...I don't believe left crazies greatly outnumber right crazies because we keep seeing ads recruiting for these "actions" and they pay damn well too. Even communists must obey the laws of economics. If they were so hot and eager they'd not need to be paid besides, perhaps, bus fare.
Someone pointed out our prisons are hardcore recruitment services for white supremacists. And yet, there are twenty thousand that are willing to actually go on record as white supremacists and who get involved in the "cause."
Our schools, all of them, are hardcore recruitment centers for Marxists. I know. I read my kids' school books. They were worse than mine under a hardcore Marxist regime. People who aren't Marxists haven't been minding the store for long enough that everything from economics to history is hardcore neo-Marxist. Even people on the right are contaminated. From the idea that revolutions spontaneously happen when oppression gets "bad" enough to the idea of fixed pie economics, people who are supposedly on the right keep regurgitating this.
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[AbrahamLincolnOnline] It is often good to reflect on the wisdom of the past. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is one of those documents that was heartfelt but succinct by the another POTUS. Today, we might see partisans bicker about whether or not the speech was enough. Is presented but here once again. I hope that it has not taken up too much time or space.
Lincoln gave his famous speech at Gettysburg in 1863. The speech was aimed at a healing of a nation. The speech was 272 words and said nothing about whether the dead wore the blue or the gray. He recognized their contribution and ultimate sacrifice for what they believed. One can argue about the righteousness of the cause for which they fought but that was not Lincoln's purpose; his intent was to heal a nation badly injured by a hard fought Civil War. Gettysburg became a monument to those who "gave the last full measure of devotion." The address and the monument that followed was to honor the dead at Gettysburg on both sides. It is a speech calling for unity and healing and not division and hatred.
We are at another crossroads. Do we want to give in to stupidity and division or to unity and respect for each other?
It is a time for tolerance and not a time to besmirch the symbols of the past. You can associate the symbols of the past with hatred in your mind if you choose, but remember there are others who associate these symbols with the love for lost relatives and their bravery and sacrifice. These symbols commemorate the men and women who were often brothers, sisters, wives, and husbands. Some were fathers and mothers; perhaps to children who would never again know them. For some, these hallowed places today are places to go to remember and to honor those who were dear to them. For many it is a part of their personal family history. These places are similar to the Vietnam Memorial today--a place to remember, reflect and to heal the wounds of an important part of the past.
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
This $hit is getting ridiculous.
[Madison.com] One Confederate monument is gone and another is slated to be taken down at Forest Hill Cemetery after Madison Mayor Paul Soglin ordered their removal.
A memorial plaque at the Confederate Rest section of the Near West Side cemetery was removed Wednesday afternoon. It described the 140 people buried there as "valiant Confederate soldiers" and "unsung heroes." The privately funded plaque, which rested on a granite structure, said the soldiers were buried in the Union state after surrendering in a battle and dying at Camp Randall as prisoners of war.
A larger stone monument naming the deceased still stands, but is planned to be taken down. Eric Knepp, who heads the Parks Division, which operates and maintains Forest Hill Cemetery, said city officials are working on the logistics of removing the second monument. It’ll involve heavy machinery, such as a crane, Knepp said.
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Shallow, virtue-signaling act of a politician trying to appease his base and get 30 seconds of attention. The memorials to the Confederacy were erected in memory of lost sons who had died for a cause they believed in. They are part of American history, and recognition of their sacrifice and valor does nothing to promote slavery or institutional racism, that was decided by the outcome of the civil war. Being respectful of their lives was meant to be an act of healing and re-unification for a torn and divided nation, and to let us move forward to a common future for everyone. All these acts of disrespect do is worsen the already near-toxic race relations that Obama percolated in the past eight years. We are rapidly heading back to the 1950's with genuine acts of segregation, by blacks, and a sense of victimhood/entitlement that is undergirded by black racism against whites that is becoming epidemic.
It's way beyond ridiculous. It's, also, a lot smarter than what they been doing so far - now they don't attack all whites (except themselves) but only Southerners ("first they came for the Jews").
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It is bad juju to mess with the graves of people's relatives. Those who are doing this desecration ought to give some thought to the idea of how they would feel if their mother's or father's graves were destroyed in someone's pissed-off fit of pique. How would they feel if one of their relatives were killed as the result of someone's ignorant actions. Yes, this $hit is getting ridiculous.
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Virtue signalling at its most contemptuous abounds today by those who never paid the price.
Instructions had been given; and when the head of each division column comes opposite our group, our bugle sounds the signal and instantly our whole line from right to left, regiment by regiment in succession, gives the soldiers salutation, from the "order arms" to the old "carry"--the marching salute. Gordon at the head of the column, riding with heavy spirit and. downcast face, catches the sound of shifting arms, looks up, and, taking the meaning, wheels superbly, making with himself and his horse one uplifted figure, with profound salutation as he drops the point of his sword to the boot toe; then facing to his own command, gives word for his successive brigades to pass us with the same position of the manual,--honor answering honor. On our part not a sound of trumpet more, nor roll of drum; not a cheer, nor word nor whisper of vain-glorying, nor motion of man standing again at the order, but an awed stillness rather, and breath-holding, as if it were the passing of the dead! - Joshua Chamberlain
as Insty would say read the whole thing. These were the men who had been killing each other for years. They showed more respect for each other than our contemporary 'nattering nabobs of negativism'.
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They showed more respect for each other than our contemporary 'nattering nabobs of negativism'.
True. These "nattering nabobs of negativism" seem to lack much ideology which drives them. Many are anarchists--they just want to tear everything down. Many are paid protesters. Many are Obama and Hillary followers wanting to hang on to the Deep State. One thing they have in common is a lemming-like drive for destruction and chaos. To continue on an unknown path with little guidance as to where they are going is fool-hearty. It is like jumping off a cliff and hoping you will have a good landing. Once the genie is out of the bottle, there is no getting it back in.
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These were the men who had been killing each other for years. They showed more respect for each other than our contemporary 'nattering nabobs of negativism'.
They were unenlightened men, Ballard knew them not.
They procured their swords and guns chiefly on the spot;
And the lore of centuries, plus a hundred fights,
Made them slow to disregard one another's rights.
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The way I see it, BP, every time I debate things with a leftwinger and refrain from comparing (unfavorably) she/he/it (out loud) to a dog, is an act of supreme self control i.e., stoicism.
I’m starting to get really tired of White Knights.
You’ve seen these gentlemen. They rush in, when they perceive someone as being in danger, and pavane around with grandeur, proclaim their goodness and wonderfulness, and their willingness to defend the helpless. And nine times out of ten, leave, full of honor and glory, leaving things worse than they found them.
Except the modern versions don’t ask you if you are helpless, they just assume. And they don’t do anything except signal their virtue and their willingness to defend you. Oh, they might take the opportunity to bash a few of their personal enemies, perhaps by claiming that they are your enemies too.
They’ve been all over recently. Yes, sure, there are many minorities online, who, having fully imbibed the Kool-Aid, are now merrily calling everyone a Nazi on the slimmest of pretexts. But most such offenders are in fact lily white and convinced of their own special wonderfulness. It was a lily white and, if I had to guess, upper middle class young man who took it upon himself to tell me I should be grateful to Antifa for saving me from vile speech.
Well, this first generation, immigrant Latina is not grateful. Do you know why she is not grateful? Because no one asked you to defend me. Certainly no one asked a communist front group with a frightening penchant for violence and vandalism to defend me. And if I wanted to be defended it wouldn’t be from speech, vile or not. It would be from active, physical aggression, which communists are at least as likely (and possibly more) to engage in than the crazy racists.
I’m no more acceptable to communists than I am to the Nazis. The Nazis would reject me on account of my origins and the fact that I can tan really dark when I get out of the office and into the rays of the evil day star. And Antifa would reject me because I think people who attack their fellow citizens are despicable and their theories of power and wealth are wrong and based on the crazy theories of Marx, the most overrated dead white man ever. And because I’m tired of their trying to impose their ignorance and cultish beliefs on the rest of us.
I don’t want either side to defend me from the other. I accept that both have the right to say whatever they please, and I hope they do it far away from me. If they come to my attention, I am entitled to make fun of them by all means available.
Because you see, I’m not delicate, I’m not helpless, and I don’t need a white knight.
...Because you know, all those allies who come in "white knighting" it to defend women and minorities, don’t really want to defend women and minorities.
They most of all want to claim victimhood. They think America and non-minorities are somehow evil. And the only way they can wash off that evil is to identify with a minority and defend it tooth and nail.
Second, they want the glory and virtue that comes from being "enlightened" and "helping" minorities. Don't forget that, nowadays, being an "outspoken" (hysterically semi-incoherent) leftist is a key to a white collar job - not just in public sector.
...They are the privileged, coddled, praised products of self esteem education. And they’ll trample anyone, demean anyone, destroy anyone, and bring down their own country in an effort to continue thinking of themselves as the best, the brightest and the kindest people who ever lived.
The expression behind the great, shining helm of the white knight is a smirk of superiority.
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And Antifa would reject me because I think people who attack their fellow citizens are despicable and their theories of power and wealth are wrong and based on the crazy theories of Marx, the most overrated dead white man ever. And because I’m tired of their trying to impose their ignorance and cultish beliefs on the rest of us.
Sarah Hoyt, a voice of wisdom amongst the barbarians.
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I like Sarah. I agree with a lot that she says, and she's a good writer.
She does seem to to be safety-wired to the 'Rant' position, though.
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G(r)om, I suppose it is a matter of perspective. I have not read much of her writings; I was reacting to what I posted. I'm a bit tired of those who impose their ignorance and cultish beliefs on the rest of us. These mobs are not about free speech and individual rights. They would rob the rest of us of our freedoms in a New York minute.
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John, all I meant by this is that: having grown in different culture, and being a natural born odd & a scholar, she has a different angle of view. To take one example - most Americans, even most conservatives, behave as if slavery/discrimination is something unique to USA. Now, I can't speak for Hoyt - but, I personally, believe that "African-Americans" have no idea what real suffering is.
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A lot of them do, but because their primary dominant culture consists of torturing each other and blaming whitey for the results, they never actually get around to doing anything to change the situation.
The whole statue controversy is an extension of this; it's something to soak up the energy and let the Mitch Landrieus of the world pretend they're actually helping black people instead of f___ing them over.
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Now, I can't speak for Hoyt - but, I personally, believe that "African-Americans" have no idea what real suffering is.
I didn't mean to imply offense or to take offense.
Today we all have it exceptionally good in this country despite attempts by the left to create victim groups. I don't think there is much suffering in this country by African-Americans or anyone. There may have been suffering and deprivation in the past but not much today. I think there are people who often make bad choices that make future life more difficult. And sometimes things just happen and we have to dig ourselves out. There is opportunity here those who want to work. You try something and sometimes you fail. You learn from past history and then you try something else. But yes, I don't think African-Americans today have any idea about real suffering.
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Which brings on a question - how many African-Americans are for Confederate statues removal?
I don't know. But for additional relevant information, I'd suggest reading the following; I'm going to chance copying this over rather than copying all the links...
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how many African-Americans are for Confederate statues removal?
I saw a poll quoted that said 44% of African-Amreicans think they should be left alone -- I'm afraid I don't have the details. The push for this is coming from white Progressives white knighting the issue.
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DooDaaMan, once upon a time there was a holding 'prison' of sorts at Gitmo (long before they started storing Muslims there), filled with most Carribean types who had been caught 'doin off', as they say. The two largest populations were Dominicans and Puerto Ricans.
Some helpful soul decided that a sports program would help to calm things and keep people occupied. So they formed baseball teams.
The riot that ensued after the Doms beat the PR's in the final game caused the USMC garrison (Gitmo, remember) to call in backup troops from as far away as LeJune.
After that, it was decided that soccer would be better. No bats and all.
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[Telegraph] A huge manhunt was underway across Europe last night for at least one jihadist feared to be still at large after plotting the Barcelona terrorist attacks.
Police and security services were hunting for the remaining members of a Moroccan-born terror cell, amid fears that they could be preparing further attacks at popular tourist areas.
The 17-year-old key suspect of the Barcelona van outrage, Moussa Oukabir, was one of five terrorists shot dead by Spanish police during an attack on the coastal resort of Cambrils in the early hours of yesterday, authorities confirmed last night.
They also named Said Aalla, 18 and Mohamed Hychami, 24 as among those shot dead. Four other suspects were taken into custody.
But police were last night continuing to appeal for information on Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22. There were also reports that two further suspects were being sought.
A French security official said last night that Spanish police were looking for a Renault Kangoo van rented on Thursday in Spain by the suspects that may have crossed into France.
Security officials believe the attacks on Barcelona and Cambrils were the work of a terror cell of at least 12 people, who may have been inspired by the London Bridge outrage in June.
On Thursday afternoon, Oukabir and his associates drove a van along Barcelona’s crowded Las Ramblas thoroughfare, ploughing into tourists leaving 13 dead and more than 100 injured.
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I'm trying to imagine how to say that name, "Younes Abouyaaqoub". Hopefully they have pictures and not just a name, as "Do you know 'Younes Abouyaaqoub?' might not yield much except "Who?" to average citizens, of everywhere.
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A French security official said last night that Spanish police were looking for a Renault Kangoo van rented on Thursday in Spain by the suspects that may have crossed into France.
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I'm trying to imagine how to say that name, "Younes Abouyaaqoub".
In French ou is pronounced oo as in pool. French is the language of the educated in Morocco. But heaven only knows how they pronouce that spelling in Spain. I think the name translates as Jonah father of Jacob, though, which is nicely Old Testament.
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Wikipedia has pictures of the Kangoo in its various configurations. I was not enamoured of the one we rented to drive across Germany with my mother and both trailing daughters in 2010, but it was the only option for four passengers and suitcases.
[Reuters] WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House special counsel Ty Cobb predicts the cloud of an investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. election will soon be lifted from President Donald Trump and says he would be "embarrassed" if it still hangs over the president in 2018.
Cobb told Reuters this week that he talks to Trump on an almost daily basis and has been in contact with the team of Robert Mueller, the special counsel leading the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
Mueller is investigating possible collusion between Trump's campaign team and Russia, as well as possible money laundering by at least one former aide.
But Cobb, who resigned from law firm Hogan Lovells to take the White House job on July 31, said in interviews on Tuesday and Wednesday he believed Mueller's probe was "narrow" and that by the end of the year Trump should no longer be threatened by it.
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Special counsel should have never started and after starting, it should have come to a quick end before now. Mr. Cobb, I wouldn't be so sure it will come to a quick end. It benefits the Dems to continue Mueller's special counsel witch hunt/kangaroo court as long as they can.
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They will need cold steel, a stake through the heart and garlic, maybe some wolfsbane as well, to finish off this monster. The forces behind Mueller want to prolong this past the Midterm Elections at the minimum and it will require force to stop them.
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So what they look for now is a situation where an employee or visitor picks up one of the commemorative notepads /glasses /whatever and Trump tells them, "Go ahead".
Presto: Conspiracy to defraud the Federal Government.
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g(r)omgoru: Cold steel, not silver?
When fighting the Unseelie Court use iron and blessed weapons. Note that members of this cabal all recoil at the presence of Holy Scripture, makes you wonder, hmmm?
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I'm thinking that Trump is putting up with the Mueller probe because it makes a nice distraction for the MSM while Trump is getting real work done without MSM attention.
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The Mueller probe will not stop until it sends SOMEBODY to jail, or until there are enough Democrats in Congress to impeach Trump. It really doesn't matter who goes to jail - one of the Trump family, or one of Trump's staff, as long as someone goes to jail.
Just like Scooter Libby, in the Valerie Plame "affair".
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I agree Rambler, after spending all the $$$ and time they can't come home empty handed.
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I agree Rambler, after spending all the $$$ and time they can't come home empty handed.
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"Can't come home empty handed?"
After seven years and countless hours of congressional time and taxpayer dollars spent on 'repealing' Obamacare with nothing to show for it, I'm not so sure. You may be giving the swamp too much credit.
NEW YORK (AP) -- One of President Donald Trump’s most steadfast constituencies has been standing by him amid his defense of a white nationalist rally in Virginia, even as business leaders, artists and Republicans turn away.
Only one of Trump’s evangelical advisers has quit the role, while presidential boards in other fields saw multiple defections before being dismantled. The Rev. A.R. Bernard, pastor of the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn and one of the most influential clergymen in New York, announced his decision Friday night, saying "there was a deepening conflict in values between myself and the administration."
Trump’s evangelical council members have strongly condemned the bigotry behind the Charlottesville march by white nationalists and neo-Nazis over the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. But regarding Trump, they have offered either praise for his response or gentle critiques couched within complaints about how he has been treated by his critics and the media.
Like other presidents before him, Trump has turned to religious leaders for counsel and support. Trump’s evangelical advisers include pastors who had worked with his campaign, and now pray with him and consult with his staff on issues ranging from religious liberty in the U.S. to the persecution of Christian minority populations in the Middle East.
Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, and an early backer of Trump, said the president had made a "bold truthful statement" about the demonstration. Falwell said the president’s remarks were a clear repudiation of white supremacists, Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan.
Johnnie Moore, a public relations executive, faith adviser to the president and a spokesman for several of the evangelical council members, said, "The president is certainly guilty of being insensitive," but that the media and critics of the president have ignored his other comments rejecting white supremacy and anti-Semitism.
Jack Graham, a Texas pastor and former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, signaled he planned to stay on as an adviser. The role of faith advisers "is to prayerfully advise & advance Christian issues to the Administration," Graham tweeted.
After the march last Saturday, in which neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan members and others scuffled with counter-protesters, a car driven by an alleged white nationalist plowed into a group of people, killing Heather Heyer and injuring 19 others.
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Leftisit propaganda. The President condemned the white supremacists. Christians know it. We no longer have business leaders. We have a new generation of people indoctrinated in leftest ideologies who graduated from universities that are leftist re-indoctrination institutions.
[SenseofEvents] The mayor of a small town in a middle America state had a problem. The old bridge, which was the only way out of town, was in a state of disrepair and needed to be rebuilt.
So he called in three contractors to bid on the job: one from Cincinnati, one from New York, and one from Washington, D.C.
"$3 million," said the man from Cincinnati. "$1.5 million for the supplies. $1.5 million for the labor."
Next, the Mayor met with the New York contractor, and asked him: "How much to build the bridge?"
"$6 million," said the New Yorker. "$3 million for the supplies. $3 million for the labor."
Finally, the Mayor brought in the contractor from Washington D.C., and asked him: "How much to build the bridge?"
"$9 million," said the man from Washington.
"$9 million," the Mayor repeated, aghast. "That's three times more expensive than the lowest bid. How do you break that down?"
"Easy," said the Washingtonian. "$3 million for you. $3 million for me. And $3 million to hire the guy from Cincinnati."
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Another day, yet another statue of a military hero is reportedly under fire. This figure astride a horse was vandalized with the spray-painted words "Tear It Down."
Who was this historical figure? General Lee? Stonewall Jackson? Nathan Bedford Forrest?
No, this was a figure who hails from the north.
Of France:
The phrase "Tear it Down" was hastily sprayed in black paint across the base of the golden Joan of Arc statue on Decatur Street in the French Quarter sometime earlier this week. It has since been removed, with only the vaguest traces of the paint remaining.
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I believe this occurred a few months ago, maybe when New Orleans was removing its Confederate statues. I'm suspicious this vandalism was actually trolling, and not ignorance about the statue.
[Libya Herald] A unit from the Libyan National Army’s 12th Battalion was attacked at dawn this morning near Brak al-Shatti by an gang. Three soldiers were maimed in the assault which took place at the Dabwat agricultural project south of Brak airbase. They were taken to the 2nd March Hospital in Sebha but one of them died from his injuries some hours later.
It is not known whom the attackers were. However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... there have been reports of remnants of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... force ejected from Sirte operating in the area. Alternatively, they could be linked to Ahmed al-Hasnawi, the hardline Islamist commander accused of being behind the massacre in May at the airbase in which 141 people died.
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[Libya Herald] Misrata is to hand over the last seven Sudanese children it still holds to the Sudanese consul in 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... so they can be returned home. The parents of the seven, who were taken into custody in Sirte last year, were all killed fighting for 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.... The seven are the last of what was a larger number of Sudanese children caputured last year. The others, whose families were known, have already been handed over and returned to Sudan. It is believed that there have been difficulties tracing the families of the seven.
The children will be handed over to the Sudanese consul in a ceremony in Misrata on Sunday.
Efforts to return some 25 children born to Tunisians involved in IS are taking longer to deal with. The children, mostly under five years of age, are being held in jail in Tripoli with their mothers. The fathers are all dead.
There have been moves by the Tunisian authorities to resolve the issue and in April a delegation from the Tunisian parliament visited Tripoli to try and have the children returned. The issue was also one of the main subjects discussed in May between Tunisia’s foreign minister, Khemaies Jhinaoui, and Presidency Coucnil head Faiez Serraj.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Four people were wounded on Friday when an explosive device went off southeast of Baghdad, a security source was quoted saying.
The source told Alghad Press that the bomb exploded near a fish market in Madayen district.
Violence and armed conflicts left more than 500 Iraqis dead and wounded during the month of July, according to a monthly count by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq which excludes security members deaths.
“A total of 241 Iraqi civilians were killed and another 277 injured in acts of terrorism, violence and armed conflict in Iraq in July,” the UNAMI report said, noting that the security personnel casualties were excluded from the figures.
Baghdad was the second most affected province with 38 killed and 85 injured.
Baghdad has seen almost daily bombings and armed attacks against security members, paramilitary groups and civilians since the Iraqi government launched a wide-scale campaign to retake IS-occupied areas in 2016. While most of of the explosions attacks went without a claim of responsibility, Islamic State has claimed several incidents.
Some security observers believe that even after IS’s main havens across Iraqi provinces are conquered, the group may still constitute a security threat through sleeper cells and lone wolf attacks.
Qaim (IraqiNews.com) Seven Islamic State militants were killed in an airstrike while escaping their havens in Anbar towards the Syrian borders on Friday.
Alsumaria News quoted a military source saying that the militants were killed fleeing the group’s stronghold city of Qaim towards the Syrian borders. He said several combat equipments belonging to the fighters were aso destroyed.
Islamic State militants have held the towns of Anah, Rawa and Qaim, west of Anbar, since 2014, when they occupied a third of Iraq to proclaim their self-styled “caliphate”. So far, there has not been a wide-scale campaign to retake those regions, but occasional offensives by government forces and allied Popular Mobilization Forces have managed to take over several surrounding villages.
The Iraqi government declared victory over Islamic State in Mosul, the group’s former capital in Iraq, in July, and said it was going to proceed towards other group holdouts, including Anbar.
Also late July, Iraqi army warplanes reportedly dropped millions of messages on western Anbar telling locals that liberation offensives for the province were nearing, and advising them to stay away from militants’ deployments.
Anbar’s borders with Syria had seen occasional encounters between security forces and Islamic State militants.
Rutba (IraqiNews.com) The civilians died and sustained injuries when unidentified warplanes carried out an air raid near a house west of Anbar’s city of Ramadi, a local official was quoted saying.
Emad al-Dulaimi, mayor of the city of Rutba, said unidentified warplanes killed a woman, her 13-year-old daughter and wounded her husband in Okashat, north of the city (310 Km west of Ramadi).
Local officials have occasionally reported civilian deaths in airstrikes by unidentified jets in the same region. The Iraqi government forces, as well as the U.S.-led coalition, have occasionally faced accusations of causing deaths among civilians during operations targeting Islamic State havens.
Islamic State militants have held the towns of Anah, Rawa and Qaim, west of Anbar, since 2014, when they occupied a third of Iraq to proclaim their self-styled “caliphate”. So far, there has not been a wide-scale campaign to retake those regions, but occasional offensives managed to take over several surrounding villages.
The Iraqi government declared victory over Islamic State in Mosul, the group’s former capital in Iraq, in July, and said it was going to proceed towards other group holdouts, including Anbar.
Also late July, Iraqi warplanes reportedly dropped millions of messages telling locals that liberation offensives for the province were nearing, and telling them to stay away from militants’ deployments.
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[DAWN] A Pakistain Steel Mills employee was placed in durance vile Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! by police from Steel Town on Friday on charges of murdering an eight-year-old child.
Police had found the body of a child, Mohammad Subhan, from a garbage dump behind a marriage hall near his home in Gulshan-e-Hadeed on Wednesday.
Subhan had been reported missing since August 14. He had not returned after leaving home to attend an Independence Day celebration.
Police later said the child's injuries suggested that he had been stabbed to death.
"Steel Town police have arrested one suspect, identified as Tasawar Abbas," Senior Superintendent of Police Malir Rao Anwar said on Friday.
Anwar added that the suspect had been picked up from a bachelors' hostel in the Steel Town area, where he lived.
Anwar claimed that the knife used as the murder weapon, had been recovered by police, along with bloodstained clothes belonging to the suspect.
A police official, who requested anonymity, told Dawn that the suspect was familiar with the victim's family and had once visited his home, claiming to be a friend of the dear departed's brother.
Possible motive
Anwar told Dawn that the suspect had taken the child with the intention of subjecting him to criminal assault; however, when the child resisted, the suspect initially throttled him and then stabbed him to death.
The officer revealed that the arrested suspect kept visiting the spot where he had thrown the body for two days and it was him (the suspect, Abbas) who informed the family about the body of the child lying there.
"He had also over-reacted during the funeral prayer of the victim: he was seen weeping," said SSP Anwar.
The police officer said the suspect was detained when the Steel Town SHO saw a blood stain on his (the suspect’s) slippers. When he was grilled, the accused ’confessed’ to killing the child, Anwar said.
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New York, Aden- Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen Jamie McGoldrick has expressed his deep concern over the continuing obstruction to the timely provision of aid to people in need in Yemen.
He said that, for months, humanitarian partners have experienced delays by “authorities in Sana’a” to facilitate the entry of aid workers into Yemen; interference in the delivery of aid and the choice of implementing partners; and hijacking of aid vehicles.
Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General, quoted McGoldrick as saying that there have been increased incidents where aid was diverted from the intended beneficiaries in areas under the control of the Sana’a authorities.
He also said that, as basic social services in Yemen are near collapse, there is mounting pressure on aid agencies to expand the humanitarian response.
But he stressed that ensuring unhindered humanitarian access is essential to save the lives of those who depend on assistance, particularly as Yemen is facing an unprecedented cholera crisis and more than 7 million people are at risk of famine.
Furthermore, ships that enter the Yemeni Hodeida Port, which falls under the control of insurgents, are being subject to blackmailing and illegal practices by Houthis.
A commercial ship named “ALLIANCE,” which transports food to Yemen, complained that ships arriving at Hodeida Port are falling victim to illegal practices and are facing several risks, a reliable source told Asharq Al-Awsat.
He said these practices make the port unsafe.
UN Special Envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed had asked the Security Council that the Houthi militias and forces of the ousted Saleh hand out the port to an impartial party, a matter that was welcomed by the coalition supporting legitimacy in Yemen.
[Libya Herald] After four days of heavy fighting in Ajilat, some 80 kilometres west of Tripoli, a ceasefire has been mediated by members of the local council together with elders from the Wershifana, Zintan and other nearby towns . . .
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[Iran Press TV] Nearly two dozen civilians have bit the dust when the US-led coalition purportedly fighting the ISISTakfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group conducted a series of aerial assaults in Syria’s holy warrior-held northern city of Raqqah.
Local sources told Arabic-language Sky News Arabia television news network that Arclight airstrikes targeted a building in the Tosiyah neighborhood of the city, located about 455 kilometers (283 miles) northeast of the capital Damascus, on Friday, leaving 23 civilians dead.
The sources added that the victims were members of the same family, noting that thirteen children were among the dear departed. The attacks left a number of people injured as well.
The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, in two separate letters sent to UN Secretary General António Guterres and rotating President of the UN Security Council Amr Abdellatif Aboulatta on Thursday, called on the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... to take on its responsibilities concerning the establishment of international peace and security to put an end to the US-led coalition’s crimes against innocent Syrians.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry also accused the US-led coalition of using guided bombs and internationally-banned white phosphorus munitions in flagrant violation of international law and human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. principles.
Earlier on Thursday, Syria’s official news agency, SANA, reported that the US-led military aircraft had bombarded residential buildings in the city of al-Jala, located along the Euphrates River and south of the eastern city of Dayr al-Zawr, as well as the towns of At-Tayana, al-Zabari, Boqruss and Subaikhan.
The report added that six people, including three children, were killed in the attacks, noting that the Arclight airstrikes also destroyed a number of houses, public properties and civilian infrastructure in the targeted areas.
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Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State militants killed a police officer and his family members after invading his home in northwestern Kirkuk, according to a security source.
Alsumaria News quoted the source saying that Islamic State members sneaked on the dawn of Friday into al-Maleh village in al-Dabas region (50 Km northwest of Kirkuk), attacked a police officer’s house and killed him and seven of his family members.
Islamic State militants have held areas in southwestern Kirkuk since 2014, when they declared a “caliphate” rule on a third of Iraq and Syria. Since then, militants have executed hundreds of security agents and civilians collaborating with security troops, besides executing civilians attempting to flee the enclave.
Local tribal leaders and politicians from Kirkuk have mounted pressure on the Iraqi government to hasten with invading Hawija, the group’s largest stronghold in the southwest of the province, suggesting that its people were experiencing a humanitarian crisis under the group’s rule as the group continues to massacre civilians attempting to flee the town. The Iraqi government and military commanders have set Nineveh’s town of Tal Afar as the next target for operations against Islamic State holdouts.
Baqubah (IraqiNews.com) Three Islamic State militants died in a surprise police operation backed by civilians in Diyala, the police command said Friday.
Ghaleb al-Attiya, spokesperson of the province’s police service, told Alsumaria News that civilians at al-Islah village (70 Km northeast of Baqubah waged a surprise attack, backed by police forces, on an Islamic State “sleeper cell” that was hiding at a rest house near a farmland in the area.
According to al-Attiya, the targeted cell was preparing for an attack on local residents and was believed to have been behind the kidnapping of two civilians three days earlier.
Violence and armed conflicts killed and wounded more than 500 Iraqis throughout July, according to a monthly count by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI).
Islamic State militants have launched occasional attacks against security forces and civilians in Diyala over the past few months, coinciding with government operations that managed to recapture the city of Mosul, Islamic State’s largest bastion in Iraq.
Done with Mosul, the government and military commanders intend to wage further offensives at other IS havens across the country, including Diyala, seeking to mark an end to the sel-proclaimed “caliphate” declared by the group back in 2014.
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[Al Jazeera] South African police have issued a "red alert" on the country's borders to prevent the first lady of Zim-bob-we from fleeing.
Grace Mugabe, 52, is accused of assaulting a female model in a Johannesburg hotel with an electric cable. She has asked for diplomatic immunity in the case and has not yet been charged.
Her whereabouts were not known on Friday but Fikile Mbalula, South Africa's police minister, said she remained in the country.
"We had already put tabs on the borders in relation to her leaving the country," he said.
So far she has not attempted to flee, Mbalula added.
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"accused of assaulting a female model in a Johannesburg hotel with an electric cable"
Wow.
Somebody should introduce her to Anthony Weiner Carlos Danger.
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Somebodyshould introduce her to Anthony Weiner Carlos Danger.
She's too old for him.
Tal Afar (IraqiNews.com) Army forces killed 16 Islamic State members on Friday after thwarting an attack by the militants near Tal Afar, their last bastion in Nineveh.
Col. Dureid Saeed, from the army’s 15th division, told Kurdish-owned BasNews that the militants, including four suicide bombers, were killed on the outskirts of Tal Afar upon attacking the forces.
Tal Afar is 65 kilometers west of Mosul, and is home to a mixed Turkmen and Arab population. Iraqi forces recaptured Mosul, Islamic State’s former capital, early July after more than eight months of U.S.-backed offensives.
Having declared victory in Mosul, Iraqi PM Haider al-Abadi and his defense officials marked Tal Afar as their next target of anti-Islamic State action. Iraqi defense officials said recently that warplanes were carrying out raids on the enclave in preparation for the ground invasion which is yet to be scheduled. Other field commanders reported reinforcements and deployments around the town in preparation for the invasion.
Violence and armed conflicts left more than 500 Iraqis dead and injured throughout July, according to a monthly United Nations casualty count.
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[Libya Herald] Khalifa Hafter ordered the arrest 15 days ago of Saiqa Special Forces ...Libya's elite army unit, insofar as they have one, formed from a mixture of paratroopers and commandos. The group emerged from a militia with the same name in 2010. It now numbers a few thousand and reports to the Ministry of Defence. It deployed in Benghazi in an attempt to control the carnage. As a result, it has been attacked and several of its officers murdered. The force is popular in Benghazi for its stance against Ansar al-Sharia group... major Mahmoud Warfali wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes, the Libyan National Army (LNA) said today. The armed forces commander-in-chief also instructed the LNA’s advocate-general to begin his own investigation
The ICC alleges that Warfali featured in videos in which 33 bound captives were murdered in cold blood. It has demanded the LNA officer be handed over for trial in The Hague where the court sits.
In an open statement to the ICC today the LNA said that Hafter had ordered an investigation on 2 August and Warfali had been under arrest since then.
There may be some significance to the LNA’s claim that Warfali was detained almost three weeks ago, well before the ICC issued its warrant. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... the LNA had in fact said last month, before Hafter issued his order, that Warfali was already under investigation.
After the first execution video emerged this March, the LNA said it would prosecute soldiers who murdered or abused prisoners.
In May after further execution videos surfaced in which Warfali again appeared to feature prominently, he made a very public resignation. Two weeks later however, Saiqa commander Wanis Boukhamada refused to allow him to quit and promoted him from captain to major.
Last month, when the UN Human Rights Commission demanded Warfali be suspended while the crimes recorded on the videos were investigated, the LNA retorted that the UN body should not prejudge the "unverified" footage.
Under its statutes, the ICC can only prosecute those suspected of war crimes or crimes against humanity if the local courts have failed, for whatever reason, to take action themselves. The LNA would seem prepared to argue that it is under the authority of the internationally-recognised parliament, the House of Representatives (HoR) and is therefore competent to try Warfali. However the international community also recognises the Presidency Council (PC) in 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... , which would currently appear to have no chance of taking the Saiqa officer in to custody.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A jacket wallah detonated a High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) or Humvee vehicle in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province of Afghanistan, leaving only the suicide bomber dead.
The local government officials said the incident took place in the vicinity of Greshk district late on Wednesday night.
The officials further added that the hard boyz had placed large amounts of explosives inside the vehicle with an aim to target the security forces.
The provincial government media office in a statement also confirmed the incident and the death of the bomber.
The statement further added that the security forces opened fire on the vehicle as the suicide bomber was attempting to ram the vehicle into its target in Awpashak area.
Helmand government said the area is under total control of the security forces and the security situation is currently stable.
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The Head makes it sound like they used a Humvee to get the bomber. Wrong. The bad guys had their own Humvee.
(It is probably cheaper than trying to get factory service in AFG, though.)
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[DAWN] Police tossed in the calaboose Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! four suspects from the Gugh Mori village near Jhudo town of Mirpurkhas on Friday for their alleged involvement in the kidnapping and death of a 19-year-old girl.
The girl's body was found in a sewer of the village on Friday morning, following which police arrested four out of the six alleged kidnappers.
The victim, Jamaat Kapri, was allegedly kidnapped a fortnight ago from her village Fakir Mohammad Kumbho near Naukot town, just three days before her marriage.
Her father, Parial Kapri, had registered an FIR of his daughter's kidnapping at the Naukot cop shoppe, in which he had nominated six people. However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... those arrested by the police insist that the girl had run away by choice and gotten married to a man named Hassan Kapri. The girl's family denies the claim.
Confirming the incident, the Deputy Superintendent of Police of Jhudo town, Mohammad Ayub Dars, said that the girl's body bore torture marks and had been shifted to Taluka Hospital for his appointment with Doctor Quincy.
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[AnNahar] Israel's military army has carried out nearly 100 strikes in the past five years on convoys carrying weapons to Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... and other krazed killer groups in Syria and elsewhere, an Israeli general said Thursday.
Former air force commander Amir Eshel told Haaretz newspaper that "since 2012, I'm talking about many dozens of strikes... the number is close to being three digits".
"An action could be an isolated thing, small and pinpointed, or it could be an intense week involving a great many elements," he said of the strikes.
Since Syria's civil war erupted in 2011, Israel has maintained a policy of attacking arms convoys intended for Hizbullah, which is a key supporter of the Syrian regime and fought a devastating war against the Jewish state in 2006.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last year that Israel had "taken military action" against Iranian convoys leading weapons to Hizbullah "dozens and dozens of times".
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Hezbollah fighters and the Syrian army managed to tighten the noose around ISIL terrorists in the outskirts of Qarra and Jarajir in western Qalamoun, controlling a number of heights.
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[Iran Press TV] Spokesman for the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) says thousands of pro-government fighters are going to participate in the upcoming operation to retake the northern city of Tal Afar from the ISISTakfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorists.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with Leb-based Arabic-language al-Mayadeen television news network on Friday, Ahmed al-Asadi said 20,000 volunteer forces, commonly known by the Arabic name Hashd al-Sha’abi, will take part in the forthcoming battle for Tal Afar, located 63 kilometers west of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... He added that Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, is going to set the zero hour to start the operation.
"We have information about the presence of foreigners within ISIS ranks in Tal Afar, but we do not know their identity," Asadi pointed out.
He noted that the operation to liberate Tal Afar will not take long, but rather several weeks.
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cutting their part of the pie before their young ones decapitate them for raping them when they were but Ten Years Old.
Sound Familiar? It will.
A military commander in Faryab province – in Afghanistan’s north – on Friday said that at least 80 Afghan National Army soldiers were under siege by insurgents during the past 20 days.
Captain Farid, commander of the 3rd Battalion of 3rd Company of 209 Shaheen Military Corps in Faryab, said the soldiers’ location is in Chinaee Camp in Ghormach district.
Two of the soldiers were injured 10 days ago, but their injuries have not been treated well, he said.
He said they have not received ammunition so far and if they do not receive support, they will be arrested by the Taliban.
However, Nusratullah Jamshidi, head of media office of the Afghan National Army in northern proivnces, said the battalion had received air support.
He added that the Army’s Commando Unit has been deployed to the area and that they will end the siege in the near future.
This comes after the center of Ghormach district center fell to the Taliban last Sunday.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Judge Reggie B. Walton also said the IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... must explain the reasons for the delays for 38 groups that are part of a lawsuit in the District of Columbia, where they are still looking for a full accounting of their treatment.
Judge Walton approved another round of limited discovery in the case and laid out six questions that the IRS must answer, including the employees’ names, why the groups were targeted and how the IRS has tried to prevent a repeat.
At a hearing earlier this week, Judge Walton said it was time to get everything on the table.
"Lay it on the line. Put it out there," he told attorneys for the IRS, who are continuing to fight some tea party groups’ demands for full disclosure.
The targeting scandal burst open in May 2013 when the IRS admitted it had been pulling conservative-leaning groups’ nonprofit status applications out of the usual processing queue and subjecting them to extra scrutiny and extraordinary delays because of perceived political activity
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I'm guessing they'd delay providing names as long as possible and if forced the named individuals will plead the 5th. They can probably drag this out until the next election if they need to (unless the judge is willing to put some folks in prison for contempt)
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"Judge, It would be a shame if your relatives all had to do comprehensive IRS Tax Audits, wouldn't it?" --Best said with a thick Italian accent, Mafioso style.
[Breitbart] The crew of the Golfo Azzurro, the migrant rescue vessel belonging to Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms, was jugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! by the Libyan coastguard and detained for several hours only a short time after claims they had turned off their transponders.
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Where I stand, Libyans are Decent enough people that got the shaft and are trying.
I will send them a Prayer and whatever Tillerson and Mattis give them.
[DAWN] As part of the ongoing political reconciliation in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , 22 more suspected forces of Evil including a commander of the banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) surrendered before the security forces on Friday in a ceremony held at Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... (FC) Madadgar Headquarters in Quetta, the military's media wing reported.
According to the statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations, the surrender was a part of the larger political reconciliation process in Balochistan which has led to many forces of Evil surrendering recently.
Balochistan Home Minister Sarfaraz Bugti and other civilian and military officials were present on the occasion.
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[DAWN] Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... has been named among the least liveable cities of the world by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) -- the research and analysis division of The Economist Group -- in a report released earlier this week.
Karachi maintains its 134th rank in the listing of 140 cities, only managing to fare better than Port Moresby, Dhaka, 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... , Lagos and Damascus.
The cities have been ranked according to qualitative and quantitative factors falling broadly in the categories of stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education and infrastructure.
Least liveable cities according to The Global Liveability Report 2017. --The Economist Intelligence Unit
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[Al Jazeera] Venezuela's new legislative superbody on Friday gave itself the power to pass laws, superseding the opposition-led congress and fuelling criticism by government adversaries that socialist President Nicolas Maduro is consolidating a dictatorship.
Delcy Rodriguez, a Maduro ally and president of the constituent assembly, insisted the move did not imply a dissolution of the congress.
"Those lazy bums have to work. What we are doing is telling them: 'Gentlemen, we are not going to let you take a holiday'," Rodriguez said in a reference to opposition politicians.
South American trade bloc Mercosur condemned the assembly for usurping congress's responsibilities, according to a statement released by Brazil's Foreign Ministry.
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[Al Jazeera] Grenade attacks on two bars killed at least three people and maimed 27 others in Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi, police and hospital sources said.
Police front man Pierre Nkurikiye told news hounds on Friday that one person had died at the scene and 29 others were rushed to hospital after grenades were thrown into two bars in the Buyenzi district on Thursday night.
Hospital sources said two people shuffled off the mortal coil later. One survivor, who asked not to be named, said the attackers had not attempted to rob the bars or the patrons.
Burundi has suffered from periodic low-level violence since 2015 when President Pierre Nkurunziza decided to seek a third term in office.
Opponents said his candidacy violated the constitution and a peace agreement that ended a civil war in 2005. The opposition mostly boycotted the polls, and Nkurunziza won a third term.
A wave of unrest followed. The International Criminal Court (ICC) said it left about 450 people dead and forced hundreds of thousands to flee.
Since then, political violence has continued to simmer.
Earlier this month, attackers targeted another bar in the same district, causing two deaths and wounding four.
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Now that's just plain wrong. Leave our bars alone or we'll really get mad.
[RADIOSHABELLE] Three people have been killed and several houses torched by suspected Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... militia in new attacks at Maleli, Lamu County.
This follows a series of attacks in the region. On June 27, four pupils and four coppers were killed in an IED attack launched by the bully boyz in Kiunga on a police vehicle.
Security agents had been warned of al-Shabaab attacks within Kiunga area, Milihoi, after roughly 100 of them were spotted by locals.
Another incident was also reported where three people were killed after the Al-Shabaab bully boyz attacked a passenger bus and a car at Nyongoro area in Witu, Lamu County.
The incident happened on Lamu- Garsen highway, police said. Four other people were left with serious bullet injuries. A major operation is ongoing in the area but it has not stopped the attacks.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Barcelona terror attack Sherlocks have been scampering to identify the Las Ramblas attacker until dawn today and have ended up finding near certain information about an 18-year-old Moroccan named Moussa Oukabir.
According to information received by AlArabiya.net, Moussa Oukabir stole the identity of his brother, Driss, aged 28, and used it to rent the van that ploughed through pedestrians at Las Ramblas yesterday afternoon.
The terrorist attack in Barcelona’s City Center claimed the lives of 13 pedestrians, maiming and injuring 100. Another two gunnies entered a restaurant.
One of the van attackers died in a shootout, while two were placed in durance vile Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! but the driver, believed to be Moussa Oukabir, has not been apprehended. ISIS grabbed credit for the attack, the group’s news agency said.
The two suspects in jug from the van attack are a Spanish national and a Moroccan.
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[LA Times] The mayor of Phoenix has a message for President Trump: Please stay away.
Ahead of Trump’s planned campaign-style rally in the city on Tuesday, Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton (D) released a statement this week, calling on the president to halt his plans as the nation continues to grapple with fallout from the violence in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend.
"I am disappointed that President Trump has chosen to hold a campaign rally as our nation is still healing from the tragic events in Charlottesville," Stanton, a Democrat, said. "It is my hope that more sound judgment prevails and that he delays his visit."
On Wednesday, Trump used social media to urge supporters to show up at the Phoenix Convention Center for his first rally in the Western part of the country since his inauguration.
In recent days, reports also have surfaced that Trump is considering offering a pardon to former Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Last month, Arpaio -- who has been sued several times by civilians who said he promoted racial profiling -- was found guilty of criminal contempt. A U.S. District Court judge found Arpaio, 85, guilty of defying a judge’s 2011 court order to refrain from racially profiling Latinos during patrols and turning them over to federal immigration authorities.
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(D-Smug) - let's see how he does without funding due to Sanctuary status. The Feds can always audit the State expenditure of Fed funds as well. Any time. Like now
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Opportunistic virtue signaling/camera hunting by hizzoner. The interesting part will be what he tells the cops to do if a bunch of "antifa" brownshirts show up. I hope the Governor has the NG standing by.
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In 2014, Arizona was among States most reliant on the Federal Government. There is no reason to think things are much different in 2017. For every $1.00 paid in Federal taxes, Arizonans get back $1.61. Phoenix most likely get its share of this boodle. It'd be a shame if this money dried up.
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In 2014, Arizona was among States most reliant on the Federal Government
And partly why McCain vetoed the Senate insurance-repeal bill. The Arizona political machines said to: Democrat, GOP(e), Hispanic, Senior, Mormon... You name it, McCain'll listen to it. It's part of how he keeps getting re-elected.
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I don't know the odds and have no inside info but I've seen a pardon discussed. It was a travesty to begin with. An Obama-Soros effort went into defeating Arpaio and ousting him from office. George Soros contributed $2 million to a group working to defeat Joe Arpaio. I'd bet that Trump's supporters would back a full pardon.
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Phoenix is a dem city. The greater area, Mesa and all is not. He speaks for the minority in the greater Phoenix area. When Trump comes the rally will be big and I think he only does it in Phoenix to piss off the dems.
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The rally may not be that big - it requires advance tickets and there has been a big move by the Dems to soak up as many tickets as possible and then not show up.
SANAA: Yemeni security officials say Saudi forces have arrived in the southern port city of Aden amid friction within the kingdom-led alliance there.
The officials say the troops were deployed on Friday at the presidential palace, port, and airport. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to talk to journalists.
They are the first special Saudi forces in Aden since a Saudi-led coalition in 2015 started fighting Houthis to restore Yemeni President Abed-Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s internationally recognized government. After the Houthis overran the capital, Sanaa, the government became based in Aden as its temporary capital.
[DAWN] The United States' (US) most senior military officer on Friday said North Korea understands that any attack on Japan is equal to one on the US itself and vice versa.
General Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, held talks with his Japanese counterpart at the defence ministry in Tokyo, wrapping up a regional tour during heightened tensions with North Korea.
Tokyo remains on alert against potential military provocations by Pyongyang after North Korea threatened to fire missiles towards the Pacific island of Guam, US territory, which would have flown over Japan.
"I think we made it clear to North Korea and anyone else in the region that an attack on one is an attack on both of us," Dunford told Katsutoshi Kawano, chief of staff of Japan's Self-Defense Forces.
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[DAWN] Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADSJ) Jacobabad Ghulam Murtaza Maitlo on Friday sent Garhi Khero Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Abdul Majeed Abro, SHO Abdul Ahad Soomro, and ASI Eijaz Ahmed Jakhrani to jail after their bail plea was rejected in Anila Dharpali murder case.
Anila Darpali had approached Jackobabad City cop shoppe in 2012, seeking protection as she was reportedly facing life threats on the pretext of Karo-Kari. Instead of producing her before the court or taking her to a shelter house, the police officials handed Darpali back to her relatives on the so-called guaranty of a local contractor Abdul Razzaq Jat.
Later some reports suggested that Darpali was allegedly killed by her relatives, however, the police failed to recover her dead or alive. The fate of the girl still remains a mystery, sources told Dawn.
DSP Abro, SHO Soomro and ASI Jakhrani had been sent to jail due to their alleged negligence, poor performance and mishandling the case. On Friday The ADSJ Jacobabad cancelled the bail plea of the police officials and issued orders to keep all the three in jail custody.
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[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] The Syrian army and allies managed within the past 48 hours to impose a full blockade on ISIL terrorists in the eastern countryside of Hama and Homs provinces after achieving a remarkable progress in the area.
The blockade was imposed when the Syrian army units advancing from southern Atherya in Hama eastern countryside met with those progressing from northern Shaer in Homs countryside, besieging ISIL terrorists within a three-thousand-kilometer area.
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[Al Jazeera] Yemen's 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 ... rebels have jugged Please don't kill me! a prominent activist who used social media to document the war that has ravaged his country.
On August 12, Hisham al-Omeisy tweeted to his 23,700 followers: "Armed goons backed by corrupt officials are forcefully taking real estate in Sanaa. They just showed up at my door."
He has not been seen on Twitter since.
The 38-year-old father of two was reportedly captured on Monday in the capital, Sanaa, by more than a dozen armed security officers from the National Security Bureau, rights group Amnesia Amnesty International said on Friday.
"Hisham al-Omeisy has been detained without charge or a court appearance in breach of Yemen's constitution, which requires anybody arrested to be presented in court within 24 hours," said Samah Hadid, director of campaigns for Amnesia Amnesty International in the Middle-East.
"This detention illustrates the lengths to which local Houthi-Saleh authorities' are willing to go to silence peaceful activists. Hisham al-Omeisy is a prisoner of conscience, whose only 'crime' is peacefully exercising his right to freedom of expression, and he must be released immediately." Hadid said in a statement.
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It was pretty disheartening to see the abject lies being repeated about the festivities in Charlottesville, Viginia over the week. I watched as US senators pledged their allegiance to a pack of lies and to the left, with the media refusing to entertain any other view.
And it just wasn't national. In my home state of Oklahoma, where every county went for Trump in 2016 (the only true red state in the nation), not 18 hours after the end of the riots, at the capital building in Oklahoma City, remnants of the Obama diehards gathered and pressed the view that all Confederate monuments must be removed because of racism.
I have been in the business of organizing leftists and it is truly like herding cats. That they were able to get 50+ people to show up at the state capital was either a tribute to the organizers' skills or the local news channels received a phone call from Democrat operatives.
In Hershal Smith's blog, one commenter remarked that all the drives, and the riots between the left and the right took place in what he termed 487 counties, which is a reference to the 487 counties nationwide that carried Hillary in 2016. You gotta wonder why.
A heavy boy with the flag of the Confederation stands motionless in front of the monument to General Lee.
He salutes his stone commander.
And before him is a crowd of supporters of peace, love, tolerance and diversity.
And they, adherents of love, literally crouched from hatred.
They, the admirers of tolerance, yell and scream, and jump in front of the dead boy, and draw their fake hands to him, and try to offend him somehow at least somehow...
But nothing comes out.
The boy stands so calmly, as if there is no monkey garbage in front of him, as if he were alone in the square - and his general.
Who does he look like?
And he looks like a black girl, who as dispassionately passed through the raging racist crowd when she first went to school in the 1950s.
But now another century, and quite different people assert their authority, and they try to trample everyone who does not agree with them.
"Peace and Love," once a way of freedom, have become the rhetoric of humiliation, domination and censorship, and whenever a hypocritical person quotes Nelson Mandela or Martin Luther King, a street herd demolishes monuments, scribbles and scans cheap curses.
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"...the riots between the left and the right took place in what he termed 487 counties, which is a reference to the 487 counties nationwide that carried Hillary in 2016. You gotta wonder why."
Hillary got skunked when you look at the counties Trump carried versus those Hillary carried. One reason we have an electoral college is to prevent the most populous states and cities from always determining the election outcome.
How are gun sales as the result of the recent statue tear-downs and riots? Usually, they increase.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] An agent of the Pak military intelligence, inter services intelligence (ISIS), has been enjugged Please don't kill me! by the security forces in Kabul as he was planning an attack on the major Pul-e-Charkhi prison.
The Afghan intelligence, national directorate of security (NDS), said the man was detained during an operation from Kabul city.
A statement by NDS said the detained suspect has been identified as Allah Noor who is originally a resident of Quetta city of Pakistain.
The detained agent confesses in a video published by NDS saying he wanted to have a role in the attack on Pul-e-Charkhi prison.
He also admits his involvement in organizing meetings between the ISI officials and Taliban ...Arabic for students... leader Mullah Hebatullah as well as Haqqani network leader Sirajuddin Haqqani ...son of Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, still titular head of the Haqqani Network.... network in Pakistain.
Allah Noor says he started operations with the ISI in 2013 and had visited Kabul to gather information for the future plans apart from hatching plans for the attack on Pul-e-Charkhi prison.
The Afghan officials have long been insisting that the leadership councils of the Taliban group and the notorious Haqqani terrorist network are based in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , Quetta, and other parts of Pakistain from where they plan and coordinate attacks in Afghanistan with the support of certain government circles in Pakistain.
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"As always, should you or any of your IM ISI force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions",...
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Jamiat-e-Islami party has issued a strong warning to the Afghan government amid rising tensions after the controversial incident in Balkh airport involving the party’s chief executive Ata Mohammad Noor and provincial council member of Balkh Asif Momand.
The party in a statement said Friday that certain circles are attempting to destabilize the relatively calm provinces and those areas under the control of the officials belonging to Jamiat-e-Islami where considerable achievements have been made, apparently pointing towards the Balkh which has been under the leadership of Noor since a long time.
The party harshly criticized the government for remaining reckless to respond the concerns of Jamiat-e-Islami regarding the conspiracies being hatched.
The statement further added that the government has not only responded to their concerns but has also failed to tackle the conspiracies besides the government has failed to consider the growing instability and crisis in the volatile regions.
Jamiat-e-Islami called on the government to refrain from further challenging of the party’s patience and resilience and control those hatching plots to destabilize the peaceful areas of the country.
The incident in Mawlana Jalaluddin Balkhi international airport took place late on Mondaynight during the arrest of Asif Momand, a member of the provincial council of Balkh province.
Momand was arrested late on Monday night in Balkh international airport days after he had accused Ata Mohammad Noor of being involved in massive corruption and there are reports that he was held into the custody by forces belonging to Balkh governor.
Noor had earlier harshly criticized the national security adviser Mohammad Hanif Atmar and the national directorate of security chief Mohammad Stanikzai after the clashes and accused the two top security officials of hatching conspiracies to destabilize the northern Balkh province.
Noor said Balkh has been among the relatively calm and peaceful provinces and conspiracies involving plans and projects to destabilize the province should be refrained from.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces conducted at least 41 Arclight airstrikes and 33 ground operations against the Lions of Islam leaving at least 86 of them dead, including murderous Moslems affiliated with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) in its latest operational update said the operations were conducted in the past 24 hours in various parts of the country.
MoD further added that the 41 sorties by the Afghan Air Force were conducted in support of the ground forces who conducted 13 special operations involving Afghan commandos and 3 night raids.
According to the Ministry of Defense, the murderous Moslems suffered the most casualties in southeastern Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... province where 56 murderous Moslems belonging to Haqqani terrorist network were killed in Gomal district during the air and ground operations.
The ministry further added that five ISIS murderous Moslems were killed in Achin district of 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.. and 3 murderous Moslems including one of their commanders were killed in Kunar district.
MoD also added that 21 murderous Moslems were killed in various operations conducted in Jani Khel and Zazai Aryoub districts while the remaining murderous Moslems were killed in other provinces including Pashtun-infested Logar, Kandahar, Zabul, Uruzgan, Badghis, Faryab, Baghlan, Sar-e-Pul ...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone... and Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... provinces.
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[Bangkok Post] Members of a new generation of the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) insurgent movement stole seven vehicles in Pattani and Songkhla provinces to use in bomb attacks in what official called an "unexpected" new attack tactic in southern Thailand.
Army chief Chalermchai Sitthisad said the group found responsible for Wednesday's car robberies in which one civilian and one militant were killed is a BRN group controlled by Dulloh Waemano.
New members who do not have criminal records were being trained to replace their predecessors who have either been nabbed or gone into hiding after authorities obtained information linking them to past attacks. These young and new members of the BRN have joined the group because they are hired, not because they agree with the group's ideology, Gen Chalermchai said.
Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Prawit Wongsuwon confirmed the BRN was behind the incidents, saying at least four out of about seven suspects involved have been clearly identified by authorities.
The the showroom thefts were carried out in Songkhla instead because tight security has been maintained in Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat, he said, referring to the robbery of the six pickup trucks at a used car shop.
However, the robberies started in Pattani where BRN militants stole a pickup truck from a couple in Pattani's Yarang district. The stolen truck was then used by about ten people -- dressed in outfits looking similar to those of security authorities -- to travel to the used car shop in Songkhla where they stole six trucks and abducted four people including the shop owner,
The four held hostage by the car robbers were identified as Saharat Laeni, Prathanphon Nuanlamun, Thanisak Yichin, and Wirasak Rattanaphan. Thanisak, who owns the used car shop, said he and Wirasak had ran away from the gunmen while they were trying to kill the other two hostages. Saharat died but Prathanphon survived because he pretended to be dead when shot by a gunman at a rubber plantation in Thepha district. The gunmen apparently intended to kill all four hostages.
After the robbery, authorities were sent to hunt down the group. A suspect later identified as Nur-arsan Arwae, a resident of Pattani's Muang district, was killed in a gun battle with authorities after he refused to stop one of the stolen cars at a security checkpoint in Pattani's Nong Chik district.
The dead suspect was found to be a student at a privately-run Muslim religious school in Pattani's Muang district. Security authorities plan to invite the director of the school in for questioning.
All other stolen trucks were located and seized back in 19 hours. One of them was fitted with a bomb and blew up on Wednesday night in Pattani's Nong Chik district. No one was hurt. Another one was dropped in front of a police flat at Mayo police station in Pattani early Thursday, about a minute before the vehicle blew up, damaging nearby buildings. A few officers who were approaching to inspect the vehicle were slightly injured.
Deputy Defense Minister Gen Udomdej Sitabutr described the attack plot as outrageous as the suspects had apparently aimed to use those stolen cars in bombing attacks. He said, "The authorities have tried every way to prevent attacks in the southern border provinces. But if these suspects aren't arrested, they will possibly next target Songkhla. And I believe there are more major violent plots to come."
[Dhaka Tribune] Leaders and activists of the 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... and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir ... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh... are allegedly using a "get expelled strategy" to join the New JMB, a new faction of banned krazed killer outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh, to carry out terror attacks across Bangladesh.
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[FrontPageMagazine] The Democrats went into the election certain that they were going to win. The New York Times rated Hillary’s chances at 93%. The Huffington Post raised that to 98%. That was still too modest for Obama campaign manager David Plouffe who predicted a 100% likelihood of Hillary winning.
It wasn’t strategy or statistics that made the Dems think that victory was certain. It was ideology.
Obama had spent two terms telling them that they were on the "right side of history". The more the Dems swung left, the closer to the right side of history they were. Their leftist views were naturally superior. They were based on science while their opponents were superstitious buffoons. They were enlightened while their enemies were bigots. They were smart and conservatives were dumb.
Delusions of superiority had convinced them that Republicans couldn’t win an honest election. When Bush won, it was because his brother and the Supreme Court had rigged the election. The Republican victories that swept much of the country were only due to voter suppression and redistricting.
The Democrats had allowed themselves to believe that they were so innately superior that they couldn’t lose an election except through fraud or dirty tricks. The humiliating defeats of McGovern, Carter, Mondale and Dukakis were all in the past. They had gone so far to the left that they couldn’t lose.
They had confused ideology with electability. The fallacy of fanatics is the conviction that their beliefs explain reality. And that following their beliefs must therefore lead to a successful outcome.
Leftists had convinced themselves that winning elections was an inevitable as the success of ObamaCare and the rejuvenation of the economy. Their media became a propaganda echo chamber filled with their own assurances of inevitable victory. But ObamaCare failed, the economy lingered and Trump won.
Instead of realizing that they had been lying to themselves, they seized on conspiracy theories.
Convinced of their natural superiority, members of the Master Party believed that their subjective contempt for Republicans in general and Trump specifically was an objective truth. It wasn’t that they despised conservatives. No, conservatives were inherently despicable. And Trump was so despicable and so absurd that he just had to lose. It was inconceivable that he couldn’t have lost. So he had lost.
Human beings don’t react well to having their egomaniacal fantasies come apart around them.
After losing World War I, many Germans seized on the Dolchstosslegende or the Stab-in-the-Back theory to explain what happened. The German military didn’t lose the war. It was undermined and stabbed in the back. Otherwise, despite the collapse of its allies and the entry of the United States, it would have won. The Nazis rode the Dolchstosslegende all the way into power. And to an even more devastating defeat in an even more devastating war all while trying to disprove the fact that America, the United Kingdom, France and Russia really could beat them in a war once there were no more Jews in Germany.
You can deny reality, but reality always wins.
Unsurprisingly, the Dolchstosslegende was most popular with German military leaders. Likewise the Democrat Dolchstosslegende arose from the ranks of Hillary’s campaign leaders. It’s those in charge of the losing team who have the most incentive to blame anyone and everyone else. The Nazis blamed a long list of people including the Jews. The Democrats blamed everyone from the FBI to the Russians.
Hillary has become another Hindenburg touting her own Dolchstosslegende. Her latest book, ’What Happpened’, will put the Dolchstosslegende into print. It will list everyone who lost the election for her. ’What Happened’ may be an awkward title, but calling it ’Mein Kampaign’ might have been a bit much.
The Hillary Dolchstosslegende tearing apart our country passes itself off as patriotism. The Nazis claimed that they were patriots too. But Dolchstosslegendes aren’t patriotic. They’re exercises in divisiveness by losers who don’t want to take responsibility for their stupidity, incompetence and hypocrisy.
Hillary went from pressing a reset button with one of Putin’s minions to a posthumous political campaign claiming that Putin had rigged the election. Never mind that even if Russian hackers did leak Podesta’s emails, less than 1% of Americans have any idea who Podesta is or cared about the contents of his chats. But Podesta’s emails embarrassed the future promoters of the Dolchstosslegende. Continues.
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The Democrats had allowed themselves to believe that they were so innately superior that they couldn’t lose an election. To continue this charade, they ensured election outcomes through fraud and dirty tricks. FIFY.
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The Democrats had allowed themselves to believe that they were so innately superior that they couldn’t lose an election.
When you fall victim to the intellectual arrogance of Progressivism you become a Prophet of the Future! A Prophet! A Chosen One! When the Other Side wins, who surely must be evil, They Must Have Cheated™!
Philanthropists can be reasoned with while zealots only have crusades...
A key member of the Taliban in southern provinces was arrested in a special operation conducted by the Afghan National Army’s Commando Unit in Helmand province.
The operation was carried out in Nawa district in Helmand on Thursday, said Agha Mohammad, the second Battalion of Army’s Commando Unit said in a statement on Friday.
Agha Mohammad, the deputy of Mullah Naeem, commander of Taliban for Helmand, Kandahar and Uruzgan provinces, was wounded when arrested by the forces, the statement said.
The statement said that Mohammad was wounded in the Afghan forces’ military operation in Nawa district.
[DAWN] The Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... government has launched an accelerated learning pathway (ALP) programme to bring religious seminaries operating in the province into the mainstream.
The ALP seeks to broaden the scope of education in the seminaries and has been jointly launched by the provincial government and the Balochistan Rural Support Program (BRSP), a non-government organization operating in Quetta and Pishin districts.
In the first phase of the initiative, worldly education is being taught in 90 seminaries, besides religious education.
"We want to bring all madressahs (seminaries) into the mainstream," Secretary Education Abdul Fatah Bhangar told a meeting of the Balochistan Advisory Council for Education (BACE) on Thursday evening as the initiative was launched.
Educationists, well-known religious scholars and members of the civil society participated in the meeting.
"Our utmost effort is to bring the out of school children into schools," said BRSP Chief Nadir Gul Bareech.
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Basic organic chemistry and basic electrical circuitry?
[Iran Press TV] Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has urged the large Ottoman Turkish diaspora in Germany to vote against Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom... in the upcoming German elections, calling the party led by the chancellor "enemies" of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... "I am calling on all my countrymen in Germany: the Christian Democrats, SDP [the Social Democrats], the Green Party are all enemies of Turkey. Support those political parties who are not enemies of Turkey," Erdogan told news hounds after Friday prayers in Istanbul.
He accused those parties of being involved in "aggressive, disrespectful attitudes against Turkey."
The Ottoman Turkish president said, "I invite them to teach a lesson to those political parties at the ballot box."
Germany is set to hold parliamentary elections on September 24, with Chancellor Merkel running for a fourth term.
Berlin has slammed Erdogan for "interference" in Germany's elections, condemning his statements as an attempt to incite Germans against each other.
"That is an unprecedented act of interference in the illusory sovereignty of our country," German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel told the RedaktionsNetzwerk media group on Friday.
"Erdogan's interference in Germany's electoral campaign shows that he wants to incite people in Germany against each other," he added.
Merkel has said there would be no expansion of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... 's customs union with Turkey or a deepening in the EU-Ottoman Turkish relations, remarks which have angered Ankara.
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[Iran Press TV] A US-backed militia group in northern Syria says American forces plan to remain in the Arab state "for decades to come" after the fall of ISIS, adding that Washington is not providing support to anti-Damascus bandidossnuffies "for free."
In a Thursday report by Rooters, Talal Silo, the front man for the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of militias dominated by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), said the SDF believes that Washington has "strategic interests here after the end of ISIS."
"They have a strategy policy for decades to come. There will be military, economic and political agreements in the long term between the leadership of the northern areas (of Syria)... and the US administration," Silo said.
The Kurdish-dominated SDF holds 400-kilometer (250-mile) stretch of the Syrian-Ottoman Turkish border. The US has deployed forces at several locations in northern Syria, providing support to the SDF with air strikes, artillery and special forces on the ground.
The SDF is involved in an operation against ISISbully boyz in Raqqah Province.
In July, the head of the YPG said the US had established seven military bases in northern Syria, including a major air base near the border town of Kobani.
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[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] The driver who mowed down crowds of pedestrians in a busy Barcelona street could be among five suspects shot dead overnight by security forces in a nearby seaside city, police said Friday.
Responding to a question on whether the driver was among those killed, Josep Lluis Trapero of Catalonia’s police said “the investigation points in this direction,” adding there were “clues” that this was the case but no “concrete proof”. Three out of the five suspects have been identified so far.
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Wonder when they're going to start tearing down the monuments to El Cid.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[DAWN] A Pakistain Steel Mills employee was 
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Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
North Korea
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