Jason E. Chaffetz is the U.S. representative for Utah's 3rd congressional district, first elected in 2008. He is a member of the Republican Party. He is also the chairman of the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Wikipedia
COOKEVILLE, TN (WSMV) - It takes a strong person to tackle life’s challenges head on, and sometimes even the strongest need help from a friend.
One hero is an unlikely friend to dozens of children faced with one of life’s most difficult situations.
In a small office on Highway 70 in Cookeville, a team of therapists have been working with child sex abuse victims for 13 years.
This is often the first place a child will come after the abuse is reported. The child will undergo a medical examination, a forensic interview and therapy.
"We’re asking children to talk about a sexual experience that’s way beyond their years," said Jennifer Wilkerson. "It’s very uncomfortable."
Wilkerson is the founder and executive director of the Upper Cumberland Child Advocacy Center.
"We do a lot to provide support for victims emotionally and physically, but we saw some kids just needed something a little extra," said Wilkerson.
She had heard of therapists using dogs to comfort victims and decided to apply for one. After a lengthy application and training process, she added the newest member to her team, Murch.
"Feeling like you have someone there for you, even if it is an animal, it makes it so much easier," said a victim, who we are not identifying.
The victim has been working with Murch for two years.
"Murch really has the ability to work with kids and provide comfort to them and help them find their words when they’re not able to find themselves," said Wilkerson.
"With my sessions, I get really scared and nervous and I have really bad anxiety, so just petting him, him being next to me, it comforts me and it calms me down," said a victim.
(CNN) Washington: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's well-known candor was on display in her chambers late Monday, when she declined to retreat from her earlier criticism of Donald Trump and even elaborated on it. Yes, I got a whiff of it as well. I think it's desperation.
"He is a faker," she said of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, going point by point, as if presenting a legal brief. "He has no consistency about him. He says whatever comes into his head at the moment. He really has an ego. ... How has he gotten away with not turning over his tax returns? The press seems to be very gentle with him on that." "Consistency"...Ag! Someone jot that down for her Dayan Emet.
Ginsburg's comments came in a previously scheduled interview related to my research for a book on Chief Justice John Roberts. I took a detour to raise the reverberations from her criticism of Trump to The Associated Press and The New York Times in recent interviews. "I can't imagine what this place would be -- I can't imagine what the country would be -- with Donald Trump as our president," she had said in the Times interview published Monday.
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Proving the judiciary is completely compromised and should be subject as anyone else exercising power to be directly accountable to the people. Long terms, but never for 'life'.
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"How has he gotten away with not turning over his tax returns? The press seems to be very gentle with him on that."
Someone should tell this crone and her 50 cats that turning over tax returns are not required, merely a new "tradition." Sort of like college transcripts. Oh, never mind....
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Loretta Lynch is owed a favor and is only 57 y/o. Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
Excellent point! Not to mention these lazy, memory challenged wankers in the Congress would no doubt unanimously approve her appointment, just like they did for her AG posting.
(CNN) Washington: Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will not be speaking at the NAACP Annual Convention in Ohio next week, the civil rights organization's president and CEO said Tuesday.
After days of speculation, NAACP's Cornell William Brooks told CNN that Trump had declined the group's invitation to address its members in Cincinnati at their conference, which is being held this weekend.
Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, is scheduled to speak, Brooks told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on "The Situation Room."
"Mr. Trump has declined our invitation, so we will hear from Sec. Clinton," Brooks said. "Namely, the explanation given was that (the Republicans) are holding their convention at the same time. We are, of course, in Cincinnati, they are in Cleveland. We were hoping he would make the short trip from Cleveland to Cincinnati."
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump's decision to skip the event represents a change of course from previous Republican presidential candidates, with 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney addressing the 103rd NAACP annual convention in Texas. Mr. Trump begins a trend which should be permanently sustained.
Brooks said he was disappointed by Trump's announcement, saying it was a missed opportunity for the real estate mogul to respond to recent problems between law enforcement and the African-American community.
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....missed opportunity for the real estate mogul to respond to recent problems between law enforcement and the African-American community.
I doubt you would have liked his response Mr. Brooks. Besides, he'll no doubt gain more respect and voter share by not pandering to your separatist cult organization. Give his time slot to the Beest. She'll tell you what you wish to hear.
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Why would he want to address an arm of the Donk party? It's always been stupid (as in the Stupid Party) to play their game. Another reason Trump garnered so many votes. It's not racist (but count on the usual suspect to play that card), its 'why waste your time' on people who by the very name of their organization is 'Colored People', which by the Left's own rule on definitions is racist.
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the explanation given was that (the Republicans) are holding their convention at the same time.
Dear Mr. Brooks, It would be interesting to chat with your 1950's organization about why black people kill each other at such an astounding rate, but Mr. Trump is busy running for, like, President and stuff.
[Dallas Morning News] DeSoto police are hoping the public can help them identify the suspect in an aggravated robbery at a Waffle House last week.
About 2:30 a.m. Thursday, police were called to the Waffle House in the 1500 block of North Beckley Avenue, where they found a man shot in the parking lot.
Customers told police that the man had come into the restaurant, armed with an AK-47, and robbed numerous people as well as the business.
One customer, who was legally carrying a concealed handgun, followed the robber into the parking lot because he was afraid for the safety of his wife, who was on her way to the Waffle House.
The customer called out to the robber, who turned and pointed the rifle at him, police said. The customer then shot the robber several times.
The robbery suspect was taken to a hospital, where he is on life support.
[H/t Instapundit] In all the controversy about the Iranian nuclear deal and Iran’s nuclear aspirations, it has been little noted that the leaders of the Islamic Republic may have reasons of their own actually to want to nuke Israel.
And their motivation is not in spite of the fact that Iran would almost certainly be nuked in retaliation ... but because of it.
Sounds crazy? Of course. But once you enter into the wild and weird world of Shi’ite Muslim eschatology, it all begins to make sense. As I show in my new book The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran, there are specific conditions in Shi’ite tradition for the return to earth of their messiah-like figure -- the Twelfth Imam.
[Right Scoop] Baton Rouge police reportedly just foiled a Dallas-style plot to kill police officers in Baton Rouge, the Louisiana city where Alton Sterling was shot by police last week.
According to CBS News, three people, including one juvenile, were arrested in a plan to use stolen firearms from a Baton Rouge - area pawn shop to kill officers during protests -- which have been sweeping the city -- in response to the Sterling shooting. At least eight guns were stolen from Cash America pawn shop over the weekend. Federal agents raided a Baton Rouge home late Monday and recovered six of the stolen weapons. Two are reportedly still missing.
During a press conference Tuesday, officials said they were aware of a "credible" threat to officers, and it's one of the reasons police wore riot and protective gear during protests over the past few nights.
Snotwy Thing, a few days ago you asked if An Nahar is truly Lebanese, so I looked it up. It is referred to as the New York Times of Lebanon, and while one of the Saudi princelings has a minority share, belongs to the same Lebanese family that founded it decades ago.
J Street, the dovish American lobbying group, said on Tuesday that it was "extremely concerned" at the Republican Party's omission of the two-state solution or the Palestinians in general from its platform.
"This language is dangerous and irresponsible. It would place the Republican Party to the right of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who continues to maintain that he supports the two-state solution," said the statement. You can't invent staff like this
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The fact that the Jerusalem Post would call the Marxist anti-Israel J Street operation "dovish", should cause it to be nominated for the asinine quote of the year.
[Wash Times] The FBI said Tuesday it will turn over to the State Department thousands of work-related secret emails it recovered from Hillary Clinton's email server, which the former secretary failed to turn into the government when she left office.
In a letter, FBI General Counsel James A. Baker said now that they've closed their investigation, the emails will be shipped back to the State Department to be handled according to federal law. That means they could also be released under the Freedom of Information Act.
Yes, technically they could be released under FOIA, but Foggy Bottom is conducting it's own internal investigation, so there could be some....delays. Had they remained at the Bureau, where the investigation has been completed, well, yes of course. The original records belong in the Library of Congress or NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) as appropriate. My emphasis in the last para.
[Gateway Pundit] Off duty police officers walked of the job on Saturday after the Minnesota Lynx WNBA players showed up wearing Black Lives Matter T-Shirts.
This came after five police officers were shot dead in Dallas on Thursday at a Black Lives Matter protest.
A police union official says four off-duty Minneapolis officers working a WNBA game walked off the job at the city’s Target Center arena Saturday after Minnesota Lynx players wore pregame warm-up jerseys supporting the Black Lives Matter movement.
The shirts listed the names of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, both fatally shot by police officers last week. Castile was killed by a police officer in suburban St. Paul during a traffic stop. The shirt also showed the Dallas police shield above the phrase "Black Lives Matter."
Minneapolis Police Federation President Bob Kroll tells the Minneapolis Star-Tribune he commends the officers. He says they took their names off a list of officers to work future games.
[PJ] Cleveland Browns running back Isaiah Crowell apologized Monday for posting an Instagram illustration of a police officer having his throat slit by a hooded figure.
Crowell removed the image shortly after posting it.
The post's caption read: "They give police all types of weapons and they continually choose to kill us....#Weak"
In a statement, Crowell said it was an "extremely poor decision" in response to police shooting and killing Alton Sterling and Philando Castile last week. The post was made before five Dallas police officers were killed last Thursday, according to Cleveland.com.
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...The CPD is tough, loyal, and faithful unto death of the people and city it serves.
They can also be remarkably unpleasant people when annoyed. With everything else on their plate right now, Mr Crowell's actions could not have gone over well at all.
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Just apologize? I seem to remember a team owner who was forced to sell after, a much milder, faux pas.
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Crowell was thrown out of the U. of Georgia after a serious scrape with the law. He attended a lesser school and was not drafted. He was picked up as a free agent by the (hopeless and hapless) Cleveland Browns.
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From cleveland.com today: "If that man needs to make this right, he needs to make a grand gesture," Loomis [head of CLE police union] said.
He called for Crowell to apologize in person to the family of police officers killed in Dallas and donate to their families.
If Crowell does not do that, then Loomis called on the Browns organization or the NFL to sanction Crowell.
If none of that happens, Loomis said he will resort to rallying his officers to refuse to work security for the Browns by adopting an "official union policy" not to work security for the team.
"If the Browns don't think I can get this done, I've got some swamp land in Florida to sell them," Loomis said.
The Browns on late Monday issued a statement of their own, calling a written apology for Crowell's post "insufficient."
"We have spoken to Isaiah regarding his extremely disturbing and unacceptable social media decision,'' the Browns said. "It was completely inappropriate and we have made him aware of our high level of disappointment. Isaiah has apologized but also knows that just an apology is insufficient and that he must take steps to make a positive difference after a very negative and impactful post.''
[Breitbart] HOUSTON, Texas ‐ A Houston city councilman has called for segregation in policing. In the wake of the officer-involved shootings of black men across the country and the assassination of Dallas police officers, the councilman said police should reflect the ethnicity of the particular community where they patrol.
Speaking to Fox 26 in Houston, City Councilman Dwight Boykins (District D), "I think at this point, because of the crisis situation, not in Houston but throughout the country, we need to have officers patrolling areas that reflect the ethnicity [of that community]."
The councilman continued, "Because that will eliminate second-guessing. People know their community; they know their culture; and I think that can make a difference."
Weekend news anchor Sally MacDonald asked a guest on her show for a reaction to Boykins' comments. Houston Police Officers Union 2nd Vice President Joseph Gamaldi responded that the idea was ludicrous and wouldn't work.
Fox 26 Senior Legal Analyst Chris Tritico led off the weekend panel’s discussion saying, "I'm shocked at the suggestion." Turning to his conservative panelist Jacquie Baly, Tritico said, "Well, if that doesn't work, I guess we could have separate schools and maybe separate people in the restaurants ... just keep the races separate so we won't have to have these problems anymore."
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Hey maybe we can have separate drinking fountains too? And different seating areas at lunch counters too!
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I think we can guess the party of the councilman.
I truly can't believe how bad the civil order has become under Obola.
I've been aware of race issues since the '50s and saw a generally improving trend for 50 + years. Then there came the current regime and we have backed up as fast as falling off a cliff.
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I recall a bumper sticker my uncle seas in rural western Maryland many years ago. If we had any idea how much trouble these people were going to be, we'd have picked the cotton ourselves.
I was alarmed when I first read this, as it sounded like they were using quasi-genetic material, which would then be sent to be blown up and scattered across the countryside. A terrible idea to say the least. On reflection it sounds more akin to 3D printing.
More often than not, some of the most cutting edge technology comes not from Silicon Valley, but from military companies and various branches of the armed forces. With generous budgets at their disposal, it’s hardly a surprise that grandiose research projects involving items like stealth motorcycles and drones that can both fly and swim are often rooted in military research.
That said, the following research initiative is a bit outlandish even for military standards. Over the past few days, word emerged that two military-backed defense companies based out of Scotland and England are currently working on technology that appears to be a wacky, futuristic and intriguing marriage between advanced chemistry and 3D printing.
The two companies involved are BAE Systems and Cronin Group PLC, and according to Defense Tech, the joint effort is geared towards developing technology that can grow unmanned aircraft and "some of their complex electronic systems, conceivably from a molecular level upwards," all within a matter of weeks no less.
Does this sound crazy and exceptionally vague? Sure, but the research, no matter how ambitious and out-there it may be, is very real. The ability to quickly create uniquely capable miniaturized drones for mission-specific tasks would of course help military units undertake various missions when their current fleet of aircraft or drones are deemed either unsuitable for the task at hand or not at the ready.
And at the center of this research is a machine called Chemputer which, relying upon advanced chemical processes, would theoretically be able to grow armies of attack and surveillance drones.
Lee Cronin, founding scientific director at Cronin and also a professor at the University of Glasgow, said they have been developing means "to digitize synthetic and materials chemistry," with the aim of assembling complex machines -- inside a machine -- "from the bottom up, or with minimal human assistance."
The same technology also could be used to produce multi-functional parts for larger manned aircraft, he said, though BAE and Cronin appear to be promoting the futuristic alchemy as a means of producing small, customized and incredibly fast unmanned aerial vehicles.
"This is a very exciting time in the development of chemistry," Cronin said on BAE’s website. "We have been developing routes to digitize synthetic and materials chemistry and at some point in the future hope to assemble complex objects in a machine from the bottom up, or with minimal human assistance. Creating small aircraft would be very challenging but I’m confident that creative thinking and convergent digital technologies will eventually lead to the digital programming of complex chemical and material systems."
Someone no doubt is feeling especially clever just now.
[IsraelTimes] Tehran’s nuclear chief visited HQ of experimental reactor in southern La Belle France before announcing involvement
Iran and La Belle France have agreed to cooperate on the multi-national nuclear fusion project known as ITER, the front man of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization said on Tuesday.
The announcement comes a year after Iran struck a nuclear deal with six world powers led by the United States to curb its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of international sanctions.
Behrouz Kamalvandi told Mehr and Fars news agencies that Iranian officials have "reached a general understanding with the French side for joint cooperation" on the project.
Mehr and Fars said that Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, visited the headquarters of ITER at the end of June.
Salehi was one of Iran’s key negotiators in the nuclear deal with Britannia, China, La Belle France, Germany, Russia and the United States on July 14 last year.
ITER, which means "the way" in Latin, is the acronym for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor which is being built in the south of La Belle France.
The unique project was launched in 1985 with dozens of countries collaborating with La Belle France "on the first fusion device to produce net energy" according to ITER’s website.
It said that other project members include China, the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , India, Japan, Russia and the United States.
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The unique project was launched in 1985 with dozens of countries collaborating with La Belle France "on the first fusion device to produce net energy"
Any day now, just like "Peace in the Middle East"
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It must contain tech useful in building a fusion bomb. But what can Iran contribute?
[Vocativ] From Orlando to Bangladesh, the group is claiming that 5,200 people were killed or maimed from 'military operations' in one month
ISIS is celebrating the end to a particularly bloody month of attacks. On Tuesday the jihadi group’s weekly magazine al-Naba boasted that 5,200 people were killed or maimed in "military operations" during the holy month of Ramadan, including the deadly attack in Orlando last month. Not all the numbers could independently verified, but they include attacks directly orchestrated by ISIS and others the group took credit for from afar.
In the infographic,
Click on the headline to go to the article.
ISIS lists 14 different terror attack or military campaigns it carried out in Syria, Iraq, the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa. Among the attacks that are shown in the infographic, the group mentions the suicide kaboom in Baghdad on July 3, which killed at least 292 people. It also takes credit for the attack by ISIS supporter Larossi Abdallah, who killed a policeman and his partner Magnanville outside of Gay Paree, the attack in Bangladesh that killed 22 during a hostage crisis, for a car kaboom that killed six Jordanian soldiers near the border with Syria, and for additional operations in Syria, Egypt, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya, Nigeria, Somalia and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... . Notably, ISIS does not mention the assault on Istanbul’s Ataturk airport that killed 41, although Turkish officials claimed the ISIS leadership was involved in its planning.
Rounding up its casualty list, the jihadi group boasts that it killed and injured 1,988 Shiites, 965 Kurds, 580 Syrian Alawites and 285 non-Arab Christians, among many others.
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[NATION.PK] Former Interior Minister and PPP leader Senator Rehman Malik Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship. urged United States to refrain from including Pakistain in the list of terrorists, asking them not to use Indian satellite for spying Pakistain.
Talking to media, Rehman Malik said that there are no Taliban group in Pakistain including Haqqani network rather all groups are present in Kandahar city of Afghanistan.
Senator said that government should present resolution in United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... (UN) against Indian aggression in Indian Held Kashmire (IHK) adding that International Human Rights Commission should take notice of killing of innocent Kashmiris.
Commenting about Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... he stated that if rumors about Imran Khan’s marriage are true then I pray for him. He stated that Sindh government and security agencies arrest the Amjad Sabri’s assassins immediately and give them punish according to law.
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If you don't want to be included on those lists perhaps you should refrain from those activities?
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In which the latest Palestinian effort to get the world to pretend that Jews have no historic connection to the land of Israel is foiled.
[IsraelTimes] Sponsors fail to garner enough ’yes’ votes; Israeli diplomats have been working to stymie draft’s passage, official says
The UN’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) delayed Tuesday a controversial vote on a draft resolution that would challenge Jewish historical ties to the Old City of Jerusalem.
The vote was postponed minutes before the proceedings began when the Paleostinian and Jordanian delegations, which had proposed the resolution, could not secure enough votes to ensure its passage. It is unclear if and when they will propose the resolution again.
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Stalin-style purge 'after top brass refusal to follow his orders to confront Western ships'
[DailyMail] Up to 50 officers of the fleet were fired alongside Vice Admiral Viktor Kravchuk and his chief of staff Rear Admiral Sergei Popov after they reportedly refused to follow orders to confront Western ships.
Reports in Russia also suggested the purges followed an alleged cover-up of a submarine accident, flaws in recruitment and military construction projects.
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ramping up the dangerously amateurish close encounters
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I'll bet Putin is not asking himself WWBHOD (What Would Barack Hussein Obama DO)? I wonder what would happen if Obama were in the same position? He can't purge the military, he's already done that.
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No one wants to be on the bridge of the first rotting Russian rust bucket to be vaporized.
It's a bit different from hunting big game, but go for it Vlad. Put on one of those admiral's caps or other military gear you enjoy wearing and get your feet wet.
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Putin has very quietly rebuilt his ground forces over the last ten years. He moved the political officers out and placed war fighters loyal to him in power. His neglect of the Navy I had read as his desire to focus on the border states only. While I still hold his intentions are to regain control of the border states, his firing on the naval officers shows, to me anyway, that his next step is to rebuild his Navy so he can have a better global reach. While this seems to be a no brainer, if we have a few more years of the Obama crap-meaning Hillary, we will be outgunned both on land and at sea. Currently we do not have the ground forces required to fight the Russians, even if all our forces were sitting in Europe right now. In 5 years the Russian will be the dominant force on this planet.
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49 Pan,
You're not mentioning the Chinese in this context, is there a reason for that?
I've wondered if Russia has concerns about them or are they joining forces again?
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Alan. I was speaking specifically on Russian growth. I don't see China as the threat I see in the soviets. China is all about very small incremental growth. This island, that small plot of land. Etc. a very micro Approach to world domination. In the end we might all end up Chinese, but that's many many generations away. I was focused on the near term, next 50 years of threat.
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49 Pan - looks to me like the current crop of Alinsky-ites (Obama, Clinton, etc.) are at least aligned with the old Soviet system. Does that mean they are working FOR Putin, or independently along a parallel path, or for some retro opposition to Putin etc.? By their actions I can't tell they are not at least a aligned with the current Chicoms as with Putin.
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looks to me like the current crop of Alinsky-ites (Obama, Clinton, etc.) are at least aligned with the old Soviet system. Does that mean they are working FOR Putin, or independently along a parallel path, or for some retro opposition to Putin etc.?
[DAWN] Pakistain launched diplomatic efforts on Tuesday to highlight the hapless situation of the people of Indian-held Kashmire (IHK) and took the ambassadors of permanent United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Security Council (UNSC) members into confidence to exert soft pressure on India.
Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry, in a briefing with the ambassadors of China, La Belle France, Russian Federation, United Kingdom and United States, expressed Pakistain's serious concern over the recent wave of violence against Kashmiri people and the continued violation of their fundamental human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... by the Indian security forces.
"Due to the excessive use of force against civilians protesting the killing of Burhan Wani, more than 30 innocent people have bit the dust and more than 350 have been injured so far," Foreign Office spokesperson Nafees Zakaria quoted the foreign secretary in a briefing with the envoys.
"India should conduct a fair and transparent inquiry against the individuals responsible for these killings," he said.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Three people were placed on a four-day remand in connection with an attack at Rohingya camp, Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar that left an Ansar member dead.
Judge of Senior Judicial Magistrate court Arun Pal passed the order after following a remand prayer filed by Investigation Officer of the case Md Kabir Hossain.
The people who were put on remand are Rafik Prokash Mamun Mia, 30, Abdur Razzak, 25, and Md Harun, 30.
On May 13, Ansar member Ali Hossain, 55, was rubbed out and 11 firearms were stolen during the attack inside a Rohingya refugee camp in Teknaf.
At least 35 unknown persons were sued in connection with the attack the following day.
On June 30, members of Rapid Action Battalionincarcerated Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! five Rohingyas from a hill in Ukhiya upazila.
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[Emirates27] Rebel fighters launched a major assault on government-held districts of Syria's long-divided Aleppo on Monday, after the regime severed their only remaining supply route into the battleground city.
Once Syria's economic powerhouse, Aleppo has been ravaged by the war that began with anti-government protests in 2011 and which has since killed more than 280,000 people.
Rebels launched the offensive at dawn to reopen the Castello Road, their last lifeline into the northern city, an AFP correspondent said.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 19 regime forces were killed Monday when rebels blew up a tunnel in the Old City.
Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said: "The opposition has not advanced because of the heavy aerial bombardment the regime is carrying out on the areas where fighting is underway."
Air raids on the rebel-held parts of Aleppo killed 13 civilians Monday, the Observatory said, most of them in the Bab al-Maqam neighbourhood near the front line.
An AFP journalist saw rescue workers help a stocky, shirtless man out of the rubble in Bab al-Maqam, his face and thick beard caked in dust.
The unidentified man entered a field hospital and embraced the limp bodies of two young boys. "He was martyred. He's gone," he said crying over the body of one them.
Several rounds of UN-brokered talks to end the conflict have failed, but the UN's special envoy Staffan de Mistura said Monday that a "crucial moment" had been reached in efforts to secure a political settlement.
But despite the diplomatic flurry, fighting has intensified in Aleppo, divided between government forces in the west and rebels in the east since mid-2012.
Except for the big name players like Assad and the Russians, I've totally lost track of who is fighting whom.
Theorem: for any two parties, A and B, fighting each other in the Middle East, there exists a third party, C, that A and B hate even more and would readily join forces to fight against.
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Theorem: for any two parties, A and B, fighting each other in the Middle East, there exists a third party, C, that A and B hate even more and would readily join forces to fight against.
[NBCNEWS] Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as The Liberatress of Libya and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Jeremiah S. Black ... 's lead over Donald Trump narrowed to 3 points this week after several days of controversy following FBI Director James Comey's recommendation that no criminal charges be brought against the former secretary of state over her use of a private email server.
While the developments are certainly good news for the Clinton campaign, Comey's critical statement on Clinton's handling of the matter was not positive. Clinton's lead over Trump has tanked in the past couple weeks since her lead peaked two weeks ago.
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The Donks are looking more corrupt after this week than ever. Loretta Lynch comes off looking like the political hack she is and who ought to resign because she is impersonating an AG. Hillary comes off looking like the crook, liar and evil person she is. The Justice Department comes off looking like a Donk institution shilling for Hillary. I don't know what Comey is. He claims no party affiliation but he lays out the case for indictment of Hillary and then recommends no indictment. He reinforced the notion that the "fix" was in between Hillary and the DOJ, the Executive Branch and the DNC. About the kindest thing I've heard about the honorable James Comey was suggested by Bill Whittle and that was that Comey might be like a Viet POW who tries to signal clandestinely that he is being used for propaganda purposes by the enemy. He further suggested that Comey knew that the DOJ was never going to indict Hillary. Whittle said Comey knew the only way anything could be done about the email/security debacle was through Congress. Barack Hussein Obama told us months ago there was nothing to see in the Benghazi hearings or Hillary's email server investigation. The people in this country end up getting hosed.
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The leader of 30% of the party just abjucated to Hillary and she got zero bounce. Hysterical.
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"The leader of 30% of the party just abjucated to Hillary and she got zero bounce. Hysterical."
Actually worse than that. Wait till the polling comes out from the "Sandernistas" that are still in rant mode. a lot won't vote for the Hildabeast and some might even vote Trump
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I know how I would feel if I was Felling the Bern, found out how utterly and unashamedly corrupt this party is, and now Bernie handed over all my contact info and I'm getting Clinton e-mails and calls.
[ABCNEWS.GO] The U.S. Capitol and its office buildings were briefly locked down Tuesday, the second time in a week amid nervousness over recent shootings.
District of Columbia police spokeswoman Alice Kim said officers were alerted to a man with a gun near Fort McNair in Southwest Washington, about a mile and a half south of the Capitol, shortly after 4 p.m. Officers then stopped a person at the intersection of 1st and D Streets, Northwest, which is two blocks from the Capitol and outside the Labor Department, Kim said.
No shots were fired, she said.
The Capitol lockdown began at 4:20 p.m. and the all clear was given over a loudspeaker at 4:45 p.m. Police had sent an email to congressional staff advising them to close and lock doors and stay away from external doors and windows.
Both the House and Senate were in session, with House members voting. In the Senate, politicians were delivering speeches from the floor.
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[AlAhram] An Austrian biotech company working with the Institut Pasteur said on Tuesday it planned to start clinical trials with an experimental Zika vaccine in the next 12 months, marking a further acceleration of research in the field.
Themis Bioscience has signed a license deal with the French research institute giving it extensive rights to the Zika vaccine candidate, which is based on established measles vaccine technology.
More than a dozen small biotech firms and other organizations are working on vaccines against mosquito-borne Zika, which has been linked to birth defects and neurological disorders, although most work is at a very early stage.
Erich Tauber, chief executive of Themis, believes his company's project will benefit from the proven track record behind the technology used to immunize against measles.
French drugmaker Sanofi, the only big drugmaker working on a Zika shot, last week struck a deal with the U.S. Army to speed up the development of another vaccine, which should be ready for testing on humans in October.
Global health officials are racing to better understand the Zika virus, which has caused a major outbreak that began in Brazil last year and has spread to many countries in the Americas.
The World Health Organization has said there is strong scientific consensus that Zika is a cause of the birth defect microcephaly, or small heads in babies, as well as Guillain-Barre syndrome, a neurological disorder.
[JPOST] Hezbollah possesses 17 times the number of missiles it did 10 years ago when UN Security Council Resolution 1701 was adopted at the end of the Second Lebanon War, Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon told the Council Tuesday.
Hezbollah now has “more missiles below ground in Lebanon than the European NATO allies have above ground,” Danon said as he presented recent IDF intelligence about the terrorist organization to the Security Council, including aerial photographs revealing Hezbollah positions and statistics about the organization’s weapons stockIsrael warns UN: Hezbollah has 120,000 missiles aimed at uspiles.
Hezbollah now possesses about 120,000 missiles, compared to 7,000 10 years ago, Danon said.
The Israeli mission to the UN told The Jerusalem Post the intelligence was classified and cleared by the IDF especially for use by Danon during the meeting.
Tuesday’s meeting – which discussed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the conditions in Lebanon a decade after Resolution 1701 – called for “the disarmament of all armed groups in Lebanon, so that there will be no weapons or authority in Lebanon other than that of the Lebanese State.”
As he presented the new intelligence to the Council’s members, Danon said: “When the war ended, this Council pledged that Hezbollah would no longer be allowed to threaten Israel and hold the people of Lebanon hostage.
“I have the unfortunate task of informing this Council that 10 years later, the situation has gone from bad to worse. The government of Lebanon never stopped Hezbollah, and Hezbollah never stopped its military buildup,” he said.
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Bael need to call down a small asteroid on the cache.
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Some years back Israel was sharing maps of Hezbollah's missile caches. And every once in a while one of them spontaneously goes off. One hopes the maps are periodically updated and targetting is preprogrammed.
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The West stalemated the advance of the ISIS + aligned in the ME but could lose the US + most of Europe to Jihadi-led covert infiltration via OWG Secular, Globalist-led legal migration.
Pro-OWG, Socialism Secularists-Globalists will impose on the US-West practices accepted by Islamic societies long before any Sharia courts are formally introduced + entrenched in same.
[ARA News] ALEPPO – At least 32 militant fighters from the Islamic State (ISIS) were killed and dozens more wounded in renewed clashes with the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the northern countryside of Aleppo, military sources reported on Tuesday.
The Kurdish-led SDF troops clashed with ISIS militants in the Hazawna district and al-Sharia roundabout in Manbij city of northern Aleppo, where the SDF pushed ISIS back into the city centre.
“Daesh militants were trying to recapture the Hazawna district from our forces, but we were able to repel the attack after killing and wounding dozens of terrorists,” a spokesman for the SDF told ARA News, using another abbreviation for ISIS.
“After the group’s withdrawal from the clashes area, we have collected corpses of 32 militants, and dozens more were wounded,” the official said, adding that scores of the injured ISIS fighters were taken as hostages by the SDF.
The SDF spokesman in Manbij also told ARA News that since the start of the Manbij operation on 31 May, ISIS has used more than 150 car bombs in attacks on the US-backed SDF troops, beside planting dozens of landmines in the vicinity of the city in a bid to impede the SDF advance.
On Monday, the SDF troops clashed with ISIS fighters in the Sabaa Bahrat neighbourhood of Manbij city, north of Aleppo. ISIS has reportedly retreated from the neighbourhood after suffering heavy losses in manpower and equipment.
The ISIS security chief Safi Yahya Rajab was also killed in Monday’s clashes.
“Our forces advanced into the Hazawna neighbourhood of Manbij and attacked a major security centre for the terror group. Yahiya was among those killed in the Hazawna operation,” an SDF official told ARA News.
“After the clashes, we seized control of the Sabaa Bahrat and Hazawna districts, and we collected more than 25 dead bodies of ISIS militants, including that of Yahiya, who was known as the security chief of ISIS in Manbij,” the official said.
[VARIETY] The first gay dating show is coming to TV. ... briefly.
Logo has greenlit “Finding Prince Charming,” a reality dating competition featuring a cast of all gay men. Lass Bass is set to host. It may do well in San Francisco. It's gonna crash and burn in Omaha, Allentown, and Del Rio. Think Hindenberg, without the attention.
“Finding Prince Charming” will include a cast of 13 suitors. All the men will live in the same house together, as they compete to win the heart of one of the “nation’s most eligible gay heartthrob.” The contestants will be eliminated one-by-one, and in the final episode, the heartthrob will choose his one ideal man to “commit to an exclusive relationship,” per Logo. The ghost of Caligula told me he's all for it.
“Logo has a long history of showcasing LGBTQ-focused stories with memorable characters that transcend pop culture,” said Pamela Post, SVP of original programming for Logo. “’Finding Prince Charming’ will take viewers on a whirlwind journey through modern love and relationships in a way that only Logo can do.”
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"Finding Cinderella" may have more premiere appeal.
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The question on TMZ last night was: How are they gonna keep the contestants interested in Prince Charming when they're likely to become interested in each other?
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At least 9 Taliban insurgents were killed during airstrikes conducted by the Afghan Air Force in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.
According to the local officials, the airstrikes were carried out in Khogyani district targeting the militants in Pira Khel, Morgi, and Zhora areas.
The officials further added that five militants were also wounded during the airstrikes and various types of weapons, ammunition and explosives belonging to the Taliban insurgents were destroyed.
A number of the Pakistani militants were also among those killed, the officials said, adding that the local residents and security forces did not suffer any casualties.
According to the officials, the Afghan Air Force started targeting the militants from afternoon on Monday.
The anti-government armed militant groups including the Taliban insurgents have not commented regarding the report so far.
Taliban insurgents and militants belonging to the insurgent groups are actively operating a number of the remote districts of Nangarhar province.
The Afghan forces have stepped up counter-terrorism operations against the militant groups amid deteriorating security situation in the country.
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Paleostinian sources told Asharq Al-Awat that Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, Movement had deliberately used a strict tone in replying to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, after an agreement reached between its internal and external leadership, including the movement, which supports restoring complete relations with Tehran.
According to the sources, different leaderships of Hamas had agreed on the need to respond to the Revolutionary Guards’ remarks, and send a deliberate message that the movement was not controllable by any party, and that this matter will not be part of any future agreements.
Hamas had issued an official statement condemning remarks made by Khosro Orouj, an advisor to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, in which he accused the Paleostinian group of seeking to enter into talks with Israel through The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... The statement described the comments of the Iranian official as "unfounded fabrications," and devoid of truth. It added that Hamas’ official policy "is not to enter into talks with the enemy."
Hamas said that "it will remain at the forefront of the resistance in Paleostine until the liberation and the return of the [Paleostinian refugees]."
The Hamas statement was issued only few hours after Orouj’s remarks, in which he said that Hamas’ efforts to sign an agreement with Israel through Turkey "contradicts the path of Imam Khomeimi that rejects sitting with the oppressor on one table."
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(IraqiNEws.com) Mosul- A security source in Mosul informed on Monday that a dozen families from Mosul, escaping the wrath of ISIS left their homes and arrived at those areas which are controlled by Kurdish Peshmerga forces.
Sharing details about the escape the source seeking anonymity said, “Families from areas in Mosul, which are still under ISIS control, continue to risk their lives and escape the grip of the terror outfit in search of better and safer places. And adding to this number, today around 50 families recently reached safer areas controlled by Kurdish Peshmerga forces as they risked their lives and fled Mosul from the areas that are still under ISIS control.”
“On their arrival, they went through the regular security checks and drills,” the source added.
It may be mentioned here that since the beginning of operations to liberate areas south of Mosul, people are continuously escaping the IS-ruled areas and are seeking refuge at areas under Peshmerga forces’ control.
(IraqiNews.com) Mosul- A source informed on Tuesday that four doctors in Nineveh were executed by ISIS members on early Monday morning.
“The doctors, who were executed by the ISIS, have apparently refused to go to the battlefront and treat injured ISIS members. The bodies were later handed over to the forensic department in Mosul,” the source added.
[AlArabiya] A Dutch woman has surrendered to Kurdish Peshmerga fighters near the ISIS-held city of Mosul in northern Iraq, saying she had been trying to escape the “hell” she was living in “all the time.”
Laura Angela Hansen told Kurdistan 24 television that her father helped her escape with her two children - four-year-old Iman and Abdullah, one. She gave no details.
Born in 1995 in the Netherlands, she said her husband, who is Dutch of Palestinian origin, had told her he was taking her on a “vacation” when they entered ISIS-held areas in Syria. She lived for several months in Raqqa, de facto capital of the “Caliphate,” before they moved to Mosul.
“I didn’t want to come to Syria ... without me knowing. He pushed me,” she said.
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Tuesday accused the Sindh Rangers of “abducting” a senior party member from Gulburg area of the metropolis without “any provision of warrant”.
In a statement, MQM claimed that Izhar Uddin Ahmed Khan, 55, was reportedly arrested when he went visit Sindh lawmaker Abdul Haseeb.
“Izhar was abducted by Rangers’ personnel who then moved him in an unmarked vehicle,” said MQM leader Wasay Jalil.
The party statement said “we fear for the safety of Izhar Ahmed who was abducted Rangers’ personnel this afternoon. We are concerned because that no warrant was provided and his current whereabouts remain unknown.”
The MQM called upon the lawful authorities to ensure the safety of Izhar Khan.
The party lawmakers claimed that their calls to Rangers’ headquarters in Karachi to inquire about the whereabouts of Izhar Khan remained unanswered.
Izhar Khan is a member of Central Coordination Committee and is based in the party’s London head office.
He was visiting Karachi to see his extended family members and has been nominated for the post of District Mayor, Karachi West.
“Izhar Khan holds British nationality as well and the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the British High Commission in Islamabad have been informed about his disappearance,” the party said.
ISTANBUL: A Turkish court has jailed seven suspects pending trial on terrorism charges over last month’s triple suicide bombing at Istanbul’s main airport, bringing the number in custody to 37, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
The attack at Ataturk Airport killed 45 people and wounded hundreds, the deadliest in a series of bombings this year in Turkey.
The seven suspects were detained on charges of “membership of an armed terrorist group” and being accomplices to murder, Anadolu said. The private Dogan news agency said all seven were foreign nationals.
Media reports have said at least 11 of those detained were Russian.
Meanwhile, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has defended his plan to give Syrian refugees Turkish citizenship, arguing there was ample space in the country after a backlash against the suggestion, in comments published Monday.
Erdogan said on July 2 that Syrians could eventually be granted Turkish citizenship “if they want it,” in remarks which were met with anger from opposition politicians and social media users.
More than 2.7 million Syrian refugees now live in Turkey, where they have guest status, according to the Turkish government.
In his first comments on the issue since announcing the plan, the president said if Syrians had dual citizenship it did not mean they had to return to Syria once the conflict was over.
“Is it a must for dual citizens, for people with citizenship, to return to their countries of birth?” he told Turkish reporters on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Warsaw, quoted by the Hurriyet daily.
“When Turks went to Germany in 1963, no one asked whether they would or would not return to Turkey,” he said, referring to the Turkish so-called Gastarbeiter who helped Germany’s economic recovery after World War II.
He added: “There is no need to worry, this country has 79 million people living on 780,000 sq. km of land. “Germany is half our size and has 85 million people,” he added, lightly overstating the German population. “We are a country that can easily overcome (challenges).”
The president even suggested that empty homes built by the state housing agency could be used to house Syrians. “Most of these Syrians work illegally.
“What we’re saying is there needs to be a solution. Among these people, there are doctors, engineers, lawyers, health workers, teachers, all of these people can benefit our country: they can be given citizenship,” Erdogan added.
Long battles and heavy casualties suffered by both the security forces and insurgents, have led to a situation where military operations in the province have stalled, say Baghlan officials.
"The Government has suffered heavy losses to its security personnel and equipment in the war in Baghlan. The enemy has also suffered high casualties in the battles. Now, we do not have the ability [to move forward] and to strengthen our outposts," said Noor Habib Gulbahari, Baghlan police chief.
He accepted that the security forces only control the highways and main roads in Baghlan.
"The Dand-e-Ghori and Dand-e-Shahabuddin areas in Baghlan are now under the control of the enemy and that situation will continue until we start our military operations to retake them. We have only control over main roads, and that's it," he added.
The situation has alarmed the residents of Baghlan.
"Our demand is that they [the security forces] should be fully operational. They should not let Baghlan to face the fate of Kunduz. The security forces should be well prepared," said Baghlan resident Daud.
Another resident of Bghlan, Samiullah, said the National Unity Government officials "are just thinking about their own benefits. There is no security in our province. We are concerned about this."
This comes after Baghlan residents expected a large-scale military operation in the province to eliminate terrorists and ensure its security. That crackdown is yet to materialize. Video report at the link
[Asharq al-Aswat] Kurdistan Freedom Falcons’ military wing, standing in opposition of Iranian Kurdistan regime, recently announced that its fighters had led an offensive against a convoy including Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) officers and other regime officials. The convoy was reportedly heading towards Kermanshah and Elam ‐two cities bordering Iraq.
The offensive resulted in the death of two IRGC officers and the injury of four others among which was Hashmatullah Flaan Bisha, MP at the Iranian parliament.
One of the Falcons’ military commanders, in a phone interview with Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, said that the attack was followed a meeting convened at the Zafar base which falls under Quds Force directory in the Kermanshah district.
Quds Force is a subdivision operating under IRGC commandership, and is usually missioned beyond Iranian territory.
The meeting was attended by Hashmatullah Flaan Bisha along with a number of IRGC security and military officials assigned to recruit ISIS and other terror group newcomers and then transfer them to Iraq.
The commander revealed that the meeting lasted for two whole hours and during which it was decided to carry on training and arming ISIS prospects on Iranian land, and to deploy larger numbers to Iraq.
The commander further disclosed on the late Iranian MP, attachés and officials were headed to see off a group ISIS recruits ready for dispatch right after the meeting was concluded, which was the same time the offensive was launched.
The convoy was headed to the Ryzav area, which is located midway between Kermanshah and Elam.
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Why is Iran training ISIS folks to go into Iraq?
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ISIS is supported by Iran because the existence and terrible behavior of ISIS gives legitimacy to Iran's interventions in Iraq and in Syria.
It also weakens and tends to discredit the Sunni population of Iraq, some of which is under ISIS control and some of which is occupied in fighting against ISIS, and hence unable to oppose Irani influence in the country, as it might otherwise do.
[NYDAILYNEWS] For a woman accused of supporting the Somali terror group Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... , Hinda Osman Dhirane began her trial with an unusual admission: she is an ardent Al-Shabaab supporter.
Dhirane's attorney, federal public defender Paula Deutsch, began her opening statement Monday reading parts of a poem Dhirane had written as an ode to Al-Shabaab fighters.
"We make no bones about the fact she was a supporter of Al-Shabaab," an Al Qaeda affiliate centered in Somalia that grabbed credit for the 2013 attack on the Westgate Mall in Kenya that killed 67 people, among other attacks, Deutsch said.
"But it's talk. It doesn't prove that she necessarily provided substantial assistance to Al-Shabaab."
Prosecutors, though, say Dhirane, 46, of Kent, Wash., and Muna Osman Jama, 36, of Reston, Va., did more than just talk about supporting Al-Shabaab.
The two were charged in 2014 with funneling small amounts of money -- less than $5,000 -- to Al-Shabaab fundraisers. Even small amounts of money in U.S. dollars can provide significant buying power in Somalia for weapons and the like, prosecutors said.
Prosecutor Danya Atiyeh said in her opening statement that the women sought to hide the payments in remittances that members of the Somali diaspora regularly send back to their homeland.
The remittances, she said, "make an ideal cover for disguising money," Atiyeh said. She quoted Jama from an online conversation in 2012; "If you work with the women and pretend that you are supporting your family, can the infidels and the animals who work with them find out what is in your heart?"
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Yes, but did they have intent?
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[INDIA] In a scathing editorial written by the European Parliament’s Vice President Ryszard Czarneck titled ’Wake up call to Anti-terrorism Ayatollahs’, Pak links to the recent Ramzan terror attacks in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... have signaled the arrival of the Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... ’s "humanitarian" NGO Falah-e-Insaniyat
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[PAJHWOK] A Taliban capo has been killed and 13 others gunnies captured during security forces operation in central Pashtun-infested Logar and southern Zabul provinces, an official and a statement said on Tuesday.
Governor Mohammad Halim Fidai told news hounds Taliban Commander Hamidullah known as Shaer was killed, two maimed and four others locked away Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in security forces operation in Aspid locality on the outskirts of Pul-e-Alam, the picturesque provincial capital.
He said 39,000 Pak Rupees, five hand grenades, two guns, one remote control bomb and explosives were recovered by security forces during the offensive. Security forces and civilians suffered no casualties, he added.
Gul Ahmad the resident of locality said security forces came to their area in the morning. They stormed a house and arrest some individuals.
Separately, security forces held a group of nine gunnies in Qalat, the capital city of southern Zabul province, a statement from National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) said.
The detained individuals were involved in terrorist activities in the province, the statement said.
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This is why the Talibunnies can't have nice things
Sure they can...briefly.
At least one person was killed and four others were wounded in an explosion in Farah province located in western part of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the incident took place in Bala Bolok district in Mullah Khaliq’s residence.
According to a statement by MoD, the militants were busy making an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) when the explosives went off prematurely.
No further details were given regarding the incident and it is yet not clear if the Taliban commander was among those killed or wounded.
The Taliban insurgents frequently use Improvised Explosive Device as the weapon of their choice to target the security forces but in majority of such attacks the Afghan civilians are targeted.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan released its latest civilian casualties report in mid-April this year, stating at least 600 civilians were killed and 1,343 others were wounded in the first quarter of 2016.
According to the UN mission, it documented 1,943 civilian casualties (600 deaths and 1,343 injured) in the period between 1 January and 31 March 2016, adding that these figures mark an overall increase in civilian casualties of two per cent compared to the same period in 2015 with a 13 per cent decrease in deaths but an 11 per cent increase in injuries.
UNAMA further added that consistent with 2015 trends, ground engagements caused the highest number of total civilian casualties, followed by improvised explosive devices (IEDs), complex and suicide attacks, as well as targeted killings.
[AlAhram] A roadside kaboom killed two Egyptian coppers on Tuesday in North Sinai, according to the interior ministry.
Two other police personnel and a conscript were maimed in the bombing that hit a passing police patrol in the scenic provincial capital of Al-Arish, the ministry added in a statement.
Last month, the army said its ground, air and naval forces had killed 22 bully boyz in parts of North Sinai as part of the ongoing counter-terrorism operation.
On Monday, a roadside kabooming in North Sinai also killed two coppers.
In May, Egypt received the first batch of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles from the United States, which the US embassy in Cairo said at the time would be used to combat terrorism.
CLEVELAND, Ohio - Case Western Reserve University, under fire by students and faculty for housing police on campus during the Republican National Convention, has decided to hold no classes, summer camps or other activities on campus from July 18-21.
The action, announced late Monday, was taken to ease ongoing concerns over housing 1,700 police officers and 200 members of the Ohio National Guard during the four-day event.
Students wanted the university to require the officers to store their weapons off campus, for the officers to stay out of university-owned buildings that aren't their assigned residence halls, and for the university to provide alternative housing for students uncomfortable with the increased police presence.
CWRU posted an online notice last night "... our city soon will host the Republican National Convention, an event that is expected to draw dozens of protests‐and could see a significant degree of conflict."
One commenter to this news article urged the CWRU president to get rid of all law enforcement officers of whatever kind on campus, i.e."Let the students fend for themselves so they will get to see what their campus life will be like. Call the janitor when your mugged walking across campus at night. Call the cafeteria lady when your car is broken into. Call the hvac technician when you get robbed."
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I graduated from Case Institute of Technology (which got absorbed by CWRU. During one summer, the dorms were used as quarters for National Guard troops during the riots. I wasn't there, but today's students would have had a fainting spell with real soldiers in the dorms.
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The President of South Sudan Salva Kiir Mayardit declared a ceasefire across the entire country, including the capital Juba which has seen violent and bloody fighting over the past week, up until yesterday. The fighting was between government forces and the army of the former rebel leader Riek Machar, who is now Vice-President. Kiir stressed his government’s commitment to the ceasefire and the implementation of the peace agreement, and called on citizens to remain calm and return to work. Meanwhile, ...back at the precinct house, Don Calamari's lawyer was getting even redder in the face... the SPLA’s Chief of General Staff Paul Malong Awan gave his soldiers and the regime’s forces strict instructions to refrain from attacking citizens or their property and warned violators that they would be severely punished in the event that they refused to oblige.
South Sudan’s Information Minister Michael Makuei said that President Salva Kiir held a telephone conversation with his Vice-President yesterday and that they discussed the current situation, agreed to a cessation of hostilities in Juba and other parts of the country. He also added that the security situation is stable after the military skirmishes that took place at dawn yesterday near the airport, the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... Mission and in other areas. Makuei said that fighting in Torit, east of the country, has ceased.
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Boats from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps maneuvered dangerously close to a U.S. military vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, part of a pattern that the top American general in the region—who was on the ship at the time—said risked grave miscalculation.
“What concerns me is our people don’t always have a lot of time to deal with those interactions,” said Gen. Joe Votel, head of U.S. Central Command, as he stood on the bridge of the amphibious ship later in the day. “It’s measured in minutes to really have the opportunity to make the right decision.”
Yes General, YOU must make a decision. No time to call the Kenyan in Chief and be told to 'stand down.'
They have protocols for this sort of thing...
The five Iranian boats included four small patrol craft and a larger boat called a Houdong fast-attack craft. At least one of the patrol boats was equipped with a .50 caliber machine gun and what is known as a multiple rail rocket launcher. They came within several hundred yards of the American ship.
The series of encounters on Monday took place as the New Orleans sailed in international waters through the strait. Gen. Votel, on a swing through the Middle East this week, voiced concern about how quickly such an encounter could turn lethal for the ship, which was carrying about 700 Marines.
The encounters might have been considered more dramatic if they weren’t so common. American Navy ships reported about 300 incidents with Iranian vessels during 2015, according to data provided by the Navy’s Fifth Fleet. Most of those “interactions,” as the Navy calls them, are considered safe or don’t rise to the level of harassment, according to Navy officials.
Navy officials essentially grade Iranian naval behavior on a curve. They said that the way the Iranians behave typically, even when they don’t actually harass American warships, is still not the way most professional navies behave at sea.
The IRGC’s routine actions in the region force American warships to have to determine just what their intent is, said one officer here.
“It’s very common for them to come up to within 300, 500 yards of us, and then they’ll turn, or parallel us and stop,” said Lt. Forrest Griggs, the New Orleans’s operations officer. “We try not to become accustomed to that because we don’t want to become complacent.”
Navy officials maintain they always navigate through the international waters of the strait—through which a third of all seaborne oil and other energy products are shipped—and Gen. Votel said the U.S. isn’t trying to provoke Iran with such operations.
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KARACHI: A pesh imam at Masjid Siddiq Akber succumbed to his injuries after being shot at by two gunmen in his residence on Monday.
Two unidentified motorcycle-riding gunmen shot the pesh imam, Habibur Rehman, at his residence in Masjid Siddiq Akber in Karachi's Gulistan-i-Jauhar area near Safoora Chowrangi, Superintedent Police Gulshan-i-Iqbal Fahad Ahmed said.
Habibur Rehman, in his mid-thirties, did not appear to be the victim of a sectarian killing, the SP said, adding that the body had been shifted to Memon Hospital.
[HOTAIR] Virginia can’t require Republican National Convention delegates to back Donald Trump, a federal judge in Richmond said Monday, though he made no ruling on whether the party can itself bind its delegates. Following that logic, there's no reason for a primary.
U.S. District Judge Robert Payne said the Virginia state law requiring delegates who oppose Mr. Trump to vote for him next week at the party’s convention creates “a severe burden” on First Amendment rights.
But Judge Payne explicitly avoided weighing in on whether Republican National Committee rules requiring convention delegates to follow the results of their states as dictated by state and national party rules. Judge Payne said he “lacks jurisdiction to adjudicate” the broader unbinding question.
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Considering the system was set up so each state was in charge of its election process and the feds stayed out of it so they didn't interfere with it...
Yeah, I would say that the political elite are doing everything they can to trash the constitution, the system we have and our freedoms to stay in power.
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The heads of both parties have come out and said the primaries really don't matter because the party gets to choose, in spite of the vote. Like Trump or not, if the GOP fails to select him it will mark the end of the GOP, and probably the republic as we know it. This is not sky is falling silliness. If the GOP fails here the party will go into disarray and at best dissolve and go through restructure. This will take a number of election cycles to do. The Dems will place libs in the Supreme Court. They will attack everything conservative and we will slide into a more Marxist state. These old Republicans need to understand their antics are delusional and they are placing more than just this election cycle at risk.
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First Amendment? What about Breech of Contract? Judge Payne is playing a sophist's word game.
49Pan, I think it will be a Fascist not Marxist state. The Fascists don't want state ownership they want state control via their handpicked oligarchs who are set up to take the blame if things go to wrong.
What the two ideologies have in common is control and power and NO liberty.
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Alan, if the GOP implodes fascism will look good with respect to where we will head. Hillary is a Marx/Lenin socialist. She desires a larger fed to step over all things. She is following the Trotsky model. A subtle difference is Marxism definitively leads to. Socialist fed. Her it takes a village shit is clearly in that vein.
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad- Iraqi Defense Minister Khalid al-Obeidi informed on Tuesday that in its quest to reclaim Mosul, the last bastion of ISIS, the Iraqi forces were successful in liberating a village from ISIS control.
“The Iraqi forces on Tuesday were successful in liberating a village from ISIS control and it also successfully linked up along the Tigris river with army units who are marching forward,” Obeidi informed.
[KANSASCITY] The day that Bernie Sanders supporters dreaded finally arrived Tuesday when Sanders endorsed Hillary Clinton for president.
“I intend to do everything I can to make certain she will be the next president of the United States,” Sanders said at a joint rally in New Hampshire.
But this arranged marriage is clearly going to take time for Sanders fans to support. Those loud, last gasps heard all over social media came from millions of passionate Bernie or Bust fans.
Sanders thanked the “13 million Americans” who voted for him during the Democratic primaries but made it “clear as possible” that he is endorsing Clinton.
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A tribunal ruled in a sweeping decision Tuesday that China has no legal basis for its vast claims in the South China Sea and had aggravated the seething regional dispute with its extensive construction of artificial islands that destroyed coral reefs and infringed on the Philippines' exclusive economic zone.
China immediately rejected the arbitration findings, and their impact remained unclear as there is no policing agency or mechanism to enforce them.
While the ruling cannot reverse China's actions, it still constitutes a rebuke, carrying with it the force of the international community's opinion. It also gives heart to small countries in Asia that have helplessly chafed at China's expansionism, backed by its military and economic power.
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Its all but too late for the South China Sea - the Bammer has several months to continue empowering the US-led Anti-US OWG-NWO Globalist agenda, wid every indication that he will do so.
New PH President Duterte is accused of being Pro-China + Pro-Gobalist, so everyone is waiting to see what PCorrect concessions he will make.
GET READY FOR DE FACTO MILITARY TROUBLE IN THE EAST CHINA SEA + TAIWAN. When Beijing is finished wid its construction activities in the SCS it will turn its attention full-monty to the East China Sea, the Senkakus + Okinawa + Taiwan 2018 - 2022.
THE PLA MAY SUFFER SOME SETBACKS IN THE BEGINNING BUT CHINA WILL KEEP COMING BACK, STRONGER + BETTER PREPARED EACH TIME.
AS CHINA GETS STRONGER IN EAST ASIA-WESTPAC, THE US MAY GET WEAKER, ESPEC IFF UNDER GLOBALIST CONTROL.
[USA Today] Coalition aircraft pummeled Islamic State convoys as they fled advancing Iraqi forces in Fallujah, killing 348 militants and destroying more than 200 vehicles.
More detail than we were previously privy to. Note the ROE.
Someday, son, all this will be yours...
And make sure the US wears a condom.
[ARA News] ERBIL – In an unprecedented step, the US has signed an agreement with the Kurdish government in northern Iraq to give military and financial support to the Kurdish Peshmerga forces.
Before the arrival of ISIS in August 2014, the Kurdish Peshmerga troops were forced to rely on old military equipment, and were prevented from buying military equipment from outside Iraq.
Now, the Peshmerga forces are one of the main partners for the US-led coalition, and receive weapons and ammunition from several coalition members, including the United States.
On Tuesday, Iraqi Kurdistan’s President Masoud Barzani received a United States military delegation headed by Ms. Elissa Slotkin, the acting assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs.
This meeting was followed by a telephone conversation between President Barzani and Mr. Ashton Carter, the U.S. Secretary of Defense.
“President Barzani and Ms. Slotkin discussed the liberation of Mosul and the status of the preparations and readiness from the U.S., Iraqi and Kurdistan Region perspectives,” the Kurdistan Region Presidency said in a statement.
“President Barzani focused on the importance and urgency of the liberation of Mosul and used the opportunity to reiterated his position of the extreme importance of planning for post-liberation Mosul,” the statement added.
Reportedly, Slotkin suggested that the Peshmerga forces will play an essential role in the fight in Mosul in the future.
In March, two Kurdish Peshmerga brigades received full equipment from the United States Army for the first time, in order to prepare them for the battle of Mosul–main bastion for the Islamic State radical group in Iraq. The equipment included helmets, body armor vests, anti-chemical protection equipment, medical equipment and M16 rifles.
Moreover, in April, the United States provided $415 million to the Kurdish Peshmerga forces after their salaries were cut due to the economic crisis, and the refusal of Baghdad to pay salaries of the Peshmergas.
Kurdish officials see the agreement as recognition of the sacrifices of Peshmerga forces in the war on ISIS.
Speaking to ARA News, official spokesman for the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Safeen Dizayee said: “It’s a recognition, appreciation and value of Peshmergas’ sacrifices, and a contribution to stability and defence of liberty, democracy and humanity.”
On Monday, John Kirby, the spokesperson for the US State Department said that the United States “recognize the service, the sacrifice, the courage, the bravery, the skill on the battlefield that the Peshmerga have demonstrated every single day.”
“And we’re mindful of the toll that this fight has taken up in the north and the significant role that the Kurdish Regional Government has played in terms of trying to deal with it as well. That’s why, when you see [US-led coalition envoy] Brett McGurk traveling to the region, he never fails to stop in Erbil and have discussions with KRG representatives,” he said.
“Due to the current financial crisis and troubled relations between KRG and the central Iraqi government it has become impossible for KRG to fund its war against ISIS,” Ceng Sagnic, a researcher with the Tel Aviv-based Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies told ARA News.
“The military memorandum between KRG and the US was initiated as a legal framework for the US to be able to fund Peshmerga forces without intervening in the KRG-Baghdad relations by forcing the central Iraqi government to deposit the full amount of Kurds’ share from funds allocated for this country,” she added.
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--Ms. Elissa Slotkin, the acting assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs.--
Two years ago her nomination was blocked by McCain who called her absolutely unqualified. It looks like she made it anyway.
How to do it: Hold your arm out, finger extended. Close your eyes and try to touch your nose with your finger. Then do it again with the other hand. You should be able to do this smoothly and accurately. Next, lie down and run the heel of one foot up and down the shin of the opposite extended leg.
What it means: These are two components of basic neurological testing, which evaluates coordination and fine motor movement indicative of the health of the cerebellum, the part of the brain that governs motor movement, coordination, balance, and muscle tone. Failure to do the nose and heel tests accurately can be one sign of a neurodegenerative disease such as multiple sclerosis or a brain tumor or lesion.
What to do if you fail: Try these tests several times before you conclude something's wrong, as many factors -- such as having had a glass of wine -- can affect it. If you regularly fail to get your finger anywhere near your nose, alert your doctor.
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I tried to post a couple of paragraphs from the NYT and it is either slower than B.S. (before server) or it's being reviewed? Seems to make Barry look bad....
[ABC7NEWS] The group Black Lives Matter organized a rally on the campus of UC Berkeley. Organizers called it a vigil and a prayer circle. The large crowd and their silence really did speak volumes. Unlike what was happening at Oakland City Hall.
"The people in the hills are happy. Developers are happy. But the black and brown, who make up the heart and soul of this city, are sick and tired of being sick and tired," said Cat Brown, one of the activists.
As Americans protest police violence against people of color, Black Lives Matter now plays a role in Oakland's struggles with its own scandal. On Monday, the group called Anti-Police Terror Project took signatures to the city clerk filing an intent to recall the mayor.
"This is about we are sick and tired of being murdered on the streets of Oakland. Tired of being pushed. And if she cannot stand up and do something for us, she has got to go!" said Brown.
[BREITBART] President Barack Obama If you have a small business, you didn't build that... is trying to muffle politically dangerous opposition from police groups to his support for the radical and violent Black Lives Movement -- but he’s also insisting to cops that their careers, colleagues and police forces are ’institutionally racist.’
Obama met with representatives of several police groups at the White House on Monday, just one day before he attends a commemoration -- and gives a speech -- in Dallas for five cops who were killed by anti-white, racist African-American.
When the police groups told him that he’s not done enough to support the nation’s popular police forces, Obama quickly rejected their criticism, Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... told CNN. He "talked about [his support]. He gave a list. He said, ’I’ll be happy to send you all of these statements that I have made," Biden said. "I don’t think that the [police groups] heard loudly and clearly, that, he in fact has, repeatedly, been supportive of the police organizations," Biden insisted.
But Obama then told the police groups that they, their members and their police forces are part of a racist law enforcement system, Biden said.
"And he said, ’But you also have to recognize that there is still institutional discrimination. That doesn’t just exist in policing. It exists in many other areas, hiring, housing, etc. And you’ -- and so, then they started talking, and said, ’Well, maybe we, the law enforcement organization, should reach out and say, look, we understand why you may be concerned about how we deal with you, but here’s -- let’s have a conversation, tell us what it is specifically."
[REUTERS] The New Black Panther Party, a "black power" movement, will carry firearms for self-defense during demonstrations in 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 ... ahead of next week's Republican convention if allowed under Ohio law, the group's chairman said.
The plan by the group could add to security headaches for the Ohio city after last week's killing of five coppers in Dallas by a U.S. army veteran who had been drawn to black separatist ideology, including on Facebook, before hatching his plan to target white coppers.
Several other groups, including some supporters of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, have said they will carry weapons in Cleveland, leading to concerns about rival groups being armed in close proximity.
"If it is an open state to carry, we will exercise our second amendment rights because there are other groups threatening to be there that are threatening to do harm to us," Hashim Nzinga, chairman of the New Black Panther Party, told Rooters in an interview.
[CBSNEWS] Police say five people attending a candlelight vigil in for a man killed in west Baltimore were shot when a gunman opened fire on the crowd.
Detective Donny Moses said in a phone interview that about 25 people had gathered about 6:30 p.m. Monday at Fulton and North avenues, where 24-year-old Jermaine Schofield was shot and killed early Sunday.
The shooting comes after Schofield's mother, Doreen Scofield, asked for no retaliation in her son's death, according to the Baltimore Sun.
"It's not going to bring my son back," she said. "I just want to bury my son."
She told the Sun she had forgiven who ever killed her son.
More than 118,000 people have signed a petition for the US Black Lives Matter civil rights movement to be deemed a terrorist group, enough to warrant a response from the White House.
It took only a week to surpass the 100,000-signature threshold necessary to put the issue on the presidential administration’s agenda.
"It is time for the pentagon to be consistent in its actions ‐ and just as they rightfully declared ISIS [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.... ] a terror group, they must declare Black Lives Matter a terror group ‐ on the grounds of principle, integrity, morality, and safety," the text of the petition reads.
The petition was started on July 6 after the shooting of African-American man Alton Sterling by two coppers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Another African-American man, Philando Castile, was killed by police in the state of Minnesota the following day.
These incidents have provoked public outrage across the country. A Black Lives Matter demonstration against police brutality toward African Americans took place in Dallas, Texas, during which five coppers were killed in a sniper attack on July 7.
A city councilwoman in Northern California is facing calls for resignation after she claimed in a Facebook post that last week's police killings in Dallas were "completely incited by America's police force."
Nevada City Councilwoman Reinette Senumwrote Friday that the murder of five officers and maiming of seven others at a Black Lives Matter rally just a day earlier was expected.
"This was completely incited by America's police force," Ms. Senum wrote, linking to a Huffington Post article about the Dallas attack. "They have obviously been given directives to go out there and kill. It's insane and it's meant to create mayhem.
"And let me add to this: I'm pointing out that we can expect this when the police murder somebody," she wrote. "This is the oldest trick in the book.... it brings out more violence!!! It’s a terrible cycle that always escalates into something worse. Thus forcing us to ask ourselves, who is benefiting from this? THAT's the answer I want to get to."
Ms. Senum's comment drew swift backlash, but she initially debated with commenters on Facebook and defended her statements, The Los Angeles Times reported."
[Daily Caller] During the memorial service for the five Dallas police officers who were killed, President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that every American is racist.
Obama said, "America, we know that bias remains. We know it. Whether you are black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or of Middle Eastern decent, we have all seen this bigotry in our own lives at some point. We heard it at times in our own homes." To the Champ, this wasn't a memorial service for 5 fallen policemen, this was an opportunity to inject politics, race, and scolding.
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During the memorial service for the five Dallas police officers who were killed, President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that every American is racist.
The Freudian Projection is deep in this one (as with all the Left).
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Baghdad-Hundreds of Iraqi citizens organized on Monday dawn an open protest which marched at the Talibiya area near Sadr city entrance, Iraq.
Main streets were cut off, slogans and banners were raised in demand of authorities serving 300 convicted murderous Moslems to capital punishment.
Felons convicted of terror acts, punishable by death according to Iraqi law, are estimated to be hundreds among an original three thousand who have been officially nabbed Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! . Despite receiving verdict, many death sentences await implementation.
Demonstrations came as a public response to authorities throwing back and forth different accusations as to which party is responsible for the delay in the delivery of the sentences.
What is more is that the Iraqi parliament is scheduled to have its first newfound legislation session, as to discuss the delay in implementation of death sentences and to issue official decrees relating to the heated subject. The parliamentary session is expected to hold Iraqi President Fuad Masum responsible for the hold up of executions.
Khalid Shwani, the official front man of Iraqi president, told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that Iraqi presidency does not desire to put any of the executions on hold‐ as to the evident delay, he explained that it is relative to constitutional procedures.
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[ARANews] AMUDE – Senior official of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Dr. Nasir Haji Mansour on Tuesday told ARA News that ISIS is fighting very hard in Manbij city “which is slowing down the operation” that started on 31 May. Moreover, ISIS has started to kill civilians that are trying to flee the city, he said.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on 31 May launched an operation to take the 98-km border pocket of Manbij from militants of the Islamic State (ISIS). So far, the battle has taken a very heavy toll on the SDF-forces.
“If the SDF capture Manbij, all of Aleppo’s countryside would be under threat, because it’s a strategic stronghold for ISIS,” SDF official Mansour told ARA News. “It’s a strategic battle and different from Tel Abyad and Shaddadi [where ISIS just withdrew],” he said.
“If the operation is successful, the connection between ISIS, Turkey and Aleppo’s countryside will be cut off,” he said.
Over the last few days, ISIS militants have been trying to break the SDF siege on the city from four sides, but failed. Nevertheless, SDF advances on the city itself go slow due to booby traps, IEDS and the use of civilians as human shields. “This became big obstacles, the SDF cannot use heavy weapons to save civilians, and the coalition has minimised its airstrikes over Manbij,” he said.
Moreover, ISIS is using tunnels and civilian houses as bases. “Sometimes they use a house, fight against us, then wear civilian clothes and go back to another house. The coalition cannot hit them because they think those are civilians,” the SDF official said in an interview with ARA News on Tuesday.
In the meantime, the US-led coalition said in a statement on Tuesday evening that its fighter jets launched 14 strikes on ISIS strongholds in Manbij, hitting nine separate ISIS tactical units and destroying 17 fighting positions for the group, besides bombing a logistics hub and an artillery piece.
Furthermore, the Syrian Democratic Forces spokesman said that ISIS killed at least 70 civilians when they were trying to flee. “One family tried to escape Manbij city, and they got captured and killed. Others were killed in their cars, when they tried to flee.”
The official refuted recent reports about the SDF snipers targeting civilians.
Although some people claim that the Arab population is against the Kurdish-led SDF, the situation in Manbij –where civilians are trying to reach SDF-lines even risking their lives– show that the civilians are not supporting ISIS.
“This is a proof that all civilians [in Manbij] are against ISIS. They protested against ISIS in Manbij, and they are trying to escape,” he said.
Unlike previous campaigns, this is the first time the SDF completely besieged a city. “ISIS terrorists were getting reinforcements and weapons, that’s why we completely surrounded the city,” he added.
However, the SDF official says ISIS has only one of two solutions in Manbij: “Either they will surrender and give up, or fight against us until they die,” he said. So far, it seems that ISIS has chosen for the last option.
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....What a fracking mess this is gonna be. The biggest problem (from my perspective) is this: that dashed line you see just south of Progressive Field is the Innerbelt, where I-90, I-71, and I-77 (AKA still the Willow Freeway on some maps) meet. Anything goes down and that's it - there's no other way through the city without going about five miles south to I-480, or around fifteen miles south to the Ohio Turnpike/I-80. And there's no real connection from the city to any of those - it would be streets all the way. It'll take hours to get around at best.
They SHOULD have had this out at the IX Center near Hopkins Airport. A lot harder to get to but a lot more defensible and it wouldn't close an appreciable chunk of the damn city for a week and a half.
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They SHOULD have had this out at the IX Center near Hopkins Airport. A lot harder to get to but a lot more defensible
A 'IX Center' venue would have made it very difficult for protesters. A crowded urban setting with ready access to businesses which can be looted, flammables, and protester egress are essential.
He said getting all of the police agencies around a big table to go through possible danger scenarios is vital to being prepared.
"You think about, okay what if an individual comes to a garage and starts firing down on the crowd," Clancy said. "What if that happens? Who's going to respond to that? And then we have all of the important players around the table, and everyone has a piece. And It allows everyone to know what everyone else is doing."
He said the tabletop scenarios include everything from horrifying attacks to such simple things as a protest group standing in front of a motorcade for someone the Secret Service is protecting.
"We don't want that motorcade and the detail agents to see that for the first time. They want to have talked about that before," he said.
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such simple things as a protest group standing in front of a motorcade
That's not a free speech issue, that's a safety hazard -- and surely as such illegal. For it to be free speech they can protest from the sidewalk along the road after properly applying for a permit. Cleveland is Democratic Machine terrirtory, so there oughtn't be any difficulty getting a permit to protest a Republican party event.
Cleveland is a waterfront city, so there's some slope built into the street drainage infrastructure. Pretty hard to secure from below.
I vote for hijacked gas trucks dumped into the storm and sewer drains. I'll bet the eastside parking lots and cemetary drain into the same sewer as the Quicken Loan building roof downspouts.
All in all 3 threat vectors within a few blocks, 4 if you add river access from Lake Erie which shares an open Naval border with Canada, that are not addressed by blocking surface streets.
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Not sure why the Evil Party operatives would want to do more than monkey warfare against the Stupid Party - if they did too much, such as killing delegates or candidates, they might provide the opportunity to 'reset' the nomination and pick someone the Clintons did NOT want to oppose them.
The Senate subcommittee on investigations published a report on Tuesday finding that OneVoice, an international non-profit organization once funded by the State Department, actively campaigned against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during Israel's 2015 national parliamentary elections.
The "infrastructure and resources" of that campaign was built, in part, by funding from their State Department grant, the report found.
OneVoice entered headlines in 2015 after absorbing Victory15, an Israeli group that was actively campaigning against the Netanyahu government. One year earlier, OneVoice had successfully secured $300,000 in a grant from the State Department.
"OneVoice used the campaign infrastructure and resources built, in part, with State Department grants funds to support V15. In service of V15, OneVoice deployed its social media platform, which more than doubled during the State Department grant period; used its database of voter contact information, including email addresses, which OVI expanded during the grant period; and enlisted its network of trained activists, many of whom were recruited or trained under the grant, to support and recruit for V15.
"This pivot to electoral politics was consistent with a strategic plan developed by OneVoice leadership and emailed to State Department officials during the grant period. The State Department diplomat who received the plan told the Subcommittee that he never reviewed it," the report stated.
The subcommittee found that OneVoice fully complied with the terms of its State Department grant, designing and executing "a grassroots and media campaign to promote public support for Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations for the Department, as it said it would."
In a statement, OneVoice defended itself by noting the Senate report found the group in full compliance with the terms of its grants.
"The subcommittee 'found no evidence that OneVoice spent grant funds to influence the 2015 Israeli elections,'" OneVoice noted, quoting from the report. "The subcommittee also praised OneVoice for its cooperation and for being 'forthright' with the State Department about its work."
"The State Department grant concluded before Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu issued his surprise call for early elections," they added. "OneVoice will continue its important work promoting peace and reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians."
In 2015, State Department officials denied any knowledge of OneVoice's campaign against Netanyahu or any connection between that campaign and its grant funding.
"The subcommittee found no evidence that OneVoice spent grant funds to influence the 2015 Israeli elections," the report concludes. "Soon after the grant period ended, however, OneVoice used the campaign infrastructure and resources built, in part, with State Department grants funds to support V15."
The Senate report also says the State Department "failed to take any steps to guard against the risk that OneVoice could engage in political activities using State-funded grassroots campaign infrastructure after the grant period."
Notably, this investigation was signed off by members of both parties– unusual for this type of Senate report.
Subcommittee chairman Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and ranking member Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) drew different conclusions from the same findings, however: Portman said that the State Department "ignored warning signs" of OneVoice's political activism, while McCaskill highlighted the fact that the report found no wrongdoing on the part of the Obama administration.
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The State Department through USAID (and directed by the US Embassy in Cairo) funded NGOs that supported Mo. Morsy and his Muslim Brotherhood movement in Egypt and actually despised the USA.
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Dialing the clock back just a bit, early Summer 2003. The photo is of the former Canal Hotel in Baghdad, just before the bombing. Home of UNSCOM and the totally corrupt, Pro-Saddam USAID 'Oil For Food' folks.
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The State Department needs to be purged from top to bottom after the election. I used to think there were competent officers over there...but, after re-consideration, all the best swimming rats left that sinking ship years ago.
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Foggy Bottom is little more than a political action arm of the Klingons, and has been for decades.
Ever wonder why U.S. Visa issuing and monitoring is such a total cock-up? It is by DESIGN! Only one example. Mil-to-Mil programs and exports are yet another.
[Dhaka Tribune] A Singapore court yesterday convicted four Bangladeshi workers for financing terrorism and sentenced them to jail terms varying between two and five years.
The four convicted Bangladeshi are Rahman Mizanur, 31; Miah Rubel, 26; Md Jabath Kysar Haje Norul Islam Sowdagar, 31; and Sohel Hawlader Ismail Hawlader, 29, the Straits Times reported.
Rahman was sentenced to 60 months in jail. Sohel was given 24 months while Miah and Jabath each got 30 months.
Earlier, they were charged with providing or collecting money to fund terrorist acts in Bangladesh.
Prosecutors said the men ‐ who pleaded guilty on May 31 ‐ had contributed part of their salary to buy food, arms and weapons like knives and pistols to launch attacks in Bangladesh. The amounts ranged from 60 Singapore dollars ($42) to 1,360 Singapore dollars ($1,000).
They were part of a group detained in April under the country's Internal Security Act, which allows for detention without trial in cases where public safety is threatened.
The Ministry of Home Affairs in Singapore has said the group's suspected leader, Rahman Mizanur, possessed guides on making weapons and bombs, as well as radical material from the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group and al-Qaeda that he used to recruit the others.
Rahman, 31, pleaded guilty and was convicted of two charges of financing terrorism by inviting group members to contribute funds and handling the money to facilitate plans.
In sentencing Rahman to five years in jail, District Judge Kessler Soh emphasised that a deterrent sentence and "much stiffer punishment is warranted."
"He was the criminal mastermind. He was the one who started this whole outfit," the judge said.
Rahman was shackled as he arrived in court and looked down when the sentence was passed, surrounded by heavy police guard.
He had earlier addressed the court in English, putting forth a lengthy plea for mitigation. "I wanted to learn my religion. [My friends] showed me the wrong way, the wrong activities," Rahman said. "This is my very big mistake sir. I am very remorseful."
Media reports also said that two other men named Zzaman Daulat, 34, and Mamun Leakot Ali, 29, have denied the charges and are claiming retrial. Their trial dates have not been set.
Those other Bangladeshi men who were detained in April have not been charged and will be dealt with separately, officials have said.
In January, Singapore said it had tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! and deported 26 Bangladeshi construction workers for forming a religious study group that spread the ideologies of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group.
Their goal was to set up an Islamic state in Bangladesh and bring it under the self-declared caliphate of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
However when contacted, the Bangladesh Embassy in Singapore said it was not officially notified about the trial by the Singapore government, but learned about it from media reports.
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The Judge, with a chuckle, explaining:
"It really was most entertaining
To see their repentance
On hearing me sentence
Them all to so few years... of caning."
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No doubt they and the rest of the group detained in April will be expelled and blacklisted after serving their sentences. And also no doubt every name in their cell phones and other devices will be examined as well. Singapore is not kind to foreigners who break the rules.
(IraqiNews.com) Mardin- In a statement issued by People’s Defense Forces (HPG), an armed wing of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), it was mentioned that the organization has killed 40 Turkish soldiers in a raid on July 9 (Saturday) last.
The HPG press statement issued on Monday it was stated, “PKK guerrillas on Saturday, July 9, attacked a military station in Cewzat at Mardin- a southeastern Turkish province- and killed 40 Turkish soldiers.”
“The PKK soldiers, prior to engaging in a gun battle with the Turkish soldiers, also detonated a car bomb. Later, Turkish helicopters shifted the injured to nearby hospitals for medical attention,” added the statement.
It may be mentioned here that over a hundred soldiers- from both sides- have died since July 2015 after a two-year ceasefire ended between PKK and Turkey. The clashes have however left a number of civilians homeless.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Tuesday she won’t answer any more questions about her decision not to prosecute Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Dean Acheson ... for her mishandling of classified information, saying only that it would be "inappropriate" for her to get into details.
She put the onus on FBI Director James Comey, saying that she accepted his recommendation -- but she refused to say how she herself saw the information.
"I would have to refer you to Director Comey," she said.
Ms. Lynch couldn’t even recall how long her meeting with Mr. Comey to review his report lasted, though she insisted it was "thorough."
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[HEATST] A young idealist who worked for the Democratic National Committee was murdered early Sunday as he walked home in the Bloomingdale neighborhood in affluent Northwest Washington D.C.
Seth Rich, 27, was shot multiple times including twice in the back. His mother Mary Rich told the local NBC station that her son was found with bruises on his face, knees and hands ‐ signs that he fought for his life.
"Worst nightmare," she told News4.
According to Mary Rich, Seth was talking on the phone with his girlfriend at the time of the attack and she heard noise on his end of the line. He told her not to worry about it.
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[Ynet] IDF troops tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! three suspected figures near the settlement of Ofra in the northern West Bank on Tuesday morning.
[WASHINGTONPOST] Obama praised coppers and sharply criticized those who would paint all police as bigoted or seek violence against law enforcement, yet he also acknowledged the very real fear and pain among black Americans who have felt targeted or mistreated by officers.
"We ask police to do too much and we ask too little of ourselves," Obama said during his 40-minute remarks, which capped an emotional service just a mile from where the five officers were killed last week.
Even as he spoke of unity, there were still tangible signs of a rift between protesters and police. Obama was interrupted by applause when he spoke in a concert hall filled with law enforcement officials about those officers killed last Thursday, but the families of those officers did not clap when he spoke about the "Black Lives Matter" protests or invoked the killings in Minnesota and Louisiana.
"Your work, the work of coppers across the country, is like no other," Obama said. "From the moment you put on that uniform, you have answered a call that at any moment, even in the briefest interaction, may put your life in harm’s way."
Consoling a nation after a violent episode has become familiar ground for Obama, whose presidency has been marked by tragedies and attacks in places such as a school in Newtown, Conn.; a church in Charleston, S.C; an office holiday party in San Bernardino, Calif.; and many others.
"I’m not naive," Obama said. "I’ve spoken at too many memorials during the course of this presidency. I’ve hugged too many families that lost a loved one to senseless violence."
Obama said he has seen how inadequate words can be at spurring change, but said that if America "is to honor these five outstanding officers we lost," then the country must be honest about confronting its challenges going forward.
He rejected any suggestion that all police are biased or bigoted and pilloried people who, with their words, call for violence against officers. But he said that even though race relations have improved dramatically, "we know that bias remains." Still, Obama said that people simply cannot dismiss protesters and those questioning law enforcement tactics.
Obama echoed what the Dallas police chief said a day earlier about officers being asked to take on too much, saying that too great a burden is placed on police departments.
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In this case "Obama Mentions Self 45 Times During Memorial Speech For Dallas Officers" per Drudge.
Proverbs 6:16-19King James Version (KJV)
16 These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
ZF, how about some lyrics matching the old Billy Joel tune 'We Didn't Start the Fire' to 'We started the Fire'.
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JohnQC Former President George Bush gave a real speech honoring the fallen at the memorial service. To me it was a stunning comparison between the two - Bush was resolute and compassionate to the family, Obama made an attempt to memorialize and then launched into a political pontification that demonstrated his smallness.
Mr. Bush spoke directly and truely to the family, their loss was not fair, we all do not share equally in their loss, this was a memorial for their fallen and their sacrifice. A sacrifice for the love of their brothers and sisters in blue, and the price they pay for their servant leadership.
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Also notable was the rabbi and the gal singing.
W was excellent. Would have watched the whole thing if that kitchen gnome hadn't thrown salt in my eyes.
Barry....I wanted him to do well here...then I saw him haunching over himself, elbows on knees...like I was watching the opening to Grand Torino.
Really everyone showed a dynamic personality except Barry. He is just so....uninteresting. I ad-libbed his speech as he talked nearly point by point, so uninteresting.
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When are you people gonna learn? He's full of shit. Knowing this, you should know that whenever you watch that guy he's only gonna piss you off. So don't watch him. If I was a mourner I would have skipped this ceremony. I couldn't take it.
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"We ask police to do too much and we ask too little of ourselves"
'So today by executive decree, with the advisory council of UNDSS and under the charter of the Host Country Affairs Section of the United States Mission to the United Nations, I am establishing a National Police Force.'
A group of 9 Haqqani network militants were arrested by the Afghan intelligence operatives before they manage to conduct attacks in Qalat city, the provincial capital of Zabul province.
The Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security (NDS), said the Afghan intelligence operatives confiscated at least 12 Improvised Explosive Device (IED) from the detained militants.
NDS further added that the group was involved in a number of attacks in Qalat city that led to the killing of at least two people and wounding 5 others.
According to NDS, the group was looking to place the IEDs in the populated parts of Qalat city before they were arrested by the intelligence operatives.
This comes as a group of 3 Haqqani network militants were arrested before they manage to carry out attacks in Kabul city.
Haqqani network was formed in the late 1970s by Jalaluddin Haqqani. The group is allied with al-Qaida and the Afghan Taliban and cooperates with other terrorist organizations in the region.
The network is accused of staging numerous cross-border attacks from their base in North Waziristan, including the 19-hour siege at the US Embassy in Kabul in September 2011.
It is considered the most lethal insurgent group targeting the NATO-led coalition security forces and Afghan personnel in Afghanistan.
The US Department of State designated the HQN as a Foreign Terrorist Organization on September 7, 2012
Tensions are running high in the Beyşehir district of the Central Anatolian province of Konya, where a young Turkish man and a Syrian man were recently killed in a street fight, as local residents, including the slain Turkish teen’s family, demand the Syrians living in the area leave.
Just think of them as Palestinians...
As far as Turkish prejudices go, they're all Arabs... though it'll get interesting if it turns out the Gazans are actually genetically left-over Philistines.
Two people were killed and another three were wounded in a fight between Syrians and Turks which erupted over the kicking of a stray dog late on July 9 in Beyşehir. The fight was reportedly started after Mehmet Bayraktar, 18, saw four Syrians kicking a stray dog and warned them not to do so.
A number of local Beyşehir residents, including Bayraktar’s parents, have shown their anger since the deadly incident, voicing that they no longer wanted Syrians in their town.
The police have taken wide security measures since the incident, with riot control vehicles with water cannons, known as TOMAs, and some 400 police officers dispatched to the town as a precaution.
Meanwhile some of the 900 Syrians living in the town have already fled left after their homes were allegedly stoned following the deadly fight.
Mustafa Sevimli, whose shop was below an apartment that was stoned by an angry crowd, said Syrians had been welcomed in the town but now they were posing a threat.
“Now we are concerned. We do not want them to be here anymore. Syrians have come here as guests and we want them to act as guests. We will then show our hospitality. But if they do craziness, the people of Beyşehir won’t stand behind them. Until now, the people of Beyşehir embraced them with love,” said Sevimli.
Another shopkeeper in the same building, Ömer Duran, said the state had to find solutions to the problem.
“They have used our love for mean purposes. The state should give the necessary punishment, because if people get involved in this [situation], things would get out of hand. [The Syrian] people who live in this building have gathered on the top floor. The landlord also wants to take them out. Now, we, as the shopkeepers are being affected,” said Duran.
Meanwhile, the interrogation of some 15 people, including eight Syrians who were detained after the incident, was ongoing while the body of Syrian İbrahim El Ali, who was killed in the fight, was still in a morgue and it will be buried in a public cemetery if no one shows up to claim it.
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Kick the Dog
When a character does something evil for no apparent gain, because the author wants to demonstrate that he's not a nice guy and shift audience sympathy away from him.
Why this trope works could be expressed in the words of William Cowper: “I would not enter on my list of friends (though graced with polished manners and fine sense, yet wanting sensibility) the man who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.” In other words, a cruel act, no matter how trivial, establishes someone as a cruel person.
Asshole Victim
Normally when something bad happens to an individual you feel some degree of pity for them. But then when that person is a Jerkass, when horrible things happen to them it is less sympathy and more satisfaction. They are not directly responsible for THIS particular misfortune, as that would be Laser-Guided Karma, but their behavior means something like this was going to happen eventually. This can range from the victim merely being a dick to being a far worse criminal than the person he or she is a victim to.
In other words, when a corpse-shaped or victim-shaped hole in the plot is filled with a character who is in some way sufficiently repugnant that the audience feeling bad about their death (or other victimization) is unlikely.
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As far as Turkish prejudices go, they're all Arabs... though it'll get interesting if it turns out the Gazans are actually genetically left-over Philistines.
[Iraq Sun] At least 12 people were killed in yet another attack in Baghdad as a suicide boom-mobile blew apart a Shiite-dominated district on Tuesday. No claims have been made for the attack so far but the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) murderous Moslem group has been suspected of carrying out the triple bombings.
Al-Rashidiya district faced a gruesome scene during the morning hour rush when a pickup truck, filled with explosives, blew apart in the middle of the vegetable and fruit market, killing 12 and leaving 37 others injured.
Simultaneously, another bomb went off in a town of Mahmoudiya, killing three people and wounding ten others.
After the attack in Mahmoudiya, which is 20 miles south of Baghdad, a third bomb went off in Dora, where a commercial area was targeted. Around nine people were maimed there while two were killed in the Capital’s southern neighbourhood.
The attacks were launched a day after Interior Ministry front man, Brig. Gen. Saad Maan announced plans related to the major military parade over the weekend in which Iraqi forces were to be deployed across the streets. More than half of central Baghdad’s Green zone area faced heavy traffic due to almost 75 percent of the streets being closed to prepare for the parade.
The parade was said to celebrate the victories achieved by Iraqi Forces against the ISIS in numerous areas like Fallujah and Qayara airbase.
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... the attacks on Tuesday have dampened the mood in the city and Iraqi forces have been put on high alert for suspected activities.
The triple bombings are the latest in a series of terror strikes that the city had faced this year. The worst attack that tore apart the capital last week was claimed by the Islamic State and left over 300 people dead.
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the capture of fallujah by iraqi govt was suppose to reduce terror attacks in Baghdad by complicating the logistics for ISIS
however, ISIS has, to some extent, adapted
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KHAR: Two suspected militants were killed on Monday when a remote-controlled improvised explosive device (IED) they were planting on Dherakai-Pashat road in Salarazai tehsil of the Bajaur tribal region went off.
Officials of the Bajaur administration said two bodies mutilated beyond recognition were found at the scene of the incident.
They claimed that the deceased were involved in several cases of planting the IEDs on Dherakai-Pashat road to target security forces and pro-government tribal elders associated with peace committees.
The bomb, they said, went off, killing the suspects on the spot.
The political administration and security personnel cordoned off the area and launched a search operation. However, there was no report of any arrest.
KARACHI: A college student selling a mobile phone was killed while a suspected robber posing as a buyer was wounded late on Sunday night when trigger-happy policemen in plain clothes fired at them in the Sindhi Muslim Cooperative Housing Society, officials said on Monday.
The policemen, however, fled the area in a police mobile van shortly after the episode that drew the attention of the top officials who ordered an impartial probe into the incident and sought recommendations for legal action against the policemen.
The policemen involved in the shooting and the police mobile van remained untraceable, officials told Dawn.
According to the Ferozabad police, 21-year-old Abrar-ul-Hasan, a resident of Keamari, had advertised his mobile phone for sale on a website (OLX). He was later contacted by a man, Dil Nawaz, over phone and they agreed to meet in Saddar on Sunday night for the deal.
The police said Dil Nawaz posing as a buyer remained seated in his car near Lucky Star when Abrar approached him. He examined the mobile phone and kept it with him. As the seller demanded Rs15,000, the suspect drove the car in an attempt to flee. But the young man managed to get into the car. When they reached the SMCHS, the policemen travelling in a mobile van saw them fighting with each other inside the car. “The policemen might have assumed it as a kidnapping or robbery bid and opened fire on them,” said Gulshan-i-Iqbal superintendent of police Dr Fahad Ahmed, who is also holding the charge of Jamshed Town SP.
Both the seller and the imposter sustained gunshot wounds, the officer said. The police mobile van did not belong to the area police station, he added. It is not known that why the policemen involved in the incident disappeared afterwards. Some witnesses said the mobile van belonged to the Crimes Investigation Agency (CIA) while others said it belonged to the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of police, according to the police officer.
SP Ahmed said the wounded men were shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where Abrar was pronounced dead.
Initial probe indicated that the wounded man, Dil Nawaz, had allegedly been involved in cheating people. The number plate of the white Honda City car that he was travelling in was “fake”, he said.
The officer told Dawn that the police obtained CCTV footage from the area and it showed that “the mobile, which resembles the police mobile” was chasing the car from Lucky Star in Saddar.
The police spokesperson said that IG police A.D. Khowaja took notice of the media reports that the policemen in civilian dress and travelling in a mobile van gunned down the youth. The police chief directed the Karachi-East Zone DIG to carry out fair, impartial and transparent investigation into the incident and submit a detailed report to him with recommendations for legal action against the policemen.
Ferozabad SHO Kansan Dean, meanwhile, said they had invited the victim’s father to lodge an FIR so that formal investigation could be initiated to trace the culprits.
Four CTD policemen booked
On Monday night, the police said the SMCHS incident had been ‘resolved’ as it had been proved during the investigation that four personnel of the Counter-Terrorism Department were involved in it, according to the CTD head, Raja Umer Khattab.
He said he held an inquiry into the incident during which three policemen surrendered before him and narrated the event while the fourth one, who had actually fired the shots, was taken into custody from his home.
The held policemen were identified as Saeed, Rashid, Nadeem and Kaleem — all constables.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A Taliban attack was repulsed by the Afghan cops in Farah province located in western part of the country, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said Tuesday.
According to a statement by MoI, a group of Taliban snuffies launched coordinated attack on a police check post in the village of Karez located in the center of Farah.
The statement further added that the attack was launched on Monday evening but the Afghan forces efficiently responded to the Taliban fire.
At least 10 Taliban snuffies were killed and 7 others were maimed after the attack was repulsed, MoI said.
MoI also added that a vehicle, a cycle of violence and some weapons and ammunitio belonging to the Taliban militnts were also confiscated.
The Afghan National Police (ANP) forces did not suffer any casualties during the shootout, MoI added.
The anti-government armed Lion of Islam groups including the Taliban snuffies have not commented regarding the incident so far.
Farah is located in the west of Afghanistan which is a relatively peaceful province but the anti-government armed Lion of Islam groups are active in a number of its remote districts.
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[ABC] Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan's request to block Hillary Clinton from receiving classified intelligence briefings was denied by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on Monday.
In a letter to Ryan, Clapper wrote that he did "not intend to withhold briefings from any officially nominated, eligible candidate."
A spokeswoman for Ryan, AshLee Strong, said in a statement that "We obviously disagree with the decision and want to know what precautions will be taken and what assurances the director can give that Secretary Clinton won't mishandle classified information. She has proven herself untrustworthy."
The news came one week after FBI director James Comey announced that the FBI recommended no charges be filed against Clinton in her handling of classified email while she was Secretary of State.
Ryan excoriated Clapper, saying the decision "defies explanation," as well as Clinton, who he said "misled the American people when she was confronted with her criminal actions."
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My god Ryan, are you crazy. That would be career suicide to deny Hilda the appearance of knowing the threats we face. Have you seen what these people are capable of, what they do to enemies ? Rules don't apply to important people. How naive you silly Republicans are sometimes!
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The request was posturing to underline the issue for the voters -- this is the kind of thing that causes the thoughtful to question, and the questioners to crawl over broken glass to vote. No one would have been more surprised than Congressman Ryan had it been acted on.
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.
(CNN) Washington: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's well-known candor was on display in her chambers late Monday, when she declined to retreat from her earlier criticism of Donald Trump and even elaborated on it.
[Dallas Morning News] DeSoto police are hoping the public can help them identify the suspect in an aggravated robbery at a Waffle House last week.
[Wash Times] The FBI said Tuesday it will turn over to the State Department thousands of work-related secret emails it recovered from Hillary Clinton's email server, which the former secretary failed to turn into the government when she left office.
[Gateway Pundit] Off duty police officers walked of the job on Saturday after the Minnesota Lynx WNBA players showed up wearing Black Lives Matter T-Shirts.
[Breitbart] HOUSTON, Texas ‐ A Houston city councilman has called for segregation in policing. In the wake of the officer-involved shootings of black men across the country and the assassination of Dallas police officers, the councilman said police should reflect the ethnicity of the particular community where they patrol.
Admiral Viktor Kravchuk and his chief of staff Rear Admiral Sergei Popov after they reportedly refused to follow orders to confront Western ships.
[Dhaka Tribune] Three people were placed on a four-day remand in connection with an attack at Rohingya camp, Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar that left an Ansar member dead.
Hillary Clinton
[AlAhram] An Austrian biotech company working with the Institut Pasteur said on Tuesday it planned to start clinical trials with an experimental Zika vaccine in the next 12 months, marking a further acceleration of research in the field.
[VARIETY] The first gay dating show is coming to TV.
At least one person was killed and four others were wounded in an explosion in Farah province located in western part of Afghanistan.
CLEVELAND, Ohio - Case Western Reserve University, under fire by students and faculty for housing police on campus during the Republican National Convention, has decided to hold no classes, summer camps or other activities on campus from July 18-21.
[HOTAIR] Virginia can’t require Republican National Convention delegates to back Donald Trump, a federal judge in Richmond said Monday, though he made no ruling on whether the party can itself bind its delegates.
[KANSASCITY] The day that Bernie Sanders supporters dreaded finally arrived Tuesday when Sanders endorsed Hillary Clinton for president.
Joe 
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Baghdad-Hundreds of Iraqi citizens organized on Monday dawn an open protest which marched at the Talibiya area near Sadr city entrance, Iraq.
[Dhaka Tribune] A Singapore court yesterday convicted four Bangladeshi workers for financing terrorism and sentenced them to jail terms varying between two and five years.
[WASHINGTONPOST] Obama praised 
[ABC] Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan's request to block Hillary Clinton from receiving classified intelligence briefings was denied by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on Monday.
