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Fox News is reporting this morning that a federal investigator who reviewed murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich’s computer after his death found evidence that he had been communicating with WikiLeaks:
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The federal investigator, who requested anonymity, said 44,053 emails and 17,761 attachments between Democratic National Committee leaders, spanning from January 2015 through late May 2016, were transferred from Rich to MacFadyen before May 21.
On July 22, just 12 days after Rich was killed, WikiLeaks published internal DNC emails that appeared to show top party officials conspired to stop Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont from becoming the party’s presidential nominee. That controversy resulted in Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigning as DNC chairperson. A number of Sanders supporters refused to back party nominee Hillary Clinton, and some subsequently formed groups to work against Clinton and the party.
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A jury just sent the city of Charlotte a strong message: You can’t fire employees for saying things on Facebook you disagree with, and you can’t use those posts to justify an unlawful firing.
The jury found that the city of Charlotte was retaliating against Crystal Eschert when they fired her for a Facebook post that she made in the days following the shooting of Michael Brown. The jury awarded her $1.5 million.
On August 20, 2014, 10 days after the shooting of justifiably dead criminal, Michael Brown, Fire Investigator Crystal Eschert posted privately to her friends on her Facebook page:
"White guy shot by police yesterday near Ferguson ... Where is Obama? Where is Holder? Where is Al Sharpton? Where are Trayvon Martin’s parents? Where are all the white guys supporters? So is everyone MAKING it a racial issue? So tired it’s a racial thing. If you are a thug and worthless to society, it’s not race ‐ You’re just a waste no matter what religion, race or sex you are."
Somebody named Linda Havery later emailed then-police chief Rodney Monroe and Jon Hannan to complain about the Facebook post, according to Charlotte Observer. The e-mail complained that, even though the Facebook post was private, it "could cause unrest in the community."
The city fired Eschert over the Facebook post, arguing that she could not do her job if she used words like, "thug." Hit the bastards with their own #1 weapon - lawfare. I like it
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... People forget that no matter how 'liberal' the media would like you to think NC is, the bottom line is that a loud liberal minority in Asheville, Charlotte, and Raliegh skews the state away from a VERY conservative majority.
Mike
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Isn't the city going to appeal?
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We don't know when or if this long-term unrest will lead to an eruption, but Campi Flegrei is following a trend we've seen when testing our model on other volcanoes, including Rabaul in Papua New Guinea, El Hierro in the Canary Islands, and Soufriere Hills on Montserrat in the Caribbean.”
The problem is that the climate people have brought all modelling into disrepute. And five hundred years is a pretty big window. Call me back when they've tightened it down to a month or or a year.
[Free Beacon] Ned Price, a former Obama-administration CIA official, said on MSNBC Tuesday that the Trump administration could be a national security threat on par with the Islamic State and North Korea.
Price has previously drawn attention for a February Washington Post op-ed saying he chose to leave the CIA because of President Donald Trump. Price suggested while appearing on "Morning Joe" that the White House should be considered a threat because America's enemies could potentially take advantage of it.
MSNBC's Willie Geist asked Price about the relationship between the President and the intelligence community, especially in light of Trump's reported recent disclosure of classified information to Russian officials.
"This is not a president who has ever had a good relationship with the intelligence community, and in fact, even before he was president as the Republican nominee, he just casually dismissed the high-confidence findings of all 17 intelligence agencies that Russia meddled in the election," Price said.
Price went on to emphasize how he felt the President had misstepped in relation to the intelligence community before implying that the President might represent a national security threat.
"Last week we had this hearing of all of our national security officials on worldwide threats, and of course they covered ISIL, they covered Syria, North Korea," Price said, referring to the hearing which featured the first public inquiry on the firing of former FBI Director James Comey.
"I think we have to start asking ourselves, at what point does this administration itself become a threat we have to be concerned about?" Price continued.
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Later in his CIA career, he was loaned to the National Security Council, serving as its spokesperson and as a Special Assistant to President Barack Obama.
Which likely indicates he analytic skills were no longer worth a shit in demand and he [like Marie Harf] was moved off to the pursue his real love, partisan politics. Price Wiki link
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Ned Price, a former Obama-administration CIA official
This is the guy who just resigned from the CIA very publicly on the grounds that Trump was too icky. I give him credit for acting on his convictions, but it doesn't give him much credibility.
[Free Beacon] The U.S. ambassador to Qatar, an Obama administration holdover whose family donated hundreds of thousands to the Obama campaign, signaled her distaste for working under President Donald Trump, raising questions about her commitment to the new administration.
Dana Shell Smith, the U.S. ambassador for Qatar who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, took to Twitter last week to express her frustration at Trump's administration, which has been battling negative headlines over a plethora of foreign and domestic issues.
Smith, whose Hollywood executive brother bundled at least $50,000 to $100,000 for Obama during his run for the White House, tweeted that it is "increasingly difficult to wake up overseas to news from home, knowing I will spend today explaining our democracy and institutions."
Smith's public expression of frustration with Trump is raising eyebrows both inside and outside of the administration among those who believe that Obama-era holdovers are working to undermine the current president.
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Since Qatar ranks low on the Democracy index, not far from North Korea and Iran, they don't care about your explanation of democracy. You and Obama are supporters of Al Jazeera owned by the leader of Qatar, and since you have failed to influence Qatar to move towards Democracy ... you're fired!
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How 'bout quit, move on, go find your next job.
Oh, right. Job. Sorry, didn't think that one through.
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[PJ] WASHINGTON ‐ Edwin Meese, former U.S. attorney general in the Reagan administration, told PJM that President Trump "clearly" has the constitutional authority to implement his executive order restricting travel from certain Muslim-majority countries.
Meese predicted that the order would be "upheld" in the appeals process if judges follow the Constitution.
Meese also told PJM he supports Trump’s executive order on blocking federal funding to sanctuary cities, which was blocked by a federal judge.
PJM asked Meese if he is satisfied with the Trump administration’s strategy of issuing executive orders on sanctuary cities and travel restrictions, rather than involving Congress.
"Yes, I think what the president is trying to do both in terms of deregulation, getting rid of unnecessary regulations that are only hurting the economy, I think what he’s done in terms of his appointments, certainly to the cabinet and the other appointments, are excellent, particularly the Supreme Court appointment of Justice Gorsuch, so I think they’ve done very well," he said during an interview after the recent Republican National Lawyers Association’s Annual National Policy Conference.
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It doesn't make any difference whether Trump is within his Constitutional rights and completely legal. Activist leftist judges are going to block him at every step. This will go to SCOTUS.
[Wash Times] An administrative judge involved in one of the biggest Social Security frauds in history pleaded guilty Friday, admitting that he helped scam the federal government out of potentially more than half a billion dollars in bogus disability payments.
David B. Daugherty, a former administrative law judge, approved at least 3,149 disability cases filed by a single lawyer in eastern Kentucky. More than 1,700 of those have been deemed fraudulent by government investigators, obligating the government to pay out more than $550 million in lifetime benefits.
Daugherty pleaded guilty to two counts of receiving illegal gratuities. The charge is similar to bribery, though the payoff is made after the fact, not before.
"This admission that a judge in a position of trust took over a half-million dollars in cash from a crooked lawyer is outrageous," said Rep. Sam Johnson, chairman of the House Ways and Means subcommittee that oversees the program. "This case proves once again that more needs to be done to stop disability fraud across America. I’m committed to working with my colleagues to help protect taxpayer dollars and prevent disability fraud."
Disability fraud appears to be growing, with some of the biggest scams being detected in recent years. But the one Daugherty was involved in was staggering in its brazenness.
Attorney Conn would take cases from the public and then Judge Daugherty would have them assigned to his docket. I suspect there was a transaction fee involved.
Judge Daugherty seems to have a pretty good batting record also.
[Wash Times] President Trump made boosting manufacturing the centerpiece of his economic agenda, vowing to revitalize blue-collar America, but factories just aren’t what they used to be, and the notion of "good-paying" manufacturing jobs that connect high school graduates to the middle class is quickly becoming a myth.
Instead, rank-and-file production workers now lag behind much of the rest of the economy in terms of paychecks, forcing economists to wonder whether the push for more factories is desirable in the first place. Factory workers may indeed need factories. But what do I know ?
Even the service industry, long dismissed as second-tier employment, averages higher wages than factory laborers, according to a study by the Congressional Research Service that casts doubt on Mr. Trump’s promise of a Rust Belt renaissance.
"The strong middle-class entree that the manufacturing industry offered two generations ago is no longer really there," said Michael J. Hicks, an economics professor at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Blinding flash of the obvious Hicks, blinding flash.
"Manufacturing jobs are increasingly bifurcated," said Mr. Hicks, who wasn’t involved in the study. "For well-educated people, they are good-paying jobs, and for poorly educated people, they are fairly poor-paying jobs."
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Most factory jobs can be automated. On the other hand, does somebody who learned, say installation, as an apprentice has less education than an average college graduate?
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Depends on what 'education' you are referring to, g(r)om.
'Installation' typically requires process, technical skills, math, social skills (i.e. working with others) and critical thinking.
True Trade Apprenticeships last from 3-5 years in the US and Canada, depending on the trade. You work and attend required trade-specific classes for the duration. There are consequences (like losing your apprenticeship and your job) if you choose not to.
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Trump has only been in office 115 days. The MSM has ignored his accomplishments and they have created unrealistic expectations for him. If Trump walked on the water, the media would criticize Trump for not being able to swim.
Trump sent Tillerson to meet with Russian foreign minister Lavrov five days ago. WAPO in another posting at R-burg questioned whether Rex Tillerson was talking to the Russians "inappropriately" during the meeting. WAPO decided to spin-up their "unnamed sources" in a made-up story about "someone" who said "something" in the completely appropriate meeting. The MSM would criticize Trump for not doing his job if one thing or another was not discussed in the meeting. For crying-out-loud, WWII would never have been won in today's political climate if playing by the left's made up rules.
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You get paid what you're worth and in a global economy that might not be as much as you'd hoped. Do you want to give up and go back to being unemployed or do you want to roll up your sleeves and compete?
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Re #5, It was actually Trump who met with Russian officials in the WH. According to the NYTs (Oft-maligned and oft accurately maligned): The classified intelligence that President Trump disclosed in a meeting last week with Russian officials at the White House was provided by Israel. However, there is still no story here and the left is still trying to avoid having the criminality of the Hilldabeest investigated.
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Per McMaster, Trump wasn't informed Israel gave us the intel, but whoever leaked it to the NYT did Posted by Frank
Klingons would have been immediately back-briefed on the RU meeting at the WH. They were obviously aware of the 'sources.' My money is on a Klingon leaker.
[FOX 5 as posted in Drudge] WASHINGTON - It has been almost a year since Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was murdered in the nation's capital. There have been no solid answers about why he was killed until now.
Rich was shot and killed last July in Northwest D.C and police have suggested the killing in the District's Bloomingdale neighborhood was a botched robbery. However, online conspiracy theories have tied the murder to Rich's work at the DNC.
Just two months shy of the one-year anniversary of Rich's death, FOX 5 has learned there is new information that could prove these theorists right.
Rod Wheeler, a private investigator hired by the Rich family, suggests there is tangible evidence on Rich's laptop that confirms he was communicating with WikiLeaks prior to his death.
Now, questions have been raised on why D.C. police, the lead agency on this murder investigation for the past ten months, have insisted this was a robbery gone bad when there appears to be no evidence to suggest that.
Wheeler, a former D.C. police homicide detective, is running a parallel investigation into Rich’s murder. He said he believes there is a cover-up and the police department has been told to back down from the investigation.
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And not in Fort Marcy Park.
They're getting better...
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There does not seem to be too much known at this point. If the grainy vids show anything, the police are not revealing it. The DNC refused to release their computers to Comey's FBI and the FBI basically said O.K. Goes to show politics may be a dangerous game in the U.S.
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The key here seems to be the approximately 90 minutes between the know exit of the City Bar and the police report of shots fired. More than enough time for the 1 mile walk from the bar to his home. During that period, it is possible a prolonged conversation with person(s) regarding the leaked emails might have taken place. Shot twice in the back suggests perhaps the answers were unsatisfactory. Crime scene forensics about the distance from the shooter to the victim would be revealing about his pace at the moment of being shot, since running and walking produce different sprawl patters as the decendent falls, as well as powder burns and GSR. Most failed robbery victims are not shot in the back, and usually there is some attempt to take valuables even after the shooting. The Clinton trackrecord for coincidental fatalities does strain credulity after a time, so suspicion about leaks that might lose her the Presidency do seem reasonable, especially with fatal outcomes, however apparently coincidental.
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Perhaps some fiendish scheme involving note taking and alleged requests for suspension of Mike Flynn investigations will overtake this unsightly revelation about the Rich murder.
[The Hill] Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) says President Trump’s White House must reverse the "downward spiral" it finds itself in.
"The White House has got to do something soon to bring itself under control and in order," he said Monday, according to Bloomberg. "It’s got to happen."
Corker, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made his remarks following a Washington Post report that Trump revealed highly classified intelligence information in a meeting with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador. Corker relies on the WAPO for his intelligence reporting and political insights ?
"Obviously they’re in a downward spiral right now and they’ve got to figure out a way to come to grips [with] all that’s happening," Corker said.
Current and former U.S. officials told The Post that Trump relayed information from a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The information was provided by a U.S. partner through an intelligence-sharing arrangement. The partner did not give America permission to share the information with Russia.
A U.S. official with knowledge of the meeting said Trump "revealed more information to the Russian ambassador than we have shared with our own allies."
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I'm sure Trump disclosed some information that Russians found extremely useful*. As well as conveying some warnings that Russians can't ignore. And, possibly, received some useful information in exchange.
That's the nature of a dialog. That did they expect him and Lavrov to do - hurl insults at each other, the way they conduct political "arguments" in DC?
*IMO, mostly confirming Russian perception that Americans know little & understand even less about ISIS and ME in general.
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Excellent point g(r)om and we must also keep in mind that POTUS is the ultimate DECLAS authority. Alluding to intelligence derived from 'foreign partner sources' as some sort of exemption carries no water in this regard.
This WAPO conspiracy story appears to be bombshell whilst Clinton's open network 'homebrew' server containing highly classified data is no big deal.
The hypocrisy is absolutely astounding, unless you consider the leftest media and democratic sources.
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Spot on Mr. B. Trump made some off-hand remark or joke during the campaign about Russia releasing Hillary's missing emails. Some Demoncratic operative(s) saw opportunity and ran with it. The meme was thus created. No one have been able to provide names, cite any instances of collusion or the illegal exchange of information by people on the Trump team or by Trump. There is no Russia scandal. It is trial by innuendo, libel, lies, smear, and disinformation by the Donks. It is a matter of putting the big lie in the MSM echo chamber and turning the crank endlessly as did Dr. Joseph Goebbels. The left does not like Trump and they will do anything to take him down. He threatens the cozy UniParty arrangement in D.C.
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Corker relies on the WAPO for his intelligence reporting and political insights ?
Yes. And so, it seems, do a lot of other people. It is the new lead story all over the MSM with overtones of something very bad having been done but without any evidence that there were any violations of law. It just sounds bad because of the tone in which it's delivered.
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So, McMaster, who was there, publicly says "didn't happen". But we should believe unnamed "sources" by the WaPo
*snort*
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Violence, propaganda lies, election fraud, anti-free speech/anti-constititionalism and segregations via race. This is Maxism, Communism, Socialism on the move with considerable energy and financing. An all out coup attempt is ongoing, and indeed people on the left need to be sued, imprisoned. This dangerous effort against basic freedoms and liberties needs to be identified as all of the above, demonized and destroyed, ASAP.
[AlAhram] About 1,000 people held hostage since the weekend by armed militias in a mosque amid violent festivities in southeastern Central African Republic have been freed, U.N. officials said on Monday.
"I can confirm that the mosque is now empty. The last 250 men inside until this afternoon have been transferred out," said Herve Verhoosel, front man for the U.N. peacekeeping mission (MINUSCA), by telephone from Bangui.
Women, children and the injured had been set free earlier on Monday before the remaining men were evacuated from the building.
He added that MINUSCA forces had since opened fire on the militias who had been guarding the mosque and had mobilised a helicopter to the town on the Congolese border.
The Bangassou festivities entered their third day on Monday and have involved hundreds of fighters with heavy weaponry in the latest sign that a multi-year conflict spurred by ethnic and religious tensions is worsening.
The bunker. A meeting, adjourning.
But wait, it's a furor! Concern.
English subtitles translate:
"Muh popular mandate!
You traitors! Is Washington burning?"
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Slack amphibrachs, fractured but scanning,
Like Carol with lipstick en-Channing.
I'll try on occasion
To use less liaison,
(but dammit, I'm crappy at planning).
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Eeeugh. Now, all the typos, extra commas, and vagueness of voice... they worry me. Ouch.
Slack amphibrachs, fractured, but scanning
Like Carol and lipstick en-Channing...
"Essay on occasion,
To use less liason."
"But dammit, I'm crappy at planning."
Hawija (IraqiNews.com) Politicians and locals’ pressures have mounted on the Iraqi government to carry out a security campaign to drive out 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.... bandidosgunnies from the town of Hawija, southwest of Kirkuk.
Aljournal News website quoted Ahmed Khourshid, a member of Hawija’s mayoral council saying that some tribal representatives had given the Iraqi government a week before they launch an attack on the town. He said the representatives were planning a conference on Tuesday discussing the delayed liberation and means to press the government on speeding up action in that respect.
"If the heinous torture of our people by ISIS (Islamic State) bandidosgunnies in Hawija continues without attention from the concerned (officials), attendants will give the government a week before they begin liberation operations," Khourshid stated.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, Odius Sepulcher called for war against the Visigoths... Mohammed Tamim, an Iraqi parliament member, said in a statement that people in Hawija were experiencing "a genocide", adding that the town has not seen "any action by security forces". He urged Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to hasten with the liberation of the town.
Islamic State members have held Hawija and some neighboring areas in southwestern Kirkuk since they emerged in 2014 to proclaim an "Islamic Caliphate" in Iraq. Since then, the group has executed hundreds of local civilians and security members for collaborating with security forces or attempting to flee the town.
The Iraqi government has said it wa going to target Islamic State havens in Anbar, Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... Salahuddin and Diyala once it finishes its campaign in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , IS’s largest bastion in Iraq where security troops, backed by a U.S.-led coalition recaptured all but a handful of districts since October.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) One member of Sunni tribal groups fighting 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.... was killed Monday and another was maimed when gunnies attacked their deployment south of Baghdad.
Ikhnews quoted a security source saying that unknown assailants shot up a checkpoint run by the Tribal Mobilization in Bouitha, Dora, south of the capital, leaving one dead and another injured.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Army and police forces killed four 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.... jacket wallahs in western Anbar on Monday, according to a senior army commander.
Alsumaria quoted Qassem al-Mohammadi, commander of al-Jazeera Operations, saying that the bombers were sneaking into the town of Haditha, west of Anbar, but were killed by security forces and tribal fighters. AFP, however, quoted Haditha mayor, Khaled Salman, saying that three of the suicide bombers were trapped inside a house and killed by security, while the fourth went kaboom! killing two security members.
Iraqi troops controlling Haditha have resisted occasional attacks by IS fighters.
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Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State militants control only nine percent of territories in western Mosul, a spokesperson of the Iraqi command said on Monday as battles reach the group’s final strongholds.
Brig. Gen. Yahia Rasoul, spokesperson of the Joint Operations Command, said Iraqi forces invaded the northern section of 17 Tamuz, the first district Islamic State captured in the city in 2014. He added that only a few number of militants are remaining in the city, suffering scarcity of food and combat supplies.
Meanwhile, Federal Police chief Shaker Jawdat was quoted by al-Arabiya news channel saying his forces killed 173 Islamic State members while invading the Uraybi and Refaie districts. He said forces had also invaded the Ektesadiyeen district.
He said in a statement that police seized the group’s biggest chemical weapons factory run by the group in 17 Tamuz district, defusing several chemical IEDs.
According to Jawdat, 60 senior IS members fled with their families from 17 Tamuz.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) A mass grave of Islamic State members was found Monday at a district retaken by Iraqi security forces in western Mosul as operations to clear the region from militants reach their final stages.
Col. Mortada Hassan, from the Iraqi army, told BasNews that the army’s elite Counter-Terrorism Service forces found a mass grave containing what are believed to be the relics of 20 members of the Islamic State’s Hisbah (vigilantees) group at al-Haramat.
Hassan said the dead bodies were carried to a forensic authority department.
Islamic State has lost hundreds of fighters and senior leaders since Iraqi troops, backed by a U.S.-led coalition and paramilitary forces, launched an offensive in October to retake the city. Since the launch of the campaign, dozens of mass graves of civilians and security members executed by IS have been discovered.
Coalition generals say there are less than 1000 IS members remaining in the western side of Mosul where Iraqi generals claim control over more than 90 percent of territories.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com)Twenty-one Islamic State members were killed and three others were arrested on Monday in airstrikes and special operations by the Iraqi security forces struggling to recapture the last districts held by the group in western Mosul.
Cap. Abbas al-Babeli, from the Interior Ministry’s Rapid Response Forces, told Shafaaq News website that the army’s Counter-Terrorism Service forces killed nine IS militants and arrested three others in special operations at al-Rifaie district.
Meanwhile, the Defense Ministry’s War Media Cell said Iraqi fighter jets killed 12 IS members and destroyed their booby-trapping and explosives factories in al-Baaj region, west of Mosul and near the borders with Syria.
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[STARTRIBUNE] Minneapolis police uncovered an arsenal of guns and bomb-making devices during a routine arrest last week.
According to police, a man walked by a parked car in north Minneapolis about 5 p.m. Thursday and confronted the people inside after they threw food wrappers on the ground. They ignored him until he paused to get the car license number. The men then got out of the car and indicated they had guns, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday.
The man flagged down officers, the complaint says, but the men from inside car continued to yell at him and resisted the officers’ attempts to control the situation. The men were insistent they needed to be near the car because a drone was coming to deliver a package, the complaint said. Because of the suspicious circumstances and fear for the man’s safety, the men were placed in the squad while officers searched their car.
Inside, the officers found a hand grenade, handgun, assault rifles and magazines and a large quantity of ammunition, the complaint said. They also found cellphones, computers and electronics equipment, including drone parts.
Bomb squad personnel called to the scene noted that the large amount of ammunition and electronic devices could be used for bomb-making, the complaint said.
Abdullah N. Alrifahe, 27, of Minneapolis, was charged with a gross misdemeanor for carrying a pistol in public without a permit. In December, he was convicted of the same offense.
It could not be determined whether the FBI or another federal agency is investigating.
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Import unemployable refugees and they turn to violent gang crime to make a dollar. Hardly surprising. But typical that by not understanding cultural norms they get nabbed littering.
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Inside, the officers found a hand grenade, handgun, assault rifles and magazines and a large quantity of ammunition, the complaint said. They also found cellphones, computers and electronics equipment, including drone parts
"We are simple, but rustic, herders by tradition. These are for personal use"
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Been busted twice huh? Any bets this known wolf is gonna do something else in the future and law enforcement will be "surprised"?
Idlib (IraqiNews) A woman was maimed in the kaboom of an improvised bomb, in the vicinity of Sarakeb town, in the eastern countryside of Idlib, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Monday.
The observatory also said that several areas in Kafrzita town, on the northern countryside of Hama, were shelled using rockets by the Syrian regime forces, causing material damage to the area.
The Syrian forces also shelled areas in al-Zeyara and al-Masheek towns, in the northwestern countryside if Hama, but no casualties were reported.
[AlAhram] Egypt's armed forces have said they arrested of 351 “illegal migrants” of varying nationalities between 25 April and 12 May in the country’s western and southern border regions.
The spokesman of the Egyptian army, Tamer El-Refai, also announced in a report released on Monday that border guards had seized 1,152 kilograms of narcotics, 511,000 pills of unspecified illegal substances, in addition to large amounts of smuggled weapons of various types and ammunition.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi approved in November 2016 a law aimed at curbing irregular immigration and cracking down on human smuggling amid a hike in the number of migrants, many from sub-Saharan Africa, departing from the country to Europe.
[SHABELLENEWS] Uganda announced it’s plan to double its troops in Somalia as part 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... Mission in Somalia to compact al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... holy warriors that are associated with al-Qaeda.
Uganda believes it is important that the world seek to diminish al-Shabaab holy warriors which associated with al-Qaeda, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said in a statement, considering that the biggest obstacle facing Somalia today is this armed militias that threaten security and stability in the region.
He also announced the decision of Kampala to double the number of troops in the territory of Somalia to fight the holy warriors of this movement there, as it poses a threat to Mogadishu, and to its neighbors as well.
Museveni explained that his country is determined to support Somalia in its war against this armed krazed killers.
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Doubling eh? So both guys are going?
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A word of advice - don't try to eat the locals.
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A-roamin', a general, chez Hannibal,
For want of an edible animal
(so great was the shortage
of carnage in Carthage),
Subsisted some months on a maniple.
[LATimes] California legislators took the first step Tuesday to ban state government contracts for any company that helps build President Trump's promised wall along the Mexico border, with the author of the plan urging colleagues "to be on the right side of history."
The bill by state Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) would prohibit any company from receiving a new or extended contract with the state of California if it participates in a future effort to build a new wall along the 2,000-mile international border.
"The wall is another attempt to separate and divide us," Lara said in testimony to the Senate Governmental Organization Committee. "It sends a message that we are better off in a homogenous society."
Senate Bill 30 won committee passage on a party-line vote, with Republicans expressing concern about the need for additional border security. Representatives of the construction industry also voiced opposition, arguing Lara's bill forces contractors into the middle of a divisive political fight.
"This is precedent-setting," said Todd Bloomstine, a lobbyist representing the Southern California Contractors Assn. "What next unpopular project would be [on the] blacklist?"
Lara told lawmakers he will amend the bill to exclude any work by a company -- including current bids on border wall projects -- that takes place prior to the bill's becoming law.
Trump's campaign promise of a new border wall remains in limbo in Washington, as members of Congress on both sides of the aisle voice skepticism about its funding.
Tuesday's hearing in Sacramento often veered into the appropriateness of the wall itself, with environmental groups expressing concerns about animal species that live on both sides of the border. That testimony became emotional for Juan Altamirano, an associate director of Audubon California who crossed the border with his family as a young child.
"We need more migration and not stagnation," Altamirano said.
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"Weneed more migration and not stagnation," Altamirano said.
Do it legally, then, Pendejo
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"The wall is another attempt to separate and divide us," Lara said in testimony to the Senate Governmental Organization Committee. "It sends a message that we are better off in a homogenous society."
So you're going to build a wall between California and 'bad' contractors? Between your supporters and the other half of the country?
My, aren't you virtuous! Hypocritical, but virtuous!
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Not a lawyer but somewhere in this is the idea of restraint of trade?
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We have the state of California and, in the article above, the city of Los Angeles acting independently to make it clear that taking President Trump's shekel will not be tolerated. I guess it's time to send the next generation off to Texas to establish his/her own completely independent company to do exactly the same thing with some of the excess personnel. Homo sapians: the tool-using animal that emigrates.
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#3 - Totally not legal. Public Contracting Code - State Law
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I want every single one of these "no wall" jackwagons to pay for their sedition when the next national security event takes place here that could have been prevented.
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Members of the State Proletariat of The Democrat People's Republic of Mexifornia have decreed it be written, so let it be done. I Jane a suitcase packed and expect to be transported to the Gulag at any moment for opposing Dear Leader Moonbeam, and his merry band of Marxists.
[DAWN] Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... on Sunday ordered the cybercrime wing of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to take action against those involved in an anti-army campaign on social media platforms.
"Under constitutional guidelines on freedom of expression, unwarranted criticism of security forces and other institutions responsible for the defence of the realm is not allowed. No citizen can be involved in a campaign that tarnishes the reputation and respect of the armed forces," an interior ministry statement quoted him as saying.
"Disrespecting the Pakistain Army and its officials under the guise of freedom of expression will not be tolerated," he said.
Online criticism of the armed forces began after Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor on May 10 announced the withdrawal of an earlier tweet, that "rejected" the government’s notification of the findings of a body set up to investigate a story published in Dawn last year.
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So much for reducing production to prop up prices.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraq’s oil production surged by 36% in 2017 compared to 2014, an Iraqi cabinet official said in statements quoted by Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... News Agency (QNA).
Saad al-Hadithi, a spokesperson of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s media office, said oil produced by Iraqi in 2015 was 20 percent higher than 2014’s 3.11 million barrels.
Associated gas production also moved up by 50 percent between 2014 and 2016, according to Hadithi, who added that 2800 million cubic feet of that gas went untapped during the same period.
Since March 2016, Iraqi exported more than 2.3 million barrels of condensates, plus more than 40.000 tons of liquefied natural gas, with revenues standing at USD100 million.
During the third quarter of 2016, Iraq became a LNG exporter, according to the agency.
Late last March, Iraq’s petroleum exporting company, SOMO, said Iraq had cut down its oil production by 300.000 barrels per day to 4.46 millions.
Iraq plans to increase its crude production to five million barrels per day before the end of 2017. Its reserves soared in February to 153 billion barrels.
Iraq is OPEC’s second largest oil producer, following 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... . It had pledged to cut 210.000 barrels of its daily production to 4.35 million barrels starting January in line with an historic OPEC members agreement reached in a Vienna meeting in December. It had previously been reluctant to take the move citing its terrorism-battered economy. OPEC took the move in an attempt to prop up falling oil prices.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Popular Mobilization Units (Hashd al-Sha’abi) captured the large hilltop of Tal al-Sheikh near the al-Qaiwaran area in the Nineveh Governorate, the PMU’s official media wing reported this morning.
With al-Qaiwaran captured, the Popular Mobilization Units will now push further east towards the al-Qaiwaran area, as they look to expel 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.... (ISIS) terror organization from Tal ’Afar.
Tal ’Afar is one of the Islamic State’s final strongholds in Iraq; it was one of the first towns to fall to the terrorist group in the Summer of 2014.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi pro-government paramilitary troops recaptured four villages on Monday as an operation continues to clear Islamic State-held regions near Iraq’s borders with Syria.
Al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units) said through its media that troops took over Northern Khazna, Sultan, al-Kabar and Tal al-Sheikh villages, south of the Qayrawan region where PMUs, backed by army fighter jets, launched an offensive four days ago against the Islamic State.
PMUs also invaded the village of Mabhal al-Mahdi, north of Qayrawan, engaging in intense encounters with the hard boy group.
A handful of villages have been recaptured over the past few days during the operation targeting Qayrawan and neighboring Baaj. The offensive coincides with parallel government battles in the city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , where only a few districts are left to announce a full recapture of the city and end seven months of fighting.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Some 150 Islamist murderous Moslems affiliated to the Saudi-backed Jaish al-Islam ...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful... (Army of Islam) have made their way to Douma following their harrowing loss in the Damascene districts of Qaboun and Tishrin where they failed to withstand the incessant assaults from the powerful 4th Mechanized Division.
The radical rebels made it to the Army of Islam’s stronghold of Douma last night after they refused to be shipped to Idlib which is under the full control of the hostile al Qaeda-linked Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and the Jaish al-Fateh ...Army of Conquest coalition includes Ahrar al-Sham, Jabhat al-Nusra, Fath al-Sham, Ihyaa al-Jihad Brigade, Mujhedi Nawa, Asoud al-Tahid Brigade, Ansar al-Haqa Brigade and the Islamic brigade of al-Omarein, of which three are affialiated with al-Qaeda. It is or has been supported by Saudi Arabia and Turkey... alliance. Notably, Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... assaulted all Jaish al-Islam’s HQs and, bases, and ammo depots in northern Idlib virtually obliterating Jaish al-Islam’s presence in northern Syria. Transportation to Idlib would be a de-facto death sentence to the wary JaI rebels.
Opposition sources reported that the tunnels used by the fighters to evacuate Qaboun to Eastern Ghouta were connected to an area in the zone of control of the Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... i-backed Faylaq al-Rahman. The rival rebel group forced the JaI turbans to surrender their weapons before being escorted to Douma.
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[Interfax] On Sunday, a member of an illegal armed Islamist group was neutralized in a counter-terrorist operation conducted by Russian security forces in a suburb of Dagestan's capital, Makhachkala, an informed source said.
The source said, "Law enforcers have liquidated a militant who opened fire on them resisting arrest. He is already identified. He turned out an active member of a local jihadist armed group."
The armed group is thought to be either Al-Qaeda-affiliated Imarat Kavkaz (Caucasus Emirate), or Vilayat Dagestan which is a local ISIS affiliate.
[SHABELLENEWS] A heavy gunfire was heard tonight around the headquarters of Benadir regional Administration in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu.
The shooting began after Somali Military soldiers and Intelligence officers exchanged fire at a checkpoint located outside the Municipality compound, according to the eyewitnesses.
No casualties were reported so far. The exchange of the gunfire erupted after NISA convoy was blocked from passing through the security checkpoint.
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Think of Magadishu as Chicago-east or is it East Chicago?
[FoxNews] North Carolina's tough voter identification law was dealt what could be a fatal blow on Monday, as the Supreme Court rejected an appeal to reinstate the policy.
Advocates of the law said it was meant to preserve the integrity of elections and counter voter fraud. But critics said it unfairly singled out black voters.
The justices on Monday left in place a lower court ruling citing such alleged discrimination. That ruling struck down the law's photo ID requirement and reduction in early voting.
The decision comes just days after President Trump ordered a a review of voter fraud allegations.
In the North Carolina case, the situation was complicated when Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and Attorney General Josh Stein tried to withdraw the appeal, which was first filed when Republican Pat McCrory was governor.
Chief Justice John Roberts said the political situation created uncertainty over who is authorized to seek review of the lower court ruling.
The dispute is similar to the court fight over Texas' voter ID law, also struck down as racially discriminatory.
Republicans in both states moved to enact new voting measures after the Supreme Court in 2013 struck down a provision of the federal Voting Rights Act that had required them to get advance approval before changing laws dealing with elections.
Voters, civil rights groups and the Obama administration quickly filed lawsuits challenging the new laws. The Trump administration already has dropped its objections to the Texas law.
Shortly before Trump took office in January, the Justice Department urged the Supreme Court to reject the North Carolina appeal.
When the law passed, North Carolina Republicans said voter ID is a sound requirement to increase the integrity of elections. But the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the state provided no evidence of the kind of in-person voter fraud the ID mandate would address. The Richmond, Virginia-based court said the law was enacted with intentional bias against black voters. The law was amended in 2015 to include a method for people unable to get a photo ID to still vote.
Following the appellate ruling, the state asked the high court to allow the challenged provisions to remain in effect in November's election. The justices rejected the request by virtue of a 4-4 tie on most of the challenged provisions, with the four more conservative justices supporting the state's bid.
Roberts cautioned Monday that the rejection of the appeal is not a comment on the court's view about the substance of the law.
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I'm not a lawyer, but Glen Reynolds (who is) stated that the law seemed ok, just the appeals process was pooched up so bad that the higher court rejected it based on that.
the situation was complicated when Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and Attorney General Josh Stein tried to withdraw the appeal, which was first filed when Republican Pat McCrory was governor.
Starting again will have to wait for Republicans in the offices of governor and attorney general. Elections matter.
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"Given the blizzard of filings over who is and who is not authorized to seek review in this Court under North Carolina law, it is important to recall our frequent admonition that “[t]he denial of a writ of certiorari imports no expression of opinion upon the merits of the case.”
Part of a two-page statement issued by Chief Justice Roberts. The writ of certiorari is a denial to hear a case. It will go back to Court of Appeals to further decide.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Late last night, 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.... murderous Moslems spearheaded an attack on the al-Azib valley near the Ithriya-Khanasser road in a bid to cutoff the only highway connecting Aleppo with the government mainland of central Syria.
According to al-Masdar News field correspondent Ibrahim Joudeh, festivities erupted at 2 a.m. and continued until 6 a.m when ISIS finally called of its attack which was focused around the al-Majbal checkpoint.
For ISIS commanders, their offensive ultimately looked to relieve pressure on the Maskanah Plains where the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) recently liberated the highly fortified Jirah Airbase in a renewed push towards Raqqa.
Following the jihadist attack, ISIS sustained 15 casualties some of which were retrieved by the SAA. On the other hand, 2 SAA soldiers were killed-in-action while two more were maimed.
Presumably either the above report or the below report is true, but not both.
Hama (IraqiNews) Violent festivities broke out between Syrian regime forces and the Islamic State turbans near al-Majbal checkpoint, in the eastern countryside of Hama, while the turbans manages to capture the checkpoint, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
The observatory stated that turbans from the Islamic State group engaged in festivities with the Syrian regime forces near al-Majbal checkpoint, on Ithriyah-Salmiyah road, in the eastern countryside of Hama, in the early hours of Monday, while added that the terrorist group managed to impose its control over the checkpoint.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea, one that didn't involve kerosene... a land line went kaboom! on a vehicle belonging to the Syrian forces in al-Masasna area, in the northern countryside of Hama, leaving an identified number of casualties, while Syrian government forces shelled several areas in the southern countryside of Hama.
In a related news, festivities continued between the Islamic State and Syrian forces in Hamima area, in eastern Homs, leaving casualties among the ranks of the two sides.
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But even to have to point that out is a defeat: As we agreed, the minute you have to state something so butt-numbingly obvious as that Shakespeare wasn't a Prince of Denmark or a Moor of Venice, you've lost. We've all lost. We're in a mad world, where it seems entirely normal for literary magazines to rule on what fictional characters a novelist is permitted to conceive.
Unlike the two Canadian editors, Lionel Shriver didn't go the perhaps-we-ought-to-have-a-debate route. She decided to throw the whole cultural-appropriation thing back in the appropriators' faces and appeared on stage wearing a sombrero. Naturally the organizers of the so-called "literary festival" stampeded to dissociate themselves, and most of the literary bigfeet could muster no more than tepid and equivocal support. Lionel is nobody's idea of a right-wing loon, but she recognizes, in a way that Kay and Niedzviecki did not, that you can't tiptoe up to this issue and meet the Appropriation mutaween halfway. "Screw off, you totalitarian tossers" is, in fact, the only reasonable response:
As I said, Lionel is nobody's idea of a hardcore right-winger like yours truly, but she's discovering that, when you need 'em, the respectable writers like, say, Francine Prose are never quite there for you. Jonathan Kay is likewise no right-winger, certainly not compared to his splendid mum Barbara. If memory serves, Jonathan has introduced me on stage in Toronto on two occasions, for both of which he volunteered his services. But more recently he has been on a bit of a political odyssey - to the point where he helped Justin Trudeau "write" his memoir. (It's not cultural appropriation if a francophone Liberal, or presumably a Pushtun warlord or a Bhutanese yakherd, pays an anonymous ghost-writer to pretend to be him.)
Over here on the far right, I'm always happy to have people meet me halfway. Indeed, at the moment, on everything that matters - trade, war, health care - there's very little agreement over anything on the American right. But on the left it's different. Increasingly, their view is that the great questions have been settled, there's only one correct answer, and you have to get all of them right - because an 80 per cent ally is, to the new mutaween, a 20 per cent enemy, as Niedzviecki and Kay have discovered.
As it happens, there's one almighty cultural appropriation going on right now. Indeed, it's a heist. The United Kingdom has become the acid-attack capital of the world. Female genital mutilation is practiced in "medical" clinics from Michigan to Melbourne. The taharrush has spread to Cologne and other Central European cities. Ritual beheading has come to French Catholic churches and upstate New York. And if you protest, "Look, I totally deplore all this cultural appropriation. I think it's outrageous that Britain and America and Australia and Europe are culturally appropriating acid attacks and FGM and beheading and honor killings", you're told, "No, no. That's diversity. It's vibrant. What's not to enjoy? It's a beautiful mélange - just like this new Homeland Security proposal to ban laptops from cabin baggage on translatlantic flights, because a western cultural artifact is being appropriated and weaponized in the cause of eastern jihadism. What a rich cultural co-mingling..." Much more at the link
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All fiction is alternate reality. Alternate reality is Science Fiction. Nobody currently lives in Science Fiction so there is nothing to appropriate. ... Think about it.
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Well, the voters gave the Pubs the House, and then the Senate, and then POTUS. The voters just might be in the mood for an Article 5 COS to get more control of Washington and put it back in the States. 32 legislatures are now controlled by Pubs.
[Inquirer] The two remaining Abu Sayyaf militants hiding on the island province of Bohol were killed on Monday afternoon, after more than a month on the run following a foiled attempt to set up a local base.
Abu Ubayda and another member identified only as "Asis" both died from bullet wounds in the head. Ubayda was unrecognizable after he was repeatedly shot in the face. Their deaths ended a crisis that started on April 10 when ten Abu Sayyaf rebels entered Barangay Napo in Inabanga town to set up a terror base there.
Residents tipped off the police about the presence of armed men in their midst. The police, in turn, relayed the information to the military. A clash ensued on April 12, leaving three Abu Sayyaf militants dead, including their leader, Abu Rami.
The remaining members of the group fled to nearby Clarin town and hid inside a cave in Barangay Bacani. But Philippine troops discovered their hiding place on April 22 after receiving a tip from a habal-habal (passenger motorcycle) driver and three residents.
Another firefight broke out, leading to the deaths of four rebels, including Joselito Melloria, a subleader of the group who guided the bandits to his hometown of Inabanga via Barangay Napo.
Another Abu Sayyaf member, Saad Kiram, went out of hiding and asked for food from residents in Tubigon town on May 4. He was arrested and taken to a police camp in Tagbilaran City for interrogation. However, he was killed the next day after he clashed with policemen while trying to escape.
On May 10, the police and the military cordoned off Pangangan Island after receiving reports of the presence of the two remaining Abu Sayyaf bandits.
On Monday morning, Hilario Toloy and his 7-year-old son were gathering seashells along the mangrove forest here when the rebels appeared and pointed their guns at them. The two asked the pair to give them food. Reports said the bandits took Toloy’s son hostage to make sure that he would return with the food.
Toloy went home to Barangay Kahayag, just a few meters from the mangrove area, and brought with him food for the bandits. Meanwhile, Hilario's wife, Imelda, reported to the Kahayag village captain, Ian Bahandi, that her husband and son were being held hostage by the rebels. Bahandi, in turn, reported the matter to the military who went to the mangrove area.
As a shootout broke out, father and son scrambled for safety while the two militants ran to nearby Barangay Lomboy where they took a motorcycle. They headed to Barangay Lawis only to find themselves facing a police checkpoint. They abandoned the motorcycle and ran, returning to the mangrove area in Lawis. Troops pursued them and cornered them in the mangrove area, where the militants were killed in separate areas.
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Which leads to the question, "Why is China accepting North Korea's actions?"
Answer: Because while we wring our hands over North Korea, we 're not talking about China's actions.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian branch of al-Qaeda, currently calling itself Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), has succeeded in getting itself off Canada’s list of designated terrorist entities following its latest identity shift.
That complicates the task of prosecuting Canadians who travel to join the group, send it money or propagandize on its behalf.
It also illustrates the pitfalls of Canada following the lead of the U.S. in designating terror groups.
HTS escapes being listed at a time when it is absorbing other jihadi groups and attracting more recruits, even as 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.... retreats on multiple fronts.
HTS has a history of renaming itself and altering its structure to confuse outsiders, and the Syrian population, about its true affiliations. But until now, few observers have accepted its claims to have distanced itself from its parent organization.
Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (the Organization for Conquest in the Levant) began life as an expeditionary force called Jabhat al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... (the Support Front), despatched into Syria in 2011 by the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... , now "caliph" of the Islamic State (ISIS). Jabhat al-Nusra was led by Syrian jihadist Abu Mohammad al-Jawlani.
The United States put the group on its terrorist list in 2012, as the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda, and Canada followed suit.
Al-Baghdadi soon crossed into Syria himself, renouncing his allegiance to al-Qaeda and founding ISIS in April 2013.
Al-Jawlani’s group remained loyal to the mother organization founded by bin Laden, and Jabhat al-Nusra and ISIS have been at each other’s throats ever since. Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa spent the day shopping for new underwear. Tonight was going to be a special occasion... the U.S.-led coalition focused its bombing on Islamic State, not al-Nusra.
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[OANN] An Afghan-born U.S. citizen accused of planting bombs in New York and New Jersey fired on police in New Jersey to evade arrest, but those crimes fall short of attempted murder as charged, his defense lawyer argued on Monday.
...the probably Taliban-trained Afghan-American whose various bombs in New York and New Jersey caused havoc, though not nearly as much as he planned, and who for some reason is mostly in our files as Ahmad Khan Rahami. His writings show he was also inspired by Al Qaeda and ISIS...
29, faces a 30-count indictment in New Jersey’s Union County in relation to a kaboom in New York City’s Chelsea district last September that maimed about 30 people. Another bomb in New Jersey injured no one and other devices he is accused of planting did not detonate.
Rahimi also faces a host of federal charges brought by U.S. prosecutors in New York and New Jersey, who have portrayed him as a jihadist who bought bomb components on eBay, praised Osama bind Laden and kept a journal expressing outrage at the U.S. "slaughter" of mujahideen fighters in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Paleostine.
Rahimi, who has pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to all charges, appeared in court shackled at the feet and hands while wearing a blue prison uniform, white skullcap and beard. He appeared to be mouthing verses of the Koran while seated at the defense table.
His state-appointed defense attorney, Peter Liguori, has asked Union County Superior Court Judge Regina Caulfield to dismiss all charges, but in oral arguments he focused mostly on getting three attempted murder charges reduced to aggravated assault in the instances where the coppers were unhurt.
Two other officers were maimed in the shootout, which erupted on the streets of Linden, New Jersey, two days after the bombs detonated. Rahimi was shot between eight and 12 times, Liguori said.
The defense lawyer also asked the judge to drop so-called lesser included offenses, arguing that prosecutors "overcharged" his client.
Turning and firing at a distance and while running to evade arrest did not constitute attempted murder he because it does not show an intent to kill, Liguori said, though he admitted it was criminal conduct more worthy of an aggravated assault charge.
"This is a case where there is emotion, where there is possible prejudice," Liguori said. "His intent was to get away. His intent was to avoid police pursuit ... Running and firing back over your shoulder? Come on."
Twenty-nine shell casings from Rahimi’s gun were recovered at various scenes following the pursuit, prosecutor Ann Luvera said.
The judge said she would issue a written ruling on the defense requests before the end of the month.
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Ahmad Khan Rahami
Ahmad Khan Rahim
Ahmad Khan Rahimi
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[IsraelTimes] A well-known German neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier who was on the run after skipping his jail sentence is incarcerated Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in Hungary on Monday, police say.
Horst Mahler, 81, a co-founder of the 1970s far-left Red Army Faction group who later swung violently far-right, is detained in the city of Sopron near the Austrian border.
Mahler received two concurrent prison terms of five and six years in 2009 for disputing that Nazis had systematically slaughtered six million European Jews during World War II.
Denying the Holocaust is a crime in Germany.
Mahler was temporarily released in 2015 because of ill health and was due to continue serving his prison sentence in the eastern city of Brandenburg on April 19 but failed to show up, according to German newspaper Taz.
Once a left-wing fanatic, Mahler joined Germany’s most radical extreme-right party, the NPD, between 2000 and 2003 before quitting because he found it "outdated."
Mahler has called the Holocaust "the biggest lie in history," praised the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, and given a Hitler salute to a Jewish journalist in an interview.
Deutsche Welle has a good deal more about the vicious idiot, including that he was picked up after requesting political asylum from Hungary, and the various steps in his progress from Red Army Faction to NPD to prominent Reichsburger, arguing that the federal republic is illegitimate.
[TWINCITIES] BEULAH, N.D. -- Gerald Skalsky was at an auction sale when his wife called about an unusual calf born Wednesday on the couple’s ranch south of Beulah in western North Dakota.
"You’re just going to have to see it for yourself," she told him.
Skalsky came home to find the calf, seemingly healthy, but with an extra set of hind legs hanging off the side of its neck.
"I’ve been ranching my whole life, and I’ve never seen anything like it," the 59-year-old rancher said as he watched the Black Angus calf’s bald-faced mother come to lick its baby on the nose.
State Veterinarian Susan Keller said the extra limbs could possibly be one of two similar genetic disorders called polydactyly or polymelia. With polymelia, the extra limbs are often smaller or shrunken in appearance.
Or it could be a chimera, resulting from the blending of two fertilized eggs in the womb.
Keller called the defect an "important topic that producers should not be afraid to report to their veterinarian and to all breed associations. ... Now that DNA testing is possible for more genetic defects in cattle, it is always good to report findings to the breed association offices so they can help determine if the defect is genetic or due to other potential causes."
Keller became informed on polydactyly from two of her former college professors who were some of the first geneticists trying to determine causes for the disorder and help producers eliminate known carriers. She said polydactyly is one that happens in a multitude of breeds and is the result of genetic combinations involving recessive genes.
Keller suggested taking a DNA sample from the calf, cow and bull and said breed associations sometimes offer to pay for the cost of the test if asked for assistance.
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Four clerics approached the enclosure.
Koran, Om, shofar, and a crozier.
"Such wings, by Mohammed!"
"But sacred still, dammit."
"An insect?" "Um... Leo Durocher!"
[IsraelTimes] The trial of three men accused of the March liquidation of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, operations man Mazen Faqha gets underway in Gazoo on Monday.
Officials from the Hamas organization that rules the territory say Israel’s Shin Bet security service planned the killing, which was carried out by Paleostinian "collaborators" in Gazoo.
The chief suspect is former Hamas military wing official Ashraf Abu Lila, who was expelled from the organization a decade ago after he was accused of killing Fatah fighters amid Hamas’s violent coup against the Paleostinian Authority.
According to the Walla news site, the other two suspects served as lookouts for the killing.
Faqha, who was freed from an Israeli prison as part of the 2011 deal to release captive IDF soldier Gilad Shalit and deported to Gazoo, was serving a life sentence for organizing a 2002 suicide kaboom.
He was rubbed out near his home on March 24 in Tel el-Hawa, a neighborhood in southwestern Gazoo City, by assailants using a weapon equipped with a silencer.
[DW] Over 500 agents took part in the overnight raids that saw 68 people placed in durance vile Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in Calabria, officials said on Monday. The crackdown targeted the suspected members of the Arena crime clan, part of the powerful 'Ndrangheta mafia organization in southern Italia.
According to the Sherlocks, the suspects infiltrated the large migrant reception center at Isola di Capo Rizzuto and siphoned off state funds through the complex, which is linked to a Catholic charity. The local priest Edoardo Scordio was also among the suspects.
"Some 32 million euros ($35 million) went straight into the clan's pocket," assistant prosecutor Vincenzo Luberto said. He added an accusation that Father Scordio had received 150,000 euros for offering "spiritual guidance" to the migrants colonists.
'Money printing' through migrant center
Authorities believe that the Calabrian-based Arena clan has controlled the center for over a decade. The camp's management allegedly fixed contracts for providing food to the migrants colonists and withheld tax payments, according to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.
The Mafiosi reportedly set up the scheme with the help of Leonardo Sacco, the local head of the Roman Catholic Misericordia association, which is officially in charge of the Sant'Anna Cara facility.
"The Cara of Isola Capo Rizzuto had become a money-printing operation for organized crime thanks to the complicity of those who ran the center," said head of the Italian parliament's anti-mafia commission, Rosy Bindi.
Through the center in Calabria, the mafia also made connections with two other facilities and the reception center on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa. Commenting on the Monday arrests, Italia's anti-graft chief Raffaele Cantone said that the mafia infiltration was "just the tip of the iceberg, and certainly not a one-off case."
Paying for 'ghost' migrants colonists
Authorities have long suspected wrongdoing in the Isola Capo Rizzuto camp, which at one time held 1,500 migrants colonists from across the Mediterranean. An inspection in 2013 revealed that refugees were eating small portions of expired food, and that the center was illegally hosting 70 unaccompanied minors in aircraft hangars where there were only two toilets.
A year later, the local prefecture hinted that the number of people in the center might be exaggerated, with management taking money from the state for "ghost" migrants colonists. In 2015, Italia's L'Espresso magazine reported that the managers were stealing funds and making money by starving migrants colonists.
"If the organization was supposed to provide 500 meals, it provided 300 and the rest went hungry," well-known anti-mafia prosecutor Nicola Gratteri said.
The Calabrian-based 'Ndrangheta syndicate is believed to be the most powerful criminal group in Italia and one of Europe's biggest cocaine importers.
[IsraelTimes] 11 said injured while confronting Israeli forces during protests over ’catastrophe’ of Jewish state’s founding.
Paleostinians marching to remember the "catastrophe" of Israel’s founding and the dispossession that accompanied the creation of the Jewish state clashed with Israeli forces in the West Bank on Monday, leaving several maimed.
Annual marches are held on May 15 to mark what Paleostinians call the "Nakba," or catastrophe in Arabic.
At a checkpoint on the outskirts of Ramallah, dozens of Paleostinian youths hurled rocks at Israeli soldiers, who responded with rubber bullets and the foul-smelling riot control spray known as skunk.
A Paleostinian emergency worker said that 11 Paleostinians were taken to the hospital, most of them maimed by rubber bullets. The extent of their injuries was not known.
Earlier, thousands of people carrying Paleostinian flags marched through the city, many carrying large keys to symbolize their claims to the homes they lost in 1948.
"I come every year to commemorate this anniversary, this catastrophe," said Salha Orabi, a descendant of refugees and now a resident of the nearby Jelazoun refugee camp.
"The Nakba for us symbolizes destruction," he added. "It is us who have left our homes and our land."
In Bethlehem, hundreds of Paleostinians stoned Israeli troops guarding Rachel’s Tomb, a shrine venerated by Jews and Moslems, an AFP photographer said. Soldiers fired tear gas and stun grenades. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
In 1948, more than 760,000 Paleostinians fled or were driven from their homes in the war surrounding Israel’s declaration of independence, when neighboring Arab countries vowed to wipe the nascent Jewish state off the map.
For the Paleostinians, the so called "right of return" for refugees and their millions of descendants to the homes they fled or were forced to leave is a prerequisite for any peace agreement with Israel. All Israeli government have firmly rejected the demand as representing a bid by the Paleostinians to destroy Israel as a Jewish state by demographic means. Paleostinian refugees should be absorbed in a Paleostinian state as part of a peace accord, Israel says, just as Israel absorbed hundreds of thousands of Jews from Middle Eastern and North African countries, many of whom were forced to leave their countries of birth.
The May 15 anniversary came this year against the backdrop of a hunger strike by Paleostinians in Israeli prisons, led by tossed in the clink Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, who is currently serving five life sentences for orchestrating deadly terror attacks against Israelis during the Second Intifada.
In what the Paleostine Liberation Organization said in a statement was a message from his solitary confinement cell, Barghouti said the fast, in its 29th day on Monday, would go on indefinitely.
"My oath and pledge to the prisoners and our people is to pursue the battle for freedom and dignity until it reaches its stated goals," he said.
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In 1948, more than 760,000 Paleostinians fled or were driven from their homes in the war surrounding Israel’s declaration of independence, when neighboring Arab countries vowed tried to wipe the nascent Jewish state off the map.
You chose...poorly
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[Ynet] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has blocked a request for German politicians to visit their country's soldiers at the Incirlik air base, the German government said Monday, increasing the possibility that it might relocate planes supporting the campaign against the ISIS.
Germany has about 270 troops at the base. The refusal was communicated to Germany's ambassador over the weekend, Foreign Ministry front man Martin Schaefer told news hounds.
He said Turkey indicated the refusal was tied to Germany's decision to grant asylum to Turkish soldiers accused by Ankara of participating in last year's failed coup.
"This is unfortunate, and we have made this clear through various channels," Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom... said.
A brilliant idea. And they'll get a better idea about their idealized Palestinians from their new hosts, too.
[IsraelTimes] Berlin on Monday slams Ankara’s refusal to allow German politicians to visit a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... base near Syria and warns it could move its troops elsewhere.
The German foreign ministry describes as "absolutely unacceptable" The Sick Man of Europe Turkey’s latest ban on a visit to the Incirlik base in southern Turkey, used by the international coalition fighting 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.
Germany has about 250 military personnel stationed there, flying Tornado surveillance missions over Syria and refuelling flights for partner nations battling IS jihadists.
Chancellor Angela Merkel says Turkey’s position is "unfortunate" and that Germany, while continuing talks to resolve the issue, would also "search for alternatives to Incirlik," including in Jordan.
A defense ministry front man says Jordan offers "the best conditions" after Berlin had also looked at Kuwait and Cyprus since Turkey first denied such visits to German MPs for several months last year.
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Do it. And while you're at it, stop selling them waepons, too./em>
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[IsraelTimes] Navy gunfire seriously injures 1 man; navy boards 2 boats to detain 6 fishermen.
An Israeli patrol boat fired at Paleostinian fishermen accused of breaching the blockade off the northern Gazoo Strip on Monday, seriously wounding one, officials said.
Fishing off the northern part of the strip, adjacent to Israel, is limited to six nautical miles offshore and the Israeli navy regularly fires at Paleostinians who breach the zone’s outer limit.
The fishermen’s union head Nizar Ayash said that the shooting and the arrest of four crewmen happened in one incident and two more arrests were made when the military boarded another Gazoo boat overnight.
The injured man’s family identified him as Mohammed Majed Bakr, 25.
An Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed the shooting but did not speak of additional arrests.
"A vessel deviated from the designated fishing zone in the northern Gazoo Strip," the spokeswoman told AFP. "Naval forces in the area called upon the vessel to halt and fired warning shots into the air."
She said that the boat ignored the warning and the navy then fired at it.
"As a result of the fire a Paleostinian was injured and was evacuated to an Israeli hospital for immediate medical treatment," she added.
Israel has maintained a blockade on Gazoo for 10 years, which it says is necessary to keep arms and other materials that can be used for military purposes out of the hands of Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, and other Paleostinian terror groups.
UN officials have called for the blockade to be lifted, citing deteriorating humanitarian conditions.
The size of the fishing zone has varied over the years, having been set at 20 nautical miles by the Oslo accords of the 1990s before being reduced by Israeli authorities.
About 4,000 fishermen work off the coastal strip, more than half of whom live below the poverty line.
[IsraelTimes] A Gazook fisherman shot by an Israeli Navy ship on Monday after breaching the blockade off the Paleostinian territory dies from his wounds, an IDF spokeswoman says.
The vessel was reportedly the fourth such ship to breach the blockade on Monday, which Paleostinians mark as "Nakba Day," a day of mourning for the displacement of Paleostinians during Israel’s founding in 1948.
The vessel did not turn back after the warning shots, and the Navy ship shot towards it, wounding the fisherman aboard. Navy sailors took the man to an Israeli hospital, where he died from his wounds.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A local leader of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group’s offshoot in Afghanistan has joined grinding of the peace processor in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
Provincial governor Ataullah Khogyani told news hounds that Tawiz Khan joined grinding of the peace processor with his 11 fighters due to the ongoing efforts to attract the anti-government armed murderous Moslem groups to reconciliation process.
Khogyani further added that the reconciliation process is being led by the Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS).
He said the group was previously conducting anti-government insurgency in Kot, Nazian, Achin, and Haska Mina districts.
According to Khogyani, the group was operating under the direct instructions of Mufti Abdullah Orakzai and the Death Eaters also handed over their arms by joining grinding of the peace processor.
Tawiz Khan told news hounds that he is originally a resident of Bandar area of Achin district and joined the ISIS terrorist group along with his family three years ago.
The local ISIS leader said he decided to leave the terrorist group after understanding the reality and vowed to work for the development of the country by renouncing violence.
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[DAWN] The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday decided to hear the petition filed by Uzma, an Indian national who went missing from the Indian High Commission earlier this month, along with that filed by her Pak husband, Tahir Ali.
Speaking to media after Monday's hearing, the lawyer representing Ali said his client rejects all allegations levelled against him by Uzma. He added that his client had requested the court to allow him to meet his wife.
However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... Malik Shahnawaz, the attorney representing Uzma before the IHC, told news hounds that the question of Ali meeting his client does not arise, since the marriage contract between the two was signed by his client at gun-point and therefore, is not accepted to be legitimate.
Last week, Uzma appeared before a lower court and stated that she was forced to marry her Pak husband at gunpoint and was subjected to abuse by him.
The twenty-year-old Indian national met Ali, a resident of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , while the latter was working as a taxi driver in Malaysia eight months ago. The two were married in early May. A few days after their marriage, they had approached the Indian High Commission -- reportedly to secure Indian visas -- after which Uzma had 'gone missing' allegedly from the commission's premises.
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[IsraelTimes] Five new judges in Israel’s Moslem sharia court system are sworn in today at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem.
The group includes Israel’s first female qadi, or sharia judge, Hana Khatib, who drew praise from President Reuven Rivlin.
Khatib is from the town of Tamra, located in the lower Galilee. She practices family and sharia law, according to an online advertisement for her firm.
Sharia courts in Israel deal with personal status issues for the Moslem community, such as marriage, divorce, conversion, inheritance and prevention of domestic violence.
They have existed in what is now Israel since early Ottoman times and through the British Mandate, and were recognized by the State of Israel upon its founding in 1948.
[Sun Star] Two New People's Army (NPA) militants were killed Saturday in a gun battle with soldiers at Diplahan, Zamboanga Sibugay.
Military spokeperson Jo-ar Herrera said troops clashed with about thirty militants at around 6 p.m. which also injured two local civilian volunteers.
Herrea said the slain militants were identified only through the aliases "Henry" and "Tibo." Both are said to be members of the NPA's Feliciano Bravo Command operating in Zamboanga del Norte and Sibugay provinces.
Brigadier General Rolly Bautista, commanding general of 1ID, said. “There will be no let up of operations against these bandits in order to protect the people and the communities,” Bautista said.
[LATimes] Companies that do business with the city of Los Angeles would have to disclose if they also have contracts to work on President Trump’s proposed border wall under a motion unveiled Thursday.
City Councilman Gil Cedillo’s proposal would require prospective and existing contractors to state "under affidavit" whether they have any contracts for building Trump’s U.S.-Mexico border wall.
Companies from around the country are bidding to build the wall, which Trump made a rallying point in his presidential campaign.
Cedillo, who opposes the wall, said at a news conference that his motion is about "transparency."
"I would hope that those who want to do business with us share our values and understand the importance of a city that is significantly immigrant, that the foundation of our economy is immigrant, that our social fabric is immigrant," Cedillo said. They just can't bring themselves to differentiate between legal and illegal immigration.
Members of the City Council, all but one of whom are registered Democrats, have taken on Trump’s policies before.
The council passed a resolution last week asking Congress to investigate whether Trump violated the Constitution’s foreign emoluments clause or committed any other high crimes and misdemeanors that could lead to impeachment. The clause is designed to ensure that presidents aren’t influenced by gifts or aid from a foreign government. I wonder how many gifts Cedillo has received from the Mexican government.
The council also backed a proposal in February barring city employees from helping the federal government create a registry based on religion or spiritual faith.
Tom Holsman, chief executive of the Associated General Contractors of California, criticized the Cedillo and Lara proposals, calling them part of a "new overreaching by cities and states."
Punishing or making public companies that are working on the border wall hurts companies and their employees, Holsman said. Two companies that belong to the contractors group recently withdrew from the wall bidding process amid concerns over backlash, Holsman added.
Gary Toebben, president and CEO of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, said it was "inappropriate" for the city to ask companies about bids on other projects and make a "value judgment" about the qualifications of the bidder.
"This precedent could lead to an endless number of litmus-test questions based on the personal preferences of City Council members," Toebben said. "We strongly discourage the City Council from adding this precedent to the public bidding process." More at link including video of Cedillo running his mouth.
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"One Bill Gil" Cedillo was the asshole pushing Drivers Licenses for Illegals. He's pushing unconstitutional crap ..again. Public funds can't be disbursed in a politically discriminatory fashion. Perhaps they need their funds cut
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The whole flipping' point of public bid laws is to prevent prevent politicians from putting their thumbs on the scale. The public seems to think that giving politicians the ability to influence the award of public contracts would create enormous opportunities for graft. I can't imagine why anyone would think that, but a lot of people do.
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I'm fine with this - let CA continue to implode. Sorry, Frank G - get out while there's still time!
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Raj, you don't just hand a state like California to the Mexicans. Have you ever been here? It is worth fighting for. And you can bet your butt they won't stop with California. How much do you want to give them? Arizona? New Mexico? Nevada? Colorado? Texas? Where does it stop? IMHO, the way to deal with the Cedillos and the Laras of this state is for the federal government to slap them down each and every time they get out of line. If they pass unconstitutional law then get the courts to throw them out. If they break the law then lock them up. If their friends, family and business associates are here illegally then deport them. By all means, cut their funding. No more block grants. No more research grants. And, yes, I would scrutinize very closely their contacts with the Mexican government.
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California Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget proposal includes tens of millions of dollars for the legal defense of illegal immigrants.
The Los Angeles Times reported Sunday that the budget would include a total of $33 million in state government assistance to illegal immigrants.
These funds, however, are not enough for some Democrats in the state who seek to launch new programs. Democratic legislators have proposed three separate bills that impact legal training, start a legal defense program and increase counsel for deported veterans. These proposals add up to more than $26 million.
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Abu, I support giving Cali and it's residents to Mexico for "reparations" and building a wall around the border. Let the citizens enjoy the benefits of Mexican citizenship
[DAWN] The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday heard the case brought to it by India pertaining to the sentencing of Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav, who was handed a death sentence by a Pak Field General Court Martial (FGCM) last month.
Ambassador Moazzam Ahmad Khan, Dr Muhammad Faisal and Syed Faraz Hussain were present at the Peace Palace as members of Pakistain's legal team.
Khawar Qureshi led Pakistain's arguments, while Asad Rahim Khan and Joseph Dyke were present on Pakistain's behalf for the proceedings in The Hague.
Presenting its arguments before the court, Pakistain maintained that the ICJ did not have jurisdiction to hear the Indian application, Radio Pakistain, the state-run broadcasting service, reported.
The arguments for Pakistain were presented by Dr Faisal to the court in The Hague, Netherlands, on Monday.
Pak representatives told the court that Jadhav "has confessed to having been sent by India to wage terror on the innocent civilians and infrastructure of Pakistain".
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Reinforcements from the Syrian Arab Army, the National Defense Forces, and Iraqi PMU-affiliated militias continue to pour from all across Syria to east Suweida and Eastern Qalamoun ahead of an anticipated massive offensive aimed at recapturing the Tanf Border Crossing which lies a 100 km from the recently-captured Zaza Checkpoint along the Damascus-Baghdad Highway.
The Tanf Border Crossing that links the Abbasid capital Baghdad to the Omayyad capital Damascus fell to 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.... forces of Evil in the early summer of 2015 as exhausted government troops abandoned large swathes of eastern Homs and eastern Hama to focus on more pressing fronts in Dara’a, Damascus, and Idlib (which had witnessed the loss of the government’s last stronghold of Jisr al-Shughour at around the same time).
Though the border crossing was under government control until mid-2015, it had been rendered inoperable as Islamist murderous Moslems dominated the Iraqi side of the Badiyah a year earlier, cutting the vital route that linked Baghdad to Damascus. Currently, US-backed "Commandos of the Revolution" and "Jaish al-Asha’ir" control much of the region between Bir Qassab in east Suweida and the Deir Ezzor provincial boundary including the imperative border crossing.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Gozarto Protection Forces (GPF) arrived in the Deir Ezzor Governorate last week to partake in the government’s upcoming offensive against 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.... (ISIS) terror organization.
Made up of Assyrian fighters from the al-Hasakah Governorate city of al-Qamishli, the Gozarto Protection Forces have participated in several battles against the Islamic State in the past, including the liberation of Quraytayn in 2016 and defense of Sadad in 2015.
While they are not a relatively big force, the GPF do possess well-trained fighters that have been battle-tested in this type of desert terrain.
In the coming days, the Syrian Armed Forces are expected to launch an imperative push to capture the provincial cemetery in order to lift the siege on the Deir Ezzor Military Airport.
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[AlAhram] Nigerian herdsmen armed with guns killed 20 farmers and injured eight other people in a mosque in the western central Niger state this weekend, police said on Monday.
Fighting over land use between semi-nomadic cattle herders and more settled communities, claims hundreds of lives a year in the middle belt and in the north of Nigeria. Last year, the government said preventing attacks was a security priority.
Bala Elkana, a front man for Niger state police, said the attack happened at about 05:00 a.m. (0400 GMT) on Saturday at Epogi community, in the Mokwa area of the state.
"It was a clash between farmers and herders which had been initially handled but some herders felt unsatisfied and ... they launched a reprisal attack on some villagers praying in a mosque," Elkana said. Three people had been enjugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! , he said.
Nigeria's poor transport and communications infrastructure can slow the speed at which reports of events in some rural communities are passed on.
The peace treaties they signed allowed them to discover shared interests, which is not the same as becoming allies or friends.
[Ynet] In anticipation of the US president's visit, Jordan, Egypt and Paleostinian Authority look to promote a peace deal; US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says Trump will listen to all 'parties involved in those talks, and most certainly from Israel's view' regarding the possible move.
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The tourist board Jews've bamboozled 'em:
Burnt rubber, composites, aluminum
Are clogging the alleys
As Arabs hold rallies
Since supercars came to Jerusalem.
[Libya Herald] There have been fierce festivities in Benghazi’s Suq al-Hout district today as the Libyan National Army (LNA) continued to assault hard boy positions. There has also been a series of Arclight airstrikes mainly on Sabri, the city’s second surviving Islamist stronghold and an kaboom at an LNA arms dump.
The LNA has given no details of the fighting nor of casualties on either side. Roads surrounding both the besieged downtown districts remain closed to civilian traffic and troops have been warning residents close to the front lines to leave their homes.
Meanwhile there are unconfirmed reports of a substantial kaboom in the south of the city at a Saiqa Special Forces ...Libya's elite army unit, insofar as they have one, formed from a mixture of paratroopers and commandos. The group emerged from a militia with the same name in 2010. It now numbers a few thousand and reports to the Ministry of Defence. It deployed in Benghazi in an attempt to control the carnage. As a result, it has been attacked and several of its officers murdered. The force is popular in Benghazi for its stance against Ansar al-Sharia group... weapons dump. An army source said the blast at Nuwagiya had been caused by the heat. Yet munitions are often poorly stored and in the past this has caused other kabooms.
However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... sabotage cannot be ruled out. On the eve of the third anniversary celebrations of the start of the Dignity (Karama) operation against Benghazi’s hard boy Islamists, some sort of attempted spectacular attack is expected.
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[Libya Herald] A commander of Benghazi’s police emergency response unit, the najdah, was killed in the early hours of the morning when gunnies attacked his vehicle near the unit’s headquarters in the city’s Birkah district.
Captain Musa Yunis al-Majbri, married with three children, is said to have been rubbed out following an altercation with a number of men in a small convoy, some of whom were said to be in military uniform, others in civilian clothing.
Allegations that elements from Saiqa special forces were to blame have been denied by the brigade. In a statement, it says that the killing appears to have been related to a private feud. An investigation has been launched into what happened, it adds. It also warns social media activists against using the story to attack the brigade and trying to cause dissension among those fighting against terrorism.
This was not the first time that a unit of the najdah forces, part of Benghazi Security Directorate, was attacked. There was a similar incident last week, but there were no injuries on that occasion.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A jacket wallah has surrendered to the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) personnel in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan, the 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces said Monday.
A statement by the 201st Silab Corps said the suicide bomber identified as Ahmad son of Feroz surrendered to security forces in Nangarhar province on Sunday.
The statement further added that Ahmad is originally a resident of Syed Karam district of Paktia province and he surrendered to the security forces and handed over his explosives laden vest to the security personnel.
This comes as the local officials in Nangarhar province said earlier that the suicide bomber was tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! before he manage to carry out an attack on the provincial police commandment.
The provincial governor front man Ataullah Khogyani said a suicide bomber who was willing to carry out an attack on police commandment was arrested by the security forces from Jandarma bridge located close to the police commandment compound.
He said the Explosives Ordnance Disposal team managed to defuse the suicide kaboom vest of the suicide bomber.
Khogyani further added that the suicide bomber is in the custody of the counter-terrorism operatives and an investigation is underway from the detained bomber.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A key Taliban ...Arabic for students... group member in charge of assassinating the religious holy mans and influential leaders has been placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! by the Afghan cops.
The Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS), said the detained Taliban member has been identified as Nasir Ahmad son of Mohammad Rahim.
A statement by NDS said Ahmad has confessed that he was involved in the attack on Parwan religious Ulema council chief who was assassinated nearly a week ago.
The statement further added that Ahmad was appointed by the Taliban leader Qari Mahboob two years ago to assassinate the religious holy mans and tribal elders.
Ahmad has confessed that he was directly involved in plotting and coordinating attack on Mawlavi Abduul Rahim Shah Agha, the Ulema council chief of Parwan who was killed while teaching the Madrasa students in Charikar city, NDS added.
At least six Madrasa students were also maimed in the attack, NDS said, adding that Ahmad was busy plotting further attacks against the religious holy mans and tribal elders in Parwan province.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least three hideouts of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group’s offshoot in Afghanistan, ISIS Khurasan, were destroyed in an Arclight airstrike in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) in a statement said at least four forces of Evil of the terror group were also killed in the Arclight airstrike.
According to MoD, the Arclight airstrike was carried out in the vicinity of Achin district of Nangarhar, one of the main strongholds of the terror group’s loyalists in Afghanistan.
No further details were given regarding the parties involved in the Arclight airstrike as both the Afghan Air Force and US forces based in Afghanistan are conducting regular Arclight airstrikes against the terror group in Afghanistan
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