[Breitbart] House Republicans passed a revised version of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) on Thursday.
The bill passed after moderate Republicans fretted this week about how well the bill will protect patients with pre-existing conditions. Many, including former Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), previously came out against the bill, but now support it after GOP leaders agreed to add an amendment adding $8 billion to help cover people with pre-existing conditions.
The vote comes after a tumultuous process for the bill, which has seen previously scheduled votes pulled after Speaker Paul Ryan failed to accumulate enough Republican support. Speaker Ryan received widespread criticism after drafting the bill in secret and retaining many parts of Obamacare. Pundits dubbed the original bill, "Ryancare."
House Freedom Caucus chairman Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) stepped up and brokered a revised version of the bill, known as the MacArthur amendment, along with Tuesday Group co-chairman Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-NJ). The addition of the amendment collected enough Republican votes to pass the bill.
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The demo rats who lost their majority because they passed Obamacare announce that republicans will be voted out for repealing. Democrats still appear clueless.
[NYT] WASHINGTON -- Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin says his department is seeking to close perhaps more than 1,100 VA facilities nationwide as it develops plans to allow more veterans to receive medical care in the private sector.
At a House hearing Wednesday, Shulkin said the VA had identified more than 430 vacant buildings and 735 that he described as underutilized, costing the federal government $25 million a year. He said the VA would work with Congress in prioritizing buildings for closure and was considering whether to follow a process the Pentagon had used in recent decades to decide which of its underused military bases to shutter, known as Base Realignment and Closure, or BRAC.
"Whether BRAC is a model that we should take a look, we're beginning that discussion with members of Congress," Shulkin told a House appropriations subcommittee. "We want to stop supporting our use of maintenance of buildings we don't need, and we want to reinvest that in buildings we know have capital needs."
In an internal agency document obtained by The Associated Press, the VA pointed to aging buildings it was reviewing for possible closure that would cost millions of dollars to replace. It noted that about 57 percent of all VA facilities were more than 50 years old. Of the 431 VA buildings it said were vacant, most were built 90 or more years ago, according to agency data. The VA document did not specify the locations.
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Oil prices collapsed on Thursday to their lowest since late November as investor worries about the world's stubbornly persistent glut of crude erased most of the gains that followed last year's OPEC's output cut.
The slide worsened after OPEC delegates downplayed the chance that their group and other producing countries would deepen their output cuts when they meet on May 25. They did say current output cuts were likely to be extended.
Brent crude oil futures were down $2.31, or 4.6 percent, at $48.48 a barrel by 1:27 p.m. (1727 GMT). U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures fell $2.25, or 4.7 percent, at $45.57 a barrel.
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...It does tend to put a drag on my 401K, but the money I save all around with lower fuel prices makes up for it.
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It's taken a while, but we are getting closer to the end of cartel monopolist profits for OPEC. As fracking spreads, their corruption and incompetance will shift OPEC from the lowest cost producers toward the highest cost producers.
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I'm trying to muster a little sympathy. Maybe in time that will happen but it is doubtful. If a person remains uninformed and stupid despite a plethora of information there's little hope.
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A cautionary warning for the Left Wing's romance with the Islamists?
They won't get it. Seriously. You've crossed a line when you can look at Islam, and then blithely worry about "others" might over-react to it. There is *nothing* that I would consider to be an "over-reaction" to Islam. All its missing is the Swastika, and that's even present (the Crescent) but it gets no traction in that regard.
[AmericanThinker] We the American people were told repeatedly by Hillary Clinton and her proxies during the endless 2016 presidential election that her brazen use of a personal, unsecure email server to traffic some of the nation’s most sensitive secrets was not a problem, because her email system was never hacked. But was this really the case? I believe emails divulged by Judicial Watch suggest that her computer may well have been compromised by hostile actors.
FBI Director James Comey told us in his extraordinary July 5, 2016 statement to the media announcing his decision not to seek Mrs. Clinton’s prosecution for her email set-up: "With respect to potential computer intrusion by hostile actors, we did not find direct evidence that Secretary Clinton’s personal email domain, in its various configurations since 2009, was successfully hacked."
Mrs. Clinton herself told us on October 9, 2016 in the second presidential debate against Donald Trump: "After a yearlong investigation, there is no evidence that anyone hacked the server I was using and no evidence that anyone can point to at all; anyone who says otherwise has no basis."
I believe Judicial Watch may have unearthed the "smoking gun" revealing just such a compromise, or at least an attempt to hack Mrs. Clinton’s system. At the very least, I believe this finding should have been investigated by federal authorities if they were aware of it. If they were not aware of it, or were aware, but have not investigated it to date, they should do so now.
The discovery of this information and its possible significance requires some explanation.
In the fourteenth production of Huma Abedin’s emails transmitted from her clintonemail.com account that Judicial Watch obtained as a result of litigation against the State Department, on Page 287, we see a very interesting email exchange occurring between Ms. Abedin and Mrs. Clinton on November 20, 2009. Mrs. Clinton had received an email from someone she clearly did not know, named Jonathan Weston. His signature block in his email to Mrs. Clinton indicated that he was a Congressional Liaison Coordinator with something called the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, based in Washington, DC. The email bears a subject line which should raise the hack antennae of anyone who has been using a computer for more than a week: "I Thought You Might Enjoy This."
The body of Mr. Weston’s email (or whoever sent the email over his name) is fairly sophisticated. It is six paragraphs long, addressed to "Dear Colleagues," and describes the contents of a report produced by Mr. Weston’s organization on Chinese economic policy.
There are three potentially alarming aspects to this email exchange.
First, the writer, Mr. Weston, indicates that there is a file attached to the email. The file is supposed to be the report produced by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission described in the email. Files attached to emails are notorious for containing viruses.
Second, Mrs. Clinton forwarded the email on to Ms. Abedin, with the note: "Pls print. And who is he?" This off-hand comment reveals that Mrs. Clinton, the US Secretary of State and one of the most powerful people in the world, whose communications would be coveted by foreign intelligence services, is receiving an email from someone she doesn’t know on a personal email account presumably known only by a select group of family, friends and confidantes. It also implies, given her direction to Ms. Abedin to print the message, that she was interested in its content and may have clicked on the attached file.
Third ‐ and here’s our Sherlock Holmesian "There you have it, Watson!" moment ‐ when the email hit Ms. Abedin’s computer, her antivirus program added the prefix "*** VIRUS ***" to the subject line of the email.
But this is no laughing matter.
In a search of the State Department’s "Virtual Reading Room," where it posts documents that it has released through FOIA requests, to see if this email exchange had been published by the State Department before Judicial Watch received it, I discovered that it had, but the version previously published by the State Department was apparently obtained from Hillary Clinton’s computer records, not Ms. Abedin’s. The State Department’s previously released version did not contain the virus warning. This suggests that Mrs. Clinton’s computer did not have an anti-virus program, or at least not one able to detect that this email from Mr. Weston contained a virus. Ms. Abedin’s computer, however, did have an anti-virus program and did detect the virus, based on the VIRUS warning in the subject line after Mrs. Clinton forwarded it to Ms. Abedin.
Did Mrs. Clinton click on the file the email contained, thereby possibly introducing a virus into her computer? Was Mrs. Clinton’s computer thereby compromised by a malevolent actor? Has the FBI seen this email exchange and questioned Mr. Weston about it? Did they ask Mrs. Clinton if she clicked on the attachment that was in this email?
Jonathan Weston does exist, and he did work for a real think tank in Washington, DC called the US-China Economic and Security Commission from October 2009 to March 2013, according to his LinkedIn profile. Interestingly, Mr. Weston’s own organization, the US-China Economic and Security Commission, was revealed in 2012 to have been the target of a major cyber-attack, reportedly emanating from India. In a 2012 Reuters article discussing the attack, in an irony of ironies, Mr. Weston -- listed as a "spokesman" for the organization -- was quoted about the impact of the attack on his employer.
We know from the Wikileaks disclosures of John Podesta’s emails and those of other Democratic National Committee employees that he and his staff were the victim of a spearphishing attack, which IT specialists have claimed the Russians perpetrated. According to an IT specialist whom I consulted, the email Mrs. Clinton received from Mr. Weston also bears the hallmarks of a spearphishing attack.
As former US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Andrew McCarthy, has laid out in typically brilliant fashion in National Review, Mrs. Clinton could, and should, have been criminally charged for her egregious violations of law with regard to the handling of classified national security information. He makes this charge notwithstanding a recent epic apologia of FBI Director James Comey’s dereliction found in the New York Times. As Mr. McCarthy points out in NR, Mrs. Clinton’s use of an unsecure email system during her tenure as secretary of state "almost certainly caused the compromise of government secrets to foreign intelligence services."
In a sane world, it would seem that federal investigators should try to learn if in fact Mr. Weston’s email was the source of a virus, and whether Mrs. Clinton clicked on a virus-laden file. But in a sane world, she would have already been charged.
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If that server wasn't hacked it was just dumb luck. There are plenty of bad actors out there who certainly tried and if her cyber security measures were as sadly lacking as the DNC's the hackers were most likely successful. Again, when you're that ignorant and stupid you can't really blame the Russians.
Either way she was felony stupid and her intentions were certainly not innocent.
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The only point that matters:
"Either way she was felony stupid and her intentions were certainly not innocent."
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A thorough Information Security Damage Assessment would have to ASSUME hacking and compromise.
If you've been walking around the office with your trouser fly down all day and you only make discovery at the dinner table that evening, you can safely assume someone has already noticed.
[Free Beacon] The Pentagon this week suspended the security clearance of a White House National Security Council analyst that U.S. officials say was the target of political retribution by government bureaucrats opposed to President Trump's appointees.
Adam S. Lovinger, a 12-year strategic affairs analyst with the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment (ONA), has been on loan to the NSC since January when he was picked for the position by then-National Security Adviser Michael T. Flynn. Sending along a recommended reading by Dow.
Lovinger was notified in a letter from the Pentagon on Monday that his Top-Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS-SCI) clearance had been suspended and that he had to return to the Pentagon.
The letter cited unspecified outside activities by Lovinger. The notice said the suspension was approved by Kevin Sweeney, chief of staff for Defense Secretary James Mattis.
One official said Lovinger was targeted by Trump opponents because of his conservative views and ties to Flynn, specifically his past association with the Flynn Intel Group, Inc., a consulting business.
Skipping down a bit to potential causes and outcomes:
Lovinger is senior director for strategic assessments at the NSC. In that position, he has proposed shifting the Office of Net Assessment from the Pentagon to the White House, where it was located when established during the Nixon administration.
Lovinger wrote a memo to current National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster on the need for a net assessment capability within the NSC. When did net-assessments become a bad thing? Perhaps he recommended that someone at Mike Flynn's FIG do the assessment? Yea, that might have been a bridge too far. Sorry pal, it's back to the 'Five Sided Nut' for you.
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Appears he might have 'gone off the reservation' with his recommendation an for NSC 'network assessment' and proposed mission transfer. Nice to see someone finally losing access. Too bad it had to be a potential 'swamp drainer.' I wonder if Huma and the Beest are still 'read-on.'
We don't need no stinkin net assessments. Nothing escapes our grip I tell you. NOTHING !
You want a friend in D.C., buy a dog.
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[FOX] Former United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Joe DiGenova slammed FBI Director James Comey as "a danger to the country."
DiGenova, who served under President Reagan, said Comey's narcissism led him to take unnecessary and troubling steps during the Hillary Clinton email probe.
He said Comey should have been fired after his 2016 news conference in which he announced he would not recommend Clinton's prosecution.
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He's a Clinton operative. The Beest's recent mud slinging and Comey blame for her election loss is little more than distancing and cover for action. He's beginning to talk in circles and more frequently lowering the 'cone of silence' ["I can't talk about that here" or there, or anywhere]. His #2 and horse holder Deputy Director Andrew McCabe should have been run off as well.
This Comey 'can't discuss it here' line should be put to the test. Ok you SOB, cone of silence again is it? Everyone, 15 min pi** break and we're reconvening in the SCIF.
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[HeatStreet] Internet feminists are outraged after a scientific journal told a group of female researchers that their work on gender bias in academia was gender biased.
Two female evolutionary geneticists collaborated on the piece, which claimed that fewer women Ph.D. candidates were published by established scientific journals, leading them to believe, based on interviews with women across the scientific fields, that the publishing industry was biased against female scientists. Not clear that the above has to do with evolutionary biology - but typical. (I wonder if it somebody I know?) The reason females are published less because - unlike female professors of my youth, who got in on being better than average, nowadays its cuteness + the ability to game the system.
When they submitted their article to a journal that specializes in publishing research on diversity in the fields of science and medicine, a reviewer suggested that the women include a male voice in their study, just to show that they, themselves, were not coming at the issue from a position of gender bias. Which, I guess, was her way (in today's climate, a male wouldn't be asked to review a paper like this - and, if asked, wouldn't dare to criticize) of saying "your article has no original research, and your conclusions are twaddle
[AlAhram] Shelling and rocket fire on a UN camp in Mali's troubled Timbuktu killed one yet to be identified person and maimed nine peacekeepers, the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... mission said Wednesday.
It is the latest attack to hit the mission, known as MINSUMA, stationed in the country since 2013 and considered its most dangerous active peacekeeping deployment.
"A mortar and rocket attack was launched against the MINUSMA camp in Timbuktu," a UN statement said.
"The provisional toll is nine maimed among the peacekeepers, four seriously who are being evacuated to Bamako. The attack also killed one person, they are still being identified," it added.
The UN mission said it had reinforced the camp's defences and deployed air cover to identify where the enemy fire had originated, describing it as a "terrorist" attack.
Sweden's armed forces confirmed one of its soldiers was maimed, though not severely. "A Swedish soldier was lightly injured and is now being cared for by the Swedish medical unit," it said in a statement.
Liberia's armed forces, who also have peacekeepers among the mission, also confirmed "several injuries and other casualties", according to Prince Johnson, deputy chief of staff, but would not specify more.
"We are investigating the matter," he added.
Northern Mali fell to Islamist Lion of Islam groups linked to al-Qaeda in March 2012, and although these forces were driven out of key towns by a French-led military intervention the following year, the Islamists have now spread further south.
The 13,000-strong UN mission was deployed to provide security and assist Malian troops struggling to keep the country safe, but it has been targeted constantly by Islamist Lion of Islams, with dozens of peacekeepers killed.
Three Malian Islamist Lion of Islam groups with previous al-Qaeda links recently joined forces to create the "Group to Support Islam and Moslems" (GSIM), led by Iyad Ag Ghaly of Ansar Dine ...a mainly Tuareg group that controlled areas of Mali's northern desert together with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and MUJAO in early 2012... , and have killed Malian soldiers further east near the Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... border.
Nine Malian soldiers were killed and five maimed Tuesday, an attack that has become near routine in the country's north and centre.
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[AlAhram] Malaysian police have placed in durance vile Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! two Turks, including the head of an international school, suspected of activities threatening national security, police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said.
The men, school head Turgay Karaman and businessman Ihsan Aslan, were arrested on Tuesday under a section of the penal code related to "terrorist acts", he said in a Tweet.
No further details of their alleged activities in Moslem-majority Malaysia were immediately available.
The police confirmation came after Karaman was seen on CCTV recordings circulated on social media being forced into an unmarked car by five unknown men at a carpark in a suburb of Kuala Lumpur.
A police report was filed on Karaman's disappearance by a friend on Tuesday night.
Aslan was also reported missing by his wife on Tuesday night after she failed to hear from him for more than a day.
Karaman's lawyer, Rosli Dahlan, told Rooters that the disappearances bore similarities to a case in October when two Turks were reported missing and later discovered to have been deported to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... He denied speculation that the men were supporters of U.S-based Moslemholy manFethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... , who is being blamed by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan for orchestrating a failed coup last year. Gulen denies any involvement in the failed coup in which more than 230 people were killed.
"They are academics. They have not been charged for any Gulen activities," Rosli said.
Turkey has applied pressure to other countries that are home to institutions backed by Gulen, whose Hizmet movement runs about 2,000 educational establishments around the world.
Human Rights Watch on Wednesday said the two men should not be forcibly sent to Turkey, and called for an urgent investigation.
"There is little doubt that if they are returned to Turkey, they will face torture in detention, and if charged with crimes there, be subjected to a trial that will fall far short of fair trial standards," Phil Robertson, Deputy Asia Director of Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.
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Television is mostly silent about deadly protests as President Nicolas Maduro pushes for a new constitution. Instead, people are turning to visual forms of social media barely available to Venezuelans three years ago — Instagram and Snapchat stories, live videos on Facebook and Twitter, and WhatsApp chat rooms — to transmit and consume information.
The opposition and government compete to shape the national narrative there. Maduro’s administration sends a stream of anodyne images as protesters send out up-to-the-minute updates of arrests and violence.
For example, dueling May 1 marches in Caracas drew thousands of supporters on both sides. While the opposition posted images of national guard troops firing tear-gas canisters at protesters, pro-government accounts showed of smiling supporters dressed in red at a peaceful rally.
“There has been an increase in the number of people using smart phones, because they know there is no information on the regular television and radio channels in conventional media,” said Andres Canizalez, a communications professor at the Andres Bello University in Caracas. “Opposition politicians used to complain that traditional media didn’t give them any space, but they understand the change that’s occurring with the young people now and have turned toward social media to get their message out.”
Still, about 30 percent of the population does not have access to either an Internet connection or smart phone and relies on the government and over-the-air television stations for information, he said. That’s why the government was so quick to shut down or censor television stations that broadcast coverage it didn’t like.
While Maduro ordered an investigation into Spain’s Telefonica SA’s local Movistar unit last month, claiming it helped opponents deliver text messages promoting protests, Venezuela’s government is for now competing on social networks instead of shutting them down.
“To counteract this situation of hyperconnectivity, the government has created its own digital militias, because it knows people are looking for information in other places,” Canizalez said. “But many people only have access to simply text messaging, and that’s why you’ve seen the government starting to try and control that.”
[Free Beacon] FBI Director James Comey testified Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee that the airport tarmac meeting between then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton last June showed the Justice Department could not credibly investigate Hillary Clinton's email practices.
Clinton and Lynch met privately in Phoenix after both of them realized they were on the same airport tarmac, immediately raising questions about the independence of the Justice Department that was in the process of investigating then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.
"Our conversation was a great deal about grandchildren, it was primarily social about our travels and he mentioned golf he played in Phoenix," Lynch said last June, defending her meeting with Clinton.
Comey was concerned with the meeting regardless of Lynch's defense, and said that he lived his whole life caring about the credibility and integrity of the criminal justice process.
"A number of things had gone on which I can't talk about yet, that made me worry that the department leadership could not credibly complete the investigation and decline prosecution without grievous damage to the American people's confidence in the justice system," Comey said.
"And then the capper was‐and I'm not picking on the attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who I like very much‐but her meeting with President Clinton on that airplane was the capper for me, and I then said, you know what, the department cannot, by itself, credibly end this," he said.
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I would have thought one of GOP senators would have asked Comey, "Do you really think Hillary was stupid enough to send all those classified emails by accident?"
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...the department cannot, by itself, credibly end this...
He figured that out, did he? The man's a frickin' genius.
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Oooops!
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Ooops. I forgot.
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Comey appears to be a media hog and drama queen.
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charger, you are assuming Bill wanted Lynch herself. He probably wanted her to talk to an intern on the plane about how it was perfectly legal now that he was an ex-president, and if that didn't work threaten the little tramp with jail time for something.
Anyone whoever believed Bill to be a "leader" was wrong. He could have ended all of this bullshit after he left the White House. A divorce would have been messy, but we'd never reach the stage we're at now--which is for a lot of us to wonder whether he gave a damn at all about our country. What he's allowed Hillary to do amounts to *treason*. He's aided and abetted it.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] The war of words between Washington and Ankara over the U.S. military’s partnership with Kurdish paramilitaries in Syria escalated Wednesday, when a senior aide to Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... suggested American troops could be targeted alongside their Kurdish allies in the country’s ongoing air war against the militias.
Senior presidential aide Ilnur Cevik said U.S. forces who are teamed up with members of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, or YPG, were in danger of being hit by Turkish fighters patrolling the volatile border region with Syria.
If YPG units and their American military advisers "go too far, our forces would not care if American armor is there, whether armored carriers are there," Mr. Cevik said during an interview on Turkish radio station CRI TURK Wednesday. "All of a sudden, by accident, a few rockets can hit them," he added, referring to partnered U.S. forces.
When asked to clarify that U.S. advisers or artillery positions would be in danger from Turkish warplanes, if they continued to support YPG operations in northern Syria, Mr. Cevik replied bluntly that they would.
His comments come days after U.S. forces moved into the Syrian Kurdish enclave of Rojava, in a dramatic show of solidarity amid Turkish Arclight airstrikes targeting those U.S.-backed forces there. The strikes were part of an ongoing counterterrorism operation targeting members of the YPG, which The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has condemned as a terrorist organization.
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Somebodies britches are getting too big.
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[An Nahar] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... 's deputy crown prince said Tuesday in a rare and wide-ranging interview that there is no space for dialogue with rival Iran due to its Shiite ambitions "to control the Islamic world."
The interview, which aired on multiple Saudi TV channels, offered a glimpse into how Mohammed bin Salman views the kingdom's top rival. It also laid bare the breadth of his portfolio and powers.
The 31-year-old prince, who was named in 2015 by his father, King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians.... , as an eventual heir to the throne, is Saudi Arabia's defense minister, overseeing the war in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... against a rebel group aligned with Iran. He also oversees economic matters and is behind a bold program to overhaul the Saudi economy.
Framing the tensions with Iran in sectarian terms, he said it is Iran's goal "to control the Islamic world" and to spread its Shiite doctrine in preparation for the arrival of a revered imam named Mohammed al-Mahdi. Shiite Moslems believe al-Mahdi, the 12th and last Shiite imam, who disappeared in the 9th century, will one day reappear to bring justice to Earth.
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[An Nahar] A boom-mobile blast killed at least five people on Wednesday in the rebel-held Syrian town of Azaz by the Turkish border, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The dead were four civilians and a police officer, the Britannia-based monitor said, adding that the toll could rise because a number of those maimed were at death's door.
The blast littered the ground with debris and set an enormous fire that sent thick clouds of black smoke billowing into the air.
Civil defence workers and residents tried to put out the blaze.
The blast hit near a mosque and the headquarters of the opposition's provisional government
The dead were placed in black body bags, next to which grief-stricken mourners sat weeping or staring in shock.
The blast hit near a mosque and the headquarters of the opposition's provisional government, formed in November 2013, which administers some areas under rebel control.
Azaz has regularly been targeted in kabooms, including on January 7, when at least 48 people were killed in a tanker truck blast.
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Tired of seeing their Telegram communications referenced in the news [Ynet] ISIS bandidosbandidos Lion of Islams are developing their own social media platform to avoid security crackdowns on their communications and propaganda, the head of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... 's police agency said on Wednesday.
Europol Director Rob Wainwright said the new online platform had been uncovered during a 48-hour operation against Internet extremism last week.
"Within that operation it was revealed IS was now developing its very own social media platform, its own part of the Internet to run its agenda," Wainwright told a security conference in London. "It does show that some members of ISIS (IS), at least, continue to innovate in this space."
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It's always good to have numbers, however accurate or not they might be.
[Ynet] Around 900 Jordanians are fighting for Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... and al-Qaeda-inspired groups in Syria and Iraq but recruitment numbers have fallen sharply to their lowest ever levels, a senior Jordanian official told Rooters on Tuesday.
Those now fighting in Iraq and Syria mostly left Jordan, a staunch US ally which borders the two countries, in the early years of the conflict between 2013 and 2014, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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[ARA News] The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) said on Wednesday that the Turkish army carried out 67 attacks along the border with Rojava-northern Syria during the month of April.
The YPG leadership confirmed in an official statement, obtained by ARA News, that 35 attacks were done by tanks, 24 with various kinds of heavy weapons, seven attacks by missiles, in addition to air strikes.
The YPG said they responded 16 times to the Turkish attacks, destroying several vehicles.
On 25 April, Turkish air strikes killed 20 YPG fighters in the Karacok mountain near Derik, in Syria’s northeastern Hasakah province.
After the attacks, US troops visited the bombed area. The American forces also patrolled the border between Rojava and Turkey on 28 April to prevent more attacks.
Furthermore, on 30 April, Russian troops were deployed near Afrin to inspect the border with Turkey to deter more Turkish attacks.
Turkish attacks continued this month. On Wednesday, the Turkish army shot at the Kurdish Asayish checkpoint at the western entrance of Kobane city.
Furthermore, Turkish-backed rebels attacked the town of Qastel Jendo, close to the town of Efrin in the Aleppo province.
In the meantime, the YPG said that its units and allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have liberated 800 square kilometers in the countryside of Raqqa–the ISIS’ de facto capital in Syria.
Moreover, the YPG said that 95 per cent of the strategic town of Tabqa was liberated, with dozens of ISIS fighters trapped in small pockets in the city.
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[AlManar] The Syrian Army and Armed Forces units launched operations against gatherings of ISIL in Um Sahrij village to the east of Homs city.
A military source told SANA that an army unit directed accurate strikes on fortified positions and dens for ISIL in the village of Um Sahrij, destroying a pickup truck equipped with heavy machinegun and a rocket-launching platform along with 6 terrorists.
The Syrian army units established control over the villages of al-Tadmuria, al-Khalilia and al-Mohashem, the Mounts of al-Shomaria and the hills surrounding them after killing a number of ISIL terrorists in the eastern countryside of Homs.
Deir Ezzor
Meanwhile, army units, in cooperation with allied forces, carried out intensive operations against ISIL gatherings and infiltration axes on the southern outskirts of Deir Ezzor city.
SANA reporter in Deir Ezzor said that army units shelled ISIL sites in the graveyards area, destroying a number of the terrorist organization dens and killing a number of terrorists, including the so called “Abu al-Zubair al-Maghribi” the arming official in the so called “Euphrates State” and Hassan al-Mala one of ISIL leaders.
The reporter quoted local sources as saying that a group of the locals of al-Bu Kamal city had attacked one of ISIL hideouts on the outskirts of the city and managed to kill two of its terrorists and burned a number of cars.
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At least 27 insurgents were killed in an Afghan police force operation in southern Helmand province on Tuesday, public order police said in a statement on Wednesday.
The operation was conducted in Garemsir district of the province to clear the area of insurgents, according to the statement.
However, the statement did not provide more details about the operation nor about casualties among security forces.
This comes just days after U.S Marines returned to the province, two years after the NATO combat mission ended in the country.
The Marines were the first U.S Forces to be sent to Afghanistan after the September 11, 2001 attack on the United States.
For years they were engaged in often heavy fighting in the volatile province, however the new deployment of about 300 Marines will form part of Resolute Support’s train, advise and assist mission.
The deployment of Marines also came one day after the Taliban announced the launch of its spring offensive. In a statement, the group warned it would increase its campaign of bombings, ambush attacks, complex attacks and IED operations.
The Marines arrival also comes just days after reports emerged that the Trump administration is evaluating plans to send as many as 5,000 additional U.S troops to Afghanistan.
[Daily Caller] Huma Abedin forwarded Hillary Clinton’s emails, some of them classified, to her disgraced husband, Anthony Weiner, FBI Director James Comey revealed on Wednesday.
"[Weiner’s] then-spouse, Huma Abedin, appears to have had a regular practice of forwarding emails to forward to him, I think, to print out for her so she could deliver them to the secretary of state," Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee during an oversight hearing.
Comey reopened the FBI investigation into Clinton’s email practices in October after agents discovered that a laptop owned by Weiner and Abedin contained Clinton’s emails. The laptop was seized as part of a separate investigation into Weiner’s contacts with a 15-year-old girl.
Asked whether Weiner, a former New York congressman, read the emails Abedin forwarded to him, Comey said he did not think that was the case.
"I don’t think we have been able to interview him because he has pending criminal problems of other sorts. But my understanding is that his role would be to print them out as a matter of convenience," said Comey.
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Asked whether Weiner, a former New York congressman, read the emails Abedin forwarded to him, Comey said he did not think that was the case
This Comey fellow is certainly trusting, isn't he? Nobody had any intents or deliberate obfuscations...it just all "happened" to them
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When Huma left him and threatened to take their kid Carlos Danger made the laptop available to investigators which damaged Huma and Hillary. Just an FYI.
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"You want hard copies? Heh heh.. heh heh"
"Shut up, Anthony, and just do it"
P.S.: Ever notice you never see Weiner and Beavis in the same room?
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Forwarded for printing? I'm supposed to believe that?
I believe it. You expect Hillary to learn how to print her own emails? You expect her to just read it from the screen? No. She is among the class of supposedly highly intelligent and powerful individuals who are absolutely computer illiterate and actually not all that intelligent either. She certainly cannot be bothered to perform mundane tasks like printing her own "hard copies" when a chump like Weiner is there to do it for her.
Just like her chump friend John Podesta, a supposedly highly intelligent and powerful individual, who couldn't even recognize a phishing scam that most 13-year-old kids would have laughed at. He got hacked and tried to blame it on the Russians but when you're that stupid you have only yourself to blame.
What's really scary is that these people have been in positions of great power and they were very close to getting into power again.
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Clinton's emails were found in a file named "Insurance" on Wiener's laptop, after leaving him. Huma may not have known they were saved but ignorance is no excuse for jeopardizing national security.
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But he said no charges were filed with respect to Abedin because the FBI “didn’t have any indication she had had a sense what she was doing was violation of the law.”
This guy is so full of it. The law does not require intent when breaking the law--ignorance of the law not generally a defense.
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This guy is so full of it. The law does not require intent when breaking the law--ignorance of the law not generally a defense.
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Absolutely correct! A reading of the US Code makes it very clear. Unfortunately, they [Comey & fellow conspirators] continue to incorrectly site 'intent.'
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If I heard what Comey said yesterday correctly, his public admission of what Huma did by itself constitutes adequate justification for her arrest and prosecution. Why is there no action by DOJ, since a failure to act on so obvious a case could only suggest special treatment. Step up Sessions !
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I am an IT professional that works for a company that deals with personal information of our customers and has a fraction of the budget of whatever agency provides security for federal email systems.
I find it impossible to believe that there is not some sort of data loss prevention system in place that would make it impossible for a forwarded classified document to be printed out on someone's home computer.
We apply this type of encryption to data on a regular basis using industry standard sytems that are used by millions of IT departments around the world.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) One person was killed, two others were injured in two IED blasts in Baghdad, news reports quoted security sources as saying on Wednesday.
A teacher was killed as a bomb placed under a vehicle exploded, the source said, adding that the blast occurred while the vehicle was passing at al-Zidan region in Abu Ghraib, western Baghdad.
In another blast, two persons were wounded as a bomb exploded in Nahrawan district, southeast of Baghdad.
“A bomb was planted near a workshop that sells aluminium in Nahrawan. The blast left two civilians wounded,” another source said.
Violence and armed conflicts claimed the lives of 317 Iraqis, and caused injuries to 403 others during the month of April, according to a monthly count by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI).
The total figure of victims signalled a drop from 1115 victims in March.
Nineveh, where U.S.-backed Iraqi government troops are caught up in battles against Islamic State militants in Mosul since October, came on top of the most affected governorate, with 276 casualties (153 killed, 123 injured). Baghdad Governorate came next with 55 killed and 179 injured. Salahuddin came third, with 15 killed and 43 injured.
Ramadi (IraqiNews.com) A security force thwarted an attack by Islamic State militants on a road security unit west of Anbar, security sources were quoted saying Wednesday.
Alsumaria News, quoting the sources, said the attack targeted a security deployment at the “140th Kilometer” region at a highway west of the city of Ramadi.
The security force seized a vehicle used by the attackers that was laden with RPG missiles, according to the source.
The attack comes as Islamic State militants escalate assaults on government and paramilitary forces in Anbar, especially at al-Rutba region, leaving several personnel dead. Ten soldiers were killed on Tuesday and six were wounded in an Islamic State attack that targeted an army checkpoint in Rutba. Several other army members died in April in occasional attacks.
Iraqi and U.S.-led coalition fighter jets have regularly pounded locations held by the Islamic State at the stronghold towns of Annah, Qaim and Rawa, west of Anbar. killing dozens of militants. Thousands of civilians are thought to be held in Islamic State captivity at those locations. Iraqi defense officials say they will launch a major security offensive in Anbar once they is done with their U.S.-backed campaign to drive out IS from Mosul, the group’s principal stronghold in Iraq, which has been running since October 2016.
On Wednesday, Ramadi’s mayor, Ibrahim al-Janabi, told Iraqi network NRT that security challenge persist in the province with the escalation of IS attacks. He said getting over those challenges remain contingent upon securing the highway linking Iraq and Jordan.
“Islamic State attacks against security forces will continue if borders with Syria are not closed completely.” Google Map at the link
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Taiz- Armed conflict intensified in al-Bayda battle fronts, Yemen, following an assault staged by members of the Popular Resistance against Houthi and Saleh militias and the seizure of strategic locations.
Militias in their turn continued to randomly shell houses in Dhi Na’im and Az Zahir districts as well as farms in Rada’a, leading to huge material losses.
Colonel Abdullah al-Humaikani told Asharq Al-Awsat that “members of the Popular Resistance are still confronting militias with their personal potentials and have achieved great gains on the ground in restoring control over strategic whereabouts, following violent battles that caused enormous human and material losses.”
Saada Media Center affirmed in a statement published on Facebook that dozens of killed and injured Houthis reached directories of Sa’dah.
“Most of the killed and injured were targeted by Arab Coalition air force,” the statement added.
Yemen’s Prime Minister Ahmed Obeid bin Daghr addressed the Ministry of Finance to quickly disburse salaries to civil employees in Taiz according to the state budget of 2014.
The prime minister stated that the government has paid the salaries for civil and military personnel in the liberated provinces and is working hard on disbursing them in provinces controlled by rebels, reported Yemen News Agency (Saba).
He underscored the importance of militias committing to export revenues to the central bank in the temporary capital, Aden so that the government fulfills as well its commitments towards employees in all provinces with no exception.
Daghr ordered allocating one million dollars to cover the additional needs of the injured in Taiz, given that the Ministry of Public Health and Population will supervise the process.
This took place 24 hours after the local authority in Taiz called on the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank of Yemen to accelerate the disbursement of salaries to the employees and retired officers.
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] An ambulance service for cattle has been launched in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state in a bid to protect animals sacred to the country’s majority Hindu community.
State deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya announced the Cattle Healing Mobile Van Service on Monday and publicised a toll free number to help the authorities rescue cows in distress.
Maurya said each ambulance, which included a veterinarian and an animal paramedic, would transport abandoned, ill or injured cattle to special shelters or take them to animals hospitals for treatment in the state capital Lucknow and four other nearby cities.
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An amoolance? Cowbonix misappropriation. Ten yard penalty.
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"The cow is a poem of mercy."
So said the Mahatma. In verse he
Rephrased it: "Thanks, Jersey,
For milk -- and you, Guernsey --
And urine to sip when I'm thirsty."
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Lampooned the lieutenant so listful,
"Woo woo," and the mooing was wistful,
Behooving a luvvie:
"This movie was groovy.
Some Hindu should give you a fistful!"
[Libya Herald] More death and destruction came to Benghazi today when three non-combatants were killed in a rocket attack and four sappers perished when a mine went kaboom! while they were tackling it.
The non-combatants were killed when a rocket hit a building in Shibna which is part of the city’s Hay Dollar district. Accounts differ on the number of maimed but between seven and 14 people were take to al-Jalaa hospital, some wth serious injuries. It is reported that turbans are claiming the rocket attack was in retaliation for air strikes on their positions in Sabri during which some of their number were killed.
There is less information about the death of four mine clearance experts in Sabri. The men from the Libyan National Army (LNA) engineers were trying to defuse an bomb when it detonated killing all of them.
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[Libya Herald] After a year’s absence from the political limelight, former General National Congress president Nuri Abu Sahmain has arrived in Conarky today for talks on Libya with Guinea president Alpha Condé. He was accompanied by his deputy Awad Abdul Saddeq and self-declared "prime minister" Khalifa Ghwell.
Condé, who took over the chairmanship 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... (AU) in January, is hosting a series of meetings with Libyan key players as part of the AU’s efforts at mediation. A month ago, House of Representatives President Ageela Saleh was in the Guinean capital for similar talks and it was announced at the time that other Libyan political figures were going to be invited.
Neither Abu Sahmain nor Abdul Saddeq have been politically active of late although Ghwell continues to maintain that he is Libya’s sole legitimate prime minister. He and his supporters, however, were largely driven from Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... in March,
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[Libya Observer] A Libyan-flagged vessel laden with weapons and ammunition was seized in international waters Monday, EU Naval Force Mediterranean (EUNAVFOR Med) has reported.
The EUNAVFOR Med, also known as Operation Sophia, said in a statement Tuesday that German ship "Rhein" carried out an inspection on the Libyan motor vessel "El Mukhtar" and found several types of weapons.
"The Lithuanian boarding team reached the vessel by zodiacs and once on board, the team found several types of weapons, including Machine Guns, AK47 rifles, RPG bullets, RPG launchers, mortar grenades and ammunitions." The statement read.
The search was conducted in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 2292 (2016).
The EUNAVFOR Med did not give further information regarding the destination of the vessel and the group that was behind it.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... launched Operation Sophia on 22 June 2015 to crack down on people smugglers based in Libya. Since the launch, 109-suspected smugglers and traffickers have been apprehended and 422 boats have been removed from criminal organizations' availability.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] 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 in Afghanistan, ISIS-Khurasan, grabbed credit for a deadly suicide kaboom in capital Kabul.
The group in a statement released in Arabic language claimed that 8 American soldiers were killed in the attack.
However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... the US forces in Afghanistan earlier said only three coalition soldiers were maimed in the attack and that their health condition is satisfactory.
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) earlier said at least eight non-combatants were killed and twenty five others were maimed in the attack.
The incident took place around 8 am local time in the vicinity of the 9th police district of the city as the coalition forces convoy was crossing the area located close to the US Embassy and other key government compounds, including the supreme court of Afghanistan.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least eleven Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... faceless myrmidons including the shadow district chief of the group were killed in Arclight airstrikes in northeastern Takhar province of Afghanistan.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan National Army in a statement said the Arclight airstrikes were carried out in the vicinity of Khwajah Bahauddin district of Takhar.
The statement further added that eleven Taliban faceless myrmidons including the shadow district chief of the group identified as Mawlavi Ansarullah were killed in the Arclight airstrikes.
At least six faceless myrmidons were also maimed in the Arclight airstrikes conducted by the security forces, the 209th Shaheen Corps added.
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Heck of a job title.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Death Eater was killed as he was planting an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in northern Balkh province of Afghanistan.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces in the North said the incident took place recently in Chamtal district.
The source further added that the Death Eater was busy planting the IED on a roadside when it went off prematurely, leaving the Lion of Islam dead.
The anti-government armed Death Eater groups including the Talibs have not commented regarding the report so far.
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*sigh* Happy stories. Chlorine in the gene pool
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[DAWN] BAHAWALPUR: The Lodhran Saddar police on Tuesday started the paperwork but haven't done much else against 200 people on the charges of lynching two suspected robbers in a nearby village.
Police said hundreds of people tortured two persons who, along with an accomplice, were suspected to have entered the house of Muhammad Nawaz at Chatti village to commit a robbery.
As Nawaz’s family raised hue and cry, they said, the suspects took to the heels but the villagers began to chase them. They overpowered two suspects and brutally tortured them as a result of which one of them, who was later identified as Arif, died.
A Saddar police team reached the place and rescued the other man, Falakshair, and shifted him to the District Headquarters Hospital, Lodhran, where he also expired. Their accomplice made good his escape.
The police claimed that the dear departed had criminal record and were wanted in several cases. The Saddar police started the paperwork but haven't done much else against 200 attackers, 18 of them nominated in the FIR.
Lodhran District Police Officer Asad Sarfraz Khan is said to have condemned the mob and said those who took law in their hands also deserved to be punished.
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[DAWN] A Lahore High Court division bench on Tuesday upheld death penalty handed down to three men for their role in Police Emergency Rescue Service-15 building suicide kaboom.
The bench comprising Justice Sadaqat Ali Khan and Justice Shehram Sarwar dismissed appeals against the sentence filed by convicts Abid Akram, Sarfraz and Shabbir.
Counsel for the convicts argued that his clients were already in jug of law enforcement agencies when the suicide attack took place in 2009.
He said the FIR of the incident was lodged against unidentified suspects while the convicts were later implicated in the case.
The counsel argued that though prosecution failed to produce any direct or independent evidence against the convicts, the trial court awarded death sentence to them.
He asked the bench to set aside the conviction and acquit the convicts.
Opposing the appeals, a deputy public prosecutor argued that the convicts were the controllers of the attack. He said Shahdara police had incarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... the convicts on Dec 3, 2010 and during the interrogation they (convicts) confessed to their involvement in the Rescue-15 suicide attack.
The prosecutor further stated that police had also recovered weapons from the convicts’ possession. He said the trial court had handed down the death penalty to the convicts in the light of convincing evidence produced by the prosecution.
After hearing both sides, the bench dismissed the appeals and upheld the conviction of the appellants.
An anti-terrorism court had on Jan 30, 2015 handed down death penalty to each convict on 23 counts. At least 26 people, including security personnel, had bit the dust in the attack while over 300 were maimed.
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He said Shahdara police had incarceratedthe convicts on Dec 3, 2010 and during the interrogation they (convicts) confessed to their involvement in the Rescue-15 suicide attack.
I bet that hurt
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[An Nahar] A powerful blast targeting an armoured NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... convoy in Kabul killed at least eight people and maimed 28 Wednesday, including three coalition members, officials said in an attack 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.
The kaboom, which came during morning rush hour on a busy road near the US embassy and NATO headquarters, killed "mostly" civilians, an interior ministry front man told AFP without giving a breakdown.
NATO said three coalition service members had received "non-life threatening wounds" in the attack.
"(They) are in stable, pH balanced condition, and are currently being treated at coalition medical facilities," a front man for US Forces-Afghanistan said, without confirming their nationalities.
IS grabbed credit for the blast via its Amaq propaganda agency, saying the eight dead were all American soldiers. The gunnies are known to exaggerate their claims.
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[An Nahar] North Korea on Wednesday confirmed the arrest of a US professor for trying to "overturn" the regime, as tensions spike between the isolated nuclear-armed nation and Washington.
Kim Sang-Duk, or Tony Kim, became the third American held in the North when he was detained at the capital's airport on April 22 as he tried to leave the country, after teaching for several weeks at an elite university.
In the North's first confirmation of the professor's detention, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said he had been held for "committing criminal acts of hostility aimed to overturn the DPRK", using an abbreviation for the country's official name.
It added that Kim was "under detention by a relevant law enforcement body which is conducting detailed investigation into his crimes".
The confirmation of Kim's detention comes as Pyongyang issues increasingly belligerent rhetoric in a tense stand off with the administration of new US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... over its rogue weapons programme.
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Somehow I don't think Pudgy will be able to hide behind him.
[SHABELLENEWS] The former Lawmaker of Somalia has been elected as the new president of the semi-autonomous State of Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... on Wednesday during an election held in Adado town.
Haaf won 53 votes, beating his main rival contender, Ahmed Sharif Ali Hilowle got 35 votes while the remaining vote was announced spoiled during the second round of the voting.
The speaker of the Parliament has confirmed that Haaf was the winner of the election.
In his victory speech, the newly elect president promised to tackle the insecurity in the region and foster relations with the neighbouring regional administrations.
Mr Haaf who is also a famous businessman now becomes the second president of Galmudug since 2014 when the regional administration was declared in Adado city in central Somalia.
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Haaf won 53 votes, beating his main rival contender, Ahmed Sharif Ali Hilowle got 35 votes while the remaining vote was announced spoiled during the second round of the voting.
Almost reads like a story about voting for a Vermont town selectman. The accompanying 'Daily Fatwa' and the 'weather report for qat-growers and smugglers' kinda gives it away, though.
[SHABELLENEWS] Somalia’s new Minster of Public works and reconstruction Abas Abdullahi Sheikh Siraji was rubbed out in Mogadishu on Wednesday evening.
The minister was killed by the security guards of the country’s auditor general Nur Farah who opened fire on his car in the heart of the capital, according to witnesses.
The minster of public works, who was the youngest in the cabinet has died inside his car.
The security forces have detained four the soldiers who killed the minister.
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"was killed by the security guards of the country’s auditor general"
And I bitch about an IRS audit...
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The Minister of Silly Walks may be next.
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The minster of public works...
Checks eyes, yes, it is in the original, now is there a Maxster of Public Works? And what do they do?
[SHABELLENEWS] Somali President Mohammed Abdullahi said Wednesday his government -- elected in February this year -- had strategized to defeat the myrmidon group al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... in two years.
"Al-Shabaab has been active in Somalia for the last ten years causing huge destruction," Abdullahi said during a joint news conference in the Æthiopian capital, Addis Ababa following a close session with Æthiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn.
Al-Shabaab is intent on expanding its reach to neighboring countries, and that gives a reason for cooperation against the menace posed by the myrmidon group, the Somali president added.
He praised the support provided in this regard by Æthiopia and Kenya as well as 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... Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).
"AMISOM has been working together with government and the sacrifices of [men in uniform] of neighboring countries will not go in vain," he said, commending the regional collaboration against the al-Qaeda affiliated group.
Æthiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, for his part, said his discussion with the Somali president was on "major pertinent issues" including the fight against terrorism, the current drought that affects both countries as well as development cooperation.
"We sink or swim together," Hailemariam said. "We cannot thrive leaving other nations behind."
The prime minister added that lack of security in Somalia would ultimately affect neighboring countries by way of a spillover effect.
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[PJMEDIA] A Bedouin tribe in the Sinai peninsula said it set an ISIS fighter ablaze as a response to a threat from the terror group, and called on all tribes to unite and battle 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.... together.
As ISIS has been losing territory in Iraq and Syria, their Sinai chapter has expanded its reach, even establishing a inquisitors religious police force that has been terrorizing residents who smoke cigarettes or shave. ISIS also threatened residents against cooperating with the army and police.
That, along with ISIS spreading fake news that they had killed 40 members of the al-Tarabeen tribe, drove the Bedouins to snatch an ISIS leader and film their own video of his death, the tribe told al-Arabiya.
They said the man had killed three Sinai residents and a police and burned their bodies, so the Bedouins set him on fire. That's employing the Islamic principle of qisas, killing a killer in the manner by which the victim was murdered. ISIS tried to use the same reasoning when they burned a Jordanian pilot in a cage in a shocking 2015 video.
In the Bedouins' short video, which appears to be cell phone footage, the suspected ISIS member, his hands and feet bound, is seen with his upper body on fire off the side of a road as members of the tribe yell at him. One appears to spray an accelerant on him.
The al-Tarabeen said in a statement they would fight ISIS "bravely and courageously as the sons of the tribe do not fear the battles."
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Yep, the Egyptian government "hired" the Bedouins for a check point figuring anybody with a lick of sense wouldn't fuck with the Bedouins since the main hobby is blood feuds. Well apparently someone didn't have that lick of sense and now they have the tribes that control all of the overland smuggling routes pissed at them.
[An Nahar] President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... will play peacemaker at the White House on Wednesday, meeting with Paleostinian leader the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... as part of an effort to end the long-running Paleostinian-Israeli conflict.
After hosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in February, the self-styled deal-maker-in-chief will host Abbas for the first time since coming to office.
"The President's ultimate goal is to establish peace in the region," said White House press secretary Sean Spicer.
That long-shot effort -- which has eluded US presidents since the 1970s -- got off to a rocky start early in Trump's adminstration.
Trump renounced US support for a Paleostinian state and vowed to move the US embassy to Jerusalem, breaking two tenets of US policy held for decades.
Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday said Trump is still "giving serious consideration into moving the American embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem."
That move would likely spark Paleostinian fury and is privately seen by many in the Israel and US security establishments as needlessly inflammatory.
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Why does every flippin' president take on this intractable problem? Seriously, the guys who live in the neighborhood clearly don't mind the status quo, so why waste our time and clout trying to impose our idealistic will? We've got bigger fish to fry.
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It looks to me like grooming. First President Trump adamantly refused to have any contact with Mr. Abbas or his people, while having long, cozy phone conversations with Prime Minister Netanyahu, and meetings and phone conversations with everyone else. Then, although President Trump's envoy went on a listening tour, and at some point afterward an appointment with the White House was made, nothing really happened until President Abbas announced the reduction of salaries to PA staff in Gaza, reducing Hamas cash flow, and then that the PA would no longer pay the Gaza electric bill, further reducing Hamas's cash flow. While the public part of the meeting was all flattery stroking the Palestinian ego, according to The Times of Israel today, in private he was slapped around a bit:
During the Wednesday meeting, Trump urged Abbas to stop incitement, crack down on terrorism, and “resolve” his West Bank government’s policy of making payments to families of Israeli-held security prisoners.
“President Trump raised his concerns about payments to Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails who have committed terrorist acts, and to their families, and emphasized the need to resolve this issue,” the White House said in a readout of the two leaders’ first face-to-face meeting.
[FREEBEACON] Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as a crook... is planning to soon launch a new political action committee without the intention of making another run for public office. Our NTSA graphic is still on backorder. Thank you for your continued patience.
The failed 2016 Democratic presidential candidate will start the PAC to "act as a quiet catalyst" for organizations she supports and help 2018 congressional candidates, Axios reported Wednesday.
Clinton's PAC will be focused on "lifting up organizations that are the product of the energy and activism she has seen since the election, and existing groups that have been reignited and reinvigorated by that energy," a source familiar with the planning told Axios.
The source revealed that the PAC will not be a way for Clinton to comment on President Trump's activities but also said she "won't shy away from it."
The former secretary of state has been busy since the election. She is set to publish two books in the fall: a detailed account of her 2016 presidential campaign and a children's picture book, titled "It Takes a Village: Picture Book Edition."
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The former secretary of state has been busy since the election. She is set to publish two books in the fall: a detailed account of her 2016 presidential campaign and a children's picture book, titled "It Takes a Village: Picture Book Edition."
The Anthony Weiner pages are pop-ups
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So she is going to throw support money at BLM, Antifa, Occupy, etc. Kinda a less lofty Soros model.
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hope to see a vigorous primary in 2019 and 2020 with Crooked Hillary, Crazy Maxine Waters and Faucahontaus competing against each other.
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Inevitable.
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I can't decide whether 'twould be better to go after her before she gets going or after the corruption gets going good so we can finally put a stake through her political heart.
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I suspect we are seeing the starting shots in the war over control of the Democratic party. I think Obama already has a PAC and if he doesn't he'll probably have one within a week.
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Hillary PAC will have 80-90% administrative cost. Being the head of the PAC, she will get at least two or more million dollars a month year salary.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi army forces ran into a large weapons cache belonging to Islamic State militants in Mosul as operations proceed to clear the western side of the city.
Maj. Maan al-Saadi, a second special operations division commander, the army’s Counter-Terrorism Service, was quoted by Alsumaria News saying that a special force found the mini-factory in al-Yabessat district in western Mosul.
The finds included mortar missiles, rockets and rocket launchers, al-Saadi said.
Iraqi government forces recaptured eastern Mosul in January after three months of fighting, and claimed recently to control at least 70 percent of the western side of the city after a second phase of offensives launched in February.
Speaking in a weekly press conference late Tuesday, Prime Minister Haider alAbadi said his military commanders were ready with “new military plans” to recapture remaining cities in Nineveh from Islamic State militants.
Commanders from the U.S.-led coalition backing the Iraqi campaign against IS say there are less than 1000 militants in Mosul, while Iraqi generals believe the group holds less than seven percent of Iraqi territories.
The conflict has so far displaced 600.000 civilians, according to Iraqi government counts.
Mosul – ISIS executed 12 of its foreign and non-Iraqi Arab militants on the right side of Mosul, including prominent commanders accused of espionage for the Iraqi government and coalition forces, according to a Kurdish official.
Media official of Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Gaith Surji said that ISIS executed 12 of its militants accused of espionage for the Iraqi government, adding that based on the information they received, a number of military and security commanders were among the executed.
Since ISIS took over Mosul in 2014, a large number of its Iraqi, Arab, and foreign militants have deflected from the organization. In addition, ISIS militants regularly fight internally over money and positions.
Many of Iraqi ISIS militants are trying to escape with families leaving Mosul or go undercover as sleeper cells, according to civilians, adding that most of the remaining ISIS militants fighting security forces in Mosul are foreigners.
Lieutenant General Raed Shaker Jawdat, head of the Iraqi federal police, stated that Iraqi forces killed ISIS leader Abo Ayoub after attacking his vehicle on the Fifth Bridge.
Jawdat told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper that according to intelligence, the police killed other commanders; Abo Abdallah in Rifai area and Nafei Abdallah and two of his bodyguards in Hawi area.
Federal police’s drones and artillery continue to target ISIS clusters and movements in the strategic July 17 neighborhood, west of Mosul. In addition, 17 militants were killed during the bombardment on an ISIS outpost behind al-Sahaba mosque.
Jawdat pointed out that since the initiation of the liberation operation of the right side of the city, police drones killed 859 ISIS militants, including prominent leaders, destroyed 284 booby-trapped cars and 253 booby-trapped motorcycles, and liberated over 274 kilometers so far.
As for humanitarian effort, Iraqi forces rescued 265,000 civilians in combat areas, while 30,000 were able to go back to their liberated residential areas.
Lieutenant General Jawdat concluded that the military included several new tactics on the military plans and updated their accuracy factor in targeting the enemy, in addition to using developed techniques to avoid civilian casualties.
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[IsraelTimes] Move to ’dry up’ finances of terror group comes as PA leader set to meet Trump at White House on reviving peace talks
Israel supplies electricity from 10 power lines that cover about 30 percent of Gazoo’s needs. Israel deducts the money from the taxes and customs it collects on behalf of the Abbas government. Egypt provides some electricity, but supplies are less reliable.
Israel last week announced the Abbas government’s intention to stop paying for Gazoo electricity. al-Sheikh’s comments marked the first official Paleostinian confirmation.
In the West Bank, a bigwig said the Abbas government would stop paying for the electricity Israel sends to Gazoo, worth at least $11 million a month.
Hussein al-Sheikh, head of the Civil Affairs Department, said Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, profits because it collects electricity payments from Gazoo residents. "We are not going to continue financing the Hamas coup in Gazoo," he told the Voice of Paleostine radio station.
Ahmed Majdalani, an Abbas aide, said that as a next step, the West Bank government would sharply reduce the amount of medicine it ships to Gazoo every month. Majdalani alleged that Hamas is "selling the medicine and collecting the money."
He said that only "necessary medicine" would be sent directly to Gazoo hospitals.
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Is it possible to protect all this tech against an EMP? Because, if not, all of this unmanned/robotic/drone warfare stuff is just a big waste of time. One pulse and it's back to the old way of fighting.
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Some strategies are not meant to be fought but to escalate an expensive response. One drone 'triplet', as in the video, would require countermeasures to be distributed across a target area to limit access. Such a show also drives competition to copy/mimic/buy their own, another economic burden.
Please also note that a simple passive nylon tangle wire mesh along sensitive shorelines would/could bind both the boat prop and the rover wheels. No expensive EMP required.
[MindaNews] The communist National Democratic Front-Southern Mindanao Region has apologized to the family of a civilian who was hit by an IED during an attack on Saturday by the New People's Army on plants owned by Lapanday Foods Corporation in Barangay Mandug.
The NPA attacked three businesses run by the Lorenzo family in the city on April 30, leaving Buenafe and three other persons injured, Lapanday security guard Reynaldo Talamaque and two NPA guerillas. Two NPA militants were killed in the attack.
Fish vendor Larry Buenafe was seriously hurt when the militants detonated the IED near soldiers from Task Force Davao who responded to the attack. The militants also offered to give indemnification to Buenafe.
In a statement, NDFP-SMR spokesperson Rubi del Mundo said that the insurgents carried out attacks against the soldiers in Barangay Tigatto after the NPA unit attacked the LFC box and plastic plants in nearby Barangay Mandug. She said, "The blaster-operator saw that Mr. Buenafe was far from the target military vehicle and proceeded to detonate the explosives. The shock waves and splinter, however, hit and injured him."
She maintained that the movement has absolute respect for “human rights and international humanitarian law.”
"It is waging a just war for the genuine emancipation of the majority exploited Filipino people. The punitive action by the NPA-Southern Mindanao against the Lorenzo-owned Lapanday Foods Corporation in Davao City is just and long-demanded by the thousands of peasants, Lumad and workers in Mindanao," she said.
Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Jesus Dureza said he was dismayed by the recent NPA attacks while peace negotiations are "making substantial headway" but remained optimistic they “will not be deterred” despite calls to drop [the talks] and wage an all-out war.
Labor Secretary and government chief peace negotiator Silvestre Bello III said they are now preparing for the fifth round of talks scheduled for May 27 to June 1 in the Netherlands. He said the bilateral teams are working to “arrive at a consensus” on contentious provisions of the proposed Comprehensive Agreement on Social and Economic Reforms (CASER) and bilateral ceasefire.
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The Dems under the control of the Obama Regime encouraged attacks on local police so they could implement a Federal police controlled by them like one sees in Socialist countries.
They will continue to call for "federal help" using body counts before they will make local law enforcement work.
[DAWN] SIX years from the shocking episode, and in the midst of today’s turmoil over national security, Minister of State for Information Marriyum Aurangzeb has bluntly rejected the possibility of making public the Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... Commission report. Ms Aurangzeb did suggest that, at some indeterminate point in the future, a government may decide to release the commission report, but made it clear that the so-called sensitive nature of the report would have to be kept in mind before publication. The minister’s remarks appear to be in line with official thinking on the matter and are highly regrettable. There were two questions at the heart of the Abbottabad episode. One, how was the world’s most-wanted terrorist, leader of Al Qaeda, the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse... , able to live undetected in Abbottabad for many years?
A very good question, indeed.
Two, how was the US military able to insert troops deep inside Pakistain; conduct an operation on the ground in a major town far from an international border; and withdraw its troops several hours later without being detected or challenged by the Pak security forces at any stage, in any place, on ground or in the air?
That one is easy. American Special Forces are like unto ghosts in the night -- unseen, unheard, and unfelt until they choose to make their presence known. When you see nothing to trouble or concern you, at that moment you know you have been outflanked and encircled, your next breath to be allowed or withheld as they choose. Who but they (or the Indians) could have outmaneuvered the Army of the pure so completely?
To those two fundamental questions, a third must be added: was anyone held responsible for the sanctuaries Bin Laden was able to find in Pakistain for many years and for the inability to detect or stop a major US incursion on Pak soil?
With the first two questions unanswered, or perhaps with the answers buried in the secret Abbottabad Commission report, the question of public accountability is impossible to answer. Therein lies the real threat to national security: how can Pakistain be made more secure and its people safer if the state is unwilling to acknowledge its failures, explain what went wrong, determine who was at fault, identify who is to be held responsible and clarify what steps have been taken to prevent a repetition of a convulsive episode? In the US, the events of Sept 11 led to a 9/11 commission report that exhaustively detailed both the attacks and the institutional failures that allowed the attacks to happen. As a result, wide-ranging intelligence and security changes were made in the US, including the creation of a cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security. Fifteen and a half years later, there has not been another attack inside the US that has remotely approached the scale of the 9/11 destruction.
Can any reasonable citizen of Pakistain or observer of the state claim with any degree of confidence that the country has been secured from a repeat of an episode like May 2, 2011? The problem is really of institutional culture and a resistance to change and censure. From the Hamoodur Rehman commission to the inquiry into the Salala attacks, a culture of secrecy has dominated. If Pakistain is to have stronger institutions, transparency and accountability must be embraced.
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Hama (SyriaNews.media) Terrorists of al-Nusra Front shelled al-Zarah Thermal Power Station in the southern countryside of Hama with mortar shells, Syria News reported on Wednesday.
A number of mortar shells fell on the vicinity of al-Zarah Thermal Power Station and the workers residence, causing material damage but no casualties were reported, Syria News said.
Zarah, and other power stations in the country sides of Hama and Idlib, suffered several terrorist attacks, especially Zayzun station that was looted completely by the terrorists who came from Turkish borders.
[NYTIMES] Puerto Rico’s leadership moved on Wednesday to place the island’s debt crisis into federal bankruptcy court, making it the largest United States government entity to seek court refuge from its creditors in American history.
The move sends Puerto Rico into uncharted territory. America’s recent spate of municipal bankruptcies has involved various state and federal laws, but Puerto Rico is not a state, so none of that hard-won precedent will apply. The outcome of its case could help determine where and how the deep financial troubles of certain states, such as Illinois, are resolved.
On an island that has already been experiencing an exodus of its professionals and well-educated citizens, the move toward bankruptcy is widely perceived as another sign that Puerto Rico has lost all control of its future.
The island has been in a painful recession since 2006, and previous governments dug it deeper into debt by borrowing to pay operating expenses. For the last two years, Puerto Rico has been seeking assistance from Washington, sending officials to testify before stern congressional committees and even making fast-track oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court.
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#1I wonder what idiots loaned them the money?
Posted by: phil_b 2017-05-04 02:06
We by-God better find out. If PR is gonna pull this stunt then they had better be held to the same standards as Joe Schmoe, and document every last dime of income and expenditure.
I am taking a bit of pride in my forecasting abilities, however - I figured they'd cry uncle no later than June 1st. Had last election day ended differently, they would have already had their bailout package.
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A good time for Blue Origin or SpaceX to by Roosevelt Roads to launch rockets - best place in the hemisphere.
[Libya Herald] Women cannot be trusted to hold positions of responsibility because, if pregnant, they will have irrational cravings, a boycotting member of the House of Representatives has claimed.
Abderraouf al-Manaie, one of the two members to represent Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... ’s Abu Sleem district and who is seen as being close to the Moslem Brüderbund, told Tanasuh TV that a women as president would be dangerous because if she became pregnant she might start having crazy cravings.
"What would we do if a female president gets into a daze because of her pregnancy and orders, for example, a war against Tunisia?", he asked.
Manaie has courted notoriety in the past. Although elected to the HoR, he has virulently campaigned against it and never joined it, declaring it illegitimate. In late 2015 when the former General National Congress was proclaiming itself still in existence, he became one of its president Nuri Abu Sahmain’s prime cheer leaders,
At one point ‐ allegedly ‐ he physically prevented a number of members from entering the GNC’s hall because of fears they would vote for a replacement as well as recognise the then proposed government of national accord. A couple of months earlier he was reported to be among those who stormed the GNC when it had the audacity to discuss a draft of what became the Libyan Political Agreement.
Tanasuh TV, owned by Sheikh Sadek al-Ghariani’s Dar al-Ifta, is itself not without notoriety. This week, another HoR boycotter, Misratan member Hanan Shaglouf, suggested in a programme of the current reported wave of suicides that they might be due to the "sweet smell" of the bodies of the "deaders" in Benghazi’s Ganfouda district causing shock and depression.
Sweet smells, she claimed, could cause shock.
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To be fair, men are also psychologically unfit...
[Dhaka Tribune] Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! a young man for the abduction and torture of a private university student on Monday.
On Monday morning, around 1am, Oliur Rahman alias Kochi, 30, was arrested from his house in Lake Circus road in Kalabagan, Dhaka. RAB managed to rescue his victim, but found her at death's door.
RAB 1 Senior Assistant Superintendent Akramul Hasan confirmed the news to the Dhaka Tribune on Monday evening.
According to Akramul, RAB 1 had received an anonymous tip and had immediately deployed a team on a drive which resulted in Kochi’s arrest.
He added that the victim was a young woman who was a BBA student at Independent University, Bangladesh and lived in the Bashundhara Residential Area.
A year earlier, the families of the two had started discussions about a potential marriage between the two young people. At the time, Kochi had just returned to Bangladesh after having completed his Barrister‐at‐Law degree abroad and had become romantically and physically involved with the girl.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... noting that Kochi had behavioural problems and seemed mentally unstable, the girl’s father had rejected the proposal. Enraged at the girl’s father, Kochi began to harass the girl.
On the morning of April 28, he had driven up to the girl while she was on route to her university and carried her off in a white car. He took her to an unknown location and then sexually abused and physically tortured her.
He had then called the girl’s family and made them listen to her screams. He demanded Tk500,000 as ransom. He threatened to shoot and kill her if money was not sent to his bank account or through b-Kash.
On April 29, he took her to Cox’s Bazar but returned with her to Dhaka the next day. Locking her up in an unknown location in the city, her shaved off all the hair from her head and further tortured her physically. Subsequently, fearing the legal action which might be taken against him, he brought in a doctor to help heal her wounds.
RAB sources said when Kochi’s mother found out about the situation, she pushed to have the girl returned to her family. She further demanded that her son be tried in court for his atrocities.
During the primary investigation, Kochi confessed to all the facts. RAB will be taking legal action against him.
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[IsraelTimes] Jerusalem now to pay only $2.7m out of a required $11.7m, but officials unconcerned Israel could lose right to vote at UN bodies.
Israel said Wednesday it would further reduce the amount it pays annually to the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... in retaliation for the latest resolution critical of its policies.
One day after the UN’s cultural agency passed a resolution disputing Israel’s claim to Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would cut another $1 million from its payments to the UN, bringing the total cuts since December 2016 to $9 million.
"This systematic harassment has a price," Netanyahu said at the beginning of the weekly cabinet meeting, referring to the UNESCO resolution, which calls Israel an "occupying power" in Jerusalem and criticizes the government for archaeological projects in the capital and in Hebron and lambasts its naval blockade of the Gazoo strip.
"In the wake of the resolution, I have instructed Foreign Ministry Director-General Yuval Rotem to deduct $1 million from the funds that Israel transfers to the UN. Israel will not sit by while the organization calls for the denial of our illusory sovereignty in Jerusalem," he said.
Netanyahu’s statement marks the third time in less than a year that Israel has reacted to UN resolutions it deems biased against it by announcing the slashing of its payments to the body.
In December, after the Security Council passed Resolution 2334, Netanyahu ordered $6 million cut from Israel’s payment to the UN. And in March, after the Human Rights Council passed five anti-Israel resolutions, Netanyahu vowed to cut an additional $2 million.
"This considerable sum, almost NIS 40 million, will be transferred to the Foreign Ministry, which is doing exceptional work," he said at the time. "They will use it to develop our relations with countries that want to be close to Israel and are cultivating friendship with it."
The General Assembly requires all 193 UN member states to pay a percentage of the United Nations’ regular budget, based on their GDP. According to the UN Secretariat, Israel is expected to pay $11.7 million this year, or 0.43 percent of the regular budget.
Under Article 19 of the UN Charter, any country in arrears of its dues payments in an amount that equals or exceeds the contributions due for two preceding years can lose its vote in the General Assembly.
After three rounds of cuts, Israel will pay only $2.7 million. However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... Israeli officials said there is no need to worry about Israel losing its voting rights. "We’re not there yet, not at all," one bigwig said, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... UNESCO’s Executive Board on Tuesday -- Israel’s Independence Day -- passed the resolution with 22 countries in favor, 23 abstentions, 10 opposed, and the representatives of three countries absent.
We are working constantly to increase support for Israel in international bodies in order to reflect our growing status vis-à-vis bilateral contacts with countries," Netanyahu said. "We are also working constantly to reduce, and I hope one day to cancel altogether, the UN theater of the absurd regarding the State of Israel."
[IsraelTimes] Newly appointed foreign minister seeks to reset relationship broken off after Wellington sponsored anti-Israel UN resolution last December.
Netanyahu was angry at New Zealand’s involvement in the UN resolution, which passed unanimously. The Israeli prime minister called then-Foreign Minister Murray McCully and reportedly threatened to interpret New Zealand’s sponsorship as a "declaration of war."
He also leveled diplomatic sanctions at other countries that supported the measure, including canceling meetings and recalling ambassadors.
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Try Heyjackass.com for the latest numbers. CPD is roughly 3000 officers short, prison sentences in Illinois are 50% off, and the city, county and state are broke, broke, broke. Think Puerto Rico is a mess, just wait til the Democrat Party Paradise hits bankruptcy court.
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This article from a year ago uses 2011 stats when 433 people were murdered. Last year 800 people in Chicago were murdered. (Thanks Obama, mmm, mmm.)
32.9% Black or African American
28.9% Hispanic or Latino population of
31.7% non-Hispanic whites
5.5% Asian
0.5% American Indian
2.7% two or more races;
* Total 102.2% due to those who identify as two or more races.
I.e. The 38.2% percent of the population who identify as non-black and non-Hispanic account for only 41(5%) of the murder victims and 6(4%) of the identified murderers in Chicago.
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Thereby demonstrating that the problem is White People.
The don't want to play...
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From power lines, Starbucks, and sculptures,
Cool pigeons judge other flocks' cultures:
"Yo, eagles, quit fishin'!
Let's sit around wishin'
And chuck all our chicks to the vultures."
[Ynet] Despite official denials from the Egyptian military, an ISIS-affiliated group in North Sinai has become overt in threatening the local population; Christians are targeted and women are told to cover up or have acid thrown in their faces, while collaborators with Israel are also persecuted.
One Monday in early April, Shaher Saeed was driving south of the city of Arish in Egypt's North Sinai when he came upon a group of ISIS snuffies who had stopped a truck carrying cigarettes.
"I saw them forcing the driver from the vehicle and stripping the upper part of his clothing before tying him to the door of one of their cars," said Saeed, who lives in the area. "They hit him on the back more than 10 times, then burned all the cartons of cigarettes ... They let him go after warning him not to trade cigarettes again."
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from the Guardian, May 2. News of more damage from global warming
English winemakers are reporting "catastrophic" crop damage after the worst frost in a generation wiped out at least half of this year's grape harvest.
Chris White, the chief executive of Denbies Wine Estate in Surrey, said up to 75% of its crop was damaged by last week's sub-zero temperatures: [began Tues April 25 but it takes a few days for the damage to manifest]
"The temperature dropped to -6C and at that level it causes catastrophic damage to buds," he said.
White said staff had worked in vain using special fans and heaters to protect the vineyard, which at 265 acres in the UK's biggest, after an Arctic blast swept across the UK. "We are very disappointed and it's quite heartbreaking for the people who work in the vineyard all year round," he said. "From what I hear the majority of English vineyards have been affected to some degree."
Some of France's most famous winemaking regions, including Champagne, Bordeaux and Burgundy, were also affected by last week's severe frosts.
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William the Conquerer's Domesday Book (circa 1090) documented wine production as widespread in England at the time, and in many places was the most valuable commercial crop.
[Fox32reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... ] Two suburban Chicago men accused of seeking to provide material support to hard boyz and who posed for photos holding 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.... group flag have pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to federal terrorism charges.
Joseph D. Jones, a/k/a "Yusuf Abdulhaqq," and Edward Schimenti, a/k/a "Abdul Waliand calmly told Judge Andrea Wood Wednesday that they understood the gravity of the allegations. The 35-year-olds from Zion face 20-year maximum prison terms if convicted.
A prosecutor at their arraignment in Chicago called it a complex case involving classified evidence that will remain sealed. The next hearing is July 6.
A complaint unsealed after their April arrests in an FBI sting says they agreed to provide cellphones that could be used as car-bomb detonators in Syria. It includes photos of them holding a black IS flag at Illinois Beach State Park.
Photos of the two gentlemen can be seen at the link. Ynet adds:
The 35-year-olds from Zion face 20-year maximum prison terms if convicted.
[An Nahar] Human Rights Watch on Wednesday called on Gazoo's Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, rulers to release two Israeli citizens with a history of mental illness believed to have been detained by the holy warriors, saying their extended detention and isolation was "cruel and indefensible."
In a detailed report based on interviews with the men's families and with Israeli and Paleostinian officials, the New York-based group said Avera Mangistu and Hisham al-Sayed likely wandered into Gazoo on foot and had no connection to hostilities between Israel and Gazoo. Hamas has indirectly acknowledged holding them but will not provide confirmation until Israel releases dozens of its enjugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! members.
Until they are released, HRW demanded Hamas treat the men humanely and allow them to communicate with family.
"Hamas's refusal to confirm its apparent prolonged detention of men with mental health conditions and no connection to the hostilities is cruel and indefensible," said Sarah Leah Whitson, HRW's Middle East director. "No grievance or objective can justify holding people incommunicado and bartering over their fates."
Hamas is also believed to hold the remains of two Israeli soldiers killed in the 2014 Gazoo war, but it refuses to divulge more information without its demands being met.
Mangistu, 30, a Jewish Israeli of Æthiopian descent who lived in the southern coastal city of Ashkelon, entered Gazoo by crossing a barbed wire fence near the beach in September 2014. al-Sayed, 29, an Israeli-Arab of Bedouin descent from the Negev desert, was seen walking across the Gazoo border in April 2015. HRW said both were found unfit to serve in the Israeli military and had been institutionalized several times because of mental illness.
HRW said a third Israeli citizen, 19-year-old Jumaa Abu Ghanima, appears to have crossed into Gazoo in July 2016, but it was not able to confirm this. The group called on Hamas to unconditionally disclose what it knows about the status of all three men, and whether they are in fact in its custody. Failing to do so amounts to enforced disappearance under international law, it said, which leaves detainees exceptionally vulnerable to torture and other abuse.
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Cut off the power, water, food til their hostages (dead and alive) are returned
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Damascus (SyriaNews.media) A police source revealed that a soldier was killed while another one was wounded by mortar shells attack in the countryside of Damascus, SANA reported on Wednesday.
The source said that the terrorist groups in Qaboun, Ghouta and eastern areas of Damascus launched, at noon today, three mortar shells on the city of Harasta in the countryside of Damascus, killing one person and wounding another, as well as causing damage to some houses.
The terrorist and Takhfiri groups are frequently launch attacks on the neighborhoods, villages of Damascus, especially Harasta City, in an attempt to compensate their losses in the battles against the Syrian army, and weaken the aid and support provided by civilians to security forces.
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[An Nahar] Syrian rebels on Wednesday said they were suspending their participation as a latest round of peace talks began in Kazakhstan, with the warring sides set to discuss a plan to create safe zones.
"The rebel delegation is suspending the meetings because of the violent air strikes on civilians. The suspension will continue until shelling stops across all Syria," a rebel source in the Kazakh capital Astana told AFP.
Syrian government and rebel delegations gathered on Wednesday for the start of a fourth round of talks sponsored by regime backers Russia and Iran and opposition supporter The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... The latest round of negotiations began with a series of bilateral meetings and was set to focus on a Russian plan to establish "de-escalation zones" around the war-torn country.
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[SEATTLETIMES] In a handwritten declaration from jail, a fourth man has accused Seattle Mayor Ed Murray of paying him for sex. A Murray spokesman denied the latest allegations, calling them a “sensational media stunt.”
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Is this a bad or good thing in Seattle politics?
BTW, the mayor has been accused by multiple men of grooming and raping them for years when they were boys.
[FIRST POST] India’s biggest cattle loss is the male of the species.
The country had 19 percent fewer male indigenous cattle in 2012 as against 2007, according to the 19th livestock census. In the same span, the number of male crossbred/exotic cattle fell by 12 percent. Female indigenous cattle saw a marginal 0.01 percent drop in number while the number of female exotic/crossbred cattle grew in double-digits.
The acute falling trend in the number of male cattle can be traced back to decades ago. According to a 2016 research paper by Dr Akila Natarajan, Relevance of draught cattle power and its future prospects in India: A review, in 1972, India had 73.2 million working cattle (mostly male) which dwindled to 53.3 million by 2007. And the steep fall is despite the fact that all this while, most Indian states had some sort of cow protection law in force.
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If Saudi Arabia can buy interest in, then just buy, US refineries, I wonder if I can't get India to pre-buy some of my calves with the promise of me raising them to happy adulthood?
Send me the money, I'll send you some pictures.
Maybe make a Sally Struthers pitch for the Hungry Hindu Calf Fund?
[ABS-CBN] An Abu Sayyaf militant armed with bomb components was killed in a police operation in Barangay Magtood, Davao City at dawn on Tuesday.
Initial police reports said the insurgent was traveling along the road on board a motorcycle with an unidentified driver when Davao City intelligence operatives flagged them down. The rebel allegedly pulled out his gun and shot at the police, prompting the officers to return fire. The driver escaped.
Senior Superintendent Alexander Tagum confirmed that the suspect is an Abu Sayyaf militant based on intelligence information. Tagum showed a picture of him to prove that he was a member of the terrorist group.
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[FoxNews] Iran attempted to launch a cruise missile from a submarine in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday but the test failed, two U.S. officials told Fox News.
An Iranian Yono-class “midget” submarine conducted the missile launch. North Korea and Iran are the only two countries in the world that operate this type of submarine.
In February, Iran claimed to have successfully tested a submarine-launched missile. It was not immediately clear if Tuesday’s test was the first time Iran had attempted to launch a missile underwater from a submarine.
This incident comes on the heels of other recent provocations from Iran.
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I'll go with 'Iranian reciprocation for the NorKs's nuke/missile work."
[WASHINGTONTIMES] A cadre of city leaders in Berkeley exchanged ideas for quelling violence by left-wing activists, which includes "quiet conversations," "empathy tents," "bubbles" and "laughter yoga."
Violent protests that have rocked the University of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Berkeley in recent months have the city’s elite searching for solutions. Documents obtained this week through a Public Request Act highlights some of the unorthodox suggestions for dealing with "antifa" activists who target conservative speakers.
"Envision Wavy Gravy, bubbles, singing, laughter yoga! Occupella. Buddhist Peace Meditators. Fencing with sponge noodles"
"Do you think there is a possibility of having quiet conversations with leftist activist groups to see is they would be willing to stand down and not show up for May 2 and/or other events?" Downtown Berkeley Association CEO John Cainer asked officials in an April 20 letter, Heat Street reported May 2. "I know it is probably a long shot, but there would seem to be little risk in quietly doing so."
Berkeley volunteer Commissioner Phoebe Anne Sorgen suggested empathy tents, which were provided on April 27.
"Envision Wavy Gravy, bubbles, singing, laughter yoga! Occupella. Buddhist Peace Meditators. Fencing with sponge noodles," she wrote, Heat Street reported. "Will Edwin set up the Empathy tent? How about a volleyball game in the middle of the park and/or a square dance? Will Code Pink ... a U.S. anti-war group. The group describes itself as a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, stop new wars, and redirect our resources into healthcare, education, green jobs and other life-affirming activities. It was founded in 2002 by Jodie Evans, Medea Benjamin and of the other usual antiwar suspects. Its website lists hysterical allegations of US war crimes, and states that thousands of civilians were killed in Fallujah in 2004. Maybe it was millions. Benjamin was a 2000 candidate for the U.S. Senate on the Green Party ticket. She lost... pls bring peace symbol cookies to pass out, and daisies."
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Better yet, throw anyone wearing a mask in the slammer.
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Empathy Tents were available at each of the Berkeley battles. Deranged folk of dubious hygiene offering free hugs while passing out candy. That would get you arrested in most communities. So we already know such idiocy doesn't work. It's not meant to. Interesting how Berkeley elites speak of Antifa as if it is an emotional state of being, rather than an actual physical force to be reckoned. This is why the violence will continue.
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Anyone starting violence is met with grape shot.
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A very good job was done in documenting the attempted stabbing at 2nd Berkeley on 4/15. Grape shot probably not too far off in the future if current trajectory remains.
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Observation: some of the comments in this thread demonstrate the depth of the problem, and why it will take a true ratcheting up of the violence before folks start engaging substantially. Sucks - but there you are.
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Much appreciation swksvolFF
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[Breitbart] Mr. Kushner co-founded Cadre in 2014 with his brother Joshua and Ryan Williams, a 29-year-old friend and former employee of Kushner Cos., the family-controlled business that Mr. Kushner ran until recently...
Cadre also secured a $250 million line of credit from the family office of George Soros, a top Democratic donor whom Mr. Trump criticized during his presidential campaign, the people close to the company said. Mr. Soros’s family office is also an investor in Cadre.
[Kushner’s lawyer Jamie] Gorelick said the Cadre stake is described in a revised version of [Kushner’s] financial-disclosure form that will be made public after it has been certified by ethics officials. She said Mr. Kushner has previously discussed his Cadre ownership with the Office of Government Ethics and that Mr. Kushner has "resigned from Cadre’s board, assigned his voting rights, and reduced his ownership share." A spokesman for the Office of Government Ethics didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Jamie S. Gorelick is an American lawyer who served as the Deputy Attorney General of the United States from 1994 to 1997, during the Clinton administration.
Is that why she is revealing things that, it seems to me, her fiduciary duty requires her to keep confidential at least until the client makes them public? I also note that having a line of credit is not the same as borrowing money; it is a way of nailing down the possibility of quickly borrowing money in the future, should an opportunity arise making it necessary. Mr. Wife and I had a line of credit from our bank for years that we never touched, because we never needed to -- it came with the bank account Mr. Wife's company had us open so they could pay him more easily when they sent us to Germany, and it would have been useful in an emergency.
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Ethics is one issue. If a guy, his brother and a friend come to me and ask for a line of credit, I am going to make sure that these three people can make my money back if they ever need my money. If one of the three is married to the daughter of Donald Trump, I am going to give him the line of credit.
But if he then bails on the company and decides to focus his energies somewhere else, I would consider the landscape has changed considerably. Unless the somewhere else is an office next to the President of the United States.
If he had refocused somewhere other than the White House then he probably would have lost it and Kushner's other major investors would have also been concerned.
Is he a man of his word? Or if a sweeter deal comes along will he abandon our deal?
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The difference between a line of credit and a loan is the latter is transferred to you immediately and the former when you need it. There is no real difference in the conditions. I doubt he got it on personal surety and would have posted collateral, probably including his shares in Cadre.
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You have to read this article translated from the Hungarian at Gates of Vienna HERE. All about Soros' operations in the Balkans and elsewhere. Put Jared Kushner, line of credit from Soros, retaining the services of Jamie Gorelick, Republicans caving to max out the credit cards, and Soros together and I say that we are well and truly fooked.
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[DAWN] Arif Khan, a Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) councillor who was seen warning a crowd not to name Mashal Khan's murderer after the student's lynching, has yet to be tossed in the calaboose Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! , police officials in Mardan told DawnNews.
Arif was previously thought to have been arrested after police unveiled a list of 49 identified suspects and claimed to have captured 47 of them.
Questions over Arif Khan's arrest were raised, however, when senior Awami National Party founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism.... (ANP) leader Bushra Gohar tweeted on Tuesday night that the suspect was still on the lam and that a PTI MPA was trying to help him escape to Thailand.
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[Daily Caller] A longtime high school baseball coach in Phoenix, Ariz., was told to hit the bricks -- apparently because he "doesn't communicate effectively with millennials" (aka snowflakes).
Stan Luketich, the now former Desert Vista High School baseball coach, claimed that he was not sure what school officials meant, but assumed that it had something to do with the fact that players on the Desert Vista Thunder were expected to follow certain rules.
Luketich, who has coached baseball for 42 years, has led the Thunder to two state championships. He said that the news that he was being let go hit him "from out of nowhere." The high school principal, however, stated that the decision was made "after several conversations over the course of two years."
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Luketich said the Athletic Director had previously told him that his kids "don't play with passion and energy." Should one of these snowflakes get injured playing with passion and energy, then the parents will be all over the coach and school. Just can't catch a break either way.
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.
[Free Beacon] The Pentagon this week suspended the security clearance of a White House National Security Council analyst that U.S. officials say was the target of political retribution by government bureaucrats opposed to President Trump's appointees.
[Free Beacon] FBI Director James Comey testified Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee that the airport tarmac meeting between then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton last June showed the Justice Department could not credibly investigate Hillary Clinton's email practices.
[Daily Caller] Huma Abedin forwarded Hillary Clinton’s emails, some of them classified, to her disgraced husband, Anthony Weiner, FBI Director James Comey revealed on Wednesday.
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] An ambulance service for cattle has been launched in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state in a bid to protect animals sacred to the country’s majority Hindu community.
North Korea
the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
[An Nahar] President 
Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday said Trump is still "giving serious consideration into moving the American embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem."
Hillary Clinton
[IsraelTimes] Move to ’dry up’ finances of terror group comes as PA leader set to meet Trump at White House on reviving peace talks
[MindaNews] The communist National Democratic Front-Southern Mindanao Region has apologized to the family of a civilian who was hit by an IED during an attack on Saturday by the New People's Army on plants owned by Lapanday Foods Corporation in Barangay Mandug.
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[ABS-CBN] An Abu Sayyaf militant armed with bomb components was killed in a police operation in Barangay Magtood, Davao City at dawn on Tuesday.
[DAWN] Arif Khan, a Pakistain 
