If the 2016 presidential election were actually about genuine political policies, Donald Trump would defeat Hillary Clinton in one of the biggest landslides of all time. But the mainstream media--with, alas, considerable help from Donald himself--has made it about anything but.
Nevertheless, we shouldn't let those disgracefully biased, born again-bluenoses of the Newswoisie or Donald's obvious neurotic need to respond to anything and everything deter us from examining the proposals in his Saturday speech at Gettysburg.
[Wash Times] As the Obama administration has retreated, or openly flirted with retrenchment, from Middle Eastern wars during its tenure, America has been spared the full onslaught of jihadi terrorism because of the exertions of nation’s special military forces and the intelligence communities working in concert. This close interaction of the Special Operations Forces and the Central Intelligence Agency overcame a history of bureaucratic infighting over turf, funds, and bragging rights to wage a highly effective counterterrorist campaign far from the U.S. homeland after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Not widely known is the fact this team of special military units and intelligence personnel constituted one of the three counteroffensives that broke the back of the Iraq insurgency fueled by the Al-Qaeda in Iraq terrorist network after the 2003 invasion of the Persian Gulf country. Together with George W. Bush’s injection of 28,000 additional combat troops in 2007 and the winning over to the American side of Sunni sheiks who feared and loathed the insurgents imposition of Salafist dress and behavior codes, the U.S. covert forces accelerated the intelligence-to-raid cycle, while escalating the number of night operations from about a dozen a month to 300. These tactics beat back the ethnic terrorism-laced insurgency just as today the Special Operations Forces knock Middle East terrorists off stride, preventing many more terrorist incidents occurring outside the region. This "thin red line of heroes" made up of U.S. counterterrorism operators has filled the breach left by Washington’s disengagement.
Barack Obama’s withdrawal from Iraq in 2011, tepid response to Libya’s plunge into chaos, blase reaction to the widening conflict in Syria (not to mention Damascus’ crossing the president’s red line on chemical weapons), and nearly complete withdrawal of all U.S. ground forces from Afghanistan created political vacuums for terrorist nests. Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, or other terrorist movements have never been reluctant to franchise their brand of murderous ideology in vulnerable lands. Based in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, or other countries, terrorist instigators strive to mount or inspire attacks within the United States or Western Europe.
Washington’s disassociation has fortunately been partly offset by SEAL, Delta, Ranger and other classified forces operating against the world’s festering terrorist hives from Pakistan to the Philippines. Started during the George W. Bush administration, which was widely criticized for its global-war-on-terrorism approach, America’s special operators and intelligence officers now deploy to countries not-at-war with the United States to disrupt terrorist plans, such as Libya, Somalia, and Yemen.
Con't.
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this team of special military units and intelligence personnel constituted one of the three counteroffensives that broke the back of the Iraq insurgency fueled by the Al-Qaeda in Iraq terrorist network after the 2003 invasion of the Persian Gulf country. Together with George W. Bush’s injection of 28,000 additional combat troops in 2007
Wait a minute! George W. Bush did something right?
That's sacrilege! What happened to Bushchimphitler? What happened to "A village in Texas is missing its idiot?" It's funny how the democrats can't talk about success in the Middle East without giving credit to GWB.
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1. It's the Washington Times. Not the Washington Post.
2. The author is from Stanford University’s Hoover Institution . Not exactly a lair of Democrats*.
*Though Victor Davis Hanson (whose name will likely send our resident Genuine War Hero ™ into a tizzy) is a Fellow there.
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Not a Genuine War Hero™, but I love me some VDH
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I may not be a smart man...nor an intellectual like y'all, but I can recognize that Iraq was a disaster and vdh influenced Bush and Cheney into entering that debacle. But, hey I am can't match wits with a guy like vdh what with all his combat patches and all.
That said, tizzy over... - our SOF and their target generation machine are indeed very special.
BLUF: [RT] Details of Jones’ arrest have not been public, but according to the News & Observer, the judge was taken in custody after a "SWAT-team-like raid" on his Wayne County home. Jones’ defense has been saying that he had never been told by the FBI officer that his request could result in a search warrant.
"The jury’s verdict affirms a bedrock principle of the rule of law," John Bruce, the acting US Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, said in a statement afterward. "No person holding a position of public trust in our legal system is permitted to subvert that system for his own personal objectives."
Sentencing in Jones’ case has been set for January 23.
On the charge of bribery, Jones faces no more than 15 years in prison and up to $250,000 in fines. The charge of gratuities carries a possible term of not more than two years in prison and up to $250,000 in fines. The charge of attempting to corruptly influence an official proceeding could land Jones in jail for as many as 20 years behind bars and require him to pay up to $250,000.
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"No person holding a position of public trust in our legal system is permitted to subvert that system for his own personal objectives."
Senior U.S. State Department employees offering special, overseas assignments to FBI agents to alter classified document markings...... please disregard.
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Obama's Executive Branch going after the Judicial Branch. Will be more difficult and could have an adverse effect on the Executive Branch than when he sacked the military but the regime is up to trying stuff like this.
[Townhall] "Strengthening families" is big in Hillary Clinton’s immigration platform--not American families, but families of undocumented Democrats. To that end--and "within her first 100 days in office"--Hillary has vowed to "introduce comprehensive immigration reform with a pathway to full and equal citizenship." These newly minted Democrats will be speedily naturalized (likely in time for Hillary’s second term). "All families" will be granted "affordable health care," a privilege very many Americans are without.
Yet another political grant of privilege Americans don’t have, unless pigmentally endowed, is affirmative action. The throngs of immigrants and refugees--whose entry into the US Mrs. Clinton will accelerate, and whose numbers she’ll increase, should she become the next president--will benefit from affirmative action.
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she can issue eo s till her hand bleeds but where will the $ come from, assuming the Rs keep the house and can find their balls? this assumes ryan is no longer speaker
[Breitbart] On Friday, the government of gun-controlled Australia admitted that hundreds of thousands of "illegal firearms" remain in criminal possession and launched a new amnesty in hopes of persuading said criminals to turn over the weapons.
In September, Breitbart News reported that Melbourne, Australia, had a gun problem; that they had witnessed more than one shooting a week on average since January 2015.
Moreover, The Age reported:
Known criminals were caught with firearms 755 times [in 2015], compared to 143 times in 2011.
The epicentre of the problem is a triangle between Coolaroo, Campbellfield and Glenroy in the north-west, with Cranbourne, Narre Warren and Dandenong in the south-east close behind
Criminals are u sing gunshot wounds to the arms and legs as warnings to pay debts Assault rifles and handguns are being smuggled into Australia via shipments of electronics and metal parts Now the government of Australia is admitting that hundreds of thousands of "illegal guns" - "illicit firearms" - in the hands of criminals some 20 years after Australia's gun ban was implemented.
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true but australia having gun control laws is NO argument for trying to disarm the USA
they are 2 different cases
Australia has tough gun laws but it's OK it works because most of the population don't own guns. Some criminals have illegal firearms but not many and if caught they are taken forever out of the market
People that own guns have to keep them in locked gun safes.
But it works here because we never had widespread gun ownership.
So lots of people in Australia foolishly think they know best and that they can tell the US what to do - but the US is a whole different country.
The US has widespread gun ownership and the second amendment which is constitutionally important.
so that means you can't bring in gun control laws in the same way
and if you try that in the US all that will happen is law abiding folk will give up their guns while criminals will have all the guns
So it just wouldn't work.
But this is why there is a cultural difference between the two countries. If you walk down any street in australia and ask if people should be able to own guns most people will say "no".
If you do the same in the US most people will say "yes".
Australia has a lot worse problems - like NO constitutional guarantee of free speech
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I view the 1st and 2nd Amendments more as warnings than guarantees.
The guarantees are what people do to ensure their rights are respected by government, including keeping and bearing arms, even in the face of admonitions that gun rights are "gone" when a political operative of any kind gets into office.
I called this Oz thing a year ago, pointing out that the Australian gun laws -- laws up until now which were regarded by opponents of the right to keep and bear arms as a model for "what should be done" in the US -- were universally ignored, and were therefore a massive failure and a waste of government resources.
The announcement by the elected government of Australia only confirmed what I have been contending for a while now.
Another example which should have taken the breath away of every gun grabbing fascist: New York state had a registration rate of five percent of semiautomatic rifles since their Draconian gun laws were passed in 2013.
[LA Times] Short of troops to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan a decade ago, the California National Guard enticed thousands of soldiers with bonuses of $15,000 or more to reenlist and go to war.
Now the Pentagon is demanding the money back.
Nearly 10,000 soldiers, many of whom served multiple combat tours, have been ordered to repay large enlistment bonuses -- and slapped with interest charges, wage garnishments and tax liens if they refuse -- after audits revealed widespread overpayments by the California Guard at the height of the wars last decade.
Investigations have determined that lack of oversight allowed for widespread fraud and mismanagement by California Guard officials under pressure to meet enlistment targets.
But soldiers say the military is reneging on 10-year-old agreements and imposing severe financial hardship on veterans whose only mistake was to accept bonuses offered when the Pentagon needed to fill the ranks.
"These bonuses were used to keep people in," said Christopher Van Meter, a 42-year-old former Army captain and Iraq veteran from Manteca, Calif., who says he refinanced his home mortgage to repay $25,000 in reenlistment bonuses and $21,000 in student loan repayments that the Army says he should not have received. "People like me just got screwed."
In Iraq, Van Meter was thrown from an armored vehicle turret -- and later awarded a Purple Heart for his combat injuries -- after the vehicle detonated a buried roadside bomb.
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#4 What's laughable is they pull crap like this and then expect the military to be on their side in a civil war?
The ruling class is living in an illusion. When the inevitable happens, they will only have a crumbling MSM, Hollywood, Wall Street, and government bureaucrats, and little food and few survival skills on their side. They will not have the military, cops, gun owners, business people, or most people in fly-over land on their side. People are tired of getting screwed over and over by the ruling elite who live in a bubble.
Certainly not suggesting anything, but it could happen like this, except nobody leaves town until the resignations begin to be televised and new elections announced.
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I'm not suggesting anything either, but the left really, really wants to neuter the 2nd. They most likely have considered the scenario of a 20M man march on D.C. with firearms.
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Is this a program intended to get enlistments to fall? Who benefits from a weakened American military?
I have not heard of audits and investigation into foreign aid fraud ,have you? What about welfare and ebt fraud where money is given with no service in return.
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Trump should pay for this bullshit. That would garner him more votes than any commercial on the leftist controlled television station.
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Obama has been trying for years to fine anyone who is in the military. Every time the Repunycans threaten to shut down the government, Obama threatens to cease paying military payroll.
With only a few months of Whitehouse occupation, Obama finally found a way to fine military personal.
[Reuters] - The dramatic shift to online shopping that has crushed U.S. department stores in recent years now threatens the investors who a decade ago funded the vast expanse of brick and mortar emporiums that many Americans no longer visit.
Weak September core retail sales, which strip out auto and gasoline sales, provide a window into the pain the holders of mall debt face in coming months as retailers with a physical presence keep discounting to stave off lagging sales.
Some $128 billion of commercial real estate loans - more than one-quarter of which went to finance malls a decade ago - are due to refinance between now and the end of 2017, according to Morningstar Credit Ratings.
Wells Fargo estimates that about $38 billion of these loans were taken out by retailers, bundled into commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) and sold to institutional investors.
Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank and other underwriters now reckon about half of all CMBS maturing in 2017 could struggle to get financing on current terms. Commercial mortgage debt often only pays off the interest and the principal must be refinanced.
The blame lies with online shopping and widespread discounting, which have shrunk profit margins and increased store closures, such as Aeropostale's bankruptcy filing in May, making it harder for mall operators to meet their debt obligations.
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Online shopping dooms brick and mortar stores/malls
Who wouldn't be in the position they are if they hadn't used the phrases "It's out of stock" and "We can order that for you" way too often. It all evolved to 'cutting out the middle man'.
It's the impact upon an economy in which their businesses were gatekeeper when the number of households with (analog) phones was much lower and the cost of long distance was incredible high by today's standards. Also tie that with technological expansion driving the costs down in transportation and delivery (anyone remember Railroad Express and USPS Special Delivery?).
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IIRC, the USA has vastly overbuilt brick & mortar retail facilities, much like the housing bubble. The cheap money / ZIRP has encouraged wasteful investment in a doomed industry.
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Back when, I could order what I needed from the Sears catalogue. Pre-internet times. I would get what I ordered within a reasonable amount of time, and on occasion they would send the next better model if what was ordered was out of stock.
No more.
The catalog disappeared.
Now the physical store is 'the catalog'. It is rare to find something in the store that I want and is in stock.
I don't bother anymore; haven't for years. The stores have become alien places.
Amazon works well enough for me.
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Contra Sears, take a look at the Sweetwater (musical instruments and stuff) catalog. They send out at least four 3/4 inch thick catalogs, and have a great web site. They do have a store, in Ft. Wayne, IN. A bit far for me to drive, but gear, showrooms, soundstages, and studios. They should break a billion in sales this year, easy. Nice people, good policies, individuals that know what you want and what you might not want.
A new kind of hybrid, maybe. Or maybe the old time Sears w/ catalog with just one store but great Amazon plus service.
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[Ynet] The Hezbollah terrorist organization is hit twice, after the US State Department adds Hezbollah leaders to its global terrorist list and the US Treasury sanctions several Hezbollah individuals for suspected ties to terrorism.
The US government on Thursday sanctioned a Hezbollah commander and a number of other operatives and financiers linked to the myrmidon group who it said were working to destabilize the Middle East.
The US State Department, headed by Secretary John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... , added Hezbollah commander Haytham Ali Tabatabai to its Specially Designated Global Terrorist list, which "imposes sanctions on foreign persons determined to have committed, or pose a serious risk of committing acts of terrorism."
Tabatabai has commanded Hezbollah special forces, operated in Syria and is now believed to be in Yemen, the State Department said. His actions in Syria and Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... "are part of a larger Hezbollah effort to provide training, material and personnel in support of its destabilizing regional activities."
Leb-based Hezbollah has operated openly and in significant numbers in neighboring Syria, as well as alongside fellow Shiite fighters in Iraq. Hezbollah has long supported Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... , providing training, advice and extensive logistical support, while also helping his government regain control of rebel-held areas in central Syria.
The US Treasury Department, headed by Secretary Jack Lew, also sanctioned Tabatabai and a number of other individuals on Thursday under a standing executive order that prohibits US banks from having any dealings with "persons who commit, threaten to commit or support terrorism" and blocks any property or assets they may have in the United States.
The Treasury said it was a joint action with Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... aimed at "disrupting Hezbollah's worldwide commercial and financial infrastructure."
In 2012, the Treasury Department further sanctioned Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah for helping the Syrian regime crush anti-government protests.
[Ynet] UK Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said Thursday that Britannia's military is launching cyberattacks against ISIS in support
of the offensive on the Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , a first-of-its kind acknowledgement that British forces are launching attacks across the internet.
"I can confirm we are using offensive cyber for the first time in this campaign," Fallon said in response to a question from a journalist at a conference on "The Transformation of 21st Century Warfare" in central London.
He didn't go into further detail, but the very admission was seen as noteworthy in the context of the secrecy which usually surrounds military hacking
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Personally I prefer when the Irish launch hacking attacks - all internet ISIS internet sites are replaced with a recording of an old Irish cop saying "nothing to see here - move along, move along."
[Jpost] Moreover, only eighteen percent—19% from the West Bank and 16% from Gazoo--said they would support a bi-national state for both Arabs and Jews.
And so they will get what the majority prefer, a continuation of the status quo.
More Paleostinians prefer the establishment of a Jordanian-Paleostinian confederation than a traditional two-state or one-state solution, a new public opinion poll has found.
An-Najah National University in Nablus randomly surveyed 1362 Paleostinians from the West Bank and Gazoo Strip between October 13-15 on a variety of issues relevant to Paleostinian politics and society.
Forty-six percent of Paleostinians surveyed ‐ 52% from the West Bank and 36% from the Gazoo Strip ‐ said they would support the establishment of a Paleostinian-Jordanian confederation on the basis of two states with strong institutional relations.
In contrast, 36% of Paleostinians ‐ 40% from the West Bank and 29.4% from Gazoo ‐ said they would support the establishment of a Paleostinian state on the 1967 borders. Only 22% of Paleostinians ‐ 24% from the West Bank and 18% from Gazoo ‐ said they would back the creation of a Paleostinian state on 1967 borders with some land swaps.
Moreover, only 18% of respondents ‐ 19% from the West Bank and 16% from Gazoo ‐ said they would support a bi-national state for both Arabs and Jews.
Despite a plurality of Paleostinians supporting a Jordanian-Paleostinian confederation, Grant Rumley, a research fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies remains skeptical of its feasibility.
"Similar to the idea of a binational state, the Jordanian option too is not entirely feasible. Still, I think [the results of the poll] show the public disillusionment with the PLO and its platform of negotiations," Rumley wrote in an email to The Jerusalem Post, adding, "With the grinding of the peace processor in its current state, many Paleostinians view Oslo as a failure, and as such look at other options (such as a binational state or a Jordanian state) as favorable. So long as the status quo continues, I’d expect support for these other options to rise."
Jordan made a historic decision in 1988 known as Fakk al-Irtibat, the disengagement from the West Bank, and officially announced that it no longer considered the West Bank as part of the Hashemite Kingdom.
Something about Black September and kicking out rude Palestinian houseguests, as I recall...
Since then, Jordan and King Abdullah, the Jordanian monarch, have consistently supported a negotiated two-state solution to the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict.
However, a woman is only as old as she admits... some Jordanians including a former prime minister have voiced support for a Jordanian-Paleostinian confederation following the establishment of a Paleostinian state.
Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... holds that Jordan is a close ally of the Paleostinian leadership and has said that the Jordanians and Paleostinians are "one people living in two states," but Abbas has made no indication that he supports a confederation since assuming the presidency in 2005.
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One day the World will wake up and discover that "Palestinian Nation" have ceased to exist. And then the World will say "Ah these Jews, we always knew what they're like."
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Nablus U mightnnot be allowed to ask the question but a lot of paleos would rather Israel occupy and administer the west bank than have the PA do it
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....see "What have the Romans ever done for us".
[IsraelTimes] Last-minute addition to a draft law on municipalities seeks to impose Moslem religious law on country’s religious minorities
Iraq’s parliament on Saturday voted to ban the sale, import and production of alcohol, in a surprise move likely to anger some minorities but also to please influential religious parties.
Proponents of the ban argue that it is justified by the constitution, which prohibits any law contradicting Islam.
But some opponents argue that it also violates the same constitution which guarantees the traditions of religious minorities.
According to an MP and a parliament official, the ban was a last-minute addition to a draft law on municipalities that caught the anti-ban camp flat-footed.
The law was also passed by MPs in Baghdad as all eyes were on the north of the country, where forces involved in Iraq’s biggest military operation in years are battling the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group and moving to retake the city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... "A law was passed today and article 14 of that law bans the import, production and sale of all kinds of alcohol," Yonadam Kanna, a veteran Christian MP, told AFP on Saturday.
"Every violation of this law incurs a fine of 10 million to 25 million dinars (roughly $8,000 to $20,000)," he said.
Kanna vowed to appeal the law in a federal court.
Alcohol is rarely offered in restaurants and hotels in Iraq, but consumption is relatively widespread, especially in Baghdad where scores of small shops selling alcoholic beverages can be found.
Iraq also has companies producing various types of alcohol, such as Farida beer or Asriya arak (a regional anise-flavored spirit).
Kanna was furious after the vote, issued a statement and went on television to argue against the new law.
More drugs
"This article of the law goes against the constitution, which guarantees the freedoms of minorities," he said.
Article 2 of the constitution says it "guarantees the Islamic identity of the majority of the Iraqi people and guarantees the full religious rights of all individuals to freedom of religious belief and practice" such as Christians, Yazidis and Sabeans.
Ammar Toma, an MP who voted in support of the ban, argued that it was the constitution that made it illegal to sell, produce or import alcoholic drinks.
"The constitution says you cannot approve a law that goes against Islam," he told AFP, referring to an article stating that "no law that contradicts the established provisions of Islam may be established."
Kanna and Toma also differed on the impact of a ban.
"This law will put people out of jobs, drug consumption will rise, the economy will be affected," said Toma, a Shiite politician from the Fadhila party.
Observers say drug abuse has been on the rise in Iraq recently, especially in the southern city of Basra, where trafficking with neighboring Iran is soaring and where alcohol is only found on the black market.
Toma rejected Kanna’s assessment and said "the effects of alcohol on society are great, and include deprivation, terrorism and social problems."
"As for the people who will lose their jobs, new jobs can be found for them," he said without elaborating.
Immigration Officials Erect 15ft Fence to Hide ‘Child’ Migrants
21 Oct 2016
The entrance to the immigration centre welcoming busloads of ‘child’ migrants every day from Calais has been obscured by a 15ft high scaffolding and canvas fence, hiding the identities of new arrivals.
Fed-Up ‘Refugee’ Doctor Would Rather Go Back to Syria Than Stay in London’s 5-Star Hotels
21 Oct 2016
A Syrian doctor who sold his Rolex to pay for 5-star hotel accommodation in London has been arrested outside Home Office premises after demanding that they deport him back to Syria immediately. He has advised Calais migrants to return home to the war-torn country, where he says life is better.
‘Child’ Migrants Arrive in UK Covered by Blankets
20 Oct 2016
Immigration officials placed blankets over the heads of ‘child refugees’ arriving in the UK today, after photos of new arrivals sparked a row over the true age of migrants earlier this week.
Two Thirds of ‘Child Refugees’ Are Adults, Tory MP Slams ‘Naive Lily Allen Tears’
19 Oct 2016
Around two-thirds of the ‘child’ migrants screened by Home Office officials when their ages were called into question have been found to be adults, figures reveal.
Home Office Admits it Can’t Verify the Ages of Calais Migrant ‘Children’
18 Oct 2016
Concerns have been raised that adult migrants are posing as children to gain entry to the UK, as it has emerged that the Home Office has no way of verifying the ages of child migrants being relocated from the Calais Jungle.
5,000 'child' migrants are adults: Half of those challenged over their age in the past decade found to be over 18 as Home Office ‘tells officials to only challenge 'child' migrants who look over 25’
22/10/16
Home Office figures revealed that almost 45 per cent of child asylum seekers in the UK in the last decade have been over the age of 18. It comes as more enter Croydon from Calais this week as the Jungle camp is demolished. Home Office figures revealed that almost 45 per cent of child asylum seekers
'The first thing they do is ask for a razor': Couple who have fostered child refugees warn the UK is being exploited by GROWN MEN masquerading as youngsters
22/10/16
Couple Sarah and Giles have fostered 'child refugees' who turn out to be adults. Following doubts of the ages of those from Calais, they said they couldn't believe
'Bye bye Britain!': Syrian plastic surgeon who preferred war-torn Aleppo to 'miserable' Cardiff will fly home to Damascus today - and he couldn't be happier!
21/10/16
Dr Abdulkader Majed Al-Zuebi is leaving the UK less than 24 hours after he was held by six officers and bundled into a police van for an alleged public order offence outside the Home Office headquarters.
Britain must continue to let in thousands of migrant workers if it wants access to the single market, May is warned as she comes face-to-face with EU leaders for first time
21/10/16
As she attended her first EU summit, the Prime Minister faced a barrage of demands from Eurocrats determined to preserve rules on free movement.
Charity apologises for falsely claiming the '38-year-old child asylum seeker' is an interpreter - as a girl migrant FINALLY arrives from Calais
21/10/16
TACT, the UK's largest fostering charity, had claimed the Afghan 'man in blue' arriving from Calais was actually an adult interpreter but has since apologised for the mistake.
Are dental checks for 'child' migrants unethical? No, they're already being done by the Home Office
21/10/16
It has been revealed that UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI), the Home Office agency responsible for asylum claims, already accepts dental checks as proof of age, if provided by the migrant.
Three million more migrants? That’s nothing! EU’s contempt for Britain’s concern over mass immigration laid bare in damning assessment of David Cameron’s failed EU renegotiation bid
21/10/16
Daniel Korski, who was at David Cameron's side at many EU summits, said EU leaders stubbornly rejected repeated appeals by No 10 to reform the bloc's freedom of movement rules.
'Of course the majority lie about their age to get into the UK': Calais migrant confesses to scams as it's revealed UK charity workers trawl the Jungle with megaphones to rounding up 'children'
21/10/16
Charities helping the passage of child refugees into Britain from France have called the process run by the Home Office a 'shambles'.
Row as charity FALSELY claims the '38-year-old child asylum seeker' is an interpreter as more migrants arrive today hiding their faces under blankets
20/10/16
The Home Office has today been forced to confirm the unnamed asylum seeker from Afghanistan, aged by face recognition software as being 38, was not their employee.
How 'child' migrants are straining the care system - and British children are paying the price
20/10/16
Some time ago, I was sitting at a table with ten foster parents in West London and learned that nine of them were looking after asylum-seeking children, HARRIET SERGEANT writes.
How old are they really? Damning verdict of face recognition software on 'child' migrants as town hall chief say they'll take away benefits from any who fail age tests
20/10/16
Computer analysis of photographs of the 'child migrants' who arrived in London from the Jungle camp this week suggests many could be in their 20s and 30s.
So what age checks ARE they doing? Home Office won't perform 'intrusive' dental tests on Calais migrant 'children' - although its own previous figures show two-thirds are lying
19/10/16
Questions have been raised about the quality of the checks being carried out by the Home Office on 'child' migrants entering Britain from Calais - amid claims some adults may be posing as teens.
Forces of the Libyan Government of National Accord’s Presidential Council announced that they have made important progress in the Al-Imaraat Sittumiah area and have seized control of large areas in the Al-Imaraat area in the coastal city of Sirte from the extremist organisation ISIS.
The media bureau of Al-Bunyan Al-Marsoos military operation said on its Facebook page that troops had inflicted “heavy losses” on the ranks of ISIS and that more than 20 members of ISIS were killed. The bureau also noted that it had successfully rescued and liberated five foreign prisoners including two from Turkey, two from India and one from Bangladesh.
Furthermore, in an attempt to avoid greater tension in relations with the commander of the Libyan National Army General Khalifa Haftar, Al-Sarraj’s Presidential Council yesterday removed an article stating that Haftar was “a war criminal” in accordance with one of the recommendations of the Sixth Forum of Military Officers that was held on Thursday in the capital Tripoli.
The final statement of the Sixth Forum of Military Officers did not contain any reference to Haftar, even though the live broadcast of the forum’s sessions on local television channels showed the forum’s agreement on the classification of Haftar as a “war criminal” on Thursday evening due to the battles waged by the army’s forces to liberate the city of Benghazi from the control of extremists.
Meanwhile, the sacked Grand Mufti of Libya Sadiq Al-Ghariani embarrassed Al-Sarraj’s government and said in an article published yesterday that the Sixth Forum of Military Officers’ statement that was issued in Tripoli “had been tampered with by the government” and that “the army’s condemnation of Haftar and his coup has been deleted”.
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Al-Arabiya sources said that Hassan Yahya al-Sharafi – Houthi leader and member of the militia’s delegation in the Kuwait talks – had been killed during a clash in one of the Saudi-Yemeni border regions.
Tusk, tusk.
The source said that “the Houthi leader Hassan Yahya al-Sharafi was killed in Khubah in the south of Jizan, when Saudi forces launched an operation in response to the rebels’ militias operations targeting Saudi territories. Sources on the field revealed that Sharafi was killed with 23 other members.
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[RUDAW.NET] On the sixth day of the djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... offensive, the Iraqi army is advancing on the largely Christian town of Qaraqosh, also known as Bakhdida, in the Hamdaniya district southeast of Mosul on one of three active frontlines on Saturday.
"The Iraqi 9th armored division and associated forces are making advances to seize Hamdaniya district. They cleared the Hamdaniya general hospital and raised the Iraqi flag over it," reads a statement from the Iraqi War Media Office of the joint operation command.
Qaraqosh is about 20 kilometres southeast of Mosul.
Iraqi 16 division forces are advancing towards Tel Kaif, 20 kilometres north of Mosul, according to the media office’s statement.
On Thursday, as many as 10,000 Peshmerga forces were involved in a three-pronged operation in the Tel Kaif area, making "significant advances" in "one of the largest ground-led assaults in the war" against ISIS, said the General Command of Peshmerga Forces on Twitter.
The Iraqi 15 division forces, along with federal police brigade 18, are making advances on the Qayyara frontline, south of Mosul, on Saturday. They have liberated the villages of Harara and Rasif north of al-Shura and are now advancing on the al-Shura area, the media office stated.
On Friday, the Iraqi air force dropped more than 8 million leaflets throughout Nineveh. The information included cell phone numbers residents could call to pass on information and intelligence about ISIS bully boys, the media office stated.
[FoxNews] Islamic State militants set fire to sulfur stocks at a factory south of Mosul, the U.S. military said Saturday, creating a plume of noxious smoke that has drifted over a base with U.S. troops involved in the Iraqi offensive to retake the city and forcing some troops to put on gas masks as a precaution.
People in the area affected by the smoke said it was difficult to breathe, burned their eyes and stung their noses and throats when they inhaled it, and burned any exposed wet skin.
Sulfur dioxide from burning stocks is highly toxic and can be lethal. It can quickly cause shortness of breath and coughing.
Militants set the residue alight at the Mishraq sulfur plant on Thursday as a tactical measure to slow Iraqi military advances in the offensive to recapture Mosul—Islamic State’s last remaining stronghold in Iraq. The toxic cloud mixed with choking black smoke already filling the air from oil-well fires started two months ago and still burning in the town of Qayara. The combination affected the nearby U.S. base as shifting winds blew the smoke toward the troops.
“Daesh ignited toxic sulfur residue stored at al-Mishraq in an attempt to disrupt the ISF [Iraqi Security Forces’] advance,” said Col.John Dorrian, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq, using another name for Islamic State. He added that the military is now assessing the risk to U.S. troops because of the multiple fires.
[AlAhram] Iraqi army troops on Saturday stormed into a Christian region that has been under Islamic State (IS) group militants control since 2014 as part of U.S.-backed operations to clear the entrances to Mosul, the militants' last major city stronghold in Iraq.
A military statement said Iraqi units entered the center of Qaraqosh, a mainly Christian town about 20 km southeast of Mosul, and were carrying out mop-up operations across the town.
Further action was under way to seize a neighboring Christian village, Karamless, also known as Karemlash in the Syriac language. The region's population fled in the summer of 2014, when IS group militants swept in.
Earlier this week, Iraqi special units also captured Bartella, a Christian village north of Qaraqosh.
A U.S. military official estimated there were fewer than a couple of hundred IS group militants in Qaraqosh.
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Without the Kurds this offensive is in trouble. The Iraqis are beginning to revert to their poor habits of running at the first sign of a counterattack and leaving munitions and vehicles for the ISIS fighters.
I believe our headline was first coined by the Instapundit, who was kind enough to apply it to my book "A Disgrace to the Profession". But I'm glad to see, following the latest attempt to use Australia's disgraceful Section 18C to throttle freedom of speech Down Under, that The Australian's Bill Leak is introducing the concept to the Antipodes. His latest cartoon features Tim Soutphommasane, the totalitarian hack who trousers a third of a million a year as Oz's "Racial Discrimination" Commissar. Mr Leak invites Commissar Tim Jong-Un to sue him for "facial discrimination".
As for "facial discrimination", in my column on Mr Leak I mentioned Commissar Soutphommasane's thuggish bullying of a young basketball player, who made the mistake of going to a fancy-dress party as her fave pop star, Kanye West. When I spoke in Sydney a little while back, I brought up a similar and even nuttier outbreak of hysteria from one of America's many loony campuses:
Two Australian basketball players, Alice Kunek and Tess Madgen, went to a fancy-dress party – one in blackface, one in whiteface. The one in blackface was meant to be Kanye West, the one in whiteface was meant to be ...I dunno, nobody cares ...Heath Ledger as the Joker? But Australia's race discrimination commissioner has weighed in and said he's deeply disturbed. This young lady is 25, and the state – the Government of Australia – is weighing in on how she went to a fancy-dress party.
But there's a lot of blackface about. A couple of days ago, Beverly Kopper, President of the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, released a very serious statement:
'Last night a disturbing racist post that was made to social media was brought to my attention... This post was hurtful and destructive to our campus community." The Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, Dr Tom Rios, has formed a group that has already begun meeting with students, researching these issues, and working on the development of an action plan for moving forward. The group will meet next week to plan a series of events across campus "to capture the student voice and develop a collective response to these issues... You have my promise that these steps are only the starting points and together, we will determine actions that will ultimately create a long-term cultural change.'
This was because of a racially-charged picture that two female students had posted of themselves in 'blackface'. In fact, they weren't in blackface. They were getting a facial. So they had that gunk all over their face and a couple of cucumbers or whatever on their eyes – and when they took the cucumbers off they had a giggle about how funny they looked and took a selfie. And Beverly Kopper, a complete bloody moron who happens to be a university president, is perfectly happy to destroy their lives over this. The girls are not guilty of racial discrimination; the university is guilty of facial discrimination.
This chump has now announced that, although the great big express train of outreach committees and working groups is rumbling down the track and can't be stopped, the two young ladies will not be 'disciplined'. Disciplined? For what? Beverly Kopper blamed the students for 'failing to think about the implications' – of having a facial. Because we live in a world where a facial is one step away from a minstrel show.
I'm an effete nancy-boy, and I get a facial from time to time, because I want my skin to look good for brutal close-ups on nights like this, and it's well known that 'Can I get a seaweed wrap?' is code for 'I'm a big redneck southern bigot who wants to look good under my Klan hood'. If you go to any luxury spa in Sydney right now and kick open the door there'll be whole roomfuls of people covered in algae coconut moisturizing exfoliant capering around going 'Oh, my darling little mammy, down in Alabammy...'
Sometimes a society becomes too stupid to survive. What this college president, Beverly Kopper, means when she says these students 'failed to think about the implications' of their racist exfoliating is that professional grievance mongers like her have so incentivized the taking of offence that there are now far more people who need to be offended than the number of people willing to offend them: Demand far outstrips supply. So in ten years' time these two students will be applying for jobs and their potential employer will Google them and the first 200 pages that come up will be about how racey-racey-racist they are.
The problem is not these young ladies in either Wisconsin or Australia. The problem is the likes of Beverly Kopper and Tim Soutphommasane. Because they're bonkers, and they're totalitarian. Which is a dangerous combination. Hence, that Kim Jong-Un cartoon.
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Tim Soutphommosane took to the stage at the Sydney Writer's Festival and said Charlie Hebdo cartoons were offensive and there was a survivor on the stage.
when asked if he was going to support free speech or support the Islamist push to reclassify "religion" as "race" so they can sue their enemies into silence, he told the questioner they must be with the bigots and racists.
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Steyn will probably get criticized for being "anti-Africansympathetic" and told to go to his "safe space" which I'm certain he doesn't give a fig about. Thank goodness for Steyn and his efforts to destroy this silliness of PC which has infected our culture.
[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] A woman was placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... on Monday after allegedly smearing peanut butter on 30 cars parked outside what she believed was a pro-Donald Trump rally.
Christina Ferguson was arrested in Amherst Junction, Wisconsin after interrupting what turned out to be a meeting of a local environmental organization, Tomorrow River Conservation Club.
Witnesses claimed the 32-year-old entered the meeting at 9:30pm holding a "family-size jar of low-sodium, creamy natural Jif" peanut butter, shouting about how much she hated the Republican candidate.
Ms Ferguson was asked to leave the premises but shortly after, members went to check the car park to "make sure she wasn’t doing anything to their vehicles after leaving."
One witness, who allegedly caught Ms Ferguson spreading peanut butter on a car, shouted at her before calling police.
When officers from Portage Co. Sheriff Department questioned Ms Ferguson, she claimed she hadn’t left her apartment that night, while allegedly licking her fingers repeatedly, according to the complaint.
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... one of the meeting members identified her and Ms Ferguson admitted her involvement.
When pushed as to why she had committed the offence, Ms Ferguson talked about "how much she loved Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Edward Stettinius, Jr. ... and hated Donald Trump," the complaint says.
"Peanut buttering is better than Molotov cocktailing, and Trump plans on Molotov cocktailing everybody in other countries," Ms Ferguson reportedly said.
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... when she realised she had mistakenly identified the meeting as a Trump rally, she was remorseful saying she was "just fed up about the entire election."
The complaint claimed Ms Ferguson smelt strongly of alcohol and her blood alcohol level was 0.218, more than twice the legal limit for driving.
"Fortunately it wasn’t chunky peanut butter, so vehicles didn’t get scratched," said Chief Deputy Dan Kontos.
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Can't fix stupid. Amherst Junction, Wisconsin, pop. 375, fairly rural. Strange, this little town in about a 100 miles from Madison. One wouldn't expect this. If this occurred in Madison one would expect that if the peanut butter wasn't organic or contained sugar, this woman would be in lots of trouble.
A woman was killed with two children in an explosion triggered by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in northern Jawzjan province of Afghanistan. According to the local officials, at least three others, including a man and two children were wounded in the incident.
Provincial governor’s spokesman Mohammad Reza Ghafoori said the incident took place after the vehicle carrying civilians struck an IED in Kolkadash district. He said the civilians were on the way to participate in a wedding ceremony when their vehicle struck an Improvised Explosive Device (IED).
No group including the Taliban militants has so far claimed responsibility behind the incident but the local officials blame the Taliban group for the incident, saying Taliban insurgents frequently use IEDs to target the security forces and the government officials.
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BALTIMORE – A former National Security Agency contractor accused in a massive theft of classified information will remain in custody as prosecutors continue building a criminal case against him, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Unfortunately for him, he didn't work for the Clinton Foundation...
U.S. Magistrate Judge A. David Copperthite agreed with prosecutors that Harold T. Martin III of Glen Burnie, Md., represented a flight risk if released and said there was no doubt that the top secret information he was accused of stealing over two decades is something "this country's enemies would love to explore."
Martin's lawyers foreshadowed their upcoming defense,
"All the information was secured on a State Department server, your Honor!"
describing him as a "compulsive hoarder" and saying there was no evidence he ever shared the information with a foreign country or even intended to do so.
"He's not Edward Snowden," said James Wyda, the federal defender representing Martin, referring to the former NSA contractor who three years ago disclosed to journalists secret information about government surveillance programs.
He's also not Hillary Clinton...
Wyda said Martin, a former U.S. Navy lieutenant, never intended to harm his country and was instead a "voracious" learner who got carried away over the years as he took home documents in a perhaps misguided effort to be as skilled at his job as he could be. He suggested Martin grappled with mental health issues.
"This was not spycraft behavior," Wyda said. "This is not how a Russian spy or something like that would ever conduct himself."
However, a Russian spy would have been happy to take advantage of the situation, just like they did with Hillary's private server...
"This," he added, "was the behavior of a compulsive hoarder."
The Justice Department presented a vastly different portrait. Prosecutors have said FBI agents who searched Martin's home and car in August found evidence of a "breathtaking" theft of top secret government information.
"More than Hillary's server, Agent Jones?"
"More than Hillary's server, Director Comey."
"Well then!"
Investigators found records dated from 1996 to 2016, seized dozens of computers and digital storage devices and, all told, recovered some 50 terabytes of information — or enough to fill roughly 200 laptops. A substantial amount of that information, prosecutors said, was highly classified.
"There is no reason to believe that the defendant would have ever stopped but for the intervention of law enforcement," Assistant U.S. Attorney Zachary Myers said.
It's just like hoarding fishing lures. You can't help it and won't stop until the FBI busts you...
Myers said Martin's knowledge of secret government programs could make him a "high-value recruitment target from foreign intelligence services." Prosecutors have said he has been communicating online in foreign languages, including Russian.
A complaint unsealed earlier this month charged Martin with theft of government property and unauthorized removal and retention of classified materials, which together carry a combined maximum of 11 years in prison. But Myers said in court Friday that the Justice Department has evidence to bring additional charges under the Espionage Act, which would expose Martin to far more severe penalties if convicted.
So the Department of Justice didn't give him immunity like they did to that fat slob who set up Hillary's server?
Though authorities are still reviewing the records to determine the appropriate classification level, they say they already have found many that are clearly marked as classified — including one top secret email chain that appeared to have been printed off Martin's government account.
The document contained handwritten notes on the back regarding the NSA's classified computer infrastructure and descriptions of classified technical operations. The notes include basic concepts of classified operations, as if written for an "audience outside of the Intelligence Community unfamiliar with the details of its operations," prosecutors wrote in a court filing.
So, it wasn't for the Russians then...
Another classified document marked as "Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information" concerned "specific operational plans against a known enemy of the United States and its allies," the Justice Department alleged.
Martin was arrested around the same time federal officials acknowledged an investigation into a cyberleak of purported hacking tools used by the NSA. Those documents were leaked by a group calling itself the "Shadow Brokers," but there is nothing in court filings — and nothing said in court Friday — that connects Martin to that group.
Wyda, his lawyer, said the government had presented no evidence that ties Martin to any foreign power. And he said it was unfair to keep Martin in custody on a speculative concern that he might somehow come in contact with another nation.
"This sounds like something I would have heard in a presidential debate," he said. "This is beneath us."
Mr. Wyda clearly understands how little a defense he'll be able to mount for his client...
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Al shabaab said on Friday it has publicly executed three men in Saakow town for working as spies for western intelligence, including the United states spy agency (CIA).
According to the al-Shabaab media outlets said the thee were executed the two through a firing squad with hundreds of residents of the town gathering to witness the shooting. The executed men were all Somali nationals were identified as Abdullahi Mohamed Abdirahman, Mohamed Salad Kahiye and Liban Hussein Mohamed.
The Al-Qaeda-linked Al shabaab has in the past executed many people in its strongholds in southern Somalia, whom it accused spying for the Somali and foreign intelligence agencies.
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They got the wrong guys. It was the other ones named Mohamed.
The crew of a fishing vessel hijacked by Somali pirates four and a half years ago is finally free after payment of a ransom, officials said.
There were 29 members on the Taiwan-owned Naham 3 fishing vessel when pirates occupied it in March 2012 and took them to the north-central Mudug region. Three of them reportedly died of illness and mistreatment in the intervening time. The remaining 26 members are now free, who include natives of Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India and other Asian nations.
The ship was flagged in Oman.
Wonder why the Omani Navy didn't come and burn out the pirates...
The pirates reportedly demanded a ransom of three million dollars, but the source said less than that had been paid.
The money was believed to have come from the Asian countries’ governments and the hostages’ families. The hostages were due to be flown to Kenya to prepare them for repatriation.
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Egypt’s Court of Cassation rejected on Saturday an appeal by ousted president Mohamed Morsi against a 20-year prison sentence in the Ittihadiya clashes case, exhausting Morsi’s appeals in the case.
The ousted president is being tried in a number of cases, including cases where he has been sentenced to death. He is currently appealing all sentences but this is the first case where he has exhausted all appeals.
The court also confirmed the 20-year sentence against eight of the Muslim Brotherhood group and Morsi’s staff, as well as a 10-year sentence against two.
In April 2015, a Cairo court sentenced Morsi to 20 years in jail for inciting violence that led to the death of 10 people in clashes outside the Ittihadiya Presidential Palace on 5 December 2012.
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[FOX] Saturday on Fox & Friends, Tucker Carlson sat down with a college professor with a remarkable record of predicting election outcomes.
Professor Helmut Norpoth, from Stony Brook University in New York State, has correctly predicted the outcomes of the last five presidential elections.
This year, he steadfastly believes Donald Trump will win the election.
Norpoth said he uses two "models" to make his prediction:
One is the "primary" model, where he compares a candidate's strength in their respective primaries.
"The candidate who does better in his party's primary beats the other guy who does less well," Norpoth said.
Looking at New Hampshire and South Carolina's primaries, Norpoth projected that Trump would be the general election favorite because of the strength of his showing, versus Hillary Clinton.
The second model he created is called the "swing of the pendulum" model.
Watch the full clip above to find out how he compared Trump and Clinton in that way, and let us know what you think in the comments.
[RUDAW.NET] Nearly 2,000 people have arrived at the Dibaga Camp in Kurdistan since the offensive for djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... began on Monday, many of them from Hawija and others from newly-liberated villages near Mosul.
The new arrivals swell a camp already hosting over 30,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) to its limits. Camp residents complain for lack of shelter and food, but maintain the new life at the camp is much better than life under ISIS, where there was no schooling or affordable food.
There are tens of families currently living in a building originally built for a school but now used to shelter the new arrivals, some sleeping in the open air.
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At least 45 loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed during an operation in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said Saturday. MoD further added that the operation was conducted in Pacher Agam district of Nangarhar following a coordinated attack by the group on security posts.
In the meantime, a local tribal elder said the attack left several houses on fire and caused casualties to the local residents.
Provincial governor’s spokesman Ataullah Khogyani said the Afghan forces and the public uprising forces started clashes with the ISIS loyalists on Friday morning and sporadic clashes still continue in the area. He said the ISIS loyalists have torched the houses of the public uprising forces and at least 4 civilians lost their lives in the attack.
Khogyani further added that 54 ISIS loyalists were killed and at least 22 others were wounded during the clashes but did not elaborate further regarding the civilian casualties.
The loyalists of ISIS terrorist group have not commented regarding the report so far.
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Haven't we been reading this headline for a while now?
Bunyan Marsous forces suffered no fatalities nor serious casualties as they pushed forward yesterday through the high rise apartment blocks of the 600 complex in Sirte.
However the BM operations room claimed that terrorists had suffered losses but gave no details.
In the course of the day three US air strikes went in against IS positions. The Americans, who have so far launched approaching 350 attacks on the town, are withdrawing their fixed-wing AV-8B Harrier jump jets in favour of a helicopter force of Bell SuperCobras and Bell Venoms (Super Hueys).
The switch comes with the replacement of the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp with the amphibious transport dock, USS San Antonio which happened yesterday according to the US Africa Command AFRICOM.
Concerns continue to grow over attacks behind BM lines on the road between Sirte and Misrata. In the fifth such attack on passing vehicles since August, a Palestinian teacher was killed and his wife and family injured by a land mine or an IED as they drove to Sirte.
Such has been the concern of BM commanders that military traffic movements have been restricted to daylight hours though some convoys have been seen travelling at night. There has also been an increase in checkpoints along the route. On 2 September a lone vehicle was blown up by an IED and two BM fighters killed. It was thought that the device was triggered remotely from nearby terrorist position.
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Pakistan Rangers Sindh on Saturday evening claimed to have arrested two suspected militants allegedly involved in the suicide blast which targeted mourning procession in Jacobabad last year.
"Acting on ‘credible information’, the paramilitary force apprehended the suspects from Sukkur in Sindh and Hub in Balochistan respectively," said the Rangers spokesperson.
Rangers official claimed that the arrested suspects, identified as Kamran Khazani and Attaullah, were affiliated with a banned militant outfit.
"Kamran had planned while Attaullah had provided support for the suicide blast attack in Lashari Mohalla in Jacobabad, which targeted the procession of 9th Muharram on October 23, last year," claimed Rangers official.
Suicide blast which targeted 9th Muharram procession near Shershah Haveli in Jacobabad's Lashari Mohalla, killed at least 20 people and injured several.
The both suspects have been handed over to the police for further investigation and legal action.
[SunStar] The Zamboanga City government stands firm in its decision to pursue its cases against Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) Chairman Nur Misuari and his followers in connection with a 2013 siege. This despite whether President Rodrigo Duterte manages to hold a planned meeting with Misuari about peace negotiations.
City Legal Officer Jesus Carbon Jr. reiterated that the planned Duterte-Misuari meeting will not affect his city stance, though he made clear that the city government respects Duterte's actions in trying to achieve peace in Mindanao "but we also have to follow the rule of law."
Carbon said, "While we respect the actions of the President, we ought to follow the rule of law. So, it will not affect our stand as far as the criminal cases pending in Pasig are concerned."
Misuari and several of his men face charges for violation of the International Humanitarian Law and other crimes in connection with the 21-day September 2013 siege. The siege started after hundreds of MNLF followers infiltrated and besieged at least four villages in the city.
[ALMASDARNEWS] A senior Egyptian army officer was rubbed out outside his home in a Cairo suburb on Saturday, an army official and a relative told AFP.
Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... s have killed hundreds of coppers and soldiers, mostly in the Sinai Peninsula, but such attacks on senior officers are rare.
Brigadier General Adel Ragaei, who commanded an armored division deployed in Sinai, died in a hail of bullets as he left his home in the Obour City suburb, sister-in-law Huda Zein Elabedine told AFP.
"At 6 am they killed him. I can’t tell you if it was six or twelve bullets. It was before he could get into his car," she said.
A military official told AFP that the officer has been "martyred."
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A U.S. navy destroyer sailed near islands claimed by China in the South China Sea on Friday, drawing a warning from Chinese warships to leave the area. The U.S. action was the latest attempt to counter what Washington sees as Beijing's efforts to limit freedom of navigation in the strategic waters, U.S. officials said.
The Chinese Defense Ministry called the move "illegal" and "provocative," saying that two Chinese warships had warned the U.S. destroyer to leave.
The guided-missile destroyer USS Decatur challenged "excessive maritime claims" near the Paracel Islands, among a string of islets, reefs and shoals over which China has territorial disputes with its neighbors, the officials said. The destroyer sailed within waters claimed by China, close to but not within the 12-nautical-mile territorial limits of the islands, the officials said.
The Pentagon said the Decatur "conducted this transit in a routine, lawful manner without ship escorts and without incident." One official said the ship, which sailed near Triton and Woody Islands, was shadowed by three Chinese vessels and that all interactions were safe.
The White House confirmed the Reuters report.
"This operation demonstrated that coastal states may not unlawfully restrict the navigation rights, freedoms and lawful uses of the sea that the United States and all states are entitled to exercise under international law," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said at a news briefing.
It was the fourth challenge that the United States has made to what it considers overreaching maritime claims by China in the South China Sea in the past year, and the first since May.
China's Defense Ministry said it had declared its "baseline" for the Paracel Islands in 1996, something the United States knew. Despite that, the Chinese government said, the United States had sent a ship into Chinese "territorial waters."
A statement from China's Foreign Ministry said the U.S. ship did not ask for permission to enter Chinese territorial waters, and had broken both Chinese and international law. The ministry accused the United States of deliberately creating tensions.
China has a runway on Woody Island, the site of the largest Chinese presence on the Paracels, and has placed surface-to-air missiles there, according to U.S. officials.
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Aid workers in the port town of Calais are expressing worry over a lack of information ahead of Monday's scheduled dismantling of France's slum-like migrant camp. French authorities have said they plan to relocate the 6,486 people still staying at the camp to reception centers across the country or abroad as a "humanitarian" operation.
The camp's closure is expected to last a week.
French teacher Michel Abecassis said Saturday he's concerned many "don't know exactly where (the) reception centers are located" or "how many people there will be."
Is there a reason why a teacher would need to know this?
Benedictine monk Johannes Maertens says it also remains unclear what will happen to many minors who want to go to the United Kingdom if they are refused entry.
They won't be going to the U.K.
Fun fact: over the past decade almost half of those admitted to Britain as asylum seekers have been over the age of eighteen, according to The Daily Mail.
plans to assign teenagers remaining in the country to special reception centers.
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Fun fact: over the past decade almost half of those admitted to Britain as asylum seekers have been over the age of eighteen, according to The Daily Mail.
That comment would have made much more sense if I hadn't forgotten to the word minor, as in ...admitted as minor asylum seekers...
Nothing gets past State these days
Jizan, Riyadh- The U.N. special envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed issued a statement on Friday announcing that the 72-hour ceasefire, scheduled to end on Saturday, has been extended. Is the shooting extended as well?
Yemen’s insurgency factions have violated the truce on several occasions and are expected to keep on doing so.
Ould Cheikh revealed that prolonging the ceasefire is in line with the preparations on achieving permanent and sustainable peace.
The U.N. envoy also mentioned that he has been carrying out discussions on extending the truce with Yemen’s warring parties.
Insurgency militias, composed of Iran-backed Houthis and fighters supporting the ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh, have for the second day in a row continued staging violations that have so far amounted to 205 incidents against Saudi borderline cities of Jizan and Najraan.
The number of truce violations inside Yemen count up to 692 over the last 24 hours. Most disruptions are detected at Taiz registering a whopping 265- second comes in al Jawf region at a 116 incidents, and 124 attacks recorded at Marib.
Among the areas registering lower activity of Houthi gunmen are the Dhale governorate at 44 violations, Al Bayda at 41, Shabwah at 24, and Hajjah at 48 violations.
For his part, a senior official at the U.S. Secretary of State warned that the ongoing breaches will threaten the chance of achieving permanent peace. He also told Asharq Al-Awsat the violations compromise the hope of relaunching negotiations among Yemen’s parties.
Even though numerous violations are recorded, the unstable ceasefire is holding up so far, and has resulted in public security and stability improving in Sana’a and some Yemeni areas, the U.N. envoy said.
Yemen’s national army is committing to self-preservation and has urged all soldiers to commit and uphold the ceasefire, despite being put under attack. Nonetheless the army will be reserving the right to retaliatory response.
Local authorities condemned on Saturday Yemen's Houthi militias and its allies for obstructing the entry of UN delegates to the country's third city of Taiz. The authorities said in a statement that Houthis had prevented a “delegation of UN agencies” from entering Taiz on Saturday morning.
The UN delegation was headed by Julian Hernez Rick, the country director of UNICEF, and was on its way to review the health and humanitarian situation in the city.
The local authority denounced the act, saying it confirmed that the militias “disregarded” the truce and reflected their “defiance of humanitarian organizations, the United Nations, the international community and the world,” read the statement published on Saudi Press Agency (SPA).
Taiz, about 205km south of the capital Sanaa, has suffered huge destruction since fighting in the city intensified.
The Houthis, who are battling the internationally-recognized government of Yemen President Abd Rabbu Mansour al-Hadi, are allied to Hadi's predecessor Ali Abdullah Saleh.
[Trib.com] Isabel Zumel, an advocate for Teton County's Latino community, has written to Secretary of State Ed Murray saying the move prevented some voting in the August primary election. She told Murray she knows of three people who received notice requiring them to provide proof of citizenship.
'One of the people got very upset,' Zumel said. 'I think it just made her so upset that she decided not to go forward and show the proof.' And that, yer honor, is why proof of citizenship is so oppressive.
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One of these people was very upset,” Zumel said. “I think it just made her so upset that she decided not to go forward and show the proof.” The system worked as it should then, it rejected illegal voters.
[ALMASDARNEWS] 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 al-Sham (ISIS) launched another poweful assault at the Deir Ezzor Military Airport on Saturday, targeting the eastern entrance of this strategic installation.
ISIS began the assault by storming the Syrian Arab Army's defenses at the eastern entrance; this resulted in a fierce battle that ensued for approximately two hours on Saturday.
Following the assault on the eastern entrance of the Deir Ezzor Military Airport, another Islamic State contingent attacked the Syrian Arab Army's defenses at the northern farms of al-Jafra.
Despite their best efforts, the Islamic State was unable to infiltrate the Syrian Arab Army's front-lines at both the Military Airport and al-Jafra village.
According to a source in the Deir Ezzor Governorate, the Syrian Arab Army destroyed 4 technical vehicles that were mounted with anti-aircraft machine guns, while also killing as many as 15 Islamic State terrorists.
In response to this Islamic State offensive, the Syrian Arab Air Force conducted more than 20 Arclight airstrikes on Saturday night, killing and wounding several terrorist combatants at al-Hamidiyah, al-Haweeqa, and Hawijah al-Saqr.
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[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee ...The clownish U.S. Representative-for-life for Texas's 18th congressional district, serving since 1995. The district includes most of inner-city Houston. She noted for her lack of tact and intellect. She is a member of the Democratic Party, and almost its epitome... , D-Texas, denounced the wrong website on Friday for releasing thousands of hacked emails from 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 Charles Evans Hughes ... 's campaign chairman John Podesta.
"You know that I'm going to first of all denounce the utilization of this intrusion by Wikipedia through the Russian intrusion," Jackson Lee said in an interview with MSNBC on Friday. "This is what it's about. Espionage just like what was said over these last couple of days. We need to be concerned about the intrusion of Russia and Putin in these elections."
Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia and was not behind the release of the Podesta emails. WikiLeaks, founded by Julian Assange, was the outlet Jackson Lee was likely referring to.
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Having spent a significant amount of time working in Sheila (The Queen Bee)'s district, I can tell you that the reaction from her constituents will be "She has a point".
The stupid is strong around there.
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[LATINO.FOXNEWS] Diphtheria, an extremely contagious disease that has been mostly eradicated worldwide through vaccination, has reappeared in Venezuela.
So far it has killed four children.
More than 20 cases have been reported in just one month, including those four fatalities in the southern state of Bolivar.
In the crisis-stricken South American nation, many of the children don't have access to the DPT vaccine that prevents the centuries-old disease. Caused by the Corynebacterium diphtheriae bacterium, the disease becomes serious if the bacterial toxin enters the bloodstream and spreads through the respiratory tract. It leads to heart failure and neurological illnesses.
Even with treatment, death occurs in between 5 and 10 percent of those affected.
This week the sense of urgency went up a few notches when a possible case of diphtheria was reported in Caracas’ Military Hospital, considered the country’s best.
Uncertainty has become commonplace in Venezuelan epidemiology.
The reappearance of diphtheria, a disease not seen here in more than 20 years, is the worst symptom yet of the country’s broken health system.
Venezuela used to be Latin America's richest country, but it is now falling apart as a plunge in the price of oil caps off years of economic mismanagement. Local production of almost everything has stalled, and there is little money to import medicine.
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An Army reservist is in a new battle. He’s struggling to pay his medical bills after he had a heart attack during a fitness test.
"I’ve been through a lot," Shane Morgan said. "This past year has been as difficult, as challenging as my deployment to Afghanistan."
Morgan is an Army veteran, a captain who served in Afghanistan and a current active reserve member. But lately, Shane and his wife Jaime have fighting to get health benefits from the Army.
It all began when Shane took a required Army physical fitness test last November.
"As we were doing the push-ups I got 15 in, and I noticed that it was a lot harder for me to do push-ups than it has ever been," Shane said.
"So he hooked me up to the EKG and said ’I’m 99.9 percent certain you’re having a heart attack.'"
One artery was completely blocked, but there was another problem, the Army determined the heart attack did not happen in the line of duty, so its been withholding medical payments.
"You have a heart attack during a forced, a mandated PT test and then you tell him it’s his fault that he could have had it at home, but he didn’t have it at home he had it, while he was doing push-ups," Jaime said.
The Army cited an earlier blood test.
"My cholesterol was 214," Shane said. "However on the day that I had my heart attack the hospital did a lipid panel and my total cholesterol was down to 185."
With bills piling up, the Morgan’s credit rating suffered, but the Army has just reopened the case. A front man told WBZ: "The physical and financial well-being of our soldiers and their families is a top concern for Army and Army Reserve leaders at all levels."
"I am cautiously optimistic," Shane said.
"Persistence has paid off definitely," said Jaime.
There is no timetable on when the case will be resolved.
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Was he doing the PT test during a sanctioned event, like his semi-annual required test, in uniform, with graders? If the answer is yes, it's line-of-duty, period. Who the cluster did the LOD investigation? What more is behind it (and not being said)?
[Dhaka Tribune] In an exclusive interview with the Bangla Tribune, the ruling party's general secretary talks about the upcoming Awami League council, his performance as the party's general secretary, his party's future direction, and his own goal
Awami League General Secretary and Public Administration Minister Syed Ashraful Islam thinks that it is the right time to join politics for someone coming from the third generation of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s family and there is a probability of happening so.
He said: "Third generation of Bangabandhu’s family can certainly join politics. A new leader means new thoughts and creations, new strategies and promises."
Syed Ashraf made the comment Tuesday in an exclusive interview with Bangla Tribune at his government residence at Bailey Road in Dhaka. Asraf was elected AL’s Joint General Secretary in 2002 and General Secretary twice in 2009 and 2012. During the reign of army-backed caretaker government, he led the movement to free the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. from jail when a faction of the party challenged detained Sheikh Hasina’s leadership. Former President Zillur Rahman and Syed Ashraf at that time saved AL from being divided. Prior to that, during 1996-2001 AL reign, he was the state Minister for Aviation and Tourism. He is the son of Bangladesh’s first Acting President Syed Nazrul Islam.
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The Greek authorities Saturday hit back at U.N. criticism of its decision to return a group of Syrians to Turkey.
The U.N.'s refugee agency, UNHCR, Friday said in a statement it was "seriously concerned" by Greece's decision to return 10 Syrian asylum seekers to Turkey, "without due consideration of their asylum claims".
The Syrians were among a group of 91 people who arrived on the Greek island of Milos on Oct. 9. They have since been sent back to Adana, Turkey, the U.N. agency said.
The Greek Ministry of Citizen Protection Saturday issued a statement saying that the UNHCR's criticism was "unfounded".
"None of the 10 Syrians sent back to Turkey had expressed a wish to seek asylum in Greece," the ministry said, adding that their return was carried out "in accordance with the EU-Turkey agreement".
Under the EU-Turkey deal in force since March, Ankara agreed to take back migrants who made it to Greece in return for being allowed to send Syrians from its massive camps to the bloc in a more orderly redistribution program.
"The police informed the migrants as soon as they arrived in Milos that they had the right to international protection, and this was repeated to them in (a reception center on the island of) Leros, where they spent 10 days," the ministry said.
"Even before their departure from Kos airport to return to Turkey, Greek police asked them once more whether they wanted to put in a last-minute asylum request, but only one family of three said they wanted to apply. They subsequently did not have to leave the country for Turkey," it added.
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We expect him to say that, but it's better than having to stand at the podium making excuses...
The battle to retake Mosul from the Islamic State (ISIS) is progressing "faster than expected," according to Iraq Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.
The counter-terrorism service (CTS), Iraq's best-trained and most battle-seasoned force, retook full control of Bartalla, a town that lies less than 15 kilometres east of Mosul. Further north, Kurdish peshmerga forces opened a new front with a multiple-pronged assault on the town of Bashiqa.
And in the first U.S. combat death in the area since the operation began, an American service member died on Thursday from wounds sustained in a roadside bomb explosion north of Mosul.
More than 100 U.S. special operations forces are embedded with Iraqi units in the offensive and hundreds more are playing a support role in staging bases.
The offensive to regain control for Mosul is expected to last for months and could lead to a mammoth humanitarian crisis with a mass exodus of civilians from the area. According to reports, ISIS members are also using civilians as human shields in a last-ditch effort to keep control of the city. There are also concerns that they are resorting to suicide tactics, riddling streets with improvised explosive devices and maybe even using chemical weapons. In addition, Kurdish forces have discovered a network of tunnels outfitted with graffiti, electricity, appliances, food and, potentially, booby traps, being used by the ISIS as underground hideouts and also for engaging in guerilla warfare.
Although they are losing their grip over the city, the barbaric jihadists are evacuating their Yazidi sex slaves.
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Claims by Zintan’s Abubakr Al-Sadiq Brigade that Italian troops are at Jufra airbase have been dismissed by Italy. “It is absolute nonsense,” an Italian oficial told the Libya Herald.
In statement yesterday, the brigade declared that it would “not stay idly by and will face any invader with all our might,” adding “we call all Libyans to stay united and prepare to fight the new Italian invasion of our land.”.
It is not clear how the Zintanis came to the conclusion that Italian forces were at the airbase, located between Hun and Waddan, and locates 600 km eastern south east of Tripoli. They have no presence there.
During the Qaddafi era the base was the second most important airbase in the country but it was then severly damaged during the revolution by NATO air strikes. Following the revolution, it was controlled by Misrata’s Third Force. More recently, it was claimed that Benghazi militant Ziyad Belam had been using it as a base for himself and his followers.
The Libyan National Army (LNA) has tried to take it over on more than one occassion but with without success.
A small group of Italian forces – the figure is put at 200 – are, however, present in Misrata protecting the new field hospital order sent by the Italian government to treat Bunyan Marsus soldiers wounded in the fighting IS in Sirte.
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For the second day in a row, Houthi militias continue to violate the truce in Taiz by constantly shelling residential neighbourhoods with various types of weapons and attacking sites belonging to the Popular Resistance and the army on various fronts which has led to damage and human loss.
Violent confrontations raged on the eastern and western fronts, in the countryside of Taiz and on the Hayfan front in the south of the city following an attempt by Houthi militias and those loyal to the ousted president Saleh to advance on sites belonging to the Popular Resistance and the national army. People on both sides were killed and injured.
The chief of Taiz’s centre Major General Khaled Fadhel urged the army’s forces and the Popular Resistance on the Hayfan front to “adhere to the declared truce based on the directives of President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi” but added that they “reserve the right to retaliate”. He made these comments during his inspection of the front lines of battle fronts, and stressed the need to “exercise vigilance and place our hands on the trigger to deal with any violations of the truce on the part of the Houthi militias and those loyal to the ousted president Saleh”.
Houthi militias violently bombed neighbourhoods in the eastern part of Taiz and the historic Cairo Citadel, central Taiz, at the beginning of the second day of the truce.
On his part, the head of the military council’s operations in Taiz Colonel Abdul Aziz Al-Majidi told Asharq Al-Awsat that “The Houthi militias and those loyal to Saleh have not adhered to the truce in Taiz and have violated it since it came into force by firing heavy weapons of all types. There has actually been an increase in violence perpetrated by Houthi militias who are using heavy artillery”.
Someone's going to be stood up in front of an anti-aircraft gun real soon...
North Korea botched the launch of another mid-range missile on Thursday morning, five days after the last one blew up shortly after lift-off.
The launch came around 7 a.m. Thursday, shortly after the foreign and defense ministers of South Korea and the U.S. met in Washington to discuss a response to the nuclear and missile threats from the North.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff here said the North fired the missile from an air base in North Pyognan Province but it fizzled shortly afterwards. Seoul and Washington believe that it was a missile they insist on calling "Musudan" after its original launch pad, though the official North Korean name is Hwasong-10.
It was the eighth failure of a Musudan launch since April, though one launched June 22 completed a steep trajectory of over 1,000 km. "It seems that the North pressed ahead with the launch in a bid to show its resistance to international pressure," a military source here said.
On Saturday, the missile was also launched from an inland area rather than the east coast. "We expect that the North will keep attempting to launch missiles until it succeeds as it did in June," the source added.
The JCS again dragged its heels announcing the launch, letting the U.S. steal a march on the announcement, though it did not wait 19 hours as it did last time.
"South Korea's Aegis ships or Green Pine radar can detect North Korean missiles only after they come up above a certain altitude due to the curved surface of the earth. They failed to detect the launch probably because the missile exploded below the altitude," another source said. "We have to rely on information from the U.S.' early warning satellite system for North Korean missiles shortly after they are fired."
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German Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Ambassador Sabin Sparwasser, on Friday reaffirmed Berlin's longstanding cooperation with Afghanistan, but urged the Afghan political leadership to take steps and deliver on their promises to the Afghans through reforms.
"At the same time, many Afghans have come to Germany, we had 150,000 last year and about 50,000 again this year and many of those Afghans who come will not qualify to have asylum status, so we will look at every individual case, but in the end a great part of those who came will have to return home, in order to do that in a way that is orderly and acceptable and making it also easier for the individuals we have an agreement and a memorandum of understanding on migration," Sparwasser added.
On the other hand, the ministry of refugees and repatriations has said that on the basis of the memorandum of understating signed between the two countries, Germany has committed to give three years to the migrants whose cases are rejected to repatriate voluntarily.
Three years will give them plenty of time to raise hell in Germany in anger. Or to go somewhere else in Europe to apply for asylum. Sweden, perhaps. Personally, I think if you're deported you should be put on the next plane to Kabul. But that's just me...
Mohammad Salim is an Afghan migrant who sold all his assets last year and fled to Germany. But, he returned to his home country after his case was rejected by the German government.
"I was thinking what will I do after reaching Europe, but now I regret it and think that if I had not travelled to Europe, my assets would be worth more today, but now I regret my decision," he said.
"Those who are willing to repatriate voluntarily and have family will be allotted land in special townships inside the country," said Islamuddin Juraat, spokesman for the ministry of refugees and repatriations.
It is believed that many among the refugees are now suffering psychological issues in the wake of their plight in European countries.
They can't work -- they aren't qualified for anything but the most entry level, physical labor jobs. They don't have the education. They don't speak German. They're in a foreign country with completely different ideas about religion, culture, gender, and day to day life. They have psychological issues? Really?
More than 300,000 Afghans flocked to Europe since the start of 2015 with the majority of them seeking asylum in Germany.
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All the Youts that have 8 yr old children themselves
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[FORBES] Though a lawsuit’s revelation that Thomas Reed, the director of the FCC’s Office for Communications Business Opportunities, had sex with a Washington Post news hound in his office is salacious, that’s not what should get Congress’s attention. The far more serious revelation involves the FCC’s official legal response to a female employee’s allegation that she was subjected to a hostile work environment due to management inaction when a male coworker repeatedly invited other male coworkers to watch porn with him in the cubicle adjacent to hers, from which she would "hear groans ‐ mmm, mmm, ahh ‐ in response to the pornography viewings," while having one "stand guard looking for her."
In today’s environment of heightened concern regarding gender issues, these allegations should have raised red flags about the prevailing institutional culture at the FCC and prompted swift remedial action. Instead, FCC chairman Tom Wheeler’s legal team attempted to dismiss the case in federal court by arguing that these allegations amounted to nothing more than the "mere existence of pornography in the workplace" that was not sufficiently "severe or pervasive" to create a hostile work environment.
As common sense suggests, the court disagreed. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly recognized that the female employee alleged more than the "mere existence of pornography in the workplace," as the FCC contended. The court determined the allegations were sufficient to demonstrate that the female employee "frequently had ’no way to avoid’ the groups of men watching pornography in the adjacent cubicle," that "she felt ’surrounded by’ the pornography being viewed nearby," and that "the hostile conduct could be considered to be ’directed at [her].’" In short, the court found it plausible that the FCC subjected the female employee to "discriminatory intimidation, ridicule, and insult" that is sufficiently "severe or pervasive" to alter the conditions of her employment and "create an abusive working environment."
Chairman Wheeler’s dismissive response to these activities is especially troubling when the social context of these events is considered. The FCC’s Office for Communications Business Opportunities (known as OCBO) "serves as the principal advisor to the Chairman and the Commissioners on issues, rulemakings, and policies affecting small, women, and minority-owned communications businesses." And the female employee, who worked at the FCC for over thirty years, was working as a "Women’s Outreach Specialist" at the time of the alleged harassment. When the head of the FCC office responsible for promoting business opportunities for women condones loud and conspicuous porn watching by a group of males in a cubicle adjacent to a female employee and admits to using his own office in the FCC as a location for sex, there is evidence of a problem that should be addressed by more than an aggressive legal defense.
An internal investigation indicates the female employee’s allegations were more than merely plausible. According to a memorandum the female employee filed in her legal case against the FCC, after Reed failed to take action on her behalf and her male coworkers’ behavior escalated, she reported the pornography issue to the agency’s Inspector General in February 2012. Though it doesn’t name any employees specifically, pages 17-18 of the Inspector General’s March 2016 report to the agency’s commissioners describe the results of a "lengthy investigation" into the misuse of FCC facilities to conduct personal business and view pornography. The report states that the investigation, "which included referrals of potential criminal activity to the Internal Revenue Service that were ultimately declined, revealed that four FCC employees violated various ethical and administrative rules, including the FCC’s Computer System Rules of Behavior, the FCC’s Cyber Security Policy, and the Standard of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch, 5 CFR § 2635 et seq." Among other violations, the report noted there was "substantial evidence" that the employees used FCC equipment to "view, store, and send pornographic material," and that the Inspector General had referred the case to "the appropriate Bureaus and Offices within the Commission for action."
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Reed screwed a Wapo reporter in his office? She's supposed to join the rest of us and like it. Oh, that's not the story? The real story is one of gender issues and an creating an abusive working environment? I thought the real story was what Donald Trump said about poussewais a dozen years ago.
[RUDAW.NET] Fighting has resumed for the second day in Kirkuk between security forces and a number of ISIS Death Eaters still hiding inside a school in the city.
Peshmerga forces told Rudaw that they have killed three of the Death Eaters this morning and they have fully besieged the school to "kill the rest of the holy warriors,"
Security and anti-terrorism forces are patrolling the streets of Kirkuk in search of Death Eaters who are believed to have taken position in some homes and tall buildings.
Also south of the city of Kirkuk near the town of Laylan, Peshmerga forces killed at least 11 ISIS Death Eaters after hours of intense festivities in the early hours of Saturday, police chief Sarhad Qadir told Rudaw.
"In fierce festivities which lasted for two hours, 11 ISIS holy warriors, who appeared to be foreigners, were killed by the Peshmerga forces in the village of Mahmoodia near Lailan town," said Brig. Qadir, chief of Kirkuk Suburban Police.
Qadir added "nine Death Eaters were killed by bullets and the other two blew themselves up."
He explained "the Death Eaters belonged to the group who infiltrated Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... but later they fled the city."
[RUDAW.NET] In a message sent out live on Rudaw TV Saturday morning, Governor of Kirkuk Najmaldin Karim said that ISIS Death Eaters launched a "well-planned" wide terrorist attack on his city on Friday.
Karim said that the attack was carried out by 35-50 faceless myrmidons "who split into subgroups and spread out in different parts of the city."
He said the faceless myrmidons "managed to enter the city in the last two days and their aim was to take control of the governorate building, some police headquarters and political party headquarters."
"We had prior knowledge that an operation like this could happen," the governor said.
He added that the security forces had been preparing to respond to this type of attack for some time "but the timing of it was not known exactly,"
The Death Eaters failed to take any of the places they had planned to overrun, said Karim.
"And all those who tried to take control of those places were killed by our security forces," he maintained.
[IraqSun] Iraqi security forces have killed 48 of the gunmen who stormed parts of Kirkuk in a shock attack claimed by the Islamic State group, the northern city's police chief said, according to AFP.
"Forty-eight Daesh (IS) terrorists have been killed in the clashes," Brigadier General Khattab Omar Aref told AFP, adding that some of them blew themselves up when the security forces cornered them.
Special counter-terrorism and intelligence units were hunting down some of the dozens of IS fighters who stormed public buildings in the early hours of Friday, October 21. Clashes have been taking place almost uninterrupted since and the city, which lies some 240 kilometres north of Baghdad, remains under curfew.
A senior interior ministry official said that at least 46 other people had been killed in the IS raid and ensuing clashes, mostly members of the security forces.
"The security forces control the situation now but there are still pockets of jihadists in some southern and eastern neighbourhoods," Aref said, according to AFP.
"We have foiled this large Daesh plot, which was to take control of government buildings, including security headquarters," he said.
"They were denied just like they are being defeated on the outskirts of Mosul," the police chief said.
[KhaleejTimes] Gunmen wearing suicide vests attacked government targets in the Kurdish-controlled city of Kirkuk and killed 16 at an Iranian-run construction site further north on Friday as troops advanced on the Daesh bastion Mosul.
Daesh claimed responsibility.
"The forces of IS attacked the city of Kirkuk from all directions," the Daesh-linked Amaq news agency said, using another name for the group.
In one attack, three bombers infiltrated a power plant being built by an Iranian company near Dibis, a town about 40 km northwest of Kirkuk, the mayor said.
"Three suicide bombers attacked the power plant at around 6.00 am, killing 12 Iraqi administrators and engineers and four Iranian technicians," Dibis mayor Abdullah Nureddin al-Salehi told AFP.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Another massive convoy of Syrian Arab Army (SAA) reinforcements traveled to the Aleppo Governorate on Saturday to help defend the quiet provincial capital.
According to an al-Masdar field correspondent, these soldiers were accompanied by several tanks, technical vehicles, and heavy armory that will be used to defend the southwestern and northwestern corridors of Aleppo City.
The field correspondent added that more than 800 soldiers traveled to Aleppo from the Tartous and Damascus governorates.
Iraqi and Iranian paramilitary fighters were also part of this massive convoy, the field correspondent added.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) continued their large-scale offensive in the West Ghouta region of rural Damascus on Saturday, targeting the farms outside the strategic town of Khan al-Sheih.
Led by the 4th and 7th division, the Syrian Arab Army's advanced from the recently captured al-Buwaydah Farms to southwestern perimeter of Khan al-Sheih, where they encountered fierce resistance from Jabhat Fateh al-Sham ...formerly al-Nusra, the current false nose and mustache of al-Qaeda in the Levant... (formerly al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front).
Under the cover Arclight airstrikes, the Syrian Armed Forces managed to break-through Jabhat Fateh al-Sham's front-lines, resulting in the capture of the entire southwestern axis of Khan al-Sheih.
According to an al-Masdar field correspondent in Damascus, the Syrian Arab Air Force played an integral role in Saturday's advance, as their relentless Arclight airstrikes destroyed at least three armored vehicles that possessed ATGMs (anti-tank guided missiles).
The Syrian Armed Forces renewed this large-scale in the West Ghouta region on Friday; this will be the government's top priority for the coming days as they continue to negotiate with Jaish al-Islam ...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful... (Army of Islam) in the East Ghouta.
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[PANAMPOST] According to Manager of the Unified Federation of Oil Workers of Venezuela José Bodas, 2,000 people have been fired from the government-owned Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) despite being under contract.
Venezuelan workers are continually intimidated and unfairly dismissed for political reasons, local news outlets have reported. Employers create fear and demand loyalty to "Chavismo" if they want to maintain their positions.
"The suspension of labor contracts is the subterfuge used by the ruling party in the oil industry to intimidate contracted staff in order to prevent the exercise of its constitutional and democratic right: the recall referendum," Bodas said.
The union leader also said that the company violates the Organic Labor Law requiring employers to hire them as permanent workers after a year of service. The government requires political loyalty, and if not, they terminate contracts.
"There are 26,000 workers hired for limited times with the promise that they will be incorporated into the permanent payroll if they are loyal to the government," he said.
PDVSA encourages outsourcing by contractors by lengthening worker contracts. This is prohibited by law because it is a practice with which employers commit occupational fraud.
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With a possible 3rd term, look for this movie to show in the northern hemisphere soon. It is said to be a long, punishing movie to watch and endure.
Libyan naval forces have denied accusations by a rescue organization that one of their crew had attacked a migrant boat packed with around 150 people, causing many to fall into the sea and at least four to drown.
A spokesman for the naval forces in Tripoli, Ayoub Qassem said a patrol had only boarded one vessel to check why it was in Libyan waters.
Germany-based Sea-Watch, one of several non-governmental organizations operating vessels off the coast of Libya, said on Friday a speedboat marked “Libyan Coast Guard” swooped in as they went to the aid of an overcrowded rubber boat in the early hours. At least one man from the Libyan vessel jumped into the rubber boat and beat the migrants with a stick, causing a mass panic a Sea-Watch spokesman said. Part of the rubber boat deflated in the ruckus, toppling most of them into the sea.
The Sea-Watch crew said it recovered four bodies, but saw others in the water it was not able to retrieve. Of an estimated 150 people on board the rubber boat, Sea-Watch rescued 120.
But Qassem said this was all lies not correct.
“The crew alleged that we attacked them and a number of casualties have been reported but this is not true at all and we call on them to prove this incident if they are right,” he said.
Qassem said that at around 2:30 am on Friday, the coast guard of the western region of Libya spotted three vessels off the coast. The patrol commander boarded the vessel and found Sea-Watch was involved.
“The commander asked them why they are in the Libyan waters but the crew of the organization did not answer logically. The crew was asked to leave,” he said. “It’s a breach and disrespect to Libyan sovereignty according to international rules and norms.”
Sea-Watch spokesman Ruben Neugebauer said from Berlin that the position of their ship, the Sea-Watch 2, was about 14 nautical miles off the coast of Zuwarah, Libya, while territorial waters end at 12 nautical miles from the coast.
“It was definitely not in Libya waters,” Neugebauer said of the position of the Sea-Watch 2, offering Reuters historical GPS tracking data from the ship.
“We should have some images at least from the cameras on board,” Neugebauer said. “Because it was dark, we don’t know how much they have seen, but we hope we have something.”
The Libyan coast guard boat sped away when the migrants fell into the sea instead of going to their aid, Neugebauer said.
“This was an attack on our rescue operation. We were engaged already with the boat to hand out life jackets, which is very important because the situation is very dangerous,” he said.
The incident happened before the planned start of training next week of up to 100 Libyan coast guard members as part of the EU anti-smuggling mission Operation Sophia.
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ADEN, Yemen: Fierce gunbattles erupted overnight between Yemeni rebels and pro-government forces along the border with Saudi Arabia despite a three-day cease-fire due to end late Saturday, military officials said.
Warplanes from the Saudi-led coalition fighting in support of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi also bombed suspected Houthi rebel missile launchers east of the capital Sanaa late Friday, a military official said. The air raids came after Patriot missiles shot down two rebel missiles on Thursday over Marib, east of the rebel-held capital.
UN special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said on Friday the cease-fire was “fragile but largely holding,” urging all parties “to show restraint, avoid further escalation, and strictly adhere to the 72-hour cease-fire.”
The truce took effect just before midnight on Wednesday to allow aid deliveries in Yemen, where the war has killed thousands of people and left millions homeless and hungry.
The UN envoy is liaising with the parties in an attempt to extend the cease-fire in order “to create a conducive environment for a long-lasting peace” in Yemen, he said in a statement. He met late Friday with Yemen’s Vice President Ali Mohsen Al-Ahmar in Riyadh, Yemeni state media reported.
Ahmar said government forces were “exercising restraint” and stressed that there were orders to “abide by the truce and respect UN efforts.”
But he accused the rebels of 449 violations within 24 hours after the cease-fire took effect.
Rebel-controlled media, meanwhile, accused the coalition of conducting air strikes across the country, including in the provinces of Sanaa, Saada and Jawf in the north, and Shabwa in the south.
A senior rebel, Hassan Al-Sharafi, was killed in border clashes on Friday night in Saada province, the fiefdom of the Iran-backed Houthis, military officials said.
The rebels seized two hills in the Alb border area from government forces who had previously advanced from Saudi Arabia, a military official said.
Nine other rebels and four government soldiers were killed in clashes Saturday on the western outskirts of Midi, a northwestern town close to the Saudi border and the Red Sea coast, military officials said. The fighting erupted when troops advanced toward Midi in an attempt to recapture it.
It is the sixth cease-fire attempt since the Saudi-led coalition intervened in March last year to support Hadi’s government after Houthis overran much of the impoverished country.
The Saudi-led coalition backing the exiled government also accused the Houthis of violating the cease-fire almost 1,000 times in the last 24 hours by launching mortar and armed attacks along Yemen’s border with the kingdom and in several Yemeni provinces.
Gen. Ahmed Al-Asseri, commander of the Saudi 4th Brigade on the border in Najran, told Reuters his forces were repelling a sustained Houthi ground attack.
“The violation of the truce was not from our side. It was from the other side. We are continuing to thwart them,” Asseri said. “In the last 48 hours there was an enormous push by the enemy against our territory.”
Houthi-run channel Al-Masira said its forces had attacked Saudi positions in Najran on Friday and launched rockets into the neighboring Saudi province of Jazan.
Nearly 6,900 people have been killed in the conflict, more than half of them civilians, while an additional three million are displaced and millions more need food aid.
Meanwhile, five suspected Al-Qaeda militants including a local chief were killed overnight Friday in a suspected US drone strike in Marib province east of Sanaa, a security official said. They were in a vehicle that was targeted in the Wadi Obeida area.
Washington is the only government to operate drones over Yemen, but the United States rarely releases statements on its long-running bombing campaign against the country’s powerful Al-Qaeda branch.
The United States considers Al-Qaeda’s Yemen-based franchise, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, to be its most dangerous.
On Tuesday, eight Al-Qaeda suspects were killed in a similar drone strike in south Yemen.
MAKHACHKALA, Russia – The Russian Interior Ministry says four suspected militants have been killed by police in the restive Caucasus province of Dagestan.
Police spokeswoman Fatina Ubaidatova said two gunmen were killed late Friday after they allegedly fired on police who tried to stop their vehicle for a check outside the village of Stalskoye.
Ubaidatova said Saturday another two suspected militants were killed in a separate clash with law enforcement agents in the village of Kvanada.
Dagestan, a predominantly Muslim province on the western shore of the Caspian Sea, has become the epicenter of the Islamist insurgency following the two separatist wars in neighboring Chechnya. Militants there launch frequent attacks on police and other authorities.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The General Command of the Army and Armed Forces dismissed the Turkish military forces’ recent attacks in Aleppo as a "serious escalation" and a gross violation of Syria’s illusory sovereignty.
In a statement on Saturday, the General Command said the victories which the Syrian Arab Army and its allies are achieving in the war against terrorism, especially in Aleppo, have broken Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... ’s illusions and smashed his plots in Syria and the region and prompted him to escalate his aggression on Syria.
The statement referred to the targeting of villages and towns in northern Aleppo by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s air force and its army units’ transgression into Syrian territory, along with providing direct military support, using artillery and tanks, to the terrorist organizations to continue committing crimes against civilians in northern Aleppo.
The statement said Erdogan’s regime is playing a "dirty" role having provided shelter, training, weapons and funds to the armed terrorist groups and opened Turkey’s border to facilitate the flow of thousands of mercenary forces of Evil into Syria since the beginning of the war.
The Army’s General Command affirmed in its statement that any presence of the Turkish army units across the border into Syria, under whatever excuses, is rejected and condemned and will be considered an "occupation force" and confronted with all the means available.
Yeah, you go ahead and do that, Short-shanks...
It also held the Turkish leadership fully responsible for the "dangerous consequences" that might result from its acts on the security and stability of the region.
Turkish tanks and vehicles penetrated earlier today into the northern countryside of Aleppo,
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German Pensioner Couple Forced to Live in Migrant Accommodation
21 Oct 2016
A pensioner couple in Germany have been faced with the choice of either living in an asylum home with migrants or be made homeless due to the lack of housing in the city of Bonn.
Swedes Beginning to Tire of Vibrancy, Annual ‘Diversity Barometer’ Finds
20 Oct 2016
Swedish people’s enthusiasm for ethnic and cultural diversity in society has declined noticeably in 2016 an annual survey has shown. It marks the biggest shift in attitudes since the University of Gävle began measurements in 2005.
Over 20,000 Underage Migrants Arrived in Italy this Year
20 Oct 2016
A new report from charity UNICEF has suggested that Italy may have received more than 20,000 underage migrants this year from among the 160,000 total from Africa.
Where underage is defined as up to 48 Earth years...
EU Appeals to Migrants to Remain in Africa
20 Oct 2016
The European Union is working with five separate African nations to ensure that the flow of migrants comes to a halt permanently after over 100,000 have crossed the Mediterranean Sea this year.
Italian Taxpayers Billed Record €700 Million for Immigrant Costs
20 Oct 2016
The Italian government has passed a new law that will cost taxpayers a record €700 million to defray the expenses of migrant welcome centers and centers for retention of “irregular” foreigners.
Locals Sent to Back of the Queue as Social Housing Given To New Immigrants
20 Oct 2016
Politicians in Enköpings have this week approved a proposal which will allow the local government to reserve all available apartments owned by the municipal properties company for migrants.
Migrants Smash Up Deportation Centre, Protest for 11 Hours on Roof
20 Oct 2016
Around 40 illegal migrants who were due for deportation, mainly from Algeria, have held a rowdy protest in Spain, smashing furniture before climbing onto the roof of their accommodation.
Turkey Will Let Migrants Through Unless EU Free Movement Granted This Year
19 Oct 2016
(REUTERS) – The European Union should implement visa-free travel for Turks by the end of the year and stop insisting Turkey change its anti-terrorism laws or Ankara may cancel its side of a deal to readmit illegal migrants, Turkey’s EU minister told Reuters.
AfD Slams Church Inaction over Violence Toward Christian Asylum Seekers
19 Oct 2016
A member of the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has slammed church leaders over the recent report of Christians being attacked in German asylum homes.
Green Politico: It’s Time to Learn Arabic and Stop Worrying About Migration
18 Oct 2016
A prominent Green party politician has said Germans worried about mass immigration should learn Arabic to communicate with new arrivals from the Middle East, like Americans should learn Spanish to talk to Mexicans.
Expert Warns of ‘Turkish PEGIDA’ as Erdogan Increases Influence in Germany
18 Oct 2016
A political scientist of Turkish descent fears that Erdoğan may create a Turkish nationalist street movement in Germany.
‘Deport Them Immediately’: Established Migrants in Germany Unhappy About Refugee Influx
18 Oct 2016
Journalists at Berlin’s public service broadcaster were surprised to discover hardline attitudes to newcomers among established migrants in Germany, with some of those interviewed admitting they would like to see many newcomers deported.
Almost 800 migrants are rescued from a precarious wooden barge crossing the Med - including a tiny baby – as 20 boats are stopped by the Irish Navy
22/10/16
The Irish vessel LÉ Samuel Beckett rescued 772 migrants during a 'complex search and rescue operation' off the coast of Tripoli, Libya, this morning.
French authorities draft in 1,200 armed police to oversee the destruction of the Jungle in Calais as migrants start smashing up the camp before it is pulled down on Monday
21/10/16
Letters giving formal notice of their eviction – and details of legal accommodation centres for people claiming asylum in France – will be distributed on Sunday.
Iraqi refugee who raped a 10-year-old boy at a swimming pool in a 'sexual emergency' has his conviction overturned because the Austrian court 'didn't prove he realised the boy was saying no'
21/10/16
The rapist, Amir A, 20, had not had sex in four months, so he dragged the boy into the changing rooms to attack him, but judges in Austria want evidence the boy was forced to act against his will.
'There may be terrorists hiding among them': Outrage as member of France's National Front posts locations of refugees on Facebook in bitter rant about taxes
21/10/16
Olivier Monteil posted the street names of where refugees and asylum seekers will be lodging in Lourdes, France. He has also slammed French authorities for 'outrageous camouflage'
Sudanese asylum seeker is stabbed to death by 'lynch mob' of 50 'drunk' Eritrean people smugglers near Calais Jungle after he tried to flee to the UK
21/10/16
Mohamad Omar Eyman, 26, from Sudan, suffered fatal knife-wounds late on Monday night when he returned to the squalid Norrent-Fontes camp (file photo of Calais migrants unrelated to crime).
'Migrants have caused so much s**t in Germany'... say MIGRANTS: Foreign nationals living in the country say 'we have let too many in' and 'it's not as nice as it used to be'
19/10/16
Berlin's public broadcaster Rbb24 took to the streets of the capital to garner the attitudes of established migrants in Germany, and filmed some of their surprisingly hard-line reactions
More than 17,000 migrants file lawsuits in Germany aimed at getting their families to join them as courts struggle to cope
19/10/16
In the first eight months of this year over 17,000 cases were filed in German courts aimed at getting migrants' families into the country with 15,000 of the claims by Syrians.
Female Afghan interpreter working with a TV crew ‘is raped by three armed migrants’ hours after Sky News team are injured and have camera stolen at the Jungle camp
19/10/16
The rape victim, a 38-year-old woman from Afghanistan, was acting as an interpreter to a male reporter when she was bundled to the ground and raped while in the Jungle camp in Calais.
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LE Samuel Beckett is snappy looking offshore patrol ship.
Srsly, her sister ships will be the William Butler Yeats and dawg help us all the LE James Joyce.
"What's that on the roof?" asked the riddler.
"Mohammedan migrant kid-diddler?"
"Shy Sunni pool-piddlers?"
"Big Musulman fiddlers?"
"Some Semites who kinda dig Hitler?"
[IsraelTimes] Thousands march in support of Islamic Jihad; Islamist leader hails Iranian support, slams Arab states for ’embracing Israel'
A member of the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror group was killed on Saturday when a tunnel collapsed in the Gazoo Strip, reports in Paleostinian media said. The official Paleostinian news agency WAFA identified the man as Anas Abu Lashin, 22, and said he was a member of Hamas’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. He was reportedly working in a tunnel in the al-Maghazi area in central Gazoo when it caved in.
The Brigades in a statement said Abu Lashin was killed "during preparation" of a tunnel, but did not provide further details.
The Islamist terror movement which controls the coastal enclave has a network of tunnels in the territory, both for smuggling and attack purposes. It was not clear which type of tunnel Abu Lashin was killed in.
The collapse on Saturday is the latest in a series of cave-ins to claim Paleostinian lives. Over a dozen Paleostinians, most of them reportedly members of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, have been killed in collapses since the beginning of the year.
On Friday, the Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... -- another Gazoo-based terror group and longtime ally/rival of Hamas -- staged a public show of force in the Strip, with its leader praising Iran and criticizing Arab states. Thousands of supporters, including fighters from the party’s al-Quds Brigades military wing, took part in the event.
Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Shalah spoke via a video link, using his speech to accuse some Arab countries of abandoning the Paleostinian cause.
"If the Arabs turn their backs on Paleostine and embrace Israel, they can no longer condemn the resistance for taking support from Iran," Shalah said, without naming any countries. "(Iran) is the only country which commits to the unending support of the Paleostinian cause."
Saudi social media users interpret the rare execution of an Al Saud prince as a sign of equality under Islamic law, approval likely to reassure Riyadh's absolute rulers as large spending cuts test the kingdom's welfare-based social contract.
Prince Turki bin Saud al-Kabir was found guilty of shooting dead another Saudi national during a brawl and was executed after a royal order by King Salman, the interior ministry said on Tuesday.
Members of the ruling family, estimated to number several thousand, have only rarely been executed. A prince who assassinated his uncle, King Faisal, was beheaded in 1975 and a princess was shot dead for adultery two years later.
In 2004, a young prince who had gunned down an acquaintance was pardoned by the victim's father at the last minute, after arriving at Riyadh's execution square.
News of the execution, which comes as the government is asking Saudis to accept unprecedented austerity, was welcomed by Saudis online, including royal family members who said King Salman had been "decisive" and "fair".Khalid al-Saud, an academic and royal family member, wrote on a Twitter account: "This is the law of God Almighty, and this is the approach of our blessed nation."
"A just ruler of the Islamic nation rules by the legitimacy of Islam," tweeted Saudi journalist Nasser bin Fareon.
Social media users shared a clip of a previous speech by King Salman to Saudi officials telling citizens they should not fear suing royal family members if they had suffered injustice.
Mohammed al-Masloukhi, the imam of the Safa mosque in Riyadh, said the family of the victim had declined to accept hundreds of millions of riyals in "blood money".
"God does not differentiate between a merchant and a poor man, nor between a prince and a citizen," he tweeted.
But a Saudi university student from Jeddah, who spoke on condition he be identified only as Bahah, said the ruling was a reaction to people's frustration with apparent impunity enjoyed by royals.
"It had to happen. It's impossible to continue forgiving members of the royal family who commit crimes," he said by telephone. "There are political consequences for not prosecuting members of the family, (because) the victims can be members of big tribes. There has to be answers."
Saudi officials say the judicial system is impartial.
Prominent commentator Jamal Khashoggi told Reuters Saudis were receptive to the decision. "It's a sign of respect to the sharia (Islamic law). People like that," he said.
While a culture of public respect for government endures in Saudi Arabia, it is one of the most active Arab societies online, and digital platforms are seen as a useful forum where official accountability can be assessed.
Al Saud members receive monthly stipends, and top princes command great wealth and political power - although only a few in the family hold nationally important government posts - at a time when ordinary Saudis face financial cutbacks. In a country where citizens have no vote, the government is planning educational and social reforms, apparently aiming to shore up public support and political stability.
Saudi Arabia executed at least 151 people in 2015, the most since 1995, according to Amnesty, making it the third most prolific executioner after China and Iran.
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Probably, he - or somebody in his immediate family - pissed off a more important prince.
[Dhaka Tribune] To materialise their dream of establishing a Shariah-based state in Bangladesh, the so-called New JMB highups wanted to strengthen the organization by unifying other murderous Moslem groups under a single umbrella.
Efforts taken to this end separately by New JMB ameer Abu Ibrahim al-Hanif and operations chief Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury did not work, but some members of the local murderous Moslem outfits did join the new group, according to police’s elite force Rapid Action Battalion.
After coming to Bangladesh in 2013, Canadian citizen Tamim Chowdhury, who co-ordinated the July 1 Dhaka attack, tried to form a platform of murderous Moslems named Junud Al Tawhid. At one point, he met Hanif and they agreed to work together, RAB claims.
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Even with maritime piracy at a 21-year low, experts are warning of a potential resurgence in East Africa among other risks.
“Suddenly, the opportunity is improving,” anti-piracy expert John Steed said about Somali piracy. “No one has tried it yet, but the potential is there for it to come back.”
The last wave of Somalia piracy peaked in 2011 with 176 attacks. It declined to almost nothing by 2015, thanks to an increased foreign naval presence and industry precautions like posting armed guards, moving faster, and following certain routes when passing through the area. At the end of last year, the industry issued new recommendations that reduced the size of the danger zone.
Heading into 2016, however, IHS Inc. said Somali piracy was a major risk thanks to instability and unrest in the region.
“The two conditions that led regional politicians to [support pirates], namely a lack of alternative economic opportunities and a threat to their control of their territory, are currently being recreated in the Galmudug region of central Somalia,” the risk consultancy warned.
Oceans Beyond Piracy (OBP) also warned of a piracy “reset” in its mid-year report. Steed, the non-profit’s regional manager for the Horn of Africa, walked us through some risk factors.
"Naval forces are getting [drawn away]. There’s a great deal of work for them to do, particularly with the migration problems and the issues higher up the Horn [of Africa] …. The days of the European naval force may be coming to an end.”
”Ships’ captains are under pressure from the companies to go slower and in some cases closer to the coast.”
”No one has helped build the Somalis a decent coast guard or maritime police …. In the main part of Somalia and all down the east coast, there is no real Somali seagoing capability.”
"[Somalis] see these big international trawlers, as they see it, stealing their fish, and that breeds animosity amongst and support for the pirates who go out and sometimes capture fishing boats.”
As 2015 progressed, private security teams were used less and less frequently by ships in the area, and when they were used, shipping companies increasingly opted for smaller and cheaper teams.
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The French embassy in Tunisia has called on French citizens to watch out following Tunisian president’s extension of the state of emergency for three further months.
President Caid Essebsi Tuesday extended for three additional months the state of emergency decreed since November last year following the killing for 12 members of his guard. Tunisia was reeled by three terror attacks last year. The attacks claimed by the Islamic State group killed 71 people among whom 51 foreign tourists mostly British holidaymakers.
French ambassador in Tunis, Olivier Poivre d’Arvor said he was concerned about his countrymen’s security and safety.
“There are 30,000 French people in Tunisia, of whom almost 15,000 are students studying in French institutes. They may be subjected to any risk and we must protect them,” he said.
Earlier this month, the US embassy in Tunis issued similar warnings to American citizens urging them to avoid the North African country’s South-eastern regions as well as the mountainous regions in the West deemed still haunted by terrorists.
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[BREITBART] Republican Congressional candidate Joan McCarthy Lasonde, 50, is demanding that nine-term incumbent Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), 72, resign over videos released by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas revealing that her husband, Robert Creamer, was at the center of a plot to incite violence at Donald Trump rallies, in a tactic known as "bird-dogging."
"We called for her to step down yesterday in front of her office," Lasonde told Breitbart News on Thursday. "Willful ignorance is no excuse. The people in our district are upset. The people are horrified. Our phones are ringing off the hook,"
Lasonde claims that the stunning revelations in the video -- which has forced Creamer to resign from his work with the Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as Deplorable, Irredeemable and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Henry Kissinger ... campaign -- has resulted in constituents to switch their support to her instead of Schakowsky.
"Creamer is obviously guilty," Lasonde said of the veteran reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... activist and convicted felon who is thought to have planned the Democrats’ political strategy during the push for Obamacare ... aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read... in 2009 and 2010.
"He stepped down. Inciting violence is criminal. Our question is, what was Schakowsky’s part in it? Was she an accomplice? She’s denying that there is even a problem.
"Yesterday, she said it was manufactured and it’s a non-existing scandal. She said that my call for her to step down is ridiculous," Lasonde continued. "If she did not participate, at the very minimum, she needs to come out and denounce it. Instead, she’s pretending that it’s manufactured, that it’s not a scandal."
Creamer is the co-founder of Democracy Partners, a consulting group that, according to O’Keefe’s videos, apparently contracts directly with the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. Creamer also affirmed on video that Clinton is aware of "all" of his work, and that Democracy Partners has a daily telephone call with the Clinton campaign to coordinate efforts.
"And then, of course, it’s now coming out, that Schakowksy’s husband visited the White House 342 times since 2009. Are you kidding me? He’s a convicted felon," Lasonde said.
Creamer served several months in federal prison in 2006-7, plus several more of house arrest, for a check-kiting scheme.
Lasonde noted that Schakowsky was the ringleader of protests and riots that led to the cancellation of Trump’s March 11 rally at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Lasonde was present at that protest and said that "it was ugly." She recalled how Schakowsky herself carried a "Gang of Hate" sign during the rally, which featured Republicans Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner’s names on it ,and which also bore the name of a Democratic super PAC with which her husband is aligned.
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Most likely, she will get assigned to a plum committee leadership position--probably a Soros/CFI bonus for her "good" works. Maybe a nice beach house somewhere. Promises of rewards in a Hillary administration? She might be surprised. Just might be a fed-up-with-this-$hit monster tsunami vote for Trump.
NEW YORK: An international team has determined that the Syrian government carried out a third chemical attack in the conflict-wracked nation, according to a report released late Friday.
In August, the team from the United Nations and the chemical weapons watchdog blamed President Bashar Assad’s government for using chlorine gas in two attacks and Daesh fighters for using mustard gas in one attack.
The team said at that time that three other attacks indicated possible government involvement.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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