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My focus this week is on the "wiretapping" (electronic interception of communications, if you insist) of President Trump and his associates during the campaign. It seems to me this story is rapidly unfolding -- if only mostly in overseas press and online -- and promises to be far more explosive than the Watergate story, an account that says frightening things about our intelligence agencies and those of some of our allies, most particularly Great Britain. It has become increasingly clear to me that there was widespread wiretapping of President Trump and his associates and that the underlying justification was pretextual -- it was actually intended to spy on a political opponent. And it is equally clear that the nonsensical post-election tale that Russia colluded with Trump so that he could beat Hillary Clinton was a coverup tale to justify the unmasking and leaking of some of the information -- particularly about General Flynn -- which has taken place. The prior administration was so confident Hillary would win that they left their tracks uncovered and afterward were desperate to hide the truth so they projected and whispered the Russians were colluding with Trump.
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It’s also true, as Snowden revealed in 2013, that the British Government Communications Head Quarters (GCHQ) had been partly funded by the U.S. NSA to the tune of over 100 million British pounds. So they had even more incentive to play ball with Obama. Three days after Trump’s inauguration the head of that outfit (Robert Hannigan) unexpectedly resigned for “personal reasons.”
Follow the money as they say.
Hannigan’s background was not initially in intelligence. Born in Gloucester in 1965 and brought up in Yorkshire, he had been a high-flying civil servant at the Northern Ireland Office, where he was head of communications and later political director. He was involved in the peace process, credited with coming up with the idea for a diamond-shaped table in order to get over objections by the opposing sides about seating arrangements.
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The death toll from a bomb blast on a crowded Syrian bus convoy outside Aleppo reached at least 112 people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said on Sunday.
Syrian rescue workers, the Civil Defense said, had carted away at least 100 bodies from the site of Saturday's blast, which hit buses carrying Shi'ite residents as they waited to cross from rebel into government territory in an evacuation deal between warring sides.
The British-based Observatory said the number was expected to rise.
Those killed were mostly residents of the villages of al-Foua and Kefraya in Idlib province, but included rebel fighters guarding the convoy, the Observatory said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which pro-Damascus media said was carried out by a suicide car bomber.
The convoy was carrying at least 5,000 people including civilians and several hundred pro-government fighters, who were granted safe passage out of the two Shi'ite villages which are besieged by rebels.
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When I first heard the story of St. Maximilian Kolbe's sacrifice, I thought "Wow. He sacrificed his life so the other guy could live what - another week? Maybe a month?". Turns out that the man that St. Maximilian died for was present when St. Maximilian was canonized by St John Paul II.
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Or any day, for those of us (me!) a little lacking in backbone. Had an icon of him as my wallpaper for the a while (not that it's done me much good).
Interesting forum, though. Perish the thought that the folks who took such excellent care of Poland's architecture and infrastructure might not have been equally gentle toward her people.
The Germans marschieren down Poland,
But gar nichts is harmed or gestohlen!
Those generous Niemcy
Who spared us Jack Dempsey's?
Frank Davis sez, "Naturally Nolan."
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Don't be too hard on yourself Zen. I suspect I would have remained silent and melted deep into the POW formation. Courage clearly defined, without question.
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Just to set the record straight, from the article: "Gajowniczek was a Polish political prisoner who had been arrested because he was aiding the Jewish resistance in Poland, although he was not a Jew himself."
Franciszek Gajowniczek was not a Jew. I am sure that St. Maximilian would have done the same for anyone who begged for mercy because of his family.
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On April 7, President Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate Neomi Rao as administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). The announcement did not ignite the firestorm of political attention other nominations have received; good news, given that the position for which Ms. Rao was nominated is one that calls for a swift confirmation process.
The significance and critical responsibilities of the administrator of OIRA is one of the best-kept secrets in Washington. The office -- which has fewer than 50 people -- sits within the president’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and is charged with reviewing and coordinating interagency review of significant proposed and final rules from agencies within the Executive Branch. This is key.
As a result, the office has a hand in shaping nearly all rules that have an annual effect on the economy of $100 million, that have a material effect on the budget, or that raise novel issues of law or policy.
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Ms. Rao is an accomplished law professor, with prior experience in the government and private sector. She works well with others, as evidenced by her appointment as a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States and the Governing Council of the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice. She is clearly a smart and qualified choice to fill the post.
[Trump.news] To the Left, losing elections, which the Democrats have lost repeatedly in the age of Barack Obama, doesn’t matter. They don’t see losses as losses, they see them as mere inconveniences that give them a reason to change strategies and tactics in order to still get what they want. (RELATED: Former U.S. Lawmaker: "Deep State" Putting Republic At Risk In Bid To End Trump Presidency)
It means packing the federal courts with far-Left ideologues who use campaign rhetoric to rule against a president's lawful right and responsibility to protect the country from terrorism. Which led me to this article How To Remove a Federal Judge More importantly, they indicate that the original Constitution did not render impeachment the only possible means of removing federal judges with good-behavior tenure. Given the long tradition of adjudicating misbehavior in the ordinary courts, Congress may enact necessary and proper legislation permitting the removal of federal judges upon a finding of misbehavior in the ordinary courts of law. And on that note, IMHO Ryan and McConnell need to start showing that they are more than a waste of space.
I understand Anthony Weiner is gonna do a book too. A pop-up picture book
The estranged wife of disgraced ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner and former top aide to Hillary Clinton has been meeting over the past few weeks with top literary agents to discuss her writing a book, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Abedin, 40, is seeking as much as $2 million for the book, which would likely detail her husband's sexting scandal and her role in Clinton's failed presidential bid, according to the report.
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That high-paid job she expected at the White House fell through, and dear, wayward Anthony isn't contributing anything to the bank account -- a fierce woman has to take care of business.
But that book isn't going to sell enough to make back the advance unless she dishes some serious dirt. Do the Clintons still have any power?
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If I read this right, she wants 2 mill advance so it's really about opening the bidding with bookstores and Hildabeest . Since she seems to have been left behind, it's about buying her off or else. Dangerous game to play with the Clintons. There is a long list of names she might be joining if she isnt careful.
[Wash Times] An Arkansas judge attended two death-penalty protests on the same day that he issued an order blocking the state’s multiple executions, at one point allowing himself to be strapped to a cot in a simulation of an inmate slated to die by lethal injection.
Pulaski County Circuit Court Judge Wendell Griffen "cannot be considered remotely impartial on issues related to the death penalty," said Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge in an emergency petition filed Saturday challenging his order.
She said Mr. Griffen attended a 2 p.m. Friday rally at the state capitol in Little Rock before issuing the temporary restraining order at about 4:25 p.m., then resurfaced at an evening protest outside the governor’s mansion.
"Within an hour of granting the TRO [temporary restraining order], Judge Griffen was photographed at a second anti-death penalty rally -- this one at the Governor’s Mansion, where Judge Griffen lay strapped down to a cot to simulate the experience of a condemned prisoner on a gurney," said the petition. "Judge Griffen was protesting the very executions he had just enjoined."
The judge also spoke out against the executions in a blog post earlier this month, saying that "Arkansas officials plan to commit a series of homicides,"according to the petition.
[DW] Two men and a woman - one Afghan, one Turkish and one German - have been detained in Germany on suspicion of supporting and encouraging a terrorist in planning a kaboom on police or soldiers, prosecutors in the northern city of Celle said on Friday.
The three, aged between 25 and 27, were taken into custody on Thursday night, and are suspected of aiding and abetting a serious act of violence against the state, the prosecutors said. One was found in Cologne ...a lovely city in Germany. They invented perfume there... , one in Bunde - both in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia - and one in Hildesheim in Lower Saxony, further to the north.
The man they are suspected of supporting, Sascha L. from the central city of Northeim, has reportedly confessed to a plan to lure members of the police or army into a trap before killing them with a homemade explosive. He was incarcerated Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in February and remains in investigative custody.
Media reports say that Sascha L., who is now considered a member of the ultraconservative Islamic Salafist movement, was once active in the neo-Nazi scene.
[DW] The Italian coast guard and assisting NGOs have saved thousands of migrants from the Mediterranean over Easter weekend, more than 2,000 on Friday and at least 3,000 on Saturday. Jugend Rettet Iuventa told AFP there were 1,000 migrants still waiting to be rescued from rubber dinghies and other crafts on the water. Rescue missions were ongoing.
EU border control agency Frontex has accused non-government groups rescuing migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea from Libya into Europe of acting "like taxis." Italian prosecutors have suggested the non-government affiliated groups have links to traffickers, a claim the groups have strongly denied.
More than 24,000 migrants have crossed the Mediterranean Sea from Libya to Italy over the first three months of 2017, much more than the 18,000 that crossed during the same time period in 2016, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
However, the death toll for migrants crossing into Europe is much lower so far in 2017. The IOM says nearly 800 migrants have died trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea in 2017. More than 5,000 migrants died in the Mediterranean Sea in 2016.
[AlAhram] The Greek coastguard said Saturday it was escorting a vessel carrying around 50 migrants towards the island of Cephalonia in the Ionian sea after answering two mayday calls. An Italian sea rescue helicopter joined three Greek patrol boats in an operation coordinated by EU border control agency Frontex to locate the vessel after receiving the distress calls.
Italy has become the prime European entry point for tens of thousands of migrants since last year's EU-Turkish agreement to stem the flow across the Aegean Sea and since the closure of the Balkan route, also last year.
Spanish police and maritime rescue authorities meanwhile said they had rescued around 200 people off Spain's southern and eastern seaboard since Wednesday. Spanish authorities said they picked up 62 North Africans, including 18 minors, at Barbate, near the Strait of Gibraltar and 52 more sub-Saharan Africans at Motril in the deep south, likewise opposite the Moroccan coast. Those rescues followed others throughout the week around Spain's south coast and off the Balearic Islands.
According to the International Organization for Migration around 1,000 people reached Spain by sea between January 1 and April 11 with 47 more drowning. That compares with 27,000 arrivals and 603 deaths in Italy and 4,107 arrivals and 14 fatalities in Greece, according to IOM data.
[AlAhram] Officials in northern France say an operation to shelter more than 1,000 migrants has ended, five days after the camp they were staying in outside the port city of Dunkirk burned down. The prefecture for the Nord said a total of 1,061 migrants were given new shelter as of Saturday, most sent to migrant centers around France. About 30 others were arrested by border police for alleged links to people smugglers or for disturbing public order.
The migrants, most looking to cross the English Channel to Britain, were without shelter after a fire ravaged the wooden shelters of the Grande-Synthe camp, opened last year by Doctors Without Borders.
French authorities dismantled a far larger migrant camp in nearby Calais last October.
[AlAhram] Pakistain's military says security forces foiled a "major terrorist attack" on minority Christians when they killed a bully boy and detained his associate in the eastern city of Lahore.
In a statement, the military said Saturday four soldiers were maimed in an overnight raid.
It was unclear which bully boy group wanted to target Easter Sunday in Lahore, where more than 70 people were killed in a 2016 suicide kaboom at a park, which was crowded with Christians and Moslems at thte time.
The latest raid came hours after Christians celebrated Good Friday by worshipping at city churches.
Security forces in recent months have stepped up operations against Lions of Islam but Friday's raid and shootout came as Christians prepared to celebrate the day followers believe Jesus was resurrected from the dead.
[SHABELLENEWS] Military jets believed to be belonging to Kenyan air forces have launched an air strike in a small town in Gedo region which is controlled by Al shabaab holy warriors.
Local residents said they heard loud kabooms as the Kenyan military warplanes heavily bombed Al shabaab bases in El-adde, and several nearby locations.
El-adde is the scene of a deadly attack on KDF base in January 15, 2016 by Al shabaab.
There has been no confirmation of the casualties.
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[An Nahar] An Egyptian court sentenced former interior minister Habib al-Adly to seven years in prison for corruption Saturday, in one of the last cases against Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... -era officials following his 2011 overthrow.
Adly, who was seen as a brutal enforcer for the ousted strongman Mubarak, can appeal the verdict.
The sentencing came less than a month after Mubarak himself was freed from detention, following his acquittal over charges of involvement in protester deaths during the 18-day revolt that unseated him.
Adly and other police commanders had also been acquitted of those charges.
But the court on Saturday found him and 10 other interior ministry officials guilty of embezzling more than two billion pounds (about $110 million) while Adly was interior minister.
Two other defendants also received seven-years sentences, while the court sentenced six others to six years in prison each and two to three years.
Adly had been sent to his room since November.
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[DAWN] The law-enforcement agencies on Friday tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! two suspected snuffies for their alleged involvement in bombing a public meeting in Battagram years ago with intent to kill Amir Muqam, the adviser to the prime minister.
The men were picked by the personnel from a private hostel near the Hazara University, and were shifted to some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location for interrogation.
One of the arrested men was identified as Wali Khan, resident of Shangla district, and identity of his accomplice was not disclosed, sources said, and added that more details about them couldn’t be released to media at this time. However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... they said both the men were involved in planning subversive activities in Hazara and Malakand divisions.
The detail of confiscated material and arms from arrested snuffies was also kept secret.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy was furiously chewing her cud and thinking... a front man of the Hazara University told Dawn on contact that the arrested men were not the students of the varsity and were living in a private hostel near the university. He said the university would function as usual.
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[DAWN] MARDAN/SWABI: The Mardan police on Friday nabbed ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... 10 people on the charge of involvement in the lynching of a journalism student of the Abdul Wali Khan University over blasphemy charges.
Also in the day, Mashal Khan was laid to rest in native Zaida village of Swabi district.
A mob consisting of hundreds of university students had killed the student on campus on Thursday by lynching over the allegations of blasphemy triggering a nationwide uproar.
An official of Mardan’s Sheikh Maltun cop shoppe said two FIRs of the lynching incident had been registered.
He said 20 people, including four officials and 16 Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan students, were named in the FIRs, while 10 of them had been taken into custody.
The official said the suspects were identified through video footage of the incident, while the police had formed three teams to arrest the other suspects.
When contacted, Mardan DSP Ikhtiraz Khan confirmed the registration of FIRs, one about the lynching and other about the unidentified protesters interfering in the affairs of the state, blocking the university’s main routes and gates, and ransacking the campus.
The AWKU provost told Dawn that the university had formed a committee first to find out the ’real causes and motives’ behind the killing of the student and second to ascertain if two other students were involved in the blasphemy or not.
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[Iraq News] The Joint Operations Command has declared murder of an Iraqi army commander during battles taking place in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , 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.... ’s strongest stronghold in Iraq.
A statement by the command on Saturday mourned "Colonel Falah Hassan Salman, commander in the 91st brigade of the army, who was killed early on Saturday during the ’We are Coming Nineveh’ operations."
The statement did not mention the place or circumstances of the incidents.
The Joint Operations Command’s Mosul operations announced last week resumption of military operations in Central Mosul, after being suspended for few days, saying that its forces had recaptured 60% of western Mosul from Islamic State bully boys, as operations approach a third month to retake that region.
Eastern Mosul was recaptured from IS in January, after a US-backed offensive was launched in October. A new offensive started in February to retake the west.
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[DAWN] Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... on Saturday afternoon issued a strongly-worded condemnation of the lynching of a university student in Mardan over allegations of blasphemy.
"I am shocked and saddened by the senseless display of mob justice that resulted in the murder of a young student, Mashal Khan, at Wali Khan University, Mardan," the premier said.
"The state will never tolerate those who take the law in their own hands," he warned.
He also ordered action against those found involved in the incident, directing police to arrest those who were responsible.
"The nation should stand united to condemn this crime and to promote tolerance and rule of law in the society," the prime minister said.
"No father should have to send his child off to be educated, with the fear of having him return in a coffin."
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[DAWN] Mufti Naeem, head of Jamia Binoria, on Saturday said Learned Elders of Islam from all sects in the country should unanimously condemn acts of violence originating from the misuse of the blasphemy law.
He also said the Learned Elders of Islam should issue a statement stating that killing an individual over blasphemy allegations is "against the Shariah as well as the law of Pakistain".
He said this while speaking on a DawnNews programme regarding the murder of Mashal Khan, a 23-year-old journalism student who was stripped, shot, thrown from the second floor of the hostel and brutally beaten to death by an angry mob in Mardan over allegations of blasphemy.
Incidents of violence over blasphemy allegations are becoming common in Pakistain, the religious scholar said. "The blasphemy law is being misused in the country."
"People are losing the value of this (blasphemy) law," the mufti added, saying that religious extremism could only be eliminated if the judicial system in the country is strengthened.
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[Iraq News] Police in Kirkuk tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! on Friday two members 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.... who had taken part in executions of Kurdish Peshmerga forces.
Police chief Sarhad Qader was quoted by Aljournal News saying a police force arrested the pair near Daqouq region, west of the province. He said the two members took part in battles against Peshmerga forces and also executed some of its troopers in the Islamic State stronghold town of Hawija, southwest of the province.
"There had been videos and posts proving that the arrested gunnies took part in beheading Peshmerga captives," Qader stated, adding that both had been referred to the judiciary.
Since emerging in 2014 to proclaim a self-styled "Islamic Caliphate", IS members executed hundreds of Iraqi and Kurdish security members as well as civilians. The group is still holding areas in southwestern Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... where thousands of civilians had to flee the group’s rule to refugee camps in the province and neighboring cities. Local officials have repeatedly urged the government to hasten with security efforts to liberate IS-held regions in Kirkuk, but the Iraqi government currently employs its full military power in the six-month-old campaign to retake djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , IS’s biggest stronghold in Iraq.
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[Iraq News] Federal Police have declared killing an 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.... leader on Saturday and controlling a network of tunnels in districts of the Old City of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , IS strongest stronghold in Iraq.
In a statement, Lt. Gen. Shaker Jawdat said "the forces killed IS leader called Mahmoud Ali Mahmoud Matar al-Hadidi during festivities with the group members in the Old City."
Moreover, "the troops controlled the group’s network of tunnels, in the south of the city, that is used an alternative headquarters by the leaders," Jawdat added.
Last week, U.S.-led coalition jets heavily pounded IS headquarters in western Mosul leaving dozens of casualties among jihadists, according to Iraq’s War Media Cell.
The Joint Operations Command previously declared its forces had recaptured 60% of western Mosul from Islamic State bad boys, as operations enter third month to clear the region from the bad boy group.
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[ICE Public Affairs Update] ICE ’most wanted fugitive’ captured in Colorado following local news report. Public tip helped officers capture Jose Victor Bonilla-Melendez, a previously deported convicted sex offender ‐ and his brother, a previously deported convicted child sex offender
WASHINGTON ‐ U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Denver Fugitive Operations team officers arrested one of ERO’s most wanted fugitives Friday morning in Aurora, Colorado, making a second arrest in the process.
Jose Victor Bonilla-Melendez, aka Anthony Garcia-Melendez, 48, a citizen of Honduras, was located after ERO received a tip about his whereabouts from someone who saw a social media post by the local Denver ABC affiliate regarding his inclusion among ICE’s most wanted fugitives. Bonilla‐Melendez was wanted by ICE for removal from the U.S. as convicted sex offender, last seen in Aurora.
Bonilla-Melendez has a criminal history that includes felony convictions for assault causing serious bodily injury, sexual assault, and unlawful re-entry of a deported alien. He has been removed from the U.S. on two prior occasions, most recently on April 5, 2006. On Dec. 7, 2014, the Aurora Police Department arrested him on local charges, but the subject posted bond before an ICE detainer could be placed. Despite numerous attempts by ICE to locate his whereabouts, he remained at-large.
[Market Watch] If you’re searching for a job, the odds of finding one may depend on your gender.
Overall, occupations that are more than 80% female are projected to grow at nearly twice the rate of jobs that are at least 60% male between 2014 and 2024, according to research out this week from the jobs site Indeed and its chief economist, Jed Kolko. The site researched Bureau of Labor Statistics and found that many are jobs that are traditionally dominated by women -- including occupational therapy assistants, physical therapy assistants and nurse practitioners -- are growing at the fastest rate. They will grow at about a 40% rate, compared to an overall rate of 6.5% for all jobs.
In fact, all of the fastest-growing jobs for women were healthcare-related.
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Cutbacks in healthcare big time. Many medically related occupations being reduced at this time. Many reasons but Obamacare has had a drastic impact. $5000 or much more paid before service is provided. Many hospitals in severe financial strain currently. Many in rural areas closing. Then high turnover rates perhaps burnout from working too many hours tending to entire floor of 60 patients. Males in high demand in nursing. 80% of the female nurses have back injuries job related. So now the young millennial women want to stay at home. They are adopting more traditional roles of family life. Then also the life expediency for women is now closer to a mans. Work out of the home has a price.
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Many institutions are seeking university credentials as 'training hospitals'. Lower cost student labor as part of 'work study' training and also Federal aid in recruitment of even lower paid foreign workers happy to work for a certificate in 'patient transport', 'biohazard management' or 'vitals monitoring'.
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Yes, always playing the game to win. "training hospitals". Teaching University hospitals were always my pick or recommendation. Currently hit and miss in care in other hospitals. Some areas making money in better shape but other departments languish. Inmate attacked an officer in our local prison. Shank hidden in his prosthetic leg. Stabbed about twelve times. Equipment out of service at local hospital and he had to be sent to University of Maryland shock trauma. Seems he is doing well now. Then yesterday inmate was killed. Lock down. Officers tired. You have to feed every inmate in their cell. Much more labor and and I am certain longer work day. Warm weather and things get a little close.
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Head hunters sent overseas to recruit and offer incentive bonus. This has been done for many years now. Even established agency's in other countries. Money to be made. Lower on the food chain maintenance people sent over to clean corporations.Those from (rural)Russia get here and are stuck. No transportation of their own. Know little or no English. Then some weeks never paid.
At least 14 people have been killed in South Sudan after new fighting erupted between government forces and the main rebel group.
Lam Paul Gabriel Lam, the SPLM-IO rebel group's spokesman, told Reuters news agency on Saturday during the last two days the army has bombed rebel-held areas around Raga - a northwestern town near the border with Sudan and Central African Republic.
"Yesterday our forces decided to go and raid Raga," he said. "Around 14 people were counted killed but many are injured. We had one soldier killed with some injuries."
Santo Domic Chol, the government's military spokesman, said he was in Raga and would provide information later on.
The outbreak of violence in the eastern Jonglei region came after fierce clashes in southern Pajok and western Wau in the past two weeks. According to a tally of UN figures and deaths that witnesses reported to AFP, 101 people were killed in the two towns.
The United Nations, which has a large peacekeeping force in the East African nation, confirmed the latest outbreak of violence. The surge in fighting in eastern South Sudan has forced 60 aid workers to flee, the UN humanitarian agency OCHA said on Saturday.Moustapha Soumare, the special representative for the UN secretary-general in South Sudan, on Saturday called for a halt to fighting, urging "all parties, to prove their commitment to peace".
South Sudanese government has dropped containers of toxic gas on rebel-held areas in Bieh State, a senior rebel military source told the South Sudan News Agency on Saturday.
The official who declined to be named because he is not authorized to speak said the government used at least three military helicopters to drop the poison gas.
“After days of failed attempt to capture our areas in Waat, the genocidal regime in Juba decided to use poisonous gas on our gallant forces and civilians. The gas is suffocating people. People affected by this gas attack are experiencing severe coughing,” the officer told the South Sudan News Agency.
Lt. Col. Lam Paul Gabriel with the SPLA-IO military command also released a statement, confirming the gas attack.
“After failing to defeat the SPLA-IO forces with regular weapons, the Juba government Militias under the command Governor John Gony Biliew of Akobo State and Majiok Gatluak Thoa of Bieh State used poisonous gas that blindfolds, weakens, makes someone loses focus and causes sneezing while attacking SPLA-IO positions and civilians in the IDP Camps,” Gabriel said the gas use has been systematic, saying, “This criminal acts of cowardice by the Juba Government started on 11th April 2017 in Yuai, proceeded to Waat on 14/04/2017 and still going on with an aim of reaching Akobo.”
Gabriel said rebel forces have tactically withdrawn from Waat Saturday night to focus on civilian evacuations.
“There are many civilians casualties in Yuai and Waat due to this act of terrorism by the Juba regime,” he said.
The armed opposition calls on the African Union (AU), Troika countries and the international community to immediately send investigators to Bieh and Akoba states to investigate what it described as “this use of poisonous gas by the Juba regime.” The SPLA-IO urges the international community to send a medical team to the affected areas to treat those affected by the alleged gas attack.
One senior rebel official in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, told the South Sudan News Agency today that the armed opposition intelligence branches have evidence showing Ugandan government is secretly assisting South Sudanese government in the gas campaign.
At least we knew where it was.
Whistleblower and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden wrote on Twitter that the bomb dropped in the “middle of nowhere” in Afghanistan cost $314 million, referring to the overall development costs of the MOAB project. Truths mingle with half truths mingle with quarter truths mingle with eighth truths until the truths are too tiny to be seen with the nekkid eye...
In addition, Snowden pointed to the fact that the Tora Bora underground system of caves and tunnels is located in Nangarhar where the bomb was dropped.
Tora Bora (Black Cave in Pashto) was known to be a stronghold of the Taliban, used by military forces against the Soviet Union in 1980s. Its tunnels are 500 meters deep and have a total length of over 25 kilometers.
Tora Bora had natural caverns that were expanded into a CIA-financed complex for the Mujahedeen. Its labyrinth of tunnels houses arms depots, bomb shelters and dwelling rooms.
“Tora Bora was a fortress of snow-capped peaks, steep valleys and fortified caves. Its miles of tunnels, bunkers and base camps, dug deeply into the steep rock walls, had been part of a CIA-financed complex built for the mujahedeen,” according to a 2005 article in the New York Times.
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the tora bora caves were enhanced with support beams and some widening and some minimal connectivity in the 1980s by groups funded by the CIA
but even after this the Tora Bora 'tunnels' were quite primitive as has been documented by eyewitness US troops in 2001-2002, not anywhere near what the NYTimes Mag implied in what they published in 2005.
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"Again, with the caves, they weren't these crazy mazes or labyrinths of caves that they described. Most of them were natural caves. Some were supported with some pieces of wood maybe about the size of a 10-foot by 24-foot room, at the largest. They weren't real big. I know they made a spectacle out of that, and how are we going to be able to get into them? We worried about that too, because we see all these reports. Then it turns out, when you actually go up there, there's really just small bunkers, and a lot of different ammo storage is up there". – Jeff, Staff Sgt. ODA 572[2002 interview on PBS broadcast in 2005)
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Its tunnels are 500 meters deep and have a total length of over 25 kilometers.
I wonder how long until Google Earth gets the imagery? I want to see the collapsed tunnels.
[AlAhram] The United States is deploying "a few dozen" troops to Somalia to assist the national army and conduct unspecified security operations, a US military spokeswoman said Saturday.
The soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division, a light infantry unit trained for air assaults, will mainly train and equip Somalia's army "to better fight al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... ," an al-Qaeda linked bully boy group, the spokeswoman for the US Africa Command based in Germany, Samantha Reho, told AFP.
They will also conduct "security force assistance," she said, confirming a report by Voice of America.
"For operational security issues, we will not discuss specifics of military efforts nor speculate on potential future activities or operations," she said, declining to say precisely how many troops were being sent.
Somalia's fragile central government is still propped up by the international community and a 22,000-strong African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... peacekeeping force after nearly three decades of civil war and anarchy.
While Shabaab snuffies have lost large swaths of territory and were forced out of Mogadishu by African Union troops in 2011, they continue to strike in the capital and countryside.
They have threatened a "merciless" war against the new administration of President Mohammed Abdullahi Mohammed, a dual US-Somali citizen who goes by the nickname Farmajo. He took office in February.
The 101st Airborne Division has been extensively used in US-led military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The United States' most notorious military operation in Somalia was in 1993, when an ill-fated attempt to snatch militia leaders led to two Black Hawk helicopters being shot down in Mogadishu. A chaotic rescue was mounted, resulting in hundreds of deaths, including those of 18 US soldiers. The incident was made famous in the book and the movie "Black Hawk Down."
The US military spokeswoman noted that US forces have been in Somalia since 1993, helping the Somali government on security concerns.
[Dhaka Tribune] After nearly four years of lingering in political limbo, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami ... a Pakistani catspaw remaining active in Bangla politix, loosely affiliated with the Pak religious party of the same name and closely affiliated with most of the terror organizations in Bangla. A member of the BNP's four party governing coalition.... is showing it is actively engaging people in the grassroots level, without drawing undue attention.
In 2013, a Supreme Court verdict cancelled the registration of the party with the Election Commission, preventing it from taking part in any elections. Another Supreme Court decision in 2016 to remove "weighing scales" as an electoral symbol seemed to be yet another nail in the coffin for Jamaat.
But despite the apparent absence from Bangladeshi politics, Jamaat has been working around the clock to prepare for the 2019 elections.
Even before the party institution was deconstructed, the top brass were being indicted from 2011 for their war crimes during the 1971 Liberation War. In response to the loss of major leaders, the controversial party has been bringing in new blood and fresh faces.
It was widely believed that Jamaat would appeal to overturn the Supreme Court’s decision to restrict their election participation. The case now rests with the Appellate Division, and until recently this had appeared to be Jamaat’s key to get back into the game.
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But a number of Jamaat leaders, a mix of veterans who survived the judicial action and new recruits, say that the party will sit for the election by any means necessary.
Since 2016, the main focus of Jamaat has been to rebuild its target demographic from the grassroots. Rural areas, border areas, areas which have experienced severe crackdown by law enforcement agencies are the key voter mines for Jamaat to tap.
Jamaat seems to be focusing on the northern and coastal districts for its revival.
Families which have lost a member to engagement with police or RAB are singled out. Jamaat members are building up rapport on empathy. Financially marginalised families are supported with job opportunities or welfare if they join the party.
Highly-trained Jamaat members (Rokon), numbering in the thousands, go from door to door, engaging people one-on-one to sway their votes. Mosques see regular sermons by these rokons. Party funds are on the rise with donations from patrons and registered members.
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H. I. Sutton analyzes. Lots of specs, photos, and maps.
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The danger they present is in making the US Navy deplete their weapon stores on the targets the Nork so kindly provided. We need the practice anyway.
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I hope those NK Subs settle in good reef-creating locations
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the crew of the Vinson should be ready to fight, if for no other reason than having an Aussie port call canceled to go to NK.
having tasted all that Perth had to offer once upon a time, i would be royally pissed....
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I recall an old sea story told by a crew member of a USN Destroyer making port-call somewhere in Auz in the 1960's. Apparently the town mayor sent word to the skipper of the scheduling of a banquet in honor of the ship's company, the first US vessel to visit in quite a long time. The response was abysmal and an embarrassment to the skipper. Pondering an order of mandatory attendance, the Skipper received another message from the Mayor offering to provide local family sponsoring and female accompaniment to those in attendance. A complete turn-around in attendance numbers was immediately forthcoming. The anxious sailors were met dockside by families and escorts. The story went on and on, but little imagination is required.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] An ISIS boom-mobile factory with vehicles and explosives to cause mass destruction has been discovered in the Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... Iraqi soldiers found two cars and an armoured plated garbage truck destined to be used in suicide missions.
We showed ours in Nangarhar. What have they got that compares?
[ALMASDARNEWS] This evening, Russia unleashed its fiercest bombardment on northern Hama as Arclight airstrikes completely obliterated a number of rebel-held positions in the towns of Souran, Taibat al-Imam, Halfaya and Lataminah.
A military source told al-Masdar News that the air raids were conducted by a total of five Russian warplanes and two choppers that continuously returned to pound the Islamist strongholds with barely minutes in-between.
At least 50 Russian sorties were conducted beginning on Saturday morning, utilizing what appears to be a previously unused type of bomb, causing massive destruction in its wake.
The Russian bombardment is supposedly retalition for a massacre commited by an unknown rebel faction that killed over 75 Shi’ite civilians whom were in the process of being evacuated from Fuah, a government enclave on the outskirts of Idlib city.
Souran, Halfaya and Taibat al-Imam are expected to be the target of an upcoming Syrian Arab Army (SAA) ground offensive. Notably, Latamineh witnessed the most intense bombardment today; this town has long served as a gathering point for jihadist fighters to launch attacks on government-held areas of Hama province.
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When the bombs are dumb, you simply need more of them.
I'm tempted to snark "At this point, what does it matter?", but that would only expose my indifferent and uncaring nature.
The real question is whether these previously unused types of bombs are metal cylinders filled with explosives, because that would be all heinous and stuff.
Sorry SteveS I didn't make it clear. That's a perfect description of myself BUT it does effect the type of pop-corn I'll choose to go with the beverage.
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It's a crappy video, the camera person spend most of the video on the 'clouds' left by the explosions instead of the ground where the real damage is. Result is I have no idea if there was any real damage or if it was staged.
Navy Chief Special Warfare Officer Joseph John Schmidt III has been living dual lives.
As a member of the Navy SEALs, the 42-year-old boasts a chest of ribbons and medals during his 23 years in the military, including a valor citation for combat overseas. To his East County neighbors and Coronado shipmates, he’s been the married father who has given pep talks to special-needs children in Los Angeles and toured the country recruiting for the elite Naval Special Warfare teams, even serving as the face of the SEAL program on its website.
Schmidt is also Jay Voom, the actor in at least 29 porn flicks during the past seven years, from "Apple Smashing Lap Dance" to "Strippers Come Home Horny From the Club."
He has spent most of his time in front of the camera engaging in sex with his wife -- porn megastar Jewels Jade -- for her website and film-distribution service. But he also has coupled with XXX actresses Mena Li and Ashden Wells, according to marketing materials found by The San Diego Union-Tribune and confirmed by Jade.
Joseph John, you've been a naughty, naughty boy. More at link. Surely must beat government contracting.
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...See, here's the problem: As flat-out funny and seemingly inconsequential as this story is, Chief't say Schmidt has (pardon the expression) stepped on it pretty hard.
1. First, the UCMJ says adultery is a no-no. It doesn't say 'it's okay if your wife knows about it/is standing there/it's for business purposes."
2. The UCMJ also has Article 134, to wit:
Though not specifically mentioned in this chapter, all disorders and neglects to the prejudice of good order and discipline in the armed forces, all conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces, and crimes and offenses not capital, of which persons subject to this chapter may be guilty, shall be taken cognizance of by a general, special or summary court-martial, according to the nature and degree of the offense, and shall be punished at the discretion of that court.
3. Last, but not least, he didn't get permission to work another job off duty. This one seems inconsequential, but believe me when I tell you that - at least in my experience - it is seriously enforced, whether or not you're working at the 7-11 or selling cars or anything else. The military needs to know where the hell you're at 24/7, and a SEAL all the more so. (Related to this is that the fact that a USN chief got himself $2M USD in the hole in a house-flipping scheme is setting off all kinds of alarms for me right now, and you know others are looking at it too.)
Now. Having said all that, in a perfect world, Chief Schmidt's superiors up and down the chain would sit him down and say, "Okay - first, you lucky b@stard. Second, you know we gotta do something." Then they would let him know that the investigation is gonna take a while, but it's quite possible that if he puts in his retirement papers now, that could end up getting done before the investigation is finished, wink-wink. Unfortunately, I don't have much faith in military leadership to be that smart, and this is going to turn into a dumpster fire of a story.
Mike
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The UCMJ also reads -
ARTICLE 125. SODOMY
10. Punitive Articles
(a) Any person subject to this chapter who engages in unnatural carnal copulation with another person of the same or opposite sex or with an animal is guilty of sodomy. Penetration , however slight, is sufficient to complete the offense.
(b) Any person found guilty of sodomy shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
But the cancer has taken hold and everyone ignores it. How can you defend any other 'moral' legal prohibition when you don't enforce what's already on the books? Yep, hammer straights, leave the special interest groups alone? That's certainly not equality. Remember, its all about power.
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Hat tip to Mrs. Uluque for this story from the San Diego Union Tribune because I never read it, especially since they got bought by the LA Times. But she got all in a huff and started reading it to me. We both thought the Navy needs to set an example so guy should be busted down a rank and turned out to pasture.
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Yeah, well I remember an Article 15 for a toothpick at a commander's 'call-out' after lunch. They can do anything to him some idiot wants, dental hygiene be damned.
[Hurriyet Daily News] Turkish Defense Minister Fikri Isik has paid a quick visit to Washington in order to propose a new plan over an operation to liberate Syria’s Raqqa from jihadists without making use of Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Unit (YPG) forces.
Isik came to Washington on the grounds that Ankara’s message on the topic was not comprehended well enough by the new government after U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s visit to Ankara two weeks ago.
If you shout louder it will help that stupid President Trump understand, Minister Isik. I hope you also brought a notarized list of the Gulenists embedded like ticks among America's politicians and bureaucrats. The president will be astonished.
Meeting U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis in Washington, Isik put forth a new plan for the liberation of Raqqa from 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 the Levant (ISIS) turbans that does not comprise the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its military wing, the YPG, both of which The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... regards as terrorist organizations due to their ties with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
Not the president? Well, I imagine he was having a busy day.
Turkey and the U.S. are at odds over the designation of the YPG and PYD and despite Turkey’s efforts to designate the two groups as terrorists, the U.S. sees the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is mainly comprised of YPG forces, as effective partners on the ground in their fight against ISIS.
Speaking at a panel organized by the SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research after his meeting with Mattis, Isik said the meeting was a "friendly negotiation."
In other words, our friend the Turkish defense minister did not get what he came for.
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I would rather deal with the kurds and desinate the turk government the terrorist org.! Especially Erdrogan.
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[Libya Observer] The Head of the UN-proposed government's Presidential Council, Fayez al-Sirraj, has called for an immediate intervention by the international community to stop the current military escalation in southern Libya, which he said is threatening the stability of the country.
The urge of al-Sirraj came in an open letter sent to the Secretary-Generals of the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... , Organization of Islamic Cooperation, United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... , and the Chairman of the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Commission, as well as the High Representative of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.
"The military escalation that had included targeting Timnahent airbase by artillery and Arclight airstrikes is unjustifiable." The letter says, adding that this escalation could lead to a civil war in the country.
"This new escalation has got nothing to do with fighting terrorism, but rather has everything to do with instability and deterioration of the current fragile stability of the country." al-Sirraj added.
He also cited the statement by the five permanent countries in the UN Security Council, in which they urged for immediate halt of military operations in southern Libya, and called for supporting the Libyan Political Agreement (LPA) .
"I call on the southerners to be reasonable and side with the peace and reconciliation, renouncing any type of escalation in their region." al-Sirraj elaborated in his letter.
He also remarked that the Arclight airstrikes that targeted civilians in the region is an attack on the LPA and national reconciliation and a peril that threatens to undermine Libya's stability in the future.
"A tough stance is required in response of the escalation." He concluded his letter.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, 12th President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in an attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... has vowed to step up efforts in a bid to oust the US military from the country following the massive Arclight airstrike in Achin 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.. against ISIS Lions of Islam involving the non-nuclear GBU-43 bomb.
Karzai made the remarks during a gathering in capital Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... which was organized regarding the Durand Line.
Slamming the government for allowing the US forces to carry out the strike, Karzai said the move would be a national treason if the government had approved the use of the massive bomb.
He also raised questions regarding the increased US Arclight airstrikes against ISIS, saying ’Why the US waited for two years to start bombing ISIS?’
The former President insisted that the use of GBU-43 was an insult to the country and added that he has decided to take a stand to rescue Afghanistan from the United States.
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We waited 2 years because we had to elect a leader with balls big enough to start doing something about the lowlifes.
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Hamid Karzai has a brother who runs several restaurants in Baltimore but Hamid, has not participated substantially in the operation. In fact Hamid has been in the US only briefly to do fundraising for anti Taliban groups about 2000. Perhaps he contributed a recipe or two but that's it.
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As a private citizen, Karzai is entitled to his disillusions opinions. But why should we care?
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I think he hasn't figured out that the elders and the majority of peace-loving Afghans are for the bombing. He must see the light at the end of the tunnel and want to get in on the ground floor on the upcoming corruption.
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*Boggle* Does he seriously think that any amount of virtue signalling is going to keep the Taliban (or Haqqani, ISIS, et al.) from stringing him up from the nearest lamppost?
French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen blasted President Trump Friday for changing his mind about NATO after saying during his presidential campaign that the body was obsolete.
Le Pen said in a radio interview with France Info that Trump may have been swayed by his administration to change his mind. Trump made his comments at the White House in a press conference after a meeting with NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg.
"Undeniably he is in contradiction with the commitments he had made," Le Pen said. "I am coherent, I don’t change my mind in a few days. He had said he would not be the policeman of the world, that he would be the president of the United States and would not be the policeman of the world, but it seems today that he has changed his mind."
The far-right French candidate has made terrorism and immigration key parts of her campaign and wants France to quit NATO despite calling for a "big coalition of countries which fight Muslim fundamentalism in which there will be of course the U.S., Russia, countries like Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Chad."
Le Pen is believed to be on track to make it to the next round in the France presidential election.
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This is similar to another previous explosion at launch phase. That makes me think that some kind of countermeasure messed up the missile. Maybe a laser or something. Hopefully the Chinese will honor the warranty.
According to a Defense Department official, the missile that was launched was land-based, and there was a high degree of confidence that it was not an ICBM, but an assessment was still under way.
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Don't you hate it when you can't get your missile up?
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I'd love to see Pudgy's private reaction to this event. Wouldn't exactly want to be there though. Somebody might have to be executed for it. He's gotta be paranoid as hell now.
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Laser tag...,
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[DAWN] At Mashal Khan's funeral, the imam at the local mosque refused to read the last rites, according to Swabi resident Salman Ahmed. A technician who was asked to do so in the holy man's place was confronted by several people afterwards.
Mashal has since been buried, but his ransacked university hostel room still has posters of Karl Marx and Che Guevara still hanging on the walls, along with scribbled quotes including one that reads: "Be curious, crazy and mad."
The day before his death, a heated debate over religion with fellow students broke out at the dorm and led to people accusing Mashal of blasphemy against Islam. That attracted a crowd that grew to several hundred people, according to witnesses.
The mob kicked in the door, dragged Mashal from his room and beat him to death, witnesses and police said.
Mashal's death is the latest violence linked to accusations of blasphemy in Pakistain.
Those who knew Mashal described him as an intellectually curious student who openly professed devotion to Islam but asked many questions.
"Whatever he had to say, he would say it openly, but he didn't understand the environment he was living in," said one of Mashal's teachers at Abdul Wali Khan University, who declined to be named for fear of retribution.
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Meanwhile, in the Wild West, "seldom is heard a discouraging word."
[DAWN] A suicide car kaboom on busses carrying Syrians evacuated from two besieged government-held towns at least killed 43 people on Saturday, as US-backed fighters advanced in their push towards the bad boyIslamic 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's Raqa stronghold.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the blast targeted busses carrying residents evacuated from the northern towns of Fuaa and Kafraya under a deal reached between the regime and bad boys.
Bodies were still being recovered from the attack at a transit point in Rashidin, west of Aleppo, according to the Observatory.
"The jacket wallah was driving a van supposedly carrying aid supplies and detonated near the busses," the monitoring group said.
It said most of the dead were evacuees, but the blast also killed several snuffies who had been guarding the busses.
Thousands of evacuees had been stuck on the road because of a disagreement over the number of snuffies allowed to leave two other towns included in the deal.
The evacuation resumed following the blast, the Observatory said.
AFP's news hound in bad boy-held Rashidin saw several bodies, body parts and blood scattered on the ground.
The bombing took place as thousands of evacuees from Fuaa and Kafraya waited to continue their journey to regime-controlled Aleppo, the coastal province of Latakia, or Damascus.
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As did the Taliban, who also took beautiful young boys for not marrying.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The commander of the US forces in Afghanistan leading the 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... -led Resolute Support Mission (RSM) General John Nicholson told news hounds in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... that the deadly Arclight airstrike against the ISIS terrorist group was carried out in response to the barbaric acts of the terror group affiliates, including the kidnapping of the wives and daughters for forced marriage to their fighters.
Gen. Nicholson further added that the group has sent jacket wallahs to attack peaceful demonstrations and killed and maimed hundreds of civilians and dragged elders out of their homes in 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.. , beheaded them in front of their families.
He said night’s complex strike in Achin district of Nangarhar was part of alliances campaign to destroy ISIS-K in Afghanistan in 2017.
"The weapon used, the GBU-43, is designed to destroy caves and tunnels in Achin Nangarhar," Gen. Nicholson said, adding that "ISIS-K used tunnel and minefields to move around battlefield, protect themselves from Afghan & US Forces in Achin Nangarhar."
Stressing that GBU-43 was the right weapon considering the condition in Achin, Gen. Nicholson said "I want to assure you that our forces took every possible precaution to prevent civilian casualties."
"We have US Forces at the site and we see no evidence of civilian casualties nor have there been reports," he added.
Gen. Nicholson also added that Afghan Army and Commandos are leading this fight against these barbaric bandidosbandidos krazed killers on behalf of the people of Afghanistan.
According to Gen. Nicholson, the alliance is united with the Afghan government to prevent bandidosbandidos krazed killers from establishing safe havens in Afghanistan.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] At least 25 soldiers and rebels have died in festivities around a key military base near Yemen's west coast, military and medical sources said Saturday.
Loyalist forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition launched an assault to seize the Khaled Ibn al-Walid base from Shiite 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 ... rebels and their allies who had controlled it for over two years, military sources said.
After seizing a mountain overlooking the camp in recent days, forces loyal to internationally recognized president Abed Rabbou Mansour Hadi had advanced on the camp from two directions, they said.
The camp, one of the biggest in Yemen, is 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the government-held Red Sea town of Mokha which pro-government forces retook in February.
It sits on a key road linking Mokha to the Houthi-controlled port city of Hudaida and third city Taez, which is under rebel siege.
Nine rebels were killed and two others maimed in twin coalition air strikes targeting three vehicles bringing reinforcements to the camp, military and medical sources said.
They added that a further 12 rebels and four soldiers were killed in fighting overnight.
Loyalist forces launched a major offensive on Jan. 7 to retake Yemen's 450-kilometer (280-mile) coastline as far as Midi, close to the Saudi border.
The Houthis, supported by troops loyal to former president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , control parts of northern and western 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... and the capital Sanaa, which they overran in September 2014.
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[SHABELLENEWS] In light of the threat posed by al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... , drought and the ongoing humanitarian crisis, the Security Council Committee on sanctions in Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... and Somalia announced a possible future visit to the Horn of Africa today, as members expressed diverging views on arms embargoes imposed on those countries.
The region clearly demanded a peacekeeping presence, said Kairat Umarov (Kazakhstan), Chair of the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolution 751 (1992) and 1907 (2009) concerning Somalia and Eritrea.
Outlining that panel’s efforts over the last four months, he said the Somalia Eritrea Monitoring Group had found no links between al-Shabaab and Eritrea. It had also investigated the origin and destination of a cache of 25,000 firearms in Somalia.
Chief among the Group’s concerns were illegal fishing, al-Shabaab’s involvement in the charcoal trade and the disappearance of troops following border festivities between Djibouti and Eritrea, he said. Going forward, Somalia must ensure access to all areas for the delivery of aid, he said, describing al-Shabaab as the biggest threat to peace.
In the ensuing debate, speakers highlighted a range of concerns, from the humanitarian crisis and armed terrorist groups to reported pirate attacks. Many agreed that assistance was needed to build on recent gains, including Somalia’s successful elections.
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[An Nahar] Egyptian Copts will celebrate Easter mass on Saturday, marking one of Christianity's most joyous occasions just days after the deadliest attacks in living memory against the country's religious minority.
The faithful will spend a large part of Easter eve going through arduous security checks outside places of worship, after twin Palm Sunday bombings killed 45 people in two cities north of Cairo.
The government has declared a state of emergency and called in the army to protect "vital" installations following the suicide kabooms in Tanta and Alexandria, which were claimed by 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.
"Security has indeed improved so much as it seems the situation needed to be tightened up a lot," said Coptic Church front man Boulos Halim.
Coptic Pope Tawadros II will lead Easter mass in Cairo's Saint Mark's Cathedral, while the church said celebrations this year would be scaled back.
"Tanta and Alexandria created a big shock, for all of Egypt," Halim said.
Easter, which along with Christmas is one of Christianity's most important events, marks the resurrection of Christ three days after followers believe he was crucified.
In Egypt, Copts break a 55-day fast abstaining from all animal products following Saturday's mass.
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[An Nahar] At least 11 non-combatants were killed when a roadside kaboomdestroyed their vehicle in the restive southern Afghan province of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , officials said Saturday.
The blast occurred when the passengers were travelling from remote Nawa district to the thriving provincial capital Lashkar Gah on Friday, government front man Omar Zhwak told AFP.
"The blast was powerful and all those on board the van were killed," Zhwak said, adding that officials were trying to determine whether any women or children were among the victims.
Helmand police chief Agha Noor Kentoz blamed the Taliban for the blast, saying the road had been mined to target Afghan cops who frequently use it.
The Taliban were not immediately reachable for comment, but roadside kabooms have been the murderous Moslems' weapon of choice in their war against foreign and Afghan cops.
The bombs also increasingly kill and wound civilians.
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[SHABELLENEWS] African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has denied claims that al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... Death Eaters killed soldiers following an attack on AU convoy near Afgoye town on Friday.
AMISOM said in a statement posted on Twitter that the information being peddled by Al shabaab on its affiliated Online media is false and part of their propaganda.
The AU mission confirmed that Al-Shabaab targeted AMISOM military convoy travelling about 9km from Afgoye on the road to Ceel Jaale in an Improvised Explosives Device (IED) attack.
"In the last two days, our EOD team has safely removed and destroyed two Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDS)," said AMISOM in a Twitter post.
AMISOM added that its forces, along with Somali National Army (SNA) will continue to ensure clearance of the main supply routes for easy access of humanitarian activities.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Following numerous swift gains earlier in the day, the Kurdish-led ’Syrian Democratic Forces’ (SDF) proceeded to capture the entire Alexandria suburb in the southern sector of Tabqa city on Saturday.
In addition, the US-backed militia seized Ayed al-Saghir village directly west of Tabqa.
Around 50 ISIS gunnies were neutralized on Saturday alone in a large-scale offensive which began overnight with US choppers swarming the city and its outskirts.
Roughly 15% 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.... bastion has now been brought under Kurdish control. The military operation to liberate Tabqa city officially marks stage four of the Euphrates Wrath offensive, a source embedded with the SDF told al-Masdar News.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) backed up by local units of the National Defence Forces (NDF) restored the strategic al-Faraj base south of Deir EzZor military airport after heavy festivities with the ISIS terrorist group. During these festivities, dozens of ISIS bully boyz were killed and injured.
At the same time, SAA units operating out of the besieged city of Deir Ezzor continued to press the offensive in the Deir Ezzor Cemetery ‐ the crucial buffer zone which stands in the way of linking the Deir Ezzor airbase to the government controlled section of city ‐ advancing toward the military airport and killing 15 snuffies in the process.
All pro-government actions on the ground (in both sectors of the Deir Ezzor Front) were backed up by airpower from the Russian Aerospace Forces (RuAF) and the Syrian Arab Air Force (SyAAF) ‐ the latter operating from the al-Shayrat military airport that was attacked by US cruise missiles nine days ago and has since been returned to full operational service.
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[DAWN] DERA GHAZI KHAN: Nine suspected Lions of Islam linked to the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) and four Rangers personnel were killed in a shootout that broke out during a search operation carried out by the Rangers and Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) in Dadoani village, some 15km south of Dera Ghazi Khan, early on Friday.
According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the shootout took place when personnel of the Rangers, intelligence agencies and CTD were carrying out a search operation against suspected gunnies associated with the TTP in the Dadoani village, which is located adjacent to Choti Zaireen -- seat of the chief of the Leghari tribe and ancestral area of the late former president Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari.
Law enforcement personnel cordoned off the area and used the loudspeaker of a local mosque to inform citizens that a search operation was being launched and urged any Lions of Islam to lay down their weapons in a peaceful manner.
A few villagers had come out of their homes and were being searched by the officials when all of a sudden some suspected gunnies shot up the coppers.
During the ensuing exchange of fire, nine suspected bad boyz were potted -- identified as Muhammad Asghar Dadoani alias Gorchani Ustad, Muhammad Naeem alias Waqas Dadoani, Naeem Dadoani, Yaqub, Usman, Mirza Khan, Ghulam Farid, Muhammad Usman and Sohail.
The three 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.... Rangers personnel who bit the dust were Hawaldar Asif and two soldiers, Aftab and Azizullah. Two other soldiers suffered injuries and were airlifted to the Combined Military Hospital in Multan. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... a Rangers spokesperson said that Tanvir, one of the injured soldiers, had departed this vale of tears at the CMH, Multan. Abubakar, the other Rangers soldier, is being treated for injuries at the hospital.
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[Wash Times] Former CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell said that the U.S. is making relations with North Korea worse by touting military "bluster."
Mr. Morell said on CBS’ "This Morning" Friday, "We are also making it worse with our bluster, and by sending aircraft carriers in there. We’re raising the crisis."
"It’s best to just ignore [North Korean leader Kim Jong-un]."
He also said that the situation with North Korea is immediate and that their weapons can probably reach the continental United States, as well as other targets.
"We think they’ve had enough time to mate a nuclear weapon to a missile. So the threat is now."
Mr. Morell also said to expect a nuclear test this Saturday in honor of the 105th birthday of Kim Il-Sung, the first leader of North Korea since its establishment in 1948. The birthday is often used as a date for North Korean leaders to demonstrate military capabilities in a show of the country’s strength.
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"Ma! He's rewriting the talking points again!"
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"It’s best to just ignore [North Korean leader Kim Jong-un]." He also said that the situation with North Korea is immediate and that their weapons can probably reach the continental United States, as well as other targets.
But wait! We should iggy that fact that the NORKS are nuts and have sworn to destroy us. Little wonder this smarmy little fok climbed the Klingon leadship ladder and is no longer an analyst.
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I think I may have fixed it by removing the quotes surrounding the URL. The quotes are supposed to be there, but sometimes -- for reasons I completely fail to understand -- it will only work if that particular set are removed.
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There's quotes and then there's quotes. What's the ASCII value on em air quotes?
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As predicted. It was all going to be about turning out numbers. Folks came from as far as Montana and Canada. Also, lots of folks from Huntington Beach came up. Note - all those pro Trump folks how came early and entered the cordoned of area were disarmed by police - who then just melted away and were hardly seen in the area. Antifa was not and had the ability to retrieve weapons and had tons of pepper spray, but they did not have the numbers. Antifa attempted to use the garbage bin as a battering ram, failed, and got thumped. Lots of bleeding on both sides but in the end, Antifa was routed - and this was done in the beating heart of Socialist CA. Antifa is now 0 for 3 in CA. Important note - some good vid clips out there of folks asking cops why the hell they're hanging back.
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oh, and the "chick" with the dreadlocks that gets lit-up early in the vid had come out looking to get "100 nazi scalps" according to her Twitter feed. This is exactly what happens when a snowflake is exposed to the harsh light of reality
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Right cross at the 30 second mark and DOWN GOES SQUIDDIE!
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At the 19 second mark you will see the infamous pro Trump supporter "Based Stickman" move in to the aniFA group on the left by himself followed by everyone else. He appears again at the 41-43 second mark with the flag on his dark jacket also wearing the dark helmet. He has been arrested in every event.
Twice in this event he led the charge into the antiFA.
[DAWN] Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... on Saturday expressed disappointment over the "cold-blooded murder" of Mashal Khan -- a 23-year-old journalism student lynched by an angry mob on Thursday over blasphemy allegations in Mardan -- saying it is "unfortunate that people who are behind [his murder] are associating religion" with the act.
Terming it as a "blatant murder", the interior minister, while addressing a presser in Islamabad, said it was the "law of the jungle" given the manner the young university student was killed.
"Even if the accusations against someone are true, there is a process [to pursue the case]," he added.
"Islam is a model; it has a framework of justice," Nisar said, adding that the religion does not "permit" any maltreatment of a "non-Moslem" or "even an atheist".
"I think the provincial government has taken the right decision to call a judicial inquiry," the interior minister added, saying that this is an appropriate way to go about it.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A handful of busses carrying newly recruited Syrian soldiers arrived in northern Hama on Saturday to reinforce the government frontline in the area.
Upon the direct request of commander-in-chief Suheil al-Hassan, the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) Qalamoun Shield troops were transfered from rural Damascus after completing training led by Russian military advisors in late February.
Pictures of the newly arrived Qalamoun Shield contingent:
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[Hurriyet Daily News] The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched a probe into 17 individuals including US politicians, babus bureaucrats and academics, who are suspected of being linked to the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ).
The decision comes after some Turkish attorneys filed a criminal complaint against the individuals.
The suspects have been accused of attempting to overthrow the Turkish government and the country’s constitution and being members of a terror organization.
Former CIA Director John O. Brennan, New York Senator Chuck Schumer Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower. Senate minority leader as of 2017. , US attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) President David Cohen and Henri Barkey, Director of the Middle East Program at Wilson Center are among the suspects.
To be fair, we find them suspicious, too.
The prosecutor's office is investigating July 15 and July 17 meetings of the suspects in Istanbul, their entries to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and suspected links to other FETÖ suspects.
Speeches and social media messages related to FETÖ made by the suspects have also been included in the investigation.
The Istanbul office may apply Interpol to issue a red notice against those individuals abroad.
In the wake of the July 2016 failed coup attempt, tens of thousands of FETÖ suspects have been tossed in the calaboose Please don't kill me! , including many in the armed forces, police, judicial system, education and business sector.
According to Turkey’s government, FETÖ under the U.S.-based Islamic preacher 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... orchestrated the attempted takeover which left 249 people martyred and nearly 2,200 injured.
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[RT] The Metropolitan Police registered a significant spike in knife and gun offences, while detection rates are falling across every category of crime.
An annual report published by Scotland Yard revealed a 42 percent increase in gun violence as well as a 24 percent rise in knife offences compared to the previous year.
Violent & sexual crime on the rise in Britain, new scoring system shows
In the 2016/2017 financial year, there were 12,074 knife crimes as well as 306 gun offences in London alone.
A major contributing factor is an emerging gun and knife culture amongst young Britons, who reportedly think it’s “cool” to carry a weapon.
The new statistics reveal the first major increase in crime rates in the UK for three decades.
[Bearing Arms] YouTuber "possumpopper89" has crafted a 6-minute video that does a fairly good job of explaining why law enforcement officers (and some "regular Joe" citizens with defensive firearms training) sometimes shoot unarmed people.
People who lack this kind of training (which is probably close to 95% of the general population) hold the mistaken belief that officers wait until they see and identify a weapon in a suspect’s hand before deciding to open fire.
That is simply not the case much of the time. In many instances, it isn’t possible to visually identify a weapon due to lighting conditions or attempts by dangerous criminals to conceal a weapon even as they bring them into play.
[Hurriyet Daily News] A significant proportion of the Kurds who previously voted for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) will vote "no" in the April 16 referendum on constitutional changes, the tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! co-chair of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has said.
"The hardline policies of the AKP and the suspension of democracy, human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... and rule of law have been rebuffed by Kurds as they distance themselves from the AKP," HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtas told Foreign Policy in an article published on April 13, responding to written questions through his lawyers from the jail where he is held in the northwestern province of Edirne.
He also said President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... "will struggle to recapture Kurdish votes after the failure of peace negotiations and the ensuing crackdown."
Demirtas, who was tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! on Nov. 4, 2016, was quoted in the Foreign Policy he is "absolutely" certain that his arrest was designed to cripple opposition to the constitutional changes.
A total of 13 politicians from the HDP, including its co-chairs Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag, face hundreds of years in jail over alleged links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, 12th President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in an attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... has said Pakistain had demanded recognition of Durand Line as the formal international border between Afghanistan and Pakistain during his presidency.
Speaking during in a Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... , Karzai said Pakistain had also demanded a reduction in bilateral ties between Kabul and New Delhi.
He said the demands were made by the then Pak President on numerous occasions.
Karzai further added that Pakistain will seek more influence and seize more lands of Afghanistan if the Durand Line was accepted as the international border.
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...And all of Kashmir, and 10 Hindoo slaves for every Musselman in Pak-i-land, and a magic pony, and... This is ... news?
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The tribal elders 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 welcomed the Arclight airstrike against the ISIS hideouts in Achin district, seeking for more such raids against the other hideouts of the terror.
Provincial governor Ataullah Khogyani said the elders sought further support from the Afghan and international community in the fight against the terror group.
Khogyani further added that the Arclight airstrike conducted on Thursday evening has resulted into the killing of more than 80 holy warriors, mainly comprising foreigners.
Nangarhar’s provincial council secretary Zabiullah Zmarai said the tribal elders had long requested the government for the elimination of ISIS terrorist group affiliates in Nangarhar.
He said the Thursday night’s Arclight airstrike did not result into any civilian casualties, emphasizing that the Arclight airstrike was carried out based on the recommendations of the provincial and district councils.
Zmarai further added that the Arclight airstrike targeted the main leadership center of the terror group which is not only a serious threat to Nangarhar but for the whole country from where they were planning insurgency.
The tribal elders formally endorsed any such strike that results into the elimination of the snuffies and ensures peace and stability in Nangarhar.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Iraqi fighters came across the grave as they made further inroads in their battle to reclaim djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... from ISIS.
Pictures show the bodies of adults and children covered with blankets next to a shallow grave in a remote patch of land about 100ft from a road.
They emerged as Iraqi government forces attempted to encircle Mosul's Old City on Thursday in a bid to bottle up ISIS myrmidons.
However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... progress was slowed by boom-mobiles and booby-traps in houses and alleyways, officers said.
The army and security forces have made significant gains in recent days in the battle that started back in October, seizing a main bridge over the Tigris river and advancing towards the mosque in the Old City from where ISIS leader 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... declared a caliphate in 2014.
But the fighting is expected to become even harder as the bully boyz defend their last enclaves in what was once their stronghold in Iraq.
'We have a plan to surround the Old City. Today we have advanced from the right and left sides and the only part left is right in the middle. God willing we will continue this plan today,' Federal Police Major General Haidar Dhirgham said.
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[NYPOST] Mayor de Blasio deprecated the Charging Bull sculpture in Lower Manhattan on Friday as a "celebration of unfettered capitalism" -- while defending the Fearless Girl statue in front of the bull for "standing up to injustice."
The mayor made the comment on his weekly WNYC radio show, where he also vowed that the city would fight a lawsuit by the creator of Charging Bull to get rid of Fearless Girl.
"I think the artist has to realize times change, people want to see things that represent their lives and their realities," de Blasio said.
"Let’s be blunt! Charging Bull is a celebration of unfettered capitalism, and I don’t think for lot of people that says it all.
"You can say it is about the spirit of optimism sure, but it is a symbol of Wall Street, and Wall Street to say the least is a double-edge sword."
Hizzoner was responding to artist Arturo Di Modica, who told news hounds two days earlier that the placement of "Fearless Girl" staring down his work makes him "sick."
He is planning to sue State Street Global Advisors, the mutual fund company that placed "Fearless Girl" in opposition to his work, for trademark and copyright infringement.
The 4-foot "Fearless Girl" -- installed for International Woman’s Day -- initially had a temporary permit to stand opposite the bull.
But de Blasio extended it another 11 months at the request of women’s groups.
De Blasio said it would be a "mistake" for the frail 76-year-old artist to sue and that the city "will fight him legally."
"’Fearless Girl’ to so many people means standing up to injustice, the empowerment of women...," he added. "We think what has been done is absolutely legally appropriate on the city’s part. We are going to defend ’Fearless Girl’ and her right to be there."
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We need a cuckoo clock image to post for this kind of articles.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 94 murderous Moslems affiliated with 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 offshoot were killed during the ongoing military operations in East of Afghanistan.
The provincial government in a statement said at least four key leaders of the group were also among those killed.
The statement further added that the operations were conducted in the vicinity of Achin district where a major Arclight airstrike was carried out by the US forces on Thursday.
An important hideout of the terror group and large cache of weapons, ammunition, and explosives were also destroyed during the operations, the source said, adding that the ISIS leaders killed during the operations have been identified as Hamza Abu Bakar, Mohammad Ibrani, Hamid Kunari, and Walkin the brother of Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat... are among those killed during the operations.
The source also added that the local residents and the security forces have not suffered any casualties during the operations being conducted rigorously since Thursday.
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[SHABELLENEWS] Kenyan Police have tossed in the clink Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! wanted terror suspect Juma Mwengo in Likoni, Kwale County.
Two grenades, ten rounds of ammunition and other paraphernalia such as CDs with radical preachings were seized.
Another wanted suspect, Stephen Wangechi was nabbed while sneaking into Mandera from Bula Hawa in Somalia.
The two are in jug for further interrogations and subsequent court appearance.
This happens at a time when Kenya is on high alert following the Easter Holidays after intelligence reports warned of high risks of terrorism in the country, including possible attacks at soft targets such as churches.
The arrest of Juma Mwengo is a blow to the al-Qaeda affiliate in Somalia, Harakat al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... Mujahideen (HSM), a movement which is on a steady decline and defeat by Kenya.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
More importantly, they indicate that the original Constitution did not render impeachment the only possible means of removing federal judges with good-behavior tenure. Given the long tradition of adjudicating misbehavior in the ordinary courts, Congress may enact necessary and proper legislation permitting the removal of federal judges upon a finding of misbehavior in the ordinary courts of law.
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[DAWN] Prime Minister 
[DAWN] Mufti Naeem, head of Jamia Binoria, on Saturday said 
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the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former 
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The commander of the US forces in Afghanistan leading the 
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Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz 
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We have one.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 94 
[SHABELLENEWS] Kenyan Police have 
