It finds expression in the writing of Ramesh Pommeru, Ross Douthat, and Yuval Levin, whose "conservative governing vision" sees a kind of:
... American life in which government does not use society as an instrument to advance progressive aims but rather sustains and strengthens the space in which society can thrive and enables all Americans to take part in what happens in that space.
Such a government would no doubt be much smaller, more restrained, and less expensive than the one we have today. It would be fiscally sustainable, averting the catastrophe we face if our entitlement programs are not and reinforcing the private economy rather than draining it of resources.
Levin calls this a "modernized politics of subsidiarity -- that is, of putting power, authority and significance as close to the level of interpersonal community as reasonably possible," that is, doing a lot of good, small things at the base of civil society.
If we play small ball, we will lose. Specifically, we will lose America’s technological and scientific pre-eminence, our dominant position as a military power, and a significant part of our living standard. In a competitive world, "losing" doesn’t mean giving up a couple of points of GDP growth: It means the sort of decline that the United Kingdom suffered in the 1950s and 1960s, when its auto, shipbuilding and machine-building industries virtually disappeared.
Small-ball conservatism ignores the most important feature of the global economic landscape: our competitors. This isn’t 1981, when the digital revolution overwhelmed the Soviet Union’s formidable advantages in conventional arms. When Ronald Reagan took office, the world’s high-tech entrepreneurs had no place to go except America. American universities had a monopoly on high-end technology, the American defense and space programs dominated cutting-edge research, and American capital markets were the only ready source of capital for high-tech startups.
We still have an edge but it is eroding quickly. America is a second-rate power in high-tech manufacturing, and our monopoly in key fields of knowledge is far from secure. We spend half of what we used to on defense R&D as a fraction of GDP. And we face new and self-confident competitors determined to leapfrog the United States. If we do not meet the hurdle of global competition, whatever good we do in small ways will not help.
It is a slippery slope. If we continue to lose ground, we may never have the chance to come back. Nothing short of a great national effort will give us the chance to come back. And the first thing that is required is for an American president to declare that a great national effort is underway, with the sense of purpose that informed the Eisenhower and Kennedy responses to Russian gains in space during the 1950s, or Reagan’s commitment to win the Cold War and defend America from missile attack. There are many individual things that must be done, but there is one big thing that must be done. That is to identify a national goal and commit the full resources of the United States to achieving it. The first thing that must be done is to end affirmative action in educational system - starting with kindergartens.
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Conservatism is NOT a plan for some collective national greatness project. The Constitution was designed to keep government off our backs and to leave us free to not have to spend all our time individually watching our backs. Conservatism is about remaining true to the Constitution as written. Nothing more.
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Reagan also stated that the government wsas the PROBLEM not the SOLUTION. You Nationalist types seem to have completely lost sight of that. All you want is the same thing the Progressives want - control of a big government to do your bidding. And that's what s wrong with you - you are different only by degree, not by fundamentals. Conservatives want smaller government, even if it means they cant abuse it to impose their view on others.
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All Comey did is report to Congress that his previous report on the Clinton e-mails MAY have been incomplete, because of POSSIBLE new information in the recently-obtained Abedin-Wiener documents. This is not necessarily a shocking new development, it is just keeping Congress informed as he is required to do - THAT is the break with recent DoJ tradition.
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It is said to be quite common for government officials to keep material that compromises important figures, as protection for their own jobs and bonuses.
Wiener kept his wife's emails, perhaps for that same purpose.
When she dumped him, and he kept doing his demented email things, the FBI got to look at her emails.
They were so incriminating that FBI agents viewing them insisted that something be done about them, or else.
Comey did something.
Had Secretary Clinton turned over all her official emails upon leaving office, as required by law, there would have been no issue to consider. She broke the law and had delayed and destroyed, and that is the cause of the present situation.
Notice that there is no mention by the New Yorker of the party of the politicians that the government has protected.
I seem to remember a Republican Senator from Alaska who was indicted on a charge (that later fizzled) just before an election. He lost the election.
But there is no precedent of having such things happen to a Democrat!
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It is said to be quite common for government officials to keep material that compromises important figures, as protection for their own jobs and bonuses.
Hmmmm. J Edgar Hoover comes to mind.
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I must say I find this problematic and Comey is interfering with the elections. Just because it's about Hillary doesn't justify his actions.
Comey said: "The FBI cannot yet assess whether or not this material may be significant."
Sorry, but first assess this and then go public.
Imagine the FBI was investigating some serious business fraud and Trump is mentioned in the material and the FBI goes public and says: The FBI cannot yet assess whether or not this material may be significant in relation to Trump.
A candidate would be a victim of speculations, would have no proper way to respond, and after the elections the FBI determines that the material is indeed not significant?
Something is not right here.
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panem et circenses
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Darth, I had to go get more floss for all the kernels stuck in my teeth the last two days
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EC, it wasn't right for NBC to hold that tape of Trump in his locker room conversation with Bush. It wasn't right when Comey refused to prosecute in July. It wasn't right for hackers to hack Podesta's email account and it wasn't right for Weiner to send those text messages to a 15 year old girl. None of this stuff is right. But it is amusing to see it happening to Hillary.
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remember Cap Weinberger's indictment (later dismissed) right before the election, or how about W's DUI right before the election?
Suck it,Dems. Karma bitches
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I wonder if he drives his own car? Or does he own a single shot, bolt action .22 weapon? Maybe he takes long walks in dangerous areas of town?
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Any guesses who stripped the confidential labels off emails to fwd to Hildabeest's private email? Could it rhyme with Numa Babedin?
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For crying-out-loud, this stuff could have been hacked by anyone and everyone. No wonder the FBI reopened this investigation. These people had so sense of security or the damage it might do by not heeding it--or they just did not care or they were selling secrets for a price.
Earl voters ought to go back to the polls and demand a do-over because of this corrupt witch.
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....You know, not that ol' Carlos has shown this kind of smarts so far, but I am tempted to wonder if those emails weren't collected on that laptop as a 'Get Out Of Jail Free'card - consider that right now, he's on the receiving end of an FBI investigation that could end up with him as a FEDERAL level sex offender. If he could hand a pi$$ed-off Bureau the greatest prize it's ever had, he might just walk.
On the other hand, he should REALLY stay away from Fort Marcy Park after that...
Mike
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In her April interview with the FBI, Abedin incredulously maintained that she “did not know that Clinton had a private server until about a year and a half ago, when it became public knowledge.” The clintonemail.com server was set up in the basement of the Clinton family residence in Chappaqua.
However, another witness told agents that he and another Clinton aide with computer skills built the new server system “at the recommendation of Huma Abedin,” who first broached the idea of an off-the-grid email server as early as the “fall (of) 2008.”
Paging Martha Stewart.... is lying to the FBI still a crime? Huma's going down, but that's nothing new for her, is it?
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I think the conspiracy has become unmanageably large, and people are eyeing the lifeboats nervously...
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The entire multiheaded dragon of the emails, the Clinton Foundation and Bengahzi is finally sinking in with even the MSM...now they realize that even if they get her elected, she'd get impeached...
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A) Huma was sending classified messages to (at least) her Yahoo email account. Supposedly to print them at home.
B) Emails in cloud accounts (such as Yahoo or gmail) are not stored on a laptop. If FBI agents found thousands of emails on that computer, Huma was using a mail application to download and read messages (e.g. Microsoft Outlook).
C) Huma probably had access to Hillary's mailbox (for "convenience"; Outlook has delegation features). She probably used Outlook at home for her @clinton mailbox, and she may very well have enabled access to Hillary's mailbox as well (remember: "convenience").
D) Huma's "husband" may have stumbled on those, and figured that was his ticket out of jail.
E) The FBI, if they had conducted a proper investigation of the Clinton-basement-server scandal, should have confiscated Huma's computer months ago. The only reason they did not is that they deliberately avoided using any warrants or powers of subpoena.
Only D is firmly in the realm of hypothesis.
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F) The Mills-directed purge of incriminating emails failed to wipe Huma's computer -- or Weiner had already made a copy, for his own "convenience" and safety.
G) The newly found emails, previously unseen by the FBI, include evidence of Clinton corruption, classified or top-secret messages, as well as messages from Obama's alias.
F+G would be a good reason FBI agents with a modicum of integrity would have been able to hold a (metaphorical) knife to Comey's throat and force his hand.
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I'm hoping for evidence of a conspiracy to obstruct an investigation.
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The hackers have to get inside somehow. The three best ways are to have a human being such as a vendor or a mole gain actual physical access to the server, social engineering and phishing. IMO, all three methods rely on sloppiness and stupidity on the part of the victim which once again raises the question: If these people are so stupid that they fall for a lame ass phishing scheme how are they gonna run the country?
I mean, if Podesta is such a smart guy who will most likely be entrusted with a senior position in the Clinton administration why didn't he know enough to check the link before he clicked?
One more thing, blaming it on the Russians is a red herring, a squirrel if you will. It doesn't take a state actor to gin up an official looking spoof of an email from someone you trust. Copying their logo from one of their own sites is about all it takes. Some kid in his mother's basement could do it.
Once again in case you never heard: You gotta check the link before you click.
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real businesses don't TinyURL their links
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if Podesta is such a smart guy...why didn't he know enough to check the link before he clicked?
He left it to underlings and wanted an immediate decision, at a time when the proper assets to determine that answer weren't available.
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I have to say the investigations on the right were very good against these people.
Judicial Watch bulldogs went after emails.
The Veritus Project knew there were people in the Clinton group who were smart enough to stay away from the internet. So they went after them with hidden cameras and recorders in coffee shops and conference rooms posing as big $$$ donors.
AFAIAC, Lynch's decision to invoke the fifth implies she has admitted that she has done something criminal. Were I king, she would be out of a job. The same would go for all government workers who invoke the fifth. Ever.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch is declining to comply with an investigation by leading members of Congress about the Obama administration's secret efforts to send Iran $1.7 billion in cash earlier this year, prompting accusations that Lynch has "pleaded the Fifth" Amendment to avoid incriminating herself over these payments, according to lawmakers and communications exclusively obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) and Rep. Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.) initially presented Lynch in October with a series of questions about how the cash payment to Iran was approved and delivered.
In an Oct. 24 response, Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik responded on Lynch's behalf, refusing to answer the questions and informing the lawmakers that they are barred from publicly disclosing any details about the cash payment, which was bound up in a ransom deal aimed at freeing several American hostages from Iran.
The response from the attorney general's office is "unacceptable" and provides evidence that Lynch has chosen to "essentially plead the fifth and refuse to respond to inquiries regarding [her] role in providing cash to the world's foremost state sponsor of terrorism," Rubio and Pompeo wrote on Friday in a follow-up letter to Lynch, according to a copy obtained by the Free Beacon.
The inquiry launched by the lawmakers is just one of several concurrent ongoing congressional probes aimed at unearthing a full accounting of the administration's secret negotiations with Iran.
"It is frankly unacceptable that your department refuses to answer straightforward questions from the people's elected representatives in Congress about an important national security issue," the lawmakers wrote. "Your staff failed to address any of our questions, and instead provided a copy of public testimony and a lecture about the sensitivity of information associated with this issue."
"As the United States' chief law enforcement officer, it is outrageous that you would essentially plead the fifth and refuse to respond to inquiries," they stated. "The actions of your department come at time when Iran continues to hold Americans hostage and unjustly sentence them to prison."
The lawmakers included a copy of their previous 13 questions and are requesting that Lynch provide answers by Nov. 4.
When asked about Lynch's efforts to avoid answering questions about the cash payment, Pompeo told the Free Beacon that the Obama administration has blocked Congress at every turn as lawmakers attempt to investigate the payments to Iran.
"Who knew that simple questions regarding Attorney General Lynch's approval of billions of dollars in payments to Iran could be so controversial that she would refuse to answer them?" Pompeo said. "This has become the Obama administration's coping mechanism for anything related to the Islamic Republic of Iran--hide information, obfuscate details, and deny answers to Congress and the American people."
"They know this isn't a sustainable strategy, however, and I trust they will start to take their professional, and moral, obligations seriously," the lawmaker added.
In the Oct. 24 letter to Rubio and Pompeo, Assistant Attorney General Kadzik warned the lawmakers against disclosing to the public any information about the cash payment.
Details about the deal are unclassified, but are being kept under lock and key in a secure facility on Capitol Hill, the Free Beacon first disclosed. Lawmakers and staffers who have clearance to view the documents are forced to relinquish their cellular devices and are barred from taking any notes about what they see.
"Please note that these documents contain sensitive information that is not appropriate for public release," Kadzik wrote to the lawmakers. "Disclosure of this information beyond members of the House and Senate and staff who are able to view them could adversely affect the diplomatic relations of the United States, including with key allies, as well as the State Department's ability to defend [legal] claims against the United States [by Iran] that are still being litigated at the Hague Tribunal."
"The public release of any portion of these documents, or the information contained therein, is not authorized by the transmittal of these documents or by this communication," Kadzik wrote.
Congressional sources have told the Free Beacon that this is another part of the effort to hide details about these secret negotiations with Iran from the American public.
One senior congressional source familiar with both the secret documents and the inquiry into them told the Free Beacon that the details of the negotiations are so damning that the administration's best strategy is to ignore lawmakers' requests for more information.
"Every Obama administration official and department involved in the Iran Deal appear to be running for cover," the source said. "Like we feared, the [Iran deal] is turning out to be a disaster and Iran is emboldened in its aggression. Evidently Attorney General Lynch and the Department of Justice have decided 'refusal to cooperate' is their best strategy. But this is dangerous and ultimately won't protect them from anything."
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FBI's Comey's breaking from Lynch regarding Hillary shows he now knows these people are going down and he is not going down with them. I think he finally woke up or is gambling on Trump winning.
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For senior political officials, Pleading the 5th should be grounds for immediate resignation and/or impeachment.
If Congress had any guts and any sense of its true constitutional duty as a "check and balance", there would be an immediate demand for resignation, with a threat of impeachment if not complied with.
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there would be an immediate demand for resignation, with a threat of impeachment if not complied with.
Today, it is sad to say, it seems politics is not about country or right and wrong anymore--it is about partisan politics, power, lots of money and Party. It's going to take awhile to flush this problem.
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"making holder look good"!!! How is that possible?
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The answer is simple then. Taking the fifth or not answering in the capacity of a government employee should result in immediate removal, a permanent ban on holding any government position with loss of all pension and retirement benefits.
[IsraelTimes] The Danish ex-editor who commissioned the Mohammed cartoons that triggered deadly protests a decade ago on Friday accused the Jyllands-Posten newspaper of trying to silence him, saying it had let "the jihadists" win.
In a book to be released on Monday, titled "De besatte" ("The obsessed"), Flemming Rose accuses the paper’s management of hypocrisy, claiming it backed him in public while doing everything it could to silence him in private.
"The drama and tragedy is that the only ones who have won are the jihadists," he told the weekly Weekendavisen newspaper.
Rose said that rules for what he could say and write about the controversial cartoons and related subjects had been outlined in a 2011 agreement proposed by former editor-in-chief Jorn Mikkelsen, the former chief executive of the company that owned the paper, Lars Munch, and the company’s former chairman Jorgen Ejbol.
Among the rules were a ban on taking part in TV and radio programs and refraining from commenting on the cartoons.
Rose, who left the paper last year, also said he had been accused of being "deeply disloyal" and "obsessed" with the debate prompted by the cartoons.
"You have grandchildren, don’t you think about them?" Ejbol is alleged to have said in 2015 after Rose agreed to interview the Dutch and anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders at a public event.
Jyllands-Posten’s owner, JP/Politikens Hus, did not comment on the book, but Munch, now the group’s chairman, said in a statement that "it wasn’t about Flemming Rose, it was about the safety of more than 2,000 loyal employees."
Rose was the culture editor of the right-wing Jyllands-Posten in 2005 when he commissioned 12 satirical cartoons of the Islamic prophet, triggering deadly protests in some Moslem countries.
The cartoons were also published in 2006 in French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... , where Islamist gunnies killed 12 people last year.
Rose, 58, still lives under police protection because of death threats made against him, and there have been numerous foiled terror plots against Jyllands-Posten, which has had to take extensive security measures.
[Ynet] Iraqi forces explored a network of tunnels and uncovered a bomb-making facility on Thursday in a village near djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... that was recently retaken from the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group, offering a glimpse of the challenge they will face as they move closer to the city.
Ten days into the offensive, the special forces are still at least 4 miles (6 kilometers) east of the city and have faced stiff resistance, with IS firing mortars and machine guns, and sending armored suicide truck bombs trundling across the arid plains.
Once inside the small, sparsely populated villages that ring Mosul, Iraqi forces must contend with explosive booby-traps and hidden snipers. The fortifications are expected to grow even more lethally daunting once they enter Iraq's second-largest city.
The turbans captured Mosul in a matter of days in 2014, and have had more than two years to build up its defenses and brutally root out any internal opposition. The operation to retake the northern city is expected to take weeks, if not months.
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sending armored suicide truck bombs trundling across the arid plains.
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These are medievalists - why not simply surround it, besiege them, and bomb and starve them the way Putin is doing Aleppo?
Shia want to kill off the Sunnis anyway, and this way they don't actually have to grind it out, they just hang on the periphery and loot, which suits them well. After enough are dad, the Shia will be happy to move in and take the homes as spoils of war. They've been doing that tribal stuff for centuries, why expect them to change?
I bet the Kurds would be happy to watch the Shia and Sunni (and Turks) kill each other off as long as they are left out of it and can consolidate and defend the Kurdish/Yadzidi/Other areas to the east, north, and west-northwest.
We Want Armani and Hugo Boss: Migrants Demand Designer Clothes
28 Oct 2016
African migrants who took the streets in protest and blocked traffic in Venice this week have been demanding designer clothes, the president of the Cooperativa Sociale Onlus has revealed. Lorenzo Chinalleto, whose cooperative hosts migrants at the Hotel Byron in
Government Funded Charity Urges Scots to Drink Tea With Refugees
28 Oct 2016
A Scottish Government funded refugee charity is urging the people of Scotland to befriend refugees coming to the country by having a cup of tea with them. The charity hopes that in doing so, Scots will realise that refugees are
European Union Offers a Million Debit Cards for Syrian Refugees in Turkey
28 Oct 2016
In an effort to keep more Syrian migrants from flooding into Europe, the European Union (EU) is providing funding for a million debit cards for Syrian refugees in Turkey.
Britain and France Bicker over Child Migrants Stuck in Calais
28 Oct 2016
Five days into a French operation to clear the Calais “Jungle” France has lashed out at apparent British criticism of the way children are being treated while thousands of migrants are resettled across France and the camp is destroyed.
'We've come from the Calais Jungle… now we'll stay here until we reach Britain': The migrants who swapped Eurotunnel for Eurostar as sprawling camp in Paris swells by 1000 people in just two days
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Najib Omar and his pregnant wife Leyla, both 27, are originally from Somalia, and have an 18-month-old son called Imran. They have been trying to get to Britain for seven years.
Demolishing the Jungle won't stop us: The migrants who tell SUE REID why they're hell bent on escaping 'racist' France for Britain and how some have already been deported by the UK
28/10/16
Some 6,000 migrants were dispersed when the Calais Jungle was demolished. Young men (pictured) were taken to rural areas of the French countryside. They say they hate France and want to get to the UK.
New migrant camp sets up in the heart of Paris just a 10-minute walk from the Eurostar terminal
28/10/16
Charities reported an influx of migrants setting up camp in Paris (pictured). Most had refused to go to official centres set up following the demolition of the Calais Jungle.
Wiping out the Jungle: Aerial images reveal how the Calais camp has been torn down, with thousands of tents and huts removed
28/10/16
Aerial pictures show diggers, lorries and workmen moving through a squalid network of temporary huts that once housed up to 10,000 migrants on the outskirts of the French town.
Moment Spanish lorry driver opened his doors to find 'illegal immigrants' hiding in his load of onions after drivers heard shouts from the back while he sat in a jam on the M25
28/10/16
The three men and two women smuggled themselves into the UK through Calais by hiding behind tonnes of onions.
Indoctrination fears as Syrians who have moved to Germany complain that they are being ordered to grow beards in mosques that are more conservative than their homeland
28/10/16
Syrians in Germany say many of the country's Arab mosques are more conservative than those at home. They say the highly literal interpretations of Islam makes them feel uncomfortable.
All aboard the Eurostar! Thousands of migrants booted out of the Jungle turn up in illegal slums in Paris intent on finding their way to Britain as more than 100 children are left homeless in Calais
28/10/16
A total of 5,596 people have been evacuated since the operation to raze the Jungle in Calais began on Monday but many have travelled independently and made their way to Paris (pictured).
Mother-of-three, 26, 'abducted and raped by a gang of six migrants from Iraq, Syria and Bahrain after her drink was spiked'
28/10/16
The 26-year-old said she woke up in a strange house with cuts and bruises, and believes her drink had been spiked on a night out in Sunderland before she was abducted and sexually assaulted.
Not quite the innocent, love-sick philosophy student she has been claiming to be.
[DailyMail] Varvara Karaulova was deported back to Moscow after being stopped at the Turkish-Syrian border en route to see fanatic Airat Samatov but told him secret services were bugging him
The usual Daily Mail collection of photos at the link. She looks just like a sweet young thing.
A Russian student who travelled to Syria after falling in love with an ISIS jihadi online has admitted that she tipped him off that secret services were seeking to trap him. Varvara Karaulova, 20, was stopped at the Turkish-Syrian border en route to see fanatic Airat Samatov, and when she was deported back to Moscow she agreed to help the FSB with a sting operation on him.
He and his accomplices are feared to be recruiters of potential women jacket wallahs.
But Karaulova told the jihadi that the secret agents were bugging their conversations, she admitted to the judge after appearing in court.
She now faces up to ten years in jail if convicted of seeking to join a terrorist group called Badr which includes many ethnic Chechens from southern Russia.
Earlier she and her family claimed that packing lace lingerie and bed linen for her trip proved she was not travelling to Syria to become a terrorist or even a suicide bomber, but because she loved 36-year-old Samatov who she had only met online. She told how after she was halted at the border and reunited with her parents, she ended her plans to go to Syria because although she loved Samatov,she loved her mother and father more and did not want to 'hurt' them.
The woman then agreed to assist the FSB by continuing to talk to the suspected terrorist on the internet, knowing that her conversations were being monitored by the FSB. But then she tipped him off via a messenger service that the secret service were trying to compromise him, she admitted.
Prosecutors say she also used various other names online to hide her identity in chatting to the Lion of Islam, and was actively plotting another attempt to reach Syria.
Prosecutors say she also used various other names online to hide her identity in chatting to the Lion of Islam, and was actively plotting another attempt to reach Syria.
She told the court as she wept: 'I felt very lonely, I loved him, I missed him very much.
'At that moment I was sure that he was concerned about me. '
'At first I just wanted to tell that I was okay, but then I just could not stop.'
In one message to her, he told her: 'I wish I am sent to Russia to blow up something.'
Yet she also admitted that earlier, before her trip, when Samatov had disappeared for two months she abruptly went through an online 'wedding ceremony' with another jihadi. He sent her £200 for a trip to Syria before Samatov reappeared and demanded she return to him, which she did.
She added: 'I was missing Samatov. He asked me to forgive him for another girl he had at this time. I was desperate for him to call me to join him.'
Prosecutors told the court she had undertaken physical and combat training and 'was, for that reason, capable of fulfilling any tasks.'
Yet according to her testimony she had a naive and starry-eyed view about ISIS, despite being a high-flying A-grade university student. She claimed she had not followed the news and was attracted to travelling to meet her jihadi boyfriend because 'ISIS is a country that cares for its people.'
Under questioning from the judge, she said: 'People don't smoke there nor drink alcohol.'
She testified: 'It is a country where the main goal is not to make money but to care for people and children'
Denying she was being recruited as a suicide bomber, she said: 'A woman is treated like a treasure.
'She is valued for her brain and abilities and not only for her beauty.'
Claiming in court she was motivated only by love, she said: 'I have not joined anything.
'I am not a terrorist and I was certainly not going to become one.
'When these words about suicide bombers are uttered, I don't know even what word to choose. It's impossible even to listen to all these things.'
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'I am not a terrorist and I was certainly not going to become one
No honey, you were just going to be a 'pass-around'.
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In one message to her, he told her: 'I wish I am sent to Russia to blow up something.'
[Ynet] An official with al-Qaeda's branch in Syria says a French member of the group carried out a suicide kaboom in the northern city of Aleppo against government positions.
The Fatah al-Sham Front official said the French citizen drove a tank rigged with explosives and parked it near government positions then detonated it from a distance. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to brief the media, said the Frenchie then drove another tank into the same place and let 'er rip. He did not reveal the identity of the Frenchie.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed that a Frenchie carried out a suicide attack.
[Jpost] The decision will increase the coastal enclave’s fishing zone from six to nine nautical miles and will go into effect on November 1.
The IDF decided on Wednesday to expand the designated fishing zone off the coast of Gazoo for the upcoming fishing season.
"COGAT decided to approve the expansion of the fishing zone along the Gazoo Strip," read a statement from the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, a branch of the Defense Ministry.
The decision will increase the coastal enclave’s fishing zone from six to nine nautical miles and will go into effect on November 1 and expire approximately two months later.
COGAT said that it made the decision "to facilitate increased activity in Gazoo Strip’s fishing sector, which is an [important] source of income."
A similar measure to expand the fishing zone between April and June 2016 resulted in a 15% increase in the total output of fish, compared to the same period in 2015, according to COGAT.
The total output of the fish market in Gazoo stands at NIS 6 million annually.
Amjad al-Shrafi, the secretary- general of the Gazoo fisherman’s union, told The Jerusalem Post that he welcomes the expansion, but expressed his frustration that it will only last for two months. "We consider the expansion of the fishing zone an achievement of our rights as fishermen, but why will it only last for two months?" he said. "We believe the Israeli authorities should make this change permanent."
Ibrahim Bakr, a Gazook fisherman, said that he is happy about the decision, but also is concerned it will not be fully implemented. "We support any decision to expand the fishing zone, but the Israeli authorities must allow us to take advantage of all nine miles," he said. "When Israel expanded the zone to nine miles in April, it frequently barred us from going beyond 7.5 miles.
"On many occasions, I would go out beyond seven and eight miles and then the Israelis would yell to retreat and shoot warning shots."
COGAT also said that it hopes to keep the zone open for the fishing season, but warned fishermen against taking advantage of the expansion.
"We emphasize that the expansion of the [fishing zone] is conditioned on the fishermen respecting the agreement [of nine nautical miles] and not exploiting it to smuggle or penetrate Israel’s territory," the statement added.
Shrafi said the fishermen solely want to catch fish and provide for their families. "We have no interest in conflict with the Israeli authorities.
All we want is to catch fish and take care of our families," he said.
There are approximately 4000 fishermen in Gazoo today.
After the Gazoo war in 2014, Israel extended the fishing zone from three to six nautical miles, a substantial increase, but far less than the 12 nautical miles from before the second intifada and 20 nautical miles stated in the Oslo Accords.
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After the Gazoo war in 2014, Israel extended the fishing zone from three to six nautical miles, a substantial increase, but far less than the 12 nautical miles from before the second intifada and 20 nautical miles stated in the Oslo Accords.
"Actions have consequences, bitches"
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There are approximately 4000 fishermen in Gaza today.
[IsraelTimes] Man drives at troops near settlement of Ofra, then gets out of car with knife, is shot and badly injured; no Israelis hurt
A Paleostinian man attempted late Friday night to run over IDF troops with his vehicle at a checkpoint near the settlement of Ofra in the central West Bank, north of Jerusalem, the army said.
Soldiers fired at the vehicle, and after it halted, the suspect, a man in his thirties, get out with a knife in his hand and charged at the soldiers. The soldiers opened fire and seriously injured him, Channel 2 reported. No IDF soldiers or Israeli civilians were maimed in the apparent attack, according to the report.
The assailant was taken to the Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus in Jerusalem for treatment.
Earlier Friday, a 23-year-old Paleostinian was incarcerated Book 'im, Mahmoud! in Hebron near the Tomb of the Patriarchs after being caught with a knife, and told security officials he had intended to carry out a stabbing attack.
The man was taken in for questioning after security forces at a checkpoint, who suspected his behavior, searched him and found the knife on his person. He told border coppers he had wanted to execute an attack. In a statement Border Police said officers’ alertness "may have prevented a stabbing attack against them or against worshipers."
Earlier IDF troops in the West Bank’s Etzion settlement bloc fired at a Paleostinian after he hurled rocks at a military vehicle, the army said. The attacker was apparently unharmed. He escaped and soldiers were searching the area for him. The army said soldiers first fired warning shots as they attempted to apprehend the suspect, then fired towards him when he failed to comply.
Also Friday, in East Jerusalem a border police force was accosted by several local residents, according to Ynet News. The incident ended without any casualties.
[Ynet] The flow of Iranian natural gas to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... halted after an kaboom hit a gas pipeline in eastern Turkey, a senior Iranian official told Iran's semi-official news agency Tasnim on Friday.
"Iran's gas flow to Turkey has temporarily stopped because of a blast by some opposition groups inside Turkey around 1830 GMT on Thursday night," Interior Ministry official Majid Aghai told Tasnim.
Sabotage is common on pipelines leading into Turkey from Iran and Iraq, where the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) gang is based.
You know, if President Erdogan weren't so determined to wipe out the Kurdish threat to Turkish hegemony until the Turks die out for lack of offspring, they wouldn't have problems like this.
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[AnNahar] Azerbaijani security services have killed two men suspected of plotting "terrorist attacks" in the secular ex-Soviet country with a mainly Moslem population, authorities said Friday.
The two Azerbaijani nationals were rubbed out during a special operation on Wednesday night, the oil-rich Caucasus nation's State Security Service said in a statement, adding that another suspected "terrorist" had been tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! The three suspects had been mandated by "foreign radical religious terrorist groups" to create an gang known as the Caucasus Jamaat to carry out attacks in the country of 9.5 million, authorities said.
"The gang, the Caucasus Jamaat, has been planning terrorist attacks in Azerbaijan and had links with terrorist organizations involved in armed conflicts abroad," the statement said without giving further details.
One of the two suspects killed in the operation had allegedly attempted to detonate a hand grenade as security officers tried to apprehend him.
In February, Azerbaijan arrested eight men for fighting alongside 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.... jihadist group in Syria and Iraq.
Local media had previously reported numerous cases of Azerbaijani nationals fighting alongside IS jihadists, including within the ranks of the Jaish al-Muhajireen wal Ansar (JMA) group consisting mostly of Islamists from the former Soviet Union.
Money from lawsuit settlements is now going to leftist activist/agitator political groups thanks to the Department of Justice. This can't be legal but it's happening anyway.
Th DoJ has been busy trumping up charges and lawsuits against the alleged fraudulent money lenders from the 2008 housing bubble and it has been non-stop since Obama came into office. Money lenders, guilty or not, just make the deals to avoid costly lawsuits with the all-powerful government.
Settlements have involved donations to DoJ favored leftist groups.
This is the government that gives Stimulus money, Obamacare money, grants from every agency to radical left-wing groups.
Two recent settlements with Citigroup and Bank of America serve as examples
Citigroup agreed to donate at least $50 million to "community organizing" groups including NeighborWorks and La Raza and for every dollar above that, the bank gets two dollars knocked off its total settlement sum of $2.5 billion. With Bank of America, the settlement calls for a $100 million contribution to housing-related groups and, again, a two-for-one reduction for donations to community organizing groups.
It’s another form of sue & settle from a brilliant and deceitful Alinsky-ite administration. The end goal is collectivism for all.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Robert Goodlatte and Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling have been looking into these settlements. Rep. Goodlatte is quoted as saying "It seems that the alleged victims are not the primary beneficiaries of these multi-billion dollar settlements. Instead, the terms ... look less like consumer relief and more like a scheme to funnel money to politically favored interest groups."
The lawless DoJ does whatever it wants and it’s only now that it’s being talked about. The banks settling is really the result of extortion by the DoJ.
JP Morgan Chase was one of the first.
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9 days until election day
be sure to vote Trump then get your grandparents, and all their friends to the polling booths so they can vote trump, too
[AlAhram] A passerby was killed and another injured when an IED went kaboom! on a road in Greater Cairo's Ain Shams district on Friday, al-Ahram’s Arabic website reported.
A security official told al-Ahram that the device was targeting a passing security convoy but instead hit two civilians.
Not exactly competent Lions of Islam, but all the competent ones seem to be up north in the Sinai these days.
Attacks against security forces have become common in recent years but are concentrated in North Sinai, where Egypt's army and police are battling an entrenched Islamist insurgency.
Last week, a brigadier general was rubbed out in front of his house in Obour City, on the outskirts of Cairo. Adel Rajaaie had previously been deployed in North Sinai.
"The Project Veritas action investigation into the Clinton campaign took us more than a year. [emphasis added] We have people working for the Clinton campaign full time across the country. We even had someone working for a time inside the Clinton campaign headquarters in Brooklyn, New York. We had people posing as donors, political consultants, interns, overseas financial advisors, and activists," James O'Keefe said.
Click on the headline to see more videos -- stories about the videos, interviews with Mr. O'Keefe, responses from the subjects of the videos -- but these are the key ones over the past few days.
[al-Manar] The Syrian army and allies managed on Friday to completely repel the major terrorist attack on the various fronts in Aleppo, inflicting heavy human and materialistic losses upon the takfiri militants.
The military media also refuted the rumors which reported that the terrorist groups captured a number of Hezbollah fighters, stressing that the reports are baseless and aim at boosting the morale of the takfiris.
In details, the army and allies defending the Air Force Academy in the eastern countryside of Aleppo repelled massive ISIL attack from the southeastern direction, inflicting heavy losses upon the terrorists and destroying a number of their vehicles and weaponry, according to SANA.
Later a military source told SANA that army units, in cooperation with allied forces, thwarted a large attack launched by the terrorists of al-Nusra Front and other terrorist groups affiliated to it on several axes towards the south and southwest of Aleppo.
The source pointed out that the attack synchronized with ISIL attack in the direction of the Air Force Academy, adding that army units confronted the attack, killed tens of terrorists, injured many others and destroyed booby-trapped vehicles, two tanks and a large number of armored vehicles, some equipped with machineguns.
Many terrorists were killed as the Syrian Air Force hit their gatherings and hideouts in al-Mansoura and Abu Shailam villages in the western countryside of Aleppo.
Army air strikes also hit terrorists’ positions in Khan Touman and Tallet Bazo (hill) in southwestern Aleppo, destroying a number of armored vehicles and cars equipped with machine guns and a number of cannons, in addition to leaving many terrorists dead or wounded.
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[al-Manar] Iraq’s military said Friday it had killed close to 800 terrorists of the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ terrorist group since Oct. 17 in the ongoing offensive to recapture the northern city of Mosul.
The Iraqi army, backed by US-led coalition airstrikes, recently launched a much-anticipated operation to liberate Mosul, the last ISIL stronghold in northern Iraq.
In a statement, Iraq’s operations command announced that at least 772 ISIL gunmen were killed and 87 villages and areas were taken from the extremist organization so far.
According to the statement, at least 23 terrorists were taken alive. Almost 130 explosive-laden vehicles, 27 mortar shells and 397 explosive devices were also seized.
ISIL took Mosul — Iraq’s second-largest city — in mid-2014 before overrunning additional territory in the country’s northern and western regions.
Although the Iraqi army and its local allies have since recovered much territory, the extremist group remains in control of Mosul plus several parts of western Anbar province.
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probably an exaggeration as the total ISIS force in Mosul is below 10k
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Erbil – The United States embassy in Baghdad issued a security warning to US citizens of kidnap threats for NGOs’ staff riding in aid convoys for Mosul, northern Iraq.
“U.S. Embassy Baghdad has received reports of attempts to kidnap U.S. citizen nongovernmental organization staff riding in vehicle convoys to provide aid to Mosul, Iraq,” the US embassy said.
"And not all of the kidnappers are Iranian."
“Militants demanded to see passports for all travelers in convoys and searched specifically for U.S. citizens,” according to the statement.
It’s unclear which group has threatened US citizens, but in the past US citizens have been kidnapped by Iranian-backed Shia militias in Iraq.
In January 2016, three US citizens were kidnapped by Iranian-backed Shia militias. They were eventually handed over to the US embassy.
“As a reminder, U.S. citizens should maintain a heightened sense of security awareness and take appropriate measures to enhance their personal security at all times when living and working in Iraq,” the US embassy said.
Assadullah Omarkhail, the governor of Kunduz province on Friday alleged that certain elements within government including ministers and lawmakers are exploiting the illegal armed groups in the province to sue their personal interests.
According to Kunduz governor, the number of illegal armed men operational in the province are estimated around 5,000 with majority of them involved in a number of horrific crimes such as drug trafficking, kidnapping and creating chaos in the society.
He said elements with the ARG (presidential palace) and Qasr-e-Sapidar (CEO's palace) are supporting these individuals to follow their personal motives.
"One side of government rejects them (illegal armed groups) while the other corners of the government supports them," Omarkhail said.
He stated that the presence of illegal armed groups in the area has left major implications on the security and stability.
"Even we were directed from the center and high level places to give their weapons back. Individuals have made the calls including lawmakers and ministers," he said.
Meanwhile, a number of Kunduz lawmakers in the Wolesi Jirga (Lower of House Parliament) also confirmed the presence of illegal armed groups in the volatile province.
"Kunduz suffered human tragedy twice in a year, but illegal armed groups were not behind it; it was the Taliban. Increase on the number of the Taliban and lack of large scale operation for clearing the area of the armed opponents have raised concerns and chaos among the people of Kuneduz," said Abdullah Qarloq, a lawmaker.
ISIL fighters have killed more than 250 people and kidnapped nearly 8,000 families around Mosul in recent days as Iraqi troops advanced on the northern city, the United Nations said Friday.
UN rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told reporters in Geneva that the ‘jihadists’ are forcing civilians living in districts around Mosul into the city, hoping to use them as human shields in an upcoming battle.
Those targeted in mass killings have especially included civilians who refuse relocation orders and people who previously worked for the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF), Shamdasani said.
The ISIL ‘jihadists’ slaughtered 24 ex-ISF officers on Tuesday and another 190 on Wednesday, according to rights office reports.
The latter group were shot dead at the Al-Ghazlani military base inside Mosul, Shamdasani said.
Also on Wednesday, “42 civilians were reportedly shot in the head at the al-Izza military base” outside Mosul, a UN rights office statement said, apparently for refusing to follow the ISIL group’s instructions.
The rights office earlier in the week had listed a series of purported ISIL atrocities around Mosul but described the allegations as “preliminary” and needing more investigative work.
Shamdasani said Friday that the fresh allegations had been “corroborated”, but may not reflect the full toll as there were likely other atrocities that have gone unreported.
Meanwhile, the rights office said the extremists had kidnapped nearly 8,000 families around Mosul, the majority from the Al-Shura sub-district.
“Credible reports suggest that ISIL has been forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes in sub-districts around Mosul,” said Shamdasani.
She said the jihadists were using a “depraved, cowardly strategy” in the face of a US-backed Iraqi government offensive to retake Mosul, the IS group’s last bastion in Iraq.
The offensive, launched on October 17, has seen tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers advancing on the city from the south, east and north.
Last week, the rights office reported dozens of execution-style killings in villages near Mosul, including the shooting of a physically disabled girl who failed to keep up on a forced march.
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Well, they're gonna see the Shiite counterpart. From Rooters:
Iraqi Shi'ite militias said on Saturday they had launched an offensive towards the west of Mosul, an operation that would tighten the noose around Islamic State's Iraq stronghold but could inflame sectarian tension in the mainly Sunni region.
Security forces raided a compound in Quetta and killed four militants linked to an attack on a police academy earlier in the week, officials said Friday.
The raid in Quetta, the capital of strife-riven Balochistan province, was carried out late Thursday following an intelligence tip-off about the presence of fighters from the Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ) militant group.
“A team of anti-terrorist force (ATF) raided the compound and killed four militants after an exchange of gunfire,” a senior local police official Abdullah Afridi told AFP.
Speaking off the record, a police official said the militants belonged to the LJ — a faction of which claimed it had worked with the militant Islamic State group to carry out the Monday night raid that killed 61 people, the deadliest assault on a security installation in Pakistan's history.
IS had previously also claimed the raid and released photos of the fighters involved, one of whom bore a strong resemblance to an attacker who was killed by security forces in the assault.
The extent of any material support to local groups from IS remains unclear, but affiliation with the notoriously brutal outfit brings the promise of a far higher profile.
The Balochistan government has also formed a joint investigation team (JIT) comprising officials from the army, police and intelligence agencies to probe Monday's attack.
Pakistan has been battling a homegrown Islamist insurgency since shortly after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, though overall levels of violence have dropped following a series of military offensives in the country's western tribal regions.
Monday night's raid though served as a grim reminder that militant groups are still able to carry out major assaults from time to time.
The emergence of IS in Pakistan is seen as a major blow to the country's long-running efforts to quell the insurgency, and comes as the group's key rival Al Qaeda is losing strength in what was once its “home ground”.
At least four people were arrested in connection to the sale of counterfeit Dollars and Afghanis in the city, the security authorities said Friday.
Nork dollars or Pak dollars?
The Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security (NDS), said the four individuals were arrested as they were attempting to sale 446,000 Afghanis and 5,000 US Dollars in the city.
NDS further added that the individuals have been identified as Adam Khan son of Zadran, Abdul Karim famous as Hashmat son of Mohammad, Shaheen son of Sher Agha, and Abdul Bair son of Abdul Ghafar.
The detained individuals have confessed that they were selling counterfeit 1000 banknotes and 500 banknotes in the city before they were arrested.
This comes as at least five foreigners were arrested along with three million counterfeit Dollar and Euro currencies in capital Kabul late in the month of December in 2014.
NDS said the intelligence operatives also confiscated chemicals which are used to produce counterfeit currencies.
According to NDS the suspects were demanding up to $100,000 from the Afghan people to buy chemicals from Dubai and use them to produce counterfeit currencies in Kabul.
The United Arab Emirates is flying warplanes out of a remote airbase near Marj, according to a widely-consulted international defence publication.
IHS Jane’s says that the UAE is operating propeller-driven AT-802U light aircraft, helicopters and surveillance drones from the Al-Khadim airport to the south-east of Marj and Jardas Al-Abid.
The publication has produced a photograph dated 23 July 2016 which it says shows six AT-802s (also known Air Tractors because the US aircraft was originally developed for crop spraying), two Black Hawk helicopters, two drones and an Ilyushin Il-76 transport aircraft. The image is credited to Airbus Defence and Space satellite imagery.
Jane’s wrote that at the start of the year there was little development at the airfield. Indeed a Google Earth shot from 2004 shows a runway and aprons but no sign of any buildings whatsoever. The lack of runway tyre marks suggested that the airport, which has the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) code “HL59”, had never been used. Given the steep hillsides not far away from the part of the wadi by which it sits and its isolation from any urban area it is hard to understand why the airport should be there. However under Qaddafi, all airports had a dual civil and military role.
Jane’s said that in March changes began when new buildings and an aircraft dispersal area was seen in satellite imagery. By June there were hangers under construction.
The report refers to a photograph on social media at about this time which it said shows an AT-802 Air Tractor “which had been modified by the US company IOMAX so that it can carry an electro-optical pod, guided bombs, missiles rockets and guns”. It noted that it was unclear where the photograph had been taken.
All the aircraft types are listed as being used by the UAE. However, Jane’s does not describe how it has made its positive identification of the nationality of the planes at Al-Khadim.
The Jane’s report appeared yesterday a day after armed forces commander-in-chief Khalifa Hafter arrived in Abu Dhabi for talks with UAE defence minister Mohammad Al-Bawardi.
There has so far been no reaction to the article from Hafter’s HQ in Marj nor from the UAE government.
Duhok – Radical group of the Islamic State (ISIS) is conducting “scorched earth” policy in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul, officials said on Friday.
According to the United Nations, a humanitarian crisis broke out in Mosul and other parts of Nineveh Governorate amid an ongoing offensive by the US-backed Kurdish and Iraqi forces against ISIS.
Humanitarian organisations warned that fumes from burning stockpiles of sulphur dioxide, and oil wells that have been set ablaze, have led to further suffering for civilians in northern Iraq.
“Due to the ISIS’ scorched earth policy, [Iraqi] civilians are experiencing near-suffocation and respiratory illnesses,” the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said.
The agency reported that the environmental pollution is adding “complexity and danger” to the humanitarian crisis in Mosul.
ISIS militants have set more than 15 oil wells on fire in the Qayyarah suburb, northeast of Mosul, Iraqi army officer Karrar al-Saadi told ARA News.
“The burning of crude oil led to the release of toxic fumes and gases, causing casualties among civilians as well as Iraqi forces,” the official reported.
According to the UNEP, burning crude oil is releasing a wide range of pollutants, including soot and gases that cause skin irritation and shortness of breath.
On 23 October, a chlorine gas leak originated from a water plant affected by the fighting in Mosul countryside, caused dozens of casualties among civilians.
Last week, a toxic cloud plume spread for dozens of kilometres after stockpiles of sulphur dioxide stored at the Mishraq Sulphate Factory caught fire, causing over 1000 cases of suffocation in Qayyarah, Ijhala, and Makhmour, the UNEP reported.
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JohnQC - its the eternal military triangle. The more you have of one these the less you need of another. Time, Money, Blood. Choose.
This is a massive operation against a dug in and prepared force scattered over a large area, which has booby-trapped and mined the areas it retreats from. Militarily this is not a simple operation. Its going to take months at a minimum.
Surging prices of coal are working against international efforts to sanction North Korea over its missile and nuclear programs. Coal is one of major products North Korea exports to China, accounting for over 40 percent of its total exports, and the rising prices are boosting funds for the North's weapons program.
Trade volume in money terms between the two countries increased 3.4 percent on-year in the third quarter this year.
"North Korean coal prices have surged by 68 percent in value recently... The average price of its anthracite coal arriving at major Chinese ports rose to US$99 a ton in recent weeks from around $59 in early August," the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
"In August, North Korea exported 2.47 million tons of coal to China, the highest monthly total on record. Exports slipped in September but remained higher than a year earlier."
The main reason is new mining restrictions in China to tackle overcapacity and supply disruptions after heavy rains there in July. Global coal supply has also dwindled because of shutdowns at two major coal mines in Australia. Experts do not expect coal prices to cool off until the second half of next year. North Korea's coal shipments to China are rising because UN Security Council sanctions exempt transactions for "livelihood purposes."
"Beijing is not going to go along with an effective coal embargo on North Korea because it hurts China too," the WSJ quoted an expert as saying.
Meanwhile, trading volume between the North and China amounted to about $1.55 billion in the third quarter, Voice of America reported the same day, up 3.4 percent from a year earlier despite the sanctions.
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Now there is a job to die for...being a coal miner in North Korea.
And getting new shoes every Christmas. If they ever had any Christmas at all.
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Eastern Pennsylvania has a lot of anthracite, but the mines were closed years ago - long before the War on Coal. I suppose there was no market for it then.
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NATO officials in Afghanistan have said the Taliban is struggling with a number of major issues mainly a financial recession, the rising number of casualties and serious disagreements over their leadership.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said that they and Afghan forces must be prepared for any situation amid the ongoing war in the country.
Stoltenberg said that the Taliban used all potential to occupy major territories in Afghanistan, but the Afghan security forces have foiled their attempts to determine their objectives in major Afghan strategic locations.
NATO believes that the Taliban has been fractured internally and there is no unity within the group over a single leader acceptable to all.
"There is going to be continued fighting in Afghanistan and we have to be prepared also for surprises. But the thing the main message is that the Afghan army and the Afghan security forces have proved very capable, very determined," Stoltenberg said.
"Taliban have suffered from financial challenges number one, number two they do have leadership challenges in terms of figuring out who is really going to be their leader, and number three they have absolutely suffered a lot of casualties this year," said Brigadier General Charles Cleveland, a spokesman for the NATO-led Resolute in Afghanistan.
According to political analysts, those countries sponsoring terrorism are trying to strengthen the presence o Daesh and al-Qaeda network in Afghanistan.
"Terrorism backers in international level have realized that the Taliban is no longer usable. They want to use Daesh and al-Qaeda as an alternative in Afghanistan," said political analyst Ahmad Saeedi.
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The Taliban have always been an arm of the criminal enterprises that exist in AF. Once we leave, a LOT of contract money and easy to steal loot dries up.
We paid the Taliban for the privilege of fighting them...and they fought us back in some cases to make sure they created the demand...
Kenyan defense forces (KDF) military jets are reportedly launched an airstrike on Al shabaab camp near Bardere city in Gedo region on Friday, a local resident said.
The aerial bombing against the militant base by KDF warplanes came after Al shabaab fighters staged an attack on army bases in Ali Hared area, about 20Km away from Juungal district. Juungal, is key town re-captured by Somali forces on Wednesday from Al shabaab after a deadly offensive that claimed lives of three militants and two soldiers.
The Al shabaab attack sparked heavy exchange of gunfire between the militants and allied troops that left 4 Somali government soldiers dead, the anonymous villager said.
The casualty figures on Al shabaab fighters as a result of the skirmish is sketchy, but the resident said the coalition forces repelled the militant attack.
Al shabaab did not comment on the reported casualties and the attack, which was the latest in string of clashes between its fighters and Somali troops backing by KDF in Gedo.
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The Turkish police has detained Kurdish co-Mayors of Diyarbakir, Gultan Kisanak and Firat Anli. Just after the detention, that took place on Tuesday at 9:00PM, the internet connection across the Kurdish region was cut, the Diyarbakir Metropolitan Municipality said in a statement.
The arrest will most likely result in more protests and tensions between the Kurds and the Turkish government.
Since Tuesday, millions of people have lacked internet access. “This blackout attempt aims at silencing voice of people in the region as well as to prevent them from exercising their right to be informed about developments,” the pro-Kurdish Municipality said on Thursday.
After the arrest of the co-mayors of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP), dozens of other high-ranking municipal officers were detained.
“Detention of Co-Mayors of Diyarbakir shall be considered as final phase of a year-long process of suppression carried out by the government to abolish local democracy in Turkey step-by-step,” the HDP-controlled Municipality said. “Thus this is also an opportunity to save local democracy by enabling release of the co-mayors and to halt appointment of trustees by the government to replace the elected mayors.”
The Kurdish peace process in Turkey, that was launched in 2009, broke down in June 2015, with both sides resuming hostilities. After the failed coup attempt on July 15, Turkey has arrested dozens of pro-Kurdish politicians, and have also launched attacks on Kurds in Syria.
The European Union has called on both sides to resume the peace process, and to stop violence.
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VISAKHAPATNAM: The apparent ignorance of Maoists on how the android system-supported mobile phones work has dealt a huge blow to them in the last few days.
Leaders and cadres of the CPI (Maoist) party have adopted technology for a range of activities — from making rocket-launchers to using laptops for strategy planning. Mobile phones with the android system are no exception. There have been reports of the underground cadre enjoying entertainment on their mobiles and taking selfies.
The selfie of a top party leader operating in the Andhra-Odisha Border special zonal committee, Ramachandra Reddy alias Chalapathi, and his wife Aruna, another important leader, is an example. Their fancy for selfies resulted in the police getting their latest photos.
Disaster struck, thanks to the leaders and cadres using android mobiles as they could be easily tracked. They lost 30 leaders and cadres in the three encounters or exchanges of fire that took place from Monday to Thursday in the Malkangiri district of Odisha along the border with Andhra Pradesh.
They, like many, must have believed that switching off the mobile would be enough to avoid being tracked. But the fact is, the android system continues to work even after the phone is switched off, like the clock in the mobile showing the latest time when switched on, much after being switched off.
G.S.N. Raju, former Vice-Chancellor, Andhra University, who worked as a professor of electronics and communication engineering, and has done extensive work in antennas, electromagnetic wave theory and related fields, says although no incoming and outgoing calls are possible when the mobile is switched off, the SIM is engaged and all devices supported by the android system are engaged and available for the satellite to be tracked. The system stops working only when the mobile’s battery is removed.
It is believed that the police keep track of mobile phones of those who are suspected to be in contact with the Maoists. With the help of GPS, they zeroed in on the mobiles of Maoists run on the android system and found their location, even as the Maoists were under the impression that their mobiles could not be tracked because they were switched off.
Mobile signal is available at some places atop the tall Eastern Ghat hills. Since these places are cut off from the habitations, the Maoists usually make calls believing that they cannot be located.
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Just tell them to turn them in for an update to solve that problem. They'll even be provided an app for that problem. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
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Press blowing sources and methods goes back a long ways - look for the Wash Times leak on Bin Laden in 1998 and how that affected US ability to track him.
[ARA News] Aleppo – Subsequent to clashes with Turkey-backed rebel groups, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) made new gains in Aleppo, military sources and activists reported on Friday.
The SDF advanced in the vicinity of Azaz city in the northern countryside of Aleppo, and captured the towns of Gharnata and Tel Madiq.
“This progress came after our forces hit the positions of Turkey-backed jihadists near Azaz,” Ahmed Salman, an SDF spokesman told ARA News.
“The Sultan Murad group and other pro-Turkey factions were forced to withdraw from those areas under heavy blows by our forces on Friday,” the spokesman said.
Supported by Turkey, rebel fighters of the Euphrates Shield, led by Sultan Murad Brigade, have recently took over a number of towns and villages in Aleppo countryside, in northern Syria.
Although the Turkey-backed campaign was allegedly launched to combat ISIS, the majority of their attacks targeted the Kurdish forces and other SDF factions in Aleppo Governorate.
“We won’t allow those mercenaries to gain more ground in Syria. They’re no different from ISIS,” the SDF official said. “We consider both the Euphrates Shield and ISIS terrorist groups, and we vow to fight them until liberating our region.”
Ethnic Cleansing
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Thursday accused Turkey of ethnically cleansing whole villages in northern Aleppo Governorate and called for an investigation. The SDF also accused Turkey of bombing their positions to impede the campaign against the Islamic State (ISIS).
Tensions between the SDF and Turkey-backed rebels grew after Turkey said it would take the cities of al-Bab and Manbij in northern Syria. Those tensions were manifest last week when Turkey’s Army and allied rebels attacked SDF positions near the cities of Tel Rifaat and Afrin.
The SDF has accused Turkey and its Syrian allies of depopulating villages deemed to be intrinsically hostile. “Turkey, with its militias, emptied the population of al-Rai town and other nearby villages, displacing thousands of people and preventing them from returning,” SDF spokesman Shervan Darwish said.
“Turkey accuses our forces of the ethnic cleansing. However, Turkey with its allied rebels are the ones committing criminal acts,” the Kurdish spokesman added.
Darwish said that the groups being backed by Turkey are jihadist and therefore inherently intolerant. “Ideologically, the militias led by Turkey in Syria are a copy of ISIS. These groups are all affiliated with the Islamic Movement of Ahrar al-Sham and Jabhat al-Nusra in Idlib,” he said.
The SDF spokesperson emphasized that the Turkey-backed rebels are also anti-Western, unlike the SDF. “These extremist groups expelled the US military from al-Rai, calling the West ‘infidel and Crusader,’ the same slogans used by ISIS,” Darwish said.
“We call on the international community to visit the town of al-Rai and surrounding villages in order to investigate these crimes,” Darwish concluded. “The world should be more serious in the fight against the mentality of terrorism and extremism.”
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JEDDAH: Yemeni government on Friday said Houthis failed attempt to attack Makkah undermines regional stability and proves they are a menace to world stability.
“We seek peace and they seek war; we look for the stability of Yemen and the region, and they look for destruction and sedition, and reaffirm they are a menace to the world peace,” Yemeni Foreign Minister Abdel-Malek Al-Mekhlafi said on Friday, adding that the deposed President Ali Abdullah Saleh and the Houthi militias are seeking a regional war to implement their plans offensive to Arabs and Muslims, and show that those "criminal gangs" have no respect for the sanctity of Islam.
"This criminal act is additional proof that the Houthis are the tool Iran is using to destroy Yemen and its neighboring countries," he said.
Seperately, the Yemeni government on Friday denounced and condemned in the strongest and harshest words the blatant ballistic missile attack on Makkah by Houthi and forces of ousted Ali Abdullah Saleh, describing the assault as a clear violation of all international norms and values, and human ethics and morals.
“This irresponsible act reveals the true face of the Houthis and proves their sectarian nature driven by Iran, through its puppets in the region, which has been campaigning for a sectarian incitement recently against Saudi Arabia,” a Yemeni government official said in a statement sent to Arab News yesterday, adding that the attack and the recklessness of Houthi militias and Saleh forces reflect their association with the destructive Persian scheme against Arabs and all Muslims as well as sacred Muslim shrines.
He pointed out that the Yemeni people and government reject and condemn this flagrant and criminal assault by the Houthis against the feelings of millions of Muslims, adding that Yemen fully supports and stands in solidarity with Saudi Arabia and its wise leadership in confronting anyone trying to compromise its security and stability, or dare to target the religious shrines.
The official called on all Arab and Muslims states to support Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s government, the legitimate government that is being internationally recognized, and the Arab coalition in their efforts to restore the hijacked legitimacy from the putschists and those supporting them, in aborting their dangerous plans deemed destructive for the present and the future of the Arab and Islamic nation.
“We urge the UN, the Security Council and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to immediately mobilize efforts and take strict measures to put an end to Iran’s blatant interventions through their tools to sabotage the region, and not just issue statements of condemnation or denunciation,” he said.
The official pointed out that the Houthi militias confirm through this behavior, in addition to their previous attempts to target ships in the Strait of Bab Al-Mandeb undermining the freedom of international maritime movement, and their daily crimes against Yemenis, that it is still determined to proceed with its subversive and destructive disregard of all the international community’s binding decisions aimed at putting an end to the suffering of the Yemenis and ending the war sparked by the rebel group.
He said the restoration of the legitimate state by ending the coup, and the application of the terms of reference agreed upon locally and internationally for a political solution, based on the GCC initiative and the outcomes of the National Dialogue and UNSC Resolution 2216, is the only way to address the perils of the Houthis at the local, regional and international levels.
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"They're not at all like Nazis! What, you smile?
Have Muslims ever shrilly shrieked "Sieg Heil,"
Or idolized their human boss, himself,
Or placed a madman's book on every shelf?
Their uniforms get hardly any starch,
And surely you'll have noticed how they march?
Their call to prayer sounds nothing like a werwolf,
And half their kids were never named for Adolf!
Please look beyond the shadow of your steeple
At all the happy, loving Muslim people:
Diversity, embracing every race
To spread their faith through all the earth, and space.
So, slander not these saints of civic virtue,
Or else, my friend, I certainly shall report you!"
I'd better heed self-blinding Polyphemus:
No Muslim is, or ever was, extremist.
[ARA News] Aleppo – Syrian Islamist rebels, led by the Army of Conquest in cooperation with Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham (JFS) group, launched an offensive on Friday to break a regime siege on eastern Aleppo.
Abu Saeed Al-Halabi, a Dutch member of JFS [formerly Nusra Front], said that the new offensive is aimed to ‘free thousands of Muslims besieged in the eastern part of Aleppo’, by enforcing a rebel win.
The offensive is reportedly led by the Army of Conquest, also known as Jaish al Fatah.
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But I just can't help myself: Let’s say Anthony Weiner knew they had the goods on him and, because HRC doesn’t forget speed bumps that pop up on her highway to greatness, knew he was looking at hard time in a hard place (although he would, I’m sure, be quite, er, “popular.”) so he played his Get Out Of Jail (for a while) card in the form of electronic devices, passwords, etc.
“Carlos” pleas to a reduced charge, is found guilty and goes to a “Club Med” rehab facility. He later (after the smoke clears) discreetly qualifies for a reduced sentence and disappears to his orbit of obscurity, pining endlessly for what was once so near and is now so far.
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Posted by Blossom Unains5562 Outstanding analysis - very, very plausible. Wife leaves him - ultimate screw all of y'all from ole Anthony in response.
Since Huma controlled Hillary's SCIF, and classified info ended up on the low side...I would be very curious what is on her computer - we always suspected someone was transferring information and stripping markings...that, or someone was sharing information with friends...
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The plan was always that HRC would get coronated. She would move into the WH with Huma. Both would dump "difficult" spouses. HRC and Human would get married in the WH. The celebration would include the WH being bathed in rainbow colors for the duration of her reign. The U.S. flag would be replaced with a rainbow flag. All this time HRC would be plotting revenge against all those who dared to question her or those who kept putting speedbumps in her way--conservative groups who only wanted to preserve cultural customs such as Groundhog's Day up there in Punxsutawney, PA., Pubs who dared oppose her, James Comey and the FBI, the T-Party, people who didn't cough up all their money to the IRS (they only wanted to hang onto some of their money and try to send their kids to college), and all others who didn't bow in her presence, etc. She would have to think of a special punishment for those who hacked into her personal servers. Would it be a public beheading, boiling in oil or a trip to Ft. Marcy Park in the middle for the night for them. Maybe, a couple of bullets in the back in a staged robbery in some tony neighborhood in the early a.m.
The current dialogue might go something like this: "That perverted &*%$@ upset everything with his sexting and obsession with his schlong. That should have been taken care of--now there are only 10 days left to clean up this gO$@%$m friggin mess. Where can we get some lime? Get Podesta in here--we needs some polls on how people feel about all this. We need focus groups. Get those fuc*%## MSM in here to figure out how the the hell to spin this mess. We bought and paid for those fu@!&*3s. Get Loretta and Comey in here. The fix was supposed to be in. What the (*&&%$ hell went wrong....more to come.
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BTW, I don't give a flip whether she is gay or straight or something else. The imaginary scenario is about the danger to our freedoms for all of us from such a presidency.
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American Thinker notes there was a Grand Jury empaneled over his hi-jinx. They subpoenaed the devices and there was no way they could "unfind" the evidence found, hence Comey had to get ahead of it
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Huma is being set up to take the fall for Hillary. Its pretty obvious at this point if you follow the breadcrumbs. She becomes Hillary's first commutation or pardon.
The news that the seven defendants in the conspiracy trial in Oregon were acquitted came as a shock even to supporters of the seven. Watching the video of the moments after the verdict was announced was special. John Lamb and others had apparently put their heart and soul into the hope that the Oregon seven would be acquitted, so much that they were sobbing and in tears when the verdict was announced.
As if to put a seal on their displeasure, one of the attorneys for the defendants, Marcus Mumford was attacked by six federal marshals in the courtroom as the presiding judge watched. What caused the thugs to jump the lawyer was the lawyer's contention that if a marshal hold was not in hand then the defendant, Ammon Bundy was free to go.
That little play by the lawyer, advocating zealously for his clients must have irritated the judge, especially in the wake of the verdict. Everyone knew that the Bundys would be facing charges in Nevada: the judge, the lawyer, the protesters outside, everyone.
There is little question from all I have heard that the government was stunned at the outcome, and that goes a long way to explaining the government's outrageous behavior in court. Explains it, but does not justify it.
This was not a case for jury nullification, because the prosecutors and the judge had decided that no mention of the Constitutional justification for the occupation would be allowed in court. The full deck of informants the government used to build their case was not allowed to be revealed in discovery. Even without that defense, the jury saw through the government's case as being built upon spurious allegations by undercover informants. As I have remarked, it is unknown just how many informants at the state, county and local level were at the wildlife refuge. There had to have been some there.
Amusingly, writer Clarice Feldman mentioned that Ammon Bundy offered to plea his case out but the government refused, preferring to go for the full trial. Oops.
The marshal's hold contested following the verdict was for the two Bundys, Ammon and Ryan to stand trial for similar charges in Nevada. It would seem that the government case would be stronger in Nevada, except that a number of the leaders at Bunkerville in 2014 were government informants as well. It will eventually come out that Oathkeepers were completely played by government snitches running the show in Nevada.
Continuing the discussion two weeks ago about rifle failure, Rob Ski of AK Operators Union posted two photos of an AK-47 destroyed by an out of battery detonation. At the time I saw the photos, I commented:
This is a failure similar to the four I had three weeks ago.
... I don't see anything in the rifle chamber that prevents the cartridge from going full battery. A stuck case would do that. Stuck cases were the intermediate cause of the rifle failure in my AK-74. While a stuck case would do the same things as described in my experience, it doesn't explain why the round, in this specific case, detonated.
Three things must be true in order for the round to detonate under the given conditions. The rifle's firing pin must have 1) been forward in the bolt, 2) hit as it hit the round, or 3) the round was positioned in some way some part of the bolt/firing pin assembly hit the round.
In order for a round to be fired, the bolt must move the new round into the chamber, close and position around the new round. Then the shooter fires the round, and the firing cycle begins anew.
When the bolt closes the firing pin cannot strike the round unless it is fully in battery, fully in the chamber. If the firing pin already was forward (and I don't know if this is even mechanically possible), that would explain why the round detonated in cases 1) and 2).
The most likely case, IMMHO, was case 3) The round was perfectly positioned behind the stuck casing as part of the bolt hit the round, detonating it.
The failure would be a one in a million failure.
An improperly headspaced bolt could explain ammunition failure, which is the main cause for the failures I have described. Headspacing is a precision thing, less than .005 inch difference between a properly headspaced rifle and an improperly headspaced one. They tell you when you are headspacing an AK, that the gauge should cause the bolt to close with a slight snap, thus there is a small amount of resistance when the bolt closes over the gauge.
Ammunition which is to the extreme of one tolerance would explain a stuck casing.
What I didn't mention there I will mention here: if you look at photo one, you will see a crack in the receiver. Even stamped receivers are not supposed to crack like that. Bend, yes. Crack, never. The material used in a receiver is supposed to be 4140, the strongest commercial grade alloy steel available. It shows that the receiver, assuming it was bought from an AK manufacturer, possibly was improperly heat treated, in that it had not been properly tempered.
Also if you look closely, you will see the great amount of carbon build up on the bolt and the receiver. The rifle is incredibly dirty, including the bolt and the inside of the receiver, and had not been cleaned after several firings. For all the talk of the abuse you can dish out to an AK, you still gotta clean the thing from time to time, to clean out the carbon and the metal fouling.
One other thing. If you look to the left you will see screws were used to assemble part of the AK, which means that the rifle had been modified. To what extent, I do not know. I am not certain if manufacturers do release screw builds, but I seriously doubt it. For the AK platform that would be the height of irresponsibility.
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Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Prices for pistol ammunition were mostly steady. Prices for rifle ammunition were mixed.
Prices for used pistols were mixed. Prices for used rifles were mixed.
New Lows:
None.
Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Edmonson Sporting Goods, Own Brand, Brass Casing, Reloads, .24 per round (From Last week: +.01 Each)
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2016)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Own Brand, Brass Casing, Reloads, .21 per round (From Last Week: +.01 Each)
9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Surplus Ammo, Maxxtech, FMJ, Brass Casing, .16 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: FedArm, Own Brand, Brass Casing, Reloads, .16 per round (From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2016)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Surplus Ammo, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2016))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: +.02 Each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: BigHat Tactical, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round (From Last Week: +.02 Each After Unchanged (7 Weeks))
.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Natchez Shooters Supplies, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .39 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Bud's Gun Shop, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .48 per round (From Last Week: +.09 Each (!))
7.62x39mm AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: + .02 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Depot, Wolf WPA, Steel Case, FMJ, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Ventura Munitions, Wolf WPA, Steel Case, FMJ, .24 per round (From Last Week: +.02 Each After Unchanged (3 Weeks))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds (10 Box Limit): Ammo2U, Federal, RNL, .06 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds (10 Box Limit):Sportsman's Outdoor Superstore, Browning, RNL, .07 per round (From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (8 Weeks))
Guns for Private Sale
Rifles
.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $542 Last Week Avg: $546(-) ($616 (2Q, 2015), $476 (3Q, 2015))
California (277, 279): Mixed Build: $480 ($650 (1Q, 2015), $400 (2Q, 2016))
Texas (274, 250): Rock River Arms LAR-15: $500 ($700 (1Q, 2015), $350 (2Q, 2015))
Pennsylvania (140, 145): American Tactical Imports: $580 ($700 (2Q, 2015), $300 (3Q, 2015))
Virginia (178, 164): Palmetto State Armory: $600 ($750 (1Q, 2015), $475 (25 Weeks))
Florida (362, 371): Del-Ton Sport: $550 ($650 (2Q, 2015), $380 (1Q, 2015))
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Anna J. Brown, U.S. District Judge, Portland, Oregon: Appointed by Bill Clinton. At the heart of claims by defense attorneys that while hearing cases involving the IRS, was taking non-disclosed bonuses from the Federal Government. One attorney who complained of jury tampering was found murdered the very next day.
United States Marshal Russel E. Burger, District of Oregon: Prior to holding several other law enforcement positions joined the Oregon State Police in 1994. The same agency responsible for the murder of Lavoy Finicum. Nominated for U.S. Marshal by Barack Obama. While Sheriff of Lane County, Burger was the object of a law suite filed by a Deputy Sheriff who claimed the Sheriff's office was retaliating against him and denying him of his First Amendment Rights after he "made several complaints of misconduct and unethical or criminal behavior by Lane County judges, attorneys with the Lane County District Attorney's Office and judges for the United States District Court for the District of Oregon."
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What was that about-to-be-replaced POTUS Barack Hussein Obama said sometime back: And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Is it just me or does it seem like there is always a danger to and a war on the citizens of the U.S. when the Dems reign?
[AlManar] The death toll from terrorist attacks on residential neighborhoods in Aleppo city has risen to 15 and 106 injured, including women and children.
A source at Aleppo Police Command told SANA reporter that terrorist groups positioned in al-Zahraa, al-Rashideen and the eastern neighborhoods continued targeting citizens’ houses in Aleppo city with rocket and mortar shells, killing 6 citizens and injuring 36 others, some of them are in a critical situation.
Earlier, the source said that 7 citizens were killed and 70 others were injured due to terrorist attacks with shells on a number of residential neighborhoods in Aleppo city.
The source added that the attack also caused significant material damage to citizens’ properties.
Terrorist rocket attack injures three civilians in Lattakia countryside
Three civilians were injured in a terrorist rocket attack on Kilmakho area in Lattakia province on Friday morning.
SANA reporter said terrorist groups positioned in the northeastern countryside of Lattakia fired a number of rocket shells on Kilmakho, leaving three people wounded.
The attack caused material damage to public and private properties in the area.
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Journalist embedded with Iraqi troops tells harrowing story of coming under Daesh fire
Bartella (Iraq): Our convoy had already been targeted by suicide car bombs three times, over a long day spent under fire. So the Iraqi forces had brought up a tank, and its main gun kept scanning the road ahead toward Mosul.
But the shouts started coming from behind us instead, and when I turned to look, I knew right away: Here was bomb No. 4, seemingly out of nowhere. By the time I saw it, the vehicle was maybe 70 feet away.
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North Korea may have been testing an intercontinental ballistic missile on Oct. 15 and 20, rather than a medium-range missile as U.S. and South Korean authorities have assumed, American pundits speculate.
The failed launches took place at an air base in Kusong in remote North Pyongan Province. At the time, South Korean and U.S. military authorities said they "presume" the missiles, which exploded in mid-air, were of a medium-range type usually called "Musudan," which can fly an estimated 3,500 km to reach the U.S. base in Guam in the western Pacific.
But the pundits disagree. "We think it is important that people consider the possibility that this was a KN-08 [ICBM] test," the Washington Post quoted Jeffrey Lewis, at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey in California, as saying.
"Lewis and his colleagues found burn scars after each missile firing, showing where the hot exhaust scorched the pavement and grass," the daily said Wednesday. "These big burn scars are much bigger than what had been seen after Musudan tests, and the fact that they happened on the other side of the country added to suspicions about the kind of missile being tested."
"The possibility of a KN-08 cannot be ruled out," John Schilling, an aerospace engineer who frequently writes about the North’s missiles, told the daily.
The U.S. Strategic Command "twice misidentified three missiles that North Korea launched in September," Lewis said. "We still think people are being too quick to jump to the conclusion that this was a Musudan. Even if it's only 50:50, being shocked half of the time is still bad."
U.S. officials first presumed three missiles the North fired on Sept. 5 to be short-range Rodong missiles but later concluded they were mid-range Musudan missiles.
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China will unveil its new generation J-20 stealth fighter jet at an air show next week, the air force said on Friday, the first public showing of a warplane China hopes will narrow the military gap with the United States.
The Pentagon has said the fifth generation stealth aircraft China is developing, the J-20 and the J-31, are necessary for China's air force to evolve from a mostly territorial force to one that can carry out both offensive and defensive operations.
The J-20 will give a flight demonstration at next week's China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition in the southern city of Zhuhai, the People's Liberation Army Air Force said in a statement on its official microblog.
Air force spokesman Shen Jinke said the J-20's production was proceeding according to plan and would assist in the air force's mission to "safeguard sovereignty and national security".
"This is the first public appearance of China's indigenously manufactured new generation stealth fighter jet," the air force said.
In June, it said the jet would enter service "in the near future".
The new Y-20 military transport aircraft will also give a flight demonstration at the seven-day air show, which is held every two years and opens on Tuesday.
China showed off the J-31 at the last Zhuhai air show in 2014, a show of muscle that coincided with a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama for an Asia-Pacific summit. China hopes the J-31, still in development, will compete with the U.S.-made F-35 stealth aircraft in the international market, according to China military watchers and state media reports.
Some analysts have said photographs of the J-20 suggest China may be making faster-than-expected progress in developing a rival to Lockheed Martin's radar-evading F-22 Raptor.
But others say China's defense manufacturers are still struggling to develop advanced engines that would allow its warplanes to match Western fighters in combat.
Without the advanced engine the J-20, and every other 4th and 5th generation fighter, is an expensive lawn dart...
Beijing has been ramping up research into advanced new military equipment, including submarines, aircraft carriers and anti-satellite missiles, which has rattled nerves regionally and in the United States. China says there is nothing unusual about its development of military technology, and that it is a reasonable course of action for every country that wants to defend its security.
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"It's just as good, except for the engines" is not a great selling point
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Jeddah-The command of the coalition forces to support the legitimacy in Yemen has announced that the Saudi Air Defense was able to intercept a ballistic missile launched by Houthi militias on Thursday evening from the province of Saada towards the Mecca area.
In a statement, the coalition said the ballistic missile was destroyed about 65 km away from Mecca without causing any damage.
It added that the coalition air forces then targeted the site from where the missile was launched.
Meanwhile, a high-ranking U.S. officer said his country has intercepted weapons shipments sent by Iran to Houthis in Yemen.
U.S. Vice Admiral Kevin Donegan said the shipments included assault riffles, sniper riffles, Kalashnikovs, anti-tanks missiles and other weapons.
“Either U.S. ships or coalition ships … intercepted four weapons shipments from Iran to Yemen,” Donegan said.
The Admiral said the four military shipments were intercepted on several phases since April 2015, when the Arab Coalition began its military operation to support the legitimate government in Yemen.
AFP quoted Donegan as saying that the naval officials were able to determine the destination of the boats by analyzing GPS settings and interviewing the crew.
Meanwhile, Yemen’s Prime Minister Ahmed bin Dagher asserted on Thursday that his government has not yet received a draft of U.N. envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed’s peace proposal.
Bin Dagher said that any proposal failing to respect the three references would be revised.
He said: “We are searching for a lasting peace based on the Gulf initiative and its executive mechanisms, Security Council resolution 2216 and the outputs of the national dialogue.”
Meanwhile, Houthi militias and their followers deliberately sold more than 2,000 tons of gasoline that were intended to run al-Hadidiyah Electricity station.
Also, Houthis threatened on Thursday to seize shops in the besieged city and to imprison merchants who fail to pay monthly fees to support the “Central Bank” and the “military efforts” of militias.
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Shiite rebels in Yemen fired a ballistic missile toward the holy Muslim city of Mecca overnight, Saudi Arabia said Friday, the insurgents' deepest strike yet into the kingdom amid the country's stalemate civil war.
Rebel media in Yemen said the missile targeted an international airport in Jiddah, though Saudi Arabia said it was "intercepted and destroyed" 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Mecca, which is home to the cube-shaped Kaaba that the world's Muslims pray toward five times a day.
The missile launch shows the capability of Yemen's Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, and their allies to continue to strike Saudi Arabia. It also drew the immediate anger of Saudi citizens, as the protection of Mecca is a key pillar of the Saudi royal family's prestige and the country's national identity.
The Saudi military said the missile, fired Thursday night from Yemen's northwestern Saada province bordering the kingdom, caused no damage. The Saudi military has a supply of U.S.-made, surface-to-air Patriot missile batteries it previously has fired at Houthi-launched missiles.
The military said in a statement carried by the state-run Saudi Press Agency that it immediately targeted the area where the missile was launched in airstrikes.
The Houthis and their allies, including forces loyal to former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, have a stockpile of Soviet-era Scud missiles and locally designed variants. The Houthi-controlled satellite news channel Al-Masirah published a bulletin saying its forces had fired a Volcano-1 variant missile at Jiddah's King Abdulaziz International Airport, without mentioning Mecca. That airport is 75 kilometers (45 miles) northwest of Mecca.
The Houthi-controlled SABA news agency said the missile "directly hit" the airport and caused massive destruction. There were no immediate delays or diversions affecting the airport Friday.
A Houthi ballistic missile fired earlier this month targeted Taif, home to Saudi Arabia's King Fahd Air Base, which also is near Mecca.
Yemen, on the southern edge of the Arabian Peninsula, has been in the midst of a civil war since September 2014 when the Iranian-backed Houthis swept into the capital of Sanaa and overthrew the country's internationally recognized government. In March 2015, a Saudi-led coalition of Arab countries began a military campaign against the Houthi forces, saying its mission served in part as a counterbalance to Iran's influence following its nuclear deal with world powers.
The Saudi-led campaign initially had the logistical and intelligence support of the U.S., but mounting civilian casualties from its airstrikes led to America pulling back, especially after a Saudi strike earlier this month on a funeral in Sanaa killed some 140 people and wounded over 600. The U.S. also fired Tomahawk missiles at mobile Houthi radar sites after reporting its warships came under fire in the Red Sea near the crucial Bab al-Mandeb strait.
In recent days, two commercial ships reportedly have come under fire in the same area.
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Good. Need only a yahoo or two to feel violated by the hat and/or t-shirt and go full whack. Headline "Trump Supporter Violates Electioneering Law - Incites Riot."
As I get older, I find "In Your Face" is a sub-optimal persuasion position.
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Justin Timberlake almost got into trouble over in Memphis over this. Tennessee has, as do several other states, a law against taking a selfies in the voting booth of you and your completed ballot for a record of how you voted. Why would this be against the law (other than to prevent an Anthony Weiner kind of scenario)? Voting booths in our area do not give you a paper trail after you push the "Vote" button.
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The ban on phones is common world wide. It aims to prevent vote buying. The selfie can be used as proof you voted for someone and thus are entitled to the money or other favor they promised you for such vote.
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At least in Germany it's not. You may not publish a photo with your filled out ballot though because this violates secret voting.
Vote buying isn't an issue in Germany.
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We don't have to worry about vote buying here. The Soros-provided voting machine will make sure you vote the approved way.
[al-Manar] A Russian fighter flew dangerously close to a US warplane over eastern Syria, US defense officials said Friday, highlighting the risks of a serious mishap in the increasingly crowded airspace.
The near miss occurred late on October 17, when a Russian jet that was escorting a larger spy plane maneuvered in the vicinity of an American warplane, Air Force Lieutenant General Jeff Harrigan said.
SIALKOT - Two people were killed and over a dozen others sustained critical wounds by the unprovoked day-long mortar shelling by India on border villages along Working Boundary (WB) and the Line of Control (LoC) on Thursday.
Intense and heavy exchange of fire was continuing in Shakargarh along Working Boundary between Indian and Pakistani forces. Pakistan Rangers befittingly responded to Indian firing and inflicted heavy casualties on them. However two women, Naseem Bibi (46) in village Karol and and Zaiba Bibi (32) in village Abiyal Dogar were killed in Shakargarh Sector due to Indian firing.
Indian forces targeted Pakistani border villages in Shakargarh, Bajwat, Chaprar, Harpal, Sucheetgarh and Charwah sectors along 123 kilometre-long Working Boundary.
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There has been an increase in violent confrontations on different battlefronts in the province of Taiz between legitimate forces and rebel militias, and the army has made new progress. Violent confrontations took place on fronts in the countryside of Taiz, Hifan and the Assilw district in southern Taiz, and Houthi militias and those loyal to the ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh bombed villages. A number of people were killed and injured on both sides.
The Yemeni army has announced that it has made progress in the Taiz countryside on a front in Hifan and has been able to retake sites that were previously under the control of Houthi militias and those loyal to the ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh after violent confrontations in which people on both sides were killed and wounded.
In a statement that he made to Asharq Al-Awsat, a Yemeni army source on the Hifan front said that “Yemeni army forces were able to make significant progress on the Al-Ahkoum front in Hifan … after fierce battles. This matter has made the Houthi militias and those loyal to Saleh respond by bombing villages”.
The source continued by saying that “Similarly, violent confrontations took place on the rural Assilw front in the south of the city. During these confrontations, the militias tried to advance on sites belonging to the army in the Asseeratayn area. However, army forces confronted them and forced them to retreat and flee. The army and the Popular Resistance also managed to regain control of Hamdu village in the district of Assilw”.
At least 6 soldiers of the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces lost their lives in the latest counter-terrorism operations, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said.
The soldiers lost their lives as they were conducting counter-terrorism operations in various provinces of the country in the past 24 hours that led to the killing of at least 66 militants.
According to a statement by MoD, at least 30 loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were also among those killed and around 23 others were wounded while 11 others were detained.
The statement further added that the operations were conducted with the support of the Afghan Air Force and artillery units of the Afghan National Army.
The operations covered the restive parts of Nangarhar, Laghman, Paktia, Paktika, Ghazni, Maidan Wardak, Kandahar, Uruzgan, Zabul, Ghor, Badghis, Herat, Farah, Faryab, Baghlan, Kunduz, and Helmand provnces.
According to MoD, at least 30 of the militants belonging to ISIS terrorist group were killed in nangarhar, 6 were wounded and and 13 others were killed in Greshk district of Helmand.
MoD also added that 9 militants were killed in Nerkh district of Wardak and 5 others were killed in Deh Yak and Moqor district of Ghazni province.
8 others were killed during a separate operation conducted in Gulistan district of Farah, MoD added.
The anti-government armed militant groups including the Taliban group and loyalists of ISIS terrorist group have not commented regarding the report so far.
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The Afghan security forces arrested two militants before they manage to poison the food of at least 18 policemen belonging to the Afghan Local Police (ALP) forces.
Local officials in southeastern Ghazni province said the militants who had infiltrated among the ALP forces wanted to poison the food of the policemen in a check post located in Gilan district.
The provincial governor’s spokesman Jawid Salangi confirmed that the militants wanted to kill the policemen late on Thursday night.
He said the two suspects have been arrested and are in custody of the security forces for further investigation.
The anti-government armed militant groups including the Taliban insurgents have not commented regarding the report so far.
Ghazni is among the relatively volatile provinces in southeastern Afghanistan which links the central provinces with the southern parts of the country, including Kandahar and Helmand.
Militants belonging to the Taliban group and other insurgent groups are actively operating in a number of its restive districts and often carry out insurgency activities.
Saudi Arabia is prepared to join a US-led international coalition preparing an operation to isolate Daesh militants in the Syrian city of Raqqa, Arab Coalition spokesman Maj Gen. Ahmed Al-Assiri told Alarabiya.net.
Assiri expressed Saudi Arabia’s willingness to take part in the operation if it was asked to do so.
“The Kingdom is committed to the fight against Daesh in Syria as part of an international coalition, including air sorties delegated to it, whether from within the kingdom or via its warplanes stationed at the Turkish Incirlik base,” he told the website.
The US-led coalition intends to start an operation to retake Daesh’s de facto capital of Raqqa.
With regard to ground operations, Assiri said that the international coalition agreed in a meeting in Washington to rely on local Syrian forces and would provide air coverage for them.
He also noted that Saudi Arabia’s air force participated in US-led airstrikes against Daesh in Syria and has flown 201 sorties since 2014.
When asked if Saudi Arabia is interested in joining the ongoing battle to retake Mosul, Assiri said the Kingdom never took part in any operations in Iraq, citing that it cannot be involved in operations in which the Iranian-backed Popular Mobilization forces are involved.
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No, thank you. And we ain't fighting for you in Yemen either.
The US embassy in Mauritania said Friday it had received information about "near-term" attacks targeting Americans in the capital Nouakchott, urging its nationals to remain alert.
The warning came in the wake of appeals by the Islamic State (IS) group for its followers to carry out attacks across the world, the statement said, urging Americans to be vigilant especially when "frequenting locales associated with Westerners".
"The US government has received information that terrorist groups are planning to carry out near-term attacks against places where US citizens congregate in Nouakchott," said a statement on the embassy's Facebook page.
"When going out, avoid being part of large, highly visible groups of Westerners and avoid sitting in areas that are easily visible from the street. Be particularly alert when frequenting locales associated with Westerners," it advised Americans.
Contacted by AFP, a Malian security source said: "Even if nowhere has zero risk, one should not worry excessively about the current security situation in the country.
"We believe we are in control of the situation, both on our borders and within the country, where dangerous groups are closely monitored," added the source, requesting anonymity.
In September the government denied that a suspected Islamist militant cell uncovered by the authorities had pledged allegiance to IS, describing the group as "amateurs".
Several Islamist militant with links to IS have been convicted in the Islamic republic, in the Maghreb region of western north Africa, which suffered repeated attacks in the 2000s, including deadly kidnappings.
Mauritania jailed three men for between five and 10 years for links with IS in June 2015, with the court shown a video in which all three pledged allegiance.
At least 13 loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed in an airstrike in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.
Local security officials in Nangarhar province said the militants were killed in Pacher Agam district of Nangarhar.
The officials did not disclose further information if the airstrike was carried out by the Afghan Air Force or the US forces based in Afghanistan.
However, the officials said the local residents did not suffer any casualties in the airstrike.
Pacher Agam district is among the volatile areas of Nangarhar province where the anti-government armed militant groups including the Taliban insurgents and ISIS fighters are actively operating.
The loyalists of ISIS terrorist group launched a coordianted attack on Pacher Agam district few days back and set several houses on fire during the attack.
Both the Afghan forces and the US forces in Afghanistan are conducting regular raids against the Taliban insurgents and ISIS loyalist in the districts where they are conducting insurgency activities.
The US forces increased airstrikes against the Taliban insurgents and ISIS loyalists earlier this year after the Obama administration granted a broader role to the American forces.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[IsraelTimes] The Danish ex-editor who commissioned the Mohammed cartoons that triggered deadly protests a decade ago on Friday accused the Jyllands-Posten newspaper of trying to silence him, saying it had let "the jihadists" win.
A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
[Jpost] The decision will increase the coastal enclave’s fishing zone from six to nine nautical miles and will go into effect on November 1.
Five days ago: 
Kenyan defense forces (KDF) military jets are reportedly launched an airstrike on Al shabaab camp near Bardere city in Gedo region on Friday, a local resident said.
China will unveil its new generation J-20 stealth fighter jet at an air show next week, the air force said on Friday, the first public showing of a warplane China hopes will narrow the military gap with the United States.
