Many small and medium-sized firms are likely to welcome a cut in red tape and what they see as petty regulations. Portends well for the U.S., I suppose. What happens now?
There are no immediate changes to laws.
An agreement called Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which begins the two-year process of negotiating a new trade relationship with the EU, has to be activated in order to set in motion the process of leaving the EU.
Negotiations would then begin in Brussels on the terms of the UK's exit and the nature of its subsequent relationship with the EU. A lot of interesting stuff, many questions answered. For instance - Has any other member state ever left the EU?
No nation state has ever left the EU. But Greenland, one of Denmark's overseas territories, held a referendum in 1982, after gaining a greater degree of self government, and voted by 52% to 48% to leave, which it duly did after a period of negotiation.
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As the BBC said, They said Brexit was due to: an angry electorate, globalization, immigration, lost pride, and populism. I'd add another, the voters don't think their elected leaders are representing them. They don't like that the EU, the UN, the bankers and financiers are calling the shots. Similar issues in the U.S.
Marine Le Pen and her niece Marion Marechal-Le Pen hailed the result and looked forward to "Frexit"
British holidaymakers make up the largest contingent of foreign visitors to this country and may now be deterred from coming - because it will be more expensive. - Some in Greece now talking Grexit.
Geert Wilders - the leader of the anti-Islam, anti-immigration Freedom Party - was among the first to congratulate Britain on its "Independence Day". He promised if he were elected, the Dutch would be granted their own "Nexit" referendum.
But some Russian politicians couldn't contain their pleasure. They included Moscow's Mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, who noted: "Without the UK in the EU, there's no one there who'll back sanctions against us so stridently."
Ultra-nationalist MP Vladimir Zhirinovsky said the British public "had performed a heroic deed". He said he intended to send a congratulatory telegram to David Cameron: "Dear David, our big friend, we're happy that Britain made the right choice."
for example, Lloyds of London and Royal bank of Scotland are both down 20% as of a few minutes ago.
in another week or so they will probably recover at least half of that loss and in a year or so they may be in a better position than they would have been pre Brexit
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Yaounde (CNN)He is just 28 years old, but Cameroonian Arthur Zang has won a £25,000 ($37,000) prize for inventing a touchscreen heart-monitoring tablet that could revolutionize medicine in remote areas.
Cardio Pad enables heart patients in remote areas to access healthcare without journeying to the cities where most heart specialists work.
Zang -- who won gold at the Africa Prize for the invention -- explains that the tablet comes with "four electrodes, which are attached to the patient's chest to determine whether their heart is functioning normally".
The data is then wirelessly transmitted to the tablet and sent, via a mobile phone, to a cardiologist who can interpret the data in under 20 minutes.
Any prescriptions needed are then sent to the local clinic.
He won a prize for getting an Android tablet to record an EKG??
[Federal Times] State Department staffers wrestled for weeks in December 2010 over a serious technical problem that affected emails from then-Secretary Hillary Clinton's home email server, causing them to temporarily disable security features on the government's own systems, according to emails released Wednesday.
The emails were released under court order Wednesday to the conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch, which has sued the State Department over access to public records related to the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee's service as the nation's top diplomat between 2009 and 2013.
The emails, reviewed by The Associated Press, show that State Department technical staff disabled software on their systems intended to block phishing emails that could deliver dangerous viruses. They were trying urgently to resolve delivery problems with emails sent from Clinton's private server.
"This should trump all other activities," a senior technical official, Ken LaVolpe, told IT employees in a Dec. 17, 2010, email. Another senior State Department official, Thomas W. Lawrence, wrote days later in an email that deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin personally was asking for an update about the repairs. Abedin and Clinton, who both used Clinton's private server, had complained that emails each sent to State Department employees were not being reliably received.
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My uneducated systems guess would Foggy Bottom was not the only agency beset with problems due to the delivery of dangerous viruses from the Beest's server.
In a starnge turn of events, a DVD that was supposed to portray a sixth grade graduation party actually contained excerpts of a pornographic film.
The DVD was given to students at a Haifa elementary school in honor of national "Hug day" and for the end of the school year, Channel 2 reported. Good education is a basis of well functional society
..."I will do everything I can as prime minister to steady the ship over the coming weeks and months. But I do not think it would be right for me to try to be the captain that steers our country to its next destination," Cameron said. "This is not a decision I have taken lightly," he added.
Update at 12:30 p.m. ET: Newsweek has the entire speech here. He aims to have a new prime minister in place by October.
Note: The dispatch below from England appeared May 5 in Asia Times, but remains timely. Britain will back away from Brexit because the British have become risk-averse in their dotage.
...Britain will vote to remain in the European Union on June 23. The annoyance of remaining in Europe is not too onerous to bear, and the risk of something going pear-shaped during a British exit ("Brexit") is incalculable. Besides, Europe is gradually falling apart on its own, which means that the British have no urgent need to exit at the moment.
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The money people love their status quo, even if it is horrible.
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Supposing two years from now, everyone realizes Britain did the right thing? Suppose their economy flourishes and the Pound strengthens? What will happen then to the rest of the Union?
That may be what had everyone worried yesterday, and panicked today.
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Spot on Bobby! If one leaves the flock and survives, others may follow.
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Europe is gradually falling apart on its own, which means that the British have no urgent need to exit at the moment "Needs" & "Wants" need to be distinguished. Spengler's reasoning seems to advocate remaining on the doomed Titanic, since it was already sinking on its own.
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A lot of money will be spent trying to keep Europe afloat. Let that be German money as they have the most historical guilt to launder away and that's what the EU has always been about more than anything. Most English realized that they really need not feel all that liberal guilt about their past, they got it right far more often than they got it wrong.
News flash: The revolt against elites is real in the UK and America and it's only getting started. Maybe there will always be an England.
In a surprise, Leave won the Brexit referendum on whether to stay in the European Union by an equally surprising amount. British sovereignty won. David Cameron lost. Jeremy Corbyn lost. The EU lost. Bureaucrats lost. Angela Merkel lost. Barack Obama lost. Globalism lost. Authority figures almost everywhere lost. And, most of all, unlimited immigration lost.
...Earth to elites: Citizens of truly democratic countries don't want unlimited immigration into their countries by people who couldn't be less interested in democracy. They also don't want to be governed by the rules and regulations of faceless bureaucrats whose not-so-hidden goals are power and riches for themselves and their friends. Simple, isn't it? p.s. From Obama to Kuntzman, what exactly makes them elites?
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...I'm guessing that the White House had convinced itself that all would be well - but that also means they're in cornered-animal mode this morning. If the disciplined, compliant, by-the-law Brits can do something like this, you gotta believe that there's flat-out, pants-wetting fear in the West Wing (and Malificent's campaign HQ) right now over what we might be capable of.
They'll do something remarkably stupid. Mark it.
Mike
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They'll do something remarkably stupid. Mark it. Mike
My fear as well. I hope it has nothing to do with China or Russia.
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...(and Malificent's campaign HQ) - Love it, Mike.
And 'elites' self-define, as they feel no one else has the wit to recognize their obvious superiority. Gag.
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But will the politicos in Washington, and their supporters the MSM get this or will they keep their heads in the sand and keep on with the same ole same ole?
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To bad calling the Pro-independence racist has no bite anymore because the race card was used up long before the Islamic rape gangs were discovered in the midlands.
Yes. Great Britain has a long and proud tradition of choosing freedom and independence over fear and tyranny. This is all about globalism vs. nationalism. The Brits just chose nationalism because they don't trust the Germans, Greeks, French, Italians, Spanish and Portugese. The Brits trust themselves and for the past several hundred years that trust has served them well. They don't want a one world government. They don't want open borders because that means they lose their homes and their freedom. Hopefully in November Americans will do the same.
The New York Times reports that Britain has voted to leave the European Union by a 52 to 48 margin. The significance of the event can hardly be overstated. The biggest political project of the post-Cold War world, involving an economy collectively as large as the United States, has suddenly been thrown into reverse.
...For the second time in 80 years that little Island has bought the world a space in which others could rediscover their own hardihood. And rediscover it doubtless they will, as the New World did of old. Today the Brexit rebellion showed that daring could prevail against bullying, truth could win against prestige, plain speech could trump celebrity and long odds were vincible provided you never, never gave in.
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The biggest political project of the post-Cold War world... has suddenly been thrown into reverse.
Where have you been all this time? Politics in the West has been moving in reverse for some decades now.
"More than 2.2million London voters backed Remain compared to 1.5million in favour of Leave.
The Leave vote hit the City of London particularly hard as a day of horror saw billions wiped off FTSE 100 shares.
Frustrated Londoners have now taken to social media to ask London mayor Sadiq Khan to declare the city independent from the rest of the UK and stay in the EU."
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theres the gist of the problem right there!
Entitled urbnanites imagining that their "world" is the only and biggest "world" on earth, therefore they can tell us all what to do as if from a lofty pulpit. the reality is a bit further from their imagined ideal, for instance, starbucks doest work without product from the rural environs, ie : coffee beans and wheat for all those expensive and absolutely necessary eatables, that all the others seem to be having, urban sheeple are on the way outit seems while real people are on their way back in.
[The American Thinker] Add Orlando shooter Omar Mateen to the FBI's Most Protected Terrorist list . Like Ft. Hood's Nidal Hasan and the Boston Marathon’s Tsarnaev brothers, Mateen has joined the protected and privileged class of suspected Muslim terrorists allowed to roam free until they shoot or blow up innocent Americans.
Following the Pulse nightclub slaughter, sources confirmed Mateen had been interviewed by the FBI in May of 2013 and May of 2014 concerning his connections to Hezb'allah and al-Qaeda.
The FBI was also aware that Mateen had traveled to Saudi Arabia on two separate occasions; made threatening remarks to co-workers; and, two weeks before the killings, had visited a gun shop wanting to purchase body armor and bulk ammunition. When employees of the shop notified the FBI, officials called the store but failed to follow up.
Director Comey defended the FBI’s actions, stating:
"I don’t see anything in reviewing our work that our agents should have done differently...Our work is very challenging, we are looking for needles in a nationwide haystack but we’re also called upon to figure out which pieces of hay might someday become needles."
[Ynet] A New Zealand man was tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! on Thursday for spreading images 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.... violence, the first person sentenced to prison for circulating and possessing objectionable material linked to extreme violence, local media reported.
Imran Patel, 26, was tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! for three years and nine months by an Auckland court after he admitted to making, distributing and possessing videos depicting cruel violence perpetuated by IS, according to news website stuff.co.nz.
The prison sentence was the first for someone on an objectionable material charge related to violence. To date, all such charges in New Zealand had related to indecent child images, said Auckland District Court Judge Russell Collins, according to the news site said.
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The lesson is: DON'T tell people the Truth. No one will listen or thank you.
AND, some people are too stupid to stay alive.
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Kind of a "men pushing old women" problem with that article, but another source definitely indicates that this guy was of the "pushing old women into traffic" variety, yelling about Allah and so forth.
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from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility to Balkan nation of Montenegro.
Al-Rahabi arrived at the naval base from Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... in Cuba in 2002 after being accused of serving as the body guard for former Al Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now beyond all cares and woe... . He was cleared for release in March 2014 after an intense security review. But the White House doesn’t send Guantanamo prisoners back to Yemen because of the country’s ongoing civil war.
"The United States is grateful to the Government of Montenegro for its humanitarian gesture and willingness to support ongoing U.S. efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility," the Pentagon said in a statement. "The United States coordinated with the Government of Montenegro to ensure this transfer took place consistent with appropriate security and humane treatment measures."
This was the second prisoner this year resettled in Montenegro amid a renewed push by the B.O. regime to whittle down the number of men held at Guantanamo even as Congress continues to prevent the closure of the detention center with a prohibition on transferring prisoners to the U.S.
There are still 79 prisoners that remain at Guantanamo, including 29 who have been cleared to be sent home or to other countries for resettlement.
Officials expect to release most of those cleared in the coming weeks, leaving mostly men who have been charged or convicted by military commission for war crimes or who authorities believe are too dangerous to release.
Al-Rahabi had been at Guantanamo since shortly after it opened. A Pentagon profile released before he appeared before a review board in 2013 said he had traveled from his homeland to Afghanistan and "almost certainly" became a member of Al Qaeda. But he was never charged with a crime, and authorities ultimately decided he did not pose a security threat and could be released.
While in jug, al-Rahabi studied English, worked with military officials to help ease tensions in the detention center and worked with several fellow prisoners on an extensively detailed plan for a post-Guantanamo agricultural enterprise, the "Yemen Milk and Honey Farms Limited," according to his lawyer, David Remes.
He was desperate to get out of Guantanamo and reunite with his wife and daughter. "He's been waiting for this for a long time," Remes said.
The lawyer, who has represented more than two dozen prisoners at Guantanamo over the years, said there has been a notable sense of relief among men he has met with at the base in recent weeks.
"It's no longer a question of whether, or even a question of when, it's a question of how soon," Remes said.
[IsraelTimes] The parents of a British Moslem convert who is believed to have joined the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group are set to stand trial in January for terrorism-related charges.
John Letts and Sally Lane are charged with funding terrorism for allegedly sending money to their 20-year-old son Jack Letts.
Jack Letts left his home in Oxford and traveled to Syria in 2014. He has been dubbed "Jihadi Jack" by some British media.
His parents are accused of transferring payments of roughly 1,750 pounds ($2,600) in 2015 and 2016. They are released on bail.
The trial date is set Thursday during a hearing at the Old Bailey court.
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[CNSNEWS] Supported by President B.O., Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) justified Democrats' disruption of House business on Wednesday by saying, "It is always right to do right." "And you get to define it yourself."
Applying 1960s tactics to the ongoing gun control debate, Lewis led Democrats in a noisy sit-in on the House floor, demanding a vote on gun control legislation that Republicans refuse to bring up.
"Sometimes you have to violate a rule of law to uphold a greater law, a moral law. We have a right to stand up, to speak up, to speak out. We have a right to sit down, or to sit-in, to engage in nonviolent protest. It is always right to do right," Lewis told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday.
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The Hon. John Lewis, you are a candy a$$. This protest is a waste of time unless you are out in the hot sun on a hunger strike, without water, and shade for an extended time.
The fact they are willing to remove constitutional rights for political expediency should be thrown in their face at every opportunity. Tyrannical WHORES
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Frank, Tyrannical Whores is a perfect appellation.
They'll suck up to anyone and screw anyone in their pursuit of power and wealth.
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I wonder if the Honorable Representative from Georgia will parade the same blather when it comes to the acts of those on the other side of the political spectrum.
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The Hon. John Lewis, you are a candy a$$. This protest is a waste of time unless you are out in the hot sun on a hunger strike, without water, and shade for an extended time.
[RFE/RL] Germany says it has arrested a Tajik man suspected of joining Daesh in Syria. Prosecutors said on June 22 that Mukhamadsaid S. was nabbed in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
The 30-year-old is accused of going from Tajikistan to Syria in April 2015, where prosecutors said he joined Daesh. The man is alleged to have fought alongside Daesh militants and to have appeared in videos urging his countrymen to join them.
Prosecutors said Mukhamadsaid S. left Syria no later than the start of September 2015, and ended up in Germany.
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[NEWSNET5] Regulations that the City of Cleveland, kept in touch with the world by Obamaphone, ...was ruled by a Democrat machine from 1942 through 1971. After the river caught fire during the administration of Carl Stokes they tried a Republican, then went back to being Democrats when the party hacked up Dennis Kucinich ... put in place for the Republican National Convention protestors was ruled unconstitutional by federal judge Thursday.
This comes after organizations including Citizens for Trump, Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless and Organize Ohio filed a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction against the City of Cleveland requiring the city to "cease their unlawful restriction of Plaintiffs protected Constitutionally-protected speech and other activities planned to occur during the period of the Republican National Convention."
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit earlier this month, saying the city placed unacceptable restrictions on free speech and other rights of people living and visiting downtown Cleveland for the RNC in July.
ACLU Ohio Executive Director Christine Link said today's ruling "is the beginning of a new process" to redraw regulations governing protestors.
"We hop to have successful negations with the City of Cleveland for a safe convention that allows for the maximum amount of free speech and assembly," says Link.
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Teamsters For Trump will put an end to this thug crap.
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...My Dad - 81 and still capable of firing a regulation USMC qualification group with his M-14 - lives in Broadview Heights, and he's assured me he has NO intention of going north of I-480 for a week before and after the convention.
Mike
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NO intention of going north of I-480 The current generation of rioters seems to favorite blocking interstate highways at rush hour. So he may not be able to go there anyway.
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We need the Ironworkers with scrap lengths of rebar pulling security, as in Matt Bracken's recent 4 part story with Brooklyn Mike, Pi$$ Christ, Pi$$ Kor@n.
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#7 He doesn't have to go north of it. He just has to go in range of it.
[GMA News] Seven members of the Abu Sayyaf were killed in a clash with Philippine soldiers on Wednesday in Sulu province. Military sources said Thursday that the battle, which also left 18 soldiers injured, took place in Patikul town. One of the injured soldiers was in critical condition.
Last Tuesday, the military said three Abu Sayyaf rebels were killed, while ten other members were injured in a clash also in Patikul. Sixteen soldiers were wounded in that skirmish.
Also, last week, authorities detained a suspected Abu Sayyaf militant, identified as Adam Mahamdom, who was allegedly involved in the kidnapping of eight workers at Golden Harvest Plantation in Basilan in 2001.
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[FACEBOOK] This is a clarifying statement on the post on my personal page yesterday that has created some concern in the community.
I believe that state-sanctioned violence causes more harm, and is therefore more dangerous, than non state-sanctioned violence. I believe this is true both because the approval of those in authority and often the general public gives a veneer of acceptability to actions we would otherwise condemn, but also because states have the capacity to spend huge resources equipping and funding people to use force in defense of their interests. The US spends as much on our military as all other countries combined. We have the highest police homicide rates in the developed world and we incarcerate 25% of the world’s prisoners. We should not ignore these facts, or wrongly assume that those who believe that this situation is fundamentally unjust and should not continue are harboring a hatred for police and soldiers. I certainly find a great many of the actions taken by militaries and police forces here in the US and around the world extremely troubling, and I also respect the humanity of those who do not share this disagreement.
Please feel free to comment, but I will delete posts if I feel they do not contribute to a productive conversation.
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Putting the "bull" in bull Durham...
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"Please feel free to comment, but I will delete posts if I feel they do not contribute to a productive conversation support my position".
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A Taliban capo was killed along with his six fighters in an kaboom in central Pashtun-infested Logar province of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said the incident took place late on Wednesday night in the central capital of Pashtun-infested Logar province.
According to a statement by MoI, an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) went off prematurely while the Lions of Islam were planting it in Dawood Khel area, killing all seven miltants, including th commander of the group.
The statement further added that the Taliban capo killed in the kaboom was a prominent leader of the group in Pashtun-infested Logar and was identified as Abdul Rauf.
The Talibs group has not commented regarding report so far.
The Taliban gunnies and Lions of Islam belonging to the other bad boy groups are frequently using Improvised Explosive Device (IED) as the weapon of their choice to target the security forces.
The IEDs are the main contributors to the casualties of the Afghan cops but are also considered as a key factor in growing civilian casualties.
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"There is only one ‘retirement plan’ for terrorists". ~ General James N. Mattis
[TV360NIGERIA] A multinational force has begun operations against Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... along the border between Niger and Nigeria, a general from Niger has said.
Brigadier-General Abdou Sidikou Issa, tactical chief of staff for troops based in Niger’s southern zone of Diffa, a region plagued by the Islamist turban group, said troops from Chad and Nigeria were involved in the operation. It began in secret almost a week ago.
This is not the first time the nations in the Lake Chad basin -- Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... -- have joined forces against Boko Haram, a violent Islamist group which started in Nigeria seven years ago and has since launched deadly attacks in all four countries.
"The operations have as their objective (to end) the occupation of all the zones currently occupied by Boko Haram," Issa said. "Our role is to firmly secure the border."
The multinational force, headquartered in Chad’s capital of N’Djamena, began trying to dislodge the turbans from areas where they are active last year.
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[INFORMATIONNG] A joint patrol team of Sector 1 of 27 Task Force Brigade and Army Headquarters Strike Group has stormed some villages in Borno State and cleared Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... terrorists’ enclaves. The villages include Buhari, Matari and Kaidiri, located some kilometres to Damasak, Borno State.
According to the Acting Director Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Usman, the remnants of the forces of Evil at Kaidiri on sighting the patrol team withdrew and escaped to Niger Republic with gunshot wounds.
Although the troops pursued them, only two Boko Haram forces of Evil were caught. Seven cycle of violences and borehole equipment were also recovered.
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[DAWN] Rioters looted shops on the outskirts of South Africa’s capital on Wednesday, and authorities reported two deaths and more than 50 arrests since violence erupted in the Pretoria area two days ago.
Looters targeted shops in the Mabopane and Ga-Rankuwa neighbourhoods belonging to immigrants colonists, echoing similar attacks last year against foreigners, including Paks and Somalis, who run businesses in poor urban areas.
Police fired rubber bullets to disperse crowds in Mabopane, where people ran out of one store with stolen groceries and other goods, according to South African media reports. Two people were fatally shot in the Mamelodi district, the South African police force said on Twitter.
Police locked away Please don't kill me! 54 people on charges of public violence, theft and possession of stolen property, the government said in a statement. It said stability was returning to some areas, while violence persisted in others. "The attacks and looting of shops show that some of the protest actions are motivated by pure criminality," the government said.
The violence started on Monday after the selection of the ruling party’s mayoral candidate for Pretoria ahead of elections on Aug 3.
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Follows is a posted comment from the 'Californian' to Smith's blog on the recent violence in South Africa. I believe I may have a future use for the phrase... "global citizenship and universal Birkinstocks". I hope to see comments and insights more from the 'Californian.'
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I have confronted various liberals here in America and Europe with this question: "Why did you single out white-ruled South Africa for such opprobrium while you tolerated or even supported various communist and third world dictatorships?" The liberal answer is basically ideological: "Apartheid era SA upheld white rule over blacks and thus was (horrors!) 'racist;' therefore, apartheid had to go."
The thing to grasp is that liberal ideology is beyond rational reasoning. It is on the level of a demented religion which calls for its followers to sacrifice anything and anyone in order to maintain purity of faith. In pursuit of liberalism, liberals will turn over their children to be cut to pieces (Amy Biehl) or marched off as sex slaves (Rotherham).
The "struggle against apartheid" allowed liberals to engage in their fantasy of fighting for a world of equality, one-man-one-vote, global citizenship and universal Birkenstocks. And if black-majority-rule led to an Idi Amin or Rwanda massacre? Well, ghee whiz, the people of those countries are just overcoming the "problems" of colonialism and are nonetheless marching towards a democratic future.
In some cases, liberals were thinking in terms of the American Civil Rights struggle. Bantus and Xhosas became downtrodden Southern blacks; Soweto was Selma; the South African Police were Bull Connor's cops; Sharpseville was the new Edmund Pettus Bridge battle; Nelson Mandela was the reincarnation of Martin Luther King, jr; and by supporting the ANC, your American liberal enlisted in the ranks of the new Freedom Riders and thus guaranteed a place among the select when the final trumpet doth blow.
Never mind that Africa is not America, never mind that every attempt at black-majority-rule on the continent has led to black-run dictatorship, failed states and non-stop bloodbaths in the name of "liberation." Never mind that black majority rule in Detroit or Selma has led to those once thriving American cities being turned into urban wastelands.
Ideology is king.
I suppose there is some schadenfreude to be found in recent events in Europe and America. Africans and other third worlders riot in cities like London, Paris and Malmo. We've seen the mass sexual assaults by "refugees" in Cologne. I wonder how many white victims of these crimes were anti-apartheid activists? Similarly, here in America Black Lives Matter runs amok on liberal college campuses, despite liberal protestations that "We supported Martin Luther King, we opposed apartheid!"
I'll close out with my usual quote from James Burnham: "Liberalism is the ideology of Western Suicide."
[DAWN] Two suspected robbers were rubbed out while a third one was placed in durance vile You have the right to remain silent... in maimed condition after an ’encounter’ in Sharafi Goth on Wednesday, police said.
They added that three suspects tried to snatch a cycle of violence from Rahat Ali Soomro in Mansehra Colony. As he put up resistance, the robbers hit him with the pistol butt, injuring him. In the meantime, a police party on patrol reached there and an encounter ensued in which three suspects were arrested in maimed condition.
They were taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where doctors pronounced two of them dead on arrival, said Dr Seemin Jamali, head of the JPMC emergency department.
The dear departed were identified as Munawwar, 25, and Waseem, 22. The injured, Abu Bakar, was admitted for treatment.
The police claimed to have seized three TT pistols and one cycle of violence from them.
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I like the sound of that. The ring of Truth and Justice.
A Swiss ban on exports of luxury goods to North Korea is weakening the regime's ability to buy the loyalty of the elite, Radio Free Asia reported Wednesday.
RFA quoted the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry as saying North Korea bought 87 watches worth US$11,000 just between January to April this year, before the sanctions went into force in May. That rate suggests there will be a serious shortfall in gifts for top officials. Swiss sanctions will also affect other sectors like finance, RFA speculated.
On May 18, the Swiss government finally froze North Korean assets, closed bank accounts, and banned exports of 25 luxury items to the North.
The regime's imports of Swiss watches nearly doubled from $112,930 in 2011 to $201,880 in 2012 right after Kim Jong-un took power.
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“Up until early May, payments normally wouldn’t be any later than 15 days, but now there are a lot of cases where companies have been unable to pay even half the amount owed over a month past the due date.”
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150$ Swiss watch?
To paraphrase the great one:
Loose the cheap watch Kim
But Pudgy him give to me with personal guidance and a sardine!
Well then, what a beautiful watch, can I have part of the sardine?
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – Ministry of Interior on Thursday informed about the casualties received by five (5) al-Hashd al-Shaabi members when an improvised explosive device exploded in western Baghdad
Informing about the incident, a source from the ministry said, “An improvised explosive device, which was targeted on a al-Hashd al-Shaabi patrol, exploded today morning while the patrolling party was passing through Abu Gharib district in western Baghdad. In the blast a member of the patrolling party was killed while four others were severely injured. The patrolling vehicle was also damaged in the blast.”
Adding further the source informed, “Security forces rushed to the blast area and carried off the injured to a nearby hospital. The body of the deceased was sent to the forensics. The forces further launched a search operation to nab the perpetrators involved with the explosion.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – An Iraqi police source informed on Thursday, unidentified gunmen killed a policeman in an armed attack at A’ur- north of Baghdad.
According to information shared by the source, “Today, unidentified militants fired indiscriminately at a policeman while he was passing through al-A’ur, north of Baghdad. The policeman died on the spot.”
The source further added, “Security forces arrived in the area of the incident and transferred the dead body to the forensic department, apart from beginning the investigation of the incident.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Ministry of Interior announced on Thursday, that a bomb blast in western Baghdad killed at least two (2) persons and leaving five (5) others injured.
In a detailed information, shared by the source, it was revealed, “This evening an improvised explosive device exploded near a confectionery factory at al-Ghazaliyah in western Baghdad, killing two (2) persons and injuring (5) others.”
“Security forces rushed to the blast area and transferred the injured to a nearby hospital, where they are now being treated upon. The bodies of the deceased were sent to the forensic department. Security cordon has been imposed around the area and approach to it has been stopped,” the source added in his information.
[DAILYSIGNAL] Facebook is adding a training program for its employees to address concerns that the company has a bias against conservatives.
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, announced the addition of a "political bias" section to the company’s managing unconscious bias class during a Wednesday event at the American Enterprise Institute.
"We have a managing bias class that all of our leaders and a lot of our employees have taken that I was part of helping to create. And we focused on racial bias, age bias, gender bias, national bias, and we’re going to add in a scenario now on political bias," Sandberg said. "So as we think about helping people understand different points of view and being open to different points of view, we’re dealing with political bias as well going forward."
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[The Australian] The Islamic cleric who fled Australia after revelations of his anti-gay views was originally invited to give talks at the Imam Husain Islamic Centre in Sydney by Sheik Mansour Leghaei, the controversial Iranian sheik in exile who has been accused of being an Iranian spy.
Sheik Farrokh Sekaleshfar, who said that "death is the punishment for homosexual acts" in a 2013 lecture, had also toured Florida in March, only months before Omar Mateen's bloody attack at an Orlando gay nightclub.
Sheik Sekaleshfar has denied inciting violence and said his views were delivered as an academic studying Islamic law and were taken out of context.
Yesterday, Sheik Leghaei's son, Sadegh Leghaei, confirmed his father remained a "religious director" at the center, where he was responsible for religious instruction and guidance. But he denied knowing in advance anything about Sheik Sekaleshfar's anti-gay views.
Still, Sadegh Leghaei said the issue had been "blown out of all proportion."
Leghaei said, "I don’t think he was stating his personal view. I think he was stating what religion, in its strictest form, under strict circumstances, in a very strict court of law, in an Islamic country that condones those laws, would be applicable."
The direct involvement of Leghaei in promoting Sekaleshfar at the Islamic center will not comfort Australian intelligence as Sheik Leghaei was exiled from Australia six years ago for "acts of interference."
Mansour Leghaei and the Imam Husain Islamic Centre, which he founded, have been mired in controversy for years.
The center is a Shia institution, meaning it is not connected to Daesh. However, ASIO has in the past investigated the center, concerned it might be an instrument of Iranian espionage or influence. ASIO handed down four adverse security appraisals on Sheik Leghaei and is firmly of the view that he was an Iranian intelligence operative.
About 70 to 100 people attended Sekaleshfar's talks at the Islamic center in Earlwood before he left the country as Australian officials prepared the cancellation of his visa. He had been allowed into Australia despite delivering a sermon in Florida "How to Deal with the Phenomenon of Homosexuality" and another notorious speech in 2013 in Michigan discussing the death penalty for gays who are witnessed having sex by four people.
"Death is the sentence. There's nothing to be embarrassed about this. Death is the sentence," he said during a 2013 lecture at the University of Michigan.
Which, in context, is the Islamic equivalent to flying a gay pride flag in front of your home while wearing a feather boa.
[National Post] Canada's supreme court has rejected an Ottawa man's attempt to learn why the RCMP raided his townhouse in its investigation into the 2014 Parliament Hill shootings.
Mounties executed a warrant to search Farhan Nur's home in May 2015, looking for any evidence connected to Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, who killed National War Memorial sentry Nathan Cirillo on October 22, 2014.
The RCMP has long suspected jihadi sympathizers exploited Zehaf-Bibeau's faltering mental condition and influenced him to launch the armed attack.
Nur and another man whose home was searched — police have never charged or named either as a suspect or material witness — asked a court to order the release of RCMP affidavits spelling out confidential details police used to win judicial approval for the warrants.
Police ended up confiscating Nur's computer and some religious material, including recordings of Koran recitations, all of which have been returned to him.
[ARA News] QAMISHLO – More than 100 fighters from the Sheitaat tribe split from the FSA-group elite forces northwest of Deir ez-Zor province in eastern Syria after tribal disputes, and joined the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), local sources reported on Thursday.
“The defection took place in the past 2 weeks due to tribal issues between fighters in the elite forces since the majority of fighters are from al-Sheitaat tribe which clashed with ISIS in the northern western countryside of Deir ez-Zor,” according to the SOHR.
The Islamic State group (ISIS) massacred over 700 Sheitaat members in August 2014, after the tribe rose up against the ISIS self-declared Caliphate.
Parts of the Sheitaat tribe have joined the Assad regime’s National Defence Forces, while others have joined the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) coalition in southern Hasakah and northern Deir ez-Zor. Moreover, a new FSA group called the Elite Forces, that are not part of the SDF, have been engaged in clashes with ISIS on the outskirts of Shaddadi city in Hasakah province.
The US-led coalition denied in a statement any link with this new small group of FSA fighters.
Speaking to ARA News, Coalition spokesman U.S. Army Colonel Christopher Garver said: “In northern Syria the [US-led] Coalition is partnered with the Syrian Democratic Forces, a group that includes Syrian Arabs, Turkmen, Kurdish, Christian and Assyrian fighters. The SDF also includes the Syrian Arab Coalition.”
“The US-led Coalition has quietly, but strenuously, courted tribal groups that live inside ISIS-controlled areas of eastern Syria to turn against the Islamic State,” Nicholas Heras, a Washington-based Middle East researcher at the Centre for a New American Security, told ARA News.
“The Sheitaat are a target audience for this recruitment campaign. These Sheitaat defections to the SDF make sense in that the Syrian Democratic Forces coalition is a rising power in eastern Syria, it is slowly but steadily incorporating more Arab tribal fighters, and it has strong U.S. military support,” Heras said.
“The SDF is increasingly viewed by anti-ISIS Arab tribal groups as a battering ram to bust down the Islamic State strongholds in eastern Syria. More and more, the SDF is becoming a coalition of components, such as the Syrian Arab Coalition that is constituent to but a part of the SDF, and which can mobilize fighters from skeptical identity groups, such as Arab tribes, to combat ISIS,” he said.
Abu Ali (27), the pseudonym of an Arab SDF fighter originally from Raqqa, told ARA News that many Arabs from Deir ez-Zor and Raqqa are joining the SDF forces.
“They just want to liberate their province and country from ISIS,” he said.
The Arab fighters receive training from Americans with light weapons and also get support from US advisors on the ground as part of the Syrian Arab Coalition (SAC)–an SDF faction. Recently, 158 Arab fighters, mostly from the Jibouri tribe, finished their training in the Shaddadi area and joined the SDF forces.
“For some skeptical groups, such as the Sheitaat, where once the Assad regime was viewed as a comparatively more trustworthy partner than the Americans to defeat ISIS, the successes of the SDF, backed by Coalition airpower and Special Forces, are becoming more attractive,” analyst Heras told ARA News.
Kurdish official Perwin Yusuf Mohammed in the local administration of Hasakah said it is possible that the SDF will move into Deir ez-Zor in the future.
“We work as Syrians to liberate areas from the chauvinist regime and ISIS,” she told ARA News. “For the SDF, if they have the opportunity they will liberate all areas from ISIS.”
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A security source in Nineveh province said on Thursday that the Anti-Terrorism Command carried out a military operation against ISIS at Qayyarah in Mosul, indicating that the ISIS members in the area have surrendered themselves before the security forces.
Revealing in details the source said, “A special force belonging to the Anti-Terrorism Directorate (Golden Division), based on accurate intelligence information, carried out a covert operation at the order of the Prime Minister at Qayyarah in Mosul, where a number of prominent ISIS leaders were present.”
“The force was surprised that the ISIS members surrendered themselves without much resistance, fearing the repetition of what happened to them in Fallujah,” the source added.
It is worth mentioning here that the Iraqi Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi announced last week about the launch of a military operation with an aim to liberate the area.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Nineveh Operations Command on Thursday announced liberating 127 square kilometers and nine (9) villages southeast of Mosul (405 km north of Baghdad) from ISIS control; further informing that the battles are still continuing with the participation of the international coalition aviation.
The commander of Nineveh Operations Major General Najm al-Jabouri said in a press statement, a copy of which was also received by Iraqi News, “The operations carried out by Nineveh Operations Command are now concentrated in the eastern coast of the province and we have managed to achieve most of the goals that were set by the Joint Operations Command,” adding that, “The majority of operations were backed by the international coalition aviation.”
Jabouri added, “Our forces managed to free more than 127 square kilometers and nine villages southeast of Mosul,” further adding, “The operations are still going on according to the plans.”
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[AlArabiya] A US general said Tuesday that he did not know if the United States had a particular “grand strategy” in war-torn Libya, where pro-government forces are battling ISIS militants.
Currently, the United States has only a limited footprint in Libya, even though an estimated 5,000 to 8,000 ISIS fighters operate there.
Small teams of US special operations forces are working to gain intelligence and US aircraft have conducted at least two strikes, but the Obama administration has preferred to let forces loyal to the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) lead the fight against the ISIS group.
Lieutenant General Thomas Waldhauser, who has been nominated to lead the US military’s Africa Command, said he did not necessarily see the level of US engagement changing.
“I am not aware of any overall grand strategy at this point,” Waldhauser told lawmakers at a confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
He also said the current, unspecified number of US troops in the North African country was sufficient for now.
GNA forces are leading a fierce fight to oust the ISIS group from its stronghold in the coastal city of Sirte, which the extremists have controlled since June last year.
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Losing is a also a strategy.
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Lt. Gen. Tom should be getting a call an day concerning his 'reassignment.'
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“I am not aware of any overall grand strategy at this point,” Waldhauser told lawmakers at a confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Very telling comment. Yes General, keep your cellie handy. You'll probably be getting a call from General Officer Management Office (GOMO) very soon.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A Pak senator has criticized the Taliban policy adopted by Islamabad and warned that the dichotomy in the state’s policy towards bandidossnuffies has brought Afghanistan and Pakistain close to a dangerous collision.
"Pakistain refuses to acknowledge that the Taliban ideology on both sides of the Durand Line is to destroy modern state structures," Pakistain Peoples Party Senator Farhatullah Babar quoted in a report by Dawn said.
He was speaking during a gathering organized for the launch of a report on ’Pak-Afghan Relations Under Evolving Regional Scenario’, published by the Pakistain Institute of Policy Studies.
Babar further added "We also pretend that while the Afghan Taliban is motivated to drive out foreign forces, the Pak Taliban is seeking to destroy the state itself. It is this dichotomy in state policy that had led the two close neighbours on the path of a dangerous collision."
He said Mansour’s possession of Pak identity documents raised serious questions about who has provided sanctuary and protection to the Afghan Taliban in Pakistain, and dealt a blow to the narrative of illusory sovereignty.
"Where is illusory sovereignty when the likes of Mansour are freely using our land to launch attacks in Afghanistan?"
According to Babar, Mansour’s successors are less likely to be found in refugee camps and more likely to be found in well-protected luxury compounds in Quetta ‐ and elsewhere ‐ holding Pak identity and travel documents.
"In utter frustration and in a kneejerk reaction we have resorted to unilateral border controls and are demanding repatriation of Afghan refugees. It is neither feasible nor advisable to throw out the refugees overnight. We have not been able to register all the refugees as yet ‐ a task that must have been completed long ago," he argued.
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A sane voice in Pakistan. He should be assassinated any day now.
[CNN] The Justice Department announced Wednesday it's charging hundreds of individuals across the country with committing Medicare fraud worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
It's the largest takedown in history -- both in terms of the number of people charged and the loss amount, according to the Justice Department.
It's also a drop in the bucket...
The majority of the cases being prosecuted involve separate fraudulent billings to Medicare, Medicaid or both for treatments that were never provided.
In one case, a bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... clinic that was actually a front for a narcotics diversion scheme billed Medicare for more than $36 million, the Justice Department said.
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The Justice Department had time to do something like this? With all those pressing matters like avoiding investigating IRS abuse and Sec State e-mail treason?
[Jakarta Post] Seven Indonesian crewmen were seized while sailing in southern Philippine waters, in the latest incident attributed to the notorious Abu Sayyaf. The situation is still developing, an official has confirmed.
Wibanarto Eugenius, minister counselor at the Indonesian Embassy in Manila, said, "Relevant institutions in Indonesia are probing the situation to confirm the news, as well as looking for supporting evidence."
A source who has knowledge of the matter has confirmed that the kidnappers were members of the same network that hijacked the Brahma 12 tugboat in March, under the leader of Tawing Humair.
News of another kidnapping near the waters off of Sulu in the southern Philippines caught media attention on Wednesday night when the wife of a sailor aboard the Charles tugboat revealed her husband's condition. The sailor, one of 13 men aboard, had reportedly contacted his wife to say that the boat had been taken hostage by a faction of the Abu Sayyaf.
The kidnappers have reportedly asked for a ransom of $4.9 million for the release of the hostages. Seven men were taken from the boat while the remaining six were released. This is the third incident in recent months involving the kidnapping of Indonesian sailors by the Abu Sayyaf.
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[BBC] Nearly 200 refugees fleeing Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... bandidosmurderous Moslems have starved to death over the past month in Bama, Nigeria, the medical charity MSF says. A "catastrophic humanitarian emergency" is unfolding at a camp it visited where 24,000 people have taken refuge. Many inhabitants are traumatised and one in five children is suffering from acute malnutrition, MSF says.
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[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., on Thursday said it's now Obama's turn to "get over it" in the face of a Supreme Court decision that effectively blocks his 2014 executive actions on immigration.
Obama famously said after being challenged by a Republican politician in 2009, "I won," a warning that the GOP had to accept his victory and work with him on Democratic priorities.
In 2013, he again challenged the GOP by saying they needed to "go out there and win an election" if they wanted a change in direction. That line was widely perceived as him saying, "deal with it."
On Thursday, Huelskamp reacted to Obama's presser about his Supreme Court loss by saying essentially the same thing:
"Obama, you lost," Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., tweeted. "The Constitution won. Get over it."
His tweet appeared to be a reaction to Obama's attempt to downplay the 4-4 ruling that kicked the decision down to the lower court. While the split decision is a loss for Obama and his immigration actions, he cast it as the Court being "unable to reach a decision," and said if it was a ruling from a Court with nine judges on it, that would mean he would "take it seriously."
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He'll keep doing it anyway; who's fooled by a mere Supreme Court ruling?
[Daily Excelsior] In a major success against the recently infiltrated Lion of Islams, security forces today killed six forces of Evil in two separate shootouts in North Kashmire’s Kupwara district while third shootout is on in Wuder Bala forests of Handwara.
Acting on a tip off about the presence of forces of Evil in Lolab, the Army’s 18 RR and Police cordoned off Dobwan forest area in Khurhama this morning.
Militants hiding inside the forests opened fire on the search party of the security forces and tried to break the security cordon. However,
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least four Taliban hard boyz were blown up by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) manufuctured by themselves to target the security personnel.
According to the 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces, the incident took place in the vicinity of Alingar district.
The source further added that two Talibs were killed and two others were maimed in the blast.
The Talibs group has not commented regarding the incident so far.
The Taliban hard boyz and holy warriors belonging to the other myrmidon groups are frequently using Improvised Explosive Device (IED) as the weapon of their choice to target the security forces.
The IEDs are the main contributors to the casualties of the Afghan cops but are also considered as a key factor in growing civilian casualties.
This comes as a commander of the Taliban group Hafiz Saadullah was among ten holy warriors killed after blown up by own explosives in southeastern Ghazni and 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... provinces last month.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A drone strike killed at least four holy warriors fighting for the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group in Afghanistan.
According to the local officials in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province, the holy warriors were targeted in Kot district.
Provincial governor’s front man Ataullah Khogyani said the Arclight airstrike was carried out in Pir Shah Khel area late on Wednesday afternoon.
He said some weapons and ammunition belonging to the loyalists of the terror group were also destroyed in the raid.
This comes as at least 23 loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed in an Arclight airstrike in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan last week.
The Afghan forces as well as the US forces are regularly targeting the loyalists of the terror group in this province in a bid to curb their activities.
The Afghan government earlier a strategy to fight the loyalists of the terror group in Afghanistan.
In the meantime, the US forces stepped up Arclight airstrikes against the ISIS loyalists earlier this year after they were granted more authorities by President Barack Obama If you have a small business, you didn't build that... .
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A commander of the Taliban group was killed along with 11 other bully boyz during an Arclight airstrike in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the Arclight airstrike was carried out in Marjah district by the Afghan Air Force.
According to a statement by MoD, a weapons and explosives cache belonging to the Taliban group was also destroyed and along with a command control center of the group in Marjah.
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From the Corner. A quick summary of the number of times authorities were notified about Omar Mateen:
September 11, 2001 -- Omar openly celebrated 9/11 at school. School authorities notified.
Spring 2007 -- Omar threatened to kill people at the training school he was at when his hamburger touched a piece of pork. Authorities escorted him out of school.
May 2013 -- reviewed by the FBI after boasting to co-workers about ties to terrorist groups. Perhaps not a boast.
Spring 2014 -- reviewed by the FBI again after a member of his mosque (130 worshippers, of whom two were splodydopes) kaboomed himself in Syria. Mateen had mentioned watching videos by Anwar al-Awlaki. We all know him.
Spring 2016 -- Disney notified authorities because they thought Omar was conducting surveillance.
May 2016 -- gun store owner called the FBI after Omar tried to buy body armor and large quantities of ammo.
As Jim Geraghty says, "And government officials wonder why people think they should to own a gun to protect themselves!"
Not to mention the rather high profile Mateem's father has enjoyed for many years.
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Director Comey defended the FBI’s actions, stating:
"I don’t see anything in reviewing our work that our agents should have done differently…Our work is very challenging, we are looking for needles in a nationwide haystack but we’re also called upon to figure out which pieces of hay might someday become needles."
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With the vast array of intelligence systems, massive data bases, advanced link analysis tools, and analytical minds available at the FBI, NSA, and CIA, I simply cannot believe Mateen, the Tsarnaev bros, the 'underwear bomber' Abdulmutallab, Nidal Hasan, or the 9/11 bombers were simply intelligence 'gaps' or tragic oversights.
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The FBI is an establishment security service so of course they are more interested in threats to their ability to rent-seek than in the safety of US citizens.
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Several dozen House Democrats are engaged in a sit-in on the House floor
Protest is to pressure GOP leadership for a vote on gun control legislation
The protest started right before lunchtime on Wednesday
The House's cameras were turned off with members using the web app Periscope and then Facebook Live to broadcast their speeches
Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama tweeted their support of the sit-in
Wednesday night, Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert approached the Democrats and yelled 'Radical Islam!'
Democratic Rep. Corrine Brown of Florida started yelling back at him
They came within inches of each other and needed to be separated
Several hundred protesters gathered outside the Capitol to show solidarity with House Democrats
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They know the bill won't pass in the House but they want to get the Pubs on the record who vote for the bill and then try to get some mileage out of the issue for the election--it's all about trying to get re-elected. They are trying to make not having guns the next big civil rights issue. Morons.
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No law, no rule, no tradition is above their clawing, grasping efforts to have their way. It isn't about justice, or truth, or reason, or morality, it is about power. Every form of veiled deceit and hypocrisy hides the addiction to power and privilege masquerading as "public service". These people are without honor, honesty, or public virtue. They are the pestilence that has brought the greatest experiment in governance in human history to its knees, and the tribalization that this has created will not be undone.....
[FREEBEACON] Attorney General Loretta Lynch said that love and compassion are the best responses to terrorism during remarks to the media in Orlando, Florida on Tuesday. That's the best way to handle all crime.
Lynch said the Department of Justice stood in solidarity with the LGBT community “in the light” following a Muslim terrorist’s massacre of 49 people at a gay nightclub last week. Standing in solidarity's the best thing to do for somebody who's been knifed.
“We stand with you to say that the good in this world far outweighs the evil, that our common humanity transcends our differences, and that our most effective response to terror and to hatred is compassion, it’s unity, and it’s love,” Lynch said. “We stand with you today as we grieve together, and long after the cameras are gone, we will continue to stand with you as we grow together in commitment, in solidarity, and in equality.” Right. So what're you doing with krazed killers? Having sex with them?
Lynch has been in the news for defending the administration’s decision to redact transcripts between law enforcement and the terrorist, Omar Mateen, during his attack. Say the forbidden words, you burst into flame.
Mateen pledged allegiance to the Islamic State as he carried out his rampage. Lynch announced Sunday that his references to Islamic terrorism would be redacted in transcripts of his conversations with law enforcement during the killings, but the administration wilted under mounting public criticism and published his conversations in full.
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:Meh: Leave the sermonizing to the pulpit and the professionals standing there -- YOUR job is administering justice whether it is with the fasces or the axe.
[Haaretz] Nigerian bandidosLions of Islam Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... have fractured internally, with a big group splitting away from shadowy leader Abubakar Shekau over his failure to adhere to guidance from ISIS, a senior U.S. general said on Tuesday.
Marine Lieutenant General Thomas Waldhauser, the nominee to lead the U.S. military's Africa Command, suggested the internal division was illustrative of limits of ISIS' influence over Boko Haram so far, despite the West African group's pledge of allegiance to it last year.
"Several months ago, about half of Boko Haram broke off to a separate group because they were not happy with the amount of buy-in, if you will, from Boko Haram into the ISIS brand," Waldhauser said at his nomination hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Shekau, he said, had not fallen into line with ISIS instructions, including by ignoring calls for Boko Haram to stop using children as jacket wallahs.
"He's been told by ISIS to stop doing that. But he has not done so. And that's one of the reasons why this splinter group has broken off," he said, adding that ISIS was trying to "reconcile those two groups."
Rooters reported on June 9 that U.S. officials had seen no evidence that Boko Haram has so far received significant operational support or financing from ISIS. The assessment suggested Boko Haram's loyalty pledge had so far mostly been a branding exercise.
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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has warned Chinese President Xi Jinping that Japan may arm itself with nuclear weapons if North Korea's nuclear development remains unchecked.
Finally playing a card that could have been played seven years ago...
Japan could go nuclear "virtually overnight," unless Beijing does more to rein in North Korea, Biden told Charlie Rose on PBS on Monday.
"When I tell President Xi, you have to understand we got a guy up there in North Korea who is talking about building weapons that can strike, nuclear weapons strike the United States and not only Hawaii and Alaska, but... the mainland of the United States," Biden said. "And I say, so we're going to move up our defense system, and he says no, no, no, wait a minute, my military thinks you're going to try to circle us."
Biden was talking about the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system that Washington is pushing Seoul into deploying here.
"And what happens… if we don't work out something together on North Korea?" he added. "What happens if Japan, who could tomorrow, could go nuclear tomorrow? They have the capacity to do it virtually overnight."
Even Slow Joe can figure this out...
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With the DNC loo in chronic overflow, will we soon be hearing more from Joe ?
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I'm sure the Japanese (or Koreans) could quickly refurbish a older nuclear sub or two sitting around here as we're strapped for funds to do the work for ourselves. Sort of 'Lend Lease'.
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...Read Tom Clancy's Debt of Honor for a very good description of how the Japanese could be a nuclear power - with a far more capable and realistic nuclear deterrent than the Norks - in just a few months, and no one would know a thing about it until the deed was done.
Mike
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[DAWN] Hours after the famed qawwal Amjad Sabri was killed in a gun attack, prominent Shia noha khawan Farhan Ali Waris claimed he escaped an liquidation attempt in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , DawnNews reported. A noha khawal is a receiter of poetry mourning the defeat of Imam Ali at Karbala. A qawwal is a singer of Sufi devotional music.
Talking to DawnNews, Waris said his car was surrounded by unknown assailants near the Teen Hatti area of the metropolis.
"They were about to open fire but my guard opened fire upon them, forcing them to flee," said Waris.
"I was not in the car but the manner in which they surrounded the vehicle makes me think that they thought I was inside," Waris added.
He also said he was provided a security guard today by the Jafaria Disaster Cell after Amjad Sabri's murder.
"We searched the area and found no evidence that Waris's car was shot at," said the SHO from the area's cop shoppe.
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well it is music. albeit of the wailing cat - squeaky door variety, so clearly haram, no?
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qawwal = shortened version of caterwauling
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North Korean leader Fat Boy Kim Jong-un on Wednesday claimed his country's missiles can strike the U.S. in the Pacific.
As long as the U.S. moves to within 400 km...
"We have the sure capability to attack in an overall and practical way the Americans in the Pacific operation theatre," the official KCNA news agency quoted him as saying.
"At least one out of six times," KCNA continued...
Kim's boast came after North Korea finally succeeded in launching one mid-range ballistic missile, which flew a mere 400 km, nowhere near the touted range of 3,000 to 4,000 km that would put U.S. bases in Guam within reach. Five earlier tests failed disastrously.
Pudgy Kim watched the test of what North Korea now calls a Hwasong-10 missile, official media reported. Accompanying pictures showed the chubby leader hugging officials.
After which he shot them...
KCNA said the missile was fired at a high angle "to simulate its full range" and flew along a projected trajectory to reach a height of 1,413.6 km. It then fell into the target area in waters 400 km away.
So the missile reached an altitude of 875 miles? The press is gullible enough to report that without questioning...
It added the North now has the technology allowing missile warheads to re-enter the earth's atmosphere.
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[DAWN] Director-General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Asim Bajwa in an interview with Deutsche Welle Urdu on Wednesday said the narrative that Pakistain has not done enough to fight terrorism was "unfair" as it did not recognise Pakistain's contributions to the war against terror. Then his lips fell off. In a rare and candid interview with DW Urdu’s Kishwar Mustafa, Bajwa said, "The world had abandoned Pakistain to handle and face the holy warriors in the region alone, and Pakistain has completed the task".
Bajwa also commented on the drone strike that killed Mullah Akhtar Mansour, accusations that Operation Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... did not target the Haqqani network, as well as the internal displacement caused by the operation. Read the interview. It makes Marxist rhetoric look rational.
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They helped create the terrorists in the first place, they've done more than enough and deserve the same fate.
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Doublespeak. They are the safe haven for AQ, taliban and all others. Ya think they did not know OBL was nestled neatly there? They are a threat to the free world but our admin swallows their crap like..... Never mind. We are not in this war to win it.
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Rather like the Saudis, in that the Paks define 'terrorism' as a threat to them.
[lyingcrookedhillary.com] "Hillary has no shame! The Benghazi attacks were a preventable tragedy disgraced further by Hillary’s web of lies.
She knew within hours that the attacks in Benghazi were a terrorist attack, and not a spontaneous protest due to a You Tube Video. But she lied anyways. She stood in front of the flag-draped coffins of four Americans that died serving their country and peddled the lie that the video was to blame both to the victims’ families and the American public.
But she didn’t only lie about what she knew about the Benghazi attack; she had the gall to say that she never told the Benghazi victims’ families that the video was to blame – essentially calling THEM liars.
One family member, Charles Woods – father of Tyrone Woods, a retired Navy Seal killed in the Benghazi attacks on September 11, 2012 –recalls that Hillary told him, “We are going to have the filmmaker arrested who was responsible for the death of your son.” Patricia Smith, grieving mother of victim Sean Smith, remembers clearly what Hillary told her as well and says she never received a real explanation from Clinton or the Obama administration on what happened.
The truth is that massive security failures at the highest levels of the Obama administration and Clinton’s State Department put the Benghazi mission at grave risk as terrorist threats grew daily. Her incompetence cost lives and her attempt to cover up the truth is an indignity on the memory of the fallen heroes in Benghazi."
[INFORMATIONNG] Jessica O’Brien swears ѕhе hаd honest intentions аѕ ѕhе set оut tо shift hеr £400 white corner sofa. But nestled аmоng thе pictures оf thе leather settee ѕhе uploaded wаѕ а photo оf hеr exposed chest іn а purple lace bra. Oh. Well. That could happen to anybody. Assuming they have the boobies for it. And a purple lace bra.
Unsurprisingly, thе 25-year-old’s unusual post оn а local buy-and-sell page quickly gained а lot оf interest. "Hubert, stop staring at that sofa! She wants £800 for it, and purple won't match anything in the house!"
Thе Sun reported thаt оnе user wrote: ’Thought I’d hаd tоо mаnу drinks аt fіrѕt glance but no, thеу wеrе defo there.’ "Yessir. There they wuz. Big 'uns, too!"
Thе beauty therapist apparently uploaded thе advert frоm hеr phone аnd accidentally ticked thе raunchy snap аmоng thе оthеrѕ ѕhе wanted tо post. Oops. Embarrassing. I remember once a picture of my genitalia... No. Wait. That wasn't mine. It was Carlos Danger's. Never mind.
Sооn afterwards, Jessica wrote: ’When уоu mаkе аn absolute schoolboy error оn уоur buy аnd sell post!!!’ Yep. That's prob'ly what happened to Carlos.
A friend ѕаіd ѕhе wаѕ ’mortified’, adding: ’Some people hаvе joked thаt іt wаѕ fоr publicity tо hеlр sell hеr sofa but іt wаѕ јuѕt аn accident. "Buy my sofa and I'll show you my jugs!"
’She’s rеаllу embarrassed.’ I'll bet Carlos was, too.
Thе post hаѕ ѕіnсе bееn deleted bу а group moderator. But it's right there on the Nigerian news site for the world to see if you want to gaze upon the rounded but blacked out sumptuousness of her bazooms. You just have to pick it out among all the other well-upholstered items.
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QUETTA: A police sub-inspector was killed in a blast inside a police station in Nothal area of district Naseerabad.
Six other police officials were injured in the blast.
"Explosive materials recovered from criminals abruptly exploded inside the police station," said police sources.
Police sources added the area of Nothal was rocked by the explosion.
The injured police officials were rushed to a nearby hospital for medical treatment.
Senior government and police officials reached the hospital to inquire about the condition of the injured police officials. An investigation was also ordered to probe into the blast.
Militants have conducted attacks against security forces and national installations in Balochistan, which has been plagued by an insurgency and growing sectarian killings for more than a decade.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] An kaboom took place in the vicinity of Wazir Mohammad Akbar Khan area late last night but did not incur any casualties, security officials said.
The barometric pressure dropped?
The blast took place near Wazir Akbar hill after an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) exploded and an investigation is underway regarding the incident.
The target of the kaboom has not been ascertained so far which comes three days two back to back kabooms rocked capital 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.... The first blast on Monday took place in the 9th police district of the capital after a jacket wallah targeted a mini bus carrying the Nepalese guards.
At least 14 people mostly Nepalese nations were killed in the attack and around 10 others were maimed.
Another kaboom took place hours after the first blast on Monday in Chel Siton area of the city targeting a politician who was injured in the attack.
Both the Taliban group and the loyalists 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group grabbed credit behind the incident targeting the Nepalese security guards.
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(IraqiNews.com) Salahuddin – On Thursday, Daur District Council in Salahuddin Province revealed, that a tribal leader and his son were killed and his house burnt by ISIS members when the former were fired at indiscriminately by the latter at east of Tikrit. A relative of the deceased was also injured in the firing.
Head of Daur District Council Ali Hassan, in a statement issued to the media, said, “At noon today a group of ISIS members stormed into the house a Shamar tribe leader named Sheikh Daham Hawas in al-Naeima village northeast of al-Daur District (25 km east of Tikrit) and fired indiscriminately using machine guns. In the firing Sheikh along with his son were killed right there while a relative, who was present there, received serious injured.”
Hassan added, “The attackers set fire to the house and three vehicles before escaping towards Hamrin mountains, east of Tikrit. Firetrucks rushed to the area of incident and managed to douse the fire. Security force personnel transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital where he is currently undergoing treatment. Bodies of the deceased were sent to the forensic department.”
“ISIS members have been attacking al-Naeima area from time to time due to the weak security presence in the area,” he continued.
ISIS beats 22 for failing to observer Ramadan *I* can't have a pulled pork sammich, I'll be damned if you can have one!
[ARA News] DUHOK – Extremists of the Islamic State group (ISIS) on Thursday flogged 22 Iraqi civilians in Mosul city of the northwestern Nineveh province for breaking Ramadan fast, activists and eyewitnesses reported.
“The Islamic police of al-Hisba launched a campaign of arrests in central Mosul, looking for people who have broken Ramadan fast. They have arrested 22 civilians in the past two days,” local media activist Jabir Muntazir told ARA News.
The ISIS-led Sharia Court of Mosul decided to punish the detainees in public.
“The victims were flogged with 30 lashes each,” Muntazir reported. “Hundreds of people watched the punishment.”
Also, the group has hanged five of the victims on electricity polls across Mosul. “They warned that fasting Ramadan is obligatory for all Muslims under the Caliphate,” an eyewitness told ARA News in Mosul, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Crucifixion
This comes just one week after ISIS militants publicly flogged and crucified a number of civilians in the city of al-Mayadeen in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province. “The ISIS-led Hisba Police arrested 11 people in Mayadeen for breaking the Ramadan fast. They were flogged with 50 lashes each, and then crucified in the market square downtown,” local media activist Yassir al-Farhan told ARA News.
“ISIS is trying to terrorise the people through conducting such punishments in public,” the source said.
Eyewitnesses told ARA News that an ISIS official from the Sharia Court of Deir ez-Zor read a statement to the public before flogging and crucifying the victims, saying there is no excuse for any Muslim citizen to break the fast of holy Ramadan.
Similar cases were reported in the city of Abu Kamal, where ISIS militants punished at least eight civilians by crucifying them on electricity poles for deliberately breaking fast.
Speaking to ARA News in Deir ez-Zor, media activist Saray ad-Din reported that since the start of Ramadan, ISIS brutal crackdown on civilians has mounted in the province.
“According to ISIS rules, every citizen, no matter his/her age or health condition, is obliged to fast Ramadan, otherwise would be punished by flogging and crucifixion,” the local activist said.
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[Daily Caller] The United Kingdom has voted to leave the European Union in a shock referendum result.
After a bitter contest, the “Leave” campaign opposed by both Prime Minister David Cameron and leader of Britain’s Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn stormed to victory in the early hours of Friday morning. BBC News called the race around midnight EST.
The referendum on Britain’s EU membership divided political parties and the public. The remain campaign focused relentlessly on the economy warning Brits they would be worse off if they voted for Brexit.
The official leave campaign opted for immigration as their trump card, arguing a Brexit would allow the UK to control the number of immigrants who can come and settle from the EU. All EU member states have to allow the free movement of EU citizens — meaning anyone from any member state can live and work in any other member state.
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Scotland and Northern Ireland to call for break away from union
We are now hearing that there will be statements from Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland and the SNP in Scotland calling for a break away from the United Kingdom.
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We shall now all await the European retribution.
There are some areas in which France is unlikely to press for tough terms. For example, imposing restrictions on visa or travel rights for some 200,000 Brits who live in France (of which 69,000 are pensioners) could backfire. France has some 160,000 citizens living in Britain, who could be targeted in turn by visa restrictions on foreign travelers and workers.
“[The French] don’t want to create an EU economic cold war,” said Petros Fassoulas, secretary general of European Movement International, a leading pro-EU group in Brussels.
However, there are other ways of demonstrating that withdrawal from the EU can lead to painful payback. One is to restrict the “passporting” of financial services, which allows foreign-owned companies to do business with the EU via offices located in Britain. The principle works because the EU recognizes the authority of British supervisory bodies.
But in the event of Brexit, the EU may no longer recognize that authority, which could push firms to leave Britain and establish bases inside the European Union.
“I would be very tough [on this point],” said Sylvie Goulard, a French MEP who sits on the committee for economic and monetary affairs. “I see no reason to give passporting to a country that decides in a sovereign way to leave the EU… The day the U.K. leaves … you cannot consider the British supervising authority as an authority of the EU.”
A similar logic would apply for British clearing houses, or financial institutions that act as intermediaries between buyers and sellers. Currently, Britain-based clearinghouses are supervised by the Bank of England, but comply with EU regulations. If Britain left the EU, member countries would re-evaluate whether they recognize clearing houses such as LCH.Clearnet, and may push to force all clearing houses to be based inside the EU — as the European Central Bank has already suggested should be the case.
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The copyright, patent and trademark offices are going to be a real mess to separate.
Not sure what happens with the big pseudo state corporations like EDS and Aerospatiale. Also the EU Science and Space consortiums and joint weapons projects like UK/French shared carriers.
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Immigration was the key issue. People are fed up with out of control immigration. Which bodes well for Trump's chances.
In England only the wealthiest areas voted remain (those least affected by immigration, and arguably the major beneficiaries - cheap maids, gardeners, etc.).
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All those terrible things could happen, and maybe some or even many of them will happen. But not right away. Inertia.
Besides, there ought to be a benefit to make the change.
For the corporations, anyway; the politicians can be powered by spite, of course.
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Feh. Parliament will frontload the painful changes. Then take a second referendum after the public mood shifts.
This isn't over.
Cue Neil Sedaka.
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Smith blogs from the UK and he nails it:
"I am so glad to see the British Isles did what the Ice Age did naturally 6,500 years BC; Separate from Europe.
Don’t get me wrong...the Brits are a strange bunch, no doubt about that. I mean they love to eat horse feed, sip tea at three and chase after foxes with horses although mopeds have been invented a long time ago, but this time a bit of sanity prevailed. They Brexited!
I hope the first thing they do now is to close the borders, because that was the only reason for the damn referendum in the first place namely the useless EU’s inability (or refusal) to deal with the Islamist invasion of Europe.
Brexiting was the only way they could close the borders and have some control over who comes into their country. If they stayed in the EU they would have been swamped by fundamentalist Islamists.
The UK paid £50 million a day to be in the EU and what did the EU do with that money? Built flats and paid it out as grants to terrorists posing as “refugees”. Crazy.
I am actually relieved it’s over. The total self destruct madness and deranged lunacy of the left the last few weeks were staggering. Every time I saw a European leader (I use the term lightly) like Angela Merkel plead with the Brits to stay in the EU I involuntarily started gagging and almost threw up. Not to mention the crocodile tears over the LWB Jo Cox. Thomas Mair should be knighted for ridding this world of a deranged liberal twat whose black dick fantasies would have been the cause of future terrorist attacks and the deaths of British citizens.
Nevertheless, it will be interesting to see if the Scots and the North Irish now hold more referendums to exit the UK and rejoin the EU independently. Soon there will be no more United Kingdom.
As far as I am concerned I hope to see more countries leaving the EU and that toilet seat of Satan in Brussels destroyed."
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Article 50 of the EU treaties is what is important now. This defines the 2 year process for establishing the new economic and diplomatic order/relationship between the UK and the EU.
This is FAR from over and we'll see what comes of it
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Wrechard's comment "It should be obvious to the status quo that the crisis has arrived. Brexit, for all its drama, was a warning. The real collision is close ahead.
The basic demand is for a moderation, if not a reversal of the centralizing tendencies. It's a brief for less immigration, less political correctness and less government.
Unfortunately conceding to these demands this is like reversing the Titanic. There's so much momentum, it's hard to stop. But they have to stop. The Iceberg looms ahead. All Brexit has done is give the warning.
From now on, the countdown begins. Can the elites turn the ship in time?"
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The UK will come to regret that decision. Dearly.
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I have no doubt the rest of the EU will make this as unpleasant as possible, if only to deter countries who might be considering the same.
From a systems point of view, it is interesting how the EU evolved from an organization meant to reduce barriers to the movement of goods, people and capital, and turned into a bunch of bureaucrats deciding what kind of bananas you can eat. Not that I'm surprised.
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Liberty always has a price, as does slavery. It might hurt a bit for a while, but I suspect they may wind up much better off. Especially as Europe either joins the Caliphate or decides it wants a repeat of the 30 years war.
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I have been joking with my friend, "Watch, if Britain leaves, suddenly the EU will be able to mobilize a pan-national military...but not for the Ukraine."
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#28 Article 50 of the EU treaties is what is important now. This defines the 2 year process for establishing the new economic and diplomatic order/relationship between the UK and the EU.
This is FAR from over and we'll see what comes of it
It will be interesting times, AlanC. One interesting aspect of it is that three other states are looking into their own Nexit referenda. That will put heat on the EUnuchs in Brussels. It will be quite entertaining, as Brussels will stall to try to keep this Frankenstein superstate monster together for their own selfish wants. But the die is cast. Let the games begin.
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The EU was built on nothing but lies.
It started as an Iron & steel trade affairin the '40s but the people behind it were trying to build the United States of Europe from day one. Each step of the way was meant to draw closer and closer to a super-state run by the oligarchs/technocrats and reducing the countries to nothing.
I think that they over-reached with the Euro and too many folks finally caught on and decided that they preferred to be responsible for themselves.
This was a fear based campaign with the Remain crew pushing the fear. The younger voters tended to be the cowardly ones who were afraid of the big bad wolf of freedom from Nanny.
[LAWOFFICER] Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby will face a slew of new counts, including malicious prosecution and false arrest in a lawsuit brought by two Baltimore cops according to the DCNF.
Sgt. Alicia White and Officer William Porter, two officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, filed suit May 2 against Mosby and Maj. Sam Cogen of the Baltimore Sheriff’s office for defamation and invasion of privacy. The suit alleges Mosby and Cogen knew the charges were trumped up, but filed them anyway to quell the riots that had ravaged the city.
Michael Glass, the lawyer for the officers in the suit, said that he plans to amend the lawsuit to include "likely a count of malicious prosecution, false arrest, false imprisonment, violation of the Maryland declaration of rights, article 24 and 26." He said the they’re currently working on modifying the complaint, and the changes will be official in the next few weeks, likely by the end of June.
"These six officers were essentially sacrificed," Glass said. "Alicia White, she’s accused of murder, she never touched Mr. Gray."
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Elijah Cummings said back in 2015: “I’m in the twilight years, but I am telling you we will not rest we will not rest until we address this [Freddie Gray case] and see that justice is done,”
Well Elijah, was justice done? Maybe you will go down with this other political opportunist Marilyn Mosby. Maybe the voters will dump you in the Fall and the rest of us won't have to watch your whining, grandstanding, and demonizing of others. You are the 2016 answer to the KKK with a black face on it.
Some U.N. peacekeeping units and officers who did not respond to a deadly attack on a U.N. base in South Sudan where 48,000 civilians had sought refuge will be sent home, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said Wednesday.
At least 25 people were killed in the February attack in the northern city of Malakal, the capital of oil-producing Upper Nile State.
Undersecretary-General for Peacekeeping Herve Ladsous told reporters after briefing the Security Council behind closed doors that while some peacekeepers "reacted very well, some did not."
He said he was not prepared to name the countries whose troops showed "a lack of responsiveness" because two U.N. reports on the incident are still being reviewed by lawyers.
But Human Rights Watch said Wednesday it obtained a summary of the reports which said the response by peacekeepers — from Ethiopia, Rwanda and India — was woefully inadequate.
Ladsous said there was also a lack of understanding of the "rules of engagement" which spell out when soldiers can take military action.
According to Human Rights Watch, fighting between youths inside the camp escalated along ethnic lines and armed Dinkas, including government soldiers, forced their way into the camp, shot civilians, and systematically burned homes of Nuer and others as U.N. peacekeepers stood by.
A U.N. report based on an investigation into the attack that was circulated Tuesday found that at least 30 people died in the attack and placed the number of wounded at 123.
A report by the international medical and humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders, also released Tuesday, said the U.N. peacekeeping mission failed to protect civilians, failed to prevent weapons from getting into the Malakal base, and was very slow to respond to the attack in which two of its staff members died.
Ladsous said he has made a series of recommendations to prevent a similar attack.
The U.N. must do "a still better job in training people" as soon as they arrive and make sure that the rules of engagement are understood by everybody "from the top to the last private."
[DAWN] THE stirring baritone of Amjad Sabri, one of this country’s most renowned qawwals and an iconic cultural symbol, has been stilled forever. With him died a glorious intergenerational heritage of devotional music that embodied the benign inclusivity of Sufism. And the manner of his death on Wednesday afternoon struck another grievous blow at the already fragile sense of security in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... . Attacked in his car by two gunnies on a cycle of violence as he drove with a friend in one of the most crowded areas of the metropolis, Amjad Sabri was killed instantly in the hail of bullets aimed at him. Although a splinter group of the banned TTP has grabbed credit, police are still trying to establish the perpetrators’ identity and their motive.
Over the past year in particular, law-enforcement agencies have claimed comprehensive success in tackling serious crime in Pakistain’s largest city since the operation to restore law and order in Karachi began in late 2013. There is, no doubt, a considerable degree of truth to this: statistics show that terrorism is down by 80pc and assassination'>assassinations by around 50pc in the metropolis. However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... any sense of complacency on this score has been shattered by the events of the last few days. On Tuesday, just 48 hours before Amjad Sabri’s murder, the Sindh High Court chief justice’s son Awais Ali Shah was kidnapped in broad daylight in an upscale, high-security Karachi locality. Last week, an Ahmadi doctor was rubbed out in his clinic, the second member of the community to have been killed within a month. It is pertinent, however, to point out that even when the threat of terrorism, assassination'>assassinations and extortion seemed to have somewhat receded in Karachi, the runaway levels of street crime in the city mean that a perpetual sense of insecurity prevails among its residents. According to official data, street crime, especially mobile theft and cycle of violence snatching, increased sharply in the first 10 days of Ramazan and claimed four lives.
Even though the TTP’s claim -- whose veracity is difficult to establish -- did include the allegation of ’blasphemy’, it is worth asking where the law and order operation in Karachi is going wrong. Successfully tackling militancy involves across-the-board, even-handed action against criminals of all shades. Have the law-enforcement authorities taken their eye off the ball by focusing too selectively on a certain category of criminals? Such an approach could well have emboldened other outlaw elements in the city -- specifically religious holy warrior groups, or sleeper cells of such groups -- who are once again exploiting the space they have found to carry out their agenda. Nevertheless, the spirit of this complex, tumultuous city endures ‐ and it showed its resilience in the thousands who turned out to say farewell to the maestro of qawwali, yet another bright light snuffed out in the killing fields of Karachi.
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To "true Muslims", Sufism borders on apostasy and blasphemy.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansur_Al-Hallaj
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But Sufism has been around since the 9th/10th century, and was prominent with the Ottomans, among others. So it is just as mainstream and traditional as those "true Muslims".
[DAWN] DOLING out public funds to forward political agendas is a well-established practice in Pakistain. Out of many such instances, one particular political donation has been in the news of late. According to reports, the PTI-led KP government has put aside Rs300m for Darul Uloom Haqqania ...an Islamic seminary located in Akora Khattak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The seminary propagates the Deobandi trend of Sunni Islam and is headed by Maulana Samiul Haq, known as the Godfather of the Taliban. It has been dubbed The University of Jihad due to the methods and content of instruction along with the future occupations of its alumni.... , located in Akora Khattak, from the recently passed provincial budget. Party and government officials have defended the ’donation’ in the name of bringing the seminary -- overseen by Maulana Samiul Haq ...the Godfather of the Taliban, leader of his own faction of the JUI. Known as Mullah Sandwich for his habit of having two young boys at a time... , who runs his own faction of the Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...the political wing of the Pak Taliban... -- into the mainstream. Apparently, the funds will be spent on construction and repairs at the seminary. However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... this ’donation’ has raised hackles, as questions of propriety and conflict of interest arise.
For one thing, the madressah is a private institution. Critics are right to ask why a private set-up is receiving a large amount of public funds. After all, the KP budget is financed by the taxpayer; it is not the funds of the PTI that are being provided to the Darul Uloom, but of the people of the province. Also, if the KP administration justifies providing government funds to a private madressah, what of the other private institutions in the province; will they also be entitled to financial support from the state? Even if the seminary did not have links to hard-line circles -- as it very much does -- it would be difficult to justify this transfer of funds. Moreover, the Darul Uloom is a highly political seminary, a veritable arm of the JUI-S. Samiul Haq is also a rival of the JUI faction led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, who in turn has a toxic rivalry with the PTI. So the financial support can be seen as supporting the ’enemy’ of the KP government’s ’enemy’, while the madressah is located in district Nowshera, the home district of the KP chief minister, which raises issues of conflict of interest. The decision to grant the seminary state funds should be revisited as it sets a negative precedent and politicises public funds.
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[ARA News] MANBIJ – On Thursday, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have for the first time clashed with ISIS militants inside the city of Manbij, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said. However, a US coalition spokesperson told ARA News the SDF have not entered Manbij city yet.
Coalition spokesman U.S. Army Colonel Christopher Garver said the fight for Manbij city will be tough, refuting the news about the US-backed SDF entering Manbij downtown.
“Our assessment of the advance on Manbij is that the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)… have isolated Manbij, but they have not entered the city yet. They continue to fight their way to the city,” Colonel Garver told ARA News in an exclusive interview.
However, on Thursday local sources told SOHR that the SDF for the first time advanced into the city between the al-Ketab square and al-Sharia roundabout, amidst aerial bombardments.
The source reported that since 31 May at least 63 SDF fighters were killed, while no less than 458 ISIS fighters were killed during the clashes.
“We don’t like to estimate timelines,” Colonel Garver told ARA News. “This is a tough fight, and it gets tougher the closer the SAC [Syrian Arab Coalition] forces get to the city. We anticipate that Da’esh will attempt to hold the city at all costs, so we anticipate stiff resistance,” he added.
According to the US-led coalition, last week 73 strikes were conducted bringing the total to 233 since the assault began. “The [SDF-linked] SAC are also seeing firsthand the large foreign fighter influence in Manbij. This information will be vital in continuing to protect Turkey, wider Europe and the United States from this threat,” the coalition said in a press statement.
In the meantime, displaced civilians to the east of Manbij have reportedly started returning to their villages. “We are working closely with NGOs to ensure they can focus their initial efforts on these villagers,” the coalition said.
However, the presence of thousands of civilians in Manbij is slowing down operations.
According to the US-led coalition, the SDF have consolidated their position around Manbij in anticipation of the next phase of operations to secure the city. For the last seven days they have been refining their plans as to how to gain a foothold in Manbij and maintain the safety of the civilian population trapped by ISIS.
“The SAC-led force is exercising great care in its application of firepower against Da’esh in the city to avoid collateral damage and especially civilian casualties,” Colonel Garver said. “The care for civilians results in a methodical, measured approach to the city for the advancing SAC forces and for the coalition’s supporting strikes. There are indicators that Da’esh may be holding large groups of civilians as hostages, which will also ensure a cautious approach to the operation by the SAC,” he added.
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Had me going with headline BadMan, not nice, no borscht for you!
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The unsettling thing is the way that ISIS has been matching us suicide bomber & VBIED for airstrike. If reports from Syria aren't exaggerating matters, they've been fielding dozens of splodeydopes against everyone in the field, they've basically industrialized suicide assault. A rebel group broke into al-Rai again last night, and ISIS immediately butchered dozens with a VBIED that they must have had in reserve expressly for the occasion. SDF's been doing a slightly better job keeping the VBIEDs away from their lines, but it's pretty attritional. And I don't quite know how you shut down suicide assaults w/ CAS. You can only really suppress the tactic with well-trained, rested and disciplined troops on the ground.
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Hey, all I saw was 233, Manbij and US airstrikes, Like you I thought those f*ckers had finally gotta a clue.
[ARA News] DAMASCUS – Head of the Syrian army’s 10th Division was reported dead in clashes with Islamic State’s (ISIS) fighters in the northeastern Raqqa province, activists and military sources reported on Thursday.
Major General Hassan Saadoun was killed during clashes with ISIS near the Tabqa town of Raqqa province.
Leading from in front of the front?
A Syrian army officer confirmed the death of Gen. Saadoun. “The Major General of the 10th Division was martyred in clashes with Daesh [ISIS] terrorists,” he told ARA News, speaking on condition of anonymity.
“However, the operation for Tabqa airbase will continue. Our forces are determined to do whatever it takes in order to regain the Syrian land from those terrorists,” the officer said, without giving further details.
Local media activists reported that Gen. Saadoun was killed three days ago, but the Assad regime has not issued any statement regarding his death.
“This was a new blow to the Assad regime. Apparently retaking Tabqa airbase would require a lot of effort by the regime forces, since ISIS has deployed hundreds of militants to keep the airbase,” media activist Muhammad Alwan told ARA News in Raqqa.
Noteworthy, the Syrian regime troops had no presence in Raqqa province since summer 2014, when ISIS took over the air base of Tabqa and executed a number of army soldiers.
“The Tabqa airbase is a main target in our military campaign in Raqqa,” Syrian army official Haider Hammoud told ARA News. He added that the Russian air force has played a major role in the army’s progress in the western countryside of Raqqa.
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If reports are accurate, the Russian artillery support suddenly buggered out after a week of ISIS suicide bombers and VBEIDs blowing their line of communication to flinders, and the whole battlegroup broke and made a run for the rear. This sort of thing happens in open desert when a unit has a catastrophic morale failure, and ISIS's barbarians specialize in running down a fleeing enemy.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. has sacked brass hats from the Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... International Airport over negligence in duty, the Office of the President said Thursday.
According to a statement by the ARG Palace, the director of the airport and commander of the border police were among the brass hats dismissed by President Ghani.
The statement further added that President Ghani has issued instructions to release an announcement for the director of the airport post as well as instructing the Ministry of Interior to introduce 3 professional and competent individuals for the post of commander of border police for Hamid Karzai International Airport.
President Ghani also added that none of the official who has worked for more than 5 years in the airport should continue to his work and should be replaced with the new comers who should go through a transparent recruitment process besides going through biometric process and registration of assets.
This comes as President Ghani reviewed the report prepared a commission established to conduct a comprehensive review of Hamid Karzai International Airport affairs.
The head of the commission Sardar Mohammad Roshan presented the report to President Ghani and said the current condition of the airport as well as the vulnerable sections have been reviewed.
He said the security of the airport faces challenges due to the numerous security institutions involvement which causes a conflict among them and paves the way for the smuggling of drugs from the airport.
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[THEHILL] The Supreme Court dealt a critical blow to President B.O.'s immigration policies on Thursday, deadlocking in a 4-4 decision over two controversial programs the White House wants to implement.
The tied vote leaves in place a lower court ruling that blocks a program allowing undocumented immigrants colonists who are parents of U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents to remain in the United States for three years and apply for work permits.
It also prevents the administration from otherwise expanding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program issued by Obama in 2012.
This is the most prominent Supreme Court case to stall in a 4-4 tie, and it raises the stakes further in this fall's presidential election.
After Justice Antonin Scalia died in February, Obama nominated federal Judge Merrick Garland to the court.
But Senate Republicans, even before that nomination, said they would not hold a vote or a hearing for anyone nominated by Obama, arguing the pivotal vote on the high court should be determined by the next president.
The White House and Democrats in Congress have howled in rage over that move, and Thursday's decision will increase tensions over the Senate blockade.
Obama in an appearance from the White House press briefing room decried what he called the "lack" of a decision by the eight-justice court.
"The fact the Supreme Court wasn’t able to issue a decision today doesn’t just set the system back even further, it takes us further back from the country we want to be," he said.
Sen. Dick Durbin ...Senator-for-Life from Illinois and Democratic Party Whip. In April 2006, Time magazine identified Durbin as one of America's 10 Best Senators, so what's that tell you? He was the first United States Senator to support the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, then the junior senator from Illinois.... (D-Ill.) blasted the GOP Senate majority for failing to consider Garland in comments on the Supreme Court's steps.
"This 4-4 decision is clear evidence we need nine justices on the court," Durbin said.
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"This 4-4 decision is clear evidence we need nine justices on the court," Durbin said.
Of course it does, Dick, as long as it's not Scalia, right?
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out west its the new normal to have hundreds of illegal hispanics running around having babies as fast as possible, they piant, do lawns, landscape, have babies and get drunk. Anglos and Hispanic cultures have a long history of not mixing. Not as bad as trying to mix Anglos and Mooslimbs, just sayin"
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"The fact the Supreme Court wasn’t able to issue a decision today doesn’t just set the system back even further, it takes us further back from the country we want to be," he said.
That would be a Banana Republic which is no republic at all but a socialist paradise like Venezuela..
[Bloomberg] Almost a year after the Iran nuclear deal, we're getting a clearer picture of the coalition of activists who fought for the agreement, sparring with the "warmongers" in Congress.
It is a broad coalition. There are, of course, the peace activists and arms-control experts, who were vocal in support of the deal. There were also quieter members of this campaign, like the corporation that makes the B-52 bomber and the V-22 Osprey.
The Daily Beast's Betsy Woodruff reports that a former Boeing vice president and senior State Department official, Thomas Pickering, lobbied hard for the Iran deal while cashing checks as a consultant for the aerospace giant. Yet when Pickering wrote op-eds and signed public letters urging approval of the Iran agreement, he often neglected to mention his previous and ongoing connections to Boeing.
Wiki's bio of Mr. Pickering is here. Read what he's done since he left State. He left out a LOT of potential conflicts of interest in his op-eds...
Now it's obvious why Boeing would have wanted the Iran deal. This week the corporation announced that it had reached a $25 billion deal to sell airliners to Iran, a move that was welcomed Tuesday by the State Department spokesman.
Close watchers of the Iran debate understood that the lifting of sanctions on Iran would potentially allow major U.S. companies like Boeing back into the Iran market. But this is not how the White House and its allies sold the Iran deal last summer. One of their sharpest arguments was that the Iran agreement was a way to avoid a war that opponents of the agreement wanted. As I reported last month, this was not an accident. The nonprofit known as the Ploughshares Fund gave money to a network of advocates and experts and urged them to paint opponents of Iran diplomacy as "pro-war," as early as 2011.
Two territorial defense volunteers in southern Thailand were shot and injured in an ambush but chased off their attackers in Narathiwat province on Tuesday evening. The attack occurred as Ruslan Haji Dolo and Dingsimi Laya were traveling by motorcycle from an outpost to get food supplies at the Yingo district office. As they passed in front of the office, they were fired at by gunmen on the roadside. The two volunteers returned fire and the attackers fled.
Uhmm, Russians have already admitted they used white phosphorus
[ARANews] The Syrian opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC) called on United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday to launch an investigation into its accusations that Russia has repeatedly used air-delivered incendiary weapons in Syria.
Russia deployed warplanes to Syria last year to support President Bashar al-Assad against rebels seeking to end his rule. A crackdown by Assad on pro-democracy protesters five years ago sparked a civil war and Islamic State militants have used the chaos to seize territory in Syria and Iraq.
“Russian air forces have repeatedly deployed incendiary weapons and cluster munitions to kill, main and terrorise Syrian civilians, including in at least 10 documented incidents,” Riad Hijab, coordinator of the opposition HNC, wrote to Ban.
“They have violated the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and breached international humanitarian law,” he wrote.
Hijab alleged that “thermite, which ignites while falling, has been likened to ‘mini nuclear bombs’ and was deployed repeatedly by Russian forces in residential areas.” He also accused Russian forces of using cluster munitions.
Incendiary weapons use substances that are designed to set fire to objects or burn people, and cluster munitions are containers that explode in the air to distribute smaller bombs over a large area. Both are banned under the convention.
The Russian mission to the United Nations was not immediately available to comment on the accusations. Ban’s office was also not immediately available to comment on the request for an investigation.
State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters in Washington that the United States was not in a position to confirm the allegations by the Syrian opposition, but that the claims were taken very seriously.
“Regardless of what weapons they’re using, (the Russians) shouldn’t be striking groups that are committed to the counter-ISIL fight or civilians,” he added. “Russia and the Assad regime need to be more careful about distinguishing between terrorists, civilians and parties to the cessation of hostilities.”
The United States has sharply criticized Moscow over strikes last week against U.S.-backed forces in Syria, saying Russia failed to heed U.S. warnings to stop its attack, which killed and injured Syrian fighters battling Islamic State.
U.S.-backed forces in Syria have reported that Russia fired at their garrison with cluster munitions in that attack, a senior British general in the U.S.-led coalition said on Thursday.
“Definitely, the people we advise on the ground reported cluster munitions,” British Army Major General Doug Chalmers told a Pentagon news conference.
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It is going to be "interesting". The boyz, etc., already in the CLE hoods may not take kindly to outside rioters and goons trying to muscle in on their territory.
[DAWN] President Bashar al Assad instructed Electricity Minister Emad Khamis on Wednesday to form a new government in Syria, a country fragmented by warring factions and economically ruined by five years of conflict.
A decree published by state news agency SANA gave no reason for replacing Wael al Halaki, who has served as prime minister for nearly four years and survived an liquidation attempt when a boom-mobile struck his convoy in Damascus in 2013.
Mr Halaki was himself appointed to replace a prime minister who defected and later led an opposition team at peace talks in Geneva, which broke down in April as pro-government forces pressed an offensive against rebel-held areas of Aleppo city.
The government controls most of the war-torn country’s major population centres in the west, with the exceptions of Idlib, which is held by bully boys, and the rebel-held neighbourhoods of Aleppo.
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[Asharq Al-Awsat] Paris- Many analysts believe that ISIS’ potentially close defeat in Syria could translate into al Qaeda’s offshoot, al-Nusra Front, taking the battlefield lead once again.
Jean-Pierre Filiu, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Sciences Po in Paris, warned of the relative and partial advances against ISIS in the last weeks, saying that having no Arab or Sunni alternative on the field, may help ISIS maintain its most prominent territory and possibly restore some of the lost land. Filiu cited ISIS regaining foothold in Palmyra, Syria.
A Syrian expert, who spoke under the condition of anonymity, said that despite expectations for ISIS’ abatement in Syria being a far reach, it still remains a more likely accomplishment than in Iraq, Baghdadi’s self-declared caliphate hub.
The Syrian analyst added that a grave defeat, especially against ISIS’ de facto capital in Syria, Raqqa, will not lead to the end of extremists in Syria. He went on saying that within the last four bloodied years of conflict, over 280 thousand were killed hence al-Nusra Front was forced to revolt against the organization and become ISIS’ threatening equal and opponent. Not to mention that al-Nusra Front had exploited other Islamist movements, especially Salafis affiliated to the Ahrar al-Sham nationalist movement.
The analyst explained that after the defeat, many ISIS recruits will come to join al-Nusra Front ranks, and the latter will later manipulate the feeling of abandonment northwestern Sunni Syrians experience.
In light of absent reliable peace talks, residents in each of Idlib, western Aleppo and Lattakia do not see any possibility of a political settlement for the five-year total war. The residents are subject to daily Russian and Assad air force bombardment, not to mention, the recurring genocides targeting children and civilians amid utter international disregard.
Feeling abandoned, residents are driven towards extremism, with none but Ahrar al-Sham to play the sole role of local nationalist military force in the area, the Syria expert added.
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If Nusra was regularly fielding suicide bombers and VBIEDs, I think the media would be making more of a deal about them. Or, at least, I haven't noticed much in the way of that sort of thing. ISIS took the wild-eyed eager-to-meet-their-houris suicide enthusiasts with them in the grand divorce; Nusra and company are still bastards, but they're less alarming bastards for the time being, and with the Russians and Alawi firebombing cities and rear areas like mad arsonists, it's hard to get excited about the evil, evil al Queda. Especially when they're primarily slaughtering Hezbollah; some might even sit back and make popcorn.
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it's hard to get excited about the evil, evil al Queda.
They will have to be dealt with, though, because they are just as evil, merely in slightly slower motion. The Muslim Brotherhood is the same evil in slower motion yet, but look at the trouble they caused as soon as they democratically got themselves elected to power in Egypt.
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Oh, true enough. IIRC, that lunatic cannibal who ate a human heart on camera & recently got waxed in combat was Nusra, they're monsters sure enough.
The longer the Syrian war goes on, the less it's looking like the Spanish Civil War, and the more it's looking like the Thirty Years War. I think it may end with Syria a depopulated wasteland. Russia certainly seems to be deliberately playing the role of France.
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The Navy has completed its investigation into how sailors were detained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in January, and it appears unlikely that any U.S. service member will face court-martial.
Cmdr. Mike Kafka, a Navy spokesman, confirmed the status of the investigation, and said it is now "being referred to appropriate commands for adjudication." That could range from criminal charges and a court-martial trial to administrative punishment.
However, a Navy official told The Washington Post Thursday that the service's top officer, Adm. John Richardson, plans to announce June 30 what actions the service has taken against the officers and enlisted sailors involved after they are completed, making criminal trials unlikely.
"I haven't heard anything criminal," the person said. Another Navy official said most punishments "are likely to be administrative," but declined to say that no criminal charges are possible.
Foreign Policy magazine reported Wednesday that the Navy is considering whether to punish nine personnel, including six officers, for a mission in which two riverine command boats strayed into Iranian territorial waters. Ten sailors and the two boats were temporarily detained, an embarrassment that Iran used in numerous propaganda videos it released through state media in following months.
One of those under the most scrutiny is Capt. Kyle Moses, Foreign Policy reported. He is the commander of Task Force 56, a unit whose sailors have a wide variety of missions in the Middle East, including explosive ordnance disposal, diving, construction riverine operations and military intelligence collection. Fox News reported Thursday that he will be relieved of his command, a move that can end a career.
The boats and sailors were captured Jan. 12 in the Persian Gulf near Farsi Island, where the Revolutionary Guards have a naval base. The sailors were taken into custody overnight, and released the following day after Secretary of State John Kerry intervened.
That's a rather bowdlerized version of events. Recall how the Iranian personnel humiliated our people, seized the boats, and slow-walked any reasonable solution.
Already, one officer, Cmdr. Eric Rasch, was removed from his job in May due to a "loss of confidence in his ability to command," according to the Navy. He was the No. 2 officer in the squadron at the time of the capture, and elevated to become its commander afterward.
The incident occurred as the sailors were traveling north from Kuwait to Bahrain. A defense official said then that the boats departed Kuwait about 9:23 a.m. local time, and were approached by the Iranians about 2:10 p.m. A search was launched afterward until the Iranians informed the Americans about 6:15 p.m. that the sailors were in their custody.
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The sailors had set out from Kuwait after noon local time on what was supposed to be a routine mission to Bahrain. But they had no experience navigating across the Persian Gulf in their small riverine command boats, which are only about 50 feet long, and were not accustomed to traveling such a long distance. Before they departed, the crew also had to cannibalize a third boat to make last-minute repairs.
After having sailed into Iranian waters without realizing it, one of the American boats — the one that had to be fixed the day before — broke down. As the sailors tried to fix the bolt on the engine mount, two Iranian Revolutionary Guard patrols arrived, with their weapons pointed at the U.S. sailors. Soon a third ship showed up, followed by a fourth ship that was larger and more heavily armed. The Americans decided they would surrender to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard troops rather than try to shoot their way out.
The Iranians filmed 10 U.S. sailors kneeling with their hands on their heads, while the skipper of the boats, Lt. David Nartker, apologized for their navigation error, and then promptly released the videos.
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But they had no experience navigating across the Persian Gulf in their small riverine command boats
So, the local fisherman were more skilled than those the Navy puts out to sea. I take it they long ago discontinued to teach the Sextant at the service schools. Too ancient for modern mariners.
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A sextant during daytime won't give you much more than latitude. It's 'shooting bearings' off landmarks listed on the chart that gives you a fairly good position.
Multiple defense officials tell Fox News a “multitude of errors” led to the capture of the U.S. Navy crew.
First, there was no navigation brief, a major violation of Navy protocol. When any Navy ship gets underway, even for something as minor as shifting berths from one pier to another, it is standard for a Navy crew to conduct a navigation brief discussing issues such as hazards to navigation or, in this case, an Iranian base near the planned course.
Second, the chain of command was not well defined on the two boats. While a young lieutenant was the highest-ranking individual on either of the two 50-foot boats, when the order was given to evade the Iranian forces, the helmsman refused the order.
Third, defense officials tell Fox News the Navy had become too complacent with the its treatment by Iranian forces in the months leading up to the January capture.
“The story here is these guys had gotten so used to Iranians doing stupid s---, having weapons pointed at them all the time, they didn’t know they were being captured until the Iranians boarded their boats,” one defense official said describing the lack of situational awareness by the Navy crew. “They messed up pretty bad.”
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Farsi Island is an Iranian island in the Persian Gulf. There is an IRGC Navy base on this island. The island has an area of about 0.25 km2 (0.10 sq mi) Its maximum elevation is 4 metres (13 ft).
About 64 acres. A square 1670 feet on a side. Yet another benefit of global warming sea-level rises.
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“The story here is these guys had gotten so used to Iranians doing stupid s---, having weapons pointed at them all the time,
Any different from the patrol SOP not to shoot Somali pirates till they shot first?
(IraqiNews.com) al-Anbar – On Thursday, Anbar Police chief, Maj. Gen. Hadi Razigh announced liberating Thaniya Zankoura and al-Halabsah, northwest of Ramadi.
Issuing a statement Razigh said, “Anbar police fighters, anti-terrorism forces and the army managed to liberate Thaniya Zankoura and al-Halabsah areas, northwest of Ramadi. The fighters are now advancing towards Albu Risha located northwest of Ramadi in order to free it from ISIS.”
It may be mentioned here that the Iraqi security forces continue to advance into a number of areas in Anbar province during military operations in a bid to liberate the province from ISIS control.
(IraqiNews.com) al-Anbar – A military source in the army’s Seventh Division Leadership said on Thursday that the international coalition aviation destroyed a cache of explosives, west of Ramadi.
According to information shared by the source, which was also received by Iraqi News, said, “The international coalition aviation bombed a cache of explosive materials in the area of al-Doulab, west Heet city- 70 km west of Ramadi- resulting in the complete destruction of a cache of explosives- the explosives being self detonated.”
“The bombing also resulted in the death of three ISIS members who were present with the cache during the time it exploded,” the information further added.
(IraqiNews.com) al-Anbar – Commander of Anbar Operations Command, Maj. Gen. Ismail al-Mahalawi, on Thursday announced about the killing 48 ISIS members north of Ramadi.
In a brief statement, al-Mahalawi said, “The Air Force Aviation, Army, Police and the Anti-Terrorism Directorate managed to kill 48 ISIS members at Zankoura north of Ramadi,” further adding, “The forces managed to destroy mortar detachments and nine (9) buildings where terrorists were hiding.”
(IraqiNews.com) al-Anbar – The Federal Police Command announced on Thursday, that the Iraqi security forces had found the ISIS communication center south of Fallujah.
The commander of the Third Division of the Elite Forces of the Federal Police, Maj. Gen. Haidar Yusuf al-Matiri, in a brief statement said, “A reconnaissance mission carried out by the Third Division led to the discovery of the ISIS communication system inside one of the houses in Fallujah.”
“The communication system was dismantled by the technical team of the division after defusing the explosives surrounding it,” he also added.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – The Federal Police Command on Thursday announced about the killing of two ISIS members, apart from the seizure of a booby-trapping and explosives laboratory at central Fallujah.
The Federal Police Chief, Lt. Gen. Raed Shaker Jawdat in a press statement said, “Today, Federal Police forces managed to kill two ISIS members, while found a booby-trapping laboratory in al-Andalus neighborhood in central Fallujah.”
Jawdat added, “The security force also found 500 explosive devices, three explosive belts, nine rocket launchers and ten containers filled with TNT.”
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[PANAMPOST] It's Not about the Price of Oil: 21st Century Socialism Destroyed Venezuela's Economy and Distribution Networks, Causing an Unprecedented Humanitarian Crisis
Not our problem. First Hugo and now Nick the Mad made clear to everyone that we were Venezuela's greatest enemy. Okay, given that, we're not obligated to help them today.
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The Ukrainian famine wasn't.How about the one in China or North Korea? I sense a pattern of unexpected unprecedented famines and a certain political philosophy. Now what could that be? Bernie Sanders to the courtesy phone.
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I was thinking the EU could help, but Pappy already included them.
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The faster they rise up and decorate their lamp posts with government officials so then they can plant and grow and import food, the better they will be.
Otherwise they will starve. Slowly. While their "betters" continue to feast in their mansions.
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The progressive liberal socialist agenda of Trotsky has never worked and has ended up in collapse, cicely war and suffering. They rallied, cheered and booed the great villen America while the Trotsky followers looted their future. They now get to live their dream, until they beg the free capitalists to rescue them. Yet again.
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This is the future [like Venezuela's] that Obama, his minions, Hillary, and the left have for America, you know the usual liberal paradise, Detroit on steroids. They figure that if only the right people are in power [being them], they can pull it off. RedState piece on Venezuela and the American left. Some of the usual suspects.
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The Chavenistas want to act like Trotsky and suffer for their cause. Now is the time to suffer (if you are gullible to believe all that socialist sh*t).
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Permanent Representative of Afghanistan to United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... Mahmoud Saikal updated the UN Security Council regarding the terrorist’s safe havens in Pakistain.
"The fact that terrorist leaders had been found and killed in safe havens in Pakistain was proof that it had violated the illusory sovereignty of other nations," Saikal said.
He called for urgent implementation of Security Council resolutions 1373 (2001) and 2255 (2015).
Saikal also updated the Security Council regarding the provocative actions had meanwhile taken place along the de facto separation line, including an attempt to build new infrastructure at Torkham Pass.
"Make no mistake, the proud Government and people of Afghanistan have not, do not and will not surrender to intimidation, violence and aggression. Our history is testimony to this," he said.
This comes as the Afghan officials have long been criticizing Pakistain for allowing the Afghan holy warrior groups including the Taliban and Haqqani terrorist network to use its soil as safe havens and carry out attacks in Afghanistan.
The Afghan officials are saying that the leadership councils of the Taliban and Haqqani terrorist network are based in Quetta and 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. cities of Pakistain.
In the meantime, Saikal said the Taliban had been expected to join the grinding of the peace processor, but, on 12 April, it responded with a spring offensive, during which it suffered heavy losses at the hands of the Afghan National Defence and Security Forces.
He also added that 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.... and Al-Qaeda continued to position themselves to remerge in Afghanistan, while other regional terrorist networks with links to Central Asian republics, Chechnya and China were highly active.
"Tehrik-e-Taliban remained a long-term threat. Most of those terrorist groups enjoyed support from within the State structure of Pakistain, he said, adding that it was imperative for the international community to establish objective criteria to identify and confront State sponsorship of terrorism," he added.
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(IraqiNews.com) Salahuddin – On Thursday, Salahuddin Operations Command announced continuing the liberation operations of al-Sharqat and Qayyarah and the subsequent liberation of a number of villages in northern the province; apart from destroying the first line of defense of ISIS.
The Media Official of Salahuddin Operations Colonel Mohamed al-Asadi said, “Troops belonging to the command managed to liberate Mohamed al-Mousa village in northern Baiji, which is considered as the first line of defense of ISIS. The operations are going on still and the security forces managed to liberate al-Sheikh Ali village towards Makhol north of Baiji.”
Asadi further added, “The operations were backed by the anti-terrorism forces, Army’s 9th brigade, Federal Police’s infantry brigade and Iraqi Army Aviation.”
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TRIPOLI: Libyan forces fighting Daesh in its stronghold of Sirte said on Wednesday that 36 of their men had been killed and nearly 150 wounded in the previous day’s clashes, one of the heaviest tolls in their month-long campaign.
Daesh terrorists had been fighting hard to defend the shrinking territory they still control in the residential center of Sirte, said Abdalla Binrasali, a spokesman at the forces’ media center in Misrata.
“The resistance was fierce and they were firing with everything they’ve got, mortars, rockets and rifles,” he said. “They fear that if they lose more ground they will be defeated.”
Brigades largely composed of fighters from Misrata launched a campaign to retake Sirte from Islamic State last month. They rapidly recaptured ground west of Sirte at the end of May, but their advance slowed as they closed in on the center of the coastal city.
On Tuesday fighting escalated and the brigades said they had taken control of parts of the “700” neighborhood, the broadcasting and electricity company headquarters and a mosque.
The “700” neighborhood is strategically important because Islamic State snipers have been positioning themselves on the district’s taller buildings.
The brigades based in Misrata are aligned with a UN-backed unity government that arrived in Tripoli in March. It is seeking to replace two other rival governments that were set up in Tripoli and the east in 2014, and to unite Libya’s many political and armed factions.
Daesh took full control of Sirte, the hometown of former Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, last year, creating its most significant base outside Syria and Iraq. However, the terror group has struggled to retain territory elsewhere in Libya.
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By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com
Colonel Mikail Tolstoy, colloquially known in Donetsk by his call sign "Givi" will be tried in absentia for alleged crimes committed in Slavyask, Ilovaisk and Donetsk city in 2014 and early 2015, according to Russian languages news accounts.
According to a story posted in korrespondent.net, the Ukrainian Chief Military Prosecutor was quoted saying Tolstoy will be tried for attacking members of Ukraine's military and for cruel treatment of prisoners of war.
Tolstoy gained fame and some popularity for his role in taking Donetsk airport in January of 2015, but he also gained notoriety for his treatment of prisoners taken during that operation.
A video had emerged at that time which showed Tolstoy slapping, pushing around and threatening Ukrainian prisoners with his personal firearm. Ukrainian Colonel Oleg Mitsaka, commander of one of the formations Tolstoy was fighting, is shown in the video as having been beaten, although the video did not show that Tolstoy had beaten him.
Tolstoy's rise began in the wake of the Ilovaisk defensive operation, and he took an active part in the rebellion in Slavyansk earlier that summer. Tolstoy cut a dashing and daring figure as a commander in videos made during the fall of 2014.
Tolstoy is prior service Ukrainian military, and he has family in Georgia. He also has been remarkably free from the politics in Donetsk. He is known as a team player for the Russian staffed Donetsk military.
Tolstoy is not the only rebel commander facing possible charges. Tolstoy's boss in the summer of 2014, reserve FSB Colonel Igor Girkin claimed earlier this year that he had people executed during the fighting in Slavyask. Stories emerging just a few weeks ago indicated that Girkin has been interrogated about his time in Slavyansk, but given his rank the stories may be apocryphal.
Another Russian officer, retired GRU Colonel Igor Bezler, has been accused of ordering executions in Gorlovka.
Both colonels Bezler and Girkin are flag officers, which gives them great latitude in making decisions such as holding drumhead trials. Tolstoy, even though he is a Colonel with the Donetsk military, enjoys no latitude in his decisions.
Fighting in Donetsk
A total of three Ukrainian soldiers were killed in operations and another 11 wounded in or around Donetsk city since Monday, according to data supplied by lb.ua news outlet.
A separate report posted in lb.ua said that one separatist was killed on Wednesday and another four were wounded. Ukrainian Colonel Andrei Lysenko, spokesman for the Ukrainian ministry of defense said that since Wednesday no Ukrainians were wounded in the fighting.
Yet another report posted in lb.ua said that Ukrainian positions were hit with rebel 120mm mortar fire at Shirokino and Lebedinsky on Thursday, and with grenade fire at several other locations. The report also said that rebel 82mm mortar fire hit Ukrainian positions at Verhnetoretskovo after firing RPGs.
The total incidents, according to the report, numbered 12.
According to data supplied by the Donetsk ministry of defense, a total of 30 residences in Gorlovka were damaged by Ukrainian artillery fire overnight (June 22nd to June 23rd).
All the artillery attacks were carried out at night and included the village of Zaistevo as a target.
A separate Donetsk ministry of defense report said that Ukrainian forces fired more that 423 big gun shells including 152mm artillery, 82mm mortar, 120mm mortar and 125mm tank gun. Locations hit in and around Donetsk city included the Donetsk airport, Spartak and Yasinovataya.
Ukrainian artillery fire was fired at rebel held positions in southern Donetsk at Dokuchaevsk, Kominternovo and Sahanka.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com. Click here for a list of stories in the The 2014 War in Ukraine category.
Jeddah, Aden-Moments after U.N. Special Envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed announced a roadmap for settling the crisis in Yemen, insurgency militias effectively mobilized armed factions against strategic locations held by governmental forces.
Most of the deployment took part in eastern and southeastern Yemen. Insurgency militias mainly constitute armed Houthi factions and armed fighters supporting ousted Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
In his Wednesday statement, U.N. envoy Ahmed expressed his profound disappointment with the meeting held with the insurgency delegation at the peace talks in Kuwait.
Discontent mainly stemmed from insurgency militias in Yemen moving towards Al Anad Air Base that lies in northwestern Lahij governorate. The U.N. envoy also confirmed that the advance taken on by militias potentially threatens the Yemeni peace talks.
Military sources told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that Houthis were bent on thwarting negotiations by refusing to discuss many topics over the past two months; Houthis finally rejected the U.N. envoy’s roadmap for peace in Yemen.
The insurgency delegation stressed on Wednesday that priority lies in striking a deal on a new president, and only then would there be agreement.
Nonetheless the government’s delegation reiterated throughout the talks, that Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi represents legitimacy for Yemen, and that turning in high-caliber artillery, withdrawing from cities and releasing prisoners are the priorities for peace.
This comes after U.N. envoy Ahmed presented a roadmap including a practical method on ending the conflict in Yemen. The roadmap encompasses all security arrangements stated by U.N. resolution 2216, which urges insurgents to withdraw from area seized during the conflict, turn in weapons– the establishment of a national unity government is also one of the resolution’s main articles.
Despite, all international efforts for a solution in Yemen, Houthi insurgents remain fixated on the question of Yemeni presidency.
The U.N. envoy confirmed that a government of national unity will take on the responsibility of running political dialogue which will eventually lead to a comprehensive political settlement, including voting on a new electoral law and drafting the constitution.
Despite the peace endeavors to save Yemen, insurgency militias advance in Al Bayda, Al Jawf and Ma’rib, and are sending for reinforcement. Over fifteen factions have been fully prepared and equipped to enter several strategic locations in the Ibb governorate.
Houthi militias have also been reported to perform mass executions against civilians. According to international reporting, Taiz, on Wednesday, witnessed multiple incidents of random shelling targeting civilian compounds. Moreover, more than eight civilians were executed at the An Nadirah District, while another five were put to death in Al Hudaydah city for no evident reason.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Federal Times] State Department staffers wrestled for weeks in December 2010 over a serious technical problem that affected emails from then-Secretary Hillary Clinton's home email server, causing them to temporarily disable security features on the government's own systems, according to emails released Wednesday.
..."I will do everything I can as prime minister to steady the ship over the coming weeks and months. But I do not think it would be right for me to try to be the captain that steers our country to its next destination," Cameron said. "This is not a decision I have taken lightly," he added.
[Ynet] A New Zealand man was 
[IsraelTimes] The parents of a British 
[RFE/RL] Germany says it has arrested a Tajik man suspected of joining Daesh in Syria. Prosecutors said on June 22 that Mukhamadsaid S. was nabbed in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
[GMA News] Seven members of the Abu Sayyaf were killed in a clash with Philippine soldiers on Wednesday in Sulu province. Military sources said Thursday that the battle, which also left 18 soldiers injured, took place in Patikul town. One of the injured soldiers was in critical condition.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A 
[TV360NIGERIA] A multinational force has begun operations against 
[INFORMATIONNG] A joint patrol team of Sector 1 of 27 Task Force Brigade and Army Headquarters Strike Group has stormed some villages in Borno State and cleared 
A Swiss ban on exports of luxury goods to North Korea is weakening the regime's ability to buy the loyalty of the elite, Radio Free Asia reported Wednesday.
[The Australian] The Islamic cleric who fled Australia after revelations of his anti-gay views was originally invited to give talks at the Imam Husain Islamic Centre in Sydney by Sheik Mansour Leghaei, the controversial Iranian sheik in exile who has been accused of being an Iranian spy.
[National Post] Canada's supreme court has rejected an Ottawa man's attempt to learn why the RCMP raided his townhouse in its investigation into the 2014 Parliament Hill shootings.
[BBC] Nearly 200 refugees fleeing 
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least four Taliban 
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A drone strike killed at least four 
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A commander of the Taliban group was killed along with 11 other 
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Several dozen House Democrats are engaged in a sit-in on the House floor 
In a rare and candid interview with DW Urdu’s Kishwar Mustafa, Bajwa said, "The world had abandoned Pakistain to handle and face the 
[INFORMATIONNG] Jessica O’Brien swears ѕhе hаd honest intentions аѕ ѕhе set оut tо shift hеr £400 white corner sofa. But nestled аmоng thе pictures оf thе leather settee ѕhе uploaded wаѕ а photo оf hеr exposed chest іn а purple lace bra. 
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] An 
[Daily Caller] The United Kingdom has voted to leave the European Union in a shock referendum result.
Smith blogs from the UK and he nails it:
[LAWOFFICER] Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby will face a slew of new counts, including malicious prosecution and false arrest in a lawsuit brought by two Baltimore cops according to the DCNF.
Some U.N. peacekeeping units and officers who did not respond to a deadly attack on a U.N. base in South Sudan where 48,000 civilians had sought refuge will be sent home, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said Wednesday.
the 
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
Bryan Pagliano might agree, there's something to be said for redundancy. 
TRIPOLI: Libyan forces fighting Daesh in its stronghold of Sirte said on Wednesday that 36 of their men had been killed and nearly 150 wounded in the previous day’s clashes, one of the heaviest tolls in their month-long campaign.
