US District Judge James Boasberg on Wednesday instructed the US Army Corps of Engineers to conduct a new environmental review of the Dakota Access Pipeline but did not suspend the pipeline's operations.
He ruled that the US Army Corps' review "did not adequately consider the impacts of an oil spill on fishing rights, hunting rights, or environmental justice, or the degree to which the pipeline's effects are likely to be highly controversial." So now environmental impact statements need to consider whether an action might be highly controversial? Environmental justice? The Progs are gonna *love* that!
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If they can't win in votes, they will do via decree.
Long past time for a lot of these "judges" to be sent to pasture.
The latest survey from YouGov shows a remarkable swing in the ratings, with Mr Corbyn surging from a terrible minus 42 in late April to being equally liked and disliked now.
Meanwhile Mrs May has gone from being plus 10 in April, to minus 5 at the end of May, to slumping to a dismal minus 34 in the wake of the disastrous election.
That makes her as about as unpopular as Mr Corbyn was in November last year, when there were calls for him to quit or lead his party to electoral disaster.
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No, you stupid cum gargling fuck. This has been going on in modern times since at least Regan. Remember all the assassination chic with Bush?
Oh, and good job implying all your GOP supporters are racist by the way.
Seriously, if you idiots can't say something helpful just shut up and don't say anything. You not only make the situation worse, but you give the fascists on the left more ammunition and reason in their deluded minds to up the violence.
Someone tell Scotty to teleport this guy's tongue into his butthole please.
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While eating at a steak house a friendacquaintance 'person that cut ties with me' looked up at CNN playing on the overhead TV and opined: "Everyone in the Tea Party is a racist." on another meeting: "The only reason that I can think of not voting for Obama is racism." When you go Born-Again Leftist, and he announced that he was now a Socialist, the mental rot can strike deep.
[BBC] A year-long investigation by BBC Arabic and a Danish newspaper has uncovered evidence that the UK defence giant BAE Systems has made large-scale sales across the Middle East of sophisticated surveillance technology, including to many repressive governments.
These sales have also included decryption software which could be used against the UK and its allies.
While the sales are legal, human rights campaigners and cyber-security experts have expressed serious concerns these powerful tools could be used to spy on millions of people and thwart any signs of dissent.
The investigation began in the small Danish town of Norresundby, home to ETI, a company specialising in high-tech surveillance equipment.
ETI developed a system called Evident, which enabled governments to conduct mass surveillance of their citizens' communications.
A former employee, speaking to the BBC anonymously, described how Evident worked.
"You'd be able to intercept any internet traffic," he said. "If you wanted to do a whole country, you could. You could pin-point people's location based on cellular data. You could follow people around. They were quite far ahead with voice recognition. They were capable of decrypting stuff as well."
[American Thinker] The Bernie Sanders supporter who attempted to murder a dozen or so Republican Senators and Congressman yesterday at least did us one favor. He left us no possible doubt about his motivation. In a March 12th post on his Facebook page, he wrote.
"Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It’s Time To Destroy Trump & Co."
Now, it must be admitted that his reasoning isn’t actually all that bad. If the President really is a traitor and, if he is literally destroying our democracy, then it’s not unreasonable to think that violent action might be warranted. So, his inference isn’t really what’s crazy here. It’s, rather, the ideas from which he derived it that are the problem.
So, where did he get these crazy ideas? Well, let’s see. Here’s a March 7th Newsweek headline from a piece by President Clinton’s Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich: Is Trump a Traitor or a Paranoid? Former MSNBC commentator Keith Olbermann, Democratic propogandist Michael Moore, and venerable Democratic wise man Bill Moyers have all explicitly called the President a traitor. And, of course, the list of Democratic celebrities and politicians who have accused the President of serving Russian interests without necessarily using the word "traitor" would be very long indeed. To take one instance, Rachel Maddow has been beating the Russian conspiracy drum incessantly on her MSNBC show for a while now.
With regard to Hodgkinson’s second premise, Bill Moyers also ran a piece on his website headlined Farewell America, in which the President is accused of destroying our democracy. As did the venerable Atlantic Monthly and Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland. And, of course, once again, the list of Democratic celebrities and politicians who have in one way or another explicitly accused the President of destroying American democracy would be long indeed. And we even know that the assassin held such people in high esteem and paid great attention to their pronouncements. In a series of letters to the editor of the Belleville News-Democrat he said, "The best book I’ve read in a while is "Aftershock" by Robert B. Reich." In another letter he said, "One of my favorite TV shows is "The Rachel Maddow Show."
So, we have at least one thing for which to be grateful. There can be no real debate about where exactly James Hodgkinson got the ideas that made trying to assassinate a dozen Republican politicians seem not totally unreasonable. He got them from perfectly mainstream political and intellectual leaders of the Democratic party. For the past half year, they’ve been cynically trying to undermine President Trump, raise money, and motivate their base by peddling the most extreme fantasies about the President’s relations with Russia and his threat to American democracy. Anyone with half a brain knew all along that it was only a matter of time before someone started taking their manipulative nonsense seriously, as well as the horrific results that would ensue.
We can thank the courageous and timely police response for averting a massacre. But there’s no doubt that we can also thank Democratic party leaders and their media enablers for the attempt. James Hodgkinson has, at least, done us the favor of making that much clear.
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Of course there's no doubt. The shooter is white male. Among the republicans playing there were bound to be African - Americans. Therefore motivation must be racism. QED
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That won't go anywhere. But it will help fan the flames of hatred which is the real intention. *That* may go somewhere - perhaps even bag a Trump...
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Of course there's doubt. It's all our OWN fault for not being Democrats!
(They wouldn't have to do this if we weren't being bad.)
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The terms traitor and treason get thrown around loosely by people who ought to know better, e.g. Robert Reich, Keith Olbermann, Bill Moyers. The fix was in to elect Hillary and that didn't work. Trump is the duly elected POTUS. Get over it and do something for America rather than tear it down. There is far more evidence that would indicate that Soros, Podesta, the Clintons, and Barack Hussein Obama are up to their eyebrows in high crimes.
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They're not getting over it - simply moving to Plan C w/ Mueller n Co. Yesterday's attack did not slow the Left's drive to overthrow POUTS on bit. Expect more violence.
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HRC should be indicted, and if a warm-up period is needed then start with her aides. The rule of law has to make a return to this country, and its forceful return might do away with some of these murderous fantasies the Dems are pursuing.
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It's officially gone from a Bernie Bro shooting GOP Congressmen to an 'extremist' "Attack on Congress".
Aside from wondering whether the rhetoric would've been different had it been Democrat Members of Congress, it's a trifecta. A deflection from who inspired the shooter, an shift from an attack on Republicans to portraying its as an attack on the Beltway establishment, and a continuation of the political messaging.
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I was thinking, too: The Republican House whip will be out for some time, as he needs another surgery or several, which means he will neither be whipping the herd of Republican cats into line nor casting his own vote. This will make it an awful lot harder to get anything done for the foreseeable future, which the Democrats will leverage and many Republican voters will blame on the Republicans who did not get things done.
A nice political headwind for the Republicans in both Houses facing reelection in 2018.
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This Sean Spicer parody Twitter account is hilarious.
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"This will make it an awful lot harder to get anything done for the foreseeable future"
So the activity of Congressional Republicans will drop from zero? Not sure that's change, though it does give them cover for what they were already doing anyway.
[American Thinker] It is very strange, but it seems almost everything in recent American political history translates out to the FBI not functioning as it should. While certainly this is because of a type of political correctness, it is proximately caused by the conscious or unconscious bias of its former director, James Comey, and his being in denial of that bias.
The criminal investigation of Mrs. Clinton for violation of the espionage statute was sabotaged by Obama’s Justice Department. No subpoenas were issued. (The FBI cannot issue grand jury subpoenas; only the Justice Department can.) This is completely not normal; in such a case the FBI cannot work as it should.
The non-issuance of subpoenas by the Justice Department cannot have merely happened, as if by some freak of nature. It is an execrable act that fairly can be said to constitute sabotage, and indeed if anything in recent months has constituted obstruction of justice, this is it. Largely, but not solely, because of this, the FBI’s investigation was a sham, unprecedentedly fake, truncated, and weird.
Then-director Comey should have made this public and most certainly should have resigned in protest. Yet because Comey did not, the fact that the investigation was a sham, that it was obstructed, if not in a legal, then in a descriptive sense, and that it was, yes, a fake Potemkin village sort of investigation was not apparent to the American public. Comey used the aura of the FBI to give the opposite impression. Certainly the media could have pointed this out, but it did not. Comey must have known what his actively going along with the program would mean: a fraud upon the public. He even went along with the program, as it were, by calling it a "matter" and not a "criminal investigation," as directed by Attorney General Lynch.
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The time is more than over for speculation about the motives of the actors such as Comey, Mueller, Obama, Podesta, Clintons in this coup. It is time to present the evidence before a grand jury and let them decide whether there is sufficient evidence for a true bill.
[NoTricksZone] U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was seriously wounded by a loony leftist gunman, who obviously had been driven over the edge by all the recent hate signals coming from a violence-inciting media.
However, all the left-wing environmental violence just didn’t start yesterday, or since Trump started his campaign. It has in fact been energetically brewing for years. We’ve been warning about it for a long time. Especially skeptics of alarmist climate science bear witness to this. For example an Austrian professor not long ago called for the execution of climate deniers.
Before that, in 2010, a video of pornographic violence produced by the 10 10 climate activism campaign and Richard Curtis fantasized of blowing up climate skeptics:
The message: people who refuse to accept global warming dogma need to be dehumanized, blown up and discarded with the trash. Today these disturbing fantasies of violence are becoming the new reality.
In 2007 Greenpeace featured an angry kid, who used highly threatening language aimed at adults who declined to agree to all radical carbon emissions reductions. Give in to our demands, or we’ll throw a tantrum like you’ve never seen.
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Surprise = zero. They've been telling us their plans for some time. Was just a matter of time until they worked up the courage to turn all consuming hatred into action.
[Mercer] Congressmen and their staff were shot at "as they were practicing for tomorrow’s annual charity baseball game. Congressman Steve Scalise, a member of House leadership, was shot and badly wounded." Which prompted President Trump to go into Democrat-appeasing moral relativism mode. Hear Trump:
"We may have our differences, but we do well, in times like these, to remember that everyone who serves in our nation’s capital is here because, above all, they love our country. We can all agree that we are blessed to be Americans, that our children deserve to grow up in a nation of safety and peace, and that we are strongest when we are unified and when we work together for the common good. Please take a moment today to cherish those you love, and always remember those who serve and keep us safe. God bless them all, God bless you, and God Bless America."
Or was this Ivanka the president was channeling? Moral clarity was needed. But any moral clarity displayed by the president during the campaign has evaporated, in favor of obsequious pandering. Not to mention breaking of promises: Libertarian Gabb Sean says that "Ever since Trumps was elected, it’s been a matter of what promises he’ll break this week."
All in all, Democrats are running rings round Trump. If he doesn’t act, Democrats will take the House and Trump will be impeached.
On TV, Conservatives ponderously warned about the perils of "political violence," all as their ranks are shot at and their spokespersons prevented from speaking. An alt-leftist tries to kill Republicans and this signals to the "stupid party" (M. Stanton Evans’ coinage for Republicans) that it’s time to suck-up to the "evil party" (Democrats). As we speak, the Antifa sick fucks have even stabbed a police horse.
After the Alexandria shooting, politicians consider armed security for THEMSELVES, but not a Wall or a Muslim moratorium for The People.
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Stoic? More like the frog in boiling water analogy: The boiling frog is an anecdote describing a frog slowly being boiled alive. The premise is that if a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out, but if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death.
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When is someone going to show they are "angry" about some liberal piece of crap shooting and attempting to murder their colleagues!
Where is your outrage?! I am so sick it.
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Sarge, Tump and Melania went to see the Steve at the hospital. That is all that matters to me, because that reinforces who is decent and just confirms that the rest of the government is sub-human.
[PJ] Imagine this: Your daughter has been training and running track for four years. She's a senior and she's made it to the state finals. College recruiters are in the stands and this is her day to shine (and possibly get a scholarship so you don't have to go bankrupt trying to fund her education). Except that doesn't happen for her because a boy, claiming to be a girl, handily steals the title from her. She's devastated, but when asked how she feels about it, she's terrified to be truthful that she (rightly) feels she was robbed by someone who shouldn't have been competing against her.
"I can't really say what I want to say, but there's not much I can do about it," Kate Hall said after the race, alluding to the fact that she had to compete against Andraya Yearwood, a biological boy.
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Actually, its long time to end 'separate but equal'. The gals demand equality. Give it to them. No male/female segregation in sports. May the best person win.
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I'm wondering if the East German female runner that was disqualified circa 1970 for having male chromosomes has considered filing suit for her unethically deprived gold medal.
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I wonder if Bruce Jenner (Caitlyn) had decided to become a transgender before the Olympics whether he/she would have ever won a gold medal for the decathlon or appeared on Wheaties box? (I don't really wonder--just a rhetorical question.).
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I posted the following just before rollover last night--it fits here equally as well:
Everyone can't be "Hitler". Islam is a morally challenged belief system (to put it mildly). Men and women are different. One can't change one's "gender"--they can only butcher their body. Its not a "clump of cells"--its an unborn child. These are only a few of the things that most people understand almost inherently, yet we now live in a society where voicing such common sense risks a public outcry.
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And if boyfriends of some of the girls do the right thing - it'll be called a hate crime and will get more coverage than the attempted assassination of Republican congressmen.
[Breitbart] WASHINGTON, DC -- Political Islam, focused on establishing an unfree society ruled by strict sharia law, is "fundamentally incompatible" with the U.S. Constitution and the overall "foundation of the American way of life," declared Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an expert at the Hoover Institution think tank, during a Senate panel hearing.
Meanwhile, Michael Leiter, the former director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, argued that sharia law is compatible with the American Constitution.
Seriously?
"Muslim’s honoring of Sharia is not inherently in tangent with living in constitutional democracies anymore than it would be for Christians or Jews who also seek to honor their religious traditions while still complying with civil authority," testified Leiter.
Except that Sharia law claims primacy over non-Muslim law, and primacy of Muslims over non-Muslims, requiring action and support of action from Muslims to achieve it. Christian and Jewish tradition require loyalty to the nation and rendering unto Caeser -- a big difference.
The Somali-born Dutch-American Ali -- an honor violence victim, a strong advocate against female genital mutilation (FGM), and author -- strongly disagreed.
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Michael Leiter, the former director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center
Nicholas "Nick" Rasmussen was sworn in as the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) on December 18, 2014, upon his confirmation by the United States Senate. He previously served as NCTC’s Deputy Director since June of 2012.
TORONTO ‐ Controversy over a female-only spa's "no male genitals" policy has reignited debate over the rights of transgender people to access traditionally gender-exclusive spaces, even as the federal government pushes stronger protections prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity and gender expression.
The uproar over Toronto's Body Blitz Spa prompted a flurry of complaints on social media, with longtime regular Shelley Marshall among those vowing to boycott the luxurious retreat.
Marshall says she tried to bring her transgender friend to the spa last year but was told she would only be welcome at the bathing suit-optional facility if she had undergone sex reassignment surgery.
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[Ynet] ISIS fighters captured some territory around Tora Bora, the former stronghold of the late Osama bin Laden ... who was laid out deader than a mackerel, right next to the mackerel... in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province, officials said Wednesday. The push and capture of the giant cave complex that once housed the late al-Qaeda chief would be a major scoop for ISIS in its increasingly deadly rivalry with the Afghan Taliban ...Arabic for students... . The caves had until now been under Taliban control.
Attahullah Khogyani, a front man in Nangarhar, said IS attacks in the mountain range began late on Tuesday night. Clashes continued into the day, with ISIS bully boyz battling the Taliban and some local villagers in the area.
By Wednesday, ISIS had managed to seize some territory around Tora Bora--but not the bin Laden hideout itself, Khogyani said, adding that there were unspecified casualties on both sides. There has been no comment from ISIS or the Taliban so far.
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[IsraelTimes] Suspects accused of planning IS-inspired attacks against visiting Israel team, fans during 2016 World Cup qualifier in Albania.
Kosovo charged four men Wednesday with plotting terror attacks against Israeli soccer players and fans during a World Cup qualifier in Albania last year, which had to be moved for security reasons.
The men were among about 20 detained in a series of arrests in Kosovo and neighboring Albania and Macedonia ahead of the game in November, which was originally due to take place in the northern town of Shkodra.
The four are accused of planning to "carry out a terrorist attack against footballers and fans from Israel who were coming to Albania for the match in November," Kosovo’s prosecution office said in a blurb.
It said they further aimed to "destabilize and destroy the fundamental political, constitutional, economic and social structures of Balkan states and then create their own 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.... The match eventually took place in Elbasan, about 45 kilometers (28 miles) from the Albanian capital Tirana, under a massive security presence.
The prosecutors said two other suspects were charged with plotting terrorist attacks against local and international officials in Kosovo, while another was charged over fighting with jihadists in the Middle East.
Another pair were charged with collecting weapons and illegally producing an explosive.
Kosovo, a predominantly ethnic Albanian and Moslem country, has been confronted with more than 300 of its citizens waging jihad in Syria and Iraq. It has subsequently strengthened legislation and attempted to root out radical Islamist networks.
The nine men were allegedly receiving instructions from Lavdrim Muhaxheri, an IS commander believed killed in Syria.
According to Reuters:
One of the defendants had kept in his basement 283 grams of self-made triacetone triperoxide (TATP) explosives. The same explosive was used in attacks in Paris and Brussels and was found in a series of foiled bombings in Europe since 2007.
Another defendant had produced half a kilo of explosives at his house from ammonium nitrate and fuel oil (ANFO), it said.
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[Ynet] In unusually powerful statement by Palestinian Authority to mark the 10th anniversary of the Gaza coup, the PA says Hamas has created 'the second Nakba that has befallen our people ... Hamas has turned Gaza into an intolerable hell.
The Sandy Hook Promise Foundation, a nonprofit founded by family members of some of the Sandy Hook shooting victims, dropped NBC's Megyn Kelly as the host of its annual gala following her interview with Infowars' Alex Jones.
The foundation, a gun violence prevention group, made the announcement late Monday, saying the organization cannot support anyone who gives Jones a prominent platform, the Washington Post reported.
"Sandy Hook Promise cannot support the decision by Megyn or NBC to give any form of voice or platform to Alex Jones and have asked Megyn Kelly to step down as our Promise Champion Gala host," Nicole Hockley, the co-founder and managing director of the organization, said in a statement. "It is our hope that Megyn and NBC reconsider and not broadcast this interview."
Jones, a radio show host and conspiracy theorist, has called the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., which killed 20 children and six adults, a government hoax.
Kelly's interview with Jones does not air until next Sunday, but the NBC host previewed the conversation on this past week's episode of "Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly."
The interview has faced widespread criticism since its announcement. Mothers of Sandy Hook victims have spoken out against Kelly, saying the interview legitimized Jones' views by having him on her show.
JPMorgan Chase pulled its local television ads from NBC News programming until after the interview airs.
Jones himself has called for the interview to be canceled.
"I'm calling for @megynkelly to cancel the airing of our interview for misrepresenting my views on Sandy Hook," Jones tweeted Monday. Continues.
[Breitbart] The explosion of violence against conservatives across the country is being intentionally ginned up by Democrats, reporters, TV hosts, late-night comedians and celebrities, who compete with one another to come up with the most vile epithets for Trump and his supporters.
They go right up to the line, trying not to cross it, by, for example, vamping with a realistic photo of a decapitated Trump or calling the president a "piece of s--" while hosting a show on CNN.
The media are orchestrating a bloodless coup, but they’re perfectly content to have their low-IQ shock troops pursue a bloody coup.
This week, one of the left’s foot soldiers gunned down Republican members of Congress and their staff while they were playing baseball in Virginia. Democratic Socialist James Hodgkinson was prevented from committing a mass murder only by the happenstance of a member of the Republican leadership being there, along with his 24-hour Capitol Police protection.
Remember when it was frightening for the losing party not to accept the results of an election? During the third debate, Trump refused to pre-emptively agree to the election results, saying he’d "look at it at the time."
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The explosion of violence against conservatives across the country is being intentionally ginned up by Democrats, reporters, TV hosts, late-night comedians and celebrities, who compete with one another to come up with the most vile epithets for Trump and his supporters.
You will not hear anyone taking responsibility for the ginned up violence. I've a heard renewed call from the left for gun control but little else. Nearly all the violence has come from the left; Islamic, political, BLM, AntiFa, and any number of others. The lone exception was the Charleston church shooter, Dylann Roof,
So many of these are bankrolled by the likes of Soros. Time to look into the puppeteers instead of the bought and paid for puppets.
[Al Jazeera] Egypt's parliament has voted to ratify a 2016 agreement under which Cairo would transfer two Red Sea islands to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... Wednesday's vote, during which those politicians in favour of the accord were asked to stand up in the house, came shortly after the 596-seat chamber opened a debate on the pact earlier in the day.
The debate followed festivities the previous night between police and opponents of the deal in downtown Cairo that saw coppers kick, punch and use sticks to beat several dozen protesters.
The outcome of the vote was a foregone conclusion since parliament is packed with supporters of the government of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
The government insists the islands of Tiran and Sanafir at the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba were always Saudi but were placed under Egypt's protection amid Arab-Israeli tensions in the 1950s.
Critics have linked the islands' transfer to the billions of dollars in Saudi aid given to Sisi's government, saying it amounts to a sell-off of sovereign territory.
The island of Tiran, a popular destination for Red Sea divers, controls a narrow shipping lane that leads to and from the ports of Eilat and Aqaba, in Israel and Jordan respectively.
Egypt's unilateral closure of that lane was among the main reasons behind the outbreak of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, in which Egypt lost the entire Sinai Peninsula.
The agreement to hand over the islands was announced during the April 2016 visit to Cairo by the Saudi king, leading to the largest anti-government protests since Sisi took office in 2014. Hundreds of demonstrators and activists were tossed in the clink Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! , with most later released.
A court ruled against the islands' transfer in January, but politicians who support the deal say parliament has the right to ratify international agreements.
"There is nothing in the agreement that violates the constitution," Kamal Amer, chairman of the defence committee, told the house on Wednesday.
"It is designed to realise and perpetuate the mutual interests of the two nations and it also came in response to Saudi requests [to take back the islands] made in 1984, 1989 and 1990."
"The demarcation of the border between Saudi Arabia and Egypt confirmed that the islands are on the side of that brotherly nation, but we are confident that they [the islands] will always be used to serve national Egyptian and Arab security," Amer added.
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[NYPOST] Two men were caught on video launching avocados at a Bronx bodega worker -- breaking the man’s jaw with the succulent fruit.
The men went on the wild fruit-slinging spree in the Stadium Gourmet Deli near Yankee Stadium after an argument about their food order at about 4:45 p.m. on May 29, according to police.
After being viciously pelted with both avocados and bananas, the 21-year-old bodega clerk was taken to Lincoln Hospital.
The victim suffered cuts and fractures to his face as well as a broken jaw.
Cops were looking for the two suspects Tuesday night.
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The Yankees also have scouts out looking for him.
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You have to watch those avocados. They're sneaky and violent. They're organized... (gratuitous Chicken Run joke.)
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Avocados; They're not just for Guacamole anymore.
Wonder if the thrower of the food was licensed to carry???
[AnNahar] When Leefa set out from Indonesia for the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group's Syrian stronghold of Raqa, she says she thought she was headed to an earthly paradise for the faithful. She and her family imagined being surrounded by true believers and expected free healthcare and jobs paying salaries they could only dream of in Indonesia, the world's most populous Moslem-majority country.
But now, as IS battles to defend its onetime bastion, Leefa and 15 other Indonesians are among thousands who have fled Raqa in northern Syria. They are sheltering at a camp for the displaced in Ain Issa, 50 kilometers (around 30 miles) north of Raqa, waiting to learn their fates as the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) advance inside the jihadist bastion.
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Summary execution for all ISIS members. They knew ISIS was murdering or raping and enslaving innocent people. Show them no mercy.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] An kaboom took place in Kabul city few minutes earlier but the security officials are saying that no one was hurt in the incident.
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) acting front man Najib Danish confirmed the incident has taken place in the vicinity of the 5th police district of the city.
He said a magnetic bomb planted in a Ford vehicle went off in Koti Sangi area but one was killed or injured as a result of the kaboom.
No group or individual has so far grabbed credit behind the incident and the main target has not been ascertained yet.
Danish said an investigation is underway regarding the kaboom and further details will be released as appropriate.
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[BALTIMORE.CBSLOCAL] Baltimore sees multiple deadly shootings in just a matter of hours. It was a burst of violence that forced the commissioner to make a drastic move today.
All uniformed officers will be on mandatory 12-hour shifts, as the city hustles to control the crime.
Ava-joye Burnett reports the violence spilled over from the night into broad daylight today.
After a violent night, the police department announced a plan on how to address this problem, as the Police Commissioner was angered by the violence.
The violence in Baltimore started Monday evening and lasted through the night. It spilled over into the middle of Tuesday and by the end of it all, at least 12 people had been shot and at least six dead.
The victims include a 28-year-old man killed during a drug dispute on Bentalou Street, a 37-year-old woman killed in a bullying incident on Gertrude street and a man and woman‐ both in their twenties, killed during a quadruple shooting on Bonaparte Ave.
The police commissioner didn’t hold back or temper his tone.
"Quite frankly it pisses off the community, it angers us, it frustrates us," says Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis.
Shortly after that passionate presser from the police commissioner, there was another shooting in northwest Baltimore. That was around 1:30 p.m. in the afternoon.
Every patrol officer, detective, even administrative officers will put on uniforms and start patrolling the streets in 12-hour shifts, effective immediately.
"It’s sad, it’s just very sad."
One woman lives near one of the shootings. She thinks more police is a good start.
"It’s just really treacherous on these streets. A lot can be done. I wouldn’t give up on this city. I wouldn’t personally, living here all my life," says Hope Aye, from Baltimore.
The commissioner said there’s a broken system that allows repeat offenders to get back out on the streets.
"We are going to keep fighting our way through this, there is nowhere for us to run. There is nowhere for us to hide. We are responsible for public safety in the City of Baltimore, and we are going to keep working our hearts out until we get to a safer better place."
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Gee.... let me guess. Baltimore is a huge proponent of gun control.
Arm the citizens and let them know it is a free fire zone and shit will end real fucking quick.
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...And it should be pointed out that the BPD is still officially under sanction as to the use of force. They may have to work overtime, and the city is obligated to PAY that overtime - but I don't think it's going to make any difference. As soon as some Feral Youth (TM) gets blown away by one of the admin cops.who haven't seen the street in years, it'll stop.
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"Government as racketeering" in action. They created this mess, and now they're going to *soak* the taxpayers with overtime pay.
Any privately owned entity that attempted this business model would be bankrupt in record time.
[AnNahar] Detainees at a controversial Australian asylum-seeker camp in Papua New Guinea won Aus$70 million ($53 million) in compensation on Wednesday after alleging they suffered physical and psychological harm.
The settlement, to be shared by 1,905 people held on Manus Island since 2012, averted a public trial against the government and security providers Transfield and G4S.
A class action sought damages for alleged suffering due to harsh conditions in which detainees were held.
It also called for a payout for false imprisonment after the Papua New Guinea Supreme Court ruled last year that holding asylum-seekers on Manus Island was unconstitutional and illegal.
Lawyers Slater and Gordon said they believed it was the largest human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. class action settlement in Australian history, with the defendants also agreeing to pay costs of more than Aus$20 million.
[Daily Caller] The special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election is investigating President Donald Trump for obstruction of justice, the Washington Post reports. Who could have possibly predicted this ?
The Post, citing two unnamed sources, says special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe expanded to include the president just days after he dismissed former FBI Director James Comey.
Obstruction issues emerged during a Feb. 14 meeting in the Oval Office, when the president told Comey he hoped his disgraced former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn would elude criminal prosecution.
"I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go," the president told Comey, according to testimony the former director gave before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last Thursday. The president cleared the room of senior administration officials, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions and senior advisor Jared Kushner.
The sources, billed as familiar with Mueller’s thinking, say the special counsel currently views the matter as more than a simple "he said-he said" situation.
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You are fishing with commie friends for anything but the evidence that is not there and the fact you investigate it tells me you are not here at all to show a flaw in governance but rather a partisan hunt.
Both you and comey have Four Months to get your sorry piece of shit fucking asses out of this shit before I drop anvils from the sky on you.
You are both sorry cover artists and drama queens and it seeps through you. I can see your hearts.
So you are closing because if I find you tried to criminalize a CI Investigation, I have your ass. If you try to criminalize a recusal.. If you interfere with Justice with no evidence... if you interfere with the Executive branch with no evidence... tying up other branches to falsify a reason for investigation... using 16 of those agencies for what? a fake lead?
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Question 1) to Mueller: Do You Intend To Investigate Bill Clinton and Lorretta Lynch for that meeting on a plane on the airport tarmac in Phoenix, Mr. Mueller, as requested 4 days ago by Diane Feinstein (who may be getting cold feet on the Trump coup effort)?
Question 2) to Mueller: Do You Intend To Investigate Barack Obama and Jeh Johnson for attempting to interfere with the election which we have far more evidence on than some so called Russian conspiracy. (By the way, Jeh will now testify supporting a Russian conspiracy in the coming days. Time to put him and Obama under scrutiny instead).
If you, Mueller, do not do one, the other or all, Trump fires your ass immediately.
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Awesome you mention that, Jeger Smith - Cutting cable gives you the real house of cards.
Trump stays out of all of this.
There is no reason for them to treat him with such hostility. He is Executive Branch, but if there is a fishing expedition that lead to a special whatever, This is a very bigly thing to me.
It means, from the commo I see, these two FBI butt buddies also want a ten year investigation and a retirement plan.
I have news that will shake you and quake you.... We are in bed... nevermind.
We have spineless Republicans willing to back MY President in order to earn their Primary seat because I want to have the hobbit carry them off to be tied off to the rail.
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Notice anything about President Trumps adversaries, either democrat or republican? Yes, they are nearly all beltway lawyers, members of the Washington political class and the 'deep state.'
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Invent Bullshit.
Ignore lots of evidence of other causes.
Call for sacking when other evidence mentioned.
Go deranged trying to find a shred of bullshit.
Get sacked for being deranged.
Say sacking was an obstruction.
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BTW - I believe the term 'prosecutor's discretion' is done daily by attorney generals and district attorneys across the country. Might want to add, Obama and the dropping of the 'pay for play' investigation of former governor Bill Richardson (D-NM) shortly after the election in which the gov supported Obama.
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There's nothing wrong with your Gaz Volga's taillights, but you do need a new transmission. Look at this dipstick. We'll have to order it, it could takes months, even years.
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Pull the plug. This is a farce. They want to relive Watergate. The dirty tricks brigade in full regalia. Terminate this with extreme prejudice. Either way this goes just more huff and puff.
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Add money laundering, not by Clinton, either -
A former senior official said Mr. Mueller’s investigation was looking at money laundering by Trump associates. The suspicion is that any cooperation with Russian officials would most likely have been in exchange for some kind of financial payoff, and that there would have been an effort to hide the payments, probably by routing them through offshore banking centers.
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Don't fire Mueller. Just appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate the Special Prosecutor.
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When you are a Special Prosecutor with revenge and political endgame on your mind, you gotta find a crime, and take a very long time to find it. Who didn't see this coming?
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so out of curiosity .. not malice .. what sort of restaurants do deep state people like those two stuff their faces in? How steep is the public's American Express bill for their fine food while investigating? Same for 500 or 1000$ a round golf?
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More the that, they were given a blank check to use and spend. DC crowd is an orgy of such spending without constraint. And a non-politician like Trump sent to close it down is going to be persecuted by the orgy.
[217.218.67.231] A Turkish court has sentenced a prominent politician from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) to 25 years in jail for his role in leaking secret documents to a newspaper showing the country's National Intelligence Organization (MIT) shipped weapons to foreign-backed Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... bully boyz in Syria.
On Wednesday, Istanbul’s 14th Heavy Penal Court handed down the sentence to CHP Deputy Chariman Enis Berberoglu for releasing secret documents with the purpose of political or military espionage.
Berberoglu was jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... in the courthouse after the hearing. He will remain under arrest while waiting for the appeal process to conclude.
CHP front man Engin Altay sharply condemned the decision, saying he saw the verdict as an attempt by President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... 's government to intimidate the opposition.
"This decision is intimidation to the opposition. This decision is intimidation to all who are displeased with the Justice and Development Party (AKP)," Altay told news hounds outside the Caglayan Justice Palace in Istanbul.
He said the decision was a sign that the judiciary in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... was under the command of government executive organs.
Back in May 2015, Cumhuriyet daily posted on its website footage showing Turkish security forces in early 2014 intercepting a convoy of trucks carrying arms for the bully boyz in Syria.
The paper said the trucks were carrying some 1,000 mortar shells, hundreds of grenade launchers and more than 80,000 rounds of ammunition for light and heavy weapons.
Yes, it would be a crime to show Turkish government employees delivering weapons to ISIS, when said government has been loudly proclaiming its enmity of ISIS.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... forces carried out a vicious attack along the Yemeni-Saudi border, Tuesday, killing and wounding many soldiers from the Saudi Army, al-Masdar’s Naseh Shaker reported from Sana’a.
According to Shaker, the Houthi forces carried out a surprise attack against a group of Saudi soldiers that were attempting to cross into 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... from Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s Jizan Region.
Shaker added that more than 20 Saudi soldiers were killed or maimed along the border.
Another 15 Saudi soldiers were killed, Tuesday, when the Houthi forces carried out another surprise attack at al-Dafaynah, Qaim Zabeed, and al-Kares.
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[Iraq News] Dozens of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... gunnies were killed as Iraqi fighter jets destroyed launched Arclight airstrikes destroying the gunnies locations in Tal Afar town, west of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... "Iraqi fighter jets launched Arclight airstrikes that destroyed a weapon stash, rest house, booby-trapping workshops of the IS in Tal Afar," a statement by the War Media Cell said on Wednesday, adding "dozens of gunnies were killed."
On Tuesday, the Defense Ministry announced destroying three booby-trapped vehicles by Iraqi Arclight airstrikes in Tal Afar.
Tal Afar is one of the important strongholds still held by IS in Nineveh.
The group has sustained severe losses in personnel and ground since an offensive was launched in mid October to retake Mosul, the second-largest Iraqi city and the murderous Moslems’ last urban stronghold in the country.
Eastern Mosul was recaptured from IS in January, after a US-backed offensive was launched in October. A new offensive started in February to retake the west.
on Tuesday, Federal Police said more than 1200 Islamic State murderous Moslems, including 27 leaders and 214 snipers, were killed, while 300 square kilometers were retaken since operations began in western side of Mosul.
Less than 1000 fighters are believed to be remaining in Mosul’s Old City, according to commanders from the Iraqi leadership and the allied U.S.-led coalition.
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[DW] Gunmen posing as military have taken dozens of hostages at a restaurant in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, after ramming a gate with a boom-mobile, killing at least 14. Extremist group al-Shabaab has grabbed credit.
Two of the gunnies were later rubbed out and 10 hostages freed, but five other attackers were thought to remain inside, according to Captain Mohammed Hussein.
At least nine people were killed and several maimed in the initial attack, most of them young men entering the popular Pizza House restaurant when the vehicle went kaboom!, Hussein said, adding that attackers had cut off electricity to complicate security forces' efforts to end the siege
The gunnies "were dressed in military uniforms. They forced those fleeing the site to go inside" the restaurant, eyewitness Nur Yasin told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
Blast damages neighboring restaurant
Al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
claimed to have attacked the neighboring Posh Treats restaurant, which is frequented by the city's elite and was damaged in the blast, security officials said.
Security forces rescued Asian, Æthiopian, Kenyan and other workers at Posh Treats as the attack continued, Hussein said.
Somalia-based al-Shabaab often targets high-profile areas of Mogadishu, including hotels, military checkpoints and areas near the presidential palace.
Last year, al-Shabaab became the deadliest Islamic holy warrior group in Africa, with more than 4,200 people killed in 2016, according to the Washington-based Africa Center for Strategic Studies.
[Libya Herald] The list of individuals and organizations disputing their inclusion on the House of Representatives (HoR) "terrorist" list continues to grow. The latest is former deputy premier Awad al-Barasi who has said he is "astonished" to find his name on the document. He has announced that he was consulting his lawyers.
Barasi was a deputy to Ali Zeidan but resigned in August 2013 accusing the then primer minister of ineffectiveness. At the time he was a member of the Justice and Construction Party (J&C), the political arm of the Libyan Moslem Brüderbund. However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... he told the Libya Herald this March that he had quit politics and in 2015 severed his links with the J&C. Instead, he said, he was concentrating on his role as head of the Libya Peace Initiative which he said began this February and is seeking to bring all parties together and promote national reconciliation.
Barasi questioned why, at a time when he was embarked upon this effort, he should be branded a terrorist. He denounced and condemned the HoR and said he would hold it legally and morally responsible. He said his legal team had begun to file law suits in Libyan courts, both against the head of the HoR’s defence committee which drew up the the "terrorist" list and the media that had disseminated it.
He said many press and media outlets had published the list in a "defamatory manner without investigation". In his view, this "politicisation" contradicted the basic press and media principles which obliged journalists to verify facts before publishing them.
Three days ago the J&C party also described the HoR’s terrorist claims as defamatory.
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[Libya Herald] A UN report has concluded that ’’a variety of sources of funding are available to (Libyan) gangs’’, assessing that there are ’’four important sources of funding: fuel smuggling, trafficking in persons, interference with institutions and the local arms trade. Previous findings on income from other criminal activities and State financing remain relevant’’, the report said.
The report names Zawia’s coasties as active participants in fuel smuggling and names a Zawia militia and its leaders. It also names people smugglers and details the involvement of sophisticated international cross-border smuggling and finance rings in the smuggling process.
With regards to arms smuggling the report says weapons materiel offered includes heavier and more sophisticated systems. It gives the example of a functioning Milan anti-tank system including four missiles being available for US$ 9,000. In some cases, it adds, fighters and arms are on offer together as a package.
It concludes that smuggling occurs virtually uncontested because of the lack of reliable security forces.
The conclusions were made by the 299-page UN Libya Experts Panel report 2017 released in the first week of June.
In its assessment of fuel smuggling by sea as a source of income for Libyan militias, the report stated that ’’the National Oil Corporation decided to work actively against fuel smuggling. Brega Petroleum, a subsidiary of the Corporation, established an "Oil and Oil Derivatives Oversight Committee" to investigate the problem. Its findings led the Corporation to take action against some companies and individuals in early 2017’’.
’’In fact, the Corporation has accused the Petroleum Facilities Guard in the refinery in Zawiya of participating in fuel smuggling operations. The Panel continues to observe vessels showing suspicious navigational patterns in the vicinity of the coastal town of Zuwara. Individuals and companies mentioned in previous reports are still. In 2016, the Libyan coastguard impounded several ships in the same area in incidents related to fuel smuggling’’.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A jacket wallah belonging to the Mullah Rasool splinter group of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... has targeted the faceless myrmidons belonging to Mullah Haibatullah in Dire Revenge to the deadly attack on its fighters in Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province today.
Informed sources have said the attack was carried out shortly after a suicide bomber targeted the gunnies of Mullah Rasool group.
The sources further added that 4 faceless myrmidons of Mullah Haibatullah were killed in the attack and two others were maimed.
The Taliban group has not commented regarding the report so far.
The Taliban group led by Mullah Hebatullah Akhundzada grabbed credit behind the attack on Mullah Rasool’s faction in southern Helmand province of Afghanistan, claiming that nearly 50 faceless myrmidons of the group were killed or maimed in the attack.
A Taliban front man Qari Yousuf Ahmadi claimed that 26 gunnies were killed and 18 others were maimed in the attack.
Ahmadi further added that a check post belonging to the militia forces was leveled in the attack and a commander of the group identified as Wafadar was among those killed.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group led by Mullah Hebatullah Akhundzada grabbed credit behind the attack on Mullah Rasool’s faction in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province of Afghanistan, claiming that nearly 50 snuffies of the group were killed or maimed in the attack.
A Taliban front man Qari Yousuf Ahmadi claimed that 26 forces of Evil were killed and 18 others were maimed in the attack.
Ahmadi further added that a check post belonging to the militia forces was leveled in the attack and a commander of the group identified as Wafadar was among those killed.
The Mullah Rasool group has not commented regarding the incident so far.
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[217.218.67.231] Iranian security forces have killed two Lions of Islam and nabbed Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! five others in the southeast of the country.
Iranian Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi said on Wednesday night that security forces killed two Lions of Islam in the city of Chabahar in Sistan-and-Baluchestan province earlier in the day.
They also arrested five other terrorists, including two nationals from a neighboring country, he said, adding that a member of Intelligence Ministry forces lost his life.
Alavi further said that a terrorist group was also busted in Kordestan province on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, bullets whapped! around him as he tried to tie his scarf around his shoulder as a tourniquet...... an informed source told IRNA that the Lions of Islam belonged to the so-called Ansar al-Furqan group, and that a terrorist sustained injuries during the festivities in Chabahar.
A number of explosive vests and some explosives and ammunitions were also seized from the terrorists, the source was quoted as saying.
This came in the wake of last week’s terror attacks in the Iranian capital Tehran, which killed 17 people and injured over 50 others.
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[Al Jazeera] Egypt has reportedly offered to provide electricity to Gazoo to relieve part of its humanitarian crisis in return for Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", agreeing to several security measures.
The Hamas delegation, headed by the movement’s new Prime Minister Yahya Sinwar, returned to the Gazoo Strip on Monday after nine days of what they said was constructive meetings with Cairo officials.
Egypt agreed to fund Gazoo’s sole power plant, after it was shut down in April as a result of heavy taxes levied by the Paleostinian Authority on diesel fuel. In return, Hamas would tighten its security on the Rafah border.
According to Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahhar, the movement had asked to meet with their Egyptian counterparts before the GCC crisis began.
"We agreed, and this is as much to our benefit as it is to theirs, to separate our borders to prevent the smuggling of drugs and weapons," Zahhar said.
An amusingly different take on the situation than was reported by The Times of Israel yesterday. No mention of the 17 terrorists Cairo demanded Hamas turn over, for instance, or that when Egypt's power lines are working at full capacity they can only provide 6.25% of Gaza's requirements.
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[Al Jazeera] Washington and Doha have signed an agreement for the purchase of F-15 fighter jets with an initial cost of $12bn, as 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... 's administration attempts to navigate an ongoing diplomatic crisis in the Gulf.
The aircraft purchase was completed by Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... i Minister of Defence Khalid Al Attiyah and his US counterpart Jim Mattis in Washington DC on Wednesday, according to Qatar News Agency (QNA).
Attiyah said the agreement underscores the "longstanding commitment of the state of Qatar in jointly working with our friends and allies in the United States in advancing our military cooperation for closer strategic collaboration in our fight to counter violent extremism and promote peace and stability in our region and beyond".
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This is different from the Saudis' long-term support of terrorism? *Shrug* They could have bought Rafales, Gripins, or MiG's instead...
[Al Jazeera] In mid-May the gang the Popular Front for the Renaissance of Central African Republic (FPRC) marched into the town of Bria in the Central African Republic (CAR). Tens of thousands of, mostly Christian, civilians were displaced as the group faced off with anti-balaka fighters in the town, located some 600km northeast of the capital, Bangui. Around 85 percent of the town's residents fled.
At least 60 people were killed in Bria, as the FPRC rebels, a faction of the Seleka ...a 'mainly' Moslem rebel force in the Central African Republic that overthrew the govt, imposed a regime of rapine and looting on the country's non-Moslem population, and was then tossed by France. They still exist, getting funding and weapons from somewhere or other, licking their wounds, complaining about the oppression of Moslems, and occasionally raping and looting someone... , a Moslem-led coalition that toppled then President Francois Bozize in a coup in 2013, targeted the mainly Christian anti-balaka fighters and anyone they considered to be associated with the group.
Thousands of people - both Moslem and Christian - have been killed in the country and almost a million displaced since the coup.
Christians and Moslems have been pitted against each other, although most analysts agree that the conflict is actually about taxation and who has control of the country's mineral resources.
But the religious dimension to the gangs and the violence they have wrought has nurtured animosity between the communities and made them increasingly isolated from one another.
In Bria, the IDP camps are mainly inhabited by Christians, while those residents who remain in the town are largely Moslem.
The two communities steer clear of each other, fearing reprisal attacks. The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says there are daily incidents between Christians and Moslems in the town - which remains tense, economically dysfunctional and in a state of limbo.
A month after the FPRC forces entered, some 41,000 people continue to live in squalid conditions in IDP camps around the town. In the PK3 camp, located 3km outside the town centre, around 26,000 people, mostly women and kiddies, live in shelters made of pieces of wood sourced from the surrounding forests and plastic sheets provided by UN agencies.
Sporadic violence has broken out in several areas of central and eastern CAR over the past month. Hundreds have been killed. There are currently more than 500,000 IDPs across the country.
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ISIS uses human shields. According to the Geneva Conventions, which of course they've not signed, this makes them responsible for the harm that comes to the civilians they hide behind.
[Al Jazeera] Intensified coalition air strikes supporting an assault by US-backed rebel forces on Raqqa, Syria, are causing a "staggering loss of civilian life", United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... war crimes Sherlocks have said.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a group of Kurdish and Arab militias supported by a US-led coalition, began attacking Raqqa a week ago to take it from the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS, also known as ISIS).
Paulo Pinheiro, chairman of the UN Commission of Inquiry, told the Human Rights Council on Wednesday that the increased attacks have resulted "not only in staggering loss of civilian life", but have also "led to 160,000 civilians fleeing their homes".
Pinheiro did not provide a figure for civilian casualties in Raqqa, where rival forces are racing to capture ground from ISIS.
The SDF, supported by heavy coalition air strikes, have taken territory to the west, east and north of the city.
The Syrian army is also advancing on the desert area west of the city.
Residents, as well as the campaign group Raqqa is Being Silently Slaughtered and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor, also say air strikes have killed significant numbers of civilians.
Pinheiro said that if the international coalition's offensive was successful, it could liberate Raqqa's civilian population, including Yazidi women and girls, "whom the group has kept sexually enslaved for almost three years as part of an ongoing and unaddressed genocide".
But it must not be at the expense of civilians who unwillingly find themselves in areas where ISIS is present, he cautioned.
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[DAWN] The family of Aitzaz Hasan, a schoolboy who sacrificed his own life to save hundreds of his classmates by tackling a jacket wallah in 2014, has sought protection from the authorities after receiving threats from the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... On April 3 this year, the family received a threat letter from the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), who wrote that Aitzaz was neither a martyr nor a hero and the media should stop presenting him as a national icon, the dear departed's brother Mujtaba Hasan Bangash told DawnNews.
In the letter, the turbans also warned Mujtaba against visiting government offices and talking to media personnel or "he will be responsible for [any] loss".
According to Mujtaba, whose family lives in the Ibrahimzai area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... 's Hangu district ... Hangu is famous for its greenery, hills, beauty and water. Most of the people of this area are Bangash & Orakzai Pashtuns. Part of the Bangash are Shia. The Orakzai and the Sunni Bangash are determined to kill them... , he wrote letters to Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... , inspector general Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, IG Frontier Constabulary (FC) and Commander Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. Corps Lt-Gen Nazir Ahmed Butt and asked for protection in the wake of Taliban threats.
The authorities have yet to respond to his requests and provide security to the family, Mujtaba said.
Just after receiving the threat letter on April 3, Mujtaba had lodged a First Information Report in Hangu Police Station.
Mujtaba also expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... at the state of security of the school where his brother laid down his life in January 2014 and saved hundreds of other school children.
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[PJMedia] Group Calls for UN To Ban 'Cultural Appropriation'
Lately, social justice jihadis love to decry what they call "cultural appropriation." While the term was initially used to describe the disrespectful usage of cultural items, it has been mutated by the radical leftists to mean anything a white person might enjoy that didn't come from Europe. I call it lamentations of the Perpetually Aggrieved.
Generally, the wailings and lamentations of the SJWs are something that we can roll our eyes about and go on with our day. After all, it's not like there are any laws against it, right? Not Yet.
Well, some totalitarian zealots who are being described as "indigenous advocates" want a worldwide ban on activities that don't pair with your DNA: I don't know, my DNA encompasses quite a lot from North Africa to Norway and from Native America to the Caucasus.
Indigenous advocates from around the world are calling on a UN committee to ban the appropriation of Indigenous cultures -- and to do it quickly.
Delegates from 189 countries, including Canada, are in Geneva this week as part of a specialized international committee within the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations agency. Another useless feel-good group of twits.
Since it began in 2001, the committee has been working on creating and finishing three pieces of international law that would expand intellectual-property regulations to protect things like Indigenous designs, dances, words and traditional medicines.
The meeting takes place as concern grows worldwide about the rights of cultures to control their own materials. In the U.S. this week, designer Tory Burch agreed to change the description of one of her coats for women after Romanians protested that it had been described as African-inspired when it actually appropriated a traditional Romanian garment. The world has gone bonkers.
Speaking to the committee Monday, James Anaya, dean of law at the University of Colorado, said the UN's negotiated document should "obligate states to create effective criminal and civil enforcement procedures to recognize and prevent the non-consensual taking and illegitimate possession, sale and export of traditional cultural expressions." Absolutely insane.
OK, let's roll with this.
Effective immediately, Italian restaurants will have to stop selling pasta, since noodles were culturally appropriated from China.
Since cars were invented in the U.S. and Germany, no other peoples will be allowed to drive. The United States and all countries who followed its lead will need to dismantle their democratic republics, as they were appropriated from Greece and ancient Rome. Since we were a British colony, we'll need to return to being a kingdom.
The rest of the world must give up electricity. All-American, baby.
What is often termed "cultural appropriation" is actually appreciation. In the vast majority of cases, it's meant as a compliment. Sure, wearing a Plains Indian headdress for Coachella may not be respectful, but it's not intentionally insulting. After all, they look pretty badass.
Demanding that certain activities and items be off-limits pending the results of a blood test is racism of the worst kind. This movement is despicable, but idiot ideas like enforcing a worldwide ban allow us to have some fun mocking it. Does that mean no more multi-culturalism? Can I still speak Spanish? Can I play German music on my accordion? What about Cajun and Creole? They take things from Spanish, French, Native American, and English cultures and blend them.
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[Straits Times] As the siege of Marawi enters its fourth week, more than 200 people have lost their lives and much of the city lies in ruins. The strongest attempt yet by Islamic State supporters to seize and hold territory in southeast Asia has turned into urban street battles in what is now largely a ghost town.
The Philippine military seems to have adopted a strategy of destroying the city to save it, conducting bombing runs at least twice a day. The insue holding on to a piece of the city centre, controlling checkpoints on several bridges and planting well-armed snipers in some of the city's mosques. Hundreds of civilians are believed to be in their midst, making the government assault more difficult.
Marawi, a city of 200,000, sits on the shore of Lake Lanao on Mindanao. The Agus River, which flows from the lake, divides the city. The rebels still hold the part of the city southeast of the river that was once the economic and business center. The heaviest fighting is concentrated there in an area of about 500 square meters, a military commander said.
Rebel snipers are positioned in the taller buildings, forcing troops to maintain their distance. The military said the rebels control a fifth of the city.
Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher Tampus said, "It's urban warfare, face-to-face combat. They are still holding out. The fighting is house to house, building by building."
The military controls the skies and has been using helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft to bomb the city, inflicting heavy damage but failing to drive out the rebels so far.
The military says militants are using mosques and religious schools as bases for fighting, including for placement of sniper nests; soldiers cannot attack these buildings because they are protected as cultural monuments.
As the battle rages on, ISIS has posted videos promoting the militants' narrative that they are winning and that the Philippine army had "completely failed" to retake the city. The most recent clip shows men firing weapons from buildings interspersed with scenes of Marawi. It ends with a graphic execution in which six men in orange shirts and handcuffs are made to kneel and are then machine-gunned from the back. Military spokesman Zia Alonto Adiong said the scenes of rebe;s firing weapons "appear to be (in) Marawi", but that the executions do not.
The military yesterday also said that US troops are on the ground near Marawi but are not involved in fighting. It earlier said the US was providing technical assistance, but had no boots on the ground. It was not clear how close to the battle zone the US troops are.
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it seems that Mosques & Other Protected buildings happen to side drop of variance on side of city where orders on sidebar and direction comes from sidebar in back and not buildings but back turn is where orders on radio vet that fight from behind to front of frontal against gov. troops
[DailyMail] - Police arrested Evonne Mick and David Salinas in Harris County, Texas Monday
- Responding to a break in police said they found drug-laced candy in their car
- Authorities said the car was packed so tight the back doors would not close The last few minutes of discussion before arriving at "OK, let's do it." must have been something to behold.
- The lollipops were in fun shapes and police fear they were targeted at children
[DAWN] Two "high-profile bad boys" of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... (LJ) beat feet fromBloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... ’s central prison in one of the most daredevil moves in recent months by the inmates of the jail, officials and sources said on Wednesday.
The prison was claimed to be safeguarded heavily after multiple operations to foil escape attempts including the October 2014 operation by the Rangers to find a 45-metre-long tunnel being built just a few metres from the facility to spring 100 ’dangerous bad boys’.
The actual circumstances which led to the escape of the bandidosbully boyz are shrouded in mystery as police officials said they were informed about the incident after "considerable delay".
A senior police official ─ who wished not to be named ─ told Dawn that the police received a letter from DIG Prisons, Ashraf Ali Nizamani, on Wednesday evening, stating that the two under-trial prisoners have escaped and that the DIG wanted registration of the case against the escaped UTPs and several jail officials over their alleged negligence.
The DIG Prisons’ letter also did not mention the exact date of the escape of the prisoners.
According to the DIG Prisons’ letter obtained by Dawn, the inmates namely Sheikh Muhammad Mumtaz ─ alias Firoon alias Sher Khan alias Shahzad alias Rahi ─ and Muhammad Ahmed Khan alias Munna had beat feet from ’judicial complex of Central Prison Karachi’.
"Two under-trial prisoners were found missing and reported to have beat feet from the Judicial Complex adjacent to Central Prison Karachi," said the DIG Prisons’ letter dated June 14.
Raja Umer Khattab, a bigwig of the police’s Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) told Dawn that they were not informed about the timing of the escape of the UTPs. He said the both LJ bandidosbully boyz were nabbed Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! by the CTD police in 2013.
Khattab said they were both hardcore LJ bandidosbully boyz and that Sheikh Mumtaz alias Firoon, a resident of Orangi Town was involved in assassination'>assassinations of 57 persons including members of Shia community and the police. He had 32 cases registered against him.
Similarly, Khattab said Ahmed alias Munna, a resident of Korangi was involved in seven assassination'>assassination cases.
They belonged to Qasim Rasheed group, which was linked with Naeem Bukhari-led LJ outfit.
Khattab claimed that the law enforcers had almost wiped out Naeem Bukhari-led LJ outfit but now their two members had escaped.
He said they considered the escape of the bandidosbully boyz from the prison as a "worrying development".
The CTD official said the jail administration had recently taken several steps to secure the jail but despite this, the UTPs managed to escape.
Khattab also said that the CTD team would visit the Central Prison on Thursday to ascertain the circumstances behind the prisoners' escape.
The jail administration has suspended 12 jail staff including Superintendent Central Prison Ghulam Murtaza Sheikh, Deputy Superintendent Faheem Memon and Assistant Superintendent Abdul Rehman Sheikh.
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[Bernama] Two members of the security forces and a female student were wounded in a bombing incident in Mukim Peng, Saiburi district in Pattani this afternoon.
District police chief Mana Dechawaris said the bomb was placed beside the road and exploded when five security force members were passing the road in an armored vehicle. He said, "Two members of the security forces and a female student were injured by the explosion," adding that the three victims suffered slight injuries.
Meanwhile, Fourth Division Military Chief, Lt Gen Piyawat Nakwanich came in a helicopter from Pattani to Benang Setar, Yala this afternoon to meet with a man who had agreed to participate in the Bawa Balik Kampung program. The man, Bukhari Hasa, is suspected to be an insurgent active in southern Thailand and had five arrest warrants for the bombing incident that occurred ten years ago in Yala.
Bawa Balik Kampung is a deradicalization program by Thai authorities to help those who had previously been involved in militant activities to be integrated back into the community.
Simply dreadful. But then the Gazans voted for them fair and square, and as Mencken said, "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
[Al Jazeera] The United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... has warned that longer power cuts threaten a "total collapse" of basic services in Gazoo, with residents in the beseiged Paleostinian territory being held hostage to political infighting.
Gazooks currently receive three to four hours of mains electricity a day, delivered from the territory's own power station and others in Israel and Egypt.
Not Egypt. They've been having problems.
Israel decided on Sunday to reduce the amount of electricity it supplies to Gazoo by between 45 and 60 minutes a day after Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... cut electricity funding by his West Bank-based Paleostinian Authority.
The move was widely seen as an attempt by Abbas to step up pressure on the rival Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movement, which runs Gazoo.
The UN humanitarian coordinator for the occupied territories, Robert Piper, warned the additional power cuts would have a disastrous effect.
"A further increase in the length of blackouts is likely to lead to a total collapse of basic services, including critical functions in the health, water and sanitation sectors," Piper said in a statement.
"The people in Gazoo should not be held hostage to this long-standing internal Paleostinian dispute," he said.
Israeli and global NGOs, including Amnesia Amnesty International, joined the world body in condemning the longer hours of blackout.
A joint statement of 16 groups, among them Israel's B'Tselem, Peace Now and Rabbis for Human Rights, said they have asked Israel's attorney general to intervene.
They said further cuts would contravene a 2008 Israeli supreme court ruling that years of Israeli control over the strip had created near-total dependence on power supply from Israel and it must therefore continue to provide sufficient electricity to meet humanitarian needs.
When they don't pay their bills?
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Not my problem. You use your money for bombs. Besides, you posers act like you want a state but you are nothing but a bunch of terrors. Get the hell out of Israel. Nothing here belongs to you. At all.
[Libya Herald] Following the reported release of Saif al-Islam Qadaffy earlier this week, the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has called for his immediate arrest.
Fatou Bensouda said Libya was "obliged" to surrender Saif to the ICC regardless of the supposed amnesty law enacted by the House of Representatives under which he was suuposedly freed.
"Helping a runaway to escape justice must not be tolerated, and Mr Qadaffy must be surrendered to the custody of the court," she said.
Saif al-Islam is wanted by the ICC on charges of war crimes committed during the 2011 revolution.
Bensouda also reiterated her demand for the surrender of al-Tuhamy Mohammed Khaled, the head of the former regime’s internal security, for crimes committed during the 2011 revolution. He became the fourth Qadaffy-era person wanted by the ICC,
Both men are subject to an INTERPOL Red Notice ‐ being a request to find and arrest an individual pending extradition.
"It is imperative for both suspects to be apprehended and immediately surrendered to the custody of the ICC so that their guilt or innocence can be established," Bensouda said.
Arrest warrants naming other top Qadaffy regime officials are expected to be announced by the court soon.
For his part, Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... ’s chief prosecutor has pointed out that Saif remains sentenced to death in absentia after his Hadba trial in July 2015.
Mystery surrounds Saif’s whereabouts. Ajmi al-Atiri, head of Zintan’s Abubakr al-Siddiq brigade which captured him six years ago and then held him, announced on Sunday that he had been freed. But there has been no sign of him anywhere, although there are reports that he is alternatively in Obari with General Ali Kana, in the Washefana district, in Bani Walid or even still in Zintan.
Meanwhile sources say that Algeria has refused to allow him entry on the basis that it does not want to become entangled in a dispute with the ICC.
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[DailyMail] - Bob Dylan accused of lifting parts of his Noble Prize lecture from study guide
- US magazine has uncovered similarities between Dylan's description of Moby Dick in his lecture and observations made about novel by the study guide SparkNotes
- Dylan delivered his 30 minute acceptance speech electronically on June 4 So, wadaya want for a lousy $1-million?
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Does anybody care?
He made it clear he thought the whole thing was a farce. Then they told him that they wouldn't give him the money unless he turned in the speech. So he gave them a speech.
I don't much care for Mr. Zimmerman and his work, but I don't see why they would have cause to complain.
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Should've sent them a copy of Obama's speech, with suitable words replaced.
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I like his songs when other people sing them. He can't play a harmonica worth a damn, either. I went to see him at Appalachian State a few years ago, couldn't understand a word he said.
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[DailyMail] - Otto Warmbier, the 22-year-old student serving a 15-year prison sentence in North Korea, arrived home in Ohio late Tuesday
- Looking tired and drawn, father Fred Warmbier was spotted in the hospital coffee shop on Wednesday morning to get much needed refreshment for family
- Otto, wearing a blue shirt and black pants, was carried off the plane and placed on a stretcher and rushed to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center
- He reportedly fell into coma after getting botulism and taking 'sleeping pills'
- Trump administration takes credit for the release, calling it a 'Trump-led effort' It certainly didn't happen as a result of "leading from behind."
University of Cincinnati Medical Officials say Otto Warmbier is in stable condition, but has a severe neurological injury.
It should be noted that Mr. Fred Warmbier is the head of a successful mid-size chemical company, and the family live in one of the more expensive suburbs of Cincinnati. The idea that their son would steal a poster to earn a used car from a church is utterly absurd. Separately, I strongly suspect Mr. Warmbier was among the one third of Donald Trump voters who earnt upward of $100,000, as opposed to the third in the middle class $50,000-100,000 income range or the third who earned below $50,000.
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Good job Trump and Tillerson. Hopefully Otto will recover, but at least for his family, they are all back together again.
A crucial mission for Tillerson MUST be the cancelation of the Boeing and Airbus sale of long range aircraft to North Korea's nuclear ambitious ally, Iran.
While the world makes the mistake of only focusing on NK's miserable record of inter continental missile development (a calculated distraction by Kim?) as delivery systems for nukes, these planes can be modified to extend range and to carry nuclear payload internally while on the outside appearing as airliners on international flights to major population centers.
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seen online yesterday; If we didn't know about him being in a coma for a year, wonder how much about their Nuke program we don't know about
Chilling
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I checked Ohio voter registration records for Otto:
Otto F Warmbier (age 22) is listed at 225 West Hill Ln Cincinnati, OH and has no known political party affiliation. Otto is registered to vote in Hamilton County, Ohio.
and for whatever matched Fred & Cindy Warmbier of Cincinnati OH, found that a Frederick A. and Cynthia Jane Warmbier, of the same address as above, are both registered Republicans. "Fred" and "Cindy" were the names mentioned in several news articles about Otto this week.
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he was intentionally put in this state and that the Norks made sure that it is irreversible
Calibrated exposure to low oxygen levels can do the same thing. Put the victim into an airtight chamber and simply drop the oxygen level to one that destroys cerebral function but preserves other organs. Norks have probably experimented to get that exact effect without killing the victim, i.e., no "heart attack" necessary at all.
[ADWEEK] A re-air of CBS’s 60 Minutes more than doubled the viewership of NBC’s Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly.
In head-to-head competition, 60 Minutes, which was Sunday’s most-watched show, drew 7.9 million viewers while the second episode of Kelly’s show, which included an interview with Erin Andrews, averaged 3.6 million, down -42 percent from its debut episode a week earlier.
In the A25-54 news demo Kelly’s show averaged a 0.8 rating (down -33 percent from last week’s 1.2), while 60 Minutes averaged a 1.1 rating. Kelly’s show improved the 7 p.m. ET timeslot for NBC by +13 percent in the demo, vs. the network’s season-to-date average for the hour (excluding sports and awards shows).
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NBC needs to hire McShame's porcine spawn away from FauxNews and create the MeeAgayn and Meggie Moo Show.
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Take up Yoga, buy a new computer, pet the dog, write a book, and don't forget the children and the family, as they are the most important.
"There is no education like adversity."
~ Benjamin Disraeli
[AlAhram] Thousands of Syrian refugees are returning home for a visit during the Moslem holy month of Ramadan, after The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... temporarily opened two border crossings with its war-torn neighbor.
For some of the younger ones travelling back, the visit means seeing some of their relatives, even siblings, for the very first time. Ankara says those who go back can return with their papers and a special "religious holiday permission."
Turkey has taken in more than 3 million Syrian refugees who arrived by way of legal or illegal crossings since the start of their country's civil war more than six years ago.
The official border crossings were shut in 2015 -- barring exceptions such as serious injuries -- to prevent a spillover of the conflict and stem the flood of refugees. Ankara has also been building a wall along the boundary to curb cross-border movement of fighters.
Many Syrians welcomed the opportunity to go back, even briefly.
"If the situation is calm there I want to open up a business and return," the 37-year-old refugee said. "I want to continue my life there."
Twenty-one-year-old Ismail Hadidi Jafar was waiting to cross into Syria from the Oncupinar gate in the southern province of Kilis on Tuesday, to visit his parents and family in Aleppo. He left two years ago and hadn't gone back since
"I have a young sibling whom I've never met," Jafar told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, preparing to cross over.
As he waited, the crowds swelled and hundreds of refugees had to stand in the scorching sun to be individually processed by police and migration officials for the crossing. Seeing the lines, some abandoned plans to visit, but excitement remained high.
Turkey's official Anadolu news agency said that since June 1 when the crossing of Cilvegozu in Hatay province opened, some 30,000 Syrians have left to visit their homes. Oncupinar opened for the first time on Tuesday for the Ramadan visits.
The two crossings will remain open for departures to Syria until June 23. Returns will be allowed through Oncupinar until July 14 and Cilvegozu until Sep. 30 but Turkish authorities reserve the right to amend these dates.
Mohammed Izzo, 28, who also hails from Aleppo province in northern Syria, said he's been longing to see his family.
"The area we were in was under ISIS control," he said using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group. "I didn't go visit after ISIS left so I'm going now."
Izzo said he will return to Turkey after Eid al-Fitr, the religious holiday that marks the end of Ramadan.
Mohammed Dede, a father of three, said he's thinking about leaving Turkey for good. He is headed first to Jarablus, a town on the Syrian side of the border that was taken from IS by Turkey-backed fighters in August.
"If the situation is calm there I want to open up a business and return," the 37-year-old refugee said. "I want to continue my life there."
[AnNahar] Finland's intelligence and security agency Supo on Wednesday raised the country's terror threat level by a notch, seeing an increased risk of an attack committed by the so-called Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS).
The threat level was raised from "low" to "elevated," the second notch on a new four-tier scale just introduced, Supo said in a statement.
"Supo has become aware of more serious terrorism-related projects and plans in Finland. Foreign terrorist fighters (who have) left from Finland have gained significant positions within IS in particular and have an extensive network of relations in the organization," it said in its new assessment.
The agency said it was keeping a particularly close eye on around 350 individuals, an increase of 80 percent since 2012.
"Finland's profile within the radical Islamist propaganda has become stronger. Finland is considered as a Western country and a part of the anti-IS coalition, and propaganda is produced in the Finnish language and directed against Finland. The propaganda incites attacks in Finland," it wrote.
Supo's two higher threat levels are "high" and "severe."
Contrary to its two Nordic neighbors, Norway and Sweden, Finland has never experienced a terrorist attack on its soil.
[Iraq News] The Syrian Democratic Forces captured the Briton known as "Jihadi Jack", who joined the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in Syria in 2014, Qasioun News reported on Wednesday.
The 21-year-old Jack Letts (Known as Jihadi Jack) is currently imprisoned by Kurdish forces, however, he claimed abandoning the Islamic State group and its ideology.
Jihadi Jack also claimed that he was deceived by the Islamic State, but he quit after witnessing the group killing their own supporters, while said that the terrorist group tossed in the clink ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... him three times and threatened to kill him.
Letts converted to Islam while attending high school and travelled to Jordan in 2014, then moved to Syrian Raqqa in the same year.
He got married in Iraq, however, his wife and child are still in the Islamic State-held territory, while he revealed that he went to Raqqa to recover after being maimed in an kaboom.
According to Daily Star, Jack said he linked with a people-smuggler who helped get him out of the Islamic State-controlled territory before being captured by the Kurds.
Leaving the aforementioned wife and child to their fate? What a gallant gentleman, to be sure.
Noteworthy, in a news report published last year by "The Independent", Letts has dismissed reports that he is a member of the Islamic State and accused the media of demonizing young Britons who convert to Islam and publishing lies about him because of his Islamic faith.
"It’s sort of awkward when the media thinks your ISIS and your not. Thinks you have a son and you dont. Thinks your married when your not," he wrote.
The Daily Mail reminds us that a year ago his parents were charged with terrorism-related offenses for sending him money.
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I vote Chi-town (or Chi-raq, someone called it). Is B'more still blaming police?
Perhaps Mayor Pugh could send a memo to Rahm Emanuel out in Chicago. He still seems to be so busy blaming his own police for all the city’s ills that he doesn’t have much time to deal with the spiraling murder rate growing right under his nose.
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Is B'more still blaming police?
Chi-town does the same, so it's still a tossup.
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This wouldn't happen if White Skinhead gangs were rounded up.
Oh...wait
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Baltimore sports facilities too close to bad neighborhoods, so going with Chicago.
[Iraq News] A senior 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.... area commander died of injuries sustained after an attack on army forces in Diyala, a local source said on Wednesday.
Alsumaria News quoted the source saying that "unconfirmed reports tel that the so-called ’emir’ of Islamic State in Saadiya Basin died of injuries sustained during his participation in the attack on an army checkpoint near Rabia village near Saadiya (60 Km east of Baqubah)."
Islamic State, almost losing its main holdout in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... to a security operation running since October, has been escalating attacks at other provinces where it still has a presence.
Government and tribal forces have launched occasional operations over the past few months to clear border regions between Diyala and Salahuddin, killing dozens of bad boys. IS fighters have also responded with occasional attacks targeting troops, leaving several deaths.
Officials from towns still held by IS since 2014 have pressed the Iraqi government to hasten with security operations to retake those regions, but the Iraqi government is giving most attention to its battle in Mosul, Islamic State’s largest stronghold in Iraq.
Violence and armed conflicts left 824 Iraqis dead and maimed during the month of May, according to a monthly count by the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... Assistance Mission in Iraq which excludes security members deaths.
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[DAWN] Tampering with the records by the government institutions only added to the crimes of the rulers and now they won’t escape the law, said Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... emir Senator Sirajul Haq ...current head of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. Siraj was born in 1962 and entered politics shortly after that... on Tuesday.
In a statement, he said concealing or changing the record was a serious matter and an attempt to obstruct the entire process of accountability and all this was tantamount to the murder of justice. If rulers had any material in their defence, they would have presented it before the Supreme Court, he added.
Mr Haq said the government wanted to make the joint investigation team (JIT) controversial to escape accountability. However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... he said, if the accountability of the rulers was not done now, it won’t be possible in the future as well.
The JI chief said the nation wanted elimination of corruption whereas the ministers and the ruling party leaders were trying to make the JIT controversial and giving threats to the institutions to achieve their goals.
He said the JI wanted the accountability of all the corrupt people after the rulers and it had been demanding that all those involved in the Panama leaks, Dubai leaks and those getting bank loans written off be brought to accountability. He said there was no sacred cow in the society and none of the plunderers should be spared.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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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.
[BBC] A year-long investigation by BBC Arabic and a Danish newspaper has uncovered evidence that the UK defence giant BAE Systems has made large-scale sales across the Middle East of sophisticated surveillance technology, including to many repressive governments.
[American Thinker] The Bernie Sanders supporter who attempted to murder a dozen or so Republican Senators and Congressman yesterday at least did us one favor. He left us no possible doubt about his motivation. In a March 12th post on his Facebook page, he wrote.
[Breitbart] WASHINGTON, DC -- Political Islam, focused on establishing an unfree society ruled by strict sharia law, is "fundamentally incompatible" with the U.S. Constitution and the overall "foundation of the American way of life," declared Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an expert at the Hoover Institution think tank, during a Senate panel hearing.
[BALTIMORE.CBSLOCAL] Baltimore sees multiple deadly shootings in just a matter of hours. It was a burst of violence that forced the commissioner to make a drastic move today.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The 
the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A 
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The 
[Al Jazeera] In mid-May the 
Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz 
[Straits Times] As the siege of Marawi enters its fourth week, more than 200 people have lost their lives and much of the city lies in ruins. The strongest attempt yet by Islamic State supporters to seize and hold territory in southeast Asia has turned into urban street battles in what is now largely a ghost town.
[DailyMail] - Police arrested Evonne Mick and David Salinas in Harris County, Texas Monday
[Libya Herald] Following the reported release of Saif al-Islam Qadaffy earlier this week, the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has called for his immediate arrest.
Sorry Detroit passed the post long ago. 
[Iraq News] A senior 
[DAWN] Tampering with the records by the government institutions only added to the crimes of the rulers and now they won’t escape the law, said 
