It's okay for Facebook to do this, though...
A controversy is clucking in Pinellas County over chicken sandwiches, sweet tea and voter registration cards.
The Stonewall Democrats of Pinellas County are crying foul over Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections Deborah Clark's decision to hold voter registration drives at nine Chick-fil-A locations. Chick-fil-A, the fast-food chain known for putting faith ahead of profits, supports conservative causes. And we simply can't have that, can we?
Susan McGrath, leader of the Stonewall Democrats and head of the Pinellas Democratic Party, said the decision to use Chick-fil-A would be similar to a Democratic supervisor of elections holding the event at Planned Parenthood.
McGrath said the group supports the effort to register more voters, But she called the move partisan to hold the event at Chick-fil-A and said it might be more transparent to hold the voter drives at the Republican Party headquarters.
"Fox Searchlight has teamed up with voting organizations who have worked to staff the local theatres in each city: The League of Women Voters; Delta Rho Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc.; National Coalition of Black Civic Participation and its Ohio Unity Coalition and North Carolina Black Youth Vote Network; NYC Votes; and National Voter Registration Day. The program includes the following participating theatre chains and independent theatres nationwide: Bow Tie Cinemas; Emagine Entertainment; Malco Theatres; Marcus Theatres; Wehrenberg Theatres; Amstar Cinemas; Movie Taverns; The Grand Theatres; Bryn Mawr Film Institute, Bryn Mawr, PA; Glenwood Arts Theatre, Overland Park, KS; Little Theatre, Rochester, NY; Midtown Cinema, Harrisburg, PA; Tower City Cinemas, Cleveland, OH; Cedar Lee Theatre, Cleveland Heights, OH; Cinema Arts Theatre, Fairfax, VA; Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI; The Neon, Dayton, OH."
[Breitbart] The New York Times, the so-called "paper of record," has declared that the all-important swing state of Ohio is no longer an important battleground in the presidential election -- now that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is winning it.
Trump pulled ahead of Clinton in the Buckeye State in the RealClearPolitics poll average on Sep. 13, and has never looked back. The latest average, as of Sep. 24 -- prior to the first presidential debate on Sep. 26 -- has Trump ahead of Clinton by 2%.
Earlier in September, the Times was declaring Ohio "an essential swing state," where Governor John Kasich threatened to destroy Trump’s presidential hopes by withholding his endorsement and denying Trump his turnout operation. The Times added: "No candidate since 1960 has made it to the White House without winning Ohio. And while Mrs. Clinton could afford to lose there given her advantage in other battlegrounds like Virginia and Colorado, Ohio is a must-win for Mr. Trump."
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The voters gave the Pubs the House in 2010 and then the Senate in 2014 in an effort to block the Dems and the Obama administration. The voters seem to be turning the volume up even more in 2016 as it seems the Pubs haven't been listening much.
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Someone should come up with a list of Republicans that are worth a damned. As JohnQC said, they haven't listened much. And revelations that the Saudi's had folks involved in Sept 11 and the George W. Bush team knew and did nothing but fly them out of the country (none even resigned quietly over the choice) leads very few I could be proud of right now.
Perhaps Trey Gowdy and Darryl Isa although they do both seem to take a long, long, time during these hearings.
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...I am hearing from friends and family back home that OH may be going more and more strongly for Trump every day, and this article seems to back it up. TRANSLATION: "The hell with the public polls, the INTERNALS are a freaking disaster for Malificent. Let's have the Times say it doesn't matter any more and see if we can pull it out somewhere else."
Mike
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So Ohio was a bellweather when it looked like Hillary was going to get Ohio, but now that Trump seems likely to take Ohio it is not?
A cynical person might deduce that the Times is a tad biased.
"The students protesters -- led by the SLU Rainbow Alliance and the Muslim Students Association Strange bedfellows indeed.
-- had arrived early and filled many of the seats in the two-story auditorium where West was slated to speak. As he took the stage they stood up and filed out." So the strategy was for the $hitbags to initially "Bogart" the auditorium then leave the speaker with a sparsely-populated venue. Not brilliant, but the post-walkout optics was what they were shooting for.
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When you put lunatic liberals in charge, the stupid has no ending and the whole world suffers and in turn becomes more stupid. The only real hard work humans do anymore is hard work to remain stupid.
[RealClearPolitics] But the press is the most blameworthy. White House press conferences now resemble those in the Kremlin, with journalists tossing Putin softball questions about his latest fishing or hunting trip.
One reason Americans are scared about the next president is that they should be.
In 2017, a President Trump or President Clinton will be able to do almost anything he or she wishes without much oversight -- thanks to the precedent of Obama's overreach, abetted by a lapdog press that forgot that the ends never justify the means.
Partially true: the press would continue flying cover for President Clinton; President Trump will be fact-checked even on what he said he had for breakfast, and whether it really is boxers or briefs.
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Of course, being unable to look beyond the next moment, the media doesn't grasp that in a one party dominated government there is no need for more than one media outlet. There are only so many Rotary Club and local high school events to cover.
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The Senate used to ratify treaties. In the past, a president could not unilaterally approve the Treaty of Versailles, enroll the United States in the League of Nations, fight in Vietnam or Iraq without congressional authorization, change existing laws by non-enforcement, or rewrite bankruptcy laws. Not now. Obama set a precedent that he did not need Senate ratification to make a landmark treaty with Iran on nuclear enrichment.
Reads like treason and high crimes and misdemeanors to me.
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In fact so-called fact checkers would declare that Trump had Pancakes for breakfast even if he is right there eating Wheaties and milk for breakfast.
And too large of a percentage of the voters would believe what the media tells them over their own lying eyes.
Washington (CNN) A New York City councilman said Wednesday he is protesting the Pledge of Allegiance "in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick," the NFL quarterback who has famously declined to stand for the national anthem.
In explaining his decision to sit down during the pledge, Jumaane D. Williams, D-Brooklyn, cited the increased earnings of the New York police officer who placed Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold in 2014. Former Community Organizer, who knew ?
"This type of non-violent protest is not disrespectful as some have suggested," Williams said in a statement. "(Kaepernick) deserves support, not criticism for his actions. What does it say about our country when there is a national outrage over an athlete sitting out the national anthem, but the same outrage isn't expressed when a young black man is killed for no reason?"
Williams added that he has engaged in a "personal protest" with the pledge and at times "The Star-Spangled Banner," saying he stands out of respect but does not recite the words.
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...cited the increased earnings of the New York police officer who placed Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold in 2014.
Other than electing an occasional RINO mayors, why are Donks controlled urban areas such seething beds of racism? Blame the union? Who gave the unions such powers over your operation?
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Since the bulk of police shootings in these cases seem to happen in Democrat run cities perhaps they should boycott the Democrats and their policies for awhile.
[ABC] Federal officials tried twice to deport Alfred Olango, a 38-year-old man who was shot by police in Southern California on Tuesday. But, his native country of Uganda refused to take him back, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Let him stay. He'll be much more useful to us here a tool of white oppression. Perhaps Uganda knew something about him that we didn't...
Olango's history with federal immigration authorities came to light in the wake of his being killed Tuesday by an El Cajon police officer after emergency dispatchers received a 911 call from his sister saying that he was "not acting like himself."
The shooting spurred protests Tuesday and Wednesday nights in El Cajon, about 16 miles northwest of San Diego.
Olango arrived in the U.S. in 1991 as a refugee from Uganda, but was ordered to be deported after he was convicted for transporting and selling narcotics, the U.S. immigration agency's western regional communications director, Virginia Kice, told ABC News in a statement. He was later released from immigration custody in 2003 after multiple requests were made to the Ugandan government to obtain travel documents for Olango.
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he's dead so they whitewash (sorry for the microaggression...not) his criminal, drug, and dv history. This is the gratitude we get for allowing this POS in. F him
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[LI] Last night, the Indian Army carried out a series of covert operations targeting Jihadi bases along its border with Pakistan. According to official Indian sources, the counter-terrorism strikes killed 38 Islamists as well as couple of soldiers of Pakistan's regular army, who were overseeing these Jihadi bases. Indian Special Forces went 2-3 km inside Pakistan's border destroying up to 6 Jihadi camps. No casualties were reported on the Indian side. The strikes come less than 2 weeks after Islamists attacked an Indian Army base in India's Kashmir region, killing 18 soldiers.
India has faced a sustained terrorist campaign in its Muslim majority northern state of Kashmir since the 1990s. Terrorists have killed nearly 5,000 Indian civilians and over 2,000 Indian soldiers since 2001. Tonight's cross-border operation, first of its kind conducted by India, shows the change in country's military doctrine since Prime Minister Narendra Modi took office 2 years ago.
Following tonight's strikes India has put its army along the international border with the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on high alert. Indian newspaper Times of India reports:
[BBC] The US is investing at least $50m in a military air base in Niger that will be capable of deploying drones.
The US already has a presence in the capital Niamey, where it shares an airbase with France's anti-Islamist force, Operation Barkhane.
MQ-9 Reaper drones are stationed there. But the new facility, in the central city of Agadez, will give Washington greater ability to use drones against Islamist extremists in neighbouring countries like Libya, Mali and Nigeria.
A spokeswoman for the Pentagon, Michelle Baldanza, confirmed the US had agreed to pay for a new runway and "associated pavements, facilities and infrastructure".
She estimated the cost at $50m but The Intercept, which first reported the story, said it is projected to cost twice that. The investigative news site reports that it has obtained files that show the project is considered "the most important US military construction effort in Africa" and will be completed in 2017.
Drones, also known as UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) or RPAs (Remotely Piloted Aircraft) are used by the military for surveillance and to drop bombs, in places where it is too risky or difficult to send a pilot.
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This doesn't seem to make much sense until one realizes that the Global Hawk has vast range and a 36 hour flight time. The Predator with payload has a range of 400 miles plus 14 hour loiter time. Aspects of the MQ-9 Reaper remain a secret but in the overlap with Djibouti base probably covers all of Mediterranean coastal and Sahelian Africa.
[Free Beacon] Senior Homeland Security official León Rodríguez admitted Thursday that some refugees are allowed into the United States based solely on their testimony to authorities.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) grilled Rodríguez on the Obama administration’s refugee resettlement program during a Senate Judiciary immigration subcommittee hearing. Cruz and other lawmakers highlighted issues with the current refugee vetting process.
Cruz began his questioning by reading part of a DHS memorandum on the vetting process for refugees, Townhall reported. The memorandum states that the "refugee program is particularly vulnerable of fraud due to loose evidentiary requirements where at times the testimony of an applicant alone is sufficient for approval."
When Cruz finished reading, Rodríguez, director of Citizenship and Immigration Services at DHS, fired back against the memorandum, arguing the document was written by an individual who lacked knowledge of the vetting process.
"What I am telling you is that I would not give that document a whole lot of credit because whoever that person was did not do the homework to learn about our process," Rodríguez said.
Cruz then pushed Rodríguez on whether it was true or false that testimony of the applicant can solely be sufficient for approval into the United States.
"It depends on the case. Usually we do have extensive documentation. Syrians in particular present with extensive documentation passports, military records, so there is documentation that we review," Rodríguez said.
Rodríguez went into further detail before Cruz cut him off, saying he asked a simple question and wanted a simple answer but his time had expired.
"There are cases where the testimony is not necessarily corroborated by documents, but it is always tested against country conditions and other information. That is why it doesn’t lend itself in the way that you’re asking the question, senator," Rodríguez said.
"Are you saying it’s true, or are you saying it’s false?" Cruz asked. "I’m just trying to understand."
"I am acknowledging that, yes, testimony can be the basis for the grant of a refugee, but it needs to be tested against other information that we know‐about the country conditions, at a minimum," Rodríguez said.
Following Cruz’s questioning, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) lambasted Rodríguez for taking so long to answer Cruz’s question.
"This is the Congress of the United States. We have a right to ask questions. We expect unbiased objective answers and [Cruz] took too long to get you to acknowledge that answer and I do not appreciate it," Sessions said.
FBI Director James Comey also admitted Wednesday that the federal government does not have the ability to conduct background checks on 10,000 Syrian refugees coming to the United States.
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I think I agree, but only because by the time we've developed the technologies required to do so, we'll realise that hunkering down on the thin skin of planets makes a lot less sense than mining the moon and disassembling asteroids in order to build O'Neill cylinders with thousands of times their surface area. With one exception - we do want to put lots of matter between at least one human colony and any possible ultralong gamma ray burst, which means at minimum 3 colonies equally spaced around Mercury.
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Actually making giant hollow living shells out of asteroid ring material and the Ort cloud's is quite doable. Maybe nuke or fusion required but it will take big rockets like Musk's to start it out. Seriously.
Think about it. Iridium went bankrupt 2 time before it became a going operation. The Chunnel once. ....
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I'm not a cold weather person but there those who thrive up north, plus not a hot and humid fan neither, so his arguments are fallacious because I say so. Oh, don't forget there are people who love to do things that "experts" like this guy say are impossible.
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Most of us will never drive a battery powered car either, or if we do, it won't be a tesla. All the same, musk's cult is well on its way to being as vicious and unscientific as scientology.
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I do think we should be colonizing the Moon first, and building up the space infrastructure that would open up options. The moon is much easier because of the distance. The low gravity is a challenge but you might find a ton of elderly volunteers willing to take the risk in order to spend their final years in the increased mobility the low gravity offers them.
But it's less glamorous so I can see why Musk is shooting for Mars. Unfortunately NASA got caught up in that mindset for awhile as well.
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We've already been to Everest and yet people still go. In fact they've built up base camps and infrastructure to make things a bit safer and easier for folks since Hilary went up.
I wish Sheila Jackson Lee and her weave could return to Mars. We'd all be happier.
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Well, the 'Red' planet should be an ideal safe place for our Millennial snowflakes. They can avoid all that pre-established infrastructure, physical and social, created by the deplorables.
[Politico] Hillary Clinton trolled two White House opponents with a single response, dinging Gary Johnson and Donald Trump by naming Angela Merkel as her favorite world leader.
The Democratic presidential nominee on Thursday joined the discussion about politicians’ favorite world leaders, a topic that went viral when Johnson, the Libertarian nominee, drew a blank when asked Wednesday to name a world leader he looks up to and respects.
"Oh, let me think. Look, I like a lot of the world leaders," Clinton said, bursting into laughter initially when asked about her favorite world leader during a gaggle with reporters aboard her campaign plane in Chicago. "One of my favorites is Angela Merkel because I think she’s been an extraordinary, strong leader during difficult times in Europe, which has obvious implications for the rest of the world and, most particularly, our country."
Clinton praised the German chancellor’s "leadership and steadiness on the Euro crisis," while adding that "her bravery in the face of the refugee crisis is something that I am impressed by."
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I'd say "this should give a second thought even to most ardent lefties" - but of course, these are "people" who mustered the art of never questioning certain certainties.
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Angela Merkel???? Good grief... May God have mercy on us if we send HRC to the White House...
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It's nor like she's spoilt for choice, after all. The only other female is Theresa May, who is Conservative and therefore uninteresting to our possible future beloved leader; the only strong male leaders that come to mind are Bibi Netanyahu (Israel and President Obama's least fave person) and Vladimir Putin (who she keeps trying to tie around Mr. Trump's neck).
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Playing the Muslim illegal immigrant and woman card? Singing Merkel's praises is not going to get HRC any votes. Just don't think the German citizens are too thrilled with Merkel.
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I'm gonna give Johnson a pass on this one. The list of current world leaders worthy of admiration is mighty short. And for Libertarian candidate it's almost nonexistent.
[American Lookout] Have you noticed that leftists who bend over backwards to accommodate Muslims never extend the same courtesy to Christians or Jews?
After Chelsea Bombing, NYC Launches Efforts To Silence "Negative Rhetoric" About Islam
Less than two weeks after the terrorist bombings in New Jersey and New York City's Chelsea neighborhood, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration is launching a new campaign against the "negative rhetoric targeting Muslim communities" that the city says gets worse after "terrorist incidents."
A press release from the city on Monday explained the reasoning for the new anti-anti-Islam efforts: "Across the country, hateful speech has made Muslim residents the target of misguided attacks and threats, especially in the aftermath of terrorist incidents," states a press release from the city.
The city is targeting Muslims for community outreach efforts, "including issuing a new multilingual fact sheet explaining protections against religious discrimination with a focus on Muslim communities and a new multilingual brochure on religious protections under NYC Human Rights Law with practical examples to identify discrimination in the workplace, housing, and public accommodations."
That whole free speech thing was nice while we had it, wasn't it?
What’s next, safe spaces and laws against microaggressions?
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Have you noticed that leftists who bend over backwards to accommodate Muslims never extend the same courtesy to Christians or Jews?
Of course. Muslims are the Parasite Party's newest "Officially Recognized Poor Helpless Victims of White Male Bigotry and Oppression," and hands out rights and privileges to its favored "victim" groups like so much Halloween candy in exchange for votes.
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NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio
If NYC voters don't rise up to to prevent his reelection -- as I recall, he was elected on a really low voter turnout -- they deserve what happens to them. Perhaps they can persuade Rudy Guiliani to come back.
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This mayor has got to be the biggest idiot of the decade. Rahm running a close second. Surely, they can find someone out of 8 or more million people who is better than this guy--how bout that wino laying over there by building--anybody, anybody?
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So how's that positive outreach been paying off? Found any self-professed Muslims to wage jihad on Islamic jihadists yet? Uh...yeah...didn't think so.
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Muslim numbers are increasing and Democrats want to ingratiate themselves with this horde of new voters even if it means eventually losing other groups (Gays and practicing Jews).
[PJ] Bill Whittle did an Afterburner on this very subject for PJTV. This was the episode description:
Hillary Clinton breaks the law, gets people who work for her killed, lies to the American people...and she's still a media darling? How is that possible???
Don't miss the pithy comments.
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There are at least four systems of law in this country: the law of the jungle (street law), the law for the little people such as you and I, the law for the elites such as HRC and BHO, and Sharia Law which is gnawing away at our system.
[DAWN] India and Pakistain should improve their communications to avoid an increase in tensions over Kashmire, the US State Department said on Thursday after Indian troops reportedly fired across the Line of Control in Azad Jammu and Kashmire.
"An attack like [this] that escalates tensions," US State Department front man John Kirby said, adding: "Our message to both sides is the same, to encourage them to increase communication to deal with this threat and avoid steps that escalates the tension."
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Yeah!
If they go to war where are we going to get knock-off purses and software?
A North Korean soldier crossed the military demarcation line to defect to South Korea on Thursday morning.
The soldier was spotted by South Korean guards at the outpost of a frontline Army division in Hwacheon, Gangwon Province at around 10 a.m., according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff here. He was taken into custody. According to a military source, the soldier is a 20-year-old sergeant from an army brigade near the border. When he was spotted, he was in uniform and unarmed.
A military spokesman here said he looked "extremely malnourished."
"We've moved him to another location and have since been questioning him to find out what motivated him," a JCS officer said. "There has been no sign of any unusual military movements in the North but we've stepped up vigilance."
The last time a soldier crossed the DMZ to defect was on June 15 last year.
Seo Wook at JCS headquarters said there are propaganda loudspeakers near the place where the soldier defected.
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[DAWN] At least two Pakistain Army soldiers were killed as Indian troops fired across the Line of Control in Azad Jammu and Kashmire, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Thursday. The Pak military confirmed the deaths of its soldiers yet dismissed the Indian claim of 'surgical strikes'.
"There had been cross border fire initiated and conducted by India which is [an] existential phenomenon," said an ISPR statement released shortly after the Indian Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) held a presser making claims about surgical strikes.
India strikes, Pakistain responds An exchange of fire between Pak and Indian LoC troops began at 2:30am and continued till 8:00am in the Bhimber, Hotspring, Kel and Lipa sectors in Azad Jammu and Kashmire, the ISPR statement said.
"Pak troops befittingly responded to Indian unprovoked firing on the LoC."
Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said nine soldiers were maimed during the incident, and added that small firearms were used to respond in a "befitting manner".
Shortly after the exchange of fire, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs and Ministry of Defence held a joint presser in New Delhi in which DGMO Lt Gen Ranbir Singh alleged that surgical strikes were conducted by the Indian army on "terror launch pads along the LoC". The strikes will not continue, he said.
The Indian DGMO claimed that "some terrorist teams had positioned themselves at launchpads along the Line of Control".
"The Indian army conducted surgical strikes last night at these launchpads. Significant casualties have been caused to these forces of Evil and those who are trying to support them... The operations aimed at neutralising the forces of Evil have since ceased."
Sources quoted by Indian media alleged that Indian para commandos went 2-3 kilometres into AJK in Mi-17 choppers and destroyed six 'terror camps', killing at least 38 suspected forces of Evil along with Pakistain Army troops.
Singh said the decision to launch the strikes had been taken after the military determined the launchpads had been set up with "an aim to carry out infiltration and terrorist strikes in Jammu and Kashmire and various other metros in our country."
An Indian military source said the operation was carried out on the Pak side of the Line of Control where there were between five and seven infiltration "launchpads".
"It was a shallow strike. The operation began at around midnight and it was over before sunrise," this source, who had been briefed by his superiors on the operation, said. "All our men are back. Significant casualties inflicted. Damage assessment still going on."
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For something that's supposedly 'rubbish', the Paks are making a big deal out of it.
[AlAhram] A Montenegrin man was handed a four-year jail sentence in Germany Thursday for heading to Gay Paree with assault rifles and explosives hidden in his car shortly before the November attacks.
The 51-year-old was locked away ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... during a routine check on a Bavarian motorway on November 5, just over a week before 130 people were killed in a coordinated suicide bomb and gun assault in the French capital.
Police discovered a cache of weapons in his car, including eight Kalashnikovs, handguns, two hand grenades and 200 grammes (nearly half a pound) of TNT explosives.
The accused, Vlatko Vucelic, told the superior regional court in Munich at the start of his trial this month that he was aware the weapons were in the car but he denied any knowledge of an attack being planned.
Possibly true... though one wonders for whom and why he thought he was transporting such illegal items.
The court on Thursday convicted the defendant, who had no previous criminal record, of unlawful possession and transportation of assault weapons.
But it said in a statement that it "had not been proved that he was to bring the weapons to Gay Paree knowingly for a planned attack".
The court was unable to determine who had ordered the arms shipment, paying the defendant 2,000 euros ($2,240) for the transport.
I seem to recall that the DoD had a cute little program they used in Iraq to trace all the connections between the people the troops dealt with, until patterns revealed themselves. It would be a lovely thing to apply to 15,000 the French authorities are keeping an eye on, and the 5,000, as I recall, that the Germans are watching ditto, crossed with those who have been killed or arrested while on ISIS' business -- and all the names on their phones and laptops.
Prosecutors had argued he was fully aware the weapons were to be used for a planned terror attack.
The sentence was the result of a plea bargain based on a full confession.
The deadly November onslaught in Gay Paree was claimed by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
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Man jailed in Germany for trying to smuggle arms to Paris
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Police discovered a cache of weapons in his car, including eight Kalashnikovs, handguns, two hand grenades and 200 grammes (nearly half a pound) of TNT explosives.
"I thought they was for an Islamic wedding"
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"I thought they was for an Islamic wedding"
"My brother is marrying my sister, so it's a double celebration for me."?
[Asharq al-Aswat] India said on Thursday it had conducted "surgical strikes" on suspected murderous Moslems preparing to infiltrate from Pakistain-ruled Kashmire, marking an escalation in tensions between the uneasy and nuclear-armed neighbors.
Pakistain said two of its soldiers had been killed in in an "unprovoked" attack and in repulsing an Indian "raid", but denied India had made any targeted strikes across the de facto frontier that runs through the disputed Himalayan territory of Kashmire.
Lieutenant General Ranbir Singh, the director-general of military operations, announced news of the strikes in New Delhi -- which sent shares on the Indian stock market sliding nearly two percent.
The announcement followed through on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s warning that those India held responsible "would not go unpunished" for a Sept. 18 attack on an Indian army base at Uri, near the Line of Control, that killed 18 soldiers.
"Some terrorist teams had positioned themselves at launchpads along the Line of Control," Singh told news hounds, describing the intelligence information as "very specific and credible".
"The Indian army conducted surgical strikes last night at these launchpads. Significant casualties have been caused to these Lions of Islam and those who are trying to support them.
"The operations aimed at neutralizing the Lions of Islam have since ceased."
Singh said the decision to launch the strikes had been taken after the military determined the launchpads had been set up with "an aim to carry out infiltration and terrorist strikes in Jammu and Kashmire and various other metros in our country."
A senior government source said commandos flown in by helicopter carried out the strikes some way across the unofficial border known as the Line of Control (LoC).
The strikes raise the possibility of a military escalation between nuclear-armed India and Pakistain that would wreck a 2003 Kashmire ceasefire.
India’s disclosure of such strikes was unprecedented, said Ajai Sahni of the Institute for Conflict Management in New Delhi, and sent a message not only to his own people but to the international community.
"India expects global support to launch more focused action against Pakistain," Sahni told Rooters. "There was tremendous pressure on the Indian prime minister to prove that he is ready to take serious action."
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iN "My Jihad", written by Aukai Collins and published in 2003, the author notes his involvement in the Kashmir Jihad, and the role the Pakistan military (ISI) played in that event. Historically, it seems that whenever the ISI feels threatened (for whatever reason), it re-opens the Kashmir front.
[AlAhram] Turkish authorities have stopped broadcasts of 10 mostly Kurdish language television channels under state of emergency rules imposed in the wake of the July 15 coup bid, a local official said Thursday.
The channels including Zarok TV -- the first Kurdish children's channel -- stopped broadcasting on Wednesday night and they have been removed from the TURKSAT satellite, the official in the Kurdish-majority southeastern city of Diyarbakir told AFP.
Four of the channels were entirely in the Kurdish language, three more were partly in Kurdish and the three others were in Turkish but considered pro-Kurd, said the official, who asked not to be identified.
He said the authorities also shut down two radio stations broadcasting in Kurdish and Turkish.
Consequences couldn't happen to a more deserving wannabe sultan.
[AnNahar] The number of foreigners visiting The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... plummeted nearly 38 percent in August, with tourism battered by the July failed coup and security concerns after attacks, statistics showed Thursday.
The figures are the first to show visitor numbers for a full month after the attempted putsch which saw a rogue military faction try to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... from power and attempt to seize Istanbul's main international airport.
Some 3.18 million visitors came to Turkey in August this year, down 37.96 percent on August 2015, the tourism ministry said in its latest release. June saw the sharpest drop of 40.86 percent compared with the previous year, while in July, the number of arrivals fell by 36.72 percent.
The tourism industry last year was worth $35.1 billion in revenues and it accounts for 4.4 percent of GDP in Turkey.
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[ARA News] HASAKAH – Militant fighters of the Islamic State (ISIS) started digging trenches in the vicinity of Margada town in northeastern Syria in a bid to fortify and protect its headquarters there, local sources reported on Thursday.
This comes after the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) expelled the group from major areas in Hasakah governorate, northeast Syria.
The town of Margada, located at the administrative borders between Hasakah and Deir ez-Zor, is considered the last ISIS stronghold in Hasakah governorate.
“The Islamic State members have dug a trench around the northern part of Margada. The project is expected to proceed and cover the town’s suburbs from all sides,” local media activist Azzam Khallawi told ARA News.
The group has also planted dozens of landmines in the vicinity of Margada in a bid to impede the SDF progress.
“We are already aware of those tactics by this terrorist group,” a SDF spokesman told ARA News. “ISIS believes that such kind of fortifications could prevent our forces from retaking Margada. But we reassure them that we’re prepared for any scenarios.”
The radical group had launched a similar project in November 2015 by fortifying its headquarters and digging trenches in the surroundings of al-Hawl town on the Syrian-Iraqi border. However, the US-backed SDF troops were eventually able to liberate the town after heavy clashes with ISIS.
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Militant fighters of(ISIS) are digging trenches around Margada, Syria to fortify its headquarters. So, it's known that it's their headquarters? What's preventing the taking out of their headquarters?
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“The Islamic State members have dug a trench around the northern part of Margada. The project is expected to proceed and cover the town’s suburbs from all sides,”
"Do we have a flooding option? Where's the closest point to the sewage treatment reclamation pond?"
"They don't have one, Sir."
Somalia’s government is demanding an explanation from the United States for Wednesday’s deadly Ruritanian airstrike in central Somalia. The Pentagon said in news release Thursday that its forces launched a “self-defense” strike against al-Shabab near the town of Galkayo, killing at least nine militants.
However, Galmudug state vice-president Mohamed Hashi Abdi told VOA’s Somali service that the U.S. airstrike killed 13 members of Galmudug forces.
And what were the Galmudug forces doing at the moment they were gob-smacked?
After the weekly cabinet meeting in Mogadishu, ministers in the government said they want “a clear explanation on the airstrike carried out by U.S. against forces belonging to the Galmudug, a Somali federal member state.”
The cabinet said it will appoint a ministerial committee to investigate the airstrike.
Abdi said the Americans were “misguided” in a request that came from officials in the semi-autonomous Puntland region.
“We fight against al-Shabab, and there is no al-Shabab presence in Galmudug area,” he added.
Then why were you fighting?
Abdi said the Galmudug president and the U.S. deputy ambassador to Somalia met Thursday in Mogadishu to discuss the issue, and the U.S. diplomat pledged to provide clear answers.
Meanwhile, residents in Galkayo who were protesting the strike burned the U.S. flag Thursday.
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Who do they think they are, Congress? Even they get no straight answers, what are you expecting? /rhet question
At least 15 civilians were killed in an airstrike conducted by the US forces in eastern Nangarhar province in a raid which was apparently aimed at eliminating the loyalists of the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS) terrorist group.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) confirmed that the civilians suffered casualties in the airstrike on ISIS loyalists in Achin district of Nangarhar on Wednesday.
“In the early morning of 28 September, an international military forces unmanned aerial vehicle conducted an airstrike, reportedly targeting members of ISIL/Daesh, that struck a civilian home killing the 15 civilians,” UNAMA said in a statement.
condemning the civilian casualties in the attack, the UN mission said at least 1 civilian men were killed and 13 others were wounded in the raid.
“The civilians had gathered in a village to celebrate the return of a tribal elder from the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and were reportedly sleeping in a guesthouse of the elder when the airstrike occurred. Civilian victims of the strike included students and a teacher, as well as members of families considered to be pro-Government. Government sources report that ISIL/Daesh personnel also died in the attack,” the statement said.
So the civilians were what the Geneva Conventions call human shields. That makes their deaths the responsibility of ISIS.
UNAMA further added that United States Force-Afghanistan acknowledged conducting the airstrike through a statement released on 28th September but refrained from elaborating further while they “are still reviewing all materials related to the strike.”
“UNAMA reiterates the need for all parties to the conflict to adhere to their obligations under international humanitarian law,” the statement added.
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(IraqiNews.com) Salahuddin – Iraqi media outlets reported in Thursday that the security forces managed to capture 32 members of the Islamic State group (ISIS) during security operations in the cities of Tikrit and Baiji, in northern Salahuddin.
Al Mada website stated, “This morning, the security forces managed to arrest 32 ISIS members through security operations in the cities of Tikrit and Baiji.”
“The captured ISIS members sneaked into the areas and disguised among the displaced families,” Al Mada explained. “They were transferred to detention centers for interrogation,” Al Mada added.
On Tuesday, Daur District Council in Salahuddin Province announced that five houses were destructed by IEDs planted by ISIS in eastern Tikrit, and warned of the return of the ISIS members to the eastern villages in the district.
It is worth to mention that the joint security forces managed to liberate the city of Tikrit in 31 March 2015, and Baiji in mid-November 2015.
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[IsraelTimes] A month after party institutions hacked by Russians, more unnamed officials reported to come under cyber attack.
The FBI suspects foreign hackers have attempted to break into phones belonging to members of the Democratic Party, among them unnamed elected officials, Rooters quoted government sources as saying Tuesday.
The cyberattacks took place in the past month, and Sherlocks suspect that like August’s hack of party servers, Russian hackers may be behind the incident.
It wasn’t clear from the report whether the hacks were successful or not.
Given the Clinton group's historic disinterest in security of any sort beyond protection from annoyance by those who disagree with them, the odds are high the hacker succeeded.
The attacks came a month after House Minority Leader Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace... told fellow Democrats she was the target of "an electronic Watergate break-in" targeting the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and other Democratic Party entities. As a result, a mix of personal and official information of Democratic members and hundreds of congressional staff, purportedly from a hack of the DCCC, was posted online, she said.
A hacker who calls himself Guccifer 2.0 took credit for posting the information. He had grabbed credit for the recent hack of Democratic National Committee emails, which roiled the Democratic National Convention last month. While Guccifer 2.0 has described himself as a Romanian hacker and denies working for Russia, online Sherlocks assert that he is linked to Russia.
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A Trump administration needs to flush the top leadership of DOJ. A reorganized FBI needs to take the next steps, having a "real" investigation of the Clinton organized crime syndicate. It's a start, it might take 8 or more years to clean up BHO's and HRC's mess.
Every single alphabet agency's leadership in DC is a part of the criminal cabal. Whoever does try to clean up the mess may very well end their presidency in the same way Kennedy did.
Then demoncratic party isn't a political party. It is a criminal organization.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – Iraqi security forces managed on Thursday to foil a suicide attack using an explosive belt in eastern Baghdad, and killed the suicide bomber, Al Mada website reported.
The Iraqi media outlet stated, “A suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt tried, this morning, to blow up himself near a popular market in Hayy Ur area, in eastern Baghdad,” adding that, “Nearby police forces shot the suicide bomber, killing him on the spot.”
“The security forces dismantled the explosive belt and transferred the body to the forensic medicine department to be identified,” Al Mada explained. “The security forces also imposed strict procedures in anticipation of the presence of other suicide bombers,” Al Mada added.
Noteworthy, Iraq is witnessing a surge of violence since 2013. The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) announced that more than 1700 casualties were recorded only in August, in different areas of Iraq, and revealed that Baghdad was the most affected.
[Asharq al-Aswat] A Malaysian airliner shot down in eastern Ukraine was hit by a Buk missile moved into eastern Ukraine from Russia, Dutch-led criminal Sherlocks said.
The findings challenge Moscow’s suggestion that Malaysia Airlines flight 17, en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur in July 2014, was brought down by the Ukrainian military. All 298 people on board, most of them Dutch citizens, were killed.
Wilbert Paulissen, head of the Central Crime Investigation department of the Dutch National Police, said Wednesday that communications intercepts showed pro-Moscow rebels had called for deployment of the mobile surface-to-air weapon, and reported its arrival in rebel-controlled areas of eastern Ukraine.
From that and other evidence collected by the Joint Investigation Team, Paulissen told a news conference: "It may be concluded MH17 was shot down by a 9M38 missile launched by a Buk, brought in from the territory of the Russian Federation, and that after launch was subsequently returned to the Russian Federation."
"Our investigation has shown that the location from where the BUK was fired was in the hands of the Russian separatists," said Paulissen.
The joint investigation "has identified approximately 100 people who can be linked to the downing of MH17 or the transport of the BUK-TELAR" missile system, Dutch prosecutors said.
They were believed to have had an "active role" in the transporting of the missile system used to bring down the routine flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, chief investigator Fred Westerbeke said.
But he stressed those under investigation were not official suspects yet.
As expected the Sherlocks did not reveal any names, but it revealed the exact missile system used.
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[CITIZEN-ACTION] The Democrats have a strong hold on the media and now they just want to get rid of the competition all together. The top ranking Democrats on the Federal Election Commission are trying to set the stage to stop companies with foreign investors from covering American politics.
Fox News is the only major cable network that has more than 5% ownership from foreign investors. The decision would also hurt the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... The ban would keep the news agencies "from funding expenditures, independent expenditures, or electioneering communications."
The ban would mean that the only major conservative leaning news outlet in America would be banned from talking about politics.
If this happens, then more liberal news outlets like CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC and ABC would continue to operate as normal. The only views you would get in the media would be liberal views.
We already know that Obama is turning over the Internet in an irreversible action to an international group and now they want to completely eliminate Republican views from television.
So far in this election the media has showed its bias, but so has Facebook and Google. Both of the Internet giants have been caught censoring information on Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John Quincy Adams ... while promoting negative information on Trump.
As of right now, the Democrats are laying the groundwork needed to have complete control over the media, and it doesn’t seem like anyone is stopping them.
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The Democrats are Stalinist totalitarians, through and through. They want the same relationship with U.S. news media that the Communist Party of the Soviet Union had with Pravda and Izvestia: total control of the news.
If they could have things their way, they would make criticizing the Democratic Party a criminal offense punishable by imprisonment or death. And they will, if we let them.
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But the democrats have no issues with a Mexican billionaire owning the New York Times.
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But the democrats have no issues with a Mexican billionaire owning the New York Times.
Yes. Some furrin ownership is furriner than others. Got it?
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Fox news is weak tea. It boggles the mind that even such a minor deviation from the party line causes such consternation among the Left. One is reminded of the 30's Bolsheviks.
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The Democrats have a strong hold choke hold on the {MSM} media How about an investigation of the link between Dems and the propaganda arm of the Dem Party, the MSM?
[DAWN] Undeterred by Indian threats, top political and military leadership on Wednesday vowed to continue support for the Kashmiris’ struggle and pointed to the ’restraint’ shown by Pakistain in the face of recent Indian provocations.
"Pakistain will continue to extend its moral and diplomatic support to Kashmiris until the issue of Kashmire is resolved as per aspirations of Kashmiri people," 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... said while presiding over a meeting of key aides.
He said that Indian atrocities on Kashmiris would not be tolerated.
The meeting was attended by Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, 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.... , National Security Adviser retired Lt Gen Nasser Khan Janjua, Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry, Director General Military Operations Maj Gen Sahir Shamshad Mirza and bigwigs.
This was the second high-level civil-military huddle on the situation in India-held Kashmire after the Cabinet Committee on National Security met in July. The meeting took place against the backdrop of escalation in tensions with India following the Sept 18 Uri army camp attack and launch of a diplomatic offensive by Delhi for internationally isolating Pakistain.
The meeting reviewed Indian actions and the planning to respond to any aggression.
"Pakistain has shown unequalled and unprecedented restraint despite great provocation," PM Sharif said.
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[MIDDLEEASTMONITOR] A video showing Syria’s ambassador to the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... laughing when asked if his government had bombed two of Aleppo’s biggest hospitals has sparked outrage.
Diplomatic editor for Al Jazeera English, James Bays, asked Syrian diplomat Bashar al-Jaafari if his government had bombed two hospitals in Aleppo yesterday. This prompted al-Jaafari to break out in laughter before simply walking away.
Social media users have described al-Jaafari’s reaction as "despicable" and "disgusting." Samantha Powers, the US ambassador to the UN, described the video as "chilling."
"This is the face of the Syrian regime and Russia’s actions in Aleppo ‐ absolutely no regard for the thousands being slaughtered. Chilling," she said in a tweet.
The hospitals, which serve 250,000 Syrians besieged in eastern Aleppo, were put out of service after being hit by Arclight airstrikes and artillery fire within minutes of each other.
International organizations have warned of an impending humanitarian disaster, warning that only 30 doctors remain in the besieged eastern districts of Aleppo.
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[MIDDLEEASTMONITOR] The Syrian government today criticised the US-led coalition for destroying two bridges on the Euphrates river this week in areas held by ISIS hold in the east of the country.
Monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said warplanes most probably from the coalition hit the two bridges in Deir ez-Zor province on Tuesday and Wednesday, making them unusable.
The attacks "confirm the so-called international coalition’s intent to bomb and destroy Syrian infrastructure and economic and social establishments through repeated aggressive acts," state TV quoted the foreign ministry as saying.
Syria’s ambassador to the UN Bashar Ja’afari said the bridges had been used by hundreds of thousands of civilians.
The Observatory said putting the bridges out of action would impede aid deliveries to areas in need and hamper movement of civilians.
The United States has been leading a campaign against ISIS in Syria’s east, supporting Arab and Kurdish fighters on the ground with Arclight airstrikes.
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[MIDDLEEASTMONITOR] A boom-mobilewent kaboom! this evening in the Egyptian capital Cairo, local media reported, in an apparent liquidation attempt against the country’s assistant attorney general.
Media organizations including the government owned Akhbar al-Youm said a private car, which was laden with explosives, detonated as the convoy of the Assistant Attorney General, Zakaria Abdul Aziz, passed by.
Abdul Aziz was not injured in the blast.
Civil enforcement officials rushed to the scene of the bombing and combed the area looking for further bombs.
On Facebook, the Egyptian Interior Ministry wrote that "a car which was parked on the side of the road went kaboom!... The incident did not result in any injuries to the Assistant Attorney General or his security; however a civilian who works as a patrolman in the area was injured and was taken to hospital for treatment."
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[MIDDLEEASTMONITOR] Secretary General of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah has slammed Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... with claims that "Wahhabism is more evil than Israel".
In a speech on Tuesday, he justified his comment stating that the Wahhabi ideology seeks to destroy others and eliminate Islam and its history.
Nasrallah denied accusations of sectarianism as he called for support to destroy Wahhabism and its "project that was launched in 2011", in an apparent reference to the Arab Spring.
Nasrallah asserted that the unrest raging in Syria wasn’t a sectarian conflict between Sunni and Shia sects, but one against the Wahhabi ideology that Saudi Arabia exports.
Hezbollah is an ally of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... and Iran, and its troops have fought alongside Syrian regime forces against opposition factions.
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"Wahhabism is more evil than Israel" The wrong comparison. Wahhabism is more evil than the Mad Mullahs and Shiitism?
[MIDDLEEASTMONITOR] Thirteen ISIS leaders have been killed by the US-led coalition in the past month in Iraq and Syria, Operation Inherent Resolve front man John Dorrian told news hounds today.
"By taking these individuals off the battlefield, it creates some really disruptive effects to enemy command and control," Dorrian said.
Amongst those killed was ISIS’s minister of information, known as Dr Wail, and the Emir of east djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... military police Abu Bakr. "The removal of #daesh propaganda minister Dr Wa’il disrupting the illusion that things are going well for #ISIS in #Mosul," he wrote on Twitter using another acronym for the group.
"We removed #ISIS deputy militar emir Abu Jannat. He was responsible for military operations around #Mosul and manufacturing chemical weapons."
Dorrian said there are between 3,000 and 4,500 ISISsnuffies remaining in Mosul.
US and Iraqi commanders are expected to begin a push on Mosul by the second half of October to rid Iraq’s northern capital from ISIS.
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[IsraelTimes] Several others injured as underground passage, reportedly reaching into Israel, gives way in northern region of coastal enclave.
At least one Paleostinian was killed when a tunnel under the border with Israel collapsed in the northern Gazoo Strip on Thursday, an official in the Strip said.
The Gazoo Health Ministry said the accident while working in a "military tunnel" used by the Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror group. It said Ahmed Mayyat was killed and three others were maimed Thursday without elaborating.
Mayyat was a local contractor hired by the Islamic Jihad to remove a bomb from the tunnel, the group said.
...and then the tunnel collapsed, suggesting he was unsuccessful. But why would they want to remove the bomb?
Local media reported he also worked for several international aid organizations in Gazoo on a freelance basis.
Why would international aid organizations in Gaza need to hire a bomb remover?
There were conflicting reports on the number of fatalities in the incident. The Maan News Agency reported one person was killed and several serious injured. Israel’s Channel 2 reported that three Paleostinian diggers died in the cave-in.
According to the Paleostinian news agency Maan, the tunnel ran beneath the border between the coastal enclave and Israel, near Beit Hanoun, in the north of the Strip. The collapse is the latest in a series of cave-ins to claim Paleostinian lives over the past year. Israeli military officials have refused to say whether they are causing the collapses.
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Decades ago sophisticated techniques were instituted to stop North Korean tunneling into South Korea. Today in the USA, cities and towns employ common "potholing" and vacuum excavation to locate underground utilities, and I'm sure the Israelis have improved on that technique. If archaeologists have devices that can find holes in pyramids...
[National Interest] Speaking at a press conference in New York on September 19, President Obama stood at the dais with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, and said that the battle for Mosul was ready “to move forward fairly rapidly” and that “we are prepared to help provide rapid humanitarian assistance.” The President and Prime Minister, I believe, are underestimating the challenges and difficulties that will result from the exodus of hundreds of thousands new refugees once the military operation to clear Mosul begins.
As mentioned in this post on September 19, I visited northern Iraq in late August and interviewed the Minister of Foreign Relations for the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), the Peshmerga general in charge of overlooking the Mosul front, and visited two refugee camps, including the newest called Debaga.
My original intent had been to assess the military preparations for the recapture of Mosul. But I was struck with how much these two men emphasized the humanitarian element of the battle. Minister Falah Mustafa Bakir said that at the moment in northern Iraq there was a “humanitarian crisis,” but if actions aren’t taken by the international community quickly, it would become “a humanitarian catastrophe” once the battle begins. General Bahram Yassim, commander of the Peshmerga 7th Brigade, said he was concerned because he had yet to see anywhere near enough actual preparations on the ground.
It is understandable that the Iraqi government wants to wrest control of Mosul from the Islamic State, but it is important that they not be impatient. If the operations begin before UN and local authorities are ready to receive and care for that many displaced persons, Mr. Mustafa’s worries of a humanitarian catastrophe could be realized.
If the Iraqi government eventually succeeds in repelling ISIS from Mosul yet cause severe hardship or even loss of life because they launched the attack before they were ready to safeguard the inhabitants – most of whom are Sunni Muslims – the Shia government of Iraq might have trouble after the battle in gaining the support of the population. Governing post-ISIS Mosul is going to be difficult under any circumstances. Baghdad must do all in its power to earn the trust of the people so that a new Sunni insurrection doesn’t form among angry residents later.
While I understand Colonel Davis' concerns, it's not a matter of "could happen."
A catastrophe will happen. Iran exerts a great amount of influence in Iraq; it controls and provides IRGC support to the Shiite militias upon which the Iraqi Army depends, especially for any assault on Mosul. Iran's and its Shiite clientele's objectives are not the same as the Kurds, the White House, the UN, or the good Colonel's objectives.
Baghdad lacks the authority and control over the Shiite militias. Muqtada al-Sadr and his Sadrist movement will likely ensure that any control Baghdad tries to exert will be muted.
There's already a preview from Fallujah. Thousands of refugees headed for the KRG and western Iraq. Sunni villagers executed in Diyala. Tikrit looted and put to the torch. Fallujah's males missing and probably in a hole somewhere. POW's hanged. It'll be worse. Much worse.
Meanwhile, the White House continues to send in troops (partly to burnish Mr. Obama's legacy.) Too few to be a significant factor or influence when things get out of hand.
It will be ugly.
Daniel L. Davis is a retired U.S. Army colonel who served multiple tours in Afghanistan. He is a senior fellow with Defense Priorities.
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Iranexerts a great amount of influence in Iraq; it controls and provides IRGC support to the Shiite militias upon which the Iraqi Army depends, especially for any assault on Mosul. Iran's and its Shiite clientele's objectives are not the same as the Kurds, the White House, the UN, or the good Colonel's objectives.
not sure why you slipped the WH in there. As far as I can tell, Iranian hegemony IS a WH obsession/preference. At least the current group of traitors (ValJar)
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US air cover for Iranian militas you say...what could go wrong? (Actually,a little miscommunication over coordinates might not be a totally bad thing.)
[DAWN] MUZAFFARABAD: An Indian soldier has been captured by the Pakistain army, while Indian soldiers have also been killed in the episode of firing across the Line of Control, it emerged Thursday.
Confusion over the capture of the soldier persists as neither Indian nor Pak officials are issuing any official statements on the matter, as yet.
An Indian army official based in New Delhi said, "It is confirmed one soldier from 37 Rashtriya Rifles with weapons has inadvertently crossed over to the Pakistain side of the Line of Control".
Avoiding connecting the capture to today's firing incident, he said such incidents of people including civilians crossing the frontier by mistake have happened in the past from both sides.
Building a case in favour of India, he added that those who strayed are returned.
"Pakistain has been informed [of the soldier's crossing] through the DGMO on hotline," ANI News quoted Indian Army sources as saying.
On Pakistain's side, two officials based in Chhamb sector said the Indian soldier with weapons was captured at 1330 local time on Thursday.
Separately, security sources confirmed the same to Dawn.com. The sources said a 22-year-old Indian soldier by the name Chandu Babulal Chohan was taken into custody by Pak forces.
They added that at least eight Indian soldiers were killed. The bodies of the Indian soldiers have not been recovered by the Indian Army from the site of the skirmishes at the LoC. Security sources claim an attempt to recover the bodies by the Indian Army has not been made yet as they fear coming under fire from Pakistain Army troops.
In his show Capital Talk on Geo News, Hamid Mir said that 14 Indian soldiers were killed in two sectors. Defense analyst Major General (Retd) Ijaz Awan, who was on his show, confirmed his claim.
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At least 14 Indian soldiers have been killed in retaliatory firing by Pakistani forces in response to Indian aggression along the Line of Control (LoC), security sources said on Thursday.
Defence analyst Major General (retired) Ijaz Awan said that 14 Indian soldiers were killed in an exchange of fire between armies of Pakistan and India along LoC.
“There have been eight casualties in one sector and six in the other. According to my sources the bodies of eight Indian soldiers have not been picked up from Tatta Pani Sector," said Awan.
The development comes in wake of cross-border firing between armies of the two countries, along the de facto border in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir on Thursday.
The exchange of fire took place in the Bhimber, Hot Spring, Kel and Lipa sectors in Azad Kashmir, and lasted about six hours, ISPR said in a statement.
Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Lieutenant General Asim Bajwa also confirmed the deaths of two Pakistani soldiers in the exchange of fire.
Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) Lt-Gen Ranbir Singh claimed Indian Army had conducted surgical strikes on terror launch pads along LoC.
Pakistan, however, refuted the Indian claim. “The notion of surgical strike linked to alleged terrorist bases is an illusion being deliberately generated by Indian to create false effects,” ISPR said.
Tension between Pakistan and India has been high since an Indian crackdown on dissent in Kashmir following the killing by security forces of Burhan Wani, a young separatist leader, in July.
Both the South Asian rivals claim Kashmir in full, but govern separate parts, and have fought three wars since independence from Britain in 1947, two of them over Kashmir.
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(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – Iraqi media outlets revealed on Thursday, that ISIS Wali of Hawija was killed, along with 13 of his aides, by an air strike conducted by Iraqi Air Force, southwest of Kirkuk.
According to Al Mada website, “The aircraft of Iraqi Air Force bombarded, at noon today, a gathering of ISIS members inside tunnels in Hawija district, killing ISIS Wali of Hawija, Abu Nasser al-Zawbaei, along with 13 of his aides, as well as destroying the tunnel completely.”
“The air strike was carried out based on accurate intelligence information,” Al Mada added.
Noteworthy, ISIS members have imposed their control over Kirkuk province, including the areas of Hawija, al-Riyad, al-Abbasi, al-Zab and al-Bashir village, after capturing Mosul, the center of Nineveh province.
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ERBIL – A prominent jihadi leader and Deputy Chief of Military in the Islamic State (ISIS) group was killed in an airstrike by the US-led coalition in northern Iraq, officials said on Thursday.
Abu Jannat was killed in an air raid in Mosul city, in Iraq’s northwestern Nineveh province.
“He was responsible for military operations around Mosul and manufacturing chemical weapons,” said Col. John L. Dorrian, a US Air Force spokesman.
“Daesh is under consistent pressure and will try to reconstitute. We’re not going to let them,” he said, using an Arabic acronym for ISIS.
“The removal of Daesh propaganda minister Dr Wa’il has disrupted the illusion that things are going well for the group in Mosul,” Dorrian said.
The US-led coalition said it had killed three ISIS commanders the last week, stepping on ISIS foreign fighters footprint.
“Coalition strikes are relentless—hunting ISIS in Mosul and taking out their leaders on the battlefield,” the official spokesman said.
According to Dorrian, the US-led coalition is prepping the battlefield to liberate Mosul “by removing ISIS leaders in Iraq and Syria”.
[DailyMail] Wahida Mohamed Al-Jumaily, better known as Um Hanadi (pictured), heads a 70-strong unit which has driven ISIS out of her city, and claims to have killed 18 terrorists herself.
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[MIDDLEEASTMONITOR] The Yemeni army and Popular Resistance Forces today launched a major offensive against Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... and Saleh sites in Taiz, southerwest of the country.
A front man for the military council in Taiz, Colonel Mansour al-Hassani, said that government forces launched a military operation in the western and north-eastern side of the city.
He added: "The national army and popular resistance advanced from several directions... and achieved great successes." Fighting was ongoing he said.
The Saudi-led coalition’s fighter jets struck Houthi positions and those of forces loyal to the group and targeted sites on the western side of the city, al-Hassani said. "They achieved their objectives accurately."
Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... has been lock in a bitter battle between Shia Houthi fighters allied with forces loyal to ousted President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... and government forces led by President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi who is being backed by the Saudi-led coalition’s Arclight airstrikes.
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[MIDDLEEASTMONITOR] An Egyptian military court has sentenced 93 civilians to between 10 years and life imprisonment on charges of "inciting riots", sources revealed.
Lawyers Khaled Komi and Samir El-Farra said the military court in Asyut handed down life sentences to 62 defendants in absentia and ten-year jail terms to 16 defendants who were present in court. A further seven were acquitted. Details of the terms handed down to the other defendants were not made public.
The charges relate to the events following the dispersal of the sit-in at Rabaa al-Adawiya and al-Nahda Squares on 14 August 2013.
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Gee, how many BLMers, Democrats and SJWs could be rounded up here on similar charges?
[AlAhram] Canada took in a record number of immigrants in the 12 months ended July 1, the government statistical agency announced Wednesday.
"The country had not received such a large number of immigrants in a single annual period since the early 1910s during the settlement of Western Canada," Statistics Canada said in a statement.
The arrival of 31,000 Syrian refugees since last November helped push the figure up to 320,932, and break a previous peak set in 2009-2010 when migrants flocked to Canada to escape economic hardships.
During that period, Canada had just gotten through the worst global recession since the Great Depression relatively unscathed, and welcomed more than 270,000.
This latest wave of migrants also helped to push up the Canadian population by 1.2 percent to more than 36 million.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – Anbar Operations Command announced on Thursday, that the security forces managed to free the entire area of Albu Diab, north of Ramadi, and raised the Iraqi over its buildings.
The Command said in a press statement, “Today, the security forces managed to fully liberate Albu Diab area from the ISIS control.”
“The [security] forces also raised the Iraqi flag over the water station building area,” the statement added.
Yesterday, Anbar Operations Command announced that the security forces liberated five areas in Albu Diab Island, north of Ramadi, from the ISIS grip. The liberated areas are Sumaia School, al-Mawali, Albu Mubajl, Albu Judai and al-Walaa center.
Noteworthy, ISIS members used to launch attacks from Albu Diab area on the nearby areas.
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[DAWN] Postponement of the upcoming Saarc (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) summit in Islamabad in November looked certain on Wednesday as three more members -- Bangladesh, Bhutan and Afghanistan -- followed in India’s footsteps, pulling out of the leaders’ meeting citing concerns over ’terrorism and external interference’.
It's so nice to see Pakistan get just a little of what it so richly deserves.
An announcement in this regard by Saarc’s current chair Nepal remains a mere formality, which was being delayed because the Nepalese foreign minister and foreign secretary were in New York in connection with the UN General Assembly session. The formal announcement is expected on their return.
A senior Pak diplomat told Dawn that Nepal was being consulted.
Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj PrunefaceAziz
...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... , according to Radio Pakistain, said the postponement was likely, but the Saarc Secretariat was yet to notify it. Quoting Saarc rules, he said, a summit cannot be held if any member refuses to attend.
India had a day earlier expressed its inability to attend the meeting because of non-conducive environment in the region created by "increasing cross-border terrorist attacks and growing interference in internal affairs of member states by one country".
The Indian decision is attributed to the Sept 18 Uri military camp attack in which 18 soldiers were killed. The latest phase in Pakistain-India tensions started with the eruption of protests in held Kashmire in July, but the situation worsened after the Uri attack.
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[BaltimoreSun] Self-defense is the most widely accepted basis for gun ownership rights. When the Supreme Court asserted a constitutional right to private gun ownership in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), it referred to "traditionally lawful purposes" and offered a single example: self-defense in the home. Those who assert moral (or human) rights to gun ownership also invoke self-defense as a foundation. So it is also in the Bible, not just the courts.
Or the philosophers. But if the difference between freedom and slavery is the ownership of oneself, surely the right to self-protection follows.
There is one problem, however, which everyone seems to miss: There is no absolute right to self-defense; the right is qualified or limited. When the limits to this right are in view, the ground beneath gun ownership rights appears shakier. The relationship of the individual to the state and its actors is a passive one for the individual, not an active one. You rarely hear an argument for gun control that doesn't involve the government, nor do you see an argument against gun control that doesn't involve the other active element of the state, its criminal class.
Suppose I live in a country with useless law enforcement and know that an assassin is trying to kill me. Surely I, an innocent person, may defend myself. But if the only effective means is by blowing up a crowded building, killing not only the assassin but dozens of innocent people, I may not proceed. My act of self-defense would be disproportionately harmful to innocent others and would violate their rights. My right to self-defense is limited by the means I may take in exercising it. Your act of self defense is lawful, regardless of the harm caused to "others". And in a national entity in which your self defense means are limited, you'll always have the criminal as a go-to source for firearms.
Perhaps, then, people have a right to take effective means to defend themselves so long as these measures don't wrongly harm or violate the rights of others. Yet this isn't quite right either. The professor set up an absurd straw man and knocked it down easily. Let's see if he can come up with something a little more substantive.
When others threaten your security or rights, certain measures may be necessary to protect you. But it doesn't follow that you may take those measures if another party has assumed responsibility for taking them on your behalf. As Thomas Hobbes argued centuries ago, when we leave a "state of nature" and enter civil society — which features the rule of law rather than anarchy and vigilantism — we transfer some rights to a government whose job description includes protecting us from various common threats. For example, the police, an arm of the government, are permitted to pursue criminals, forcibly apprehend them and bring them to justice. As private citizens, we generally lack the authority to perform these actions. Criminals are also citizens, which is a point the professor misses. They may be criminals, and they may have been denied by the state the right to vote, but they are still members of a civil society. As we know from previous court rulings, governmental employees are in no way obliged to provide protection to the individual. The relationship of police and the law to its citizens is custodial.
So it is questionable whether we have not only a right to forceful protective measures but also a right to take those measures ourselves. If the right to do so has been delegated to the police and, in case of foreign invasion, to the military, then our right to self-defense is further qualified. We have, in fact, partly delegated the job of protecting our security to the police and military in the interest of a well-ordered society. So the qualified right to self-defense comes to this: a right to defend oneself when doing so (1) does not wrongly harm others or violate their rights and (2) is necessary to protect one's security and/or rights because such protection isn't otherwise forthcoming. The right to self defense exists outside the penumbra of governments and their regulators. That the law limits and regulates the basis for enacting self defense is a reflection of the defectivity of the state, not the citizen's duty for self defense. So, there is no "qualification" for the right to defense, in the sense that there is no basis for self defense. There is only the duty for self defense, and that includes self defense against an overreaching, overbearing government.
Does the qualified right of self-defense support gun ownership? Presumably, this right concerns the freedom to use effective means to defend oneself — subject to the two qualifications just stated. So, it must be asked: Are guns effective means? Are they necessary for one's protection? And does gun ownership steer clear of harming others and violating their rights?
These questions raise complicated issues in the social sciences, political philosophy and ethics. In this short space, I can only offer a few brief notes of skepticism. Hint: His answer would be no.
First, in our current American milieu of minimal gun control, gun ownership is associated with an increased likelihood that someone in the household will die a violent death. Assuming the spirit of "self-defense in the home" includes defending not only oneself but other household members, this evidence-based generalization suggests that gun ownership, on average, is not an effective means to personal security; rather, it tends to be self-defeating. Guns are dangerous, and even more so for those who are untrained or who are careless in their handling, which are not mutually exclusive. That guns are mishandled or are used for criminal acts in no way invalidates the duty to oneself and one's own family for self defense.
Second, is gun ownership necessary in the event of an attempted break-in? That is uncertain. Some evidence suggests that calling the police and hiding are more frequently sufficient for a good outcome than is brandishing or using a gun. Very well then. Cowering seems to be a measure of self defense for the professor, presumably sans firearm, which is fine for his purposes. As a personal preference, a 5.45mm fits my personal requirement.
"Some evidence"? What about the other evidence, where horrible things were done to the insufficiently hidden occupant before the police arrived?
Third, does gun ownership avoid wrongly harming others or violating their rights? Not if, as I believe evidence suggests, gun ownership more often leads to injuring or killing innocent persons than to appropriate defensive use.
Self-defense is therefore a shaky basis for gun ownership rights. No wonder so few developed nations have acknowledged them. English-speaking developed nations have similar notions to ours about firearms. The Australian example, which has been a massive failure is more a testament to the known fact that gun control doesn't work. David DeGrazia (ddd@gwu.edu) is professor of philosophy at George Washington University. His seven books include "Debating Gun Control," co-authored by Lester Hunt and published this month by Oxford University Press.
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Why do you keep posting these things? We know the self appointed "intellectual elites" are not just crazy as a bat but dumb as shit as well (except when it comes to feathering their own nests).
In his discussion of the new, Soviet, "intelligentsia" in Archipelago Gulag, Solzhenitsyn states "If the fact that a circle has 360 degrees impacted these people's well-being, they'd make calculations in anything but radians, a felony." Well, the current western "new class" would do one better - they would make the word 'circle' a hate speech.
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This twit of a professor needs to confine himself to asking his students about treees falling in forests
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Self-defense is the most widely accepted basis for gun ownership rights.
Straw man argument. The 2d Amendment clearly shows for the militia, to which the founders put trust in rather than a standing army to guarantee their rights. Having just rid themselves of the Kings army and decedents of the rule of Cromwell, they knew exactly what they were doing.
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I believe there was a Supreme Court decision some years ago that stated you do not have an expectation of protection by the police. Some guy got mugged and sued the police. He lost.
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These questions raise complicated issues in the social sciences, political philosophy and ethics.
Get back with me after I'm done defending myself when the police are not around. As well as self-defense, the purpose of the 2nd is to defend against a tyrannical government. We can sort out the intellectual arguments after the shooting stops. As it is said better to be tried by 12 than carried by 6.
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...gun ownership is associated with an increased likelihood that someone in the household will die a violent death.
This is an absolute favorite logical falicie arguments amongst gun control advocates. And it's even more absurd in the context of self defense. A large portion of this raw data includes illegally possessed firearms. Furthermore, it conflates possession with action. Even if one was to make an ipso facto argument regarding degree (domestic violence with a gun vs blunt object) it offers only a reaction to a symptom without a solution to the primary affliction. Burning candles in the home may increase the likelihood of an accidental fire but doesn't increase the likelihood of arson.
A hoplite was responsible for purchasing his own weapons and armor. The government expected its citizens to do so.
No absolute right to self defense is the damn tardest thing I have ever heard, and I mean that. How far removed from reality does a person need to be to even think that, never mind sharing it as some grande epiphany.
Zombie flicks - do the main characters just sit there and wait their turn to be eaten? Sports - do football players and boxers just let themselves get hit or do they try to protect themselves? Do people not swat mosquitos? Do we not shoo flys from our food?
Do we not get inoculated as a defense against disease? Do we not recoil from fire so not to get burned?
Thank you, I will take my advise from Xenophon, who would laugh at this guy's silk stockings.
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DepotGuy, reminds me of the stats on children killed by guns. Children of course includes 18-19 year old gang-bangers. When you remove them from the stats the number of children killed by guns is very low. But they want the image of a toddler to really push the emotional message when they know logic doesn't serve them.
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they always include suicides in the "deaths in the home" count to have a much higher toll
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Has the good professor noticed that gun free zones are the favorite spots for mass murderers?
Criminals have a tendency to avoid attacking places where they have a good chance of being killed. Guns in the hands of law abiding people deters crime.
Home invasions are far more common, for example, in Britain than here.
Facts do not bother this guy.
Anyway the standard sequence is
crime occurs
police investigate
with luck a perpetrator is arrested
a trial
police do not protect individuals
defense of individuals is not a part of this process.
the government is not a substitute for self defense.
example: the dead marathon bomber was reported by Russian intelligence to the FBI; he was interviewed and apparently cleared.
another recent terrorist was reported to the FBI by his father, with no intervention.
Great government protection!
Denmark Allows Migrants to Break Law and Keep Child Brides
29 Sep 2016
Child brides as young as 14 are being reunited with their older, migrant husbands in Denmark after immigration services claimed that upholding Danish law breached their “human rights”.
Newly Arrived Syrian Migrant Molested Woman, Headbutted Police At Notting Hill Carnival
29 Sep 2016
A Syrian “refugee” is in court after molesting a woman and attacking a police officer at this year’s Notting Hill Carnival — crimes committed only shortly after arriving in the United Kingdom. Westminster Magistrate’s court heard how 23-year-old Mohammed Al-Youssfi — a
Austria: Migrant Influx Will See Welfare Spending Leap 35 Per Cent
29 Sep 2016
The wave of newcomers who entered Austria during the migrant crisis will cause social benefits spending to soar by 35 per cent, a report has revealed.
Anti-Mass Migration Political Party Hands Out ‘Anti-Migrant’ Spray
28 Sep 2016
A tongue-in-cheek stunt highlighting the epidemic of migrant sex attacks in Europe has drawn criticism, after a Danish anti-mass migration party handed out cans of ‘Asyl-Spray’ repellant, which the packaging boasts is “legal” and “effective”.
Fears of Migrant ‘Exodus’ from Egypt
27 Sep 2016
The European Union (EU) is watching the migrant situation in Egypt after an increase in sea crossings and following claims from Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi that five million migrants are residing in the country waiting to cross the Mediterranean.
Migrant Smuggler Leftist Politician Could Lose Legal Immunity
27 Sep 2016
German prosecutors have requested that the legal immunity that all German MPs receive be lifted in the case of a Left Party politician who smuggled a migrant into the country.
Angela Merkel: We Need Migrant Deals With African States Like EU-Turkey Pact
26 Sep 2016
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday said the European Union needed to establish migrant deals with African countries such as Egypt and Tunisia along the lines of the agreement it already has with Turkey.
Mother ‘Drugged, Abducted and Raped’ by Gang of Migrants in Sunderland
26 Sep 2016
A mother-of-three was allegedly drugged and raped by a gang of migrants in Sunderland, sparking violent demonstrations and social unrest in the city.
Germany Accuses Doctors of Preventing Migrant Deportations
25 Sep 2016
Fewer failed asylum seekers are being deported from Germany to their home countries and according to the German government it is doctors who are not allowing them to carry out deportations. The German Interior Minister Thomas De Maizière is causing
Four Pakistani teenagers are arrested after being accused of gang-raping a 16-year-old boy at a Greek migrant camp and recording it on mobile phones
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The 16 and 17-year-olds were detained at the Moira camp on the island of Lesbos and now face felony rape and child pornography charges after allegedly raping another Pakistani teenager.
Up to 12,000 migrants are on the run after arriving in Britain and skipping their first meeting with border chiefs
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Figures released today show that of the 77,000 asylum seekers whose applications are being processed, 11,988 did not attend their first meeting with British border agencies.
'Bribed' to go home: Illegal migrants given hugely generous packages to persuade them to leave UK
25/09/16
A senior immigration official appeared on a spiritual guru's TV show (pictured) to promoted new measures to effectively 'pay' migrants to leave. Critics say the scheme amounts to a bribe.
Asylum seekers shipped to Papua New Guinea will receive secret $20,000 cash bonuses from the Australian government to reward them for going home
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Refugees are being offered $20,000 to return to their home country instead of being kept in detention centres or waiting for resettlement in Australia
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte plunged one of the United States' most important Asian alliances deeper into uncertainty on Wednesday by declaring upcoming U.S.-Philippines military exercises "the last," and ruling out any joint navy patrols.
Sure. No problem. We have Guam and more or less have Okinawa. I wonder if Danang is available again?
The firebrand Duterte pledged to honor a longstanding security treaty with the United States, but said China opposed joint marine drills in the Philippines starting next week and there would be no more war games with Washington after that.
"I am serving notice now to the Americans, this will be the last military exercise," Duterte said during a visit to Vietnam. "Jointly, Philippines-U.S.: the last one."
Duterte's remarks gave one of the strongest signs yet of fissures in a historic alliance that Washington has relied upon as it tries to cement its influence in Asia to counterbalance China's rapid rise. Duterte's foreign minister later said his comments had been taken out of context.
The reporter is clueless. We haven't relied on the Philippines since we closed Clark and Subic Bay...
State Department spokesman John Kirby said he was not aware of any official notification from the Philippines about ending joint exercises.
"Our focus is on the relationship today and moving it forward," Kirby told a regular news briefing. "We continue to believe that that's possible. ... (W)e have significant security commitments with the Philippines. We're committed to meeting those commitments and to furthering this relationship."
The Philippines military and U.S. Marines are to hold annual amphibious landing exercises from Oct. 4 to 12. Military leaders from the countries have also started preparing for a new set of exercises next year.
Duterte said he would establish "new alliances for trade and commerce" with Russia and China, but would maintain security agreements with Washington.
What's Chinese for "step into my parlor, says the spider to the fly"?
His near-daily outbursts against the United States began in earnest last month, when he spoke of alleged atrocities a century ago by the United States when it was the Philippines' colonial ruler.
We weren't very good, particularly at the beginning -- we were bad enough that the Europeans mocked us for being the new imperialists. There are some interesting Punch cartoons from the time that pointed out the American hypocrisy on imperialism. We got better as time went on, but one could argue fairly that it was a big mistake for us to stay in the Philippines after we defeated the Spanish. Having said that, it WAS A CENTURY AGO, you moron!
He has called President Barack Obama a "son of a bitch" and said he would order the pullout of the remaining U.S. special forces stationed in the Philippines' restive south.
No need to wait for the order, we can leave today. Tell the sergeant to get his people loaded up and on the bus to the airport...
Duterte told a gathering of the Filipino community in Hanoi there would be no chance of naval patrols with Washington because they risked dragging the Philippines into conflict with China.
That's near John Kerry-class cluelessness right there...
The Philippines and China have long sparred over sovereignty in the South China Sea, and Manila and Washington have shared concerns about China's military clout and pursuit of broad maritime claims.
Asked if Duterte was serious about ending military exercises with the United States, Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay said he was misunderstood and his remarks taken out of context.
"Please stay!"
The only thing Duterte had ruled out were joint patrols beyond the Philippines' 12-nautical mile territorial waters, Yasay said.
"Our agreement, that will be respected and this is what the president clearly meant," Yasay told a scrum of reporters, referring to a 1951 Mutual Defence Treaty.
Despite Yasay's words, Duterte's latest comments add to uncertainty about what his end game is and whether Manila's next moves could complicate regional diplomacy or alter the status quo in the South China Sea.
A U.S. defense official said he had not seen the Philippines make a formal request to stop sea patrols and added that the bar for a "joint patrol" with the Philippines was low.
"If the joint patrols stop, will this have any sort of major impact on the situation in the South China Sea? Most likely not," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. He added that in a sign things were continuing as usual, the landing ship USS Germantown would be making a port call in Manila from Wednesday.
Richard Jacobson, an American security expert, said Duterte's posturing could embolden China to exploit a testy relationship between two old allies.
"The U.S.-Philippines relationship might become strained and even shaken," Jacobson said. "The U.S. geopolitical stakes in the region are much too high to react to his hyperbole. The current attitude in Washington is mature - more of patience than feeling provoked."
The Philippines has not formally committed to joining the United States in patrols beyond its territorial waters in the South China Sea. It has carried out at least two patrols with the United States this year that remained within 12 nautical miles of the Philippine coast.
Even though The Philippines claims part of the Spratly Islands, it has hardly a single major combatant ship to enforce its claims. China has to be enjoying this.
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...Oh, this one's easy: the Chinese offered him enough money.
Mike
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I'm sure Gen. Douglas MacArthur would have something to say about this, if he weren't too busy rolling over in his grave.
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There are some interesting Punch cartoons from the time that pointed out the American hypocrisy on imperialism.
A lot of Americans felt the same way. And while those Euros were enjoying their colonialism up through the end of WWII, America had already set up the independence of the Philippines, scheduled for 1946, when the Japanese decided to occupy it in 1941. While the Euros spent the post war period desperately trying to hold on to their 'holdings' in the Far East, the Philippine independence date was met.
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State Department spokesman John Kirby said he was not aware
could've ended the quote right there
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Bribes? Isn't Duterte the iron leader who is pretty much incorruptible?
It's not surprising he wants out of Obama's foreign policy disasters. The State Department are utter assholes and I assume they long since have taken the Filipinos for granted.
Military cooperation with the Philippines is worthless anyway. Their biggest, most capable Navy ship is an old clapped-out Coast Guard cutter.
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What was it that Duterte called Obama? I can't remember but is seemed like it was some reference to him and his mom? Or was it that Duterte said he was going to kill all the drug users and Bean took it personally. Oh yeah, over at euronews earlier this year: EuroNews. Ouch, that hurts.
Nothing gets past the UN these days
GENEVA (UN) – In an impassioned appeal to the Security Council, the top United Nations relief official called on the global body’s primary organ for maintenance of peace and security to act immediately to end the bloodshed in Syria so that humanitarian assistance is able to reach those who desperately need it.
“Syria is bleeding. Its citizens are dying. We all hear their cry for help. As humanitarians we are doing all we can,” UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O’Brien told the 15-member Council Thursday.
He added that last week, even as world leaders discussed Syria at high-level meetings and during the General Assembly’s annual high-level debate, violence intensified in the war-torn middle-eastern country and more civilians and aid workers were killed.
“It is time to place blame. It is time this Council stops tolerating the utter disregard for the most basic provisions of international humanitarian law,” Mr. O’Brien underscored.
Recounting the intensification of fighting across the country and in particular in eastern Aleppo, the UN official stressed: “This is not an unforeseen result of forces beyond our control. This is due to the action of parties to the conflict and it is the direct result of inaction – be it through unwillingness or inability – by the international community, including most notably those present in this chamber.”
According to the United Nations’ aid chief, the situation in Syria is a critical test of the “capacity and willingness” of the members of the Security Council to make a decision and take action and to uphold the words of the UN Charter “to save the Syrian people from the scourge of war.”
The iconic city of Aleppo is the worst affected location in the country, where according to estimates, since the 22 September announcement by the Syrian Ministry of Defence that it would launch an offensive there, some 320 civilians were killed and 765 injured in the first days. It is particularly concerning that over 100 children have been killed.
“These are not simply numbers to be added to a tally, these are individuals, family lives that we have collectively failed to save,” lamented Mr. O’Brien, who is also the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs.
He also drew attention to the alleged use of “bunker busting” bombs, which has reportedly caused mass destruction in an area that has already been decimated.
“This means there are bodies of babies, children, women and men stuck unrecovered in the rubble of basements up to 20 metres down where they had taken refuge – and where they had been safe until the use of these recently introduced weapons,” he said.
An Islamic academy in Ann Arbor [MI] has reached a $1.7 million tentative settlement with Pittsfield Township for denying it the right to build a new school on its property, according to the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
The Muslim Community Association sued the township in 2012, claiming it violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act when township officials refused to allow the Michigan Islamic Academy to build a new school on vacant township property it owned.
The act protects individuals, houses of worship and other religious institutions from discrimination in zoning and landmarking laws.
CAIR-MI said the settlement, one of the largest since the act was enacted, grants the academy the right to build a 70,000 square foot Islamic school, a residential development consisting of 22 duplex units and three single-family homes and a park.
[Asharq al-Aswat] Libyan 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... said, in a statement, that his country needs a leader possessing a wide military experience, and expressed again rejection of the U.N.-backed Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA).
La Belle France, for its part, announced that it will host a meeting on Libya next week. Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault announced that the upcoming meeting on Libya would bring together countries including Egypt, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... , the United Arab Emirates and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... "The Libyan National Army does not recognize any authority other than that of the parliament which is headquartered in Tobruk," Haftar told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
When asked if he aims to take over the power in Libya, Haftar said he refuses to answer this question until social, security and political stability is settled in the country.
"Unfortunately, we are now facing a political impasse," the U.N. envoy to the North African country Martin Kobler stated during a meeting of the U.N.’s Human Rights Council in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... "At the same time, Libya is witnessing the unfolding of dangerous military developments," Kobler said. "The risk of increased tensions in the capital should not be underestimated," he added.
He said that in Libya’s second city Benghazi in the east, "more than 100 families are currently trapped in areas of fighting, facing constant bombing and shortages of food, medical care and electricity."
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An Israeli gas consortium on Monday signed what Israel called a "historic" $10 billion deal with the Jordan Electric Power Company to supply the Hashemite Kingdom with natural gas for 15 years Beginning in about 2019.
The agreement will provide Jordan with a total of approximately 45 billion cubic meters of gas from the Leviathan offshore gas field, turning Israel into its largest gas supplier.
In 2014, Israel signed a separate deal with Jordan to supply $500 million worth of gas to the Hashemite Kingdom from the Tamar natural gas field in the Mediterranean. This essentially replaces the Arab pipeline gas from Egypt; this source has been hit many times by Sinai terrorists
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(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – The leader in al-Hashed al-Shaabi forces, Jabbar Maamouri, announced on Thursday, that a woman killed an ISIS militant who tried to kidnap her daughter near Hawija, southwest of Kirkuk.
Mamouri said in a press statement, “A woman from a village near Hawija attacked an ISIS militant, who was trying to kidnap her 9-year-old daughter,” adding that, “She stabbed the militant in chest several times with a knife.”
“The woman fled with her children before the arrival of a force belonging to ISIS, which burned her house and carried out a search operation,” Mamouri explained. “Anger spreads among the people of Hawija, due to ISIS horrendous crimes against the families,” Mamouri added.
Noteworthy, ISIS has been controlling Hawija district in Kirkuk province for two years, and since then it seeks to impose its radical vision on all aspects of life in the district. Meanwhile, the Iraqi forces are preparing to launch a military operation to free the district from the grip of the extremist group.
ISIS troops beat man in Hawija because of MP3 Video report at the link
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – Iraqi media outlets announced on Wednesday that ISIS flogged a civilian in central Hawija, southwest of Kirkuk, because of a song by the Emirati singer Hussain al-Jasmi which was discovered on his cell phone.
Al Sumaria reported “Today, ISIS found a song of the artist Hussain al-Jasmi on a civilian’s phone during a snap inspection at a security checkpoint in central Hawija.”
Hussain al-Jasmi’s cheerful song, “We Are All Iraq”, urges solidarity with the people in the war-torn country and its music video, as seen below, has been viewed on YouTube over 16 million times.
“The song sparked anger and resentment among ISIS militants, and pushed them to arrest the civilian and transfer him to a detention center,” Al Sumaria explained.
“ISIS punished the civilian with 20 lashes,” Al Sumaria added.
“ISIS prohibits listening to songs in general, and conducts sudden inspections on the civilians’ phones from time to time,” Al Sumaria stated.
ISIS has controlled Hawija district in Kirkuk province for over two years, and since then it seeks to impose its radical vision on all aspects of life in the district. Meanwhile, the Iraqi forces are preparing to launch a military operation to free the district from the grip of the extremist group.
[ARANews] QAMISHLI – Extremists of the Islamic State (ISIS) executed 15 civilians on Thursday in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor Governorate. The victims were accused of violating ISIS regulations.
The ISIS-led Sharia Court accused them of fighting the Caliphate and violating the Sharia law.
“The Sharia Court charged the victims with apostasy and ordered ISIS executioners to behead them in public,” local media activist Dahham al-Ali told ARA News.
The 15 civilians were beheaded in front of hundreds of people in the Sabhiya District of Deir ez-Zor on Thursday evening.
“It was a horrible thing to see. People were terrified and everyone remained silent while these brutal executions were taking place,” an eyewitness told ARA News, speaking on condition of anonymity.
“The group hasn’t even explained what those people have done to deserve this. ISIS just accused them of being apostates and beheaded them,” another witness said.
Mass Executions
This comes just a few days after ISIS militants executed dozens of prisoners in a major detention centre in the Iraqi northwestern city of Mosul.
“At least 75 prisoners were executed by ISIS in the Mosul Central Prison,” local media activist Abdullah al-Malla told ARA News on Sunday, citing an ISIS official.
Most of the victims were young Iraqi men who have been recently arrested by ISIS militants in Mosul and other parts of Nineveh province. “The Islamic State’s leadership has charged them with treason,” the informed source reported. The executed civilians included at least 25 media activists.
Speaking to ARA News, Iraqi security officer Zanoun Sabaawi said that the ISIS radical group has threatened all journalists and media activists of execution if they report on local developments in areas held by the group. “Terrorists of Daesh (ISIS) want all their violations and atrocities against the Iraqi people to go unnoticed. That’s why they try to prevent reporters from covering local news in places like Mosul,” Sabaawi said.
Thousands of people have been arrested, tortured and executed at the hands of ISIS militants across Syria and Iraq since June 2014, when the group took over major areas in both countries.
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Houthi wimmin sack Sanaa Not really. Always wanted to write a headline like that.
[Al Arabiya] After recruiting children to fight their war, Houthi militias are now using women fighters to start breaking into homes and looting valuable items, local sources in the capital Sanaa confirmed.
They stormed and looted one house on Tuesday night in al-Hasba neighborhood north of the capital Sanaa. Sources said they were able to do so with the help of Houthi militiamen, who arrested family members of the house in question.
Earlier this month, footage and images of the parade – held by women loyal to the Houthi movement – circulated on social media, showing children and infants alongside women carrying rifles and heavy artillery as they paraded in trucks declaring support to the militias.
In a video report by Houthi-affiliated news channel al-Masirah, children and infants were seen holding rifles and pledging to protect their homeland.
“We will defend our country, till the last drop of our blood,” a young girl at the parade tells al-Masirah news channel, while a woman participating in the ceremony says: “On one shoulder I carry my child and on the other shoulder I carry my weapon.”
[al-Manar] Rocketry Force in Yemen unveiled a new domestically produced missile, “Somoud” (Steadfastness) which has a high destructive ability.
The move, announced in a statement by the Rocketry Force, is a part of efforts to upgrade Yemen’s arsenal in a bid to confront the Saudi-led aggression against the Arab impoveriched country.
“Somoud” is 4-meter-long and has 300-kg warhead, Yemeni sources said, adding that the missile has a range of 38 kms. CEP 35 km
The missile is named “Somoud”, referring to the steadfastness of the Yemeni people, the Rocketry Force said in the statement.
Yemen has been since March 26, 2015 under brutal aggression by Saudi-led coalition.
Thousands have been martyred and injured in the attack, with the vast majority of them are civilians.
Riyadh launched the attack on Yemen in a bid to restore power to fugitive ex-president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi who is a close ally to Saudi Arabia.
[Asharq al-Aswat] U.N. Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon has announced on Wednesday that attacks on hospitals in Aleppo are war crimes, commenting on targeting the two biggest hospitals in the east of the city which is seized by the opposition.
The situation in Aleppo is worse than a slaughterhouse, Ban Ki-moon has said.
The two biggest hospitals in an area that is under the control of the opposition were targeted, therefore they stopped operating, according to a non-governmental medical organization that supervises these two hospitals.
An official in the Syrian Opposition told Rooters that some foreign countries provided the opposition forces with Grad rockets ...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km.... to combat a strong attack supported by Russia on Aleppo.
Other Syrian Opposition officials said that the regime forces clashed with the opposition fighters in several battlefronts. On the other hand, the regime forces and their allies are leading an attack supported by Russia to control the city.
"Pro-regime forces are mobilizing for more land attacks on certain areas in Aleppo", said other opposition forces sources.
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[The Nation] Thai insurgents gunned down a female gas-station employee in Pattani province yesterday afternoon and then detonated two home-made bombs, injuring seven people, as security forces responded to the shooting.
Twenty minutes after Teerapat Chantharojwong was shot and killed by four gunmen on two motorcycles, police officers were inspecting the scene in Khok Pho district when the bombs went off. The blasts wounded four policemen, two paramilitary ranger volunteers and one civilian.
It was reported that paramilitary rangers arrived at the scene while the suspects were still there and shot and injured one suspect. Pattani police chief Pol Maj-General Thanongsak Wangsupa instructed officers to search medical facilities in nearby areas for the injured suspect.
In another deadly attack in the far South, ten militants opened fire on three defense volunteers in front a school Narathiwat province yesterday morning, killing one person and wounding two others. Police said the militants arrived on five motorcycles. The pillion riders opened fire on the three defense volunteers with AK-47 assault rifles. The insurgents also snatched the volunteers' M16 assault rifle and two AK-47s before fleeing. Police removed 60 spent cartridges from the scene.
Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan revealed that a list of names for a 13-man "front command Cabinet" to tackle the insurgency in the far South was ready and awaiting the signature of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.
In Narathiwat's Muang district, 471 marines from eastern Thailand attended a ceremony to report for duty in the far South after arriving in three landing ships at the beach-front pavilion of Chulaborn Military Camp yesterday morning.
[WASHINGTONPOST] The FBI and local police are investigating how at least 19 dead Virginians were recently re-registered to vote in this critical swing state.
One case came to light after relatives of a deceased man received a note congratulating him for registering, Rockingham County Commonwealth’s Attorney Marsha Garst said Thursday.
"His family members were very distraught," said Garst, who confirmed the existence of the FBI and police investigation but said she could provide few details because the case is ongoing.
All 19 were initially registered as voters in the Shenandoah Valley city of Harrisonburg, although a clerk double-checking the entries later raised questions about one. She recognized the name of Richard Allen Claybrook Sr., who died in 2014 at age 87, because his son is a well-known local judge. She happened to recall that the judge’s father had died.
"He was a retired Fairfax County elementary school principal and had fought in World War II," said his son, retired Harrisonburg General District Court Judge Richard Allen Claybrook Jr. "So our family is very disgusted that they would pick his name, because he was such a law-abiding citizen devoted to public service."
All of the forms had been submitted by a private group that was working to register voters on the campus of James Madison University, according to the Harrisonburg registrar’s office. The group was not identified. No charges have been filed.
Republicans in the state House of Delegates, who in recent years have supported tighter voter ID laws, held a conference call with news hounds to call attention to the investigation.
"Oftentimes we hear our fellow wardheelers suggest that voter fraud doesn’t exist in Virginia, or it’s a myth," House Speaker William J. Howell (R-Stafford) said. "This is proof that voter fraud not only exists but is ongoing and is a threat to the integrity of our elections."
House Minority Leader David J. Toscano (D-Charlottesville) said the case was not proof of voter fraud because no one had actually managed to cast a vote in the names of the dead.
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House Minority Leader David J. Toscano (D-Charlottesville) said the case was not proof of voter fraud because no one had actually managed to cast a vote in the names of the dead
And this is proof, how? I suppose it was inadvertent? Just how does that happen? F*&king lying thieving Democrats
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When ever fraudulent registrations are found, the Democrats play innocent and say it's not election fraud because "no votes were cast". Except the purpose of those registrations is to allow votes to be cast for them -- likely by absentee ballot or early voting.
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House Minority Leader David J. Toscano (D-Charlottesville) said the case was not proof of voter fraud because no one had actually managed to cast a vote in the names of the dead.
By that same logic, if I'm caught with the plans to rob a bank, but I don't actually rob the bank, I haven't committed a crime. Of course, only a Democrat can rationalize this stuff.
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The man was a patriot and a veteran of WW2. Surely mere death shouldn't rob him of his vote!
The person who registered him and intended to submit his absentee ballot would doubtless have used an ouija board to do so.
Nothing to see here.
...The look of love is on your face...
The US forces in Afghanistan (USFOR-A) slammed the loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group in Afghanistan for deliberately using civilians as shield to escape the ongoing counter-terrorism operations.
The statement by USFOR-A came as reports emerged Wednesday suggesting some local residents suffered casualties during an airstrike that targeted the loyalists of the terror group in Achin district of Nangarhar.
“Daesh is killing innocent Afghan men, women, and children. They continue to put innocent lives at risk by deliberately surrounding themselves with civilians and dressing in female attire,” USFOR-A said in a statement.
The statement further added “We have repeatedly said that we will target Daesh wherever they are in order to disrupt their operations, degrade their attack networks, and protect innocent lives.”
According to the US forces, Nangarhar province has been a focus for Daesh activity since 2015. Daesh seek to use the area to train, equip, disseminate propaganda, and expand their control over innocent Afghans.
“Our Afghan partners, especially their special forces, have been working diligently to disrupt and destroy Daesh in Southern Nangarhar, and we continue to work alongside them to support their efforts. The ANDSF have significantly reduced Daesh presence and inflicted hundreds of casualties on them. In addition and as part of US unilateral counter-terrorism operations, US forces also killed their leader in Afghanistan, Hafiz Sayed Khan, in late July,” the statement added.
In regards to the alleged death of civilians in Achin airstrike, USFOR-A said “We won’t discuss the details of the specific counter-terrorism operation conducted in Nangarhar on 28 September because we are still reviewing all materials related to the strike. We take every possible measure to avoid civilian casualties in these operations, and will continue to work with Afghan authorities to determine if there is cause for additional investigation as we partner with the Afghan government in the broader fight against terrorism.”
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Look for the ACLU claim that they were just innocent cross-dressers.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Three Hezbollah soldiers were reportedly maimed on Wednesday evening when a landmine went off near the border fences at the village of Mtallah in the Nabtiyeh District of southern Leb.
The maimed Hezbollah soldiers were transported to a field hospital at the border-town of Marjeyyoun, where they were treated for their injuries.
This is the first reported landmine incident in southern Leb since a UNIFIL convoy struck a 30 year old mine near the occupied-Sheba'a Farms region.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Breitbart] The New York Times, the so-called "paper of record," has declared that the all-important swing state of Ohio is no longer an important battleground in the presidential election -- now that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is winning it.
"The students protesters -- led by the SLU Rainbow Alliance and the Muslim Students Association 
[ABC] Federal officials tried twice to deport Alfred Olango, a 38-year-old man who was shot by police in Southern California on Tuesday. But, his native country of Uganda refused to take him back, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
[DAWN] India and Pakistain should improve their communications to avoid an increase in tensions over 
A North Korean soldier crossed the military demarcation line to defect to South Korea on Thursday morning.
[DAWN] At least two Pakistain Army soldiers were killed as Indian troops fired across the Line of Control in Azad Jammu and 
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[DAWN] Undeterred by Indian threats, top political and military leadership on Wednesday vowed to continue support for the Kashmiris’ struggle and pointed to the ’restraint’ shown by Pakistain in the face of recent Indian provocations.
[MIDDLEEASTMONITOR] A video showing Syria’s ambassador to the 
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[DAWN] MUZAFFARABAD: An Indian soldier has been captured by the Pakistain army, while Indian soldiers have also been killed in the episode of firing across the Line of Control, it emerged Thursday.
Houthi wimmin sack Sanaa
[Asharq al-Aswat] U.N. Secretary General 
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
[The Nation] Thai insurgents gunned down a female gas-station employee in Pattani province yesterday afternoon and then detonated two home-made bombs, injuring seven people, as security forces responded to the shooting.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Three Hezbollah soldiers were reportedly 
