The real, measurable impacts of Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement are going to be few and far between, but the first one we’ve seen thus far has been a drop in the price of oil.
BLUF: [OpsLens] Former federal prosecutor and founder of Judicial Watch, Larry Klayman filed a class-action lawsuit in US District Court (Texas) on behalf of himself, Dallas police Sgt. Demetrick Pennie, "and police officers and other law enforcement persons of all races and ethnicities including but not limited to Jews, Christians and Caucasians," for the purpose of suing "Defendants Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam, Al Sharpton, National Action Network, Black Lives Matter, Rashad Turner, Opal Tometi, Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, Johnetta Elzie, Deray McKesson, New Black Panthers Party, Malik Zulu Shabazz, George Soros, Barack Hussein Obama, Eric Holder, and Hillary Clinton (collectively "Defendants" unless individually named) in their individual and official capacities where applicable."
The thrust behind Klayman’s class-action lawsuit petitions the Courts for:
"damages and equitable relief arising out of the threats, severe bodily injury and/or deaths, future deaths, emotional harm, and imminent fears of death and/or serious bodily harm resulting from Defendants’ actions. Defendants have repeatedly incited their supporters and others to engage in threats of and attacks to cause serious bodily injury or death upon police officers and other law enforcement persons of all races and ethnicities including but not limited to Jews, Christians and Caucasians. Thus, Defendants, each and every one of them, jointly and severally, conspiring and/or acting in concert either expressly or otherwise, are inciting and causing serious bodily injury or death to police officers and other law enforcement persons of all races and ethnicities, Jews, and Caucasians."
There is unflappable legitimacy in choking-off the invective, incitement and violence behind anti-police and racial prejudice, including hateful cops. As a construct of our justice system, seeking redress is not necessarily always about recompense. It is also about rooting out thuggery and any domestic terrorists who seek to undermine American government and our democratic way of life.
Such a democracy institutes the courts to place upon justice scales the arguments and debates, in inviolate sanctities, with rulings for all to adhere. The courts are relegated for these circumstances, not the streets of Dallas or any other jurisdiction where a sniper decides to exact his/her own brand of justice.
[Wash Times] Former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice said Sunday there are no easy way to stop homegrown terrorists and President Trump’s proposed travel ban targeting Muslims is counterproductive.
"We need to recognize that there will be homegrown extremists in all of our countries and there is no easy way to predict and defeat every single one of them," Susan Rice said on ABC’s "This Week" in response to the deadly terrorist attack Saturday night in London.
Ms. Rice, who also served as President Barack Obama’s national security advisor, said that to protect Americans from such attacks, which appeared to be carried out by radical Islamic terrorists, the U.S. must "strengthen our intelligence, our law enforcement, and work together with critical partners like the United Kingdom."
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In other words stay on the defensive, and hope for the best. What a moroon.
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Susan Rice must be really stupid. She is giving me the impression she cannot think her way out of a paper bag.
Ms. Rice, who also served as President Barack Obama’s national security advisor, said that to protect Americans from such attacks, which appeared to be carried out by radical Islamic terrorists, the U.S. must "strengthen our intelligence, our law enforcement, and work together with critical partners like the United Kingdom."
Yea and that's working out swimmingly! Not!
Trump travel ban OTOH will work well and use far less resources and is much cheaper (and I do mean much, much cheaper!) Instead of chasing after the facts, we can take our time and do a proper job of vetting beforehand.
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Susan Rice must be really stupid. She is giving me the impression she cannot think her way out of a paper bag.
No, she's certainly not the brightest bulb in the attic. Narcissism and ignorance, a very bad combination, but one we've seen frequently over the past eight years.
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If it was a world wide pan-epidemic (say on the level of the last big plague), you bet your ass, there would be a travel ban. Those who would obstruct probably would be thrown in to the burn pits with the dead.
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I suspect the companies is just trying to find a cheap way to get rid off the excess heat, partly by getting others to fund the cost of installing stuff.
Put a water cooled block on each cpu/gpu and run the heated water to a central tank, which is then pumped into well insulated pipes, which then runs to various locations and either dump into water tanks or is held for "on-demand" use, etc. etc..
Problem, hot water tend to cool off rapidly and will need to be reheated at various points. Lots of money and energy will be spend on running pumps, heaters and the like.
My prediction is that instead of reducing CO2 emissions, this scheme will actually increase CO2 emissions. This whole thing smell like a scam designed to get funds for "R&D" which is 'code' for 'getting it in my pocket'.
The old steam lines in the past are still maintained.
[ABC] The former head of South Africa's main opposition party faced suspension from party activities on Saturday following tweets in which she said colonialism had some positive results.
The uproar over Helen Zille's comments underlined the challenges facing the Democratic Alliance, whose roots lie in white liberal opposition to apartheid decades ago. The party has broadened its appeal and made big gains in local elections last year, but the ruling African National Congress still dismisses it as primarily representative of South Africa's white minority.
Zille, who is white, tweeted in March that the colonial legacy was not only negative, citing "our independent judiciary, transport infrastructure, piped water etc."
Race relations remain a sensitive topic in South Africa, which held its first all-race elections after the end of white minority rule in 1994. Many South Africans criticized Zille, a former journalist and anti-apartheid activist who is now premier of the opposition-controlled Western Cape province.
Her comments damaged the party and undermined reconciliation efforts in South Africa, said Mmusi Maimane, a black who replaced Zille as party leader.
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Other than learning to defecate a reasonable distance from the village, learning to read and write, ending 20 to 30 thousand years of tribal slavery, ritual muti, the drinking of blood, the eating of departed relatives, shaman (witch doctors), human sacrifice.... it would have all come to us in due time. The Colonials were never actually needed.
[Daily Caller] Two days before deadly terror attacks hit London, Mayor Sadiq Khan railed against President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord.
Khan called global warming "one of the biggest risks to humanity" and pledged to work with other cities to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, which is to keep future global warming below 2 degrees Celsius. Trump announced U.S. withdrawal Thursday.
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Well, Jihad is NOT a risk to humanity - not for a Muslim.
When the jihadis are running amok, just being Muslim isn't enough, as they discovered in Mosul and Raqqa. One must be the right kind, and have been visibly sufficiently pious in precisely the right way. Saying that he was engaged in the soft jihad of the law by getting his hands on the levers of power will not suffice, though it does for now.
Two days ago all the bien pensants were hyperventilating about that madman Trump pulling out of the Paris "Agreement". As a Labour man he could have done naught else but posture along with the rest of them.
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"Global warming" is an outright *fraud*, perpetuated to redistribute wealth. I call it out as such anytime its brought up in social situations that I'm not enjoying to begin with.
h/t Gates of Vienna
[WND] ...Chris Gaubatz grew a beard, went through a "conversion" ceremony at a notorious Northern Virginia mosque and became an intern for CAIR -- ultimately gathering first-hand documentation of the group’s subversive aims -- because he believes the Muslim Brotherhood and its offshoots in the U.S. are a threat to the nation’s security.
h/t Instapundit
Furious Democrats are slamming Hillary Clinton for blaming everyone but herself for her surprise loss in the November election, according to a report Friday.
Supporters of the Democratic National Committee were especially incensed by her criticism of the party organization, Politico said.Andrew Therriault, who served as the DNC’s director of data science until last June, called Clinton’s claims "f‐king bulls‐t" in tweets that were later deleted.
"This is all about the last campaign. And really, what Democrats should be focusing on, and what I think Hillary Clinton should be figuring out, is how do we empower the DNC to have the best data resources to win races this year, in 2018 and 2020," a former DNC aide told the Web site. Maybe, like - you know,
start representing some people who're not Celebrities,
or Silicon Valley billionaires, or LGBT, or some racial minority?
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I hope she continues her 'blame game.' It serves as a handy reminder of her lack of grace, dignity, and and how very fortunate we are she failed to become POTUS.
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I've often felt that we had to have the horrible 0butth0le to avoid the even more horrible Shrillary. Now God, in His wisdom, is rewarding us for dodging the same bullet twice.
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her surprise loss in the November election
Only for the Washington elite and fifth column journalists.
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[The Hill] "Loose lips sink ships" is as true today as when the phrase was popularized as a slogan by the U.S. Office of War Information during WWII. We are now witnessing a stark reminder of the impact of intelligence leaks on America’s efforts to restore its role as a world leader in combating international terrorism.
As Great Britain faces the aftermath of the most significant Islamic terrorist attack since 2005, global security is being put at greater risk due to the unauthorized release of investigative information on the U.S. side of the Atlantic. This leak is, of course, deplorable.
The war on international terrorism rests in large measure on trust between and among intelligence and security partners on a global level. Few American partners are more trustworthy than our British colleagues. The cornerstone and bedrock of that trust rests on the ability to protect sensitive sources of information and the means by which it was collected. In the case of law-enforcement dependencies, the leaking of sensitive information can ultimately result in the unintended but no less significant undermining of a prosecution.
Facing a British threat to curtail sensitive information sharing with American counterparts, a tentative truce has been reached to restore intelligence sharing with the U.S. It’s a tenuous agreement. How devastating to be having this discussion in May 2017 with one of our closest counterterrorism partners - nearly 16 years after 9/11. As we have seen before, there always exists the possibility of finding international ties between a terrorist event and the terrorist(s) - in this case, a 23-year-old named Salman Abedi and an improvised bomb placed just outside the Manchester Arena.
Leaking sensitive information about a particular case doesn’t just undermine the ability to find potential additional terrorism ties outside the country where the event took place. It also fundamentally erodes the trust between partners. The international community that continues to face the scourge of international terrorism can ill-afford any decrement in information sharing.
The British, however, must protect their information at all costs and have for understandable reasons sent a shot across the American bow concerning the impact of leaked information on their investigation in Manchester.
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Given that it is the intelligence community that is doing the leaking, it's hard to imagine them stopping themselves. Not without a good housecleaning and a few (symbolic) executions. Hey, maybe we could appeal to their patriotism!
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Revisit arresting not just the reporters, but the editors who permit classified material to be published. Think they would endure weeks in jail pending trial?
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Leaking has done lasting damage to the intel community. Since real intel is derived from sources...who are now rightfully concerned that their info and ID will not be protected...and technical means...which are exposed in every leak...and allow the folks targeted to better protect themselves. Most focus on the short term damage - not sure how we gauge the negative long term effect of intel no longer there.
[Free Beacon] In the spring of 1927, the modern world was born. Or at least the great interconnectivity of modern social life rose up and declared itself in the spring of 1927, with two key events. The first was Charles Lindbergh's winning the race to make a solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic from New York to Paris. The second was Calvin Coolidge’s decision to spend the summer in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
The first hardly needs much explanation, although we tend to forget just how much the young and photogenic Lindbergh seized the world’s imagination. Waiting to cheer him as he landed at Le Bourget airport were 150,000 Parisians. On his return to New York, perhaps 4 million Americans turned out to see him on a day with a ticker-tape parade, speeches in Central Park, and grand banquets. The French bestowed on him the Légion d’honneur, and the Americans gave the young Army Air Service reserve captain both the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Medal of Honor.
Calvin Coolidge may seem a less dramatic and idolized figure, mostly because he was, in fact, a less dramatic and idolized figure. But his extended 1927 stay in the West signaled, as clearly as a transatlantic flight, just how much the world had changed. Presidents had fled the summer heat of Washington before, of course. James Buchanan retreated to Bedford, Pennsylvania, and Benjamin Harrison to Cape May, New Jersey. Woodrow Wilson got all the way to Cornish, New Hampshire. But before the 1920s, these trips had all been in the eastern United States, to ensure that the president could receive regular mail and return quickly if some emergency arose.
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I'd build my presedential retreat on the golf course at Audubon Park, very rustic, Mr. Squirrel is not alert in the area. Big game is only a mile away.
[San Diego Union-Tribune] Under gray, misty skies in the Gaslamp Quarter on Saturday morning, there were joggers, babies in strollers, tourists, homeless people, cops and cows. Lots and lots of cows.
Just after 7:30 a.m., a herd of 200 American Longhorn and Mexican Corriente cattle began making its way down Harbor Drive under the guidance of 48 cowpokes on horseback and a small but fast-moving fleet of herding dogs. The cattle drive, said to be first in 100 years in downtown San Diego, was organized by the San Diego County Fair, which opened its annual run Friday with a "Where the West is Fun" theme.
Thousands of delighted spectators lined the 2½-mile route, which began at Harbor Drive and Pacific Highway. Moving at a rate of 3 to 4 mph, the cattle drive moved southeast past the San Diego Convention Center, then turned north on Fifth Avenue and west on Market Street before returning to its staging ground in Ruocco Park near Seaport Village.
Moments before the drive began, Jim Marshall of San Diego stood near the starting point with his cellphone camera poised for action, just in case an unexpected stampede occurred. No attempt at disrespect regarding recent London events, just a 'mind off of it' for a moment or two effort.
Herewith a summary of what was known as of midnight, and a place to add updates as the day progresses. Yesterday's report with the usual interesting discussion is here.
[DailyMail]
The men, described as being 'of Mediterranean origin', drove the white van at 50mph across the bridge
They mowed down up to 20 pedestrians, then jumped out of the van shouting 'this is for Allah', and began 'randomly stabbing' people
One horrified woman said she saw three people with what appeared to be their throats cut at London Bridge
Attackers, wearing fake suicide vests, then stabbed people with 12-inch hunting knives at busy pubs and bars in nearby Borough Market
The terrorists were shot and killed by armed police in Borough Market within eight minutes of the first call
A man in a black tracksuit was arrested in Vauxhall in an unrelated stabbing on Saturday night
Lots of photos and video snippets plus two maps showing the location of events.
12 arrested this morning in an apartment building in Barking, east London, four of them women in traditional Islamic clothing
One of the apartments belonged to one of the dead terrorists, suggesting the police have identified them; neighbours described a father of two small children known to the neighbours as ""Abbs"
Another raid at East Ham may or may not be connected
Four police among the wounded, one or two considered serious
One of the wounded police held off the attackers armed only with a baton until he was knifed in the face
There wil be a temporary halt in campaigning out of respect for the casualties, but at this point no talk of postponing the election itself.
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The ONLY Guaranteed way to Paradise per the Koran. Kill an infidel, jump out of the van with only knives is a sure way of them also immediately being killed thus entering paradise after fulfilling this basic requirement.
The ultimate blessing for them to now being in the West around so many infidels, their tickets to Paradise.
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It's about time to start deporting entire families back to their originating Moslem shitholes. If Junior kills somebody, even holding up a liquor store, then Maw, Paw, brother Abu, sister Abyss, the whole shebang should be first investigated in case they need spend a few years in the tower -- can you see Traitor's Gate from there. Everybody else goes unless they're willing to eat a ham sandwich and swill a few pints.
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Concur Fred. How much more evidence is required to determine these people and their cult of hate and blood are incompatible.
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The same pointless bather we get every time from politicians, etc. I'll note Trump is the only one proposing to actually do something that might make a difference.
Last night I happened to arrive at the comments section of the American ABC's article on the London attack. The Trump derangement was quite something. All the way to people saying it must be a false flag attack arranged by Trump.
You are very welcome, dear Besoeker. Ryuge posted the breaking report yesterday, and in the discussion several other sources were mentioned. The follow-up is easier.
I used to think we should only punish those directly involved, but the family and neighbourhood connections of those involved in the ISIS supercell that planned and executed the Paris and Brussels attacks, followed by what we've learnt about the Libyan Abedi family after the Manchester Arena, has taught me otherwise. That the barbershop-owning Abedi cousins thus far appear clean and Westernized underlines it for me.
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Concur with Fred. Best to get on with it now before it's too late. Best to get it done before it can only be done by means of another holocaust. With their birthrate so much higher than ours they will eventually outnumber us in our own countries. Then they will either convert us or kill us.
I am not preaching hate, I am preaching reality. I don't want another holocaust. When you see two boys fighting on a playground what do you do? You separate them, hopefully before either one of them gets hurt.
I've heard it theorized that liberals have smaller amygdalas than conservatives. It doesn't mean conservatives are cowards, it means conservatives are quicker to recognize existential threats. Europe is currently facing the most serious existential threat since WWII.
The facts are there for everyone to see. People who study history should have been able to see it a long time ago. We cannot coexist with people who want us dead.
And I don't wanna hear that only a few of them want us dead. Enough of them do and you can't tell the ones that do from the ones that don't. There is no benefit to be gained from letting them live among us, only danger. Get 'em all outta here before we have to kill them all.
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Only 8 minutes from the time the attack started to ending. Very quick response by the police to detect the attack, identify the perps and terminate all three. Exc lent work on their part - deplorable that it was necessary.
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I used to think we should only punish those directly involved, but the family and neighbourhood connections of those involved in the ISIS supercell that planned and executed the Paris and Brussels attacks, followed by what we've learnt about the Libyan Abedi family after the Manchester Arena, has taught me otherwise. That the barbershop-owning Abedi cousins thus far appear clean and Westernized underlines it for me.
Families and neighborhoods are important what is being taught in the Sunni mosque and the literature that is being distributed there is key. If it is Wahabi or Ibn al Tahmiya or if Qutbs' Milestones is out there - then you are always a minute away from an attack. Most if not all of these folks radicalize openly...rarely in secret.
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It's little more than a Schutzstaffel rebirth. The SS had to go and these murdering Islamic foks have to go as well. The task can be undertaken now, or it can be undertaken with the loss of tens of millions of lives at sometime in the future. The west must once again decide.
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OK. So the British govt does not allow concealed carry or even possession of handguns. You can still defend yourself in the bar. Get everyone to throw bottles and glasses at the perps. Chairs, Guinness mirrors, everything one get ones hands on. Use chairs as shields. There is a lot you can do to help yourself. Remember:
MINDSET
TRAINING
GEAR
You want to remain a sheep, or be a sheepdog?
In the big picture, Fred has the idea. You need to break up the enclaves. Imams that encourage hate and attacks: deport them, tear down the mosques to vacant lots. Restrict movement in the enclaves. You jihadis want to go medieval? We'll show you what medieval means. Jihadis will respect power. The London Mayor also needs his idle screw adjusted.
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Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger....
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“Our initial assessment is in the region of 50 rounds, in the region of 50 bullets were fired by those eight officers. The three attackers were shot dead," Rowley said
Only one question, how many of those bullets actually hit their targets? And no, I don't think it's an overreaction.
Rowley also discussed the unfortunate accidental shooting of a member of the public.
"As the officers confronted the terrorists – and were shot – a member of the public also suffered gunshot wounds. Although we do not believe the injuries to critical in nature, they are in hospital receiving medical attention. We will of course keep you updated on that.”
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You can still defend yourself in the bar. Get everyone to throw bottles and glasses at the perps. Chairs, Guinness mirrors, everything one get ones hands on. Use chairs as shields.
Some actually did that, Alaska Paul. The Daily Mail, of course, has the story here. One bar was spared because a woman locked the front door, and the attacker couldn't break through the windows. It was ported that a gentleman -- and I do apologize for not being able to find the story -- apparently followed the attackers on foot as they progressed, then pointed them out to the arriving police. More responding as a pack, not a herd.
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I deserve the embarassment I just earnt by linking to that article without rereading it. The gentleman who threw barware was also the one who followed the jihadis and pointed them out to the police. My apologies.
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To Fred and TW's point, deport the immediate family members and maybe cousins except those that have assimilated, including not wearing Jammie and allowing their daughters to date westerners.
As for fighting back, a bottle held by the neck and rapped against a bar edge often makes a wicked knife, although it seems the attackers were wearing protective gear.
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We've been at war with *ISLAM* for decades. If our leaders (and judiciaries) won't acknowledge that, then perhaps they deserve some unscheduled "visits" by those who understand the situation.
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2035- Gee, grandpa, how come you didn't support former President Trump's ban on refugees from terrorist countries? Shut up, and memorize your Koran.
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So, if I ever go to the UK again, I should be sure to take Kevlar?
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The U.S.' experience with Muslims (and, therefore, Islam) goes back a ways. Per Wiki:
"Until the American Declaration of Independence in 1776, British treaties with the North African states protected American ships from the Barbary corsairs. Morocco, which in 1777 was the first independent nation to publicly recognize the United States, in 1784 became the first Barbary power to seize an American vessel after the nation achieved independence. The Barbary threat led directly to the United States founding the United States Navy in March 1794. While the United States did secure peace treaties with the Barbary states, it was obliged to pay tribute for protection from attack. The burden was substantial: in 1800 payments in ransom and tribute to the Barbary states amounted to 20% of United States federal government's annual expenditures.[23] The United States conducted the First Barbary War in 1801 and the Second Barbary War in 1815 to gain more favorable peace terms; it ended the payment of tribute. But, Algiers broke the 1805 peace treaty after two years, and refused to implement the 1815 treaty until compelled to do so by Britain in 1816."
See also Brian Kilmeade's book, "Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History." (Hint: It covers the origin of "To the shores of Tripoli.").
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Keep in mind that Keith Ellison used Jefferson''s Koran when he was sworn into office as a Congressman. Hint: The latter used it during the war with the Barbary pirates; the former didn't use it to honor Jefferson.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Lebanese addressed an infiltration attempt by Islamic State (ISIL) militants near the Faleeta Barrens of Syria this morning, a military source reported.
According to the report, the Islamic State entered Lebanon after crossing through the Qalamoun Mountains last night; they were seen traveling in the Hamid Valley this morning before they were confronted by the Lebanese Army.
Intense clashes are ongoing at the moment in this area located near the ‘Arsal Barrens.
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The Syrian Army units on Saturday re-established full control over 22 towns in the eastern countryside of Aleppo, killing more than 1200 terrorists.
The source added that the army reestablished control over the towns and farms of al-Asilan, al-Fakhha, Khrbet al-Fakhha, al-Mezzeh al-Shamaliyeh, al-Ghar city, Jeb al-Hamam, Maskaneh wheat hermitages, al-Ajouziyeh, al-Ramadaniyeh, al-Masoudiyeh, al-Mahmoudiyeh, Jadiaa kabira and jadiaa Saghira, al-Hamra, al-Nua’imiyeh, alFaisaliyeh, al-Mowaniyeh, al-Kaltah, Um Rejel, Um Hajrah, al-Taybbeh and Rasem al-Ghazal.
It added that more than 1200 ISIL terrorists were killed including Abu Hozaifa al-Lyibi, a military leader of ISIL, and hundreds of others got injured the military operations carried out in the eastern countryside of Aleppo.
Earlier, the Army units, in cooperation with backing forces carried out a number of intensive operations against the ISIL positions in the southeastern countryside of Aleppo, establishing control over the northeastern and middle parts of al-Tweihina Mountains to the east of Khanaser-Athria axis in the southeastern side of Aleppo countryside.
A number of the ISIL terrorists were killed in the operations and their equipment and fortifications were destroyed.
Deir Ezzor
The army units carried out bombardments and airstrikes against ISIL positions and movement axes in Talet Alloush, al-Thardeh roundabout, al-Makabbat, the Panorama area and the surrounding hills, Palmyra road, al-Rashdiyeh neighborhood and in the villages of al-Jenineh and Aiyyash in Deir Ezzor province.
A military source told SANA Saturday that the army operations killed more than 70 ISIL terrorists and destroyed 4 machineguns-equipped vehicles, canons, a tank and a truck.
Meanwhile, SANA reporter in Deir Ezzor said that the army units carried out intensified operations against the ISIL movement axes and gatherings on the axes of the Cemeteries and al-Maqabar areas, al-Thardeh Mountain, Juniad battalion, Talet Alloush, Talet Milad, the Panorama Farms, the youth housing and in the surroundings of 137 regiment.
The source added that the army inflicted heavy losses upon the ISIL terrorists in personnel.
Source: SANA
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Deir Ezzor (SyriaNews.media) The Islamic State group, on Saturday, attacked locations belonging to the Syrian government forces in the city of Deir Ezzor, Qasioun News Agency reported.
The news agency stated that the Islamic State militants attacked the Syrian government forces and managed to capture some of their locations in Deir Ezzor.
Furthermore, the terrorist group advanced into al-Sawaka School, Dawar al-Panorama and al-Snouf hill, west of the city, after violent clashes with the regime forces and a mutual rockets and artillery shelling.
Meanwhile, Syrian warplanes carried out air strikes on Dawar al-Panorama area, but no casualties were reported among the ranks of the two sides.
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(IraqiNews) Jordanian border guards clashed with militants who tried to attack their positions at the border with Syria on Saturday, killing the gunmen and destroying three motorbikes they were riding, the Jordanian state news agency Petra reported.
The Petra report did not say how many militants had been killed in the attack near the Rukban camp for displaced Syrians, where Islamic State claimed a car bomb attack in May and has also clashed with Syrian rebel groups that operate in the area.
Rukban is located in a sparsely populated area near the intersection of the borders of Syria, Iraq and Jordan.
Citing a source in the Jordanian armed forces command, Petra said the militants had tried to attack the Jordanian border guards’ forward positions from Syrian territory at 8.30 a.m. (0530 GMT). One border guard was wounded in the clash, it said. It did not identify which militant group they belonged to.
[IsraelTimes] Birol Erdem one of the most senior babus bureaucrats to be nabbed.
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim’s chief adviser was detained Saturday over suspected links to the movement of US-based Moslemholy manFethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... blamed for last year’s failed coup, state media reported.
Birol Erdem, a former senior justice ministry official, was taken into custody in Ankara along with his wife Gulumser Erdem, Anadolu news agency said.
He was accused of being a member of the movement led by Gulen, the agency reported, quoting sources from the office of the Ankara chief public prosecutor.
Erdem is one of the most senior babus bureaucrats to be suspected of Gulen links. Others who have been detained come from the military including Erdogan’s aide-de-camp Colonel Ali Yazici.
Erdem was called to testify as a witness last year fin an investigation into followers of Gulen’s movement after several suspected members named him in their testimonies, Hurriyet daily reported.
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[TopRightNews] President Trump unleashed ICE once again this week, this time deploying its Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) unit, along with the DEA to arrest dozens of convenience store owners across 4 states.
Over 60 people were arrested, and already 35 of them have been indicted by a Federal grand jury, with federal conspiracy charges for money laundering, distributing controlled substances and trafficking contraband cigarettes.
The AP carried this story: Illegal profits form the contraband cigarette sales were laundered through accounts associated with the stores, and used to manufacture and distribute illegal controlled substances.
A synthetic drug, K-2, was sold every day from a handful of the convenience stores. Authorities said the store owners manufactured synthetic drugs themselves by importing chemicals from China.
But here's what the Associated "Press" didn't think you needed to know…the names of those indicted.
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Moderate Muslims. Seriously. If you ever had to do business with Muslim business owners, you catch on real quick about how their culture implores them to take advantage of the non-Muslim for profit.
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"We don't charge interest. That is haram. We do get a return on our 'investment' based on the amount and length of time we invest. See? It's totes different!"
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Do a little mental gymnastics and you call interest something else.
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Dozens?
Should be thousands of known hotspots by now.
No resources or channels to process the captives I suppose.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... murderous Moslems group in Afghanistan has rejected the role of the group in the consecutive kabooms in capital Kabul that left several people dead or maimed.
The group’s front man in a statement said the fighters of the group have no role in the kabooms that took place during the burial and funeral ceremony in Sarai Shamali area of Kabul.
Mujahid claimed that the incident has links to internal dispute and enmity among the enemies of the group.
According to the security sources, three back to back kabooms took place as burial and funeral ceremony of Mohammad Salim Izadyar, the son of the deputy speaker of the Afghan Senate House was underway in the area.
The officials are saying that the death of at least eighteen people can be confirmed at the moment and around thirty others were maimed.
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[AlJazeera] On January 21, most of the 230 protesters and bystanders arrested the day before were charged with felony rioting, which carries a maximum prison sentence of 10 years and a $25,000 fine.
But on April 27, the Superior Court of the District of Columbia returned a superseding indictment which added additional charges for some 212 defendants, three of whom had not previously been charged.
With new felony charges including urging to riot, conspiracy to riot and destruction of property, many of the defendants are facing up to 80 years in prison. Many other defendants, among them journalists, are facing more than 70 years. Excellent! Get the word out.
A handful of defendants have made deals with the authorities and entered guilty pleas in exchange for significantly shorter sentences.
But more than 130 of them have joined a 'Points of Unity' agreement, a collective pledge to reject any potential plea deals and reject cooperation with the prosecutors that comes at the expense of their co-defendants. The long arm of the law reached in and grabbed these masked rioters. Enjoy your stay in Club Fed.
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I'll believe it went they're perp walked into expended incarceration. Otherwise, its just talk to further delay the proceedings so we won't pay attention when they finally get deferred sentencing.
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It's a long distance from exercising one's 1st Amendment rights to felony rioting, urging to riot, and conspiracy to riot. At some of these riots, the rioters also were violent against others and threw benches through windows.
A few stiff sentences might tamp down this BS and provide a disincentive to others who have similar ideas. Schools should have been doing their job early on of educating these rioters as to what their fundamental rights are and what they aren't.
Authorities should be going after those who aid and abet and provide funding as well.
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Definitely give em jail time, but 70-80 years?!? Five years in the federal pen would break most of these pussies and I don't feel like spending the tax money on the other years
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IMHO, 70 to 80 years possibility of residential habitation in the crossbar hotel is designed to get the rioters' attention.
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Only slightly OT - festivities in Portland, OR due to kick off in a few hours.
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I hope they take the indictments to the top and charge George Soros.He is the one that funds and trains all the field operatives. He has gone so far as to state he has 30,000 "organizers".
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Follow the money indeed. It costs money to travel to the scene of these "demonstrations". When the defendants collectively pledge to reject plea deals and cooperation it kinda sounds like the authorities might be asking some of them who paid. With that many defendants, somebody's bound to squeal.
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Mosul (IraqiNews.com) At least 100 Islamic State militants were killed as Iraqi troops recaptured another district in western Mosul on Friday, Iraqi troops have declared.
“The group lost 120 militants during battles on al-Sihha district in western Mosul over the past few days,” Brigadier General Sabah Noaman, spokesperson of the army’s elite Counter-Terrorism Service, said in press remarks adding that CTS troops awaits meeting with Federal Police’s Rapid Response troops and army at the northern region to fully besiege the Old City.
The total area controlled by IS is less than three-four square kilometers, Noaman said without setting a date for end of military operations.
On Friday, Lt. Gen. Abdul Amir Yarallah, head of Nineveh Operations Command, said CTS liberated al-Sihha al-Oula district.
As the district is freed, IS now has only two remaining districts of al-Shifaa, al-Zanjili and parts of the Old City.
In western Nineveh, Iraqi troops started digging trenches that stretch along regions that were liberated last week.
Iraqi forces have been sweeping through northwestern neighborhoods over the past few weeks in a way to invade the strategic Old City, after finding it hard to invade from the south.
The eastern side of Mosul was retaken in January after three months of battles. Another major offensive was launched in February to recapture the western flank of the city.
[AlManar] The Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) managed on Saturday to advance in southern Ba’aj district, liberating Al-Risalah compound from ISIL terrorists.
A PMF spokesman said that the popular forces, backed by the Iraqi air force, have been advancing in western Mosul, tightening the siege imposed on the takfiri group in the area.
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Says Rozz the meter maid and issued 150 noisy muffler tickets on technicals!
[AnNahar] Thousands of Paleostinians poured into Jerusalem to attend the first Friday prayers of the Moslem fasting month of Ramadan at the al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third-holiest site, AFP correspondents reported.
Many had queued from before dawn at the Israeli checkpoints that control access to annexed east Jerusalem from the rest of the occupied West Bank.
Police reinforcements were deployed across Jerusalem's Old City to provide security around the ultra-sensitive mosque compound, which is also Judaism's holiest site.
A front man for police told AFP that over 100,000 had participated in the prayers on and around the mosque compound.
Israel had loosened a number of restrictions ahead of Ramadan, which began on Saturday, to enable easier travel from the West Bank to Israel for Friday prayers and family visits.
Women of all ages and men over 40 do not need entry permits in order to access Jerusalem for Friday prayers. Israel also allowed 100 men and women over the age of 55 from Gazoo to enter Jerusalem for prayers, police said.
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We are standing at the crossroads of Judea Christian Western Culture clashing with Far Eastern Islamic Barbarian Culture made possible by the "refugee" movement. Water and oil by nature do not mix.
One will culture have to simply remove the other. The struggle is joined.
[ABS-CBN] Philippine president Rpdrigo Duterte said he was "not so keen" on accepting the New People's Army's offer to fight Islamist rebels in the country as troops continued to pursue terrorists in Marawi City. This after the National Democratic Front of the Philippines expressed its commitment to send New People’s Army militants to fight Islamic State-inspired militants in the country.
But the president said this may not be a good idea. He said, "I don’t know, but I’m not so keen about it. Anyway, it’s a show of goodwill."
Duterte said the communists may have realized that they could be rendered irrelevant if the Maute militants prevailed. He said, "They have offered to fight alongside with us against terrorism. Maybe they realized na kung manalo ang- we are overwhelmed at manalo- the ISIS will prevail in Mindanao or even a part of Mindanao, wala silang kasali sa gobyerno. The ISIS will never allow anybody to have in their company a group of persons which have... iba ‘yung ideolohiya.”
Duterte's latest pronouncement comes days after he called on the New People's Army and Moro militants to help in the fight against extremism. His decision to turn down the NDFP offer also comes in the wake of the government’s decision to suspend its talks with the communist movement.
Duterte reiterated his position that the communist militants must first issue a ceasefire document before the two sides could resume talks.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) One soldier was killed, while two others were wounded due to an attack launched by Islamic State militants against checkpoint located east of Abu Saida town in Diyala province, the security committee said.
Speaking to AlSumaria News on Saturday, Awwad al-Rubaie, a member of the security committee at Diyala province, said on Saturday “IS militants attacked the army security checkpoint between abu Karma and Gelbi from Abu Saida direction. One soldier was killed, while two others were injured.”
“The crime committed by IS shows its dangers and presence at several agricultural lands,” Rubaie said urging security services to “carry out military operations to end presence of extremist groups and boost security.”
Several regions and agricultural lands in Abu Saida witness attacks by IS fighters.
Violence in the country has surged further with the emergence of Islamic State Sunni extremist militants who proclaimed an “Islamic Caliphate” in Iraq and Syria in 2014.
According to a monthly count released on Thursday by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq, violence and armed conflicts left 824 Iraqis dead and wounded during the month of May.
Nineveh came on top of the most affected governorates with 354 Iraqi civilians were killed and another 470 injured. Baghdad came in second place with 86 victims and 22 injured. Anbar came third with a total of 136 casualties (47 killed and 89 injured)
The total number of victims marked a rise from 317 Iraqis in April. In March, the victims reached 1115, according to UNAMI.
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(Reuters) Dozens of dead bodies of civilians killed while fleeing an Islamic State-held neighborhood in Mosul were lying on Saturday in a street close to the front line with Iraqi armed forces, a Reuters TV crew reported.
The bodies belonged to men, women and children. Bags in which they carried their belongings were strewn around the street leading out of the Zanjili districts, one of three still in the hands of Islamic State in Mosul.
Hundreds others managed to reach the government lines, some wounded and some carrying apparently dead bodies in blankets.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) A huge underground prison with dozens of detainees from Anbar province was found in west of Mosul, a local source from Nineveh said on Saturday.
“While liberating western Mosul districts, Iraqi troops found a huge underground prison, where dozens of detainees from Fallujah, Ramadi, Saqlawiyah and Karma cities were held,” the source told AlSumaria News.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source said “the detainees were released. They were secured by Iraqi troops ahead of being treated. They were then transferred to another place to check their identities.”
U.N. estimates put the number of civilians stranded at the battlefield in the Old City at 200.000, saying they suffer severe shortages in food and medicine.
Iraqi generals had earlier predicted recapturing the city in mid-May before start of the holy month of Ramadan, which began on Saturday.
Iraqi forces have been sweeping through northwestern neighborhoods over the past few weeks in a way to invade the strategic Old City, after finding it hard to invade from the south.
The eastern side of Mosul was retaken in January after three months of battles. Another major offensive was launched in February to recapture the western flank of the city.
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Units belonging of the Libyan National Army (LNA) have entered the town of Waddan in Jufra amid fierce fighting. Latest reports say that they have taken it. The nearby town of Sukna is also said to have been taken by the LNA, although this has not been confirmed.
The LNA forces are believed to be heading towards Jufra airbase. Its capture would give it air striking coverage of much of western Libya.
The clashes first erupted on the eastern outskirts of Waddan between the LNA and the Benghazi Defence Brigades (BDB), said to have been supported by Chadian mercenaries.
Waddan hospital has reported 11 dead, including seven Chadians.
For their part, the LNA were supported by armed locals from Waddan, with at least one reported dead. Three Chadians on the side of the BDB died.
Misratan forces had already left the area before the attack.
It followed another night of intense aerial bombardment by LNA jets. At least ten airstrikes hit the neighbouring town of Houn. While the Egyptian air force has carried out attacks on Derna and the Jufra region in the past week, there is no indication they were involved in the events of the past 24 hours.
LNA spokesman Colonel Ahmed Mismari issued a statement urging the people of Jufra to stay away from any “fixed or mobile target, headquarters or vehicles belonging to hostile groups, as they are legitimate targets for the armed forces’ air force”.
He added that the LNA General Command would target any building that “embraces these terrorist groups”.
[ToloNews] Health ministry sources have said as many as 20 people were killed and at least 87 wounded in Saturday’s suicide bombing at the funeral of a Senator’s son in Khair Khana in Kabul city.
The explosion took place at about 3.30pm during the burial service at a cemetery for Salem Ezadyar who was killed on Friday when security forces opened fire on demonstrators at a mass rally in downtown Kabul.
According to sources, three suicide bombers detonated their explosives back-to-back during the ceremony.
High-ranking officials had been in attendance at the time, including CEO Abdullah Abdullah and acting foreign affairs minister Salahuddin Rabbani.
Photographs after the explosion showed Abdullah was safe while Rabbani took to Twitter and confirmed he was unharmed but condemned the incident.
Other high-ranking officials were also in attendance including a number of MPs. Early reports indicated that at least one MP had been wounded.
The wounded have been taken to Kabul Emergency Hospital.
President Ashraf Ghani, who condemned the attack via Twitter, and said the "country was under attack".
"President Ghani condemns the outrageous attack on mourners burying the martyred.The country is under attack.We must be strong and united," he said.
This comes just hours after two high-ranking security officials warned members of the public against attending mass gatherings. Both the Kabul Garrison Commander and the deputy minister of interior Murad Ali Murad said on television the threat level in Kabul was extremely high, therefore people should avoid public gatherings.
This week has been a particularly deadly week for Kabul after five people were killed during the mass rally in the city on Friday. They had been protesting against Wednesday’s massive truck bombing which killed over 100 people and wounded more than 600.
The Taliban immediately denied any involvement in the cemetery bombing.
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Tunis – Tunisia’s interior ministry has confirmed the arrest of a man recruiting fighters for the purpose of sending them to war zones such as Libya, Syria and Iraq.
The ministry, which did not identify the suspect, said the man is Tunisian and was residing in a neighboring country. But he was arrested in the center of the Tunisian capital.
The arrest of the man, who is considered a top terrorist recruiter, will likely untangle the mystery of the travel of hundreds of Tunisians to war zones.
The ministry said the suspect admitted to luring a large number of extremists in Tunisia and sending them to Syria.
He also confessed to being tasked by ISIS in Syria to carry out his mission in return for huge sums of money in US currency.
Police also arrested two other accomplices, who were on their way to Syria. They seized from them cash and electronic devices that include videos praising ISIS.
During initial questioning, the two men admitted to planning on traveling to Syria to join the terrorist organization. They also confessed to plotting terrorist attacks in Tunisia in case they failed to reach the war-torn country.
According to official data, there are around 3,000 Tunisian terrorists abroad, the majority in Syria and the rest in Libya, Iraq and other countries.
Interior ministry documents also reveal that more than 27,000 Tunisians have been stopped from joining terrorist groups, and that 800 terrorists have returned to the country.
The return of extremists creates huge security challenges for the Tunisian authorities.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A top Pak diplomat has claimed the notorious Haqqani terrorist network has moved to Afghanistan, rejecting the claims of the Afghan officials after the deadly Kabul bombing was attributed to the network and Pakistain’s military intelligence. "Oh, yeah. They're gone now. Nothin' to worry about."
The Pak Ambassador to Washington, Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, told news hounds in Washington that the Afghan officials must focus on eliminating the terror network inside its soil rather than blaming Pakistain.
Chaudhry also claimed that the network is on the run after the operations were launched in North Wazoo, insisting that "They have moved into Afghanistan and need to be taken care of there."
"It is outright barbaric terrorism, and we should condemn it with all the might that we have," he said, adding that the attack should serve to "strengthen our resolve" to work with Kabul on counterterrorism operations.
The Afghan intelligence said late Wednesday that credible intelligence information confirms the attack was carried out by the network on direct instructions and with the support of the Pak military intelligence, Inter Services Intelligence.
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"We know they moved there. That's where we send their checks now"
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ADEN: Yemeni government forces fought Saturday to capture a rebel-held presidential palace in the southwestern province of Taiz after clashes that killed 27 people, medics and military sources said.
Most of Taiz province is controlled by Iran-backed Houthi militias, who are battling forces allied with UN-backed President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi based in the provincial capital.
Medics at the rebel-controlled Thamar Government Hospital in Taiz, Yemen’s third city, said 19 Houthis had been killed in clashes over the past 24 hours.
Military sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, reported eight soldiers dead during the same period as the army closed in on the presidential palace.
The palace is under the control of the Houthis who are allied with former soldiers loyal to deposed President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
A Saudi-led coalition has fought in Yemen for the past two years on the side of Hadi’s government.
A statement on the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) on Saturday said pro-government Yemeni forces had captured the palace in Taiz.
But military sources on the ground denied this, telling AFP that while government forces were closing in on the palace, they had not yet seized it.
Meanwhile, Qatar said on Saturday that six of its soldiers were wounded on the Saudi border with Yemen while serving in the Saudi-led military coalition.
Qatar’s Defense Ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency QNA that the six were injured “while conducting their duties within the Qatari contingent defending the southern borders of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.”
It gave no further details on the incident.
Qatar-based Al Jazeera television reported in 2015 that Qatar had deployed 1,000 troops to Yemen. Other reports said the force was only being stationed at the Saudi border with Yemen.
Qatari media have reported that at least four soldiers have died while serving in the Saudi-led coalition.
Yemen’s conflict has killed more than 8,000 people and wounded tens of thousands, according to the UN’s World Health Organization.
More than 500 people have died of cholera and another 55,200 left ill in recent weeks in the second outbreak of the deadly infection in less than a year in Yemen, the poorest country in the Arab world.
The UN has warned that 17 million people, or two-thirds of the population, face a serious threat of famine this year.
[AAWSAT] The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance, have seized new territory that lies halfway between ISIS’ former stronghold of Tabqa and its de facto capital Raqqa in northern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday.
The Britain-based monitor said the SDF captured the town of Mansoura late Friday and the adjacent Baath Dam on the Euphrates River, around 20 kilometers west of Raqqa.
“This advance will allow the SDF to expand its control on the southern banks of the Euphrates River and stabilize the western front of Raqqa before launching the final battle to expel ISIS from the city,” Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said.
“We’re nearing the major battle,” he added.
Abdel Rahman said combing operations were ongoing in Mansoura and at the dam to “dismantle mines and search for remaining jihadists”.
The SDF launched an operation to capture Raqqa last November, and has since surrounded the city from the north and east while closing in from the west.
SDF spokesman Talal Sello told AFP the advances on the western front were part of the final stage of operations before the launch of the assault on Raqqa, which has been held by ISIS since 2014.
He said the SDF had received “weapons and advanced equipment from the international coalition… as part of preparations for the launch of the battle for Raqqa, which is close”.
Sello said the SDF would launch the attack from the north, west and east of Raqqa.
“The SDF has already completed the siege from the northern and eastern sides and is working to complete the siege from the west,” he added.
The SDF is fighting with broad weapons, airpower, and ground support from the US-led coalition.
SDF fighters are now just a few kilometers from the city on the north, east and western fronts, with all major routes into the city severed.
ISIS militants are still able to move out of the city to the south, however, crossing the Euphrates river by boat before continuing on through the desert.
The SDF is not expected to try to seal the southern route before launching its final assault.
“The SDF doesn’t need to isolate Raqqa from the south, because the international coalition’s planes can target any jihadists as they cross the river,” Abdel Rahman said.
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'Advance' must be led by relative of Gen. Montgomery.
[ALMASDARNEWS] On Sunday, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... ’s Ministry of Defense announced six of its soldiers had been maimed on Saudi-Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... border.
Qatari state news agency quoted the commander of Morale guidance at the MoD saying the soldiers were maimed "while conducting their duties within the Qatari contingent defending the southern borders of the Kingdom 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... The statement does not specify if they were fighting with the Saudi-led Arab coalition which, as Saudi Arabia constantly reiterates, supports the exiled Yemeni President Hadi.
This comes as a development of the dispute occurred between Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, on the one hand, and Qatar on the other. The conflict started after Qatari state news agency (QNA) had published controversial statements ascribed to Emir of Qatar, in which he criticized policy of Persian Gulf Countries towards Iran calling for improvement of relations with the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
The agency later denied responsibility for publishing these materials saying the web-site was hacked. However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... both Saudi and Emirati media still publish news proving the agency’s web-site was not hacked.
This dispute escalates as Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces held talks with King Of Saudi Arabia yesterday.
Abdel Bari Atwan ,editor-in-chief of the London-based electronic Arabic daily outlet, Rai-al-Youm, believes the main agenda of the visit was dispute with Qatar, and not Yemen, as media reported.
Presently, there are 1,000 Qatari soldiers deployed at Yemeni ‐ Saudi border.
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[Wash Times] HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Penn State’s former president and two other ex-administrators were sentenced Friday to at least two months in jail for failing to report a child sexual abuse allegation against Jerry Sandusky a decade before his arrest engulfed the university in scandal and brought down football coach Joe Paterno.
"They ignored the opportunity to put an end to his crimes when they had a chance to do so," Judge John Boccabella said as he lambasted the three defendants and the Hall of Fame coach over a delay that prosecutors say enabled Sandusky to molest four more boys. "Lambasted" with wet pasta.
Boccabella said he was "appalled that the common sense to make a phone call did not occur," a transgression that "sort of robs my faith of who we are as adults and where we are going."
Former President Graham Spanier, 68, was sentenced to four to 12 months, with the first two in jail and the rest under house arrest. He was convicted of child endangerment.
Former athletic director Tim Curley, 63, received a sentence of seven to 23 months, with three in jail. Former vice president Gary Schultz, 67, was given six to 23 months, with two months behind bars. They pleaded guilty to child endangerment. After five long years a gentle slap on the wrist. Should have been 10 year sentences with stiff monetary fines plus court costs and substantial victim awards.
[The Nation] Seven troops were wounded in a double bombing in Narathiwat's Tak Bai district on Friday morning.
The first happened at 9am at a bridge behind the Narathiwat Coastal Fishery Research Center. As five troops parked their pickup truck, rebels detonated a bomb hidden inside a motorcycle to ambush them. Police said the five soldiers had gone to help repair the house of a relative of a former rebel. The motorcycle belonged to Mariya Maka, who reported that it had been stolen after his friend borrowed it.
About 30 minutes later, as police inspected the scene, another bomb exploded about 800 meters away. The second bomb wounded more soldiers who had set up a roadblock after the first explosion.
Poilce said two of the soldiers were severely wounded.
Aleppo (SyriaNews.media) The Syrian regime forces and their affiliated militias, on Saturday, recaptured some parts of al-Tuwaihaina Mountains, east of Khanaser-Ithreya road, southeast of Aleppo, Qasioun News Agency reported.
The news agency revealed that the Syrian government forces also advanced toward the northern, eastern and central parts of al-Tuwaihaina Mountains, after violent battles with the Islamic State group, amid mutual rockets and artillery shelling.
Meanwhile, media sources belonging to the Islamic State pointed out that the terrorist group killed eight members of the government forces and wounded dozens others, after repulsing their attack in the vicinity of al-Hamam area, east of Aleppo.
Noteworthy, regime forces and the affiliated militias recently recaptured several areas in the countryside of Aleppo, and approached Maskana, the last stronghold of the Islamic State east of Aleppo.
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[THEAMERICANMIRROR] After the latest suspected Islamic terrorist attack in London on Saturday, a CNN host lashed out at President Trump over his renewed call for a travel ban.
The president took to Twitter Saturday evening, saying, "We need to be smart, vigilant and tough. We need the courts to give us back our rights. We need the Travel Ban as an extra level of safety!"
...this is the Moslem gentleman who recently ate brains with cannibals in India...
lashed out, writing, "This piece of shit is not just an embarrassment to American and a stain on the presidency. He’s an embarrassment to humankind."
Aslan hosts a show called "Believer with Reza Aslan" on the network in which he "immerses himself in the world’s most fascinating faith-based groups to experience life as a true believer," according to the show’s website.
This article starring:
Reza Aslan
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Iranian American. Muslim scholar. CNN material suitable for Al Jazeera. Using profanity because he has no substantive response to murderous jihad but will definitely attack anyone who criticizes jihad. Kind of like a murderer in a criminal court profaning the judge who just handed him a harsh sentence.
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Time to FOIA every "airport authority" in the country to learn exactly why CNN is on all those departure lounge monitors and, if taxpayer money changed hands, when exactly did the taxpayer get to vote on it.
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Reza Aslan shows up quite a bit on Rantburg. He sounds like a duplicitous POS.
BLUF: [Gateway Pundit] It appears at this time that the DNC was still focused on finding a leaker in the spring of 2016 and the leaker had not yet been found. It is also a fact that Podesta wanted to make an example of the leaker as noted in the email above and Seth Rich was murdered on the night of July 10th.
In early August of 2016 Amy Dacey, Seth Rich’s boss resigned from her post as CEO of the DNC due to some embarrassing emails released by WikiLeaks.
Disgraced Amy Dacey and the individuals who performed her audit in early 2016 are key suspects in knowledge of when and if Seth Rich was identified as the DNC leaker. She also should be asked to whom this was communicated with and what was said.
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And then there's this from yesteray's Daily Mail:
Dotcom – the Mega-upload founder and New Zealand resident who is facing fraud and racketeering charges in the United States – offered to meet with the U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller on Tuesday. He claims to have evidence that Rich, not the Russian government, was behind the DNC email leak last summer.
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In purely pragmatic terms - does anybody (inside USA and out) really wants incompetents who overreact to a leak of this type with murder, running USA?
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I'm thinking investigators ought to go back and have another look at the James O'Keefe Project Veritas videos on Democratic voter fraud with fixers, organizers, and arrangers Scott Foval, Bob Creamer and others and look at what they said about the darker side of the DNC. There was a mention of "others" who did the heavy lifting for the DNC. Is it possible that some of those "others" might be a link between the higher up DNC officials and those who are actually directly linked to the Seth Rich crime? One has to consider what the Democratic Party has become and consists of: labor unions, liberals, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, the Weathermen types of the 60's, revolutionaries, hard-core Communists, and all sorts of extremists across the spectrum. There is a cadre of individuals within the Party who have and would do just about everything for the Party.
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Not to disagree, G(r)om, because I think you're right, but then does leaving the goodies support the bungled robbery theory? Or was it done on purpose, to confuse?
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Not to disagree, G(r)om, because I think you're right, but then does leaving the goodies support the bungled robbery theory? Or was it done on purpose, to confuse?
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Making it appear to be a 'robbery' sends no message to other potential leakers.
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Baltimore is getting blanket surveillance but other cities are noted as being covered already. I presume they are high-value terror targets, like DC and NYC, but this system enables retroactive tracking of the entire city. What happened to Seth Rich in the last 2 hours before the shooting?
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Comments at GP are enlightening:
George Webb has discovered a lot of information. He has even named a killer of Seth Rich. https://youtu.be/_-p58hB9lN0?list=UUrQ-wHKVi0JDWjQGcuoYnew
Early release from an Arrest on an international car theft ring....Visited DNC offices and Hillary Clinton's NY Campaign headquarters (in same building where Loretta Lynch as US AG has an office). Comey tries to compromise investigation.
When Russian envoy sent to inform President Obama about Russian intel picking up on planned hit - on "a" DNC official, obama immediately expels the Russians from The USA. Gives Russian diplomats and families 24 hours to leave The USA.
Two or three days later, on July 10, 2016, Seth Rich is mysteriously gunned down in Washington DC in a non-robbery.
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Shaun Lucas is found dead - who is the attorney being videotaped serving the RACKETEERING lawsuit against The DNC and Debbie Wasserman-Scultz as Chair of The DNC - for rigging the Democrat Party's Primaries on behalf of Hillary Clinton - against .Bernie Sanders.
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Eric Braverman as the former CEO of The Clinton Foundation, goes to the Russian embassy in NYC, seeking POLITICAL ASYLUM - in October 2016.
Eric Braverman was hired as CEO of The Clinton Foundation - by Chelsea Clinton - becoming aware of another Clinton SCANDAL = both Clintons funneling the money to themselves from donations made to The Clinton Foundation to rebuild Villages in India, that could ruin her mother's chances for the US Presidency.
Chelsea Clinton hired Braverman to clean-up The Clinton Foundation that gained a reputation as an international Money Laundering operation, but Braverman resigns as CEO - prior to Hillary Clinton announcing her bid for the US Presidency - even though Braverman was under contract to 2017.
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Don't know about Gerald Bull, but I once saw a recruit being taught to throw a grenade throw the safety and stand there smiling a happy relieved smile with a tickling grenade in hand.
OAN TV reports Dr Jack Sava is a person of interest.
One America News reported that the attending physician who treated Rich was Dr. Jack Sava, a donor to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, who visited the White House six times before the day of Seth Rich’s murder. Dr. Sava is in a relationship with Lisa Kountoupes, a lobbyist for the DNC in 2016 who reportedly visited the White House 23 times during that same time period. They both reportedly visited the East Wing, reserved for then-first lady Michelle Obama and her staff.
WikiLeaks emails reveal Kountoupes co-hosted a Feb. 22, 2016, fundraiser with Tony and John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 national campaign chairman. Kountoupes and Dr. Sava were also listed on a guest list attached to a Feb. 7, 2016, email to John Podesta. Kountoupes is listed among Clinton Foundation contributors in the $10,0001-$25,000 donation bracket. Then there is a 4th year resident that claims Rich was alive following surgery.
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Re the Clinton Foundation. Charles Ortel has a good handle on the corruption in this foundation criminal organization--basically, a money-laundering organization for the Clintons.
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An examination of 'Persons of Interest' banking accounts might be a useful undertaking. Large cash withdrawals (or deposits). Sounds a bit cruel, but I wouldn't leave out the immediate family of Seth Rich in the monetary investigation.
Strange how silent voices within the Beltway Party appear to be, or possibly not so strange at all.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbudddin Hekmatyar harshly criticized the perpetrators of the deadly bombing in Kabul, calling those involved behind the attack stooges and murderers. When Hek thinks you're evil, you'd make Beelzebub gag.
Speaking during a gathering of the women in Kabul on Friday, Hekmatyar said those who plotted and carried out the Wednesday attack in Kabul do not believe in Islam and such attacks have no justification in Islam.
Hekmatyar said even the murder of the non-Moslems who are not fighting is prohibited in Islam and the murder of their children, women, and their elders are also strictly prohibited in Islam’s religion.
He questioned the misperception of those fighting in the name of Jihad and believing that attacks in mosques, markets and other public places will take them to paradise, calling them ignorant people.
No group including the Taliban ...Arabic for students... Death Eaters has so far grabbed credit behind the deadly attack so far.
The Taliban group in a statement earlier rejected the group’s hand in the attack but the Afghan officials are saying that the attack was carried out by the notorious Haqqani terrorist network with the support of the Pak military intelligence.
The Haqqani network has close ties with the Taliban group and the network’s leader was appointed as deputy supreme leader of the Taliban after the death of Mullah Mohammad Omar was confirmed.
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[REUTERS] The general leading an offensive against pro-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.... gunnies holed up in a southern Philippine town has been relieved of his command, an army front man said on Friday, the 11th day of the country's biggest security crisis in years.
The removal of Brigadier-General Nixon Fortes as commander of the army brigade in Marawi City and his replacement by his deputy, Colonel Generoso Ponio, was not related to the battle that has raged in the city, the front man said.
"That's not the reason," front man Lieutenant-Colonel Ray Tiongson said when asked if Fortes' replacement was triggered by the course of the conflict.
Fortes was appointed commander of the army's 103rd Brigade in January and oversaw a series of operations on the island of Mindanao to disrupt the Maute, a group that has sworn allegiance to Islamic State which later laid siege to Marawi City.
A military source, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , said Fortes was dismissed because not all his forces were in the city when the rebels began their rampage, even though military intelligence had indicated that Islamist murderous Moslems, including imported muscle, were amassing there.
The source said that some of Fortes' forces were busy fighting a small band of communist gunnies in a nearby town when some 400 gunnies overran Marawi City on May 23 after a botched military raid to capture their leader, Isnilon Hapilon.
Thirty-nine members of the security forces have been killed in the Marawi City battles, as well as 19 civilians and 120 rebel fighters.
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"That's not the reason," front man Lieutenant-Colonel Ray Tiongson said when asked if Fortes' replacement was triggered by the course of the conflict.
"It was...umm...something else"
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Oh, man, this is hilarious. Europe actually thinks they can treat China like they treat America. This is going to be good.
[Euractiv.com] As China becomes an increasingly important partner for the EU, now is the time to take a strong stance on human rights and make sure Beijing provides fair access to European businesses, writes Marietje Schaake. I busted out laughing when I read this intro. She actually thinks this is going to happen? She doesn't know the Chinese at all.
Marietje Schaake is a Dutch Democraten 66 MEP in the liberal ALDE group.
With Trump turning away from the EU, many see cooperation with China as a natural reflex. However, we must recognise that there are still many obstacles in the relationship, both in the economic and the political sense. China acts based on what it perceives as its own interest: China first. On climate, the European and Chinese interest seems to converge. On trade, security and human rights, China is charting a very different course. The EU-China summit is an opportunity to stress that the EU is willing to cooperate, but that this can only be done on the basis of respect for international laws and agreements. BAHAHAHAHAHAAHA
Last January in Davos, before CEO and ministers from all over the world, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a speech in which he promoted globalisation. Highlighting the value of free, rules-based trade was a clear move to counter the ’America First’ narrative of Donald Trump. The rhetorical role reversal between the US and China, was remarkable. The question is now whether China will actually turn these words into actions. Kowtow to China and everything will be fine.
Chinese economic growth has made it a key global trade player alongside the EU and the US. China has benefitted greatly from access to other markets and the rules that the World Trade Organisation has set. But while the EU is an open market, generally allowing for fair and equal treatment of foreign companies, the Chinese market remains closed and difficult for foreign companies. European businesses consistently face problems as Chinese companies often receive help from the government, for example through un-transparent subsidies or simplified procedures. Big infrastructure contracts always seem to be awarded to Chinese contractors. Often, companies with technologically advanced products, need to transfer knowledge before they are allowed into the market at all. These are problems that must be addressed. We may be able to cooperate more closely with China on advancing international rules, but only if China will enforce those rules on its own market in a fair way. Oh, man, my sides are hurting. She really thinks they're going to stop being dicks to foreigners! It's like she's never read a word of Chinese history.
The EU can only convincingly persuade China if the member states form a united front. China does not hesitate to try to divide the member states. By targeting specific sectors, or threatening to take counter measures, China has in the past pressured EU countries to change their positions. Unfortunately this has been effective. If member states only focus on the short term and narrow economic interests instead of the long-term collective interest of the EU, it will be difficult to leverage our weight. In the end, more and fairer market access in China, as well as committed participation by China to adhere to and enforce global rules, is a bigger interest for the EU. Notice she does not, at any point, mention the interests of the people of Europe. It's all about her, all the time. And why shouldn't it be? The EU was created as insulated from the voters for a reason.
The EU-China summit will focus mostly on climate and trade. While these are important topics, they must not push other issues off the agenda. They should not overshadow the problems with human rights in China. Journalists are jailed, the death penalty is often carried out and in different parts of the country, minorities are repressed. The importance of the European market for China means that we have a possibility to address the dismal human rights situation in an integrated way. European leaders must also address the provocations and instability in the South China Sea. Although it is unlikely that China will change its position, the EU must make clear that international law is also our guiding principle. Yeah let me know how that works out for you BAHAHAHAHAAHA
While there may be opportunities for more cooperation, Europe cannot be naive about the fundamental differences that remain. China should let go of ’China first’ if it wants to be a convincing global player. Stop, stop, it hurts from laughing!
This is going to be great. The next few years are going to be gut-bustingly funny as Europe finds out they can't push China around the way they did with the Americans. China don't give a shit about the hairy barbarians, no matter how clever they are or how many technologies they invent. If you're not Chinese you're not a person, end of story. Oh man, this is a wonderful time to be alive.
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"now is the time to take a strong stance on human rights and make sure Beijing provides fair access to European businesses"
Yep, "now". The human rights abuses only began yesterday, so let's do something NOW.
And don't you just love how politicians of all shapes and sizes define "fair". GTFOH!
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One Belt, One Road, One Leader. Kinda has a familiar ring.
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Partners:
EU-China: Trade in goods
Trade in goods 2014-2016, € billions
Year EU imports EU exports Balance
2014 ... 302.1 ...... 164.6 ...... -137.5
2015 ... 350.6 ...... 170.4 ...... -180.3
2016 ... 344.6 ...... 170.1 ...... -174.5
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The keepers of the 'Middle Kingdom' have much patience and very long memories.
They do not forget history and therefore try not to repeat mistakes. They may talk one way, but will act for what suits them best most every time.
They may not 'burst out laughing' when reading this poor ignorant screed, but they would certainly smile.
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Given that the EU is basically the Fourth Reich (i.e. a German empire) by another name, I'm guessing here that, in their dealings with the EU, the Chinese will look up their voluminous catalog of affronts from other nations and recall the Kaiser's instructions to his troops prior to their expedition to China:
"Should you encounter the enemy, he will be defeated! No quarter will be given! Prisoners will not be taken! Whoever falls into your hands is forfeited. Just as a thousand years ago the Huns under their King Attila made a name for themselves, one that even today makes them seem mighty in history and legend, may the name German be affirmed by you in such a way in China that no Chinese will ever again dare to look cross-eyed at a German."
This is not to say the China has never imposed its will on other nations - the existence of a continental-scale unitary Chinese state suggests a long and bloody history of aggressive war, even if you've read no Chinese history. However, Xi, as another in a long line of emperors of all under heaven (the notional title of all Chinese rulers), probably views this as China's prerogative - an opinion likely shared by most of his countrymen. Chinese territorial expansion is part of its mission civilisatrice, whereas invasions of the Celestial Kingdom are obviously the work of barbarians bent on exploiting its people and pillaging China's priceless antiquities (the eye-rollingly nutty motif of more Chinese chop socky movies than I can count).
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Good comment, ZF, at least in terms of educating me (which when it comes to China is an admittedly low hurdle.) I note that we're reading about this EU fantasy on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square.
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China apologist
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The EU-China summit will focus mostly on climate and trade.
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China has made huge amounts from the climate scam. At one point 80% of all carbon credits bought worldwide ended up in China's pocket.
One example was factories making CFCs that nobody wanted, which were then paid in Carbon Credits to destroy. Then they would make more. This went on for years.
Perhaps next we can do something about CAIR and ISNA back in America...
[IsraelTimes] Coordinators of Islamist group’s activities in West Bank among those reportedly being booted, under pressure from the US and Soddy Arabia.
Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... is expelling several senior Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", members from the Gulf kingdom, in response to outside pressure, a report said Saturday, in a major blow to the Gazoo-based terror group.
Qatar has been a major backer of Hamas, pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the Gazoo Strip and sheltering the group’s top leadership in recent years.
Hamas was recently informed of the decision by a representative of the Gulf kingdom, who gave Hamas a list of members who must leave Qatar’s capital of Doha, Hebrew media quoted a report from the Hezbollah affiliated al-Mayadeen television station as saying.
According to the report, those singled out are Hamas members tasked with coordinating with the terror group’s operatives in the West Bank, and the list of names reportedly came from interrogations of Paleostinian security prisoners by Israel.
The Qatari’s reportedly apologized for the move, but said it came as a result of "external pressures" on Doha.
It gave no details on where the outside pressure came from, but it comes just two weeks after US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... met with Moslem leaders in Saudi Arabia, calling on them to form a coalition against Islamist terrorism.
Israel’s Channel 10 TV on Saturday night quoted Paleostinian officials saying the pressure on Qatar to expel Hamas operatives came from Saudi Arabia and the United States. The sources added that the list of names was "only the beginning" and that further expulsions would follow.
In Trump’s speech he labelled Hamas as a terror group and bunched it with other terror organizations such as Hezbollah and the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... . While in Riyadh, Trump also met with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.
Qatar has also been under fire in recent days from its Gulf neighbors for its closer ties with Iran and the Moslem Brüderbund.
Since Hamas wrested control of Gazoo from the Paleostinian Authority in a bloody coup in 2007, Qatar has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the territory and backed Hamas diplomatically, sheltering its exiled former leader Khaled Mashaal. It was not clear Saturday if Mashaal was among those ordered to leave Qatar.
In 2012, its then-emir, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, became the first head of state to visit Gazoo under Hamas rule, pledging to raise $400 million toward reconstruction.
Mashaal decamped to Doha from the group’s former headquarters in Damascus in 2012 over reported disagreements with the Syrian regime over its brutal crackdown on protesters and rebels in the Syrian civil war, who like Hamas are primarily Sunni Moslems.
In addition to Qatar, a number of Hamas operatives are also reported to live in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , namely Saleh al-Arouri, a senior Hamas member who Israel says is in charge of training terror cells in the West Bank.
Libyan National Army (LNA) units moved into the Jufra airbase this morning after it had been abandoned first by the 13th Brigade (formerly the Third Force) and then by the Benghazi Defence Brigades.
The LNA said that seven 12th Brigade soldiers were killed in the fighting with an eighth casualty from a supporting unit. It is unclear how many Misratans and BDB members became casualties or were taken prisoner. Their withdrawal appears to have happened as LNA units began to surround the base following up quickly on their successful attack on Waddan.
Libyan commentator Mohamed Eljarh said today: “Winning & securing Jufra will be a major development and will shift in the balance of power in central and western Libya”.
The LNA said that armed forces commander-in-chief Khalifa Hafter had saluted all units that had taken part in the Jufra attack. He had also praised the locals for supporting the LNA and “congratulated them on being freed from terrorism”.
Jufra has been held by the BDB for over a year. Last December in the wake of the LNA’s capture of the four Oil Crescent export terminals, its warplanes began airstrikes on the base and surrounding area. Today’s advance was preceded by more overnight air attacks.
Among the LNA images to come out of the newly-occupied air base was footage of the former 12th Brigade commander Mohamed Ben Nayel speaking to the camera from the middle of the runway and hailing the victory. Nayel resigned last Monday and was succeeded by his deputy Brigadier General Abdul Hadi Bouzid . It is unclear what he was doing in Jufra.
Yesterday, after Waddan had fallen, LNA spokesman Colonel Ahmed Mismari said that the next objective would be Bani Walid, some 350 km to the north-west of Jufra.
Letters to Lida:
World War II Told Through the Eyes, Heart, and Words of a B-29 Tail-Gunner
Charlene Briggs
Epigraph Books, Rhinebeck NY
The author's father, David Lemal, went off to war and wrote a series of letters to his family back home where the author discovered them years later. All in all, 150 letters survived the years.
In his twilight years his daughter, Charlene Briggs - adjunct professor in Environmental Science at Temple University - interviewed her father letter by letter and asked for background and/or reflection of that particular letter. Sometimes her questions betrayed her education, but for the most part she let him just talk or explain the event.
Mr. Leval and his mother were prolific writers, and even though his mother's letters did not survive, one can conclude what the other side of the correspondence held.
June 21, 1944
Reflections
The plane on the letterhead of the poem is the plane I got to ride in. The poem was in an army newspaper.
There was still no room in gunnery school. They shipped us there to Del Rio to get us out of the way. While we were on hold, I volunteered to work in the machine shop. I made a big wrench to take the landing gear apart. People who worked in the machine shop could not get over I knew how to run all the machines.
"Hell and Del Rio" was written by one of the soldiers in town. I found it in a newsletter.
Each letter is scanned, and extras like this poem are included.
This is not an action book; it is a back-and-forth between a son and his mother during extraordinary times. It isn't a continuous story either, which makes it a good book for people who have five or ten minutes here and there, then not pick it up for a few days.
Proceeds go to the B-29 'Doc' restoration project.
Link is to Doc's web page and store, story, and gallery which are also interesting to look through.
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About three months ago my boogie bag's status switched from theory to practical and I was going to get into that but have run out of time - feel free to discuss such things as well. I will try again next time, whenever that may be. Oh, and didn't get my bi-annual mother henning on daylight savings about smoke detectors, safe batteries, and bad weather season.
Like I said, next opportunity or later in this thread I will try to make time for boogie bags because I give myself a C, maybe C- where I thought I had at least an B+.
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I have two out this week myself - Luna City IV (the fourth in the series) in print and ebook, and a collection of historical essays, The Wild Frontier and Other Legends, which is ebook only ... but has a picture of a vintange cannon on the cover!
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.
[Wash Times] Former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice said Sunday there are no easy way to stop homegrown terrorists and President Trump’s proposed travel ban targeting Muslims is counterproductive.
[San Diego Union-Tribune] Under gray, misty skies in the Gaslamp Quarter on Saturday morning, there were joggers, babies in strollers, tourists, homeless people, cops and cows. Lots and lots of cows.
[DailyMail] 
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The 
[ABS-CBN] Philippine president Rpdrigo Duterte said he was "not so keen" on accepting the New People's Army's offer to fight Islamist rebels in the country as troops continued to pursue terrorists in Marawi City. This after the National Democratic Front of the Philippines expressed its commitment to send New People’s Army militants to fight Islamic State-inspired militants in the country. 
Wazoo
[AAWSAT] The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance, have seized new territory that lies halfway between ISIS’ former stronghold of Tabqa and its de facto capital Raqqa in northern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday.
[ALMASDARNEWS] On Sunday, 
[The Nation] Seven troops were wounded in a double bombing in Narathiwat's Tak Bai district on Friday morning.
[REUTERS] The general leading an offensive against pro-
