[Telegraph] London Bridge has been placed on lockdown amid reports of three men carrying knives attacking people and up to 20 have reportedly been struck by a van. Armed police are at the scene in what is being described as a “major incident”, possibly a terrorist attack.
Witnesses described a white van mounting the curb and hitting as many as up to 20 people on the bridge. The incident happened at 10:30pm on Saturday. A cabbie on the bridge has reported he saw a stabbing man.
Members of the public have been warned to stay away from the area, and the busy London Bridge subway station has been closed.
Several eyewitness accounts have emerged which suggest there have been multiple casualties, with bodies strewn across the pavement. Twitter uses have also reported a stabbing and shots being fired in the area, though this remains unconfirmed.
One woman told the Sun, "We had to run there was loads of shooting".
According to one report 15-20 people were hurt after the car ploughed into them. There were also reports that somebody had run into a restaurant and stabbed two people.
Note: The Telegraph is liveblogging, and has already updated. Go to the link for the latest, which no doubt is not included here. As of 7:00 pm EDT:
'Multiple' casualties following major incident in London
Police say they are responding to three incidents in London Bridge, Borough Market and Vauxhall
Reports a car collided with pedestrians on London Bridge
Officers dealing with reports of stabbings in Borough Market
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Whatever is happening it might be bigger than what we're getting. The Telegraph just updated to say SAS has been deployed to Central London.
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TeeVee says an eye witness reported 'an attacker entered a restaurant and began slashing with a large knife." He was reportedly accompanied by four other attackers.
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London Bridge has been placed on lockdown amid reports of three men carrying knives attacking people and up to 20 have reportedly been struck by a van.
Multiple "Lone Wolves" again. Ima thinkrn Mormons on bikes?
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"Happy Ramadan"
signed, The Religion of Peace™
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The most glaring thing I notice so far about everything, is that no word at all on the attackers fate. Gives some credence to the SAS report I think, they're on a hunt.
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If they do what they did to the IRA, the SAS will have fun and it'll scare the hell out of them. They thrive on publicity, not people vanishing quietly never to be heard from again.
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Government officials and the media are struggling to come up with a motive for the violence, and are urging people to remain focused on the threat posed by global warming, and to celebrate the virtues of diversity........
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Attacking a restaurant with knives? Looking forward (guess that sounds terrible, but I'm past caring) to hearing more about that.
In Houston, or even Chicago,
You don't even put down your taco.
Poor London, stunned, running.
Here? Mums-of-three, gunning,
And yelling, "Yeehaw! Santiago!"
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Phil_b: You might be right, there were reports of a person carrying a cannister, and they were running into and out of bars stabbing people. Early reports have police rushing into bars, keeping people down and safe. Also as time goes on, reports of people claiming Gunfire and Machetes.
Oh, and explosions on London Bridge.
Double oh, they caught the Cannister man according to the Liveblog. So there might be something to the gunfire reports too. Even have a picture of the guy!
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Here's the picture in question that Charles mentioned:
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The explosions reported, appear to be to 'disarm' the cannisters. I doubt they would do that if the perp was still alive. Although, would be a disincentive to future attackers if he was.
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The Sun is apparently giving better coverage right now.
Terror incident leaves up to seven feared dead after van ploughs into pedestrians ‘before three men with hunting knives jump out and start stabbing people’
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#6 I saw that, and wondered what the SAS were doing in London in the first place. Their usual base is 3 or 4 hours away.
The troops have been patrolling since the Manchester Arena attack. I imagine there are units of special forces in all the major cities, and will be until further notice -- the tax on society for not surrendering.
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Could be they are, and its' taking so long because of push-back by the....er...community.
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I've just heard an ex-army officer say he heard 2 or 3 minutes of heavy gunfire about 10 minutes BEFORE he heard the sirens rushing to London Bridge.
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Sky News is showing all the fire trucks turning around and leaving. Indicating things are winding down a bit. Of course the SAS and police will remain just in case, then it will be the Metropolitan CSI and assorted inspectors turn to finish this off.
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Mike Rowley, Assistant Commissioner at Scotland Yard, just gave a statement. In short, three suspects were shot and killed, SAS and police ate hunting for one more terrorist. Six people were killed and 20 injured.
Nothing about the fourth suspect. Also reported elsewhere is that a bystander was shot in the head by police. No word if he's one of the six dead or what.
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Police claiming there were only 3 attackers. I've seen no mention of guns though. Reports have been between 3-5 so I guess that fits?
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#32 Phil, this is not like the movies or TV. Police, as a rule, are trained to make 'body mass' shots as many, if not most, of the readers here know. "Body mass' mean the heart. when heart is shot, heart has this tendency to stop, from shock if nothing else. Stopped heart does not pump blood, Un-pumped blood tend to remain in body. therefore no blood pool.
AHh I just read the above and if it sounds condescending, please accept my apologies as that is not my intention.
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#34 Charles, I noticed that too, there were reports of five men, three of which went on to Borough Market and was later shot by the police. Unknown where the other two went, I suspect one may have been shot by police on London Bridge and the other is who knows where at this point.
People saying that some of the suspects had guns. Police are not saying anything. I'm chalking this up to 'fog of war'. I'm sure we will know more in the after-report.
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Just 1 person armed with a decent pistol. Just ONE. Its a shame they are subjects, not citizens.
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And if that person was trained to use the gun. I'm amazed by how many gun owner cannot shoot straight to save their life. I'm thinking New York City police.
The Metropolitan Police OTOH (and Scotland Yard as well, not sure about other UK police department, but suspect attitude is similar) seems to take carrying a gun very seriously and train the heck out of the gun carrying officers but br really good with the guns if they have to use it.
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A correction on #33, It's Mark Rowley, not Mike and he is the Assistant Commissioner of Met Police, not Scotland Yard. He just happened to give his press conference at Scotland Yard. My mistake and for that I beg your forgiveness.
[Popular Science] A dirt bike is a tool for getting a person to a place they shouldn't be. Lightweight, made for rough terrain, and fast, motorcycles allow special forces to slip through woods, navigate narrow canyons, sneak through alleyways, or hurtle down footpaths. There's only one problem: dirt bikes are really, really loud, so any secrecy gained by using a bike is lost to the engine's roar. Which is why DARPA, the Pentagon's future projects wing, is funding the development of a versatile electric dirt bike, so that special forces can have as silent a ride as possible on two powered wheels. The bike is called "SilentHawk," and after receiving the first prototype, DARPA liked to so much they asked for two more.
SilentHawk is a collaboration between Logos Technologies, which makes military tools like drones and sensors, and Alta Motors, which makes electric dirt bikes. Creating a silent motorcycle meant starting from an electric bike. As designed, one modification of the SilentHawk uses a hybrid engine, so it can run on gas most of the time, and on electricity when it needs to be quiet. And it's not limited to gas: It's can run on diesel, as well as JP5 and JP8 jet fuels, so that the special forces using it in the field can power it with whatever fuel they might encounter. When running on fuel, the SilentHawk recharges its own batteries and any electronic devices the troops might have, like radios, GPS receivers, or tablets.
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Cutting the cost of small hybrid multi-fuel engines sounds like a great idea. From generators to power tools that will run on anything would be a boon to the 3rd World (and the military operating there). As for the 'stealthily speed down bike trails' I think I'll ask my Older Brother that had to do some patrolling in 'Nam -- he needs a laugh.
Excerpt: [FOX 'The Five'] Kimberly Guilfoyle - Yes, I think that President Trump, like I said last night, was being very consistent with this campaign promise. He promised that he was going to do this. I don't think this is a deal that anybody should be crying about. Like we said, it's nonbinding. And the United States is already a clean energy, oil and gas leader.
So, we can keep doing what we're doing. We can keep reducing our admissions. Why would we, in fact, put ourselves at an economic disadvantage, giving and subsidizing an economic windfall to other countries and sort of a climate redistribution of wealth scheme? It makes no sense to me.
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Well. She was married to Gavin Newsome, RINO extraordinare. She also was an ADA in San Fran Sicko. I get queasy every time I hear her name floated for a Trump admin job.
She should stay on "The Five (most insipid people on TV)" or return to "OutDumbered."
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Yes, she needs to stay with 'The Five' and keep her phone conversations with POTUS to herself. Phoning KG could put just about any married man in the dog house.
[PJ] Last month, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced that it will officially recognize a large host of small religions, including Humanism, Heathen, and even the Church of the Spiral Tree.
"Beyond Humanism, the new listing is a win for diversity in general," Jason Torpy, president of the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers, said in a statement. "There is also reason to celebrate other additions. For example, Heathen, Asatru, and Troth designations are long-awaited and well-deserved among the Earth-Centered Community."
The list was released in the context of a letter providing "Faith and Belief Codes" for 221 different religions, expanding the official list beyond the earlier 100. Besides adding heathens and humanists, the list also includes eight more Protestant groups, and expands "Jewish" to encompass Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform Judaism.
Torpy, a 1998 West Point alum, emphasized that the new memo provides new authority for alternative faith groups. "This new directive has paved the way for good chaplains to do the right thing for Humanists and other nontheists in the military," he wrote (emphasis his). "Having Humanist on the list of options will help chaplains to see and provide for the Humanist needs that have always been there in units throughout the military."
[PJ] Why, they published it, of course. What else did you expect?
WASHINGTON -- He is known as the Dark Prince or Ayatollah Mike, nicknames he earned as the Central Intelligence Agency officer who oversaw the hunt for Osama bin Laden and the American drone strike campaign that killed thousands of Islamist militants and hundreds of civilians.
Now the official, ------- -------, has a new job. He is running the C.I.A.’s Iran operations, according to current and former intelligence officials, an appointment that is the first major sign that the Trump administration is invoking the hard line the president took against Iran during his campaign.
Yes, I blanked out his name. Yes, you can see it in the Times article. And yes, I know the Times had publicized his name in the past.
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Don't they think at the NYT or is it taken for granted the CIA has no secrets that Iran already doesn't know ? Perhaps it was common knowledge that Iran already knew?
Even IF they Iranian Intel people don't know, they know now. The NYT is so friendly and loyal to American interests. The NYT is a fountain of patriotism as everyone is well aware.
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Leaking the identity of a spy got a Bush official time in the pokey, even though said spy or spies had themselves self identified before the event. Time to haul the NYT reporters again before a grand jury. We have precedent.
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Someone inside the IC felt this guy was too hard a threat against Iran. That someone needs to be found and dealt with very harshly. This is betrayal at the level of treason, even for democrats. As for the NYT, they are scum....
[LI] Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) has reported that the village council of Burqa will not budge on their decision to name a women’s center after terrorist Dalal Mughrabi. The UN lashed out at the center for glorifying a terrorist and Norway demanded a refund of its donations to the center, as we previously reported.
According to PMW, village council head Sami Daghlas hails Mughrabi a hero. After all, she took part in a massacre that killed 37 people, including 12 children:
"The center has no intention of caving in to the pressure and change its name, the head of village’s council, Sami Daghlas, said... He said the name Dalal Mughrabi was chosen by the villagers to commemorate a Palestinian hero (emphasis added, Ed.) who sacrificed herself for her country and therefore they have no intention to change its name regardless of the price."
BLUF: [LI] "He is a faker," she said of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, going point by point, as if presenting a legal brief. "He has no consistency about him. He says whatever comes into his head at the moment. He really has an ego. ... How has he gotten away with not turning over his tax returns? The press seems to be very gentle with him on that." ....
"At first I thought it was funny," she [Ginsburg] said of Trump’s early candidacy. "To think that there’s a possibility that he could be president ... " Her voice trailed off gloomily.
"I think he has gotten so much free publicity," she added, drawing a contrast between what she believes is tougher media treatment of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and returning to an overriding complaint: "Every other presidential candidate has turned over tax returns."
That July 2016 CNN lashing of Trump was not a one-off. Justice Ginsburg made two other negative public statements about Trump during the campaign (via Politifact):
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The Administration should quietly encourage the high court to ask that she recuse herself. If she refuses, go public for her ouster. Either way, an 'Art of the Deal' Win-Win.
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If she refuses to recluse herself because of the statements she made during the campaign - and then rules against the ban because of the statements Trump made... that would be the definition of hyproracy.
But as you said, they have no shame and the MSM will provide whatever cover she needs.
[phys.org] When scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory focused the full intensity of the world's most powerful X-ray laser on a small molecule, they got a surprise: A single laser pulse stripped all but a few electrons out of the molecule's biggest atom from the inside out, leaving a void that started pulling in electrons from the rest of the molecule, like a black hole gobbling a spiraling disk of matter.
Within 30 femtoseconds - millionths of a billionth of a second - the molecule lost more than 50 electrons, far more than scientists anticipated based on earlier experiments using less intense beams, or isolated atoms. Then it blew up.
The results, published today in Nature, give scientists fundamental insights they need to better plan and interpret experiments using the most intense and energetic X-ray pulses from SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray free-electron laser. Experiments that require these ultrahigh intensities include attempts to image individual biological objects, such as viruses and bacteria, at high resolution. They are also used to study the behavior of matter under extreme conditions, and to better understand charge dynamics in complex molecules for advanced technological applications.
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On the molecular level, this could prove useful in the future for some technologies, like medical or metallurgy, for removal of undesirable bits and pieces. Would have to have the way to contain the action before it got out of hand, though. That would be ugly.
This technology also borders on the realm of Lex Luthor or Blofeld stuff if in the wrong hands.
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Relax Mullah, when was the last time a sensational discovery in physics was announced which didn't turn out to be an experimental error?
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30 femtoseconds - millionths of a billionth of a second -
A femtosecond is the SI unit of time equal to 10−15 or 1/1,000,000,000,000,000 of a second; that is, one quadrillionth, or one millionth of one billionth, of a second.[1] For context, a femtosecond is to a second as a second is to about 31.71 million years; a ray of light travels approximately 0.3 µm (micrometers) in 1 femtosecond, a distance comparable to the diameter of a virus. - wiki
At what point do you get when there is no distance light can travel in a measure of time?
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I had a long explanation, et. al. all written up in response, then I read the actual article Besoeker linked to.
Talk about misleading headline, one word got left off which changed the entire impression.
I deleted most of what I wrote as it's now pointless.
But not to deride the achievement, the takeaway can be summed up in the following: The results, published today in Nature, give scientists fundamental insights they need to better plan and interpret experiments using the most intense and energetic X-ray pulses from SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray free-electron laser. Experiments that require these ultrahigh intensities include attempts to image individual biological objects, such as viruses and bacteria, at high resolution. They are also used to study the behavior of matter under extreme conditions, and to better understand charge dynamics in complex molecules for advanced technological applications.
"For any type of experiment you do that focuses intense X-rays on a sample, you want to understand how it reacts to the X-rays," said Daniel Rolles of Kansas State University. "This paper shows that we can understand and model the radiation damage in small molecules, so now we can predict what damage we will get in other systems."
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Oh forgot to add, it's "like a black hole", describing the behavior of electrons moving from outer orbits to inner orbits. Elections are wont to do that, they fill in the innermost orbits first, then fill the rest as additional electrons becomes available. The article never said it was a black hole.
[Miami Herald] ISLAMABAD Pakistan has frozen the accounts of 5,000 suspected terrorists, taking about $3 million out of their pockets, but Islamabad could still come under scrutiny at a crucial June meeting of an international watchdog that tracks terror financing.
Analysts and government officials say political foot-dragging and sympathetic supporters throughout Pakistan makes it difficult to cut off the money supply to banned terrorist groups.
Next month in Spain, the Financial Action Task Force will update its assessment of "high-risk and non-cooperative jurisdictions," Alexandra Wijmenga-Daniel of the task force's communications department said in an email. She did not offer any specifics.
The 35-nation intergovernmental organization was formed in 1989 to combat money laundering. After 9/11, it also took on the role of fighting the financing of terrorism. Getting on the task force's "black list" could hurt a country's ability to borrow, if its banking system is considered a money laundering haven.
In 2015, Pakistan was exempted from its scrutiny after a similar session applauded the country's progress in tackling both money laundering and terrorist financing.
However, concerns have been raised by the resurrection of banned groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba under new names. Also worrying is the relative ease with which groups such as Jaish-e-Mohammed appear to operate, openly running Islamic seminaries and fundraising.
[Miami Herald] Miami-Dade police may deploy sophisticated aerial surveillance capable of photographing everyone outside for 32 square miles in an effort to track vehicles and individuals involved in crimes.
The proposal, first reported by the Miami New Times, would send a surveillance plane high above high-crime neighborhoods to film everything below, according to Lt. Juan Villalba Jr. Already used in Baltimore, the technology lets police pull footage after a crime occurs and try to recreate where the perpetrators came from on their way to the scene and where they fled to afterward.
"It’s kind of like a DVR," Villalba said, referring to playing back television shows hours after they air. "This will allow us to go back and look at what happened."
Already used in Baltimore and other cities, the technology has helped spark a national debate on civil liberties as it pushes the edge of what’s possible now in mass surveillance. The camera system tracks how the U.S. pursued suicide bombers in Iraq, and the American Civil Liberties Union has called it "terrifying" for the potential to record every citizen’s movement when he or she is visible from the sky."
"This is not the way to adopt public policy -- no system of surveillance should be put into place until it is first established that there is a need which this system addresses, and that there are protections in place for the privacy of the people of Miami-Dade County," the ACLU’s Florida said in a statement Thursday from executive director Howard Simon. "Until these protections for the rights and privacy of the people of Miami-Dade County are put into place, the grant request should be withdrawn."
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The camera system tracks how the U.S. pursued suicide bombers in Iraq
Tracked suicide bombers by reversing the tape (after the boom) and watching where the car or truck originated from, if in the field of view (FOV). Some success was achieved.
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Open and public places are not protected from 'eyes'. I believe SCOTUS has already ruled in vehicle cases 'clear and open' view.
Just keep in mind that any such video record is public and subject to requests whether it is a police 'incident' or a traffic accident. Can we say another bureaucracy to handle the volume of requests. Could be tempered by charging for 'shipping and handling'.
[LA Times] Anthem is the nation’s second-largest health insurer, with thousands of medical professionals on its payroll. Yet its Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia subsidiary has just informed its members that if they show up at the emergency room with a problem that later is deemed to have not been an emergency, their claim won’t be paid.
It’s a new wrinkle in the age-old problem of how to keep patients from showing up at the ER for just anything. But medical experts say the Georgia insurer is playing with fire. By requiring patients to self-diagnose at the risk of being stuck with a big bill, it may discourage even those with genuine emergencies from seeking necessary care. And it’s asking them to take on a task that often confounds even experienced doctors and nurses.
"Patients don’t come with a sticker on their forehead saying what the diagnosis is," said Renee Hsia of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at UC San Francisco, who has studied the difficulty of making snap diagnoses at the ER. "We as physicians can’t always distinguish necessary from unnecessary visits."
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ER is horribly overused by folks that 'don't have to pay for it' and come in with very minor aliments or injuries. Apparently they can't (or won't) use the 'Urgent Care' facilities most health care systems have and designed for such situations.
Drains resources for the folks truly needing the ER.
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How does one say "bring your car title" in Spanish ?
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If you think you're having a stroke or heart attack wait until you're sure before going to the ER. It is an effective way to make Obamacare fiscally sound, by ridding us of many of the most medically expensive pat of the population.
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What No.2 said! It's like those protestors who block roads so emergency vehicles transporting patients are grid locked on the road. In these cases, stuck in the queue line for dangerously extended waits.
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My employer faced a similar problem five or six years ago - ER use was skyrocketing. They raised the co-pay for ER visits from $50 to $150 and ER usage plummeted.
When it's somebody else's money, usage goes up.
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Illegals already have a single payer healthcare plan immediately upon arrival, YOU and local ER! What do you think makes the ER so damn expensive. The people on your healthcare plan bill they forget to list, those who don't pay.
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NoMoreBS nails it. Illegals along with assorted other deadbeats and freeloaders use the ER as their own personal general practitioner. They don't pay. We do. But it gets worse. When legitimate patients come to the ER with extreme pain or life threatening conditions they have to wait while the illegals are seen for a case of the sniffles.
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The clinical difference between a simple fainting spell and a cardiac arrest, is that you wake up after a fainting spell.
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Apparently they can't (or won't) use the 'Urgent Care' facilities most health care systems have and designed for such situations.
Our local emergency room has an urgent care clinic next door, so they can triage them right out the door at intake. So much easier than asking them to go off to an unknown somewhere on the map.
[AP] SINGAPORE -- U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says the United States regards North Korea's pursuit of nuclear weapons a "clear and present danger."
In remarks at an international security conference in Singapore, Mattis says the Trump administration is encouraged by China's renewed commitment to ridding North Korea of nuclear weapons.
Mattis also has sharp criticism for China. He says China is showing a disregard for international law by militarizing artificial islands in disputed areas of the South China Sea.
[DW] La Belle France's defense ministry has said its troops took several combatants "out of action" in operations against jihadist groups in Mali this week. The assault also resulted in the seizure of weapons and other equipment.
Soldiers taking part in La Belle France's counterterror mission in northern Mali clashed with Islamist snuffies this week, taking out around 20 fighters, French officials said on Friday.
Soldiers involved in Operation Barkhane, the French military mission operating in the Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... , deployed Tiger attack helicopters and Mirage 2000 jets during the operations.
"About 20 terrorist have been taken out and following searches the army has seized individual and collective weapons," the French defense ministry said in a statement.
In addition to weapons, munitions and other equipment were seized during the operations which began on Sunday and ended on Thursday.
The statement added that this week's operations coupled with other operations carried out with Mali and Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... forces had "produced intelligence on operations by armed terrorist groups in the region."
Four French soldiers were maimed when mortar struck an Operation Barkhane camp outside Timbuktu on Thursday. One day prior, three Malian soldiers were killed in an ambush.
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[Ynet] Authorities in northern Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... say 11 people are dead after two jacket wallahs attacked a camp for those displaced by Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... murderous Moslem violence in the region.
Governor Midjiyawa Bakari of the Far North region said Friday that the dead include the two girls who detonated their explosives at the displacement camp in Kolofata.
He says several dozen others were maimed, including 15 who were taken to the hospital in Mora.
Authorities believe the girls had entered Cameroon the night before from neighboring Nigeria.
[DW] Belgian prosecutors have charged a 30-year-old in connection with terror attacks in Gay Paree and Belgium. The suspect is related to others implicated in the attacks.
Named as Yassine A., the 30-year-old Belgian national has been formally charged following a "judicial inquiry" into the 2015 Gay Paree attacks for his involvement in murders of a terrorist nature and being a member of a terrorist group.
In a statement on Friday, the Office of the Federal Prosecutor in Belgium said a pre-trial chamber in Brussels ordered a one-month detention after Yassine A. was charged with "terrorist liquidations" and of being "a leader in the activities of a terrorist group."
Extremist suspects have their cases reviewed monthly until their trials; such periods of custody are almost always extended.
Related to jacket wallahs
Yassine A. was a cousin of two suicide bombers, the brothers Ibrahim and Khalid Bakraoui, who attacked Zaventem airport and the Maalbeek metro station in Brussels, killing 32 people and leaving more than 320 maimed in March 2016.
He was jugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! just days after the Brussels attacks and found in possession of keys to a hideout used by the bombers who carried out the attacks in both Brussels and Gay Paree, Belgian broadcaster RTL reported.
The defendant is also the brother of one of the supposed leaders of the Gay Paree attacks, Oussama Atar, who is believed to be based in Syria.
In November 2015, gunnies and bombers in Gay Paree targeted the Bataclan concert venue, the national soccer stadium and sidewalk cafes, leaving 130 dead and 368 people injured, 100 of them seriously.
The 30-year-old Belgian national, Yassine Atar, has been charged with "terrorist liquidations" and of being "a leader in the activities of a terrorist group."
Yassin Atar's older brother Oussama, 32, was held for five years between 2005 and 2010 in various jails across Iraq, including the notorious Abu Ghraib. It is believed he has personally met ISIS leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us...
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[GatewayPundit] Right around 5:00 PM, attorney Elizabeth Beck’s office received a strange call from someone using a "robotic and genderless" voice changer and began snooping about the DNC lawsuit that was filed regarding 2016 election cheating. The suit is based on documents released by "Guccifer 2.0", which alleges that the DNC colluded with then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign in an effort to "perpetrate a fraud on the public", which you can read about here.
The robotic voice closed with "Okey, dokey" after talking with the law firm’s secretary. When the law firm decided to look at who called, the caller ID showed that the number was not blocked. When the firm then googled the number, Debbie Wasserman Schultz’ office came up.
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Just like her harangue of teh DC Police Chief holding onto her laptop as evidence in a criminal case, she really IS that stoopid and arrogant. And fugly
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Baaj (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi paramilitary forces continued operations to clear the borders with Syria from militants on Friday, killing six members of the Islamic State, including a senior leader.
A statement by al-Hashd al-Shaaib (Popular Mobilization) said through its media service that forces had killed six members of the Islamic State’s commando forces, including Hassan Kanahs al-Zebeidi, a senior leader, at Matallat al-Markeb village near the borders with Syria.
Earlier on Friday, the media outlet said mobilization forces recaptured one village near the borders.
Coincidently with government troops’ operations in Mosul, army warplanes have been backing PMU operations against IS holdouts near the Syrian borders, most notably at the Qairawan and Baaj regions. Mobilization commanders had said thei recaptured Qairawan and continue currently to clear Baaj, recently announcing they reached the borderline and revealing plans to hand over security at that region to Iraqi police forces.
Speculations have emerged that the Iran-trained mobilization forces could seek to link up with forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is also fighting an Islamic State insurgency, by crossing the borders into Syria. Mobilization officials have, however, assured they would not take the step without an Iraqi legislature decision.
Iraqi forces have been approaching IS’s last entrenchment in western Mosul in the Old City since earlier late April. Operations to recapture western Mosul launched on February 19th. Eastern Mosul was liberated in January.
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A military source said that the Syrian army units killed more than 15 ISIL terrorists in al-Barghouthiyeh village east of Salamyia city in Hama countryside.
Deir Ezzor
An army unit clashes with members of an ISIL terrorist group who tried to infiltrate from the direction of al-Hweiqeh neighborhood to attack a military post in the area. The infiltration attempt was foiled as a result of the clashes, with the terrorists getting killed or injured and their weapons and equipment destroyed.
Army units destroyed centers and fortified positions of ISIL terrorists, leaving many of them dead or injured, in the surroundings of the graveyards and al-Banorama areas, Tallet Brouk and Alloush in Deir Ezzor city and its surroundings.
Homs
A military source said that the army air force carried out intensive airstrikes on ISIL movement axes in the area of Jib al-Jarrah, about 75 km east of Homs city.
According to the source, the Syrian warplanes destroyed ISIL vehicles and positions in the villages of Western Habra, Eastern Habra, Rasm al-Sab’a, al-Rabieh, al-Shiha and Rasm al-Arnab in the eastern countryside of Homs.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Amid new advances in rural Raqqa, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are now within striking distance of the last ISIS supply route from the jihadist mainland to its self-declared capital.
Following the liberation of a dozen villages over the previous 48 hours, the largely Kurdish SDF managed to impose full control over the village of Ath-Thadyayn southwest of Raqqa on Thursday, thus cementing its siege of a tiny ISIS pocket around the junction town of al-Mansurah.
At least 19 ISIS Death Eaters were killed during the festivities while dozens of RPG’s and tons of ammunition were seized, Kurdish sources said.
If exploring pincer advances similar to previous stages of the Euphrates Wrath offensive, the SDF is expected to close off a 20 kilometer stretch of ISIS-held rural territory south of Raqqa before initiating the urban battle for the city itself.
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Taiz – Houthi and Saleh militias recruited 25 children from Mahweet during the past months and got them involved in conflict fronts in Taiz, Midi and Nihm, said Mahweet Human Rights Organization.
The organization monitored that Mahweet – ruled by Saleh and Houthi militias – has underwent 451 violations by insurgents against civilians during May, including raiding villages and houses, kidnapping and recruiting children and displacing households.
Media Almahweet Center saw that the militias’ recruiting of a huge number of children indicates its shortage of human power due to the two-year war.
A statement by Mahweet Human Rights Organization revealed that insurgents have kidnapped 116 civilians, with 34 being physically and psychologically tortured, despite 11 others who are deliberately hidden and no one knows their place of detention.
Insurgents have been inciting killing, have disturbed 112 people, stalked media, raided three villages and three houses and displaced 11 households, according to the statement. It added that up to 40 state and private institutions are still under occupation while 12 others were transformed into barracks, while 17 schools for memorizing Quran were shut down.
Mahweet Human Rights Organization called on local and foreign organizations to “visit Houthi and Saleh insurgent militias prisons in Mahweet to check over the kidnapped and arrested and to take a closer look at the violations that can’t be discovered by the organization.”
It concluded in its statement that the mentioned violations are the ones that the organization managed to monitor and archive and that there are other violations that were not disclosed because of the militias’ pressure and their tension from any impartial rights act or professional media act.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) One Iraqi army soldier was killed and another was wounded on Friday when an explosive device went off in western Baghdad, according to a police source.
“The bomb exploded in Radwaniya and targeted an Iraqi army patrol,” Alsumaria News quoted the source saying.
Violence and armed conflicts left 824 Iraqis dead and wounded during the month of May, according to a monthly count by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq which excludes security members deaths. Baghdad alone sustained 86 deaths and 226 injuries, according to UNAMI.
Baghdad has seen almost daily bombings and armed attacks against security members, paramilitary groups and civilians since the Iraqi government launched a wide-scale campaign to retake IS-occupied areas in 2016. While most of of the explosions went without a claim of responsibility, Islamic State has claimed several blasts.
The Iraqi government, currently focused on ousting the group from Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, is expected to aim at other IS holdouts.
Some security observers believe that even after IS’s main havens across Iraqi provinces are conquered, the group may still constitute a security threat through sleeper cells and lone wolf attacks. They believe attacks outside Mosul are designed to make up for the group’s losses there.
[NYPost] Administrators at a Long Island high school forced a student to sign a contract barring her from changing her gender identity because she had switched it twice already, sources told The Post.
Born a girl, the current Valley Stream South High School student, who asked to remain anonymous, said she first asked the school to recognize her as a male with a new name as a sophomore last year.
A school social worker told her that hesitant administrators wanted her to delay the change until this year -- purportedly because the process was lengthy and complicated.
"That wasn’t true and I knew it wasn’t true," the student told The Post. "After I insisted on it, they made the change in a few days."
Formally regarded as a boy last year, the student said her teachers and classmates accepted her new identity and made her feel comfortable. Continues...
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She wanted to shower in the boy's locker room, until she didn't?
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According to the rest of the article, while her parents and friends knew, the rest of the family didn't. Now a younger cousin is moving to the high school, so the only way to keep the grandparents from finding out is to give it up. No doubt she'd also discovered that she wasn't really one of the boys, no matter how accommodating everyone was about it.
[DAWN] Residents of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... remained perplexed by 'strange' smells that pervaded large parts of the city Wednesday evening, with many taking to social media to share their concerns.
Members of the Facebook group Halaat Updates, where Karachiites discuss everything from electricity outages to municipal negligence, wondered what the reason behind the smell could be, with many voicing concerns that it may have a detrimental impact on health.
Residents of several areas in Karachi, including Gulistan-e-Johar, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Nazimabad and parts of the Defence Housing Authority complained of the smell.
Members of the group said the smell was "unbearable" and suggested the use of face masks to cope with it.
While some describe it as the smell of rubber, others say the stench has the odour of an animal carcass.
Several people said the smell prompted their family members to search the house for a dead animal.
Some likened the smell to the stink of a dead rat, while other said it smelled like a "fish truck". One member of the group said it smelled like manure.
Other members of the group offered explanations for the causes of the smell. One member suggested the stench was a result of garbage rotting in Karachi's sweltering heat.
Another member suggested the smell was the result of a "biological attack".
Another Facebook page, Weather Updates PK, claimed that the smell was the result of an easterly shift in the wind and the strong Somalian current over the Arabian Sea.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Jaish al-Islam ...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful... ’s (Army of Islam) official front man, Islam ’Alloush, has announced his resignation from the Islamist group on Friday.
While no reason was given by ’Alloush, he did state that Jaish al-Islam’s leadership has accepted his resignation.
The former front man of Jaish al-Islam added that he will be known by his real name, Majdi Noumeh, from this day forward.
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[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] Police in Germany have evacuated the Rock Am Ring music festival after receiving a terror threat.
The major event was cleared out on Friday evening after police in the nearby city of Koblenz said they had received information about a "concrete threat".
"Due to a terrorist threat the police have advised us to interrupt the festival," organisers said on the festival website.
Around 90,000 music fans were expected to attend the annual three-day event by the end of the weekend.
The German band Rammstein was the Friday night headliner, but hadn't yet started playing.
Festival organisers say they hope to be able to go ahead with the programme Saturday.
"The public reacted fantastically," organiser Marek Lieberberg said.
Festival-goers were told to move to the camping area after being told of the evacuation.
Authorities took the precautionary measure less than two weeks after 22 people were killed as they left an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester.
[IsraelTimes] Germany’s biggest rock festival will resume after being disrupted by fears of a possible "terrorist threat" which have proved to be unfounded, the organizers said Saturday. Police told AFP searches at the three-day "Rock am Ring," held near the southwestern city of Koblenz were over.
Some 90,000 people are expected to attend the event which ends on Sunday.
"After a series of intensive searches across the site the fears of an imminent danger were not confirmed," the organizers said.
"The police gave the go-ahead" for the festival to restart they said, without specifying when the event would resume.
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Kirkuk (IraqiNew.com) Warplanes from the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State have killed four members of the group in southern Kirkuk, a source said on Friday.
Fighter jets, the source told Alsumaria News, pounded several IS locations in Arab Kawaz, Taza and Daqouq regions (355 km south of Kirkuk). The strikes left four militants dead and 12 others wounded, according to the source.
IS members have been in control over a handful of regions in southwest Kirkuk, most notably the town of Hawija, since 2014, when the group came to the scene, took over several Iraqi regions and proclaimed an Islamic “caliphate”.
Iraqi government forces, backed by a U.S.-led coalition and paramilitary troops, launched an offensive in October to retake the city of Mosul, Islamic State’s largest urban stronghold in Iraq. The Iraqi government is planning to aim at other IS havens across Iraq after Mosul.
Local officials in Hawija have repeatedly urged the government to hasten with the liberation of their town.
Since taking over Iraqi regions, Islamic State members have executed dozens of civilians, security members and many of its own members for various reasons ranging from collaboration with security forces to attempting to flee areas under the group’s control, most notably Hawija.
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[ARA News] Lahur Talabani, director of the Kurdish Counter-Terrorism Group (CTG) in Iraqi Kurdistan, said on Friday that the CTG and the PUK-linked intelligence agency Zanyari have rescued a girl from the Shia paramilitary Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) in Kirkuk province.
“The CTG forces remain committed to assisting everyone in Kirkuk, regardless of religion, ethnicity, political affiliation and social status,” he said.
“The young girl was rescued and returned safely to her family this morning. Three men, including ringleader, have been arrested and are in police custody,” the top Kurdish official said.
“Extremely proud of Zanyari Agency and CTG forces who worked tirelessly to rescue 6yr old Turkman girl kidnapped in Kirkuk by Shia militia,” he said.
In the last few years, clashes took place on several occasions between the Kurdish Peshmerga forces and the Shia PMU forces in northern Iraq, mainly in Tuz Khurmato.
Karim Nouri, the spokesperson of the PMU, has ruled out a future war between the Kurds and the PMU.
During a conference at the American University of Sulaimani in March, Nouri said: “The PMU and the Peshmergas have fought together, our Kurdish brothers do not need to fear conflict.”
“The Kurds have to be sure that even in the future there won’t be any attacks,” he said.
“In Sinjar, they were supporting us, and holding our flags. We tell our Kurdish brothers there is nothing to fear,” he said, mentioning joint cooperation between the PMU and the Peshmerga forces against ISIS in Sinjar, Mosul, Jalawla, Amerli and Bashir.
Many Kurds argued that once the war against ISIS is over, heavy clashes could break out between the PMU and the Kurdish Peshmerga forces.
However, after the start of the Mosul operation there was more coordination between Baghdad and Kurdish forces.
In the meantime, the Kurdish government said that the recent move of the PMU towards the Syrian border and the PMU intervention into several Yezidi villages were in violation of previous agreements between Erbil and Baghdad.
[Hurriyet Daily News] Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) head Kemal Kilicdaroglu has asked his party to prepare a report investigating The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s failed July 15, 2016 coup attempt, as an "alternative" to the parliamentary committee’s draft report released on May 26.
"The members of the coup commission [from the CHP] should run a very meticulous work. They should find out all the relations and points left in contradiction and in darkness regarding the July 15 coup attempt. Let’s try to ensure that the public is informed regarding this matter, leaving no stone left unturned," Kilicdaroglu said during a CHP central executive meeting in Ankara on May 31.
The parliamentary coup commission report was published after work was started on it on Oct. 4, 2016. Over three months active the commission held a total of 22 meetings and listened to 51 people.
However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... opposition voices have blasted the commission as unreliable, with CHP chair Kilicdaroglu saying its report "deliberately tried to conceal the reality of the coup attempt."
"The report we will prepare should be an alternative with dissenting opinions. Our deputy friends are the injured parties of the coup attempt, so let them be involved in the cases, especially regarding the bombing of parliament. Let our friends follow all the trials on July 15. Don’t let the blood of the 249 people [killed in the coup attempt] be left on the floor," he added.
On May 31, CHP spokesperson Bulent Tezcan reiterated the party’s stance regarding the committee’s coup report. Speaking at a presser organized following the party’s central executive board meeting, Tezcan said the CHP sees the report as an attempt to "cover up the political leg of the coup."
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[DAWN] Conceding that the recent US-Arab-Islamic summit in Riyadh widened the sectarian divide in the world, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... observed on Thursday that Pakistain would have to tread carefully in pursuing efforts for greater unity.
While addressing the Senate on a calling attention notice concerning the mandate of the 41-nation military alliance, Mr Aziz ruled out the possibility of an attack on Iran by the coalition. He said the Saudi foreign minister had clarified that the coalition members would be free to decide the activities they wanted to participate in. These activities included political consultations, intelligence-sharing, capacity-building, building counter-narratives and military cooperation.
He made it clear that the parliament’s resolution of April 10, 2015 would continue to serve as a guideline for Pakistain to maintain a balanced position in regional conflicts. He said that Pakistain would support the territorial integrity of 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... and protect the sanctity of Harmain Sharifain. "We will not do anything in deviation of the resolution," he assured the house.
He said the military coalition’s terms of reference were yet to be finalised, and added that statements by Saudi authorities would not become ToR.
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[DAWN] Pakistan on Thursday condemned India’s deliberate act of targeting civilians in Azad Jammu and Kashmire (AJK) as two people were killed and six others, including four women, suffered injuries in unprovoked and intense Indian firing from across the Line of Control (LoC).
"India’s deliberate targeting of civilians is condemnable and contrary to human dignity and international human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... and humanitarian laws," said Foreign Office (FO) spokesperson M. Nafees Zakaria in a tweet after the casualties took place in different villages of AJK’s southern Poonch district.
"The Indian troops started shelling in Battal sector at about 7am without any provocation, targeting civilian population with small arms and mortars," Poonch Deputy Commissioner Raja Tahir Mumtaz told Dawn.
He said that two men, one in his late 20s and the other in mid-60s, bit the dust to "intense" shelling from across the divide.
He identified the victims as Ghazar Ahmed of Kakuta village and Sardar Fazal Ahmed of Darra Sher Khan village.
Those injured -- Malick Mohammad Jamil and Syeda Faria Kabir in Battal village, Qazi Mohammad Safeer and Jabeen Mehboob in Lachyal village, Taiba Hanif in Rakkar village and Nasreen Akhtar in Mandhol village -- had been hospitalised, he said.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has officially begun vital offensive against the so-called "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, formerly ISIS/ISIS) in southeastern Aleppo countryside.
Yesterday, al-Masdar News reported on SAA’s preparations for a major military operation in Khanasser district.
Today, units of the 30th Brigade of the Elite Republican Guard alongside with al-Quds Brigade (Paleostinian paramilitary) and National Defense Forces (NDF) started the long-awaited assault striking positions of IS jihadists east of Khanasser town.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) is on a roll today in the eastern countryside of Aleppo, liberating more than a dozen villages that were under the occupation 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.... (ISIS). Led by the Tiger Forces, the Syrian Arab Army began the day by storming the southwestern countryside of the Maskanah Plain; this would result in the capture of eight villages, including al-Hamra, and Jubb al-Hammam.
In addition to the liberation of these villages, the Syrian Arab Army also captured the Faysal Bridge after a short battle with the Islamic State.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... just east of the Khanasser Highway, the Paleostinian-led Liwaa al-Quds ...the Jerusalem Brigade is a Paleostinian-Syrian pro-Government group that operates in Aleppo, formed in 2013. The group is composed of predominately Sunni Paleostinians from the al-Nayrab district as well as the former refugee camp Handarat. It is believed to be the largest Assadist auxilliary force operating in storied Aleppo... (Jerusalem Brigade) units liberated the large hilltop of Tal al-’Alam, forcing the Islamic State to abandon their positions near this vital government supply route.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Seven people were reportedly killed in Kabul as demonstrators clashed with riot police during a protest demanding the resignation of Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf 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. .. and Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... , Friday.
The action follows the deadly boom-mobile blast that claimed the lives of at least 80 people and maimed over 350 in the Afghan capital on Wednesday morning.
Protesters gathered in Zanbaq Square, where the blast took place, holding anti-government banners and chanting against terrorism. Demonstrators scuffled with security forces as they tried to reach the presidential palace.
Police was heard firing shots in the air and allegedly also tear gas in order to quell the uprising.
The boom-mobilewent kaboom! on Wednesday in the Wazir Akbar Khan area of Kabul where a number of embassy buildings are situated.
No group has yet grabbed credit for the attack.
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[Breitbart] A sergeant in the Venezuelan Armed Forces has released a video calling for his fellow soldiers to rise up against dictator Nicolás Maduro and reject orders to attack unarmed civilians, the latest indication that Maduro is losing the support of the military amid a wave of violent crackdowns on dissidents.
First Sergeant Giomar Alexander Flores Ortiz identifies himself with his legal military number in the video before accusing Maduro’s socialist government of being an "illegitimate president" and telling soldiers to "not follow the abusive and unconstitutional orders that our superior give us."
"I consider myself a rightful soldier regarding upholding my duties, with strong values and professional ethics," he said in the video. "I always stick to the rules and regulations of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela."
"In the fulfillment of this function I am at the exclusive service of the country, with absolutely no political partisanship," he asserts. "I hereby ratify my rejection of Nicolás Maduro Moros as an illegitimate president of the republic and I do not accept his dictatorial regime, which does not respect the Constitution and instead defies its principles and disregards human rights."
"My call is to you, my dear comrades in arms. ... We must respect the laws and be on the side of the people, and turn our backs on the tyrant that has so harmed the country. We cannot fear him. We must fulfill our duty to defend our nation against the abhorrent actions committed by these immoral and corrupt officials," he says. (Video at the link)
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Last I heard, the average Venezuelan had lost about 19 pounds. I suppose that figure includes men, women and children. There won't be much left to control if Maduro has his way, so I suppose the military has no other choice left than to hang the ba$tard.
Any odds on whether or not he makes it out of the country?
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Depends how much he gives the Military to let him go. At least a couple billion to get away, but I'm not sure WHERE he would go. Most of South America at this point hates his guts. Cuba perhaps?
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Kiddie choirs. Children’s piano recitals. And a full-on, erotic drag show complete with gyrations, tongue gymnastics and a flashed G-string.
Families at a Manhattan public school talent show got an unexpected lesson in human sexuality when a grown man took the stage in a black, sequined dress and flaming red wig and performed a raunchy drag number where he grinded the stage and spread his legs.
The official public school Learning Expo held May 25 in an auditorium at the Museo del Barrio was billed as a talent show for students from across Manhattan’s District 4 to show off what they learned in school.
But at the end of the two-hour event, parents and kids as young as 5 were shocked when a man identified as Public School 96 Parent Association President Frankie Quinones took the stage and did an explicit lip-synch performance of a song by the campy 1980’s Puerto Rican music sensation Iris Chacón.
"People were horrified," said Raquel Morales, who was at the event with her son, a fifth-grader who attends a public school in District 4. "It looked like a nightclub performance. I’ve been asking for an apology from the district for the last week, and they’ve been ignoring it."
Morales said about 200 families at the evening talent show took in student art and writing exhibits from schools across the district, including Public School 83, River East Elementary School and PS 96.
The parents sat through endearing performances by children who took the stage and played the piano and drums and sang for the student performance portion of the event, which District 4 Superintendent Alexandra Estrella emceed.
Then, parents said, Estrella introduced the final act of the night, billed on the event flyer as a "Special Surprise Performance!" More and pix at link.
[DAWN] The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday, after a particularly fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... exchange with the attorney general (AG), decided to open a case against PML-N Senator Nehal Hashmi.
Issuing Hashmi a show-cause notice for maligning the judiciary and summoning him again on June 5, the court appointed AG Ashtar Ausaf as prosecutor in the case and ordered him to compile relevant evidence in connection with Hashmi's recent outburst against judiciary.
The chief justice had on Wednesday taken suo motu ...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard... notice of a video of Hashmi railing against "those investigating" the prime minister's family and threatening them with "consequences".
Senator Nehal Hashmi's now infamous speech. Source: DawnNews
Justice Saqib Nisar had summoned the senator to appear before the special bench overseeing the implementation of the Panama Papers verdict.
"Are you aware of what is going on around you?" the AG, who was present for the hearing, was asked by the bench.
Hashmi's video had stirred up a nationwide controversy after it went 'viral' on social media. In the video, the senator had warned that those conducting the investigation would be "taken to task".
"It seems that the government's self-proclaimed spokespersons let no opportunity for maligning the courts slip by," Justice Ejaz Afzal remarked.
"It is not our custom to bring our children into our fights," Justice Sheikh Azmat chimed in, referring to the senator's threats. "Mr Attorney General, what kind of people involve children in their fights?" he asked.
"The cowardly kind," offered AG Ashtar Ausaf.
"No, not cowards -- it is forces of Evil and the mafia who do such things," responded Justice Azmat.
"Congratulations Mr Attorney General: it seems that your government has joined the Sicilian Mafia," he added wryly.
"We have faced military dictatorships, but even they did not dare threaten our children," Justice Afzal said to the AG. "Our children are being threatened under your government," he observed.
"You stayed quiet for two days after Hashmi's speech and then sprung into action [once it made headlines] fearing the Supreme Court's retribution," he added.
"We constituted the joint investigation team (JIT) and we are not afraid of any type of consequences," Justice Ejaz Afzal said.
"We were the ones who issued instructions to the Supreme Court registrar," he said, responding to a widely-circulated rumour that the heads of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistain and the State Bank were 'pressured' by a caller -- who identified himself as the Supreme Court registrar -- into submitting the names of two JIT members who have repeatedly been accused of bias by the ruling Sharif family.
"We know who's capable and who can deliver results," he added, observing that some things were being blown out of proportion to present a misleading view of the process.
"Your government has been creating problems for us," he warned, slamming the "misleading campaign" being run in connection with the JIT.
"Strict action will be taken against whoever mocks the judiciary," he added.
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The field commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA) naval forces has died of wounds .
Ibrahim Al-Majbari suffered serious leg injuries in a landmine explosion in Suq Al-Hout earlier today.
Ali Thabet from the Naval Information Office said that doctors had fought unsuccessfully to stem his blood loss.
Majbari is the second senior LNA officer to be killed within the last ten days. In Sabri on 22 May, Saiqa Special Forces head of investigations Fadl Al-Hassi died in another land mine blast.
Qatif- Two wanted men were killed in a vehicle explosion on Thursday in Qatif, near Mayas Market.
The blast occurred one hour before the iftar and killed the two men who are wanted for their involvement in various terrorist cases and for targeting two security patrols.
A witness told Asharq Al-Awsat that the vehicle blasted near Mayas Market in Qatif, causing huge panic before the iftar on the sixth day of Ramadan especially that the place has witnessed in 2016 a similar terrorist act.
The blast caused no human or material damage other than the vehicle and the two individuals who were about to get inside it – the explosion occurred in the same region that was targeted by ISIS on May 5 2016 in a failed attack.
Saudi authorities defied a terrorist group in Awwamiya that has attempted to disrupt the development movement in Mosawara, east Saudi Arabia, by firing on the laborers during their work and on the security men simultaneously.
Shi’ite clerks in Qatif called on those involved to drop their weapons – a statement was signed by eight clerks who urged the region’s sheikhs to make it clear in their sermons and statements that they denounce violence and the use of arms against the state or citizens.
The statement called on Awwamiya men and elite to play an active role in putting an end to this suffering.
UAE denounced the terrorist attack that targeted security and stability in Qatif, east Saudi Arabia. UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a statement to condemn “this terrorist attack that aimed at shaking security and stability of the kingdom.”
The ministry further hailed the kingdom’s efforts in defying terrorism in all its forms, stressing UAE’s full support to the kingdom and backing its procedures taken against extremism and terrorism. It also underscored that Saudi Arabia’s security and stability are the backbone of the Arabian Gulf.
[Hurriyet Daily News] President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... on June 2 filed legal papers against former Pentagon official Michael Rubin over perceived "insults."
Oh dear.
The nine-page complaint, which was lodged with the Ankara Chief Prosecutor’s office by Erdogan’s lawyer Huseyin Aydin, accused Rubin, an American Enterprise Institute (AEI) analyst, of insulting the president.
"Rubin’s illogical accusations and insulting tweets are not only a reflection of his hatred and anger toward President Erdogan but also against the Turkish Republic," Erdogan’s complaint said, according to Anadolu Agency.
Simply dreadful.
Rubin is accused of supporting and committing offenses for the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ), which is blamed for the July 2016 failed coup attempt.
All who do not love Sultan Erdogan the much beloved are clearly either Kurds or Gulenists. Even ISIS loves Erdogan Bey, they are just a tad misguided in how they show it.
In his columns and tweets, Rubin accused the Turkish President of using the coup attempt "to purge society of political and ideological opponents."
"Support for Erdogan is in no way support for Islam and Turkish dignity. Backing Erdogan will be support for corruption and the collapse of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ," he wrote in a tweet in Turkish.
What a clever way to show Hurriyet's readers what the world thinks of their tyrant.
In another column on the AEI website, he said, "Erdogan has nobody to blame for the coup but himself," adding that the president’s foreign policy of "no problems with neighbors" had caused problems with "almost every neighbor."
In a story titled "Extradite Gulen? Really?" Rubin wrote: "What’s going on isn’t about Gulen. It’s a power play [of Erdogan]."
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From May 30, but a useful overview of how it all started. Useful video adds visuals to the text below, which they would have us know is the intellectual property of Oz Analysis.
[AlMasdar] The Wahhabi terrorist internationale known as the Islamic State has spread its domain of armed occupation to the Philippine city of Marawi. On the 23rd of May, two Jihadist factions – the Maute group and Abu Sayyaf militia – operating on the Philippine island of Mindanao under the banner of ISIS launched a shock attack on Marawi, a predominately Muslim city of 220,000 people. The assault came about with the sudden uprising of a battalion-sized sleeper cell inside the city which sent government forces into total disarray. For the presentation to follow, OZ Analysis would like to thank Al-Masdar News Deputy CEO Chris Tomson for his cooperation – via personal communication – in the understanding of the military situation in Marawi, as an exceptionally informed source.
What began with the activation of some five hundred ISIS-linked sleeper troops in the area of the provincial jail and main police station resulted in the releasing of an unknown number of prisoners who will undoubtedly be recruited by the terrorist conglomerate and the capture and looting of the city’s main armoury. With this achieved, ISIS spread towards the centre of the city, laying siege to the Pakpak Hospital and the City Hall, and into the eastern suburbs, isolating the city harbour.
After a full day of gunfights, government forces (including both local police and the army) outnumbered and unable to consolidate any tenable positions in Marawi were driven in rout from the city. With the seizure of Marawi’s main infrastructures and the establishment of a number of checkpoints throughout the city, ISIS de facto conquered the rump of Marawi.
After consolidating itself over the main part of Marawi, ISIS forayed beyond the city limits, launching threatening attacks in the direction of the Mindanao State University and southwestern suburbs. Government forces were able to parry these attacks. However, ISIS did at some point establish a guerrilla-style presence in the countryside to the southwest of Marawi where it continues to harass the main communication line used by government forces with snipers and hit-and-run attacks. This has, to a degree, compromised the ability of government forces to reinforce and resupply their presence on the outskirts of the city. It also serves to demoralise government troops before they reach the frontlines around Marawi.
In recent days, government forces have regrouped and launched a counter-offensive into the western and southern sectors of Marawi. During this time airstrikes have been observed in and around the habour area. Whilst it must be said that overall disposition of government and ISIS forces within the city remains vague due to contradictory reports; what can be more or less confirmed is government forces have since liberated the Pakpak Hospital and the City Hall. No reports have appeared which indicate that the provincial jail or the police station have yet been retaken from ISIS and indeed these locations will likely become final strongpoints as ISIS is expunged from the city. Furthermore, it is possible that ISIS has either abandoned or been forced out of Marawi’s eastern suburbs. However, in the meantime, this analysis will assume that ISIS remains in the area until better information is available.
Overall, the last couple days has shown that government forces have recovered from the initial shock of the ISIS attack on Marawi and, through a series of containment actions and counterattacks, now appear to hold the strategic initiative in the battle for the city.
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Marawi, a predominately Muslim city of 220,000 people
Level the town. Make the inhabitants live in the ruins.
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[ARA News] Iraq’s Iran-backed Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU) on Friday crossed the border into Syria. This comes despite repeated warnings by the Kurdish YPG leadership and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
The Kurdish-led SDF troops warned that any movement by the PMU towards the Syrian northeastern border would lead to undesired tensions.
As the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) continue their war on ISIS in northern Syria, the Iranian-supported PMU has been locked in fierce fighting against ISIS at the Iraqi side of the border.
Fighters of the Iraqi Shia paramilitary PMU entered villages in the Kurdish-led Hasakah province, in northeastern Syria, local sources confirmed to ARA News.
Members of the Popular Mobilisation Units have reportedly crossed the border into Syria’s Hasakah, moving into the villages of Quseba al-Soritin and Bawardi.
“The move led to the displacement of hundreds of civilians from the two villages for fear of possible clashes between the PMU and the Kurdish forces,” media activist Azad Sleman told ARA News in Hasakah.
This comes just two days after the PMU spokesman Karim al-Nouri said that their fighters are ready to cross into Syria and back the Assad government in its fight against terrorism.
According to the PMU spokesman, a remarkable shift has taken place in the nature of the fight against the ISIS as the group nears losing its final holdouts in Iraq’s northwestern Mosul city.
“By taking the border area, we have given the Syrian army the ability to comfortably advance on Raqqa,” Nouri added.
However, the Kurdish-led SDF forces have launched a major offensive against ISIS in Raqqa. The US-backed forces imposed a siege on ISIS militants inside the city, which is deemed a de facto capital for the ISIS self-proclaimed Caliphate.
On Monday, the Kurdish Security Police of the Rojava Asayish held a meeting in Qamishli city, in northeastern Syria, to discuss the ‘Iranian project’, after the Iraqi Shia paramilitary Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) linked up with areas held by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
The Asayish said in a statement that a broad security meeting was held in Qamishli in the presence of the general commander of the Asayish forces, Ciwan Ibrahim, to discuss the formation of a defence system in Rojava-Northern Syria ‘to confront the Iranian project’ that is supported by the Baath regime forces and affiliated Shia groups.
According to the PMU, they reached the Iraq-Syria borders from the north of al-Ba’ah district, and from an area near Sinjar. The PMU said that the Wadi al-Midar and Taru villages [in northwestern Iraq] were liberated from ISIS, adding that 21 ISIS fighters were killed in the operation backed by the Iraqi air force.
Qasim Musla, brigadier general of PMU group Liwaa Al-Toufouf, told ARA News that the Iraqi air cover facilitated their progress against ISIS near the border with Syria.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) The number of Islamic State fighters remaining in western Mosul’s Old City stands at 500, an officer from the Iraqi Federal Police forces said Friday as security operations proceed towards the strategic enclave.
Radio Sawa quoted Lt. Cap. Abdulah Taha saying that IS fighters have been shifting locations swiftly across the Old City’s narrow streets and houses in order to give impression to assaulting troops that their numbers were much higher.
On Thursday, a Pentagon spokesperson said there were less than 1000 IS fighters in the Old City, Islamic State’s last bastion in Mosul.
On Friday, the Federal Police also said in a statement it killed Islamic State’s Hisbah (vigilantism) official in western Mosul, nicknamed Abu Abdul-Rahman, but did not identify his nationality. It also said forces took over 40 percent of Zanjili district, one area leading to the Old City.
Iraqi forces retook eastern Mosul in January and have taken more than 90 percent of the western side since another offensive was launched for that region in February.
Since late April, Iraqi forces took up a northwestern axis for its operations heading towards the Old City, having besieged the the area from the south for weeks. Troops are currently bombarding IS locations at al-Zanjili, Shefa and Sihha districts which surround the Old City. Forces are eyeing the Nuri al-Kabir Mosque where the group’s supreme leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, declared the establishment of a “caliphate” in Iraq and neighboring Syria.
Nearly 200.000 civilians are thought to be stranded inside the area under IS siege, and are regularly shot dead once trying to flee, according to government and aid agencies. Video at the link
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Next week's headline: 200 ISIS troops trapped in Mosul. Headline the week after: All ISIS troops in Mosul eliminated (per SecDef Mattis's approach to handling ISIS)
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That is what I found, no recipe books or nothing. Must be a slang, like pigs in a blanket or little donkey. Maybe a gal named Ane Farcie who looked like a brussel sprout?
Ummm....is that cat with side rats? Another slang, or throwback to siege food? Pretty fancy way of saying baby peas in butter.
I am also wondering if Elephant is a type of potato or if this is a very international food selection. Antelope with truffles is on the menu so...maybe our café is in French Equitorial Africa? Could explain why Gruyere is the delicate dessert.
Pistol ammunition prices were mostly steady. Rifle ammunition prices were mostly steady.
Prices for used pistols were mixed. Prices for used rifles were mostly higher.
The nationwide average price for a used AR-10 pattern semiautomatic has dropped to a historic low at $766. The drop, as sharp as it appears to be, is still almost $100 more than the average of historical nationwide lows of $660.
The AR-10 pattern doesn't get much respect. Two competing platforms are available, the DPMS Generations I and II, and the Armalite AR-10. The DPMS pattern rifles are very cheap while the AR-10 is much more expensive. As I recall, the rifle hit a historic low in the summer of 2015, all from the DPMS patterns, from which prices did recover.
Although AR-15 pattern semiautomatic rifles rose slightly for the week, prices for those rifles still appear to be in decline. The decline continues the trend begun in March, 2017.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] The suspects who are currently on trial for their alleged role in the July 2016 coup attempt are playing a game of Three Monkeys but they will not be able to "escape a painful end," President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has said.
"Even though they were caught red-handed, what are they now saying in court? The FETÖ [Fethullahist Terrorist Organization] members who have been saying ’we heard, saw and spoke no evil’ and who have their head in the sand will not be able to escape the painful end that is waiting for them," Erdogan said June 1 at his presidential palace during a gathering with local muhtars, leaders of a village or neighborhood, according to state-run Anadolu Agency.
"Who are you playing this game for?" he added.
Earlier this week, senior military officers denied their alleged involvement in FETÖ during court hearings initiated against 221 suspects in Ankara.
"You advance upon my people with F-16s, helicopters, tanks, modern weapons and then still you say, ’I haven’t seen, heard, or done anything.’ Who are you fooling? All the documents and images are out in the open. We also won’t stop following your influencers abroad; by following them step by step, we’ll make sure that they are granted the outcome they deserve," the president said.
"In their hearts, our people have already inflicted the severest punishment upon them [the suspects] for their treachery. I have no doubt that the decisions of the court, which makes decisions on behalf of our people, will end up this way," he said.
The Ankara 17th High Criminal Court began on May 22 a high-profile case against the 221 suspects, who have been accused of perpetrating the coup attempt, which is widely believed to have been orchestrated by the FETÖ.
Akin Özturk, Mehmet Partigöc and Mehmet Disli are some of the former generals who have testified in the court and denied their involvement in the putsch, arguing that there has been a campaign of manipulation against them.
"In the press, there was news that ’Akin Özturk confessed’ before I had even given a statement. This is the beginning of a persuasion operation against me. Even if the anonymous witnesses’ statements which indicate that I took part in the meetings with putschists in Cukurambar, Ankara, were lies, [the press] published them as if they were true," Özturk, the first general to read his defense, was previously quoted as saying.
On May 30, Disli, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy leader Saban Disli’s brother, made his defense at the court, again denying the accusations against him. Asked by the court why he did not phone his AKP deputy brother on the day of the coup attempt, the former general reportedly said he did not have the latter’s phone number.
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See no evil (cover eyes with hands), speak no evil (cover ears with hands), hear no evil (cover mouth with hands), have no fun (cover neither regions with hands!)
[FOX2DETROIT] Attorney for Little Caesars said on Friday that a lawsuit that claimed a Detroit-area Muslim man had been served pepperoni pizza instead of halal pepperoni was being dropped. However, the man's attorneys are disputing that assertion. Another Moslem get rich quick scheme.
Little Caesars says after they were made aware of Mohamad Bazzi's lawsuit, they looked into the matter -- as the consumption of pork is strictly forbidden under Muslim law.
They say they found the allegations to be false and presented those results to Bazzi's attorney before heading into court.
"We shared the results of what we learned with Mr. Bazzi's attorney, which caused him to tell us he would dismiss the lawsuit," said Mike Huget from local Detroit law firm Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn.
Attorneys for Bazzi released a statement to FOX 2 saying that claims of the lawsuit being dropped were not accurate. Attorneys claim that they said the planned to dismiss the lawsuit in order to add additional plaintiffs. Read the statement below:
"The allegations that Little Ceasar's Pizza made in its news release needs to be clarified. Yesterday, I met with the attorneys for Little Caesars. I was shown a video of the event of that day. There is nothing in the video that changes the merits of the case. That is my client was served "Pork" pepperoni on two separate occasions...Plaintiff had planned on dismissing the lawsuit to add additional plaintiffs. It appears that Little Caeser's Pizza first lied to its Muslim customers by serving "Pork" pepperoni and now they are lying to the media by mistaking the truth. The truth is my client isn't dismissing the case because it lacks merits, he was hoping to dismiss to have the case filed with additional plaintiffs...which was sent to the attorney for Little Caesar's. "
Bazzi's lawsuit claimed he ordered a halal pizza from the location on Schafer near Warren in Dearborn on March 20.
When he and his wife began to eat, they realized that they were eating pork pepperoni, they had said.
Bazzi went to the Dearborn police to complain. On May 24, he ordered another halal pepperoni pizza -- even checking to ensure the receipt and box's label said "halal," he said.
He said again, he found pork pepperoni.
Bazzi returned to the store and the manager told him that he asked for regular pepperoni and that he "told the employee to put the [halal] sticker" on the box.
According to the lawsuit, Bazzi states Little Caesars does not "provide proper training to employees on the magnitude and emotional distress that is caused by feeding 'pork' to Muslims, under the guise that it is 'halal.'"
The class action lawsuit had been filed for $100 million in economic and punitive damages.
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It wouldn't seem like there would be a burden on a restaurant to provide halal food anymore than they would have an obligation to provide vegetarian, vegan or kosher. If Little Caesars misrepresented the content, hey, most restaurant food is misrepresented. The muzzy should go to a halal restaurant.
[AolNews] This year, Atlanta PD changed how it reports rapes, following the FBI's gender-neutral definition and allowing male victims and other people who were previously not counted in the data as part of its crime totals. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Atlanta had previously reported rapes, exclusively, as the number of times the assailant was a man and the victim was a woman, which is how the crime is defined under Georgia state rules. Because of the new definition, there's been "a much higher number of cases being classified and reported as rape," Atlanta Police Spokesperson Lisa Bender told the Journal-Constitution.
Coyote hunting has officially been taken to the next level by O'Neill Ops using precision rifles and the top thermal scopes from Trijicon EO. This video includes one-of-a-kind night hunting footage of 50 coyote dirt naps filmed directly through the eyepiece of the Trijicon IR Hunter MKIII 60mm, REAP-IR, and the IR Patrol.
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Amazing how quickly this line of optics is becoming affordable.
Coyotes are no joke. Someone I know lost a calf within five minutes of leaving it. Came at it through the haunches - took the shot, maybe hit, drove the wounded calf into town but the wound was mortal. Sure the boar hunters have taken note as well.
[FOX] More testing will prove whether the sheer thickening fluid could be used to replace or reduce heavy steel plating on military vehicles, aircraft and first responders; Alicia Acuna has the story for 'Special Report.'
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Sixteen girls at a high school in Sweden were called racist after they complained about the recent sexual assaults by migrants colonists. Fria Tider reported, via Religion of Peace:
Lecturer and journalist Joakim Lamotte has had enough. Now he has visited another school where maidens tell of how they are sexually assassinated by so-called refugee children.
But when the girls try to address the problem of principals and school staff, they are called racists.
"Many of these guys are not even children!" Lamotte calls in a new video.
Joakim Lamotte is an independent journalist who lectures at schools about women’s and sexual harassment. He has previously worked on SVT and Mission review.
"Now I have been to another school where maidens tell them to be sexually assassinated by newly arrived boys both at school and outside school. They say they do not feel safe in the school corridors. They say they have left home after school. They say they do not go by bus themselves. They say they do not go back and forth to their soccer classes in the evenings themselves, explains an upset Joakim Lamotte in a video on his Facebook.
But when the girls tell teachers and rectors, this is dismissed as xenophobia.
"They are basically called racists when they tell about their reality and what they are exposed to," says Joakim Lamotte.
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Once upon a time *Men* took care of the issues that "the system" was hesitant to confront.
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Women and girls can't go anywhere by themselves? Yep, that's a muslim country.
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No, they'll have a population that will welcome a Russian occupation, rather than defend the leadership that is willing to sacrifice them to the ruling class social vanity. If those in charge are not willing to defend 'Sweden' why should the rest of the population?
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Kathy Griffin broke down in tears speaking about the constant attacks from the public and members of the Trump family over the past few days
She said that she has been receiving constant death threats, which she described as detailed and specific
Griffin, 56, also said that President Trump 'broke' her and that she does not expect her career to recover from his family's attacks
She added that she will not back down from this fight, saying: 'I am not afraid of Donald Trump. He is a bully'
Griffin said that the photo shoot was inspired by Megyn Kelly, and the comment Trump made to the then-Fox News host about 'blood coming out of everywhere'
It was also confirmed at the press conference that the Secret Service is investigating Griffin over the image
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Saw her presser with Spawn of Allred™.
Ms. Griffin babbled on and finally alluded to her being from "Park Forest Illinois."
Per Wiki, she was born in Oak Park where, at the Village Hall, her name is emblazoned on the rotunda. No mention anywhere in her bio about "Park Forest."
I've spaced out a few times under stress, but never forgot my hometown. Go figure.
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Actions have consequences, Kathy. Personally, I hope that your destruction signals that the normals in USA are finally grasping the fact that you people are a bunch of wolves in sheep clothing. And that you should be dealt with by your own methods.
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Crawl back under your rock and take the Legal Parasite Whore with ya. She had made a good attempt at rehab with her first apology. Apparently Bloom is an enabler in hole-digging
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Wait till ISIS shows up for your act of cultural appropriation.
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She judged the public opinion towards Trump based on Hollywoods opinion towards Trump and it exploded in her face.
I don't know if Barron really was freaked out by the image or if that was the most brilliant political maneuver ever, but once that made it into the story she was toast (especially since she joked she'd go after Barron). Americans hate when you attack children.
Now she's blaming Trump with a modified "he hit me back" defense which won't fly well either.
I wonder if any of the usual suspects are paying attention.
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She said she was going to keep attacking Trump, trying to elevate her tripe as brave political speech, but where Cathy, and who will pay to see it? Raving clowns on street corners don't rate much coverage after the crash. You just joined a host of sad, pathetic losers nobody cares about.....
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Her whining reminds me of the old joke about a man who kills his mother and his father. When he is tried for their murders, he throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan.
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These people never really get punished for things they do. The media won't rebuke her. I wonder how many good, effective and legal ways Rantburgers could think of to make her life miserable. Find the target, isolate her, and make her stinking life hell on earth. Ridicule, confront and annoy, twenty-four seven. Works for Alinsky.
[DAWN] The Foreign Office on Thursday asked the Afghan government to stop blaming Pakistain for its own failings as it trashed Kabul’s allegations about a Pak spy agency’s involvement in Wednesday’s terrorist attack in the capital city’s diplomatic neighbourhood as baseless.
"The onus of setbacks and failures in Afghanistan should not be blamed on Pakistain. Mere rhetoric of blaming others to hide their failures in Afghanistan will not solve the problem," FO front man Nafees Zakaria said at the weekly media briefing.
He was responding to allegations made against Pakistain’s ISI soon after the massive attack in Kabul that left at least 90 dead and hundreds maimed.
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[JUDICIALWATCH.ORG] Surprise, surprise, another inmate released from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has been tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! for reengaging in terrorism. His name is Sabir Mahfouz Lahmar and his Department of Defense (DOD) file says he has links to "multiple terrorist plots" and as a member of the Algerian Armed Islamic Group (GIA) plotted with Al Qaeda to attack the United States Embassy in Sarajevo.
"Detainee advocated hostilities against US forces and the international community in Bosnia, and is linked to multiple terrorist plots and criminal related activity," according to Lahmar’s DOD file. "Detainee had intentions to travel to Afghanistan and Iran, and is reported as doing so prior to his capture. Detainee has demonstrated a commitment to jihad, and would likely engage in anti-US activities if released." Lahmar ended up at Gitmo in 2002 because the Algerian government refused to take him into custody after Bosnian authorities exhausted the legal limits for detention. The Pentagon recommended continued detention and determined that he was a high risk that posed a threat to the U.S., its interests and allies. Lahmar was also labeled a "high threat" from a detention perspective and of high intelligence value.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least five Lions of Islam were killed in a premature bomb kaboom in southeastern Ghazni province of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the incident has taken place recently in a remote part of the restive Andar district.
A statement by MoD said the bully boyz were busy manufacturing Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in a house belonging to an individual identified as Abdullah when the incident took place.
*sigh* That whole red wire/green wire thingy is such a problem when the apprentice has colour blindness in the family...
The statement further added that the house is located in Kansif area of Andar district and the bully boyz were looking to place the IEDs on a roadside when it went off, leaving five of them dead.
The anti-government armed Lion of Islam groups including the Taliban ...Arabic for students... Lions of Islam have not commented regarding the incident so far.
The Taliban Lions of Islam frequently use IEDs as the weapon of their choice to target the security forces and government officials but in majority of such incidents the ordinary civilians are targeted.
The United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UANAMA) released its latest civilian casualties report last month, covering a period of three months since the start of 2017.
According to the report, the Anti-Government Elements caused 62 per cent of civilian casualties ‐ 1,353 civilian casualties (447 dead and 906 injured), reflecting a five per cent increase compared to the same period in 2016.
The UN mission also added it recorded a 12 per cent increase in civilian casualties caused by pressure-plate improvised bombs ‐ 218 civilian casualties (86 dead and 132 injured).
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Hawija (IraqiNews.com) A security source in Kirkuk Province revealed, on Thursday, that coalition air strike destroyed an oil warehouse and 12 tanks belonging to the Islamic State group in Hawija Province, west of the province, Alsumaria News reported.
The source said that the international coalition aircraft bombarded, today, the Islamic State’s crude oil market area, in al-Shameet area in Hawija District.
The air strike destroyed 12 oil tanks and one of the group’s largest crude oil warehouses, the source added on condition of anonymity.
Noteworthy, Hawija District and the areas of al-Zab, al-Rashad, al-Riyad and al-Abbasi, southwest of Kirkuk, are still controlled by the Islamic State group, since 10 June 2014.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The ISIS Hunter units of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) repelled a surprise attack conducted by fighters 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.... (ISIS) along the Homs Palmyra highway. The fierce attack targeted positions of the ISIS Hunters at height 681 but was toppled by the swift reaction of the SAA’s forces, holding their ground.
According to the ISIS Hunter’s media channel, the aussault started in the early hours of Tuesday with mortar shelling, that was followed by an attempt of the jihadist fighters equipped with heavy machine guns and RPGs to storm the position.
Combing the battle site later at dawn the successfull defenders found multiple corpses of ISIS Death Eaters and could even capture one of the attackers alive, who was maimed in his stomach. Provided with medical assistance the jihadist was willing to give informations about the purpose of the ISIS attack.
He told his captors, that it was part of a reconaissance mission, supposed to gather intel for a planned offensive, destined to recapture Tiyas airbase and further advance to the gas fields at al-Faraqlas. Effictively this operation would, if ISIS was to succeed, once again throw back the SAA’s efforts to secure the area around Palmyra and advance to Deir Ezzor, because it would cut the highway connecting Homs with Palmyra.
Control of this highway is important for the supply of troops at the frontlines, but recently the SAA succeeded in reopening the route from Damascus to Palmyra. With this additional supply line an ISIS advance to Tiyas, would not necessarily bring the SAA offensive in the region to a halt.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Telegraph] London Bridge has been placed on lockdown amid reports of three men carrying knives attacking people and up to 20 have reportedly been struck by a van. Armed police are at the scene in what is being described as a “major incident”, possibly a terrorist attack.
[LA Times] Anthem is the nation’s second-largest health insurer, with thousands of medical professionals on its payroll. Yet its Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia subsidiary has just informed its members that if they show up at the emergency room with a problem that later is deemed to have not been an emergency, their claim won’t be paid.
Baaj (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi paramilitary forces continued operations to clear the borders with Syria from militants on Friday, killing six members of the Islamic State, including a senior leader.
[DAWN] Residents of 
...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful...
...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in 
...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. ..
[Breitbart] A sergeant in the Venezuelan Armed Forces has released a video calling for his fellow soldiers to rise up against dictator Nicolás Maduro and reject orders to attack unarmed civilians, the latest indication that Maduro is losing the support of the military amid a wave of violent crackdowns on dissidents. 
[Hurriyet Daily News] President 
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) The number of Islamic State fighters remaining in western Mosul’s Old City stands at 500, an officer from the Iraqi Federal Police forces said Friday as security operations proceed towards the strategic enclave.
[Hurriyet Daily News] The suspects who are currently on trial for their alleged role in the July 2016 coup attempt are playing a game of Three Monkeys but they will not be able to "escape a painful end," President 
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least five 
