[BBC] Actor Robert Vaughn, best known as the secret agent Napoleon Solo in The Man from UNCLE, has died aged 83.
Vaughn was also famous for his role as Lee in the Magnificent Seven, and television roles in Hustle and Coronation Street.
The iconic actor died after a battle with acute leukaemia, his manager, Matthew Sullivan, told the BBC.
Vaughn died in New York on Friday morning surrounded by his family, he said.
The suave, debonair and impeccably dressed star David McCallum, from the hit TV show NCIS, who as Illya Kuryakin starred alongside Vaughn in The Man From UNCLE, told TVLine.com he was "utterly devastated" by the news.
"Robert and I worked together for many years and losing him is like losing a part of me. My deepest sympathies go out to Linda and the Vaughn family," he said.
Vaughn, who was "a few months shy of 84" had been seeking treatment for his leukaemia, Mr Sullivan said.
"He was a great human being. I enjoyed every day of working with him," he said.
[Daily Caller] An intelligence consulting firm founded by retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Donald Trump’s top military adviser, was recently hired as a lobbyist by an obscure Dutch company with ties to Turkey’s government and its president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The revelation of that new lobbying contract, which has not been previously reported, raises several questions given that Trump is said to be considering Flynn, the former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), to take over as either Secretary of Defense or National Security Advisor.
It also raises questions about disclosure.
Flynn wrote an op-ed for The Hill on Tuesday, just before Trump’s stunning upset of Hillary Clinton, in which he heaped praised on Erdogan and called on the next president, whoever that would be, to accede his request to extradite the U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen back to Turkey. Con't, unfortunately.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) successfully presents itself to the media as a benign civil rights organization, comparable to the NAACP or the ADL, a description that conservatives ineffectively rail against. In this light, perhaps a tweet sent out just after midnight EST on Nov. 9 by Hussam Ayloush, long-time head of CAIR's Los Angeles office, will help awaken the press to CAIR's true Islamist identity. Ayloush wrote:
Ok, repeat after me:
Al-Shaab yureed isqat al-nizaam.
(Arab Spring chant)
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He he promotes overthrowing the government he should be arrested as a traitor (if a citizen) or booted out of the country (if non-citizen).
[Newsmax] Billionaire U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Thursday he does not want the $400,000 annual salary that comes with the White House job and would turn it down if elected. I would have very publicly donated it to the NRA, but that's why I'll never be President.
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[Newsday] A lawyer for accused Chelsea bomber Ahmad Khan Rahimi complained that his medical condition might be too fragile for him to get adequate care in a federal jail as Rahimi made his first appearance on terrorism charges in Manhattan federal court on Thursday.
Federal defender David Patton said that Rahimi, who was transferred by New Jersey authorities into federal custody at 5 a.m., still had an open wound on his leg, a disabled hand and serious liver damage as a result of gunshot wounds suffered during his September arrest, and had experienced repeated infections.
"We have some real concerns about Mr. Rahimi’s medical condition and the ability of the [Metropolitan Correctional Center] to provide adequate medical care," Patton said. Cont'd.
While some pundits are declaring the Clinton political dynasty dead, sources tell us that it is far from over. Chelsea Clinton is being groomed for the New York seat held by Rep. Nita Lowey.
You have to have a Clinton running for an office, or planning to run, in order to keep the Clinton Foundation in business. The day you have no Clinton running for anything, there's no influence to peddle...
Chelsea could run for the seat in NYC’s 17th Congressional District once Lowey, a 79-year-old respected career politician with nearly 30 years in office, decides to retire, we have exclusively learned.
Lowey’s district includes parts of Rockland and Westchester counties and, conveniently, Chappaqua, the Clinton family home base.
In August, Hillary and Bill Clinton purchased a home next door to their primary residence in Chappaqua for $1.16 million, which is intended for Chelsea, her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, and their two children, Charlotte and Aidan. While Chelsea currently lives, and is registered to vote, in Manhattan, she could easily make Chappaqua her legal residence in order to run for Lowey’s seat when it becomes vacant.
A source told us, "While it is true the Clintons need some time to regroup after Hillary’s crushing loss, they will not give up. Chelsea would be the next extension of the Clinton brand. In the past few years, she has taken a very visible role in the Clinton Foundation and on the campaign trail. While politics isn’t the life Hillary wanted for Chelsea, she chose to go on the campaign trail for her mother and has turned out to be very poised, articulate and comfortable with the visibility."
And dumb as a bag of hammers...
The source continued, "There has been a lot of speculation within New York Democratic circles about Lowey’s retirement and Chelsea running for the seat. There is a belief that Chappaqua is a logical place for Chelsea to run, because it would be straightforward for her to raise money and build a powerful base."
A spokesperson for Lowey -- who is serving her 14th term in Congress and was first elected to the US House of Representatives in 1988 -- declined to comment.
They were too busy checking the good Congressman's food...
A spokesperson for Chelsea didn’t get back to us.
The Pubs won a hard fought victory. The inauguration for the new POTUS will occur Jan. 20th. Already, the Donks are considering how to extend the Clinton dynasty. Already, the Soros funded rent-a-riot crowd is out in the streets in full force across the country stirring up trouble and protesting the legitimate outcome of the 2016 election. The Pubs had better not be having notions of love, compassion, compromise, ignoring criminality, Kumbaya and reaching across the aisle because I can assure you the left is already plotting to "Take back their country" and turn the USA into a progressive nightmare for the rest of us. They assiduously and clandestinely gnaw away at the fabric of the country. If they had their way, the country would have a stacked SCOTUS and they would try to shift the demographics to ensure a Democrat dictatorship for the next 50-100 years. As Trump said, this was the last chance...he was right. It is best to push forward with investigations and not forget the rule of law. Those who have broken the law should be reminded that there are not two sets of laws; one for the wealthy and powerful and another for the rest of us. Push ahead on the Clinton Foundation investigation.
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Yet another reason the Clinton Foundation investigation must continue. Any bug man will tell you the job is not complete until the larvae are also destroyed.
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Grooming guy standing back and taking a good long look at this mutt; "I dunno. Gonna takes a LOT of grooming, might not be enough grooming materials on the planet".
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Grooming guy to assistant: "Get the hose, Charlie. Yeah, the industrial one..."
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Time to shut down that "charity" under RICO and revoke its status permanently. Chelsea's right in the middle of it. Let's see Obama give *her* a prospective pardon.
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Time for a little bit of unity, healing of the wounds, compromise and all that horse manure. So here's the deal: Chelsea doesn't run for office and Hillary doesn't get prosecuted. Take it or leave it.
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I suspect this has been a goal anyways, just now that mother is not going to be president, the time table has been forwarded.
Political appeal, she is still A league and is going to be call to pitch in the majors.
Still, offer Lowey a retirement package she can't refuse, put the machine to work in a solid dem district, get her in the House until a similar Senate position opens. In the meantime, a plum House assignment to learn the ropes of selling political power.
Thing is, she really isn't gifted in anything other than foundation receipts. Imagine trying to give advice to her. Say what you will about mother, she went through the hoops. This is spoiled brat untalented Hillary.
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@#6 That's too generous. Hillary & Bill plead guilty to felony charges, pay an enormous fine with no jail time, your family leaves politics forever and we won't prosecute and jail Chelsea.
[ZeroHedge] The US presidential election is historic, because the American people were able to defeat the oligarchs. Hillary Clinton, an agent for the Oligarchy, was defeated despite the vicious media campaign against Donald Trump. This shows that the media and the political establishments of the political parties no longer have credibility with the American people.
It remains to be seen whether Trump can select and appoint a government that will serve him and his goals to restore American jobs and to establish friendly and respectful relations with Russia, China, Syria, and Iran.
It also remains to be seen how the Oligarchy will respond to Trump’s victory. Wall Street and the Federal Reserve can cause an economic crisis in order to put Trump on the defensive, and they can use the crisis to force Trump to appoint one of their own as Secretary of the Treasury. Rogue agents in the CIA and Pentagon can cause a false flag attack that would disrupt friendly relations with Russia. Trump could make a mistake and retain neoconservatives in his government.
With Trump there is at least hope. Unless Trump is obstructed by bad judgment in his appointments and by obstacles put in his way, we should expect an end to Washington’s orchestrated conflict with Russia, the removal of the US missiles on Russia’s border with Poland and Romania, the end of the conflict in Ukraine, and the end of Washington’s effort to overthrow the Syrian government. However, achievements such as these imply the defeat of the US Oligarchy. Although Trump defeated Hillary, the Oligarchy still exists and is still powerful.
Trump said that he no longer sees the point of NATO 25 years after the Soviet collapse. If he sticks to his view, it means a big political change in Washington’s EU vassals. The hostility toward Russia of the current EU and NATO officials would have to cease. German Chancellor Merkel would have to change her spots or be replaced. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg would have to be dismissed.
We do not know who Trump will select to serve in his government. It is likely that Trump is unfamiliar with the various possibilities and their positions on issues. It really depends on who is advising Trump and what advice they give him. Once we see his government, we will know whether we can be hopeful for the changes that now have a chance.
If the oligarchy is unable to control Trump and he is actually successful in curbing the power and budget of the military/security complex and in holding the financial sector politically accountable, Trump could be assassinated.
Trump said that he will put Hillary in prison. He should first put her on trial for treason and war crimes along with all of the neoconservatives. That would clear the decks for peace with the other two major nuclear powers over whom the neoconservatives seek hegemony. Although the neoconservatives would still have contacts in the hidden deep state, it would make it difficult for the vermin to organize false flag operations or an assassination. Rogue elements in the military/security complex could still bring off an assassination, but without neocons in the government a coverup would be more difficult.
Trump has more understanding and insight than his opponents realize. For a man such as Trump to risk acquiring so many powerful enemies and to risk his wealth and reputation, he had to have known that the people’s dissatisfaction with the ruling establishment meant he could be elected president.
We won’t know what to expect until we see who are the Secretaries and Assistant Secretaries. If it is the usual crowd, we will know Trump has been captured.
A happy lasting result of the election is the complete discrediting of the US media. The media predicted an easy Hillary victory and even Democratic Party control of the US Senate. Even more important to the media’s loss of influence and credibility, despite the vicious media attack on Trump throughout the presidential primaries and presidential campaign, the media had no effect outside the Northeast and West coasts, the stomping grounds of the One Percent. The rest of the country ignored the media.
I did not think the Oligarchy would allow Trump to win. However, it seems that the oligarchs were deceived by their own media propaganda. Assured that Hillary was the sure winner, they were unprepared to put into effect plans to steal the election.
Hillary is down, but not the Oligarchs. If Trump is advised to be conciliatory, to hold out his hand, and to take the establishment into his government, the American people will again be disappointed. In a country whose institutions have been so completely corrupted by the Oligarchy, it is difficult to achieve real change without bloodshed.
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[Bus Insider] When President-elect Donald Trump spoke about expanding the Navy to 350 ships in his September national security speech, he's most likely taking his cues from Randy Forbes, the Republican Congressman from Virginia poised to take over as Secretary of the Navy in a Trump administration.
"The 350-ship navy, cruiser modernization ‐ those naval planks [in Donald Trump’s policies] are lifted from Randy Forbes," a source familiar with the matter told USNI News.
The president appoints a Secretary of the Navy to "conduct, all affairs of the Department of the Navy," which includes the Marine Corps. Trump, during his speech, said he wants to greatly increase the size of both the Navy and the Marines, and to generally "rebuild our military."
Additionally, Trump mentioned buying newer destroyers to bulk up the Navy's fleet of 272 ships, most likely with Zumwalt class destroyers, but the Navy has struggled so far to field those.
Forbes, a military adviser to Trump during his campaign, serves as a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, and makes it plain on his website that he is "one of the nation’s most forceful advocates for a strong national defense."
In September, Forbes asserted before Congress that "more than rhetoric is required to counterbalance China’s growing military power and assertiveness," referring to China's artificial island building and militarization in the South China Sea, as well as China ignoring an international court ruling that said its claims in the region were illegal.
China has declared "no fly" and "no sail" zones in international waters in the Pacific that have gone unchallenged by the US in the last few years. Increasingly Beijing bullies ships from its neighbors, some of whom are US allies.
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The Chinese intrusion of the South China Sea began with its invasion and occupation of Viet Nam's Paracel Islands in the nineteen seventies. That invasion received but the most tepid response in Washington where the Nixon administration was bent on reopening relations with China. Little territorial grabs (e.g., Hitler's occupation of the Rhineland) often portend dangerous consequences.
[IsraelTines] Indictments to be filed against eight suspects from northern West Bank and co-conspirator from East Jerusalem.
Paleostinians were incarcerated Book 'im, Mahmoud! over several months on suspicion of participating in a cell that targeted Israeli security forces with bombs, as well as for plotting future attacks against Israeli forces, the Shin Bet security agency said in a statement on Thursday.
According to the Shin Bet, it arrested the nine Paleostinians in a joint operation with the Israel Police and IDF.
Eight of the Paleostinians are from the northern West Bank, while one is an East Jerusalem resident. All were arrested between August and October.
The Shin Bet said that the Paleostinians from the northern West Bank were arrested for targeting IDF soldiers on numerous occasions with bombs, while Ahmed Azala, the Paleostinian from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Bab al-Huta in the Moslem Quarter of the Old City, was arrested for working with the cell to try and smuggle two kilograms (four pounds) of kaboom from the West Bank to Jerusalem to use in the preparation of pipe bombs.
Security forces confiscated laboratory equipment used for making kabooms and devices, as well as various types of raw materials used in the explosive-making process.
Indictments are expected to be filed in the coming days against the suspects in the Jerusalem District Court.
[IsraelTimes] Younis Ayash Musa Zayn allegedly armed, trained Lions of Islam who killed 4 in Tel Aviv; army arrests.
Israeli troops on Thursday filled with cement the bedroom of an accused accomplice involved in June’s Sarona Market terror attack, sealing it off, for his alleged role in the shooting, in which four people died, the army said.
Early Thursday morning, the Israeli forces arrived at Younis Ayash Musa Zayn’s home in the village of Yatta, outside Hebron, with cement trucks.
While several soldiers provided security for the operation, others prepped the bedroom to be sealed off, "in accordance with the orders of the politicianship," the army said.
On June 8, cousins Khalid and Muhammad Muhamra took a seat at a Max Brenner’s restaurant in Tel Aviv’s posh Sarona Market, ordered dessert and then opened fire with locally produced submachine guns. Four people -- Michael Feige, Ilana Naveh, Ido Ben Ari and Mila Mishayev -- were killed in the attack, and many more were maimed.
The cousins, who fled, were tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! near the scene; and Zayn, also known as Younis Awad, was picked up a short while later for assisting them.
He was charged with "planning the attack, providing the weapons and ammunition used for training for it and carrying it out, and hiding [the guns] in his house," the army said.
In August, the army fully demolished Khalid Muhamra’s home and partially destroyed his cousin Muhammad Muhamra’s, following a court decision.
Elsewhere in the West Bank early Thursday morning, Israeli troops arrested 20 Paleostinian suspects, the army said.
One of them was picked up in the village of Mirka, southwest of Jenin, for allegedly running an illegal gunsmithing workshop, the army said. Inside the workshop, soldiers found a homemade gun, a pistol and some bullets, which were all handed over to the Shin Bet security service, the army added.
Five of the detainees were arrested for alleged membership to the Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, terrorist organization, while the remaining 14 were picked up for throwing rocks or taking part in violent riots against security forces, the army said.
[IsraelTimes] No Israeli soldiers injured in Molotov cocktailing outside Ramallah; in Jerusalem, police arrest Arab man with a knife.
Israeli soldiers shot and maimed a Paleostinian man as he threw a Molotov cocktail at their position outside Ramallah on Thursday, the army said.
The troops had been guarding in Birzeit, north of Ramallah, when the assailant hurled the Molotov cocktail at them, an Israel Defense Spokesperson said.
"Responding to the threat, forces fired toward the attacker," the army said.
No Israeli troops were maimed in the incident.
The Paleostinian man was shot in the leg, according to Paleostinian media. He received medical treatment and was taken into custody, the army said.
According to the Ma’an news outlet, he had been part of a group of Paleostinian students demonstrating to mark the 12th anniversary of Paleostinian Authority president Yasser Arafat’s death.
Around the same time, in Jerusalem, security guards apprehended an Arab man who was carrying a knife at a light rail station, the police said.
The guards at the French Hill rail station noticed the man, who "aroused their suspicion." They, along with coppers who were at the scene, searched the suspect and found a large, wood-handled knife in his coat, police said.
The suspect is 28 years old and is a resident of East Jerusalem’s Shuafat refugee camp. He was taken to a cop shoppe in the center of Jerusalem for interrogation, the police said.
"The motive is being investigated," a police spokesperson added.
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The manipulation, driven by Obama’s Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and carried out in the Defense Department by senior Central Command (CENTCOM) officers, aimed to downplay the jihadist threat.
It is very clear the intelligence community has been both politicized and compromised. Trump would be wise to assemble a fusion cell of Grey Beards who could meet periodically and render observations and recommendations.
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I would also respectfully suggest that Gov. Christie consult with General Mattis and General Jack Keane: smart, experienced former commanders who have given a great deal of thought to, and sound advice to Congress regarding, the current administration’s strategic and intelligence voids.
Perfect. And surround the retired Generals with aggressive law enforcement and criminal intelligence pros - ones that hunt and drag the bad guys to the ground on a daily basis...not the smug "intellectual" "intel" folks that only provide vague products unfit for targeting and only used for rationalization.
[AlAhram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's air force in September made a public appeal to hundreds of former pilots to return to its depleted ranks to replace more than 350 airmen purged after July's failed coup.
The call has largely gone unanswered, according to military officials and former pilots, as the deep divisions exposed by the coup attempt in Turkey's military and other institutions remain unhealed.
Six pilots who left the air force over the past decade and would be eligible to return spoke to Rooters. Only one said he would re-register to help replace dismissed colleagues whom the government blames for being part of a network that planned the failed July 15 coup.
Air force pilots played a major role in the abortive putsch, commandeering jets and helicopters that bombed parliament and threatened the aircraft of President Tayyip Erdogan.
Turkish media have reported that only a tiny proportion of the several hundred pilots who left the force between 2010 and 2015 and would be eligible to return have actually re-registered. The numbers are "below expectations," said a military source who is not authorized to speak publicly.
The depletion in air-force resources comes at a delicate time for Turkey, the second-most militarized member of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... . Ankara is pursuing military incursions against 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.... in Syria and battling Kurdish PKK Lions of Islam in Turkey and northern Iraq.
Yet the former air force pilots contacted by Rooters said they felt betrayed by a military which had failed to protect them from followers within the ranks of Fethullah 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... , the U.S.-based holy man Turkey blames for the attempted coup and whose supporters have been incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! en masse since.
Working in commercial aviation is also more remunerative than air force salaries of less than 10,000 lira ($3,200) a month.
"Flying an F-16 was an honor for me and I have been unfairly deprived of that. I feel betrayed. Why should I come back?" said a former major who only gave his first name, Mehmet, for fear of being seen as disloyal.
Mehmet ‐ who graduated at the top of his pilot training course and has a post-graduate diploma from an international military school ‐ said he was grounded in 2008 by military doctors who said he had a heart condition.
He left the air force and built a career as a commercial pilot after other doctors gave him a clean bill of health, he said. Rooters could not independently confirm his medical status.
The military doctors who grounded him are now in jail, accused by the government of being members of the Gulen network.
Government officials deny that the coup and its aftermath have damaged Turkey's military capabilities. They acknowledge staff shortages but say that a more loyal and focused military will ultimately emerge.
The defense ministry and military command both declined to comment for this story.
The military source said the air force was considering a reserve system to allow commercial pilots to take temporary contracts, a move that could help lure back experienced fliers because it would allow them to maintain their lucrative commercial contracts at the same time.
The defense ministry also plans to start enrolling students from private universities to the Air Force Academy, widening its pool of candidates by dropping a condition that they must have attended military school.
"In two years time, you will see, our air force will be stronger than before," Abidin Unal, the top air force commander, told Turkey's Vatan newspaper two weeks ago.
The Turkish government blames Gulen and his sympathizers for infiltrating state institutions over decades and ultimately criminal masterminding the July 15 coup attempt.
Erdogan's critics, particularly Turkish secularists, say he and the Islamist-rooted AK party he founded allowed Gulen's followers to rise through the ranks to help control the military.
Turkey’s military institutions have long seen themselves as the guardians of the country's secular order and have ousted four governments since 1960 for posing what they saw as an Islamist threat.
The Gulenists ... the Turkish version of the Boogie Man, who set fire to the Turkish Reichsstag... ' impact was particularly acute in the air force, former military officials say. Several former pilots said military doctors struck off colleagues on what the pilots said were minor medical grounds as they tried to remove non-Gulenists from senior positions.
"I can count dozens of people like this ... It seemed that some people were getting rid of others who didn't necessarily think like them. But we could never be sure, so we didn't speak up enough," the second former air force pilot said.
Air force pilots were prominent in the coup attempt on July 15, commandeering fighter jets and helicopters in part of the bid to seize power. Fighter jets flown by pilots involved in the attempted coup harassed Erdogan's aircraft while he tried to return to Istanbul as the events unfolded.
More than 350 pilots and 40 technicians have been dismissed, detained, or are being sought.
Among those detained were the former head of the air force and several commanders of air bases including Incirlik, a hub for the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State. Three squadrons were taken off duty at the Akinci air base near Ankara, nerve center of the failed coup and home to some of the force's top pilots.
"Those who were dismissed mostly consisted of either experienced pilots or junior ones who were in the process of receiving weapons and tactics training," said Arda Mevlutoglu, a defense industry consultant.
"It can safely be said that Turkey's air force had lost a huge portion of experience and know-how because of this coup attempt," he added.
Turkey does not disclose the total number of its combat pilots, but its Defence and Aerospace magazine quoted the head of the air force in March 2015 as saying overall pilot numbers were expected to rise to 1,300 that year.
Turkish media have reported that the ratio of jets to combat pilots has dropped to below the 1:1.5 considered a healthy standard internationally, although there is no NATO rule on what the ratio should be. The air force has 240 F-16 jets and 49 F-4s for combat use, according to its website.
One NATO diplomat said that while there was concern about the purge of the Turkish air force, it had not yet resulted in any change to Turkey's commitments to NATO operations.
Faced with the shortfall, the force appealed in September for pilots with combat experience to rejoin, a call launched on its website and announced by the defense minister and widely publicized in the Turkish media.
Ersoy Cil, 40, a former F-4 pilot who left the military in 2015 after nearly two decades, is now returning.
"I never would have had the opportunity of a university education if it wasn't for the force," he said.
Cil’s parents would not have been able to afford a private university education but he was able to go through state-funded higher education after graduating from military school.
"This is me trying to pay back my huge debt."
But the others contacted by Rooters all shared a sense of betrayal for what had happened in the past.
"If there was an emergency situation, I'd go running," said a pilot who left the force in 2013 after more than a decade patrolling Turkey's borders and fighting the PKK. "But apart from that, the moment has gone, I've set up a new life."
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[IsraelTimes] Election results set up Republican Party to enact conservative policies and potentially cement political power for years to come.
Buoyed by Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s surprising strength, the Republicans maintained their control over a large majority of state legislatures across the country, setting up the GOP to enact conservative policies and potentially cement its political power for years to come.
Democrats had seen 2016 as a chance to chip away at the large advantage in statehouses the Republicans have enjoyed since 2010. But in state after state, they fell short.
With Tuesday’s results, the Republicans will control at least as many legislative chambers as they do now -- 68 out of 99, an all-time high for the GOP. And they will have full control of 33 legislatures, up from 31. (That includes Nebraska, which has a technically nonpartisan, single-chamber legislature.) The Democrats will be in full command in 13 states.
Republicans scored major victories by taking control of the Iowa and Minnesota Senates and the Kentucky House. They also held on to their majorities in chambers in several states that had been targeted by the Democrats, and apparently gained a tie in the previously Democratic-controlled Connecticut Senate.
The GOP wave also extended to governor’s races, where Republicans were expanding their sizable majority of seats.
The election wasn’t a total loss for Democrats. They picked up both chambers in Nevada and the House in New Mexico. They also took a one-seat advantage in the Washington Senate, but they still won’t have operating control, because one Democrat caucuses with the Republicans.
The results give Republicans a better chance of directing the redrawing of congressional and legislative districts that the states will undertake after the 2020 census. That, in turn, could help the GOP maintain its grip on power for years.
Some Democrats said they think the party could bounce back and gain the upper hand during redistricting.
"If a Trump presidency at all resemble the Trump candidacy, Democrats nationwide will be buoyed by Republican backlash in the next two election cycles," Carolyn Fiddler, a spokeswoman for the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, said in an email.
More immediately, the Republicans’ successes on Tuesday could have implications for joint state-federal programs such as Medicaid, infrastructure funding and energy policy, all of which could change dramatically under a Trump administration.
"It’s an obvious and unavoidable trend at this point," said Matt Walter, president of the Republican State Leadership Committee, which ran TV ads on behalf of legislative candidates in Kentucky and other competitive states.
He said he expects more state control of health insurance if President Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... ’s Affordable Health Care Act is scaled back or repealed. Anti-union right-to-work laws also could expand in the states.
Stephen Voss, a University of Kentucky political scientist, said he expects rapid change in policies in his state with Republicans now firmly in control, including perhaps programs that use taxpayer money to send students to private schools.
With the Kentucky win, Republicans now control every state legislative chamber in the South. One Democrat ousted was Greg Stumbo, the House speaker and former state attorney general who was a major force in Kentucky politics for decades. He represents a rural district where Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as a crook... was especially unpopular.
Republicans appeared to hold onto many legislative bodies that Democrats went after hard, including the Senate in West Virginia and the House in Michigan.
In Iowa, the Republicans stunned the Democrats to easily take control of the Senate by picking up at least six seats in the 50-seat chamber. They needed to flip just three districts to win the chamber.
The election swept out Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal, a powerful Democrat who had been a fixture in state government for three decades. Democrats had credited Gronstal in recent years with blocking GOP efforts to roll back gay marriage and abortion rights, enact restrictions on voting and limit the clout of public employee unions.
Republicans now control the Iowa governor’s office and both houses of the General Assembly for the first time since the late 1990s.
[Ynet] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's state-run news agency ...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?... says a prosecutor is seeking a life term in prison for author and columnist Asli Erdogan, whom he accuses of membership in an armed terror organization.
Anadolu Agency says Thursday the prosecutor is also demanding life sentences for eight other employees of the now-closed pro-Kurdish Ozgur Gundem newspaper. The prosecutor's indictment accuses all nine of membership in the outlawed Kurdish rebel group, threatening Turkey's unity and engaging in terrorist propaganda.
Erdogan -- who is not related to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... -- was tossed in the clink Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in August amid heightened concerns that authorities are using emergency powers meant to deal with perpetrators of the failed military coup in July to go after all government critics.
The indictment must be accepted by a court before trial can begin.
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[AlAhram] Egypt's armed forces and police force raided 11 major "armed terrorist hotspots" in North Sinai governorate killing six bad boys, the army spokesperson announced in an official statement on Thursday.
The spokesperson stated that security forces managed to destroy 40 bombs that were being prepared to be used to target the forces during operations in the raid that covered the areas of al-Arish, Sheikh Zowaid and Rafah.
Also, four cycle of violences were destroyed that had been used to monitor and attack security forces.
Weapons and ammunitions as well as wireless communication devices were found in the bad boys' hotspots during the raid.
[Reuters] Officials in New York and Los Angeles on Thursday said they hoped President-elect Donald Trump would not follow through on a campaign promise to withhold federal funds from "sanctuary cities" that shield people who are in the country illegally.
Good luck with that. It's low-hanging fruit for President The Donald to withhold your funds -- he can do it with a simple executive order and he'll make his base very, very happy...
The nation's two largest cities have sharply limited their cooperation with U.S. immigration authorities seeking to deport undocumented immigrants.
President Barack Obama's administration has used so-called detainer requests to target undocumented immigrants convicted of criminal acts, especially violent ones. New York and Los Angeles do not hold undocumented inmates in jail at the request of the U.S. Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unless the detainer request is accompanied by a judge's order, officials said.
Trump said during a debate with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in October he would seek to deport major drug dealers. "We have some bad hombres here and we're going to get them out," he said.
Trump early in his campaign pledged to deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States and also threatened to withhold federal funds from sanctuary cities.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a news conference on Thursday that New York would continue to defend undocumented immigrants.
"We are not going to sacrifice a half million people who live among us, who are part of our community," de Blasio said, referring to an estimate of the number of unauthorized immigrants living in New York. "We are not going to tear families apart."
De Blasio said Trump's threat to withhold funds from sanctuary cities was "dangerous," but it was too soon to tell whether the president-elect intended to follow through on all his proposals.
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Bold talk for one eyed fat men. I recommend your legal team have a discreet talk with Rudy's legal team. Be a shame to see you both behind bars for obstruction of Federal law. But thanks for going on record anyway.
[Daily Caller] West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin announced during the election Tuesday that he might be jumping on the Trump Train become a Republican if the Senate is evenly split.
Manchin is a conservative-leaning Democrat who has repeatedly clashed with other Democrats over coal power and environmental regulations.
Coal is a critical industry in West Virginia. America has 83,000 fewer coal jobs and 400 coal mines than it did when President Barack Obama was elected in 2008, showing the president has followed through on his pledge to "bankrupt" the coal industry. Con't.
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Wouldn't have anything to do with Manchin’s daughter, Heather Bresch, who is the CEO of Mylan, which manufactures EpiPens? No, probably not.
The company is under fierce criticism [and who knows what other unpleasantness] for raising the prices on the emergency allergy drug by 500 percent while giving raises to its executives, including Bresch.
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Donk Senator huh? How about instead a job as head of the EPA? Opens the seat in Washington and puts someone in charge of an agency that has systematically killed his state. And its 'bi-partisan'!
[Daily Caller] The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit an all-time intraday high of 18,873.6 Thursday, the day after Donald Trump was elected president.
The Dow average also hit an all-time high before the closing bell Wednesday. The Nasdaq composite underperformed Thursday and was down .3 percent two hours after noon and the S&P 500 is up about 4 points.
Liberal economists like Paul Krugman had anticipated that a Trump election would be disastrous for the markets. Initially, Tuesday night they were plunging but surged on Wednesday.
Krugman said Tuesday night, "If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never."
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"Liberal economists like Enron adviser Paul Krugman"
FTFY, #3 John. No charge. :-D
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Not holding my breath that this 'surge' will continue. Thinking it may be the 'friends of HillBill' (with the other usual suspects) running with their products prior to inauguration.
Running while the getting (and taking) is good.
Hoping I'm wrong. Really hoping.
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[Guardian] A Tenessee mother and founding member of a parents’ group opposed to Islamic "indoctrination" has asked for a history textbook to be removed from her daughter’s social studies curriculum, claiming that it "promotes Islamic propaganda".
Michelle Edmisten, a founder of the Facebook group Sullivan County Parents Against Islam Indoctrination, first raised the issue in October, after her daughter was given an assignment requiring her to answer questions about the name of Islam’s holy book, and the five pillars of Islam.
Edmisten told the board of education that her child "felt some of the assignments went against her beliefs as a Christian", according to WJHL.com, and called for the textbook ‐ My World History, published by UK-based Pearson ‐ to be "yanked from the school immediately".
"I would like to see parents, Christians, veterans, anyone that’s anyone, stand up for this fight. How can I, as a Christian, say that I have these values?" she said at the time. According to a report from local paper Times News, she was applauded as she called for the book to be removed, and for those present to "take back our families, schools and our country".
The controversy sadly reflects larger efforts to purge lessons on Islam from schools in Tennessee National Coalition Against Censorship Edmisten has now filed a formal complaint to the school district, claiming the textbook "promotes Islamic propaganda". "It gives false claims and views on Islam, trying to ’normalise’ [it] through our children," she wrote.
According to the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), Sullivan County policy gives the school’s headteacher 15 days to convene a review committee to "determine the extent to which the [challenged] material supports the curriculum", and recommend a way forward to the head. Con't.
[PJ Media] Turkey’s Dogan Holding held two international events on October 20 in Washington, D.C., reported the Dogan News Agency (DHA), "in a bid to globally fight against the fallacies and prejudices directed toward Islam."
A panel titled "Islamophobia: Overcoming Myths and Engaging in a Better Conversation" was organized in cooperation with the U.S.-based Atlantic Council think tank and the Smithsonian Institution.
Also, the opening gala of the exhibition -- titled "The Art of the Qur’an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts" -- was held on October 19 at the Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian.
Marking a first in the U.S., centuries-old Qur’ans taken from the Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum in Istanbul are being shown at the exhibition, which is being sponsored by the Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry, Koc Holding, Dogan Group, and Turkish Airlines. The exhibition will be open through February 20, 2017.
While the Turkish government and Turkish organizations are striving so hard to "fight against Islamophobia," religious minorities and even non-observant Muslims in Turkey are continually exposed to discrimination, physical violence, as well as unlawful detentions and deportations.
The latest Christian victims are Rev. Andrew Brunson and his wife Norine. The pastor of the Resurrection Church in the city of Izmir, and his wife were detained on October 7.
Norine was released on October 20. She is allowed to stay in Turkey only until November 12, when her residence permit will expire. However, Turkish authorities are still holding her husband in isolation in an Izmir detention facility on the grounds that he is "a national security threat to Turkey." The couple has resided in Turkey for the past 20 years.
Rev. Brunson has been refused contact with lawyers since he was detained.
Officials from the U.S. Embassy in Ankara went to Izmir to see Brunson, but they were prevented by Turkish authorities from contacting the pastor. Con't.
[Breitbart] Snoop Dogg didn’t seem to take Donald Trump’s presidential election victory Tuesday night well -- the rapper is already contemplating a move out of the country.
Snoop posted a photo to Instagram of Toronto’s iconic Canadian National (CN) Tower, and said he needs to get the "hookup" on "some property."
"My new home. @champagnepapi I need the hookup on some property. Nefew fuc* this shit I’m going to the. 6ix [sic]," Snoop wrote, mentioning Toronto-based rap mega star Drake.
[Breitbart] The White House signals it is hopeful that President-elect Donald Trump will not prosecute Hillary Clinton, citing a tradition in America of not using the justice system to enact revenge on a political opponent.
"[W]e’ve got a long tradition in this country of people in power not using the criminal justice system to exact political revenge," spokesman Josh Earnest says. "In fact, we go to great lengths to insulate our criminal justice system from partisan politics."
When Obama took office, many leftists wanted to see George W. Bush and Dick Cheney prosecuted for what they called "war crimes," because of the use of enhanced interrogation techniques to question terrorists. But President Obama appeared reluctant to prosecute career law and intelligence officials in the Bush administration, citing in 2009 "a belief that we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards."
During a press conference, Earnest was reluctant to discuss potential pardons, insisting that it was improper to discuss them in advance. He did not rule out a potential pardon for Clinton but reminded reporters of Obama’s discussion of pardons in August.
When asked to reflect on his decision to commute the sentences of thousands of drug offenders, Obama indicated that he would not issue last-minute political pardons before leaving office. Any presidential pardons, he explained, would go through a rigorous legal process to avoid looking political.
"It’s going to be reviewed by the pardon attorney, it will be reviewed by my White House counsel, and I’m going to, as best as I can, make these decisions based on the merits, as opposed to political considerations," Obama said during a press conference.
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This could (I say again could) be a signal that the Champ is not planning on giving the Beest a pardon before he cleans out his desk. Why burn a bridge.
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Barack: "Please don't prosecute Hillary."
Donald: "Why, did she commit a crime?"
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Would jimmuh have taken it easy on Nixon if Ford hadn't pardoned him?
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IMO he was high through his presidency too.
I bet it would be too damn easy to find marijuana residue in the White House these days.
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Go ahead and pardon her for Benghazi and the mail server. I want to see the Clinton Foundation taken down and its officers and directors indicted for racketeering and influence peddling.
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For rule of law, not for political revenge. Trump should make sure to keep his hands well clear of the thing and ensure its fair and on the up-and-up.
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What KBK said - revoke their tax-exempt status to whatever point in time, treat it as a C corporation and hand the Clintons the bill. That works for me!
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a long time ago, Joseph Kennedy Sr. told JFK "gimme the bill for how many people we need to buy to win - but do NOT go overboard - I'm not gonna pay for a landslide (this may be apocryphal)
AFAIK Trump owes nobody - except his supporters - so no chits getting cashed
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BV that was for the West Virginia primary (one of very few at the time), I suspect it's true.
I stumbled on this.. Wherein the kind and tolerant people of the Jezebel website analyze how horrible and terrible the first 100 days of Trump's presidency will be. Have plenty of tissues - you're going to laugh very, very, hard!
For the duration of this seemingly-interminable campaign, Donald Trump has been quietly laying the groundwork for the damage he would enact if he was elected President. As that terrible fever dream is now a reality, he has released his plan for his first 100 days in office and it’s just as bad as we all thought it would be.
NPR reports Now there's an unbiased source....
that the plan focuses on three major areas familiar to those paying attention to his campaign: cleaning up Washington via term limits in Congress; addressing the needs of the American worker; and implementing an astonishingly xenophobic plan to restore the rule of law via the immediate removal of undocumented immigrants That's illegal aliens to anyone with any sense.
and an "extreme vetting" system for those who wish to seek refuge in this country.
Also included in his plan is a clear path to repealing Obamacare and legislation that would make his dream of building a fucking wall Gotta ask this question: How does a wall F**k?
They spread spores in the wind like mushrooms, if I recall correctly from Bio 101. The spores are fairly heavy, though, so they don't spread far. This is why walls tend to form villages and then cities, rather than spreading themselves evenly across the surface of the planet.
at the border of Mexico and the United States a reality. For what it's worth, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a RINO
has already expressed his disapproval of a few of Trump’s plans, including term limits, saying "It will not be on the agenda in the Senate...I would say we have term limits now -- they’re called elections."
As for the rest of the dreck, McConnell feels strongly about repealing Obamacare and tax reform, as well as securing the borders "in whatever way is the most effective." Really great news all around. I certainly think so!
The plan reads like the late-night rantings of a frustrated, impotent man ...something Jezebel's writers and readers are intimately familiar with. As for Trump, one only has to look at his family and wife...
with little to no understanding of how the government actually works. In short, it is sadly what one would expect from Donald Trump. Go there and read the comments - they're a hoot!
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As that terrible fever dream is now a reality, he has released his plan for his first 100 days in office and it’s just as bad as we all thought it would be.
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There is one argument against term limits that has to be seriously considered.
Currently the long serving Congress critters are the only possibility to control the lobbyists and bureaucrats that actually run things. Granted that they're most all part of the inner party but they are also the only ones in a position to ave any impact at all.
So, if you want term limits your need to address this side of the issue too. IMHO what is needed is some sort of sunset provision put on all existing laws and regulations to make sure that each and everyone of them is processed through Congress. YMMV
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Yes, there are elections and occasionally they boot someone out. But usually the primaries and voting districts are so manipulated that it is impossible to get long standing shit stains out of office. Term limits, while also removing a few good people, would keep the mulch churning so to speak.
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Jezebel is another Gawker offshoot, infested top to bottom by rabid misandrist cunts. There is nothing of value in anything they write, except to laugh at and mock them.
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Well, it's that, and two other things - I haven't fully weighed the impact of losing all of my clients, and probably the biggest factor - I fucking HATE Washington DC.
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I happen to like my congressman Jimmy Duncan. Forcing him out of office against my wishes due to someone else not liking their peep and insisting on term limits is BS.
[Chicago Tribune] Former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock was indicted Thursday, accused of 24 alleged violations of federal law including theft of government funds, fraud, making false statements and filing false tax returns. He's a Republican, but he's from Illinois, which explains it. A Republican from New York could do the same things, I'm told...
Schock, 35, quit Congress in disgrace last year after first being elected in 2008.
James Lewis, the U.S. attorney in Springfield, said in a news release that Schock defrauded the federal government and his campaign committees and covered up his actions with false statements, claims and invoices.
"These charges allege that Mr. Schock deliberately and repeatedly violated federal law, to his personal and financial advantage," Lewis said. "Mr. Schock held public office at the time of the alleged offenses, but public office does not exempt him or anyone else from accountability for alleged intentional misuse of public funds and campaign funds."
Schock's alleged misconduct occurred from 2008 through October 2015, the prosecutor said.
The indictment says Schock "engaged in a scheme to defraud the government, his campaign committees, and others for his direct personal benefit and for the benefit of others," Lewis said.
The ex-lawmaker "allegedly repeatedly submitted and caused false and fraudulent claims, invoices, and vouchers" to the U.S. House for payment as well as to three different campaign committees: Schock for Congress, the Schock Victory Committee and the GOP Generation Y Fund, he said.
Schock allegedly generated income to himself, which resulted in a loss of more than $100,000 to the government, the campaign committees and others, Lewis said.
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[Cincinnati.com] A Cincinnati man serving a life sentence for drug offenses was one of 72 commutations granted by President Barack Obama It’s very rare that I come to an event where I’m like the fifth- or sixth-most interesting person.... on Friday.
Donald L. Graham, 38, was serving a life sentence with 10 years' supervised release for distribution and intent to distribute crack cocaine and two counts of aiding and abetting. Graham was one of 17 inmates serving a life sentence commuted by Obama.
With the commutation, Graham's sentence is now set to expire on March 4, 2017, with all terms of a supervised release and other related conditions still intact.
Obama has now granted 170 commutations in the past eight days — the largest in any single year in history — bringing his total to 944.
"What President B.O. has done for commutations is unprecedented in the modern era." Neil Eggleston, White House Counsel, said in a news release. "The president is committed to reinvigorating the clemency authority, demonstrating that our nation is a nation of second chances, where mistakes from the past will not deprive deserving individuals of the opportunity to rejoin society and contribute to their families and communities."
Over the years after his conviction, Graham tried repeatedly to appeal his sentence or have it reduced, unsuccessfully, according to court documents.
Commutations come from the president's constitutional power to "grant pardons and reprieves for offenses against the United States." They differ from a pardon, however, because it leaves intact the other consequences stemming from a conviction.
According to USA TODAY, Obama has now granted 170 commutations in the past eight days -- the largest in any single year in history -- bringing his total to 944.
[INFOWARS] Shocking video out of reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... shows a mob of young black men viciously beating an older white man because he voted for Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... , dragging him through the streets as he hangs out of the back of his car.
The clip shows the thugs repeatedly screaming, "you voted Donald Trump" as they assault the victim from every angle while others steal his belongings.
"You voted Trump," the mob screams, "You gonna pay for that sh*t."
Another woman shouts "beat his ass," while another man is heard laughing before remarking, "Don’t vote Trump."
A second video of the incident which is dubbed with the "F**k Donald Trump" song, a phrase now being chanted by "protesters" across the country, shows one of the attackers driving away in the man’s vehicle while his hand is still stuck in the window as the car drags him down the street.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... was one of the first Arab leaders to congratulate Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... on his election win on Wednesday, but analysts say a Trump presidency may be profoundly negative for Paleostinian aspirations while buoying Israel's confidence.
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Love to see it, but if we can't defend a backwater facility like Benghazi why does anybody think one in this hotspot would last?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iran wants all parties to stay committed to an international nuclear deal signed last year, but has options if that does not happen, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Thursday.
He spoke after the US presidential election victory of Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... , who had said he was opposed to the nuclear pact during campaigning.
"Of course Iran's options are not limited but our hope and our desire and our preference is for the full implementation of the nuclear agreement, which is not bilateral for one side to be able to scrap," Zarif told a news conference in Bratislava after meeting his Slovak counterpart Miroslav Lajcak.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The last remaining stocks of food rations are currently being distributed in Syria's rebel-held eastern Aleppo and there will be nothing left to hand out next week without a resupply, the UN said Thursday.
"The reports we have now from within East Aleppo is that the last food rations are being distributed as we speak," the head of a UN-backed humanitarian taskforce for Syria, Jan Egeland, told journalists.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] On the banks of the Tigris river, men sit and watch, smiling with relief as Iraqi coppers, soldiers and local youths bathe in muddy spring water in a town that was recaptured from ISIS just a few days ago. Across town, there is a grimmer scene: two stinking corpses, their feet tied together, rot in the sun in a large dirt quadrant walled by four man-made earth berms.
One body is intact. The other has parts missing. A severed head lies next to them, its skull mostly visible. What appear to be several other corpses protrude from the dirt and detritus. A policeman cautions not to approach or touch the bodies, in case they are booby-trapped. Narrow, shallow trenches up to 20 yards long have been dug in some parts of the quadrant.
Residents of the town, Hammam al-Alil, say this is the site of a mass grave which Iraqi forces reported to have uncovered on Monday after driving out ISIS bad boys. Iraq has launched an investigation into what would be further evidence of the ultra-hardline group’s brutality against people living in areas under its control since it established its self-styled "caliphate" across much of northern Iraq and Syria more than two years ago.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iran's semi-official Fars news agency is reporting that the armed forces chief of staff has criticized Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... for his past harsh words about confronting Iranian boats in the Gulf.
The Thursday report quotes Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri as saying, "The person who has recently achieved power, has talked off the top of his head! Threatening Iran in the Gulf is just a joke."
He said American presidential candidates during their campaigns "eat too much sugar," a reference to a Farsi proverb about those who talk nonsense.
In September, Trump said Iranian ships trying to provoke the US "will be shot out of the water."
In January, Iran took 10 American sailors prisoner ship veered off course into Iranian waters; they were released a day later.
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Trump threat is a joke, says Iranian military chief
As is the nuclear agreement he is threatening to tear up.
[DAWN] KARACHI: The banned Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat ...which is the false nose and plastic mustache of the murderous banned extremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain, whatcha might call the political wing of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... (ASWJ) on Wednesday staged a protest demonstration outside the Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... Press Club against alleged extrajudicial killing of a local leader of the party, who was killed in an ’encounter’ in Manghopir on Tuesday.
Carrying the coffin of Maulana Yusuf Qudoosi, the ASWJ workers ended the protest after getting ’assurances’ from authorities that justice would be done, said their spokesperson.
He said local leader of the party in Orangi Town Maulana Yusuf was taken away from his home around nine months ago by men in plain clothes.
The family had also filed a petition before the Sindh High Court. However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... on Tuesday the Manghopir police claimed to have killed him in an ’encounter’ on the outskirts of the city.
The ASWJ spokesperson said that following their protest, a meeting was held with the commissioner of Karachi. Later on, the police authorities suspended Manghopir SHO Ghulam Husain Korai and ordered an inquiry, which was supposed to be completed within three days.
The ASWJ head, Allama Aurangzeb Farooqi, warned that if justice was not provided to the family of the victim, they would be compelled to hold protest outside Chief Minister House.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday he is willing to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which US President-elect Donald Trump has said he wants to change or scrap.
During the campaign, Trump called NAFTA the worst trade deal the United States has ever signed, while proposing protectionist measures to repatriate American jobs lost to free trade.
"I think it's important that we be open to talking about trade deals," Trudeau -- a fierce defender of free trade, which helps bolster the Canadian economy -- told reporters.
"If the Americans want to talk about NAFTA, I'm more than happy to talk about it," he said, adding that it was important to periodically reassess trade deals to ensure that they continue to be of benefit to Canadians.
Trudeau called the president-elect on Wednesday to congratulate him on his election victory.
The 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) binds 530 million consumers in Canada, the United States and Mexico. Bilateral trade crossing the US-Canadian border amounts to US$1.8 billion daily.
Thirty-four US states rely on trade with Canada, which supports nine million American jobs, while exports to the United States represents 20 percent of Canada's GDP.
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Let's start with the movie and music industries.
At least seven unarmed civilians, including 85-year-old prominent traditional elder and a pregnant mother were shot dead by Ethiopian troops serving with the AU mission in Somalia (AMISOM).
The AU soldiers carried out a mass shooting in Dac area, after they were ambushed by armed Al shabaab fighters near Elbur town in Galgaduud region. Al shabaab fighters attacked a military escorting convoy transporting Ethiopian troops at Dac vacinity, as it was travelling from Elbur and en route to a nearby bases.
So the AU troops were provoked and then responded with indiscriminate fire. Not a whole lot of discipline there...
Or not a lot of concern for their very considerate hosts.
A local official, who did not want to be named, has confirmed the murder of the four civilians by the Ethiopian troops of AMISOM contingent near Elbur district.
On Wednesday, Ethiopian troops vehicle overrun and killed a pregnant Somali woman and her two babies outside Wahbo district, according to the official.
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Mexico is willing to "modernize" the North American Free Trade Agreement with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration and Canada, but will not renegotiate the pact, the foreign minister said.
Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu said NAFTA has "yielded great results" for the three nations, but that there is an opportunity to make it "more beneficial" to all.
"We are willing to talk about this with the new government and with Canada as well," Ruiz Massieu told CNN late Wednesday.
"We think it is an opportunity to think if we should modernize it, not renegotiate it, but to modernize it," Ruiz Massieu said.
Call the process what you will...
NAFTA will be discussed with Trump's transition team in the coming months, she said.
President Enrique Pena Nieto announced on Wednesday that he and Trump had agreed to meet, possibly before the New York billionaire's inauguration in January.
Trump has vowed to renegotiate or rip up the 22-year-old free trade deal. He has also angered Mexicans with his pledge to force Mexico to pay for a border wall and deport millions of undocumented migrants, whom he has called rapists and drug runners.
Two-way trade in goods between Mexico and the United States totaled $531 billion in 2015.
Ruiz Massieu said Mexico "believes in free trade" and the governments "have the challenge to make sure that the opportunities created by NAFTA are more inclusive and that more people in the three countries feel the benefit of this integration agreement."
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A Louisiana college student has acknowledged she fabricated a report that she was assaulted and robbed of her wallet and Muslim headscarf by two men, one of whom she described as wearing a white "Trump" hat, police said Thursday.
The Lafayette Police Department said in a statement that it is no longer investigating the 18-year-old woman's claims, which were made within hours of Donald Trump's presidential victory.
Police said the student told investigators she was walking near the University of Louisiana at Lafayette's campus Wednesday morning when she was accosted by two white men who drove up in a gray sedan. Police added the student had claimed the men shouted racial obscenities as they knocked her down and stole her wallet and the headscarf, known as a hijab.
Did she sign a complaint? If so she can and should be prosecuted for filing a false report.
Charlie Bier, a spokesman for the university, said a federal privacy law prohibits him from saying whether the student could be disciplined.
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There was a page I found with incident after incident of graffiti and other incidents that were supposedly 'hate crimes' that happened after the election and I couldn't help but doubt nearly every one. Like the main stream media that cried hitler one too many times the Faux hate crime is far more common than the real one.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... Executive Editor Dean Baquet said his newspaper's insular world view is at fault for so wrongly misreading the election that saw Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... become the president-elect.
In an interview with Times media columnist Jim Rutenberg, Baquet said he and his publication on the lam did not see Trump's coming success on Election Day because they do not understand much of the country's voters.
"If I have a mea culpa for journalists and journalism, it's that we've got to do a much better job of being on the road, out in the country, talking to different kinds of people than the people we talk to -- especially if you happen to be a New York-based news organization -- and remind ourselves that New York is not the real world," he said.
Baquet's apologia was a refrain of what many journalists and news hounds have said since it was clear that Trump would likely win the nomination in the early months of 2016. But even up until Election Day, most news outlets predicted a win for Clinton.
If the NYT had openly admitted that they were the newspaper of record for Midtown, no one would mind. It's just that they claimed to speak for every "enlightened" citizen in the country, when in fact they didn't...
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tightly packed Urbanites are the group most missing the mark on America..... they live for their own orgasms and self gratification.
Country Folk ( that basket of deplorables ), on the other had, help each other, understand that unbridled greed is a "bad" thing, and that ones immediate gratification comes from charity and selflessness.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Projectiles fired by Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... left at least 14 people injured in the Saudi city of Dhahran, South of the Kingdom, Saudi Civil Defense reported.
The Civil Defense Directorate announced on its Twitter account, that 13 Saudi citizens and one expat were maimed in the attack that simultaneously damaged three houses.
Last week, Saudi artillery responded by directly hitting Houthi targets following similar rockets attacks in the border towns of Jazan and Najran.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The EU’s top leaders on Wednesday invited US President-elect Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... to a summit as soon as possible as they warned of uncertainty in relations and a need to respect democratic values.
"I do not believe that any country today can be great in isolation," European Council chief Donald Tusk told news hounds in Brussels, referring to Trump’s campaign slogan of "Make America Great Again".
"Europe and the United States simply have no option but to cooperate as closely as possible."
Tusk and European Commission boss Jean-Claude Juncker said in a letter that they wanted to discuss "unprecedented challenges" including the ISIS group, the conflict in Ukraine, and a troubled EU-US trade deal under negotiation.
"We would take this opportunity to invite you to visit Europe for an EU-US summit at your earliest convenience. This conversation would allow for us to chart the course of our relations for the next four years," they said in a letter of congratulations to Trump.
But former Polish prime minister Tusk struck a more sober tone in a statement to journalists at the 28-nation European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... ’s headquarters as he recalled that "Italians, Irish, Poles, Germans, Spanish" had helped build America.
"While respecting the democratic choice of the American people, we are at the same time aware of the new challenges that these results bring. One of them is this moment of uncertainty over the future of our transatlantic relations," he said.
’Warning sign’
With the EU still reeling from the shock of Britannia’s recent vote to leave, Tusk added: "The events of the last months and days should be treated as a warning sign for all who believe in liberal democracy."
Juncker later said in a speech in Berlin that the EU should not "upend its relations with the United States" out of "annoyance" with the shock outcome of the presidential election.
"We remain partners because the world needs the United States and the European continent working side-by-side. That is why I strongly urge us to seek common ground," he said.
Following Trump’s victory, EU foreign ministers will hold a special meeting in Brussels on Sunday at the invitation of the bloc’s foreign policy supremo Federica Mogherini.
They will have an "informal dinner to exchange views on the way forward in EU-US relations following the US elections," a spokeswoman for Mogherini said.
Separately Martin Schulz, the head of the European Parliament, urged Trump to show "responsibility" after a divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... campaign, adding that he had "managed to become the standard-bearer of the angst and fears of millions of Americans."
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EU invites Trump to summit, warns against ‘isolation’
TRANSLATION: "Sorry about all those things we said about you, all just in fun don't you know, and while we're here we need some money."
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Donald "I have good news and bad news gentlemen. The good news: Vlad and I are not going to fight a nuclear war in Europe. The bad news: better make peace with Russia because USA is not playing 'bait the bear' anymore."
[al-Manar]. An explosion shook the residence of a district governor in the southeastern Turkish province of Mardin on Thursday and wounded several people including the governor, security sources said.
They said several ambulances had been sent to the scene of the blast in Mardin’s Derik district.
There was no immediate confirmation on the cause of the blast. However, Ihlas news agency said the explosion had been caused by a rocket attack by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants.
Thousands of militants, security force members and civilians have been killed in a renewed conflict since a two-year-old ceasefire between the PKK and Turkish state collapsed in July last year.
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A bomb exploded on Thursday outside the district governor’s office in the southeastern Turkish province of Mardin, wounding three people including the governor, the provincial governor’s office said in a statement.
The state-run Anadolu Agency first reported said the office of the district governor was attacked with rocket launchers. But a subsequent statement by the regional governor’s office said an improvised explosive device was used. It didn’t elaborate.
The security forces launched an operation to catch the assailants, the agency said, without providing details.
District governor Muhammed Fatih Safiturk, who suffered second-degree burns, was appointed additionally in July to run the local municipality as part of a series of moves to replace officials from the Democratic Regions Party (DBP), a sister party of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP).
The government accuses the HDP, parliament’s second biggest opposition party, of links to the outlawed rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is fighting for autonomy in largely Kurdish southeast Turkey. The HDP denies any direct links and says it is working for a peaceful resolution of the conflict.
There was no claim of responsibility for Thursday’s attack but Anadolu said the attack was carried out by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which has waged a three-decade-long insurgency against the Turkish state and is considered a terror organization by Turkey and its Western allies.
Last week, a car bomb in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir killed 11 people and wounded at least 100, hours after authorities detained the HDP’s leaders and some of its members of parliament.
Three Turkish guards and one civilian were killed on Wednesday when Kurdish militants attacked a guard vehicle in the southeastern province of Van with long-range rifles as it was heading to the Baskale district, bordering Iran.
More than 40,000 people have been killed in the conflict since the PKK took up arms in 1984. It is considered a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.
The Interior Ministry said on Thursday that 201 PKK militants had been killed and almost 300 others injured or captured in some 8,000 ground and air operations since September. Around 1,800 people have also been detained for aiding the PKK, the statement said.
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BEIRUT: A Syrian Kurdish-led force fighting the Daesh group north of the country is on the verge of surrounding a wide area north of the IS stronghold of Raqqa, a spokeswoman for the group said Thursday.
Cihan Ehmed of the US-backed Syria Democratic Forces told The Associated Press that its fighters are advancing on two fronts north of Raqqa, the de facto capital of Daesh’s self-declared caliphate. The push from Ein Issa and Suluk north of Raqqa has been ongoing for days under the cover of airstrikes by the US-led coalition.
The SDF, which includes Kurdish, Arab, Syriac and Turkmen fighters, say they have committed 30,000 fighters to the offensive aiming to eventual recapture the city of Raqqa, which was announced on Sunday. Iraq is meanwhile waging a major offensive to drive Daesh from the northern city of Mosul.
Ehmed said once the forces coming from the two directions meet north of Raqqa, they will surround 550 square kilometers (212 square miles) of territory controlled by the extremists.
“The operations are ongoing according to the plan,” she said.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said many people are fleeing areas of fighting north of Raqqa. It added that SDF fighters have advanced north of Raqqa, capturing new areas and raising to 17 the number of villages and farms taken from Daesh since the offensive began.
Later on Thursday, the SDF said on social media that its fighters have captured three farms, a village, and have approached the village of Hayes where intense clashes are ongoing.
The operation to recapture Raqqa has been dubbed “Euphrates Rage” and a joint operations command has been set up to coordinate various factions taking part in the battles.
Elsewhere in Syria, a rocket fired by rebels struck a school in the capital Damascus’ central Al-Mohajireen neighborhood wounding three children, state media said without providing further details. In the rebel-held Damascus suburbs of Douma and Saqba, government airstrikes killed at least 11 civilians, including four children and three women, according to the Syrian Civil Defense in Damascus suburbs. The Observatory also said 11 were killed, but said they included four women.
In the northern city of Aleppo, seven people were wounded, some critically, when rebels shelled two government-held neighborhoods, state news agency SANA said. Later on Thursday, pro-government media also said allied troops moved in on new rebel advances in the western part of the city, regaining control of parts of the strategic Assad district amid intense clashes.
The rebels had seized a couple of strategic areas in western Aleppo since they launched an offensive on government-held parts of Aleppo on Oct. 28 in an attempt to break the siege imposed on areas they have controlled since July. The siege on eastern Aleppo was coupled with a punishing bombing campaign by Syrian aircraft and supported by Russia, which has been backing the government of President Bashar Assad. Since late October, Russia said it would halt the airstrikes, amid rising civilian casualties, urging rebels to leave the territory.
A statement by Russian Defense Ministry Thursday said such halts would continue. Russia had earlier bristled at extending the breaks in the fighting in Aleppo, saying it would play into the hands of the insurgents.
“The humanitarian pauses are undoubtedly needed,” said Spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov. “But we believe that simply extending their duration without offering real assistance to civilians, and allow the terrorists to restore their capabilities, would be unproductive and defy common sense.” Russia and Syria’s government refer to all armed opposition as “terrorists.”
Insurgents have refused to leave, saying the halts are not supervised by the UN and lack safety guarantees for evacuation. The UN has failed to secure humanitarian aid to the besieged Aleppo districts during the halts. During the last Russian-declared “pause” on Friday, rebels fired at one of the corridors, wounding two Russian servicemen and a Syrian journalist.
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[IsraelTimes] Terrorist attacks in La Belle France and Belgium carried out by the same cell; authorities still searching for suspects.
The jihadist cell that launched deadly attacks on Gay Paree and Brussels received its orders from "very high" in 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 command, Belgium’s federal prosecutor said Wednesday.
"We know that the orders came from the Islamic State zone.... We know that it went very high in the command," Frederic Van Leeuw said in an interview with AFP.
He could not say exactly which top IS official or officials gave the orders or whether they sent them from a base in Syria or Iraq, the territory run by IS leader and self-declared caliph His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... He said the command moved around to dodge US-backed strikes. "Baghdadi was for a while in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , sometimes in Raqqa," he added.
"We don’t know at all who are the people who really gave the orders," he said.
Islamic State group grabbed credit for the attacks across Gay Paree on November 13 that killed 130 people as well as the suicide kabooms at Brussels airport and a metro station on March 22 that killed 32 people.
Van Leeuw said the attacks were carried out by the same cell, some of whose members were based in Brussels, and the authorities are still looking for suspects who did not die in the attacks or were tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... afterward.
"The investigation is far from having ended, as much at the Belgian as at the French level," he said.
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(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – Leader at al-Hashd al-Turkmani, Abu reda al-Najjar announced digging a 6-km trench in southern Kirkuk, to prevent the sneaking of members of the Islamic State to the city, while pointed out to the participation of the Peshmerga forces in the digging of the security trench.
Najjar said in a press statement, “Peshmerga and al-Hashd al-Turkmani militia in the areas between Qasbet Bashir and Daquq district, dug a 6-km long trench to prevent the sneaking of members of the Islamic State to the area.”
“There is a security coordination between Peshmerga and the forces from al-Hashd al-Turkmani militia against their common enemy,” Najjar added.
ISIS attacked Kirkuk on the 21st of October 2016, and managed to capture several areas, before security forces foil the attack and retake the captured areas.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Thousands of protesters rallied across the United States Wednesday expressing shock and anger over Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s election, vowing to oppose divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... views they say helped the Republican billionaire win the presidency.
In Washington, several hundred gathered in front of the White House for a candlelight vigil on a damp, chilly evening, criticizing what they called Trump’s racism, sexism and xenophobia, and carrying signs reading "We have a voice!" and "Education for all!"
One of the organizers, Ben Wikler ‐ Washington director of the liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org ...a Democratic Party front organization funded by George Soros founded in the wake of the Clinton impeachment. It provides money, muscle, and astroturf as required... ‐ told the crowd that others were coming together in hundreds of communities around the country. "People are justly frightened," he said. "We are here because in these darkest moments, we are not alone," he added, before leading chants of "We are not alone!" Ethan Miller of the workers’ rights group Jobs with Justice said organizers held the vigil to show that civil society was resilient.
"It’s a hard time for a lot of Americans," he told AFP. "We saw a campaign that was filled with racism and misogyny and whole host of other terrible tactics that ultimately were successful for winning the electoral college." "But we’re not going to let a Donald Trump presidency stop the progress in this country," he added. "We’re going to continue to organize and fight for the rights of all people and to protect the safety of our brothers and sisters." Supporters attending the rally appeared less optimistic.
Joanne Paradis, 31, who was born in Mexico and works in international communications for a non-profit group in Washington, said she attended the rally to "share some solidarity." "I feel pretty down," she said. Asked if the country could weather a Trump presidency, she said, "I don’t know."
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The Soros picture is perfect since he's funding some of this (at least the buses spotted a block or two away from the Austin protests seem that way). The rest is probably mental children having a spasm.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] In a cordial beginning the transfer of power, President Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... and President-elect Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... met at the White House Thursday. Obama called the 90-minute meeting "excellent," and his successor said he looked forward to receiving the outgoing president's "counsel."
Afterward, Obama said to Trump, "We now are going to want to do everything we can to help you succeed because if you succeed the country succeeds."
The two men, who have been harshly critical of each other for years, were meeting for the first time, Trump said. The Republican said he looked forward "to dealing with the president in the future, including counsel."
Obama blasted Trump throughout the campaign as unfit to serve as a commander in chief. Trump spent years challenging the legitimacy of Obama's presidency, falsely suggesting Obama may have been born outside the United States.
But at least publicly, the two men appeared to put aside their animosity. As the meeting concluded and journalists scrambled out of the Oval Office, Obama smiled at his successor and explained the unfolding scene.
If Trump makes good on his campaign promises, he'll wipe away much of what Obama has done during his eight years in office. The Republican president-elect, who will govern with Congress fully under GOP control, has vowed to repeal Obama's signature health care law and dismantle the landmark nuclear accord with Iran.
First lady Michelle Obama also meet privately in the White House residence with Trump's wife, Melania, while Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... prepared to see Vice President-elect Mike Pence later Thursday.
Trump traveled to Washington from New York on his private jet, breaking with protocol by not bringing journalists in his motorcade or on his plane to document his historic visit to the White House. Trump was harshly critical of the media during his campaign and for a time banned news organizations whose coverage he disliked from his events.
Also on Trump's schedule were meetings with House Speaker Paul Ryan ...U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district, serving since 1999. He is a member of the Republican Party. He proposed an alternative to President Obama's 2011 budget and made himself the target of both Democrat and Republican verbal pies... of Wisconsin and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky to discuss the GOP legislative agenda. Ryan, who holds the most powerful post in Congress, was a sometime critic of Trump, was slow to endorse him and did not campaign with the nominee. Pence intended to join both meetings.
As scores of journalists waited to be admitted to the Oval Office to see Obama and Trump together, they saw White House chief of staff Denis McDonough walking along the South Lawn driveway with Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law. A handful of Trump aides trailed them.
The anticipated show of civility at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue contrasted with postelection scenes of protests across a politically divided country. Demonstrators from New England to the heartland and the West Coast vented against the election winner on Wednesday, chanting "Not my president," burning a papier-mache Trump head, beating a Trump pinata and carrying signs that said
"Impeach Trump."
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Wonder if Trump got a word in between all the I, me and myself's of the host?
[HUFFINGTONPOST] On Thursday, Democratic Party officials held their first staff meeting since ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as a crook... ’s stunning loss to Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... in the presidential race. It didn’t go well.
Donna Brazile, the interim leader of the Democratic National Committee, was giving what one attendee described as "a rip-roaring speech" to about 150 employees, about the need to have hope for wins going forward, when a staffer identified only as Zach stood up with a question.
"Why should we trust you as chair to lead us through this?" he asked, according to two people in the room. "You backed a flawed candidate, and your friend [former DNC chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz ...Congresswoman from Florida, the abrasive chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. She has been a politician since 1992, and prior to that was in training as a political science major. Her primary accomplishment seems to be that she's Jewish... ] plotted through this to support your own gain and yourself."
Some DNC staffers started to boo and some told him to sit down. Brazile began to answer, but Zach had more to say.
"You are part of the problem," he continued, blaming Brazile for clearing the path for Trump’s victory by siding with Clinton early on. "You and your friends will die of old age and I’m going to die from climate change. You and your friends let this happen, which is going to cut 40 years off my life expectancy." Independent Sentinel - Inconsolable, blamed Champ and Comey.
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Well, they are eating their own now, leave them be.
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They have to blame somebody besides themselves, their policies, or their criminal actions!
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Of course she probably doesn't own a mirror.
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Probably doesn't show UP in a mirror.
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You and your friends will die of old age and I’m going to die from climate change
To paraphrase Archie Bunker:
"Would you feel any better, little one, if you were pushed out a window?"
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I’m going to die from climate change
Considering the human race has been through warmer times and 2 (and a half) ice ages, adaptation works. Well, maybe not for everyone, as you are demonstrating which is probably a good thing for the human race overall.
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Hillary's problem was Hillary. It is a surprise the election was as close as it was. The Dems had a bad candidate--or maybe I should say lying criminal. She really is crooked.
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I shouldn't say that it was a "surprise" that is was so close. Trump ran against everyone and won; the MSM, the Donks, the RINOs--he was constantly being hammered from all sides. Had there been an honest MSM, the election would have been a landslide.
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Ancient, weak and chronically ill, lacking in credibility, chained to a tainted spouse, surrounded by questionable advisers, manipulative, lacking in political skills, and vindictive... but she still garnered the popular vote.
Both a celebratory defeat and painful reality which must be dealt with.
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Really, we should encourage the left's climate change superstition. It cuts into time they have for critical thinking, thus making them a softer target.
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That level of stupidity would be funny if it wasn't so pitiful.
No, it's funny anyway. I think about how much it sucks to be him, and I smile. It's like when Obi Wan detected a disturbance in the force. I can feel the waves of Leftist anguish reverberating through the cosmos.
The German consulate in Afghanistan’s third-largest city has been attacked, leading to the death of at least two and injuring dozens of others, a police spokesman said, Sputnik International reported.
The suicide car bomb attack took place on Thursday and was followed by a separate explosion inside the Mazar Hotel in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif that has been used as a consulate, regional police spokesman Sayid Sarwar Hussaini said as cited by The New York Times.
The two blasts killed at least two people and injured at least 84, Afghan officials said as cited by the newspaper.
The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack.
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[DAWN] A cardiac patient died outside the emergency ward of the Mayo Hospital on Wednesday when young doctors protesting there allegedly denied him entry.
The incident took place shortly after a faction of the young doctors seeking restoration of a post-graduate trainee shut down the emergency ward. They turned violent when the institute’s administration made arrangements to reopen the outpatient department (OPD) by deputing senior medics.
“They are killers and not doctors,” tearful Ahmad standing near the body of his father Chaudhry Muhammad Sadiq told media outside the emergency ward.
Sadiq, 60, was rushed to the Mayo emergency ward at around 1pm when he complained of severe chest pain and difficulty in breathing.
A group of youths wearing white coats asked us to take the patient to the Punjab Institute of Cardiology as doctors were on strike. We begged but they did not let us move in and my father breathed his last in the process. These criminals have murdered my father, he alleged.
A senior doctor on duty at the emergency told Dawn that Sadiq was taken to the Coronary Care Unit and attempts were made to revive him, “but it was too late”.
Protesting activists of the Young Doctors Association (YDA) had stopped work at the emergency at around 11am following a clash with a deputy medical superintendent over reopening of the OPD.
After breaking open the locks of the OPD, the hospital administration had asked its consultants and senior doctors to start seeing patients there. A number of senior doctors were coming to the OPD when a group of YDA activists reached there and started relocking the rooms.
When Deputy Medical Superintendent (Security) Dr Tariq Ejaz challenged them, they ran off threatening him with dire consequences. Later, the YDA activists asked their colleagues at the emergency ward to stop working as the OPD had opened.
The Mayo administration swiftly deputed half a dozen senior doctors at the emergency but the YDA activists remained at the entrance, asking patients’ attendants to leave.
A doctor holding a senior administrative post said the YDA activists had been roaming the hospital in groups to ensure the OPD was not opened.
“Our OPD works in two shifts and we have been breaking open the locks put on by these black sheep in our ranks for the last four days. Today, a group of YDA activists manhandled technicians conducting tests on patients at the eye ward. Their attempts to damage the costly machine were foiled by some attendants of patients and staff members,” said the doctor.
Meanwhile, as a result of a meeting between Specialised Healthcare and Medical Education (SHME) Secretary Najam Ahmed Shah and Punjab Safe Cities Authority Chief Operating Officer Nasir Akbar Khan a few days back, experts from the Safe Cities Authority (SCA) visited the Mayo Hospital for a security audit.
A five-member team of experts evaluated the security requirements of the hospital. They started working on setting up security zones in and around the hospital.
An SHME spokesman said more CCTV cameras, electronic devices and digital video recorders would be installed within the hospital and on the incoming as well as exit roads.
Under the new security plan, a control room would also be set up in the hospital for which the SCA would impart training to the technical staff and help in procurement of electronic devices.
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It doesn't matter if the patient died, what matters is if the young doctors intended to cause the death, right? Worked for Hillary!
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The battle for Iraq's second city djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... neared the remains of ancient Nimrud on Thursday, the military said, raising fears for the famed heritage site already ravaged by hard boy bombs and sledgehammers.
Troops and allied militia were advancing on two villages held by the ISIS group near the ancient site some 30 kilometres (20 miles) south of Mosul, the Joint Operations Command said.
"Units of the 9th Armored Division and the Hashed al-Ashaeri (tribal militia) are beginning to advance to liberate the villages of Abbas Rajab and al-Nomaniyah, toward Nimrud," it said.
Nimrud was the one of the great centers of the ancient Middle East. Founded in the 13th Century BC, it became the capital of the Assyrian empire, whose rulers built vast palaces and monuments that have drawn archaeologists from around the world for more than 150 years.
Many of its monumental stone sculptures and reliefs were taken way for display in museums around the world but some of the more massive structures remained in place when the snuffies swept through in mid-2014.
In April last year, ISIS posted video on the internet of its fighters sledgehammering monuments before planting explosives around the site and blowing it up.
It was part of a campaign of destruction by the snuffies against heritage sites under their control that also took in ancient Nineveh on the outskirts of Mosul, Hatra in the desert to the south and Palmyra in neighboring Syria,
ISIS says the ancient monuments are idols that violate the teachings of its extreme form of Sunni Islam.
But that has not stopped the group from trafficking artefacts it purports to revile on the black market to fund its operations.
It is unclear what still remains of Nimrud's ancient ruins as Iraqi forces move closer.
But it is just one of a number of treasured heritage sites that are threatened with further damage by the offensive that the government launched on October 17 to retake Mosul, the hard boys' last major stronghold in Iraq.
The area where ancient Hatra is located may see fighting between ISIS and pro-government militias who aim to retake the town of Tal Afar, which commands Mosul's western approaches.
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(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Command of operation “We Are Coming, Nineveh” announced on Thursday, that the joint security forces are advancing toward the area of Namrud, southwest of Mosul, to liberate two villages from the Islamic State’s grip.
Commander of operation ‘We Are Coming, Nineveh’ Major General Rasheed Yarallah said in a press statement, “Troops of the army’s 9th Armored Brigade continue advancing to liberate the villages of Abbas Rajab and Numaniyah in Namrud area, southwest of Mosul, from the ISIS control.”
Security forces continue battles to liberate the province of Nineveh that was launched in 17th October 2016.
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[DAWN] BILAWAL Bhutto-Zardari has just been seen trying another, natural route for landing in Punjab. A few days ago, he was found in Rahim Yar Khan, reassuring the inhabitants there that since they had BB’s son amongst them, they ought not to despair as yet. As to whether the trip provided the young PPP leader any cause to be upbeat about his Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... expedition, there was little on the horizon to indicate any sudden change of fortunes.
This is, ultimately, just too routine to create any excitement. Actually it has long since become a joke. Every few weeks there is a clamour from within what remains of the PPP in Punjab. Then there is talk, inevitably, about how BBZ planned to come to Lahore for a longish period and how he was destined to reinvigorate the party.
So bored are even the most tolerant in the crowd by this -- lack of -- promise that some of them might have actually been a little relieved to find out that there has been a change in plans -- BBZ now seeks to undertake the exploration of the territory from the southern end, approaching Punjab from Sindh where his party is in power. Not just this, his party has some presence in Rahim Yar Khan (RYK), as shown by the 2013 general election and reconfirmed by the more recent local government polls.
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(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Islamic State leaderships and preachers in Mosul are telling militants to skip prayers and reschedule their times to be able to fight the advancing Iraqi joint forces, Alsumaria News reported.
“ISIS fighters are either diminishing or combining prayers due to the war,” a source on Nineveh said Wednesday. “The group is telling men in the city to carry weapons and fight besides its militants in order to be rewarded with paradise,” as the source put it, on condition of anonymity.
ISIS are struggling to defend Mosul, their last bastion in Iraq, as Iraqi government forces, aided by popular militias and US aircrafts, successfully continue advancing to the city as part of an operation launched mid October. ISIS has been dealt serious losses that reportedly prompted its fighters to run their families outside the city.
There are five prayers a day in Islam set at strict timings across the day, but religious rules permit combining some prayers together to gain time space in certain cases.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Enraged by his brother’s death in battles with Iraqi security forces, an Islamic State fighter killed a whole family inside its Mosul home, Alsumaria News reported.
A local source said that upon receiving the news of his brother’s death in battles in Aden, west of Mosul, the militant stormed into the family’s house in al-Jazaer neighborhood, also west of Mosul, killing all of the six family members who included a woman and a kid.
ISIS put its fighters in the area on alert fearing a backlash from the residents, said the source.
“ISIS has become more brutal. Massacres are committed in daylight for the most trivial reasons. The group leaves dead bodies for days on the street before they are thrown into mass graves,” the source said, on condition of anonymity.
ISIS is becoming under mounting pressure as Iraqi joint forces, aided by a US air cover, continue to advance to Mosul, the group’s last foothold in Iraq, in a largely successful operation that set on in mid October.
Mysterious masked men spring 3 from ISIS prison in Hawja
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – Leader at al-Hashd al-Shaabi, Jabbar al-Mamouri declared on Thursday, that masked men stormed into a prison belonging to the Islamic state, and rescued three youths from execution in the district of Hawija, Kirkuk.
Mamouri said in a press statement, “Today, masked men stormed into a prison belonging to the Islamic State in the outskirts of Hawija district, southwest of Kirkuk, and killed two guards and rescued three youths who were sentenced to death by the extremist group for collaborating with security forces and al-Hashd al-Shaabi militia.”
“15 ISIS members and leaders were assassinated in Hawija during the last two months, after the emergence of popular uprising against them in the district,” Mamouri added.
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ISIS troops ordered to skip prayers before battle
Uh Uh guys!! Allah sez 5 times a day headbanging to get yer holy lump - you gonna argue with HIM?? You being all perfectly Islamic and such?? (I am sure there's a loophole in Holly Crayon somewhere)
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[U]pon receiving the news of his brother’s death in battles in Aden, west of Mosul, the militant stormed into the family’s house in al-Jazaer neighborhood, also west of Mosul, killing all of the six family members who included a woman and a kid.
North Korea imported record amounts of rice from China in September, apparently to stabilize prices amid rapid hikes, Voice of America reported on Thursday.
Another good harvest, eh?
The North imported 16,000 tons of rice worth US$9.9 million, from China in September, VOA reported quoting analysis of customs data by Kwon Tae-jin of the GS&J Institute in Seoul.
Over the whole first eight months the North imported only 14,000 tons of rice. The North's imports of wheat flour increased 15 times and its imports of starch more than doubled on-month in September.
Meanwhile, the North also imported 772 tons of fertilizer from China in September, up 73 percent on-year.
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[DAWN] Chief Justice of Pakistain (CJP) Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali on Thursday directed the concerned authorities to block a fake Facebook account associated to him, said Supreme Court front man.
"Justice Jamali has instructed the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and Pakistain Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to take action against those operating his fake account under relevant law," said the SC front man.
"Chief Justice of Pakistain Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali is neither using any Facebook account or page nor any other ID on any other social media websites," the front man added.
The chief justice also directed the authorities to take legal action against the delinquents in accordance with the law.
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[ARA News]. Nadia Murad Basee Taha, a Yezidi human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, said that almost no Yezidi women have been rescued from ISIS grip since the Mosul operation started in October.
“While the world is plunged in politics, 3400 Yezidi women and girls remain enslaved for ISIS sex use. Only a few have escaped since the Mosul operation stated,” she said.
“I have recently been receiving calls from Yezidi families who need help to rescue their women and girls in ISIS captivity. It is unbearable,” Murad said.
“A Yazidi mother told me that her 16-year-old daughter’s rescue from ISIS sex slavery costs $15k and she cannot pay,” the activist said. “Yazidi women even when there is a possibility for them to be rescued, there is no financial support for the work. Unbelievable pain,” she added.
When militants the Islamic State (ISIS) attacked the Yezidi communities in Iraqi Kurdistan in August 2014, they raped, forcibly married and converted to Islam thousands of Yezidi women, using them as sex slaves. ISIS is still holding a significant number of them, according to Belkis Wille, a senior researcher for Human Rights Watch.
According to the United Nations, as of August, IS still held 1,935 Yezidi women, as well as 1,864 Yezidi men. Local sources reported on 24 October that at least 70 Yezidi women and children have been rescued since the beginning of the operation to retake Mosul.
“I have asked human rights colleagues in Erbil what the military plan is for assisting the Yezidi population inside Mosul, in the context of the ongoing operation. They said this is a conversation that has not yet happened,” Murad said.
In August 2014, ISIS radicals took over the Yezidi region of Shingal in northern Iraq, causing a mass displacement of nearly 400,000 people to Duhok and Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan. Tens of thousands of Yezidis remained trapped in Mount Sinjar, suffering mass killings, kidnappings and rape cases, according to local and military sources. Also, more than 3000 Yezidi girls have been taken by the radical group as sex slaves.
On November 13, the Kurdish Peshmerga forces in Iraqi Kurdistan, backed by an air cover from the US-led coalition forces, announced the liberation of Shingal after fierce battles with ISIS extremists. The Kurdish forces have recently discovered more than five mass graves in the Yezidi region, where hundreds of Yezidi civilians have been summarily executed and buried by ISIS jihadis. Yet, thousands of Yezidi women remain in ISIS captivity after being sold as sex slaves across the group’s territory in Iraq and Syria.
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Turkish Air Force destroyed 92 positions of the “Islamic State” (aka IS, ISIL, ISIS or Daesh) terrorist group as part of the Shield of Euphrates operation in Syria, the General Staff of Turkey said in a message Nov. 10.
Meanwhile, several military facilities of units of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) were also destroyed.
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[al-Manar] The counter-terrorist units of the Iraqi army liberated on Thursday the Zahra neighborhood in eastern Mosul from the militants of the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group, local media reported citing security sources.
“Anti-terrorist units have freed Zahra neighborhood in eastern Mosul,” a source in the security forces of the Nineveh province told Al Sumaria TV channel.
During the last weeks, seven other quarters in Mosul were reported to be freed from the ISIL militants.
On October 17, Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar Al-Abadi announced the start of the operation to retake Mosul, which has been occupied by ISIL terrorists since 2014.
The offensive has resulted in liberation of large territories and forced many terrorists of the takfiri group outlawed to flee Iraqi army campaign.
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A massive cyberattack has hit at least five of Russia's largest banks, Moscow-based internet security giant Kaspersky said Thursday. The country's largest lender, state-controlled Sberbank, said it had been hacked into on Tuesday but managed to neutralise the attack automatically without disturbing its operations.
Kaspersky said in a statement that the distribution of denial attacks (DDoS) began Tuesday at 1300 GMT and targeted "the websites of at least five well-known financial institutions in the top 10" in Russia.
The attacks were still continuing on Thursday. Most lasted around one hour but the longest lasted almost 12 hours, Kaspersky said.
DDoS attacks involve flooding websites with more traffic than they can handle, making them difficult to access or taking them offline entirely.
These attacks saw as many as 660,000 requests being sent per second using a network of more than 24,000 hijacked devices located in 30 countries. More than half the devices were in the United States, India, Taiwan and Israel, Kaspersky said.
Contacted by AFP, Russia's central bank confirmed that it had identified "attacks on a number of large banks," describing their intensity as "medium" and saying they did not disrupt access to banking services. It said the attacks used botnets made up of the "Internet of things" -- electronic devices such as CCTV cameras or digital video recorders plugged in to offices and homes worldwide.
A senior executive at Sberbank, Stanislav Kuznetsov, told Interfax news agency that the bank had suffered 68 such attacks this year and that the latest was among the biggest.
Kaspersky said that DDoS attacks "have long been one of the most popular instruments used by criminals to attack businesses."
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A bit of self-promotion: This is part of a chapter from the book I'm currently writing. I'll be publishing it on Smashwords in a week or two. I think this particular bit is appropriate to today. November 11th, Feast of St. Martin of Tours, Patron of Soldiers
Annie went to work as usual on Veterans’ Day. It was a federal holiday, so Isabel was off from school. She and Martin went to seven o’clock mass in the morning to pray for the dead and the maimed, then came home. She had an unhurried “weekend” breakfast of bacon and eggs and biscuits and fried potatoes – half the time she made do with cereal on school days. Martin did his usual chores. He fed the animals. He spread chicken-generated fertilizer mixed with cow-generated fertilizer, lime, broad-leaf weed eradicator, crabgrass killer, and mulch on the lawn in front of the house. Isabel held the ladder and the dogs supervised while he replaced the rotted gutters on the veranda. After lunch he pulled bad wood from the veranda floor and replaced it with new wood. He tried to sing with Isabel as they painted, discovering his voice still wasn’t quite up to more than a few bars at a time. He settled for humming.
They were sitting on the top step, playing checkers, enjoying another Indian summer’s day, when Annie got home from work. “This is it?” she asked. “This is your Veterans’ Day celebration?”
“We went to church,” Isabel told her, deftly avoiding the trap Martin had set for her and setting one of her own.
“And we fixed the gutters and the rotted place on the veranda floor,” Martin added, spotting the trap and deciding he didn’t like this game anymore. “That doesn’t count?”
Annie sat down next to Isabel, looking over the checkerboard. “You’re supposed to have parades and speeches,” she pointed out. “What would politicians do without them?”
“I’m a veteran,” Martin said. “Can’t I choose to spend the day with my very best girl?”
“Vets eat free today at The Green Terrace,” she pointed out.
“They do at De Carlo’s, too,” he dismissed, “and the clams are better. I think Collura’s has a deal, too, if you want Italiano.”
“What do you want to do, vet?” she asked.
“Have a parade, I think,” he suggested after a moment’s thought. “We can march from the veranda to the barn and back. Isabel can sing The Stars and Stripes Forever, and I can do the piccolo part – ‘doodly-oot-doot-doo!’ – and you can be the drum majorette.”
“How can I be a drum majorette without a drum?” Annie laughed.
“A drum majorette doesn’t get a drum,” Isabel explained using the same tone Martin sometimes used when he corrected her English. “You need a baton!”
Martin grabbed the straw broom for her. “See?” he asked. “Perfect baton!”
Annie gave it a few experimental twirls after bobbing it up and down and few times. They lined up, Annie in front, Isabel in the middle, and Martin bringing up the rear. “Ready?” he called.
“Ready, sir!” Isabel called, saluting.
“Ready, sir!” Annie echoed.
“Don’t forget to start on your left foot… and… March!”
They started for the barn, Annie raising and lowering her broom. Isabel sang “da-dum-dumty-dum-dumty-dum!” and Martin added the obligatory “doodly-oot-doot-doo!” Annie started giggling and Isabel bumped into her back, losing her step, so they had to start over again. Annie wasn’t quite able to stop giggling, but she did manage to keep step.
“Comp’ny halt!” Martin called as they reached the barn door. “Left face! Left face! Forward, march!”
“Be kind to our big-turbanned friends,” Isabel sang, politically incorrectly.
“For Abdul could be somebody’s brother..”
“Doodly-oot-doot-doo!” interjected Martin.
“He lives in a Salafist swamp,
Where the discourse is heated and damp!”
“Doodly-oot-doot-doo!”interjected Martin again.
“’Dawmp?’” Annie asked, and started laughing again.
“Now, you may think that this is the end,” continued Isabel, “Well it is, but to prove that we're liars,
We're going to sing it again,
Only this time we'll sing higher.”
Martin and Isabel laughed along with Annie as they sat back down on the veranda steps. She held her sides, she was laughing so hard. When she was finally able to bring herself back under control she wiped her eyes with the hem of her skirt. “Oh, Martin,” she gasped. “That was… That was…”
“Fun?” he suggested.
“Blasphemous, I think,” she sighed. “We’re supposed to be honoring our veterans, and here we are, having a good time!”
“The one,” he suggested, “doesn’t necessarily exclude the other. Most of the guys I’ve ever known who are dead now would be happier marching across the front yard to the barn and back with two pretty girls than they would be being dead. All of them, I think.”
“Shouldn’t we be thinking of them?” Annie asked.
“Isabel and I are. Who are you thinking of?”
“Oh! I did buy these today, now that I remind myself.” She looked in her purse and found the three Buddy Poppies she had bought from a girl at work.
Martin took his, looking at it, twirling it briefly between his fingers – just a cheap plastic flower on a wire stem that actually looked nothing like the poppies he had been familiar with in Helmand. They were a different flower entirely.
“You know the significance of this, sweetheart?” he asked Isabel quietly.
“’In Flanders fields the poppies grow,
Among the crosses, row on row,’” she recited.
“A-yep,” he acknowledged. “You know where Flanders is?”
“The Netherlands?” she guessed.
“Belgium. The Dutch-speaking part of it, so you were close. That war was a hundred years ago – 1914 through 1918. There were millions of men involved, using equipment that was primitive in comparison to what we use today. We lost fewer than five thousand men in the Iraq War in eight years, and we haven’t lost quite that many yet in Afghanistan in twice that much time. That would have been a fairly quiet afternoon on the Western Front. The U.S. took five times that many dead in in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in 1918 – twenty five thousand young men – gone from this life. The Battle of Verdun lasted ten months, and resulted in a third of a million dead for the allies and the same for the Germans. They averaged 70,000 dead young men a month, combined. That’s not counting the maimed, and lots of them were worse off than me. Each and every one of those was a human being, honey. They lived and they breathed. They told jokes, sometimes they were grouchy, they ate breakfast, and they sang. Every one of them had a father and a mother, most of them brothers and sisters, wives, and sweethearts, all of them had family of some sort. They had futures planned. It’s easy to forget that because there were so many of them.”
“Are you sure you want to talk about this, Martin?” Annie asked.
“It’s the whole point of the day, isn’t it?” he asked, his face much more solemn than it had been when they were playing at being a marching band. “The point is to Remember. The guy that wrote the poem was a Canadian physician, Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He wrote it after he presided over the funeral of a friend of his at the Battle of Ypres. He knew the man before the man became a statistic. I know the first two verses by heart, and I should know all three:
In Flanders Fields the poppies grow,
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our places; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard among the guns below.
We are the Dead.
Short days ago we lived, felt the dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved,
And now we lie
In Flanders fields.”
“I think,” Annie told him, her own face serious again, “I might understand a part of what you’re talking about.”
“If we learned something from Vietnam,” Martin mused, stroking Isabel’s hair, “it was not to treat the soldiers like garbage. There are still lots of people in the country who’d like to, but they don’t think the rest of the country would let them get away with it anymore. They’re afraid of tar and feathers. Now people say ‘Thank you for your service’ instead of spitting on them or asking how many babies they killed. But telling me ‘thank you for your service’ always makes me feel kind of embarrassed. That probably goes to show that you just can’t please some people. I simply didn’t feel all that heroic at the time. I still don’t feel all that heroic despite having given an eye and large patches of epidermis for my country. We had our jobs to do and we done ‘em, except for the weasels who sold national secrets, or got their sexual jollies by doing degrading things to prisoners, or that moron who ran off and joined the Taliban. I’ve got most of two arms, and all of two legs, and all my mind. I’ve got half my eyesight. I spent time in Landstuhl and Walter Reed, where I got the best care available. I saw guys – and a few girls – who were a lot worse off than I am. I’d occasionally see old fellows from World War II or Korea, more from the Vietnam era, there at Bethesda, and it was like we were all in the same club.”
Annie nodded. “Henry the Fifth.”
“The play’s made a comeback,” he agreed. “Certainly the quote has, at least among us, among vets.”
“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers,” Annie quoted. “For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile.”
He nodded. “There are lots of guys who can quote those lines who’d have to be dragged kicking and screaming to watch a Shakespeare play. Does ‘em good to get a little High Cult-chuh. You ready to go eat cake?”
“Cake?” Annie asked.
“It’s also my birthday. And my name day.”
“Your ‘Name Day?’”
“Feast of Saint Martin of Tours. He’s also the patron saint of soldiers, so it kind of all fits together like it should, eh?”
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I was just thinking back on all the great people I know from my time in the Army. Truly, we the veterans are the lucky ones for getting to spend a small amount of time in our lives with others like us doing noble work.
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[BREITBART] Despite a major Moslem protest at the Colosseum against the closure of illegal mosques, Rome police have continued shutting down so-called "garage mosques," and now Moslems are threatening to invade Saint Peter’s Basilica to pray there.
This week, authorities closed down another makeshift mosque in Rome for failure to meet building norms and for non-compliance with safety standards, the sixth such mosque-closing in the last months.
In response, Moslems in Rome have threatened to invade the Vatican to pray in Saint Peter’s Basilica, which Italian media are calling Islamic "blackmail."
"As many as 300 people can pray here; where will we go if it’s closed?", said a young Moslem man identified only as "Hussein," who works in a hardware store not from one of the "Islamic centers" that police have closed.
This center is located in the eastern suburbs, a district where half of the inhabitants are Moslems and the heart of the Islamic protest against the closure of Islamic places of worship.
"We live here, we work here, we cannot go to pray in Parioli [the other side of town]," says Anwar, the president of a neighborhood prayer hall.
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Muslims are threatening to invade Saint Peter’s Basilica to pray there
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It's an invasion as its a separate country. Will be interesting to see the Swiss Guards back in action. BTW, how many churches or temples are in Medina or Mecca? /rhet question
[al-Manar] The Syrian army and allies managed on Thursday to advance in Khan Sheeh in southern rural Damascus, controlling a number of buildings.
In western Aleppo, the terrorist groups collapsed and got confused when the Syrian army and allies achieved a remarkable progress in Dahiyat al-Assad.
The Syrian army also thwarted an infiltration attempt carried out by the terrorists near Mount Thorda in Deir Ezzor and targeted the militant groups positions in different areas across the country, killing scores of their members and seizing their ammunition and weapons.
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[DAWN] IT seems that Lahore’s hospital corridors have turned into venues for shouting matches and ugly scuffles. Starting as a dispute between the Young Doctors Association and Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... government over the absence of a proper and fair service structure a few years ago, a full-blown battle is now raging in the city’s public-sector hospitals. In the latest episode, a heart patient died at Mayo Hospital. The patient’s son blamed his death on the strike that had apparently been extended to previously off-limit areas such as emergency. Over time, a cohesive group of Young Doctors has been divided into factions and sub-factions. But if the ensuing festivities are the outcome of a government policy to deny doctors their due, as is claimed by some, the real price is being paid by the sick. A sadistic culture now prevails in Punjab’s government-run hospitals, particularly those in Lahore; it has left patients with no choice but to fend for themselves.
At the start of the Young Doctors’ movement for better wages and greater service privileges, many had sided with the protesting medics. But for some time now, the doctors have been deprived of much of the sympathy they once commanded. This is something that should worry them as should the evidence about the several splits in their organization. They might go on complaining that they have been outmanoeuvred by a system run by wily operators. But the fact remains that their reputation will be further tarnished if they continue to indulge in violence and strikes of the sort that can lead to a disruption of even emergency services. Even now, their detractors are painting them as villains violating their oath. The doctors must try and remove the ordinary goons from the educated group pressing for its professional rights. They must sort out their differences with the government, refrain from coming to fisticuffs and ensure treatment is not denied to patients. Or else they will be looked upon as a cruel lot that has no regard for human life.
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Had to go to the doctor yesterday. It seemed like the various staff who I talked with were pleased with the election outcome.
[PJMEDIA] A petition on MoveOn.org ...a Democratic Party front organization funded by George Soros founded in the wake of the Clinton impeachment. It provides money, muscle, and astroturf as required... asks the Electoral College to vote for Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as a crook... , in spite of the clear outcome of Tuesday's election. While the returns are still coming in, it seems that Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... has won the presidency but Hillary Clinton has won the popular vote. Democrats and proponents of absolute democracy are furious that this can happen.
More than 3,000 Clinton supporters have signed a petition urging the Electoral College to dismiss the state-by-state results of the election and instead cast their votes for Clinton.
"For the second time in sixteen years the presidential candidate with the fewer votes won the national election. This is due to the Electoral College," wrote Thomas Reich, the petition's author. "When an anti-democratic candidate wins without national popular support in conjunction with authoritarian tendencies it's incumbent on the Electoral College to decide if said candidate is a threat to democracy. I encourage them to consider this issue seriously before casting their votes for Donald Trump."
While the text of the petition does not explicitly call for the Electoral College to vote Clinton, the headline does: "Tell the Electoral College to cast their votes for Hillary Clinton." It is important to note that MoveOn as an organization is merely serving as a platform for this petition, and the organization itself "has not reviewed" it. Nevertheless, I highly suspect the organization would support it.
Does anyone know if MoveOn is connected to the Clintons in any way? My memory is rather hazy on that one...
Remember we were supposed to "move on" from Bill's impeachment?
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Nothing like delegitimatize the national government there boys. Beyond their comprehension you might end up with a Franco instead.
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They know this won't go anywhere. The point is to cater to their base, which is mentally ill. Normal people take bad news, shrug and get on with their lives. Leftoids can't do it.
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Or are they betting it only takes 3% to run a revolution?
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Anti-gun hippy vegans talking about revolution. Yeah, that'll work.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Kurdish Peshmerga militants killed 16 Islamic State fighters in Bashiqa, Nineveh, Alsumaria News reported Thursday.
A source within the militia told Alsumaria News that the ISIS elements were hiding inside the town and attempted to flee it after Peshmerga forces took over last Monday, adding that the forces continue to search the town.
Peshmerga forces are fighting on the side of Iraqi joint forces to liberate Nineveh, ISIS’s last centrepiece in Iraq. ISIS has sustained serious defeats since the launch of operations mid October.
The US-led military coalition said Thursday that 1636 ISIS militants have been killed since the start of military operations in Nineveh’s Mosul.
[al-Manar] Peshmerga forces have no short-term plans to withdraw from the town of Bashiqa, which they captured earlier this week from the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group, a high-ranking Peshmerga officer said Thursday.
Peshmerga Chief-of-Staff Jamal Eminki said Bashiqa’s “liberation” from ISIL had been achieved in two phases.
“First we established control over the town as a whole,” he said. “Then we purged it of ISIL elements and cleared it of bombs and booby-traps planted by the militants.”
Peshmerga forces had managed to kill 30 militants in mopping-up operations, he said, asserting that the extremist group “no longer poses any threat to the town”.
Eminki went on to stress that Peshmerga forces would remain — for the time being at least — in areas they had recently taken from ISIL.
“We are not withdrawing right now from the towns we have liberated,” he said.
“When local residents — including civil servants and Asayish officers [i.e., Kurdish security forces] — return to Bashiqa, Peshmerga fighters will leave,” he said.
On Tuesday, Kurdish Peshmerga forces announced the “total liberation” of the majority-Ezidi town of Bashiqa, which lies some 12 kilometers (roughly 8 miles) northeast of Mosul in Iraq’s northern Nineveh province.
On Oct. 18, the Iraqi army launched a wide-ranging operation aimed at retaking Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city.
ISIL overran Mosul in mid-2014, along with vast swathes of territory in northern and western Iraq.
Recent months have seen the army retake much territory, especially on the outskirts of Mosul and in Iraq’s western Anbar province.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Iraqi media outlets reported on Thursday, that joint security forces managed to kill two snipers belonging to the Islamic State extremist group, as well as destroying five booby-trapped vehicles and two motorcycles, east and north the city of Mosul.
Alsumaria News stated, “Troops of the army’s 16th brigade managed, this morning, to kill two snipers of the Islamic State while hiding between trees in Shalalat area, north of Mosul,” pointing out that, “The troops also managed to destroy two booby-trapped vehicles that tried to attack security forces in the same area.”
“Also, Anti-Terrorism forces destructed three booby-trapped vehicles and two motorcycles belonging to the ISIS,” Alsumaria added. “These vehicles were attempting to attack security forces stationed in Hayy al-Karama, east of Mosul,” Alsumaria explained.
Security forces continue battles to liberate the province of Nineveh that was launched in 17th October 2016.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Abdel Amir Yarallah, Commander of operation “We Are Coming, Nineveh” announced on Thursday liberating the village of Abbas Rajab, north of al-Zab area in Nineveh, and raised the Iraqi flag over its buildings.
Media officials with the Ministry of Defense quoted Yarallah as saying, “Troops of the army’s 35th and 37th brigades liberated the village of Abbas Rajab and raised the Iraqi flag over its buildings,” pointing out that, “The progress of the forces is ongoing.”
Joint security forces, backed by Iraqi Army Aviation and international coalition are continuing the battle to liberate the city of Mosul from the Islamic State’s grip.
Newly minted ISIS official dies in Mosul Some days you get the bear; some days the bear gets you
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Media officials with the Ministry of Defense announced on Thursday the killing of the new War Official of the Islamic State extremist group in a military operation, in eastern Mosul.
The officials said in a press statement, “The terrorist, known as Khaled al-Mitwiti, the new War Official of the Islamic State was killed, after the killing of the former official Mohanad, who was also known as Abi Aisha al-Beblawi.”
“Mitwiti was killed by the army’s 9th Armored Brigade in al-Eintsar area, in the western coast of the city of Mosul,” Alsumaria added.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – Militias partaking in the fight to liberate the province of Nineveh from Islamic State militants are preparing for storming the Tal Afar precinct, Nineveh, but bearing in mind the sensitivity of the mostly-Turkmen region.
As the Sunni, Turkish-trained Nineveh Guards warn of sectarian twists following the liberation of Tal Afar, the Shia Hezbollah al-Nujabaa said it has no intention to change the area’s demographics.
Mahmoud al-Sorgy, a spokesperson for Guards of Nineveh, urged Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to deal with the battle of Tal Afar with “accuracy and sensitivity”.een no genuine intention to resolve it.” Commenting on preparations by the mostly-Shia al-Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary forces to partake in the liberation the city.
“The problem with Tal Afar is nothing new, and there hadn’t been a genuine intention to resolve it,” al-Sorgy told Alsumaria TV on Wednsday. He added that the battle for Tal Afar is now halted for “political reasons.”
Turkey had warned of the sensitivity of Tal Afar, warning of retaliatory measures by the advancing paramilitary forces, most notably al-Hashed al-Shaabi, against its Turkmen population. Prime minister Abadi had also assured that it gives more attention to the region than any other.
“Liberation is the duty of every Iraqi, and if it requires the participation of al-Hashed al-Shaabi or any other group, there will be no problem, but let’s work on ensuring there are no problems following the liberation.”
On its behalf, Hezbollah al-Nujabaa, a component of al-Hashed al-Shaabi, has said it is going to engage in “a ferocious fight” against ISIS in Tal Afar , but denied plans for a demographic change in the precinct.
Speaking to Alsumaria TV, the group’s spokesman, Hashem al-Mosawi, said the first two phases of the battle for Tal Afar had been finished. “Only remains is the storming of the precinct as phase three. He pointed that while the fight is “intense” on the military level, there is also a “political dispute” on the area, with Turkey intervening on the issue with “lame excuses,” as he put it.
“We do not intend to induce a demographic change, or occupy or settle in Tal Afar. We are rather seeking to purge it and return the refugees,” he added.
Hamadaniya and London – Peshmerga Forces liberated on Wednesday the Bashiqa strategic town from ISIS control, but warned civilians of a hasty return to the town given that houses and roads might be booby-trapped.
Earlier in October, Iraqi army and counter terrorism forces liberated Hamadaniya district, 27 Km southeast of Mosul, after ISIS had occupied it for over two years.
Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper toured the now-almost completely destroyed city. ISIS demolished most of the infrastructure of Hamadaniya and booby-trapped the rest.
Nineveh police forces took control of the city after liberation, while the military engineering troops are in control of clearing it out of any explosives or bombs.
Nineveh police officer Mohammed accompanied Asharq Al-Awsat in its visit. He asked us to be careful while touring because of ISIS’ bombs. He told us to follow his steps as he explained how the city was occupied and destroyed by ISIS.
I wasn’t able to find a single house in Hamadaniya that wasn’t damaged, burnt, or destroyed by ISIS militants who fled the town to al-Entisar neighborhood, which was also liberated a few days ago.
Hamadaniya, which was highly populated by Iraqi Christians, is now empty and civilians find it hard to return to the city due to lack of services (water and electricity), and the absence of public institutions.
We noticed graffiti on the walls with ISIS’ slogans and names of officials. According to an Iraqi security officer, a local ISIS leader would pay a large sum of money to own a neighborhood, and writes his name on the wall. The militant would then loot the neighborhood and rob all its houses and stores.
ISIS is highly dependent on explosives in its battles against Iraqi forces. It also resorts to booby-trapped cars and snipers while its members hide in tunnels wide enough for vehicles to pass through.
Hamadaniya district president Nisan Rzouki, who was with us during our tour, said that certain areas in the town are still unsafe. He explained that the forces are still demining the area and clearing it of any ISIS fighters that might be hiding in the tunnels.
During his interview with Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, Rzouki stressed that the return of civilians to Hamadaniya requires a certain timeframe if the federal government and international organizations are not ready to support such a move.
According to the district president, 80% of Hamadaniya has been destroyed. He also called on authorities to consider the city a disaster area.
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[AMERICANTHINKER] What could be even more disastrous for the Clintons would be if many of the major donors to their charities should decide they've been sold a bill of goods and demand refunds of very substantial quids, for which there will not now, nor ever, be the much anticipated quos. With reports that very little of the Clinton charitable donations have actually been applied to charitable deeds, such donors would seem to have a reasonably credible motive for demanding that their donations be returned. Just a few demands could trigger a financial run on the charity itself and multiple lawsuits against other associated Clinton business enterprises, for profit or not. How could the Clintons defend against such claims, with the response that the donations were actually made to obtain political favor?
With new donations dwindling and donors demanding refunds, lawsuits piling up, and an aggressive special prosecutor seeking evidence of ongoing crimes, it's quite likely that the future is not going to be quite as rosy as the Clintons had pictured it prior to Tuesday. It is even more likely that it's going to end in a way that at least half of America is going to find extremely gratifying.
It's my opinion that the idea of Crooked Hillary escaping justice was a hugely motivating factor for voting against her, even by those who didn't like Trump. They were adamant they did not want to see the Democrats reward her for her corruption.
And for those of you who will be quick to respond that Obama will simply pardon the Clintons, you will only be partially correct. He can pardon them for federal offenses. However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... he has no authority to pardon them for future federal offenses, from state offenses, or from civil lawsuits arising from their corrupt behaviors. That reality leaves a lot of prosecutorial and litigation doors open to a pair of grifters with a long list of political enemies.
Um Gott es will. May God so will it.
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It will be interesting to see what happens to the level of donations now that she has no chance to give favors. That alone would be some indicator of bad intentions.
A resident says the naval forces of the semi-autonomous state of Puntland in northeastern Somalia raided ISIL militants in Qandala coastal town of Bari region.
Puntland marine troops attacked remote areas outside the town of Qandala, where pro-ISIS militants are believed to have hideout bases. A local resident said there were casualties from the Puntland naval forces shelling, but could not give the exact figure.
There has been no comment from Puntland officials on the seaborne attack.
Last month, heavily armed ISIL militants captured the coastal town of Qandala, which lies around 75km east of Bosaso port town in Bari region following Puntland army withdrawal.
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She is definitely sad and probably high, but then didn't stump around like a lot of other jackass celebrities. Instead she says she wants to help Trump be better.
It would be wise and cost very little to make nice with her and the community she represents.
Never forget that she has stayed at the top of her industry for a decade. She knows how to be popular and make money. She is a lot smarter than she seems to be.
Oh Fred, TW and Badanov, I hear some positions are available...
Not interested in working in a snake pit.
'Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly.' Prov 26-11
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Excellent.
Hey, if Obama/Clinton Democrats, Bernie Sanders Socialists, and Republican Never-Trumpers find it in their hearts to self emasculate themselves from the natsec bureaucracy... I say, "Go for it !
President Trump promised to cull your dead weight asses anyway.
Save him the trouble and see if anybody cares (or even notices) when the exit door hits ya where the Good Lord split ya.
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Hey, if Obama/Clinton Democrats, Bernie Sanders Socialists, and Republican Never-Trumpers find it in their hearts to self emasculate themselves from the natsec bureaucracy... I say, "Go for it !
Seppuku, also known less formally as harakiri, is a form of ritual suicide that was practiced by the samurai and daimyo of Japan. It usually involved cutting the abdomen open with a short sword, which was believed to immediately release the samurai's spirit to the afterlife.
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Are we talking about the geniuses who allowed the likes of Bradley/Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden to walk away from secure buildings with CDs and laptops full of classified information? The same geniuses who got caught flat footed by 9/11, the Boston Marathon bombing, the Orlanda gay bar shooting and who knows how many others?
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Yes, those geniuses. And I for one do not want a Daily Natsec for the Trump Admin. That would mean cordoning off the site in a secure manner for only Administration Officials.
I'm selfish, I want my Rantburg.
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[WAPO] JERUSALEM -- Israelis who support the Jewish presence in the occupied West Bank were buoyed Thursday after a top adviser to Donald Trump told an Israeli radio station that the president-elect does not view settlements as an obstacle to peace.
Speaking to Israel’s Army Radio, Jason Greenblatt, co-chairman of the Trump campaign’s Israel Advisory Committee, said: "It is certainly not Mr. Trump’s view that settlement activities should be condemned and that it is an obstacle for peace, because it is not an obstacle for peace."
It is widely believed that Greenblatt may be appointed Trump’s envoy to the Middle East.
If Trump’s position on Israeli settlements holds true, it would mark a sharp departure from the administration of outgoing President Obama. Throughout his nearly eight years in the White House, Obama spoke out strongly against Israeli expansion of Jewish settlements, which sit on land that Palestinians seek as part of a future state. Con't.
No mention in this rolling report from SF Gate as to who organized the "spontaneous" rally from several high schools, but I'm guessing it wasn't the freshman class.
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Cut class? Sure, I'm game! what're we protesting?
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No mention in this rolling report from SF Gate as to who organized the "spontaneous" rally from several high schools, but I'm guessing it wasn't the freshman class.
I'd guess the local branch of the CTA.
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Yeah, pot is legalized and they are cutting class. Sure they are cutting class to protest the election.
[FOXNEWS] If you voted for Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... , you may not feel welcomed at Grubhub. Resign, sue for creating an "uncomfortable corporate atmosphere" for conservatives, calling them names.
The CEO of Grubhub, an online food delivery service, sent a company wide email Wednesday suggesting employees who agree with President-elect Donald Trump’s behaviors and his campaign rhetoric should resign.
"If you do not agree with this statement then please reply to this email with your resignation because you have no place here," wrote Matt Maloney, Co-Founder of Grubhub. "We do not tolerate hateful attitudes on our team."
Maloney, a Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as a crook... supporter, sent the email Wednesday afternoon with the subject line, "So...that happened...what’s next?" He made it clear in the email statement that he is personally stunned and deeply concerned with the results of Tuesday’s election.
"I absolutely reject the nationalist, anti-immigrant and hateful politics of Donald Trump and will work to shield our community from this movement as best as I can," Maloney wrote about Trump’s supporters.
Maloney stands by the email, which he said many of his employees appreciated.
"I want to reaffirm to anyone on our team that is scared or feels personally exposed, that I and everyone else here at Grubhub will fight for your dignity and your right to make a better life for yourself and your family here in the United States."
The CEO made it clear he’s particularly concerned Trump’s victory will empower others in his workplace to act out against marginalized groups.
"While demeaning, insulting, and ridiculing minorities, immigrants colonists, and the physically/mentally disabled worked for Mr. Trump, I want to be clear that this behavior -- and these views -- have no place at Grubhub," Maloney explained.
Adding, if it were up to him, Trump would have been fired a long time ago.
"Had he worked here, many of his comments would have resulted in his immediate termination."
Maloney tells Fox News that "almost 20 percent" of his employees have personally thanked him for the note. "I am not embarrassed by it," he said.
The CEO said that he deeply respects the right of people to vote for whoever they decide, but that he simply wanted to "reassure our employees that our company will actively support diversity and inclusion -- regardless of national politics."
This letter is noteworthy because it underscores the fine-line between the intersection of politics and business, especially given the divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... presidential campaign of the past year and a half.
Bruce Tulgan, Author of "It’s OK to be the Boss," calls the letter "extraordinary" because while a CEO has a right to build the kind of corporate culture he or she wants -- Tulgan advises business leaders to stay away from politics.
"Much of that message could have been communicated without making direct reference to the election," Tulgan said of Maloney’s email. "Anytime you are talking about things that are not work at work you’re risking potentially alienating people, making people feel uncomfortable or un-welcomed at work."
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Becuz Teh Tolerance.
The cog dis is strong in this one.
I'm thinking the Trump Justice Dept and IRS should take a good long at this company -- which is publically held, BTW.
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Investors should also take a second look and run away. Not to mention Trump's ICE.
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Since this company is about to lose half of its customers and most of its stock value, I think getting out now would be very wise. Those options and five bucks will buy you a latte at Starbucks.
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Maloney must've lost a ton of money, betting on The Clinton Cartel™.
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Since this company is about to lose half of its customers and most of its stock value, I think getting out now would be very wise. Those options and five bucks will buy you a latte at Starbucks.
That assumes you still want to support the 'stunned' Starbucks elite.
I have now added Grubhub to the List of non vendors in the RET. household. Starbux, Target, Grubhub, Ben& Jerry's; Pepsi. (Mrs. Ret, still smuggles Cherry Garcia in occasionally)
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Well, last I saw their stock was down 34% or so. So yeah, the SOB probably lost the company and any reputation he had built as reliable.
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Take back my previous comment, went and checked. It was near $34 that it got quoted on. Granted it was a twitter account my previous comment was based on.
It's down 4.82 percent as of right now.
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At least seven civilians including women and children were killed in an explosion in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan.
Local officials in Kandahar said the incident took place late on Wednesday in Shawali Kot district.
Provincial governor’s spokesman Samim Khpolwak said the civilians were killed after their vehicle struck an Improvised Explosive Device (IED).
Khpolwak further added that three children, two women, and two men were among those killed.
No group including the Taliban insurgents has so far claimed responsibility behind the incident but the local officials said the IED was planted by the Taliban insurgents, the main anti-government armed militant group in the country.
Taliban insurgents and militants belonging to the insurgent groups frequently use Improvised Explosive Device (IED) as the weapon of their choice to target the Afghan security forces and the government officials.
However, in majority of such attacks the ordinary civilians are targeted as the militant groups are accused of causing the majority of the civilian casualties.
[BREITBART] What started as a protest against President-Elect Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... soon turned to violent riots where one of New Orleans’ most famous monuments was covered in graffiti and glass windows were shattered out of a nearby bank.
Hundreds showed up to denounce the election of Trump‐but despite media reports of a peaceful gathering, the crowd grew increasingly hostile and violent, according to Breitbart Texas sources on the ground.
Students holding signs reading "End white supremacy" originally gathered on the steps of the Lee Circle monument before the demonstrations turned destructive.
Lee Circle was fully covered in graffiti with phrases like "Black Power" and "Dismantle White Supremacy".
Later, an effigy of Trump was burned while glass windows at a nearby bank were shattered.
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First felony riot and hate crimes for the new AG
Iraqi security forces are preparing to advance toward Mosul airport on the city's southern edge to increase pressure on Islamic State militants fighting troops who breached their eastern defenses, officers said, Reuters reported.
The rapid response forces, part of a coalition seeking to crush them in the largest city under their control in Iraq or Syria, took the town of Hammam al-Alil, just over 15 km (10 miles) south of Mosul, on Monday.
Officers say they plan to resume their advance north, up the western bank of the Tigris River towards the city of 1.5 million people who have lived under the ultra-hardline Sunni Islamists for more than two years.
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Unidentified fighter jets have launched an airstrike on a training camp belonging to the Al Qaeda-linked militant group Al shabaab in middle Jubba region in southern Somalia on Wednesday night
The air raid took place at Waraha-Dhoobley area, about 45Km west of Bu’alle district, a main stronghold for Al shabaab in southern Somalia, where Al shabaab runs a training camp to prepare its new recruits.
After the air strike, heavily armed militants reached the area, and kicked off an operation in which they rounded up several people, in connection with the aerial bombing, according to the sources. Reports said top Al shabaab leaders were at the militant camp during the air strike, and there were no immediate reports of casualties on the militants.
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Luft!
Cast off, prepare the bow needle, set the watch and mizzen the main mast!
Srsly, a blimp fleet action would have been cool. Instead of a dawg-fight it would have been a Sloth-fight.
[Homeland Security Today] "When Americans go to the polls to choose a new president on November 8, they will be choosing the candidate they believe has the best approach to dealing with terrorism," according to ReportLinker Insight Managing Director Nicolas Bombourg regarding a new survey his firm conducted on how Americans are adapting their life to the threat of terrorism.
The questions that were asked were: What are the social and psychological effects of terrorism on the US population, and, how does it change choices concerning outings or transport?
This survey conducted by ReportLinker reached 503 online respondents representative of the US population, aged above 18 years old. Interviews were conducted on October, 14th.
The ReportLinker announcement said, "One reason it has become such a large factor in this election is that terrorism tears at the essential fabric of American life: the freedom to pursue life, liberty and happiness. But another reason is that recent attacks have pushed the issue to the forefront of everyday living."
The ReportLinker announcement said, "One reason it has become such a large factor in this election is that terrorism tears at the essential fabric of American life: the freedom to pursue life, liberty and happiness. But another reason is that recent attacks have pushed the issue to the forefront of everyday living."
"For example," ReportLinker stated, "the latest wave of terrorist attacks ‐ Boston, San Bernandino, Orlando ‐ have made Americans warier while out in public, especially in crowded places. Sixty-four percent say they’re more anxious when congregating in a public area or riding on public transportation, according to the ReportLinker survey. "And 62 percent say they believe air travel is risky, despite a stronger security process put into place after 9/11." Con't.
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Author Ed Klein joined Steve Malzberg on Newsmax TV on Wednesday after Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... shocked the world by winning the US presidency in his first ever political race.
Klein said Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as a crook... called a friend and couldn’t stop crying.
She blamed FBI Director Comey and Obama for the loss.
That's fair. If she hadn't been part of the Obama team, the email problems and Benghazi and such never would have happened. And if Director Comey hadn't been caught between the outrage of his agents and that of his bosses -- and if Wikileaks hadn't existed -- people would not have been so outraged by her scofflaw attitude as to come out to vote against her in such overwhelming numbers. That's too much cumulative outrage for even a Hillary Clinton to overcome.
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Hillary can't accept responsibility for anything. Thank God her coronation and fireworks are cancelled. Someone better inform Newsweek.
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The left's game plan involves the cultivation of "the sense of entitlement" among their plantation dwellers. All good drug dealers know you simply do not use what you sell. It never ends well.
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As much as she hate blacks, surprised Powell didn't make the list. But I guess Obama could have campaigned instead of golfing, and Comey could have just flat ignored the painfully obvious, but hey, at least Bernie got a new mansion out of it all.
Turkey should be a top priority in US foreign policy, a top adviser to President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday in an article that slammed Barack Obama for failing to understand Ankara's geopolitical position, the Daily Sabah newspaper reported Nov. 10.
“We must begin with understanding that Turkey is vital to US interests,” retired Gen. Michael Flynn wrote for the Hill newspaper. He also called Turkey “a source of stability in the region.”
I think the good General Flynn is missing a few key points in his briefing notes...
Flynn was a key national security adviser to Trump during his presidential campaign and is expected by many to be appointed to a Cabinet position, possibly as defense secretary.
The veteran general wrote that it was “an unwise policy” for the Obama administration to keep Ankara at arm’s length.
“We need to adjust our foreign policy to recognize Turkey as a priority. We need to see the world from Turkey's perspective,” he wrote.
Noting the extradition request by Turkey of Gulenist Terror Group (FETÖ) leader, Fetullah Gulen, as one of the key points of contention between Washington and Ankara, Flynn suggested the US handover Gulen.
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I strongly disagree with the General on this one. There can be no question what will happen to Gulen if he is handed over. Flynn needs to have a long discussion with some of our human intelligence folks. I think he might see things a bit differently.
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I suspect Flynn (who was very busy elsewhere with Afghanistan and ME terrorist matters) was not in the, shall we say Gulen loop.
One of the issues that resulted in Flynn and his deputy's ouster was their continued insistence on the shoring up and expansion DIA's human intelligence capabilities. The Klingons have never welcomed incursions into their market share.
IMHO, if Flynn had knowledge of any Gulen collaboration, he wouldn't be recommending Gulen be sent back to Turkey.
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"...The veteran general wrote that it was “an unwise policy” for the Obama administration to keep Ankara at arm’s length...".
Actually Obama went out of his way to praise Erdogan (e.g., here). Obama also ditched his campaign promise to call the Armenian genocide a genocide. Obama also gave Turkey a green light to push the Kurds around in part of Northern Syria.
Flynn's statement should make the all star dufus list (if there is a list).
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Only after all nukes (if any are there) and all American personnel are removed. Easy first phase of disengaging from the entangling foreign alliance that has nothing good for our interests.
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] On Thursday's New Day, during a panel discussion of the scheduled meeting at the White House between President Barack Obama That’s just how white folks will do you.... and President-elect Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... , and whether the two would be cordial despite their differences, co-host Alisyn Camerota at one point wondered why it is that President B.O. "has to be gracious" to Trump instead of just sending an intern to meet him.
Camerota: "Why does President B.O. have to be gracious? Why can't, I mean, I'm curious about the optics of this. Are he and First Lady Michelle going to the front door and going to glue smiles on their face and graciously open their arms and their home to Donald Trump, the man who questioned President B.O.'s birth, his citizenship, his family, his credentials, his legitimacy? Or can they just send an intern to the front door to let him in?"
Because it's what you do in a legitimate political system.
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No, it is what you do when you know your successor is going to rip up all your sh1t. Then when that happens, you can say, "Wow, what a d1ck. And we were so nice to him."
Once out, the immunity of office protection evaporates and opens the person for prosecutions of high crimes and misdemeanors for the period of time of service.
[al-Manar] The Yemeni army and popular committees launched a large scale campaign against the Saudi military positions in KSA’s Jizan, inflicting heavy losses upon the targeted positions.
Yemeni sources reported that the Yemeni army and popular committees controlled four Saudi villages and military positions in Jizan.
The sources added that the Saudi army soldiers escaped from the villages which had been just controlled by the Yemeni army and popular committees.
It is worth noting that the Saudi warplanes failed to stop the Yemeni attack which claimed scores of the Saudi soldiers.
The Saudi war aggression war jets had dropped cluster bombs on Saada and Hajja governorates overnight, security officials told Saba on Thursday.
The cluster bombs were dropped on al-Ataifain area of Kutaf district in Saada.
In Hajja, the Saudi aggression warplanes targeted Muthalath Medi three times with the cluster bombs.
Yemen has been since March 26, 2015 under brutal aggression by Saudi-led coalition.
Thousands have been martyred and injured in the attack, with the vast majority of them are civilians.
Riyadh launched the attack on Yemen in a bid to restore power to fugitive ex-president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi who is a close ally to Saudi Arabia.
[al-Manar] Shelling by armed groups on the Aleppo University campus Wednesday claimed the lives of at least six civilians and injured many others.
A number of mortar shells and other self-propelled rounds fired by militants landed near the campus, which houses both students and refugees.
According to Aleppo Police Command, all of the victims were either students or members of displaced families and locals.
Many of the wounded are children with grave facial injuries.
Earlier on Wednesday, three women and one man were injured by reactive munitions shelling from armed groups in the neighborhoods of al-Hamadaniyeh and New Aleppo.
The attacks, apart from inflicting heavy civilian casualties, have reportedly inflicted significant damage to buildings and other properties.
Armed groups have been shelling residential areas of Western Aleppo almost on a daily basis since the Syrian Army with the support of allies surrounded Al-Nusra Front terrorists and allied militants in Eastern Aleppo.
The surrounded gunmen are preventing civilians from exiting the war zone through humanitarian corridors provided by the Russian and Syrian military.
(IraqiNews.com) Al-Anbar – The self-proclaimed Islamic State has arrested two of its senior members in Al-Anbar for facilitating the escape of its Iraqi members to the Syrian city of Raqqa.
An intelligence official at al-Hashed al-Shaabi forces in the town of Hadithah, Nazem al-Jugheifi, said ISIS sent a force from the Syrian city of Raqqa to Al-Anbar’s towns of Annah and Rawa to arrest two of its security officers: Mohamed Halim al-Ani, aka Abu Ossama, and Bilal Ziyad, aka Abu Yazid.
“The reason behind the two leaders’ arrest was that they had issued licenses for Iraqi fighters escaping Annah and Rawa to Syria,” Jugheifi said.
ISIS reportedly closed Iraqi borders with Syria a few days ago to prevent members escaping battles, and had also executed a number of militants for slackness at the battleground.
Also In Anbar, four ISIS militants were killed in an Iraqi airstrike that targeted their haven west of Anbar, according to Qatari al-Ebeidi, another leader at al-Hashed al-Shaabi in Al-Anbar.
The airstrike, which was carried out upon an intelligence tip, destroyed a vehicle with the fighters on board, according to Ebeidi.
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[LibyaHerald]. Zawia's council of elders was again making major efforts this evening to convince the warring militias of both the Ahneish and Khadrawi families to agree to a moratorium on their fighting and allow mediators to find a compromise.
Clashes in Zawia clashes between the two erupted again early this early morning in Jamal Abdel Nasser and Omar Mukhtar streets, in the middle of the town.
Sources from Zawia said that elders are trying to convince Aheish followers to leave the main streets as their presence there has prevented residents going to work.
The clashes started after the Khadrawis accused Ibrahim Ahneish, one of the leaders of his clan, of selling to the Wirshefana three men who were then killed, a local journalist told this newspaper earlier. Another story tells that the Khadrwai family and followers simply used the incident as an excuse because of their enmity towards and jealousy of Ahneish over his control of smuggling petrol from the Zawia refinery. Reports claim he has been earning millions from the business.
[DAWN] Foreign Office (FO) Spokesman Nafees Zakaria on Thursday said that Pakistain 'welcomed' the US president-elect Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's offer to mediate between Pakistain and India on the Kashmire dispute, Radio Pakistain reported.
Oh my.
During a weekly press briefing in Islamabad, while responding to queries about the victory of Republican Donald Trump in the US presidential elections, Zakaria said that the president-elect had earlier offered mediation between Pakistain and India on Kashmire dispute and said that Pakistain had welcomed that offer.
Zakaria reiterated Pakistain's concern over continued 'atrocities' committed by Indian forces in held Kashmire and said Pakistain would continue to raise the issue at the international level and extend moral, political and diplomatic support to the cause of the Kashmiris.
The FO said Pakistain desires a close relationship with the US, and wishes to further strengthen ties in areas including the economy, defence, science and technology, education, strategic issues and counter-terrorism.
Pakistain will continue to promote and strengthen existing ties in areas of common interest, the FO said.
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Kinda seems like he might should mediate our own border disputes first.
[ARA News] HASAKAH – Clashes broke out on Thursday between the People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Islamic State’s (ISIS) militants in Syria’s northeastern Hasakah province.
The clashes erupted near Shaddadi city south of Hasakah after an attempt by ISIS militants to storm YPG headquarters in the area.
“ISIS terrorists tried to infiltrate into YPG headquarters in the al-Malha village in southern Shaddadi,” a YPG spokesman told ARA News.
“However, the Kurdish YPG fighters repelled the attack after clashes with ISIS militants,” the spokesman said.
At least 21 ISIS militants were killed in the clashes, while four YPG fighters were reportedly wounded.
Similar clashes took place in early October after ISIS carried our two suicide attacks on Kurdish positions and tried to infiltrate into Shaddadi city. The Kurdish YPG units and allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were eventually able to repel the attack.
In mid-February 2016, the YPG and allied SDF fighters concluded a protracted campaign by liberating Shaddadi city. In recent months ISIS has been trying to return to the area, launching mortar and car bomb attacks from bases in Deir ez-Zor Governorate.
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[The Hill] Former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) will reportedly take a senior role on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's transition team, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
Rogers is set to advise the GOP nominee on national security.
His role on the transition team is preliminary and not finalized, according to the report.
Rogers may be in charge of the national security group on the transition team, or he could play another top roll on the team.
Rogers served in Congress from 2001 to 2015. In 2011, he began his role as the head of the House Intelligence Committee. He worked at the FBI before being elected to Congress.
Since leaving Congress, he has launched an organization called Americans for Peace, Prosperity, and Security.
The group's goal is to "enhance the knowledge base of citizens in the early states to help elect a president who supports American engagement and a strong foreign policy," according to its website.
The former congressman is friends with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), who is leading Trump's transition team. Rogers, who has some policy differences with the GOP nominee, is also said to be close with Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R), Trump's running mate.
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I hope someone is taking a very close look at this one, to include the Benghazi baggage. Possibly an off-line discussion with Congressman Trey Gowdy, chairman of the Benghazi committee.
My guess is he's angling for Brennan or Comey's jobs. He came out of the Bureau as I recall.
U.S. president-elect Donald Trump on Thursday told President Park Geun-hye the U.S. stands by Korea "100 percent," Cheong Wa Dae said.
"We are going to be with you 100 percent," Trump said when Park called him in the morning. "We will be steadfast and strong with respect to working with you to protect against the instability in North Korea."
On the campaign trail Trump repeatedly singled out the alliance with Korea as an expensive commitment the U.S. can do without, and described the free trade agreement with Korea as a "disaster."
But now the reality of his election win sinks in he appears to have changed his tune.
"We are with you all the way and we will not waver," he told Park.
Good. Trump is already growing in office. Now start planning the grand swap with the powers in the region to depose Fat Boy and divide North Korea between the South and China.
Park told Trump the two countries "have built mutual trust while advancing their alliance over the past six decades."
"We're looking forward to working closely with you to bolster and develop the alliance in more diverse areas for the sake of common interests."
Park added the most serious challenge facing the alliance "is the North Korean nuclear and missile threats."
Trump said he agrees 100 percent.
The real estate tycoon also claimed to have bought many Korean home appliances and thought they were very good.
All the Trump Hotels have Samsung TVs!
Park expressed the hope that Trump will visit Korea at an early date, saying, "I'm looking forward to meeting you to have more in-depth discussions in the near future."
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"Park said"
"Park said"
"Park said"
I wonder if there really was a call and what Trump might have said beyond 'thank you' pleasantries.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 11 loyalists of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed in an Arclight airstrike in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
The provincial police commandment in a statement said the Arclight airstrike was carried out by the US forces based in Afghanistan, using an unmanned aerial vehicle to target the loyalists of the terror group.
The statement further added that a Dshk heavy machine belonging to the loyalist of the terror group was also destroyed when they were targeted in Achin district.
The local residents did not suffer any casualties in the Arclight airstrike, the provincial police commandment added.
The loyalists of the terrorist group have not commented regarding the report so far.
ISIS loyalists and Death Eaters belonging to the other bully boy groups are actively operating in a number of the remote districts of Nangarhar province including the restive Achin.
The Afghan forces and US forces based in Afghanistan are regularly targeting the ISIS loyalists and other bad boy groups.
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Hillary Clinton
[Daily Caller] The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit an all-time intraday high of 18,873.6 Thursday, the day after Donald Trump was elected president.
[Cincinnati.com] A Cincinnati man serving a life sentence for drug offenses was one of 72 commutations granted by President 
[INFOWARS] Shocking video out of 
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] 
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The EU’s top leaders on Wednesday invited US President-elect 
[IsraelTimes] Terrorist attacks in 
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Thousands of protesters rallied across the United States Wednesday expressing shock and anger over 
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] In a cordial beginning the transfer of power, President 
Joe 
[HUFFINGTONPOST] On Thursday, Democratic Party officials held their first staff meeting since 
[DAWN] A cardiac patient died outside the emergency ward of the Mayo Hospital on Wednesday when young doctors protesting there allegedly denied him entry.
[DAWN] BILAWAL Bhutto-Zardari has just been seen trying another, natural route for landing in Punjab. A few days ago, he was found in Rahim Yar Khan, reassuring the inhabitants there that since they had BB’s son amongst them, they ought not to despair as yet. As to whether the trip provided the young PPP leader any cause to be upbeat about his
Turkish Air Force destroyed 92 positions of the “Islamic State” (aka IS, ISIL, ISIS or Daesh) terrorist group as part of the Shield of Euphrates operation in Syria, the General Staff of Turkey said in a message Nov. 10.
A massive cyberattack has hit at least five of Russia's largest banks, Moscow-based internet security giant Kaspersky said Thursday. The country's largest lender, state-controlled Sberbank, said it had been hacked into on Tuesday but managed to neutralise the attack automatically without disturbing its operations.
Annie went to work as usual on Veterans’ Day. It was a federal holiday, so Isabel was off from school. She and Martin went to seven o’clock mass in the morning to pray for the dead and the maimed, then came home. She had an unhurried “weekend” breakfast of bacon and eggs and biscuits and fried potatoes – half the time she made do with cereal on school days. Martin did his usual chores. He fed the animals. He spread chicken-generated fertilizer mixed with cow-generated fertilizer, lime, broad-leaf weed eradicator, crabgrass killer, and mulch on the lawn in front of the house. Isabel held the ladder and the dogs supervised while he replaced the rotted gutters on the veranda. After lunch he pulled bad wood from the veranda floor and replaced it with new wood. He tried to sing with Isabel as they painted, discovering his voice still wasn’t quite up to more than a few bars at a time. He settled for humming.
[DAWN] IT seems that Lahore’s hospital corridors have turned into venues for shouting matches and ugly scuffles. Starting as a dispute between the Young Doctors Association and
[PJMEDIA] A petition on 
[AMERICANTHINKER] What could be even more disastrous for the Clintons would be if many of the major donors to their charities should decide they've been sold a bill of goods and demand refunds of very substantial quids, for which there will not now, nor ever, be the much anticipated quos. With reports that very little of the Clinton charitable donations have actually been applied to charitable deeds, such donors would seem to have a reasonably credible motive for demanding that their donations be returned. Just a few demands could trigger a financial run on the charity itself and multiple lawsuits against other associated Clinton business enterprises, for profit or not. How could the Clintons defend against such claims, with the response that the donations were actually made to obtain political favor?
[TMZ] Miley Cyrus just made a tearful plea for love and compassion after Donald Trump's stunning win over Hillary Clinton.
Hillary Clinton
Unidentified fighter jets have launched an airstrike on a training camp belonging to the Al Qaeda-linked militant group Al shabaab in middle Jubba region in southern Somalia on Wednesday night
Turkey should be a top priority in US foreign policy, a top adviser to President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday in an article that slammed Barack Obama for failing to understand Ankara's geopolitical position, the Daily Sabah newspaper reported Nov. 10.
[LibyaHerald]. Zawia's council of elders was again making major efforts this evening to convince the warring militias of both the Ahneish and Khadrawi families to agree to a moratorium on their fighting and allow mediators to find a compromise.
