More than 20 people in Germany have been injured after a man with an axe went on the rampage on a train, German media report.
A police operation including a helicopter is under way in Heidingsfeld, a part of the city of Wurzburg in southern Germany.
Local media (in German) wrote that 21 people had been injured and a suspect appeared to have been shot. The train line between Wurzburg-Heidingsfeld and Ochsenfurt is closed.
The German news agency DPA reported that the police said some of the victims' injuries were life-threatening.
Not clear if this is a terrorist or a crazy person (those are not mutually exclusive). More to come. Remember the 48 hour rule, and remember that the MSM frequently gets it wrong.
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Cleary we need a background check and a three day waiting period on axe purchases.
A police operation is underway in the German town of Heidingsfeld, part of the southern city of Würzburg, after a man launched an attack on a regional passenger train at around 9.15pm local time (1915 UTC) on Monday.
Three people were seriously injured and a fourth suffered light injuries. Another 14 people were reportedly held up in the train.
Bavarian Interior Ministry Joachim Hermann confirmed in a televised interview that the suspect was a 17-year-old Afghan refugee who had been staying in Ochsenfurt where he boarded the train.
The teenager reportedly shouted "Allahu Akbar" before launching the attack using a knife and axe. He was shot dead by police in Heidingsfeld as he attempted to flee the scene.
A document obtained by The Associated Press shows that key restrictions on Iran's nuclear program will ease in slightly more than a decade, halving the time Tehran would need to build a bomb.
The document is the only secret text linked to last year's agreement between Iran and six foreign powers. It says that after a period between 11 to 13 years, Iran can replace its 5,060 inefficient centrifuges with up to 3,500 advanced machines.
Since those are five times as efficient, the time Iran would need to make a weapon would drop from a year to six months.
Iran says its enrichment is peaceful, but the program could be used for nuclear warheads. If nuking Israel means "peaceful" in Farsi, then I agree.
Two diplomats providing the information Monday demanded anonymity because they weren't authorized to do so. I'll bet they weren't.
Bouhlel, a resident of Nice, was born in Tunisia but had a permit to live and work in France.
A lawyer who previously defended Bouhlel has said that his former client "wasn't very intelligent" and that he "could have been influenced by religion."
Corentin Delobel defended Bouhlel against charges of assault earlier this year. At that time, he said there were no signs that his client was radicalized but regrets that his defense prevented Bouhlel from doing jail time.
"I told myself I did my job," he said. "But if I had done my job badly, he might be in prison, and he may have never done what he did."
The 31-year-old received a suspended six-month prison sentence this year after being convicted of violence with a weapon, authorities said.
Bouhlel, a heavy drinker with a history of spousal abuse against his wife (the couple was in the process of divorcing), was "very much the stereotype of a petty criminal," Delobel told CNN. "There was nothing that would have suggested in reality he was a jihadist." He probably was thinking that maybe his false god was real, and that he didn't stand a chance of going to heaven unless he joined the jihad and died because of it, thereby short-circuiting the need to live any kind of pious life.
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A lawyer who previously defended Bouhlel has said that his former client "wasn't very intelligent" and that he "could have been influenced by religion."
Lawmakers have twisted themselves in knots in recent years to get the federal budget "under control."
But a new report Tuesday shows that those efforts have not done enough to rein in the country's debt, which remains on track to hit historically high levels within 20 years.
The reason is not mysterious: Lawmakers have focused on making cuts to the smallest part of the budget, and not the parts that are actually driving the debt higher.
On top of that they've expanded the menu of permanent tax breaks.
End result: Without changes to current law, the United States' debt could rise to 141% of the size of the economy by 2046, up from 75% today, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
The historical peak of 106% following World War II could be exceeded by 2036 -- or even sooner.
"The prospect of such large debt poses substantial risks for the nation and presents policymakers with significant challenges," the CBO noted in its long-term budget outlook.
The biggest drivers of the debt are spending on Medicare and other major health programs, along with Social Security and interest on the country's debt.
That's because demand on those entitlement programs is going up as the population ages and Americans live longer. In 30 years, the CBO expects that half of all federal government spending will go to programs supporting people 65 and older.
On top of that, interest payments on the debt are expected to balloon as well.
Meanwhile, the spending on everything else is on track to fall to levels not seen in more than 50 years. That includes everything from education to defense to research to cybersecurity to environmental protection to national parks. The CBO estimates this "discretionary" spending will drop to 5.2% of GDP by 2026, down from 6.5% today.
These low levels are partly due to a series of across-the-board cuts that were agreed to in 2011 to resolve the debt ceiling crisis. And it's partly due to a number of politically targeted cuts to agencies like the IRS.
Where do the candidates stand?
Neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump have offered any plans to improve the country's debt outlook. Hey, I know, let's cut the deficit instead!
But Trump's proposals would worsen it considerably, according to a number of analyses, most recently from the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Who are these guys? Are they reputable?
Trump frequently laments the country's current debt load of $19 trillion and counting, but his policy proposals -- and most significantly his tax plan - would add an estimated $11.5 trillion to the debt in the first decade alone, the CRFB estimates.
Clinton's policies would also add to deficits in the first decade - but by far less: an estimated $250 billion, not including changes she announced in the past week to her health and college proposals. Why are we comparing Trump's debts to Hillary's deficits?
Careful, Tony. I'm guessing what I see from you is a lot like liberal projection when defending their choice for president these last two terms.
But as Trump prepares to formally accept the Republican nomination in Cleveland, the man who actually wrote "The Art of the Deal" -- Trump's ghostwriter, Tony Schwartz -- says he deeply regrets his role in constructing Trump's public persona. Funny thing is that it seems more folks prefer Trump over any of the other Trunk candidates, and it may well be that they'd prefer him over Hillary and 0bean as well. Time will tell.
Speaking out for the first time, Schwartz, who now runs a consulting firm, now says the man he observed at close range for 18 months has little in common with the person described in the book. Unlike Hillary.
"I put lipstick on my mother a pig," he told Jane Mayer in an interview in The New Yorker. "I feel a deep sense of remorse that I contributed to presenting Trump in a way that brought him wider attention and made him more appealing than he is."
Explaining why he chose to break his silence now, Schwartz said he was terrified about what could happen if the real estate mogul is elected in November. Riiiiiight. Whenever I'm truly afraid of something, I poke it with a sharp stick. Who wouldn't?
"I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes there is an excellent possibility it will lead to the end of civilization," Schwartz said, adding that if he were writing Trump's autobiography today, he would instead call it "The Sociopath." And if you were to hire Tony's firm to write a book about you, he could make you look just as good.
In the interview, Schwartz explained how he put a positive spin on Trump's personality.
Writing at the time in private journals, he described Trump as "hateful ... a one-dimensional blowhard" and told The New Yorker he disguised Trump's obsessions with money and attention. So, for the book, Schwartz conjured up false images of a warm family man with many friends and ignored contradicting details that exposed his real estate dealings as financially unstable and largely dependent on his father's success.
"All he is is 'stomp, stomp, stomp' -- recognition from outside, bigger, more, a whole series of things that go nowhere in particular," Schwartz wrote in his journal on Oct. 21, 1986, an observation he told The New Yorker disproves the speculation that Trump's campaign is a performance that disguises a more thoughtful and nuanced person behind the scenes.
"There isn't," Schwartz said. "There is no private Trump." Unlike 0bean. Whose motivations and actions align directly with what he says and are good for America.
In studying Trump, Schwartz said, he struggled to pin him down for conversations that lasted more than a few minutes, and that the real estate tycoon would often get fidgety, impatient and irritable. Unlike 0bean when "listening" to someone who disagrees with his opinion.
"He has no attention span," Schwartz said. "Trump has been written about a thousand ways from Sunday, but this fundamental aspect of who he is doesn't seem to be fully understood ... It's impossible to keep him focused on any topic, other than his own self-aggrandizement, for more than a few minutes, and even then ... If he had to be briefed on a crisis in the Situation Room, it's impossible to imagine him paying attention over a long period of time." Unlike 0bean. Who listens to what all sides have to say and contemplates it for days or weeks before coming to a balanced decision that it's OK to clean the kitchen sink with the toilet brush.
Schwartz describes Trump as having "a stunning level of superficial knowledge and plain ignorance" and seriously doubts he "has ever read a book straight through in his entire adult life." Unlike 0bean, who reads fantasy books all the time.
Trump does not dispute this characterization, telling The Washington Post in an interview published Monday that he does not need to read because he makes decisions "with very little knowledge other than the knowledge I had, plus the words 'common sense,' because I have a lot of common sense and a lot of business ability." Unlike 0bean. /notSarc
Beyond Trump's practiced ignorance, Schwartz said, he discovered what he calls Trump's "second nature" -- a habit of lying. In "The Art of the Deal," Schwartz put a positive spin on the many gaps he found between Trump's accounts for his deals and others' versions of events. Schwartz invented the term "truthful hyperbole," a rhetorical tool Trump and his attorneys have frequently fallen back on when challenged in the press or in court. Like 0bean. Who just lies and the press doesn't really challenge him, or tells them to pound sand, or just ignores them.
"More than anyone else I have ever met, Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true," Schwartz said. "He lied strategically. He had a complete lack of conscience about it." Unlike 0bean.
Schwartz opened "The Art of the Deal" with claims that Trump wasn't in the deal-making business to make money.
"I don't do it for the money," Trump declares in the opening passage of the book. "I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it. Deals are my art form."
But that, Schwartz now says, is a lie.
"Of course he's in it for the money," he said. "One of the most deep and basic needs he has is to prove that 'I'm richer than you.'"
His need for attention and praise, likewise, is "completely compulsive," Schwartz said.
"He's managed to keep increasing the dose for 40 years," Schwartz said. "The only thing left was running for president. If he could run for emperor of the world, he would." Unlike 0bean.
Asked to respond to Schwartz's claims, Trump told The New Yorker that he, not Schwartz, had done the writing for "The Art of the Deal," something that Howard Kaminsky, then the head of publisher Random House, denied. "Trump didn't write a postcard for us!" Kaminsky said. Unlike 0bean.
"I made Tony rich. He owes a lot to me," Trump told The New Yorker, dismissing Schwartz's criticism. "I helped him when he didn't have two cents in his pocket. It's great disloyalty. I guess he thinks it's good for him -- but he'll find out it's not good for him." Unlike with 0bean.
Trump called Schwartz immediately after speaking to The New Yorker's Mayer, accusing him of cashing in on "The Art of the Deal" and warning he could have sued him.
Schwartz -- who turned down Trump's offer to hire him to ghostwrite a sequel and who earned a shared byline, half of the advance and half of the royalties for "The Art of the Deal" -- says he doesn't "take it personally" that Trump is upset with him "because the truth is he didn't mean it personally."
"People are dispensable and disposable in Trump's world," he said. Unlike 0bean.
Schwartz, has pledged to donate his earnings from the book this year to charities that work in direct opposition to some of Trump's campaign proposals: the National Immigration Law Center, Human Rights Watch, the Center for the Victims of Torture, the National Immigration Forum, and the Tahirih Justice Center. You forgot trade, Tony. And jobs. And respect for police. And defense. And getting the country out of the red.
"I'll carry this until the end of my life," he said of lingering guilt over his role Trump's career. "There's no righting it. But I like the idea that, the more copies that 'The Art of the Deal' sells, the more money I can donate to the people whose rights Trump seeks to abridge." Call me Tony. I have an idea on how you can reduce your suffering.
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"I feel a deep sense of remorse that I contributed to presenting Trump in a way that brought him wider attention and made him more appealing than he is."
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This man, is the greatest idiot I've seen. Trump has everyone sign non-disclosure agreements Tony, have you forgotten what that means for you? You just broke it, publicly, on Trumps moment of victory.
Get ready to sell kidneys to pay off the debt you just acrued.
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I seriously doubt the vast majority of Trump voters are basing their opinions on the Art of the Deal.
America's police will be safer when they admit they have a problem, Pres. Obama declared on Sunday at a bilateral event with the prime minister of Spain in Madrid.
Fielding a question on Sunday, July 10, about the violence against police in Dallas, Texas last week, which left five officers dead, Obama said police officers will be safer once they acknowledge their failures:
"There are legitimate issues that have been raised, and there's data and evidence to back up the concerns that are being expressed by these protesters.
"And if police organizations and departments acknowledge that there's a problem and there's an issue, then that, too, is going to contribute to real solutions. And, as I said yesterday, that is what's going to ultimately help make the job of being a cop a lot safer. It is in the interest of police officers that their communities trust them and that the kind of rancor and suspicion that exists right now is alleviated."
Greeeaaat... blame the victim. Classy. How many more dead cop's blood will be on this wank wastes hand's from this remark?
Moderator note: comment by Silentbrick deleted. Let's not go over the line in our rhetoric, okay?
AoS
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Will we ever be rid of this *&^*%! guy?
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Will we ever be rid, etc. It's his worshipers and true believers that worry me the most. When he's gone, there will be someone else to take his place, by "popular demand".
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Prue Leftist Freudian Projection on display. Fire up the base on Zimmerman, Ferguson, Baltimore and reap the wind you have sown, but always blame others for your work.
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.
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Question: Can the police refuse to provide escorts and protection for Obama after he leaves office? Because if an ex-president needs a Police Officer in a hurry, Obama may find himself waiting longer than some parts of Detroit.
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Can the police refuse to provide escorts and protection for Obama after he leaves office?
Well, others at least can make sure he's happy with a very diverse if not competent response team. Let's just call it his 'dream team', to match the fantasy world he lives in.
[WBAL] For the third time in two months, Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams will hand down a verdict in the trial of one of the six coppers charged in the death of Freddie Gray.
Monday morning, Judge Williams will hand down the verdict in the trial of Lt. Brian Rice.
Rice, 42, is the highest ranking officer charged in the death of Freddie Gray. He is charged with manslaughter, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment.
This past week, Williams dismissed a second degree assault charge, due to lack of evidence, and prosecutors dismissed a misconduct charge related to allegations of a false arrest of Gray.
Closing arguments were heard Thursday morning.
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The Marilyn Mosby career death spiral continues
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The Marilyn Mosby career death spiral continues
Gentle turn in the direction of spin, whilst pushing forward on the yoke.
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Marilyn Mosby could well be in the process of failing up.
Her incompetence will certainly not be held against her by most of the Baltimore black establishment or by the Maryland Democrat establishment. She could become a US Representative within a decade.
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@#2: Maintaining back pressure will keep the stall going. Yawing into the spin, as suggested, will make the ride much more exciting and possibly yield an inverted excursion.
Lemme see, Marilyn, upside down spin, what rudder deflection to use. Decisions, decisions.
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If Marylyn is spinning to the left, then she will have to right rudder to stop the spin and then she will have to push down to break the stall.
Lefties do not want to turn right, even to save themselves from crashing and burning.
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When leftists precipitate... incidents,
Their spin is... reality's impudence:
"Ignore the existent,
And be more insistent
On flying your critical instruments!"
The Senate had the option to forbid Hastings from ever seeking federal office again, but did not do so. Alleged co-conspirator attorney William Borders went to jail again for refusing to testify in the impeachment proceedings, but was later given a full pardon by President Bill Clinton on his last day in office.[5]
[MIAMIHERALD] DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. A police cruiser in Florida was set on fire and a note referencing the Black Lives Matter movement was found nearby.
According to a statement from Daytona Beach Police, dispatch received a call of a vehicle fire at 2:30 a.m. Sunday. Responding officers found a marked Daytona Beach police car fully engulfed in flames in front of the Islamic Center of Daytona Beach.
The car was being used as a "ghost car" to deter crime in the area.
Fire crews responded and put the fire out. No one was injured.
Investigators found a note that said "Black Lives Matter. A. Sterling P. Castile," and referred to police using an expletive. It's unclear exactly where the note was found.
The burning comes amid rising tension nationwide following the fatal police shootings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile in in suburban St. Paul, Minnesota. Also Sunday, a gunman shot and killed three law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge.
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[WASHINGTONPOST] Joycelyn Jackson was already sitting in church when she found herself needing God most. She hadn’t yet learned that her little brother Montrell Jackson was among the three officer killed in Baton Rouge when her pastor asked the congregation to send prayers to her family.
"I didn’t want to break down in church but it was just something I couldn’t hold," Jackson, 49, of Lake Charles, Louisiana, said. "He was a wonderful person. A wonderful person."
Joycelyn Jackson said she understands the anger behind the movement Black Lives Matter but that "God gives nobody the right to kill and take another person’s life." Montrell Jackson, 32, was married in the last few years and had a baby boy he adored, she said.
"It’s coming to the point where no lives matter," she said, "whether you’re black or white or Hispanic or whatever."
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The only thing that matters is Obama's "fundamental transformation" of America.
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said on July 18 that Turkey may question its friendship with the U.S. amid calls for the extradition of U.S.-based scholar Fethullah Gülen after a failed coup attempt.
“Even questioning our friendship may be brought to the agenda here. Nonetheless, our Justice Ministry is conducting the necessary work,” Yıldırım told reporters while speaking at a press conference after a cabinet meeting in the capital Ankara.
Okay, go your own way. We can pull NATO, our military support, and our dollars. Enjoy your new friend Vlad Putin...
The premier also added there was no better evidence than the July 15 coup attempt for the extradition of Gülen, as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had earlier requested Ankara send evidence to support Gülen’s extradition.
“Is there better evidence than this? We will be a little bit disappointed if our friends say ‘show us the evidence’ while there are members of this organization which is trying to destroy a state and a person who instructs it,” Yıldırım said.
Ankara has repeatedly called on the U.S. for the extradition for Gülen, who was accused of masterminding the failed coup attempt in the country late on July 15.
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Turkey could lose its membership of the Nato military alliance if it fails to uphold the principles of democracy in the wake of an attempted coup, the US has warned.
Turkey’s government has been urged to uphold “democratic rule” following its response to the attempted coup, which has alarmed both the US and the EU.
Around 8,000 police officers have been removed in the country following the failed coup, with more than 6,000 people in the army, the judiciary and other state bodies arrested as part of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's response to Friday's events. He has said the people who attempted the coup "must pay," and that the government will consider introducing the death penalty for people beleived to have committed traitorous acts against the state.
At a joint news conference with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, US Secretary of State John Kerry said that America stands "squarely on the side of the elected leadership in Turkey," but that "we urge the government of Turkey to to uphold the highest standards of respect for the nation's democratic institutions and the rule of law".
While Ms Mogherini warned that countries that allow the death penalty cannot joing the European Union, Mr Kerry added that "Nato also has a requirement with respect to democracy," Washington Post reported.
The US "will certainly support bringing the perpetrators of the coup to justice," he said, "but we also caution against a reach that goes beyond that and stress the importance of the democratic rule being upheld".
The Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has insisted that President Erdogan's government will respect democracy, while Mr Kerry responded that Nato would "measure" its actions. "Obviously a lot of people have been arrested and arrested very quickly," Mr Kerry added, "The level of vigilance and scrutiny is obviously going to be significant in the days ahead. Hopefully we can work in a contructive way that prevents backsliding."
Ms Mogherini said the indcident "is no excuse to take the country away from fundamental rights and the rule of law, and we will be extremely vigilant on that."
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A court in northeastern Greece has granted a three-day postponement in the trial of eight Turkish military personnel charged with illegally entering the country after they flew to Greece in a helicopter during a failed military coup attempt in Turkey.
If the Turkish Eight want to remain in Greece forever they should call Carla del Ponte...
The court on July 18 postponed their trial until July 21. The helicopter’s pilot has also been charged with violating air traffic regulations and the other seven as accomplices to the violation. The eight - identified as two majors, four captains and two master sergeants - left court handcuffed to each other in pairs and covering their faces with towels or clothing, in the same way as they had arrived.
Turkey is seeking their return, and all eight have requested asylum in Greece. The Greek government has said their asylum applications will be examined under international law, but that the fact that they are accused in their country of participating in a coup will be taken into account.
“What must be implemented is Greek and international law,” Greek Deputy Defense Minister Dimitris Vitsas said on private Mega television on July 17. He said the asylum application would be examined, “but I must say that the argument in favor of extradition from the Turkish side is quite strong, I would say very strong.”
On July 18, Vitsas said decisions would be made by the judicial system and noted that the examination of asylum applications “usually takes from 15 to 25 days.”
The military personnel landed in Alexandroupolis on July 16 in a Turkish Black Hawk helicopter after issuing a distress call and requesting permission for an emergency landing. Their lawyer, Vassiliki Ilia Marinaki, has said her clients said they knew nothing about the coup but had been instructed to transport wounded individuals.
They say that shortly after learning of the coup, they came under fire from the police and feared for their lives.
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[Daily Caller] Secretary of State John Kerry spoke Saturday evening with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and suggested any public reports of U.S. involvement in the failed coup attempt of the Turkish government are "utterly false."
Not only are they false, Kerry said, but they also harm relations between the U.S. and Turkey.
After receiving an update from Cavusoglu on the rapidly developing coup situation in Turkey, Kerry reiterated that the U.S. supports the "democratically elected government in Turkey." Kerry also urged Turkish authorities to respect due process and adhere to international obligations in its treatment of those involved in the coup and to make sure civilian life and property are protected. If Turkey needs additional assistance, Kerry added, the U.S. is prepared to help.
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The safest way to interpret comments from Secretary Kerry is to add the word 'not' to each sentence.
It never occurred to me that our government had some role in the 'coup attempt', until I read this headline.
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AlanC: My thought exactly, which is why Erdogan is meeting with Putin I think. He knows he won't get to be in NATO when he goes full dictator, so the little turd is already getting ready to realign to Russia.
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Erdogan has been very good to Russia. He's awesome at starting the fight with them, and awful at actually winning it. That's just what Russia really needs.
IF he were a Russian agent bent on screwing up NATO, what would he be doing differently?
And revenge is a dish best served cold. Erdy may feel he is winning, but I'm pretty sure the Russians are not done with him. Hopefully, the Kurds will get something out of it.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Some prominent Republicans are speaking out about race, expressing empathy for the challenges faced by black Americans, after a spate of racially tinged gun violence that saw two black men killed by police and retaliatory attacks by a black sniper that killed five Dallas police officers.
House Speaker Paul Ryan and one of his predecessors, Newt Gingrich, have argued for frank conversations about race, citing some hurdles unique to African-Americans.
"It's important that we acknowledge ... there are people in this country who believe that because of their color of their skin, they're not as safe as everybody else," Ryan said recently on CNN.
Gingrich, among the finalists to be Donald Trump's vice presidential pick, said, it was "difficult" for white Americans to "appreciate how real" it is for black Americans to live in fear of a "situation where the police don't respect you and you could easily get killed."
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It seems fairly obvious to me that if you respect the police, they will not shoot you down like dogs. I believe a lot of the problem is that some people do not respect the police and get all up in their face. They think they are entitled to special treatment.
And the media feeds the hysteria.
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I recommend someone go have a beer or two with this fella. Some intelligent solutions might be forthcoming.
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The problem that blacks have is best summarized by the one statistic. More than 70% of black children are raised by unmarried, single mothers. There are no fathers around and no role models.
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Left unstated is the fact that many black Americans have legitimate fears of easily getting killed, fears that have absolutely nothing to do with the police, and everything to do with their fellow black Americans. But we mustn't ever talk about this, oh no.
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Paul Ryan is from Janesvile, WI.
Demographics per 2010 census:
The racial makeup of the city was 91.7% White, 2.6% Black or African American, 0.3% Native American, 1.3% Asian, 0.0% Pacific Islander, 2.0% from other races, and 2.1% from two or more races. 5.4% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
According to Euclid police, 200 to 300 people were gathered for the party on Lakeshore Blvd around 8 p.m. when unknown suspects opened fire and then fled the area on foot.
A 19-year-old Euclid man, identified as 19-year-old Phillip Banks, was shot in the head and killed. A 12-year-old boy was shot in the back. He was taken to a local hospital in unknown condition.
About an hour later, an 18-year-old Euclid man was walking in the area of 24000 Lakeshore Blvd when an unknown person fired multiple times at the victim from across the street. He was hit in the shoulder and taken to a local hospital in unknown condition.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Confronting another killing of police officers, President Barack Obama on Sunday urged Americans to tamp down inflammatory words and actions as a violent summer collides with the nation's heated presidential campaign.
Obama said the motive behind Sunday's killing of three officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was still unknown. It was the latest in a string of deadly incidents involving law enforcement, including the police shooting of a black man in Baton Rouge and the killing of five officers in Dallas.
"We as a nation have to be loud and clear that nothing justifies attacks on law enforcement," Obama said in remarks from the White House briefing room.
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July 2009 (six months after assuming the Presidency):
Obama continued, "I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that [Gates case]. But I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home; and, number three, what I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there's a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. That's just a fact."
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Or it could be he's like some small child who's been playing with matches and when that dry grass starts burning he panics when because finally realizes that he can't control it.
But either way, it's not good. We have a president who either deliberately or out of sheer incompetence has been fanning the flames of a wild fire.
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Has he condemned BLM or the New Black Panthers or the vast number of Chicago killings, mostly blacks. I recall him saying: "'If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon' If he had a son would he look like the recent cop killers?
[DAWN] PESHAWAR: Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... -Fazl chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ... has ruled out possibility of military coup in the country.
"I don’t see any possibility of military takeover in the country, no doubt Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif ..Pak chief of army staff, meaning he pulls the strings on the Nawaz Sharif puppet to make it dance and sing and not do much at all.... is a popular commander," he said in reply to a question put to him during a presser here on Tuesday.
He lauded the Turkish people and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... for foiling the coup in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... The JUI-F chief said that some elements tried to instigate the army for takeover by displaying portraits of Gen Raheel across the country. He said that those elements attempted to make Gen Raheel controversial.
"Those, who displayed portraits of Gen Raheel, should be tried under Article 6 of the Constitution," he demanded, adding that those elements had harmed the army chief through displaying his portraits.
There was need of strict action against those elements, who had invited the army chief to take over, he said.
Mr Fazl said that abortive military coup in Turkey was an international conspiracy.
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[DAWN] OKARA: Police claimed to have recovered four hand-grenades, some rifles, sizable ammunition, Rs80,000 Indian currency, 56,000 UAE dirham and some mobile phones from the residence of Anjuman Mazareen Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... (AMP) general-secretary Mehr Abdul Sattar late on Saturday night.
Okara DSP Chaudhry Zia ul Haq said that six Death Eaters had been killed in an encounter with LEAs in Kulyana estate’s village 28/2R a few days back. He said that law enforcers had also seized weapons and a mobile phone. The phone data recovered by the forensic lab showed that a call was made from a location of the military farm in village 4/4L.
The DSP said a team of the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) along with police reached the location on Saturday night, but they met stiff resistance from criminals and tenants who held law enforcers hostage after a shootout. He said the reinforcement was sought and they managed to get freed the hostage team of law enforcers after a brief shootout, but the wanted criminals and tenants managed to escape in the darkness.
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(IraqiNews.com) ANBAR- The commander of Anbar Operations Maj. Gen. Ismail Mahlawi announced on Sunday that ten (10) ISIS fighters were killed in aerial raid carried out by international coalition aircrafts at the northern city of Ramadi.
Mahlawi ,in a press statement, said, “The International Coalition Flight, in coordination with the 10th Division of Anbar Operations, bombarded a terrorist hideout at Al-Bu Ali al-Jassim in Ramadi Island situated towards the north of Ramadi city.”
Adding further, Mahlawi said, “Apart from the death of ten (10) ISIS fighters, the bombing also destroyed ISIS hideouts and caused other damages.”
It is worth mentioning here that the ISIS has been controlling Ramadi Island since mid 2014, while the security forces and the tribal fighters have been preparing to regain their lost control.
(IraqiNews.com) ANBAR – Al-Hashd al-Shaabi Command in al-Anbar Province announced liberating four areas in al-Dolab west of Ramadi and added that a majority of ISIS members have fled towards Euphrates River and desert areas.
The Intelligence Director of al-Somoud brigade Nazim al-Jaghifi in a press statement, said, “The security forces backed by al-Somoud brigade successfully liberated al-Dowailiya, al-Sharqiya, al-Aliya and al-Kareya at al-Dolab in Heet district- 70 km west of Ramadi,” adding, “The operation resulted in the arrest of three (3) ISIS members.”
“Complete liberation of al-Dolab will be announced by the security forces in the coming hours. Iraqi flag will also be raised over its buildings,” Jaghifi added.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar- The commander of al-Jazeera Operations, Maj. Gen. Qassim al-Muhammadi announced on Sunday about the beginning of liberalization operation of al-Doulab area, west of Heet city.
Al-Muhammadi, in a press statement, said, “This morning, troops of the 7th Division carried out a military operation to liberate al-Doulab area- 70 km west of Ramadi.”
Adding further Mohammadi said, “The tribal fighters and international coalition aviation will participate in this operation. This area is very important as this is regarded as ISIS last bastion west of Heet city.”
It may be mentioned here that the security forces and the tribal groups were able to liberate Heet and Kabisa cities, west of Ramadi, two months ago and gain complete control.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – Official journalists with the Ministry of Defense informed that a number of ISIS members were killed, two headquarters and booby-trapped vehicles destroyed at an Iraqi air strike in Khalidiya Island, Anbar.
The journalists in a statement said, “Based on accurate intelligence inputs, the Iraqi Air Force carried out an airstrike against ISIS members in Khalidiya Island (Albu Bali). These members were preparing to launch an extensive attack on the security forces near the Japanese Bridge and al-Tharthar area, in order to open a passage for its besieged militants towards the desert of Ramadi.”
Adding further it stated, “The airstrike resulted in the destruction of two headquarters, killing of a number of ISIS members, as well as shattering of a number of booby-trapped vehicles.”
ALEPPO: Air raids on rebel-held districts of Syria’s battleground second city of Aleppo killed at least 25 civilians including children on Saturday, a monitor said. The death toll steadily rose throughout the day as bombardment rocked the city, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
“Eleven civilians, including four children, were killed by air raids after midnight in the Bab Al-Nasr area of Old Aleppo, and seven others were killed in Fardous neighborhood,” the monitor said.
Seven others, including children, were killed in several other rebel-controlled neighborhoods — among them three in the Salhin district, the Britain-based monitor said. The Observatory, which relies on a network of sources across Syria for its information, said the air strikes were likely either Russian or regime warplanes.
“At least 20 people are still under the rubble,” said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.
Syrian state news agency SANA, for its part, reported that one person was killed and nine others were wounded in rebel rocket fire on government-controlled parts of the city.
An AFP correspondent in eastern Aleppo said helicopters and fighter jets were still circling rebel-held neighborhoods, adding that barrel bombs — crude, unguided explosive devices — had been dropped on several areas.
A hospital in the Maadi neighborhood was hit in the bombing, wounding some of the staff and patients inside.
“All kinds of weapons were used to bomb the hospital, from midnight until about 11 a.m. Now it’s unusable,” Mohammad Kheir, one of its doctors, told AFP. “There were some injuries among the medical staff but thankfully they are only light wounds.”
The Observatory said rebel fighters shelled government-controlled western areas of Aleppo, but had no immediate word on any casualties.
Aleppo city is divided roughly between government control in the west and rebel control in the east. It was once Syria’s commercial powerhouse but has since been ravaged by the country’s five-year war.
A cease-fire brokered by Russia and the United States in February between government forces and non-jihadist rebels does not cover Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front which has a strong presence in many rebel-held areas. The truce has been routinely violated, particularly in and around Aleppo.
On Friday, US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov said they had agreed on “concrete steps” to salvage the failing cease-fire. The top diplomats met for a 12-hour marathon meeting, but would not divulge the details of the deal in order to allow the “quiet business” of peacemaking to continue, Kerry said.
[Bangkok Post] A former separatist insurgent who switched sides and served for a time with a ranger unit was seriously injured by gunmen near his home in Pattani province Wednesday morning.
Mayo district chief deputy investigator Muhammad Madwang said Masueki Chelo was returning to his home in tambon Pado at about 1 a.m. when he was ambushed by gunmen lying in wait near his house. He was hit three times, and admitted to the in a serious condition.
Mr Masueki is a former member of the united front separatist movement who surrendered. He later served as a ranger before resigning to make a living from tapping rubber and other jobs.
Shakedown Sharpton has struck again, according to an Arizona trucker, who says in a new federal lawsuit that the good reverend promised to help him, then took him for $16,000, The New York Post is reporting. Forget the paltry $16k, I'm concerned about the theft of oxygen.
"He's a crook, he's a fraud, and that's all he is," complains Reggie Anders Sr., who sought out the Rev. Al Sharpton for help resolving a 2009 discrimination dispute with Verizon.
"He didn't do anything he promised," Anders said Saturday by phone from Mesa, Ariz. "Absolutely nothing." Mr. Anders should maybe reconsider his news sources?
Anders reached out to Sharpton early last year on the advice of his own minister, the Rev. David Wade of Phoenix. Wade knew Franklyn Richards, the chairman of Sharpton's National Action Network, and set up a meeting. Anders and his pastor flew east for the sitdown at NAN headquarters in Harlem in March 2015.
"I thought he was an honest guy," Anders said of meeting Sharpton. "I thought he would do what he said he would do."
Sharpton promised to go to bat for him against Verizon, a trucking client of Anders he had accused of discrimination and breach of contract in a federal suit that was dismissed in 2014.
Sharpton would "set up mediation meetings" and if need be "put the matter to the media" and even blast the telecom giant on his weekly radio broadcast, according to Ander' lawsuit, filed Friday in Manhattan federal court. All Anders had to do was hand over $16,000. Sharpton was very clear about how he wished to be paid, Anders told The Post. "He wanted cash only. He didn't say why."
[DAWN] WHEN the rock band Bumbu Sauce wrote an anthem to Qandeel Baloch, its members probably did not think it would soon be a lament. In a recent interview with the BBC, band frontman Masterjee Bumbu explained the Qandeel Baloch phenomenon, saying that she’s a "badly behaved woman" who uses the internet to communicate; "those are two things Pakistain does not deal well with as a society: the internet and badly behaved women". His words were prescient. Pakistain’s inability to deal with Qandeel Baloch’s behaviour drove, allegedly, her brothers to murder her last week.
Owing to her brothers’ involvement, Qandeel Baloch’s murder has been termed an ’honour’ killing. Framed as such, people feel comfortable pointing to her ’bayghairat’ behaviour to justify her brothers’ heinous action. Many tweeted in support of her killing, describing her as a disgrace to Pakistain. She had received death threats during her lifetime, and comments under her social media posts frequently called for her murder. Three weeks ago, she contacted the authorities to ask for security.
Few will be surprised, then, that her death has not met with the universal outpouring of shock and horror that we saw a few weeks ago for Amjad Sabri, who was rubbed out for essentially the same reason -- a perceived transgression. The fact is, we rarely see any public dismay each time a woman is killed for allegedly speaking to the wrong man, choosing who to marry or otherwise acting against her family’s wishes. How could we? There are around a thousand such murders reported in Pakistain each year, and our society is already too brutalised to mourn each one. Moreover, because such murders are categorised as ’honour’ killings, there is a sense that the tragedy is somehow different, explicable and thus palatable.
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A military commander says Interim Galmudug interim administration forces wrested control of Amara locality in southern Mudug region on Sunday from Al Shabaab.
Col Abdikarim Mohamed, a senior Galmudug forces commander said they are currently in full control of the area, after Al Shabaab retreated from the village without battle.
“The victory of Galmudug forces over Al-Shabab fighters and recapture of Amaara is the beginning of our Administration’s plan to wipe out Al-Shabab fighters,” said Mohamed.
The army commander says normalcy has returned to the locality, and residents go out for business, to continue their daily life activities after the Al shabaab withdrawal.
Al Shabaab retook the area from Galmudug state troops on Saturday.
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[RFE/RL] Turkish state media reports President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet Vladimir Putin in August, their first face-to-face meeting since a rapprochement in late June following the downing of a Russian warplane in November 2015. Presidential sources said the meeting will take place during the first week of August.
Ankara and Moscow said on July 17 that Putin had called Erdogan earlier to express his support in the wake of the recent coup attempt in Turkey. A statement from Erdogan's office said Putin had said Moscow stood by "Turkey's elected government."
Putin also discussed the safety of Russian tourists "under the current complicated conditions," the Kremlin said.
Russian charter flights carrying tourists to Turkey resumed this month after restrictions on tourism to Turkey were officially lifted. Russia had imposed sanctions after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane at the Syrian border, causing the death of a Russian pilot.
The two nations repaired relations after Erdogan sent a letter to Putin that expressed condolences to the dead pilot's family.
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Ankara and Moscow said on July 17 that Putin had called Erdogan earlier to express his support in the wake of the recent coup attempt in Turkey. A statement from Erdogan's office said Putin had said Moscow stood by "Turkey's elected government."
The Kabuki dance continues to pay handsome dividends.
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Erdogan hasn't announced support of Assad and in fact, his bitterly anti Assad comments are still official policy of Turkey -- Russia is Assad's biggest supporter outside of Iran.
This will likely be on the agenda.
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Erdogan can't stay in NATO if he's going full Dictator. He's planning to re-align to Putin, and use the Extradition of Gulen as cover for the whole thing.
That's what I think we'll see by September.
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[Reuters] A court in Bahrain on Sunday dissolved the main Shiite opposition group al-Wefaq and liquidated the group's funds. Those funds would be claimed by the state treasury. Bahrain's opposition al Wasat newspaper reported that the court found that the group's political activities had "deviated" toward incitement to violence and the encouragement of mass demonstrations and sit-ins that could lead to sectarian strife.
The administrative court ruling follows the closure by officials of Wefaq in June and revocation of the citizenship of a top Shiite cleric.
The government has been shaken by calls for major reforms, and by a serious financial crisis that has forced it to cut subsidies and increase basic prices. The crackdown also follows a diplomatic dispute between Bahrain's main Sunni backer, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. The rift has widened since Iranian demonstrators, outraged at the execution of a prominent Shiite Muslim cleric in Saudi Arabia in January, ransacked Saudi missions, prompting Riyadh and Bahrain to cut diplomatic ties with Tehran.
[Ynet] Serbia says it will deploy joint army and police patrols on the borders with Bulgaria and Macedonia to curb illegal entry of migrants colonists and people smuggling.
Serbia's move comes days after EU member Hungary started applying harsher border control rules that include sending migrants colonists back across the border to Serbia.
Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said Saturday that "Serbia cannot be a parking ground for people from Afghanistan or Pakistain whom no one else in Europe wishes to accept."
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Serbia says it will deploy joint army and police patrols on the borders with Bulgaria and Macedonia to curb illegal entry of migrants colonists and people smuggling. Turks.
Lively movement of vehicles, supplies and equipment, has been detected recently near the North Korea's nuclear test site in Punggye-ri in remote North Hamgyong Province.
In an article written for the website 38 North on Monday, the often reliable military boffin Joseph Bermudez said that satellite imagery from last Thursday indicates supplies and equipment, small vehicles and several mine ore carts at the facility.
"Based on imagery alone, it is not possible to determine whether this activity is for maintenance, excavation or preparation for a fifth nuclear test," Bermudez wrote. "Nevertheless, it is clear that North Korea is ensuring that the facility is in a state of readiness that would allow the conduct of future nuclear tests should the order come from Pyongyang."
A Unification Ministry official said, "The North Korean regime is ready to conduct another nuclear test whenever [leader] Kim Jong-un gives the order."
But a military spokesman here said further analysis is needed and there are "no signs of a test yet."
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CHINA isn't going to wait until 2030 or 2050 to get back Taiwan or acquire its desired strategic access for the PLA in the East China Sea - HOW LONG CAN PUDGY = NORTH KOREA HOLD OFF CHINA???
The deceased suspect in the deadly shooting of Baton Rouge law enforcement officers appeared to have attacked police on his 29th birthday, CBS News has learned. The suspect has been identified as a black male named Gavin Eugene Long of Kansas City, Missouri, sources tell CBS News. He was born on July 17, 1987.
According to a military source, Long left the Marines in 2010 with an honorable discharge. His final Marine rank was E-5 (sergeant).
One suspect was killed and two others might still be at large, Casey Rayborn Hicks, a spokeswoman for the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office, previously said. However, Louisiana state police said Sunday afternoon there is "no active shooter" in Baton Rouge.
The Baton Rouge Advocate reported that two other men were picked up across the Mississippi River in Addis and were being questioned by police as "persons of interest."
Three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers were killed and three others wounded Sunday, less than two weeks after a black man was shot and killed by police here in a confrontation that sparked nightly protests across the city that reverberated nationwide. Police involved in the shooting included officers with the Baton Rouge Police Department and deputies from the East Baton Rouge Sheriffs Office.
Police responded to a report of officers shot at a location on Airline Highway near Old Hammond Highway around 9 a.m., CBS affiliate WAFB reported. A law enforcement source tells CBS News senior investigative producer Pat Milton that police were called to the location on Airline Highway, less than a mile from the Baton Rouge Police Department headquarters, after someone reported a suspicious man with a weapon.
A witness tells CBS affiliate WAFB that he saw a masked man in black shorts and shirt running from the scene where three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers were shot and killed. Brady Vancel said the man looked like a pedestrian running with a rifle in his hand, rather than someone trained to move with a rifle.
Vancel said he'd gone to work on a flooring job on a street behind the gas station where authorities say the shooting occurred. He said he heard semi-automatic fire and perhaps a handgun. He saw a man in a red shirt lying in an empty parking lot and "another gunman running away as more shots were being fired back and forth from several guns."
According to a WSJ source, the deceased suspect was affiliated with an anti-government group.
Which one?
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Nation of Islam.
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Understand this, you understand all that is happening in the world.
Long followed several conspiracy groups devoted to government surveillance and monitoring. An email address linked to him showed that he was a member of a support group in an organization called Freedom from Covert Harassment and Surveillance.
The group's mission is to help those "marginalized and abused by ... remote brain experimentation, remote neural monitoring of an entire humans body."
On that site he's identified as a "Buddy" representing other "targets" of government surveillance.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/18/us/who-is-gavin-long/index.html
And yes, I am a target of the US government using brain mapping from DARPA, Artificial Intelligence Computers, Direct Energy Weapons, Mind Control, but I beat them, with knowledge.
By the way, this is worldwide. The race to control the brain.
The neuroscientists just discovered that the entirety of their functional MRI (fMRI) brain mapping data is useless because the computer program used to find patterns is flawed, Mr Lucienne. In other words, the machines read just fine, but -- and this may sound familiar to AGW skeptics in terms of programs not performing as advertised -- the programs don't properly translate that into accurate images. So whatever DARPA thought they were getting from your brain, they were wrong,and any attempts to monitor and influence you at a distance were more likely to have accidentally got a stray do than whatever they thought was you.
Sadly, Sgt. Long at age 29 is precisely the right age for paranoid schizophrenia to have blossomed following his Army discharge. If he was hanging out at FCHS becuase he suspected monitoring and interference of his mind, the odds get even better. If so, shooting him was considerably kinder than most prison insanity wards.
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Forget DARPA. This old hag controls the minds of millions of soft headed fembots with a simple TV show.
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Yeah, and don't think for one minute she can't see you while you're watching her or even if you're watching something else at some other time. Orwell said so. Picking your nose again? She knows.
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The Martian DJ, broadcasting to my molars, has moved from Lesley Gore to the Four Seasons.
[LIBYAOBSERVER.LY] Sources close to the Defend Benghazi Brigades (DBB) said their forces claimed control of Karkoura District on Saturday, which is situated about 60 km western Benghazi after they took hold of Al-Magroun district, 70 km western Benghazi, on Friday.
The sources added, according to Bushra Agency (The media arm of the DBB), that heavy festivities broke out Saturday between the DBB forces and Haftar’s militias, which forced the latter to pull out toward Gaminis town after some of their vehicles got destroyed and five of their fighters got killed.
In the meantime, Defend Benghazi Brigades’ forces are pursuing their progress and successful advances as they are heading now in the direction of Sloog and Gaminis, which are located at some 50 ‐ 40 kilometers successively.
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[NYTIMES] About 20 armed supporters of a incarcerated Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! opposition leader attacked a cop shoppe in Armenia's capital on Sunday, killing one officer, wounding four and taking several others hostage, police said.
The attackers demanded the release of Jirair Sefilian, who was tossed in the calaboose Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! last month, and the opposition group repeated its call for the government to resign.
Police cordoned off the area around the station in Yerevan's Erebuni district, bringing in armored vehicles and construction equipment to block the road, and said negotiations were being conducted with the assailants for them to give themselves up and release the hostages.
"If they don't listen to our appeal, we will neutralize them, because killers cannot be dealt with in any other way," said Armenia's deputy police chief, Unan Pogosian. "But for now we are continuing the negotiations."
He said the attackers killed Col. Artur Vanoyan and shot three other coppers and a police cameraman, while none of the attackers was maimed. The assailants allowed the maimed to be taken to hospitals but continued to hold six coppers hostage.
Their only demand was the release of Sefilian, according to the deputy police chief, who said this was out of the question.
An opposition member of parliament, Nikol Pashinian, who went to the station to meet with the attackers, urged both sides to exercise restraint. He said the attackers had combat experience from the war with neighboring Azerbaijan in the 1990s and "don't plan to retreat" if the cop shoppe is stormed.
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[GLOBALNEWS.CA] A Syrian government newspaper says the failed coup in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... was fabricated and aimed at tarnishing the reputation of the military.
The daily Al-Thawra said Sunday that the attempted coup was a plot by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... to "avenge the military and strip it of its remaining popular support."
It said police loyal to Erdogan "deliberately humiliated" the army in front of the people.
Erdogan is a strong backer of the holy warriors trying to remove Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... from power in neighboring Syria. The Syrian government views the rebels as terrorists.
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The ruling ANC takes the Obama lead in support of Erdogan. Birds of a feather, so to speak:
“South Africa supports democracy and the rule of law and we are of the firm view that the will of the people must be respected‚” the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) said in a statement. Link
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For certain, the coup was used by Erdogan to destroy Turkey's judicial system. With the army gone, the judiciary gone, the legislative system hamstrung, the press quashed, and the police under his control, Erdogan is now nothing less than Turkey's dictator.
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a lot of speculation on this but I see no way Erdogan could have coordinated this
he would have had to talk military types into doing things that would get them and their families and friends executed
just doesn't add up
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With some rather high-cost skin in the game with a critical [moderate Islamic] NATO member, faithful Russian antagonist, and nifty Incirlik Air Base. Did I mention moderate Islamic NATO member ?
It would seem even more odd that, if they did have some indication, even the slightest, that they would not have instantly alerted Erdogan. Tell me, how many thousands of people were involved in the plot again ?
Of course if they (USI) knew, false flag or no, the best thing to do would be to sit back and say nothing. No Embassy evacuation, no US Citizen warning, no evacuation of Insirlik, just claim ignorance and let the kabuki dance play out.
All that's gone missing is the ring leader. Ah yes, good old Fethullah Gülen, 'living the dream' in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania. Pakistani Dr. Shakil Afridi and filmmaker Nakoula Nakoula must be pounding their fists.
But unfortunately, USI knew nothing of the events unfolding.
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Erdogan wasted no time going after the judges, almost as if that was part of the plan all along. And I think Assad has more than luck to thank for being alive at this point. He's no stopped clock. He's no strong man like his daddy. But somehow he is still hanging in there.
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he would have had to talk military types into doing things that would get them and their families and friends executed
Unless 'someone' (or group) in the military/government said that he/they would strongly support them, but only as a ruse to get them to act.
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interesting hypothesis, but, if that were the case, many of the coup leaders would have signed orders or handwritten instructions or recorded conversations or, at least, recollections of someone telling them to attack parliament or take over half a bridge or whatever
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......recollections of someone telling them to attack parliament or take over half a bridge or whatever
They may have, although I don't believe we'd ever hear about it anymore. Erdogan and his operatives won't let anything like that see the light of day.
Will be interested in seeing what the 'detainees' in Greece have to say, though.
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More likely he knew it was coming and let it happen, so he could implement his purge.
Be interesting to see what he does with a tame military.
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Phil_B: Not just a Tame one, but without Secularism and a bunch of yes-men, a lame one as well. I expect Turkey's military ability to drastically decrease over the next 5 years and standards slip, enlistment drops, and vehicles break down with no expertise to fix it.
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With all the sympathetic lawyers arrested, when they start to drag all the military personnel through the courts, there will be noone left in the country willing to cross examine, question, or disprove the coup in court as a very obvious ruse (thanks Mullah Richard) or prevent very long jail terms of those arrested.
[DAWN] MUZAFFARABAD: Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... on Sunday stated the people of Pakistain will celebrate and distribute sweets if the army takes over in the country.
"Democracy in Pakistain is threatened by Nawaz's monarchy and the people will celebrate and distribute sweets if the army takes over," said Imran while addressing a public rally in Azad Kashmire.
The PTI chief added the people of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... supported Erdogan as he serves the people, while Nawaz has burdened the people with debt.
"In three years, Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... has burdened the people with billions in debt. Every Pak citizen has a debt of Rs120,000, which is increasing everyday."
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[DAWN] GHALANAI: A pro-government tribal elder was shot dead and his three companions were injured by gunmen in the Banglow area of Lower Mohmand Agency on Sunday. Witnesses said gunmen opened fire on the car of Malik Syal Jan Dadukhel while he was going home. He died on the spot while his three companions were injured.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: Protest rallies were taken out by two religious groups belonging to different schools of thought on M. A. Jinnah Road on Sunday on separate issues, which, besides sparking some tension, also created snarl-ups in the adjoining streets, officials and witnesses said.
The rallies were taken out by the Majlis-e-Wahdatul Moslemeen (MWM), and the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat ...which is the false nose and plastic mustache of the murderous banned extremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain, whatcha might call the political wing of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... (ASWJ), a banned outfit, in the areas which overlapped each other’s route on M.A. Jinnah Road.
Police officials guarding them said it was a challenge for them to provide security to these two rallies.
The MWM protest was against the alleged assassination'>assassination of members of the Shia community, terrorism in the country on the lam and against the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... The ASWJ protested against the Indian atrocities in India held Kashmire and recent terrorist attacks in the holy city of Madina.
The MWM took out its rally in which a large number of women and kiddies participated from Imambargah ...since Pakistain is very religiously correct, Shia Moslems can't call their houses of worship 'mosques,' which are reserved for Sunnis. It's not clear if imambargahs are used for explosives storage like mosques are... Shah Khorasan to Imambargah Ali Raza.
The route of the ASWJ rally was from Gurumandir to Taj Complex.
The administration had put up barricades in various streets connecting M. A. Jinnah Road to the rest of the city, which, eventually created a worst traffic jam and posed hardships to road users who, otherwise, were expecting smooth flow of traffic as it happens on Sundays.
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MANBIJ – The US-led coalition said that the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are moving towards the Manbij city centre, denying ISIS access to critical supply routes. This indicates that SDF forces are closing in on the last ISIS positions in the town.
“Coalition strikes on key targets halted Da’esh attempts to reinforce positions in the north, and severed a main resupply and reinforcement route Da’esh used to conduct vehicle-borne improvised explosive device attacks,” the coalition said.
“The continued pressure SAC is applying to Da’esh inside the city has enabled civilians to flee through the SAC perimeter and escape Da’esh control,” the coalition added.
According to the coalition the fight in Manbij still heavily continues, but the SDF forces are holding their defensive positions and launching offensive operations in north and south of the city. This despite multiple Da’esh attacks with VBIEDs, armored vehicles, and large formations of fighters.
Since the start of the operation on 31 May, the Coalition has conducted more than 400 strikes near Manbij.
According to the Coalition, the operations in Manbij continue to weaken Da’esh’s threat to Turkey, Europe, and the United States.
ISIS is planning their attacks on Europe from the Manbij border pocket, which includes the town of al-Bab.
According to reports, the ISIS planning of operations abroad are run by Abu Suleyman al-Firansi, who is living with his family in al-Bab, the site of the foreign intelligence headquarters of ISIS, and one of the future targets for the SDF after the operation in Manbij is over.
QUETTA: Security forces on Sunday claimed to have killed a militant during a security operation in Balochistan’s Kalat district.
Five suspected militants were also arrested during the operation, said Khan Wasay, spokesperson for the Frontier Corps (FC).
“An operation was conducted Nimargh area of Kalat district,” confirmed the FC spokesperson.
A cache of arms and ammunition was also recovered from the possession of the miscreants, added Wasay. “The dead and arrested militants belonged to an banned organisation.” Said Wasay.
The arrested militants were shifted to an undisclosed location for interrogation. The arrested militants were involved in attacks on security forces and vital national installations.
Militants have conducted attacks against security forces and national installations in Balochistan, which has been plagued by an insurgency and growing sectarian killings for more than a decade.
[DAWN] QUETTA: Four Paks were among about 30 people killed in a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... air strike in Afghanistan’s Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province two days ago, according to sources.
They said NATO planes attacked a convoy of drug smugglers late on Friday night when they were crossing a desert north of Band Timor, near the Pak-Afghan border, with a large quantity of drugs that they intended to smuggle into Iran through Chagai district.
Chagai Deputy Commissioner Qadir Parkani confirmed the incident on Sunday, saying that four Paks had been killed in the air strike.
Reports from across the border said the bodies of most victims were charred beyond recognition.
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[LIBYAOBSERVER.LY] The media bureau of Al-Bunyan Al-Marsoos military operation said Friday it had advanced into Ouagadougou Conference Halls, Ibn Sina Hospital, and Al-Jeeza Military Zone in Sirte, where Is hard boyz are holing up as their last hideouts in the city, pointing out that the Misrata-led forces did not position themselves in those locations as there is still some resistance and because they remain a clear target for IS snipers.
The media bureau also confirmed on its Facebook page that the Misrata-led forces set three IS vehicles on fire by targeting them as they were driving toward the forces on the frontline, explaining that they also took control of the Researches Station and other locations in Sirte city center.
"Tens of IS hard boyz were killed during the festivities in Ouagadougou, Ibn Sina Hospital, and Al-Jeeza." It added.
A medical source from Al-Bunyan Al-Marsoos operation room confirmed that 17 of their fighters were killed in all fight axes in Sirte and more than 145 others were maimed, adding that a number of the injured fighters received cure at the field hospital in Al-Thaheir district in western Sirte, then they returned to the frontlines.
Clashes in Sirte broke anew Friday dawn in the vicinity of Ibn Sina Hospital, Ouagadougou Conference Halls, and Al-Jeeza military zone, but the Misrata-led forces have not yet announced full grip on them despite closing in on IS hard boyz in there.
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[NYPOST] President B.O. pledged to "destroy" ISIS following the heinous terror attack at a Bastille Day celebration in La Belle France -- and used remarks to diplomats at the White House to defend his own legacy. Yeah, yeah. Whoopdy do. If he meant it, he'd have done it already.
"We cannot give in to fear or turn on each other or sacrifice our way of life. We cannot let ourselves be divided by religion, because that’s exactly what the faceless myrmidons want," Obama said, pledging to be "vigilant" in defending security and liberty.
Obama urged the gathered diplomatic corps "to step back and reflect on what we are doing to eliminate this kind of chronic violence."
But sensing the end of his presidency, Obama pivoted to focus on legacy items he wants to be remembered by and not the terror acts that have become a near weekly occurrence.
"I want to thank so many of your countries for the partnership that we have forged, and the progress that we have achieved together over the past eight years: in rescuing the global economy and securing vulnerable nuclear materials, a comprehensive deal to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, halting the spread of Ebola and thereby saving countless lives..." Obama said.
"And through the efforts of many of you, we have continued to try to move beyond old conflicts supporting the transition to democracy in Burma, forging a new partnership in Vietnam, deepening our new chapter of engagement with the Cuban people, helping to support efforts in Colombia to end decades long-conflict. That’s the power of diplomacy."
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"They're wearing the Varsity's jerseys from last year fer Chrissakes!"
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"And through the efforts of many of you, we have continued to try to move beyond old conflicts supporting the transition to democracy in Burma, forging a new partnership in Vietnam, deepening our new chapter of engagement with the Cuban people, helping to support efforts in Colombia to end decades long-conflict. That’s the power of diplomacy."
hmmm - that's the power of WTF? Oh Oh Ohh new tech nomenclature coming up...
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[BALTIMORESUN] Sixty-five people were enjugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! on Saturday after participants in a march against police brutality blocked Interstate 83 just north of downtown Baltimore.
The arrests created a chaotic scene around Penn Station, where thousands milled around for the annual Baltimore Artscape festival.
The march, which was named and tagged on social media as "Afromation," began at Guilford Avenue and Chase Street, moved through Artscape on Charles Street, then to St. Paul Street and past Penn Station to the I-83 onramp, which was closed for the festival.
"Once on the interstate, they locked arms and blocked traffic along the northbound lanes for a short period of time before officers arrived and began making arrests," Baltimore police front man Lt. Jarron Jackson said in an email.
Fifty-five adults and 10 juveniles were arrested. Police said those arrested will be charged with failure to obey and illegally walking on a highway.
Processing was still continuing at midnight, police said.
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The Primary job of the government is to protect OUR Liberties, and freedom of movement is one of those. If you allow protestors to infringe on MY right of movement and passage, I should arrest those Police.
Emergency service and my bladder need access to the venue and the fake protest movement needs to be traced back to the fake protest leader soros, and you should go all "Law and Order" on that fucking foreign terror organizer for all the destruction and death he has caused across this World.
With all he has stirred up, he is guilty of plenty of Murders and mayhem. He should face the death penalty.
The idiot French should have already pulled him in.
Someone better fast or I will allow your stupid governments to share in the suit for collusion.
There is NO EXCUSE for this fucker bitch to be walking free right now and all of you taking money from him will be remembered and documented.
[LIBYAOBSERVER.LY] A number of protesters affiliated with the Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG) shut down Al-Hariga oil port in Tobruk city in protest of delay of salary payment.
The front man of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), Mohammed Al-Harari, said the number of the protesters does not exceed 30 people, who came to Tobruk on Wednesday and shut down the oil port and thus it has stopped the exportation of oil process.
"We are doing some effort to solve this problem, some elders from Tobruk and some officials from Al-Khaleej Al-Arabi Oil Company are trying to reopen the oil port so that they avoid the country a possible economic melt-down." Al-Harari indicated.
Al-Harari added that shutting down Al-Hariga oil port will lead to tragic problems in the Libyan economy, saying there are two ships which were denied access to oil output, and he pointed out that he hopes that all parties solve this entangled issue as soon as possible as any more delay could cost huge fines on the Libyan firms.
"Libya’s oil exportation is almost at 220 bpd and shutting down Al-Hariga oil port could diminish the output into its half, not to mention that it will affect Tobruk refinery station as crude oil will stop to be pumped into it." Al-Harari concluded.
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The minister charged with securing new trade deals for Britain outside the EU said Sunday he was aiming for a Brexit date of January 1, 2019, as London made overtures towards Australia and Canada.
"That's the date I'm working to, which could be brought forward if necessary," International Trade Secretary Liam Fox told the Sunday Times newspaper.
This would involve triggering Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty, which would start a two-year clock running on Britain's exit from the bloc, by the end of this year.
Before taking office last week following the June 23 vote for Britain to leave the EU, Prime Minister Theresa May indicated she would invoke Article 50 early next year.
Fox revealed that he had opened "very fruitful" trade talks with Canada on Friday, and was reported to be heading to the United States next week.
May also discussed a trade agreement with Australia in a phone call with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Saturday, her Downing Street office said. Turnbull had expressed his desire for a free trade deal as soon as possible, the statement said.
May had campaigned for Britain to stay in the EU in the referendum but says she will make Brexit "a success".
"One of the ways we will do this is by embracing the opportunities to strike free trade deals with our partners across the globe," she said in the statement.
"It is very encouraging that one of our closest international partners is already seeking to establish just such a deal."
Britain cannot sign trade deals until it legally leaves the EU, but Fox said he would line up agreements for the day Brexit comes into force.
EU leaders are pressing for a quick divorce, but May has urged them to give her time.
One point of delay may be Scotland, which voted to stay in the EU while England and Wales voted to leave, and is threatening independence as a way of staying in the bloc. After talks on Friday with Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, the leader of the secessionist Scottish National Party, May said she wanted a common British position.
"I won't be triggering Article 50 until I think that we have a UK approach and objectives," May told reporters.
Sturgeon told the BBC on Sunday that this "puts Scotland now in a very, very strong position" to influence events.
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I wonder what the EUcrats will sling at Britain between now and then? Try to ruin them, or keep them? Personally I think this is too long, a year sooner would be much better.
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[NTA.NG] Yesterday evening remnants of Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... forces of Evil in their numbers attacked our troops location at Rann, Kala Balge Local Government Area of Borno State.
The forces of Evil came with Motorcycles Borne Improvised Explosive Devices (MCBIED), Anti-Aircraft Guns and other weapons at about 5.00pm and the exchange of fire lasted for some hours before they were overwhelmed by the troops firepower.
Unfortunately, one of the terrorists’ jacket wallahlet 'er rip at a gun truck killing the driver and the gunner. The truck and the mounted weapon were also damaged beyond repairs. In addition 2 soldiers were maimed in action while 3 others sustained minor injuries.
The troops killed 7 of the attackers instantly while quite a number escaped with gun shot wounds. During clearance operations this morning, the troops discovered 9 more Boko Haram forces of Evil dead bodies in the surrounding areas.
Therefore the total number of forces of Evil killed was 16.
The troops also recovered a General Purpose Machine Gun, Rocket Propelled Grenade, ammunitions and captured 2 of the forces of Evil alive.
The bodies of the 2 fallen heroes and the maimed in action soldiers have been evacuated to Maiduguri, while reinforcement was sent from Gomboru Ngala.
In a related development, troops have also discovered and safely detonated 2 Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) planted along Gomboru-Rann road. It is believed that the IEDs were planted yesterday to prevent troops reinforcement to Rann while the attack lasted.
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[AlAhram] A group that monitors online Lion of Islam activity says Al-Qaeda's North Africa branch has reported the death of a commander in Mali.
The SITE Intelligence Group on Sunday quoted a statement from Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb saying Abu Bakr al-Shinqiti was killed during a raid on a Malian army barracks near the border with Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... . SITE said he was Tunisian.
The statement did not specify the date or location of the raid, nor did it report any Malian casualties.
On July 10, an official in Mali's Koro region near the Burkina Faso border said unidentified gunnies had killed two Malian soldiers in a raid on a military checkpoint.
Northern Mali was occupied in 2012 by Al-Qaeda and other jihadist groups before a French-led military operation drove them from cities and towns.
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The US-led coalition against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) group has resumed air strikes from a Turkish air base that were suspended after a failed military coup d'etat, the Pentagon said on Sunday.
"After close coordination with our Turkish allies, they have reopened their airspace to military aircraft," Pentagon front man Peter Cook said in a statement.
"As a result, counter-ISIS coalition air operations at all air bases in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... have resumed," he added, using an acronym for the IS group.
"US facilities at Incirlik are still operating on internal power sources, but we hope to restore commercial power soon. Base operations have not been affected."
The Turkish authorities on Saturday imposed a security lockdown at the Incirlik air base in the southern province of Adana used by US and other coalition forces in the fight against jihadists in Syria and Iraq.
The government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... on Saturday put down the bloody coup attempt, but it raised concerns in the West about the stability of the country and its continued role in the anti-IS coalition.
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[BALTIMORESUN] An armed man suspected in a recent rape took four people hostage -- including a 7-year-old girl -- inside a Baltimore Burger King after evading police Sunday, authorities said.
Officers tried to stop the suspect, whom police did not name, to serve him an arrest warrant on the northwest side of the city about 11 a.m., when he sped off and led police on a chase to Washington Boulevard and South Monroe Street near Carroll Park, police said.
The man crashed into another car at the intersection about 11:30 a.m. and ran inside the fast food restaurant, where he barricaded himself and the hostages, police said.
The driver of the other vehicle sustained minor injuries, police said.
Tactical units lined up, guns drawn, along the restaurant's exterior wall. An officer with an assault rifle ordered people to clear Carroll Park. Police taped off the scene of the crime a block away, and the Foxtrot helicopter unit circled overhead.
The owner of the Burger King franchise paced anxiously along the police line. He declined to be interviewed.
"Our ultimate goal is to end this peacefully for all parties," Baltimore Police Department chief front man T.J. Smith said. "We have our negotiators on scene. We have our SWAT team on scene. We've cordoned off the area for safety purposes."
The restaurant is located in the 1700 block of Washington Boulevard. Police asked motorists to avoid the area.
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An officer with an assault rifle ordered people to clear Carroll Park.
Methinks, WTF, then checks the dateline. OOOH, the Baltimore Sun.
[NYTIMES] A man suspected of robbing people at gunpoint in Brooklyn was fatally shot on Sunday by New York City coppers after exchanging gunfire with them, the authorities said.
The police responded shortly before 8 a.m. to multiple 911 calls that a man with a gun had robbed at least two people on Debevoise Avenue near Maspeth Avenue in the East Williamsburg neighborhood, the police said.
Officers arrived and encountered the man, described as being in his 30s, who was armed with a .40-caliber pistol, at the Cooper Park Houses, Assistant Chief Jeffrey Maddrey, the Police Department’s commander for Brooklyn North, said during a news conference near the scene.
The man, whose identity Sherlocks had yet to confirm, started shooting at the officers, firing at least five shots, Chief Maddrey said. He said that Sherlocks believed that the officers, who were not identified, fired between 12 and 15 shots, striking the man twice.
The man was taken to Woodhull Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. He's dead, Jim! No officers were maimed, the police said. The .40-caliber handgun was recovered at the scene, the police said.
The shooting comes after two recent shootings by coppers in Brooklyn in about a week.
A 39-year-old man was killed on Monday by coppers responding to a call of a home invasion in the Gravesend neighborhood; the police said the man raised a revolver when he encountered the officers after fleeing the home. And last Sunday, a 31-year-old man, who was described by the authorities as armed and acting erratically on the street in the Prospect-Lefferts Gardens neighborhood, was struck by police gunfire in the hip.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. arrived in Rwanda on Saturday to attend a summit of African leaders, defying an international warrant for his arrest after public assurances from Rwandan leaders that he would not be nabbed Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! The African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... summit on Sunday is expected to discuss the continent’s uneasy relationship with the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... , which some say unfairly targets Africans.
Ahead of the summit, some African countries renewed efforts to quit the ICC enmasse despite the opposition of some countries like Botswana. Nigeria, Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... and Ivory Coast have been pushing back as well in recent days. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has led growing criticism of the ICC, calling it "useless" during his inauguration in May, an event that al-Bashir attended.
Some countries want a separate African court with jurisdiction over rights abuses. "Withdrawal from ICC is entirely within the illusory sovereignty of a particular state," Joseph Chilengi, an AU official, told news hounds Saturday.
Al-Bashir is wanted by the ICC for alleged atrocities in the country’s Darfur region. He should be at the ICC answering to charges that include genocide, "not persisting in this game of cat-and-mouse with the court," Elise Keppler of Human Rights Watch ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... said Saturday night.
Rwandan Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo said this week that Rwanda would not arrest al-Bashir. "Africa doesn’t support criminals, but when justice is involved with a lot of politics we take a pause to separate the two," Mushikiwabo told news hounds.
The African Union summit also will discuss South Sudan, where clashing army factions raised concerns of a return to civil war. The chaos threatens a peace deal signed last August between President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar. United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... Chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon, who is attending the summit, has called for an arms embargo.
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[Tass] Two policemen were injured while chasing a criminal in Dagestan, a source in Dagestan's Interior Ministry said. He said, "According to preliminary reports, policemen in the city of Derbent tried to detain a criminal who opened a fire at them from a car. Two policemen were wounded."
A law enforcement source in Derbent said that the police were searching for a car from which the shots at the policemen had been fired.
Two 2 people, including a government soldiers are reported to have been killed and 3 others wounded in a shooting spree near Mahaday in southern Somalia.
I have no clue where that is. Ask Siri...
Siri sez it's in southern Somalia.
A witness told Radio Shabelle man armed with AK-47 riffle has opened fire indiscriminately on crowd in a cafe at Burane area. Three people, two of them civilians are said to have been critically wounded in the shooting spree at Burane and taken to a hospital for medical treatment.
The motive behind the shooting, and identity of the gunman is unclear, but police forces cordoned off the scene, conducted an investigation for the suspect. The killer has managed to escape the area, shortly before security forces arrived, according the eyewitness account.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Regarding the treacherous terrorist attack in the city of Nice, La Belle France’s president talked of "radical Islam." But what does he really mean? Sunni and Shiite terrorism are similar.
With the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claiming responsibility for carrying out the attack, which involved running over people by using a truck, we must be aware that Hezbollah has used similar tactics in the past. A Hezbollah leader once spoke about how gunnies can use vehicles to run over people and noted how the murderer would be smiling because he was going to paradise.
Terrorism goes beyond religion and sect ‐ a murderer is a murderer, whether he is sent by Baghdadi, to Bin Laden, Nasrallah or Mughniyah.
Terrorism is one entity where only proofs and arguments differ. The late al-Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden ... who doesn't live anywhere anymore... adopted Hezbollah’s method of blowing up buildings and burning embassies in the 1980s, as well as liquidations with the help of the late Imad Mughniyah, who was a senior Hezbollah figure.
Solution The main idea is to establish a moderate Islamic culture that rejects all these groups. But this cannot be achieved only through international cooperation and strong leadership in the war against terrorism.
In Europe, where freedom to express sometimes even allows dangerous holy warrior discourse, it can become a breeding ground. So what can governments do to monitor them?
It’s a tragedy and a great catastrophe that this ugly attack was carried out with the help of a vehicle but the tactic was first used by Hezbollah and copied perfectly by ISIS.
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[Ynet] Discussing why more and more women are carrying out terror attacks, the rocky political situation in the Gazoo Strip, and multi-lateral cooperation to stop deadly attacks were all featured in Shin Bet Chief Nadav Argaman's report to the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee last week.
Shin Bet Chief Nadav Argaman revealed last week that there have been more than 40 women who carried out or attempted to carry out terror attacks in the recent wave of terror. Almost every single one of the women was doing it to restore familial honor, and in some of the attacks, male members of the family brought the women to the site of the attack.
Argaman claims that these women are being sent to their deaths to atone for something they've done and to bring honor back to the family, along with money from the Paleostinian Authority.
The head of the Shin Bet made these statements at his first situation report to the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee last week. According to the information he presented, the crests of the wave of terror were connected to tensions on the Temple Mount. He warned that if things heat up on the Temple Mount, a new wave of terror might break. Argaman also added that Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, is having a strategic crisis, and is unwilling to have a war at this time. He noted that there is wide ranging security cooperation with the Paleostinians, and the PA is working intensively against Hamas in the West Bank. Moreover, the Shin Bet director highlighted the importance of giving Israeli work permits to Paleostinians in the West Bank, and said that these permits help calm the situation and prevent attacks. There are 120,000 Paleostinians who work in Israel either legally or illegally, and these workers provide for one third of the Paleostinians in the West Bank.
Another point Argaman reported; the Shin Bet and Israeli security services prevented 240 major terror attacks Between January and May 2016 including stopping 11 jacket wallahs, 10 kidnapping attempts, and more than 60 attacks similar to the attack at Sarona Market. Most of the attacks were planned by Hamas.
Since the most recent wave of terror began in October 2015, there have been over 300 attacks (not including Molotov cocktail attacks) of which 180 were stabbing attacks, more than 90 were shooting attacks, and about 30 were car ramming attacks. The majority of these attacks were carried out by lone wolves. Argaman went on to say that the reason for the decrease in the number of attacks over the past month is due to ‐ amongst other things ‐ the high number of attacks which were preemptively prevented, and a higher level of deterrence against lone wolf attackers.
Nevertheless, despite the decrease in the number of attacks, the number of threats coming out of the West Bank is larger than before the escalation, a trend which points to the fact that the situation in the West Bank is highly combustible..
According to the report, Argaman also said that there is a feeling in the West Bank that the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... 's time as a leader is coming to an end, and that there is a currently a transitional period taking place towards a new leadership. In regards to Gazoo, Argaman says that the quiet being felt in that area is misleading He also said that due to the economic and civil situation in Gazoo, there is growing dissatisfaction with the Hamas leadership. However, a woman is only as old as she admits... despite the public criticism, the Shin Bet doesn't believe that there will be a public uprising against Hamas due to fear of the organization, due to the people's financial dependence on the organization, and due to the fact that the only other group with the manpower and resources to effectively rule the Strip is ISIS, a group which the residents of Gazoo don't.
[Hurriyet] A crackdown on the military and the judiciary in the wake of a failed coup attempt has led to the detention of thousands of soldiers and judges and prosecutors, including commanders and top court members. Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ on July 17 said around 6,000 suspects, including at least 2,839 soldiers and thousands of judiciary members, have been detained as part of a wide-scale operation launched following the deadly coup attempt initiated by a group of soldiers late on July 15.
“There are currently around 6,000 detentions. It will surpass 6,000. The legal process on these will continue,” said Bozdağ.
Suspects are being charged with “membership of an armed terrorist organization” and “attempting to overthrow the government of the Turkish Republic using force and violence or attempting to completely or partially hinder its function.”
The Ankara Governor's Office also announced on July 17 that 149 constables were suspended from their duties for having links to the coup attempt.
The arrest warrants target two members of the Constitutional Court, Alparslan Altan and Erdal Tercan, 48 members of the Council of State, and 140 members of the Supreme Court of Appeals. The detention of 2,745 judicial and administrative judges and prosecutors was ordered after they were suspended from duty by the Supreme Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) early on June 16.
Many commanders have also been detained and some of them were later arrested.
[AlAhram] Eight Turkish military officers who fled to Greece by helicopter after a failed coup were charged on Sunday by a prosecutor with illegal entry and violating Greek airspace, their lawyer said. The men, who have sought asylum in Greece, arrived by military helicopter on Saturday after sending a distress signal to authorities at the airport in the northern city of Alexandroupolis. They were prosecuted for illegal entry into Greece, their lawyer, Ilia Marinaki said, adding that they will appear in court on Monday. She added that they remained under arrest and had not made contact with their families.
The asylum seekers insist they took no part in the putsch and fled to Greece to save their lives "when coppers started shooting against them". Marinaki added that the soldiers -- all married and in their forties -- feared for the safety of themselves and their families.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Ankara had asked Athens to send the officers, including two majors, back following Friday night's challenge to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... 's rule by discontented soldiers in which more than 250 people died.
Erdogan spoke late on Saturday by phone with the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and thanked him for his stance during the failed uprising, according to Greek government sources. Tsipras had early Saturday expressed his "support for the democratically elected" Turkish government.
According to Athens News Agency, the Greek Prime Minister told Erdogan that the procedure for the Turkish asylum seekers will be swift but in line with international law and human rights treaties. ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... Greek government sources estimate that the procedure will take up to two weeks.
Early Sunday, the Blackhawk helicopter the asylum seekers had used was flown back to Turkey.
[Ynet] France's foreign minister said on Sunday that questions needed to be asked on whether Turkey was a viable partner in the fight against ISIS in Syria.
"There are questions that are being asked and we will ask them. It (Turkey) is partly viable, but there are suspicions as well. Let's be honest about this," Jean-Marc Ayrault told France 3 television. He said he would raise the issue at meeting of the anti-Islamic state coalition in Washington next week.
[Ynet] A Turkish official says more than 190 citizens, most of them military, and more than 1,400 people were wounded in Friday's failed coup attempt. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with government rules, said the fatalities excluded "terrorists" in reference to those who acted against the government. At last count, government officials said at least 104 conspirators were killed in the unrest.
[IsraelTimes] A top military aide of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was taken into custody on Sunday after Friday’s attempted coup, state-run news agency Anadolu reported. Ali Yazici is accused of involvement in the coup plot and was in Ankara during the putsch, CNN-Turk says. He had only begun working for the president in August last year, according to Anadolu.
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An indication that this coup was a set-up from the beginning was the fact that no leader or circle of leadership emerged from the outset. Without a charismatic leader -- even if one has to be created -- the people will not rally to the rebels. If it was an inside job, it is quite likely our intelligence apparatchiks were out to lunch.
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disclaimer: I've never successfully staged a coup in a medium-sized country
Seems to me, if your coup fails in a matter of hours, you are doing it wrong. A couple general rules:
1) get a lot of people on your side. The more the merrier
2) Snatch or whack Dear Leader and his closes minions
3) Take over the media.
The army has done this a couple of times to keep Turkey from turning into Yet Another Islamic Sh!t-hole. Those guys are purged so there is no organizational memory, but the young bloods have at least seen the plays run.
Personally, the whole thing smells a bit Reichstag-ish, what with the quick failure of the plot and the equally quick removal of judges in the aftermath, the fact a rebel F-16 could have engaged Erdy's plane.
And no, I don't think the US was involved. Kerry and his merry band of dwarves couldn't overthrow lunch, while the CIA is busy hunting Islamophobes.
"But it can't be a set-up!", you say. "What about all the dead people?", you ask. Stop thinking like a Westerner, I retort.
From a few days ago. It looks like this time he really is dead.
[AnNahar] The family of one of the most notorious 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.... jihadist group commanders, Omar al-Shishani, on Friday received condolences from locals in his home village in ex-Soviet Georgia, apparently confirming reports of his death.
Dozens of mourners flocked to the house of Shishani's brother Tengiz Batirashvili in the village of Birkiani, telling AFP there was no doubt of the death of the warlord nicknamed "Omar the Chechen."
Amaq, a news service linked to the Islamic State group, announced this week that Shishani died while defending djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , the principal city held by IS in Iraq.
The Pentagon on Thursday acknowledged targeting Shishani in an Arclight airstrike near Mosul on Sunday, but stopped short of confirming his death.
"Tarkhan made a mistake and took a wrong path but his death is a tragedy nevertheless," Natia Tsatiashvili, a Birkiani resident, told AFP, using Shishani's real name.
"I watched him growing up and will always remember him as a quiet and kind young man," she said.
Shishani was born Tarkhan Batirashvili in the village in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge which is inhabited by Moslem Kists, descendants of Chechens who migrated to Georgia in the 19th century.
His nom-de-guerre means "the Chechen" in Arabic and he was among dozens of Kists reportedly fighting in Syria and Iraq for the IS group.
"Tarkhan was my sworn brother, I am sure that he couldn't have committed an atrocity," said another villager, Beslan Margoshvili. "His death brings grief to the whole of Pankisi."
A hardened fighter with a distinctive bushy red beard, Shishani had been in the crosshairs of U.S. officials who portrayed him as an experienced warlord and a kind of "minister of war" within the Islamic State group.
The United States put a $5 million bounty on his head.
Shishani has been wrongly reported dead numerous times before, most recently in March when the Pentagon said he had been killed in Syria.
The coalition against the Islamic State has mounted a campaign to eliminate the top commanders of the jihadist group.
President Barack Obama I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody... 's anti-Islamic State envoy Brett McGurk recently said that the coalition was killing them at a rate of one every three days.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Israel on Sunday fired missiles towards an unmanned drone that entered Israeli-controlled airspace from Syria and it turned back, the military said in a statement.
"Two Patriot air defense missiles were fired towards a drone which infiltrated Israeli airspace in the central Golan Heights. The drone returned to Syria," the Israeli army said.
A military spokeswoman said there were no known casualties.
Israel has often responded to errant mortar fire from the civil war in neighboring Syria on the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights with tank and mortar shells and with air strikes, but the use of Patriot anti-aircraft interceptor missiles is unusual.
A Syrian rebel source in the area said the Syrian army had launched a rare air raid on al-Shajara village along the Jordanian border. The village, which is also close to the Israeli frontier, is held by the Shuhada al-Yarmouk group, who are thought to be ISIS affiliates.
Though formally neutral on the civil war, Israel has frequently pledged to prevent shipments of advanced weaponry to Leb’s Iranian-backed Hezbollah group, whose fighters have been allied with Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... Two months ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had launched dozens of strikes in Syria.
The Golan Heights is a strategic plateau that Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Middle East, and annexed in a move that has not won international recognition.
[IsraelTimes] Hezbollah-linked Lebanese fighter Anes al-Naqqash says in a tweet the drone shot at by Israel was sent by the Shiite terror group.
Naqqash says the drone had just begun photographing army maneuvers in the Golan when it was shot at and turned back, in a tweet flagged by Yossi Mansharof, an expert from the Ezri Center at the University of Haifa, who tracks Hezbollah movement.
Naqqash says the drone returned safely.
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Slow and small evident. Might be the rare target a Sargent York would be good at hitting, but a land based version of the 5"/38 would be used for other things.
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The Debka (yes, salt, lotsa salt added) take was that it was a Russian drone taking a long look at an IDF exercise that started on June 16. Someone decided that the drone had to be dropped so out came the big guns to make a statement.
Not clear that the AFP reporter actually talked with Gulen or just assembled snips from other newspapers that did...
The US-based cleric that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says is behind an attempted military coup in Turkey has denied any involvement, suggesting that the coup could have been staged by the president himself. Erdogan has accused Gulen, a reclusive Muslim cleric living in self-imposed exile in a mountain town in Pennsylvania, of being behind Friday's bloody putsch attempt. He wants Washington to extradite Gulen to Turkey.
The 75-year-old Gulen was once a close Erdogan ally but the two fell out in recent years as the Turkish president became suspicious of Gulen's movement, Hizmet, and its powerful presence in Turkish society, including in the media, police and judiciary.
Gulen condemned the military uprising "in the strongest terms" shortly after the coup attempt began late Friday. And in a rare meeting Saturday with a small group of reporters at his compound in the town of Saylorsburg, in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, Gulen rejected charges of being the coup mastermind.
"I don't know who my followers are," Gulen said when asked if any of his backers were involved in the coup attempt, according to The New York Times.
"Since I do not know these individuals, I cannot speak of their potential involvement. It could be something from the opposition or nationalists. I have been away from Turkey for 30 years and have not been following this."
Gulen moved to the United States in 1999, before he was charged with treason in Turkey. He has since led a secluded life in Pennsylvania and rarely makes public appearances.
"There is a possibility that it could be a staged coup and it could be meant for further accusations" against Gulen and Hizmet members, the preacher said, according to The Guardian.
Gulen said that he rejects all military interventions and fully supports a government that emerges from free and fair elections.
"After military coups in Turkey," he said, according to The Guardian, "I have been pressured and I have been imprisoned. I have been tried and faced various forms of harassment."
Now that Turkey "is on the path to democracy, it cannot turn back," he said.
Erdogan appealed to President Barack Obama in a Saturday speech to extradite the "man who lives in Pennsylvania" to Turkey.
"The United States -- you must extradite that person," he told thousands of supporters in Istanbul on Saturday, without referring to Gulen by name.
Secretary of State John Kerry, traveling in Luxembourg, said that Washington has not received any formal extradition request. Washington has invited the Turkish government "to present us with any legitimate evidence that withstands scrutiny and the United States will accept that and look at it and make judgements about it appropriately," Kerry said.
The Guardian asked Gulen if he would have returned to Turkey had the coup succeeded.
"Indeed, I miss my homeland a lot," Gulen said. "But there is another important factor, which is freedom. I am here, away from the political troubles in Turkey and I live with my freedom."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Opposition-controlled parts of Syria’s battered northern city Aleppo are now completely besieged, a monitor and a rebel group said Sunday, after government forces severed the last route out of the east.
Regime fighters are now on the Castello Road and have fully cut it, said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. “The eastern neighborhoods are now completely besieged,” he told AFP.
The army had advanced on July 7 to within firing range of the key supply route but had not reached the road itself. “Aleppo is now 100-percent besieged,” a rebel fighter from the Aleppo Revolutionaries group told AFP.
“The army has reached the road and even arrested a group of civilians who were walking there,” the fighter said. “They are now setting up sandbag barriers,” he said. AFP’s correspondent in one eastern rebel-controlled neighborhood said the distant sound of clashes could be heard.
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[ARA News] KOBANE – Clashes renewed on Sunday between Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) and militants of the Islamic State (ISIS) in the countryside of Kobane in Syria’s northern Aleppo province, military sources reported.
At least 20 ISIS militants were killed, including the jihadi commander Abu Firas al-Safwani, at the hands of the YPG fighters near the Tishreen Dam in the southwestern countryside of Kobane.
“ISIS militants first attacked a YPG security centre south of Kobane by mortar fire. The attacked caused the death of five of our fighters and injured several others,” a spokesman for the YPG told ARA News on Sunday.
“Then clashes broke out between our forces and ISIS militants in the vicinity of Tishreen Dam. We were eventually able to repel the attack after killing more than 20 militants, including the prominent ISIS jihadi leader Abu Firas al-Safwani,” the Kurdish official said.
[AlAhram] The Tunisian who rammed a truck into Bastille Day crowds in Nice, killing 84 people, sent a text message just before the attack about the supply of weapons, a source close to the investigation said Sunday. In the message, 31-year-old Mohammed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel "expresses satisfaction at having obtained a 7.65mm pistol and discusses the supply of other weapons", the source said. The driver, who was rubbed out by police after his deadly rampage, took pictures of himself at the wheel that he shared by SMS, the source added.
Over 200 Sherlocks are working on identifying the recipients of the messages, one of the officers told AFP.
Six people are still being held for questioning over the third major attack in La Belle France since January 2015. Among the six is a 38-year-old Albanian, who was jugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! on Sunday morning on suspicion of supplying the pistol that Lahouaiej-Bouhlel used to fire at police trying to block his route. Police later found the gun in the truck, along with two replica assault rifles and a dummy grenade.
Lahouaiej-Bouhlel's estranged wife was released on Sunday after two days of questioning.
[IsraelTimes] French police on Sunday arrested a man and a woman with ties to the man behind a truck ramming attack claimed by the Islamic State group, a judicial source said.
At least 10 children and adolescents were among the dead in Nice as well as tourists from the United States, Russia, Ukraine, Switzerland and Germany. A spokeswoman for the city’s pediatric hospital said 16 bodies had not yet been identified. Five children and 21 adults remained in a critical condition and were among 121 people still hospitalized, the French health ministry said.
[IsraelTimes] After Nice attack kills 84, Interior Minister Cazeneuve calls on young citizens to become reservists, help defend the country. French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve on Saturday called on young citizens to become reservists and help boost security forces in the wake of the country’s latest terror attack. France’s “operational reservists” include French citizens with or without military experience as well as former soldiers.
“I want to call on all French patriots who wish to do so, to join this operational reserve,” said Cazeneuve.
French President Francois Hollande said Friday that the new reservists would be called upon to boost the ranks of police and gendarmes.
Details of how to become a reservist were swiftly posted on the national gendarmerie’s website. Volunteers must be between 17 and 30 years of age, have the right physical and moral aptitude and undergo military training. They will only be required during the summer period, while the regular reservists are on holiday, said Cazeneuve.
The operational reserve is currently made up of 12,000 volunteers, 9,000 of whom are within the paramilitary police and 3,000 in the regular police force, said Cazeneuve. He said the number of security forces deployed to protect the population was nearly 100,000, including 53,000 police, 36,000 para-military police and 10,000 soldiers.
Tunisian attacker Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel visited the Nice promenade with his rented truck on the two days before he rammed the vehicle into a crowd, killing 84, a source close to the investigation said Sunday.
Contradicting family claims, some witnesses say Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, 31, had shown signs of being religious.
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Paris urges Frenchmen to join security forces...great but I have got to wonder how many applicants named Mohammed can be refused employment...... because "Diversitee!!!!"
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“I want to call on all French patriots who wish to do so, to join this operational reserve,”
Because a well-equipped militia of able-bodied citizens is necessary to the security of a free state? Ya know, for a bunch of dead white guys, our Founders had a pretty good handle on how to run a nation.
Sunday night was just the most recent example this year of President Obama asking Congress to authorize his use of military force to fight the Islamic State.
Obama has been calling for Congress to get behind his limited military action in Iraq and Syria for more than a year now; he even sent a draft of an authorization of use of military force — or AUMF in D.C. parlance — over to Congress back in February.
There are some lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who agree with Obama that Congress needs to vote one way or the other. It's the legislative branch's constitutional duty, they say.
But the president's draft is collecting dust on Capitol Hill, and his pleas are falling on party leaders whose minds are already made up not to act. That's because lawmakers have little to gain but plenty to lose by voting on whether to authorize military force that is, oh by the way, already underway and progressing with or without their say-so.
Here are three big reasons why:
1. Both sides have something to dislike about it. Should the U.S. only focus on taking out Islamic State? What about Syrian President Bashar al-Assad? Is what Obama wants too expansive or too narrow? Bringing up an AUMF for a vote would most certainly invite a messy debate about expiration dates, boots on the ground, drones, the legacy of the Iraq War — all without the guarantee anything would get passed. In other words, even as Congress seems to be okay with Obama's actual use of force, coming up with a specific use of force resolution that assuages concerns of and satisfies both sides would be a difficult trick.
2. Who wins the White House in 11 months is very much an open-ended question, and that's a disincentive for both parties to avoid this whole AUMF debate. For Democrats, what good is handing over authority to engage in Iraq and Syria if the next president is a Republican? For Republicans, what good is it giving Obama wide latitude to fight terrorism when their presidential candidates are on the campaign trail every day criticizing the president's effectiveness? With just 40 percent of the public approving of Obama's handling of terrorism of late, according to a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll taken in the days after the attacks in Paris, Republicans have a solid political argument to make for why they should be in the White House. A Republican Congress voting to expand Obama's powers to fight the Islamic State might deflate that and/or change the course of an issue that isn't helping his party.
And as the threat of the Islamic State constantly evolves, it can be tough to predict what powers a president might need. Will we need to engage on the home front? Expand outside Iraq and Syria? Will we need to have this debate all over again and get a new AUMF in a year or two? There are just too many uncertainties for a Congress that doesn't cope well with them.
3. There's no immediacy. It'd be nice, Obama has said — and repeated Sunday from his office — to have a renewed AUMF. But it's also not necessary. Obama and his cabinet officials have argued they already have the authority to conduct air strikes and send in special forces in non-combat roles based on a 2001 AUMF enacted in the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Having a new one wouldn't change their plans, the Obama administration has said. Sure, passing an AUMF would put them on a marginally better legal and political footing in the future. But the real reason the administration wants it is to send a message to the world that the U.S. is united in defeating the Islamic State."
That's hardly a bad thing. But the problem with that argument is that Congress acts best — or, one could argue, acts at all — when it's under pressure. It's how the 2001 AUMF and another authorization of force in Iraq a year later both got passed; President George W. Bush argued engaging abroad were matters of imminent national security.
This time around, a president arguing 'it'd be nice, but isn't necessary' isn't exactly the motivator Congress needs to take a vote on a politically troublesome and uncertain authorization of use of military force.
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Sorry wrong thread. Oh well, appears to fit here as well. Come to think of it, it fits with the domestic cop shootings also. Just modify 'Islamic' to... well you know. I'll just reduce the font to save space, and leave it.
With some rather high-cost skin in the game with a critical [moderate Islamic] NATO member, faithful Russian antagonist, and nifty Incirlik Air Base. Did I mention moderate Islamic NATO member ?
It would seem even more odd that, if they did have some indication, even the slightest, that they would not have instantly alerted Erdogan. Tell me, how many thousands of people were involved in the plot again ?
Of course if they (USI) knew, false flag or no, the best thing to do would be to sit back and say nothing. No Embassy evacuation, no US Citizen warning, no evacuation of Insirlik, just claim ignorance and let the kabuki dance play out.
All that's gone missing is the ring leader. Ah yes, good old Fethullah Gülen, 'living the dream' in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania. Pakistani Dr. Shakil Afridi and filmmaker Nakoula Nakoula must be pounding their fists.
But unfortunately, USI knew nothing of the events unfolding.
AVON, Ohio - The Lorain County Prosecutor's Office will determine whether charges will be filed against the former Avon hotel clerk who told her family members to call 911 to report that a Muslim man was acting suspiciously in the lobby, triggering an intense response from police.
On Tuesday, newsnet5.com learned the woman is longer employed at the Fairfield Inn & Suites on Colorado Avenue.
The 911 call placed by the woman's sister alleged that the man was pledging his allegiance to ISIS.
Responding police spoke to the clerk and determined the accusations were false. Appears that the clerk got the ax for blabbing to her sister.
[Libya Observer] A Warplane of Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... ’s militias carried out an Arclight airstrike on Sidi Aziz district in Derna, leaving no casualties, local sources from Derna reported.
Earlier, the so-called Omar Al-Mukhtar force of Haftar’s militias warned Derna’s residents about intention to carry out Arclight airstrikes on the city, claiming one of their Arclight airstrikes targeted, very successfully, a group of vehicles for whom they described as "terrorist groups" in Sidi Aziz, Derna. This claim was refuted by Derna Shura Council.
According to the Facebook page of so-called Omar Al-Mukhtar force, Arclight airstrikes will also target Shiha, Al-Sayida Khadija, and 400 neighborhoods, which are peopled by a number of residents as many of the displaced families returned recently after the uprooting of IS Death Eaters by Derna revolutionaries from the city.
A siege by Haftar’s militias around Derna has been on for weeks and it has been completed Wednesday by shutting off the eastern entrance, which was the last resort for the residents to receive foods and other necessities.
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[FRANCE24] La Belle France's foreign minister said on Sunday that questions needed to be asked about whether The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... is a viable partner in the fight against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) group in Syria.
"There are questions that are being asked and we will ask them. It (Turkey) is partly viable, but there are suspicions as well. Let’s be honest about this," Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault told La Belle France 3 television.
He said he would raise the issue at meeting of the anti-Islamic State (IS) group coalition in Washington next week.
A French official later sought to clarify Ayrault’s comments, saying he had not meant to call into question NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... member Turkey’s viability in the US-led coalition’s fight against the IS group, and that Ankara remained a crucial partner.
Anti-IS group strikes resume
Ayrault’s comments came as the US Department of Defence announced that air strikes had resumed from the critically located Incirlik air base in south-eastern Turkey. The air base was closed temporarily during the coup attempt in the country on Friday.
"As a result, counter-ISIS coalition air operations at all air bases in Turkey have resumed," Pentagon front man Peter Cook said in a statement, using an acronym for the IS group.
"US facilities at Incirlik are still operating on internal power sources, but we hope to restore commercial power soon. Base operations have not been affected."
The Turkish military has recently ramped up its own operations against the jihadist group, which controls swaths of territory along its border.
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"...critically located Incirlik air base." If it was so critical, why did it take so long to make use of it in the fight with ISIS?
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I think we are going to find out just how critical Incirlik is when the Turks shut it down.
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I vaguely knew much of this - from Wikipedia. Even the early years of its existence proved the value of the presence of the Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, not only to counter the threat of the communist Soviet Union during the Cold War, but also to responding to crises in the Middle East, such as in Lebanon and Israel.
Pilots began flying U-2 reconnaissance missions by late 1957, including nonstop flights back and forth between Incirlik and a NATO Air Base at the Norwegian town Bodø starting in 1958.
The Incirlik Air Base was the main U-2 flight base in this entire region beginning in 1956. Until 1 May 1960, when Soviet SA-2 surface-to-air missiles shot down the U-2 of the Francis Gary Powers near Sverdlovsk, Russia.
I didn't notice anything about B-52s being based there. So not so useful today. Maybe Champ wants to trade it off?
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[DAWN] MULTAN: The funeral prayers of model and social media star Qandeel Baloch, who was murdered by her younger brother, were offered in her ancestral village Shah Saddardin in Dera Ghazi Khan district on Sunday.
Later, she was laid to rest in a local graveyard.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes... a duty magistrate in Multan remanded her brother and confessed killer, Waseem, in police custody for three days.
Qandeel’s body was taken to her village, where a large number of people had gathered, in the morning.
Before the funeral, women relatives of Qandeel applied henna to her hands and feet as per local tradition. Her mother repeatedly kissed her hands, according to sources. Her brothers and two married sisters were present to perform her last rites.
Talking to media personnel, Qandeel’s father, Mohammad Azeem said he would pursue the case against Waseem.
"She was my son, not a daughter. I have lost my son. She supported all of us, including my son who killed her," he added.
His sons were unhappy over "her achievements" and turned against her even though she supported them, he said.
The residents of the village condemned the killing of Qandeel, terming it "a brutal act".
City Police Officer Azhar Akram held a presser on Saturday night where Waseem confessed to having killed Qandeel in the name of honour. He said that he had no regrets.
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[DAWN] The brother of slain social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch was tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! by police in Dera Ghazi Khan late Saturday night and confessed to killing her in the name of 'honour'.
Qandeel, who was also a model and an actress, was strangled to death in her house in Multan's Karimabad area in the early hours of Saturday morning. Her father claimed that she was killed by her younger brother, Waseem, in the name of honour.
Waseem, accompanied by police, confessed in a presser that he had drugged and strangled his sister, adding that the motive behind the murder was that "she brought dishonour to the Baloch name" due to risque videos and statements that she posted on social media.
"There are other issues as well... Like the maulvi issue," he said, in a apparent reference to a recent controversy surrounding Qandeel's selfies with Mufti Qavi.
"She was on the ground floor while our parents were asleep on the roof top," he continued. "It was around 10:45 pm when I gave her a tablet... and then killed her.
"She wasn't aware I was killing her," he said.
Waseem said he acted alone. "I am not embarrassed at all over what I did," he said.
City police chief Azhar Akram said Waseem had killed her by covering her mouth and nose. "After that he fled to Dera Ghazi Khan with two of his friends. We are working on catching the friends and I expect they will also be caught soon. After speaking to them, we will be able to determine whether they were involved or not."
Azhar said authorities will charge Azeem with carrying out a so-called honour killing and seek the "maximum punishment".
Qandeel's father, Muhammad Azeem said in a First Information Report that his daughter came to Multan from Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... to celebrate Eid with the family. He said that Waseem, 25, also came to meet them on July 14.
He said that he along with his wife went to sleep on the rooftop while Qandeel slept in a room where Waseem strangled her to death as he was against her working in showbiz.
Relatives and residents carry the coffin of social media celebrity, Qandeel Baloch during her funeral in Shah Sadar Din village, around 130 kilometers from Multan. -AFP
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(IraqiNews.com) BAGHDAD – A source in the Ministry of Interior informed that a bomb blast in southern Baghdad killed one policeman and injured four others.
Explaining details about the blast and the damaged caused by it, the source added, “An improvised explosive device exploded at noon today, at a police patrol while it was passing through al-Yusufiya in southern Baghdad. A policeman died on the spot and four others were injured in the blast, apart from causing damage to the vehicle.”
Adding further the source said, “Ambulances rushed to the blast area and carried the injured to a nearby hospital. The body of the deceased policeman was sent to the forensic department. Security forces cordoned off the area and has also barred anyone from approaching it.”
(IraqiNews.com) BAGHDAD– A source in the Ministry of Interior informed that security forces defused an improvised explosive device near a garage, northeast of Baghdad. The forces also found a number of grenades in a waste container.
Adding details, the source informed, “Security forces on afternoon today received information indicating that a number of unidentified men have placed a black bag inside a waste contained near a garage at al-Shaab northeast of Baghdad,” adding, “A team from the Bomb Squad rushed to the area and found an improvised explosive device and two grenades inside the bag. The team defused the IED and no harm whatsoever was caused.”
In which a leftist writer makes an awful lot of unspoken assumptions, some right but most completely wrong, about civil war in America. Thanks to Sipsey Street Irregulars TNG for the link.
With racial tensions, inequality, and populist rage set to boil over, some fear America could be on the path to a violent confrontation between the angry Trumpies and the equally angry lefties. Before we decide to start this war, we must ask: who would win? Better to ask: who would lose? That would be America.
As police shootings and street protests stoke a national climate already heated by xenophobia, terror attacks, One might ask oneself whether the terror attacks and the "xenophobia" could be tied together?
and the unexpected success of an anti-everything brand of politics not seen in generations, many have compared 2016 to 1968, a year marked by assassinations, riots, and questions about the continued success of the American experiment. It is still early, though. By the time this is all over we may be more inclined to compare 2016 to 1860, when half of America got so pissed at the other half that a bloody civil war ensued. The violence in the 1960s was almost 100 percent caused by the left, criminals and their allies. Civil wars don't start because "half of America got so pissed at the other half." They start because one side decides to do something about the other side.
This, of course, is the worst case scenario. But it’s always good to plan ahead.
The Combatants
On the Right: Low-income white workers who were on the losing end of globalization and have become convinced that immigrants and non-white people are to blame; Billionaires; White nationalists; Angry grandpas; Fearful grandmas; Survivalists; Fox News viewers; “Car guys”; career philatelists, Inveterate racists who have no excuse. Everything you need to know to know that the author is an idiot is right there...
On the Left: Black Lives Matter activists; Bernie Sanders voters; Aging hippies; College students and professors; Legal and illegal immigrants of all nationalities; Occupy-style perma-activists; Confused self-identified pacifists. Idiot. The Billionaires are on the left.
Most, yes. But the right does have a few, though the libertarian Kochs walk on what the two parties consider both sides of the street, depending on the issue.
Strengths
On the Right: They own more guns. They may also be able to claim a higher percentage of military veterans and law enforcement officers in their ranks.
I once read that the military vote about three fourths Republican, one fourth Democrat. That may or may not currently be true.
They are more willing to blindly follow a charismatic leader into battle, leading to a more coherent fighting force. They watch a lot of UFC. They carry the revolutionary zeal of notable groups like the Confederacy and the Nazi Party. I think the elements on the right will be a good deal more scattered and divided than is assumed here. Every time some mention of civil war getting started gets started, inevitably the infighting and score settling begins, but in the virtual realm. I suspect once lead starts flying, it will fly everywhere, not just between sides. Amongst sides, rather. Again, the writer's biases are on display -- he assumes that the conservative right are "Nazis", not recognizing the brownshirts on his own side...
On the Left: They have a higher average education level, which could be useful for designing bombs and crafty booby traps.
Law degrees and PhDs in Medieval French Poetry are not markers of chemistry skills...
More than a few will discover the "red-wire, green-wire" problem...
They have a younger average age, making them more physically fit on average.
Nowadays the opposite is more likely to be true.
They carry the revolutionary zeal of notable groups like the Maoists and the Khmer Rouge. A bit of silliness. The left will no more have a monopoly on the basic aspects of warmaking than the right, such as deception, arming up, etc. What it could boil down to is experience and a willingness to be inhumane to political opponents once things get sporty. Though comparing the Left to the Khmer Rouge is always correct... Weaknesses
On the Right: High proportion of elderly crackpots could hold back fighting units when traveling for speed and distance. High proportion of rural residents could be a drawback in urban battles, when skills like navigating sidewalks and subways are necessary. Anti-intellectual tendencies could result in hostility towards “outside the box” guerilla tactics. Affinity for Donald Trump holds no combat value whatsoever. I think this jamoke would be shocked at the creativity his armed opponents would have towards committing mayhem against political opponents. I think he would be shocked at the notion of just how powerfully a spring will return to its natural shape once released. The folks on the right can read. They'll figure out the subways...
On the Left: Widespread lack of military or contact sport experience could lead to panic in the ranks when the violence begins. High proportion of urban residents could be a drawback in rural battles, when skills like living off the land or not being scared of bugs are necessary. Reggae music is an ineffective pre-war motivational tool.
Tactics
On the Right: Mass shootings. Head-on assaults on mosques, quinceanera parties, and college dorms. Lots of gunfire, everywhere. Occasional arson of libraries (they haven’t figured out the internet stuff yet). Another bit of silliness on the author's part. I will grant you that a small number on the right would not be predisposed to things internet, but the same applies to other groups on the left. Both sides regard the internet as a communications tool. He should study matters in southeastern Ukraine, where in the early going there was a tremendous amount of media posted to the internet from both sides about the war. That is until both sides started using that media to grid for artillery strikes and recon probes. Then use of the internet wound up in the hands of the leadership. It won't be a bunch of right wingers and left wingers sitting at their consoles spouting war propaganda. Those guys will already be dead, and their replacements will be posting fotos and videos for the commanders and leaders of their respective sides..
On the Left: Guerilla warfare. Elaborate ruses designed to entrap jeeps full of enemies into concealed pits. Hit-and-run attacks on churches, VFW halls, and high-rise office buildings. Lots of Molotov cocktails, homemade spears, and gunfire that is somewhat sporadic due to relatively low gun ownership in this fighting cohort. This fella unwittingly hit on the basis of an American civil war: Guerrilla actions against civil institutions. He speaks of those actions as though they are a part of normal fighting, but they are not. They are partisan acts of war to destroy one side. They will be nasty, and they will be dirty, and in the end, none of those acts will contribute to victory for the side committing them. He also speaks, if you'll notice, as if the left will have some advantage in the very basis of warfare: deception, but as Sun Tzu wrote: "All war is deception." The Outlook My outlook. It will be a gawdammed mess.
The Left’s purist ideology and youthful vigor will inevitably wane under the withering fire of The Right’s mob-like bloodlust and superior weaponry. The inevitable ugliness of the conflict will tend to erode the morale on The Left, where philosophical approval of violence is mixed at best, whereas the religious and racial zealots of The Right will only grow more emboldened, easily integrating this new war into their longstanding intellectual framework of patriotic genocide of The Other. We can expect that the next civil war, like the last one, would be explosive, bloody, and long. But we can’t expect that the good guys would win this time around. Sure we can. Democracy, freedom, liberty and conservative values will win in the end...
In the final calculus, The Left is better off parlaying its domination of the media into social victories that can be leveraged for peaceful political gain. It’s the only real choice, unless we all want to get massacred. Probably the first thing in this missive the writer has deliberately gotten right. The problem: it will apply to both sides.
Now what we need to do is take away their guns... That would be an excellent start to civil war. Can't think of a better triggering event, as it were...
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This guy Nolan----aside from eating Brie and tweeting, what else has he done? Ever learned basic marksmanship and safe handling of firearms? Rode the subway? There ya go. Pontificating commuter.
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aw look - here's your clue that this is (albeit lame) satire coz not even the most retarded leftarded bat of the lunar species could compose this seriously.
"Reggae music is an ineffective pre-war motivational tool".
No shit leftard. I love me some reggae, 4 subjects - sex politics religion and dope, wrong on all yet still compelling - da riddimz, mon.
Love (H)island patois - we have coarse anglo-saxon C words and F words - hell, Jamaican cuss word sound positively edible.
"Yeah Man, give I two a dem beef cla'ats an a cheese bombo"
Civil war? not even a good meme war, read the whole thing for laughs.
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If the guns come out the trucks stop rolling. Food stores are empty in 3 days. The FSA revolt and burn the cities along with their liberal inhabitants.
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Farmer's markets and heavy rifles. No gas and the nearest place with food to sell, or available is 40 miles away.
In the cities think Venezuela and its Winter, very cold. No dogs around ( for some reason ), or cats either. Ammo is more valuable than currency. And you don't have any real friends, do you?
Your money won't buy anything. What else, you got?
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He's a complete idiot, and his ignorance is a huge part of the problem.
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Once the power and water goes off and the roads are blocked the mainly democratic cities have 48 hours before they're toast.
A dispersed enemy can beat a concentrated enemy, especially as they have a ridiculous supply train (try finding an organic quinoa meal pack to go with your civet lattes).
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When the power goes off in a major city during a heat wave, hundreds or thousands will start dying in 48 hours due to lack of A/C. This was responsible for a large fraction of the deaths just after Hurricane Katrina. Elderly will be the first to go. Massive evacuation of tens of thousands (safely) is only possible during peacetime. Our electric grid is ridiculously vulnerable.
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Charger,
When it comes to gang banging idiots vs. disciplined riflemen interspersed with vets... I'll take the right any day when it comes to killing efficiently, quickly and ruthlessly.
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DV - one thing to put in the "not to be forgotten file"; in a true riot where TSHHTF, concentrate on neutralizing the second and third ranks of the rioters. NOT the first rank. The professional organizers are behind the 1st/2nd ranks urging the drones onward. Take them out and the mob will break and run. Just saying.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The UN are set to host a second day of talks in Libya Sunday with the aim of creating a "unified" army in a country wracked by internal divisions and a holy warrior threat.
The organization brokered a power-sharing deal last year to form a Government of National Accord (GNA), but the body is still struggling to assert its authority.
"All Libya’s problems today are tied up to the security issue," said Martin Kobler, head of the UN’s support mission in the country.
The goal of the talks would be "a unified Libyan army under the command of the presidential council," he said Saturday, according to an Arabic translation.
"Libya cannot be united as long as it has several armies," he said at the end of the first day’s meeting, which also touched on humanitarian issues.
The GNA arrived in the capital three months ago, but a rival political authority based in the east is refusing to cede power until Libya’s elected parliament passes a repeatedly delayed vote of confidence.
The controversial leader General Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... controls forces loyal to this authority.
"I want to meet General Haftar, to see and understand his position. I contact him every week to arrange a meeting, but so far he has refused," Kobler said.
The presidential council would meet on Monday and Tuesday with "influential security parties" for further talks on a unified army, he said, without specifying who these parties would be.
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Investigators say Long's aunt discovered the brain last month. It was being kept in a WalMart shopping bag under the porch of a trailer where one of Long's friends lived.
YJCMTSU
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"At this point now we're just trying to figure out where it came from," Pennsylvania State Trooper Robert Hicks told Fox 43. "We're hoping that if anyone is missing a human specimen brain to bring it to our attention and maybe we can return it to its rightful owner."
From Instapundit; a rare occasion where I forward a blog post. It's about Aleppo and the starvation of 300,000 people that is about to occur there. Mr. Bay, guestposting at Instapundit, makes clear the hypocrisy of Dr. Power and, by extension, the Democratic machine.
As has been said, you can't fight for a country that you don't believe in. You can't fight for a country when you think the majority of its citizens are racist rubes. That's Dr. Power's problem right there. She doesn't believe in America, therefore she can't represent us very well.
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Samantha Power want talk about Rwanda during the Clinton administration? Or how he dropped the ball in Somalia resulting in Black Hawk Down about that time? Was Slick Willy too busy with extracurricular activities at the time?
[REUTERS] Donald Trump condemned the killings on Sunday of three Louisiana coppers as the fresh spasm of violence put a somber note on the opening of the Republican National Convention due this week to formally nominate him for the White House.
Trump seized on the shooting deaths of the officers in Baton Rouge to bolster his case that he is the better candidate in the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election to restore law and order than his rival, Democrat Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John Jay ... "We grieve for the officers killed in Baton Rouge today. How many law enforcement and people have to die because of a lack of leadership in our country? We demand law and order."
Clinton had no immediate comment on the latest violence.
Nor could she...
There were no plans to delay Monday's start of the four-day 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 ... convention, where thousands of Republican delegates are gathering amid a threat of protests both for and against Trump, 70, a businessman-turned-candidate.
Security was extraordinarily tight with downtown streets lined by concrete traffic dividers and tall metal fences, propelled by a new urgency after an attacker drove his truck into a holiday crowd in Nice, La Belle France, last week, killing 84 people.
After Sunday's shootings in Baton Rouge, in which three other coppers were maimed, the head of Cleveland's police union asked Ohio Governor John Kasich to suspend state laws allowing people to openly carry firearms, but Kasich said he lacked the authority to do so.
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Cut and Paste from innernet:
Reuters left out the rest of the story...
STEVE LOOMIS, PRESIDENT OF CLEVELAND POLICE PATROLMEN'S ASSOCIATION: The president of the Untied States validated a false narrative and the nonsense that Black Lives Matter and the Media are pressing out there to the public — He validated with his very divisive statements And now we see an escalation.
This has got to end.
We need some leadership in this country to come forward and put an end to this.
I don’t care if it’s clergy or who it is but somebody has to step up and put an end to this. It’s false narrative and people politicizing the false narrative that we have a President of the United States and the governor of Minnesota making a statement less than one day after the police involved shootings.
Those police involved shootings are what absolutely has triggered in rash of senseless murders of law enforcement officers across the country. It is reprehensible.
The president has blood on his hands and it will not be able to come washed off...
How the hell did we ever become the bad guys in this country? I can not imagine how we got here. It is the irresponsible reporting of the media and irresponsible statements from people who are credible - like the president, like celebrities.
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the head of Cleveland's police union asked Ohio Governor John Kasich to suspend state laws allowing people to openly carry firearms, but Kasich said he lacked the authority to do so.
This reporting is so poor. The Secret Service has establish a no-firearms zone around a specified area of the RNC, which is currently in effect. What authority were they acting under?
[Libya Observer] The families stranded in Ganfouda district, Benghazi, have decried the urge made by Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... ’s forces to immediately leave the district, denouncing at the same time the threatening language used by those forces, saying there is no guarantee that they would go out safely, and who would receive them and they don’t know whether their passage is secure or not.
The families added that according to experience, they know how rockets and shelling can be fired at them while going out of the district, saying such an experience makes them too horrified and cautious to trust such urges, pointing out that they still remember the agony the elderly went through after they left the area.
"We are not comfortable with the phrase "You have been warned", in the urge sent by Khalifa Haftar’s forces. The families added.
"We don’t refuse to go out of the festivities zone, but we find the timing of urging us out very suspicious and enigmatic, thus we want a safe passage to the city we find fit away from any kind of threats by anyone." They indicated.
Ganfouda residents received paper from the air thrown by Khalifa Haftar’s aircraft calling on them to immediately evacuate their houses before they raid the area, knowing that the families had urged for a safe passage repeatedly, however; Haftar’s militias did not say how they would find a safe passage for the families, yet they just threatened them against staying.
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[WASHINGTONPOST] The Florida murder suspect who disappeared after bolting from a courtroom received help from his girlfriend and three others as part of a plot that had been planned during jailhouse calls and visits, officials said Sunday.
The four have been tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! but suspect Dayonte Resiles remains on the lam, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said.
Israel said Resiles’ 18-year-old girlfriend, LaQuay Stern, parked her silver BMW
Eh? How does an 18 year old girlfriend own a BMW?
under a bridge next to the Broward County Courthouse on Friday, where she waited with Winston Russell, 22.
Meanwhile, ...back at the cheese factory, there was only one thought in the mouse's mind: I can do this! I can do this! Then the trap sprung... two 17-year-old twin brothers went into the courtroom where Resiles, 21, was awaiting a hearing on whether he would face the death penalty in his upcoming trial on charges that he murdered a member of the Halliburton business family during a home invasion robbery almost two years ago.
As Resiles slipped out of his handcuffs and ankle shackles and broke for the door, Israel says at least one of the twins coughed into a cellphone to signal Stern and Russell that he was on his way. Resiles in the hallway shed his jail jumpsuit, fled out a courthouse door and into Stern’s car, Israel said. There, Russell gave him clothes and kept for himself in a bag a generic police uniform, Israel said. The uniform’s purpose is unknown, Israel said.
Stern and Russell then drove Resiles to an apartment from which he disappeared, Israel said. He said the search remains focused on South Florida but a nationwide alert has been issued. Rewards totaling $20,000 are being offered for his capture.
"The fact that Resiles remains on the lam tells me that there are others aiding and abetting in his escape," Israel said.
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We here at the Burg take attacks against our division very seriously. LaQuay and Winston are talking. You will be captured Mr. Resiles.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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More than 20 people in Germany have been injured after a man with an axe went on the rampage on a train, German media report.
A document obtained by The Associated Press shows that key restrictions on Iran's nuclear program will ease in slightly more than a decade, halving the time Tehran would need to build a bomb.
Lawmakers have twisted themselves in knots in recent years to get the federal budget "under control."
America's police will be safer when they admit they have a problem, Pres. Obama declared on Sunday at a bilateral event with the prime minister of Spain in Madrid.
[Daily Caller] Secretary of State John Kerry spoke Saturday evening with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and suggested any public reports of U.S. involvement in the failed coup attempt of the Turkish government are "utterly false."
ATLANTA (AP) -- Some prominent Republicans are speaking out about race, expressing empathy for the challenges faced by black Americans, after a spate of racially tinged gun violence that saw two black men killed by police and retaliatory attacks by a black sniper that killed five Dallas police officers.
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ALEPPO: Air raids on rebel-held districts of Syria’s battleground second city of Aleppo killed at least 25 civilians including children on Saturday, a monitor said. The death toll steadily rose throughout the day as bombardment rocked the city, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Shakedown Sharpton has struck again, according to an Arizona trucker, who says in a new federal lawsuit that the good reverend promised to help him, then took him for $16,000, The New York Post is reporting.
A military commander says Interim Galmudug interim administration forces wrested control of Amara locality in southern Mudug region on Sunday from Al Shabaab.
[RFE/RL] Turkish state media reports President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet Vladimir Putin in August, their first face-to-face meeting since a rapprochement in late June following the downing of a Russian warplane in November 2015. Presidential sources said the meeting will take place during the first week of August. 
Lively movement of vehicles, supplies and equipment, has been detected recently near the North Korea's nuclear test site in Punggye-ri in remote North Hamgyong Province.
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The minister charged with securing new trade deals for Britain outside the EU said Sunday he was aiming for a Brexit date of January 1, 2019, as London made overtures towards Australia and Canada.
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[Tass] Two policemen were injured while chasing a criminal in Dagestan, a source in Dagestan's Interior Ministry said. He said, "According to preliminary reports, policemen in the city of Derbent tried to detain a criminal who opened a fire at them from a car. Two policemen were wounded."
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We here at the Burg take attacks against our division very seriously. LaQuay and Winston are talking. You will be captured Mr. Resiles. 
