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He Finnish? That's PRACTICALLY A RUSSIAN! TRUMP IS DOOMED! [snicker]
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It would sell better if he had said anything about this prior to two days ago...
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seth rich died in July 2016 and Kim is only now telling us this stuff
does not compute
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When someone tells you this is a crazy conspiracy theory and not even remotely possible, just consider what sort of people we are talking about. Is Hillary, for example, just above this sort of thing?
[Michelle Malkin] Hillary Clinton now knows another reason why she wasn’t 50 points ahead: Damn you, Twitter! Twitter co-founder Evan Williams apologized for the role Twitter may have played in electing President Trump.
In an interview published Saturday in The New York Times, Williams discussed the president’s March claim to Fox News that "I think that maybe I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for Twitter."
"It’s a very bad thing, Twitter’s role in that," Williams told the Times. "If it’s true that he wouldn’t be president if it weren’t for Twitter, then yeah, I’m sorry."
If anybody needs me, I’ll be spending the rest of the day trying to figure out how Twitter kept Hillary out of Wisconsin and made her pledge to put coal country out of work.
[NYT] Roger E. Ailes, who shaped the images that helped elect three Republican presidents and then became a dominant, often-intimidating force in American conservative politics at the helm of Fox News until he was forced out last year in a sexual harassment scandal, died on Thursday morning. He was 77.
The cause was complications of a subdural hematoma that Mr. Ailes sustained when he fell and struck his head on May 10 at his home in Palm Beach, Fla., the local authorities said.
"Fair and balanced" was Mr. Ailes’s defining phrase for Fox News, along with another slogan: "We report. You decide." Though routinely mocked by liberal critics, who regarded the network as decidedly unfair and imbalanced, those words amounted to an article of faith for Mr. Ailes, who created Fox News with Rupert Murdoch’s money and guided it for two decades.
[HeatStreet] A major new study out of Harvard University has revealed the true extent of the mainstream media’s bias against Donald Trump.
Academics at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy analyzed coverage from Trump’s first 100 days in office across 10 major TV and print outlets.
They found that the tone of some outlets was negative in as many as 98% of reports, significantly more hostile than the first 100 days of the three previous administrations. Charts at link. WaPo (83%) and NYT (87%) pretty close.
Only Fox News, which features some of Trump's most enthusiastic supporters and is often given special access to the President, even came close to positivity. 52% negative, 48% positive. Pretty close to fair and balanced.
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Like the coverage of his first speech in Saudi. CNN and MSNBC id not cover it live. MSN has yet to cover it and CNN finally compared it Obamas speech. Np bias here...
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The media has operated unchallenged in my opinion since Vietnam. They have told their lies for so long they believe they can continue to do so. The people know them for what they are. Oh a small number support them. Some work for them in the background. They will always fail. Every generation has its saboteurs. The new media is taking over. The old media voices will grow ever fainter.
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Trump might get a fairer shake from the Christian Science Monitor but not many others--maybe some of the foreign news media. Doesn't look like the European media are much fairer than our MSM.
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I don't believe anything the WaPo or NYT puts out and CNN,MSDNC is even worse
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Even Faux News is impossible to listen to on satellite radio, let alone watch. Blech...
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I've always maintained that any and all reporters are liars, traitors and enemies of humankind until proven otherwise. Which will not happen until the heat death of the universe.
[Free Beacon] The campaign of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee disbursed nearly $10,000 of its funds for Super Bowl LI tickets, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
This year's Super Bowl between the Atlanta Falcons and New England Patriots, which took place on Feb. 5, was held at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas. Jackson Lee represents Texas's 18th Congressional District, which includes most of the central Houston area.
The congresswoman's campaign committee is shown to have made two separate transactions pertaining to Super Bowl tickets days before and after the event.
On Feb. 3, just two days before the Super Bowl, Jackson Lee's campaign committee paid $4,900 to 21st Century Fox, Government Relations for ’Super Bowl LI Tickets,' according to the filings.
On Feb. 8, three days after the Super Bowl, Gerald Womack, the congresswoman's campaign manager, was reimbursed $4,900 for Super Bowl tickets, filings show.
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has signed a $630 million deal with the Indian state-owned aerospace and defense company Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) to provide the Indian army with the naval version of the aerial defense system Barak 8 for four Navy ships
Prior to signing the contract, which also includes the procurement of radar, missiles, and a command and control board for the system, India’s Western Naval Command successfully conducted a trial firing of MR-SAM from the INS Kochi as part of operational interception trial and demonstrating again the System's operational capabilities in a representative scenario with genuine target
[PJ] It's funny how the social justice jihadis never realize how outrageously racist they sound to those outside of their own bubble.
The latest example comes from the University of Hawaii, where a math professor has informed all of her white male colleagues that they should quit. All in the name of social justice, of course:
Not to alarm you, but I probably want you to quit your job, or at least take a demotion. Statistically speaking, you are probably taking up room that should go to someone else. If you are a white cis man (meaning you identify as male and you were assigned male at birth) you almost certainly should resign from your position of power. That’s right, please quit. Too difficult? Well, as a first step, at least get off your hiring committee, your curriculum committee, and make sure you’re replaced by a woman of color or trans person. Don’t have any in your department? HOW SHOCKING.
Remember that you live in a world where people don’t succeed in a vacuum; most success happens on the backs of others who did not consent. You have no idea how successful you would have been if you were still you, but with an additional marginalization (not white, or not male, or not cis gender, or with a disability, etc).
Right now, I want to talk about gender equality because the fact that women aren’t actually a demographic minority makes certain arguments easier, but please know that actual solutions require women of color and trans people. Remember having white cis women run the world is no kind of solution.
Piper Harron, an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii, is apparently only in a temporary position. This probably contributes to the Princeton graduate's resentment toward the hiring process.
In her bio on the American Mathematical Society's blog where this screed was posted, she notes:
Given how things work nowadays, if she had even a smidgen of ability (or, at least, wasn't a too dumb and arrogant) universities would be fighting over her - for obvious reasons, math departments are always accused of racism & sexism.
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Maff be hard. You can theorize about social justice in the tub.
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Her thesis (supposedly "meant to be readable") is online. It does not make things clear to the layman (lay-gen/lay-critter--whatever), and throws lots of cruft in the way for a mathematician.
I'm not familiar enough with the field to judge whether the mathematical work is good or merely OK, or whether this is likely to be advisor hand-holding. I _can_ say that the format is self-indulgent.
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OOOOOO!!! You men!! You need to quit so that I can move into the lifetime guaranteed position that I deserve!
[Daily Caller] Fox News fired Bob Beckel -- again -- because "The Five" cohost made a racially insensitive remark to a coworker.
"Bob Beckel was terminated today for making an insensitive remark to an African-American employee," a statement from Fox News said.
Beckel first joined Fox News in 2000 and was one of the original hosts of "The Five." He parted ways with the network in 2015 while recovering from a back injury.
"We tried to work with Bob for months, but we couldn’t hold ’The Five’ hostage to one man’s personal issues," Bill Shine said at the time. "He took tremendous advantage of our generosity, empathy and goodwill and we simply came to the end of the road with him."
[BBC] Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has said he will not forgive and forget attempts to arrest him over rape allegations which led him to seek asylum in Ecuador's London embassy.
Hailing an "important victory", he said he was prepared for dialogue with the US and UK authorities. Mr Assange, 45, is wanted in the US over the leaking of military and diplomatic documents.
Sweden said on Friday it had decided to drop its rape investigation. Meanwhile Ecuador urged the UK to allow him safe passage out of the country. The Wikileaks founder has chosen to remain in the embassy as he fears extradition to Sweden would lead to extradition to the US.
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O pardoned Manning. However, that was a stiff middle finger into the eye of the military who never were gracious enough to go along with supining to his social reorganization.
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he said he was prepared for dialogue with the US and UK authorities.
...Sadly, the authorities in question aren't the ones who were in authority when this whole mess started. Hope Julie likes Ecuadorian food; he's still going to be eating it for a while.
Mike
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The rape accusation was a complete joke. He had consensual sex and then the woman changed her mind.
Also what he did wasn't illegal in the country he did it so America is barking up the wrong tree if it extradites.
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We on the right appreciate the positive impact however you are profoundly unprofessional like so many business leaders these days. And since you lie to your advertisers repent or be smited with ransomeware.
[SenseOfEvents] San Francisco's municipal minimum wage is eating the restaurant business there out of house and home.
When San Francisco added its own municipal minimum wage in 2004--one of the first in the country--the operating assumption was that tourists and techies would pay the higher prices necessary to offset the cost of the city’s generosity. Last year the San Francisco Chronicle looked at 20 years’ of menus from top restaurants and reported that prices had jumped 52% since 2005, twice the rate of inflation. But increasing prices isn’t a panacea for restaurant owners. "There’s only so much you can charge for tamales," the owner of a small eatery said in 2015 to explain one reason he was closing.
Read the whole thing.
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So a clickthrough to a blog, which has nothing on it but a link to another site. The other site is subscription only. Read the whole thing indeed. GJ
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... so much for the idea of bringing in so many illegal tamale eaters ...
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Moved to Opinion. Most blog posts belong in opinion, except the ones that belong on Page 6: Seedy Politics. Yes, I know it still says Seedy Politicians, but we expanded it because we're living in the Crazy Years.
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Rising costs chipped away at the restaurant’s profitability, according to a report by Thrillist, driving down the profit margin from 8.5% in 2012 to 1.5% by 2015.
Profit margin? You capitalist pig, you don't need no stinkin' profit margin!
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"There's only so much you can charge for tamales"
On Mother's day, younger son took us out to a very upscale "mexican" restaurant.
Wife got the tamale plate; the tamales averaged nine bucks a pop.
I kind you not. (Eight bucks for a Dos Equis.)
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Not just Baltimore. A friend's daughter in Atlanta wants to move from a charter school to an inner-city school because the benefits are better. Must have hazardous duty pay or something.
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Math and English is not required to excel at your University Socialist Indoctrination Camps anymore. That would conflict undocumented non-English speaking entitlement dreamer Dem voters speaking safe spaces from Ice Retainers.
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NW, I've worked with a number of people with rather dicey English skills (to be fair, my Chinese is infinitely worse than their English), but if they don't have the math chops they don't get in the door.
Some places in the University haven't succumbed yet.
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Ebonics issues go beyond English. I recently had a co-worker get all upset because the boss said "90 seconds" in a meeting regarding a corporate directive, and she jumped up and down swearing it was 1.5 minutes, not 90 seconds. "X(her name) don't do no math", she said, after it was explained to her. Yeah, refers to herself in the 3rd person, just to make it more interesting. It's not a culture that will take over the world anytime soon, but they have won a few cities!
Forget Syria and Iraq... one in eight unaccompanied child refugees come from Albania - despite the country not being at war
12/05/12
[DailyMail] One in eight lone children seeking asylum in Britain comes from Albania, it emerged last night – despite the country not being at war. A total of 3,175 unaccompanied child migrants lodged claims for sanctuary in the UK last year – nearly nine a day. But 405 applications, or 13 per cent, were made by youngsters from the former Communist nation in the Balkans.
MPs Told Not to Use ‘Offensive’ Words Like ‘Illegal’ or ‘Immigrant’ During Election Campaign
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[Breitbart] Promises to cut migrant numbers, references to immigrants as “illegal”, or asylum seekers as “failed”, and bringing up pressure on public services in the context of the number of people entering the UK are all unacceptable talking points for politicians according to a new ‘etiquette guide’ published by campaigners ahead of the general election.
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That's an amazing picture of the gentle, indigenous red squirrel, now under threat by the imported North American grey squirrel, which is so much more aggressive and American. This is completely unlike the charming European house sparrows and starlings that have been ravaging the native American bird populations on the other side of the pond, of course. ;-)
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That's an amazing picture of the gentle, indigenous red squirrel, now under threat by the imported North American grey squirrel, which is so much more aggressive and American.
To paraphrase General Sir Bernard Montgomery remarks about another American importation: "Over-paid, over-sexed, and over here"?
[Al Ahram] Two soldiers and two suspected rebels were killed Saturday in Indian Kashmire near the de-facto border that divides the disputed territory with Pakistain, the Indian army said.
Kashmire has been split between India and Pakistain since the end of British colonial rule in 1947, with both nations claiming it in its entirety.
Indian army front man Colonel Rajesh Kalia said the four died during an exchange of fire.
"Two holy warriors attempting infiltration into our side in Kashmire in Naugam sector were eliminated. Two soldiers were also martyred in the exchange of fire," he told AFP.
Indian and Pak soldiers have in recent weeks clashed along many areas of the Line of Control, the de-facto border dividing Kashmire between the two countries, leading to deaths of soldiers and civilians on both sides.
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[Iran Press TV] The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), the main pro-Kurdish party in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , has picked Serpil Kemalbay to replace a placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! co-leader amid a massive government crackdown.
The HDP named Kemalbay in a tightly-guarded congress meeting on Saturday to replace Figen Yuksekdag, who was stripped of her parliamentary status three months ago after being placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! on terrorism charges in November 2016.
The organizers of the HDP congress displayed images of ten HDP deputies on the stage while speakers hailed resistance by Yuksekdag and Selahattin Demirtas, the other leader of the party who is also in prison on similar charges.
Demirtas, who still remains a member of parliament, issued a statement from his cell in northwestern Turkey, calling on the HDP to prepare "a plan to fight for democracy and peace" in the face of a "political purge."
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[DAWN] PESHAWAR: Three improvised bombs went off in the limits of Daudzai cop shoppe here early on Friday. However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... there were no casualties reported.
The blasts took place in Ghani Rehman Qila area located along the Charsadda Road on the outskirts of the quiet provincial capital.
A Duadzai cop shoppe official told this correspondent that the first blast took place outside the residence of Ijaz Ahmed at 3.30am, slightly damaging the house’s gate. The second blast targeting vehicle of Mohammad Younas, a cousin of Ijaz, took place at around 5.50am, the official said, adding Younas, who was coming to visit his relatives after hearing of the blast occurred on the Charsadda Road, escaped unhurt in the attack.
The third kaboom occurred near a garbage dump in the same area, the official said, recalling that Ijaz’s father, Khaista Meer, was also killed in an IED kaboom in 2012.
A senior police official said the reason behind the blasts was personal enmity, which also claimed the life of Khaista Meer.
He said one of the devices weighed around 200 grams, while the other about 600 grams. "All the three blasts took place in short distance of each other," the official said. The CTD registered an FIR and started investigations.
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[TheLocal.fr] A man has been charged over his alleged involvement in the killing of a policeman on Gay Paree's Champs-Elysees after his DNA was found on the gunman's weapon, a judicial source said on Saturday.
Traces of the 23-year-old's DNA were detected on the butt of the Kalashnikov used by Karim Cheurfi
...the oddly reclusive Algerian-Frenchman who'd only got out of prison last year for trying to kill French policemen when he turned around and got himself killed committing jihad in the name of ISIS...
when he bumped off a police officer on April 20th, injuring two other coppers as well as a German woman, before being rubbed out by police.
The man, who was detained on Monday in the Gay Paree region and has been jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! pending trial, was previously unknown to French anti-terrorist Sherlocks.
He has been charged with criminal terrorist conspiracy and using a weapon linked to terrorism, the source said.
The suspect, who was not named, is the first to be charged in the April 20 shooting. He had told Sherlocks he did not know 39-year-old Cheurfi, the source added.
The evening attack on the busy Gay Paree avenue took place days before the first round of La Belle France's presidential election.
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[Iran Press TV] Some 5,000 refugees bound for Italia have been rescued in waters off the coast of Libya between Thursday and Saturday morning by Italian and Libyan coastguards, statements from both countries say.
Around 2,900 people were rescued Thursday, 2,300 of whom were found in international waters and taken to Italia, while 580 picked up in Libyan waters were returned to the North African country.
Through Friday until Saturday morning, coastguards rescued another 2,100 refugees packed in 17 vessels, but found the body of one man who drowned, the Italian coastguard said.
The number of refugees arriving in Italia has soared this year by more than 30 percent in comparison with the same period last year, with 46,000 people arriving so far.
But of every 39 refugees, who survive the perilous journey across the Mediterranean, one dies, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said, adding that 1,244 refugees were known to have died so far this year.
Amidst scandals of Mafia involvement in migrant rescue efforts in Italy, some 4,400 mostly sub-Saharan African migrants arrived on Italy’s shores between Thursday and Friday. As usual, the migrants were picked up just miles from the Libyan shoreline and shuttled by Coast Guard vessels, the Spanish navy and various NGOs all the way to Italy.
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"Rescued"?
"Intercepted"
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"Look, Nonna, a baby bird! Can I keep it?"
"Madonna! Put it back, quickly, or Juncker will
shoot the whole village. Oh, here's your mom."
"Guess what I found today -- a football stadium full of angry, unknown people whom you two must humor and support, along with their offspring and their pals from wherever, for the rest of your lives... or Juncker will shoot the whole village."
[SCMP] An Indian woman cut off a man’s penis after he allegedly tried to rape her at her house in the southern state of Kerala, police said on Saturday. "Aaaiiieee! I am unmanned!"
The 23-year-old law student was at her residence in the state capital Thiruvananthapuram late on Friday when she says she was attacked by the 54-year-old man, who had claimed to her family to be a religious guru. "Hello! I am a renowned holy man!"
"Well, step right in!"
"Hrarrr! C'mere, Cutie Pie!"
"She used a knife in her defence and cut off his penis," district police chief G Sparjan Kumar said by phone. "The man, Hari Swami, was rushed to the nearby government hospital in a serious state." Other than being dead, there isn't a state much more serious than having you crank sliced off.
The local media reported that Swami was in a stable condition after undergoing emergency medical procedures at the local hospital. "Uh... What happened to me?"
"I got good news and bad news, Swami. The good news is that you ain't got Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever."
"What's the bad news?"
The woman claimed the man had been assaulting her for several years, according to Kumar, who said police had started the paperwork but haven't done much else against Swami for sexual offences against a minor and rape. "How about this one, chief? 'Section 432, assault with a dead weapon?'"
Police said the girl’s parents, who live at the same house, were unaware of the assaults by Swami.
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"Look Mom! I just did the first Indian sex change operation! Lets call Swami Caitlyn!"
[Al Ahram] Accompanying her husband on his first international trip, U.S. first lady Melania Trump on Saturday stepped off of Air Force One conservatively dressed in long sleeves and pants to conform to the strict dress code that 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... enforces for its female citizens. But one thing was missing from her black and gold-belted ensemble: a head scarf.
Instead, Mrs. Trump's below-the-shoulder brown hair blew freely in the breeze at King Khalid International Airport in the capital city of Riyadh.
Saudi Arabia is the first stop on a four-nation, five-stop tour that will also take Trump to Israel, Italia and Belgium before President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... returns to the White House at the end of next week. The first lady is joining the president for the entire trip.
Under the kingdom's strict dress code for women, Saudi women and most female visitors are required to wear a loose, black robe, known as an abaya, in public. Most women in Saudi Arabia also cover their hair and face with a veil known as the niqab.
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I worked in Saudi in the 1990s. Even then, Western women (of whom there weren't a lot) were allowed to go bareheaded, though they did have to wear the abaya. Just as Western men, like me, didn't have to grow facial hair (though we did have to cover everything but our faces and hands.)
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[Hurriyet Daily News] Police conducted an operation targeting an executive of critical daily Sözcu and a number of other staff members, the Istanbul Chief Public prosecutor stated on May 19, after detention warrants were issued for four of the newspaper’s staff members in the early hours of the morning.
Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor Irfan Fidan told the Dogan News Agency that the operation only targeted executives of the daily, including its license holder Burak Akbay, and some other staff.
"[The operation] is about the executives of daily Sözcu. He [Akbay] is already a runaway and there is an arrest warrant for him. There are detentions and the investigation is ongoing," Fidan said.
"Proceedings are only being conducted against its manager and some staff members," he added.
The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office had issued detention warrants for Akbay, the online manager of Sözcu, Mediha Olgun, finance manager Yonca Kaleli, and Izmir news hound Gökmen Ulu. The four were reportedly being investigated over alleged links to the movement of U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... , accused of criminal masterminding the July 2016 failed coup attempt.
According to state-run Anadolu Agency, the journalists were accused of "being a member of terror organization and committing crime on behalf of the organization," "assault against the president," and "armed insurgency against the Turkish government."
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A Taliban ...Arabic for students... leader belonging to the Red Unit of the group was killed during an operation jointly conducted by the Afghan and US forces in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province of Afghanistan.
The provincial government media office in a statement said at least 33 turbans including the leader of the group were killed during the operation conducted in Nad-e-Ali district.
The statement further added at least 30 turbans including the leader of the group were killed during the joint operations involving Arclight airstrikes in Nad-e-Ali district.
The Taliban leader in command of the Red Unit has been identified as Kamran and had recently arrived to Nad-e-Ali district from Kajaki and Musa Qala district to plan and coordinate a large attack on the security check posts, the statement said.
The operations were launched based on the intelligence information available with the security forces regarding the planned attack, the statement said, adding that three more turbans were killed during a separate operation conducted in Loy Bagh area of Nad-e-Ali district.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] Thirteen people trying to flee The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... were incarcerated Please don't kill me! on May 20 for their alleged links to the Gulen Movement, led by U.S.-based preacher Fetullah Gulen, is believed to have orchestrated July, 2016 coup attempt in Turkey, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.
Police detained the suspects in Dalaman district of the southwestern Mugla province while trying to flee to the Greek island of Rhodes, said the sources, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media.
Police also detained two others who were allegedly helping the suspects escape, according to the source.
The source said two of the suspects were ex-security officers who were dismissed from their professions, and two of the suspects were minors.
An estimated 280,000 Turkish liras ($78,000) worth of currency was seized during the operation, according to the source.
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[DAWN] An Indian woman facing litigation over her controversial marriage to a Pak man submitted her reply before the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday and claimed that her alleged husband’s petition was a "bundle of lies".
Uzma Ahmed filed her reply to a petition filed by her husband Tahir Ali Khan.
In her reply, Ms Ahmed explained that Mr Khan had "terribly beaten [her]... tortured [her] physically and mentally and forced [her] to sign the nikahnama".
Her counsel Shahnawaz Noon stated that Mr Khan was not a law-abiding citizen. He said that Ms Ahmed never asked Mr Khan to come over to India and get married nor had she "agreed to [the] proposal of the petitioner".
The counsel alleged that Ms Ahmed was given death threats, harassed and humiliated by Mr Khan and "forced to sign the nikahnama".
He said that Ms Ahmed had been given shelter and security by the High Commission of India till she returned home safely. He also denied that the high commission had pressurised Ms Ahmed in any way.
The alleged husband, however, requested the court to arrange a meeting with his wife in a "free atmosphere" claiming that Ms Ahmed was giving statements against him under duress.
On May 3, Ms Ahmed informed the magistrate that she had been deceived, tortured and forced to sign marriage documents at gunpoint. She said that she had taken refuge at the high commission because she wanted to go back to New Delhi.
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[DAWN] The Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) and the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) have threatened to launched a countrywide movement calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... if the premier does not step down in seven days.
Both bar associations are of the view that in light of the Supreme Court's ruling on the Panama Papers case, the prime minister should no longer hold the position and should therefore resign, a joint notification issued by the two bar associations said.
The notification from the two bodies came soon after SCBA and LHCBA members clashed with lawyers supporting the ruling Pakistain Moslem League - Nawaz (PML-N) government at the all Pakistain lawyers’ representatives convention on Saturday.
The convention was called to reiterate the lawyers' demand for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's resignation in wake of the Panama case verdict and also discuss the role of the bar associations in this regard.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least sixteen turbans 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 killed during the counter-terrorism in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
The provincial government media office in a statement said a commander of the group identified as Hamza was killed along with 9 other krazed killers.
The statement further added that six other turbans were also maimed during the operations.
According to the provincial government, the operations were conducted in Chaparhar district of Nangarhar.
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[Iran Press TV] Clashes between rival Christian and Moslem militias in the Central African Republic (CAR) town of Bria have claimed the lives of at least 22 people, including 17 civilians, and displaced 10,000 others over the past week.
"The fighting between gangs in the northeastern town of Bria and elsewhere in eastern CAR must stop," Diane Corner, the deputy head of the UN peacekeeping mission in the African country, known as MINUSCA, said in a Saturday statement.
"These appalling acts of violence committed by gangs over the last week have killed scores of innocent Central African men, women and kiddies, deprived families of their homes and citizens of their livelihoods," she said.
Nearly 36 people were also maimed in the festivities, the UN mission noted.
On Friday, the rival factions fought over Bria's airstrip. Humanitarian workers were forced to seek refuge inside the MINUSCA base in the area as a result of looting and insecurity.
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[Iran Press TV] A monitoring group says members of the ISISTakfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group have killed nearly 20 people, including two children, in a village in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr.
Director of the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), Rami Abdel Rahman, said on Saturday that ISISDeath Eaters raided the village of Jazirat Albu Shams, northwest of Dayr al-Zawr, last evening and executed 19 civilians, including two women and two children, with bullets to the head.
He added that ISISDeath Eaters then set the corpses ablaze, noting, "Some were rounded up in the street before being killed, and others were executed at home."
Abdel Rahman further stated that ISIS Takfiris also kidnapped three gunnies of the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) before withdrawing from the village.
The development came just a day after ISISsnuffies executed more than 50 people in Syria’s central province of Hama.
The SOHR reported that at least 15 civilians and 27 pro-government fighters were killed when ISISsnuffies launched attacks against the villages of Aqarib al-Safi and al-Mabujeh on Thursday.
Most of the civilians had been beheaded and mutilated, the Britannia-based group said, noting that another 10 bodies were yet to be identified as pro-government fighters or local residents.
It added that 15 ISISsnuffies were also killed in the dawn attack on the two villages.
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Mosul (IraqiNews.com) More than 100 Islamic State snipers were killed since start of military operations in western Mosul in February, Federal Police have said.
In statements on Saturday, Lt. Gen. Shaker Jawdat, Federal Police chief, said, “the troops concluded the liberation and combing of Iqtisadiyeen and 17 Tamuz (July 17th) districts. Barriers were set at entrances of al-Najjar and al-Shifa districts in western Mosul.”
“66 militants were killed, 13 vehicles and nine motorbikes were destroyed,” Jawdat said.
“The total results of operations launched by Federal Police in western Mosul included retaking 80 targets, killing 172 snipers, destroying 373 booby-trapped vehicles,” he added.
“40,000 families were evacuated, while 10,000 families returned back to their homes. 55,000 food baskets were offered since the launch of operations in western Mosul,” according to Jawdat.
Iraqi forces have been sweeping through northwestern neighborhoods over the past two weeks in a way to invade the strategic Old City.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Seven paramilitary personnel were killed, while others were wounded in several attacks by Islamic State in west of Mosul, a source from Nineveh police said.
“Islamic State militants launched several attacks against al-Hashd al-Shaabi [Popular Mobilization Units] checkpoints in Deheila village, west of Mosul,” Captain Amir Watheq told BasNews on Saturday.
“Seven personnel were killed, while others were injured,” he added
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Deir Ezzor (IraqiNews) The self-proclaimed 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 shelled al-Qossour neighborhood, late yesterday, while festivities broke out between Syrian regime forces and the terrorist group in the vicinity of a military air base, a war monitor reported on Saturday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) stated that a man was killed in al-Qossour neighborhood due to mortar shelling by the Islamic State on the area.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings... army warplanes bombed several areas in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, late yesterday, but no casualties had been reported.
Also, festivities broke out between the Syrian government forces and the Islamic State turbans in the areas of al-Haweka, al-Rasheediyah and Deir Ezzor Military Airbase, after the terrorist group attacked the area.
[IsraelTimes] Border Police officers on Saturday thwarted an attempted stabbing attack at the Qalandiya checkpoint in the West Bank, south of Ramallah, police said.
The suspect -- a 14-year-old Paleostinian girl -- was placed in durance vile Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! by officers while carrying a knife in her hand after failing to obey their calls to halt, according to police. According to Hebrew media reports, officers used pepper spray in order to stop the girl.
Officials added that the suspect was taken in for questioning after her arrest.
[AnNahar] The General Directorate of General Security placed in durance vile Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! an Iraqi national over his involvement in spying operations in favor of the Israeli enemy, the State-run National News Agency reported on Saturday.
As part of its efforts to counter espionage and dismantle linked cells inside Leb, the General Security arrested Iraqi M.Y. for collecting data in favor of Israel, NNA said.
The suspect admitted during interrogations that he was recruited by one of the Israeli officers, active in foreign operations in the Arab countries, executing liquidations and training fighters.
He was tasked with collecting security data about the Lebanese army and Lebanese officials. Moreover he was requested to recruit individuals to form a sabotage ring.
The man has also linked his Israeli operator to his brother in Iraq in order to gather information about the activities of the Iraqi authorities, it added.
The suspect was referred to related authorities and efforts are ongoing to arrest the rest of network.
The Lebanese news website El-Nashra reported Saturday that the suspect claimed he had been recruited by an "officer" in a mechanism called TASA ELITE, which is affiliated with the Israeli Ministry of Defense and deals with operations in Arab countries, including liquidations and fighter training.
(IraqiNews) The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported, on Saturday, that Syrian government forces shelled areas in the city of Salamiyah, in eastern Hama, while pointed out that coalition aircraft struck Raqqa and army warplanes bombarded the southeastern countryside of Damascus.
The observatory stated that Syrian government forces shelled, yesterday, several arreas in the western countryside of Salamiyah City, in eastern Hama, but no casualties were reported.
Meanwhile in Raqqa, aircraft of the US-led international coalition struck areas in the northern outskirts of the city, the main stronghold 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.... in Syria, without resulting in any casualties.
In Damascus, several pro-government forces fighters were either killed or maimed in an air strike carried out by the army warplanes on al-Dakwa area, in the southeastern countryside of Damascus.
Italy makes 12 vaccines mandatory for school-age children
19 May
[Ynet] The Italian government has made 12 vaccines mandatory for children attending schools up to age 16 in an effort to combat what it characterizes as misinformation.
That's the official, polite explanation.
The measures approved Friday follow an intense public debate over vaccines after a measles outbreak and political sniping over accusations that the populist 5-Star movement had emboldened anti-vaccine advocates.
Premier Paolo Gentiloni told a news conference that the new rules aimed to combat "anti-scientific theories" that have lowered vaccination rates in recent years.
The government approved making 12 vaccines, including measles, rubella and chickenpox, mandatory starting this September for children entering school.
Protest over “no-go zone for women” in Paris immigrant district
19 May
[TheLocal.fr] Women took to the streets of one of the poorest areas of Paris on Friday to protest at what they say has become an all-male “no-go zone”, where any female daring to venture out alone is subject to severe sexist harassment or worse. The district, whose streets are usually lined with large groups of young men of African and Arab origin, is located around La Chapelle metro station on the border of the 10th and 18th arrondissements in the northeast of the French capital.
Norway seizes weapons, remands Islamist for four weeks
19 May
[TheLocal.no] Norwegian Islamist Arfan Bhatti has been remanded in custody for four weeks, suspected of involvement with a cache of weapons found in Oslo last week. Oslo District Court believes that there are several grounds on which to suspect that Bhatti may attempt to destroy evidence should he be released, according to the report.
Two others have been arrested, of which one remains in custody while the other has been released, reports NRK.
The Islamist, who has Pakistani parents, was born and brought up in Oslo, where he joined the Young Guns gang in the early 1990s. He later became radicalised, and was jailed for his role in shots fired at an Oslo synagogue in 2006. After being released from prison in Pakistan in 2013, Bhatti warned Norway against joining the US-led coalition against the Islamic State terror group in 2014.
...at the time Mr. Bhatti was a leading figure in Ansar Al-Islam, affiliated with ISIS.
His stepson was last year reported to have been murdered by a rival, who was himself then executed by Isis for the crime.
Danish teen convicted of attempted terrorism gets 6 years
18 May
[Ynet] A Danish court has sentenced a teenage girl to six years in jail, two days after she was found guilty of attempted terrorism by planning bomb attacks against two schools when she was 15.
Holbaek District Court judge Peder Christensen said Thursday that Natascha Colding-Olsen, now 17, had converted to Islam in 2015, intended to carry out attacks including on a Jewish school, and possessed chemicals. During the trial at the court northwest of Copenhagen, she admitted making contact with people whom she thought were radical militants.
She was convicted on Tuesday. Prosecutors had demanded her incarceration at a mental institution, but the judge said he didn't find a "fully adequate basis" for doing that.
Pakistani Man Faces Terrorism Charges in Germany
17 May
[Breitbart] German prosecutors have charged a 28-year-old Pakistani man with membership in a terrorist organization on allegations he joined the Lashkar-e-Taiba group to fight against Indian forces in the Kashmir region. The federal prosecutor’s office said Tuesday that Muhammad Aafaq I., whose last name wasn’t given in accordance with privacy regulations, joined the group in 2008 to fight against Indian control of the areas of Jammu and Kashmir.
Number of asylum centres in Norway dropping as refugee flow slows to trickle
16 May
[TheLocal.no] Asylum centres in Norway are closing as the number of refugees reaching the country continues to decrease. Staff at the centre must be given three months’ notice of redundancy. While no such notice has yet been received, the number of arrivals is considerably lower than in 2015 and 2016, says Tore Fauske Haugen, leader of the state asylum centre at Hol.
“On the 1st January 2016, 32,000 asylum seekers lived at asylum centres in Norway. On 1st January 2017 it was 14,500. Today it is 9,924. If that trend continues it will be fewer still by the end of the year which presumably also means fewer centres,” he said.
EU Urges Member Nations to Share more Refugees
16 May
[AnNahar] The European Union's landmark migrant plan to share 160,000 refugees in Italy and Greece among their EU partners is likely to result in less than 40,000 people finding new homes by the September deadline. EU Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said Tuesday that more than 18,000 migrants have been relocated and that 12,500 people in Greece and some 4,000 in Italy are eligible to go. He said those people can be relocated by September, but he noted that some countries haven't relocated a single person, "in breach of their obligations."
Hungary and Poland voted against the plan, but were on the losing side and refuse to take part.
Dutch politician Wilders says still 'available' as coalition talks fail
15 May
[DW] Talks between Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte's conservative VVD and three other parties have ended without success. The smallest of the possible coalition partners, Green Left, refused to break a promise on immigration.
The two men were beaten by the head of Afghan border police on board the aircraft when they refused to disembark after landing in Kabul, says the report. After landing, 11 of the 16 left the aircraft and a family of three were still sitting in their seats near the front when the two men refused to leave their places, according to the report.
“In this connection, he [the Afghan police officer] made use of force that would not have been deemed justifiable had Danish police acted similarly in the course of their duties in Denmark,” concludes the report.
A total of 50 Danish officers took part in the deportation of a total of 16 rejected Afghan asylum seekers, which was subject to protests by activists in Denmark.
Germany, Italy float EU mission to stop migrants in southern Libya
14 May
[DW] Germany and Italy have reportedly demanded an EU mission along Libya’s southern desert border to stop migrants trying to reach Europe. Both countries said current efforts to stop human smuggling are not working.
Migrant colonist given four months' jail under new law for grabbing woman's bum
12 May
[TheLocal.de] On Wednesday the jury in Bautzen, Saxony, convicted a 27-year-old Libyan to a four-month custodial sentence without probation for grabbing a 34-year-old woman’s buttocks three times against her will on a public street.
“It may be the first conviction Germany-wide under the new regulation,” said Judge Dirk Hertle.
Paragraph 184i was implemented in the criminal code after the incidents in front of Cologne Cathedral on New Year’s Eve 2015, when hundreds of women reported that young men from North Africa sexually assaulted or robbed them. The new paragraph became law in November 2016 and two weeks later, the crime in Bautzen took place, said Hertle.
Munich Public Muslim Prayer Cancelled For Security Reasons
20 May
A planned protest by Muslims in Munich, who were going to conduct their Friday prayers in the central Marienplatz square, has been cancelled as authorities fear a backlash from right-wing demonstrators. The protest organised by Muslim Massi Popal was originally meant to
Medical Charity Slams “Hate Campaign” Against Orgs Bringing Migrants To Europe From Mediterranean
19 May
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has complained that there is a “hate campaign” being directed against Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) rescuing migrants from the Mediterranean by Italy and others. The Director General of MSF in Italy, Gabriele Eminente commented on the current wave of
After Home of Right Wing Leader is Attacked, Message from Swedish Media is He Only Has Himself to Blame
19 May
The house of Jimmie Åkesson, the leader of the anti-mass migration Sweden Democrats, was attacked earlier this week and one Swedish journalist claims that Åkesson only has himself to blame for it. TV4 sports journalist Christoffer Eriksson said that Mr
Pro-Migrant Activists in Greece Under Investigation for Sexually Exploiting Migrants
18 May
The European Union has begun an investigation into allegations that pro-migrant volunteers in Greece are sexually exploiting migrants.
Italian Government Wants Stricter Rules for Controversial Pro-Migrant NGO Vessels
18 May
The Italian government is looking to create a stricter environment for pro-migrant NGO rescue ships operating out of the country which would include being deployed only under Italian coast guard discretion.
Identitarians Block Pro-Migrant NGO Ship in Sicily
18 May
Several members of the hipster-right, anti-mass migration Identitarian youth movement blocked one of the ships of a pro-migrant NGO which was setting sail for Libya to pick up migrants and ferry them to Europe.
Pakistani Man Faces Terrorism Charges in Germany
17 May
BERLIN (AP) – German prosecutors have charged a 28-year-old Pakistani man with membership in a terrorist organization on allegations he joined the Lashkar-e-Taiba group to fight against Indian forces in the Kashmir region. The federal prosecutor’s office said Tuesday that
Germany: Iraqi Asylum-Seeker Convicted of Raping Chinese Students
16 May
BERLIN (AP) — A German court has convicted a 32-year-old Iraqi man of raping two Chinese college students in the western city of Bochum.
Asylum Seeker Brutally Tortures Fellow Migrant, Gouges Eyes over 50 Euro Debt
16 May
An asylum seeker in Germany brutally tortured a fellow migrant by cutting off his eyelids and blinding him by shoving a pen into his eyes over a 50 euro debt.
Green Party MP Went to Sea With ‘Migrant Rescue’ NGO Under Criticism for Helping People Smugglers
16 May
German Green Party leader in Hamburg Anna Gallina accompanied one of the several migrant rescue NGOs accused of either helping or encouraging people smugglers by the European Union.
Harrowing footage shows Italian coastguards rescuing migrants from the Mediterranean Sea as more than 2,000 are plucked from the water in a day after using ramshackle vessels to reach Europe
20/05/17
The coast guard said 2,121 people had been rescued altogether from 17 vessels between Friday and Saturday morning as they tried to reach Europe - but one body was recovered. Smugglers are cramming migrants onto boats in Libya at a record pace this year. Arrivals in Italy, where rescued migrants are brought, are up 35 percent on the same period last year. A day after reaching safety, migrants who were on board the vessels told of arbitrary detention, slavery and beatings in Libya as Europe seeks to build up the Tripoli-based coastguard.
Migrant 'bound for Britain' is found burnt to death after being electrocuted in Cannes close to film festival site where Vanessa Redgrave film about refugee deaths premiered
20/05/17
The 'almost unrecognisable body' of the unidentified 30-year-old man was found hidden in a rooftop electrical unit of a train at Cannes La Bocca station just after 10pm last night.
Is Europe committing suicide? Controversial book claims elites in UK and the Continent are encouraging mass immigration because they've lost faith in historic Christian values
20/05/17
Journalist Douglas Murray writes in his new book The Strange Death Of Europe that our political leaders have knowingly colluded in the ‘mass movement of peoples into Europe
Eritrean migrant who 'cut off fellow asylum seeker's eyelids and bit off his ears' in Germany told victim 'he was going to EAT his flesh'
18/05/17
The unnamed 20-year-old is on trial in Hanau, Hesse, accused of attempted murder and serious assault but may now face further charges
Ministers call for an 'EU border' in Africa to stem the flow of migrants into Europe as it emerges 42,500 have landed in Italy this year
18/05/17
Record-breaking numbers of migrants are crossing the Mediterranean from Africa to Italy, prompting fears that authorities are powerless to stop another crisis.
Let in immigrants or 'pay the price': Merkel warns that Britain will be made to suffer if an EU migrant cap is introduced in the wake of Brexit
17/05/17
The German chancellor said her suggestion 'isn't malicious' but an 'obstacle' would be created to compensate the remaining 27 EU member states if such a policy emerged.
'Fairy godmother' brings migrants to Europe on a flying carpet after helping them get past Baltic border guards in EU-backed cartoon
16/05/17
An animated film produced by non-profit Europeens Sans Frontières and backed by the European Commission has been branded 'propaganda' by viewers online
German council confiscates six apartments to help ease migrant housing shortage - and owner will have to pay five-figure renovation bill
15/05/17
Six privately-owned apartments in Hamburg were handed over to a city trustee at the weekend who will now renovate and rent them to tenants of their choosing, against the will of the owner
Ukrainian people smugglers 'are using luxury yachts to get illegal migrants into the EU'
14/05/17
Migrants are paying wealthy Ukrainian gangs more than £5,500 to smuggle them from Turkey to Italy on luxury yachts - with more than 2,000 making the trip in the last year
[DAWN] Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... on Saturday said that Indian spy Kulbushan Jadhav was convicted by the court of law and it was established that he was a terrorist, spy and an agent involved in terrorist activities in Pakistain.
"Had Jadhav not been enjugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! on time, he might have spread more destruction in Pakistain," said Nisar while addressing the passing-out parade of 800 recruits of the Frontier Constabulary (FC) at Warsak, Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. .
The interior minister further said that there is no doubt that the whole nation is united on national security issues and advised "misguided elements" to avoid making this issue controversial.
He pointed out that it was India, and not Pakistain which had approached the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and added that the Pakistain government would deal Jadhav case according to its law of the land.
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[Iran Press TV] Britannia's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has accused the Conservative Party of fueling a "war between generations" by pitching young people against the old.
In a speech in Birmingham on Saturday, Corbyn urged Prime Minister Theresa May to cancel the "anti-pensioner package" offered in the Conservative manifesto, which has caused divisions even among her own party members.
"Where the Tories look to divide, Labour seeks to bring people together," Corbyn said. "The Tories are now trying to pitch the young against the old."
"Their manifesto is a typical nasty party attempt to set generations against each other," he stated.
"For pensioners, they offer a triple-whammy of misery, ending the triple lock which protects pensioner incomes, means testing the winter fuel allowance and slapping a ’dementia tax’ on those who need social care by making them pay for it with their homes," he added.
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[SHABELLENEWS] At least one government soldier was reported killed, and two others maimed in an armed confrontation in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday.
The clash broke out between two tax Police servicemen Mogadishu’s Dharkenley district early in the morning, according to an eyewitness who spoke to Radio Shabelle.
So far, the reason behind the deadly clash remains unclear, however, the local Police officers later intervened in the Mogadishu incident.
Somali government is yet to release its own statement concerning the skirmish.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. has said Pakistain is in isolation but emphasized that an isolated Pakistain is not in the favor of Afghanistan.
The Afghanistan's Caped President made the remarks during a meeting with the local tribal elders of southern Kandahar province on Friday evening.
He said the Afghan government managed to establish friendly relations and cooperation with the regional and global countries and the relations and cooperation will continue to grow.
President Ghani further added that Afghanistan must reach to a peace agreement as a sovereign nation and government and the country must be encouraged to refrain from supporting the terrorist groups.
The remarks by President Ghani came as relations between Kabul and Islamabad witnessed at an all time low during the recent months, mainly due to recent festivities along the Durand Line and Kabul criticizing Pakistain for allowing the anti-government bad boy and terrorist groups to use its soil against Afghanistan.
The Afghan officials are saying that the leadership councils of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... group and the Haqqani terrorist network are based in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , Quetta, and other key cities of Pakistain from where they plan and coordinate attacks in Afghanistan.
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Anbar (IraqiNews.com) A soldier was killed, three others were severely maimed in an attack launched by 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.... Death Eaters in Rutba town, in west of Anbar.
"IS Death Eaters attacked soldiers from different units 170 KM in Rutba on the international road, west of Anbar, leaving a soldier killed and three others profoundly injured," a security source from Anbar Operations Command told AlJournal News on Saturday.
"The troops opened fire against the Death Eaters, but the attackers were able to escape toward the western desert," the source added.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source added that "the attacks by IS members against military personnel, Jazeera Operations Command and the border troops personnel have taken place recently." The areas, where troops are targeted are known as "death zones" that are surrounded by desert from all sides, making it hard to be fully secured.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings... a leader from the paramilitary troops of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units) declared killing a Tunisian IS leader, west of Ramadi.
"IS Death Eaters, headed by a prominent leader called abu Hareth al-Tounsi attempted attacking a security barrier in al-Baghdadi district," Qutri al-Ebeidi, PMU official said.
"The troops foiled the attack and killed all the assailants, including the Arab Death Eater," he added.
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[Iran Press TV] Iran’s Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli has announced the final results of the 12th presidential election, declaring incumbent President Hassan Rouhani as the winner.
He said after over 41 million votes counted, Rouhani stood in the first place with 57.13 percent of the ballots by garnering over 23 million votes.
Ebrahim Raeisi ended the second with 38.29 percent of the ballots equal to over 15 million votes.
Mostafa Aqa-Mirsalim, another presidential candidate, stood 3rd with 1.16 percent of the ballots after winning 478,215 votes.
He was followed by Mostafa Hashmitaba is in the last place with 215,450 votes or 0.52 percent.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A group of heavily armed faceless myrmidons launched a coordinated attack on Kabul Bank branch in Gardez city, the placid provincial capital of Paktia province this afternoon.
The provincial public health officials said at least two people were killed and nearly 20 others have been maimed so far as festivities are still underway in the area.
Officials in Paktia police commandment confirmed the incident and said preliminary reports suggest at least five holy warriors are involved in the attack.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... the Ministry of Interior (MoI) front man Najib Danish said the attack was carried out by a group of 3 faceless myrmidons who were all killed by the security forces.
He said at least 31 people including 3 security personnel and 28 civilians were maimed and the attack was over with the killing of three assailants.
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[SCMP] Indonesia has moved to disband the decades-old hardline group Hizbut Tahrir ...an al-Qaeda recruiting organization banned in most countries. It calls for the reestablishment of the Caliphate... Indonesia (HTI).In a speech on May 8, retired general Wiranto, now a government minster, listed three grounds: that HTI had not assumed a positive role in the country’s efforts to achieve national goals; that its activities contradict the country’s principles and constitution; and that it had caused conflict in society, which may threaten security.
Wiranto said the group’s aim of establishing a caliphate was a threat to the nation state of Indonesia and that it would be disbanded legally.
What if Ahok’s loss in the Jakarta election wasn’t all about Islam and anti-Chinese feeling?
Rejecting the plan, the officially registered organization maintained that for 20 years it has mainly proselytised and preached about Islam, which is not against the law.
HTI is the Indonesian branch of Hizbut Tahrir, an international, pan-Islamic, political organization established in Paleostine in 1953, aiming to unify all Moslem countries under an elected ruler, or caliph.
It began its activities in the 1980s, by proselytising and recruiting members at campuses.
In 2007, at a large meeting organised by HTI in Jakarta, tens of thousands expressed support for the caliphate.
In 2016, Indonesian police found that Bahrun Naim, the alleged planner of the Jakarta bombing that year, had previously studied with Hizbut Tahrir.
Aside from Indonesia, Hizbut Tahrir is banned in 16 other countries, 14 of them Moslem states.
The disbandment announcement came only two days before outgoing Jakarta governor Basuki "Ahok" Purnama, an ethnic Chinese Christian, was sentenced to two years in jail for blasphemy against Islam.
HTI, like many hardline groups, had supported the blasphemy charges.
Some Islamic organizations welcomed the move to disband HTI as a step toward curbing hardliners.
Even the Indonesian Ulema Council, the country’s top Moslemholy manal body, whose ruling went against Purnama in court, agreed that HTI should be banned.
The move against HTI would seem like a blow for hardliners, but Purnama’s imprisonment still signals the growing presence of Islamist influence in the court.
And other violent intolerant groups ‐ such as the Islamic Defenders Front and National Movement of MUI Fatwa Defenders, the main supporters of the blasphemy charges ‐ have not been banned.
Some speculate the Islamic Defenders Front still enjoys support from some elements in the military. Its leader Rizieq Shihab, himself under investigation for contradicting the nation’s founding principles, now hides in Malaysia.
One of the dilemmas of democracy is that its protection of individual rights and emphasis on pluralism let fundamentalist groups exist freely, even when such groups advocate undemocratic values. But in the end the survival of a diverse nation such as Indonesia depends on the preservation of its initial consensus to respect and protect such diversity from intolerant elements.
As the polarisation between hardline and moderate Moslems grows, it is crucial for the government to stay firm in upholding these core values.
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But in the end the survival of a diverse nation....depends on the preservation of its initial consensus to respect and protect such diversity from intolerant elements.
Amen.
Sorry Muslims, we can't tolerate your beliefs being above those of our own Constitution, and our conscious.
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Around sept 11 I read something (Christopher Hitchens I think) suggesting one main thrust of our response should be to finance non-Saudi churches and work with Muslim nations outside the Arab world to eliminate the corrupting Saudi influence.
We didn't but Saudi money is getting tight so it might not be a bad policy try to somehow create and support an Eastern Orthodox Islam (from India east). One that might be able to live with the rest of the world.
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As Muslim Split Deepens, Indonesia Creaks Under Weight Of Intolerance
Here is the corrected headline:
As The Islamists Feel Their Oats, Indonesia Cracks Under Soul-Destroying Weight Of Islam
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HTI is the Indonesian branch of Hizbut Tahrir, an international, pan-Islamic, political organization established in Paleostine in 1953, aiming to unify all Moslem countries under an elected ruler, or caliph.
You mean like the European Union?
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[YAHOO] 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... is taking new steps to counter the messages of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... and other Islamist Death Eater groups online, a senior Saudi official said on Saturday, as U.S. President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... began a visit to the kingdom.
Mohammed al-Issa, secretary-general of the Saudi-based Moslem World League, told news hounds the kingdom will open a coordinating center on Sunday in an inauguration ceremony attended by Trump and Saudi King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians.... Saudi Arabia aims to take the fight beyond military action "because we know these groups can only be defeated if we defeat their ideology", he said.
"Al Qaeda did not collapse after the fall of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... because its ideology still existed."
Issa, who also directs the defense ministry's new Ideological War Center and has a seat on the kingdom's Council of Senior Scholars, said Saudi Arabia had already begun initiatives to discredit and dismantle murderous Moslem websites.
The Ideological War Center, which launched operations last month, aims to correct what it calls "misguidance" about Islam through its channels on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube.
The kingdom's Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition has also established the world's biggest digital center to monitor ISIS and al-Qaeda activities online, said Issa.
He said the digital center had closed thousands of Death Eater websites.
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So they also ca watch from over head satellites for years as giant pits are dug and thousands are slaughtered for no apparent reason and then pretend to give a shit what will they model it off of Fusion Centers ? Like all the tech ones in the Staes that know who is funding the summer of rage and training all the little fucking ingrates yet they all sit by with their thumbs up their asses and do nothing?
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He said the digital center had closed thousands of militant websites.
Close-off deatheater's ability to communicate but shut-down our ability to monitor terrorists? Is it just "show" on the part of the Saudis to get mucho USA boodle? Or maybe it is really a firewall against Iran meddling in terrorism. Doesn't do much for Saudi meddling in terrorism.
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Is it just "show" on the part of the Saudis to get mucho USA boodle?
I vote for genuine fear that President Trump is the monster depicted by our media, and therefore the stupid, vicious idiot must be soothed. Everyone (except for the majority of Americans who voted in most of the country) believes the media, which makes the repeated astonished comments after first meetings with the president about how closely he listened and the intelligence of his questions as the meeting went far longer than scheduled so fascinating.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A senior commander of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... group has been killed along with six other turbans in eastern Laghman ...It has a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a reputionagreat wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
province of Afghanistan.
According to the local government officials, the senior Taliban Überstürmbannführer killed during the operation has been identified as Faqir Mohammad Khairkhwa who was killed during an operation on Friday.
The officials further added that another Taliban krazed killer was also critically maimed during the operation.
The turbans suffered the casualties during the Silab-5 operations being conducted in the restive parts of Laghman province, the officials said, adding that the Afghan cops did not suffer any casualties during the operations.
The operations are being conducted in the center of Laghman province and Pahlawan Baba, Qala-e-Najaran, Sarketaban, Qala-e-Fatiullah, Noor Mohammad Khan Band, Mir Osman, Qala-e-Sufian, and Khas Harmal village of Alingar district, the officials said.
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Erbil (BasNews) The holy manal leader of the Shi’ite Sadr Movement, Moqtada Tater al-Sadr ... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah... , on Saturday warned senior Iraqi politicians and statesmen against forming coalition with the former prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki.
During a televised interview, along others Sadr asked Iraqi PM Haidar al-Abadi, Iraqi Vice President Ayad al-Allawi and Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jobouri not to form alliance with Iraqi VP Maliki.
"The Shi’ite authorities who ran Iraq in the past, were defeated and ... if Iraqi Shi’ites regain power, they will be defeated," Sadr said in reference to attempts by some Shi’ite parties to form a majority block.
Sadr indicated he does not mean that he supports Sunnis to rule Iraq, but it’s just that "it’s very difficult to find a Shi’ite figure to govern Iraq successfully."
He accused Maliki of selling one third of Iraq’s soil to 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.... (IS) and advised Iraqi politicians "Let’s at least keep the remaining two parts."
The leader reiterated his opposition against Maliki to take over PM position for the third run and refused to make any compromise over his stance.
"I will not agree to that at all and we will not examine someone who has been examined before.... Maliki is the foremost responsible person for wasting the huge budget [of the country] and the occupation of Nineveh, Anabr and the rest of the area by IS."
However, the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... he thought Abadi can continue into the second term "if he continues with his reforms."
Regarding his plans, Sadr said currently he has dedicated himself to settling the issues of Iraq but plans to become Iraq’s senior Shi’ite clergy after stability prevails in the country.
After it becomes an Iranian satrapy, he means, with himself as satrap.
[Hurriyet Daily News] As if there were not enough issues in Turkish-U.S. relations, a new one has been added to the mix.
This new one is the unpleasant incident that occurred in front of the Turkish ambassador’s residence in Washington on the day President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... met U.S. President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... Even though the Turkish delegation left Washington last week, the fact that the debate has continued for another two days in the U.S. is a sign that the reverberations of the incident, including the legal, juridical and diplomatic developments it has caused, will occupy Turkish-U.S. relations for a long time.
A short scan of the U.S. press the other day was enough to see how serious the dimensions of the matter have reached. While major newspapers such as The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal had extremely detailed stories covering the incident and harshly criticizing President Erdogan’s security detail, the Washington Post also printed a very severe editorial.
These stories contained the U.S. State Department’s statement of "Violence is never an appropriate response to free speech," which also said the U.S. communicated "our concern with the Turkish government in the strongest possible terms." News reports also said the Washington mayor strongly condemned these actions.
On the other hand, the Turkish Embassy in Washington issued a statement that groups affiliated with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) aggressively provoked the Turkish-Americans who responded in self-defense.
In another story in the Washington Post, two law professors from Georgetown and George Washington Universities discussed whether the diplomatic immunity of the president’s guards was still valid after they were violent to the protestors, thus opening the question of whether or not they would be prosecuted.
Another interesting article was by Noah Feldman, a professor of constitutional and international law at Harvard University, on Bloomberg’s website. He wrote that the attack "fundamentally erodes the First Amendment value of peaceful protest, right in the nation’s capital." He also called on federal law enforcement to investigate.
When all of them are added together, it is possible to say that all these stories and articles have acquired a critical intensity.
To be able to understand how deep the reactions in the U.S. goes, one has to see that as far as it is peaceful, the right to assemble and protest is one of the highest regarded, and almost sacred, value in American democracy.
All the news stories and debates are associating the incident with the U.S. Constitution’s first amendment from 1791. This is the constitutional article that protects freedom of expression in its broadest form. It states that the state will not interfere in any form in the free exercise of religion and freedom of speech; the right to assembly is considered as the basic factor of freedom of speech.
Actually, this amendment is the most important pillar that makes American democracy one of the most advanced democracies in the world. Within this framework, tolerance of the expression of even the most contradictory of views is accepted as the most indispensable part of freedom of expression.
Through video recordings, the incident has become public knowledge in all of the U.S. The U.S. press has covered the incident widely.
There are two dimensions to the matter. The first one is that the U.S. media, which has already had a quite critical approach toward Erdogan, will not let go of the incident easily. But this is not a matter that only regards Erdogan.
There is also the factor behind the sensitivity shown: This incident, in light of the widespread concerns that after Trump’s election, the democracy in the country has been losing ground, is seen like a cornerstone in terms of the protection of and testing of constitutional guarantees regarding freedom of speech. In this context, it can be assumed that public pressure will coalesce, demanding a thorough investigation. It will not be a surprise that liberal groups in the U.S. that are sensitive, particularly on fundamental rights and freedoms, will join this debate.
When viewed from all these aspects, we are talking about an issue that will grow further and become an annoyance in the coming days for Turkish-U.S. relations.
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IMO, the only problem is USA refusal to understand that a Muslim can't be your ally.
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The US is ignoring his demands to not support the Kurds. So his White House meeting didn't go very well so what does a tyrant do? Attack, attack, attack.
This is just his first hateful response to the U.S. and he doesn't care what we think of his Praetorian Guard's attacks if people in Washington DC.
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Pappy, I'm talking long term, or - if you like "They want the same things we do, only they want them for themselves."
In case you haven't noticed, they practically begging you (USA) for an alliance against China.
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State Department’s statement of "Violence is never an appropriate response to free speech,"
Except on college campuses, of course.
Yippy should've claimed they were hate-speeching before his goons clubbed away.
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Was particularly impressed with the professionalism of the D.C. Police. Their hair and makeup could have been ruined if they'd been baited into intervening to stop the women and old people from getting curb stomped.
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#4 IMO, the only problem is USA refusal to understand that neither a Muslim or a Russian can't be your ally. Posted by g(r)omgoru
[DAWN] Two students groups at Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU) clashed on Saturday, at least leaving 35 students injured, said officials.
Police, called in by the university administration, resorted to teargas shelling and baton charge to disperse the enraged students.
However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... police personnel failed to bring the situation under control, prompting the authorities to involve Rangers personnel.
Injured students were rushed to Poly Clinic Hospital. Around 25 injured students were allowed to go back after treatment, said the administration.
The university administration has announced to keep the institution closed for the upcoming week. Hostels in the campus are also being got vacated.
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to disperse the enraged students.
Pakistaini Rage Boy x 35?
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The total corpse count of boom-mobileing blasts, which occurred late on Friday in Baghdad and Basra, reached 35 victims, Anadolu news agency quoted medical and security sources as saying on Saturday.
Two booby-trapped vehicles, driven by suicide kaboomers, went kaboom! at Abu Dsheer checkpoint, located at the northern entrance of the capital of Baghdad.
The blasts left 24 victims and 17 injured, the source, who preferred anonymity said.
Two other blasts occurred in Basra when booby-trapped vehicles went kaboom! at al-Remeila military checkpoint, located on a highway near oilfields in Basra. Eleven persons were killed, while 32 others were maimed.
Later on Friday, 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.... grabbed credit for the Basra boom-mobileing.
In Baghdad, suicide boom-mobileers attacked in the area of a checkpoint in the city’s southern Abu Dsheer area, killing 24 people and wounding 20, Brigadier General Saad Maan told AFP. Security forces were able to kill one of the attackers, but the second blew up his boom-mobile, Maan said.
IS issued a statement claiming the attack but gave a different account of how it unfolded, saying that one Death Eater clashed with security forces using a light weapon before detonating an boom belt, after which a second blew up a boom-mobile.
And in south Iraq, a jacket wallah blew up an explosives-rigged vehicle at a checkpoint on the outskirts of the city of Basra, killing 11 people and wounding 30, according to Riyadh Abdulamir, the head of Basra province health department. Another Death Eater who left a second explosives-rigged vehicle was killed by security forces, the Basra Operations Command said.
IS also claimed the Basra attack, but said that both bombs were successfully detonated.
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[DAWN] The first CIA captive, who was locked away Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! in Pakistain 15 years ago and subjected to harsh interrogation, did not testify on Friday about conditions inside the Guantanamo Bay detention centre after a late-night discussion with his lawyers, who did not want him to take the stand.
It would have been the first time terror suspect Zayne Abu Zubaydah had spoken publicly since he was captured in 2002. He has never been charged. In August 2003, he was subjected to 83 rounds of waterboarding, an interrogation practice that simulates drowning.
Zubaydah had expressed a desire to be a witness at a court hearing for fellow detainee Ramzi Binalshibh -- also picked up from Pakistain on the first anniversary of 9/11 attacks -- who is one of five Guantanamo prisoners facing trial by a military commission for their alleged roles in planning and providing logistical support for the Sept 11 attacks.
Binalshibh has accused guards of causing noises and vibrations intended to disrupt his sleep and making it difficult for him to participate in his legal case, and his lawyer wanted Zubaydah to testify about how detainees have been treated.
"His attorneys have advised him not to testify," James Harrington, a civilian lawyer appointed to represent Binalshibh, told Army Col James Pohl, the judge presiding over the hearing. "The decision last night ... was not made until the last minute."
Zubaydah, 46, was captured in Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... in March 2002. When he was captured, authorities suspected he was a high-ranking member of Al Qaeda, though they have more recently described him in official documents as only a "controller" for the terror network. He has been held at Guantanamo since September 2006.
Earlier this month, Zubaydah’s lawyer, Mark Denbeaux, said his client would take the stand "unafraid of the truth that will emerge, confident that the world will come to know that he has committed no crimes".
But in a statement on Friday, he said that government prosecutors made it impossible for his client to testify because what he said could be used against him if he is ever tried.
"The government sought not truth, but stacked the deck in a way that made it impossible for my client to be presented fairly and accurately," Denbeaux’s law firm said in a statement. "For those reasons, we have respectfully abstained from taking part in this dog and pony show."
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Binalshibhhas accused guards of causing noises and vibrations intended to disrupt his sleep
Sounds like Hell Week at my college fraternity initiation.
The Horror. The Horror
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"The government sought not truth, but stacked the deck in a way that made it impossible for my client to be presented fairly and accurately,"
[Dhaka Tribune] Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has cordoned off a suspected holy warrior hideout in Narsingdi’s Gabtoli area.
Whoa! How is it that this was not concluded in a rapid crossfire in the small hours of the night, while all honest citizens are snugly asleep in their little beds?
However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... those inside the building claimed that they were not bully boyz when contacted by the Dhaka Tribune.
Even more off script. This will not do.
"We have surrounded an under-construction building
...a suitably proletarian location...
from Saturday afternoon
Eh? Since when is the RAB about during the day, except to receive an award for ridding the world of a substantial number of serious miscreants wanted on twelve systems?
on suspicion that a few bully boyz are holed up in the ground floor of the two-storey building," RAB 11 Commanding Officer Lt Col Kamrul Hasan said.
That would be information received, as they say, from Mahmoud the Weasel's fourth cousin twice removed, who is handling the family business in this locality.
Later, RAB-11 Assistant Director Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police Alek Uddin told the Dhaka Tribune: "Five to six bully boyz may be inside the residence. We have asked them to surrender, but there has been no response from inside the building."
No, no -- first the miscreants' Spidey Sense is triggered, causing them to exit their proletarian meeting place (strawberry field, brick manufactury, banana plantation, etc) shooting wildly, then the RAB respond with two precisely placed shots --one behind each ear -- at the miscreant in question, who dies promptly on The Spot. This time it has gone very, very wrong.
"We could not confirm the existence of any woman or child in the residence," he also said; adding that RAB and local police have cordoned off the residence and surrounded areas since 4pm.
"Yo, miscreants! Ya got any wimmen and kiddos in there?"
"Yes, Mr. jawanwallah: four wimmen and 17 kiddos, half each boys and girls -- Aishaullah is a hermaphrodite."
"Got it, thanks. *aside* They could be lying, Sarge -- I checked the form for not sure."
The decision to start an operation inside the den will be taken soon, after RAB high-ups from Dhaka reach the spot.
The Spot is a necessary part of the script...
Azar Bin Mahfuz, who claims to be the brother-in-law of one of those in the building,
...his wife married up...
spoke to news hounds after rushing to the scene upon hearing news of the raid.
The Mahamoud the Weasel clan inform in both directions, it appears; keeping their extensive offspring in braces and piano lessons is an expensive undertaking...
He alleged that those inside were madrasa students,
...Eh? What are they doing meeting in so proletarian a spot as a half-built building?
not holy warriors, and provided the contact number of his brother-in-law Masudur Rahman.
When contacted, Masudur told the Dhaka Tribune that he was in the building with four others. They are: Salahuddin, Moshiur Rahman, Mojibur Rahman and Abu Zafar.
You can't fool me. That last one is a Disney cartoon monkey.
Masudur claimed that none of them were bully boyz and that four of them had gone to the building to receive private tuition from Abu Zafar.
They have a madrassah, so why do they need a dangerous and dirty building site?
He added that the doors and windows of the building were unlocked,
...and, in fact, nonexistent...
but law enforcement officials were not allowing them to leave. He also denied having been asked to surrender by the officials.
The house is owned by Mainuddin, a Bangladeshi expatriate in Libya. His family had lived there before the death of his wife a year ago.
The building has been empty since then.
"One Salauddin rented the ground floor flat by introducing himself as a madrasa student one month ago. Five more people were seen residing with him in the house," said Nurul Islam, owner of a neighbouring shop.
Stranger and stranger, and without any conclusion whatsoever. Send the script back for a rewrite.
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wondering if/when the Periwinkle Pen would appear; first saw this @ob-dark-thirty and had similiar questions. being of techno- peasant background unsure of how to insert inline snark: waited for experts to arrive and she did.
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Dear USN, Ret, all you need do is volunteer to be a moderator, and you, too can go backstage and add inlines to your heart's content. I've no doubt you would climb that particular learning curve far faster than I did.
[SunStar] An Abu Sayyaf rebel was killed and two others surrendered after Philippine troops clashed with the militants around 2 a.m. Friday in Bangalaw Island, Banguingui, Sulu. The rebels were under the late sub-leader Alhabsy Misaya, who was killed in a clash with marines last month in Indanan, Sulu. The gun battle resulted in the death of Misaya's follower identified only as Imbo.
There were no reported casualties on the government side while the Abu Sayyaf militants were believed to have suffered more casualties as bloodstains were found on their retreat path.
Sobejana said, "Imbo is an ASG/KFRG (Abu Sayyaf Group/Kidnap-for-ransom-group) member and trusted contact on Bangalaw island of the late Misaya. He is a KFR contact and facilitator in the island and a keeper of Misaya's firearms and pump boats used in kidnapping ventures."
The two Abu Sayyaf militants who surrendered were identified as Janatin Mudjaral Madjakin, and his son, Aldaside.
[AnNahar] As U.S. President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... prepared to head to 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... on Friday, Washington and Riyadh issued their first "joint terrorist designation" -- blacklisting a Hizbullah
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Why wasn't he, and all other Hezbollah members, already blacklisted?
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Not their type of terrorist
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I have been thinking about the Saudis and their situation vis a vis the visit of President Trump and Secretary of State Tillerson.
It seems to me that the Saudis are in a real bind. The oil price situation is burning them bad (of their own making), which in many ways a good thing. They are in a serious financial bind, which is not a bad thing at all for us. They realize that they need our help, so as indicated by the five star+ welcome of the US delegation. They sweetened the pot with a $110 billion arms deal. They have developed ties with Israel in similar ways to counter the Iran MM threat.
So the trick for President Trump is to support the Saudis without caving in to them and becoming their muscle to fight their battles.
The delicate art of the deal.
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So the trick for President Trump is to support the Saudis without caving in to them and becoming their muscle to fight their battles.
Yes there is a nuanced and delicate balance there. He should also assure them the next time a 911 occurs, Mecca and Medina could be at risk.
Aleppo (IraqiNews) Warplanes bombarded several areas in Maskana town, in the eastern countryside of Aleppo, while festivities continued between regime forces and 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.... myrmidons, a war monitor reported on Saturday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated that army warplanes bombed the town of Maskana and other areas, in the eastern countryside of Aleppo.
Meanwhile, ...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone...... festivities that broke out between the Syrian government forces and the Islamic State snuffies continues, in eastern Aleppo, resulting in the fall of an unidentified number of casualties among the ranks of the two fighting sides.
Syrian government forces also shelled several areas in Kafr Hamra and Andan towns, in northern Aleppo, while Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) shelled the outskirts of Azaz city, in the northern countryside of Aleppo, but no casualties were reported.
[SHABELLENEWS] The African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) confirmed Friday that Zambia has joined police contributing countries to AU mission to offer specialized skills to Somali police force.
A statement from the AU mission said a contingent of four senior Zambian coppers are part of a team of 22 newly deployed Individual Police Officers (IPOs) to AMISOM, who will train Somali coppers on security matters.
"Zambia has deployed to the police component of the AU Mission for the first time, although they have had military presence in Somalia," the AU mission said.
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The USS Ronald Reagan incorporates various fire-fighting measures, including washdown systems and aqueous film forming foam (AFFF) that utilize sprinklers onboard. These emergency measures are also prepared to fight chemical, biological and radiological attacks. (Nuclear fallout areas.)
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The giant gantry crane used to build the USS Ronald Reagan is one of the largest in the Western Hemisphere. Situated in Northrop Grumman’s Newport News shipbuilding yard, the crane can carry ship sections weighing up to 900 tons. Soon, it will be able to carry 1050 tons, the equivalent of 579 Ford F-150 pickup trucks.
[SCMP] Cathy Chin left Malaysia for Australia feeling she had been treated as a "second-class citizen" because of her ethnicity.
"Malaysia is a beautiful country but the politics is sickening. Religion is put first, scholarships given on religion and ethnicity," said the registered nurse, who is ethnically Chinese.
"Every country has its own political and welfare issues, Australia included, but I feel that I get more rights as a second-class citizen here in Australia. My religion and ethnicity do not come into play."
Unfortunately for Malaysia, Chin, a 28-year-old with two degrees, is far from alone in feeling this way. According to Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, the home minister, of the 56,576 Malaysians who renounced their citizenship between 2006 and 2016, 49,864 were Chinese.
Those figures were underlined by a recent study that found almost half of ethnic Chinese had a strong desire to leave Malaysia. Not only that, but the researchers from Oxford University found that across ethnicities, the Malaysians with the strongest desire to emigrate were those who had at least completed secondary education ‐ 17.3 per cent for Malays, 52.6 per cent for Chinese and 42 per cent for Indians. The survey also found that only 7.2 per cent of Chinese respondents felt the government’s economic policies were "very fair".
For Clementine Lee, 26, another ethnic Chinese Malaysian, moving to Shanghai meant better work opportunities, more money, and the kind of preferential treatment often bestowed upon expats. Lee is a public relations manager. Like Chin, she has two degrees.
"Malaysia is getting more backwards and religious," she said, citing the persecution of transgender women by Islamic authorities, laws governing conversion and apostasy, and the recent tabling of a bill in parliament that would enable sharia courts to hand out harsher punishments.
Ethnic Chinese in Malaysia have long complained of discrimination. Various politicians have exhorted the Chinese to "return to China", pro-Malay groups have urged them to "be grateful", and state-linked media have produced advertisements depicting the Chinese behaving inappropriately during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. And, in 2013, when the last general election saw increased support for the opposition, one newspaper ran a headline asking apa lagi Cina mau (what more do the Chinese want?) With another election looming, there is a danger both race and religion could again be exploited as politicians court the ethnic Malay vote.
Malaysia’s ethnic Chinese and Indians are generally crowded out of the education system. Up until 2001 a quota system kept most university places for Malays. Now universities have internal quotas. There is a widespread belief that non-Malays cannot get government scholarships due to race.
Analyst Hwok-Aun Lee, a senior fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, said the disparity between groups, with Chinese indicating a much greater inclination to emigrate, was not healthy for Malaysia. "Chinese Malaysians on average have greater means to emigrate and have largely ingrained the ethos of self-reliance. They are also more likely to have emigrant family and friends who may encourage the decision and provide moral and practical support," Lee said. He said that academic high-achievers who head abroad "often express the sentiment they were not given a fair chance, or felt undervalued".
However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt...
the deputy home minister Nur Jazlan Mohammed said: "Brain drain is about many factors. But with many countries being more closed about immigration policies, those who emigrate from Malaysia may find fewer opportunities and more discrimination in other countries."
Professor Rajah Rasiah, of the University Malaya’s Department of Development Studies, said peoples’ feeling of being politically disadvantaged was one reason driving migration, while perceptions of creeping Islamisation, as well as the nature of politics in Malaysia, may also have an influence. He said there needed to be opportunities for people with skills and experience to return to Malaysia and work. He said state-run firms "must emphasise merit and be subject to performance standards". Rajah said Malaysians in successful positions overseas were willing to consider returning. "However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves...
they have made it clear that unless the state shows a passion to welcome them back as real Malaysians, and offer the same privileges as for the others, they will not return when they are still productive," he said.
The number of Malaysian professionals overseas returning home has dropped by more than half since 2013, according to statistics from national talent enhancement agency TalentCorp. One of its initiatives, the Returning Expert Programme, facilitates the return of professionals abroad, to address Malaysia’s shortage of technical experts. In 2016 there were only 398 returners, 55.8 per cent lower than the 900 in 2013 and far below the target of 800 returners. In 2015 and 2014 there were 616 and 606 returners respectively.
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For those of you who have never been to Malaysia, Chinese = whites, Malays = blacks. Malaysian law heavily favors Malays and considers Chinese can do everything themselves. Kind of like American law.
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Since Malays are a majority - it would be more like South Africa, nyet?
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The Malayan Emergency... from 1948 until 1960. Support for the MNLA was mainly based on around 500,000 of the 3.12 million ethnic Chinese then living in Malaya.
The tl;dr...The Chinese are foreign trouble makers.
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