"In real dollars the median household makes less money today than it made 17 years ago.
Nearly half of Americans wouldn’t be able to come up with $400 if they needed it for an emergency.
Yet while households struggle to keep up with the challenges of everyday life, the government is wasting trillions of dollars of taxpayer money on faraway wars.
Right now we’re fighting five of them in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen and Somalia."
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"The sheer size of the US trade deficit shows that something has gone badly wrong.
The most developed country in the world should be exporting capital to less developed countries. Instead the US is importing more than $500 billion every year. That money flows into financial assets, it distorts our economy in favour of more banking and more financialisation and it gives the well-connected people who benefit a reason to defend the status quo.
But not everyone benefits, and the Trump voters know it. I think Trump voters are also tired of war. We’ve been at war for 15 years and we’ve spent more than $4.6 trillion. More than 2 million people have lost their lives and more than 5000 US soldiers have been killed.
But we haven’t won.
The Bush administration promised that $50 billion could bring democracy to Iraq. Instead, we’ve squandered 40 times as much to bring about chaos.
Yet even after these bipartisan failures, the Democratic party is more hawkish today than at any time since it began the war in Vietnam.
Harking back to the no-fly zone that Bill Clinton enforced over Iraq before Bush’s failed war, now Hillary Clinton has called for a no-fly zone over Syria.
Incredibly, that would be a mistake even more reckless than invading Iraq since most planes flying over Syria today are Russian planes.
Clinton’s proposed course of action would do worse than involve us in a messy civil war, it would risk a direct nuclear conflict. What explains this eagerness to escalate the dangerous situation? How can Hillary Clinton be so wildly over-optimistic about the outcome of war?
I would suggest that it comes from a lot of practice. For a long time our elites have been in the habit of denying difficult realities."
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"Just as much as it’s about making America great, Trump’s agenda is about making America a normal country.
A normal country doesn’t have a half-trillion dollar trade deficit. A normal country doesn’t fight five simultaneous undeclared wars.
In a normal country the government actually does its job. And today it’s important to recognise that the government has a job to do."
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'Twere old hat if Draper had drawn it,
Or written a sonnet upon it...
"Since she's in a hurry
To ride in her surrey,
I'll just snap a shot of that bonnet."
[City Journal On-Line ] Hillary Clinton was resting, running out the clock, sitting on a supposed large lead, and hoping that the election was sooner than later. Now after the latest Weiner disclosures, she is crisscrossing the country, terrified of collapsing polls, and wishing that she had three more weeks rather than just one. With the Clintons, farce is the desert to scandal: the profiteering Clinton Foundation as a humanitarian treasure; Hillary the former corporate attorney as child and little-guy crusader; Bill Clinton, both sexual predator and feminist hero.
Hillary didn’t just delete e-mails under congressional subpoena; she insisted that some 33,000 e-mails were mostly about yoga and Chelsea’s wedding--sort of like saying that one can beat 31 trillion-to-one odds of turning $1,000 into a $100,000 cattle-futures profit in no time by merely reading the Wall Street Journal. Until Friday, FBI director James Comey, in Hillary’s eyes, was a sober and judicious public servant who had rightly seen insufficient cause for her indictment. Now she believes that he is a rank Republican politico seeking to rob her of her presidency.
Clinton thought that she had survived Wikileaks, the Project Veritas ambush tapes, the hacked Colin Powell e-mails, the DNC disclosures, and so on--mostly because of Donald Trump’s self-inflicted wounds, some vicious-if-clever Democratic Party operatives, and a series of Democratic-planted IEDs about Trump’s foul mouth that exploded at preplanned and opportune moments.
Yet no one thought discredited deviant Anthony Weiner could much harm Hillary--except of course "conspiratorial" Donald Trump. He warned months ago that Clinton aide Huma Abedin might have been passing on classified materials to her dissolute husband. Because Weiner couldn’t repress his electronic libido with young girls, he ended up on the FBI’s radar--and by extension his smartphones, tablets, computers, and by further extension supposedly his estranged wife’s confidential communications. It was thought that Weiner might have stopped his sexting addiction when he lost his House seat, when he lost his mayor’s race, when he lost his wife, when he lost his jobs--or, at the very least, before he might lose Hillary (who supposedly fixed Abedin up with Weiner) her election. Con't.
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Whoever knowingly alters, destroys, mutilates, conceals, covers up, falsified, or makes a false entry in any record, document, or tangible object with the intent to impede, obstruct, or influence the investigation or proper administration of any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States or any case filed under Title 11, or in relation to or contemplation of any such matter or case, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
[GP] Democrat pollster Doug Schoen, who advised President Bill’s Clinton’s 1996 reelection campaign and worked on Hillary Clinton’s failed 2008 presidential bid, has withdrawn his endorsement of Hillary Clinton for the presidency following the renewal of the FBI investigation into Clinton and her her top aide Huma Abedin. Schoen said he fears a constitutional crisis should Clinton be elected and sworn into office while under investigation.
The latest news about the Clintons, that Hillary’s case is being re-opened and that Bill got himself tremendously rich while Hillary was in office, gets to me to thinking about Bonnie and Clyde, the 1967 movie starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway about a real couple that worked brazenly outside the law during the 1930s Depression.
...No wonder the FBI is re-examining the files. James Comey, finally channeling J. Edgar Hoover, dropped this bombshell on Friday. In a few days, after Comey goes public and spills the beans, The New York Times will call for Hillary to step aside. You heard it here first.
In Hoover’s day Hillary and Bill would have their pictures hanging in the Post Office among the 10 Most Wanted.
Bonnie and Clyde did it for the money. Hillary and Bill do it for the money. Same people.
Except that Bonnie and Clyde, the real ones, were small-time. They’re credited with no more than about a dozen hold-ups, mainly banks and grocery stores.
Small potatoes compared to the Clinton Foundation that one way and another fattened the pockets of Hillary and Bill with dirty millions.
That, plus the emails that keep proving disrespect for most Americans and hostility against the State of Israel from members of the Hillary and Bill Syndicate ‐ a crime family that features associates like Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin and her sex-crazed (supposedly estranged) husband Anthony Weiner, who apparently kicked off the FBI dragnet from his sexting madness that fell into the wrong hands.
Imagine this confederacy of scoundrels with the keys to our country, starring Hillary and Bill.
[CNBC] Former Attorney General Eric Holder has written a scathing op-ed condemning FBI Director James Comey for his handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.
"I fear he has unintentionally and negatively affected public trust in both the Justice Department and the FBI," Holder wrote in an op-ed in The Washington Post published late Sunday. "And he has allowed -- again without improper motive -- misinformation to be spread by partisans with less pure intentions."
Holder accused Comey of violating long-standing policies and traditions when the FBI director wrote to members of Congress on Friday and informed them his agency was reviewing a fresh batch of emails related to the Clinton investigation.
Moved to Page 6: Seedy Politicians just to keep all parts of the story in one easily accessible place.
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Remember, a large portion of the US think Eric is a hero. Some of them even post on Rantburg. From time to time.
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Conspiracy theory of the day:
Comey is a loyal Democrat who is in the tank for Hillary. So why do this?
Well, one theory is that the Hillary camp's internal polling is showing a loss. The public polls are just agitprop, so this is not an impossibility. There are also plenty of early mail-in ballots coming in, the results of which will be available to the Democrats.
So if you are going to lose anyway, how to snatch some kind of victory? Well, you could spend the next 4 years complaining about a stolen election. Enter Comey. Reopen the investigation. Claim to be the victim of dirty tricks. Play dirty and blame the Republicans. Rinse and repeat.
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Are these masses of humanity trying to get in before the wall goes up, or they want to be first in line when Prez. Shrillary starts the handouts and voter registrations?
Why doesn't someone conduct a poll, for heavens' sakes? Inquiring minds, etc.
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[PJ] In the midst of the welter of charges and counter charges that may or may not sink the national nervous breakdown that is the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, it's worth examining who exactly is Huma Abedin and how bizarre it is that such a person ever could be the closest confidante of the woman who would be our first female president.
It's a tale in its own way resonant of the 1930s and '40s, when communists sworn to the violent overthrow of the United States government rose to the highest echelons of our State Department and other agencies.
This is not to say that Huma Abedin is any Alger Hiss, but she is, if anything, far more intimately involved with the Muslim Brotherhood than Hiss ever was with the Communist Party. And she was--at least until now--potentially more powerful than Hiss. Con't.
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[Daily Caller] Hillary Clinton did two huge favors for Morocco during her tenure as secretary of state while the Clinton Foundation accepted up to $28 million in donations from the country’s ruler, King Mohammed VI, according to new information obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group.
Clinton and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Lisa Jackson tried to shut down the Florida-based Mosaic Company in 2011, operator of America’s largest phosphate mining facility.
Jackson’s close ties and loyalty to the Clintons were revealed when she joined the Clinton Foundation’s board of directors in 2013, just months after she left the EPA. Jackson is also close to John Podesta, Clinton’s national campaign chairman.
Morocco’s state-owned phosphate company, OCP, would ostensibly have benefited from Jackson’s move to shut down Mosaic. Mohammed donated up to $15 million to the Clinton Foundation through OCP.
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The story that simply won't go away, nor should it.
PAKISTAN MAROC PHOSPHORE (PMP)
PMP was created in 2004 and began its activities in 2008 on the Jorf Lasfar platform. Thus, PMP is a joint venture company held in equal parts between OCP and the Fauji Pakistani Group. PMP’s activity is mainly the production and the marketing of merchant phosphoric acid, with a fixed production capacity of 375 000 tons/year P2O5.
And much of it crossing the Pak boarder into Afghanistan for use in Improvised Explosive Devices (IED).
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Besoeker - I agree - this is a huge story. But what do you think the King got for his $28M? They were already pushing the precursors into Afghanistan. And strangely that flow of AN and CAN never really slowed down...
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But what do you think the King got for his $28M? They were already pushing the precursors into Afghanistan. And strangely that flow of AN and CAN never really slowed down...
Protection of African mineral deposits? Possible expansion of U.S. markets, import license, something involving a huge monetary return no doubt.
Moroccan fertiliser company Office Cherifien de Phosphate (OCP), the world's leading phosphate exporter, reported 2015 net profit up 57.8% year-on-year to 8.01 billion dirhams ($825.8-million) in March 2016, attributing the rise to higher output.
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In 1977 I was working on a study to extend the rail system in Morocco from Marrakesh to Laayoun, (or Al Aaiun), which used to be Spanish Sahara, and is now referred to as 'disputed territory'. The railroad was going to 'tie the country together', like the US transcontinental railroad in 1869, but it was also going to haul phosphate.
There must be a boatload of it there.
Global politics and phosphate. Why would Clinton be interested? Money?
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The Hillary Clinton campaign on Sunday again urged the FBI to explain why it was revisiting the Clinton email investigation and said the Democratic presidential candidate has not talked to top aide Huma Abedin, on whose laptop the new emails were purportedly found -- nearly three full days after the department announced the new probe.
"She hasn't," campaign manager Robby Mook said on "Fox News Sunday." (Where is she? Where did they hide the body?)
FBI Director James Comey on Friday notified lawmakers about a new batch of emails possibly "pertinent" to its Clinton email investigation, while working on a case related to Abedin's husband, former New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner, "sexting" a teenage girl on a laptop he purportedly shared with his wife.
Clinton, hours later, in a hastily called news conference, declined to answer a reporter's question about whether she had spoken directly to Abedin, a close, long-time aide.
"I want to know what's in these emails too," Mook said Sunday, arguing that Comey has yet to specifically say whether the agency is looking at Clinton emails. "It could be anyone in the world."
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"I want to know what's in these emails too," Mook said Sunday, arguing that Comey has yet to specifically say whether the agency is looking at Clinton emails. "It could be anyone in the world."
Mook's desperate. He picked the wrong team and realizes it.
Most likely the results of this FBI investigation will drag on past the election. Mook and the Donks know that because some of this info might be highly classified it can't be released. They are trying to blunt the effect.
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the Democratic presidential candidate has not talked to top aide Huma Abedin
A nice lawyerly phrasing. The Hildabeast may not have spoken directly with Huma but sure as heck somebody from the campaign has said "WTF, Huma?" directly.
Former US Federal Prosecutor Andrew C McCarthy gave this speech in 2012 about the Muslim Brotherhood's infiltration of the US Government and its intel agencies
He warns that Erdogan finances Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestinian branch.
It is extensive on Huma's Muslim Brotherhood ties beginning around 33 minutes in.
Not just 3 family members including her late father and her mother have ties with Muslim Brotherhood operatives and organisations.
She herself does.
This is an excellent speech. Why wasn't he listened to?
He wrote The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America in 2010
Clearly none of it was listened to.
Let's hope Mr Trump will listen
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If you don't see "Hillary Clinton photo illustrates pathological lying in Google results" after clicking the link, then Googleplex's malgorithms are working fast.
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Why would anyone want to associate “pathological lying” and Hillary Clinton?
For more than an hour as of approximately 11:50 p.m. Sunday, a Google search for the terms “pathological lying” was producing a picture of Mrs. Clinton.
Just a note: The individual who posted this did NOT write this. The writer is Leonard Pitts from the Miami Herald.
[OregonLive] So yeah, I don't want the GOP defeated.
I want it immolated. Your BLM buddies have been doing a magnificent job of immolating their own neighbohoods. You'd almost expect Republicans to do the same with their own, except decent people won't destroy themselves or their property to make a point.
I want it razed to the foundation, reduced to a moonscape, left unlivable even for cockroaches, much less newts. I want it treated like boot heels treat ants and furnaces treat ice cubes, treated like a middle-school basketball team playing the '71-'72 Lakers.
Defeat is not enough. Let there be humiliation. Let there be pain. There may well be the last two in large quantities come November 9th, for both sides. You never know.
This lavish disgust has nothing, absolutely zilch, to do with conservative ideology. It is not in opposition to Republican positions on taxes, regulation, LGBTQ rights, immigration or foreign policy. But it has everything to do with the party's willing and expedient embrace of crazy. Both sides are guilty of embracing crazy. The right has no monopoly.
Granted, Republicans did not invent paranoia, persecution complexes or reality estrangement. I remember as a child hearing the barbershop regulars spin elaborate theories of how the moon landing was a hoax and Neil Armstrong's "one small step for a man" actually took place in a New Mexico desert.
It seemed pretty harmless at the time.
The GOP's innovation was to harness and nurture that craziness for votes. It flattered and wooed the guy in the barbershop - and the woman in the beauty parlor - by taking them seriously. Through its media partners - Fox "News" and talk radio kingpins from Limbaugh on down - and with the timely arrival of the internet and social media, it gave them support and a megaphone. So you're blaming your own industry for harnessing craziness, but you want to destroy a political party.
In return, it reaped the nigh-nuclear energy of kooks, cranks, outcasts and iconoclasts whose take-no-prisoners anger invigorated a Grand Old Party. But they also pushed that party further and further to the right - past Nixon, past Reagan and the Bushes, past political and intellectual coherence. Past decorum. Nixon was no conservative. Neither was Bush the Elder, nor is Donald Trump. Reagan was, to the extent that he managed to temporarily change the conversation about the relationship of the average citizen to their government.
Until finally, the party sold its soul to the Donald. You aren't paying much attention to what is going on on the ground. A large number of Republicans, conservatives and liberals alike have decided either to vote for a third party or not vote at all for president. And in case you missed it, a large part of the Republican leadership failed to "circle the wagons" to defend Trump against any of the latest spurious allegations. That has angered rank and file Republicans who believe that the party must unify around a candidate, not an agenda. We don't know how much this will affect the down ballot, but it's not hard to think that it will. That is a picture of a political party shattered by Donald Trump voters, Never Trumpers and others. That is not selling your soul to Donald Trump.
The damage to GOP credibility is profound. The damage to America is worse. We find ourselves a nation that cannot have meaningful discussion of its issues because some of us have pulled away from the center, from common cause and shared mission, choosing instead to dwell in a pestilential swamp where newspaper hacks collude with presidents and Billy Bush is Jason Bourne. Newspaper hacks are for the most part backing Hillary. And as for hacks colluding with presidents, you should witness the news/opinion writers from the NY Times and others who have done everything they can to advance Hillary's cause as well as Obammer's.
So the crazy must be rebuked emphatically, refuted in a way that leaves no doubt: We are better than this. That's what's best for the nation. It's also what's best for principled conservatives powerless against a virulent cancer that has metastasized through their party. Maybe they'll be able to save that party - or build a new one. Either way, the mission statement here for thoughtful Americans could not be more clear. Do not defeat the GOP.
Nuke it.
Readers can contact Leonard Pitts at lpitts@miamiherald.com
[Jpost] In one of the immortal lines of Godfather 2, mafia boss Michael Corleone discusses the fate of his brother, who betrayed him, with his enforcer.
“I don’t want anything to happen to him while my mother is alive,” Corleone said.
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This nasty, ignorant, piece of sh!t "President" is such a brain drain. If it makes sense, he does the opposite. You are an evil worm, obama.
I regret the day you were born, son. But when you die, I will never see you again.
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(a) Obama's campaign would be, at its worst, only a preview of Hillary presidency.
(b) IMO, Israel should've started to lessen it's dependency on USA years ago.
(b1) If Hillary is elected, USA becomes as much an enemy of Israel as EU - only a lot more powerful.
(b2) Even if Hillary is not elected, the fact that she was almost elected shows that American People are crazy. Does Israel really wants to depend on crazy People for its survival?
(c) Lets look at the alternatives. We have to have something what we can offer to both Russians and Chinese - would be stupid to go with just one. The only other alternative that I can see, we could just pray to the Lord for Trump's victory - in the past, He wasn't particularly receptive.
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Your SecState (sorry) is appointed by your elected president and confirmed by your elected representatives - true or false? Not convincing? OK, exhibit #1: transgendered restrooms. Exhibit #2: safe spaces. Exhibit #3: BLM.
[AlAhram] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... said Sunday it broke up two Lion of Islam plots in recent weeks, one with 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.... Lions of Islam trying to kill coppers and the second involving parking a boom-mobile at a soccer match with the United Arab Emirates.
The two disrupted plots announced by the Interior Ministry come as the Sunni-ruled kingdom grapples with a local Islamic State affiliate, as well as unrest in its predominantly Shiite east.
The first plot aimed to kill coppers by a group in Saudi Arabia's central Shaqraa province, the country's Interior Ministry said in a statement carried by the state-run Saudi Press Agency. It said four Saudis who received instructions from an Islamic State leader in Syria were tossed in the calaboose Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! before they could carry out the plan.
The second plot involved a group of Lions of Islam who hoped to plant a boom-mobile at the soccer match between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates at a stadium in Jiddah. It said two Paks, a Syrian and a Sudanese national were arrested Oct. 10, the day before a FIFA fixture between the two sides was to be played.
It wasn't immediately clear if the second plot involved the Islamic State group as well. The Interior Ministry did not say whether those arrested had lawyers.
Separately, the Interior Ministry identified eight Saudis and one Bahraini it wanted for attacks on security forces and sabotage in the kingdom's east. The area has seen a series of shootings targeting police in the wake of the kingdom's January execution of a prominent Shiite holy man.
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Also addressed in the article is the below pic captioned "Bill Clinton rally Oct. 29th, red arrow shows a man (left) who was duplicated in photoshopped pic put out by Clinton campaign, indicated with red circles (right)."
There are more. Feel like playing "Where's Waldo?"
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Maybe, just maybe, there is Justice after all.There may even be a God.
Clinton is going down. The Election is a flip of a coin, pollster wise, of course. If you believe in that sort of thing. And Trump is no prize. He is vain and a narcissist and all too human. But he may be what we have left and be what we actually deserve.
America is of this world, but it is all we have, or the world has as a Hope....rancid as that may be. Still, we are still alive and we can always buy soap and toilet paper.
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Go Trump and Trumpsters. Survived daily attacks by all media. Attacks from his own party. Every dirty trick and verbal attack hurled at him. He still stands and will continue to do so. Why, because he is made of better stuff than what we have seen in many years. The man of our times for our times.
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Funny how executive experience was thrown in the can as a qualification this time around, wasn't it? I don't think Trump is the reincarnation of J. Paul Getty, but his business background was completely ignored by the MSM & Democrats, but I repeat myself.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – Spokesman for Baghdad Operations Command, Colonel Saad Moen, announced that a suicide bomber blew up himself near al-Beiruti Café, in central Baghdad, and pointed out that the attack left a number of casualties.
Moen said in a press statement, “A suicide bomber blew up himself, yesterday, near al-Beiruti Café, in central Baghdad, after the security forces besieged him, resulting in the injury of a number of people.”
“Security forces cordoned off the area of incident and barred approaching it, while transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital,” Moen added.
Yesterday, Baghdad also witnessed a suicide attack on a Husseiniyah March under Jaber Ibn Hayan Bridge in al-Iskan area, in central Baghdad, killing and wounding a number of civilians.
[FOXNEWS] Barring any surprises, a former Lebanese general and a strong ally of the holy warrior Hezbollah group is poised to be elected Leb's president next week, formally ending a two-year vacuum in the country's top post and a political crisis that has paralyzed the troubled Mideast nation.
Michel Aoun ...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... , an 81-year-old veteran Christian leader, will likely be chosen by Parliament on Monday as part of a deal that's expected to give not just a boost for Hezbollah but also to the Shiite group's ally, Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... The strong-willed Maronite Catholic general notoriously led a "war of liberation" against the Syrian army in Leb in 1989-90, but reconciled with the Syrian leadership in 2005 after Syria pulled out of Leb. He has been a strong supporter of Hezbollah's involvement on the side of Assad in the neighboring country's civil war, now in its sixth year.
Analysts believe Aoun's pick will also affect regional politics beyond Leb and Syria and have implications for the rivalry between the Sunni power Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and the mostly Shiite Iran.
"Aoun's election is a clear victory for the pro-Iranian axis in the Levant and another climb down for Saudi Arabia," wrote Paul Salem, vice president for policy and research at the Washington-based Middle East Institute.
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Suspected Kenya military jets have conducted an airstrike in southern Somalia, targeting an Al shabaab training camp in middle Jubba region, sources said.
The Kenyan Air Force targeted Maleyda area located between Jilib and Bu’ale towns, where al shabaab has bases to train its fighters & organize its attacks on Somali and UU troops in the region. According to reports several militants were killed in the airstrike. Al shabaab did not comment on the reported air raid on its base in Middle Jubba region on Sunday.
Kenyan defense force (KDF) fighter jets have launched several airstrikes on Al shabaab camps in southern Somalia, in response to cross border attacks in Kenya by the militants.
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[Ynet] ISIS has grabbed credit for the killing of an Algerian police officer while he was reportedly dining in a restaurant.
The group has been trying to expand in Algeria, where al-Qaeda's North African branch and other Islamic myrmidon groups have been based and have long fought Algerian authorities.
The ISIS-affiliated Amaq news agency said in a statement that ISIS fighters shot the officer and seized his weapon in the attack Friday in Constantine, 400 kilometers (240 miles) east of the capital Algiers. It later posted a picture of what it said was the officer's gun
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Scott Adams walks you through the logic. It's something Rantburg readers will endorse, but for which our good progressive friends will suffer cognitive dissonance. Which is his ultimate point.
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I think ISIS is fighting for its survival right now. The near enemy is gobbling them up - their current fight is tactical and not strategic.
Concur with Lord Garth - most ISIS inspired (not directed) attacks here radicalized on their own, and actioned on their own timeline. IMO that is much more dangerous - the old saying is true, if there is Wahabi or Ibn Taymiyyah literature in the local mosque, we are always only one minute away from an attack.
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Scott's blog is a fantastic read: insightful, and, increasingly courageous. He had to suspend comments because of prog trolling. He's been shadowbanned on Twitter too.
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#2,4 IMO, all "Muslim extremists" understand who's better for Jihad.
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The headline is incomplete. Mr. Adam's tweet says "...no sponsored terror attacks..." Lone wolves inspired to knife innocent bystanders by what they read on the internet are not included in this prediction, which it seems to me is talking about the Paris attacks or Afghan-American Omar Mateen's massacre at that Orlando gay bar, during which he called 9-1-1 to pledge his fealty to ISIS.
[Chicago Tribune] If ruling Democrats hold themselves to the high moral standards they impose on the people they govern, they would follow a simple process:
They would demand that Mrs. Clinton step down, immediately, and let her vice presidential nominee, Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, stand in her place.
Democrats should say, honestly, that with a new criminal investigation going on into events around her home-brew email server from the time she was secretary of state, having Clinton anywhere near the White House is just not a good idea.
Since Oct. 7, WikiLeaks has released 35,000 emails hacked from Clinton campaign boss John Podesta. Now WikiLeaks, no longer a neutral player but an active anti-Clinton agency, plans to release another 15,000 emails.
What if she is elected? Think of a nation suffering a bad economy and continuing chaos in the Middle East, and now also facing a criminal investigation of a president. Add to that congressional investigations and a public vision of Clinton as a Nixonian figure wandering the halls, wringing her hands.
The best thing would be for Democrats to ask her to step down now. It would be the most responsible thing to do, if the nation were more important to them than power. And the American news media -- fairly or not firmly identified in the public mind as Mrs. Clinton's political action committee -- should begin demanding it.
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C'mon. NEVER happen.
The PURPOSE of a thing is ALWAYS itself. Hillary IS the Democratic Party. The good of the Country of America is a distant second, and actual moral issues simply don't exist. There simply is no God in the Democratic party. Never has been for a long time. Plus Democrats see nothing wrong in Abortion and killing babies. Never crosses their minds that its deeply and totally immoral.
And they will ban you or ruin you or kill you if you disagree with them. Its what they ARE.
Hillary is a rotting hulk and they will still hold onto her until the end. Buried tongue deep in the rancid meat.
There isn't any voice in the Democratic Party that will ever suggest morality is anything even noticing. It simply doesn't exist. Reality to a Democrat is what serves the Democratic Party. The purpose of a thing is always itself.
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To Hillary, Hillary is inevitable. Any democrat asking her to step aside will be screamed at. And, if she's elected, gets a ticket to Gulag. And there will be one, if she's elected.
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There isn't any voice in the Democratic Party that will ever suggest morality is anything even noticing. It simply doesn't exist. Reality to a Democrat is what serves the Democratic Party. The purpose of a thing is always itself.
Its been that way since Bill's days in the White House. The morally sound side was to vote in favor of Clinton's impeachment and removal from office--the Chief Enforcement Officer of our nation's laws can't be someone who has committed perjury and sexually harassed one or more government employees. The Dems chose to do NOTHING then, and they'll do NOTHING now. The Democratic party has no moral beliefs, and believe only in the Democratic party.
The Clinton impeachment debacle was the first thing that began my turn from Democrat into a card-carrying Republican. 9/11 was the other.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] British police are investigating an incident where flags affiliated with the Lebanese murderous Moslem Hezbollah group were raised during Shiite Moslem commemorations earlier this month.
Demonstrators on Oct. 12 have reportedly raised "Hezbollah" flags at a procession marking Ashura.
Raising Hezbollah’s flag falls under the penalty of anti-terrorism laws according to British laws.
"By the virtue of Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000, whoever shows a flag or any other instrument in public place, aiming at raising doubts on his/her affiliation or support for an outlawed group, is considered to have committed a crime," read a statement by Scotland Yard on Friday, received by Asharq al-Awsat newspaper.
Several Moslem leaders in Britannia condemned the politicization of the procession by raising slogans and chants that were not linked to the annual religious commemoration.
Protests are usually filmed by Scotland Yard arrests could be made among the people who hoisted Hezbollah’s flag at the procession.
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Ministry of Defense (MoD) on Sunday said at least 3,600 military operations have been launched across the country over the past seven months – killing nearly 9,000 insurgents so far.
"We managed to carry out 10 to 30 military operations on a daily basis in various provinces. Thousands of insurgents have been killed and their important resources have been destroyed so far," said Mohammad Radmanish, deputy spokesman for the Defense Ministry.
According to the Ministry of Interior (MoI), at least 9,000 militants, including more than 100 commanders, designated governors and district governors of Taliban, have been killed in the military operations so far.
"Elimination of the enemy's main bases and clearing the regions where anti-government groups have influence, were the main goals of the operations," MoI spokesman Sediq Seddiqi said.
According to the ministry, Helmand, Farah, Uruzgan, Nangarhar, Badakhshan, Kunduz, Baghlan, Takhar, Faryab, Jawzjan, Maidan Wardak, Kandahar, Ghor and Nimroz provinces witnessed heavy wars and parts of the provinces collapsed to the Taliban during this period.
Shafaq Operation was a big military operation that covered all vulnerable parts of the country.
Meanwhile, a number of MPs criticized the leadership of the war by saying that there is a lack of coordination among the Afghan security forces.
"Many insurgents were killed in Shafaq Operation, but security forces have not gained the success that was expected. Meanwhile, the enemy has increased its attacks," said Iqbal Safi, an MP from Kapisa.
"Parts of some provinces fallen to the Taliban during the Shafaq Operation. Thousands of small and heavy weapons were seized by the Taliban and the enemy became stronger," said Hashim Alokozay, member of Meshrano Jirga (Upper House of Parliament).
Currently, Afghan security forces are conducting 15 planned operations along with night raids in 13 provinces in order to eliminate insurgents, reports say.
[IsraelTimes] Three Border Police officers were lightly injured Sunday afternoon in an apparent car-ramming attack in the West Bank.
The incident occurred on Route 60 near Beit Ummar, north of Hebron.
The driver of the vehicle was rubbed out by security forces at the scene. The Paleostinian health ministry identified him as Khaled Ahmad Aylan, 23 years old, of Beit Ummar.
The coppers were taken to Jerusalem’s Shaarei Tzedek Hospital for treatment. They suffered injuries to the lower extremities.
Also Sunday, an Israeli child was injured in the same area when a number of Paleostinians threw rocks at cars along the highway. The rocks hit two vehicles, according to the IDF, including the one near the settlement of Ma’ale Amos in which the five-year-old boy was travelling. A rock shattered one of the windows, lightly wounding the child. He was taken to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem for treatment.
Forces in the vicinity launched a searched for the perpetrators following the attack. An IDF front man said the search was ongoing.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Mullah Zabihullah, the official front man of the "Afghan Taliban" and the second man in the movement revealed the presence of relations and new networks with Iran.
"The movement is trying to benefit from all legitimate means to reach a regional agreement as part of the war against the American invasion; therefore, the Imara holds ongoing networks with a large number of regional and neighboring states."
He said to the London based Asharq al-Awsat in an email 18 months ago, that the movement had received drone planes, which help film suicidal operations.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... he refused to reveal the side providing such advanced equipment, but asserted that the "movement is expecting to soon receive more advanced weapons."
Commenting on reports saying that Taliban had appointed a representative in Iran, Zabihullah said: "We heard these reports, but they are untrue."
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[CNN] The quake struck 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) north of Norcia, the US Geological Survey reported.
• Fire and rescue services said six people had been pulled from rubble in Norcia.
• There were no immediate reports of deaths -- many residents had not returned since a devastating quake in August.
• There have been about 200 aftershocks since Sunday's quake in the border area between the Marche and Umbria regions, according to National Institute for Geophysics and Vulcanology.
• Some villages are cut off, so the impact there has not been assessed, said Fabrizio Curcio, the civil protection chief.
• Some 15,000 people are without electricity, according to Curcio.
• Much of the Basilica of San Benedetto in Norcia collapsed.
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(Washington, DC) ‐ Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuit to obtain Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) records relating to its "investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a non-government email server during her tenure." The lawsuit includes a demand for FBI "302" documents, which are reports of FBI investigation interviews. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:16-cv-02046).
The Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit was filed after the Justice Department failed to comply with a July 7, 2016, FOIA request seeking the following:
- All FD-302 forms prepared pursuant to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server during her tenure.
- All records of communications between any agent, employee, or representative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation regarding, concerning, or related to the aforementioned investigation. This request includes, but is not limited to, any related communications with any official, employee, or representative of the Department of Justice, the Executive Office of the President, the Democratic National Committee, and/or the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton.
- All records related to the meeting between Attorney General Lynch and former President Bill Clinton on June 27, 2016.
There is significant controversy about whether the FBI and Obama Justice Department investigation gave Clinton and other witnesses and potential targets preferential treatment.
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The DOJ told Clinton this past June what amounted to a warning to "cover your ass."
The are two kinds of Law in the United States, one for the Elite and one for the Peasants.
Comey made a hard call. But he did the right thing when it is plain to even stupid people that the DOJ is simply a tool of the Administration who has no interest whatsoever in Justice and a very great interest in what is good for the Democratic Party.
You know the Democratic Party don't you.? The party with absolutely no American Flags up on the Convention stage for three days until people noticed and started complaining ? yeah, THAT Democratic Party. The Party with no American Flags anywhere.
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Someone inside the FBI told Comey that if he didn't come clean on the Clintons and reopen the investigation PUBLICLY, that it would all be leaked to everyone under the sun and posted on the internet for public consumption...
I think the FBI revolt and the last vestige of morality in Comey won.
[ARA News] Erbil – Iraqi Kurdistan’s Peshmerga forces have cleared out more than 500 square kilometers, including 28 villages, and received more than 7,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) after two weeks of anti-ISIS operations near Mosul, the Kurdish Peshmerga Command said on Sunday.
“Since the start of the military operation on October 17, Peshmerga Forces have cleared more than 500 square kilometres from ISIS, including at least 28 villages in North and East of Mosul, as part of the ongoing campaign to clear ISIS terrorists from Nineveh province,” the Peshmerga General Command in the Kurdistan Region said in a statement obtained by ARA News.
“As of 15:30hrs on October 30, Peshmerga Forces have cleared six villages in North and East of Mosul: Faziliya, Kevrok, Khrab Bet, Kani Shirin, Khadheir and Qebr Esaaq. They have also secured the Mar Oraha monastery, close to the town of Batnaya,” it said.
The Kurdish Peshmerga forces also extended control over several ISIS lines of communication into Mosul. “This includes major roads from Bashiqa, Batnaya, Filfel and Nawaran in an effort to tighten the grip on ISIS’s last major stronghold and significantly limit their ability to reinforce their positions,” the General Command said.
In almost two weeks, the Kurdish Peshmerga forces killed dozens of ISIS militants and destroyed over 50 VBIEDs. “To date, in support of liberating forces, Global Coalition warplanes have conducted approximately 550 airstrikes,” it added.
Moreover, at least 800 ISIS IEDs have been dismantled across frontline positions and major roads. Counter-IED teams continue to clear the heavily-mined areas, the command said.
In the efforts to demine the areas, two demining experts lost their lives. This included Rasol Mehamadzadeh, a bomb expert from the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDK-I), and Dr Sait Curukkaya, a Kurdish expert from southeast Turkey.
Also, more than 7,000 internally displaced persons (IDP) have fled to the Kurdistan Region since the start of the offensive.
Lieutenant General Jabbar Yawar, Secretary-General of the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs, told ARA News that after liberating Bashiqa District from Islamic State (ISIS), Kurdish forces will not push on to Mosul city.
“According to the agreement with Baghdad, the Peshmerga will create a [defensive] line, while the Iraqi Army will advance further. We will not go to the centre of Mosul,” Yawar said, in an exclusive interview with ARA News. “Only the Iraqi Army, federal police and local police will ever enter the city.”
[CNN] Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Henry L. Stimson ... was riding high. Then Anthony Carlos Danger Weiner ...aka Hot Dog Tony, the remarkably offensive sex maniac six-term New York congressman who resigned in 2011, then decided everybody had forgotten by 2013, when he decided to run for mayor of New York City... resurfaced.
A string of strong swing state polls, an expanding battleground map and the end of the presidential debates had Clinton -- and her aides -- feeling good about the final days of the campaign. The normally careful candidate was dancing on television, celebrating her birthday with gifts of tequila and seemingly having fun during a campaign that, at times, seemed to be a slog for her.
Then her nagging email controversy roared back.
News broke on the flight between New York and Iowa that the FBI was reviewing new emails related to Clinton's personal server, bringing an issue they had assumed was behind them back into the campaign.
Later in the day, those same aides learned the emails being examined are part of an investigation into Weiner, the estranged husband of Clinton's longtime aide Huma Abedin. The two separated over the summer after a sexting incident.
Dumbfounded looks
Clinton's flying campaign headquarters, though, kept the nominee, her top aides and the press cordoned off from the outside world. The plane's unreliable WiFi wasn't functioning at all on Friday, making it impossible for journalists to know what was going on outside their tube in the sky 30,000 feet over the Midwest.
Before the news broke, Clinton's top aides spoke to news hounds in flight, touting the fact that their candidate planned to visit Arizona, a traditionally red state, and early voting that proved their base of women, minority and young voters were turning out in record numbers.
After news hounds peppered the aides with questions, the conversation ended and news hounds went to write their stories about a confident Clinton going to Arizona.
Then the wireless flashed on for a mere minute and phones buzzed.
Reporters informed Clinton's top aides traveling on the plane about the FBI's updated investigation, news that was met with dumbfounded looks from Clinton's staffers who quickly retreated to huddle in the front of the plane.
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I find the whole thing hugely entertaining. But then I have been saying for years she should be in jail.
[AlAhram] A handful of faithful gathered in a burnt out church Sunday for the first mass to be celebrated in two years in Qaraqosh, which was once Iraq's main Christian town.
Iraqi forces retook Qaraqosh 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 days earlier, as part of a massive offensive to wrest back the country's second city djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... "After two years and three months in exile, I just celebrated the Eucharist in the cathedral of the Immaculate Conception the Islamic State wanted to destroy," Yohanna Petros Mouche, the Syriac Catholic Archbishop of Mosul, said.
"But in my heart it was always there," Mouche, who officiated with four priests, told AFP.
IS jihadists took over swathes of Iraq in June 2014, also taking Mosul where the prelate was based.
He moved to Qaraqosh, a town with a mostly Christian population of around 50,000 that was controlled by Kurdish forces and lies east of Mosul in the Nineveh plain.
But a second jihadist sweep towards Kurdish-controlled areas two months later forced around 120,000 Iraqi Christians and members of other minorities to leave their towns and villages.
"We had no other choice but to convert or become slaves. We fled to preserve our faith. Now we're going to need international protection," Father Majeed Hazem said.
Donning a resplendent chasuble and stole, Mouche led mass on an improvised altar in front of a modest congregation mostly made up of members of the Nineveh Plain Protection Units (NPU), a local Christian militia.
"I can't describe what I'm feeling. This is my land, my church," said Samer Shabaoun, a militiaman who was involved in operations to retake Qaraqosh.
"They used everything against us: they shot at us, they sent boom-mobiles, suicide kaboomers. Despite all this, we're here."
Shortly before Sunday's mass, the soldiers now guarding Qaraqosh were surprised to find two elderly women in a bouse, one of them bedridden.
"We stayed the whole of the occupation by the Islamic State, from the first day. Sometimes they would bring us food," one of them said.
The bell tower of the church was damaged, statues decapitated and missals strewn across the nave floor, which is still covered in soot from the fire the jihadists lit when they retreated.
But some of the crosses have already been replaced and a new icon was laid on the main altar, where the armed militiamen took turns to light candles.
"This church is such a powerful symbol that if we hadn't found it like this, damaged but still standing, I'm not sure residents would have wanted to come back," Mouche said.
"But the fact that it's still here gives us hope," the blue-eyed prelate, who wears thin-rimmed glasses and sports a neatly trimmed white goatee, said as he surveyed the damage in Qaraqosh after mass.
It could be months before former residents return to a town that needs to be cleared of bombs left behind by IS and whose infrastructure suffered badly.
The seminary library was completely burnt down and the ashes were still warm.
"This is barely a few days old -- the jihadists torched it when soldiers started entering the town," Mouche said.
In the course of his visit to Qaraqosh, the archbishop recited ritual phrases to "purify" various buildings, holding a cross in one hand and swinging a thurible of incense with the other.
Jihadists appear to have used the cloister-like back yard of the cathedral for target practice.
The ground was littered with casings, the pillars riddled with bullet impacts and IS instructors even left behind a board detailing the workings of a Kalashnikov assault rifle.
The Iraqi offensive on Mosul launched two weeks ago has yet to reach the city borders, and commanders have warned it could last months but Mouche was optimistic: "I hope to celebrate a Christmas mass in Mosul cathedral."
Laptop may contain thousands of messages sent to or from Mrs. Clinton’s private server
Snip to just the new stuff.
The surprise disclosure that agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation are taking a new look at Hillary Clinton’s email use lays bare, just days before the election, tensions inside the bureau and the Justice Department over how to investigate the Democratic presidential nominee.
Investigators found 650,000 emails on a laptop used by former Rep. Anthony Weiner and his estranged wife Huma Abedin, a close Clinton aide, and underlying metadata suggests thousands of those messages could have been sent to or from the private server that Mrs. Clinton used while she was secretary of state, according to people familiar with the matter.
It will take weeks, at a minimum, to determine whether those messages are work-related from the time Ms. Abedin served with Mrs. Clinton at the State Department; how many are duplicates of emails already reviewed by the FBI; and whether they include either classified information or important new evidence in the Clinton email probe.
Officials had to await a court order to begin reviewing the emails—which they received over the weekend, according to a person familiar with the matter—because they were uncovered in an unrelated probe of Mr. Weiner.
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Let me make two predictions.
(1) No results from this investigation will be reported until after the elections.
(2) Before the end of the week a young woman will come forth accusing Trump of pedophilia.
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Why isn't she signing the same song (or whistling past the graveyard) she did a few months back - "Oh, there is nothing to this silly e-mail business; I'm not at all worried about it."
Somebody's worried about something.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A huge weapons cache belonging to the Taliban group was discovered and destroyed n southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province of Afghanistan, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said Sunday.
The cache was discovered during an operation conducted in Nahr-e-Saraj district of Helmand as the Talibs were looking to use the weapons and explosives for the terrorist attacks.
"Last night, Afghan National Police (Special Units) launched a security operation in Nahar Saraj district of southern Helmand province," Moi said.
"As a result of this operation, Afghan National Police (Special Units) discovered and confiscated a weapon cache consist of: 10 rocket launchers, 400 rifle grenades, 12 hand grenades, 54 BM-16 rockets, 200 PK machine gun bullets, 5 cycle of violences, one radio handset and some amount of explosives," MoI added .
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[PAJHWOK] Dozens Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers including their commanders in central Uruzgan province have ’defected’ to the Taliban after months of siege, security official said on Sunday.
The soldiers were stationed in ANA Mashal unit in Sajawal Kala area in Chori district.
District Police Chief Aka told Pajhwok Afghan News the military unit was under the Taliban siege from the past two months but was never attacked.
He said the Taliban send delegation of local tribal elders to the military unit for surrender and the soldiers finally decided Saturday evening to put their weapons down, surrender and join the Taliban.
The district chief said he informed authorities about the developing situations early on Saturday who promised to hold meeting and discuss the situation.
Another reliable source in Uruzgan said as many as 41 soldiers, including commanders, had defected to the Taliban ranks after surrender to the group.
According to the source ANA soldiers surrendered three armored tanks, military vehicles and huge quantity of light and heavy weapons to the Taliban.
Meanwhile Taliban Spokesman Qari Yosuf Ahmadi claimed No. 7 military unity and a base in Uruzgan’s Duroshan Saine locality was surrendered to the group through negotiation.
He said Taliban and the military unit commander talks were underway from the past few week and finally reached to a conclusion.
He said the military base Commander Col. Mohammad Ismael and Maj. Rafiqullah with 42 troops defected to the Taliban they surrendered 58 light and heavy weapons, three tanks, two pick up and other military gears to the Taliban.
A couple of days back police commander ’defected’ to Talibs along with his 13 subordinates in Chori district. Police chief Aka said the 3rd police battalion commander based in the district had surrendered to Taliban along with his 13 men.
He identified the commander as Qahir Khan who had been serving as the commander for 3rd police battalion over the past two months.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan cops foiled a suicide kaboom plot by the hard boyz on a cop shoppe in Kandahar city in South of Afghanistan.
According to the local security officials, a jacket wallah was enjugged Please don't kill me! before he manage to attack the cop shoppe of Police District#14.
The anti-government armed murderous Moslem groups have not commented regarding the report so far.
The security situation in Kandahar province had improved during the recent months but the murderous Moslem groups have been attempting to carry out attacks as they continue to destabilize the southern provinces, specifically the southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province.
A policeman was killed and three others were maimed in a suicide boom-mobileing in Kandahar city on Saturday after the kaboomdestroyed a convoy of the police forces in Police District#9.
The officiasl said the target of the bomber was the police chief of PD#9 who escaped the attack unhurt.
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Qayyarah- Iranian-backed Iraqi Shiite Popular Mobilization Forces militias said they started an offensive on Saturday against ISIS positions in the town of Tal Afar west of Mosul, assisting in a campaign to take back the city.
Earlier announcements by the militias on advancing toward Mosul, has drawn warnings from human rights groups concerned about sectarian violence in the mainly Sunni province.
Shiites make up a majority in Iraq but Sunnis are predominant in the north and the west.
The PMF, a coalition of mostly Iranian-trained militias, said it had started moving early on Saturday toward Tal Afar from positions south of Mosul, ISIS’s last major city stronghold in Iraq.
“The operation aims to cut supplies between Mosul and Raqqa, tighten the siege of ISIS in Mosul and liberate Tal Afar,” PMF spokesman Ahmed al-Assadi told AFP, adding that the operation aimed to retake the towns of Hatra and Tal Abta as well as Tal Afar.
The operation could bring the fighting perilously close to the ancient city of Hatra, located northeast of the town of the same name, a UNESCO world heritage site that has already been vandalized by ISIS.
The involvement of Shiite militias in the Mosul operation has been a source of contention, although some of the PMF’s top commanders insist they do not plan to enter the largely Sunni city.
Iraqi Kurds and Sunni Arab politicians have opposed their involvement, and Baghdad promised earlier that only government forces will enter Mosul.
“The Iranians and the PMF plan to take Tal Afar because of the Shiite significance and use that as a way to angle in to Mosul,” said a senior Iraqi official who asked not to be named.
“But they also want to use it as a way to angle into the Syria fight.”
Iraqi and Western military sources say there has been debate about whether or not to close off the western route in and out of Mosul.
Leaving it open would offer ISIS militants a chance to retreat, potentially sparing civilians inside the city who might otherwise be trapped in a bloody fight to the finish, according to Reuters.
Moreover, the PMF’s movement towards Tal Afar is considered a strategic target for Iran, especially in light of news that Tehran is seeking to provide a direct land route to Syria.
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Leaving the [western route in and out of Mosul] open would offer ISIS militants a chance to retreat, potentially sparing civilians inside the city who might otherwise be trapped in a bloody fight to the finish, according to Reuters.
Apparently the Iranians (and the Rooshuns) have voted otherwise.
Tired of Waiting in Greece, Syrians Bid to Return Home
30 Oct 2016
“I want to go back to Syria. There is war in my country, but we’ve been living for seven months in Greece like prisoners.”
Hundreds of Migrants Pitch Tents on Paris Streets as Calais Camp Shuts
30 Oct 2016
The number of migrants sleeping rough on the streets of Paris has risen by at least a third since the start of the week when the “Jungle” shanty town in Calais was evacuated, officials said on Friday.
Integrate Into Migrant Cultures To Make Newcomers Welcome, Germans Told
30 Oct 2016
A sociologist in Germany has blamed Germans for the lack of progress in integrating new migrants to the country claiming that the Germans themselves need to integrate into migrant cultures. Sociologist Annette Treibel has a message for Germans when it comes
French president vows to clear Paris streets of migrant camp
30 Oct 2016
[Ynet]French President Francois Hollande vowed Saturday to shut down a bulging migrant camp in Paris, after his government moved 5,000 people from a camp in northern France in an overdue effort to tackle the migrant crisis.
The makeshift camps in Calais on the English Channel and in the French capital have become visible symbols of the country's struggle to accommodate migrants and refugees seeking better lives in Europe.
"We cannot tolerate camps," Hollande said, calling the street encampments "not worthy" of France. "We will evacuate the camps in Paris, because it cannot be a long-lasting solution." He also notably played down concerns that the closure of the Calais camp this week has driven its residents to the sidewalks of Paris, notably near the Stalingrad subway station.
Theresa May REBUFFS Francois Hollande's demand for Britain to 'do its part' to settle 1,500 child refugees left after demolition of the Calais Jungle
30/10/16
Theresa May told Francois Hollande in no uncertain terms that Britain had already committed to taking a 'considerable' number of child refugees from Calais.
Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta received a K1 income tax form indicating that he was a partner sharing income with Leonidio Holdings, according to emails released Sunday by WikiLeaks. Another form was made out to Podesta's daughter, Megan Rouse, his partner in Leonidio Holdings.
Podesta has always maintained that he transferred his 75,000 shares from Joule Unlimited Technologies, a Kremlin-financed energy company, to an "anonymous" holding company named Leonidio Holdings. Not only does Leonidio share an address with Podesta's daughter, Rouse, but they share a tax return.
The other beneficiaries are all in the family too.
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The reporter, David Krayden, isn't exactly right here. They do not 'share a tax return', they get K-1's (share of income / loss) from a partnership in which they are both partners (shareholders may be a better way to describe it).
Left unmentioned, of course, is the transfer of shares to his daughter, the value over $14,000 in a given year (damn near certain when 75K shares are involved) would require Podesta to file a gift tax return (Fed. Form 709).
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Two forces of Evil were killed in a premature kaboom in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... province as they were planting an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in a roadside.
An official in the Ministry of Interior (MoI) Fraidoon Abedi said the incident took place in Qarabagh district.
He said the explosives went off as the murderous Moslems panicked to escape with the arrival of the security forces to the area.
According to Abedi, the Afghan police forces also defused an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted by the forces of Evil in the vicinity of the same area.
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[MEDIAITE] Chris Wallace put Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as Deplorable, Irredeemable and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Condoleezza Rice ... campaign manager Robby Mook on the hot seat today over how their campaign has responded to the FBI letter on potentially relevant new emails they found.
Mook again emphasized that Team Clinton wants FBI Director James Comey to release all relevant information, but Wallace pointed out that the Clinton campaign could very well find out quite a bit of information by simply asking Huma Abedin.
Wallace proceeded to repeatedly grill Mook on whether Clinton has directly asked Abedin what’s in the emails. Mook objected that he’s basing this question on a hypothetical, but Wallace repeatedly pointed out that Abedin’s involvement in this revelation (thanks to her ex-husband) has been widely reported and confirmed.
Wallace asked, "Why wouldn’t Clinton ask her?" Mook exclaimed, "They could be emails from anybody in the world!"
Wallace went on to grill him on why both John Podesta and Clinton would throw out the "flatly untrue" claim that the FBI only sent the letter to Republicans.
As Wallace pointed out, there were Democrats cc’ed on the email. He told Mook, "Frankly, it was a dishonest talking point."
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The smarmy turd referenced Yahoo News 3x. Guess that's the outlet for Prog talking points now.
German police say four people have been injured in a stabbing attack at a commuter rail and subway station in downtown Frankfurt.
Frankfurt police spokeswoman Chantal Ench said the attack took place on Saturday afternoon inside the Hauptwache station. Ench says four people were taken to the hospital with stab wounds, but she didn't have details beyond that.
The knifeman was reported to still be on the run.
She says police are investigating to find out how many people were involved. She also didn't have any details on the ages and genders of the injured.
According to Hessenschau, a local news outlet, one person was seriously hurt in the incident while the three others sustained light injuries. It said the incident, which involved youths aged between 16 and 18 erupted at about 17.40 local time.
Blood stains were seen on the concourse of the station.
The motive for the attack remained unclear. Police in Frankfurt urged the public to avoid fear mongering.
"We are asking to refrain from speculation... You are scaring your fellow citizens. There is no danger," Frankfurt police said on their official Twitter account.
"All is well! All is well!"
Could be Sudden Jihad Syndrome/Lone Known Wolf, a psychopath or someone mentally unstable, gang or intra-refugee violence...
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(CBS) -- At least 14 people were killed and 38 others have been wounded in shootings across Chicago since Friday evening.
The weekend’s latest homicide happened about 3:15 a.m. Sunday in the Old Town neighborhood on the Near North Side.
Two 17-year-old boys were standing outside in the 1300 block of North Hudson, when a dark-colored vehicle drove by and someone inside opened fire, according to Chicago Police.
One teenager was shot in the chest and back and taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The other boy suffered gunshot wounds to the chest and head and was also taken to Northwestern, where he was listed in critical condition.
About 15 minutes earlier, a 19-year-old man was killed and a 40-year-old man was wounded in a Near West Side shooting.
The men were in a car at 2:59 a.m. in the 2100 block of West Jackson when someone walked up and fired shots in their direction, police said.
The driver tried to speed away, but their vehicle struck a parked vehicle before coming to a rest. The younger man suffered several gunshot wounds to the back and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Con't.
Federal investigators now have a warrant to review some of top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin's emails, the New York Times reports.
Investigators will seize and review emails related to the Clinton investigation found on the computer belonging to disgraced Democratic congressman Anthony Weiner and his wife Abedin. Some of Abedin's emails passed through Clinton's illicit, homebrew private server that she used to conduct official state business. Investigators will review the Abedin emails related to the Clinton case.
The FBI plans to review some 650,000 emails found on Weiner's computer to see how many are related to the re-opened Clinton case. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier Sunday that the FBI had to wait for a court order to being its search. Thousands of those emails may have been "sent to or from" Clinton's private server. I think Hillary did have the server bleached, AFTER entrusting Huma to have a copy of all emails put on a device not owned by them so Huma and Hillary could say during interrogations they do not have a copy of the emails to the Federal gumshoes and a meek Congress. I think that the third party device chosen was owned by the husband of Huma. And now he has nothing to loose, and even something to gain by singing like a canary to the Feds after being thrown under the bus by the Huma and Hillary. This is evasion which Weiner will get them himself. H&H KNOW they are toast now.
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That's one idea about the laptop. But I wonder if Hillary didn't know about it cause it was to be Huma's leverage over Hillary later. But then it got lost in the shuffle with Weiner or she figured it'd never get discovered.
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Not sure what format the emails are in. Could be a backup file from Outlook on the server, that was put on a flash drive, then loaded onto the laptop then extracted back to Outlook Express for viewing.
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...650,000 emails? Six hundred and fifty thousand? Without for one moment lessening the impact and active evil of Malificent's actions, that works out to roughly 445 emails a day during her term as SoS that her or Huma were working on. Something just does NOT seem right here, though I will cheerfully admit to error.
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The question that needs to be answered is, why forward emails to another account, when she could access the unsecured Clinton server from anywhere?
And a good question it is. Perhaps only selected items were sent to the YAHOO account for harvesting and sharing ?
With classification markings removed, YAHOO could have contained documents originally classified as SECRET. Another account such as Hotmail, could have contained documents originally marked as TOP SECRET.
Sorting for forwarding or the 'convenient' access of the viewer (either HRC or... others). Quite similar actually to the platforms from which they were originally obtained, i.e., SIPRNET and High Side.
Perhaps specific cell phones were used by HRC for Yahoo accounts (or others), then later smashed with a hammer ?
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The bottom line actually IS: the FBI has it all now. It is a week until the Vote. They have a Warrant to dig in the half a million plus E-mails. The Election proceeds ANYWAY. And the election is within a single digit of contention. a flip of a coin close.
That means that even IF Hillary is elected the FBI is in possession of the E'mails. Hillary as President can cut the FBI's throat and in so doing cut her own throat for legitimacy. And if she does then she will have to fight AFTER she is elected to BE legitimate. The media will have to choose about their credibility then. They will smell raw meat. And they will have to cover their own ass or be meat themselves..
If Trump wins then he will proceed deliberately to drag Hillary all the way to Prison..slowly and methodically and terminally. It amounts to a Coup d'tat.. Drawn-out but definite.
Huma Abedin needs to watch the back of her head. Just about the base of the brain. That or a blond wig and a night flight to Saudi or someplace Moslem.
Weiner is a weiner in any case. He gets to stay alive, just. And they send him to someplace where his butt is a bowling alley.
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I think there is a difference between an AG who might stay for one or two years and a Supreme Court judge who will stay for the rest of his or her life.
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How much space do 650,000 emails require? I might dump off 100-200/day. That would translate into about 17-18 years worth of emails at 100/day. That seems high. Weiner and Huma haven't been married that long. Something doesn't sound right.
I wonder if the Feds had Weiner in their crosshairs because of ton of State and Federal child protection laws. As the result of that investigation, someone said: "Oh, shit look what else is here!" Is Anthony Weiner sexting his way to the slammer?
If there were 650,000 emails, can you imagine some FBI agent having to sort our Carlos Danger's dic pics from Humas emails. Would this Feeb have the proper security to even go through these files if they were SAPs emails?
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But the Senate might stay Republican now. This means no crazy liberal judges on the Supreme Court. That's something.
I don't think the word Republican means what you think it does. Not anymore.
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The number 650,000 means Huma has copied every email sent on the private server for the entire time HRC was SecState...meaning that Huma is a spy and was conveniently setting it up for her handlers to have access using the Yahoo account instead of a blind drop or other clandestine method.
As I understand it, the 650,000 is the total number of emails on the computer, going back some number of years. Some subset of these are related to the Huma/Hillary mess.
An email message is formatted, machine-readable text that can be searched automated tools. The existence of *any* Clinton emails on Weiner's computer would be of interest.
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I would think that if the Hillary campaign believed that significant discoveries were to be made, they would try to stall the process until Election Day and later appoint an Attorney General who will drop the whole thing.
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Ah, but you recall months ago, Hilly said the e-mails were a non-issue? Now she wants to know what they have.
That tells me there is something she thought was hidden that she now thinks might not be.
Somebody found 65 of my e-mails on Huma's computer, I'd say, "So what?" Right after, "How is that possible? Unless they are Rantburg comments?"
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650,000 is simply impossible
Semi-redundant copies of the same Inbox / Sent files - one on a given date, another one a month or so later, etc., seems to me a better explanation of what's going on.
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There is great sense of irony that two things Hillary has supported in the past (perverted husbands and immigrate muslims) appear to be bringing her down.
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Some Dem dipwap was on ClintonCommunistNetwork-tv last night going apoplectic yelling "Trump groped a woman." He was trying to deflect from Weiner-Hillsary-Gate. He wouldn't shut up except for long enough to yell "Why won't Trump release his taxes?" God, please forgive me for this feeling of schadenfreude I have. How many "Hail Mary's" will square this thing?
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1. 650K e-mails means deleted spam was never emptied.
2. No matter whether the e-mails show Clinton to have been guilty of Treason, if she's elected, she's immune from prosecution while in office - and do we really see a Senate, even a marginally Republican one, acting on an Impeachment?
Turkey hit 162 Daesh and 12 PKK/PYD targets on Saturday as part of Operation Euphrates Shield in northern Syria, the military said Sunday, Daily Sabah reported.
The Turkish General Staff said in a statement that a terrorist was injured in two airstrikes carried out by U.S.-led coalition forces in the Maaret al-Numan region.
Turkey's Operation Euphrates Shield was launched in late August to clear Syria's northern border area of terrorists. It is now in its 68th day. The operation targets Daesh and PKK/PYD terrorists and is jointly carried out by the Turkey army and the Turkey-backed FSA.
The FSA have taken the control of around 164 residential districts since the beginning of the operation, the Turkish military said. The army added that since the beginning of the operation in late August, 33 mines and 1,369 handmade explosives had been destroyed.
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The Iraqi security forces on Sunday retook control of 11 villages from the Islamic State (IS) group around the group's stronghold of Mosul, as major anti-IS offensive continued to seize more ground around the city, a security source said, Xinhua reported.
The paramilitary units of Hashd Shaabi continued their operation launched on Saturday to advance in the vast rugged land in southwest of Mosul toward the town of Tal-Afar, some 70 km west of Mosul, a statement by the Hashd Shaabi's media office said.
The paramilitary units backed by the Iraqi aircraft managed during the day to free eight villages located in southwest of Mosul after sporadic clashes with IS militants, according to the statement.
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[DENVER.CBSLOCAL] A rally for Donald Trump in Golden drew thousands of Colorado supporters.
Trump spoke for close to an hour at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds. The Republican presidential candidate promised to make health care affordable, to create jobs, and to restore honesty to the government.
"When we win on Nov. 8, we will drain the swamp," said Trump to a cheering crowd.
Supporters packed the rodeo arena and expressed optimism for a win in the upcoming presidential election.
Trump was quick to jump on the Affordable Care Act, saying that his opponent, if elected, would double down on a plan that didn’t work.
"Obamacare ... aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read... is a total catastrophe for Colorado," Trump said. "Doctors are quitting, companies are fleeing, and deductibles are going so high ... we will have a plan that is so much better and that is so much less expensive."
Trump vowed to put a stop to government corruption, to lower taxes for businesses, and to end illegal immigration.
"I am going to keep radical Islamic Lions of Islam the hell out of our country," he said.
A small group of protesters chanted outside of the arena as supporters left once the rally was over.
"This is my neighborhood. (Trump) came into it, and so I felt I needed to stand up," said one Jefferson County resident, Whitney Mitchell, who held a sign that read, "No Grabbing."
If I'd been there I would have asked Whitney if that applied to Hillary and money...
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Was Whitney Mitchell one of those bussed in Hillary Dem protesters?
[WND] NEW YORK – Yahoo.com holds the key to determining just how severely Huma Abedin and Hillary Clinton may have violated national-security laws with emails that Huma forwarded to herself at humamabedin@yahoo.com, which ended up on a laptop owned by her husband, former Congressman Anthony Weiner. Appears Judicial Watch FOIA requests have uncovered a bridge or two concerning the classified documents. If all the IP addresses are located, a bit of sloppy tradecraft has potentially been revealed. This is getting curiouser and curiouser. Yahoo is pretty much in the tank for Hillary. What can they do to prevent this stuff from getting out without getting nailed later for conspiracy?
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I'll given Huma the benefit of the doubt. Had she also been working as an evil contractor for Booze Allen, like Harold T. Martin III and Eric Snowden, well then perhaps.
[Ynet] After data from last summer found an increase in young Israeli Arabs joining the police, the organization decided to launch a new campaign about including Arab officers geared toward the Arab population, in an effort to get their police enlistment numbers even higher.
Because this is precisely what apartheid does not look like.
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--trailing wife for the moderators at 11:30 a.m. ET.
[ABC] COLUMBUS, OH (AP) -- History was made today in Columbus, Ohio when more than 3 million Amish poured into the city to see the American Amish Brotherhood (AAB), an organization which acts as an informal governing body for the Amish community, endorse Donald Trump for president. That number represents a significant portion of the total Amish population, which the United States Census Bureau says numbers more than 20 million men and women nationwide all pledging their vote to Trump for President. With the full force of the Amish community behind him, Donald Trump is now mathematically guaranteed to win the presidency in November.
The organization typically meets once a year and the meetings usually consist of about 300 Amish leaders who meet to discuss the challenges, such as urban sprawl, that face the community. This year, however, the organization wanted as many people in attendance as possible so they can effectively instruct all Amish men and women of legal voting age to cast their vote for the flamboyant Republican nominee.
The Amish, who are direct descendants of the protestant reformation sect known as the Anabaptists, have typically stayed out of politics in the past. As a general rule, they don’t vote, serve in the military, or engage in any other displays of patriotism. This year, however, the AAB has said that it is imperative that they get involved in the democratic process. Con't.
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Snopes, et al say it's a hoax. But the basis may be this USA Today article from October 19th, about a self-organized PAC that decided to get out the vote for Mr. Trump in a place his team wasn't looking:
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Snopes labeling as 'hoax' actually lends credence to the story. These particular groups however, have historically been steadfastly decentralized with regard to such matters, which supports the hoax theory. Interesting, nonetheless.
Outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants have attacked the local office of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the Kızıltepe district of the southeastern province of Mardin with bombs and rifles, wounding three policemen.
The militants held the bomb attack on the office 9:50 p.m. on Oct. 30. Policemen taking guards in front of the office responded the gunfire by the militants after the bomb attack. Three of them were wounded in the clash, daily Hürriyet reported on its website.
There were no civilians in the office during the attack, it said. The wounded policemen remain in critical condition.
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BLUF: [American Thinker] Dr. Brian Joondeph, a retina surgeon, explains what probably is going on:
Eye movement is controlled by six muscles attached to each eye, allowing eyes to move up, down, diagonally, and rotationally. These muscles are in turn controlled by a combination of three cranial nerves originating in brain stem, an area between the brain and spinal cord, then travelling upward to the eyes.
Mrs. Clinton’s original trauma and blood clot likely damaged at least one of her cranial nerves. During Congressional testimony over Benghazi, she was wearing eyeglasses with Fresnel prisms, used to correct double vision due to eye misalignment. But that was four years ago. Why are her eye movements still misaligned?
Synkinesis is a condition where nerves rewire incorrectly after trauma. This may cause one eye to look left or not move at all when the brain tells it to move right. Smiling or chewing may cause the eyes to move, which would explain Mrs. Clinton’s abnormal eye movements while giving a recent speech.
Funny eye movements alone are no big deal. Many people have a crossed eye, called strabismus, due to a childhood lazy eye, previous eye injury or surgery, or a small stroke of one of the cranial nerves. But in Mrs. Clinton’s case, there are other worrying signs, including possible seizure activity, her recent collapse, coughing fits, all on top of her history of head trauma, blood clot, and ongoing anticoagulation therapy.
Should Hillary Clinton be elected president, she will become an object of ridicule worldwide for her deranged-looking eye movements. Foreign media are not subject to the crushing norms that have turned our mainstream media into propaganda organs. And bashing an American president as crazy is a sport as popular overseas as soccer.
Con't.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... said it had dismissed a further 10,000 civil servants and closed 15 more media outlets over suspected links with terrorist organizations and U.S.-based holy manFethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... , blamed by Ankara for orchestrating a failed coup in July.
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A letter drafted by Hillary’s team is being sent to former federal prosecutors in the hopes that they will sign on to criticize the FBI director’s unprecedented moves.
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The FBI on this call is damned if they did and damned if they don't. Comey made the right call in sending the Letter to Congress. He couldn't just ignore the FACT that he had the e-mails. The DOJ is a tool and nothing more of the Democratic Party. Completely compromised after the meeting with Clinton back in the Summer to warn him. There IS no Justice in the modern America, two kinds of Law, one for the Elites and another for the Peasants.
Comey did the right thing for the FBI as an institution...hard call... against tradition, but very brave.
Necessary.
I hope he survives. He probably won't.
[BareNakedIslam] Wichita Eagle - The other side of the mailer touts Republican Rep. Joseph Scapa's support for funding to train Kansas law enforcement officers to "recognize and deal with foreign and domestic threats to our state, from those who support ideologies that are in conflict with the U.S. Constitution and our Kansas values."
Clay Barker, executive director of the Kansas Republican Party, said similar mailers are being sent out around the state.
"We did polling and focus groups, and the one issue that got overwhelming positive response and was associated with Republicans was safety," Barker said. "You know, Gitmo, that article that came out back in August that ISIS had named soldiers for assassinations, police being shot and those knuckleheads in Garden City, it all kind of added up to a security issue ... the whole feeling that's there violence out there. And it’s a positive issue for Republicans."
The Republican mailer specifically depicts ISIS, the Islamic terror group that controls parts of Syria and Iraq.
Robert McCraw, director of government affairs for the designated terrorist group CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) in Washington, D.C., called the mailers "a shameful example of scare mongering tactics that I hope the Republican Party can learn to move away from." He said it was appalling for the state party "to falsely insinuate that the state's Muslim population is linked to terror groups like ISIS." "This flier verges on incitement of violence to Muslims."
The Republican-controlled Legislature has passed resolutions opposing the possible transfer of Guantanamo detainees to Fort Leavenworth. Barker said there are several variations of the mailers. One depicts an explosion from a terrorist attack. "Its one of the few (issues) that was a clear, like high 80 percent positive and associated with Republicans," Barker said.
Barker also said the party is sending out mailers highlighting Republicans' support for ousting four of the sitting Kansas Supreme Court justices, portraying Democrats who support retaining the justices as soft on crime.
Rep. Joseph Scapa, who said he saw the mailer before it was sent out, focused his comments about the mailer more on Muslim refugees, who he says pose a potential security threat.
"We have people coming into our state from parts of the world who believe in ideologies that are incompatible with the United States Constitution and our Kansas values and that poses a threat," Scapa said. "We know for a fact that we cannot vet the people that are coming into our state from other parts of the world ... where they believe in ideologies that we don't."
Scapa's opponent, Democrat Elizabeth Bishop, criticized the mail campaign, saying the mailers could contribute to animosity toward Muslims in Wichita. (One can only hope)
Led by Republican Governor Sam Brownback the state of Kansas informed the Obama administration this week that it is defying its dictates for Kansas to cooperate in the resettlement of refugees from Syria. In a letter to Robert Carey, director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, Brownback wrote, "The State of Kansas hereby withdraws its Refugee Resettlement Program State Plan and terminates its participation in all federal refugee resettlement grants and programs, effective at the earliest possible date."
Brownback added that he was taking his action to "protect the safety and security interests of the State of Kansas."
Collected from Drudge Report, Instapundit, and elsewhere.
Voter Fraud In Minnesota [updated]
Oct 29, 2016
[PowerLine] That’s a big topic, as Minnesota’s same-day registration scheme is notoriously subject to–in fact, invites–abuse. But a group called Minnesota Voters Alliance has brought to light another problem: substantial numbers of felons, among others, are illegally being allowed to vote, because Minnesota’s Secretary of State refuses to follow the law. Yesterday, lawsuits were commenced by three election judges:
Power Line has a voter fraud tag here with lots of stories -- they've been blogging on the subject for years.
Two Dade County Florida Campaign Operatives Arrested For Voter Fraud…
Oct 28, 2016
[ConservativeTreehouse] We noted earlier that Broward and Dade County (FL) held a particular importance for Democrats around two issues: Electing Hillary Clinton and supporting John Morgan’s legalized marijuana initiative. Neither is possible without overwhelming support from Broward and Dade county. There has been some very sketchy activity.
Today, news breaks of two women in Dade County who were arrested as part of an election fraud scheme:
Conservative Treehouse has a voter fraud tag here with some interesting stories, but most of the stories do not merit that particular tag, in my opinion.
Republican candidate Donald Trump has made allegations of fraud at polls in the City of Philadelphia. So, Action News dug through a decade's worth of election and death records to see if there was any truth to the claim. Some of what Action News investigation found was stunning.
Rita A. Pezzano, who passed a decade ago, was found listed as an active voter. Her daughter-in-law was shocked when we shared the news. Pezzano passed in 2006. But state voting records show the South Philadelphia native still listed as an "Active Voter" who cast ballots in 2008, 2012, 2014, and the 2016 primary election.
Drudge links to an Oct 28 InfoWars story: Maryland Trump Supporter: They Switched My Vote To Hillary
InfoWars has a video with the unnamed woman who claims her vote was flipped, but no additional evidence. The key take away for me from this and the referenced Texas vote flipping story is to vote each individual, rather than telling the machine to vote the Republican party ticket where that is an option. And always check to make sure your choices are actually reflected in the final result.
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There WILL be scrutiny at the Polls, and AFTER the election there Will be court cases.
The Election will be contested in the courts. It is inevitable.
Voter Fraud is easier than commonly supposed. And "volunteers" are partisan in most cases. If they think they can, then they will.
Human Nature is a you can't shoot too low proposition most of the time. One in every ten people will Judas, its the way humans are. And there is avery good reason that prostitution is the oldest profession. Its human and built in.
If its immoral and wrong from the gitgo, You CAN count on it all the way to the bank.
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Really only one way to solve this - political office must be reduced to something which simply isn't worth the effort involved in trying to obtain fraudulently.
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[Daily Excelsior] Army today said that they destroyed four Pak posts and inflicted heavy casualties on their troops along the Line of Control (LoC) in Keran sector after day long mortar shelling in the area.
The ADGPI of Army tweeted: "Four Pak posts destroyed in massive fire assault in Keran sector. Heavy casualties inflicted."
Sources said that the number of casualties inflicted on Pak troops could be around 20. They said that the four posts were completely destroyed and it was response to the killing of a soldier and mutilation of his body in Macchil sector yesterday.
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[WASHINGTONPOST] Top Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as Deplorable, Irredeemable and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Jeremiah S. Black ... aide Huma Abedin has told people she is unsure how her emails could have ended up on a device she viewed as her husband’s computer, the seizure of which has reignited the Clinton email investigation, according to a person familiar with the investigation and civil litigation over the matter. This story is starting to read like a really bad novel. My guess: The butler, with the croquet mallet, in Fort Marcy Park. Inspector Camembert is on the case!
The person, who would not discuss the case unless granted anonymity, said Abedin was not a regular user of the computer, and even when she agreed to turn over emails to the State Department for federal records purposes, her lawyers did not search it for materials, not believing any of her messages to be there.
That could be a significant oversight if Abedin’s work messages were indeed on the computer of her estranged husband, former congressman Anthony Carlos Danger Weiner ...aka Hot Dog Tony, the remarkably offensive sex maniac six-term New York congressman who resigned in 2011, then decided everybody had forgotten by 2013, when he decided to run for mayor of New York City... , who is under investigation for allegedly exchanging lewd messages with a 15-year-old girl. So far, it is unclear what -- if any -- new, work-related messages were found by authorities. The person said the FBI had not contacted Abedin about its latest discovery, and she was unsure what the bureau had discovered.
She simply forgot that she sent them to herself from her state.gov account for processing and redistribution. Quite a lot going on, who can possibly remember everything ?
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Karl Rove? Vladimir Putin? Donald Trump? Richard Nixon?
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There was a report yesterday that these emails were in a folder entitled "Insurance Folder."
[al-Manar] The death toll from raids of the Saudi-US aggression on Yemen on the Zaidi Directorate Security Administration in Hodeidah Governorate rose to 46 martyrs and 38 wounded.
Al-Massira website suggests that the toll would rise as search and rescue operations are still ongoing. The site reported that most of the martyrs are prisoners of the Zaidi directorate, pointing out that nearly 130 prisoners were in the jail during the raids.
Earlier at dawn on Sunday, the initial toll of martyrs was more than 46 people, and 20 people at least.
The Health Bureau in Hodeidah province launched a distress call to donate blood for the wounded, pointing out that 15 injured were transferred to the military hospital, 3 were taken to the May 22 hospital and one is treated in the Revolution Hospital.
The Hodeidah massacre comes in light of the lies driven by the Saudi-led aggression media against the Yemeni military and the Popular Committees Forces to cover up its crimes against the Yemeni people.
[GULFTODAY.AE] The military reported that a member of the Al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... terror group was slain in an encounter on the island province of Sulu in Mindanao even as it announced the arrest of four other suspects in the Sept.2 terror bombing of a popular night market in Davao City, the hometown of President Rodrigo "Rody" Duterte.
Brigadier General Arnel dela Vega, the chief of the Joint Task Force Sulu, said the slain krazed killer was among the eight heavily gunnies who clashed with an elite team of Army Scout Rangers in a village in the town of Indanan at dawn on Sunday.
Dela Vega said the clash occurred when a team of Scout Rangers was sent to check on the complaint of residents regarding the presence of eight heavily armed Abu Sayyaf turbans in their village.
When they fled, the turbans left behind their slain comrade along with an M16 assault rifle to which was attached a grenade launcher as well as an improvised bomb, Dela Vega said.
The killing brought to 37 the total corpse count suffered by the Abu Sayyaf since Duterte ordered the military in July to launch an intensified "search and destroy" operation against the Abu Sayyaf who operate with impunity on the island provinces of Sulu and Basilan ...Basilan is a rugged, jungle-covered island in the southern Philippines. It is a known stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf, bandidos, and maybe even orcs. Most people with any sense travel with armed escorts... A total of 15 soldiers were also killed with 28 others maimed, Dela Vega said as he vowed: "The focused military operation will continue until we deal a crippling blow to the Abu Sayyaf and rescue their remaining hostages."
Regional and Filipino security experts have confirmed the link of the Abu Sayyaf to the global Al Qaeda terror network through the Indonesia-based Jemaah Islamiyah murderous Moslems.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido stepped from behind the suit of armor, rapier in hand. Ciccolini snarled and reached for his own weapon... Colonel Benjamin Hao, the Army front man, reported the arrest of four other suspects in the deadly on Sept.2 terrorist bombing of a night market in Davao City that killed at least 15 people and maimed 68 others.
Hao said the suspects were members of the Dawla Islamiya Fi Cotabato-Maute Group, a criminal organization that claims to have links with the ISISfaceless myrmidons in the Middle East and the Abu Sayyaf.
The suspects, Hao said, were tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! in separate raids in Cotabato City that also resulted in the confiscation of several short firearms and hand grenades based on search warrants issued by a regional court.
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[GUARDIAN.NG] Following incessant attacks and killings by Fulani Herdsmen, the Southern Kaduna Elders Consultative Forum (SKECF) has called on the Kaduna and federal governments to urgently intervene in order to put an end to the ongoing genocide in the Southern part of Kaduna state.
This call came on the heels of the killing of seven people on Thursday night in an attack in four villages, Pasakori, Mile One, Misisi and Tudun -Wada, Jema’a Local Government Area of the state by gunnies suspected to be Fulani herdsmen. In fact, the latest attack came barely a fortnight after the Godogodo massacre in which 40 people were killed and several houses burnt by suspected herdsmen.
The elders in a statement yesterday, signed by its chairman, retired Major General Zamani Lekwat and the Secretary, Mr. Peter Buba, said they were deeply concerned about the killings and destruction of properties by herdsmen in rural communities in Southern Kaduna. The elders noted that for centuries, Southern Kaduna communities had lived in peace with the herdsmen and wondered why the herdsmen suddenly changed.
They urged both Governments to take urgent steps to bring an end to the mindless killings and destructions going on in the area.
The elders called on the youths to remain calm and refrain from taking the law into their hands while urging the government to restore permanent peace and stability in the communities.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed his guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread... members of Kaninkon Development Association (KADA) whose communities were affected in the latest attacks have accused the state and federal government for alleged complacency in addressing the security challenges in the a Addressing a presser yesterday in Kaduna, the National chairman, KADA, Mr. Waje Goska Williams said the attacks are meant to wipe out communities in southern Kaduna. "We are particularly worried because there seems to be a conspiracy of silence and complacency on the part of the Security Agencies and the Kaduna State and Federal Governments on the plight of our people".
"While these attacks are going on", he said, "we do not observe the presence of coppers in the area giving protection to our people since we are not at war with anybody".
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[ALBAWABA] The kaboom occurred in the al-Kesh district of Benghazi late Saturday, killing TV host Mohammed Bougages, who was close to controversial General Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... Local officials said at least 10 people were also injured in the incident.
Some reports say the kaboom was caused by a bomb that had been planted in the car. Even if confirmed, it would be hard to know whether it was targeted specifically against Bougages. He hosted a daily talk show aired on state TV, during which he voiced views supportive of Haftar; but it is not clear how much weight he carried and whether he could constitute enough of a threat to Haftar’s opponents for them to plan his liquidation.
Haftar and a faction of loyalist army personnel have taken it upon themselves to fight holy warriorholy warriors in Benghazi. In so doing, they have been defying the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Libya.
The renegade general used to be an ally of Libya’s long-time dictator, Muammar Qadaffy ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest... . He, however, joined the Libyan revolution against Qadaffy in 2011.
He has refused to profess allegiance to the internationally-recognized GNA in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... Haftar and his forces have been fighting in Benghazi since 2014. They describe the operations as a "correction to the path of the revolution" and a "war on terrorism."
The rebel general claimed to have liberated Benghazi from holy warriors earlier this year but violence still continues in the city.
The opponents of Haftar say he is essentially involved in a struggle for power.
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[Ynet] Witnesses say Nigerian troops shot a man with explosives strapped to his torso trying to enter a refugee camp in northeastern Maiduguri city where another jacket wallah killed five people a day earlier.
The Sunday morning kaboom is the fifth in three weeks in Maiduguri, the birthplace of the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... Islamic Lion of Islam group blamed for the bombings.
Resident Abubakar Gajibo said he saw the bomber walking toward the camp "clearly displaying the strapped explosives on his body." He said they alerted soldiers who asked the man to surrender and fired when he ran. One explosive blew up and a second was safely detonated.
[CNN] Female jacket wallahs are suspected to be behind the twin kabooms that rattled the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Saturday near a refugee camp and a fuel depot, officials said.
The attacks targeted the city's Bakassi Internally Displaced Persons camp and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp.'s Mega Filling Station, the Nigerian army said in a statement.
At least nine people were killed and 24 injured in the two kabooms, according to the country's National Emergency Agency (NEMA).
In the first attack the suspected bomber ran into a crowd at the entrance of the Bakassi IDP camp, killing five people, the army said.
Ten minutes later and a mile away, a second blast killed three occupants on a motorized rickshaw at the entrance of a fuel depot owned by the National Oil Company. The army puts the total number of dead at 8.
"While we commiserate with the families of the late victims of this cruel act and wish those injured speedy recovery, we would like to assure the public that efforts are ongoing to track those behind the dastardly acts," an army front man said.
"However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... it is equally important to reiterate the need for more vigilance and security consciousness among all."
Pictures posted on NEMA's Twitter account show rescue workers at the scene of one of the bombings amid debris and destroyed cars.
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Reid Accuses Comey of Hatch Act Violation Do you have ANY idea how much it hurt them to write this? Their tears were delicious And who would know more about Hatch Act violations than Harry Reid, I ask?
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Is Harry, the pederast, afraid his name might show up in the Weiner files?
[American Thinker] The criminal investigation underway over Anthony Weiner’s alleged child sex infraction has a couple of characteristics that make it especially awkward for Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin, the estranged wife of Weiner and close companion of Hillary.
Ed Timperlake points out to me that in an underage sex investigation, all electronic communications of the investigative target are pursued. This probably led to the grand jury that was announced 11 days ago issuing a subpoena for all of the devices in the possession of Weiner and his family, including Huma. As Lucianne Goldberg quipped, they even seize the Speak & Spell toys in these cases. This grand jury is in New York, possibly less poltiically supervised than the first Hillary email investigation.
Evidently, some of these devices were not turned over in the first investigation and contained "pertinent" emails. We do not know with certainty, but some reports indicate the pertinent emails may have been found on Weiner’s laptop. Recall that the initial investigation did not convene a grand jury and did not therefore have subpoena power. It is possible that Huma Abedin misled the FBI over the existence of pertinent emails on her then-husband’s computing devices.
So what could have been on the laptop Carlos Danger used for sexting? Con't.
You gumshoes think my sexting and wanking is bad? Here, hold these lollipops while I go into Yahoo. You want BAD, I'll show you BAD.
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One aspect that hasn't been properly reported is that the Clinton outfit apparently stored a treasure trove of classified information unencrypted on systems like Yahoo's and Google's email services.
Here are just some pertinent questions:
Within Google and Yahoo who has logical or physical access to these databases?
Do these people have anything like security clearances?
Are they subjected to a security background check?
Is Google's and Yahoo's IT setup (software & hardware) secure? Do they use hardware that might have been tampered with? Are they protected against passive electromagnetic eavesdropping?
etc etc
If Abedin really transferred classified information to Yahoo for "printing" this is, again, an example of the Western political classes' flatworm like stupidity.
With these people at the helm something like SCIF is nothing but a Cargo Cult ritual.
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Not to be Cpt Obvious, but Yahoo revealed this Sept that at least 500 million of their email accounts were hacked. If Huma was using her Yahoo account to archive State Dept emails, it is a good possibility that state secrets were compromised.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Federal Police Chief, Raed Shaker Jawdat, announced liberating 61 villages and 1400 square kilometers during the battles to liberate Nineveh.
Jawdat said in a press statement, “Federal Police forces recaptured 61 villages, as well as liberating 1400 square kilometers of the province and evacuating 1369 families since starting the battles to liberate Nineveh.”
“747 ISIS terrorists were killed and 88 others were arrested during the battles,” Jawdat added.
“Security forces destroyed 164 booby-trapped vehicles belonging to the ISIS, 42 armed vehicles, 61 explosive belts and 47 booby-trapped motorcycles,” Jawdat explained. “We were also able to seize 25 vehicles, 170 pieces of weapons, 13 explosives plants, as well as dismantling 1066 improvised explosive devices,” Jawdat added.
Security forces from the army, al-Hashd al-Watani and Kurdish Peshmerga continue advancing in the liberation battles of Nineveh, backed by the international coalition and Iraqi aviation.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Kurdish Peshmerga forces managed to recapture two villages near Bashiqa, after besieging them for several days, media outlets reported on Sunday.
Al Sumaria News stated that Kurdish Peshmerga forces managed to storm into the villages of Kanona and Rozbayan in Bashiqa area, and pointed out that the two villages were besieged by the Peshmerga for several days.
“The military engineering brigades are now dismantling improvised explosive devices and other explosives in the two villages,” Al Sumaria added.
Security forces continue advancing in the battle to liberate Mosul from the ISIS grip, backed by Iraqi Army Aviation and international coalition air force, after General Commander of the Armed Forces announced launching the battle to liberate Mosul in 17 October 2016.
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Duhok – Kurdish Peshmerga forces hit Islamic State’s (ISIS) positions northeast of Mosul city on Sunday, and liberated four villages.
Iraqi Kurdistan’s Peshmerga forces expelled ISIS militants from the villages of Kanouna, Abu Jarbouh, Roshbiyan and Fadiliya.
“The liberated villages are located in the vicinity of Bashiqa town northeast of Mosul,” a Peshmerga spokesman told ARA News.
Engineering teams of the Peshmerga Ministry started on Sunday evening to clear the villages through dismantling explosives and landmines planted earlier by ISIS.
“Daesh terrorists have left behind a large deal of explosives around and inside those villages. Even civilian houses are filled with explosive devices, in an attempt by the terror group to kill as many people as possible,” the Kurdish official said, using another acronym for ISIS.
ISIS Under Siege
Sunday’s developments come just one week after the Kurdish troops launched an operation from two fronts in Bashiqa District, breaking through the Islamic State’s (ISIS) defensive lines and encircling the capital of the district, Bashiqa city.
Peshmerga spokesman Halgurd Hikmet told ARA News that forces on the Naweran and Bashiqa fronts have linked up. “We’ll wait […] to liberate Bashiqa, but first mine sweeping teams need to clean the villages,” he said.
A Peshmerga volunteer on the front told ARA News that the Peshmerga forces had cut off all of the roads from Mosul to Bashiqa. Kurdish soldiers are reportedly fortifying the newly unified front in anticipation of a breakout.
Thousands of Peshmerga soldiers participated in the multi-prong offensive, fighting to push ISIS out of Bashiqa District. “The operation follows recent, successful Peshmerga advances north and east of Mosul,” the Peshmerga General Command said in a statement last week.
“The morale of ISIS is gone; they have become very weak,” Peshmerga General Bahram Ali Siyasi, the commander of the Bashiqa operation, told ARA News. “Whereas the Peshmerga’s morale is high and their capabilities have improved, and the coalition has stepped up its support.”
Last week, the Kurdish forces secured more than 25 villages in the northeastern countryside of Mosul after clashes with ISIS.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – The Badr Organization announced on Sunday that it had liberated five villages west of the city of Mosul from the control of the Islamic State.
The organization’s brief statement mentioned that “Our forces managed to liberate the villages of lower al-Gorn, upper al-Gorn, al-Amrini, al-Salmani and al-Zarka, located west of the city Mosul, from ISIS control.”
“ISIS fighters retreated due to the advance of our liberation security forces,” the statement added.
Earlier today, the Badr Organization announced that 23 families who were held hostage by ISIS as human shields were freed in the village of al-Gorn from captivity.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Iraqi media outlets reported on Sunday, that the so-called ISIS Assra army started to hide its military troops to protect it from aerial bombings, while pointed out that a large number of Assra army’s leaders fled using civil vehicles.
Al Sumaria News stated, “ISIS terrorist gangs started to hide its vehicles inside houses and bury its troops in the center of city, in order to protect them from the air strikes by Army Aviation, international coalition and Iraqi air Force.”
“A large number of al-Assra army’s leaders fled using civil vehicles from the city of Mosul toward the Syrian city of Raqqa,” Al Sumaria added.
ISIS tried to use thousands of families as human shields, while prevented the families of liberated areas from communicating with Mosul residents.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – The British newspaper ‘The Observer’ reported on Sunday, that the Islamic State hid explosives inside children’s toys as a new method to hinder the battle to liberate Mosul.
The Observer stated that a teddy bear is propped on top of the explosives it was designed to hide and detonate. An adult would probably have walked by, but to a child the wide eyes and fuzzy orange fur would have been irresistible.
Colonel Nawzad Kamil Hassan, an engineer with the Kurdish Peshmerga forces said, “Why would ISIS use something nice, like a bear or a rabbit? They used this toy because they know the Peshmerga will pay much attention to it, but children will,” pointing out that, “Our brigade has cleared more than 50 tons of explosives from areas liberated from the ISIS control.”
Hassan also decided to preserve some of the most creative, cruel and unusual of those homemade bombs to use as training aids for new recruits.
The Observer also revealed that a toy, a playing card and an abandoned watch are all detonators designed to spark the acquisitive curiosity of a returning civilian, who would be maimed or murdered by the explosion.
“The expertise of ISIS with explosives and extensive use of suicide bombs and booby traps makes attacking them particularly dangerous, and slows recovery when they are defeated. Because there is no area, civilian or military, that the group will not lace with explosives, many Iraqis fear that returning to their homes and former lives could be deadly, even long after militants have left,” The Observer added.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Iraqi media outlets reported on Sunday, that the forensic medicine department in Nineveh Hospital received 134 bodies belonging to members of the Islamic State.
Al Sumaria News stated, “The forensic medicine department in Nineveh Hospital received, today, 134 bodies belonging to members of the Islamic State, including 40 members holding Arab and foreign nationalities, who were killed in the ongoing liberation battles of Shura area and Tel Keppe axis south and north of Nineveh.”
“The ISIS has imposed strict procedures around the hospital and barred approaching it, and evacuated a number of hospitals in the city to provide treatment for its members,” Al Sumaria added.
Security forces continue advancing in the battle to liberate Mosul from the ISIS grip, backed by Iraqi Army Aviation and international coalition air force.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – On Sunday, Badr Organization announced freeing 23 families from ISIS control in the village of al-Gorn, west of Mosul.
The organization said in a press statement, “Forces from Badr Organization managed, today, to free 23 families in the village of al-Gorn, west of Mosul, from ISIS control.”
“ISIS was using the families as human shields,” the statement explained. “Badr Organization’s forces continue liberating the village from the ISIS control,” the statement added.
Yesterday, spokesman for Asaib Ahl al-Haq Jawad Telbawi announced launching the battle to liberate the western areas of Mosul, and pointed out that all factions of al-Hashd al-Shaabi militia will participate in the battle.
[ARA News] Idlib – Militants of the Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (JFS) executed on Sunday two civilians in Syria’s northwestern city of Idlib, after accusing them of spying on behalf of the Syrian regime.
The JFS militants executed Muhammad Jabalak, 39, and Ammar al-Ali, 54, by firing squad in central Idlib.
“These two infidels have been cooperating with and spying for the Assad regime,” the group said in a public statement before carrying out the execution.
“The execution took place in front of hundreds of people,” local media activist Aiman al-Hussein told ARA News.
“The two men were executed right after being arrested. There has been no interrogation or material evidence about their involvement in any spying activities,” al-Hussein reported. “The incident angered the people of Idlib.”
JFS is an Al-Qaeda splinter group, which was previously known as Jabhat al-Nusra. The group shares control of Idlib with other Islamist rebel factions, including Ahrar al-Sham and the Army of Conquest [Jaish al-Fateh].
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[REUTERS] Iraqi troops and security forces edged closer to djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... on two southern fronts on Sunday but a leader of the Shi'ite militias newly participating in the offensive warned that the battle for 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.... 's Iraq stronghold would be long and grueling.
A military statement said the army's Ninth Armoured Division raised the Iraqi flag in the village of Ali Rash, about 7 km (4 miles) southeast of Mosul, after recapturing it from the ultra-hardline Sunni Moslem hard boys.
Further south, an Interior Ministry officer said security forces were advancing from the town of al-Shura, recaptured from Islamic State (IS) on Saturday, along the Tigris river valley towards Mosul 30 km (20 miles) to the north.
The army and security forces, along with Kurdish peshmerga fighters, have been backed by U.S.-led air and ground support in their two-week-old campaign to crush Islamic State in the largest city of its self-declared caliphate in Iraq and Syria.
Their battle for Mosul, still home to 1.5 million residents, could be one of the toughest in a decade of turmoil since the 2003 overthrow of Saddam Hussein, a Sunni Moslem, brought Iraq's majority Shi'ites to power.
On Saturday thousands of Iranian-backed Iraqi Shi'ite militia fighters, known as the Hashid Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) forces, joined the Mosul offensive, launching a campaign to take territory to the west of the city.
Their target is to seize the town of Tal Afar, 55 km (35 miles) west of Mosul, from Islamic State.
That would cut off any chance of the jihadists retreating into - or being reinforced from - their positions in neighboring Syria, Ahmed al-Asadi, a front man of the Popular Mobilisation, told a news conference. IS fighters have been "flowing into Mosul" from Syria, he added.
Iraqi troops and Kurdish peshmerga fighters are already driving Islamic State fighters back on the southern, eastern and northeastern approaches to Mosul.
"There is cooperation between ... the army, federal police, Hashid and counter-terrorism (forces) and also the (local Sunni) tribes," said Hadi al-Amiri, head of the Badr Organisation, the most powerful group within the Popular Mobilisation forces.
Speaking in the village of Ain Nasir in the semi-arid land west of the Tigris, Amiri said the fight against Islamic State bandidos krazed killers holding Mosul, who have already launched waves of suicide boom-mobiles, roadside kabooms and sniper attacks to slow down the advancing forces, could be long and bloody.
"The battle of Mosul will not be a picnic. It needs time, it needs precision, it needs a deep breath," he said, wearing military fatigues and with his face wrapped in a white checked headscarf against the wind and sand.
"We are prepared for the battle of Mosul even if it lasts for months".
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note this Shiite commander doesn't mention anything about protecting civilians - perhaps he doesn't consider the Sunni population to be worth protecting
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Actually, LG, his culture doesn't have a concept of "civilians".
ALEPPO: Syria’s regime and rebels were locked in fierce fighting Sunday on Aleppo’s western edges, where 38 civilians have been killed in an opposition offensive to break a devastating government siege.
Rebels have unleashed a salvo of rockets, car bombs, and shells to break through government lines and reach the 250,000 people living in the city’s east.
Syrian state media on Sunday accused them of firing shells containing toxic gas into government-controlled districts.
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[AlAhram] Four Egyptian armed forces personnel were killed in North Sinai amid ongoing operations against myrmidons, according to a statement released Saturday by the spokesperson for the Egyptian armed forces. The statement did not include the names of the killed personnel or their ranks.
According to the statement, issued Saturday evening, military operations in al-Arish, Rafah and Sheikh Zuwaid
...all near or on the border of the Gaza Strip...
resulted in the killing of six holy warriors and the arrest of two people wanted on criminal charges.
The statement added that security forces destroyed three warehouses used by holy warriors to store bombs. Security forces also detonated 12 bombs that they said were ready to be used against them on highways. The statement also said that three hideouts used by holy warriors were destroyed and a number of arms confiscated.
[AlAhram] Three policemen and three civilians were injured on Sunday after a car bomb detonated in North Sinai’s Al-Arish, Egypt’s interior ministry has said. According to a ministry statement, a suicide bomber was driving a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device which detonated next to a passing police patrol.
According to statement, the limbs of a person, believed to be the assailant’s, were found at the scene.
Initial reports had said that one Egyptian police officer and four civilians were injured in the incident, which took place near a bridge in the Granada district. The injured were transferred to hospital.
Last week, Egypt’s army launched a new campaign to fight Islamist militants in North Sinai, killing over 50 in response to a militant attack two weeks ago that killed 12 soldiers and injured six others.
In a statement posted on social media, the Islamic State affiliate in Egypt claimed the suicide car bomb, which damaged an armored vehicle and a police car.
[AlAhram] Egypt's interior ministry announced Sunday that it arrested five men suspected of carrying out an improvised explosive device (IED) attack on Gesr Al Suez road in Cairo hours after the explosion killed one civilian on Friday. According to a statement on the ministry’s official Facebook page, the men claimed responsibility for the IED attack, saying that they were targeting security forces.
The explosion, which killed a passerby and injured one other person in Cairo's Ain Shams district, is thought to have been intended for a passing security convoy.
The statement added that the attackers were plotting "other attacks targeting army and police personnel."
[NDTV] At least 19 Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... bad boyz were potted and eight others maimed in the Arclight airstrikes in Dangam district of eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... , bordering Pakistain, Afghan government said today, signalling a major crackdown on the terror group operating from across the border.
The Arclight airstrikes in Airogoi village in Dangam district last evening also destroyed one BM-1 rocket launcher and one machine gun belonging to the Pakistain-based terror group, the Afghan Ministry of Interior said in a brief statement.
"19 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba were killed and eight others were maimed," the statement said.
A major operation is underway in Dangam district to clear the area from the presence of terrorist groups, it added. The statement, however, did not provide the details of the air strikes and was silent on whether international coalition was involved in the operation.
The action against the terror group comes as local officials in neighboring Nuristan province said in mid-2014 that LeT is attempting to establish bases in eastern parts of Afghanistan, Khaama news reported.
"The officials further added that over 100 LeT Death Eaters were deployed in Nuristan province in an attempt to set up training camps in Kamdish district," it said.
The group, one of the largest and most proficient of the Kashmire-focused groups, was accused of coordinating and carrying out attack on Indian consulate in western Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province of Afghanistan in 2014, it added.
Last month, Afghanistan's Vice President Sarwar Danesh had accused Pakistain of waging an "undeclared war" on its people by plotting "merciless" terror attacks and training and financing groups like the Taliban and Haqqani network.
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At least seven Somali government soldiers were killed, and 14 others wounded after Al shabaab militants staged a massive attack on Goofgaduud area on Sunday.
Goofgaduud which is a small village located some 30Km north of Baidoa city fell to Al shabaab fighters following fierce fighting with pro-government forces. Pro-al shabaab media outlet reported militants attacked the area from four directions before capturing it. It said government forces suffered heavy losses.
Military officials who did want their names to published, told Radio Shabelle South-west state troops fled escaped from Goofgaduud after being overpowered.
Abdullahi Sheikh Mohamed, an army colonel in nearby town said Al shabaab lost 7-8 combatants in the intense clash in the area lasted for several hourss in the day.
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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.
"Hillary is enjoying a mimosa at a Florida bar this morning. Stop 1 on her tour today
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Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Suspected Kenya military jets have conducted an airstrike in southern Somalia, targeting an Al shabaab training camp in middle Jubba region, sources said.
Democrats hold themselves to the high moral standards they impose on the people they govern, they would follow a simple process:
[CNN] The quake struck 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) north of Norcia, the US Geological Survey reported.
(Washington, DC) ‐ Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuit to obtain Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) records relating to its "investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a non-government email server during her tenure." The lawsuit includes a demand for FBI "302" documents, which are reports of FBI investigation interviews. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:16-cv-02046).
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Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta received a K1 income tax form indicating that he was a partner sharing income with Leonidio Holdings, according to emails released Sunday by WikiLeaks. Another form was made out to Podesta's daughter, Megan Rouse, his partner in Leonidio Holdings.
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[ABC] COLUMBUS, OH (AP) -- History was made today in Columbus, Ohio when more than 3 million Amish poured into the city to see the American Amish Brotherhood (AAB), an organization which acts as an informal governing body for the Amish community, endorse Donald Trump for president. That number represents a significant portion of the total Amish population, which the United States Census Bureau says numbers more than 20 million men and women nationwide all pledging their vote to Trump for President. With the full force of the Amish community behind him, Donald Trump is now mathematically guaranteed to win the presidency in November.
A letter drafted by Hillary’s team is being sent to former federal prosecutors in the hopes that they will sign on to criticize the FBI director’s unprecedented moves.
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Reid Accuses Comey of Hatch Act Violation
