A hospital dug into a mountain in Syria has reportedly been taken out of action after airstrikes. The International Union of Medical Care and Relief Organisations said there were minor injuries when the Dr Hasan Al-Araj hospital, also known as the Cave Hospital, was struck twice on Sunday.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has claimed Russian warplanes carried out the attacks that hit the hospital just outside Hama province.
It is also claimed another hospital was destroyed over the weekend. The government-controlled Syrian Central Military Media has released footage said to be of Al-Kindi hospital in northern Aleppo. It was reportedly taken by Syrian government troops and allies.
These are the latest in a growing number of attacks on hospitals throughout Syria. Syrian and Russian warplanes have been blamed for a series of strikes that have damaged hospitals and clinics in rebel-held parts of the country.
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Given what hospitals in Dar are usually CCC, just like mosques are usually ammo warehouses, all I can say молодец!
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I fixed your link, One Eyed Speaking for Boskone7919. When you paste in your URL, first delete -- or paste it over -- the placeholding http:// that is already in the box. Many thanks in advance.(We all climb that learning curve, and you are going much more quickly than I did.)
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“Can’t we just drone this guy?” Clinton openly inquired, offering a simple remedy to silence Assange and smother Wikileaks via a planned military drone strike, according to State Department sources.
Hillary goes back to the one remedy which has worked for her so many times in the past if the Clinton Body Count is to be believed : Simply murder the opposition.
I suspect they couldn't find a way for Assange to suicide by drone-zap...
[Guardian] A newly published study from the University of Copenhagen has confirmed a link between hormonal contraceptives and depression. The largest of its kind, with one million Danish women between the ages of 15 and 34 tracked for a total of 13 years, it’s the kind of study that women such as me, who have experienced the side-effects of birth control-induced depression first hand, have been waiting for.
Researchers found that women taking the combined oral contraceptive were 23% more likely to be diagnosed with depression and those using progestin-only pills (also known as "the mini-pill") were 34% more likely. Teens were at the greatest risk of depression, with an 80% increase when taking the combined pill, and that risk is two-fold with the progestin-only pill. In addition, other hormone-based methods commonly offered to women seeking an alternative to the pill ‐ such as the hormonal IUS/coil, the patch and the ring ‐ were shown to increase depression at a rate much higher than either kind of oral contraceptives.
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Chemically altering the natural hormonal process has side effects? Who knew ?
I doubt big-Pharma will be pleased, but could we possibly extend the study to examine long-term socioeconomic, demographic, and cultural impacts as well ?
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I'd be interested to know if the pill itself caused the depression or if the body was depressed for failing to procreate. Subtle difference I know but still.
[Reuters] - Shuttle diplomacy by the United States' envoy to the anti-Islamic State coalition brokered an oil deal between Iraq and its Kurdish region vital to a climactic battle with the jihadists, diplomats, officials and oil men say.
The oil revenue-sharing deal sealed in August was critical to getting the central and regional governments to coordinate planning for a push on the Islamic State stronghold Mosul, which Kurdish peshmerga forces surround on three sides, as soon as this month, the sources said.
Brett McGurk shuttled from Iraqi Kurdistan capital Erbil to Baghdad and back again from the first half of April, culminating in a June 19 meeting in Erbil with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) leader Massoud Barzani and Iraqi National Security Advisor Falah Fayad.
Barzani "met McGurk and said, 'We cannot afford Mosul. We need oil and revenues back," said a high level source close to the Kurds. "If it wasn't for McGurk, this deal would have never happened."
The Kurdish region is home to Iraq's major northern oilfields but a quarrel over who benefits from export revenues has become a prolonged, tangled and emotive dispute.
In early 2014 Baghdad slashed funds to the KRG, which then began exporting oil independently via a pipeline to the Turkish port of Ceyhan.
[Daily Caller] The Air Force announced a new set of 13 inclusion initiatives Friday with the goal of ensuring the force isn't as white, male and heterosexual as it is now.
Air Force officials are intent on building upon a foundation of nine initiatives from 2015, in order to boost diversity. Those nine initiatives weren't enough to make the Air Force as diverse as desired, which is why it is taking more intensive steps in 2016.
The first new initiative mandates that at least one diverse candidate will have to be in the running for important developmental positions like aide-de camp, senior enlisted advisor and executive officer, among other roles.
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The Air Force announced a new set of 13 inclusion initiatives Friday with the goal of ensuring the force isn't as white, male and heterosexual as it is now
Simple - bar them from enlisting or taking a commission. We'll see how that works out.
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The branches of the military should cut a deal. Diversity will include all of them, not each individually. The Air Force will take on as many women as required and correspondingly the more physically demanding forces will take on fewer.
The Navy/Coast Guard will take on gays and transgenders and can crew entire ships with similar types to avoid prejudice among a crew.
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So we get a diversified pilot corps based upon quotas to fly the F-35...what could go wrong.
Maybe they'll subcontract the pilot training to some Indian call center so they can figure out how to make the "flying computer" actually fly. Every pilot will have a cell phone with the customer service number on speed dial.
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navy tried that with female carrier pilots and tomcats: instead of most capable, just drafted some.
remember how well that worked out; this will e more of the same, only clusterfuck-sized.
[NYT] BRENTWOOD, N.Y. -- Four dead teenagers. Two weeks. One town. And a ruthless gang, the authorities say, was most likely responsible for the toll. Again.
On Sept. 13, Nisa Mickens, 15, and her best friend, Kayla Cuevas, 16, were murdered, their battered bodies found near an elementary school here. A week later and just two miles away, the skeletal remains of two more teenagers -- identified as Oscar Acosta, 19, and Miguel Garcia-Moran, 15 -- were found in the woods near a psychiatric hospital. Oscar had been missing since May, Miguel since February. Their deaths have been ruled homicides.
Brentwood, a hardscrabble town of nearly 60,000 on Long Island, 40 miles east of Manhattan, has reached another crisis point. For nearly two decades, MS-13, a gang with roots in Los Angeles and El Salvador, has been terrorizing the town, the authorities say, especially its young people. Since 2009, its members have been accused of at least 14 murders, court and police records show.
School officials are scrambling. Police officers are searching. Students are frightened. Parents are anguished.
"It’s so hard, I’m hurting," Evelyn Rodriguez, Kayla's mother, said last week. "I wish I could hold my daughter again."
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The path to such a plan, however, runs through a fractured Suffolk County. Its former police chief is headed to jail, its district attorney is under federal investigation and a Justice Department settlement mandated changes in the Police Department in 2013 after findings of bias against Latino residents.
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If the government can't or won't provide security in your person, your family or your property, it's no longer anymore legitimate than someone else who will. Both will expect 'taxes'. Why pay two?
[Jpost] German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel promised on Monday to remind the United States of its commitment to reduce sanctions against Iran, as he courted business ties during a two-day trip to the Islamic State.
Speaking at the opening of an economic forum, Gabriel said Germany wanted to "remind the United States of the commitment to get to an effective dismantling of sanctions." Iran's Deputy Economy Minister Mohammad Khazaei said 10 economic agreements would be signed on the sidelines of Gabriel's visit. "I hope that this will smooth the way between both countries," he said.
Gabriel has gone to Iran with a plane-load of industry executives. Remaining US sanctions and political concerns have so far held back a hoped-for business boom between the two countries.
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Please disregard anything Gabriel (SPD) says. He's a certified idiot who wants to be the next chancellor (and by that will ensure that Merkel remains chancellor).
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Thank you for that perspective, dear European Conservative. Pray God Germany, Europe, and Britain manage to fix the current situation soon.
According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, as of 10:15 a.m. the police believe this was gang-related. A number of people have been taken to, or turned up at local hospitals, but none are talking to the police.
Moved to Non-WoT based on this additional information at 12:30 p.m. ET.
For years, debates in the OPEC conference room were dominated by clashes between top producer Saudi Arabia and arch-rival Iran, Reuters reported. But as the two managed to find a rare compromise on Wednesday - with Riyadh softening its stance towards Tehran - a third OPEC superpower emerged.
Iraq overtook Iran as the group's second-largest producer several years ago but kept its OPEC agenda fairly low-profile. On Wednesday, Baghdad finally made its presence felt. What it did, however, pleased neither Saudi Arabia nor Iran.
Iraq, for all its troubles, is the 2nd largest producer in OPEC. Imagine how well it -- and we -- would be doing if Champ had simply kept the word of our country and kept our forces in Iraq. The stability there would have allowed us a much freer hand with both Iran and the Saudis.
Iraq's new oil minister Jabar Ali al-Luaibi told his Saudi and Iranian counterparts, Khalid al-Falih and Bijan Zanganeh, in a closed-door gathering in Algiers that "it was an OPEC meeting for all ministers", a source briefed on the talks said.
Luaibi also said he didn't like the idea of re-establishing OPEC's output ceiling at 32.5 million barrels per day (bpd), according to sources in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.
Reviving a ceiling, abandoned a year ago because of a Saudi-Iranian clash, was seen by some members as crucial in helping OPEC manage a vastly oversupplied market and prop up prices that stand well below the budget needs of most producers.
But Luaibi told the meeting the new ceiling was no good for Baghdad as OPEC had underestimated Iraq's production, which has soared in recent years.
Confusion followed, according to sources, and after a debate OPEC chose to impose a ceiling in the range of 32.5-33.0 million bpd - a decision dismissed by many analysts as weak and non-binding. OPEC's current output stands at 33.24 million bpd.
As ministers including Falih and Zanganeh emerged smiling from the room and praised OPEC's first output-limiting deal since 2008, Luaibi called a separate briefing to complain about OPEC's estimates of Iraqi output.
"These figures do not represent our actual production," he told reporters. If by November estimates do not change, "then we say we cannot accept this, and we will ask for alternatives".
Luaibi went even further and asked a reporter from Argus Media - whose data OPEC uses among other sources to compile estimates of countries' production - to disclose from where Argus' estimates were coming.
"Your sources are not acceptable. And if there is deviation from the government, then Argus will not work in Iraq," Luaibi told the Argus reporter.
The usual thuggery and bullying...
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[DAWN] At least one trooper of the Border Security Force (BSF) was killed and another injured when suspected forces of Evil opened fire on an Indian army camp in India-held Kashmire on Sunday night, reported the Hindustan Times.
"One BSF man has been killed and another injured," Imtiyaz Hussain Mir, senior police superintendent of Baramulla town.
The attack on the camp of India's 46 Rashtriya Rifles in Baramulla, which also houses a unit of the Border Security Force (BSF), started at around 10:30 pm and repeated exchanges of fire ensued.
The suspected forces of Evil threw grenades and opened fire with automatic weapons.
The attackers tried to enter the camp through a public park, reported the Times of India. They then took positions on the banks of the Jhelum river, the Bandipora police control room said.
It was not clear whether the attackers had breached the army camp perimeter.
The Indian Army's Northern Command said the situation is "contained and under control", without saying whether any suspected forces of Evil had been killed or captured.
The camp is located in Janbazpora on the outskirts of Baramulla city, 54 km from capital Srinagar. The city of Baramulla is a garrison town and has a heavy presence of Indian security forces.
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A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device in the Yemeni port city of Aden on Saturday, killing one and wounding several civilians, media reported.
The explosion took place in the Crater district, however, the law enforcement officials have not confirmed so far who was behind the blast.
In August, as a result of a terrorist attack in Aden, 71 people were killed and 98 sustained injuries.
More than 6,600 Yemenis have been killed in the Yemeni conflict since the Saudi-led coalition began its air campaign in March 2015, the UN says.
[AlJazeera] Pressure is intensifying for Venezuela's government as people continue taking to the streets in some of the country's largest known protests, calling for a recall referendum that will put an end to President Nicolas Maduro's reign.
Basic commodities have become a rarity, inflation is at an all-time high and crime is also on the rise.
In response, Maduro is tightening the screws on the media yet again. Foreign journalists, local reporters and even drone images were denied access and permissions to cover 'the taking of Caracas' protest march.
[The Economist] “WE ARE the 80%!” declared Henrique Capriles, governor of the Venezuelan state of Miranda and a leader of the opposition to the country’s autocratic left-wing government. He was one of a parade of speakers who took to a makeshift stage at the Miranda sports complex in Caracas on September 26th to rail against the regime. The week before it had taken steps that will make it far more difficult to remove the president, Nicolás Maduro, by constitutional means.
Protests will start immediately, said the opposition Democratic Unity alliance (MUD). October 12th will be “a special day of national mobilisation”. It will be followed by the “real conquest of Venezuela”, on October 26th-28th. Those are the days fixed by the national electoral council (CNE) to record public support for launching a referendum to recall Mr Maduro.
According to one recent poll, 84% would vote to remove Mr Maduro from office. But the regime is manoeuvring to ensure they do not get that chance, or that it happens too late to trigger a fresh presidential election. Despite economic catastrophe and popular rage, the government is finding ways to cling to power.
[NYT] On the sidelines of a peace ceremony in Colombia, President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela and Secretary of State John Kerry met for the kind of brief exchange that, under normal circumstances, might have been the start of a thaw after years of icy relations. But these are not normal circumstances: Venezuela’s economic and political crises have left it more isolated than it has been in years — and not just from the United States.
Shortages of food and medicine have left Peru calling for a bloc of countries to pressure Mr. Maduro to accept humanitarian donations, something that he declines to do. Mercosur, the South American trade bloc, has threatened to expel Venezuela over human rights violations and not complying with its trade laws.
And even the State Department, after Mr. Kerry’s meeting with Mr. Maduro, issued a statement indicating that the men’s encounter in Cartagena was not a photo op but rather Mr. Kerry’s chance to express “our concern about the economic and political challenges that have affected millions of Venezuelans.”
The year, marked by economic collapse, has been one of the most unstable for Venezuela, leading to fears among diplomats who now struggle for ways to reach out to a country whose leftist leaders have closed ranks.
Other countries are voicing concern about Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis, asking Mr. Maduro to simply accept assistance. This month, the new Peruvian president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, called for a group of countries including Chile, Argentina and Colombia to begin sending drugs and food. Yet he did not seem hopeful.
“Now Maduro doesn’t want that because he says everything is perfect in Venezuela, but that’s not true, everybody knows that,” he said in a recent television interview. “And the second thing is there has to be pressure in a nice way, without trying to interfere too much. There has to be some kind of moral persuasion.”
Somalia’s intelligence chief fired 1,500 intelligence officers including the Mogadishu chief in a new major shakeup of the country’s spy agency which is struggling to contain a deadly insurgency by al-Shabab militants, sources told Alleastafrica Saturday.
I see a slightly different problem: Somalia had 1500 intel officers in the first place? Could any of them carry a gun?
Gen. Abdullahi Gafow told the officers to abandon their positions, accusing them of failing to perform their duties, saying that he’d ‘re-energize’ the agency’s leadership to bring ‘more competent’ officers to defeat militants, according to sources in the Somali intelligence agency who spoke to Alleastafrica by phone from Mogadishu.
Abdihakim Farei, the agency’s Mogadishu commanding officer becomes the latest officer to be dismissed by Mr. Gafow who vowed opening a ‘new page’ for the spy agency.
However, for some officer the bad news shouldn’t come as a surprise that militants continue to unleash relentless lethal attacks across the Somali capital.
Since taking the agency’s leadership few months ago has sought to overcome rivalry and deep divisions within the Somali intelligence agency in the face of rising power of al-Shabab which threatened with attacks against the upcoming Somali presidential election which is scheduled to take place in November 30.
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[ARA News] HASAKAH – Clashes broke out between Kurdish fighters of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) and the Islamic State (ISIS) militants in Syria’s northeastern Hasakah Governorate on Sunday.
ISIS launched a fierce attack on the YPG headquarters in the town of Azzawi in southern Hasakah, using mortar shells and heavy machine guns.
At least four Kurdish fighters were killed and seven more wounded under ISIS fire, military sources reported.
“Our forces responded by bombing ISIS positions near Margada town in the southern countryside of Hasakah,” a YPG spokesman told ARA News.
“This led to fierce clashes broke out and continued for at least three hours, and heavy weapons were used,” the official said.
More than a dozen of ISIS militants were killed and scores more wounded in the clashes, that centred in the area between Margada and Azzawi.
“The clashes stopped in the midnight on Sunday, and the terrorists were forced to withdraw towards their bases in Margada under heavy blows by the YPG units,” the source said.
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Islamic State (ISIS) militants have started digging trenches in the vicinity of Margada, a town in northeastern Syria. On Thursday, local sources reported that fortifications were being erected to protect the town’s ISIS headquarters.
Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) recently expelled ISIS from major areas in Hasakah Governorate.
The town of Margada is the last ISIS stronghold in Hasakah. It is located on the administrative border between Hasakah and Deir ez-Zor.
“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’s advance.
“We are already aware of those tactics by this terrorist group,” an 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 scenario.”
ISIS launched a similar project in November 2015, fortifying its headquarters and digging trenches near al-Hawl. However, the project was ultimately unsuccessful as ISIS was driven from the border town by US-backed SDF fighters.
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[MIAMIHERALD] Nearly two years after Pakistain’s army said it killed runaway terrorist leader and ex-Broward resident Adnan El Shukrijumah,
...known formally as Adnan Gulshair Muhammad El Shukrijumah alias Abu Arif, alias Jafar Al-Tayar, alias Javier Robles. He was a Saudi computer engineer whose Wahhabi missionary father moved the family to Guyana when he was very young. He was a very bad man indeed, until he was (or perhaps was not) killed...
the FBI still hasn’t verified his death. But recent news reports say al Qaeda recently claimed that Shukrijumah’s widow was one of three women released by Pakistain in exchange for the son of the country’s former army chief.
If he is not dead, the release of his wife will no doubt be very welcome, and if he is she'll make a lovely wife for someone else. Jihadis do like to recycle...
The other women reportedly handed over to al Qaeda in the exchange were the adult daughters of Ayman al Zawahiri ... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area assuming he's not dead like Mullah Omar. He lost major face when he ordered the nascent Islamic State to cease and desist and merge with the orthodx al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra... , who took over as leader after the late Osama bin Laden
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(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Fighter jets of US-led coalition launched Saturday morning a series of air strikes which are considered the most violent in the past months targeting sites of ISIS terrorist group in the north eastern part of the city of Mosul.
Peshmerga officer Resan al-Mulla, in a press statement, said that fighter jets launched 13 air raids on sites controlled by ISIS militants in the areas of Bashiqa, al-Fadiliyah, al-Noran, Batnaya and al-Qosyat near the city of Mosul.
“The bombardment was very heavy as flames and billows of smoke intensively spiraled into the sky from the targeted sites,” Mulla explained.
In regards to casualties in the ranks of ISIS due to these raids, Mulla elaborated that there is no accurate information until now because the results of the air raids are shrouded in secrecy and also reliable sources in these areas are difficult to be reached.
Air strikes of the US-led coalition targeting sites controlled by ISIS are increased together with the countdown to begin the military campaign to retake the city of Mosul from the grip of ISIS.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – What so-called ISIS military chief in the southern part of Mosul was killed Sunday in an air strike launched by the international coalition led the Unites States.
Shafaq News reported that a fighter jet targeted a BMW vehicle ridden by Mohamed Ali Mohamed nicknamed Henadi Abu Shawarib and three others in al-Houd village near al-Qayyarah.
The news website added that the air strike completely damaged the vehicle and killed all four passengers including Abu Shawarib who serves as ISIS military chief in south Mosul.
Abu Shawarib committed several crimes and violations towards innocent civilians. He was responsible for shedding the blood of Iraqi security personnel, blowing up houses of Iraqi policemen and other crimes.
The international coalition continue to target ISIS leaders and prominent members as part of a plan aiming to destroy the capabilities of the terrorist group in order to facilitate the mission of Iraqi armed forces and Peshmerga forces to liberate areas controlled by ISIS.
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Shafaq News reported that a fighter jet targeted a BMW vehicle ridden by Mohamed Ali Mohamed
RIYADH: Houthi rebels in Yemen are posing a threat to shipping in the strategic Bab Al-Mandab strait, the Saudi-led coalition supporting the government said Sunday after an attack on an Emirati vessel.
The coalition said Houthi militiamen had attacked the vessel “on its usual route to and from (the southern port city of) Aden to transfer relief and medical aid and evacuate wounded civilians.”
“Coalition air and naval forces targeted Houthi militia boats involved in the attack” near the Bab Al-Mandab, it said, while “coalition forces rescued civilian passengers following the attack” on Friday night.
“This incident demonstrates Houthi tactics of terrorist attacks against civilian international navigation in the Bab Al-Mandab,” the coalition said in a statement.
The strait is a major shipping lane between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden leading into the Indian Ocean.
The rebels, in a statement posted Saturday on their website, claimed the attack which it said targeted and “completely destroyed” an Emirati warship with rockets as it neared Mokha on the Red Sea coast.
The United Arab Emirates military acknowledged “an incident” involving a chartered vessel under its command in the Bab Al-Mandab as it was returning from a “routine” journey to Aden, further south, but it reported no casualties.
The UAE is a key member of the coalition that has been battling the Iran-backed Houthis and their allies since March last year in support of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi’s internationally recognized government.
Since March 2015, the coalition has pushed the rebels out of much of Yemen’s south, but they still control nearly all of the country’s Red Sea coast as well as swathes of territory around the capital Sanaa.
[SouthAfricaToday] Officers shot and killed a man in south Los Angeles at the end of a car chase on Saturday, sparking protest by several dozen people frustrated by another fatal police shooting of a black man.
The chase began when officers tried to pull over a car with paper plates, suspecting the vehicle may have been stolen, and the driver refused to stop, Sgt. Barry Montgomery said. He said the passenger got out of the car during the pursuit and ran into the back of a house, where he was shot. The driver fled the scene and remained on the loose.
Early Sunday morning, the Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement that it found a handgun at the scene of the shooting. The department did not provide any more information about the gun.
The shooting drew several dozen people to the scene. As news of what happened spread, a group of several dozen protesters blocked an intersection near the house Saturday night. Some people waved signs that read “Black Lives Matter,” and others shouted at officers standing behind yellow police tape and wearing riot helmets.
Relatives of the dead man in Los Angeles identified him as 18-year-old Carnell Snell Jr., and they told the Times he was killed on the same street where he lived.
Was he a gentle giant and an aspiring rap artist?
His mother and his little sister love him -- will that do?
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Relatives of the dead man in Los Angeles identified him as 18-year-old Carnell Snell Jr., and they told the Times he was killed on the same street where he lived.
...Given that the LAPD has been told to avoid shootouts, I'd be willing to bet that Carnell thought that if he got back home before the cops could nail him, he could start yelling about being Persecuted By The Man(TM) and a bunch of armed people would have come out the door to voice their disapproval - at the very least outnumbering the police, and possibly convincing them that it just wasn't worth it for a stolen hooptie.
Seems to me Mr Snell was just off a few crucial seconds in his timing, and had he been smart enough to keep that piece holstered (or in whatever pocket/elastic band/orifice he might have been keeping it) there's a good chance he might have walked free.
Mike
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I wonder if we get more shooting of black by police because black perps feel more secure and behave more aggressively now?
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I don't know if we do get more police shootings of young black males now than we did before. Is anybody keeping statistics? Is anybody reporting the statistics? Somehow I suspect the shootings that were at one time considered local news, if they were considered news at all, are now getting much more attention in the national MSM. It doesn't help when politicians claim the police are racists. But think about the poor cop who is left with no choice but to shoot when he is confronted by a violent young man who is obviously stoned out of mind.
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I think the election has something to do with it. Riots in swing states, in true-blue states like California we get several dozen people protesting.
Several dozen (and however many they had in El Cajon) sound like legitimate family and friends complaining. Riots sound like Soros style rent-a-mobs.
Limbaugh suggested as much last week and I don't see a flaw in the arguement so far.
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I remember the rash of so-called 'black-church' burning back in the 80's or 90's. It was all the media outrage at the time.
Only there were just as many, if not more, percentagewise burning of non-black churches. Somehow that little factoid never made it into the media reports.
I think this is a similar situation. the media is creating a 'crisis' where none exists to advance their political agenda.
[NJ] A 24-year-old Camden man has surrendered to Philadelphia police in connection with an assault outside a popular cheesesteak joint, during which the assailants allegedly said they were affiliated with the terror group ISIS.
According to NBC10, Alberto Lopez turned himself into police on Sept. 14 and there's also a warrant out for a 36-year-old man also wanted in connection with the June 11 fight at Geno's along Passyunk Avenue.
Lopez had a preliminary hearing last Thursday, according to the report, which adds that assault victim Patrick Kane was in attendance.
The men from Clayton, Washington Township and Franklin Township are accused of attacking the two Philadelphia men after an altercation.
According to previous reports, the attack occurred at approximately 4:15 a.m. when a member of Kane's group asked one of the assailants for a cigarette. A confrontation ensued and one of the men claimed they belonged to ISIS.
"'Don't mess with us, we belong to ISIS,'" a member of the group allegedly said.
Kane, who was out with another couple following a wedding, said he was punched multiple times by at least two men.
Police said after the attack that the five suspects fled in two vehicles -- a dark-colored pickup truck and a SUV, both of which had New Jersey license plates. According to the NBC report, Lopez -- who is facing assault, harassment and endangerment charges -- will appear in court again on Oct. 28.
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[ARA News] ALEPPO – The Syrian regime and allies made new gains in the fight against rebel groups in Aleppo on Sunday, continuing a week-old ground operation aimed at retaking the eastern part of the city.
The Syrian army called on rebels to withdraw from the area, offering aid supplies and a safe passage.
“The army’s general command calls all armed fighters in eastern Aleppo to leave these neighborhoods and let civilian residents live their normal lives,” the Syrian army said in a statement, published by the regime-linked news agency SANA.
Supported by Russian air cover and Iranian-backed militias, the pro-Assad forces launched a fierce military campaign against rebel-held eastern Aleppo last week.
This comes after a ceasefire collapsed last month.
According to the United Nations, the regime-led assault has led to the destruction of most of the hospitals and medical centres in eastern Aleppo.
The Syrian army and allied forces captured the Handcart district and parts of the Shuqaif industrial area after heavy fighting with rebels.
In the meantime, local sources told ARA News that Russian and Syrian airstrikes on rebel-held areas of Aleppo continued on Sunday, reporting dozens of civilian casualties.
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[MSN] A women's rights group has filed a legal complaint against an Egyptian politician who called for mandatory virginity tests for women seeking university admission, the al-Masry al-Youm newspaper reported Sunday.
It quoted Maya Morsi, head of the state-sanctioned National Council for Women, as saying the complaint demands the expulsion from parliament of Ilhami Agena and a criminal investigation into his actions. She said the politician was harming the reputation of Egyptian women, men and the country itself.
Agena said in an interview last week that virginity tests were needed to combat the proliferation of informal marriages, known as "gawaz orfy," between students. Virtually expense free, such marriages have become more popular in recent years because of high youth unemployment and a shortage of affordable housing.
The gawaz orfy is widely viewed as a religiously sanctioned way of having premarital sex, a taboo in mostly conservative and majority Moslem Egypt. Moslemholy mans have spoken out against such marriages.
In Egypt, as in other conservative, Moslem countries, a young woman's virginity is widely seen as a matter of family honor, the loss of which could prevent her from getting married.
The military was alleged to have conducted virginity tests on 19 women tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... after troops violently broke up a protest in Cairo's Tahrir Square in March 2011, shortly after longtime President Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... resigned in the face of a popular uprising.
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[IsraelTimes] Fewer than 1 in 4 say accord between Israel and Paleostinians possible, but not in next 5 years; cost of living considered most pressing problem
Almost two-thirds of Israelis believe there will never be a peace agreement with the Paleostinians, according to the results of an opinion poll published on Sunday.
Sixty-four percent of the 646 (Jewish and non-Jewish) respondents questioned said a peace accord would never be reached, in the survey conducted by the Project HaMidgam institute for the Walla news website.
Twenty-four percent believed an accord was possible but that it would take longer than five years to achieve, while four percent thought it could be attained within five years.
The remaining eight percent were undecided in the poll, whose margin of error was not published. Walla also did not say when the poll was conducted.
The grinding of the peace processor between Israel and the Paleostinians has been comatose since the collapse of a US-led initiative in April 2014.
The poll, which was published ahead of Sunday’s Jewish New Year holiday, found 56% of respondents believe life in Israel is good, and 40% expressing moderate satisfaction. Nonetheless, nearly a quarter of Israeli Jews felt an interest in emigrating from the country over the past five years, the poll showed.
Of the problems facing the country, 36% of respondents said that the cost of living was the most pressing issue, with security coming in second at 24%. Public corruption, which has been the subject of news headlines in Israel after several mayors were tossed in the slammer Book 'im, Mahmoud! on suspicion of bribery and corruption in the past year, was third, with 17% saying it was the most serious problem.
[AnNahar] Turkish police on Sunday detained a brother of the U.S.-based preacher Fethullah Gulen who is accused of masterminding the failed July coup aimed at ousting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, state media said.
Kutbettin Gulen was detained by police acting on a tip-off at the home of a relative in the Gaziemir district of the western Izmir province, Anadolu news agency said.
He is the first of Gulen's siblings to be detained after the coup bid.
According to previous Turkish media reports, Gulen has five brothers: Seyfullah and Hasbi, who are dead, and Mesih, Salih and Kutbettin. He also has two sisters, Nurhayat and Fazilet. Their current whereabouts are not known.
In July, the authorities arrested Gulen's nephew Muhammet Sait Gulen in the eastern city of Erzurum, long seen as one of the hubs for his supporters. Another nephew, Ahmet Ramiz Gulen, was arrested in August in the southeastern city of Gaziantep.
[EN.TREND.AZ] The Turkish prime minister accused the Fetullah Terrorist Organization, or FETO, of perpetrating rumors of a possibility of second coup attempt, Anadolu reported.
“There will be a new [coup] attempt, it will be tonight, [they] will come tomorrow… Those are a pack of lies to create unrest in the society,” Binali Yildirim said, accusing Fetullah Terrorist Organization, or FETO of being behind the rumors.
Speaking to reporters during a reception to mark the new legislative term of the Turkish parliament, Yildirim said that the government was taking all the necessary measures to prevent any such attempt.
Yildirim's remarks came after several media reports claimed that the government feared a second coup attempt. He said those who would try to plot another coup attempt would pay a price higher than those who organized the one on July 15.
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[Libya Observer] A Dutch journalist was killed in the coastal city of Sirte today, spokesperson of Misrata Central Hospital Akram Qliwan confirmed to Libya Observer, as fierce fighting continues to eradicate the radical ISIS group from the city.
Gliwan said the journalist was shot in the chest by an ISIS sniper during festivities. He added that the dead journalist works for the daily Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant. The victim was identified as photojournalist Jeroen Oerlemans.
Clashes against remnants of ISIS group renewed in Sirte on Sunday. The Libyan Air Force conducted six Arclight airstrikes in the early hours of the day to pave the way for the advance of the infantry in the third residential district.
Eight Misrata-led fighters were killed in today festivities, the Field Hospital has reported.
ISIS has been defeated from most of Sirte districts while small pockets of bandidosDeath Eaters are still resisting in some parts of the third residential district, neighbourhood 600 and sea-view Jiza apartment buildings.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A suicide kaboom plot by the loyalists of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group was foiled by the Afghan intelligence operatives in Jalalabad city.
The National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) said a jacket wallah of the group identified as Jamil-ur-Rehman son of Syed Alam was nabbed ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... before he manage to carry out the attack in a crowded part of the city.
A statement by NDS said the suicide bomber was arrested from Hade Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... area of the city.
The statement further added that Rehman was involved in various other terrorist activities before he plan to carry out a suicide attack in Jalalabad.
He joined ISIS terrorist group four months ago and was involved in various terrorist activities in Achin district of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. which is a stronghold of the terror group.
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[Daily Caller] During an interview with Chuck Todd on NBC’s "Meet the Press" Sunday, the filmmaker said the establishment has abandoned voters and argued that they may vote for Donald Trump out of frustration.
"I don't think people do trust the Democrats anymore," Moore said. "How else does a socialist win 22 states?"
"I mean, in my state of Michigan, Bernie Sanders won. If Hillary Clinton and the Democrats had a tough time with him, that should have been the red flag to everybody that there is a mood out there where people are upset at the Democrats and the Republicans."
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Moore had a ah ha moment? He was a driving factor in causing it, pushing hate and division. This is a classic Trotsky moment where one discovers he IS the useful idiot.
Now patriots are going to have to drive this nation through the fourth turning and back into a constitutionally governed republic...
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Mikey's upset with the Democrats because they want to ban triple cheeseburgers.
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Moore is trying to pull the Democrats further left (or build the foundation for a replacement part to the left of the Democrats) and sees this as the best time to start.
[WSJ] Voters rejected a peace accord between President Juan Manuel Santos and a Marxist rebel group that would have ended 52 years of conflict, a startling outcome that thrusts this country into uncertainty.
With 99.9% of votes counted in Sunday’s plebiscite, 6,430,889 had rejected the accord, fewer than 60,000 more than those who voted "Yes."
The results mark the latest instance of voters rejecting counsel from their government and the establishment, after the U.K. vote to leave the European Union in June. ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... The vote in Colombia came barely a month after the government and the Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia, or FARC, concluded four years of peace negotiations in Cuba. Polls had earlier shown the "Yes" vote comfortably winning the referendum.
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"Polls had earlier shown the "Yes" vote comfortably winning the referendum"
Where have I heard this before?
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[FOXNEWS] Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... on Sunday acknowledged being bothered by Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Dean Acheson ... ’s unflattering perception of the young Americans who backed his longshot primary bid against Clinton, saying their campaigns still have "real differences," despite their joint effort to defeat Donald Trump.
"Of course it does," Sanders, a Vermont senator, told CNN’s "State of the Union," in response to a question about whether Clinton’s remarks at a fundraiser amid their hotly contested Democratic primary bothered him. "We have real differences."
Clinton characterized the young voters -- impassioned by Sanders' populist message and who still have yet to embrace Clinton -- as "living in their parents’ basement" and disenfranchised about the future, according to a 49-minute audiotape of the February fundraiser, purportedly found in a hacked email, then given to The Washington Free Beacon, which first reported the story.
"If you’re feeling like you’re consigned to being a barista . . . then the idea that maybe, just maybe, you could be part of a political revolution is pretty appealing," Clinton also says in the audio tape, describing her thoughts after talking to a young African-American voter.
Clinton, like her Republican rival Trump, will need the youth vote to win the presidency.
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Bernie should change his first name to 'Belt,' that way he can really represent being a tool that Hillary used.
At least with HRC we know the snake we are up against, Bernie has more sides than a diamond.
[DAWN] India is only good at hurling threats but if Pak military decides to act on them the response will assume a far more practical form, said chairman of the All Pakistain Moslem League (APML) retired General Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... on Saturday.
Speaking by telephone to APML workers on the party’s sixth foundation day, Gen Musharraf criticised India’s attitude and alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had become the enemy of minorities living in his own country.
"India should realise that Pakistain is not Bhutan. India has a habit of levelling allegations against Pakistain each time there’s an attack on its soil," he said.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A woman is among 4 kidnappers jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! by the operatives of the Afghan intelligence as they claimed a ransom of around $25,000 for the release of a 4-year-old boy kidnapped by the group.
The Afghan intelligence, National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS), said the group was busted from the vicinity of Lashkargah city, the quiet provincial capital of restive Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province.
A statement by NDS said the group was led by Qudratullah son of Sher Agha and had kidnapped the boy identified as Shafiullah from Lashkargah city.
The statement further added that the child was rescued from the custody of the kidnappers and was handed over to his family.
Kidnap for ransom cases still continue in parts of the country despite the Afghan intelligence nabbed two MAFIA bosses involved in major kidnappings who were later executed by the government.
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – Eleven persons were either killed or wounded in the explosion of an improvised explosive device southeast of Baghdad, Al Mada website reported on Sunday.
The Iraqi media outlet stated, “This morning, an improvised explosive device exploded in the Industrial Neighborhood in Basmaya area, southeast of Baghdad, killing two persons and wounding nine other with several injuries.”
“Security forces rushed to the area, and transferred the wounded to Mahmudiyah Hospital to receive treatment and the bodies to the forensic medicine department,” Al Mada added.
It is worth to mention that Iraq is witnessing a surge of violence since 2013, while the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) announced that more than 2162 Iraqi casualties were recorded in different areas of the country in September.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – On Sunday, 24 persons were either killed or wounded in a series of bombings that hit the capital, Baghdad, according to Iraqi media outlets.
Rudaw website stated that an improvised explosive device exploded, this morning, near a shops in Hayy Euphrates area, southwest of Baghdad, killing one person and wounding six others.
Earlier today, a bomb exploded in the Industrial Neighborhood in Basmaya area, southeast of Baghdad, killing two persons and wounding nine others.
After a while, third explosion hit a popular market in Husseinya Rashidiya area, in northern Baghdad, killing two persons and injuring four others.
Police forces imposed strict procedures around the areas of incidents, and transferred the wounded to nearby hospitals and the bodies to the forensic medicine department.
According to the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), Iraq is witnessing a surge of violence since 2013, and the capital Baghdad was the most affected where total civilian casualties amounted to 1127 people.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Militants of the terrorist group of ISIS launched a mortar attack on Saturday targeting Turkish troops deployed in Iraqi territories and forces of al-Hashd al-Watani led by former governor of Nineveh Ethel Nujaifi in a military camp near the city of Mosul.
The Iraqi Shafaq News reported that several mortar shells were fired by ISIS militants targeting the Turkish troops in Camp Zilkan north of Mosul.
The website added that the attack also targeted fighters of al-Hashd al-Watani, but the bombardment did not cause any losses.
The estimated number of the Turkish troops stationed at Camp Zilkan near the town of Bashiqa is 1200 soldiers.
The Iraqi government, in different occasions, firmly rejected the existence of the Turkish troops in the Iraqi territories and considered it a violation of the country’s sovereignty.
On the other hand, Turkish authorities say the troops were sent to Iraq to help in the fight against the terrorist group which controls the city of Mosul that is considered the capital of Nineveh province, and the second largest city in country.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The provincial governor of eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province Salim Kunduzi announced resigned from his position earlier today citing interference in his work.
Kunduzi made the announcement during a gathering attended by several tribal elders and claimed that he was facing issues by taking a step to improve the situation of the province.
He was appointed as the provincial governor Nangarhar province nearly 16 months ago.
Kunduzi did not elaborate further regarding his claims on interference that creates barrier on his way to properly conduct his work.
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[ARA News] The US-led coalition is supporting a Turkey-backed offensive by Syrian rebels on the town of Dabiq, which is of strategic importance for the Islamic State (ISIS) radical group.
“The Coalition is actively supporting [Turkey-backed] Syrian opposition forces as they advance to within a few kilometers of ISIL’s weakening stronghold Dabiq,” US-led coalition envoy Brett McGurk said on Sunday, using another acronym for ISIS.
Dabiq is strategically important for ISIS, and the main ISIS magazine is named after the town, which is mentioned in an Islamic Hadith about the end of the world.
ISIS believes Dabiq is where Muslim and infidel forces will eventually face each other. “After the infidel forces’ defeat, the apocalypse will begin”, according to the Hadith.
On 24 August, Turkey launched the Euphrates Shield operation with the main aim to prevent the Syrian Kurds from uniting their canton administrations into one federal zone.
This led to clashes between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Turkey-backed rebels.
In the meantime, both the SDF and the Turkey-backed rebels are moving in the direction of al-Bab, another main stronghold for ISIS in northern Syria.
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(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – Jazeera and Badiya Operations Command declared on Sunday freeing 17 families from the grip of the Islamic State group (ISIS), west of Mosul, and added that ISIS used these families as human shields during battles.
The commander of Jazeera Operations, Major General Qassim al-Mohamadi, said in a press statement, “This morning, joint security forces carried out an operation in the areas of al-Jawa’na and al-Dankiyah that are located between the Islands of Baghdadi and Heet, and were able to free 17 families that were used by ISIS as human shields during battles.”
“The coming hours will witness notable military achievements in the liberation battles of Heet and the western areas from the ISIS control,” Mohamadi added.
Noteworthy, security forces managed to liberate the majority of cities of Anbar, including Ramadi, Fallujah and Rutba.
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[Ynet] The Paleostinian Authority paid the Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) NIS 590 million
1 New Israeli Shekel = US$ 0.27, so 590,000,000 x 0.27 = $159.3 million. That more than covers the measly $20 mil. Israel just sent to Turkey so they'd shut up about getting their precious Mavi Mara terrorists killed.
on Sunday, the first payment in the debt settlement agreement signed two weeks ago.
As part of the agreement, the electrical grid in the Paleostinian Authority will be under Paleostinian responsibility. This will be done as part of a new body that will buy electricity from the IEC exclusively and ensure payment for the Paleostinian residents' electricity consumption.
Also as part of the agreement, a debt of some NIS 500 million was forgiven, out of the total of NIS 2 billion the Paleostinians owe.
[DAWN] FAISALABAD: Kotwali police started the paperwork but haven't done much else against more than 30 Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... activists for allegedly subjecting coppers to torture during a public meeting held outside Chiniot Bazaar without the government’s permission.
The case has been registered on the complaint of Kotwali Station House Officer Shahid Iqbal under sections 148, 149, 186, 283, 290, 291 and 353 of the Pakistain Penal Code (PPC), Section 3 of the Amplifier Act and 13/20/65 of the Arms Ordinance.
Four JI activists, including its youth wing president Adnan, besides Ijaz, Waseem and Rafiqu, security in charge of the event, have been nominated in the case, along with 25/30 unidentified people. Police said the JI men had put up resistance and tortured an assistant sub-inspector (ASI). He said the police also seized a pistol and bullets from a meeting participant.
According to sources, the FIR did not mention the names of some top JI leaders who too had delivered speeches on the occasion.
They said Gulberg Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Abid Zafar was also manhandled when he along with some other coppers went on the stage to ask the organisers to stop the "illegal" event held outside Chiniot Bazaar.
They said JI Emir Sirajul Haq ...current head of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. Siraj was born in 1962 and entered politics shortly after that... and other office-bearers were also on the stage when the coppers were manhandled.
Some JI workers also rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud against Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... police, the sources added.
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(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – Anbar Police Command announced on Sunday that three policemen were either killed or wounded in an explosion while trying to dismantle an improvised explosive device, in western Fallujah.
The Command said in a press statement, “This morning, an improvised explosive device exploded in a main road in al-Nassaf area in western Fallujah, while bomb squad forces were trying to dismantle it, killing one policeman and wounded two others severely.”
“Security forces rushed to the area of incident, and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital and the body to the forensic medicine department,” the statement explained. “Strict procedures were imposed in the area in anticipation of the presence of other bombs,” the statement added.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – On Sunday, Jazeera and Badiya Operations Command announced killing nine members of the Islamic State group (ISIS), and seizing 500 improvised explosive devices during the liberation battles of Heet Island, west of Ramadi.
The commander of Jazeera Operations, Major General Qassim Mohamadi, said in a press statement, “Security forces from Jazeera Operations and the army’s 7th brigade carried out a military operation that targeted gatherings of ISIS in the areas of al-Zawiya and al-Waradiyah, in Heet Island.”
“The joint forces clashed with the armed members of ISIS, and were able to kill nine militants of the terror group,” Mohamadi explained.
Mohamadi also added that the security forces also seized 500 improvised explosive device, 150 local-made Jahannam missiles and 10 booby-trapped barrels, in addition to destroying an explosives factory in al-Waradiyah area, in western Ramadi.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – On Sunday, tribal leader Ahmed al-Hamadi emphasized that some security leaders in Anbar province are accepting bribes in order to release prisoners belong the Islamic State group.
Hamadi, in a press statement, said, “There are a lot of ISIS members in prison, and some security officials in Anbar started to release them after accepting bribes reaching 100 million US dollars.”
Hamadi also accused the Iraqi government with negligence and dereliction, for not taking the necessary action against the corrupted officials.
Meanwhile, member of Anbar Provincial Council, karim Karbouli refused Hamadi’s accusations, denying that the security officials in Anbar accepted bribes to release ISIS prisoners.
“It is impossible to eliminate corruption and bribery in the government institutions, but releasing ISIS prisoners in exchange of bribes is completely untrue,” Karbouli said.
Some bloggers published photo on Facebook of people said to have been arrested on charges of belonging to the Islamic state group, but they were later released, after deals arranged by some officials in Anbar.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – Al-Hashd al-Shaabi Command announced on Sunday, that the security forces evacuated 170 families from the areas of Heet Island, west of Ramadi.
Leader of al-Hashd al-shaabi, Qatari al-Samarmad, said in a press statement, “Today, joint security forces managed to evacuate 170 families, mostly women and children, from the areas of Heet Island.”
“The security forces secured the exit of the civilian families, and transferred them to safe areas in Heet district,” Samarmad added.
“The security forces are stationed in the axes of Heet Island in the areas of al-Dolab, banks of Euphrates River and central Heet, in order to receive the civilians fleeing from the ISIS group,” Samarmad explained.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The peace deal between the Government of Afghanistan and Gulbadin Hekmatyar is the first noteworthy success of the National Unity Government (NUG) in peace efforts. Hezb-e- Islami (HIA) of Gulbadin Hekmatyar agreed to cease hostilities in exchange for government recognition of the group and support for the removal of American and United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... sanctions against its leader, according to the agreement.
The western nations and the United States welcomed the peace agreement with Hekmatyar
"We applaud both parties for seeking a peaceful resolution through political dialogue and negotiation, and we commend the agreement as an important demonstration of the Afghan government’s commitment to restoring peace and stability in Afghanistan," the White House said in a statement.
The draft deal is in effect as it has been signed by President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. and by Mr. Hekmatyar, though not physically together.
The Commitments
Based on the agreement, the NUG committed to grant Hekmatyar amnesty for all his past offenses and release certain HIA prisoners. The Afghan government also agreed to press for the lifting of American and UN sanctions on Hekmatyar. The deal also includes provisions for his security at government expense. HIA will agree to cease all military anti-government activity and recognize the current Afghan constitution.
On the political side, the Afghan government pledges to provide freedom of travel and accommodation for the leader of HIA and other prominent personalities of that party and to give Hekmatyar the choice of two or three appropriate residences, including security arrangements, for which it will take on the costs. In addition, according to the agreement, the government further honor Hekmatyar in a special presidential decree "for his efforts for the liberation of the country," and will officially announce the right of HIA to be active both in the political and the social arenas and participate in all elections. The Government of Afghanistan also commits to arrange for the presence of HIA in the "consultation process for important government policies".
The agreement also provides for the voluntary return of refugees from HIA-related camps in Pakistain and other HIA members in exile. Returnees will receive land "in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... and other provinces," and about 20,000 families will be given help from "the international community."
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I gather that nothing will be done to impede Hekmatyar's involvement in the Afghan drug trade.
[DAWN] China on Saturday extended its technical hold on India's move to ban Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... (JeM) chief Masood Azhar at the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... (UN), Times of India reported. The move will hold for at least three months, and comes two days before China's hold was set to expire.
China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang said in Beijing, "The technical hold on India’s listing application submitted to the 1267 Committee in March 2016 has already been extended... There are still different views on India’s listing application. The extended technical hold on it will allow more time for the committee to deliberate on the matter and for relevant parties to have further consultations."
China blocked India's call to ban the Jaish chief at the UN in April this year, after India accused the turban group and its chief of carrying out the Pathankot attack.
On Feb 18, a list of 11 individuals and one organization "linked to terrorism in India" was submitted to the 1267/1989/2253 ISIS (the turbanIslamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group) and Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee.
India's foreign ministry spokesperson, Vikas Swarup, had said India would move the committee to include Masood Azhar's name. "It is a great anomaly that the organization Jaish-e-Mohammad is listed, but not its leader," he said.
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[DeutscheWelle] Refusing arraignment for terrorism charges, members of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) will be taken to court by force if they do not stand trial. Diego Cupolo reports from Ankara.
In Turkey, nearly every politician with the leftist, pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) is facing trial this fall. Of the party's 59 members of parliament, 54 have been charged with alleged links to terrorist organizations.
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Somali federal government forces, with the support of African Union troops have launched an offensive against Al shabaab strongholds near Diinsoor district in Baay region on Sunday.
A freelance journalist in Diinsoor district, told radio Shabelle via phone that the allied forces razed several Al shabaab bases and seized large cache of weapons, including grenade bombs.
The situation in the battled zones has returned to normalcy, with reports that Somali and AMISOM soldiers retreated back to their military bases in Diinsoor town after the operation.
Al shabaab did not comment so far on the reported offensive and the seizure of the weapons.
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A video of the incident—which pitted the shouting partisans of an anti-Assad Islamist rebel group known as Ahrar al-Sharqiya against the passing convoy of a rival rebel brigade backed by the U.S.—was posted on YouTube on Sept. 17. It quickly got picked up in both English and Arabic language media. And it seemed to show the humiliation of the United States and its chosen paladins in the war against ISIS.
The BBC, no less, wrote that “Free Syrian Army rebels” appeared “to chase U.S. special forces out of the northern Syrian town of al-Rai, calling them ‘infidels’ in Arabic.”
There have been so many embarrassments for America’s proxy warfare in Syria, and this looked like another one. Given the overheated U.S. political season, and at a time when the Syrian war is sinking into ever deeper circles of hell, this smelled like a potent symbol of Obama administration failure.
But a fortnight later, both U.S. Central Command and a rebel eyewitness in al-Rai have told The Daily Beast that, far from being run out of Dodge, the U.S. commandos were hardly even aware of the demonstration, much less threatened by it. And further analysis suggests it may have been a set-up with backing from Washington’s ostensible allies, the Turks.
According to the eyewitness, the entire spectacle was staged to brand an American-backed Sunni Arab militia as hirelings of a despised superpower.
“On the second day of the offensive, in the morning, we passed by one of the main streets of al-Rai,” said the Free Syrian Army fighter who saw the protest and has asked to be called “Abu Faris” for this article. ‘We are fighting ISIS,’ we said. ‘They are our biggest enemy.’ But it didn’t work. There is absolutely no trust of the Americans now.”
And further analysis suggests it may have been a set-up with backing from Washington’s ostensible allies, the Turks.
That Washington is not popular in Aleppo province is a fact. But what was the scale of this event? The video shows over a dozen Ahrar al-Sharqiya members taunting an inscrutable convoy—but not, curiously, any U.S. Special Forces or Turkish soldiers. In fact, Abu Faris said, “the Americans didn’t really know what was going on. They were removed from the rally. There was no violence or gunfire. Just shouting.”
After the protest, [the rival brigade] Mutasim returned to the scene and asked Ahrar al-Sharqiya to leave. They did. Al-Rai, as of this writing, is held by multiple U.S.- and Turkish-backed rebel groups, including Mutasim, whose role is providing logistical support to Turkish tanks and target-scouting for U.S. warplanes.
“Ahrar al-Sharqiya tried to get a lot of media attention,” Abu Faris told The Daily Beast. “And the Arab media helped them along. It’s just a game they’re playing.”
Into this confusing morass of affiliations and multiple loyalties stalks the Obama administration, which, as Abu Faris put it, faces an inordinate amount of “hatred” in northern Syria from jihadist and non-jihadist Sunni Arabs owing to its empowerment of a Kurdish paramilitary force known as the People’s Defense Units, or YPG.
Charles Lister, the Syria watcher, noted that Ahrar al-Sharqiya, which has headquartered itself in the Aleppo border town of Azaz, was one of the few “semi-Nusra” units to remain in the north after Nusra as a whole withdrew in 2015, in protest against impending Turkish plans to establish a safe zone.
Their fitful presence in al-Rai therefore strongly suggests that Ahrar al-Shariqiya “has some level of a supportive relationship with Turkey,” Lister said, as all rebel factions enjoined in Operations Euphrates Shield are, in effect, Turkish proxies.
And while there is no evidence that Ankara might be behind Ahrar al-Sharqiya’s provocation against U.S. forces in al-Rai, which can have been wholly spontaneous and organized by disgruntled jihadists, it would not be the first time since Turkey’s incursion into Aleppo put its own assets dangerously at odds with America’s. But this would be the first time that Turkish assets have directly threatened to kill American soldiers.
An advisor to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan did not respond to The Daily Beast’s request for comment. But the CENTCOM spokesman’s sanguine appraisal belies the animosity that still exists between Ankara and Washington.
[DAWN] KARACHI: Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Muhammad Zakaullah on Saturday warned that Pakistain’s commitment to peace must not be construed as its weakness.
"The Pakistain Navy is fully capable of hitting back with all its might if war is imposed," said Admiral Zakaullah.
The naval chief visited forward posts in the Creeks area to review the navy’s combat readiness, said a PN statement.
Accompanied by Commander Coast Rear Admiral Waseem Akram, he visited various naval posts and observed the operational readiness of the troops deployed on forward bases.
He interacted with the PN personnel and lauded their level of motivation and determination to safeguard the maritime frontiers of the country.
The naval chief exhorted them to come up to the expectations of their countrymen who had reposed confidence in them.
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We sail the ocean blue,
And our saucy ship’s a beauty;
We’re sober men and true,
And attentive to our duty.
When the balls whistle free
O’er the bright blue sea,
We stand to our guns all day;
When at anchor we ride
On the Portsmouth tide,
We’ve plenty of time to play.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least seven civilians were killed in an explosion in the restive southern Helmand province of Afghanistan, local officials said Sunday.
The incident took place in the vicinity of Lashkargah city, the provincial capital of Helmand province.
Provincial governor’s spokesman Omar Zwak confirmed that a civilian vehicle struck an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted by the militants in Bolan area of the city.
He said four children and two women were among those killed in the incident and the victims were all members of a single family.
On the other hand reports suggest at least 11 civilians were killed in the incident but the local officials have not confirmed the report so far.
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Josh Stanton at One Free Korea has a lengthy but superb summary of how the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Asia Subcommittee did something well, and demonstrated that the State Department is slow-walking the bipartisan North Korean Human Rights Act. Both the Pubs and Dems on the subcommittee treated the State Dept. Assistant Secretaries as piñatas, and deservedly so. Depressing but worthwhile read.
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[Breitbart] Italian police have arrested an Ghanaian immigrant after the man went on a rampage through four Roman churches, demolishing statues and knocking over candlesticks and reliquaries.
[BBC] Hungarian PM Viktor Orban has declared victory in a referendum on mandatory EU migrant quotas, despite a low turnout that appeared to render it invalid.
Nearly 98% of those who took part supported the government's call to reject the EU plan.
But only 43% of the electorate voted, short of the 50% required to be valid.
A government front man said the outcome was binding "politically and legally" but the opposition said the government did not have the support it needed.
Mr Orban urged EU decision makers to take note of the result and said he would change Hungary's constitution to make the decision binding.
[DeutscheWelle] Three police vehicles were torched in Dresden on Saturday night, as the city began its German Unity Festival in celebration of the 26th anniversary of German reunification.
Dresden police said the vehicles were so badly damaged that they can no longer be used. Damages are estimated to be in the tens of thousands.
Police have yet to find the perpetrator, but are questioning one man initially taken into custody on suspicion of writing hateful graffiti. Police apprehended the man near the spot where "Dresden hates the police" had been sprayed. They said they are investigating whether there is a connection between the graffiti and the torched vehicles, with the incidents happening around 2.5 kilometers away from each other.
[AnNahar] Germany wants to reinstate EU rules which oblige asylum seekers to be sent back to Greece as the first EU country they reached, its interior minister was quoted as saying Sunday.
"I would like the Dublin convention to be applied again... we will take up discussions on this in a meeting with (EU) interior ministers" later in October, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told the Greek daily Kathimerini.
The Dublin accord gives responsibility for asylum seekers' application to the first country they reach -- which put Greece on the frontline of more than a million migrants who arrived in the EU last year.
The accord also says asylum seekers should be sent back to the first country they arrived in if they subsequently reach another EU state before their case is examined. A huge proportion of the migrants ended up in Germany.
But this clause was suspended for Greece in 2011 after the country lost an EU legal complaint which condemned the mistreatment of migrants seeking international protection.
"Since then, the EU has provided substantial support, not only financially," to Greece to improve its asylum seeker procedures, the German minister said.
Greece stressed it was already coping with over 60,000 refugees and migrants blocked on its territory after countries further north on the so-called Balkan route closed their borders to the massive influx, notably fleeing the Syrian conflict.
De Maiziere said he was conscious of the "strong reactions" of Greeks, as well as the huge number of migrants being dealt with by Greece as an EU frontline state. But "that doesn't annul the need" to reinstate the Dublin rules, he said, stressing that "criticism of the convention not being applied keeps increasing in Germany."
The minister, who has just revised the number of asylum seekers who arrived in Germany last year to 890,000 -- down from a previous estimate of 1.1 million -- reiterated Berlin's commitment to taking its share of refugees who arrived in Greece and Italy in 2015 and the start of 2016.
"Germany is ready to welcome up to 500 people per month" from the two countries, he said.
[AlAhram] Three workers in an electrical company were killed and three of their colleagues were maimed when the vehicle transporting them to work hit an IED in the west of Al Arish city in North Sinai, state news agency MENA reported.
The injured were transferred to Al Arish military hospital.
That's the third attack in two days. It's time for the army to stage another clean-up of the mountain hideaways.
Last year, Texas lost more jobs in the oil and gas sector (about 100,000) than the number of jobs in the entire U.S. wind industry (88,000). Coal and oil bad. Wind good.
Oil prices are down about 50 percent since June 2014. And since early 2015, more than 40 Texas oil and gas companies have filed for bankruptcy, and some 75 others are on what consulting firm Deloitte calls its danger list. Low prices good, but not carbon dioxide from oil and gas.
Of course, no one in Washington is calling for subsidies to the oil and gas sector or worried about saving oil-patch jobs. By contrast, in December, Congress made sure to protect the wind industry by passing a five-year extension of the production-tax credit, a lucrative subsidy that pays wind-energy firms $23 for each megawatt-hour of electricity that they produce. That's about 100% of what I paid for hydro-power electricity in Idaho, 40 years ago, so it's a nice subsidy.
For some Easterners, hard times in Texas are cause for celebration. In mid-2015, when oil prices dropped under $60 per barrel amid layoffs in the oil and gas sector, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman crowed about news that the state's employment growth had fallen below the national average. The explanation, he said, was "all about hydrocarbons." Got yer own private windmill, do ya, Paul?
Krugman and others may delight in the misfortune of Texas's oil and gas producers, but they forget that the main reason oil prices have fallen so far, so fast, is due to ingenuity, much of it developed in Houston, Dallas and Midland. All on Obama's watch. Or more precisely, while he wasn't watching.
Technological innovation in everything from drill bits and mud pumps to seismic analysis and digitally controlled drilling rigs has unlocked galaxies of energy that have helped transform America into an energy superpower. The U.S. now has an energy-price advantage on commodities like natural gas, propane, ethane and even electricity over nearly every other country. That advantage is a direct result of the dynamism of the domestic oil and gas business, the epicenter of which remains in Texas. This is in the Dallas Morning News, not the New York Slimes...
Today's oil-price plunge is largely due to the shale revolution, which started in Texas and has made the U.S. the world's biggest oil and natural-gas producer, leading to record levels of oil in storage. Between 2009 and 2015, U.S. oil production grew by about 3.9 million barrels per day. And nearly 60 percent of that increase - some 2.3 million barrels per day - came from Texas.
Texas now accounts for about 37 percent of daily U.S. oil production and about 27 percent of all domestic natural gas output. Just like the good ol' days, when California produced a bunch of it, too. How's your production, Governor Brown?
The Lone Star State is once again exerting outsize influence on global prices, an echo of its storied past. But this time around the pace of development of new technologies suggests that we may be headed into a new era of higher oil production and lower prices, with Texas leading the way. A little bit of history about how one guy went broke drilling for oil, and then - (insert photo of gusher here)
In the late afternoon of Oct. 3, 1930, a gusher of sweet Texas crude blew out over the top of the wooden derrick and onto the nearby pine trees and red clay soil.
Joiner had discovered a gargantuan deposit. The East Texas Oil Field measured 45 miles north to south, from 5 to 12 miles east to west, and covered 140,000 acres, dwarfing anything that had come before. It contained more than 5.5 billion barrels of oil, about a third as much as all the crude produced in the United States up to that time. And the mineral rights to the East Texas Oil Field were highly diffused, with hundreds of individuals and companies owning parts of the land. Within a few months of Joiner's gusher, wells in East Texas were producing more than 1 million barrels of light-as-kerosene crude oil per day, half of America's total consumption. Everything's bigger in Texas!
Despite the low prices, Texas producers didn't want to reduce production. All were relying on an old English common law known as the "right of capture." On the surface, the wells were owned by different people. Below the surface, all were sucking oil out of the same reservoir. If they stopped drilling and producing, their neighbors could simply pump the oil out from beneath their land. Eventually, the State regulated production, and - to make a long story shorter - OPEC copied those Texas rules to limit production. OPEC had roots in Texas: Abdullah Tariki, the first Saudi educated at the University of Texas in Austin, did an internship at the Texas Railroad Commission. As Saudi Arabia's first oil minister, Tariki arranged a meeting in Cairo with ministers from Venezuela, Kuwait, Iran and Iraq that resulted in the formation of OPEC. Years later, when a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, asked Tariki what he had studied in Austin, Tariki replied, "the Texas Railroad Commission."
Many oil traders were betting that OPEC would cut production to help stabilize prices. Instead, Saudi Arabia, producer of about a third of all OPEC oil and the cartel's most powerful member, made clear that it would protect its market share, even if that meant lower prices. They don't get this supply-demand thing?
The Saudis' rationale was simple: If they cut production, the result would be higher prices, which, in turn, would stimulate more shale oil production in the U.S. (and probably more cheating by cartel members).
After OPEC decided to keep the oil taps open, prices dropped 7 percent and kept falling. Many sovereign producers, including Russia, Kuwait, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria, hope that lower prices will shut down U.S. shale oil production and reduce supply.
But that's unlikely to happen soon, thanks to American entrepreneurialism and ingenuity. U.S. drillers are making drilling faster and cheaper, resulting in more oil and gas production from fewer rigs. Domestic oil producers, particularly the ones in Texas, can survive drastically lower prices.
Today's oil market, then, looks remarkably like it did in 1931, before Gov. Sterling declared martial law in East Texas. A flood of Texas oil has overwhelmed the market. There are no brakes on supply, prices are weak and producers are acting on their own, hoping to sell as much oil as they can. What's old is new again - and Texas oil is, once again, in the spotlight. Read the rest of the history at the link - it's interesting.
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For some Easterners, hard times in Texas are cause for celebration. Do they feel the same way about the coal-producing areas? As they say: "Can't fix stupid." How do these Easterners think their food gets to them, how their buildings/homes are heated, where their electricity comes from? Maybe they should be shut off for awhile.
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Sounds like he's been invited (willingly or not) to an intimate little walk in Ft. Marcy's Park with the Clintons.
Either that or he found a horse head in his bed this morning.
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HeatStreet now says it's back on, but remotely.
I like a little butter-flavored movie grease on my popcorn, please.
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Hard to understand how Assange didn't set up the classic "If anything happens to me, the info will be released by five other sources anyway." insurance policy.
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He didn't want to be the last pensioner at GITMO?
[CNN] Donald Trump is facing another political mess -- this time just five weeks from Election Day.
The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... report that the Republican presidential nominee reported a $916 million loss in 1995 -- and could have gone 18 years without paying federal income taxes as a result -- has set off new questions about Trump's refusal to release his tax returns and his business acumen.
The Times is being disingenuous, as is CNN, given that Breitbart reports the Times paid no taxes in 2014 by doing a clever bit of legal accounting. Likewise, Mr. Trump applied the tax laws to his situation, which is why he has repeatedly said that the IRS always audits him -- and he is always approved.
The Times did not look at his federal return. It obtained one page of his New York State resident income tax return as well as the first page of New Jersey and Connecticut nonresident returns.
CNN has not independently verified the documents' authenticity, but Trump's campaign has not challenged any of the facts reported by The Times.
Mounting questions about Trump's businesses and finances are set to test Republicans' loyalty to the party's nominee. And they will test Trump's temperament as well, the week before his second debate with Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Jeremiah S. Black ....
And from Blossom Unains5562, a bit of conspiracy mongering:
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Actually this is a teaching moment. Hillary did the same. Most rich do the same.
Sanders and Hillary can say they'll raise taxes on the rich all you want but the wealthy dodge the taxes and the brunt fall on the middle class and the debt grows.
The ads write themselves but nobody in the Trump campaign seems willing to do so.
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Clinton took the same deductions which is probably the only legal thing they have ever done. Income tax doesn't go toward schools and I bet Trump paid plenty of property tax on his his extensive real estate holdings. Plus Trump paid FICA for Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment Insurance, Workman's Comp, and health care for his many employees which the Clinton's non-profits do not pay.
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No - the New York Times paid no taxes in 2014 because they lost about $1.1 billion when they sold the Boston Globe in 2013 to John Henry for $70 million.
Anybody who owns stocks and bonds, however small the holdings, can offset capitol gains with losses. Anyone who owns investment property, even just a little two-family house, can write off the expenses and depreciation of the investment portion of the property not just against the rental income, but against the owner's total income.
Thus, many years ago when Mr. Wife and I were looking for our first house, Mr. Wife wanted something in need of renovation -- he loves wielding hammer and paintbrush. We ended up buying a lovely Edwardian that had been divided into two apartments in a gentrifying neighbourhood rather than a single family of similar vintage and location precisely because the rent combined with the tax write-offs on the apartment covered the house mortgage, making our renovation expenses affordable. After we sold it, the house was pictured on the front page of the local daily as an example of the neighbourhood's beautiful housing stock.
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Zero Hedge gets excitable so we don't like to use them as a primary source, but they show the section of Hillary Clinton's 2015 tax return where she takes a nearly $700,000 deduction on rolled over capital losses -- presumably on the sale of stocks or bonds that did poorly in a previous year. link
I suspect that is what rjschwarz and One Eyed Speaking for Boskone7919 referred to when they said Hillary did it, too.
The reason Donald Trump could have continued using the loss against his federal income tax for so long is because there are strict limits to how much one can write off each year. Mr. Wife's employer did an accounting thing (no doubt Raj could explain it, but I shan't even try) with his pay while we were on assignment in Europe that gave us the same net pay he'd earnt at home, despite the much higher taxes and cost of living over there. Then when we got back they paid for a tax accountant to finish equalizing out the thing; because of the limit on how much could be written off each year, it took almost ten years to take it down to zero, and we are merely middle class.
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I tuned into Hillary's Toledo, OH for a few minutes today. She packs more bullshit and lies in one speech than one can keep up with it. She is some piece of work. The following story/vid ought to be required watching before voting: Judicial Watch Panel discussion of Clinton, DOJ and FBI's Comey. Panelists include author of the New York Times best-seller Clinton Cash and President of Government Accountability Institute Peter Schweizer; Joe diGenova, former U.S. Attorney, Independent Counsel and founding partner of the Washington, D.C., law firm diGenova & Toensing; and Chris Farrell, director of investigations and research at Judicial Watch. Moderator will be Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
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The reason Donald Trump could have continued using the loss against his federal income tax for so long is because there are strict limits to how much one can write off each year.
Actually, they're not that strict - net operating losses (NOL's) can be carried back three years or carried forward fifteen years at the time (Internal Revenue Code when Trump's returns were filed; it's now 3 back or 20 forward), and you can zero out your taxable income for a given year, then carry the remaining loss to the next year and so on, until you use it up or it expires. I had one client who was in a similar situation - didn't pay any Federal income tax for about seven years. You do have to pay other taxes, like the self-employment tax, net investment tax, additional Medicare tax, the 10% early retirement withdrawal penalty, and the like. States generally follow the Feds with the tax law, but not always.
Also - rental losses are limited to $25,000 per year (the remaining losses are suspended until a future event, usually a sale of the property, happens) unless you're a real estate professional, like Trump is. Rental losses are also suspended as your income increases - you hit a phaseout range where that $25,000 is reduced until you hit another level of income, when it's phased out in its entirety.
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How many of the billionaires who support HRC did or would do the same thing. HRC has actually done the same thing. No story here. Next you will see the Trump pushing granny off one of his buildings ad. IMO this lefty B.S. is not working anymore. How many of these left-wingnut billionaires who support HRC or HRC say, "I'm not paying enough taxes to the government, I think I'll send in more to the IRS." What are they fvcking stupid?
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One Eye, non-profits pay the same employee taxes (except FUTA) that for-profit businesses pay. And they are subject to the same requirements for healthcare benefits.
[Ynet] Two members of the group planned to attack Israeli government buildings in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem; one member preached to the others that all infidels, Jews, Crusaders, and Arabs that don't follow ISIS must be destroyed.
Six residents of Shuafat and 'Anata in East Jerusalem were indicted on Sunday for supporting ISIS. Some of them were also charged with trying to join the terror organization's ranks in Syria and with planning terror attacks in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
According to the indictment, which was filed by the Jerusalem District Attorney, during 2015 and until August 2016, the defendants worked both together and separately to support and join ISIS. They allegedly established a study group ("halaqah") that met several times every week to learn the terror organization's ideology.
During these study meetings, the members of the halaqah watched ISIS videos, including speeches by leaders of the terror group, reenactments of battles, acts of murder and reports from ISIS claiming to have taken over different areas.
Ahmad Shweiki, one of the defendants, preached to the participants that they must destroy infidels, Jews, Crusaders and Arabs who don't follow the laws of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... . He instructed the members to cut their hair and grow their beards the way ISIS fighters do, as well as fold the ends of their pants legs as ISIS fighters do.
According to the indictment, two of the defendants--Amr al-Bayah and Mohammed Hamid from Shuafat--met after they both failed to leave Israel for Syria to join ISIS. al-Bayah allegedly said in that meeting that he plans on carrying out an attack against Jews in Israel, and Hamid accepted the former's offer to join him.
After realizing they would not be able to purchase a Kalashnikov (AK-47) rifle, al-Bayah told Hamid that he could buy a shipping container where they could prepare explosives to be used in a bombing they were planning at Kiryat HaMemshala (a complex of government buildings) in Jerusalem and in Tel Aviv.
Hamid suggested they carry out a bombing near the Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem, but al-Bayah said he preferred to attack the government buildings.
Until his arrest, Hamid managed to save NIS 1,000 for the purpose of buying weapons. When he heard that police forces were on their way to his home to arrest him, he erased all of the content from his cellphone so police would not see the ISIS-related content he had on it.
Another defendant, 24-year-old Saad 'Alamein, allegedly tried to recruit Yusef al-Sheikh 'Amr, 29, for terror activity. 'Alamein was at the time working at a construction site in Rishon Lezion, where he found a box with old army uniforms. The two decided to use the uniforms for training, shooting attacks, and kidnappings they had planned, all inspired by ISIS.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Member of the Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... Bloc, MP Antoine Zahra, told Future TV on Saturday that Hezbollah wants a president and premier that carry out its agenda, and that time has proven that the only one obstructing presidential elections is in fact Hezbollah.
The MP explained that former PM Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. went through all the options for presidential elections, and he was constantly faced by Hezbollah's commitment towards General Michel Aoun ...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... ; and now that he was assessing Aoun for candidate, Hezbollah was trying to force numerous conditions on Hariri concerning Cabinet formation and which electoral law to adopt, as though the Constitution "was a joke."
He asserted that Hezbollah wanted a president and prime minister that would put into force Hezbollah's agenda in establishing a crescent of authority extending from Iran to Leb.
"As long as Hezbollah is capable of stopping the rise of an authority that would question it about what it was doing in Syria, it will continue to do so," said Zahra, noting that Hezbollah believed that it could score a conclusive victory and establish its dominance in the region.
"We agree with [Aoun] on rebuilding the state and respecting the Constitution, and those placing vetoes do not want a State but a farm that they control," added Zahra as he asserted that his Bloc would never allow it.
The MP said that his Bloc supported the mixed electoral law for legislative elections.
"The Lebanese Forces and the Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... will not join a House session unless the electoral law was on top of its agenda."
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[GEO.TV] Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... has set some new trends in politics and still has the capacity to attract big crowds, but what he perhaps still lacks is the strategy and means to success. He has now announced the 'final with 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... , when he threatened to 'siege Islamabad,' the federal capital.
What will all this lead to is not difficult to predict, but much can happen this month for either side. As I had written earlier, confrontation looks imminent, but is Imran's 'Tiger Force' really prepared and ready for all this?
Imran's intention looks quite clear. He wants to 'siege Islamabad,' which can be in both ways: closing all roads, or through disruption, something close to the August 30th, 2014 attack on Parliament and Supreme Court.
It was a big show but not as big as PTI's October 30th, 2011 or December 25th, 2012, irrespective of what young and dynamic PTI leader Faisal Javed says from the stage. In politics you have a right to make tall claims for motivation. Nevertheless, what was good was that it ended well and peacefully without any hindrance, for which credit goes to both the administration and the PTI.
One thing which I noticed in the jalsa was large participation of Pashtuns living in Punjab. Interestingly, Imran is attracting Pashtuns in particular in every city. In the last few meetings there has been a considerable decline in women's participation, maybe because of frequent unpleasant incidents.
Arrangements on Friday were much better, but still the fear factor kept large numbers of PTI women supporters away from the venue.
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[Libya Observer] At least 60 ISIS Lions of Islam were killed after a failed attack on Misrata-led forces in Sirte on Sunday.
Military sources said an ISIS convoy attacked at dawn a checkpoint for Brigade 166 in south Sirte in a bid to encircle the brigade and lift the siege on their fellow murderous Moslems trapped inside Sirte.
"The ISIS convoy came from the desert, all the attackers were foreigners, they were all killed," the sources added.
The sources suggested that the ISIS convoy may have fled Sirte at the beginning of the military operation in May.
More from the Libyan Herald:
Bunyan Marsous (BM) said this evening that as many as 55 terrorists had been killed today in Sirte, for the lost of eight of their own men and 57 wounded, A Dutch photojournalist was also killed reportedly shot through the chest by a Islamic State (IS) sniper.
After ten early morning airstrikes by aircraft from Misrata, Bunyan Marsous forces again sought to press forward into the shrinking IS enclave in Sirte’s Third District. Many of the terrorists appear to have died in a breakout or counterattack toward the port. BM also said it forces were searching for another IS group trying to make their escape.
The shot Dutch photographer, Jeroen Oerlemans, was taken from the Sirte frontline to Misrata hospital where doctors pronounced him dead. The second journalist to perish in the fight for the town and one of two Dutch journalists there, he was killed in an area supposedly freed of IS forces.
In July, TV reporter Abdulgader Fassouk was shot by a sniper as he ran across open ground. Oerlemans was an experienced photographer who was briefly kidnapped by IS in Syria four years ago
BM said this evening that it had been told by captured terrorists where civilians were sheltering. It said that its artillery bombardment had avoided houses where families might be.
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