect in the shooting of an IDF soldier near Tulkarem last week, officials announced on Sunday.
The soldier was shot and lightly maimed when his unit came under fire during an early-morning raid in Danaba, near the West Bank city of Tulkarem. He was evacuated to a nearby hospital for treatment, while the rest of the troops returned fire and began searching the area for suspects, but were unable to find them immediately, the army said at the time.
The Shin Bet security service and the Israel Defense Forces then launched a joint operation to hunt down the shooters, which ended on Friday with the capture and arrest of three Danaba residents. The security forces also found and confiscated the weapon allegedly used in the attack, the Shin Bet said.
Ammar Anbass, a 27-year-old who had previously served time in an Israeli prison,
...so he won't have any trouble adjusting to coming "home"...
Couldn't handle life on the outside, could he...
and Samer el-Haq, 30, were believed to have carried out the attack against the IDF soldiers.
Alaa Barqawi, a member of the Paleostinian intelligence service, assisted Anbass and el-Haq after the fact, hiding the gun they used, the Shin Bet alleged.
"During the investigation, the operatives confessed to plotting and carrying out the shooting and surrendered the weapons used for the attack," the IDF said in a statement.
It was not immediately clear if Anbass and Barqawi were associated with any larger terror organizations or if they acted independently.
[IsraelTimes] No injuries or damage reported in retaliatory strikes after rocket hits open area near border with Paleostinian enclave
Israeli warplanes struck the Gazoo Strip early Monday morning in response to a rocket fired at southern Israel on Sunday evening.
The Israeli Air Force struck targets near the cities of Khan Younis and Deir al Balah in the south and center of the Gazoo Strip, Paleostinian sources in the coastal territory said. The IDF said it hit a training facility belonging to Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,'s armed wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades in the central Gazoo Strip in retaliation for the rocket fired at southern Israel.
The IDF said Sunday's was the third rocket fired at Israel since the beginning of 2016.
There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
One rocket was shot from Gazoo at southern Israel Sunday evening, landing harmlessly in an open field.
No injuries or damage were reported, the IDF said in a statement.
Sirens rang out in the Shaar Hanegev region bordering the Paleostinian enclave just before 9 p.m., sending people running for shelter.
Area residents reported hearing at least one large boom. The rocket landed in an open field outside of settled areas, according to initial reports.
The army said it was investigating the incident.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Though sporadic rocket attacks are often claimed by small Salafi groups, Israel holds Hamas responsible for all strikes and generally responds with a pro-forma strike on Hamas facilities in the Strip.
The attack came less than a day after a rocket was shot from Gazoo but failed to make it into Israeli territory.
Tensions with Gazoo have escalated since an Israeli Arclight airstrike on a Paleostinian cell the army said was on its way to plant an bomb along the border fence.
One man was killed in the strike and three more were maimed, according to Hamas, which vowed Dire Revenge and claimed the attack came not from an aircraft but from an Israel Navy ship.
In early January, Israel Air Force fighter jets conducted several air raids on Hamas targets in the northern Gazoo Strip after at least two rockets fired from the Paleostinian enclave landed in open areas near the southern city of Sderot
Recently the Israeli Army has been deploying artillery batteries along the border with Gazoo amid fears of an increase in violence on the frontier.
[Iran Press TV] A massive manhunt to detain an accused murderer and two other Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, prisoners who broke out on Friday has entered its third day.
Hossein Nayeri, 37, Jonathan Tieu, 20, and Bac Duong, 43, beat feet from the Orange County jail and were last spotted early Friday morning, Sheriff Sandra Hutchens said in a statement Sunday, Rooters reported.
"The three escapees ... are dangerous criminals," she warned.
To make their way out, the trio designed a master plan to cut through steel bars, climb through a plumbing tunnel and then lower themselves down four stories using bed sheets, according to the Orange County Register.
Authorities said they had yet to ascertain whether the prisoners had any outside help in making their escape, the newspaper said.
"All indications are that the inmates escaped the jail and have fled the area," the sheriff's department said in a Friday statement.
Nayeri is accused of kidnapping and torturing a marijuana dispensary owner with three other accomplices, the Register said. Prior to the escape, he was being held in the jail without bail since September 2014.
Tieu were tossed into the calaboose at the facility since October 2013, charged with a gang-related murder.
Duong is charged with attempted murder and was being held at the jail without bail since last month.
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Hossein Nayeri, cut off the penis of a man who owned a marijuana dispensary and drove off with the penis so it couldn’t be reattached!
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Slereper Speaking for Boskone1015 nailed it. Using his statement as the search tem, google turned up this useful round-up of facts about our three seriously unloveable miscreants. (link)
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – The Kurdistan Democratic Party announced on Saturday, that 18 fighters of the so-called the Islamic state in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) were killed in an aerial bombardment carried out by the international coalition aviation backed by the Peshmerga forces in the center of Mosul city in Nineveh Province (405 km north of Baghdad).
The Kurdistan Democratic Party’s Spokesman in Mosul Saeed Mamouzini said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “Today, international coalition aviation carried out air strikes on ISIS headquarters in the neighborhoods of al-Quds, Kokgli and al-Karama in the center of Mosul, killing ten ISIS fighters.”
Mamousini added, “A force from the Peshmerga forces bombed a gathering of ISIS fighters in Bashiqa area (17 km north of Mosul) with artillery, killing eight fighters of the ISIS.”
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[Iran Press TV] Fearless Leader of the Islamic Revolution ...Iran's doddering head theocrat... Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei ...the successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the actual dictator of Iran... has commended as timely and praiseworthy the "brave" move by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) forces in arresting US Marines who trespassed into Iran's territorial waters.
Ayatollah Khamenei received on Sunday the IRGC naval forces who incarcerated Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! 10 US sailors after their patrol boats entered the country's territorial waters on January 12.
The Leader stated that the praiseworthy measure by the IRGC forces stemmed from their faith and courage and was taken in the right time.
Ayatollah Khamenei added that the capture of the US sailors "was in fact an act of God, who brought the Americans into our waters so they would be arrested with their hands on their heads through your timely measure."
On January 13, the IRGC announced that ten US Marines, who had drifted into the country's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf and had been taken into Iranian custody, had been released after Americans apologized for the incident.
Earlier the same day, Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi, the commander of the IRGC Navy, said two US Navy crafts carrying 10 Marines had reached three miles into the waters surrounding the Farsi Island in the Persian Gulf.
Fadavi added that the trespassing occurred because of technical problems with the navigation systems of the American vessels.
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"Was in fact an Act of God" > CLOSE ENUFF, AS PER 1960'S-1970'S GUAM TAOTAMONAS + MADONNA VIDEOS.
Not unlike the Not-Yet-Built "New" = Future "Old Agana McDonald's", Al Gore's M-16, + Nekkid Monica Lewinsky, etc. many of the USN Sailors weren't even born yet but God, Madonna, + My Ancestors includ Pre-cestors knew about it.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has promised to "bury" the Islamic State (IS) militant group, whose local offshoot has clashed with government forces and Taliban fighters. In a BBC interview, Mr Ghani said IS was "not an Afghan phenomenon" and its atrocities had "alienated the people".
"Afghans are now motivated by revenge," he said. "They [IS] have confronted the wrong people."
Mr Ghani also called for anti-IS action at regional and international level.
"There is no denial that we are dealing with very significant risks," he said, during a visit to the World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski resort of Davos.
"A lot of my diplomacy has been to create the regional consensus, and a region with the inheritance of previous animosities and short-sighted behaviour is something that is going to require effort and focus."
The US state department said last week that it had designated the IS offshoot in Afghanistan as a terrorist organization. It said the group had formed in January last year and was made up of former members of the Pakistani Taliban and Afghan Taliban.
In other comments, Mr Ghani warned that if peace talks with the Taliban did not start by April the conflict would intensify, with consequences across the region.
"Time is not a friend," he said. "We all understand that February and March are crucial."
The Afghan president said observers should understand that the war in his country was "just one component" of a wider war that also encompassed Pakistan. He suggested Pakistan should take action against Taliban groups that did not agree to talks.
"We need to see that we have common interests and we need to act together to preserve the state system and consolidate it," he said.
Asked what message he had for Afghan migrants arriving in Europe, Mr Ghani said: "What I say to them is that you have no future in Europe. Europe is shutting down its borders.
"You've just had an interview with the French prime minister - broadcast that to them. The future is Afghanistan."
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Antonio Ereditato, spokesman for the international group of researchers, said that measurements taken over three years showed neutrinos pumped from CERN near Geneva to Gran Sasso in Italy had arrived 60 nanoseconds quicker than light would have done.
Neutrinos are smaller than photons, so naturally they have less friction. Honestly, the science is settled, guys.
"We have high confidence in our results. We have checked and rechecked for anything that could have distorted our measurements but we found nothing," he said. "We now want colleagues to check them independently."
If confirmed, the discovery would undermine Albert Einstein's 1905 theory of special relativity, which says that the speed of light is a "cosmic constant" and that nothing in the universe can travel faster.
That assertion, which has withstood over a century of testing, is one of the key elements of the so-called Standard Model of physics, which attempts to describe the way the universe and everything in it works.
The totally unexpected finding emerged from research by a physicists working on an experiment dubbed OPERA run jointly by the CERN particle research centre near Geneva and the Gran Sasso Laboratory in central Italy.
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Friend at Brookhaven National Labs doesn't believe anything this group says. They keep announcing this and problem's keep being found. Last announcement was disproved by a loose fiber optics connector.
Friend says the whole Hi-Energy physics group at CERN is very fractured. Lots of in-fighting ...
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Friend at Brookhaven National Labs doesn't believe anything this group says. They keep announcing this and problem's keep being found. Last announcement was disproved by a loose fiber optics connector.
Sounds like the Paradox Prevention Principle is working.
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TW, it seems you are fully qualified as a global warming scientist. ;-)
Had I been in charge, we would have enjoyed the benefits of the warm side of the cycle, while preparing for the cold side to come, gorb dear, but where's the obscene profits in that?
This is an old story (2011?), since determined (IIRC) to be false due to equipment-related issues.
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This isn't news. The article is dated 7:46PM BST 22 Sep 2011. I understand that mistakes happen, ok, but why it still on the 'burg? Come on mods, can't you just pull the link when this happens?
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This isn't news. The article is dated 7:46PM BST 22 Sep 2011. I understand that mistakes happen, ok, but why it still on the 'burg? Come on mods, can't you just pull the link when this happens?
My policy is to keep the post up if someone has commented on it. Someone did.
[IsraelTimes] The first of a total of 153 Iraqi Christians who have been offered asylum in the Czech Republic have arrived in Prague.
The government approved the group's request for help because they were threatened by the aggression of 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.... hard boys. They originally used to live near djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... in Iraq.
Ten of them landed at Prague's international airport on Sunday and were to be taken to a hotel near the central city of Jihlava, where they will spend a couple of months.
The government will share the expenses for their move to the Czech Republic with NGOs, and religious institutions will help them settle in the country.
They will be allowed to stay after the current conflict is over.
The Czechs oppose an EU mandatory plan to redistribute 120,000 asylum-seekers among the bloc's 28 nations but say they want to help on a voluntary basis.
[AnNahar] While Germany is still taking in around 2,000 refugees a day, it is now denying entry to about 200 others daily at its borders, the interior minister said Sunday.
Yes, but are they respecting that, or are they walking across an unguarded field somewhere? Still, it's a start. Next y'all need to actually send home those whose asylum applications are turned downninstead of just telling them they ought to leave.
The tighter border controls come after the EU's top economy last year took in a record 1.1 million refugees and migrants, straining resources and sparking heated political debate.
"People who are fleeing war and persecution are offered security and protection in Germany," the minister, Thomas de Maiziere, told the newspaper Bild am Sonntag.
"But that also means that those who do not seek this protection from us are refused entry at the border.
"Anyone who doesn't want to apply for political asylum in Germany and wants to illegally enter Germany has no right to be here."
So far this year, federal police had rejected up to 200 people a day, he said -- compared to just 400 people in all of October when border controls and registration procedures buckled under a mass influx.
Those now sent back include people who want to apply for asylum in other European countries.
The ministry said that so far this year, despite winter, about 2,000 refugees had arrived every day. Police now had the capacity to register 3,500 refugees a day at the borders, the ministry said.
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Dats strange, JAPAN repor rejects 99% of them - the only migrants accepted are those whom are thoroughly vetted + possess skills important to Japan.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – On Sunday, Federal Police Chief Lieutenant General Raed Shaker Gawdat announced, that 11 fighters of the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have been killed, while four defense sites were destructed east of Ramadi.
Gawdat said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “Today, a federal police force attacked four defense sites belonging to the ISIS in Husaiba area (7 km east of Ramadi).”
Gawdat added, “The police force was able to kill 11 fighters of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and wounded 6 others, while destroyed their defense sites in Husaiba area.”
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – Iraqi Federal Police announced on Sunday, that 17 ISIS fighters were either killed or wounded in a security operation west of Ramadi (110 km west of Baghdad).
The Federal Police Chief Raed Shakir Jawdat said in a statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “A force from the police’s 18th brigade stationed south west of Ramadi was able to repel an attack carried out by ISIS, while managed to destruct a booby-trapped vehicle belonging to the organization.”
Jawdat added, “A force from the Federal Police was able to launch pre-emptive attacks in Husaiba area west of Anbar on ISIS site, killing 11 ISIS members and injuring six others, as well as destroying four defense sites for ISIS.”
Noteworthy the majority of Anbar’s cities were controlled by ISIS until the security forces begun wide cleansing operations and managed to retake large parts of Ramadi after fierce combats.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – On Sunday, Anbar police Chief Major General Hadi Rezeig announced the arrest of 190 suspects of links with the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), while pointed out that Anbar police has the evidences that prove the involvement of the suspects.
Rezeig said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “The security forces managed to liberate the city of Ramadi and were able to arrest 190 suspects who helped ISIS in targeting the security forces and civilians in Ramadi.”
The police Chief added, “An investigation committee belonging to Anbar police are currently interrogating these criminals based on proofs and evidences.”
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[Chicago Tribune] Three men are facing gun charges after a shootout erupted in a busy Gurnee intersection Thursday afternoon, police said.
All three men charged were in the same vehicle. The shooter from a second vehicle was not charged because he had a concealed carry permit, police said.
William Meyer, deputy chief of the Gurnee Police Department, said both vehicles were traveling west on Washington Street when "the guns came out" at Greenleaf Street shortly after 1 p.m.
"It's hard to say exactly what happened. No one really wanted to say," Meyer said.
Nobody else was in the vehicles, according to Meyer, who said "there doesn't appear to be any connection" between the gunnies on either side of the shootout.
Police only recovered two guns, but Meyer said all three men were charged with the same crimes because they were involved in the same shooting, even if they had different roles.
Hector C. Arroyo, 36, Alvaro Ruiz, 28, and Ramon Corona, 23, all of Waukegan, have been charged with aggravated discharge of a firearm, unlawful use of a weapon as a felon, unlawful use of a weapon as a gang member, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon with no FOID, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon with no concealed carry license, and mob action, police said.
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I wonder if the felons were legal citizens, or awaiting the Obama pardon.
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FOID =Firearm Owner Identification Card, one if Illinois onerous control mechanisms whereby you submit a passport style photo to the State Police one they return to you a card using the photo on your drivers license... WTF happens to the photo submitted? ...my guess stored in a special facial recognition data base of extreamists exercising second ammemdment rights. And we can all see from Chicagos toe tag count just how effective it is.
[ALMANAR.LB] The Saudi ministry of education ordered the withdrawal of all the books written by the Lion of Islamholy man Salman al-Awda and all the Moslem Brüderbundholy mans, including Yousuf Qaradawi, from the scholastic bookshops.
According to the Saudi al-Hayat newspaper, the ministry said that it banned all the "terrorism" books, claiming that it would take similar actions against all the publications which contradict with Islamic Sharia'a.
Around 80 books issued by the Moslem Brüderbund had been banned by the ministry of Education in the various Saudi provinces.
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"Mommy has a burka and a RPG. Daddy has a beard and an AK-47."
Oh, sorry; "that conflict with Islamic Sharia'a". My bad.
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MIRANSHAH: At least 17 suspected terrorists were killed in fresh air strikes carried out by the Pakistan Air Force in the tribal areas on Sunday.
According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistan Army, the jets targeted the terrorist hideouts in the Data Khel and Shawal areas near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, killing 17 suspected terrorists.
Earlier on January 8, several local and foreign militants were killed in air strikes in the border region of North Waziristan, officials said.
Civil officers in the political administration said that 38 militants were killed in the strikes that targeted terrorist hideouts in Meezar and Sherani areas on the Afghanistan border.
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Chimney smoke is a dead giveaway.
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A police source announced on Sunday, that seven civilians including women were either killed or wounded in the explosion of an improvised explosive device in a popular market in southern Baghdad.
The source said in a statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “This morning, an improvised explosive device emplaced inside al-Yusufiya popular market in al-Yusufiya District in southern Baghdad exploded, killing one civilian and wounding six others including three women.”
The source on condition of anonymity added, “A security force cordoned off the area and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital to receive treatment and the dead body to the forensic medicine department, while started an investigation into the circumstances of the incident.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – On Sunday, a source in the Ministry of Interior announced, that ten people had been either killed or wounded in a bomb blast west of Baghdad.
The source said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “This afternoon, a bomb exploded near shops in Abu Ghraib District west of Baghdad, killing two people and injuring eight others.”
The source, on condition of anonymity, added, “A security force rushed to the area and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment and the dead bodies to the forensic medicine department, while imposed a security cordon around the incident area.”
Silent souls make 7.62mm holes. One can only hope.
Wouldn't it be lovely if it were the CIA or an obscure Special Forces team?
Today it was being reported that a lone sniper in Sirte, who had operated in Tripoli to deadly effect in the last days of the Qaddafi regime, has today killed the third member of IS in ten days.
According to unconfirmed social media reports, an IS commander, Abdullah Hamad Al-Ansari, who comes from Obari, "Y'ain't from around hyere, air yew?"
was killed by a sharpshooter on Saturday as he left a city centre mosque. Ansari was rushed the hospital where he died.
There are reports of subsequent intensive IS searches for the sniper in nearby buildings, but it is being said that the triggerman was not to be found. It is being claimed that Ansari was his third victim in the last ten days, though no details of his other two victims are clear.
The sniper, whoever he is, has already acquired an unlikely reputation on social media. He is being fingered as the unidentified individual who in 2011 wreaked havoc in Tripoli among Qaddafists in the closing days of the regime.
Sniping is a very specialised art. Besides the ability to stalk and home in on a selected target, with all the essential preliminary intelligence that that requires, a sniper also needs both initial concealment and a feasible evacuation plan once the shot has been taken. If it is indeed the case that there is a sniper operating in Sirte, then it somewhat undermines the IS claims that they have total control of Qaddifi’s old home town. The killer appears to have been able to disappear into a safe location.
One military analyst told the Libya Herald: ” There are all sorts of sniper weapons out there. The Americans tend to go for heavy, stable killing platforms whereas the Russian Dragunova is the exact opposite. You could shin up a tree, take your shot and be back down again with no great effort”.
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1) ...as he left a city centre mosque.
Well, that makes sense - target rich environment and all that.
2) Question for Rantburgers - my apologies for my ignorance, but can a sniper work without a spotter, even if he has the target worked out in advance? Canuckistan sniper, can you comment on this (see below)?
3) As the military analyst notes in the last paragraph, what differences are there between U.S. / Russian (and other) sniper outfits and techniques? If revealing stuff's not kosher, I'm fine with that.
I used to ride road bikes with this guy I called Sarge; he's supposedly a former Marine sniper for eight years, but I never checked it out (I never had a reason to doubt him). Given the timeline, it had to be Iraq where he served. We never talked about what he did, because I know not to ask about that sort of thing. Both of us did like to draft trucks, though!
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Reading from Russian military forums during the Donetsk Civil War in 2014-2015, a lot of Russians think that spending all that money and all those many weeks of intense training for one man to make a shot between 600 and 1,200 meters is a waste of resources. They said they can train a six man mortar team in one day and hit their target from three miles away.
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A match grade Model 70 with a zoom sight and shooting hot 370 or 308 rounds in the hands of a Montana Antelope hunter is about as effective as some snipers...
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#1 Raj: Answer to your main query is "Yes . . . . but". Someone working for any organized body will have a spotter because that's what organizations desire. Someone working on their own maybe not so much.
Consider the following points.
If working on unfamiliar ground a spotter will be a great asset. If working on REALLY familiar ground a spotter can become a burden in a hurry depending upon target, terrain, proposed egress route, etc.
If I'm looking for you where you live, I want a spotter with me. If you're looking for me where I live, and I realize it, I want to be solo.
Last year, eggs were declared safe. After demonizing the cholesterol in them for a generation, nutritionists finally acknowledged that there was overwhelming scientific evidence that eggs were not artery-clogging killers after all. For thirty years, my Father-in-law, who grew up on a farm, was forbidden to eat eggs. The last ten years of his life, he took a statin pill, instead.
But wait. What's this? The government's latest nutrition guidelines came out this month, and they're not egg-friendly. They say people should consume as little cholesterol as possible. That's even stricter than the 2010 standard allowing 300 milligrams a day, about the amount in one egg.
Scientists are supposed to change their minds when confronted with new evidence ‐ whether it's reclassifying Pluto as not quite a planet or admitting that Neanderthals contributed to the modern human gene pool. Also, not keep ranting that the science is settled, which would've kept Einstein from superseding Galileo. When it comes to diet, though, even scientists sometimes get stuck in a rut. Then they drive the rest of us into a baffling morass of nutrition advice, in which the cholesterol paradox is a world-class stumper. Why would the same nutrition scientists who said last year that "cholesterol is not considered a nutrient of concern for overconsumption" keep warning people not to eat it? I told you - it's a religion!
The answer lies in some of the less-than-scientific beliefs held by nutritionists. Underlying their endeavor is the faith that there are good foods and bad foods ‐ and that by strictly avoiding the bad foods we can conquer heart disease, cancer and perhaps put off death itself.
That faith has led them to warn people away from anything that presents even the remotest possibility of causing harm. It's a misuse of the precautionary principle: the idea that substances should be treated as dangerous until scientifically proven to be safe. Climate change, for example.
The problem with applying the precautionary principle to food is that it fails to take account of alternatives. When told not to eat one thing, we reach for something else. Provisional evidence that butter and cream caused heart attacks led to increased consumption of margarine and nondairy creamer instead. Many heart attacks and bypass operations later, research determined that the trans fats in these substances were much worse. Is the Law of Unintended Consequences really a (settled)scientific law?
The health strictures against eggs went along with a general demonization of fats. So for years people ate more carbohydrates ‐ a prescription that many experts now admit played a role in the current epidemic of obesity and Type 2 diabetes. Scientists painted such a fearsome picture of fat and cholesterol, said one heart specialist, that gummy bears and other candies were being promoted because they were fat-free.
Meanwhile, there was never good evidence that eggs had more than a minor effect on blood cholesterol or that eating them in moderation was harmful. Top heart specialists such as Dan Rader at the University of Pennsylvania say humans break down most of the cholesterol in food. Most of the cholesterol in the bloodstream is made in the liver. The body uses it to make everything from cell membranes to sex hormones.
Some people develop abnormally high blood cholesterol because the mechanism for cleaning up the excess gets broken. The biggest risk factors for inadequate cleanup are genes, trans fats and, to a lesser extent, saturated fats. Not eggs. But we were eating trans-fats instead of eggs, thanks to the USDA.
Why can't the guidelines reflect this? The USDA's explanation is that foods high in cholesterol also have lots of saturated fat. But that's misleading. Eggs have very little saturated fat. The same goes for shrimp and shellfish ‐ which, contrary to conventional wisdom, might not even be high in cholesterol.
Oh, and about those saturated fats found in meat, poultry, cheese and butter ‐ the kind the French eat while remaining quite healthy. Their deadly reputation might be exaggerated or undeserved. Wine. Ya gotta drink lotsa wine!
Much of the science of saturated-fat risk does not come from experiments. Instead, it's based on observational studies that rely on self-reporting, which is notoriously unreliable. Steve Nissen, head of cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic, said he doesn't believe science knows yet whether saturated fats belong on the bad list and unsaturated fats on the good. Other experts agree. Did anybody ask Michael Mann? James Hansen?
The reaction of many nutritionists was to say that the USDA didn't make its recommendations scary enough. They blamed the food industry. (The egg lobby must have been out on a company picnic.) But if the nutritionists had their precautionary way, we'd all be subsisting on kale salad. With no cheese ‐ and no assurance of living better or longer.
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Looks like the science of nutrition / health is not only not "settled", it's not even "science".
Almost all the pro carb, pro vegetable oil studies were funded by the big food companies. Big pharma benefits from all the chronic ailments caused by these foods and the drugs they sell to fix the symptoms. Win win for both.
I recommend:
Why we get fat and What to do about it by Gary Taubes. All about insulin and its effects.
Bullet Proof Diet by Dave Asprey. Where to get the best fats.
And getting off yer a$$ and get moving around.
Ive lost 65 lbs and my blood works went from bad to "perfect" according to my doctor.
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Big pharma benefits from all the chronic ailments caused by these foods and the drugs they sell to fix the symptoms. Win win for both.
And when the proles begin to learn about the bad effects, we'll simply provide them the food at no charge and spread the health costs around on everyone else through some form of national health insurance.
Problem is once stuck with a label it always remains. DX Diabetes for example. Smokers who haven't smoked in twenty years are told your medical problem is because you had smoked.
I say again some of the oldest people were and are smokers. Government at work here*. Perhaps politicians looking for the big score. Oral and lung cancers among people who never smoked or chewed tobacco products. I remember a wealthy young man with a wife and two small children. Went for his yearly complete medical exam. An X ray of his lungs destroyed much of the tissue for gas exchange. Poor man on oxygen 24 hours a day. He died. I have seen high altitude pilots have destroyed lung tissue being on 100% oxygen. So as my Dad would have said, all in moderation. Ah but genetics, now there's the rub.
* Government authorized and required chemicals that are known hazardous to health in drinking water. Think of it, aerosol breathing treatment with every shower.
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While doing a little refresher on Lysenko, I stumbled across this gem from two years ago - Forbes article.
I just had to share this part: Despite claims by global warming Lysenkoists that soon children “won’t know what snow is,” on February 6, 2010, a blizzard covered the northeastern U.S. with 20 to 35 inches of snow. Three days later another 10 to 20 inches were added.
I was in Northern Virginia for that one, but enjoyed 60 degrees yesterday in North Texas.
And this reminder - Lysenkoism was “politically correct” (a term invented by Lenin) because it was consistent with certain broader Marxist doctrines.
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And yet the census date shows more and more people living longer. They're all not tethered to life sustaining machines.
The normal for thousands of years was famine and hunger. That has largely been vanquished. We don't know what 'normal' is and are engaged in defining what it 'should' be.
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The food pyramid with all the grains that went with it did a lot of damage to Americans and it was based entirely on electoral votes in farm country rather than science.
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Well said BrerRabbit - in my opinion big pharma should fund obamas healthcare conundrum seeing as they caused, with federal backing , the long term chronic health issues like obesity or diabetes . They sold it to a trusting , gullible public .
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So did the USDA, whose policies are effectively dictated by the processed food industry. Big Pharma just helpfully supplies "solutions" to problems created by Big Food. It's all a giant circle jerk, that relies on keeping Americans fat, sick, and dependent on government. The whole fraud would collapse if everyone was healthy.
Iff future Astronauts, Etal. have to recycle their natural bodily wastes for food-n-water, etc. in order to survive deep space travel, or make the Kessel Run in 14 = 12 Parsecs like Hans Solo + Chewy in the "Millenium Falcon", WELL D *** NG IT SO CAN THE NON-SPACE-TRAVELING, STAY-AT-HOME HOME FOLKS BACK ON TERRA GAIA!?
Iraq summoned the new Saudi ambassador on Sunday after he suggested Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias were exacerbating sectarian tensions and should leave the fight against Islamic State to the Iraqi army and official security forces.
Baghdad's move underscores the depth of enmity between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslim powers as sectarian conflicts rage in Syria, Yemen and Iraq. Riyadh only reopened its embassy in Baghdad last month, shut down since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
In an interview with Iraq's al-Sumaria TV on Saturday, Saudi envoy Thamer al-Sabhan criticized the Hashid Shaabi, a coalition of mostly Iranian-backed Shi'ite paramilitary groups seen as a bulwark against the Sunni militants of Islamic State whose rise has inflamed sectarian tensions in Shi'ite-majority Iraq.
"The refusal by the Kurds and (the Sunni province of) Anbar to let the Hashid Shaabi come to their regions shows that the Hashid is not accepted by Iraqi society," Sabhan said.
Iraq's foreign ministry called the remarks "a break of diplomatic protocol and based on inaccurate information".
"The Hashid Shaabi are fighting terrorism and defending the country's sovereignty and acting under the umbrella and command of the commander-in-chief of the armed forces," it said in a statement.
In a separate statement, the ministry said the foreign ministers of both countries had met on Sunday on the sidelines of a conference in Bahrain and rejected Sabhan's remarks.
"The Saudi foreign minister said these statements do not reflect the official position of the kingdom towards brotherly Iraq," the statement said.
There was no immediate report of the minister's comments on the Saudi state news agency.
So the Soddi foreign minister didn't disavow the comments at home...
Earlier Iraqi Shi'ite lawmakers accused Sabhan of meddling in domestic affairs, including recent violence in eastern Diyala province where Sunni mosques and residents were attacked in apparent retaliation for blasts targeting Shi'ite militia fighters claimed by Islamic State.
"If such interference is repeated, there will be calls to declare the ambassador persona non grata and demand that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia replace him," Khalid al-Assadi, a member of parliament's foreign affairs panel, said by phone.
Local media published similar comments from other Shi'ite lawmakers.
"He should be expelled immediately or else he could meet dire consequences," Awatef Nemah from the ruling Shi'ite bloc told al-Sumaria, without elaborating.
Dire Consequences -- is that like Dire Revenge™?
The reopening of the Saudi embassy in Baghdad has been seen as heralding closer cooperation in the fight against Islamic State militants, who control swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria and have claimed bombings in Saudi Arabia.
But it has also coincided with a fresh escalation of tensions between Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia and Shi'ite Iran, longtime regional rivals, after Riyadh executed a prominent Shi'ite cleric this month.
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[AlAhram] The attack comes hours before the anniversary of the 25 January Revolution, Monday
Three security personnel were killed and two civilians injured earlier Sunday when unknown assailants attacked a checkpoint located in the Lower Egypt Delta governorate of Sharqiya, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.
Police investigations revealed that the assailants, riding two cycle of violences, attacked a security checkpoint located in Sharqiya's town of Fakous, leaving three low ranking coppers killed and two passersby injured, Al-Ahram reported.
The incident comes hours before the fifth anniversary of the 25 January Revolution and amid tight security measures nationwide imposed by the interior ministry and armed forces.
Several calls for protests to mark the revolution have been made on social media. It remains unclear whether such calls will materialise into demonstrations, which are illegal without prior police permission.
The Egyptian military deployed Friday to assist police in securing state institutions and vital facilities, according to an official statement released by the Egyptian army.
The official army front man said in a statement Friday that the military had been dispatched to aid the interior ministry's security apparatus in protecting citizens and securing vital facilities, including main roads in Greater Cairo and other parts of the country, adding that air force and border guards are to secure the country's borders, to stop the "infiltration of criminals and outlaws through borders."
The identities of the attackers, who expeditiously departed at a goodly pace, were not immediately known but police enjugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! three suspects in the area.
[Iran Press TV] Israeli former President Shimon Peres has been rushed to hospital for chest pains, a week after being treated for a heart attack.
Emergency medics went hurriedly to the 92-year-old's residence on Sunday night, when he reported that he was experiencing heart problems, Times of Israel online newspaper reported.
Iran PressTV monitors The Times of Israel??? This truly is an age of miracles!
According to his spokeswoman, Ayelet Frisch, paramedics performed electrocardiography on him at home and detected "light irregular heart rate", but decided that he should stay overnight at Sheba Medical Center outside Tel Aviv for more observation and testing.
Update from The Times of Israel at 9:40 a.m. ET: He's doing fine, The mild heart arrhythmia is stabilized, but they're keeping him at the hospital a bit longer just in case, and because Israel is sharing the winter storm sweeping the region, so roads are being closed.
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[IsraelTimes] The United States is participating in a Moroccan government conference on protecting minorities, including Jews, in Muslim lands.
Arsalan Suleman, the State Department's envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and Knox Thames, its advisor for religious minorities in the Middle East, will attend the January 25-28 conference in Marrakesh, the State Department said on January 21. Thames will meet with the country's Jewish community leaders during the visit.
"Such conditions obligate the Muslim majority to protect the minorities, their religions, their places of worship, and other rights," the declaration says.
A declaration by the Moroccan government and the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies, an Abu Dhabi-based group co-sponsoring the conference, calls the recent atrocities against religious minorities carried out by Muslim bandidosmurderous Moslems "a slander against God" and a "betrayal of the faith."
"Such conditions obligate the Muslim majority to protect the minorities, their religions, their places of worship, and other rights," the declaration says.
Morocco's moderate Muslim kingdom is known for the protection it affords its Jewish community.
[AnNahar] Unidentified gunnies have killed a police officer and four others in Yemen's Aden in a wave of attacks targeting security forces in the violence-plagued port city.
Assailants on Sunday opened fire on a police vehicle carrying Colonel Taha al-Sobeihi in Aden's Mansura district, killing him along with a bodyguard and a female bystander, a security official said.
Al-Qaeda and the rival 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 both have a presence in the city, where jihadists occupy government buildings and are seen patrolling several districts and intimidating civilians.
They have claimed a string of attacks and liquidations in recent months.
Late Saturday, unidentified gunnies killed a soldier in Mansura, a security official said.
The man was a recruit in a new force that is loyal to President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi and trained by the Saudi-led coalition, which in March launched a military campaign against rebels who had overrun large swathes of the country.
Hadi last year named Aden as his government's temporary capital after Iran-backed rebels stormed the capital Sanaa in September 2014.
Jihadists in the city have distributed pamphlets in mosques, warning men against enrolling in the new force against Huthi holy warriors, claiming it would "bring back tyranny", residents said.
Another man was rubbed out Saturday when gunnies attempted to kidnap him along with his father in Aden's Crater district, a security official said. The two belonged to the Shiite Bohra minority.
Four members of that community have been kidnapped by "extremists" in the past days in Aden, three of whom have already been released, the official said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, the spittle had reached unprecedented levels... suspected Al-Qaeda Death Eaters blew up a vacant cop shoppe in Huta, the main city in restive Lahj ... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement province, which is controlled by loyalists.
Hadi returned to Aden after loyalists backed by coalition forces pushed the rebels and their allies out of the city and four other southern provinces in the summer.
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – On Sunday, a local source in Kirkuk revealed, that the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has executed its prominent leader who was responsible for recruiting suicide bombers on charges of treason in southwestern Kirkuk.
Oh dear.
The source said in a statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “Today, ISIS executed its prominent leader who was responsible for recruiting suicide bombers, as well as Arab and foreign militants on charges of treason in the center of Hawija (55 km southwestern Kirkuk),” pointing out that, “The ISIS had arrested the prominent recruiter in Nineveh Province.”
The source added, “The ISIS leader was a former Major General in the Iraqi army.”
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Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
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How did they execute him? Strapped a boom-vest on him and remote detonated it?
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No, here's how you do it! Die, Dummy! Akbar time!
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Pakistain has decided to issue gun licenses to teachers following the deadly attack on a university in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province that left at least 21 people killed and more than 30 others maimed.
Pakistain's The Express Tribune news agency reports that the massacre at Bacha Khan University in Charsadda has once again sowed the idea of arming teachers at schools and the K-P administration has decided to issue free weapons' licenses for government educational institutes' employees.
According to the news agency, on Saturday, the provincial home ministry confirmed free licenses would be issued after an official shows the necessary authority letter. Private entities would also get licenses but they would have to pay a fee
Pakistain issued guns to teachers following a deadly attack on an army-run school in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. that resulted in the death of 144 people and left over 100 others maimed. Most of the victims were school children.
Mullah Fazlullah ...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much less bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan... , leader of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) later claimed in a video that the attack was carried out by his group and that he will carry out more attacks of this type.
The attack on Bacha Khan University came about 13 months after his threat and commander of a splinter group of TTP grabbed credit for it.
However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... the group's central spokesperson Mohammad Khurasani rejected TTP's involvement in it.
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A surprisingly sensible thing for the 'Stain. It's been the Wild West there for some time. Worth noting that this comes after an armed teacher fought back against jihadis.
I would expect something similar in Israel as the Paleo stabbing binge continues there.
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I would expect something similar in Israel as the Paleo stabbing binge continues there.
They opened up gun licensing a few weeks ago, SteveS, and asked licence holders (and off duty military?) to carry for the duration of the emergency -- a complete reversal of normal procedure. Some of the dead stabbers were killed by those civilians.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A commander of the terrorist group of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS), locally known as Daesh [Islamic State], has been killed along with five his lover companions in a drone strike in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan, Ministry of Defense announced on Sunday.
A statement released by the ministry states that the air strike was conducted on a position of the group in Achin District yesterday.
"A coalition Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) targeted gunnies of Daesh [Islamic State] in Nargusi village of Achin District yesterday. As a result, Maiwand, a commander of Daesh [Islamic State] and five of his men were killed," states the blurb.
UAVs are being used by NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... to assist Afghanistan in counter-terrorism operations.
They have been reportedly targeting gunnies without any distinction. But Pakistain still asks US to target Mullah Fazlullah ...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much less bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan... , leader of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) that Islamabad claims is hiding inside Afghanistan
Sources have told Pakistain's The News that Washington has been conveyed through its Islamabad mission that it must play its role in targeting the TTP terrorists. Pakistain claims the group plans attacks for Pakistain from inside Afghanistan but Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... says it does not allow its soil be used against any one.
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Besoeker, the drones haven't done anything for us but let Pakistan pretend they're cooperating with us in fighting the WoT and simultaneously pretend to their population that they have nothing to do with the dronezaps.
ANKARA – Turkish forces have detained 23 suspected Islamic State jihadis along with 21 children who were trying to illegally cross over from Syria, the army said Sunday.
The suspects, whose nationalities were not disclosed, were captured on Saturday as they tried enter the Elbeyli district of Turkey’s southern Kilis province.
“Twenty-three people suspected of being Daesh (Islamic State) terror group members, together with 21 children, were caught,” said the army in a statement, without giving any other details.
Turkey has over the last year been told by its Western allies to urgently step up efforts to stop the flow of jihadis across its borders to and from Syria.
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D *** NG IT, HOW ARE THE ADULT JIHADIS GOING TO SEND THE KIDDIES TO GERMANY OR SCANDINAVIA FOR SUMMER CAMP IFF TURKEY ARRESTS THEM???
As below ...
* ZERO HEDGE > GANGS OF "ALL-MALE", [circa 200] MOROCCAN MIGRANT CHILDREN "TAKE OVER" STOCKHOLM TRAIN STATION; STEAL; GROPE AND ABUSE WOMEN [+ assault Security Guards].
Goodness knows Egypt can use the funds -- that much less needed to borrow from the Saudis.
[AlAhram] The aggregate value of seized assets, cash and personal banking accounts that belong to members of Egypt's banned Moslem Brüderbund are worth the equivalent of $1.1 billion, according to Ahram Online calculations based on an official inventory announced on Sunday.
The assets include 105 schools (valued at LE283.8 million) and 43 hospitals (valued at LE111 million) nationwide.
However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... excluded from Ahram Online calculations were 460 cars and 318 acres of arable lands that were owned by the banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization, but have also now been frozen
The state committee, which is tasked with appraising and freezing Brotherhood funds, said at a presser in Cairo that the seized funds includes bank credits of 1370 members worth LE154.7 million, US$2 million, €435,000 euros, 1.3 million Saudi riyals, £9,000 and 16,480 Swiss franc.
The list of seizures also comprises of bank credits of 1125 non-government organizations worth $64,000 (LE20 million), bank credits of 62 companies worth LE17.4 million, $117,000 and €7,000, according to judge Ezzat Khamis, the head of the committee, which was formed in 2013 under then interim president Adly Mansour.
The committee also revealed that 19 exchange shops with frozen credits of LE82 million are affiliated with the banned organization.
Cash worth LE5 billion and LE3.5 billion was also seized from the safes of the schools and hospitals, the committee said.
The Egyptian government's crackdown on Brotherhood members and their activities started in 2013 following the ouster of president Mohammed Morsi, who hailed from the group.
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Venezuela next free government should take lessons. Hugo's daughter is worth a couple billion...
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All stolen from Egypt of course.
The Muslim Brotherhood had put their own money into schools and hospitals and such in their Third Way seduction effort (Islam in the modern world for the Volk) since 1928. Hamas and Hizb'allah do the same. Even ISIS provides education and medical treatment for their Lions of Islam and the Lion Cubs and Cubettes -- Islamic government is rquired to provide such things out of their share of the plumder and the taxes they collect from the dhimmis.
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Doctors, lawyers, business owners, Sven. In the early days, that third way â the fascist way â attracted pius and patriotic Egyptians who wanted to bring their nation into modernity without losing its soul. Later too, when the alternative to army secular rule was Al Qaeda style radical Islam, the Brotherhood was seen as the Third Way and attracted same people. It was only one day one and election and took our power that it could be seen that they were nothing more than Al Qaeda in slower motion.
[ALMANAR.LB] The Syrian army troops have controlled new areas in al-Sheikh Miskeen city in the northern countryside of Daraa after killing a number of terrorists, a military source announced.
Army units operating in al-Sheikh Miskeen city established control over streets, establishments and buildings in the northern, southern and eastern parts of the city and advanced further after destroying a number of barricades and fortifications for the turbans and the fleeing of tens of them outside the city.
Army units advanced further after destroying a number of barricades and fortifications with all turbans inside them, while dozens others fled away outside the city.
Engineering units combed the areas after establishing control over them and dismantled bombs and mines which were planted earlier by the terrorist organizations.
Earlier, the army units destroyed al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front and other Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist organizations' positions and vehicles, some equipped with machineguns and loaded with weapons and ammunition in Daraa al-Balad and al-Mahata in the city of Daraa.
An army unit killed and injured all members of an armed terrorist group after targeting their gathering in Atman Town, 4km north of Daraa city.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck reached for the green sauce... the terrorist organizations acknowledged on their social media websites the killing of a number of their members, among them Mohammad Musaab al-Hamadi of the so-called Liwa Shuhada Houran and Ibrahim Taha al-Hariri.
The terrorist organizations acknowledged the killing of 5 of their members and the injury of others in an ambush at Ghabagheb-al-Jameaat road in the northern countryside of Daraa, asserting that terrorist nicknamed Abu Ali and Yusef al-Atrash, Mohammad Abbas and Hussein Matroud were among the dead, SANA news agency reported.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Unidentified gunnies attacked two female coppers in the capital of western Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province on Sunday.
Abdul Rawouf Ahmadi, spokesperson for the police headquarters of Herat said the two policewomen were on their way home in the 3rd sector of the city when unknown gunnies riding on a cycle of violence opened fire on them.
According to Ahmadi, the policewomen sustained injuries in the attack and transported to Herat Regional Hospital for treatment.
The gunnies who had silencers on their pistols fled the area following the attack but security agencies are looking for them.
In the past, Taliban have grabbed credit for most of the attacks on security forces in Herat but the group has not yet commented about today's attack.
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[ARA News] ERBIL – Peshmerga army of the Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq is preparing an extended military campaign against militants of the Islamic State (ISIS) south of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk.
Kurdish Peshmerga forces, supported by the US.-led coalition’s air campaign, are expected to storm ISIS major headquarters in northern Iraq.
For the first time, an Iraqi Turkmen militia announced its readiness to join the Peshmerga in the war on ISIS in Kirkuk province.
Najat Hussein, member of Kirkuk Provincial Council, said on Sunday that the Turkmen Popular Mobilization Forces intend to join the Peshmerga-led operations against ISIS south of the province.
“The Turkmen Popular Mobilization Forces, who have been trained and well equipped by the western coalition, are now prepared to back the Peshmerga in the fight against Daesh,” Hussein said, using another acronym for ISIS.
Peshmerga forces have recently regained large areas in northern Iraq from the fist of the radical group of Islamic State, including the Yezidi region of Shingal (Sinjar).
Speaking to ARA News, a spokesman for the Peshmerga Ministry in Iraqi Kurdistan said: “Any anti-ISIS effort is welcome, whether by the western powers or the local groups.”
“The Peshmerga has recaptured several towns and villages southwest of Kirkuk. The whole province will be cleansed of the terrorists in the coming phase,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
KURDS FORTIFY OIL-RICH CITY
Over the past two weeks, Kurdish army of the Peshmerga has been working on a project to fortify the city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq in a bid to protect the oil-rich city against the threat of the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS), officials said.
The Peshmerga forces started early in January digging a trench along the southern suburb of Kirkuk, which has been exposed to ISIS offensive over the past few months.
Kamal Kerkuki, member of the ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in Iraqi Kurdistan Region, said in a statement that the trench being worked on by the Peshmerga forces is aimed at maintaining the security in the city of Kirkuk against any aggression by ISIS terrorists.
Speaking to ARA News in Kirkuk, Peshmerga official Qassim Khourshid said: “ISIS terrorists have repeatedly tried to infiltrate into Kirkuk to hit headquarters of the Peshmerga and take over the city’s oil fields.”
“The trench will serve as a fortification against any offensive by the terror group,” he said.
Khourshid added that the trench project may continue to include most of the borders of the Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq in order to protect the region’s people and resources against ISIS threat.
“This fortification is not aimed at separating the region from Iraq completely. Its main objective is to protect the Kurdistan Region which has sheltered thousands of Iraqis who escaped ISIS,” he said. “The Peshmerga proved its effective role in the war on this terror group, and the protection of civilians and the public properties have always been a top priority for our army.”
Kirkuk oil fields produce up to 500,000 barrels per day, according to official reports. ISIS has tried earlier to storm the city from the southern suburb, but the Peshmerga forces repelled the attacks in cooperation with the U.S.-led coalition’s air force.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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EU states could take more genuine refugees from Syria if they worked together better, the new head of the UN refugee agency has told the BBC.
[InterAksyon] Suspected New People's Army militants attacked a police vehicle Sunday morning, triggering a firefight that left three policemen and two civilians wounded. All the casualties were aboard a police vehicle in Zamboanga del Norteo when the ambush occurred.
[IsraelTimes] No injuries or damage reported in retaliatory strikes after rocket hits open area near border with Paleostinian enclave
Today it was being reported that a lone sniper in Sirte, who had operated in Tripoli to deadly effect in the last days of the Qaddafi regime, has today killed the third member of IS in ten days.
When it comes to diet, though, even scientists sometimes get stuck in a rut. Then they drive the rest of us into a baffling morass of nutrition advice, in which the cholesterol paradox is a world-class stumper. Why would the same nutrition scientists who said last year that "cholesterol is not considered a nutrient of concern for overconsumption" keep warning people not to eat it?
Oh, and about those saturated fats found in meat, poultry, cheese and butter ‐ the kind the French eat while remaining quite healthy. Their deadly reputation might be exaggerated or undeserved.
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – On Sunday, a local source in Kirkuk revealed, that the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has executed its prominent leader who was responsible for recruiting suicide bombers on charges of treason in southwestern Kirkuk.
